The Lord came to this earth and saved from sin those who are childlike. Then what does it mean that He saved such childlike people? It means God saved those who simply believed and followed what the Lord said without any doubt. Those who believe in God whole-heartedly do not have worldly desires. Because they do not have any attachment to the world, they think this way: “What is life? What am I? Where did I come from and where am I going? Why am I living? Do I live to eat? Or do I eat to live? The life that I see from birth through death is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears shortly. Life seems so meaningless. Things that are in this world are meaningless. As the author of the Book of Ecclesiastes said, ‘Vanity of vanities, all is vanity’ (Ecclesiastes 1:2).”

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Today’s Scripture passage records an episode that occurred while Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem to be nailed to the Cross. When Jesus reached Bethany, He said to His disciples, “Go into the village opposite you, where as you enter you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Loose it and bring it here. And if anyone asks you, ‘Why are you loosing it?’ thus you shall say to him, ‘Because the Lord has need of it.’” Having heard this, the disciples went to the village and did what Jesus asked them to do.

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The Scripture passage that we read today describes what Jesus said after giving the parable of the minas on His way to Jerusalem to bear the punishment of the Cross. It’s written here: “And it came to pass, when He drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mountain called Olivet, that He sent two of His disciples, saying, ‘Go into the village opposite you, where as you enter you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Loose it and bring it here. And if anyone asks you, ‘Why are you loosing it?’ thus you shall say to him, ‘Because the Lord has need of it.’’” Here, the Lord told the disciples to bring a colt and tell anyone who asks about it, “Because the Lord has need of it.” Let us focus on this part and meditate on the will of the Lord that’s revealed here.

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Many people living in this world today just live in hopelessness. However, I want to speak through this Word of God about the fact that we do not have hopelessness. As beautiful flowers blossom in the field after the storm has passed through, I believe the Millennial Kingdom of our Lord will begin again at that time even when the world is destroyed. That is why I who have such faith can always live with hope for the Kingdom of Heaven.

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My foremost wish is for the gospel of the water and the Spirit to be spread throughout the whole world as soon as possible. It’s my heart’s desire for the true gospel to be spread as quickly as possible, and to thus quench God’s thirst and ours as well. For a while, the spreading of the gospel of the water and the Spirit seemed to go so slowly that I felt quite impatient, but recently the speed has picked up considerably. But given the fact there are over six billion people living in this world, there needs to be a lot more people ordering our books for the gospel to be spread to the end of the world.

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How have you been, everyone? Christmas is around the corner. After the Christmas passes, we will also have a worship service on the New Year’s Eve to close out this year. Then, another year will have passed and we will greet a new year. I feel a little sentimental as I think that a year has gone by as if it was one night. Time went by so fast as we ran about here and there doing God’s work that we are already facing the end of the year. I think the year will go by even faster next year. And the year after next year will go by faster than that, and the following year will go by even faster. I believe we will meet the Lord soon as time passes by so fast like that. As we look back on this year, we have accomplished many things and we were busy with many things, but, anyway, the time has gone by too fast.

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What is the most fearful thing in our spiritual life? What is the biggest enemy, the biggest adversary, in our spiritual life? It’s our fleshly thinking. Our fleshly thinking constantly comes up and harasses us. Our fleshly thinking continues to spring up until we are transformed into new flesh. Therefore, it is easy for us to follow our fleshly thinking and we consequently end up becoming an adversary of Jesus even though we know and believe in Jesus. It is because we cannot think of the spiritual things when we fall into fleshly thinking. If that is the case, we end up turning our backs to Jesus because our faith gradually withers away and eventually dies. We become like Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus at the end even though he was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus.

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