[Shincheonji meaning of the gospels] "Who am I" Praise by Casting Crowns

Still You hear me when I'm calling Lord, You catch me when I'm falling....

 

But God demonstrates His own lobe toward us,

in that while we were yet sinners, christ died for us. [Romans 5:8]

 

"Who am I"

Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth

Would care to know my name, Would care to feel my hurt

Who am I, that the Bright and Morning Star

Would choose to light the way For my ever wandering heart

 

Not because of who I am

But because of what You've done

Not because of what I've done But because of who You're

 

I am a flower quickly fading

Here today and gone tomorrow

A wave tossed in the ocean A vapor in the wind

 

Still You hear me when I'm calling Lord,

You catch me when I'm falling

And You've told me wh I am I am Yours,

I am Yours

 

Who Am I that the eyes that see my sin

would look on me with love and watch me rise again

Who Am I, that the voice that calmed the sea

Would call out through the rain And calm the storm in me

 

 

Not because of who I am

But because of what You've done

Not because of what I've done But because of who You're

 

I am a flower quickly fading

Here today and gone tomorrow

A wave tossed in the ocean A vapor in the wind

 

Still You hear me when I'm calling Lord,

You catch me when I'm falling

And You've told me wh I am I am Yours,

I am Yours

 

Not because of who I am

But because of what You've done

Not because of what I've done But because of who You're

 

Here today and gone tomorrow

A wave tossed in the ocean A vapor in the wind

 

Still You hear me when I'm calling Lord,

You catch me when I'm falling

And You've told me wh I am I am Yours,

I am Yours

 

I am Yours Whom shall I fear

Whom shall I fear 'Cause I am Yours,

I am Yours

"Who Am I" in the Bible?
 
 
There are many believers in the world who walk a life of faith. Most think that they will be saved if they believe in God and Jesus without knowing the promise of God, or who they are in the Bible. Let’s find out what God has promised us today and who I am in the Bible.  

1. The Physical Israel
God made a promise with Abraham in Genesis 15, and if we look in Genesis 17, it was an eternal promise which should have been believed in and kept by his descendents. The promise was that after suffering for 400 years in foreign land, the descendents of Abraham would bring abundant wealth out of Egypt and conquer and rule over the land of Canaan. As the time came, God brought out the people from Egypt through Moses as he promised (Ex 12), and God made a promise with the people again, that  “if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation” (Ex 19:5-6).

These people were ones who multiplied greatly and lived as slaves to Pharoah, the king of Egypt (Satan) (Ex 1, 3, 5). It was to the slaves God said that if they kept the promise they would be for Him a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. What was the covenant? It was that they would be God’s kingdom and priests, made righteous through faith, the people of the covenant what would be promised to live ruling over Canaan after multiplying greatly and coming out from Egypt.

However, just before entering into the land of Canaan, they did not believe and broke the covenant with God. God made them wander around for 40 years and left them to die in the desert (Nm 14:32-35, Heb 3). Afterwards, Joshua and the descendants conquered the land of Canaan (Jo 1) and made a covenant for the people at Shechem (Jo 24), stating that they would believe and serve God eternally. Therefore, they were the nation of promise, and by keeping the promise they would be made God’s kingdom and priests.

People will think how those who were enslaved under the devil’s king (pharaoh) could become God’s kingdom and sacred nation. However, God regarded faith in His covenant as righteousness (Rom 4:1-3, 5:1, 10:10) and that he will make those who believe God’s kingdom and priests.

2. The New Spiritual Israel
Among today’s Christians, there is no one that knows who they are within the Bible. They live believing that just faith in God and Jesus will bring salvation and lead them to heaven. It is said in the New Testament that by believing in the covenant recorded they become the promised nation and the kingdom and priests (Rv 1:5-6, 5:9-10). What is this covenant?       
 
At the time of the Second Coming, wheat from the field the seeds which Jesus and his disciples had sown 2000 years ago, will be harvested (Mt 13:30, 38-39) and taken to Mount Zion. On Mount Zion, one must be sealed with the word of revelation (the new song) (Rev 14:1-5), as the 12 tribes of the sealed 144,000 (Rv 7:3-4) become the kingdom and priests of God who were purchased with the blood of Jesus (Rv 1:5-6, 5:9-10). This is the promised nation and kingdom of the New Testament. This is not physical Israel, born of the seed of Abraham. It is the family of new Israel, the 12 tribes, born of God’s seed. God creates those with faith in the new testament into His nation and His kingdom and priests as he promised.

3. I, found in the Bible
If anyone asks who you are in the New Testament, you should be able to say confidently “I am God’s sealed kingdom and priests, the 12 tribes, harvested to Mount Zion.” Everything that has been fulfilled in Shincheonji (Rv 21) through the Bible today is what God has promised us in the New Testament and what God has told us to believe. By believing in this, we have obtained righteousness and have become God’s kingdom and priests. The promised words of New Testament that said “The sealed 12 tribes are God’s kingdom and priests” is what testifies us, who have  appeared in accordance to these words. We are the reality fulfilled according to the promised words of the New Testament.

We completely believe in everything that has happened to us today according to God and His promise.

[Shinchonji meaning of the gospels] Draw me Close to You

A thought form the Word:
 Are you approved by men, or by God? it is only by the word that we can measure ourselves to God’s standard of life, love and religion.
 Live a life by God’s standard alone!
2 Tim 2:15:  Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

Gal 1:10: Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
 2 Tim 2: 23 – 26: Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. 24 And the Lord’s servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. 25 Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.

[Shinchonji meaning of the gospels] HOPE is coming

Romans 8:18-24: I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that[a] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

The words of this song make me examine my heart and how desperately I hunger for God’s will… How much am I doing to understand God’s heart, not only expecting him to hear and understand mine? How much does my spirit groan and yearn for what God wants? Let’s be the people who can prove to God that we are indeed trustworthy of the precious life and gift of truth he has given us! (Luke 19:17)

“If I find in myself desires nothing in this world can satisfy (Philippians 3:20)
I can only conclude that I was not made for here (Psalm 100:3)
If the flesh that I fight is at best only light and momentary,(Psalm 90:10)
then of course I’ll feel nude when to where I’m destined I’m compared”
…
“I will sigh and with all creation groan as I wait for hope to come for me” (Romans 8:22)
…
“For we, we are not long here
 Our time is but a breath, so we better breathe it
 And I, I was made to live, I was made to love, I was made to know you(John 17:3)
Hope is coming for me,
Hope, He’s coming” (Romans 5:5)

[Shinchonji meaning of the gospels] Baba Yetu -”Our Father”

lenging to think about. it is important to examine our hearts and reflect on Gods words to create a righteous mindset and attitude.

 

“Baba Yetu” is Swahili for “Our Father”
 

Matthew 6:9-13
 

“This, then, is how you should pray:
 

"Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name,

your kingdom come,

your will be done

on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us today our daily bread.

Forgive us our debts,

as we also have forgiven our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliber us from the evil one."

 We should think about why Jesus asked us to pray this way.
 Firstly we should think about what it is that makes God our Father?

In Genesis God created man (Adam) in His image. It is only 2 chapters later that  God says “the man has now BECOME like one of us” (Gn 3 v 22). If you are created one way – in the image of God almighty – and you become something else, surely it means that you are no longer the way God created you to be. And since this is taken in context after Adam and Eve sinned due to the serpents deception in Eden, we know that after they listened to Satan instead of God, they became people with sin in their hearts! Satan knows both good and evil – he wascreated good and became evil, just like Adam and Eve(Gn 6 v 5-6). When that happens God leaves men, because God cannot dwell with evil, He is all good. (Gen 6 v 3). The point I am wanting to make is that since the appearance of Satan, not all men are made in God’s image any longer. Therefore, not all men contain God’s spiritual DNA.

God’s seed (DNA) is his word (Lk 8 v 11). In Jn 6 v 63 Jesus compares the words he speaks to both spirit and life.

Therefore  God’s SEED = WORD = SPIRIT = LIFE! right? Isn’t it true that if Adam had listened to God’s word he would have had eternal life? Sin would never have entered man’s heart and so death would never have been part of the equation.

Jn 3 v 3-5 tells us that we need to be born again of spirit and water. Well if Jesus is saying that His words are spirit then the answer is not so abstract! I agree with poor Nicodemus, in that having someone tell you to be born again is a pretty far-fetched and unfathomable idea. But with the explanation and hind-sight we have today we can clearly understand that it is those who understand Jesus’ words and Love him (bearing in mind HIS definition of Love Jn 14 v 15 & 23), who are being born again, back into God’s image.  Why must we be born again? Because of the fact that men are descendants of Adam’s… and Adam was no longer God’s son, he was no longer made in God’s image, because He betrayed His creator. For us to be like Christ (Christians) we need to follow the instructions in 1 Pet 1 v 23! We need to be born of God’s “imperishable seed”, the “living and enduring WORD OF GOD“. Then our hearts can resemble God’s heart and we an pray for things putting Him first. (Mt 6 v 33).

The reason I got no response in the supermarket all those years ago, was because the man I thought was my father was really a stranger. He did not recognize my voice because I wasn’t his child, and so I’m sure the stranger would’ve eventually turned around and said –  ”little girl, I don’t know you!“… Luckily my real dad, loved me enough to hear me when I needed help and despite not getting my chocolate milk, I was so relieved to have found my father!

We should make sure that we are truly God’s children…this means that we need to not only call ourselves his children, and be self-proclaimed Christians, but we need to be the ones who are acknowledged by God. In the end we stand before no one else, we have only God to answer to, no friends to support you, no others to blame…we will each be held accountable because God’s word has been given to us so that we are without excuse (Rom 1: 20-21).

Let’s all be those who belong to God, and are born of his spiritual seed,so that we can be part of his kingdom and priests