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Thursday, Jul 23 · 6:00 AM · Dawn Message | 김정곤 목사 (July 23)

Spirituality in the Den: Daniel and the Hope of Our Lives

This transcript is organized from YouTube’s automatic captions. Names, Bible references, and specialized terms may contain recognition or translation errors.

Heavenly Father, who is grateful without words, thank You for calling us this morning and for the great grace of allowing us to meet the Lord in this place. Amen. Lord, please come to us now, fill our hearts, and let the burning work of the Holy Spirit rise up within us like a fire, so that we may be moved to share the love we possess, unable to hold it back. Amen. Lord, as we listen to Your word through the messenger You have established at this time, please take control of all his thoughts, emotions, and his mouth, so that only Your word may be proclaimed, and let this be a precious time where our hearts experience Pentecost once again. Amen. Lord, please speak to us. We have cleared away everything and are now ready to receive Your word. Lord, fill our spirits and let You alone be everything in our lives; please work once again at this time. Is there a future?

What is a future to us? It was during a worship service. From the perspective of someone delivering the message, as those who have stood on the pulpit would agree, when you come up here, you can see everyone's faces. Especially when I see the expressions of those who are listening intently, showing positive signs, and receiving grace from the message, I often feel as if my prayers are being answered, thinking, 'Ah, God is working.' That worship service was like that. I was delivering this message, and a young man sitting nearby was looking at me with such sparkling, bright eyes. I even had a personal prayer request, wondering, 'Ah, did God call me here perhaps for this one young man?' The young man's reaction was so spiritual and good. I was grateful. For some time now, I have been preparing my sermons while praying, 'One sermon, one soul.'

A senior pastor once told me he had preached 7,000 sermons in his lifetime. If so, it would be fine if just one person were saved per sermon. That young man was someone who gave me that kind of presence that day. I thought I should at least pray for him if I met him after the service, and sure enough, he approached me. And surprisingly, he gave me a gift. 'Wow, he worshipped with grace and even gave me a gift, thank you, God,' I thought as I received it, but the gift was this. Who is this? It's me. I realized it in an instant. The reason this young man stared at me with sparkling eyes throughout the sermon was not because he was listening intently to the message—though he is a good young man. He is still a dedicated young man who does overseas mission work and lives diligently. But this young man was observing me according to his major. He was a student studying how to interpret behavioral characteristics and appearances in his own way and then transferring them into drawings. I cannot tell you how long I spent repenting after seeing his reaction and his focus that day.

What are we focusing on in this era? Whether my heart is favorable is a separate issue. Being religious, faithful, and favorable toward the church, or having a grateful heart toward God, is a completely different matter from what I am focusing on in the flow of time in this society. A man of God was in a cave. In the Bible, the image of a cave is given with meanings such as death, burial, and a place of refuge. There was a man of God in his 80s, a person who had reached the limit of human endurance, inside a cave. He saw the temple burning. It wasn't just a matter of 'the temple is in trouble' or 'the church is in crisis,' but he saw it collapsing right before his eyes. He immigrated at 18. It wasn't an immigration guaranteed by study abroad following his parents, but as a young man who remembered seeing his parents die, he was forcibly immigrated as a captive. It would be better to describe it as deportation.

And until he reached the age of 82, it was truly difficult. One day, it was dawn. However, the reality of his life should have been stable—after 60 years of immigrant life, he should have had some bank balance and his children should have done well, so he could have lived without worrying about his old age—but this person remained in a cave-like life until his mid-80s. A life as if abandoned alone in a cave. He was exposed to political and religious survival competition. Who is this person? The person who appears in our Daniel sermons is often felt as that Daniel who decided in his heart at 18 to love God with a passionate heart of youth—because the content of the previous chapter and this event are so closely linked—but in reality, he was in his mid-80s at that time. He was an old veteran who had been captured at 18 and had deep wrinkles accumulated from the joys and sorrows of life for decades. He should have been resting, but he was thrown into a cave again.

The surroundings were full of intentional malice, and the cave he was thrown into was not a place of loneliness or waiting for death, but a place where immediate threats awaited. Was this person truly capable of overcoming the general image that the Bible has of a cave? Do I, at my mid-80s, have the faith to overcome the religious sense of defeat, incompetence, or frustration that is prevalent in this era? That seems like something for the juniors, those young pastors, to do. How should I feel about this feeling of finding God together in the cave? But God records this old veteran, this man of God, in the Bible like this: 'Daniel, you who are greatly beloved.' Isn't it surprising? I understood Daniel's life as being exactly like ours, but God is seeing it completely differently.

God saw Daniel in that cave as a person who was greatly beloved. Then, since we should try to understand this definition of God in the Bible—why did God record his life in the Bible as a cave, when the reality was a cave?—perhaps God has a completely different understanding of my life today as well. What does it mean to be beloved? God defined Daniel this way in the Bible, and in the Book of Daniel, there are several other definitions of Daniel recorded. The first is another definition of this beloved person: 'servant of the living God.' It is the name called by an objective outsider when calling Daniel. When the supreme leader, who came to check if this person still existed in the cave, whether he was alive or dead, called him, he called him 'servant of the living God.' Is being beloved about longevity? Or is it some kind of blessing commonly spoken of in this world? The Bible uses a completely different expression.

God called that old veteran, who was living in his 80s as a servant of the living God, 'greatly beloved.' There is another expression. 'A man in whom is the spirit of the holy gods.' Being beloved was not about having academic degrees. I am not ignoring or devaluing academic degrees. I am talking about the tendency one pursues. It was not about various efforts to live a long life. It was 'whether I live or die, I am the Lord's.' What does it actually mean to be beloved? Is it the prosperity of children? While that may be included, the Bible says he was a man in whom was the spirit of the holy gods. I found another expression. I was so grateful for this expression. 'Servant of the living God'—Amen is fine, but am I that? 'A man in whom is the spirit of the holy gods'—Amen is fine, but I want to be that too. But the third one truly made me say Amen. He was still thirsting for knowledge about God in his mid-80s. Amen. Amen. Although still lacking, although he is someone who still has a thirst when God looks at him, even at the age of 80, where is that passion focused? He is feeling a thirst for God, and his heartbeat—the rhythm might have slowed down—but he is still a person who has a longing for God and hope for the era. This is a person who is beloved.

It would have been fine if it ended here, but there was one more thing. The person who delivered God's call, 'O Daniel, greatly beloved,' actually said this after calling him that: 'O Daniel, greatly beloved, for your words were heard, therefore you are a beloved person.' If we change this into modern Christian language, it means 'a person whose prayers are answered.' Why did we come to pray this dawn? It's not because we don't have morning sleep in this difficult era, is it? If you go out to exercise or pray early in the morning like this, you would see how many seniors are exercising in the mountains while listening to the radio. Some listen to comedy, some listen to the morning news, and some listen to jokes. The reason we are here is that we are people whose prayers have been heard. This grandfather received this evaluation from God in his mid-80s. I arrived here around this time. If you go to Korea, there is a place called 'Mongyu Dowon' within Seoraksan National Park, where only experts who have received permission from the state can climb.

As you can see, this place is a vertical cliff. But this is not the end; when you go up, such vertical cliffs continue like this. It is a hiking course in the style of Ulsanbawi. It was when I was working at a university, pastoring with a pastor who liked mountains. Suddenly, he said, 'Let's go tomorrow.' The schedule was set suddenly, but I followed him anyway. We started around 2 AM, slept for a bit, and it was around this time. When I opened my eyes, it was right in front of me. Wow, the person who likes mountains is an expert, and the junior pastor who went with us is also an expert, but I was not an expert. I just followed because they said we were going to the mountain, so I wore general clothing and my only pair of hiking boots. But looking at it, this place required not only professional skills but also shoes with professional functions. This is called 'ridge climbing.' It was a situation where I needed ridge shoes that have the function to climb rock faces, but I was wearing general hiking boots.

Now, when the senior climbs this, the best climber goes first as the lead. He climbs without a rope, just climbing and setting the rope. And the second most skilled person goes last. This person holds the rope, and if the unskilled person falls while climbing, there is a technique to technically pull the rope in the middle to stop them so they can hang there. For that, the person leading has the best skills. And the person coming up last has the next best skills. And the beginner goes in the middle like this. I was naturally in the middle. The senior pastor was leading, the junior was holding the rope from below, and I was climbing in the middle. Do you see me? I was climbing like that. Ah, it was so, so hard climbing this; at first, I prayed while climbing. I climbed one, went down, then another, another, another. After about eight, I lost all my strength.

In a state of trembling, I couldn't go back. If I went back, I would have to cross another eight. I couldn't go forward, I couldn't go back, I was stuck in the middle, and I was thinking, 'What kind of pastor is this?' while following. You know how seniors sometimes make decisions that juniors don't understand. The junior is watching, the senior is just going, and I have no ability. I couldn't go back, and I couldn't let go. If I fell, I actually fell once that day. I was experiencing all sorts of things while climbing, and as I mentioned earlier, this is a place where you apply and get permission from the state, so they set reservations with about an hour of interval. So, to prevent congestion, but at some point, a team behind us caught up to us. Because of me, because I was consuming so much time, the team behind us caught up to the one-hour distance, and we arrived at a rock face. A team of about ten people caught up, and this team was an expert mountaineering team, the editorial team of a Korean magazine called 'Monthly Mountain,' a magazine about mountains that comes out once a month.

They caught up, and when they looked, there was a creature like a frog in front. Stuck like that, like a frog—how pathetic I must have looked! There was a deaconess among them. This lady watched me climbing, and since they had to follow our route, she watched us, and after we climbed, we met them next time. She asked me, 'Sir, what do you do?' She asked me. At that moment, I felt like I shouldn't say I was a pastor. So, since I was working at a university at the time, I said, 'I teach students.' Then she said, 'Oh, is that so?' and moved on. We crossed another one. Then, at the place where we were preparing to climb again, that lady came to me again. 'Pastor?' she said. I was so surprised, I said, 'Yes.' Then she said, 'How did you know I was a pastor?'

Then she asked my junior. She asked, 'What does that person do?' And he said without thinking, 'He's a pastor.' 'Oh my, oh my.' So she watched how this pastor climbs through life. 'Pastor, I am a deaconess of such and such a church.' And then she said to me, 'Pastor, it seems you have no faith.' I was already upset enough hanging there in that posture, and she told me I had no faith. I knew that would happen, so I said I teach. 'Hey, if someone comes to me and judges me, saying I have no faith, even if I'm already having a hard time, it felt like they were throwing me into a cave.' I couldn't say it out loud, because it was my actual appearance. I couldn't say it out loud, so I asked, 'Why did you think that?' Then she asked me, 'Pastor, where did you get your shoes?' I said, 'These? I received them as a gift.' I knew it. 'You didn't buy them, did you?' I said, 'Yes.'

Then she said, 'Pastor, the most important technique in rock climbing is to straighten your knees.' What this means is that when there is a slope on the rock face, when you wear the shoes, you straighten your knees to stand your body up so you can climb without difficulty. So, when the slope is relatively low, you climb like that to save your stamina so you can continue when it gets really urgent. But I had problems with my shoes and no technique, so I was afraid that if I stood up, I would fall, so my body leaned back, and I was afraid of losing my balance, so I stuck to the rock like a frog and climbed this mountain with all my might. But this person said, when I told the deaconess, 'I received this as a gift. I don't have this ridge technique, so I used general hiking boots,' she said, 'No, Pastor. The shoes you are wearing are the best hiking boots produced in Korea.'

They are a combination of general hiking functions and ridge functions. 'So, Pastor, you are wearing really good shoes, but you are hiking as if you are wearing cheap slippers. Trust the love and sincerity of the person who gave you this and straighten your knees.' So, I did that, and I climbed up, put my feet on the slope, and straightened my knees, and it didn't slip. I walked up there. I was climbing eight, nine peaks with all my might, but on the next peak, the next peak, I walked up, and at some point, I looked back, and it was cool, right? It's a photo of me wearing the same shoes on the same day. It's a completely different confidence from my appearance when I was climbing, and I only showed this to my son. What did I learn that day? 'Look to Jehovah. Have courage and faith, and trust in Jehovah.' Amen. I was a Christian by status, I lived diligently, and I was doing my best to adapt regardless of the situation. But I didn't have faith.

I didn't believe in the grace of God that I had, the grace given to me, so I lived like crazy, complaining about everything. 'Have courage and faith, and trust in Jehovah.' Spirituality in the cave. Daniel was in a cave now. Reality. The reality was exactly the image the Bible has. But how could he become such a person in that? I re-organized the re-interpretation of 'he decided in his heart,' which we often call his youth. A Christian who really loved God wrote this. 'The phrase 'he decided in his heart' meant this: a resolution to be faithful to principles.' Isn't that very specific? What kind of reaction does a person who made such a resolution show? I looked at related writings, and there was this expression. How does 'deciding in his heart' apply to my life?

Eliminate time for complaining. Wow, this is it. Then, approach all tasks cheerfully and faithfully. Then, practice the 'service without words' that I prayed, 'God, I will do this.' Then, strive to preserve true worship. This is what it means to decide in one's heart. Everyone, now 'deciding in one's heart' is like a pronoun, but because he lived specifically like this, he was able to maintain his spirituality even when he was thrown into a cave. This was written in another expression. 'Training to see God.' Daniel received education that connects to eternal things beyond temporary things. If you search for 'Daniel' in a program called 'Bible Study, Prayer, Related Daniel Channel,' this appears. He studied the Book of Jeremiah deeply when he was almost 90, and when the captivity period ended and they returned, as I mentioned last time, this history of prophecy and the movement of the Second Coming would arise.

The foundation of this church was established through the Bible study of an old veteran who was in his mid-80s, almost 90. And his prayer was 'as he had done before.' Wow, this is really... so it wasn't that his prayer matured because he became a grandfather; it was 'as he had done before.' And although there were no conditions to be grateful for in the situation, he obeyed in the work of praying faithfully and persistently with gratitude. It means that prayer also requires obedience. When he did this, a Christian with spirituality wrote about him: 'He was not only an excellent person with the intellect of an intellectual, very wise, fair, and the top student who studied abroad, but he was also a layman with spirituality.' As you know, Daniel was not a Levite. He was a layman. But he was a person with spirituality. The prayer of a man of the living God. The prayer that such a person can offer is the prayer needed in this era. 'Look upon the desolate sanctuary.' Ah, after the old grandfather saw all the history of humanity and the cutting off of the Messiah that appeared in that revelation, he prays as if he were the Messiah.

'Lord, please forgive.' He said he saw things long after. One point more important than anything in the human history he saw, that revelation, is that his spirituality is recorded as seeing 'this person.' Daniel's greatness might be the greatness of seeing world history in advance, or interpreting dreams, but the old veteran looking at Jesus Christ, who is the Anointed One—he was a man of tears watching over the desolate sanctuary, but his old eyes were seeing Jesus Christ. He saw Him hanging on the cross. It was the most shining moment of his life. The day he discovered Jesus. These are the characteristics of Daniel's prayer. If you search for 'Daniel's prayer,' these are the words related to the writings of the Bible and spirituality. 'Daniel resolved to pray.' It is recorded like this. In some cases, there are times when you have to 'resolve' to pray. When you are tired, when your body is weak, when you think you have done enough, resolution, fasting. Wow, fasting at an age where his hands would tremble if he didn't eat even one meal, and he was almost 90.

And another characteristic that appears when Daniel prays: the expression 'Spirit of God' appears. The word 'obedience' appears. 'Longing' appears. And in front of the people, characteristics of defending God, and in front of God, identifying himself with the people, appear. Why did I bother to list these one by one? In Daniel's prayer, you see 'this person.' If you search for 'Daniel and prayer,' as those characteristics appeared earlier, if you search for 'Jesus and prayer,' similar characteristics appear. When Jesus prayed, these words appear. Regardless of his age, his current position, or his life, the life of a faithful old man resembled the image of Jesus Christ. The person he was looking at, longing for, and waiting for with a shining heart—his own life was becoming like Him. Isn't our coming here this dawn one of those things? I pray in the name of Jesus that Jehovah will bless each and every one of us, the Christian old veterans who gathered to pray like Jesus without knowing it, in the place where Jesus went up to the mountain to pray in the early morning. Amen.

Shall we read it together? Start. 'In every joint of prayer, he saw the kingdom of heaven unfolding with the longing of a soul seeking God.' Daniel sees the world unfolding with the longing to seek God in every joint of prayer. Daniel in the cave. What grace did God bestow upon this old man? If we express this cave in a modern way, it is the limitation of age, like Elijah waiting for death in this cave, or like the ancestors of faith who died and were buried, or Jesus—Jesus was also in a cave. But Daniel, in that cave, was waiting for salvation, waiting for the resurrection of Jesus. Ah, how much did God love Daniel? Throughout the Bible, the concept of the 'living God' is like the Sabbath, which runs through from Genesis to Revelation and Isaiah to the kingdom of heaven, as if it is a thought that penetrates through, as if the covenant is an important value of this Bible, the amazing faith called the 'living God' was also the appearance of God that penetrated the entire Bible from Moses to Apostle John and Apostle Paul, and when God's people looked at God or when God appeared through their lives, the appearance of God that was described was the 'living God.'

To Daniel, too, God appeared in that form. And when he prayed, 'My God,' 'already,' 'quickly,' 'at the beginning'—these words all express the time and rhythm of God's love. How much did God long for him, that as soon as Daniel prayed, 'Daniel, God already, quickly, at the beginning of the prayer, God sent me.' Doesn't the angel of the Lord testify like this? And looking at the word, Daniel received the grace to see Jesus Christ. For those of you who have immigrated here for a long time, some for about 60 years like Daniel, so you are 70 or 80, and now you think, 'It's time for me to enter the cave.' No, some of you, when your vision is blocked, your body is weak, and you are exposed to various difficult circumstances as if you have entered a cave, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will abundantly experience the love of the living God who has been with me here all my life today.

God spoke. 'You are a person who is greatly beloved. Do not be afraid. Have peace. Be strong. Be strong.' You know that repeating the same word twice in the Bible is meaningful, right? This Daniel is at an age where he needs to be strong. So God said 'have peace' once, but 'I wish you were healthy. Daniel, please keep your health a little longer. Please stay alive.' Wow, really. Wow. When I first met this person, he was relatively young. His dream was to live until 30. Oh, he was normal when he was young. He was running around, playing soccer, and then one morning he woke up, and this didn't work. The next day, this didn't bend, and then his legs didn't bend. The disease he had is a disease where the cartilage in the joints becomes calcified and hardens. His whole body is hardening. As time goes by. So when I met him, he was sitting in a wheelchair, not sitting straight, but in a state where his stiff body was placed on the wheelchair, and this hardening was coming up to his neck, and if it came to his bronchial tubes or somewhere, he would die. His dream was to live until 30. I wish I could live as long as Jesus.

But I continued to visit him after that. Because we were close, I visited him, and when I met him, there was some lesson in life that I didn't know, so when things were hard and difficult, I often visited him, prayed with him, and came back, and I did that countless times. I visited him again when the work I was doing was complicated and I needed prayer. But he wasn't in the nursing home where he was. This person had a difficult time with his family at a young age. So he was a person who lived on government assistance from a state institution. Even so, he was a Seventh-day Adventist who diligently attended church. But I went to that nursing home, and he wasn't there. I asked where he went, and they said he went over there, so I brought a camera that day. I brought a camera to take pictures and show them to students in class as a sample, saying, 'You guys should live diligently too.' I took it and went near the place they said, and turned on the camera. And I saw him at a large intersection, he was actually over there. So I turned on the camera and went, 'Brother, I'm here,' and approached while filming.

Ah, at that time, he could only move his fingers. Even his head, if he was lying down, he could only turn it a little bit. 'Ah, Pastor Kim,' like that. 'Ah, brother, what are you doing?' 'Can't you see?' He had a board on top of the wheelchair, and he was putting the Spirit of Prophecy books on it and doing literature evangelism. But this person couldn't even drink water by himself. 'Brother, what are you doing now?' 'I'm evangelizing now.' 'Really? In this state, how are you buying and selling, giving and receiving money, and how did you get here?' 'It's a two-person room, and my roommate pushes me a little, so he brings me here, and in the evening, he takes me back.' 'Brother, you must want to go to the bathroom here.' 'On days when I come to evangelize, I don't drink water from the day before. Because I can't go to the bathroom alone, I fast from food and drink to do God's work.' 'Really? What if someone just takes the book?' 'Well, I can't help it.'

Some kids come and play pranks, some flip the books over, some people just take the book and go, and then he has to bear the cost himself, and while doing that, 'How about lunch?' I asked. 'I go back and eat in the evening.' 'Is that so?' But this person was telling me a story. 'One day, a deaconess approached me. She asked, 'How much is this book?' So I said, 'It's this much.' Then she took out her wallet and took out money, saying, 'I only have big bills now, what should I do about the change?' Everyone, how would this person give change? Nowadays, maybe you can just say it and use your phone to transfer it to an account, but at that time, it wasn't like that. When dealing with cash, this deaconess gave him a big bill for one book. I asked, 'How did you give her the change?' Then he says this: 'Deaconess, flip me over.'

This person can't even flip his own body. So the deaconess flipped this stiff person like flipping a book, and the wallet was under his buttocks. 'Take out the wallet, deaconess, put the money in, and take the change.' That's the way he sells books. But this deaconess burst into tears while flipping him and changing the money. The deaconess was saying this: 'Sir, I am the owner of that store across the intersection. I am a president. I am a deaconess who has lived as a deaconess in the Presbyterian Church all my life. I have been watching you for over a year.' She had been watching this disabled person—well, they call them disabled people these days, right? Is it disabled person? She had been watching this person doing literature evangelism for a year from across the intersection, so she said, 'So I came directly today. I also want to believe in the God you believe in.' She had been watching all the humiliation he suffered for a year. For a year, kids came and played pranks, stole books and ran away, all sorts of things happened. Then it snowed and rained, and a Christian across the street had been watching all these situations, and after a year, she came and said, 'I also want to believe in the God you believe in.'

This person was someone who seemed to be abandoned alone in a cave where his life was completely limited, not knowing when he would die. But the grace of God that appeared in his life. At first, he spent his time without much rumor, but at some point, this is an article that appeared in our church media, the Adventist newspaper. This is an article that appeared after a few years. He started evangelizing more books than the population of Nowon-gu. So later, where did this person go? He went to a place called Cheongnyangni in Seoul. So this person, not Nowon-gu, but Cheongnyangni is a neighborhood. He delivered more books than the number of people there. And later, his dream was to deliver the gospel to all citizens of Seoul. Ten million. He looked at it like that, and one day I went and visited him again. A long time had passed, and I went, and he was glad to see me. 'Pastor Kim, I almost died a while ago.' 'Are you glad because you died and lived?' I joked. Then he looked at me quietly and said, 'You try dying once too.' I was young at the time, and one morning he woke up, and this didn't work.

Ah, do you know how much grace it is that your mouth opens? A disease came to his jaw, his temporomandibular joint. So the disease came overnight and worsened, and he woke up in the morning and tried to open his mouth, but his mouth wouldn't open. In this state, the problem was what? He couldn't eat. But in the place where this person was, he was the only Seventh-day Adventist. So people pointed fingers at him a lot. They respected him, but they wondered, 'If God is really alive, how can He push a person to this extent?' That must have been the general people's thought. But now, even this didn't work, so he couldn't eat and was in a situation where he would starve to death, so he was afraid of what people would say, so he couldn't tell people. That his mouth wouldn't open. So he starved for days. Because he was afraid of bringing disgrace to God.

I didn't know that, and I was just walking around, and then he endured and endured, and he must have prayed, 'God, please take me now.' But the answer to his prayer came as pain. Toothache. No, his mouth won't open, so he can't eat and is starving to death, so what is this toothache? He had a toothache, and it was so painful, he didn't know what to do. 'Ah, maybe this is a sequela,' he thought, and endured it for two or three days, and one dawn he prayed to God, 'Please.' But when he woke up in the morning, his roommate, who is a person with mental retardation, came to him and suddenly gave him a mirror. He looked in the mirror, and you know there are two big teeth in the front, right? There was a hole in them. A worm had been digging there for days, and it had dug so severely and rapidly that there was a hole. He showed it to him like that. And then he hurried away, and even though he was a person with mental retardation, he hurried away, put rice, soup, and side dishes all in a mixer, and brought a straw, inserted it, and put it in his mouth.

So he sucked and ate meat for the first time in days. 'Pastor Kim, I guess there is a reason I still have to live. I prayed for Him to take me, but God instead ruined my teeth, made a gap, made a space, and gave me this much meat into that cave, into another cave, and that is the grace of today that I met you.' Now he is almost 70. His dream was to live until 30, but there was a reason he had to live until he was 70. In that state, he is still delivering the gospel. To him, life itself might be a cave. A cave that God threw him into. But his cave was a cave of faith, a cave of hope, a cave waiting for Christ, a cave where God is with him, a cave where lions play with lambs—it was heaven. It wasn't that lions come only from heaven, but in my daily life, a faithful man of God summarized his life like this: 'A person with a pure heart, a person with strong hands, a person with courage who knows no fear.'

It's the appearance of a Christian. Even if you are in a cave, 'For this cause everyone who is godly shall pray to You in a time when You may be found.' I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, who hears our prayers, that we all become people who pray to the Lord because the place I am in is a time to meet Him, even if it is in a cave. Amen. Let us also kneel like the ancestors of faith. Have a good day.