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Christel Malden
Dr. Cho is the senior pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church in South Korea. This church has one of the largest congregations in the world. The most recent statistic I have been able to find states that in 2007 the church membership was over one million people.
The main idea of this chapter is that understanding of the fourth dimension comes from the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a person and by developing a more intimate relationship with Him our ability to not only understand but operate within the fourth dimension will be increased.
Dr. Cho explains that during the time of the Old Testament God mostly operated in His role as Father, ruling over the people as their king, whereas during the time of the gospels God spoke almost exclusively in the form of the Son, Jesus. After Jesus ascended into Heaven came the age of the Holy Spirit who has been sent to guide us and to reveal the nature of God to us by communicating with our spirits.
Dr. Cho exhorts the reader to develop closer fellowship with the Holy Spirit by acknowledging his personhood. Not simply waiting for His promptings but inviting Him into all aspects of our lives. He states that we come to reflect the character of those we spend time with and so spending time with the Spirit will give us greater insight into the nature of spiritual things.
2By this you may know (perceive and recognize) the Spirit of God: every spirit which acknowledges and confesses [the fact] that Jesus Christ (the Messiah) [actually] has become man and has come in the flesh is of God [has God for its source];
3And every spirit which does not acknowledge and confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh [but would annul, destroy, sever, disunite Him] is not of God [does not proceed from Him]. This [nonconfession] is the [spirit] of the antichrist, [of] which you heard that it was coming, and now it is already in the world. (1 John 4:1-3)
Dr. Cho goes on to explain how dreams and vision are an extremely important part of how the Holy Spirit speaks to us. This year one of my main goals for Pioneer is to break out in prophetic ministry. I believe dreams and visions will be a major part of this. As such I gained many valuable insights from this portion of the chapter.
Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].
Dr. Cho looks in some depth at how the human brain functions and how this can give us insights into consciousness, will, desire and creativity. Much of the science discussed in this chapter is already very familiar to me and so I did not really gain any new insights from it. However I was inspired by the story of the Temppeliaukio Kirkko (Rock Church) in Helsinki, Finland.
The Rock church was built by the brothers Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen in 1969. It is built on a prime location within the city which had remained undeveloped due to a huge rock outcropping that could not be removed. Timo and Tuomo had the inspired idea to build the church into the rock rather than try to remove it. When I researched this church I expected to see an artificial structure build inside the rock outcropping, instead the church is build around and into it!
Dr. Cho goes on to explain that in Greek culture the word λογος (logos) also carried the idea that the importance of the words are defined by the importance of the one speaking them. This is actually very significant because as co-heirs with Christ we have the same authority that He did and thus our words can have the same level of impact on the spiritual dimension!
After researching this phrase I have discovered that the reason it is used to describe the coming of the word of God is that ρημα (rhema) expresses the action of speaking words unlike λογος (logos) which simply expresses the existence of the words. Understanding this has really brought home to me the idea that prophesy and prophetic ministry are dynamic activities and are as much about acting on the words God gives as sharing them with others.
Dr. Cho contrasts natural human love which is motivated by duty or sympathy with Love of God which is motivated by the Holy Spirit. Love of God is not based on an emotional reaction but is an act of will induced by the presence of the Holy Spirit inside of us. Love of God often involves emotional feelings and so engages our soul but it is birthed in our spirit.
The full meaning of this form of love is explained by Paul in chapter thirteen of his first letter to the Corinthians (see 1 Corinthians 13). Paul defines this love as a fruit of the Spirit, yet both chapters twelve and fourteen of 1 Corinthians are concerned with gifts of the Spirit. Dr. Cho argues that this dedication of a whole chapter to love is not because it is more important than the spiritual gifts but because it should be the fundamental motivation for their use. He believes that only when we are motivated by love will our focus be solely on glorifying God and not on ourselves or the form that the gifts take. He concludes that if we are motivated by Love of God then we will have greater breakthrough in our use of spiritual gifts because we will be operating from a place of having given over our will to the Holy Spirit.
I believe that this will be another key factor in developing my prophetic ministry this year. I want to develop a greater awareness of what my motivations are when attempting to move in the prophetic and to spend time seeking greater intimacy with the Holy Spirit so that I can fully give over my will to Him. I think that this will mostly be achieved through prayer and spending time in His presence but it is also my intention to research further what it means to be fully indwelt by the Spirit and how this affects the use of his gifts, particularly prophecy.
Thank you for your blog on this book, I have not read it yet, but have listened to Dr. Cho on Utube. I was lead to this book while studying the book Intimacy with the Holy Spirit. I look forward to reading it, along with doing the written portion of Intimacy with the Holy Spirit. From your blog, I am able to gleem this book is and will confirm some of what has already been revealed to me by the Holy Spirit. Thank you and look forward to here on the many lives that are going to be touched by the blessing of the prophetic ministry you have been visioned with.
A Senior Pastor Emeritus of Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, Korea, Dr. Cho grounds his belief in his experiences following his conversion to Christianity as a young man and while suffering from tuberculosis. By developing the idea of the spiritual being as the fourth dimension, he ultimately demonstrates how this can, through faith and prayer, influence and effect change in the physical being leading to personal growth and renewal. In these pages you'll discover:
Dr. David Yonggi Cho is the pastor of the worlds largest church and a best-selling author. Many of his books talk about life in the fourth dimension a realm that is more real than the physical world in which we live. He points out that the world we know was fashioned in the invisible fourth dimension the spiritual realm and the things we see are only temporary; whereas, spiritual things are eternal. In light of this, he wants each of us to gain entrance to the Fourth Dimension, the place where the God of might and miracles lives and moves.
Yes, these are the keys that open the door to the Fourth Dimension for every child of God who wants to know and experience God in all Hiss fullness. As you read this book, you will gain glimpses into the spiritual dimension, a wonderful place of love, peace, and joy, and you will be inspired to go there and stay there. Though you are in the world, you do no have to be of the world.
In the course of reading a veritable pile of recent books on a range of charismatic practices including house groups, prophesying and healing, this writer has noticed that many of the advocates of these things have been powerfully impressed by the work of Paul Yonggi Cho, pastor of the largest church in the world, the Full Gospel Central Church in Seoul, Korea. They simply cannot keep quiet about him. Even as one reads the books the size of the congregation goes up; it is growing that fast! If a book was published at the beginning of the 1980s the author tells us that the largest church in the world has 150,000 members and over 100 assistant pastors. The latest books speak of 500,000 members. The church claims 17,000 new members a month, and many Western evangelicals are so overawed by this information that they just cannot wait to start experimenting with Yonggi Cho methods.
Pastor Cho tells us how he learned to pray. When he began to pastor his church in Seoul he was very poor and living in one room. Then he wondered what he was doing trying to work without a bed, a desk and chair, or any means of transport, and he began to pray to God for these things to be supplied. He prayed very much for a desk, chair and bicycle, but after six months he was still lacking all three and became very discouraged.
It is vital to see this because here is the point at which charismatic development leaves Christianity and crosses into the territory of paganism. Ideas like this are the inspiration of the largest church in the world, imitated by so many Western charismatics. Note the following example given by Paul Yonggi Cho.
This is his own explanation of how he arrived at his teaching on incubating prayer answers and healing diseases. He tells us that he was driven to finding an explanation of how Buddhist monks in Korea managed to perform better miracles than those which his own Pentecostalist churches could perform. It worried him greatly that many Koreans got healing through yoga meditation, and through attending meetings of the Soka Gakki, a Japanese Buddhist sect with twenty million members.
According to Cho, many deaf, dumb, and blind people had recovered their faculties through these religious groups.