Pastor Ock Soo Park's Testimony
“WHY
WEREN’T YOU ABLE TO CONTROL YOURSELF?”
One day, a seventeen-year-old boy and his
parents visited my office. His worried mother said that her son was being led
by Satan to be wild and to live a violent life breaking windows. Recently, he
pricked the eye of a girl who was passing by with a gimlet. Fortunately, the
victim avoided the tragedy of going blind, since he pricked the bottom of the eye
and not the eyeball. But the victim still suffered many hardships.
When I looked at him, he was just a
handsome, good and innocent student. ‘That precious student is being led by
Satan, who stole his heart.”
“Please,” I said to his mother. “Don’t
scold your son, too much. Do you really know how much he regrets pricking that
girl’s eye and gets tormented by it? He did it because he couldn’t control his
heart.”
As I spoke, the student’s heart opened so
much that he was able to listen.
“Well, you didn’t like what you did,” I
said. “You didn’t want to do it. So why weren’t you able to control yourself?”
He completely agreed with this and was
pleased that I acknowledged his heart. I calmly continued speaking with him.
“It’s not you who did it. Satan, in you, is
dragging you. It’s because you are led by Satan. In a power game, a weak person
can’t help but to be dragged when a strong person pulls him. How can you
overcome Satan? So, even though you didn’t like it, you did it according to his
command, as you were dragged.”
His heart was completely open.
“We can never overcome Satan. You can’t. I
can’t. There is only one who can defeat Satan, and that’s Jesus Christ. Only
Jesus can defeat Satan. So when Jesus enters into your heart, you can overcome
Satan any number of times, and live with a blessed and bright heart, as you are
no longer dragged by Satan.”
He received this in his heart.
“Do you know how to receive Jesus into your
heart? Do you want me to explain it to you?
He was so pleased that he wanted to listen
further.
“The Bible talks about the heart of Jesus,
so receiving Jesus into your heart means that Jesus and I become one heart.
When Jesus said to the man with infirmity for 38 years, “Rise, take up thy bed
and walk,” the man thought he was not able to walk because he had been sick for
38 years. But when he listened to the word of Jesus, he realized, ‘What good
have I gained by listening to my own thoughts? None! So why not listen to Him?
If He says I can walk, then I can walk. With his heart, I can do it.’ The man
stood with the heart of Jesus and God was able to work, amazingly. Once you
receive the word of Jesus into your heart, you have one heart with Jesus. From
that moment on, Jesus will live and work in your heart.”
HIS
HEART BECOMES ONE WITH JESUS’ HEART
Step by step, I talked about the heart of
Jesus. Then, I told the story of how Jesus washed away our sins.
“We think we are sinners because we commit
sin, but let’s find out what Jesus says.”
I opened to Hebrews 10:10.
“Here it says, ‘By the which will we are
sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.’ Is
that right? You think that you are crazy and evil, right? But the Bible says
that you are sanctified. Now, here, please read 1 Corinthians 6:11. ‘And such
were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.’ The
Bible says that we are washed, sanctified, and justified. But we think that we
are dirty. At this point, our hearts are different from Jesus’ heart.
God tells us that our sins were washed
because Jesus carried and received all punishment for our sins, when He died on
the cross. God says that we were washed but many people consciously think, ‘No,
I have a lot of sin. I am evil.’
But God says that He will not remember our
sins, that we are justified and sanctified, and our sins were washed. Your
thought is not important but God’s word is important. God says you were
sanctified. When all of your sins were washed, you became righteous. You feel
like you are a sinner, right? That is natural. But the important thing is
whether you believe in your thoughts or the word of God. The issue is whether
your thought is right or the word of God.”
Amazingly, he received the word as it was
written and became one heart with Jesus. He believed that all his sins were
washed and he became sanctified like the word of Jesus.
NOW
JESUS IS IN HIS HEART
Step by step, I talked about the heart of
Jesus. Then, I told the story of how Jesus washed away our sins.
“We think we are sinners because we commit
sin, but let’s find out what Jesus says.”
I opened to Hebrews 10:10.
“Here it says, ‘By the which will we are
sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.’ Is
that right? You think that you are crazy and evil, right? But the Bible says
that you are sanctified. Now, here, please read 1 Corinthians 6:11. ‘And such
were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.’ The
Bible says that we are washed, sanctified, and justified. But we think that we
are dirty. At this point, our hearts are different from Jesus’ heart.
God tells us that our sins were washed
because Jesus carried and received all punishment for our sins, when He died on
the cross. God says that we were washed but many people consciously think, ‘No,
I have a lot of sin. I am evil.’ But God says that He will not remember our
sins, that we are justified and sanctified, and our sins were washed. Your
thought is not important but God’s word is important. God says you were
sanctified. When all of your sins were washed, you became righteous. You feel
like you are a sinner, right? That is natural. But the important thing is
whether you believe in your thoughts or the word of God. The issue is whether
your thought is right or the word of God.”
Amazingly, he received the word as it was
written and became one heart with Jesus. He believed that all his sins were
washed and he became sanctified like the word of Jesus.
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