Dear Coworkers,

I yearn to provide the bread of life to the whole world with our fellow coworkers.

Christianity has made ceaseless efforts to follow the Lord. Such signs are easily detected in religious meetings and in the writings of many religious leaders. Nonetheless, there is no sign anywhere that anybody has followed or believed in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

I feel as though the world is declining like a setting sun. Countless souls are dying in hunger and thirst, not knowing where the fountain of life is. In such a time as this you and I should share the gospel of the water and the Spirit, the fountain of life, to more people in this world. Otherwise, they will not be able to drink the very living water from the fountain of life and will soon die of thirst. Therefore, in such a time as this, you and I who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit should live out our faith honoring the Lord’s will.

From the Author

Sermons for Those Who Have Become Our Coworkers (V)

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2009 by The New Life Mission

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Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version.

ISBN 978-89-282-1060-2

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Guard Your Faith in the Righteousness of God (Genesis 26:1-11)

2. Blessings Are Conveyed through God’s Church (Genesis 27:1-30)

3. All the Blessings Given to Us Have Also Come from Our Lord (Genesis 27:1-29)

4. God Has Given Us Spiritual Blessings (Genesis 27:1-29)

5. God Blesses Jacob-like People (Genesis 27:1-29)

6. Who Are Blessed by God? (Genesis 28:10-19)

7. Discern Correctly between a True Shepherd and a False One (Genesis 29:1-14)

8. Let Us Live for the Righteousness of God (Genesis 30:25-43)

9. Let Us Do Special Ministry before the Presence of God (Genesis 30:25-43)

10. Live in This World by Faith (Genesis 34:1-17)

11. Marry within Your Own Tribe (Genesis 34:18-27)

12. The Righteous Must Fulfill Their Duty (Genesis 38:1-30)

13. What Scripture Can Save Sinners from the Sins of the World (Genesis 40:1-23)

14. Store Up the Bread of Life by Faith throughout the Whole World (Genesis 41:46-57)

15. Do God’s Work with the Eyes That Look Far Ahead (Genesis 42:1-5)

Preface

To My Fellow Workers

These messages on the Book of Genesis are a compilation of lectures from our Mission School or sermons delivered at my Church, and they are strictly intended for the saints. I have come to the point where I would like to share God’s Word from these sermons with our fellow workers in the faith who are overseas. In the Book of Genesis, there are messages on salvation and spiritual growth for both sinners and for all those who already believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. The reason is that, even before Creation, God the Father had planned to save mankind from their sins through His Son and make them His children.

We who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit must live out our second lives by living as disciples of Jesus Christ. In order to do this, we must have spiritual training. How can you receive this discipleship training? There are two ways. First, you must meet with a servant of God who believes in the righteousness of Jesus Christ, learn about the faith and apply this faith in your own life. Also, those of you who are abroad must be trained indirectly. In order to do this, you must have regular spiritual fellowship by email, Skype or telephone with The New Life Mission.

Dear fellow workers in Christ, I have experienced much persecution and loneliness while serving the gospel of the water and the Spirit, which is the righteousness of the Lord. You will no doubt also experience suffering and loneliness as I have because of this gospel. Nevertheless, we will be victorious by faith which fulfills the righteousness of the Lord and the commands of the Lord. We will thus continue living the life of a true disciple and await the day the Lord allows us to meet….

July 20, 2009

From the author

SERMON 1

Guard Your Faith in

The Righteousness of God

< Genesis 26:1-11 >

There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, in Gerar. Then the LORD appeared to him and said: ‘Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you. Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.’ So Isaac dwelt in Gerar. And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, ‘She is my sister’; for he was afraid to say, ‘She is my wife,’ because he thought, ‘lest the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to behold.’ Now it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked through a window, and saw, and there was Isaac, showing endearment to Rebekah his wife. Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, ‘Quite obviously she is your wife; so how could you say, ‘She is my sister’?’ Isaac said to him, ‘Because I said, ‘Lest I die on account of her.’’ And Abimelech said, ‘What is this you have done to us? One of the people might soon have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us.’ So Abimelech charged all his people, saying, ‘He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.’

In today’s Scripture reading Abraham’s son Isaac appears. And God appears to this Isaac and speaks to him. In the Bible we find many cases where the people of faith suffered famine. Abraham went down to Egypt because of famine, and Naomi as well as Lot also went down to the Moab region because of a severe famine. And as you can see today in the Book of Genesis chapter 26, Abraham’s son Isaac is said to have also gone down to Abimelech because of famine.

God Tells Us Not to Go Down to the Land of Egypt

In the Book of Genesis chapter 26, verses 2 and 3 we read, Then the Lord appeared to him and said: Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you. Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father."

So Isaac dwelt in Gerar. I don’t know just exactly where this Gerar region is. But regardless, I am sure that this Word from God where He says not to go down to the land of Egypt just because of a famine is also directed towards all His servants and people living in this current day and age. Our God clearly spoke to all the ancestors of faith as follows: Even if under a severe famine, dwell in the land of Canaan. And do not go down to the land of Egypt. If you obey this instruction, I will carry out all the promises I have made with Abraham, the man of faith. My dear servants do not ever go down to the land of Egypt even during a severe famine. Dwell in the land that I have shown you. God said that Abraham had fully kept all the commands and laws of God. And this was the reason why God had promised to carry out all the promises He had made with him and upon his descendants.

As I was reading this Word I came across the following thought. Regarding Abraham, God says he had obeyed all His commandments, statutes, and laws. But did Abraham not sell off his own wife? Would that be a part of him having kept the statutes and the commandments of God? God did not look at those fleshly deeds of Abraham. When God says Abraham had kept His commandments, statutes and laws, He did so because He saw the faith by which Abraham believed in God and obeyed and followed those commands He had given him. No one can say that Abraham had fully kept the ways of God. Even God Himself can never say so just by having looked at the deeds of Abraham. The important thing here is that even though Abraham had staggered at times, his heart resided in the perfect faith located in the righteousness of God and he went forth chasing after God with that faith.

The Righteous Must Look at What God Wants, Rather than Looking Only at the Present Situation

Rather than looking only at the present moment, we the righteous must think about What is God telling us? And what is the will of God towards us? And as we do this, we must examine the will of God and concentrate on finding out that will. And by realizing that will of God and by wholeheartedly believing in it, we must follow after that will of God. In following the righteousness of God, we must first wait to find out what the Word of God really means rather than caring about our acts. Even as we lead a life of faith, there often comes a time when we sway because of having been tied up in fleshly situations and adverse circumstances. And there are many occasions where we even lose our judgment. Even so, we must not be governed by our thoughts and judgments. We must keep our faith perfectly by believing in the righteousness of God as we think what God is telling us only.

We have read today where God said, Live in the land that I have shown you. If you do, I will give you all the fortunes and blessings that I had bestowed on Abraham. You and I must be able to hear this Word of blessing that God has spoken to us. Only then can we go on living out our faith as we follow after the Word of God, just like Abraham, by faith of believing in the perfect righteousness of God.

Take a look at the lives of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants of faith. The blessing of God came to them when they all dwelt in the land of promise believing in God’s Word of promise. Today we saw God speaking to Isaac — God told Isaac that he must never go down to Egypt because of a famine. And we must understand that this Word from God was intended for you and me today. Yes, it is true. We must never allow our hearts to dwell in the land of Egypt just because our situations seem difficult. This is because it is not the will of God. When a famine reared its head for the second time, Isaac then had it in his heart to go down to Egypt, and for this reason God appeared to him and told him not to go down to that land.

We should not follow this example of Isaac. There will surely come a time when we face fleshly hardships. There will be times when the Church experiences difficulties and also times when your hearts will come across hardships. In such times, we must know what God is telling us. And we must also pay close attention to what God says to His Church. So what does He say to us, His Church in such hard times? He is telling us not to go down to Egypt. I sincerely hope that you will come to know the will of God through this Word and go on living by faith enjoying the power within the will of God.

The Righteous Must Live by Faith as Instructed by God

Dear fellow believers, if we quietly and confidently go on living in the land of Canaan as instructed by God, that is, if we quietly dwell within God’s Church, He will give us all the blessings He had promised to give Abraham. We must believe in this. You must have such faith for sure. At any time and at any moment, you must have such a clear knowledge of this will of God.

In the Book of Genesis chapter 26, verse 7 we read, And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, ‘She is my sister’; for he was afraid to say, ‘She is my wife,’ because he thought, ‘lest the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to behold.’

What does this passage mean? Some Philistines asked Isaac about his wife. And Isaac lied to the king saying that his wife was his sister. Of course, she was his half sister (Genesis 20:12). In truth, Isaac was a second cousin to his wife Rebekah. So actually she was his kin-sister. Because they were married, they were considered a married couple. But being afraid that he might be killed because of his beautiful wife, this Isaac told them that she was his sister, instead of saying that she was his wife. Because of this King Abimelech and his subjects all coveted Isaac’s wife. But then one day King Abimelech looked through his window and saw Isaac showing endearment to Rebekah.

The next passage seems difficult to understand. Was King Abimelech not an enemy of the nation of Israel? But after he saw Isaac hugging Rebekah affectionately, what did he say? In Genesis 26:10 we read, And Abimelech said, ‘What is this you have done to us? One of the people might soon have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us.’ Even though he was a sinner, he said to Isaac that he had almost brought guilt on him. He was originally a lump of sin, and the work that he habitually did was just committing sins. Yet that King Abimelech said to Isaac, Because you said your wife was your sister, one of my people could have committed a sin by sleeping with your wife. Thus, you could have brought guilt on us.

Of course if he had really been a holy man and a believer in God, his words would make sense. But this Abimelech was someone who did not believe in God and committed all kinds of sins everyday. Therefore, it was unreasonable for him to make such accusations against Isaac who received the blessing of God. To put it this way, his accusation was simply ridiculous.

This King Abimelech then declared a royal order, saying, He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death (Genesis 26:11). Dear fellow believers, there is one thing we have to know clearly here. Those words spoken by Abimelech are precisely the Words spoken by God that are directed towards you and me. Yes, this is true. Through this event, God is now speaking to us spiritually. In other words, these words are telling us that people who touch Isaac or his wife will die because of that sin.

We Must Never Mingle with Those Who Do Not Believe in the Righteousness of God

What does this mean? People who have not received the remission of sins for not knowing and believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit must identify themselves clearly as sinners. Many of them however tend to say that they are also the descendants of Abraham, that is, people who have received the remission of sins. People who have not received the remission of sins must remain in their sinful state in order to be saved from their sins. But what would happen to these sinners who try to lead a life of faith along with the righteous claiming that they have also received the remission of sins when they have not? Although it might seem ironic, people who have received the remission of sins will not be able to preach to such pretending Christians. The Church of God should rather preach the gospel of the remission of sins to such fake believers who have not been properly born again yet, but the reality is that we the born-again cannot do this. These words might be difficult, but I think you can follow me.

Yes, this is true. Even though someone who does not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit begins to attend God’s Church, he must confess that he is still a sinner. But if this sinner were to sleep with the people of God and they become a single family, then it would bring about a big problem. If a born-again person were to become family united with the flesh with someone who has not been born again, we would lose the opportunity to preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit to such a person later on. Why? It is because the sinner misunderstands that he is also a descendant of Abraham from a fleshly perspective. If Abimelech were to sleep with Isaac’s wife, such problems would arise spiritually. It is because Isaac was clearly a descendant of Abraham. Therefore, if people who have not received the remission of sins were to become descendants of Abraham, they would never again be able to have a poor heart that can hear the accurate gospel of the water and the Spirit and receive the remission of sins. I am saying that if people who do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit were to engage in a physical marriage and become united as one with those who have received remission of sins, they would forever lose the opportunity to receive the remission of sins before God.

In today’s passage of Scripture, Abimelech king of the Philistines said, He who touches Isaac or his wife shall surely be put to death. This means that the saints of God’s Church must never mingle in with those who have not received the remission of sins and the righteous must never accept the faith of such sinners. The Bible is telling us that people who have received the remission of sins by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit must never mingle spiritually with those who have not received the remission of sins. God said, should there be such an occurrence, He shall surely kill. When something like this actually happens, all would be put to death, in spirit and in flesh.

This king of the Philistines was an enemy of the nation of Israel. Therefore it does not make any sense that he took Isaac’s side and said such a right thing. But the Bible says God allowed those words to be spoken through his mouth. Even through the mouth of a Philistine man, God declares that only the descendants of Abraham are His people. What we must understand here is that If we are the descendants of Abraham, we must dwell in the land as set by God and we must never live out our lives being mingled in with worldly people. It means that we must surely keep our faith that believes in the righteousness of God. God is telling us that we who have received the remission of sins must never admit those Christian sinners’ faith just because they are good towards us. Yes, this is correct. If we who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit were to go on living being mingled in with those who have not received the remission of sins, then in the end, we will all die.

God speaks to us through this that we who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit can bring guilt on sinners. If we lead a life of faith with those who have not yet received salvation from their sins, we will be bringing guilt upon them and they will end up suffering death for sure. This is why I implore you not to live out your lives by uniting with those who have not yet been truly born again spiritually. If we are those who genuinely believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and also if we are the spiritual descendants of Abraham, then as his descendants, we must live out our faith by believing in the righteous God, even if we face difficult times from time to time. When we do this, God will surely carry out those promises of blessing He had promised Abraham upon us. God clearly promised us as follows: I will curse anyone who curses you and bless anyone who blesses you. I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of the heaven. This means that when we dwell in God’s Church with the same faith as that of Abraham, God will make the descendants of faith arise in this world in great numbers. These are Words spoken by God for us.

We must realize the fact that we can hinder those people from receiving the remission of sins because of their spiritual ignorance. We must never bring guilt on them. I am saying that we must never lead a life of faith by admitting their faith and mingling in with them. We must never say, They are not that different from us. They are like us, and therefore they are also correct. If we were to admit and recognize their askew faith, then it would be the same as us recognizing that their sinful state does not matter. The reality is that they will surely go to hell by their sins. Dear fellow believers, please keep this in mind.

Even if those who have not received the remission of sins try to take sides with us and preach this true gospel in a similar way as us, we must never be deceived. There is a definite difference of faith which we possess when compared with the one of a sinner. God saw this very faith in Abraham and said that he obeyed His statutes and commandments. This means that he obeyed God’s righteousness by faith. But it does not mean that Abraham obeyed God’s Word only by his acts. We who have received the genuine remission of sins by believing in the righteousness of Jesus Christ are the spiritual descendants of Abraham who share the same faith with him. Therefore, we should not admit any false faiths and fake salvations that the false religions of this world propagates and preaches. God told us to keep the faith of believing in the pure gospel of the water and the Spirit until the very end. Only when we keep this faith, our Lord will carry out and pour out His blessings He had promised Abraham upon us.

God Promised to Bless Jacob

Dear fellow believers, when we read the following chapters after the passage we have just read today, we will find out what happened to Jacob after receiving the prayer of blessing from his father. Having received this entire prayer of blessing from his father, he incurred hatred from his older brother Esau because of it, and he then went to the house of his mother’s brother to take refuge. What is unusual about this is that when the righteous people flee they usually head to their relatives on their mother’s side. Anyhow, as he was heading towards his uncle’s house, he fell asleep in the wilderness. He took a stone and put it under his head and fell asleep. In his dream, he saw a ladder set up on the earth reaching up to Heaven. And at the top end of that ladder, he saw the angels ascending and descending.

In this dream, God appeared before him and spoke to him. In the Book of Genesis chapter 28, verses 13-16 we read, And behold, the Lord stood above it and said: ‘I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants. Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed. Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.’ Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, ‘Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.’ Our God spoke the words of blessing to Jacob like this. God promised that Jacob’s descendants would be numbered as the dust of the earth and that He would be with him and keep him. The Bible continues, Then Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it. And he called the name of that place Bethel; but the name of that city had been Luz previously (Genesis 28:18-19). Here the word Bethel means the house of God.

In Genesis 28:20-22 we read, Then Jacob made a vow, saying, ‘If God will be with me, and keep me in this way that I am going, and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on, so that I come back to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God. And this stone which I have set as a pillar shall be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to You.’

God appeared in Jacob’s dream and told him personally that He would become his God, and so from this time onwards all Jacob had to do was to just believe in this Word of God. For your reference, our God who appears today through the written Word had often appeared to people of faith like this through dreams during the days of the Old Testament. This very God who had spoken to the ancestors of faith during the Old Testament times spoke to Jacob in his dream promising him, I will give to you all the blessings I had bestowed upon Abraham. Wherever you go, I will keep you and bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you. Now that God has spoken to Jacob like this, all he had to do was to thank God by saying, Amen, and accept it all by faith. And as he did this by faith, all these blessings would become his. If the righteous wait for God’s blessing to be fulfilled by faith, all the promises God had promised Jacob would surely become fulfilled in their lives.

But what did Jacob do here? Again he offered a prayer of pledge to God. He vowed, If you do so and so for me, I will surely build a church here. What kind of a prayer was that? It shows us that Jacob’s faith of believing in the Word of God was still lacking. Like this, we the righteous need to have the kind of faith that believes in God and His Word wholeheartedly.

When We Wait for the Fulfillment of the Word of God by Faith without Caring for Our Current Situation, Those Promises Will Surely Be Fulfilled

Often our hearts of believing in the Lord sway to and fro, and also our hearts are prone to fall into a state of weakness. In short, our hearts falter easily. What do you think the reason behind our hearts is swaying so often? The reason for this is that our faith is weak. Dear fellow believers, God has saved us from all our sins by His righteousness. Therefore, we should possess the faith of believing in the Word of God where God says He will surely guide us to the right path as long as we dwell inside His Church only. When we await the promise of God by having faith in His Word, the very promise He made with us will be fulfilled. Do you believe this?

But our faith is prone to sway according to the changing of a situation. This is not true faith. If this happens it will be like Jacob offering a prayer of pledge to God due to his weak faith. But God declared the promise of His blessing to Jacob one-sidedly. And so now, all he had to do was to believe in the Word of God saying, Amen, and by that faith, everything would have been fulfilled. But he said, If God has me come back, then right here, I shall build God’s house. Truly, if he had been a man of faith who believed in the Word of God, then he should not have offered such a prayer of pledge. If God said He would surely be with Jacob and have him come back to this place, then God would surely had him come back to this place safely. If God says He will give you this land, then God will give it to you. If God says He will multiply your descendants, then your descendants will be multiplied as you wait patiently with faith of believing in it. This is precisely the correct faith of believing in the Word of God.

Dear fellow believers, what does Satan do when he tries to sway our hearts? He makes us look only at our surrounding situations again and again. Take a look at Abraham’s nephew Lot. When he saw rich green pastures down to the south, he left the side of God and went down to that land of Sodom, thinking, Wow! It will be good to go down there. Dear fellow believers, we should never follow the currents of this world with unbelieving hearts. We should only be following after God and His Word with faith of believing in His righteousness. What I am saying here is that we must follow the Lord God through faith of believing in His Word deep inside our hearts. Dear fellow believers, we have embarked upon a life of faith by the faith of believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, which is the righteousness of God. Now we can lead a genuine life of faith for having been saved from all our sins and for having received the remission of these sins. God speaks to those of us who are like this. He says to us, Do not go down to Egypt because of famine. Rather dwell in the very land I had promised Abraham.

What does this Word mean? He is telling us that as long as we dwell in this very land He had promised Abraham, He will bless us and personally fulfill the very Word of promise. Because God said so, you and I must now believe in it and have faith in it. As we dwell inside God’s Church by faith of believing in His righteousness, God will bestow upon you and me all the blessings He has promised us, including the precious task of spreading this true gospel all over the world through us. We must come to understand this will of God very well.

Of course because of our current situations, our hearts cannot be at ease, not even for a single day. Over just one year many happenings occur, and even in one single month, many events and incidents occur, and our hearts are prone to sway because of them. But in it we must maintain an even stronger faith in the Word of God. If we dwell inside God’s Church with our firm faith of believing in God’s righteousness and if we unite our hearts with the Church, God will give us all the blessings He desires to bestow upon us and to fulfill all the work He desires to carry out through us. Dear fellow believers, do you believe in this?

While I perform ministries inside God’s Church, there are many occasions when my heart gets swayed greatly due to the change of some situation. And on these occasions my heart falters, thinking, Should I carry out this task this way or that way? But even in times like these, I find answers to these questions through the Word of God by asking myself, What is God trying to say to me about this situation? What did He say to the ancestors of faith in times like this? In this way, I gained wisdom, far sighted judgment, and rest for my heart through the Word of God. In doing this, I eventually found peace in my heart.

God spoke to us, His saints and servants. The very God who saved us from all our sins and granted us all the blessings made a request to us, saying, No matter what happens, even if a severe famine should fall upon the Church, never go down to Egypt. If you do not go down to Egypt and stay where you are, that is, if you dwell inside the Church of God without fail, I will surely fulfill what I have promised to you. Therefore, dear fellow believers, we all must lend our ears to this Word. We must believe in this Word and set our hearts clearly.

Dearly beloved, what will happen to us if our situations become difficult? And should we then start thinking, Isn’t there any other way besides this faith of believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit? There must be another way other than believing in the righteousness of God. If you do this you will start looking towards other Christian groups, and as you do this, your heart will soon depart from the presence of God and die. And when this happens will you be able to lead a better life of faith by leaving the Church of God and going somewhere else? Will sermons delivered there be different from those here, and will they be better? Will the Word of God be different and will the guidance be different also? No, that can never be. If that place is where guidance is given according to the Word of God, then wherever it may be, it will all be the same. And if they were to give guidance not according to the Word of God and if they were prone to resort to human methods and ways, then it will be very different of course. But if they are those that move forth according to the Word of God like us, then they are also the descendants of Abraham spiritually speaking.

As you lead a life of faith inside God’s Church and when things become difficult, you then are likely to go to another denomination and try to start a new life of faith there. Then you must bring to remembrance and understand one thing clearly. You and I must not leave the very land God has ordered us to dwell in. The righteous must never depart from God’s Church and go down to the land of Egypt. I am saying that