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Subject 8 : The Holy Spirit
[8-16] The Mission of the One Who Has Received the Holy Spirit (Isaiah 61:1-11)
(Isaiah 61:1-11)
1 ‘The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broke nhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, And the day of vengeance of our God;
3 To comfort all who mourn, To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.’
4 And they shall rebuild the old ruins, They shall raise up the former desolations, And they shall repair the ruined cities, The desolations of many generations.
5 Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, And the sons of the foreigner Shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
6 But you shall be named the priests of the Lord, They shall call you the servants of our God. You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, And in their glory you shall boast.
7 Instead of your shame you shall have double honor, And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they shall possess double; Everlasting joy shall be theirs.
8 ‘For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery for burnt offering; I will direct their work in truth, And will make with them an everlasting covenant.
9 Their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles, And their offspring among the people. All who see them shall acknowledge them, That they are the posterity whom the Lord has blessed.’
10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
11 For as the earth brings forth its bud, As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, So the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.”
What is the mission of those who receive the Holy Spirit? |
It is to preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit to all the people of the world. |
What must a person who has received the Holy Spirit do?
A person who has received the Holy Spirit must preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit to the whole world.
God has entrusted the beautiful gospel of being born again of water and the Spirit to those who have received the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit came upon those who received the removal of their sins before God.
Then why did God give the Holy Spirit as a gift to the righteous who received the removal of sin?
It is to give them final confirmation of being sealed as God’s children.
Also, God gave the Holy Spirit so that, by the help of the Spirit dwelling in the righteous, they may fight against Satan and overcome him.
To those who received the removal of sin and received the indwelling of the Holy Spirit as a gift in their hearts, God made them do these works.
The Beautiful News to the Poor...
What is the beautiful news to those who are poor in heart?
The gospel of the water and the Spirit is the beautiful news.
God made those who have received the indwelling of the Holy Spirit preach the beautiful gospel to those who are poor in heart.
A person who has received the Holy Spirit cannot be satisfied with the things of this world because he has the hope of Heaven.
God gave the gospel of the water and the Spirit to those who are poor in heart, so that they may receive the removal of their sins, and to their cleansed hearts He allowed the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, so that they may enter into the eternal kingdom.
God made the righteous preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit, which is eternal salvation, to those who are poor in spirit.
God made the righteous testify of God and preach Jesus.
The reason God gave the Holy Spirit to us, who have received the removal of sins, was so that we may deliver the beautiful news to the many people in this world who are poor in heart.
He Made Us Heal the Brokenhearted
How does the Lord heal our hearts?
He heals with the gospel of the water and the Spirit.
He made us heal those who are brokenhearted.
In this world, there are many people whose hearts are wounded and sick.
Truly, human life is vain, and human righteousness leaves nothing behind and all is lost.
Human life is lived in misery and suffering because of sin.
So, there are times when we think that this miserable life is all there is to human existence.
Everyone is born into this world wishing to live gloriously and to prosper in both body and spirit, but in fact, that life is like the life of one who has fallen among robbers.
All people who have sin live lives in which everything they want is taken away, and because of their sins, they weep and gnash their teeth and, in the end, can only go to hell.
Therefore, the Lord had compassion on all the brokenhearted people in the world and made us, who believe, preach the beautiful gospel to them.
With what Word did the Lord heal us?
He healed us with the beautiful Word of the gospel of the water and the Spirit.
The Lord restored the broken hearts of people with the beautiful gospel and gave them eternal life through faith in it.
He Set Free Those Who Were Captives of Sin
The Lord gave freedom to those who were captives of sin.
What does it mean that God gave freedom to those who were captives of sin?
It means that God has liberated people’s souls from the sins of the world.
Also, this work is entrusted only to us who have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and it is only those who have received the Holy Spirit who can save souls bound in sin from their sins.
People have both flesh and soul.
The flesh and soul of man live bound by sin and the curse of the Law.
Whether a person believes in God or not, he cannot help but live as a captive of sin.
Because people are born with sin from birth, they cannot help but commit sin, even if they do not want to.
Therefore, human beings are born with a destiny to live as complete captives of sin throughout their lives and end in death.
People live their whole lives as complete captives trapped by sin and the Law, and they are destroyed.
That is why all human beings end up loving their weaknesses and living their entire lives helplessly.
To such beings—who can only sin and must eventually die—God has sent those who have the Holy Spirit to proclaim the beautiful gospel: freedom to those who are captives of sin, and release to those imprisoned in sin.
He Comforted Those Who Mourn
What did God give to those whose hearts mourn?
He gave them the gospel of the removal of sins.
God made all the sorrowful people of this world be comforted.
God sent Jesus Christ to this earth so that all mankind, who have sin in their hearts, may receive the removal of sin.
And in order to make Jesus bear all the sins of mankind, He had Him receive the baptism given by John the Baptist, and made Jesus, who bore the sins of the world, be put to death on the Cross, thus removing all our sins.
Through this, God has completely delivered us from all the sins of the world and saved us.
Our God made us who believe preach the beautiful gospel of the water and the Spirit to all those who are sorrowful in this world, and through it, He comforted them.
God gave the gospel of the water and the Spirit to all people on this earth, so that those who suffer due to incomplete faith may receive the blessing of God’s comfort.
Only those who have the Holy Spirit were made to preach this beautiful gospel.
God made us proclaim the beautiful news to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, to give the freedom of sin’s removal to those who are captives of sin, and to proclaim release from sin to those imprisoned in sin.
The purpose of a person being born into this world is to meet our Lord and receive the removal of sins, and to preach the beautiful gospel to those who are bound by sin and in need of comfort, so that they also may receive the removal of sins.
God made us realize that although life in this world is short, the fact that we were born into this world was by no means in vain.
This is because God had prepared the removal of sins and amazing blessings for mankind.
Our Lord has placed a crown of glory on the heads of those who mourn.
This means that sinners receive the remission of sins through Jesus’ baptism and live in the Kingdom of Heaven.
When a person receives the removal of sin from God, their heart becomes joyful, and they come to know that an amazing blessing has occurred within their heart.
Our Lord has placed a crown of glory on the heads of those who mourn in this world.
God gave sinners the word of water and the Spirit, which is the gospel of the removal of sin, and made those who believe this into children of God.
Those who believe in the beautiful gospel in their hearts had their sorrow replaced with the joy of delight given by the Lord.
Just as every person is born weeping and leaves weeping, joy is but a moment, and their hearts were lives filled only with sorrow.
But God met such lives and made them be born again into lives with hope and joy.
Thus, those who have believed in the beautiful gospel given by God, received the removal of sins, and were born again, come to live a new life and do new works.
Also, these people do the work that God desires, which is to preach the gospel of water and the Spirit to sinners on this earth, so that they too may hear and believe this word, drive out the sorrow that had filled their hearts until now, and have joy, gladness, and delight fill their whole hearts—God has given hope for this amazing work.
Those who have received the removal of sin before God are those who reveal the glory of God.
God told the righteous to preach the beautiful gospel.
He said to proclaim who God is, what kind of gospel He has given us, the glorious Heaven He has prepared and given to those whose sins have been removed, and all the glorious works that God has done.
When we look at those who have received the removal of sin, we can truly see that God’s glory is revealed through them.
Those who used to mourn now rejoice, those who were bound by their sins have been set free from all their sins and enjoy joy, and those who used to do only vain things of the world now do righteous works—such amazing things are revealed as the glory of God.
God called the righteous those who will rebuild the places that had long been desolate.
In fact, this beautiful gospel of water and the Spirit is the original gospel that existed in the apostolic age.
It has been over 2,000 years since Jesus came to this earth.
However, the beautiful gospel of water and the Spirit was still on this earth even until AD 300. The gospel that the righteous now preach is none other than the gospel of water and the Spirit that the apostles preached at that time.
However, the gospel of the baptism Jesus received from John was corrupted and hidden when Rome, during the East and West Roman era, made Christianity the state religion and granted religious freedom to its citizens; at that time, the true beautiful gospel was corrupted and disappeared.
After Rome took control of Israel, it made Christianity the state religion of Rome.
From then on, as institutionalized Christianity became dominant over the beautiful gospel of water and the Spirit, those who preached this true gospel disappeared.
Why did the people of faith who preached true Christianity and the true gospel in this world become corrupted? The reason is that Christianity became the state religion of Rome, and as a result, great privileges were given to Christians.
Now, even Christian believers could marry Roman nobles and take government positions.
Because of all these privileges, the faith of the people of faith became corrupted, and their faith fell from the faith of resurrection to the faith of religion.
From that time until now, the beautiful gospel of water and the Spirit has disappeared from the world, and corrupted Christianity has become widespread.
God said that the last runners of faith who meet the last days of the world will save souls from sin by preaching the beautiful gospel of water and the Spirit, which had long been desolate, to them.
In this era, the Lord is making a new shoot sprout and a flower bloom again from the stump of the gospel of water and the Spirit that existed in the apostolic age.
The gospel of the apostolic age was this beautiful gospel, accomplished by Jesus coming to this earth, receiving baptism from John, and the blood of the cross.
God said that He calls us those who rebuild the ruined cities.
We were all Gentiles, but God made us know and believe the gospel of water and the Spirit and made us the stewards of God’s vineyard all over the world.
God has made the works He did through the apostles come upon me and you today.
God has made us testify to the amazing gospel of water and the Spirit through me and you.
Just as it is written, “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor.” God has made those upon whom the Spirit of Jehovah has come—that is, those upon whom the Holy Spirit has come—preach the gospel of water and the Spirit on this earth, so that those who believe it may receive the Holy Spirit.
God has made crowns of flowers and placed them on our heads, removed sorrow from our souls, and clothed us with garments of praise filled with joy.
A person who has the Holy Spirit in their heart sows the seed of the beautiful gospel so that the Holy Spirit may come upon the hearts of others as well.
Then they too accept the beautiful word of the gospel given by the Lord, receive the removal of sin in their hearts, and the Holy Spirit comes to be in their hearts as well.
We have become workers who do God’s work.
You and I are those upon whom the blessing of the glory of heaven is guaranteed.
However, God has made it so that those who do not have the Holy Spirit in their hearts cannot know this beautiful gospel upon which God’s blessing comes.
Those who do not have the Holy Spirit can only make people believe in Jesus formally, but cannot make the Holy Spirit come into their hearts.
Our Lord came to this earth and did these things through those who received the Holy Spirit.
He made them preach the beautiful news to the poor, and He healed the brokenhearted by making them preach the gospel of water and the Spirit.
Also, to those who were captives of sin, He gave the true freedom of salvation from sin, and He set free those who were imprisoned by sin, and He comforted all who were sorrowful with the beautiful gospel of water and the Spirit.
Our Lord came to this earth, liberated those who were imperfect and imprisoned by sin, gave joy and hope to their lives, and ascended to heaven.
After that, the Holy Spirit who is in us makes us preach the gospel of water and the Spirit to all people.
To those who have received the removal of sin and have the Holy Spirit in their hearts, Jesus Christ made them do the work of proclaiming the ministry by which He came to this earth and saved sinners from sin.
The Lord entrusted all the works of His ministry to those who have received the Holy Spirit.
He made the righteous do the Lord’s work and manage everything.
We are God’s workers established in the vineyard, which is God’s church.
We are soldiers. God has given me and you these amazing blessings.
If we look at our flesh, we have no power, but because our God works through us, we have become servants before the Lord by faith in the Lord.
I believe that God will do and govern many works through us who believe.
The Lord has determined to rebuild the ruined foundations of the gospel in the nations of the world and in the desolate cities.
The Lord said He would raise up the ruined cities and the desolate cities again.
We believe it.
We believe that once again the flower of the gospel will bloom all over the world!
It is not by our own will, but because the Lord said so, we believe that all these words will be fulfilled.
Our Lord made those upon whom the Spirit of Jehovah has come preach the beautiful gospel of the Holy Spirit to the whole world.
The Lord came to this earth and accomplished this work, and now we believe that He is doing this work again through us who have received the Holy Spirit.
Those who believe this beautiful gospel will see the glory of God. Hallelujah!
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