The Spirit of Truth- AhnSahngHong!

Throughout the time that I’ve spent in the Church of God World Mission Society, many friends and family members have been telling me the same thing. “You’re reading too much into the Bible verses.” If you’ve recently come to the Church of God World Mission Society and have tried to show at least four people anything that you’ve learned in the Bible, chances are that you too have heard this line.

Just last week I was in a book store and I saw a guy my age looking at Bibles. He asked me if I knew which Bible was the best one for him to buy. I told him that they all say the same thing but some are just worded differently. He continued to ask me about the different versions so I started to tell him about our Heavenly Father Christ Ahnsahnghong and Heavenly Mother through the Bible. I showed him that they all testify Heavenly Father and Mother the same way.

Unfortunately when we finished, he looked at me and said “I think you’re reading into these verses way too much.”

Even though he doubted what he saw, something about him seemed very earnest in trying to understand the Bible. So I turned to Romans 15:4 “For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the scripture we might have hope.” This verse clearly shows us that the things written in the Bible were written to teach us. However, what the Bible teaches us is not only morals, it teaches us about our hope for salvation and the kingdom of heaven. The goal of our faith is the salvation of our souls so this is very important

We can’t afford to be mistaken when understanding the Bible because our salvation depends on the teachings of the Bible.

Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed from a lack of knowledge. ‘Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God,”. According to the Bible, we will be destroyed because we do not know God.

The Bible shows many examples of what happens to those who do not pay careful attention to what God says. 1 Samuel 15:1 is a story about King Saul who was commanded by God to completely destroy his enemy. Instead, King Saul took some of his enemy’s best possessions to sacrifice to God. Even though Saul had a very good mind to sacrifice to God, God said that Saul did evil because he did not fully obey Him and rejected him as king.

Such a terrible fate for a once great king! God clearly tells us that we should closely follow the commands he has given us.

1 John 2:3 “We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands.” John 17:3 “Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.”

The gentleman I met finally understood that we cannot afford to take God’s word lightly because our salvation depends on it. He was also happy that there is a church that understands God’s commands and KEEPS them. This is all thanks to our Heavenly Father Christ Ahnsahnhong and Heavenly Mother because they came so that we may know God.