Catch the Vision of the Lord (Part II)

(하나님께서 주시는 비젼을 가지라)

by Pastor Young Joon Park

January 25, 2009

Isaiah 49:18-26

I. God’s Caring (자상하신 하나님)

(See the message of January 18, 2009)

II. Catch the Vision of the Lord

    (주님께서 주시는 비젼을 가지라)

  A. We have to have the eyes to see the people

       (사람에게 관심 갖는 눈을 가져야한다)

¹⁸ “ Lift up your eyes and look around; All of them gather together, they come to you.

     As I live,” declares the LORD, “You will surely put on all of them as jewels and bind

     them on as a bride.

네 눈을 들어 사방을 보라 그들이 다 모여 네게로 오느니라 나 여호와가 이르노라 내가 나의 삶으로 맹세하노니 네가 반드시 그 모든 무리를 장식처럼 몸에 차며 그것을 띠기를 신부처럼 할 것이라

     1. We need to lift up our eyes and look around

        (우리의 눈을 들어 사방을 보아야한다)

God wants us lift up our eyes and look around to look and focus something.

Many times, we want to see only what I want to or my benefit areas alone.

God wants us to see and look every where.

He wants us to use our eyes to search around and find out the most important matter to

Him.

Why? God’s most concern is the people you and me, so we need to focusing the people.

     2. We have to see that the Lord will send the people.

         (하나님께서 사람들을 보내심을 믿어야한다)

All of them gather together, they come to you

그들이 다 모여 네게로 오느니라

We have to believe that the people will come, because God has a plan to send the

people to us.

God is going to gather them together and brings to us.

He declared it to us as He live.

I believe that God is going to send the people to us, so we have to the right heart for the

people with God’s heart.

     3. We have to see the importance of the individual people

         (각 개개인의 중요성을 보아야한다)

As I live,” declares the LORD, You will surely put on all of them as jewels and bind them

on as a bride.

나의 삶으로 맹세하노니 네가 반드시 그 모든 무리를 장식처럼 몸에 차며 그것을 띠기를

신부처럼 할 것이라

I Thessalonians 2:20

²⁰ For you are our glory and joy.

너희는 우리의 영광이요 기쁨이니라

Philippians 4:1

… my joy and crown…

…나의 기쁨이요 면류관인 사랑하는 자들아 …

I would like to share there are some example of the importance of the individual.

D. L. Moody, the famous Evangelist, when was eighteen years of age, was a boot salesman in his uncle's store in Boston. His Sunday School teacher was a Mr. Kimball, and he had set his heart on winning the young man for Christ. After praying about the matter, he arranged to visit him at the boot store. "I was determined," to use his own words, "to speak to him about Christ and about his soul, and started down to Holton's boot store. When I was nearly there I began to wonder whether I ought to go in just then during business hours. I thought my call might embarrass the boy, and that when I went away the other clerks would ask who I was, and taunt him with my efforts in trying to make him a good boy. In the meantime I had passed the store, and, discovering this, I determined to make a dash for it, and have it over at once. I found him in the back part of the building wrapping up shoes. I went up to him at once, and putting my hand on his shoulder, I made what I felt afterwards was a very weak plea for Christ. I don't know just what words I used, nor could Mr. Moody tell. I simply told him of Christ's love for him, and the love Christ wanted in return. That was all there was. It seemed the young man was just ready for the light that then broke upon him, and there in the back of that store in Boston, D. L. Moody gave himself and his life to Christ."

Forty years afterwards, when preaching in Boston, Mr. Moody himself thus described the effect of his conversion upon his life: "I can almost throw a stone from Tremont Temple to the spot where I found God forty years ago. I wish I could do something to lead some of you young men to that same God. He has been a million times better to me than I have been to Him. I remember the morning on which I came out of my room after I had first trusted Christ. I thought the sun shone a good deal brighter than it ever had before. I thought that it was just smiling upon me, and as I walked out upon Boston Common and heard the birds singing in the trees, I thought they were all singing a song to me. Do you know? I fell in love with the birds. I had never cared for them before. It seemed to me that I was in love with all creation. I had not a bitter feeling against any man and I was ready to take all men to my heart. If a man has not the love of God shed abroad in his heart he has not yet been regenerated."

Mr. Moody's experience was the same as that of the poet who sung:

"Heaven above is softer blue, Earth around is sweeter green;
Something lives in every hue Christless eyes have never seen.

"Birds with gladder songs o'erflow, Flowers with brighter beauties shine,
Since I know, as now I know, I am His, and He is mine.

Dawson Trotman (March 25, 1906–June 18, 1956) was an evangelist, crusader and founder of The Navigators.

Two Sunday School women teachers had been prayed for him for a long times.

Trotman founded The Navigators in 1933 and through this worldwide Christian organization supported various Christian ideals: maintaining the basic disciplines of the Christ-centered Spirit-filled life, abiding in the Word of God, the importance of personal follow-up, one-on-one discipleship training, and principles for multiplying Christian disciples, laborers, and equippers around the world. In rescuing another person from drowning in Schroon Lake , New York, he lost his own life on June 18, 1956.

Dr. Billy Graham said: "I think Daws has personally touched more lives than anybody I have ever known." His work and writings were instrumental in the creation of the Campus Outreach ministry, which focuses on discipleship as a method of building up the community of Christians on college campuses.

Trotman worked with many other evangelicals of his day, including Henrietta Mears, Jim Rayburn, Charles E. Fuller, and Dick Hillis. Lorne Sanny succeeded him as the head of The Navigators.

The Sailor & the Cop. At 18, Los Angeles-born Daws Trotman, as he later recounted, "gambled and was very deep in the world." He was courting a girl named Lila, as religious as she was pretty, and she took him with her to some church meetings. At the second meeting Dawson was the only one there who had memorized six Bible verses that had been assigned at the first meeting. The same thing happened at the third meeting. The following week he was "taken of the Lord," converted to evangelistic Christianity, and welcomed to membership in the interdenominational Church of the Open Door in Los Angeles.

Memorizing the Bible was the key to conversion, as Trotman saw it, so he handed out scores of Scriptures to youth groups he organized. One day in 1934 a mother asked him to look up her son, a sailor on a ship off Long Beach. Sitting in his old car by the waterfront, Trotman quoted the Bible to the boy until a policeman grew suspicious. A few minutes later, Trotman had talked the cop into joining him and the sailor in a session of prayer. The sailor said: "I'd give my right arm if I could do what you just did." Dawson challenged him to try.

It was the beginning of a movement that Trotman called the Navigators, for its nautical origins. For that sailor converted a friend with the technique he had learned from Dawson Trotman, and that convert in turn convinced another. Soon Navigators were spread across the seven seas. At one point during the war there were Navigators in more than 1,000 U.S. Navy ships and stations.

B Rations. Evangelist Graham urged Daws Trotman to join his Fort Worth crusade in 1951, and asked him how to keep people to their religious conviction once they had made their "decisions" and signed their pledge cards. Nav igator Trotman organized the system of Biblical instruction courses—"B Rations" (for Bible) of verses to be memorized. Graham and his team have used them ever since as the core of their system for following up Graham "converts" (TiME, Oct. 25, 1954).

One person came to the Lord, they are one of them who made upside down the world.

You are the most precious people to me and to the Lord.

We have to put the value others.

Let open our eyes and put the value of the people, and bring them to the Lord continually.

Every single people is important even they are our pain.

There were several people were treated bad, because of that the world was suffered until today.

One of them is Mao Tse Tung.

Mao Tse Tung was a student of the Bible School.

He respected one of his teachers who was Englishman.

He got the news that his teacher came back China, and he stayed in the special place.

This young man wanted to see him, but the British soldier insulted him with racial word and threw him on the ground and drove him out from the place.

He shook off the dirt from his cloth when stood up, and he vowed to revenge the western white people when he was leaving the place.

  B. We have to have the eyes to see the expansion

       (번성하고 확장 할수 있는 눈을 가져야한다)

¹⁹ “For your waste and desolate places and your destroyed land— surely now you will

     be too cramped for the inhabitants, And those who swallowed you will be far away.

이는 네 황폐하고 적막한 곳들과 네 파멸을 당하였던 땅이 이제는 주민이 많아 좁게 될 것이며 너를 삼켰던 자들이 멀리 떠날 것이니라

     1. We need to see the restoration from the wasted, desolated and the destroyed land

         (파괴되고 황폐된 땅을 하나님께서 회복 시키심을 보아야한다)

Jerusalem was destroyed and the place was wasted and desolated.

Isaiah prophesied to God’s people for the restoration of Jerusalem.

We have so many places are destroyed and wasted by the enemy in our life.

We have to remember about the devil’s strategy all the time.

John 10:10 

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and

 have it abundantly.

도둑이 오는 것은 도둑질하고 죽이고 멸망시키려는 것뿐이요 내가 온 것은 양으로 생명을 얻게

하고 더 풍성히 얻게 하려는 것이라

satan’s goal is to destroy.

But God’s goal is to restore the life and abundant life.

That is why God is going to restore what you have been in the desolated, the wasted

and the destroyed area.

     2. We have to see the expansion that God is going to bring

         (하나님께서 확장 하실 것을 보아야한다)

“surely now you will be too cramped for the inhabitants”

“이제는 주민이 많아 좁게 될 것이며”

Many people do ministry, but I heard many times the quantity is not important, but the

quality is important. I agree with it partially, but I do not agree 100%.

We need to focus the quality instead of the quantity. When you have a good quality then

the quantity will follow. There is something is not right the quantity is not growing even the quality is good.

Do you want to increase your revenue of your business, growing your business and success when you open your business?

If you said “NO,” then you are in the wrong business.

So we could see that there are two possible issues.

a) The quality is not good to grow.

b) The quality is good, but there is no ability to grow

You can see the main stream of river from the north to the south in the middle of the land when you go to Israel. The northern part of the lake we call Galilee Lake, and the southern part of the lake we call Dead Sea.

You cannot see any live animals in the Dead Sea, but you can see easily school of fishes in everywhere and the life being in the lake and the river.

Galilee Lake receive the water from the northern part of the mountains and at the same time this lake release the water to south, so the water always carries the life.

The Dead Sea receives all the water, but never releases it to anywhere. The water comes from the north and trapped in Dead Sea. The water carried the life, but the life water become dead as soon as trapped in the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea is not rotten, but there is no life. The Dead Sea can heal your skin disease or other benefit, but itself there is no life at all.

Our spiritual realm is the same way, we have been focus to receive from the Lord and enjoy the anointing and the presence of the Lord, but there is no further growing, then it will become the spiritual Dead Sea.

Maybe you can see some miracles and wonders among them, but there is no growing.

And this church will become the spiritual Dead Sea.

The anointing and the presence of the Lord are not given us to enjoy alone, but the purpose is to bring us into the deep intimate relationship with the Lord, and we have the heart of the Father God to expend the Kingdom of the Lord.

We have to come out from the trap and step forward to release what God gave us to the world.

     3. We have to see the great change when we move in

         (큰 변회가 일어날 것을 보아야한다)

“And those who swallowed you will be far away”

“너를 삼켰던 자들이 멀리 떠날 것이니라”

God is going to remove the enemy that hindered our life to follow the Lord.

Those who swallowed means mainly the devil, in practical way it could be our mind set as our wrong mind or the people too.

We can check ourselves.

Check your life or ministry compare two years ago and last year.

Do you have the same life or change your life? If it is the same then there something we really need shift up for the new way for the Lord.

God is pouring out the new things to us continually, so we have to fasten seat the seat belt for the new things.  Do not insist your heart to keep the old way!

We need to open and make the space for the new things.

  C. We have to have the eyes to make disciples

    (제자삼는 눈을 가져야한다)

²⁰ “The children of whom you were bereaved will yet say in your ears,

     ‘The place is too cramped for me; Make room for me that I may live here.’

자식을 잃었을 때에 낳은 자녀가 후일에 네 귀에 말하기를 이곳이 내게 좁으니 넓혀서 내가 거주하게 하라 하리니

²¹ “Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me,

     Since I have been bereaved of my children and am barren, an exile and a wanderer?

     And who has reared these? Behold, I was left alone; from where did these come?’ ”

그 때에 네가 네 마음에 이르기를 누가 나를 위하여 이들을 낳았는고 나는 자녀를 잃고 외로워졌으며 사로잡혀 유리하였거늘 이들을 누가 양육하였는고 나는 홀로 남았거늘 이들은 어디서 생겼는고 하리라

      1. We have to see the vision of the multiplication

          (배가의 비젼 을 가져야한다)

The vision of the multiplication is not a new idea or human’s idea.

Look all over the world and see all the creatures’ life. Their life is to multiply their own

kinds to fill the earth.

We traveled down from San Francisco to Orange County several times during our vacation time.

We stopped one beach, and we saw the huge group of seals on the beach, and also we listened the Park Ranger’s explanation. They come twice to this beach twice in a year for only two reasons. One is for the season of the mate to reproduce and multiply for their kinds, and the other purpose is to breed the babies and raise the babies. At this time there is no male seal with them.

It was so interesting to me, because the purpose of their life is to multiply as many as they could. This is the natural mind of the animals, and not only the animal, but also the plants, insects and every kind of lives.

Because this is the God’s vision for all.

Genesis 1:22

God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

하나님이 그들에게 복을 주어 가라사대 “생육하고 번성하여 여러 바다물에 충만하라. 또 번성하라 하시니라.

Not only for the animals, but also men too.

God has the vision for you, and He wants you to multiply.

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them; and God said to them, “ Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

하나님이 그들에게 복을 주시며 그들에게 이르시되 생육하고 번성하여 땅에 충만하라, 땅을 정복하라, 바다의 고기와 공중의 새와 땅에 움직이는 모든 생물을 다스리라 하시니라

          1) The vision of God for the 3 generations

           (하나님의 3세대 비젼)

Exodus 3:6 I am the God of your father (나는 네 조상의 하나님이니)

a) the God of Abraham (아브라함의 하나님)

b) the God of Isaac (이삭의 하나님)

c) the God of Jacob (야곱의 하나님이니라)

     2.  The foundation of the multiplication is the discipleship

         (제자삼는 일이 배가의 근원이다)

Christians are born, but not made.

The disciples are not born, but made.

The discipleship is not easy, and also there is no short cut for the discipleship.

Jesus made disciples with 12 people as His core group, and He spend time with them 24 hours a day for 3 ½ years.

          1) What is the purpose His Discipleship?

              (예수님께서 제자삼는 목적)

Mark 3:14-15

they would be with Him and that He could send them out to preach,

and to have authority to cast out the demons.

자기와 함께 있게 하시고 또 보내사 전도도 하며

귀신을 내어쫓는 권세도 있게 하려 하심이러라

     a) for the relationship (관계성) – the discipleship is the relationship

     b) for the equipping and training (훈련과 무장)

        (1) He could send them out to preach

        (2) He could have authority to cast out the demons

         2) Jesus gave us the requirement of the discipleship.

(예수님께서 요구하시는 제자들의 마땅한 삶)

a) Luke 14;26 – Give the priority to the Lord

      If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.

b) Luke 14:27 – give up our own life for the Lord

       Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.

c) Luke 14:33 – give up our own possession for the Lord

      So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.

d) John 8:31 – abide in Jesus’ Word

     If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine;

           3) The Great Commission

Matthew 28:19-20

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

그러므로 너희는 가서 모든 족속으로 제자를 삼아 아버지와 아들과 성령의 이름으로 세례를 주고 내가 너희에게 분부한 모든 것을 가르쳐 지키게 하라 볼찌어다 내가 세상 끝날까지 너희와 항상 함께 있으리라 하시니라

  D. We have to have the eyes to see the nations

    (세계를 바라보는 눈을 가져야한다)

²² Thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations And set up My standard to the peoples; And they will bring your sons in their bosom, And your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.

나 주 여호와가 이같이 이르노라 내가 뭇 나라를 향하여 나의 손을 들고 민족들을 향하여 나의 기치를 세울 것이라 그들이 네 아들들을 품에 안고 네 딸들을 어깨에 메고 올 것이며

²³ “Kings will be your guardians, and their princesses your nurses. They will bow down

     to you with their faces to the earth And lick the dust of your feet; And you will know that I am the LORD; Those who hopefully wait for Me will not be put to shame.

왕들은 네 양부가 되며 왕비들은 네 유모가 될 것이며 그들이 얼굴을 땅에 대고 네게 절하고 네 발의 티끌을 핥을 것이니 네가 나를 여호와인 줄을 알리라 나를 바라는 자는 수치를 당하지 아니하리라

     1. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit

         (성령님의 강한 기름 부우심)

          1) I will soon lift up My hand to the nations,

          2) And raise My signal (standard: flag) to the peoples;

Joel 2:28-29

It will come about after this That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind;

And your sons and daughters will prophesy, Your old men will dream dreams,

Your young men will see visions. Even on the male and female servants

I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

그 후에 내가 내 신을 만민에게 부어 주리니 너희 자녀들이 장래 일을 말할 것이며 너희 늙은이는 꿈을 꾸며 너희 젊은이는 이상을 볼 것이며

그 때에 내가 또 내 신으로 남종과 여종에게 부어 줄 것이며

     2. The Great Harvest in globally

         (지구의 마지막 대 추수기)

           a) the spiritual children will be raised from the world.  

           b) Kings and queens are represent the

           c) Nations will come to the Lord

     3. The Great Tribulation

         (대 환난 시기)

Joel 2:30-32

³⁰ “I will display wonders in the sky and on the earth, Blood, fire and columns of smoke.

30내가 이적을 하늘과 땅에 베풀리니 곧 피와 불과 연기 기둥이라

³¹ “The sun will be turned into darkness And the moon into blood

    Before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.

 31여호와의 크고 두려운 날이 이르기 전에 해가 어두워지고 달이 핏빛 같이 변하려니와

³² “And it will come about that whoever calls on the name of the LORD

    Will be delivered; For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem There will be those who escape, As the LORD has said, Even among the survivors whom the LORD calls.  

 32누구든지 여호와의 이름을 부르는 자는 구원을 얻으리니 이는 나 여호와의 말대로 시온산과 예루살렘에서 피할 자가 있을 것임이요 남은 자 중에 나 여호와의 부름을 받을 자가 있을 것임이니라

E. We have to see the eyes to victory

    (승리를 바라보는 눈을 가져야한다)

²⁴ “Can the prey be taken from the mighty man, or the captives of a tyrant be rescued?”

용사가 빼앗은 것을 어떻게 도로 빼앗으며 ²⁾승리자에게 사로잡힌 자를 어떻게 건져낼 수 있으랴

²⁵ Surely, thus says the LORD, “Even the captives of the mighty man will be taken away,

     And the prey of the tyrant will be rescued; for I will contend with the one who contends with you, And I will save your sons.

여호와가 이같이 말하노라 용사의 포로도 빼앗을 것이요 두려운 자의 빼앗은 것도 건져낼 것이니 이는 내가 너를 대적하는 자를 대적하고 네 자녀를 내가 구원할 것임이라

²⁶ “I will feed your oppressors with their own flesh, and they will become drunk with

     their own blood as with sweet wine; And all flesh will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

내가 너를 억압하는 자들에게 자기의 살을 먹게 하며 새 술에 취함 같이 자기의 피에 취하게 하리니 모든 육체가 나 여호와는 네 구원자요 네 구속자요 야곱의 전능자인 줄 알리라

   1. The impossible situation

        (불가능한 상태)

       1) Can the prey be taken from the mighty?

       2) Can the captives of a tyrant be rescued?

2. No one can against the Lord

     (하나님의 절대 권력)

       1) Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken,

       2) and the prey of the tyrant be rescued;

       3) for I will contend with those who contend with you,

3. God will save your children     

     (자녀들을 구원하신다)

4. His vengeance

     (하나님의 복수)

       1) I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh,

       2) they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine.

5. Then all flesh shall know that

     (하나님의 통치)

       1) I am the Lord your Savior,

       2) your Redeemer,

       3) the Mighty One of Jacob.