Text: Ep 5:15-17
I would like to share my grace with you today under the title "The Return of the Hostage."
This time, I'm here to celebrate the inauguration of the 40th President of the United States
I was in Washington, D.C. as a ceremony instructor. This time, it was a spectacular presidential inauguration that you would not see in previous presidents.
However, something that has never happened before happened at this presidential inauguration ceremony.
It's just that the U.S. presidential inauguration, the inauguration speech, when all the media in the U.S. was focused on the presidential inauguration, the U.S. freed the U.S. hostages in Iran.
As soon as the 52 U.S. ambassadors held hostage by Iran were dramatically freed at the same time as the president gave his inauguration speech, I saw a bizarre phenomenon in which the radio, television, newspapers and the presidential inauguration were all turned back, and then all of them focused on the release of hostages, and all of the people, regardless of the presidential inauguration, focused their attention on the return of U.S. hostages to the U.S.
While the American hostages were held hostage by Iran for 444 days, the entire atmosphere in the United States was so gloomy and gloomy that words could not be used.
In a state of being reduced from a world's first power to a second-class nation and a second-class citizen, the entire United States was plunged into a psychologically terrible quagmire of the political economy, educational culture, and military individuals. When the president was inaugurated and the pride of Americans bruised by hostages blossomed, the whole country was filled with a festive atmosphere.
All the sirens were ringing, church bells were ringing, and the atmosphere of the festival was full in America.
When you go to the United States, the United States can't hide its excitement by reviving its new self, courage, and great American dreams.
I've seen that, from very few small citizens to leaders of the United States, they are filled with themselves, courage, dreams and convictions.
But I've never seen 52 of them come back from being held hostage for 444 days, welcomed so nationally, so happy and joyful.
As I waited to attend the Enoy Enoraid General Assembly in Washington, D.C. to preach, the Northwestern University choirs stood up and shouted, "Rejoice! Rejoice! The hosts returned!" and saw all the Americans standing up, applauding and liking it, I felt like I was seeing an illusion in my mind at that moment.
How happy will the Father of God be with heaven and angels when the hostage of the devil among God's people who are in sin, devil, curse, despair and death repent and return when the hostage of the devil among the people of God who have been held hostage for 444 days?
I couldn't help but think of this in my mind.
So if I come back to you at this hour, I'll be sorry
I decided that I should tell you how happy God is when the sinners, who were hostages of demons, curses, despair and death, return to God's arms.

First of all, in the Bible, Jesus said through the words of God how happy God, heaven, and angels are to return a hostage, in Luke 15:3 verse 7
Jesus personally said, "When a rancher hit a sheep, all of a sudden 99 sheep in the field were comfortable, and one of them was lost."
Even if you count and count sheep, there are only 99 and there is only one.
The so-called one was taken hostage.
The rancher then set off to find one sheep, leaving 99 intact. He crosses the mountains, crosses the water, climbs or descends steep roads, stings, wounds, and travels all over the mountain stream to find the lost sheep. When he finds the lost sheep, he wears the sheep on his shoulder and returns with joy to call out the whole neighborhood.
I lost a sheep and found it
Let's eat, enjoy, and rejoice! And when a sinner of a man returns from repentance, the angels of the whole kingdom, along with the Father of God, are happier than the 99 righteous who have nothing to repent of.
As Jesus says, we are hostages of sin, curse, death, and demons, and whenever one person returns, the whole sky sings praise, thanks, rejoices, and rejoices
It's something that you clearly showed me.
Everyone! If a person lives, it's 70 years. If he's strong, he's 80 years old, but he's dead. After 444 days in Iran, the world's superpower, the U.S. continued to welcome the presidential inauguration, putting aside the mass media, but how much more so you and I, who have been named in the image and shape of God who live forever, are with God's father when we come back after repenting
Wouldn't heaven and angels be happy?
Secondly, what we're going to think about here is that releasing hostages is going to have to pay a huge price.
The U.S. paid a huge amount of frozen property in the U.S., including Iranian property in the U.S. and that of the former king of Palestine. It was possible to pay Iran an astronomical number of money as ransom and buy 52 hostages.
If the United States hadn't paid that huge sum of money, the 52 hostages would still have run into an unknown fate in Iran's prisons.
Originally, it is natural to demand the price of a hostage after being taken away.
Everyone! Our ancestors Adam and Hawa volunteered to do something for themselves
He sold it to the devil, sin, and death.
This is why I am judged to die in front of God.
Since that day, for 6,000 years, humans have been hostages.
A hostage of sin, a hostage of the devil, a hostage of disease
As a hostage of the curse and a hostage of death, the soul is destroyed, anxiety, anxiety, despair, pain, suffering, fear, and hatred, I have lived a tragic life in which my body is sick and I return to a handful of soil in 780 years.
Even though this hostage tried by all means and means of human beings, he couldn't get his freedom.
No matter how hard American hostages try in Iran, they cannot be released by human means and means. Just as enormous external forces cannot come out without releasing them, so can our people.
No matter how much human beings develop science, live a moral life, develop philosophy, and develop material civilization, there is no way that we can solve it ourselves with human means, methods, and efforts in this world where human beings are held hostage.
It's impossible, there's no hope.
In this situation, the Bible says, "God loves the world like this, and he has given me a living creature, and if anyone believes in me, I will not perish, but will live forever."
As such, God sent us his son Jesus Christ to rescue our hostages 2,000 years ago.
Sin must pay the price before God.
This is why God personally sent your poisonous Jesus to this land through the body of the Virgin Mary to pay for it.
Through Mary's body, Jesus was born in this land and has been in this land for 33 years.
The Lord left the throne of heaven, the film, and all its extreme powers, and came in the body of contempt, generation, old age, coldness, hunger, and wandering, and the Lord paid the price to free man from hostage before God on this earth.
At the end of the day, the Lord offered your body as an offering so that they bound Jesus and were taken up on the cross of the ribbons, and the Lord was personally nailed.
"and the son of God made the stars of heaven with his hands, and made the sea with his hands, and made the waters with his hands, and made the statue of Samra."
The Lord has completely cleared the price of all the sins of us who have been held hostage before God by the hand of Jesus Christ in the field, the foot in the nail, the foot in the nail, and the spear on its side, spilling all the water and blood and tearing our bodies.
It's amazing because God has cleared the hostage lives of sin, disease, curse, despair, demon, and death before God, just as the United States rescued the hostages after paying Iran a huge amount of money.
If you have already believed in Jesus as your savior at this hour, you will say
Those who don't need it and don't believe yet should not forget that God has paid an indescribable price for you and me.
You have paid a price for you and my soul, to cure the disease of you and my body, to give eternal life, and the Lord has already paid a great price to let us be from curses, sorrows, and black cancer in our lives!
After learning about this, you and I are not those who have been saved without merit. It is a misunderstanding if you think that humans have been saved because they are good at religious discipline, morality, ethics, and philosophy.
Everyone! Humans are a little bit good and ugly, they follow that discipline, they fail to follow that discipline, and these things do nothing to liberate your hostages.
As long as you are held as a hostage, whether you are trained or uneducated, religious, non-religious, knowledgeable, or absent, you cannot be freed from the hostage by your own means and methods.
Since God's love has paid for Jesus, the son, in exchange for those who deserve sin, injustice, ugliness, and abandonment, now we can only be freed from demons, sin, disease, curse, and death by faith, not in our own capacity, regardless of whether men or women are rich or poor.
Therefore, Jesus said personally, "I am the way, truth, life, and no one will come to my father without me." Even if there are countless religions in the world, there is no way to be saved except for Jesus one path, even if there are countless human ways of discipline and morality.
There has never been another name available to man in the world to be saved.
Only Jesus! Jesus! Jesus! Jesus can save us.
Apart from Christ, there is no religion that has paid the ransom of our lives, no morality, no ethics, no philosophy, nothing.
Therefore, there is absolutely no great power other than Jesus to free you and me and enter eternal heaven.
Third, what I want to think about is that hostage release requires a heavyweight.
American hostages could not come out just because the U.S. paid unilaterally.
Algeria Ara said, "Take a plane and go into Iran for the United States and give a hostage to the Iranian government!"
The United States did not go directly, but Algeria did it on behalf of the United States.
So they confirmed that they were paying, and they took the hostages on an Algerian plane, they came all the way to Algeria, they came all the way to Germany, and they handed them over to the United States.
The release of hostages requires a heavy security.
Ladies and gentlemen, even today, even though Jesus is crucified and sheds all his blood, the people living in the world still do not know it, so we need a heavyweight to lead them to the Lord and liberate them.
For those who know Jesus and have been saved, like you and me, we need to pray and go and open our mouths and evangelize.
Without our care, the hostages of the devil in the world cannot come out of there, so we have to go and pray for the devil to retreat, and through Jesus' blood and the suffering we have to pull out the hostage.
I flew from Minneapolis to Tokyo on a Northwest flight with my wife this time, and I had a long flight.
But the stew that brings us rice
There are places, and when I looked at one of the stewardesses, the Holy Spirit suddenly said to me.
Evangelize to that maiden; let him believe in Jesus. There are several stewards, and he always said when he saw her.
It doesn't matter when you see another girl, but when you see her, evangelize!
Lead to Jesus! As you all know, the stewardess on the plane is busy.
How do I evangelize if I'm not a pastor Choi Ja-sil after holding a busy person? If you're a pastor Choi Ja-sil, you don't have face, you don't have any food, and you get out of the hallway and get kicked out, but I don't have face. Oh, my God, that child is an American, but I've heard a lot of evangelism in America, so I already know Jesus.
I know, but what else should I preach? The Holy Spirit told me that even though the child was born in the United States, he had never heard of Jesus. Is that possible? Well, stop nagging and evangelize. You are a young and pretty girl.
So, oh my God! What if my wife is next to me and I'm scolded by her for talking to a young lady?
Let my wife evangelize! Then I saw that she was sleeping next to me.
God look! He's sleeping. So don't worry and evangelize! So come here because I am next to you. What help do you need?
I don't need help. Listen to me. Do you believe in Jesus? We're Christians, too. Who in America is not a Christian? All Americans are Christians. I mean, have you ever served Jesus as a savior? I don't know.
Do you know that Jesus is an old owner? I don't know that. Has anyone ever preached to you about Jesus? Even if I flew back and forth to the Pacific Ocean for 11 years as a stewardess, no one asked me to believe in Jesus. That's right! I preached to you. So I asked. Do you know where you are coming from, what you are doing, and where you are going? So don't know. I'm on my way to Tokyo from Minneapolis, and my duty is to carry food here. Who asked me to go from Minneapolis to Tokyo? No, that's not it. Do you know where you come from, where you go, and what you are doing in your life?
I don't know.
What makes you live? I don't know that.
I'll show you the way. So I told him about Jesus Christ's crucifixion and resurrection and his love for the girl, and I advised him with various testimonies. Then, when you go to Tokyo and enter a hotel, kneel down and pray before you go to bed to receive Jesus Christ as a savior.
So you don't have to wait for what the Holy Spirit says to go all the way to Tokyo. Sit down here now and pray. Oh, God! What should I do? There are a lot of people watching on this plane and a person with a high stewardess is turning on his eyes because I've been talking for too long. Oh, God! I'll stop this. No! He never prays in Tokyo if he waits until he goes to Tokyo.
Pray him here. So I said, "Do you believe in Jesus here now?" and he said, "Do you believe in him?" So I said, "Do you have to kneel down here?" So I sat down in the hallway, held hands, and looked to the side, and everyone was watching. How embarrassing! But it's God's command, so I am a sinner, God's father. Follow me. So this girl is shouting out loud, God's father, I am a sinner! Yes, I am! What am I ashamed of when people who believe for the first time shout like this.
You have to be brave so that I can bring Jesus to the Savior with a loud voice. I don't know where I'm coming from, but I'm grateful that I was saved by Jesus today. I've never been this happy and happy in my life, getting up in tears and clapping my hands as I prayed and ordained.
No one has ever told me to believe in Jesus, even if I've flown back and forth to the Pacific Ocean for 11 years as a stewardess.
Even when I was in the United States, no one cared for my soul, but I am now saved. And I will never forget the Pacific sky from Minneapolis to Tokyo for the rest of my life.
I was saved over the Pacific Ocean.
I saw from there on a Northwest plane over the Pacific Ocean, a stewardess getting a release from the hostage. Hallelujah!
Belief comes from hearing, and hearing comes from the word of Christ, unless someone comes and proves it, if you don't listen, you can't believe it, and if you don't believe, you can't be freed from demons, sin, curses, despair, and death hostages.
Therefore, just as Algeria entered Iran on behalf of the United States and rescued hostages, you and I have a mission today to deliver those who have been held hostage through evangelism, prayer, and empowerment on behalf of God while living in this land.
We have to fulfill this mission on this land.
So many Jesus believers say, "Give me alone! Lord!" on behalf of God, to the world of sin, and to rescue hostages, they do not do all their blood-tearful struggles, prayers, and faith.
One thing I'm proud of is our pure gospel center
The church members are very hard-working and have extreme groups in Korea or abroad.
When I go to the Korean Consulate in New York, listening to my elder, there is a person who carries a bag of the district chief of the Full Gospel Central Church in the midst of many people going back and forth.
This is why I boast of my church. This is because when the Holy Spirit is full, our church members perform a miracle to rescue souls, expel demons, and save hostages.
Fourthly, what I feel deeply about is that the hostages came out of Iran by plane.
No matter how legally they came out of prison, if they didn't have a plane, they wouldn't be able to fly out of Iran and remain there, they wouldn't be able to enjoy complete freedom even if the hostages were liberated.
Being liberated and enjoying complete freedom are two different things.
But once they've been liberated, they've been given total freedom when they're flying out of Iranian soil.
Today, we believe in Jesus, so we are forgiven for our sins, and we are the devil's
Even if you have been legally placed under control, treated, and placed from a curse, you must ride the wings of the Holy Spirit to achieve a complete liberation that is truly soulful, robust, life-rich, and full of everything that is always abundant in everything.
Even if we have faith that has been washed and saved by the blood after hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ, we have gained freedom without riding the wings of the Holy Spirit, but we cannot enjoy complete liberation.
That's why the Bible says in Chapter 8 of Rome
Therefore, anyone who believes in Christ Jesus is never guilty. This is because the law of the Holy Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus freed me from the law of sin and death. Even if we listen to the gospel of Christ and know it in our heads through faith, we must receive the Holy Spirit's grace to gain a history of liberation from sin, being released from the devil, rising from the curse as a blessing, being cured from disease, and entering a life-filled grace.
For this reason, even Jesus' disciples, who listened to the gospel of Christ and had knowledge of the gospel, said, "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for your father's promise. John baptized you with water, and in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit comes upon you, you will be empowered, and you will come to the ends of Jerusalem, all Judea, Samaria, and the earth to be my witnesses, so even your own disciples of the Lord told you to stop preaching the gospel for a while before you receive the Holy Spirit.
Even if we are legally completely liberated from Jesus through faith, there must be a history of the Holy Spirit to enjoy the freedom that has been liberated indefinitely as a blessing.
Therefore, such faith or church without the Holy Spirit is a cloud without rain.
It's a well without water.
It's a fire-free furnace.
It's a fruitless tree.
There is no real life or fruit even though there is a form.
Today, at the end
What we need is our personal faith or church
The first is filled with the Holy Spirit,
The second is filled with the Holy Spirit,
The third is also the filling of the Holy Spirit.
If you recognize the Holy Spirit today, let's say Amen!
If you're welcome, let's do Amen!
Let's say "Amen" when we invite them!
When we pray with the power of the Holy Spirit on the wings of the Holy Spirit, praise with the power of the Holy Spirit, and believe in the power of the Holy Spirit, we can live a life of the Holy Spirit that not only has liberation but also completely enjoys freedom from the land of demons, sin, curses, despair, and death on the wings of the Holy Spirit.
The hostages of the United States have had a long period of sorrow and despair
Words couldn't tell when I saw my family waiting, my freedom, and my return to a rich life.
Yellow ribbons are attached to every big tree, yellow ribbons are attached to people's chests, yellow ribbons are attached to every big building, and yellow ribbons are a welcome sign for the return of hostages.
Every church bell, every siren, and every car honked their horns, the heaven and earth turned into a welcoming hostage.
Today, when we believe in Jesus and receive the Holy Spirit, we come out
My father is always happy, and heaven and angels blow trumpets, welcome, and shout.
This is still a yakgwa.
Now, on the day we enter heaven after living through the Holy Spirit in the land of hostages, the Lord will come and extend his hand, and welcome you and me by the wrist with the same hand as the rancher. All the heavenly and angelic forces will shout, Hallelujah! You and I went ahead and came to Father before him. When he said hello, my father rose from his throne with joy, and my dear child, thank you for coming! Our joy will be full when we hear these words.
That day is coming before you and me. Therefore, we hope that we will hold our faith vigorously and enjoy the full freedom of those of us who have been liberated from the land of hostages, and continue to pray, evangelize, and write in the name of the Lord until we enter the land of eternal freedom
I wish you all the best.
- Prayers -
Our living and holy father, God!
I can't help but think that our Lord will be delighted when we truly believe in Jesus and come out before God as 52 U.S. hostages have been liberated from suffering in Iran for 444 days, and the U.S. heaven and earth trembled and rose up to rejoice, rejoice, and welcome.
Jesus personally said that if he finds one sheep he has lost, he will invite all the people in the neighborhood to eat and enjoy it.
Father of God! Today, I attended the service of the Full Gospel Central Church
All of these saints were once held hostage to sin, demons, curses, despair, and death, but I am grateful for believing in Jesus and gaining liberation.
Father, those of us who have been liberated, now that we have been liberated for that great price of Christ, let us never be in the yoke of a servant again.
Help me not to get anywhere near sin, devil, disease, curse, or despair, and push me away so that I can't get anywhere near you.
God, Father! And in order to enjoy complete freedom, it must be the power of the Holy Spirit. No matter how much liberation you get without riding the wings of the Holy Spirit, you will still be in the land of your enemies. How many people say they believe in Jesus and still stand in the ground of the devil? Bless the Holy Spirit with full freedom. Let everyone ride the wings of the Holy Spirit. I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.
- an airway of the divine spirit -
Our living God Father! Thank you and praise for your infinite grace and love. There are many people who have become hostages in the land of evil demons and are sick in spirit, mind, and body, and in their lives.
But we know that we no longer have to wear the yoke of a bell because of the enormous price of our Jesus Christ.
Thank you for taking care of our concerns and carrying the disease.
Our Father God is praying for the name of Jesus Nazareth and the power of the Holy Spirit at this time, Father! Restructure those who are sick in the heart with Jesus' name!
May your healing power flow like a river from head to toe.
My father, please heal me, my father! Make me clean. Make me healthy, please! The problem of the soul, the problem of the mind, the problem of the family, the problem of the business, the problem of the workplace, all these problems before the Lord
Father of God!
Please solve it in the name of the Lord Jesus, and do the miracle of my father. Let him be left out of trouble. Let all be soulful, let all be strong, let all things be done well. O living father! Let the Lord be honored. I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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