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Providence
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 "Surely the LORD God does nothing unless He reveals His secret counsel to His servants the prophets" (Amos 3:7).
'Providence' is the order and grace with which God controls all things in the universe and guides us in His plan.
In other words, this means that God the Almighty who rules over all things fulfills everything in His plan without any error.
People often use the word 'coincidence', but there is no coincidence in the Lord.
Everything is run precisely according to the rules of the spiritual realm that are established by God's justice and love. All things are fulfilled without any error in the providence of God.
God created this world, prepared the way of salvation through Jesus Christ, and fulfills the amazing works of salvation through the Holy Spirit during these final days. All this is the providence of God.
Then what is the providence God plans to fulfill through our church?
The first providence is to spread the holiness gospel to many souls.
In the latter part of Luke 18:8, Jesus said, "When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?"
Amos 8:11 says, " 'Behold, days are coming,' declares the LORD God, 'When I will send a famine on the land, not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, but rather for hearing the words of the LORD.' "
The above two verses refer to our time today.
Even though there are many churches and many people preach the word of God, it is not easy to find people who really preach about the true will of God.
So many signs and wonders that took place in the times of the Old Testament and the early churches have disappeared, and only the literal words as knowledge remain.
What we really need at this time is the Gospel of Holiness which preaches the true heart and true will of God.
It causes us to cast off all forms of evil and become sanctified and to become true children of God.
It also makes our soul prosper and allows us to live in health and blessings. This is the time that we need the Gospel of Holiness that helps us experience the numerous signs and wonders and the power of God as it is written in the Bible.
In reality, numerous souls who are listening to the Holiness Gospel are going through amazing life changes.
God put His providence for this Holiness Gospel to be spread to all nations through Manmin Church to cause these kinds of changes and allow people to walk toward true life.
The second providence is to greatly add to the number of believers by manifesting His amazing power.
When the power of God is manifested, many people are able to possess true faith by seeing, hearing, and experiencing the works of the living God. Of course those people who believe without seeing is called more blessed (John 20:29).
But if they face any hardship or difficulty, their profession of faith soon disappears.
This is because their faith exists only as knowledge in their heads.
Because Jesus knew this very well, He said in John 4:48, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you simply will not believe."
Mark 16:20 also says, "And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the signs that followed."
As stated, to testify that the word of God is true beyond any doubt, signs must follow as evidence. Only then will people believe in God's word as truth and live according to it.
That is why God is showing us so many works of His power in this church in order to gain true children who truly believe in God from their hearts in these end times.
Many signs and wonders that are inconceivable by man's knowledge and understanding are manifested. Just by praying from the pulpit, even weather conditions are changed and many people were healed around the world, transcending time and space.
God opened up the spiritual space to show us all different kinds of rainbows and sent down dragonflies so we could experience the spiritual realm with our flesh. This is the providence of God, which He bestowed upon Manmin Church so we could save many souls during these end times where people, being full of sins, do not want to believe in the Lord at all.
The third providence is the fulfillment of the will of God towards our church in the end times.
God the Father planned for human cultivation before time began and He has been fulfilling it until this very moment. Then, how do you think He plans to wrap up this human cultivation?
Human cultivation is like a piece of art that God created with the plan to gain true children. God has chosen His instrument to beautifully end this human cultivation.
This is a church that is willing to cast away sins to the point of shedding blood, where its members obey the will of God only with 'Yes' and 'Amen'; where the signs and wonders recorded in the Bible are manifested and where they fervently cry out to God day and night.
This is the church that evangelizes to the world with the holiness gospel and reveals the glory of God by constructing the Grand Sanctuary.
Amos 3:7 says, "Surely the LORD God does nothing unless He reveals His secret counsel to His servants the prophets." As it is written, God the Father has clearly shown us His vision and let us know of the things that we have to fulfill.
I pray in the name of the Lord that all of you to keep marching on without stopping; for the glory of God the Father, and for the salvation of souls that were bought by the precious blood of Jesus Christ our Lord.
This is the summary of the message preached during the 27th Anniversary Sunday morning service. If you want to read this message in more detail, visit the Manmin Central Church website (www.manmin.org) and click on 'Sermon.'
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