God visited this earth for He loved us human beings. The God of the Truth threw away the glorious throne of Heaven, visited you and me, saved us from all sins, made us as His children, gave us new and eternal life, and granted us all the spiritual blessings of Heaven as well as all the riches of earth. The Lord has taken on all the diseases of our flesh, the weaknesses, and all our sins. This was precisely because He loves us.

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As we pass the last hours of the year, we should not do so in profusion, but we must really calculate how much we were able to accomplish the work that was entrusted to us and greet the New Year with new resolution. If we check the grade for our spiritual life during the past year, we can give ourselves good marks in some tasks but not in some other tasks, and I want this hour to be a time of contemplating about our own duties through today’s Word.

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Today we read the Word from the Gospel of Luke chapter 19. The Lord tells us about how He evaluates our life of faith through this passage.
It is written that a certain noble man went into a far country to receive a kingdom. And before he left, he distributed his money to his servants telling them to do business and make a profit with it. That was what the noble master wanted. But as he was leaving after giving away his money to the servants, a crowd said behind his back that they didn’t want the man to become their king. Nonetheless, the master still headed to the far country.

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Based on what we have read today, we are going to think about the righteous judgment of our Lord. I will begin with a hopeful prayer that we will all receive the rewards at the end as the Lord promised.
These days I am busy finishing my books. I believe this is serving the righteous gospel of the Lord, too. Once we start something, it is better to finish it as quickly as we can; but there are times we can’t do so. We are also going to publish the German editions of our third book and the first commentary book on Romans. We will also publish a commentary book on Apostles’ Creed titled, “The Elementary Principles of Christ.” I believe those books will help numerous people around the world to serve the gospel once they are released to the world in different languages.

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