God wants us to love Him and love each other. Revelation 2:10 “Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life.” This means that you should love the Lord and neighbor to the point of death. The ultimate in love for your neighbor is to evangelize.
But in the last days, there are few people who preach the gospel because they love their neighbor’s soul no matter how anxiously you say to them to evangelize. They don’t love anyone including the Lord, their souls, and neighbors but only love their flesh. As the end of the world comes, they don’t preach the gospel because they only love themselves. The reason why the number of the church in Korea decreases is that people love themselves. Even in the church, they don’t love each other. So believers leave the church. There are no new people coming to the church because they don’t evangelize. It is the result that everybody loves themselves. If you are a true Christian, you need to preach the gospel to the neighbor so that they can be saved to the last for you love them.
God gave His only Son to be crucified not sparing him to fulfill the will of love to save all mankind from sins, curses, and punishment in hell. Jesus made the disciples walk the path of martyrdom to spread the salvation of mankind that Jesus fulfilled by bleeding on the Cross to the end of the earth.
The gospel could spread to us today because lots of early Christians and forefathers of faith walked the path that can save mankind. These people loved God above and devoted their lives to loving neighbors down. If you are loved by God, you ought to continue to follow in the footsteps of forefathers of faith that loved the souls of mankind by evangelizing.
Pastor Seok-Jeon Yoon
Extracted from Yonsei Newspaper #696
