Categories: THE WORD, Weekly Messages

2018.03.04 Sunday Message

The Lord Receives Glory After Tribulation

Scriptures: Luke 24:25-27
He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

The foolish are slow to believe in the Bible and in the prophecies the prophets have foretold. The Holy Spirit looks at the foolish and asks, “Doesn’t the Christ enter glory after going through tribulation?”

God’s history is a history of glory after tribulation. Therefore, you must be faithful to the point of death even during times of tribulation. You cannot compare the tribulations you face in the present with the glory you will receive later.

Those who are like Cain deviate from God’s Will. So for them, they face one tribulation after another. But those who are like Abel are righteous and do things according to God’s Will. For them, glory comes after tribulation.

God’s thoughts are different from your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8-9)

If you think in a physical way, you cannot receive God’s thoughts. With physical thoughts, you may think only about tribulations, but with spiritual thoughts, you see the history of resurrection after tribulation. That history is a history of glory.

The history of glory is a spiritual history. But what is a spiritual history?

A spiritual history is one in which the Lord becomes the head and we become his body.

Christ is the spirit and his followers are the body. However, if Christ were to take action following the body, then history would become physical. The body should take action following Christ, who is the head and spirit. Then history will become spiritual, and a history of glory will follow.

The Old Testament is a physical history, and the New Testament is a spiritual history that centers on Jesus. When the Lord returns, the New Testament will become a physical history compared to the new history God fulfills.

Christ is always the head. So we, as the body, must take action as he has. If we do, the times will become spiritual and a history of glory will take place.

 

The history of glory

When people receive glory, there is a time when they receive glory in the spirit and a time when they receive glory in the body.

The body of our Lord has received all tribulations by carrying the cross on behalf of the sins of the world. He has entered the world of glory, and now so have we, together with the Holy Trinity.

Did not the Messiah have to suffer tribulation and then enter his glory? (Luke 24:26)

However, there are those who are slow to know and believe this. The Holy Spirit calls such people foolish.

For a certain period, God received the tribulations of the times together with the one He had sent. During that time, the Holy Son adorned His followers and developed His relationship with them. As such, people’s spirits resurrected, and the Holy Son went up to Heaven. The spirit of Christ ascended.

At that time, the Holy Son entered a world of glory. So the spirits of those who believed entered a world of glory as well.

The Lord’s spirit has already ascended to the Heavenly throne. The Lord is sitting at the right hand of God, waiting as the Holy Spirit leads.

The thoughts of physical people cannot fulfill God’s glory and the Lord’s glory. The history of resurrection is a history of the spirit and a history of glory.

 

Overcoming death

Where is the sting of death for the body?

In one fell swoop, death has disappeared through the condition the Christ had set for the redemption of all from sin. The sins of the times and your sins brought you death. But Christ atoned for those sins on your behalf. So death has disappeared because it no longer has a condition through which to sting your body.

Thus, the reign of death and Satan through sins has disappeared. Christ has come to reign as king before you.

This is the conclusion to the Word in the Bible.

In Revelation 20:1-6, it says, “You will reign with Christ for a thousand years.” The Lord has fulfilled this prophecy.

Christ has come out after defeating death and Satan. He has put the ancient serpent, Satan, in prison for a thousand years. Along with him, the countless human satans have also gone to prison, the domain of death. They were the ones who became one with Satan’s spirit and nailed the Lord to the cross. God has assigned the angels on the earth to guard them.

The Lord is taking action centering on the Lord’s temple where you dwell. He lives through your bodies, hearts, thoughts, deeds, and daily lives. So you should take action with faithfulness and love while calling on the Holy Spirit and the Lord every day.

There is freedom where the Lord dwells. So the place where you take action with the Lord is Heaven on earth.

I pray that you may take action with joy and love, and that you will lead many lives to resurrection.

 

Blessing

Therefore, I hope you will invest your efforts well and take action to fulfill a greater salvation.

I bless all of you to be even stronger after hearing the Word, to enjoy the glory and joy of resurrection while loving the Trinity, and to fulfill the Will of this time.