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Hello, everybody, again.
Can you hear me?
We have an action today again. Let´s see.
The topic today is self-defence in life of faith.
Part 1.
It depends on whether I can say everything today. Let´s see.
Ing-Marie said, 10 minutes are good, 15 minutes are OK.
30 minutes are too long.
Well, let´s see. It is now 11 past 11.
I try to follow her advice.
My father in Japan has a black belt of Judo.
He taught me and my brother Judo
when we were small.
During the first two months, he trained us almost only Ukemi.
It is a technique to minimize damage from a fall.
Ukemi is a concept of techniques not to be injured
when you are thrown by somebody to the ground.
Probably you understand little bit.
You know what Judo is, don´t you?
Marshal art.
After 2 months my father got back pain.
I and my brother learned almost only to protect ourselves.
We didn´t learn so much about throwing skills.
We learned enough to be thrown.
In Judo first we have to learn intensively not to injure ourselves.
It is important.
This was what we got in fact.
Therefore I am not an expert of Judo.
It was just 2 months with my father.
It is important to be able to protect themselves at marshal arts.
You know why, don´t you?
After you have practiced ukemi,
self defence,
you do Ukemi automatically
if something happens.
The skills stay in the muscle or
You don´t need to think how you will do Ukemi.
It will be automatic.
Once I was walking on a roof of a bicycle storage.
I don´t remember why. I was just walking on the roof.
Suddenly bricks of the roof under my feet disappeared.
The bricks got destroyed.
I remember that I saw an empty space under my feet.
What! It´s empty here!
Nothing is here.
This moment I remember.
But I don´t remember how I fell on the ground,
fell down on concrete ground.
I think it was 3 meters high.
I didn´t remember.
I remembered only; “What!”
The next thing I remembered was to find myself lying on the concrete
with the form of Ukemi.
I did Ukemi instinctively.
Ukemi functions without thinking in order to protect myself.
In the same way I think we need to have a spiritual protecting system.
We should use spiritual protecting methods instinctively
in one second.
This is what I want to say in short.
But it is not yet over.
It was obligation for Japanese boys to learn either Judo or Kendo.
At my school we did both of them.
Because I could do Ukemi
our teacher threw me always.
Because it was sure for him. I could protect myself.
Judo uses tatami, a soft mat of straws.
It is soft.
But my school was not so rich and the floor was made of wood.
It was not soft. But it was OK.
But other pupils were not allowed to throw others really. It was dangerous.
Therefore he threw me quite a lot.
Actually it was little bit painful to do Ukemi on the wooden floor.
Anyway I did not hurt myself.
It is a Sunday Service today.
Therefore let us think about spiritual defence today.
I think Anna knows a lot of this. She is an expert.
Now it is the time for action. Can you come, Kristofer?
I will show you what Ukemi is. We practiced every day for 2 months.
Kristofer is going to attack me.
If I don´t know what to do, I cannot do it. There is no time to think.
It is good to know what to do.
It´s not enough to know but
we must have practiced enough so that we use it automatically.
Next I will attack Kristofer with the same technic.
By the way, did you understand what Kristofer did?
It was Advancing Foot Sweep.
Now I am going to attack Kristofer with the same technic.
But he will use counter attack.
It is called Swallow Counter.
I fall again.
It is to prevent the head from being hit to the ground by having hit the ground by the hand strong.
We do it instinctively.
The first quotation today.
It is in the Sunday Service guide.
Quotation today.
It is Sunday Service. Therefore we think about spiritual defence, today.
The Bible speaks about Jesus 3 temptations.
Even Jesus was exposed to spiritual attacks.
But he knew the art to defend himself.
Can anybody read it for me in Swedish?
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
The tempter came to him and said,
“If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” (Matthew 4)
It was the first temptation. And there were second and third. You know well.
It is an art. Jesus reacted in a second with the words of God.
It is important for in our life of faith to survive
and not to be killed or attacked hard with different kinds of temptations
or we become angry with somebody. Such things.
TF said once
In case something happens, such as temptation or
we are angry with somebody or
some kinds of attack,
if we can´t manage to solve the problem in 7 seconds
then it will be prolonged to 7 minutes.
If we can´t succeed to solve this problems
within 7 minutes, it may be prolonged to
7 hours, 7 days, 7 years, 70 years and so on.
It is true, isn´t it?
Abraham's two women, Hagar and Sara had a problem.
If they could have solved the problem at that time
with a word, such as, to love your enemy.
There would be no necessarily to experience Middle East problem now.
We need technics. We must apply defence technic instinctly.
If not instinctly, do it consciously. It is important to survive.
In the life of faith we experience spiritual attacks and temptation always. Is it true?
It is good if we are aware of these.
Some people aren´t aware of these at all. That is a problem.
Yes. That is the biggest problem. It is good to understand that there are things we have to deal with.
Those sitting here know that Heaven is not so easy to get in through that just we believe in somebody.
We have to survive spiritually.
To compare with others.
Hans Karlsson talked about it once at a Sunday Service on Vintergatan 24.
We have a tendency to compare ourselves to others.
How should we deal with it?
His video is still available on YouTube.
I don´t need to repeat. You can watch it again.
I recommend it.
Next, words of God as Jesus did.
Sometimes it happens that I feel, what?, Why?
or injustice.
Hans spoke about it, too.
Especially in difficult times. But
In such a case I am used to come back to DP.
DP says;
However, without first understanding, beliefs do not take hold.
For example, it is in order to understand the truth
and thereby solidity our beliefs that we study holy scriptures.
General Introduction
It is important to study DP enough in order to survive.
The words come when they are needed.
For example,
when we feel lazy and don´t want to do anything.
Sometimes we do that. In such a case, I think this part often
when I feel lazy but think that I have to do something.
Ch. 3 Eschatology and Human History 2.1
Therefore, God will save this sinful world, by all means.
To what extent should God save this world?
He should save it completely.
Or Jesus said according to John 5:17;
My Father is always at his work to this very day,
and I too am working.
Since Heavenly Parent is working, I have to work as well.
I cannot leave Heavenly Parent.
This think I often. You have your own quotations, I think.
Example 2 in my case;
If somebody is nasty against us, we should remember
It is from Ch. 5 Resurrection 3.3.
John, you read about resurrection today, didn´t you?
DP says;
Accordingly, hell cannot remain forever.
No trace of hell will remain in the ideal world, which is the fulfillment of God´s deepest desire.
In the Last Days, when the time is ripe, evil spririts will descend to evil people on earth of the same spiritual level
and assist them to accomplish God´s Will.
It is also a work of God for us to meet such nasty people
or people from whom we feel nastiness.
It is also a work of God.
We can change the situation so that it becomes a work of God at the end.
I am used to think in this way often.
The time has passed quickly.
I will leave the rest to part 2.
In part 2, I would like to deal with such situations,
since the church is like this,
TP are like this or TC are like this, I am tired.
I would like to share my thought about this issue.
Thank you for today.
Therefore we could not continue.
Probably you have your favorite quotations from DP.