The Last Adam and the Last Eve, Christ Ahnsahnghong and God the Mother

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  • Sae-ohng’s Horse

       

      Once in China There was a man named Sae-ong in a village. One day, his female horse ran away and did not come back. All the people of the town came and comforted him for his loss, but he did not show any change in his emotion. He was as calm as he was before. A few days later, the female horse came back to Sae-ong’s house, bringing a tall and stout male horse along. Nobody came to claim the horse back. So the horse stayed in Sae-ong’s house. When people of the town visited Sae-ong, now they started to exclaim about the good fortune he received and they all envied the windfall he had, but Sae-ong did not answer anything to them without showing any happiness for the new horse.

      One day, the firstborn son of Sae-ong wanted to try the new horse and put a saddle on it and rode out to a field to test the horse. The horse was swift as wind, and ran around the town and far into the field. But suddenly it stopped just in front of a tall fence, knocking Sae-ong’s son off to the ground and he broke his leg so badly that he became crippled for good. All the people of the town came to Sae-ong and wept for the leg of his son and comforted Sae-ong for the bad thing that happened to him. But Sae-ong did not seem to be sad at all. He worked and behaved as if nothing had happened to him. Now townspeople thought it strange that Sae-ong did not feel sad for his son.

       After many years, the country was having a big war with a neighboring country. And all the young men was drafted as soldiers to the war and most of them died in the war. But Sae-ong’s son could not go to the war because he was crippled and he could save himself from the war. Now there were many in the town whose sons died in the war and came to visit Sae-ong and felt envious for the son of Sae-ong. All of them said how lucky it was for Sae-ong that his son was safe at home. But Sae-ong did not say anything. And Sae-ong lived many years and he died at his old age.

    • TWO WOMEN TALKING ABOUT THE CREATION WORK OF GOD

      Two women were walking together talking about the creation work of God and one woman started to say, “I can’t understand the some part of the creation work. Think about this. The sparrow is very small, but has wings. It does not need to go here and there fast to get food. It can get food quickly without moving to many different places with its wings because its stomach is so small too. But an elephant or hippopotamus is a big animal with a big stomach. So they have to move around a lot to get enough food to maintain its body. If they had wings like birds, it would have been better for them to get food by moving fast to find a place for food.”

      The other agreed too and said, “You can say that again. Big animals should have wings, but they don’t. And little animals which does not need to move around to get food have wings. I don’t understand why God created animals like that. If I had done the work, I would have done it differently by giving wings to larger animals.” Sharing their opinions like this they were walking together for a long time. At that time a small bird was flying above their head and pooped on them. A white small dropping soiled the shirt of the one woman. She tried to wipe the stain away. But it was hard to get rid of it, and what was worse was the smell of it. Even though she tried so hard, she could not take away the foul smell of bird’s dropping.

      At that moment, she exclaimed as if she realized something and said, “Now even though I don’t understand the creation work of God, I can understand what God has done is right.” The other one was puzzled and said, “What are you talking about?” The woman said to the other, “Think about this. This small bird flying over our head can make us annoyed so much with its small dropping. Then imagine if an elephant was flying and pooped on our head, and then what would have happened? Think about a hippo flying leaked on us.”

      On hearing that the other woman understood what the woman was thinking and said, “Oh, I didn’t think about it before. I think what you are saying is right. God’s work is right. Even though sometimes we cannot understand some part of his work, we should believe what God has done has some reason behind it.” And the one said, “That’s true. From now on, we should not doubt God’s creation work because everything is done according to God’s providence.”

      After this they felt happier and went their way.

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      I heard this story from this Sabbath Morning Video Sermon of General Pastor of WMSCOG in Zion. The video sermon had some animations to show the story. When the story came to the part of an elephant and a hippo flying and dropping its poops and water, the animation showed an elephant flying over head, dropping a mountainous dropping over their head. It was so hilarious! Even though I would forget the contents of the sermon, still I would never forget the story he told in the sermon. Neither do I want any careless elephant flying around, causing annoyance like that. God’s creation work is always right!! Thanks to Father and Mother!

    • Two Friends And A Camel

      There were two friends and they had completely different opinions about the religious matters. The one said that there is no God and the other said there is God. When the other tried to prove the existence of God, the one always argued back by saying, “Good, but show me the God if he exist. If you cannot show me, try not to persuade me.” One day they were traveling in the desert and could not find a place to rest for the night. So they set up a tent and spent the night in the desert. When they woke up in the morning, they could not find their camel which was tied near the tent. The stake was there, but the rope was unloosed. The camel must have run away because they could not see any camel as far as their sight could reach.

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      Camel’s Foot Print. By merely looking at the footprints we can know many things such as who, when, where, etc. How about God? God left his footprints everywhere, but we refuse to accept.

      Suddenly the one who believed that there is no God exclaimed and shouted, “I found it. I found it.” The other ran toward him and asked, “Where is it?” “Look. There are marks for its footprints,” said the one. “What are you talking about?” said the other, “These are not the camel. Show me the camel.” The one got annoyed and said, “See, there are footprints and if we follow these, we can find the camel.” At that time, the other said, “By merely looking at the footprints left by a camel, you know that there is a camel which left its marks on the sand. Then how come you can say that there is no God even though you can see His footprints everywhere you look: in the sun and moon, in the wind and land and see, birds, fish, animals… Everything teaches us that there is one who created all these things. Then after witnessing all these footprints, how can you say that there is no God?”

      The one could not say anything after that.

    • Shalom! Peace Upon You!

      Matthew 10:12 And when you enter into the house, give that household your “Shalom (or peace)!”

      The most common Jewish greeting is to say, “Shalom!” which means “Peace upon you!” Similarly in Korea we also greet each other saying, “Did you have peace last night?” The western style greetings such as handshake or salute also originated to mean peace. Then why do people throughout the world have a similar way of greeting? Why is peace so important part of life?

      Christ wanted to give us rest and peace. What is the peace we must receive from God?

      Looking back upon Korean customs, the way of greetings changed as time goes by. About 60 years ago after the Korean civil war people greeted with each other in the morning saying, “Did you have breakfast?” It was a time of need and many people could not eat properly. And they wanted to make sure that everybody had something for breakfast and everybody was managing themselves in this world. Another common expression is “Are you healthy?” Today, most Korean simply say, “Do you have peace?” Here peace means many things: peace in mind, body and maybe soul. And it means “Are you okay in every way?” Then why were they asking each other about breakfast, health or peace? Because those things were lacking even though they are essential in life. Once in history in Korea, food was lacking; and health and peace, nowadays.

      Through this teaching of Jesus, we can confirm again that peace is lacking in this world. The bible teaches us that all the people are just aliens and strangers on this earth. They do not belong here.

      Hebrews 12:13 13 All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.

      1Chr 29:15  We are aliens and strangers in your sight, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

      Think about the life as stranger or foreigner in a land. The life would be laborious, hard and lonely. There is no peace in mind or in body. Neither is it easy for them to find peace with others around them. And the bible teaches us that our life is the same. We have no peace in this world; no comfort, or no rest. God had pity and compassion on us and he wanted to give some peace to us.

      Exodus 20:8  8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

      In the spiritual sense everyone on this earth is an alien or a stranger living without any hope. But God gave to restless strangers on this earth Sabbath, the day of rest so that they can take rest. Through the Sabbath Day we can lay down the burdens we carry on this earth and can receive the blessings of rest and peace which are what is most lacking in us. The seventh day (Saturday) is the Sabbath, the day of God.

      Luke 10:5  When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’

      While we are living the life of hardships under the slavery of sin and death without have any rest and peace, Christ Ahnsahnghong restored the Sabbath for us so that we can take rest and so that we can have eternal rest after this life of strangers on this earth is over. And God is teaching us to remember and keep the Sabbath Day holy. In the Church of God we keep the Sabbath Day, Saturday according to the teachings of God Elohim.

    • A Wise Man and His Son

      This is an old story about a dying man. A man was getting old and there came a time when he had to die. He was a rich man, but his only son who could inherit his estate was in the far-away country to study. And his house was managed by one of his servant. The old man was always worried that his servant might squander all his money or stow away for himself after his death, leaving nothing for his son.

      Finally, at his death bed, he told his servant, “I will give all my estate to you. Just make sure one thing: you must grant my son one thing whichever he might ask of you.” And the servant agreed to the old man. The servant worked harder than ever now because everything belonged to him. And he could increase the wealth of the old man abundantly. Long after the death of the old man, his only son came back home after finishing all his learning and he found out all the things belonged to his father were given to the servant and he was given only one thing from it.

      He was bewildered and did not know what to do. So he asked the servant to give him a couple of days to think about it. And in the town there was a friend of his father and he was a very wise man. The son visited him to ask him for advice. He told everything that he found out about the will of his father. The wise man said, “Your father was a wise man, so there might be some reason for that.” After thinking about it for a long time, his face brightened up and shouted.

      “Can you ask one thing from the servant and he must grant it whatever it might be, right?” “Yes,” said the son. “Then you must ask this and then your problem will be solved. Everything he has will be restored back to you.” Finally, the young man could receive all the things back from the servant and inherit his father’s estate.

       

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      A Wise Man Tying Phylacteries to his Son

       

      In Jewish law, whatever a servant owns actually belongs to his master; the servant has no possessions whatsoever.

       

    • The Voice Contest between a Lion and a Blackbird

      The Voice Contest between a Lion and a Blackbird

      A blackbird challenged a lion to have a voice contest. “My voice is stronger and more powerful than yours,” said the blackbird. But the lion did not care about the blackbird. The blackbird kept flying back to the lion and annoyed him so much that he agreed to accept the challenge.

      Finally, the two of them stood next to each other and shouted with all their might. First, the lion roared at the top of his voice, which made the mountain shake and all the animals around the mountain fled silently and hid themselves as quickly as possible making no noise at all. And next the blackbird sang with the fullest volume of his voice and said, “Chirp, Chirp,” which was no match for the voice of the lion.

      The lion said to the blackbird, “Now you can see whose voice is stronger?” But the blackbird challenged again and said, “Let us go and find out.” So they crossed over a mountain and asked animals there. “Did you hear the lion’s voice?” All the animals said, “Yes, we heard.” And the lion asked them, “how about the blackbird? Did hear his voice?” And all the animals also said, “Yes, we clearly heard.”

      So they decided to travel further away to find out who was the winner. Now they crossed over five mountains and asked animals there if they heard the voice of a lion. Some animals with keen ears said yes, but others said no. But for the blackbird all the animals said that they heard clearly the voice of a blackbird.

      Now they decided to go farther so that they could know who had stronger voice. After crossing over ten moutains, they asked animals there if they heard the voice of a lion. All the animals said that they did not hear any sound of a lion. And the lion asked the animals there if they heard the voice of a blackbird. Surprisingly enough, all the animals said, “Yes, we clearly heard a blackbird’s voice.”

      The blackbird held up his head high and proudly sang at the top of his voice, “pippip~~pip.” The lion was at a loss and he went back to his home disappointed. Now do you know how this could be possible?

    • Our Spiritual Home

      Everyone on this earth is born in a certain place. And usually that place is called HOME which is one of the most beautiful words we cherish. There you have everything you love. You can find your father and mother there who loves you with the most altruistic love. You can find your friends there who greet you as if you are the most important person in the world regardless of your education, occupation, or social status. Everything there is familiar to you: the mountains and trees, the paths and the rocks, the streams and ponds. You remember and cherish even a small rock you used to sit on while you were fishing. That is your home.

      Maybe not actually the most beautiful place in the world, but the place where my heart can take a rest, that is HOME.

      That is the place that makes you long to return, that is the place that makes you sad because of the time you wasted, that is the place that makes you happy because of the memories of your old days, your first love, your childhood. This is the place your body can take rest and you can feel yourself perfectly blended in. You can become one with the things around you and you know what they are and they know who you are. That is why most of people think of going back home at the end of their journey on this earth and lay down their body in the familiar place so that you can truly take rest. In Korea, there is saying, “Even a fox at the time of its death puts its head toward the place it was born.” It means “even animals remember their home, and what about human beings?” We must remember our home.

      But sadly enough, how many people remember their true home? Do you know where we came from? Do you know where we are going after death? Our body goes back to its home, the earth because it was formed out of the dirt of the earth. It takes rest by returning to the dust of the ground. But is that all? The bible teaches that our soul exists and it also returns to its home, the spiritual hometown. Have you heard of it? Do you remember our spiritual home? If we know and remember, we will make effort to go back to the place, but unfortunately, we don’t remember and we don’t make effort to return to the place.

      Hebrews 11:13    13 All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance,admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. 14 People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. 15 If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one.Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a cityfor them. (NIV)

      Our spirit has its home and now we must remember where we came from so that at least we can have chance to go back. If we don’t remember, we will not have chance to return. Let us find out one by one to know about our spiritual home so that we can have the opportunity to return. That is the place where our Father and Mother dwells along with our brothers and sisters and friends. That is the place where you can find the holy mountain of God and the stream of the water of life where we used to play. Let us try to find the way back to our spiritual home so that we can get there.

       

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