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Ezekiel 37:15-17
The church should be the hope of the world.
In order to become a church that gives hope to the world, church renewal and spiritual awakening must occur.
Looking at the Korean society today, whose moral foundations are shaken and the society is divided in confrontation and conflict, we cannot help but feel deeply our own faults and responsibilities above all else. Seeing the church being institutionalized and losing the power of the Holy Spirit, we realize that the Lord is heartbroken. How can the Korean Methodist Church be transformed into a hope for our society amid today's crisis? This is nothing but a thorough repentance of our return to the basics of our faith. I confess that there is no hope other than a spiritual awakening to return to the Word, to restore the power of prayer, to evangelize with the burning of the commandments, and to restore true morality.
In the name of the Lord, I pray that a new history of revival will occur in the Korean church, which is celebrating its 120th anniversary.
God allowed the prophet Ezekiel to see the vision of the restoration and revival of Israel through the dry bones.
The dry bones scattered in the valley of Ezekiel were just like the hopeless Israel. But God makes them proclaim to them. “Prophesy and Proclaim”
At God's command, Ezekiel proclaims God's word to the hopeless and dry bones.
The surprising thing is that upon proclaiming, a wonderful transformation took place, in which dry bones occurred.
When the wind of breath finally blew, the dry bones became a large army of living things.
Ezekiel's vision of dry bones rising is the vision of revival that God gives to the Korean church, which is celebrating its 120th anniversary.
There seems to be no hope. The whole world is full of hopeless things.
People have lost hope. I am lost and wandering and wandering.
But we do have hope. Our hope is in God.
We must proclaim that hope to the desperate world.
We must declare that we should live with hope in God alone.
There is hope in the world when we proclaim God's hope.
God is able to make even the dry bones without hope live.
When we proclaim God's hope, the despair of the world will disappear and the whole world will be filled with the joy of hope.
The word of God came to Ezekiel again.
“Son of man, take a stick and write on it Judah and the children of Israel his companion. The two will become one in Esau” (Ezekiel 27:16-17).
God is allowing Ezekiel to see the vision of reunification of Israel, which was divided into north and south. Just as the two sticks in Ezekiel's hand become one stick, He said that the two nations of Israel would become one.
This is the vision of peace that God gives to the Korean church, which is celebrating the 60th anniversary of liberation, but the 60th anniversary of division that started with liberation.
Undoubtedly, liberation was God's grace. It was the entire history of God.
However, division was the crime of humans who hijacked God's grace with greed and power.
Now, the mission of the Korean church has been given to the Korean church to heal the pain and despair of division on the Korean Peninsula and lead it to the hope of peaceful reunification.
The two sticks in Ezekiel's hand are the mission given to the Korean church.
We have seen the history of German unification, which was achieved through the fervent prayers of church leaders and members in East and West Germany. Now, the history of unification must be re-enacted in this land.
You must clearly realize that that mission is given to me and you, especially the Korean church.
For this, a new spiritual awakening must first occur in the Korean church and its members.
There must be thorough repentance of the Korean church, including church leaders and members.
In 1903, a great revival movement took place in Wonsan. Hardy's repentance led to all church leaders and members. As contrition and confession arose, the revival of the early Korean church began. And that revival led to the great revival movement in Pyongyang in 1907.
In the fullness of the Holy Spirit, the church leaders and all the saints were thoroughly converted. Then the stronger work of the Holy Spirit took place and a great revival was accomplished.
Second, we must forgive and reconcile with each other.
God also washed away the sins of all people with the blood of Christ on the cross and forgave them. When Jesus died on the cross, he became the mediator for reconciliation with God.
Now, Korea is divided into quadrants and is at war with each other. Losing their cause, they are biting and biting each other, and they are increasingly sinking themselves into the depths of destruction.
We must forgive and reconcile with each other between peoples and classes.
We must forgive and reconcile with each other between regions and generations.
You and I must forgive and reconcile with each other.
Hoehae is the only way for families to live, for the church to live, for the nation to live, and for the world to live.
It takes courage to ask for forgiveness and generosity to accept it.
The two sticks in Ezekiel's hand became one.
Now the two sticks were lifted in the hands of the Korean church. God says
“Let the sticks unite to one another. The two will become one in your hand.”
Let's pray for peace and reunification in this divided land. Let's pray for the evangelization of North Korea so that the flames of revival that took place in Wonsan and Plains in 1903 and 1907 rekindle.
Let's proclaim hope to all the desperate people on this earth to live on hope only in God, who has turned dry bones into living armies.
Let's pray for the spiritual awakening of the Korean church and true repentance and revival.
And let us pray for forgiveness and reconciliation between peoples, generations, regions, classes, and each other.
God is our hope and the hope of all people.
The vision of revival and the vision of peace are God-given missions of the Korean church and its members.
I bless you in the name of the Lord that you will be filled with the anointing of the Holy Spirit to the Korean church and members who are dreaming of a new revival through spiritual awakening and unity.
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Through the blood, into the bosom of God, through the blood, into the bosom of the Father
Passing through the blood, step by step into God
Precious blood of the Lord renews my spirit
Precious blood of the Lord renews my spirit