[Passage]

Isaiah 43:21
"The people whom I formed for Myself Will declare My praise."

Introduction

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Let us give all thanks and glory to God the Father who established Manmin Central Church and who has blessed us until this day.

I welcome in the name of the Lord all those who came here to celebrate together from within Korea and from around the world!

I also welcome all the families and relatives of the church members and newcomers.

I give thanks to all the pastors, missionaries, workers and all members who have dedicated themselves to the kingdom of God.

The almighty God has been giving our church amazing blessings for last 28 years.

He has created things out of nothing and turned the impossible into possible.

Even in the many hardship and trials, He worked in all things for good.

He changed our difficulties into blessings and glory in a way that men could not imagine.

As we give thanks and glory to such a God, I pray in the name of the Lord that the great grace and blessings will come upon all of you here.

Main

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, and guests, today's reading passage, Isaiah 43:21 says, "The people whom I formed for Myself Will declare My praise."

Here, to declare His praise includes all our deeds of glorifying God.

When people give glory to God, God does not just receive the glory.

John 13:32 says, "if God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him immediately."

As written, when the children of God give glory to God, He lets them enjoy glory both on this earth and in Heaven.

This is the reason why God created human beings.

He wanted to gain true children with whom He could share His love and live with them forever in the glorious heavenly kingdom.

He created human beings to give them eternal life and limitless glory in Heaven, and not just meaningless life.


Now, I will talk to you about three aspects of how we are supposed to give glory to God.

First, God takes delight in receiving glory through singing and praises.

Psalm 69:30-31 says, "I will praise the name of God with song and magnify Him with thanksgiving. [31] And it will please the LORD better than an ox or a young bull with horns and hoofs."

The kind of praise that God accepts has the power to bring down the power of God.

When David was playing the harp, evil spirits went away.

King Jehoshaphat defeated countless enemy soldiers and won the victory through the singing of a choir.

When Paul and Silas were put into prison while preaching the gospel, they praised God and the gate of the prison opened.

It tells us just how much God is delighted with praise.

But even before God created the heavens and the earth, there were countless angels and praises in Heaven.

So, if God just wanted beautiful sounds and dances, He didn't really have to create men.

God created men because He wanted to receive praises that His children would give to Him from their hearts.

Because we understand this will of God, Manmin Central Church has been trying to give God the finest quality praises.

Including the choirs and praise-specializing Nissi Orchestra, we raised many singers, traditional and modern dancers, worship dancers, musicians, and many other workers.

Today, in the main church in Seoul alone, we have 33 praise teams with more than 1,000 members.

What the performers considered to be the most important factor was not their skills, but their hearts of and their reverence and love for God.
With that love for God they refined their skills with training, and they praised God in various worship services and events.

In the future also, our church will continue to keep on trying our best in praise through performing arts.

We will show the kind of heavenly praises that can touch not just the believers, but they will touch even unbelievers so that they can open their hearts and together we'll give glory to God.

When we offer our praises to God in the second part of the service, I urge you to gather the aroma of your heart and offer it up to God.

God will accept that aroma and give you many blessings to fill you with thanks and joy.

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, and guests, secondly, God wants to receive glory through those children who have changed with their true love for God.

Those who love God will keep His commandments, and those who fear God will hate and depart from evil.

Those children of God who have cast off sins and become holy will give glory to God in every moment of their lives, and not just when they praise God.

Philippians 1:11 says that Paul wants all believers to give glory and praise to God having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ. As said, their life itself becomes glory and praise to God.

Also, those who have changed with the truth will experience the works of God in their everyday lives.

Today, there are so many people who say they believe in Jesus Christ, but live just like unbelievers.

That is why many of them suffer from tests and trials without experiencing the power of God.

1 John 5:18 says, "We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him."


For those who are changed with the truth, the enemy devil and Satan cannot bring to them any test or trial.

Our church has been preaching holiness since the opening, and the flame of prayer has never been put out.

So many members have been trying to change themselves even with prayers, fasting, and all-night prayers.

And as they changed, they came to experience the works of God.

Those who used to suffer from illnesses became healthy, and those who came from poverty became rich.

Those families that didn't have peace came to have peace.

They have become the light and salt of the world and they give glory to God.

The reason why we focus on ministry through broadcasting and other media is also to spread the will of God who wants holiness from us.

It is to let more souls listen to the holiness gospel and become true children who give glory to God.

I hope all of you here today will change quickly and recover the holy image of God.

I hope you will give glory to God with a pure heart and please God.

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, and guests, third aspect is that God wants His children to fulfill His providence with His power, and He wants to receive glory through those fruits.

The apostles and members of the early church took on so much persecution and even martyrdom.

God evangelized the Roman Empire through their sacrifices, and through this, the gospel was spread throughout the world.

Likewise, at each time, God fulfills His providence through His beloved children.

And in order to fulfill God's plans, we are in desperate need of the power of God.

The power of the apostle Paul even revived the dead.

When people took handkerchiefs or the aprons from him to the sick, diseases left and demons were driven out.

When Peter was passing by, people hoped that his shadow might touch the sick person.

Through these works of the power, the kingdom of God could rise like burning flames.

John 4:48 says, "So Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you simply will not believe."

Today, the world is full of sins, and we are in more desperate need of signs and wonders.

Manmin Central Church has been giving glory to God through various signs and wonders.

Even those who stopped breathing due to gas-poisoning or choking went back home normal after receiving prayers.

The lame came to walk, the deaf to hear, and the blind to see.

Unusual diseases, cancers, and AIDS were healed. People with terminal diseases were healed.

Fatal burns were healed without leaving any scars. Decaying of the skin including atopic dermatitis was also healed.

Not just healing works, but there are numerous wonders, too.

The salty and bitter sea water became sweet water.

Typhoons were driven away and droughts were quenched.

Extraordinary rainbows appear whenever we have church events.

For last couple of hears, God has been bringing many dragonflies to us at every summer retreat.


It's very difficult to catch a single dragonfly, but swarms of dragonflies have come to us. They sat on our finger tips as well as our bodies. They were being so friendly!

Even a whole day would not be enough just to talk about the evidences that are so vividly seen.

These works of God's power take place without ceasing and have led to the saving of countless people.

Especially in overseas crusades, some tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people accepted Jesus Christ.

The reason why God gave us and this church such power is to fulfill His providence for the end time.

And the providence will be revealed as the great fruit of world evangelism and the Grand Sanctuary.

In the future, all peoples in the whole world will witness this power of God so that nobody will be able to say that they could not believe in God because they didn't know there was God.

Also, just by seeing the building of the Grand Sanctuary, every person will be able to feel the glory of the great God.

Conclusion

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, and guests, Manmin Central Church has been running our race without ceasing just to give glory to God.

We gave glory to God with singing and dancing, and we have been accomplishing holiness with our love for God.

We manifested increasingly greater power each year and we have marched on to bear the fruit of world evangelism and the Grand Sanctuary.

Throughout these past 28 years, God's grace has never left us.

In this faithful grace of God, we of Manmin have proclaimed the third stage of take-off in 2010.

God has received much glory until now, but it cannot be compared with the glory that will be revealed from now on.

People will exclaim saying, "This is what the verse meant that says all the world will acknowledge the glory of God as the waters cover the sea! This is what it means by the promise that says the kings of the nations will come forth towards the light of this church!"

In this faith and hope, Manmin is taking another step now.

I hope all the pastors, workers, and members will make up your mind once again that you will become the main players in the ministry of fulfilling the end time.

I hope the guests here will look forward to the glory of God that will be revealed through Manmin, and pray for us with more love and care.

In doing so, I pray in the name of the Lord that all of you here will be able to sing praises to God in front of His throne.

[AMEN]