Manmin N ews No. 678 September 20, 2020

“My whole family is happy as one with the love of the Lord”

Deacon Minseok Seo (Age 48, 3 Great Grand Parish, 23 Parish)

I’m a Christian from birth. In 1997 When I worked, I relied on God received the fire of the Holy Spirit, I started to attend Manmin Central and did my best so that I met good and she felt as light as a feather. Church my eldest sister attended. customers, and I was blessed to My elder son received a national In the summer retreat in 1997, I be able to live without financial scholarship this year and a full experienced the signs of God, and difficulties by jumping from 2 or 3 tuition scholarship for the second I was convinced that God is alive. contracts a week to 25~30. semester, and through the experience When I was full of the Holy Spirit, I In 2018, My wife found a tubercle of feeling the love of the Lord he was met my wife in the Lord and formed in her left chest during a medical able to perish his mind to see the a family of faith. check-up, and she looked back herself fl eshly world. In 2018, a slump came to me in and committed it to God with thanks. Also, my younger son who wants to spirit and body. I ceased praying At the special divine healing meeting work for the kingdom of God in the and was often irritated, and even in in February 2019, after receiving the future keeps on praying every day, my company my sales performance prayer of the powerful handkerchief studies the Word on his own, and was poor. In 2019 New Year Day (Acts 19:11-12) from the acting senior confesses that his Christian life is full Service, however, I heard the sermon pastor Soojin Lee, my wife was of the Holy Spirit. of ‘Spiritual warrior,’ which helped cured. Through the re-examination, We are happy to meet the church me gain the power to start again. I the result was that the tubercle was of blessing where we can experience started praying again. I even prayed disappeared. Also, in February of this God’s love and power, and my whole during a local business trip. God’s year, after a traffi c accident, her body family is united by the love of the grace came upon me, and I got my was as heavy as a wet sponge and Lord. I give all thanks and glory to fullness back. worn out. However, during prayer, she the Father God. 2 Manmin N ews No. 678 September 20, 2020

“My twin sons were cured of cyanosis, and my family became a family of faith!”

Moses Kinua (Age 31, Kenya Nairobi Manmin Church)

My two twin sons My wife (Angelin suffered from ‘cyanosis,’ Wanjiru) was negative and they couldn’t sleep about my attending due to the breathing Manmin Church, but difficulty. However, after she came to our during the one day church to check she was revival meeting in the moved by the orderly Cayole area in 2019, worship and gracious they were healed and sermons, and became a became healthy through member of Manmin. Not bishop Dr. Myongho only that, even during the Cheong’s prayer of a period of COVID-19 she powerful handkerchief (Acts experienced changes in her 19:11-12) on which Dr. Jaerock life while giving home worship Lee prayed. Afterwards, I came to through audio sermons and came to know God’s will through sermons, and love the Lord more than before. In addition, I disposed a business selling unhealthy videos many employees have been fired from her work and opened a mobile and computer specialty place due to the COVID-19, but she is working store. Recently, I had an amazing experience. even more. When I remitted the rent, it was sent to the A few years ago, my younger sister (Bilha wrong account. I was worried as it was a large Wanjiku) came to Manmin Church and improved amount, but I prayed, “Lord, if you solve this her school grades. She graduated from elementary problem, I will fully serve God!” As soon as I school with first grade on the Kenya National fi nished praying, a call came to me to return the Examination. My mother (Susan Mbari) has been money to my account. Hallelujah! attending all worship services since the end of last I fasted twice for three days for two weeks year because of her daughter-in-law’s confession for spiritual fullness, and listened to senior and my changed behaviors. My mother is happy pastor Dr. Lee’s sermon ‘Deficiencies of the that she was cured of chest pain and allergic body’ several times. Through this, my heart and dermatitis through senior pastor’s prayer, and that behavior have changed, and I prayed every day her life has changed completely through Manmin and formed a peaceful family. Church. I give all thanks and glory to the Lord.

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The Message of the Cross (20)

Jesus’ Last Seven Words on the Cross (4)

“And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, ‘Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.’ Having said this, He breathed His last” (Luke 23:46).

Senior Pastor Rev. Jaerock Lee

Jesus left behind the words of love shortly before He and the soul, returns to the ground. Since the spirit is breathed His last on the cross and they are known as eternal and immortal it does not become extinct. Adam’s “The Last Seven Words on the Cross.” Let us pick up spirit was formed after creating him, when God breathed today the seventh and last words Jesus bequeathed on into his nostrils the breath of life (Genesis 2:7). God fi lled the cross. Adam’s spirit with spiritual knowledge that is the truth. “Soul” refers to all functions that allow a person 1. The Reason Why Jesus Cried Out “Father” With to store information in his brain and allow him to a Loud Voice remember certain information, think and feel about it, and apply or act upon it. Originally, the master of Adam This was so that His last words on the earth could was his spirit which controlled both his soul and body. be heard by the people and it is also because God’s will Since his spirit was filled with the truth, the soul and dictates that we “[cry] out with a loud voice” to Him in the body under the control of the spirit were also of the prayer. truth. When Adam sinned against God by eating from Including His Word in Jeremiah 33:3, “Call to Me and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, his spirit I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty died. The “death of spirit” refers to the severing of one’s things, which you do not know,” God tells throughout communication with God and the spirit’s inability to the Bible that we are to call out to Him in prayer as in perform its duties. Numbers 12:13; 2 Chronicles 32:20; Psalm 57:2; Mark Once the spirit, the master of man, dies and stops 10:47; John 11:43; Acts 4:24; and Acts 7:59. functioning, the soul assumes the role of master and When Jesus prayed at Gethsemane shortly before His begins to govern the body. The soul is then subject arrest, He prayed so earnestly that “His sweat became to the work of the enemy Satan and begins to accept like drops of blood.” The medical professional claims untruthful knowledge. As much as the heart becomes that when a person is under a great amount of stress or fi lled with untruths, the truths which God had originally strives hard in an endeavor, it is possible for the capillary planted are supplanted by untruth. Eventually the heart vessels to burst, causing sweating and bleeding at the is filled with hatred, temper, and selfishness. However, same time, and for the person it is to “sweat as if he were the discontinuation of the functioning of a person’s spirit bleeding.” Furthermore, the fact that Jesus sweated as if does not signify the extinction of his spirit. The spirit of He were bleeding while praying late into the night in the man was formed with the breath of life of the eternal kind of climate found in Israel suggests how earnestly and immortal God. It could never become extinct. and desperately He must have been praying. What would happen to the soul when the body dies? The brain is required for a person to function. It is 2. The Reasons Why Jesus Said, “Father, into Your through his brain cells he has memory and thinks. Hands I Commit My Spirit” When the physical life of an animal (which has no spirit) expires, the memory system within the brain of an 1) Jesus Testifi es to the Immortality of the Spirit of Men animal also disappears; its fl esh and soul become extinct and return to nothingness. However, the functions of the Man consists of a spirit, a soul, and a body. Once life soul of man, who has spirit, are conveyed to the ‘heart’ expires, the body, that was merely a vessel for the spirit and stored in it. Therefore, instead of becoming extinct, 4 Manmin N ews No. 678 September 20, 2020

the soul will exist forever in union with the spirit as the numbered. So do not fear; you are more valuable than attributes of the soul are input within the spirit. many sparrows.” For the same reason the Lord said, “Father, Into Your If you truly fathomed and engraved in your heart the hands I commit My spirit.” When an individual hears spiritual significance of such assurance from the Lord, the gospel and accepts Jesus Christ he receives the Holy you would be able to commit everything to God. As Spirit and his spirit that had previously been ‘dead’ is God reminds us “not one of [the sparrows] will fall to revived. Of the person whose spirit has revived and who the ground apart from your Father” and that “the very has fi lled his heart with the truth we may say “His soul hairs of your head are all numbered,” if we could trust has prospered.” As much as one’s soul prospers—in other in Him by faith, there is nothing for which we would fail words, as much as one’s heart is fi lled with the truth— to receive His answers, whether it be for the problem of every aff air of his life will prosper and he will enjoy good disease, for the blessing at the workplace or business, or health (3 John 1:2). even for accomplishing God’s work. As Jesus tells us in John 3:5, “Truly, truly, I say to you, Even though Jesus had existed in the form of God and unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot is one with God, Jesus only sought and pursued the will enter into the kingdom of God,” when people who have of God and committed everything to Him. By the same been born again of water and the Holy Spirit—those token, instead of placing your trust in the ways of man whose spirits have revived—will enter Heaven. However, or other people, may each of you fix your eyes only on those whose spirits have failed to be revived and their God, always experience His work that transcends the hearts have not been cultivated with the truth from their might of man, and honor Him in everything. unbelief in Jesus Christ will be unable to enter Heaven. Hell is a place reserved to accommodate such people. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, by always keeping in mind Jesus’ “Last Seven Words on the Cross,” 2) Jesus Testifies to His Having Obeyed and grasping the heart of Jesus who cried out with a loud Fulfilled Everything in Accordance with only God’s voice amidst the affl iction of the crucifi xion, and wholly Providence accomplishing God’s will, I pray that, as you long for the One who is to come back for us in the name of the Lord, The fact that Jesus prayed on the cross, “Father, into each of you will receive the crown of righteousness on Your hands I commit My spirit,” testifi es to how He had that day. obeyed and fulfi lled everything in accordance only with God’s providence. Jesus’ having come into this world, His crucifi xion on the cross, and His resurrection were not English planned and executed according to His own will or plan, Manmin N ews but only according to the will of God who governs man’s Published by Manmin Central Church life, death, curses, and blessing, as well as the history of mankind (John 4:34). 29, Digital-ro 26-gil, Guro-gu, Seoul, Korea (postal code 08389) Tel: 82-2-818-7047 Fax: 82-2-818-7048 While we pray in the name of Jesus Christ, the http://www.manmin.org/english One who answers our prayer is God. Jesus tells us in www.manminnews.com Matthew 10:29-31, “Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? E-mail: [email protected] And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart Publisher: Dr. Jaerock Lee Translated by Overseas Mission Bureau from your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all

The Confession of Faith

1. Manmin Central Church believes that the Bible is God- 4. Manmin Central Church believes in the resurrection and breathed Word that is perfect and flawless. ascension of Jesus Christ, His Second Advent, the 2. Manmin Central Church believes in the unity and the Millennium, and the eternal heaven. work of God the Trinity: God the Holy Father, God the Holy 5. Members of Manmin Central Church confess their faith Son, and God the Holy Spirit. through “The Apostles’ Creed” each time they come together 3. Manmin Central Church believes that we are forgiven of and believe in its content verbatim. our sins only by the redeeming blood of Jesus Christ.

“[God] Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things.” (Acts 17:25) “And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12) 5 Manmin N ews No. 678 September 20, 2020

Letter from abroad

“Our church is making revival through untact missions!”

Pastor John Kim (Delhi Manmin Church, India)

India is now banned from all window. attend service because they don’t religious meetings and gatherings In particular, after preaching, have a mobile phone, so that of more than 5 people due to when I prayed with the people who wish to join around COVID-19. Therefore, it is not handkerchief (Acts 19:11-12) on them can gather together for easy to move to other areas for which Senior Pastor Jaerock Lee worship. visitation. prayed amazing works happened. On weekdays, online meetings At this situation, our Delhi Happy testimonies are continuing, are held by group or region, and Manmin Church is actively doing for example, family and neighbors the Bible Academy is also held untact missions. It took a few days those who are set free from the to raise workers. We deliver the to meet people in distant regions evil spirit are evangelized, various words about Revelation, the Fruit in the past, but as we can worship diseases such as headaches, of the Holy Spirit, and Heaven or meet through ZOOM (app for bleeding, and skin diseases are including ‘The Message of the video conferencing and meeting), healed, as well as being fi lled with Cross’. now it’s easy to meet more souls the Holy Spirit and solving various As such, worship attendance and at that time. Also, members who problems. faith counseling are conducted couldn’t attend service because As a result, people who connect regardless of time and place there was no church in their area to ZOOM and viewers of ‘GCNTV beyond region, age, or gender. can meet together. HINDI’ are increasing, and long- This situation which requires Our Delhi Manmin Church off er term absentee start faith life again untact ministry is rather bearing the morning service and afternoon regardless of the corona. Those fruit as a better environment for service of Manmin Central Church who have never met Dr. Lee are missionary work. in Seoul through simultaneous enrolled in our church through Even in the coronavirus video worship. At 8 pm, we are dream of Dr. Lee and are being situation, with the words of holding our own Sunday service resolved the problem of faith. holiness and the work of amazing and handkerchief meeting through Church workers who receive power that changes people’s ZOOM. This meeting is broadcast these testimonies are admiring hearts and fills them with the live on our church’s YouTube God’s work and are working their Holy Spirit, I give all thanks and channel “GCNTV HINDI,” and we mission harder by being filled glory to God the Father, Son, and are communicating with members with the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit who solves and revives by answering to questions and In addition, we provide mobile various life problems as evil spirit prayer requests posted in the chat phones to those who cannot leave. 6 Manmin N ews No. 678 September 20, 2020

“The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.”

Senior Deaconess Eun-suk Yoo (Age 54, 2 Great Grand Parish, 16th Parish)

In my youth, I had to go through a very difficult daily life, suffering from lethargy, depression, and intestinal dysfunction due to frequent miscarriage and discord. However, while listening to the tape of Pastor Jaerock Lee’s sermon “The Measure of Faith” that my acquaintance gave me, I realized my fault and repented, received a prayer for the sick. After that, I was healed and I came to Manmin Central Church in March 1990. Since then, as I kept Lord’s day fully and lived prayer life so that my repetitive miscarriages stopped and my eldest child was born safely. The second child was born with painless delivery after receiving prayer from Dr. Lee. Also, since my childhood I had suffered from severe eye disease, but after I came to my church, my eyes could see well without glasses and the pain disappeared. The intestinal function got better and I am healthy. I am living a healthy life regardless of hospital. My family is the same. My mother (Yeong-ja Ra) was healed of knee pain, frozen shoulder, and nasolacrimal duct obstruction, and is living a healthy faith even at the age of 82. Having great grace from Lord, I tried to do my best to repay this grace. As I am devoted as cell leader, sub district leader, district leader, I bore fruit and went on a pilgrimage three times by being given as reward. In February 2012, I wanted to pay back the debts resulted from my husband’s business, so I started a small restaurant. Before I took over, the restaurant didn’t go well because owner changed often, but thanks to God’s blessing, the restaurant went well and I could pay off all the debts. From the second half of 2018, I gave doubled offering to help our church, helped the needy, served and did my duty earnestly. Then, my tithe doubled than before, and the beginning of the year, my house that didn’t sell for several years was sold. I loved God and Lord so much that I gave only small things that I could do, but God the Father poured out overfl owing blessing to me in spirit and body. After coming to Manmin, my life for the past 30 years seems to be very normal, but I realize that I was protected without accidents and my life was prospered, happy and brilliant day. I give all thanks and glory to the good Trinity God. 7 Manmin N ews No. 678 September 20, 2020

“I was healed of chronic rheumatoid arthritis transcending time and space”

Sangmitra (Age 36, Uttar Pradesh, India)

My knee joint pain started 3-4 years ago and it got worse. I went to several hospitals, and the doctor said that the pain was getting worse because of uric acid. I needed painkillers to survive everyday. I couldn’t do housework at all which made my family suff er. I lost my desire to live. One of my relatives led me to a church, but I couldn’t continue to go to church because I couldn’t walk well. My heart was thirsty. While I was searching on YouTube to receive prayer, I found Delhi Manmin Church. In November, 2019, I called the Delhi Manmin Church to receive prayer. The church worker sent me the “Power of God” video which presents Dr. Jaerock Lee’s powerful ministry, and “The Message of the Cross” sermon fi les. In the “Power of God” video, Dr. Jaerock Lee prayed just at the altar, countless people were healed. After I watched it, I was convinced that I could be healed if I could receive the prayer. As I listened to ‘The Message of the Cross,’ I learned the love of the Lord who shed blood on the cross to redeem the sins of mankind. I accepted the Lord as my Savior with joy. Then I felt complete peace in my heart. From last December, I attended Sunday worship Services through “GCNTV HINDI,” the YouTube channel of Delhi Manmin Church. I heard the news that Pastor Soojin Lee of Manmin Central Church would lead a divine healing meeting in January, 2020. I listened to ‘The Message of the Cross’ again with the longing heart for the meeting. While listening to the Word of God, I remembered many sins that I had committed in the past, so I repented thoroughly with tears. After that, when Pastor Soojin Lee prayed for the sick at the divine healing meeting in on January 31, in tears I repented of sins of ill- feelings and anger. During her prayer, I felt the fi re of the Holy Spirit all over my body. Then the knee pain disappeared. I couldn’t walk without help, but I could walk alone. Hallelujah! Now I can walk straight without help, and do house chores as well. I give all thanks and glory to my living Father God.