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    『 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her. Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah , that is ninety years old, bear? And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee! 』 (Genesis 17: 16-18) Abraham, when he was 75 years old, heard God's voice and left his father's relatives' home. However, Abraham's 99-year-old situation seems to have no faith. It is "self-faith" that God shows to all people through Abraham. "Self-faith" changes through the situation. "Faith in Belief" and "Faith in God" are different things. The "self-believing faith" is the belief of the physical heart received from parents, but the "God-giving faith" is the faith of the one born again by th...

  『 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. 』 (Matthew 10: 34-39) The Bible tells us that Jesus is the king of peace, but that he did not come to give peace. 『 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 』 In Isaiah 9: 6 Jesus was called the king...

  『 And the LORD spake unto Moses , saying, Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God. For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. 』 (Leviticus 23: 26-29) 『 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day , he shall be cut off from among his people. 』 Leviticus (23:29) speaks about the method of the Atonement. God told the Israelites to remember their pain and tribulation for ten days from the trumpet. After 10 days, it is the Atonement Day. Sukkot begins five days after Atonement. The trumpet means the harvest is over. Four months after Pentecost, the people finish the harvest and blow t...

    『 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. 』 (Acts 26:18) God opened his eyes and moved from darkness to light   This is what Jesus said directly to the Apostle Paul. This is divided into four steps. First, from darkness to light, second from Satan's power to God, third, forgiveness of sin, and finally inheritance. If there is no change of master from Satan's power to God, no matter how long people have faith, God does not forgive their sins. In order for the owners of men to change, they must drink the blood of Jesus. Drinking a cup of blood in sacrament meeting is that I am dead with Jesus. This is baptism, which once again confirms baptism. Baptism is to die with Jesus. In Acts 2:38 it says: 『 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the nam...

  『 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ , and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ , in them that are saved, and in them that perish: To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ . 』 (2 Corinthians 2: 14-17) Those who are in Christ have died with Jesus on the cross to the world and are alive to the kingdom of God. Those who are in Christ do not believe in God by mouth, but die on the cross with Jesus. God has given these people the Holy Spirit. 『 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 』 (Romans 8: 2) 『 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of y...