Today Pastor Choi talks about the necessity of faith in salvation, benefiting from God’s Word and prayers, and pleasing God. He exhorts God’s people to grow their faith by hearing Christ’s Word, daily and weekly.
Today Pastor Choi presents three biblical cases where we can make God a liar. First, if we deny that God created the heavens and the earth and everything in them. Secondly, if we deny that we are sinners. Finally, if we deny God’s testimony on His Son Jesus the Christ.
Pastor Choi talks about the word we speak: our words have power to accomplish what we please. Our words have consequences. Our words come with accountability. For action points, he exhorts God’s people to tame their tongue and store up in their heart what is good and true.
Pastor Choi talks about this year’s goal: to know your God (Joel 3:17). He reminds God’s people that it is God’s command to know Him. He also explains many benefits of the knowledge of God. Finally, he exhorts God’s people to know God every day deeper and more.
At Christmas Eve service, Pastor Choi talks about the magi who traveled afar to worship the newborn King Jesus Christ. Based on their story, he exhorts God’s people to search for Jesus, worship Him, and give heart to Jesus.
Today Pastor Choi talks about Jesus’ humility who was born humble, lived a humble life, and died humble. Our Savior began His life of humility in a manger. This Christmas God calls us to be like Christ. Be like Him. Have Christ’s attitude. Be humble.
Pastor Choi talks about Jesus who was born with a mission from God: to save humanity from their sins through His own death (redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins). Jesus completed His task on the cross and opened our access to God. Christ is no longer a cute little baby in a manger. He is the Son of God, the Messiah, and the true Joy to the world.
God is in impossible business. Things impossible in human eyes, God does all the time, and we simply call them ‘miracles.’ God did a miracle with Mary who gave birth to Jesus without any man’s help. The virgin birth of the Messiah was the fulfillment of God’s own prophecy on how the Messiah would be born and what He would do to the devil the serpent (Genesis 3:15).
Today Pastor Choi talks about peace in the world. No humans can be the hope of the world but God. Christ is the hope of the world. Christ the Prince of Peace will bring justice and peace to the world.
Pastor Choi talks about the connection between thanksgiving and worship. Without the attitude of worship, we cannot be thankful to the Lord especially in times of adversity. Worship provides us with the reasons that transcend our circumstances to give thanks to the Lord: God’s goodness, mercy, and faithfulness.
Today Pastor Choi points out the biblical truth that we must choose God over money (since we cannot serve them both at the same time). Once we choose God to serve over money, then, we realize that God is the owner and we are the managers of His wealth that is entrusted to us. It is God’s will for us to share our blessings with our less fortunate neighbors.
Today Pastor Choi urges his congregation to show their solidarity with the persecuted brothers and sisters in Christ all around the world. He explains the biblical meaning of persecution and asks for prayers for the persecuted believers in Christ.
Today Pastor Choi talks about being in the presence of God—in the fellowship with God. He presents “Fellowship Breakers” using the case of Israelites who were removed from the presence of God due to their stubborn heart, rebellion against God through various sins including idolatry and rejection of God’s commandments. He also presents “Fellowship Restorers/Antidotes” that will restore the broken fellowship with God through repentance and humility. At the end of his message, he challenges the audience to take up “3-3-3” Challenge to start the fellowship with God right now.
Today Pastor Choi talks about the importance of having harmonious relationship with God and with one another. All is possible in Christ who is the truth and grace.
Today Pastor Choi talks about the prayer Jesus offered to His Father on behalf of His disciples. He points out three things Jesus prayed for them: Keep them in Your name, Keep them from the evil one, and Sanctify them in the Truth. He assures the viewers that Jesus’ prayer for them is heard and answered by the Lord.
In today’s message, Pastor Choi talks about four keys to answered prayers based on 1 John 3:21-23. They are: a clean heart, keeping God’s commandments, doing what is pleasing to the Lord, and believing in Jesus and His power.
Today Pastor Choi talks about prayers that are not granted by God. He explains that the foundation of effective prayer is the sovereignty of God. He also points out three possible reasons behind those prayers unanswered: God knows best. God’s providence. God’s mysteries.
Today Pastor Choi talks about three hindrances to answered prayers. They are asking something of the Lord with wrong motives, with sins unresolved, and with doubts.
Today Pastor Choi talks about spiritual deceptions that lead God’s people astray. Taking the example of the Sadducees who were mistaken by their ignorance of the Scriptures and of the power of the living God, he recommends God’s people doing the following three things to avoid the deceptions: Understand the Scriptures, Experience God and His power, Watch and pray.
In today’s text, Jesus points out the spiritual reality that people are good at interpreting natural signs yet poor and ignorant of signs of the spiritual world. Pastor Choi urges the congregation to reconcile with each other now, grow in grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ through prayer and God’s Word, and be transformed into the image of Christ as we live in the end times.
Today Pastor Choi talks about three spiritual traps that would cost us our eternal life. They are self-centeredness, indifference, and illusion of salvation. At the end of his sermon, he urges the audience to come up with a plan to avoid those traps.
Today Pastor Choi talks about a life with simplicity in the Lord. He points out three characteristics of the simple life in the Lord: A life with purpose, a life with gratitude, and a life with fellowship.
Today Pastor Choi talks about joy. In particular, he talks about Jesus’ joys in John 16 and 17. They are: the joy of seeing Jesus the resurrected, the joy of prayers answered, and the joy of knowing Jesus the conqueror of the world. At the end, he recommends his audience doing the following three things for 30 days to restore joy in their lives: Worship/praise/thanks every day, Pray specifically in Jesus’ name, and Get into God’s Word to know Jesus.
Today Pastor Choi talks about salvation and eternal life in Christ. He begins his message with a question, “If you die tonight, will you enter the resurrection of life or the resurrection of judgment?” He points out the truth that our salvation is secure in Christ. Beware of two things that will cost us our eternal life: Denial of Jesus in front of people, and disobedience to Jesus’ commands.
Today Pastor Choi talks about three warnings of Jesus to clergy: the desire of recognition, the love of money, and hypocrisy. May the Lord guide the clergy to stay away from those sins.
Pastor Choi talks about God’s messenger and God’s message. The task of messenger is to proclaim God’s message to God’s people as exactly as it was given by God. With no altercation, omission, addition or subtraction. God’s people also ought to discern who’s true messenger of God and who’s not by testing every spirit, teaching, and preaching against God’s Word.
Today, Pastor Choi talks about “Our Father in Heaven.” By teaching us to call God in Heaven “Our Father” Jesus reminds us that prayer is not a religion but a relationship with our Heavenly Father.
Today Pastor Choi gives his advice to confirmands: 1. Let God’s truth guide you. 2. Let God’s Spirit guide you. 3. Let your integrity guide you. When you do, your life will be secure in the Lord.
Today Pastor Choi talks about the glory of God in our midst. Taking the biblical examples of God’s glory among God’s people, he explains the prerequisite for God’s glory, signs, and his prayers for God’s glory in the Church, in the hearts of God’s children, and in our land.
Today Pastor Choi talks about different gospels that would derail our salvation train to Heaven. 1. Your own goodness gets you into Heaven. 2. You don’t have to believe in resurrection. 3. Jesus is not the only way to salvation. 4. There are other requirements for salvation besides faith in Christ. He exhorts the congregation to hold onto the genuine gospel of Jesus Christ: salvation by God’s grace through faith in Christ alone.
Pastor Choi talks about the link between the world in the Bible and the world we are living in. It is God Himself that connects the two worlds. Because God never changes, we can still have fellowship with God, trust in His Word, live by faith, and stand on His promises as the biblical characters did the same in their times.
Pastor Choi talks about great change God has planned for every believer in Christ. He works on His children to partake in His divine character. He will continue His good work in every child of God until the last day. We can count on Him for His faithfulness.
Pastor Choi talks about freedom in Christ. In order to fully understand its meaning, we must understand what sin is. Sin is the state of heart that appears in various forms of evil and wickedness outside. Christ died to take sins away from us. He set us free from the bondage of sin and death through His blood.
Pastor Choi talks about God’s two-fold purpose and plan for God’s people. First, universal and general divine purpose for all. Next, unique purpose in specific situations that only individuals can fulfill. We are called to glorify God by fulfilling God’s purpose for us through our words and deeds.
Pastor Choi talks about being wise in the sight of the Lord. He reminds the congregation to beware three tragedies of “a believing fool.” They are unpreparedness for life, ignorance of Jesus, and self-deception. He urges everyone to be wise in God’s eyes.
Pastor Choi talks about faith in Christ’s historical resurrection connecting three stories of people whom Jesus has resurrected from the dead: Jairus’s daughter, young man in Nain, and Lazarus in Bethany. He urges the audience to unbind their faith in Christ’s resurrection today!
Pastor Choi explains two meanings of Jesus’ riding on a donkey on Palm Sunday. 1. God’s prophecies on the coming Messiah were fulfilled in Jesus. 2. Jesus was the humble king who served humanity by laying down His own life for them.
Through the story of woman who anointed Jesus with her precious perfume, Pastor Choi talks about three aspects of true worship. 1. We worship Jesus our Lord and Savior. To Him, nothing is too precious to give. 2. True worship can cause criticism. Focus only onto Jesus in worship. 3. True worship overflows to the world. We are a fragrance of Christ to God and to people.
Pastor Choi explains why we the believers in Christ ought to love our enemies, how to do it, and the reward thereof. He also encourages his congregation to turn their blacklist of enemies to a blessing-list and bless them every day.
Pastor Choi talks about the corporate journey to Heaven among the believers in Christ. They share, encourage, confess, and pray for each other during their journey together.
Pastor Choi cautions his congregation to beware of the faulty understanding of God, that is, God is love, therefore, we must reject the God in the Old Testament who condemns and punishes the disobedient and the wicked. We must balance the God of love with the God of light and holiness.
Today Pastor Choi speaks about the Five Love Languages (Dr. Gary Chapman). Expounding on the five love languages such as Words of Affirmation, Receiving Gifts, Quality Time, Acts of Service, and Physical Touch, he encourages his congregation to practice those love languages to build each other up in Christ.
Today Pastor Choi talks about spiritual “flu”—a spiritual condition that debilitates and paralyzes the believers in their walk with God. Symptoms are: not doing what we would like to do, doing the very thing we hate, feel powerless before temptations, feel miserable after spiritual defeat, enslaved to the power of sin, constant inner tug-of-war between good and evil, feel “nothing but evil present in me,” low or no self-esteem, and tortured by negative/destructive thoughts and feelings. He offers cures in Christ: emancipation on the cross, identity in Christ, and God’s promises of forgiveness through repentance.
Today Pastor Choi talks about the believer’s attitude toward challenges in life. The believers never run away from life’s challenges, but meet them head-on. They do not trust their own might but rely on God’s strength and power. Based on the story of Caleb and Joshua who entered the Promised Land, he urges the congregation to exercise and apply the believer’s attitude in the following three ways: Thank God daily for the situations they are in. Pray daily 5 minutes on their challenges. Memorize two verses and meditate on them daily: 1 Thessalonians 5:18 & Philippians 4:13.
Today Pastor Choi talks about five time-wasters. They are: being unforgiving, comparing with others, doubting, grumbling, and worrying. He encourages the audience to make the most of their time this year by forgiving, being content, trusting in the Lord, being thankful, and praying.
Today Pastor Choi continues his message on the Great Commission. To fulfill it, we need two things: the Holy Spirit and prayer. The Holy Spirit confirms our message with signs and wonders. And, His help comes from our devoted prayers.
Today, Pastor Choi talks about the Great Commission. First, it is for all believers, not just for a few chosen ones. Next, he recommends the viewer to adopt a new year’s goal: go and make disciples of Jesus Christ. Three action points for reaching out to those who need the Lord: adopt a country, adopt a non-believing family member and a non-believing friend. Pray for them and go to them with the gospel message.
Today Pastor Choi talks about God’s faithfulness. He urges his congregation to start 2021 with the assurance that the Lord is with them and that He is a faithful God whom they can trust and rely on throughout the year.
Pastor Choi points out that Jesus Christ is the greatest gift from God to humanity. In Jesus, all godly benefits are packed such as love, joy, peace, salvation, and eternal life. Pastor Choi urges the audience to accept Jesus as their Savior and Lord and claim those gifts from God in Jesus.
Today Pastor Choi draws three lessons from the Magi story: first, those who seek the Lord Jesus will find Him. Next, worship Jesus alone not Mary, the Mother of Jesus, or anybody else. Finally, worship precedes offerings.
Today Pastor Choi talks about the importance of holding onto God’s promise in times of confusion, frustration, and even hardship. Mary, the mother of Jesus, demonstrated such a godly example from the conception of her son to the death of her son on the cross.
Pastor Choi talks about the birth of John the Baptist. From the story of Zecariah and Elizabeth (parents of John), he draws three lessons for the believers. First, do not judge by the outside look. Next, wait for God’s time. Finally, align with God’s value system.