Today I would like to share the grace of God under the title, “To Save the World.” To save us, Jesus took all our sins and died on the cross in our place and overcame the grave of death and was resurrected on the third day. When the Israelites were dying because they were bitten by venomous snakes, Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole, following God’s command. As they looked at a bronze snake on a pole, they all came back to life. Whosoever look at Jesus’ infinite grace and love and believe them will receive forgiveness and salvation. We human beings are all connected to the umbilical cord of Adam. Our umbilical cords are connected to that of Adam so each of us receive his blood of life and are born as humans. Romans 5:12 says, “Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned--” After Adam sinned, we are all sinners as we were born with umbilical cords of Adam and Eve. We can’t be exempted from sin. As a result, we are being tied to the umbilical cords of sin, filth, diseases, curses and death. However, Adam is no more the ancestor of all human beings. Our new ancestor is Jesus. It is very hard for Jesus to become our new ancestor. In His umbilical cord there was not one drop of Adam’s blood. The dead blood of Adam was transferred to his all descendants so they had to be destroyed, but there is no one among living human beings who has the blood of Jesus Christ. There is no blood of any worldly people in Jesus’ blood so His blood is that of eternal God. Therefore, Christ brought God’s blood to the world to carry all dirty blood of every human being and settled it all on the cross. The value of Jesus’ blood is priceless and its effect is also eternal and infinite. So the blood of Jesus Christ can settle all sins of each and every one of human being even to the ends of the world. By the power of the Holy Spirit we are connected to the umbilical cord of our new ancestor Jesus. Romans 5:19 says, “For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous. How can it be like that? It is done by the umbilical cord of redemption. Romans 5:16 says, “Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man's sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification.” Like one man’s sin brought condemnation to all humans, one man’s righteous deed, namely through Jesus Christ, all human beings in the world become righteous. However, the debts of sins should be paid. Then Jesus already paid all our debts of sins. When Jesus died on the cross, He said, “It is finished.” Jesus lived on the earth for 33 years, but He knew that He would die from the beginning. The Lord is the Son of God, but when He was crucified, He suffered extreme pain so He cried out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” As He was treated as one of the worst sinners, He could not receive any compassion. Therefore, just before He breathed His last breath, He looked around heavens and the earth and everything in them and said, “It is finished!” He must have felt the greatest victory and joy and completion at that moment and it was quite beyond human description. As Jesus died in our place, He settled the debts of all our sins. We can’t pay the debts of all our sins on our own. We are connected to the umbilical cord of righteousness and holiness on the cross with Jesus. Jesus’righteousness and holiness enter into our souls. Unknowingly, through worship services and the Bible study and prayer, the life of Jesus is connected to us through each umbilical cord. Thus we can live a holy life not by our might but by the power of the Lord. 1 Peter 2:24 says, “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.” At that time, they used to give sinners the forty lashes minus one. A very strong man whipped a sinner the forty lashes minus one with a whip that had a piece of iron. If any sinner were flogged the forty times, he would have died there. God Himself was whipped by His creature human being once and twice and then kept being whipped. How could this happen? As the Lord was flogged, it severed the umbilical cord of diseases of all human beings and connected their umbilical cords to His umbilical cord of life. Therefore, Jesus said, “It is finished!” We have been set free from the umbilical cord of the negative power of death and rather connected to that of Jesus. We have also received the umbilical cord of the blessing of Abraham. Abraham was chosen by God to make the children of God. He was especially connected to the umbilical cord of the blessing of God. Then we can receive this umbilical cord of the blessing of Abraham by believing in Jesus Christ. By our faith in Jesus Christ, the umbilical cord of curses is severed and we are rather connected to that of the blessing. It always bears the fruit of blessing, not the fruit of curses. So you should always claim that you are a blessed person. “I am blessed. Something good is going to happen to me. Hallelujah! Thank God!” Then the blessing of God will come to you in your life. Galatians 3:7-8 says, “Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham. The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: ‘All nations will be blessed through you.’" The next umbilical cord of Jesus is that of resurrection and eternal life. 1 Corinthians 15:20-22 says, “But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.” We are connected to the umbilical cord of eternal life through Jesus. What a great thing it is! We must see the portrait of two kinds of humans. There are so many people in the world, but they are divided into two kinds of the portraits. Those who are in Adam do not believe in God as the ones whose spirits have died due to sin. They are an atheist, a humanist, and a materialist and spiritually dead people. 1 Corinthians 2:14 says, “The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.” Without the Holy Spirit, we are unable to discern any natural things in the world. Nevertheless, those whose spirits are revived by believing in Jesus have the portrait of those who serve God, have God-centered life, and are born again. John 3:5 says, “Jesus answered, ‘I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.’” There is a clear distinction between those whose spirits are alive and those whose spirits are dead. 1 Corinthians 12:3 says, “Therefore I tell you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, ‘Jesus be cursed,’ and no one can say, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ except by the Holy Spirit.” We believers are united with the life of Jesus Christ. John 6:56-57 says, “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.” When we believe in Jesus, it means that we feed on Him. We believe in Jesus and we feed on Jesus too. Both of them has the same meaning. Hallelujah! John 14:20 says, “On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.” 2 Corinthians 4:10-11 says, “We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body.” When we translate these phrases according to the original text, “We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body,” shows that We living beings are always delivered into death for Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.“ Therefore, Jesus’ death is our death and Jesus’ resurrection is our resurrection. Jesus’ heaven is our heaven and Jesus’ glory is our glory. Jesus and we are all connected with inseverable, beautiful life. When Jesus was crucified on the cross, two criminals also hung there --one on His right, the other on His left. They showed quite different attitudes from each other. One criminal hurled insults at Jesus and died while the other confessed his faith in Him, saying, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."(Luke 23:42) This man acknowledged his sinfulness and accepted Jesus and was saved at the last moment of his life! Today there are always two kinds of people. No matter how diligently and eagerly we preach the gospel, some people wouldn’t believe in Jesus while there are those who believe in Jesus and are born again and serve God faithfully in their lives. You know, when we believe in Jesus, the Holy Spirit opens our hearts wide to believe in Him. The Bible says that to believe in Jesus, God has seen and known us in the beginning and when the time has fully come, He lets the Holy Spirit open our hearts wide to believe in Jesus to be saved. Our salvation is a truly precious blessing. Let us read Isaiah 41:10 together, “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” God has held us in this way! We must always look to the cross of Jesus and move forward with strong and bold faith. When we look to the cross of Jesus, we must acknowledge it our real life. In reality, we receive forgiveness and righteousness and now we have holiness and healing and the blessing of Abraham and eternal life. We must realize that these blessings are in the present progressive form. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” This a true Word of God, not a lie at all. “I am a new creation. I am forgiven and become righteous. I am sanctified and full of the Holy Spirit. I am healed and healthy now. I have the blessing of Abraham and eternal life. This is my identity! I won‘t yield an inch on this matter.” You must practice this. As you are united with Jesus in life through His cross, your umbilical cord are connected to His. Sinners’ umbilical cords are connected to that of sin while righteous men and women are connected to that of life through Jesus and with the Fourth dimensional spirituality. Therefore, you must claim it yourself. Those who are weak and sick should say, “I am connected to the life of Christ. I can’t become a slave to any disease.” Those who are in business should not say, “I can’t make it,” but as God calls the things that are not as though they were, they must take nourishment from Jesus’ umbilical cord, saying, “I am blessed. I can make it. It will be done. Let us do it now.” Then every blessing shall be theirs. Many Christians do not take nourishment from the umbilical cord of Christ. They just think that the Bible says this and that, but they don’t know that it has real benefit for them. However, as we died with Jesus Christ, were buried with Him and resurrected with Him so by the power of the Holy Spirit we are connected to the umbilical cord of Christ. So Jesus’ life is our life and Jesus’ righteousness is our righteousness. His holiness is our holiness and His healing is our healing and His blessing is our blessing. Jesus’ eternal life is our eternal life. We won’t yield an inch on these matters.” We must boldly claim all of these and then the grace of God will overflow in our lives. As I have claimed all of these, I have received the life force to preach the Gospel of Jesus around the world until now!