Title: elixir plant John 17:3 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the

only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. Elixir plant is the mysterious plant which the emperor In ancient China various emperors sought the fabled elixir with varying results. In the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang sent Taoist alchemist Xu Fu with 500 young men and 500 young women to the eastern seas to find the elixir, but he never came back (legend has it that he found Japan instead). Elixir plant or elixir of life is a plant that grants you eternal life. In 1 Corinthians 14:10 it says, 10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without significance, right? Elixir plant is a plant that gives you everlasting life and plant is something that springs up from the ground, the earth. Then, what is ground? From Biblical point of view, ground or earth means man who is made out of dust. If so, then elixir plant that grants you everlasting life comes from man, please do remember this fact. When we examine Gods work of creation in Genesis Chapter 1, God made the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind and God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:11-12 11 Then God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth; and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 1. Mankind who wants eternal life Ecclesiastes 3:11 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.

1) An anonymous man. Mark 10:17-22 17 Now as He was going out on the road, one came running, knelt before Him, and asked Him, Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? 18 So Jesus said to him, Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. 19 You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and your mother.[c] 20 And he answered and said to Him, Teacher, all these things I have kept from my youth. 21 Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me. 22 But he was sad at this word, and went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. It is not the case that anyone can inherit eternal life just because he or she wants to. This unnamed man wanted to inherit eternal life and that is why he came to Jesus, however, for he could not obey the Word of God that taught the secret of eternal life he could not get eternal life. For he had great possessions, he went away sorrowful and he never returned to Jesus. Even though he wanted to obtain eternal life, he did not follow the Word of God that teaches him the secret for eternal life. Even today, God is ceaselessly providing the Word of God that teaches us the secret for eternal life to us who are hoping for eternal life. Gods redemptive series is such Word of God. If you wish for everlasting life, please do not underestimate Gods redemptive series. It is the Word of God that gives life which teaches us eternal life for sure. The last Adam is the life giving spirit and His last trumpet is the last Word of God that leads us to transfiguration and eternal life. 2) Nicodemus

There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him. As we read John 3:1-11, Nicodemus came to Jesus and although Jesus spoke to him about being born again, he did not even know what was being born again. John 3:5 5 Jesus answered, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. This means you have to be born again of water and of the Spirit in order to obtain eternal life. 3) A Samaritan Woman In John 4:5-42, there is a Samaritan woman who was treated as lowly birth by the Jews so that they have no dealings with or even give a glance at her. This woman came to Jacobs well to draw water because she was thirsty for everlasting living water and she met the source of the fountain of living water that springs up forever and from Jesus, this woman received living water and she was led to the way to eternal life. This Samaritan woman was wishing for eternal life and she met the Christ who said to her I am He and she received eternal life from Him. 2. The secret to obtain eternal life. 1) The secret to eternal life is knowing. The emperor Qin Shi Huang of Qin Dynasty thought that he could live forever if he could find the elixir plant and eat it, however, in todays Scriptures the secret to obtain eternal life is to know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent. Knowing God and knowing Christ is the secret of eternal life, however, knowing, reading and hearing only literally is not truly knowing. Like Enoch, when our life walks together with the Word of God, that is knowing God. From such point of view, there are very few who truly know God or Jesus.

For the Scripture says knowing true God and Christ is eternal life, the Apostle Paul said that he counted all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ, for whom he had suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish. Philippians 3:7-8 7 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ. How amazing his faith is! All say they know Jesus and believe in Jesus, however, there is no one who believes in Christ with 100% knowledge of Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul said what things were gain to him, these he have counted loss for Christ; In our everyday life, how many of us count the things that were gain to us as loss for Christ? In Proverbs 1:7, it says, 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction. And in Proverbs 9:10, it says, 10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. In the end, knowing and fearing God is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge. Although we know the Scripture saying the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge, for we cannot apply this Scripture to our everyday life, things do not work out for us. Even though we know, we do not fear God. This is why we are acting like fools day and night. How come we are not being prosperous and successful even when we diligently come to church to worship God and believe in God?

It is because there is no fear of God in our everyday life. How can we possibly fear God when we do not even know God properly? In order to fear God, we need to first know the true existence and true image of God; do you know true existence and true image of our Immanuel God? If you can say yes with confidence to this question, then next thing is to truly fear God. It is a problem when we say we know God and we know Jesus Christ we only know by learning by ears or by words that we read, we do not know the true existence and true image of God who is with us. Even between a husband and wife who have been living together for 10 or 20 years, do they know each other completely inside and out? Just because we live together it does not mean we know all things about each other. When Jesus first came to earth, His disciples who had been living together with Jesus, did they know Jesus? Did the Jews know Jesus true image? No. That is why they became the ones who will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Jesus was the true light that came to this dark world. John 8:12 12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life. John 12:46 46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness. The prophet Simeon called Christ a light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of Israel. Luke 2:32

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A light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, And the glory of Your people Israel.

Although the religious leaders did not know that Jesus is the light of the world and the glory of Israel, the people of Israel knew this fact. Why did God give the Bible to the children of Israel? Wasnt it to make them know and recognize Christ when He comes to this land? However, religious leaders who knew the Scriptures very well to the point they even memorized them did not know or recognize Jesus when Jesus came and stood right before their eyes. As it is stated in Galatians 4:4, Jesus is the One who came according to the fullness of the time. 4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born[a] of a woman, born under the law, It means Jesus came to this earth when the time for people to recognize Him as Christ had reached fullness. However, religious leaders at the time could not recognize Christ. Why was that? Because they did not know the Word of God spoken in due season. Proverbs 15:23 23 A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, And a word spoken in due season, how good it is! When Jesus came and proclaimed the Word of God in due season, the religious leaders at that time must had understood the Word spoken in due season and they must had all bowed down their heads before Jesus and confess their faith. However, they did not do this. Because they did not understand the Word spoken in due season. Why could they not understand it? Because they did not have the ears that knows how to hear the Word of God. Let us hear Jesus lamentation.

Jesus said, He who has ears, let him hear! as He spoke the parable of the Sower. Luke 8:8 8 But others fell on good ground, sprang up, and yielded a crop a hundredfold. When He had said these things He cried, He who has ears to hear, let him hear! The parable of the sower means sowing the Word of God into the field of our heart and Jesus said, He who has ears to hear, let him hear, so it means those who does not have ears to hear cannot hear. Even though we all hear the same Word of God at the same time and place, those who do not have ears to hear cannot have the seed of the Word sown into their hearts because they cannot understand the Word of God even though they hear it. The Jews at the time of Jesus was such persons. Think how devastated the heart of Jesus must had been when He proclaimed the Word of God! Jesus lamentation saying, He who has ears, let him hear, continues on to the book of Revelation. Revelation 2:7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.
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Revelation 2:11, 2:17, 2:29, 3:6, 3:13 Revelation 3:22 22 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. Because if they cannot hear the Word of God which the Holy Spirit is speaking to the churches in Revelation Chapter 2 and 3, they cannot

obtain transfiguration or eternal life, the Scripture is saying, He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. God who brought out the children of Israel from Egypt together with Moses commanded them to build tents and tabernacle in the wilderness and met them in the tabernacle. Tabernacle or temple or church is a place to meet God. God came down to the temple and met the children of Israel and blessed them. Likewise, today God has come down to this Zion temple of the livinghope church as the Word and is meeting with us and is blessing us. I hope you believe this for certain. That is why our church is the livinghope church and is the church full of the Word of God, the church that guides you to the world of transfiguration and eternal life. I hope you believe for certain that God is walking with the people who worship Him in this temple and He never sleeps or slumbers and protects them. Please repeat after me, it will be done as we believe. Jesus Christ who came to this world died on the cross in order to redeem us and save us from our sins and He destroyed the power of darkness and resurrected in three days and for 40 days, He testified His resurrection on this earth and ascended into heaven riding on a cloud. Two angels appeared before the people who were standing and watching as our Lord ascended into heaven and gave them a hint that Christ will come as you have seen Him taken up. Lord is to come as they have seen Him taken up to heaven. We must take this Word of God as a hint and wait for His second coming. Among us the saints of the livinghope church, there should never be people like the five foolish virgins who were waiting for their groom. Even though they had their lamps ready just like the wise five virgins and waited for the groom, they could not see the groom or enter the wedding ceremony. We should not be such foolish ones.

The five foolish virgins could not greet the groom they were waiting for because their oil was running out and this oil indicates the oil of the Holy Spirit. In the time of the end, the books Gods redemptive series given to the saints of God who is waiting for the second coming of Christ are like the oil for the lamp which was illuminated by the Holy Spirit. By all means, when you hear the voice saying, the groom is coming, I hope you have the wisdom to prepare enough oil by reading and sending out as many books as possible. Gods redemptive series which is being proclaimed in this time of the end is the shortcut that solves the secrets of the Bible and makes us understand the Scriptures. Understanding Gods redemptive series which the Spirit of the Father revealed is like preparing oil for a lamp to light up and shine brightly. The Apostle Paul said knowledge of Christ is the most excellent knowledge and the secret to eternal life is also knowing true God and Jesus Christ. And therefore, with those who worship Christ whom God has sent is life and with those who do not worship Christ, there is no life. 1 John 5:11-12 11 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 2) The secret to eternal life is believing. John 3:16 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Jesus said the secret to eternal life is believing. Jesus said those who believe in Gods only begotton Son should not perish and have everlasting life.

I hope you believe it is the blessing of blessings that God had sent Jesus Christ whom we can believe to us. We cannot inherit eternal life with the power and honour of this world and we cannot buy everlasting life with great wealth. Eternal life can be obtained only by faith that believes in Jesus Christ. Then how can we obtain the faith that can inherit eternal life? Hearing comes by faith and what we must hear is the Word of Christ. Romans 10:17 17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Faith is not produced no matter how knowledgeable you are with the knowledge of the world. The Word of Christ, when we hear things about Christ, faith is produced. The Word of Christ produces faith in us and that faith brings about eternal life. 3. The Elixir plant appeared in the time of the end. The emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin Dynasty of ancient China sent Taoist alchemist Xu Fu with 500 young men and 500 young women to the eastern seas to find the elixir, but they never found it and the emperor died. However, today people do not realize that the real elixir plant is nearby. Young Ji Mushroom and Sang Hwang Mushroom are not elixir plant. Or Cha go mushroom or Cordyceps militaris are not elixir plant.
Do you want to know what the real elixir plant is?

1) The Word of Jesus Christ is the elixir plant. John 6:63 63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. John 11:25-26 25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?

If it makes you never die and live, isnt it the elixir plant or what? The truth is nearby, but people do not realize this. Please repeat after me, the Word of God is elixir plant. Eternal life is always within the Word of God. And thus, if we believe in the Word of God absentmindedly, we cannot obtain eternal life. Eternal life is in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:23 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Christ who gives us eternal life is the Christ who is coming again. The Christ who is coming again is the last Adam and is the life giving Spirit and the Word which He proclaims is the sound of the last trumpet which is the Word that leads us to the world of transfiguration and eternal life, the world without death. 2) The sound of the last trumpet of the last Adam is the elixir plant. 1 Corinthians 15:51-54 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory. Elixir plant is the plant that gives you everlasting life and plant is the thing which the earth produces and biblically earth means man who is made from dust and therefore, the elixir plant that gives you eternal life comes from man, right? The last Adam, the second coming Christ is to come as the Son of Man and He will lead us to the world of eternal life by the sound of the last trumpet, namely, the Word of transfiguration.

The purpose of the second coming of Christ is this: He comes to this earth and establish the kingdom of Christ on this earth and accomplishes the world of the new heavens and the new earth and within such world, He lets the spiritual children of Israel receive the Word of transfiguration and leads them to the world of everlasting life. This is the purpose of second coming of Christ.

He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. To accomplish this world of eternal life, the Christ is coming again as the Son of Man. Please do not forget that there is a cloud with the Son of Man. With the Son of Man, there is a cloud of suffering, a cloud of covering and there is a cloud of glory as well. I want you to meditate deeply on the Scripture saying that the Son of Man will come riding on a cloud. Whenever there was the work of God, there was always the work of a cloud. The pillar of fire and the pillar of cloud that led the children of Israel through the wilderness, the cloud that covered Jesus so that He was not seen as He ascended into heaven, the cloud of glory which filled the temple built by Solomon. These are all the works of cloud that worked together with the work of God. Within the work of cloud of the Son of Man, we will be transfigured without seeing death and will return to the original state before Adam had sinned. I hope you believe this fact. That world is the world of everlasting life. The prophet Isaiah is speaking about the elixir plant that will appear in the time of the end. Isaiah 25:6-8

And in this mountain The LORD of hosts will make for all people A feast of choice pieces, A feast of wines on the lees, Of fat things full of marrow, Of well-refined wines on the lees. 7 And He will destroy on this mountain The surface of the covering cast over all people, And the veil that is spread over all nations. 8 He will swallow up death forever, And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces; The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken.

There will be a feast of wines which God gives out in one mountain and if we attend this feast and drink well-refined wines on the lees, God will destroy death forever. Swallowing up death forever means eternal life, isnt it? And therefore, well-refined wines on the lees is the elixir plant. Well-refined wines on the lees has the same meaning as the hidden manna. It means the Word of God which had been hidden for a long time and finally revealed in due season. In other words, it is the little book open in His hand which was sealed with seven seals, but now the seals are open. The little book open in the hand of the Another Mighty Angel who came down with clouds covering Him, this little open book means revealing of Gods secret administration hidden in God and revealing of well-refined wines. 3) Gods redemptive series is the elixir plant. We have already received in our hands 5 books of Gods redemptive series. Publication of Gods redemptive series is revealing Gods secret administration that had been hidden in God. That is why we say it is the Word of God being proclaimed for the first time ever in the long history of mankind.

The hidden manna, the everlasting gospel, the well-refined wines, the last trumpet, Gods secret administration hidden in God, all these appeared before our eyes in the time of the end is the elixir plant. If you meditate deeply on todays message and understand the meaning of it, I believe you all become the saints of God whose body, soul and spirit are transfigured at the sound of the last trumpet and enter the world of transfiguration and eternal life and shines brightly like the Sun. I bless you with the name of the Lord, you do not be tempted by worldly saying, this is elixir plant, that is elixir plant, but eat of the real elixir plant which the Bible teaches us and enter the world of everlasting life. I bless you all become the seeds of the livinghope.