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the Blessed Autumn Festival the Festival
of trumpets has
come it can be said that the Autumn
Festival we are keeping today is a truly
meaningful and blessed
Festival I hope that all our Heavenly
family members will be able to receive a
and blessings of the Holy Spirit from
father and mother by graciously
observing these festivals from the
Festival of trumpets to the last day of
Tabernacles today let us take a look
back at the origin of the Festival of
trumpets 3,500 years ago Moses spent 40
days and 40 nights with God on Mount Si
to receive the first set of tablets
during this time he fasted neither
bread the Israelites who were at the
foot of the mountains thought that Moses
must have died since he went up the
mountain without taking any food or
drink as a result they made an idol of a
golden calf woried it and defiled
themselves with idolatry while while
it God was greatly angered by their
behavior what is the first commandment
among the Ten
Commandments it is you shall have no
other God before me and the second you
shall not make for yourself an
idol these are laws that God strictly
forbids to be
broken when seeing this isn't it deeply
troubling that such a situation
occurred this is why after giving Moses
the two stone
tablets God
said go down because your people have
committed detestable
sins while coming down the mountain
carrying the two stone
tablets Moses looked upon all the
actions and behaviors of the people and
anger he then threw the tablets at the
foot of the mountain shattering them
after Moses came down from the mountain
God pointed out all the wrongdoings that
the Israelites had
committed and about 3,000 of those who
had sinned were tragically put to death
that very
day later the people repented for their
unfaithfulness and earnestly asked God for
for
forgiveness when God saw their
repentance he instructed Moses to come
up Mount Si on the first day of the
sixth month by the sacred
calendar in order to receive the second
Commandments on the first day of the
sixth month Moses went on Mount Si and
fasted for another 40
Days Later he received the two stone
tablets and came down on the 40th Day
the 10th day of the seventh
month God chose that day as the day of
atonement in order to memorialize how he
had forgiven the Israelites of the sins
they had
committed thus every year to ensure that
they would not forget the day of
atonement trumpets were blown for 10
days it was to alert the Israelites
signaling them that it was time to
repent of their
sins and to prepare for the atonement of
their sins on the day of atonement
this Festival is called the Festival of
trumpets it is on the first day of the
seventh month by the sacred calendar
today therefore today is the time for us
to fully atone
for and repent of all the sins we
committed in heaven and on this
Earth including the sins that we
committed without even knowing there were
sins by doing so
we pray to God to open the way for us to
receive God's grace once
again and return to our Eternal Heavenly
Home starting from the Festival of
trumpets for 10 days we offer prayers
both in the early morning and in the
evening through this time we are able to
reflect upon ourselves and give thanks
once again for God's grace bestowed upon
us hence today let think about the
meaning of the Festival of trumpets the
Old Testament is filled with prophecies
while the New Testament are their
fulfillment considering all the sins we
have committed starting with the sin of
betraying God in heaven and being cast
down to this
earth even until now we have lacked in
showing gratitude for the Salvation and
the grace that God has bestowed upon
us yet we have still not properly set
the course of our life of
Faith sometimes we have been unable to
fully forsake worldly desires although
we are on the path to
Heaven that is to say we have been
leading lives not fully committed to
either one path or the
other from this Festival of trumpets to
the day of
atonement we must repent and seek
lives as it is written in the Book of
being neither hot nor cold can also be
considered as a grave
sin if it were not considered as a sin
why would God
say because you are lukewarm neither hot
nor cold what will he
do I'm about to spit you out of my
mouth despite God having forgiven our
tremendous sins from
Heaven our faith has failed to properly
give thanks for his grace
furthermore we have not yet fully
carried out the commands he has given
us despite it being the truth revealed
by God we have not had confidence in
it I hope that during the prayer week
our prayers will lead us to fully repent
life hence today I would like to
carefully consider all these issues
together with
with the sermon titled the parable of
the 10 virgins and confidence in the
truth when we look at Matthew chapter 25
we can find the parable of the 10
virgins let us turn to the gospel of
25 Matthew chapter 25
verse1 at that time the kingdom of
heaven will be like 10 virgins who took
their lamps and went out to meet the
bridegroom five of them were foolish and
five were wise the foolish ones took
their lamps but did not take any oil
with them the wise ones however took oil
and jars along with their
lamps what does oil
represent it represents Faith let's see
verse 5 the bridegroom was a long time
in coming and they all became drowsy and
fell asleep at midnight the cry rang out
here's the bridegroom come out to meet
him then all the virgins woke up and
trimmed their lamps the foolish one said
to the wise give us some of your oil our
lamps are going out no they replied
there may not be enough for both us and
you instead go to those who sell oil and
buy some for
yourselves but while they were on their
way to buy the oil the bridegroom
arrived The Virgins who were ready went
in with him to The Wedding Banquet and
the door was
shut later the others also came Lord
Lord they said open the door for
us but he replied truly I tell you I
don't know you therefore keep watch
because you do not know the day or the
hour the five foolish virgins made wrong
judgments and the five wise virgins made right
right
judgments the five foolish virgins did
something that would leave them with
eternal regret they said to themselves
it won't be too late to prepare at the
time the bridegroom arrives however it
was too late our faith must always be
ready we must never fall into a state of
exhaustion in the parable of the 10
virgins it says five of them were
foolish and five were
wise the five wise virgins went in with
the bridegroom to The Wedding
Banquet but the five foolish virgins
couldn't this is a prophecy that
foretells what will happen in the
future what is it that the five wise
virgins prepared along with their
lamps they prepared
oil what about the foolish
virgins the foolish ones took their
lamps but did not take any oil with
them brothers and sisters if there is a
lamp doesn't it naturally need oil in in
order for it to be
useful while the wise virgins prepared
both lamps and
oil the foolish virgins only prepar the
oil everyone what did father and mother
teach us about the meaning of the lamp
that needs to be filled with oil didn't
they teach us that it represents the
truth we possess what about the
oil they taught us that it represents
the faith that can illuminate the Dark World
therefore based on their teaching we can
understand that the wise virgins had
unwavering Faith towards God and had
confidence in God's
teachings what about the foolish
virgins though they were in the truth
they lack the necessary oil which is
faith if we are not confident about the
truth taught by God and cannot testify
about it with confidence in front of
others can we say that we believe in The
God Who came to this
earth we should confidently say because
it is the truth taught by God this is
indeed the truth that will save the
world there is only one Church in the
entire world that can save the
it God himself came to this Earth for
the Heavenly Sinners who were destined
to die
forever we had no choice but to go to
hell but God opened the way of life the
way of
Salvation and bestowed all his grace
upon us so that we can go to the kingdom
of heaven it is for all of these
aformentioned reasons that we should
have absolute confidence in this truth
as well as strong conviction and pride
in it also we must have the faith to
boast about the truth and eagerly share
us we must confidently say in front of anyone
anyone
unless you believe in our heavenly
mother you cannot be
saved unless you believe in Christ anang
you cannot be saved there is no other
name under Heaven given to mankind by
which we must be
saved we must be at a point in our faith
where we can now boast like this we need
to ask ourselves do I have the oil of
Faith or not here the distinction is
clearly made between those who have the
oil and those who only have a lamp
that is why God teaches us about the
necessity of
preaching hence preaching can be seen as
the way to confirm whether we possess
Faith the teachings we preach are not
our personal
inherited if we are convinced that
Christ anang is the true Christ who came
to this earth to save
we must have conviction in his teachings
and convey this conviction to
others think about what was the state of
faith of the Israelites in the time of
Elijah there were 850 false prophets who
worshiped Baal and ashra at the time
when Elijah who had faith in Jehovah God opposed
them however the Israelites who are
watching all of this take place in front
front of them did not take
sides they wavered in their conviction
asking themselves is it this side or
that side let us consider that though
the Israelites were selected as God's
chosen people in other words though they
had a lamp what was it that they were still
lacking they did not have any oil at all
that is to say faith in God this is why
they were not able to discern the
difference between truth and falsehood
their confusion came from the fact that
those who worship baale and ashra seemed
so powerful Queen Jezebel too worshiped
baale and ashra additionally the number
of their priests was
enormous when seeing them performing
sacrifices it seemed very
impressive however on the side of God's
people the numbers were quite small and
everything appeared to be humble and
lacking in every
way the people wavered even though they
claimed to be those who believed in Jehovah
God ultimately didn't the Prophet Elijah
confront all those false
prophets they called on the names of
their gods from morning until the time
of the evening sacrifice hoping for a
response but there was no answer from
Heaven it was then that in front of
those gathered there that Elijah
defeated them all he declared as as you
have seen their gods are
nothing their gods are merely artificial
creations made by men our God is not like
like
that Elijah let people come near to him
and offer sacrifices to God when he
repaired The Altar and placed on it the
burnt offering and then prayed to God
didn't a miraculous scene occur where
fire from heaven came down and burned up
the sacrifice and even the water in the trench
trench
at that time when the people hesitated
Elijah shouted out of frustration he
asked how long will you waver between two
opinions it was because from a spiritual
point of view their oil had run
out though they were in the position of
being God's chosen people they did not
have any
oil thus they lacked the proper
discernment to identify idols and nor
God in the end what did the people
finally say after Elijah had been
victorious in this confrontation and
ba they said the Lord he is
God if we think to ourselves do I
currently possess the oil of Faith or
not the answer to this question is found
when we demonstrate our faith in God
this is a demonstration of how
confidently we reveal and testify about
the truth of our heavenly mother to many
others isn't this what signifies that we
have the oil of
faith that is why God told us to take
heart while living in this
world let's take a look at the Book of
16 let's see God's word in John
16:33 I have told you these things so
that in me you may have
peace in this world you will have
trouble but take heart what did he tell
us to do God told us to be bold and take
world if we follow the path that father
and mother walk
won't we also be able to possess the
world it is said that the light of Truth
floor in the old days when people lit
oil lamps did anyone light them up only
to hide them under the
floor wasn't the light placed at the
very top of the house so that it can
illuminate the entire inside of the house
house
in other words the light is meant to
serve the role of
revealing its mission is not to hide
something but rather to reveal
something we should reveal who God the
father and God the mother are about our
church and about the truth as well
because who is the one that gave us all these
these
teachings if they are the teachings of
God then there is absolutely no other
then what is it that we need to prepare
from now
on we are now at a point in time where
it is necessary to measure how much of
the oil of faith we still have
left we should not be at ease with only
having a lamp that is merely being a
member of the Church of God
outwardly instead we should be
absolutely certain about all the truths
that God has revealed to us we should
regard this precious time of faith we
are in a time where we can rever God the
father and God the mother as the
happiest time of all and be fully
determined to follow this path to the
end this is why the apostles and the
forefathers of Faith did not give up
even when they were in a situation where
up through the Bible we know well that
they worked earnestly for the gospel
with the hope to change this Earth the
City of Refuge into the world of God and
led the world to repentance by preaching
the gospel boldly in Samaria and even to
Earth let us examine ourselves if we are
walking the path of Faith looking to
heaven or if we are walking the path of
Faith looking at the life on this
Earth I hope that no one will ever let
go of the Eternal Kingdom of Heaven and
the way of eternal life which father and
when viewed spiritually the times we
fail to look toward Heaven is also
considered a
sin what sin is
it the sin of not believing in God
correctly and the sin of not being
convinced of God's teachings through
this prayer week of the day of atonement
let us firmly believe in God's word I
have overcome the world so you should do the
the
same be courageous no matter what
happens I will always help you I hope
all Heavenly family members will have
absolute confidence in these words and
strive to testify powerfully to the
glory of father and mother throughout
the world let us see one more verse in Isaiah
41 let's take a look at the teachings in Isaiah
41:10 chapter 41:
10 so do not fear for I am with you do
not be dismayed for I am your God I will
strengthen you and help
you I will uphold you with my righteous right
hand in the book of Isaiah chapter 41 it
is written that God will help
us everyone do you believe this word are you
you
convinced then there is nothing else
that we need to think about
God himself helps us and strengthens us
by teaching us do not fear for I am with
you until the
end he gave us this promise as a
guarantee here is another way that we
can understand
this it is just as if God has written us
a promisory
note let's move on to verse
12 though you search for your enemies
you will not find
them those who wage war against you will
be as nothing at
all for I am the Lord your God who takes
hold of your right hand and says to you
what does he
you God says since I am the one to help
you who in the world can stand against
you who can dare to stand against me I
will help you I will be on your
side in this way God is always giving us
strength let's see verse 14 do not be
afraid you worm Jacob little Israel do
not fear for I myself will help
you declares the Lord your Redeemer the
Israel no matter what situation or
position we are in we should be filled
with confidence to boast about our God
we should be confident to boast about
our church as well as the fact that the
truth that is taught in our church has
been taught by God
himself will God help the church that
keeps Sunday worship will God help the
church that celebrates Christmas or the
church without the
Passover can such a church save the
world however there are those who hinder
the truth of God with falsehood they
have created and prevent people from
acknowledging the truth through their
since this truth can only be taught by
God we must stand firm and be confident
in front of anyone no matter who they
are if our past selves were in the same
position as the Israelites who hesitated
and wavered during the time of
Elijah we now have to be determined to
stand firmly only on God's side this is
the kind of faith we
need as we look back on the sins that we
have committed without faith during this
prayer week leading to the day of
atonement let us offer many prayers so
that we can receive an even greater and
more explosive power of the Holy
Spirit please think about this gospel
from a prophetic point of
view when Joshua entered the land of
Canaan didn't all the people shout loudly
loudly
together as they all followed exactly as
God instructed them they were able to
witness the amazing work that followed
we should not act according to our own
thoughts but from this moment on
completely follow the teachings given by
God regardless of who we are in front of
God said whoever acknowledges me before
others I will also acknowledge before
Angels but whoever disowns me before
Angels this is a Stern message given to
us directly by God
also how absolute is this truth how
absolute are the teachings of the New
Covenant the Sabbath day and the
Passover God always helps
us and tells us to be
courageous are we teaching Commandments
other than God's
Commandments then we should preach to
people with absolute
confidence moreover since we are the
light we should reveal the truth as much as
as
possible when we do so so can't the Dark
light through this Autumn Festival May
we all receive overflowing love Grace
and blessings from God along with even
more mature
faith I pray that we will all become the
five wise virgins doing everything
necessary to fully prepare the oil of
faith in advance hoping that you have
receiv received much grace I would like
to conclude today's sermon thank you
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