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Senior Pastor of Manmin Central Church
Dr. Jaerock Lee
He is God's servant of love and power who has awakened people of all nations by spreading the core of the gospel following the example set by the Lord in manifesting the fiery works of the Holy Spirit.
He opened Manmin Central Church with only 9 adults and 4 children in 1982. Through the works of the Holy Spirit the church has grown to become a mega-sized church with approximately 10,000 branch and associative churches world-wide. Just as Jesus preached and confirmed the word by the signs that followed His teaching, Dr. Jaerock Lee has confirmed that the Bible is the truth by showing the power of God.
He has conducted many overseas crusades such as in Uganda, Japan, Pakistan, Kenya, the Philippines, Honduras, India, Russia, Germany, Peru, DR Congo, the U.S., and Estonia since 2000 and showed God's powerful works. Among them, Uganda Crusade was reported by CNN.
He also preached in Jerusalem at the Israel United Crusade 2009. He proclaimed Jesus is the Messiah and it was broadcast live to approximately 220 countries. He is dedicated to the Word and prayer to accomplish the providence of God who desires all people of all nations to be saved at the end time by proclaiming the gospel to the ends of the earth and achieving the mission to North Korea.
www.drlee.or.kr
"We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him" (1 John 4:16).
Since Manmin Central Church was established, we have gone through so many things for the last 32 years. Right from the opening, we had such rapid church growth through signs and wonders, and we have been accomplishing world evangelism greatly. Many members received answers and blessings and their faith has been growing up. But our ways were not just easy.
We also underwent times of trials where we couldn't see any way out, and we sometimes had to pray in mourning and with hot tears. But the final outcomes were always blessing, and there was always the evidence of God being with us even while we were going through trials. Such evidence only kept on increasing.
All those 32 years of our church history were in the providence of Father God and in the grace of Father God, and it was a process of revealing the glory of God. It was God the Father who established this church and has been leading it to make it become what it is today, and it is also God the Father who will lead us and receive glory through us. In celebration of the church's 32nd anniversary, I will talk about the Father God who has been making this church what it is today, in three aspects.
1. The Father God is love itself
God existed as Light and voice that filled the entire universe. He is the glorious Being who exists by Himself transcending all space and time. And this God, at a certain moment, made a plan. He wanted to gain some beings that would understand His heart, share love with Him, and enjoy limitless glory with Him forever. With this purpose, all things were created and the work of human cultivation began.
In the course of human cultivation, God first chose the sons of Israel to show His love to all souls. Through the history of Israel, God wanted all peoples of the world to come to Him by realizing that the nation that reveres and loves God is blessed, that God is full of love, and that they should also revere and love God.
We can sense the delicate love of God if we just consider the process of the Exodus. While they were passing through the wilderness, God covered them with the pillar of clouds during the day and protected them with the pillars of fire at night. God gave them manna and quail when they were hungry and God allowed for water to gush out from a rock when they were thirsty. This delicate love of the Father was given not just to sons of Israel but also all children of God. He shows His love again and again so that eventually they will understand the heart of the Father God in their hearts, and they will be changed as children who love God from their hearts.
It was such great love of God that I, whose death was imminent, met God. It was God's love that He gave me the calling to be a pastor, let me open this church, and let this church have great revival and become a world-famous church.
God asked me to become a pastor at a relatively old age. He also asked me to preach the holiness gospel and change the sin-stained souls in this evil generation. And to be honest, I was not confident I could do it with my strength. Especially, I could not fulfill, with my own strength, the command of God telling me to fill up New Jerusalem with completely sanctified souls. But God did all the work every moment.
We started with 13 members including 4 children in 1982, and now it has grown up as a denomination that has more than 10,000 branch churches and millions of members worldwide. We've had united crusades in the United States, Peru, Honduras, India, Pakistan, Israel, Russia, Germany, Japan, the Philippines, Uganda, Kenya, DR Congo, and Estonia.
From tens to hundreds of thousands, and even millions of people gathered at a time and experienced signs and wonders. They threw away idols and accepted Jesus Christ. God sent me to Israel to conduct a ministry of preaching Jesus Christ for three years, which resulted in giving life and strength to Christianity there.
God also let us spread the gospel through broadcasting and publishing. When God let us start this TV ministry in 2000, we did not have technology, staff, or money to do it. But now, we are leading in Christian culture, spreading the holiness gospel and the works of God's power in full HD.
We are also active in the literary media ministry. Today we have 94 books published in Korean, and 300 different volumes of these books have been translated and published in 58 languages. More than 1,000 books have been translated and being prepared for publication. There are 315 e-books in 47 languages.
WCDN, which is a non-denominational medical doctors' network, has 19 international branches. They prove the power of God medically. Other than these, God let us establish many affiliated organizations such as Alliance Theological Seminary, Manmin International Seminary, the Prayer Center, and Manmin Kindergarten. Along with such external growth, God has been raising many members and workers who have faith in their heart.
We had great trials and crises that seemed impossible to overcome. But God was always with us even during the trials. After such times passed, we could see through the fruit of blessings why He allowed for us such time. As explained the Father God has guided us with so much endurance to establish this church and our denomination, to let us accomplish world evangelism, and to let the faith of church members grow up.
2. The Father God is great
God created man and the entire universe, and He controls all things in them. His power is limitless, and for Him nothing is impossible. In the Bible, we can see many records of the powerful works that were manifested through men of God. Fire was brought down from heaven, and great rain came down after three and half years of drought. Sea was parted, the flow of a river was stopped, and undrinkable bitter water was changed into sweet water. Such works of power were also manifested through Jesus and the disciples. Demons were driven out, the disabled were healed, and even the dead were brought back to life—let alone the healing of diseases.
This power of such great God was manifested in this church, too. God changed the sea water into potable sweet freshwater, and He even shows us divine healing through that water. Furthermore, it is so amazing that sea fish and river fish are living together in this water. In every important event, He shows us various rainbows and other things to prove that He is with us.
Around the summer retreat every year, He sends to us swarms of dragonflies. By this He shows to us the power of God who governs all things and who brought down Ten Plagues. Through the aurora-like lights that the church members take, He lets us feel how beautiful the original light of God is, thereby increasing our heavenly hope and faith. The power of the great God is also shown through weather conditions.
In the summer retreat in 2013, we experienced a scene as if from a movie. Just like the Red Sea was parted, such thick layers of clouds were split open and the heavy rain stopped. On the other hand, when rain was needed God showed His greatness bringing rainfall. In the India crusade in 2002, they were experiencing a severe drought, but from the moment I set foot in that land it began to rain. In Israel crusade in September 2009, I prayed on the pulpit to quench the long-lasting drought and it rained the next day.
In the summer retreat of 2014, God controlled all the weather conditions to be the best at each moment. Before the retreat, I proclaimed that God would bring down the temperature of the retreat location to be between 22 to 24 degrees Celsius during the retreat. God controlled the weather conditions as I proclaimed. We had the athletic events in a very cool weather in the middle of the day. During the Camp Fire Worship Concert it was so cool that though we were jumping and praising God, we did not sweat.
We can experience the power of God through divine healing more directly than other means. Divine healings have been fervently taking place ever since the opening to this day. Many rare diseases, severe and incurable diseases including AIDS, severe atopic dermatitis and other skin diseases were healed immediately by God's touch.
Many couples had a baby although they were infertile for several years or even decades; fetuses with Down's syndrome were born without it through prayers; so many fetuses' gender was changed through prayer. So many members were protected even in big traffic accidents where the vehicles had to be scrapped. Other than these, even if I mention only important works of God that happened for the last 32 years, I won't be able to mention them all. God is such a great God who has been guiding this church for the last 32 years.
3. The Father God is good
He is God of justice who judges each one's sins, but at the same time He is our great Father who is full of mercy and compassion. Psalm 86:5 says, "For You, LORD, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You." Also, Isaiah 55:7 says, "Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, and He will have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon."
Even when the people of Israel committed sins, God gave them numerous chances of forgiveness, showing to them endless mercy and compassion. It is the same for this generation full of sins and evil. In this ever increasingly darkening world, God has established this church to save even just one more soul. In this generation, people do not listen even if we tell them good things, and God has been showing us the evidence through powerful works with which we can believe.
Also, He gave us the holiness gospel so we could cast away evil from our heart and accomplish sincere heart and true faith. But even though they were attending this church, there were not many members who actually obeyed God's Word. Many of them were stained by sins, not even standing on the rock of faith. But the good Father God gave the members chances of repentance again and again. He opened a way of salvation again for those who could not even be saved. Furthermore, He gave them chances time and again so they could even stand on the rock of faith and go into spirit.
And God gives such chances of repentance not just to the members of our church. Soon, He will send the members who have been renewed all over the world. He will let them spread the holiness gospel not just to those who are waiting for salvation with a poor heart, but also to those who cannot easily receive salvation.
The recent several years after I finished the Israel mission were the time to create this kind of flow. I had to go through such severe processes of filling up the measure of justice in order to give opportunities of salvation not just to our own members but also corrupt and sin-stained souls in this world. I also underwent the process to fill up the measures of our members' faith so they could participate in this ministry and be used as precious instruments. Our church is what it is today because the good God has been patient with us, has forgiven us, and has given us only good things.
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, God has been guiding us with endless love for the last 32 years, and He will also be with us and receive glory more greatly from now on. He will lead all peoples of the world to the way of salvation through us, and He will continue to lead us to New Jerusalem in the heavenly kingdom. I express my thanks to those who have participated in this ministry of Manmin and supported it with prayers and encouragement. I pray in the name of the Lord that the grace of God will be with you until all the days of human cultivation will be over and you will stand before the throne of glory.
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