1452 lines
441 KiB
HTML
1452 lines
441 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
|
||
<html lang="en-US">
|
||
<head>
|
||
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0">
|
||
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
|
||
<link rel="profile" href="https://gmpg.org/xfn/11" />
|
||
<link rel="pingback" href="/xmlrpc.php" />
|
||
<title>Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1958 – FFWPU Ireland</title>
|
||
<meta name='robots' content='max-image-preview:large' />
|
||
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="FFWPU Ireland » Feed" href="/feed/" />
|
||
<link rel="alternate" type="text/calendar" title="FFWPU Ireland » iCal Feed" href="/events/?ical=1" />
|
||
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="FFWPU Ireland » Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1958 Category Feed" href="/blog/category/speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958/feed/" />
|
||
<script type="text/javascript">
|
||
/* <![CDATA[ */
|
||
window._wpemojiSettings = {"baseUrl":"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.0.3\/72x72\/","ext":".png","svgUrl":"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.0.3\/svg\/","svgExt":".svg","source":{"concatemoji":"\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-emoji-release.min.js?ver=6.6.5"}};
|
||
/*! This file is auto-generated */
|
||
!function(i,n){var o,s,e;function c(e){try{var t={supportTests:e,timestamp:(new Date).valueOf()};sessionStorage.setItem(o,JSON.stringify(t))}catch(e){}}function p(e,t,n){e.clearRect(0,0,e.canvas.width,e.canvas.height),e.fillText(t,0,0);var t=new Uint32Array(e.getImageData(0,0,e.canvas.width,e.canvas.height).data),r=(e.clearRect(0,0,e.canvas.width,e.canvas.height),e.fillText(n,0,0),new Uint32Array(e.getImageData(0,0,e.canvas.width,e.canvas.height).data));return t.every(function(e,t){return e===r[t]})}function u(e,t,n){switch(t){case"flag":return n(e,"\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0f","\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200b\u26a7\ufe0f")?!1:!n(e,"\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf3","\ud83c\uddfa\u200b\ud83c\uddf3")&&!n(e,"\ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f","\ud83c\udff4\u200b\udb40\udc67\u200b\udb40\udc62\u200b\udb40\udc65\u200b\udb40\udc6e\u200b\udb40\udc67\u200b\udb40\udc7f");case"emoji":return!n(e,"\ud83d\udc26\u200d\u2b1b","\ud83d\udc26\u200b\u2b1b")}return!1}function f(e,t,n){var r="undefined"!=typeof WorkerGlobalScope&&self instanceof WorkerGlobalScope?new OffscreenCanvas(300,150):i.createElement("canvas"),a=r.getContext("2d",{willReadFrequently:!0}),o=(a.textBaseline="top",a.font="600 32px Arial",{});return e.forEach(function(e){o[e]=t(a,e,n)}),o}function t(e){var t=i.createElement("script");t.src=e,t.defer=!0,i.head.appendChild(t)}"undefined"!=typeof Promise&&(o="wpEmojiSettingsSupports",s=["flag","emoji"],n.supports={everything:!0,everythingExceptFlag:!0},e=new Promise(function(e){i.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",e,{once:!0})}),new Promise(function(t){var n=function(){try{var e=JSON.parse(sessionStorage.getItem(o));if("object"==typeof e&&"number"==typeof e.timestamp&&(new Date).valueOf()<e.timestamp+604800&&"object"==typeof e.supportTests)return e.supportTests}catch(e){}return null}();if(!n){if("undefined"!=typeof Worker&&"undefined"!=typeof OffscreenCanvas&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&URL.createObjectURL&&"undefined"!=typeof Blob)try{var e="postMessage("+f.toString()+"("+[JSON.stringify(s),u.toString(),p.toString()].join(",")+"));",r=new Blob([e],{type:"text/javascript"}),a=new Worker(URL.createObjectURL(r),{name:"wpTestEmojiSupports"});return void(a.onmessage=function(e){c(n=e.data),a.terminate(),t(n)})}catch(e){}c(n=f(s,u,p))}t(n)}).then(function(e){for(var t in e)n.supports[t]=e[t],n.supports.everything=n.supports.everything&&n.supports[t],"flag"!==t&&(n.supports.everythingExceptFlag=n.supports.everythingExceptFlag&&n.supports[t]);n.supports.everythingExceptFlag=n.supports.everythingExceptFlag&&!n.supports.flag,n.DOMReady=!1,n.readyCallback=function(){n.DOMReady=!0}}).then(function(){return e}).then(function(){var e;n.supports.everything||(n.readyCallback(),(e=n.source||{}).concatemoji?t(e.concatemoji):e.wpemoji&&e.twemoji&&(t(e.twemoji),t(e.wpemoji)))}))}((window,document),window._wpemojiSettings);
|
||
/* ]]> */
|
||
</script>
|
||
<link rel='stylesheet' id='hdwstyle-css' href='/wp-content/plugins/hdw-player-video-player-video-gallery/css/html5.hdwstyles.css?v=4.2&ver=6.6.5' type='text/css' media='all' />
|
||
<style id='wp-emoji-styles-inline-css' type='text/css'>
|
||
|
||
img.wp-smiley, img.emoji {
|
||
display: inline !important;
|
||
border: none !important;
|
||
box-shadow: none !important;
|
||
height: 1em !important;
|
||
width: 1em !important;
|
||
margin: 0 0.07em !important;
|
||
vertical-align: -0.1em !important;
|
||
background: none !important;
|
||
padding: 0 !important;
|
||
}
|
||
</style>
|
||
<link rel='stylesheet' id='wp-block-library-css' href='/wp-includes/css/dist/block-library/style.min.css?ver=6.6.5' type='text/css' media='all' />
|
||
<style id='wp-block-library-inline-css' type='text/css'>
|
||
.wp-block-gutena-forms .is-style-round-range-slider .gutena-forms-field.range-field {
|
||
-webkit-appearance: none;
|
||
width: 100%;
|
||
height: 8px;
|
||
border: 1px solid var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-border-color, #D7DBE7);
|
||
border-radius: 5px;
|
||
background: var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-bg-color,"transparent");
|
||
outline: none;
|
||
-webkit-transition: .2s;
|
||
transition: opacity .2s;
|
||
}
|
||
.wp-block-gutena-forms .is-style-round-range-slider .gutena-forms-field.range-field:hover{
|
||
border: 1px solid var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-border-color, #D7DBE7);
|
||
opacity: 1;
|
||
}
|
||
.wp-block-gutena-forms .is-style-round-range-slider .gutena-forms-field.range-field:focus {
|
||
border: 1px solid var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-focus-border-color, var(--wp--preset--color--primary, #3F6DE4 ));
|
||
}
|
||
.wp-block-gutena-forms .is-style-round-range-slider .gutena-forms-field.range-field::-webkit-slider-thumb {
|
||
-webkit-appearance: none;
|
||
appearance: none;
|
||
width: 20px;
|
||
height: 20px;
|
||
border: 2px solid var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-border-color, #D7DBE7);
|
||
border-radius: 50%;
|
||
background: var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-focus-border-color, var(--wp--preset--color--primary, #3F6DE4 ));
|
||
cursor: pointer;
|
||
}
|
||
.wp-block-gutena-forms .is-style-round-range-slider .gutena-forms-field.range-field::-moz-range-thumb {
|
||
width: 20px;
|
||
height: 20px;
|
||
border: 2px solid var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-border-color, #D7DBE7);
|
||
border-radius: 50%;
|
||
background: var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-focus-border-color, var(--wp--preset--color--primary, #3F6DE4 ));
|
||
cursor: pointer;
|
||
}
|
||
|
||
</style>
|
||
<style id='gutena-forms-style-inline-css' type='text/css'>
|
||
.wp-block-gutena-forms .wp-block-group.is-layout-flex>.wp-block-image{display:flex}.wp-block-gutena-forms .is-vertical.is-layout-flex.wp-block-group .gutena-forms-field,.wp-block-gutena-forms .is-vertical.is-layout-flex.wp-block-group .heading-input-label-gutena{min-width:100%}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field,.wp-block-gutena-forms .heading-input-label-gutena{background-color:transparent}.wp-block-gutena-forms.not-show-form-labels .heading-input-label-gutena{display:none}.wp-block-gutena-forms.has-label-font-family .heading-input-label-gutena{font-family:var(--wp--gutena-forms--label-font-family)}.wp-block-gutena-forms .heading-input-label-gutena{color:var(--wp--gutena-forms--label-color);font-size:var(--wp--gutena-forms--label-font-size,13px);font-weight:var(--wp--gutena-forms--label-font-weight);line-height:var(--wp--gutena-forms--label-line-height)}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field{color:var(--wp--gutena-forms--label-color)}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field:not(.checkbox-field):not(.radio-field):not(.optin-field){background-color:var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-bg-color,"transparent")}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field:not(.checkbox-field):not(.radio-field):not(.optin-field):-webkit-autofill,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field:not(.checkbox-field):not(.radio-field):not(.optin-field):-webkit-autofill:focus,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field:not(.checkbox-field):not(.radio-field):not(.optin-field):-webkit-autofill:hover{-webkit-box-shadow:0 0 0 1000px var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-bg-color,"transparent") inset;-webkit-transition:background-color 5000s ease-in-out 0s;transition:background-color 5000s ease-in-out 0s}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field.inline-options,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.radio-field.inline-options{display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field.has-1-col,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.radio-field.has-1-col{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(1,1fr)}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field.has-2-col,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.radio-field.has-2-col{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(2,1fr)}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field.has-3-col,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.radio-field.has-3-col{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(3,1fr)}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field.has-4-col,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.radio-field.has-4-col{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(4,1fr)}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field.has-5-col,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.radio-field.has-5-col{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(5,1fr)}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field.has-6-col,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.radio-field.has-6-col{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(6,1fr)}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field .checkbox-container,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field .optin-container,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.optin-field .checkbox-container,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.optin-field .optin-container{cursor:pointer;display:block;padding-left:25px;position:relative;-webkit-user-select:none;-moz-user-select:none;user-select:none}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field .checkbox-container input,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field .optin-container input,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.optin-field .checkbox-container input,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.optin-field .optin-container input{cursor:pointer;height:0;opacity:0;position:absolute;width:0}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field .checkbox-container input:checked~.checkmark,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field .optin-container input:checked~.checkmark,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.optin-field .checkbox-container input:checked~.checkmark,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.optin-field .optin-container input:checked~.checkmark{background-color:var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-focus-border-color,var(--wp--preset--color--primary,#3f6de4));border-color:var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-focus-border-color,var(--wp--preset--color--primary,#3f6de4))}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field .checkbox-container input:checked~.checkmark:after,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field .optin-container input:checked~.checkmark:after,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.optin-field .checkbox-container input:checked~.checkmark:after,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.optin-field .optin-container input:checked~.checkmark:after{display:block}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field .checkbox-container .checkmark:after,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field .optin-container .checkmark:after,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.optin-field .checkbox-container .checkmark:after,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.optin-field .optin-container .checkmark:after{border:solid #fff;border-width:0 3px 3px 0;height:7px;left:5px;top:2px;transform:rotate(45deg);width:3px}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field .checkmark,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.optin-field .checkmark{background-color:#fff;border:1px solid var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-border-color,#d7dbe7);border-radius:2px;height:16px;left:0;position:absolute;top:50%;transform:translateY(-50%);width:16px}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field .checkmark:after,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.optin-field .checkmark:after{content:"";display:none;position:absolute}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.radio-field .radio-container{cursor:pointer;display:block;padding-left:25px;position:relative;-webkit-user-select:none;-moz-user-select:none;user-select:none}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.radio-field .radio-container input{cursor:pointer;opacity:0;position:absolute}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.radio-field .radio-container:hover input~.checkmark{background-color:#fff}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.radio-field .radio-container input:checked~.checkmark{background-color:#fff;border-color:var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-focus-border-color,var(--wp--preset--color--primary,#3f6de4))}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.radio-field .radio-container input:checked~.checkmark:after{display:block}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.radio-field .radio-container .checkmark:after{background:var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-focus-border-color,var(--wp--preset--color--primary,#3f6de4));border-radius:50%;height:10px;left:3px;top:3px;width:10px}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.radio-field .checkmark{background-color:#fff;border:1px solid var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-border-color,#d7dbe7);border-radius:50%;height:16px;left:0;position:absolute;top:50%;transform:translateY(-50%);width:16px}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.radio-field .checkmark:after{content:"";display:none;position:absolute}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.range-field{accent-color:var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-focus-border-color,var(--wp--preset--color--primary,#3f6de4))}.wp-block-gutena-forms .wp-block-gutena-form-field:not(.gutena-forms-radio-field):not(.gutena-forms-checkbox-field):not(.gutena-forms-range-field):not(.gutena-forms-optin-field){background-color:var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-bg-color,"transparent")}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field::-moz-placeholder{color:var(--wp--gutena-forms--placeholder-color);font-size:var(--wp--gutena-forms--placeholder-font-size);font-weight:var(--wp--gutena-forms--placeholder-font-weight);line-height:var(--wp--gutena-forms--placeholder-line-height)}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field::placeholder,.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-placeholder{color:var(--wp--gutena-forms--placeholder-color);font-size:var(--wp--gutena-forms--placeholder-font-size);font-weight:var(--wp--gutena-forms--placeholder-font-weight);line-height:var(--wp--gutena-forms--placeholder-line-height)}.wp-block-gutena-forms.has-placeholder-font-family .wp-block-gutena-form-field .gutena-forms-field{font-family:var(--wp--gutena-forms--placeholder-font-family)}.wp-block-gutena-forms .wp-block-gutena-form-field .gutena-forms-field{box-sizing:border-box;-moz-box-sizing:border-box;-webkit-box-sizing:border-box;font-size:var(--wp--gutena-forms--placeholder-font-size);font-weight:var(--wp--gutena-forms--placeholder-font-weight);line-height:var(--wp--gutena-forms--placeholder-line-height);padding:13px calc(18px + var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-border-radius, 0px)/2);width:100%}.wp-block-gutena-forms .wp-block-gutena-form-field .gutena-forms-field:not(.textarea-field):not(.checkbox-field){height:50px}.wp-block-gutena-forms .wp-block-gutena-form-field .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field,.wp-block-gutena-forms .wp-block-gutena-form-field .gutena-forms-field.radio-field{-moz-column-gap:3rem;column-gap:3rem;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;row-gap:.5rem}.wp-block-gutena-forms .wp-block-gutena-form-field .gutena-forms-field.range-field{padding:0}.wp-block-gutena-forms .wp-block-gutena-form-field .gutena-forms-field.optin-field{align-items:center;display:flex;padding-left:0}.wp-block-gutena-forms .wp-block-gutena-form-field .gf-range-values{color:var(--wp--gutena-forms--label-color);display:flex;font-size:var(--wp--gutena-forms--placeholder-font-size);font-weight:var(--wp--gutena-forms--placeholder-font-weight);justify-content:space-between;line-height:var(--wp--gutena-forms--placeholder-line-height);margin:0;padding:0}.wp-block-gutena-forms .wp-block-gutena-form-field.gutena-forms-optin-field{width:1.25rem}.wp-block-gutena-forms .wp-block-columns{margin-bottom:var(--wp--style--block-gap,2em)}.wp-block-gutena-forms .wp-block-gutena-form-field{width:100%}.wp-block-gutena-forms:not(.input-box-border-bottom-only) .wp-block-gutena-form-field:not(.gutena-forms-radio-field):not(.gutena-forms-checkbox-field):not(.gutena-forms-range-field):not(.gutena-forms-optin-field){border-color:var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-border-color,#d7dbe7);border-radius:var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-border-radius,0);border-style:solid;border-width:var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-border-width,1px)}.wp-block-gutena-forms:not(.input-box-border-bottom-only) .wp-block-gutena-form-field:not(.gutena-forms-radio-field):not(.gutena-forms-checkbox-field):not(.gutena-forms-range-field):not(.gutena-forms-optin-field):focus-within{border-color:var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-focus-border-color,var(--wp--preset--color--primary,#3f6de4));width:100%}.wp-block-gutena-forms.input-box-border-bottom-only .wp-block-gutena-form-field:not(.gutena-forms-radio-field):not(.gutena-forms-checkbox-field):not(.gutena-forms-range-field):not(.gutena-forms-optin-field){border-bottom:var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-border-width,1px) solid var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-border-color,#d7dbe7)}.wp-block-gutena-forms.input-box-border-bottom-only .wp-block-gutena-form-field:not(.gutena-forms-radio-field):not(.gutena-forms-checkbox-field):not(.gutena-forms-range-field):not(.gutena-forms-optin-field):focus-within{border-bottom:var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-border-width,1px) solid var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-focus-border-color,var(--wp--preset--color--primary,#3f6de4));width:100%}.wp-block-gutena-forms.input-box-border-bottom-only .wp-block-gutena-form-field .gutena-forms-field{padding-left:0;padding-right:0}.wp-block-gutena-forms .wp-block-gutena-form-field .gutena-forms-field,.wp-block-gutena-forms .wp-block-gutena-form-field .gutena-forms-field:focus{border:0;box-shadow:none!important;margin:0!important;outline:0!important}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-confirmation-columns{display:none}.wp-block-gutena-forms .wp-block-gutena-field-group .is-layout-flex{gap:var(--wp--style--block-gap,1.5rem)}.wp-block-gutena-forms .wp-block-gutena-field-group .gutena-forms-field-error-msg{color:#fd3e3e;font-size:12px;margin-top:.5rem}.wp-block-gutena-forms .wp-block-gutena-field-group:not(.display-error) .gutena-forms-field-error-msg{display:none}.wp-block-gutena-forms .wp-block-gutena-field-group.display-error .wp-block-gutena-form-field:not(.gutena-forms-radio-field):not(.gutena-forms-checkbox-field):not(.gutena-forms-range-field):not(.gutena-forms-optin-field){border-color:var(--wp--gutena-forms--input-focus-border-color,var(--wp--preset--color--primary,#3f6de4))}.wp-block-gutena-forms.form-progress .wp-block-button__link{opacity:.8}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-btn-progress{display:inline-block;height:22px;position:relative;width:60px}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-btn-progress div{animation-timing-function:cubic-bezier(0,1,1,0);background:#fff;border-radius:50%;height:7px;position:absolute;top:11px;width:7px}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-btn-progress div:first-child{animation:submit-progress1 .6s infinite;left:5px}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-btn-progress div:nth-child(2){animation:submit-progress2 .6s infinite;left:5px}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-btn-progress div:nth-child(3){animation:submit-progress2 .6s infinite;left:25px}.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-btn-progress div:nth-child(4){animation:submit-progress3 .6s infinite;left:45px}@keyframes submit-progress1{0%{transform:scale(0)}to{transform:scale(1)}}@keyframes submit-progress3{0%{transform:scale(1)}to{transform:scale(0)}}@keyframes submit-progress2{0%{transform:translate(0)}to{transform:translate(24px)}}.wp-block-gutena-forms:not(.display-error-message) .wp-block-gutena-form-error-msg:not(.block-editor-block-list__block),.wp-block-gutena-forms:not(.display-success-message) .wp-block-gutena-form-confirm-msg:not(.block-editor-block-list__block){display:none}.wp-block-gutena-forms.hide-form-now>.wp-block-buttons,.wp-block-gutena-forms.hide-form-now>.wp-block-columns,.wp-block-gutena-forms.hide-form-now>.wp-block-gutena-field-group{height:0;transition:height 2s;visibility:hidden}@media only screen and (max-width:600px){.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.checkbox-field:not(.inline-options),.wp-block-gutena-forms .gutena-forms-field.radio-field:not(.inline-options){grid-template-columns:repeat(1,1fr)}}
|
||
|
||
</style>
|
||
<link rel='stylesheet' id='metaslider-blocks-editor-css-css' href='/wp-content/plugins/ml-slider/admin/assets/dist/css/editor-block.css?ver=3.109.0' type='text/css' media='all' property='stylesheet' />
|
||
<style id='classic-theme-styles-inline-css' type='text/css'>
|
||
/*! This file is auto-generated */
|
||
.wp-block-button__link{color:#fff;background-color:#32373c;border-radius:9999px;box-shadow:none;text-decoration:none;padding:calc(.667em + 2px) calc(1.333em + 2px);font-size:1.125em}.wp-block-file__button{background:#32373c;color:#fff;text-decoration:none}
|
||
</style>
|
||
<style id='global-styles-inline-css' type='text/css'>
|
||
:root{--wp--preset--aspect-ratio--square: 1;--wp--preset--aspect-ratio--4-3: 4/3;--wp--preset--aspect-ratio--3-4: 3/4;--wp--preset--aspect-ratio--3-2: 3/2;--wp--preset--aspect-ratio--2-3: 2/3;--wp--preset--aspect-ratio--16-9: 16/9;--wp--preset--aspect-ratio--9-16: 9/16;--wp--preset--color--black: #000000;--wp--preset--color--cyan-bluish-gray: #abb8c3;--wp--preset--color--white: #ffffff;--wp--preset--color--pale-pink: #f78da7;--wp--preset--color--vivid-red: #cf2e2e;--wp--preset--color--luminous-vivid-orange: #ff6900;--wp--preset--color--luminous-vivid-amber: #fcb900;--wp--preset--color--light-green-cyan: #7bdcb5;--wp--preset--color--vivid-green-cyan: #00d084;--wp--preset--color--pale-cyan-blue: #8ed1fc;--wp--preset--color--vivid-cyan-blue: #0693e3;--wp--preset--color--vivid-purple: #9b51e0;--wp--preset--gradient--vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple: linear-gradient(135deg,rgba(6,147,227,1) 0%,rgb(155,81,224) 100%);--wp--preset--gradient--light-green-cyan-to-vivid-green-cyan: linear-gradient(135deg,rgb(122,220,180) 0%,rgb(0,208,130) 100%);--wp--preset--gradient--luminous-vivid-amber-to-luminous-vivid-orange: linear-gradient(135deg,rgba(252,185,0,1) 0%,rgba(255,105,0,1) 100%);--wp--preset--gradient--luminous-vivid-orange-to-vivid-red: linear-gradient(135deg,rgba(255,105,0,1) 0%,rgb(207,46,46) 100%);--wp--preset--gradient--very-light-gray-to-cyan-bluish-gray: linear-gradient(135deg,rgb(238,238,238) 0%,rgb(169,184,195) 100%);--wp--preset--gradient--cool-to-warm-spectrum: linear-gradient(135deg,rgb(74,234,220) 0%,rgb(151,120,209) 20%,rgb(207,42,186) 40%,rgb(238,44,130) 60%,rgb(251,105,98) 80%,rgb(254,248,76) 100%);--wp--preset--gradient--blush-light-purple: linear-gradient(135deg,rgb(255,206,236) 0%,rgb(152,150,240) 100%);--wp--preset--gradient--blush-bordeaux: linear-gradient(135deg,rgb(254,205,165) 0%,rgb(254,45,45) 50%,rgb(107,0,62) 100%);--wp--preset--gradient--luminous-dusk: linear-gradient(135deg,rgb(255,203,112) 0%,rgb(199,81,192) 50%,rgb(65,88,208) 100%);--wp--preset--gradient--pale-ocean: linear-gradient(135deg,rgb(255,245,203) 0%,rgb(182,227,212) 50%,rgb(51,167,181) 100%);--wp--preset--gradient--electric-grass: linear-gradient(135deg,rgb(202,248,128) 0%,rgb(113,206,126) 100%);--wp--preset--gradient--midnight: linear-gradient(135deg,rgb(2,3,129) 0%,rgb(40,116,252) 100%);--wp--preset--font-size--small: 13px;--wp--preset--font-size--medium: 20px;--wp--preset--font-size--large: 36px;--wp--preset--font-size--x-large: 42px;--wp--preset--spacing--20: 0.44rem;--wp--preset--spacing--30: 0.67rem;--wp--preset--spacing--40: 1rem;--wp--preset--spacing--50: 1.5rem;--wp--preset--spacing--60: 2.25rem;--wp--preset--spacing--70: 3.38rem;--wp--preset--spacing--80: 5.06rem;--wp--preset--shadow--natural: 6px 6px 9px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);--wp--preset--shadow--deep: 12px 12px 50px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);--wp--preset--shadow--sharp: 6px 6px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);--wp--preset--shadow--outlined: 6px 6px 0px -3px rgba(255, 255, 255, 1), 6px 6px rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);--wp--preset--shadow--crisp: 6px 6px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);}:where(.is-layout-flex){gap: 0.5em;}:where(.is-layout-grid){gap: 0.5em;}body .is-layout-flex{display: flex;}.is-layout-flex{flex-wrap: wrap;align-items: center;}.is-layout-flex > :is(*, div){margin: 0;}body .is-layout-grid{display: grid;}.is-layout-grid > :is(*, div){margin: 0;}:where(.wp-block-columns.is-layout-flex){gap: 2em;}:where(.wp-block-columns.is-layout-grid){gap: 2em;}:where(.wp-block-post-template.is-layout-flex){gap: 1.25em;}:where(.wp-block-post-template.is-layout-grid){gap: 1.25em;}.has-black-color{color: var(--wp--preset--color--black) !important;}.has-cyan-bluish-gray-color{color: var(--wp--preset--color--cyan-bluish-gray) !important;}.has-white-color{color: var(--wp--preset--color--white) !important;}.has-pale-pink-color{color: var(--wp--preset--color--pale-pink) !important;}.has-vivid-red-color{color: var(--wp--preset--color--vivid-red) !important;}.has-luminous-vivid-orange-color{color: var(--wp--preset--color--luminous-vivid-orange) !important;}.has-luminous-vivid-amber-color{color: var(--wp--preset--color--luminous-vivid-amber) !important;}.has-light-green-cyan-color{color: var(--wp--preset--color--light-green-cyan) !important;}.has-vivid-green-cyan-color{color: var(--wp--preset--color--vivid-green-cyan) !important;}.has-pale-cyan-blue-color{color: var(--wp--preset--color--pale-cyan-blue) !important;}.has-vivid-cyan-blue-color{color: var(--wp--preset--color--vivid-cyan-blue) !important;}.has-vivid-purple-color{color: var(--wp--preset--color--vivid-purple) !important;}.has-black-background-color{background-color: var(--wp--preset--color--black) !important;}.has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color{background-color: var(--wp--preset--color--cyan-bluish-gray) !important;}.has-white-background-color{background-color: var(--wp--preset--color--white) !important;}.has-pale-pink-background-color{background-color: var(--wp--preset--color--pale-pink) !important;}.has-vivid-red-background-color{background-color: var(--wp--preset--color--vivid-red) !important;}.has-luminous-vivid-orange-background-color{background-color: var(--wp--preset--color--luminous-vivid-orange) !important;}.has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color{background-color: var(--wp--preset--color--luminous-vivid-amber) !important;}.has-light-green-cyan-background-color{background-color: var(--wp--preset--color--light-green-cyan) !important;}.has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color{background-color: var(--wp--preset--color--vivid-green-cyan) !important;}.has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color{background-color: var(--wp--preset--color--pale-cyan-blue) !important;}.has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color{background-color: var(--wp--preset--color--vivid-cyan-blue) !important;}.has-vivid-purple-background-color{background-color: var(--wp--preset--color--vivid-purple) !important;}.has-black-border-color{border-color: var(--wp--preset--color--black) !important;}.has-cyan-bluish-gray-border-color{border-color: var(--wp--preset--color--cyan-bluish-gray) !important;}.has-white-border-color{border-color: var(--wp--preset--color--white) !important;}.has-pale-pink-border-color{border-color: var(--wp--preset--color--pale-pink) !important;}.has-vivid-red-border-color{border-color: var(--wp--preset--color--vivid-red) !important;}.has-luminous-vivid-orange-border-color{border-color: var(--wp--preset--color--luminous-vivid-orange) !important;}.has-luminous-vivid-amber-border-color{border-color: var(--wp--preset--color--luminous-vivid-amber) !important;}.has-light-green-cyan-border-color{border-color: var(--wp--preset--color--light-green-cyan) !important;}.has-vivid-green-cyan-border-color{border-color: var(--wp--preset--color--vivid-green-cyan) !important;}.has-pale-cyan-blue-border-color{border-color: var(--wp--preset--color--pale-cyan-blue) !important;}.has-vivid-cyan-blue-border-color{border-color: var(--wp--preset--color--vivid-cyan-blue) !important;}.has-vivid-purple-border-color{border-color: var(--wp--preset--color--vivid-purple) !important;}.has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background{background: var(--wp--preset--gradient--vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple) !important;}.has-light-green-cyan-to-vivid-green-cyan-gradient-background{background: var(--wp--preset--gradient--light-green-cyan-to-vivid-green-cyan) !important;}.has-luminous-vivid-amber-to-luminous-vivid-orange-gradient-background{background: var(--wp--preset--gradient--luminous-vivid-amber-to-luminous-vivid-orange) !important;}.has-luminous-vivid-orange-to-vivid-red-gradient-background{background: var(--wp--preset--gradient--luminous-vivid-orange-to-vivid-red) !important;}.has-very-light-gray-to-cyan-bluish-gray-gradient-background{background: var(--wp--preset--gradient--very-light-gray-to-cyan-bluish-gray) !important;}.has-cool-to-warm-spectrum-gradient-background{background: var(--wp--preset--gradient--cool-to-warm-spectrum) !important;}.has-blush-light-purple-gradient-background{background: var(--wp--preset--gradient--blush-light-purple) !important;}.has-blush-bordeaux-gradient-background{background: var(--wp--preset--gradient--blush-bordeaux) !important;}.has-luminous-dusk-gradient-background{background: var(--wp--preset--gradient--luminous-dusk) !important;}.has-pale-ocean-gradient-background{background: var(--wp--preset--gradient--pale-ocean) !important;}.has-electric-grass-gradient-background{background: var(--wp--preset--gradient--electric-grass) !important;}.has-midnight-gradient-background{background: var(--wp--preset--gradient--midnight) !important;}.has-small-font-size{font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--small) !important;}.has-medium-font-size{font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium) !important;}.has-large-font-size{font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--large) !important;}.has-x-large-font-size{font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--x-large) !important;}
|
||
:where(.wp-block-post-template.is-layout-flex){gap: 1.25em;}:where(.wp-block-post-template.is-layout-grid){gap: 1.25em;}
|
||
:where(.wp-block-columns.is-layout-flex){gap: 2em;}:where(.wp-block-columns.is-layout-grid){gap: 2em;}
|
||
:root :where(.wp-block-pullquote){font-size: 1.5em;line-height: 1.6;}
|
||
</style>
|
||
<link rel='stylesheet' id='pdfprnt_frontend-css' href='/wp-content/plugins/pdf-print/css/frontend.css?ver=2.4.0' type='text/css' media='all' />
|
||
<link rel='stylesheet' id='parabola-fonts-css' href='/wp-content/themes/parabola/fonts/fontfaces.css?ver=2.4.1' type='text/css' media='all' />
|
||
<link rel='stylesheet' id='parabola-style-css' href='/wp-content/themes/parabola/style.css?ver=2.4.1' type='text/css' media='all' />
|
||
<style id='parabola-style-inline-css' type='text/css'>
|
||
#header, #main, .topmenu, #colophon, #footer2-inner { max-width: 1050px; } #container.one-column { } #container.two-columns-right #secondary { width:250px; float:right; } #container.two-columns-right #content { width:780px; float:left; } /*fallback*/ #container.two-columns-right #content { width:calc(100% - 270px); float:left; } #container.two-columns-left #primary { width:250px; float:left; } #container.two-columns-left #content { width:780px; float:right; } /*fallback*/ #container.two-columns-left #content { width:-moz-calc(100% - 270px); float:right; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 270px); width:calc(100% - 270px); } #container.three-columns-right .sidey { width:125px; float:left; } #container.three-columns-right #primary { margin-left:20px; margin-right:20px; } #container.three-columns-right #content { width:760px; float:left; } /*fallback*/ #container.three-columns-right #content { width:-moz-calc(100% - 290px); float:left; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 290px); width:calc(100% - 290px);} #container.three-columns-left .sidey { width:125px; float:left; } #container.three-columns-left #secondary {margin-left:20px; margin-right:20px; } #container.three-columns-left #content { width:760px; float:right;} /*fallback*/ #container.three-columns-left #content { width:-moz-calc(100% - 290px); float:right; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 290px); width:calc(100% - 290px); } #container.three-columns-sided .sidey { width:125px; float:left; } #container.three-columns-sided #secondary { float:right; } #container.three-columns-sided #content { width:760px; float:right; /*fallback*/ width:-moz-calc(100% - 290px); float:right; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 290px); float:right; width:calc(100% - 290px); float:right; margin: 0 145px 0 -1050px; } body { font-family: "Open Sans"; } #content h1.entry-title a, #content h2.entry-title a, #content h1.entry-title , #content h2.entry-title, #frontpage .nivo-caption h3, .column-header-image, .column-header-noimage, .columnmore { font-family: "Bebas Neue"; } .widget-title, .widget-title a { line-height: normal; font-family: "Bebas Neue"; } .entry-content h1, .entry-content h2, .entry-content h3, .entry-content h4, .entry-content h5, .entry-content h6, h3#comments-title, #comments #reply-title { font-family: "Yanone Kaffeesatz Regular"; } #site-title span a { font-family: "Oswald Stencil"; } #access ul li a, #access ul li a span { font-family: "Open Sans"; } body { color: #333333; background-color: #F7F7F2 } a { color: #BF4D28; } a:hover { color: #E6AC27; } #header-full { background-color: #FFFFFF; } #site-title span a { color:#BF4D28; } #site-description { color:#444444; } .socials a { background-color: #ffffff; } .socials .socials-hover { background-color: #fdfcfc; } .breadcrumbs:before { border-color: transparent transparent transparent #333333; } #access a, #nav-toggle span { color: #959393; background-color: #fdfcfc; } @media (max-width: 650px) { #access, #nav-toggle { background-color: #fdfcfc; } } #access a:hover { color: #89c76b; background-color: #ffffff; } #access > .menu > ul > li > a:after, #access > .menu > ul ul:after { border-color: transparent transparent #ffffff transparent; } #access ul li:hover a:after { border-bottom-color:#d5e6b3;} #access ul li.current_page_item > a, #access ul li.current-menu-item > a, /*#access ul li.current_page_parent > a, #access ul li.current-menu-parent > a,*/ #access ul li.current_page_ancestor > a, #access ul li.current-menu-ancestor > a { color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; } #access ul li.current_page_item > a:hover, #access ul li.current-menu-item > a:hover, /*#access ul li.current_page_parent > a:hover, #access ul li.current-menu-parent > a:hover,*/ #access ul li.current_page_ancestor > a:hover, #access ul li.current-menu-ancestor > a:hover { color: #89c76b; } .topmenu ul li a { color: #666666; } .topmenu ul li a:after { border-color: #ffffff transparent transparent transparent; } .topmenu ul li a:hover:after {border-top-color:#d5e6b3} .topmenu ul li a:hover { color: #666666; background-color: #FFFFFF; } div.post, div.page, div.hentry, div.product, div[class^='post-'], #comments, .comments, .column-text, .column-image, #srights, #slefts, #front-text3, #front-text4, .page-title, .page-header, article.post, article.page, article.hentry, .contentsearch, #author-info, #nav-below, .yoyo > li, .woocommerce #mainwoo { background-color: #FFFFFF; } div.post, div.page, div.hentry, .sidey .widget-container, #comments, .commentlist .comment-body, article.post, article.page, article.hentry, #nav-below, .page-header, .yoyo > li, #front-text3, #front-text4 { border-color: #EEEEEE; } #author-info, #entry-author-info { border-color: #F7F7F7; } #entry-author-info #author-avatar, #author-info #author-avatar { border-color: #EEEEEE; } article.sticky:hover { border-color: rgba(213,230,179,.6); } .sidey .widget-container { color: #907a7a; background-color: #FFFFFF; } .sidey .widget-title { color: #FFFFFF; background-color: #fdf7f7; } .sidey .widget-title:after { border-color: transparent transparent #ffffff; } .sidey .widget-container a { color: #BF4D28; } .sidey .widget-container a:hover { color: #E6AC27; } .entry-content h1, .entry-content h2, .entry-content h3, .entry-content h4, .entry-content h5, .entry-content h6 { color: #444444; } .entry-title, .entry-title a, .page-title { color: #444444; } .entry-title a:hover { color: #000000; } #content h3.entry-format { color: #959393; background-color: #fdfcfc; border-color: #fdfcfc; } #content h3.entry-format { color: #959393; background-color: #fdfcfc; border-color: #fdfcfc; } .comments-link { background-color: #F7F7F7; } .comments-link:before { border-color: #F7F7F7 transparent transparent; } #footer { color: #AAAAAA; background-color: #1A1917; } #footer2 { color: #AAAAAA; background-color: #131211; border-color:rgba(255,255,255,.1); } #footer a { color: #BF4D28; } #footer a:hover { color: #E6AC27; } #footer2 a { color: #BF4D28; } #footer2 a:hover { color: #E6AC27; } #footer .widget-container { color: #dea1a1; background-color: #FFFFFF; } #footer .widget-title { color: #FFFFFF; background-color: #fcf7f7; } #footer .widget-title:after { border-color: transparent transparent #ffffff; } .footermenu ul li a:after { border-color: transparent transparent #ffffff transparent; } a.continue-reading-link { color:#959393 !important; background:#fdfcfc; border-color:#EEEEEE; } a.continue-reading-link:hover { background-color:#ffffff; } .button, #respond .form-submit input#submit { background-color: #F7F7F7; border-color: #EEEEEE; } .button:hover, #respond .form-submit input#submit:hover { border-color: #CCCCCC; } .entry-content tr th, .entry-content thead th { color: #FFFFFF; background-color: #444444; } .entry-content fieldset, .entry-content tr td { border-color: #CCCCCC; } hr { background-color: #CCCCCC; } input[type="text"], input[type="password"], input[type="email"], textarea, select, input[type="color"],input[type="date"],input[type="datetime"],input[type="datetime-local"],input[type="month"],input[type="number"],input[type="range"], input[type="search"],input[type="tel"],input[type="time"],input[type="url"],input[type="week"] { background-color: #F7F7F7; border-color: #CCCCCC #EEEEEE #EEEEEE #CCCCCC; color: #333333; } input[type="submit"], input[type="reset"] { color: #333333; background-color: #F7F7F7; border-color: #EEEEEE;} input[type="text"]:hover, input[type="password"]:hover, input[type="email"]:hover, textarea:hover, input[type="color"]:hover, input[type="date"]:hover, input[type="datetime"]:hover, input[type="datetime-local"]:hover, input[type="month"]:hover, input[type="number"]:hover, input[type="range"]:hover, input[type="search"]:hover, input[type="tel"]:hover, input[type="time"]:hover, input[type="url"]:hover, input[type="week"]:hover { background-color: rgb(247,247,247); background-color: rgba(247,247,247,0.4); } .entry-content code { border-color: #CCCCCC; background-color: #F7F7F7; } .entry-content pre { background-color: #F7F7F7; } .entry-content blockquote { border-color: #ffffff; background-color: #F7F7F7; } abbr, acronym { border-color: #333333; } span.edit-link { color: #333333; background-color: #EEEEEE; border-color: #F7F7F7; } .meta-border .entry-meta span, .meta-border .entry-utility span.bl_posted { border-color: #F7F7F7; } .meta-accented .entry-meta span, .meta-accented .entry-utility span.bl_posted { background-color: #EEEEEE; border-color: #F7F7F7; } .comment-meta a { color: #8c97b0; } .comment-author { background-color: #F7F7F7; } .comment-details:after { border-color: transparent transparent transparent #F7F7F7; } .comment:hover > div > .comment-author { background-color: #EEEEEE; } .comment:hover > div > .comment-author .comment-details:after { border-color: transparent transparent transparent #EEEEEE; } #respond .form-allowed-tags { color: #8c97b0; } .comment .reply a { border-color: #EEEEEE; color: #333333;} .comment .reply a:hover { background-color: #EEEEEE } .nav-next a:hover, .nav-previous a:hover {background: #F7F7F7} .pagination .current { font-weight: bold; } .pagination span, .pagination a { background-color: #FFFFFF; } .pagination a:hover { background-color: #fdfcfc;color:#BF4D28} .page-link em {background-color: #fdfcfc; color:#ffffff;} .page-link a em {color:#d5e6b3;} .page-link a:hover em {background-color:#ffffff;} #searchform input[type="text"] {color:#8c97b0;} #toTop {border-color:transparent transparent #131211;} #toTop:after {border-color:transparent transparent #FFFFFF;} #toTop:hover:after {border-bottom-color:#ffffff;} .caption-accented .wp-caption { background-color:rgb(255,255,255); background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.8); color:#FFFFFF} .meta-themed .entry-meta span { color: #8c97b0; background-color: #F7F7F7; border-color: #EEEEEE; } .meta-themed .entry-meta span:hover { background-color: #EEEEEE; } .meta-themed .entry-meta span a:hover { color: #333333; } .entry-content, .entry-summary, #front-text3, #front-text4 { text-align:Default ; } html { font-size:14px; line-height:1.7em; } #bg_image {display:block;margin:0 auto;} #content h1.entry-title, #content h2.entry-title { font-size:34px ;} .widget-title, .widget-title a { font-size:18px ;} .entry-content h1 { font-size: 2.676em; } #frontpage h1 { font-size: 2.076em; } .entry-content h2 { font-size: 2.352em; } #frontpage h2 { font-size: 1.752em; } .entry-content h3 { font-size: 2.028em; } #frontpage h3 { font-size: 1.428em; } .entry-content h4 { font-size: 1.704em; } #frontpage h4 { font-size: 1.104em; } .entry-content h5 { font-size: 1.38em; } #frontpage h5 { font-size: 0.78em; } .entry-content h6 { font-size: 1.056em; } #frontpage h6 { font-size: 0.456em; } #site-title span a { font-size:38px ;} #access ul li a { font-size:14px ;} #access ul ul ul a {font-size:12px;} #respond .form-allowed-tags { display:none;} .nocomments, .nocomments2 {display:none;} .comments-link span { display:none;} #header-container > div:first-child { margin:40px 0 0 0px;} header.page-header, .archive h1.page-title { display:none; } article.post .comments-link { display:none; } .entry-meta .author { display:none; } .entry-meta span.bl_categ { display:none; } .entry-meta .footer-tags, .entry-utility .footer-tags { display:none; } .entry-content p, .entry-content ul, .entry-content ol, .entry-content dd, .entry-content pre, .entry-content hr, .commentlist p { margin-bottom: 1.0em; } #content div.entry-meta { display:none; } #header-widget-area { width: 33%; } #branding { height:120px; } @media (max-width: 800px) { #content h1.entry-title, #content h2.entry-title { font-size:32.3px ; } #site-title span a { font-size:34.2px;} } @media (max-width: 650px) { #content h1.entry-title, #content h2.entry-title {font-size:30.6px ;} #site-title span a { font-size:30.4px;} } @media (max-width: 480px) { #site-title span a { font-size:22.8px;} }
|
||
/* Parabola Custom CSS */
|
||
</style>
|
||
<link rel='stylesheet' id='parabola-mobile-css' href='/wp-content/themes/parabola/styles/style-mobile.css?ver=2.4.1' type='text/css' media='all' />
|
||
<script type="text/javascript" src="/wp-content/plugins/hdw-player-video-player-video-gallery/js/jquery.min.js?ver=2.0.2" id="jquery-js"></script>
|
||
<script type="text/javascript" src="/wp-content/plugins/hdw-player-video-player-video-gallery/js/majhdwplayer.js?v=4.2&ver=6.6.5" id="hdwmaj-js"></script>
|
||
<script type="text/javascript" src="/wp-content/plugins/hdw-player-video-player-video-gallery/js/html5.hdwplayer.js?v=4.2&ver=6.6.5" id="hdwhtml-js"></script>
|
||
<script type="text/javascript" id="gutena-forms-script-js-extra">
|
||
/* <![CDATA[ */
|
||
var gutenaFormsBlock = {"submit_action":"gutena_forms_submit","ajax_url":"\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php","nonce":"5216d26618","grecaptcha_type":"0","grecaptcha_site_key":"","grecaptcha_secret_key":"","pricing_link":"\/wp-admin\/admin.php?page=gutena-forms&pagetype=introduction#gutena-forms-pricing","required_msg":"Please fill in this field","required_msg_optin":"Please check this checkbox","required_msg_select":"Please select an option","required_msg_check":"Please check an option","invalid_email_msg":"Please enter a valid email address","min_value_msg":"Input value should be greater than","max_value_msg":"Input value should be less than"};
|
||
/* ]]> */
|
||
</script>
|
||
<script type="text/javascript" src="/wp-content/plugins/gutena-forms/build/script.js?ver=88d2bed4428a29f4f231" id="gutena-forms-script-js"></script>
|
||
<script type="text/javascript" id="parabola-frontend-js-extra">
|
||
/* <![CDATA[ */
|
||
var parabola_settings = {"masonry":"0","magazine":"0","mobile":"1","fitvids":"1"};
|
||
/* ]]> */
|
||
</script>
|
||
<script type="text/javascript" src="/wp-content/themes/parabola/js/frontend.js?ver=2.4.1" id="parabola-frontend-js"></script>
|
||
<link rel="https://api.w.org/" href="/wp-json/" /><link rel="alternate" title="JSON" type="application/json" href="/wp-json/wp/v2/categories/38" /><link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="/xmlrpc.php?rsd" />
|
||
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 6.6.5" />
|
||
<meta name="tec-api-version" content="v1"><meta name="tec-api-origin" content=""><link rel="alternate" href="/wp-json/tribe/events/v1/" /><style type="text/css" id="custom-background-css">
|
||
body.custom-background { background-color: #ffffff; }
|
||
</style>
|
||
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
|
||
<script>
|
||
document.createElement('header');
|
||
document.createElement('nav');
|
||
document.createElement('section');
|
||
document.createElement('article');
|
||
document.createElement('aside');
|
||
document.createElement('footer');
|
||
</script>
|
||
<![endif]-->
|
||
<style type="text/css" id="wp-custom-css">
|
||
/* General fix for the header image */
|
||
#bg_image {
|
||
width: 100%; /* Scale the image to fit the container */
|
||
height: auto; /* Maintain aspect ratio to avoid stretching */
|
||
max-width: 100%; /* Prevent the image from exceeding container width */
|
||
}
|
||
|
||
/* Mobile-specific fix for the header image */
|
||
@media (max-width: 768px) {
|
||
#bg_image {
|
||
|
||
object-fit: contain; /* Ensure the entire image is visible */
|
||
width: 100%; /* Let the image adjust to screen width */
|
||
height: auto; /* Maintain aspect ratio */
|
||
}
|
||
}
|
||
</style>
|
||
</head>
|
||
<body data-rsssl=1 class="archive category category-speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958 category-38 custom-background tribe-no-js metaslider-plugin parabola-image-three caption-light meta-light parabola_triagles parabola-menu-left">
|
||
|
||
<div id="toTop"> </div>
|
||
<div id="wrapper" class="hfeed">
|
||
|
||
|
||
<div id="header-full">
|
||
|
||
<header id="header">
|
||
|
||
|
||
<div id="masthead">
|
||
|
||
<div id="branding" role="banner" >
|
||
|
||
<img id="bg_image" alt="FFWPU Ireland" title="FFWPU Ireland" src="/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/BannerFamilyFed_23_10c1.jpg" /><div id="header-container">
|
||
<a href="/" id="linky"></a></div> <div style="clear:both;"></div>
|
||
|
||
</div><!-- #branding -->
|
||
<a id="nav-toggle"><span> </span></a>
|
||
|
||
<nav id="access" class="jssafe" role="navigation">
|
||
|
||
<div class="skip-link screen-reader-text"><a href="#content" title="Skip to content">Skip to content</a></div>
|
||
<div class="menu"><ul id="prime_nav" class="menu"><li id="menu-item-241" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-home menu-item-241"><a href="/"><span>Home</span></a></li>
|
||
<li id="menu-item-52" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-has-children menu-item-52"><a title="About Us" href="/about-us/"><span>About Us</span></a>
|
||
<ul class="sub-menu">
|
||
<li id="menu-item-73" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-73"><a title="Founders" href="/the-founders/"><span>The Founders</span></a></li>
|
||
<li id="menu-item-127" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-127"><a href="/about-us/organizations/"><span>Organizations</span></a></li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li id="menu-item-51" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-51"><a title="Videos" href="/videos/"><span>Videos</span></a></li>
|
||
<li id="menu-item-102" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-has-children menu-item-102"><a href="/events/"><span>Events</span></a>
|
||
<ul class="sub-menu">
|
||
<li id="menu-item-53" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-53"><a title="Events" href="/services/"><span>Sunday Services</span></a></li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li id="menu-item-83" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-83"><a title="Contact Us" href="/contact/"><span>Contact</span></a></li>
|
||
</ul></div>
|
||
</nav><!-- #access -->
|
||
|
||
</div><!-- #masthead -->
|
||
|
||
<div style="clear:both;height:1px;width:1px;"> </div>
|
||
|
||
</header><!-- #header -->
|
||
</div><!-- #header-full -->
|
||
<div id="main">
|
||
<div id="forbottom" >
|
||
|
||
<div style="clear:both;"> </div>
|
||
|
||
|
||
<section id="container" class="two-columns-right">
|
||
<div id="content" role="main">
|
||
|
||
|
||
<header class="page-header">
|
||
<h1 class="page-title">Category: <span>Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1958</span></h1> </header>
|
||
|
||
<div class="content-masonry">
|
||
|
||
|
||
<article id="post-978" class="post-978 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958">
|
||
<header class="entry-header">
|
||
<h2 class="entry-title">
|
||
<a href="/blog/2018/06/07/humankind-wanders-in-search-of-the-truth/" title="Permalink to Humankind Wanders In Search of the Truth" rel="bookmark">Humankind Wanders In Search of the Truth</a>
|
||
</h2>
|
||
<div class="entry-meta">
|
||
<span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="/blog/author/fami1yfed/" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-07T08:47:44+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/07/humankind-wanders-in-search-of-the-truth/" rel="bookmark">June 7, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-07T08:48:00+01:00">June 7, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/blog/category/speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958/" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1958</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
</header><!-- .entry-header -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
<div class="entry-content">
|
||
<h2 align="center">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
|
||
<h3 style="text-align: center;" align="center">Former Church Headquarters<br />
|
||
Seoul, Korea<br />
|
||
December 21, 1958</h3>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Matthew 7:1-12</em></p>
|
||
<div class="version-NIV result-text-style-normal text-html ">
|
||
<p class="chapter-1" style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="text Matt-7-1"><span class="woj">“Do not judge, or you too will be judged.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23319" class="text Matt-7-2"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-23320" class="text Matt-7-3"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23321" class="text Matt-7-4"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?</span></span><span id="en-NIV-23322" class="text Matt-7-5"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-23323" class="text Matt-7-6"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="text Matt-7-7"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23325" class="text Matt-7-8"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-23326" class="text Matt-7-9"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23327" class="text Matt-7-10"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23328" class="text Matt-7-11"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23329" class="text Matt-7-12"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.</span></span></em></p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p>Prayer</p>
|
||
<blockquote><p>Father of love, human beings were to oversee the ideal garden of love and hold Your love in high regard. Yet ever since we rejected the heart of the Father, who wished to build the ideal garden of love, we have been leaving sorrowful footprints of blood and tears throughout several thousand years of restoration history. Please forgive us.</p>
|
||
<p>We are aware that now is the time when we must yearn for the Father’s lost love. The final day of restoration is coming near, when we cannot help standing on the Father’s side, having discovered the Father’s heart. Father of love, please raise us today and newly give us counsel. Since You have called us, please admonish us anew. Father, I pray from the bottom of my heart that You will allow us to bow in the presence of the Father with a blissful and glorious countenance, having eliminated the sorrow of restoration.</p>
|
||
<p>Please do not allow our minds and bodies to remain only as our own. Please allow all things, from the emotions that we feel to the concepts or doctrines or assertions that we have, not to be ours. We know that nothing originated from us and that all things were affected by Heaven. Father of love, I pray from the bottom of my heart that You allow us in this hour to offer up the whole to the Father.</p>
|
||
<p>Please allow us to understand that even if each of us assert ourselves, we cannot appear before all things proudly with our mind and body such as they are nor can we appear before humankind. Please guide us to acknowledge that none of us can step forth before the whole universe in a self-congratulatory way, regardless of what we have. Please allow each of us to lay aside all that we have and transform it into the Father’s heart, by receiving the Father’s heart of resurrection. Guide us to delve into and enter the Father’s heart. Father of love, I ardently wish and desire that You allow us to be eager to receive the words of re-creation with blissful hearts.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, since these young people are gathered here in this hour, please govern our minds. Although it is our duty to offer a gift when we prostrate ourselves before the dignified presence of the Father, we were unable to bring anything. Please forgive us. Since we have only our ardent minds to offer before You, please accept these minds as Your own. Since we offer these bodies, please allow them to be a living sacrifice. Father, I sincerely wish and desire that You allow the ardent shimjung, the shimjung of high regard, to appear over the shimjungs and minds of those gathered here.</p>
|
||
<p>Father! Please govern every mind among Your sons and daughters gathered here. The circumstances, the emotions, and the course of the past days in which blood and sweat were shed differ from one another since each of us is different. Our conjectures also differ, since our opinions differ. Yet please govern us to be embraced in the Father’s heart and ardent mind, even if for this one hour only. By doing so, please allow us to be a sacrificial offering for the sake of the one purpose by gathering us into one. Father, I pray from the depth of my heart that You allow no element of which Satan can take advantage to enter into any mind in this audience.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, we thank You for granting us this opportunity. We have become conscious of the mission for which we must be responsible. Father, since we have made the Word public before this people, please allow many to appear bearing a heart of high respect toward Heaven because of it. Please allow a large number of people to appear in this nation who pray ardently to You, holding onto this Word.</p>
|
||
<p>I sincerely wish and desire that You will allow us, in the last days, to equip ourselves with a victorious altar to realize the glory and Will of Heaven. Thus You will let the day of the Father’s victory come as quickly as possible. We understand that it will not be difficult for the Father’s glory to bear fruit. Father, I pray sincerely that You will allow us to be devoted internally, as well as externally, in making preparations for this task.</p>
|
||
<p>Please allow us to know now that this is the time in which we must pray, offering all our minds and bodies. Allow us to bear the Word You are going to deliver in our minds and bodies. We know that if we put these words into practice responsibly, the fruits will be manifested in this nation. Father, I sincerely wish and desire that You attain Your Will and Your glory through this nation.</p>
|
||
<p>Since this is a holy day, the day You promised You would bless all of humankind, please bless every altar where people are gathered in ardent supplication before You. We have gathered in the Son’s name before the Father, having each become a blood vessel in one heart. Please allow each of us to be united to the whole. Please allow us to embrace Your heart and to be concerned about the Will of the Father.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, please look with compassion at Korean Christianity. Although they are seeking the path of life, they do not know which way to go, and they do not have confidence. Please bless the religious orders. Father, please direct the light of life before those who are straying, not knowing where to go. Father, I pray from the bottom of my heart that You allow these people to boast as the Father’s sons and daughters in the presence of all humankind, one day revealing the glory of victory before the whole macrocosm.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, since we understand that through this Will You must drive us out into a lonely position, please allow us to be a sacrificial offering in sight of the nation. We know that the duty of a sacrificial offering is to rejoice after You and all of creation have rejoiced. In addition to that, Your sons and daughters gathered here understand that a sacrificial offering has the responsibility to live peacefully for the sake of the Father’s Will, having revealed all of its flesh and blood.</p>
|
||
<p>Please allow these sets of minds and bodies to become altars and sacrificial offerings before You by venerating Your heavenly compassion. Beloved Father, I sincerely wish and desire that You allow us to be the sons and daughters who can sing the glory of the Father and offer comfort in solitude to the Father by becoming the Father’s substantial holy temples.</p>
|
||
<p>Please be present with Your sons and daughters scattered throughout the country who are fighting to fulfill the responsibility entrusted to them under all kinds of persecution and difficulties. Since You have led them until the present, Father, I pray from the bottom of my heart You will guide them, so that they may bear fruits which may be realized in the Father’s bosom.</p>
|
||
<p>We now offer our devotion, however insufficient it may be. We have prostrated ourselves in front of Your knees. Father, if there is inadequacy, please strike us. Yet, if there are still children who can fathom the Father’s heart, I pray from the depth of my heart that You allow this to be the hour in which they can embrace one another and pour out the Father’s situation, the Father’s heart.</p>
|
||
<p>Please take charge of all things of this day and rule over them. I pray in the name of the Lord. Amen.</p></blockquote>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Prayer</h3>
|
||
<blockquote><p>Father, at this time when this year is drawing to a close, please allow us to have the shimjung of preparation with which we can usher in a new year, reflecting upon the old one. Please lead us to the place where we are grasped by the Father’s hands with a deeper and more sincere heart than last year’s, looking forward to the Father’s new glory in the new year, where we can connect to the Father’s situation. Please allow us to be led into Your bosom and to have the preparation and resolution with which we can follow You anywhere and everywhere.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, we know that our lives do not belong to us. We know that our ideologies and our loves do not belong to us. Please allow our minds, our bodies, and even our lives to arise from You. Guide us so that they will not be things that come from ourselves.</p>
|
||
<p>We know a man’s self-centered conceit can be maintained only as long as he wears his physical body. We have awakened to the fact that no matter how high a person may say he is, he is insufficient on his own and cannot exceed the limits of time. Please give us minds that can emulate the Father’s lofty and broad shimjung through comprehending Your heartrending situation. Father, I pray from the bottom of my heart that You let us have a mind to deny ourselves, of our accord, to resemble Your deep shimjung and prostrate ourselves in the presence of Heaven.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, since we offer our bodies as a sacrificial offering, please accept them. Since we have prostrated ourselves before this altar, please relate to us. Please do not allow anything of man’s sole making to thrive here; please do not let anything become rigid.</p>
|
||
<p>Please let us strive at least for this hour to bear the ardent shimjung with which You have come seeking human beings for 6,000 years, and the sentimental content that overflows from that shimjung. By allowing us to feel and experience Your bitter pain, let such a change come over our minds as to enable us to sob ceaselessly for You. Please let us bear the utterly sincere shimjung with which we can beat our chests as we grasp Your situation.</p>
|
||
<p>We learned that You have toiled through a historical course of 6,000 years of restoration providence to find a person, whom You had lost. We now know that You have led people through this historical course and that, walking a path of sorrow along with the Father, they have shed tears and blood upon Your altar. You have not been comfortable for even one moment. Please do not allow us now to exist for our sake, even when our minds get hasty. Please do not allow us to become self- centered, even when we are placed in an endless irksome position. Even if we are unspeakably lonely, indescribably persecuted, endlessly hounded after and treated with infinite injustice, please allow us to be Your sons and daughters who can stand in the place of the Father, not for our sake.</p>
|
||
<p>We know that as the mind cannot help connecting to the mind, life cannot help connecting to life, ideology cannot help connecting to ideology, Your love also cannot help connecting to love. Father, we know that eternal life has to be moved by life, and love has to be moved by love. Father, since that is the case, please manifest Yourself as the Subject of life as life, the Subject of love as love. We are experiencing the exhaustion of that life and that love.</p>
|
||
<p>Since we are in narrow circumstances in all ideological aspects, we are inadequate people who cannot protect even one day of life. We prostrate ourselves in sadness in the presence of the Father this day, bearing in our chests the bitter resentment of the fall, stemming from the loss of the ideology brought about by the betrayal of Heaven and earth. Father, please embrace these pitiful figures. If You abandon us, who is to take charge of us? If You do not seize us, who is going to? Since there are no leaders or teachers before us, I sincerely wish and desire that only You be with us.</p>
|
||
<p>When we face the fact that You make effort to comfort our minds whenever we encounter a difficult task or face a sorrowful situation, we cannot help telling You that we are very ashamed of ourselves in Your presence. Father, we know You shed tears after seeing us receive persecution along the path You commanded us to go. We are sorry. We are the ones who stepped forth, following in Your footsteps in response to Your calling us, “Come,” and we are prepared even for death. Therefore, Father, please do not let us step back from the face of death in fear. Beloved Father, I sincerely wish and desire that You allow us to be righteous heavenly soldiers and righteous heavenly sons and daughters who, even if the pain of being torn to pieces befalls us, can surmount all things and go forward as long as the Father’s Will and love remain.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, we know the reason You chased us out in front of the nation into a lonely position was that of Your grand providence. By personally striking us and working through us, please let us be the pivotal part of life that can penetrate the world of death. Please allow such a movement of life to be manifested, even on a lonely altar.</p>
|
||
<p>If there is a heavenly soldier who can penetrate the world of death, please let him make preparations in his mind whereby he too can express thanks. Do not allow him to hesitate on this final course. Please do not let the throng of people You called turn back at the sight of that course. Today we are on the course that faces the fortress of death. Father, please do not take away Your hands of power. Father, I pray from the depth of my heart that by giving the Word of authority, You will guide us and give us counsel until the day when we sing Your glory at last, having won the last victory.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, we know that You have toiled more than we have to seek and establish the course of the number forty and that the time of its realization is near. Now where will our minds and bodies go? Where will these people go? Where will humanity go? Since the fear of death sinks deeply everywhere we go, the time has arrived when young men and women of fervent blood are needed to lead these people forward, assuming responsibility toward Heaven. By giving counsel to Your sons and daughters gathered here, please let our flesh and blood become Yours. Let us be explosive substances of love, atomic bombs of love. Thus, please let us return everything as the Father’s, having won over the world of death. Beloved Father, I pray from the bottom of my heart that You guide us to be the elite soldiers with brave spirits who can more than bring the garden of victory in the new realm of re-creation ideology.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, since I pray ardently, please consider this people’s destiny with compassion. Many of Your sons and daughters will have to shed tears ceaselessly, feel endlessly sorry and be immeasurably contrite for the sake of these people. Among these people, there is a throng of selected people who are to cry for the sake of the heavenly principles, for the sake of the state, and for the sake of these people.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, please let national-level feelings of life and love explode in our minds. I ardently wish and desire that You allow us to be the sons and daughters who can continue toward You, holding onto these people as their brothers, their parents, and their friends.</p>
|
||
<p>Please look with compassion at humankind wandering about in a deep sleep. Please bless every place sons and daughters have gathered to build altars in Your presence on behalf of humankind.</p>
|
||
<p>Having assumed the Father’s task, please let us quickly attain the mind that can tolerate indefinitely, that can concede endlessly. We know that, for the Father’s task, the individual has to offer everything before Him, transcending life and all possessions. Please guide us to be able to care for one another, to hold one another in high esteem, and to embrace one another. Thus, Father, I sincerely wish and desire that You will allow Your works, which can restore the lost one world of ideology, the garden of goodness, to be manifested in the presence of all humankind, everywhere heads are bowed.</p>
|
||
<p>By mobilizing a billion faithful believers, heavenly soldiers, and numerous spirits in the spirit world, please halt and eliminate the influence of darkness and wrong. I wish for You to sit comfortably, You alone enthroned, and single-handedly take charge of the glory of the leadership position. I desire for You to embrace the lonely families and guide them through counseling. I pray all these words in the name of the Lord. Amen.</p></blockquote>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Prayer</h3>
|
||
<blockquote><p>Father, please convert our hearts into empty vessels. Please allow our hearts to seethe ceaselessly for the Father’s sake. Please transfer the ideology of creation with which You created all creation into our hearts. Allow us to be those whose minds move in response to the Father’s motions, whose hearts respond emotionally to the Father’s emotions.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, You wish us to see the unforgettable image of a mind submerged in peace and rejoicing. You wish us to seek and caress a peaceful heart. Now please allow our minds and hearts to be moved by You and to be used only as Yours. I pray sincerely that You will allow our minds and bodies to transform into the Father’s alone, piercing deeply into the world of essence only through the Father.</p>
|
||
<p>Although numerous human beings live on this earth, Father, we know that no group of people is striving to have the foundation of their minds and hearts hidden and buried in the Father. Our minds today long for the original heart, and we need the true character of the original creation. For this, we know we need the Father’s new Words.</p>
|
||
<p>Individuals, whom the Father created to rejoice in, dwell in a wicked world because they fell. Yet their true character is moving toward the world of the original nature. For 6,000 years, humanity has eagerly looked forward to the Words of re-creation of the original nature; He has looked forward to calling upon and raising the true character. For 6,000 years, he has adored and sought after the Word. Now the day of judgment is closing in on the fortress of death. Father, look with compassion at humankind, faced with a time like this, striving hard in a world of fear, not knowing which way to go, wandering about, having lost the center, unable to find their position and place. Please guide them so that they may come back to Your bosom.</p>
|
||
<p>We know that the children gathered here are the holy temples and essential foundations You seek. If You do not come into play, the creation on earth will endure limitless pain at the day of judgment. Therefore, Father, please extend Your hands of re-creation.</p>
|
||
<p>Isn’t it the original principle of creation that You created Adam and Eve to love? Please allow us to know the heart of the Father, who is holding onto each of us, to seek and raise humankind again in front of You, based on that principle. Not caring about tiredness, indifferent to mortified feelings and sorrow, heedless of vexation and the path of tears, not paying attention to the bloody altar, the Father persists. Please guide us to know Your historical situation, that You have no choice but to do thus. Please let us be transformed into Yours, only in peace, in this hour by having fathomed Your passionate heart. Eliminate everything that is not Yours. Please allow us to be able to rejoice if You rejoice and to move in response to Your movements. Thus, beloved Father, I sincerely wish and desire that You let us appear as figures of original nature, with the glory of beauty, before all phenomena. Restore us as figures who can multiply with a new voice.</p>
|
||
<p>Now we know that my mind does not belong to me, my body does not belong to me, and this land upon which I live does not belong to me either. We know that this universe does not belong to me nor do all the things You created. We know that all these things derived their origin from the Father and were created for Him, to be connected with Him.</p>
|
||
<p>We know that it is the true character of creation for all humankind to seek the glory of happiness by relating to one center. We were created in this fashion. Please restore us to be such substantial entities of harmony and original nature, related to the glory of the one center You established, in response to whom the whole universe can move.</p>
|
||
<p>Now the time has come for us to liquidate the historical course of universal grief and to create the history of a new happiness. Father, since we are short of strength, please give us mighty strength. Allow us to have strong desire. Father, I ardently wish and desire that You let us equip ourselves as dauntless heavenly soldiers who can proceed with confidence toward the goal.</p>
|
||
<p>The Father said to Joshua and Caleb, as they were looking at the land of Canaan, “Be strong and brave.” As Joshua was to bear the standard of being strong and brave in the face of the enemy, today we cannot help marching onward, toward the fortress of Canaan strongly and bravely.</p>
|
||
<p>Now, when the decisive last battle has arrived before our eyes, we know that fighting sons and daughters of responsibility are needed to face the darkness. Father, please allow Your sons and daughters gathered here to become such people in charge. Beloved Father, I pray this from the bottom of my heart.</p>
|
||
<p>Please govern the minds of the sons and daughters gathered here. Is there anyone who makes self-assertions, getting above himself today? Is there anyone who relates to the Father through some doctrine, thought or concept of his own, through his perception? He would be the one who does not know the Father’s absolute power, the one who does not know the Father’s hidden pain.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, please grab hold of our hearts, and allow us to listen to Your new Word of life. Through new feelings of love, allow us to bring about the miracle of re-creation. Father, I ardently wish and desire that You let us realize our deficiency and immaturity. Allow us to be the sons and daughters who can directly report to You that we are not worthy of bowing before You.</p>
|
||
<p>Since our true character wishes to move toward the one ideology, please let our bodies and minds move according to that will. Please allow our minds and bodies to be united in this hour. Enable these unified bodies and minds to be offered as a sacrifice.</p>
|
||
<p>Please enable us to advance through the wall of death that has been barred for 6,000 years with bitter resentment and sorrow. In doing so, please enable the billion faithful believers to move. Let the numerous individuals in spirit world centered on the Triune God offer songs of delight in this hour. Father, I pray from the bottom of my heart that You allow this to be the hour in which we can promise the day of restoration and liberation before all things in the universe. I sincerely wish and desire that this will become the time when we can join the whole world before the Father’s altar by the mind taking the lead in operating together with the body.</p>
|
||
<p>Since now I am about to deliver the word, please do not allow the mind of the deliverer and those of the receivers to be separated into two. Since the word works through the mind, please allow us to feel it through our minds. Allow this to be the hour in which we can be led, transforming the Word into our bodies before the Father’s real presence.</p>
|
||
<p>Please do not let Satan seize any moment. Please sanctify the elements that Satan could calumniate. Please direct us personally.</p>
|
||
<p>If we cannot realize our insufficiency of our accord, please manifest Yourself as eyes like flames. Asserting that our minds and bodies belong to You, be present in us. I sincerely wish and desire that You allow us to fulfill the mission of restoration through indemnity by meeting the conditions of hardship. Let us be the ones who can bring about a new history. I pray all these words in the name of the Lord. Amen.</p></blockquote>
|
||
<p>The title of today’s sermon which I am going to deliver to you is <i>“Humankind Wanders In Search of the Truth.”</i> I will speak briefly upon this topic.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Real Condition of Man and<br />
|
||
the Need for the Standard of Absolute Good</h3>
|
||
<p>Today you may know very well that you feel indescribably impetuous and busy, yet at the same time you feel sad. You cannot deny that there is a mind within you nor that there is some kind of purpose within the mind’s yearning which causes the mind to ceaselessly seek to influence and absorb the body into that purpose. You cannot deny that you live in the condition where you feel that something, even if you do not know what it is, is leading you ceaselessly toward an unknown destination.</p>
|
||
<p>If you feel something like this, you must re-examine your minds and bodies. If there is some kind of ideological, invisible world of which human beings are ignorant, we must re-examine ourselves centered upon the spirit of that world.</p>
|
||
<p>Thus, by forming a relationship of oneness with that ideological realm, you can continue in a sure direction. If you do not do that, there will be no peace in your hearts. Even though you may hope for peace and other things, your hopes will not be attained. I affirm and assert this to you.</p>
|
||
<p>As you study the Principle, you learn that humankind was originally good. Yet history has proven that because of the mistake of one day, humans became beings who were not good. Religious people have proven this to be so; we cannot deny that fact.</p>
|
||
<p>The standard of good is the ideology all of us are pursuing. That is our hope. Furthermore, it is the center of the eternal love that is moving inside our minds, the focal point of any ideology of feeling. At the same time, the standard of good leads our minds to pursue an absolute resting place. It operates as an influence which, transcending time and space, controls our bodies, the direction of our minds, and the ideology we seek.</p>
|
||
<p>This standard of goodness must become the center of all that I am in mind, body and spirit. Thus, by relating to this freely, we must transform and create an environment where an individual’s emotion in life can be connected to the emotion of the whole. Otherwise, we cannot find the value of our minds or bodies nor the value of spiritual movements.</p>
|
||
<p>The bitter resentment resulting from the fall has created a seat of sorrow like this today. The grief caused by the fall has hounded humankind into this kind of hardship. Therefore, the historical course you walk is the path originated by the fall. You are striving under such circumstances.</p>
|
||
<p>Please review yourselves. Toward where are your bodies moving? Toward where are your minds moving? Where is your spiritual body headed? Even though humans are destined, by all means, to seek a true form of the absolute ideology, a true form of good, a true form of life and of love, we now wander about aimlessly.</p>
|
||
<p>The question becomes, at what direction and angle am I compared to the direction and angle of the absolute good? If my mind wishes to go right, why am I going left? My mind wishes to have a higher ideology. Why then do I have a limited view of the universe? Individuals today are walking the path of restoration to find their original selves to escape this situation. Now the time to look soberly at yourselves has arrived. You must be able to look at the headstrong attitude with which you strive and search. Your minds and spirits must transform into incarnations who can represent the value of glory. No such figure has appeared since the Creation. Therefore, we must realize that we must walk the path in which we search for something unknown, the path of fate.</p>
|
||
<p>There are body, mind and spirit in each of us. We must become a being who has a unified body, mind and spirit. Accordingly, if some kind of Creator exists, then the one who can be led to the presence of that Creator and be embraced and who can embrace others will be the one for whom the Creator is looking. We humans are looking for that person too.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">To be a True Human Being</h3>
|
||
<p>My mind commands my body to seek things that are true. It is commanding me to seek a true body first. Humanity today is wandering about seeking that which is true without knowing what it is. Because they are living in this world, which is deeply penetrated by the bitter resentment caused by the fall, they are being drawn into the fate of having to seek what is true without knowing what it is.</p>
|
||
<p>Now you must realize that you cannot rejoice over your original selves. You must know yourselves to be faced with grief, yet you are not to feel sad. Even if you feel pain, you must not feel pain from things that happen in the world. If you are to feel sadness and pain, you must feel the sadness and pain of not having been able to find your true selves. You must realize that even though there is so much sadness and pain in the world, there is no greater sadness and pain than that which is caused by being unable to find our true selves.</p>
|
||
<p>Whom has God the Creator been looking for until now? He is looking for you: that is, “me.” For that reason, I must find the true me. If not, I cannot make a connection with a true family centered on perfect, substantial entities, a society, a nation centered on true families, and furthermore, a world made up of states, or a macrocosm made up of worlds. Becoming a perfect “me” is the standard for all the other stages.</p>
|
||
<p>God has been feeling immeasurably sad in relation to humanity for 6,000 years. You must realize that there is no more mortifying event than that of having lost one’s beloved sons and daughters. Although the whole of creation fills up the universal space, that is not what is important. The whole macrocosmos has turned into a world of deathly darkness, because of the loss of Adam and Eve. What is more, God is feeling endless pain and sorrow.</p>
|
||
<p>What must individuals do to restore their lost selves? They must reflect upon God’s shimjung at the time of the loss. Otherwise, there is no way to restore the original “me.” In the same manner that you can recover what you lost only when you go back to the place where you lost it, you must reflect upon God’s shimjung at the time of losing “me” to restore yourself. Without this, individuals cannot restore their original selves.</p>
|
||
<p>That is why Heaven has been seeking human beings for 6,000 years. In other words, God has come through the 6,000-year historical course to restore me, the individual. That 6,000-year historical course has been full of blood and tears, paths of persecution and death.</p>
|
||
<p>While coming through such a course, God has fought to seek me, the individual being, not forgetting the heart of pain or the tears of sorrow He shed after losing Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden 6,000 years ago. Treating the 6,000 years like a day, with the shimjung of the time of loss, God has come forth fighting to recover humankind. You must understand such a heart of God.</p>
|
||
<p>Because the sorrow started from God’s heart 6,000 years ago, history until today has remained sorrowful. The fruit of sorrow has accrued to us. Therefore, humanity’s sorrow cannot be eliminated before we alleviate the sorrow that penetrated the depths of God’s heart. We must realize this.</p>
|
||
<p>The tangled thread will have to be untangled where the tangling occurred. It must be restored to its original state through indemnity. This is the ironclad rule of the salvific providence. If this is the ironclad rule, we human beings today must realize that the historical age of conclusion will come when we must wander about seeking the heart that was lost in order to find and establish ourselves.</p>
|
||
<p>What then is to happen in the last days? Judgments will be made having decided upon a standard of shimjung.</p>
|
||
<p>Looking at yourselves today, you must know that your bodies are stained with the tears of God’s sorrow of 6,000 years, with the blood of God’s pain. The bitter resentment against evil has pierced to the very marrow. What is more, you must know that God’s sorrow and pain in regard to eliminating this condition of bitter resentment has penetrated deeply into all of our hearts.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Wavelength of the Human Fall<br />
|
||
and the Path Man Should Walk</h3>
|
||
<p>When humans were cast out of ancient Eden, they grieved centered on themselves, not knowing God’s heart. Thus, forgetting our own body’s sorrow and pain, we must first liberate God from sorrow and pain. Unless we do this, we cannot dissolve the grievous historical resentment and go over it. Therefore, you must now feel that each of us is a crystallization of God’s tears of 6,000 years. We are not only the crystallization of God’s tears, we are also the crystallization of God’s pain. Only from such a position will our individual value be restored to life again.</p>
|
||
<p>For that reason, we who are placed in the last days, when we must dissolve the sorrow and pain caused by the fall, must now represent God’s heart. We must know how to grieve and receive pain in place of God, who has grieved and received pain for 6,000 years. Since humans have no comprehension of this, you must know that Heaven has unfolded the dispensation, shedding tears for humanity, having laid down the term “Heaven’s judgment.”</p>
|
||
<p>How is one to avoid judgment? We are not to cry holding onto our bodies or over our pain. We must know the pain of God, who bears greater pain than ours to save us. We must know that God’s sorrows and difficulties are greater than ours. We must deny everything about ourselves and dissolve all the pain that has penetrated deeply into the heart of God, who has been guiding history from behind the scenes. Today’s humanity is fated to seek the one who can carry out such a mission.</p>
|
||
<p>Viewed from this standpoint, in order for fallen humans to break out of themselves and go on, what must they do? What can move my mind, what can move my body and the material that I have? That is the shimjung of perfect love.</p>
|
||
<p>You must become people who can feel that your spirit embraces your mind and loves it, that your mind embraces your body and loves it, and that your body embraces all of creation and loves it. Such a person is the very destination and terminus we are seeking.</p>
|
||
<p>However, no one has accomplished this. Although God is holding onto our spirits, our minds and our bodies and is loving them, no one could feel that. You must know this.</p>
|
||
<p>If God embraces my spirit and loves it, my spirit loves my mind, my mind loves my body, and my body loves all of creation, the shimjung will then become united. In such a world, the shimjung that loves all creation will be connected to the body; the shimjung that loves the body will be connected to the mind; the shimjung that loves the mind will be connected to the spirit; and the shimjung that loves the spirit will be connected to God. This is the terminus humanity seeks.</p>
|
||
<p>There is no one who takes hold of you and asks, “Do you know with what mission you are entrusted?” Yet, though you are not aware of it, there is a being who stands in your way and asks, “Who are you? Where are you going? What will you do?” You do not realize this.</p>
|
||
<p>What did humanity lose by falling? It lost love. The cause of human lamentation is the loss of God’s love. Therefore, human history has come through a historical course of lamentation with God’s love lost. Do you understand that?</p>
|
||
<p>God’s love is the foothold of the eternal ideology of the heavenly kingdom, for the building of the substantial heavenly kingdom on earth. However, humankind lost God’s love, the ideological foundation of the eternal world because of the fall. Because humanity lost this love of God, God had to leave. That is why God’s love, which can build the heavenly kingdom on earth, has gradually been broken down.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Model of the Human Fall</h3>
|
||
<p>The fall was the loss of God’s love. When we think of the course of the fall, through what kind of path did it go? At the very first, Eve lost God’s love. Next, Adam lost God’s love and their children did the same. You know this very well. Human history was the history of losing love.</p>
|
||
<p>Who was the first person to step forth after having discussed love? It was Eve. Who was the next? It was Adam. Next were Cain and Abel. These are the archetypes of fallen history. This model of fallen history took place in the beginning. Individuals have been walking through this kind of history ever since.</p>
|
||
<p>Love is a center that can command the whole universe. It is a subjective center, a commanding center, and a tolerating center. This is the ideology of love. This ideology was to be the foundation of history.</p>
|
||
<p>Thus, when we study the historical course, there were primitive ages in the time of clan societies centered on the maternal line. This is because Eve, the mother, discussed love for the first time. After the tribal society, history centered on the paternal line. After that, coming into the age of democracy today, the age of brotherhood began.</p>
|
||
<p>History, which has flowed in that fashion, has now arrived at the last days. It has become impossible to find love for parents among human beings nowadays. The democratic nations today are like that.</p>
|
||
<p>In the end, the time will come when anything attempting to resemble husband and wife from the position of brother and sister will be broken apart. Hence, the ladder of love that can connect Heaven and humanity today is being disconnected. Consequently, humankind today is living in the position of an orphan who lost parental love, lost true conjugal love, and lost true brotherly love. These phenomena formerly took place vertically in advanced nations, but now these phenomena are taking place horizontally throughout the world.</p>
|
||
<p>How did the fall take place? The fall took place because Adam and Eve were unable to make a vertical relationship with God and instead made an objective and horizontal relationship with Satan. Therefore, human beings in the final ages in history today are crying out for egalitarianism, centering on democracy.</p>
|
||
<p>What event took place in Adam’s family because of the fall? Cain killed Abel. Abel was a substitute for Eve. Therefore, in advanced nations today where egalitarianism is being advocated, women have more authority than men. Accordingly, this is the time to set up the vertical side through the horizontal side. Since humankind cannot form a complete vertical relationship, everything is falling to pieces.</p>
|
||
<p>The path you seek today is the path of a new ideology, the path of life, and the path of love that Heaven is presenting. You must realize that you are standing in the historical course where you must proceed seeking the path of love that introduces you to this new ideology and life.</p>
|
||
<p>What kind of parents have you lost? What kind of man and wife have you lost? What kind of children did you lose? You lost the parents who did not fall, the man and wife who did not fall, the children who did not fall. Thus, a throng of people who can surmount the sorrow of Eden and win the joy of Eden will have to emerge on this earth now. Unless such a throng appears, God’s 6,000-year restoration providence will face a critical moment of fundamental collapse.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The History of Indemnity for<br />
|
||
the Purpose of Saving Fallen Men</h3>
|
||
<p>Salvific history has conformed to the principles of indemnity. It was a history in which the sovereign authority has been carried over from mother to father, from father to children.</p>
|
||
<p>Now we have ushered in a great historical conversion age. Therefore, the fortune of heaven and earth is being restored to life again. You must know that humanity is placed in the inevitable fateful course of restoration through indemnity.</p>
|
||
<p>Therefore, in this present world, equal rights between the sexes are being advocated. The time for women to receive better treatment from men is here. Don’t you think so? This is the process of restoring through indemnity the fact that Eve, the mother, ruled Adam in Eden in a reverse way.</p>
|
||
<p>The history initiated by the fall was not a normal history. It was a discriminatory, one-sided and one-directional history. Therefore, it must turn back the way it has come. Heaven unfolded the dispensation of dividing humans, cast out by the fall, into two sides: one on the left, the other on the right. Likewise, division into left and right has also taken place between man and woman, between human beings, between states and between the world. Left symbolizes what is wrong, and right symbolizes what is right.</p>
|
||
<p>Humans lost their innate character because they fell. That is why they have walked the path of good, according to the truthful reporting of the conscience.</p>
|
||
<p>Today you must stand steadfast before Heaven and become central figures who can govern the whole universe. What is the essence that can determine the central figure of all creation? It is not vitality nor ideology. It is love. That is why I Corinthians 13:13 says, “Faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” St. Paul spoke thus because this is the path a person must walk. Jesus had to establish a standard of love that could demonstrate the position of children by having united the internal spirit and the external flesh. Because the Israelite people did not believe in him, that standard could not be established.</p>
|
||
<p>Because human history is the history of re-creation, the process of restoration had to be developed. Therefore, Jesus’ spirit went to heaven, while the Holy Spirit came to deal with individuals on earth.</p>
|
||
<p>What must the Holy Spirit accomplish by embracing spiritual children among the faithful on earth? She must recapture the ideology of Eden. That is why the Holy Spirit came.</p>
|
||
<p>Therefore, we must seek the Savior, the bridegroom, in accordance with the moral obligations of the children of the Holy Spirit. Yet Christians seek the Savior on the ideological level. We do not attain the state of unity between the spirit and flesh. People who walk the path of righteousness, the path of faith, also must lead a life of denying the flesh. Faithful people have wandered in search of the world of the mind and the world of the spirit in such a way.</p>
|
||
<p>The faithful believers of today, the children, must continue toward restoration focused upon the Holy Spirit as their spiritual mother, seeking to unite the spirit and flesh. The mother, Eve, governed the father, Adam, in the Garden of Eden. Inversely, the mother must be governed properly now and her correct position restored. After this, the children are governed.</p>
|
||
<p>The hope of Eden must be attained by uniting the spirit and the flesh. Since the spirit and flesh were severed by the fall, humans must unite them. What is more, humankind must not only stand in a vertical position, but also in a horizontal position. Because humans have continued in a one-sided way, rather than taking an all-directional view, their minds and bodies have become separated, and their minds and spirits have become divided.</p>
|
||
<p>When will Jesus attain this hope? Jesus left the Holy Spirit to work on the earth after his coming and ascension. That will not suffice, however. Because Jesus left behind the promise of his Second Coming, he must return to keep that promise. That ideology of the Second Coming is to seek the physical mother who was lost in the Garden of Eden. By governing the fallen mother, the restored mother will have to restore the physical father’s position. Thus, Jesus’ hope will be realized.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Fallen Man Must Seek True Parents</h3>
|
||
<p>The realization of this hope is attainable in the world where spirit and flesh are united. Only when that happens will parents with united spirit and flesh appear for the first time before Heaven and earth. In light of the Principle, the day when a one-dimensional view of history changes to the all-directional historical view will inevitably have to come. For that reason, if humanity takes only a one-sided viewpoint today, it cannot help writhing in agony in the world of sadness.</p>
|
||
<p>What do we who are walking the fated path of restoration seek? We must seek our true bodies, which we can love forever, and seek the parents of our bodies. Before we find the parents of our bodies, there is no way that the parents of our minds, the parents of our spirits can appear. The creation of heaven and earth began with external matter. That is why you begin writing from the left side when you write. You do not write from the right side. This is an expression of the manner in which the world of the ideology of creation exists.</p>
|
||
<p>When will the moans from the pain of human beings end? Not until we usher in the day when we find the parents who can love our bodies in place of God. No matter how great you are, you lost the innate physical true parents. Therefore, without true parents, true children cannot exist. This world cannot avoid being a world of sin and evil, a world of hell and pain.</p>
|
||
<p>God has been seeking such a person. Through the spirit, God has been seeking our spirits and bodies. God is the True Parent of humankind. He exists as the True Parent of our spirits and minds. While God stands in the position of a Parent who has united the spirit and mind, He forewarned humankind of the day when humankind would find physical parents and meet them. That day is the Marriage of the Lamb.</p>
|
||
<p>Now such a time has come. That is why, having passed through the age of the maternal line, humanity passed through the age of the paternal line and has now entered into the age of brotherhood.</p>
|
||
<p>Although humanity emerges with new doctrines, assertions and systems, if an ideal object, ideal brothers, ideal children, and ideal parents cannot emerge, those doctrines, assertions and systems will all break down. How far out will humanity be pushed? It will be pushed out to a position of less than all things. It will arrive at the day of judgment.</p>
|
||
<p>Viewed from this standpoint, humanity today must wander about in search of True Parents. Substantial True Parents, with physical bodies, must come seeking humanity with a new ideology and vision. The world where humans live ministering to the True Parents is the veritable ideal world. To accomplish such a world, Jesus left word that he would return. That is why the term “Second Coming” came into existence.</p>
|
||
<p>After finding yourselves in such a position before the whole created world, the time has come to subdue your flesh. You must voluntarily subdue your flesh, in place of Satan attacking you. This is the path of righteousness. You must subdue your flesh.</p>
|
||
<p>We cannot seek the path of the parents, the path of love, alone as individuals. Why is that? Each of us came to exist in this world of sin and evil, having passed through the fallen historical course. We</p>
|
||
<p>live within the realm of the epochal fate of the fall. Therefore, this path cannot be sought alone. A tangle of historical problems lies within it. There is the problem of the family, the problems of society, nations and the world. Furthermore, there is the problem of the spirit world. Only when we form ties with the world of the new ideology and parley with it can the world of ideological love be sought.</p>
|
||
<p>The path of righteousness is the path we seek after fighting under hardships. This is the course of God, who has been fighting on the course of restoration for 6,000 years.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Man Whom God Can Receive With Joy</h3>
|
||
<p>What then are you? You are a sacrificial offering representing 6,000 years. To be the sacrificial offering representing 6,000 years, you must gain knowledge of the heart of God, who has made humankind offer sacrifices for 6,000 years.</p>
|
||
<p>What was it like when Adam and Eve were cast out of the realm of God’s love, after they fell in the Garden of Eden? They lamented their misfortune. This was the origin of the tears of humankind and the beginning of pain and suffering. Yet the sadness of Adam and Eve was not all there was. God had a shimjung of greater sadness than that of Adam and Eve when He cast them out. Humans do not know this. You must know this.</p>
|
||
<p>Thus, you are the tribe cast out of the realm of God’s love and have become its descendants. While individuals are grieving centered on their misfortunes, God is grieving even today, looking at individuals who have been cast out.</p>
|
||
<p>What must humans, made outcasts for having betrayed Heaven, centered on themselves, do for restoration? They must become beings who can shed tears, holding onto God’s sorrow, God’s pain and feeling of dejection, having denied all things of their own. They must not be influenced in the least by the presence of their grief, their feelings of dejection and death. Otherwise, they cannot be restored.</p>
|
||
<p>For that reason, Christianity cried out, “Repent!” This means to weep bitterly. In other words, we must restore the origin of history, which began with weeping. To do that, we must not cry over our sorrow. We must be able to cry holding onto God, who has embraced humankind for 6,000 years, who fell to the line of death and shed tears and grieved in pain without humanity being aware of it. If there exists a person of such tears, God will say to him, “Yes, you are the very son I love.” Accordingly, if a person emerges whom God can joyfully receive with such words, God will be able to indemnify the whole experience of having grieved and been subjected to mistreatment and suffering. His resentment will be dissolved.</p>
|
||
<p>Ladies and gentlemen, who is Jesus? He is the true father of humanity. He is the man who came to the earth with the heart of a True Parent, in the place of God, after the lapse of 4,000 years. He was the father who came to meet, embrace and love the humans who had struggled in misery for 4,000 years. Individuals could not recognize Jesus as such and instead crucified him. Only after they had killed him did they realize he was their true father.</p>
|
||
<p>Jesus, who was our true father, came to this earth to lead us to life. Although one might have killed Jesus without knowing such things, there would be no one who would not shed tears if he realized that it was truly his father that he killed. No matter how terrible a villain or robber who has killed human beings, even an unimpressionable person will weep bitterly, beating his chest. It is absolutely impossible for him not to know of the Father’s sorrow.</p>
|
||
<p>From this standpoint, it can be construed that Jesus’ death on the cross became an impetus for human beings to weep bitterly. Humankind was ignorant of the heart of the Parents, who had toiled for them for 4,000 years. Therefore, he who has met the cross must weep bitterly. Remembering that humanity killed Jesus, who came to this earth as the True Parent representing Heaven, one must weep bitterly first for the sake of God, then for the sake of the True Parent who came, and further for the sake of humanity on the earth.</p>
|
||
<p>What must the faithful believers of the last days today weep about bitterly? The time to weep for one’s benefit has passed. The time to weep for the sake of one’s family, one’s society, and one’s nation has also passed. Now we must weep bitterly for the sake of the world, for Heaven, and for the Holy Father, the Holy Son and the Holy Spirit. You must know that only then can we participate in the realm of ideology that has dominion over the whole of the created world centered on love.</p>
|
||
<p>Although they killed him, human beings came to realize that Jesus was the True Parent. Feeling sorrow and keen regret over the loss of their True Parent, they wished him to be resurrected. Because human beings had that kind of true character, God is sending the Lord of the Second Coming to fulfill that wish.</p>
|
||
<p>The faithful believers of the last days, who are to usher in the Lord of the Second Coming, will have to shed tears together. They will have to shed tears representing history and the eras, as substitutes for those events and times. After that, they will have to shed tears of joy. We must shed such tears while we live. Although human beings have shed tears of sorrow, they could not shed tears of happiness. That is why human beings have been anxiously looking forward to the one day when they can shed tears of joy. That is the day of the Second Coming, the day when they regain the lost True Parent.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The True Parent Walks a Thorny Path</h3>
|
||
<p>The True Parent you so anxiously await was not coming after only a few decades of preparation nor was there preparation for only the life span of a human being. The preparation time was 6,000 years. When he comes, he is not coming in comfort. Even while you sleep comfortably, Heaven took pains to seek you. Having the appearance of a beggar, a poor person, a wanderer, a prisoner, a persecuted and extremely miserable person, Heaven has been seeking you, starting from the bottom of the human echelon.</p>
|
||
<p>Therefore, even while you were sleeping, Heaven walked forward on the path of tears, the path of sorrows, the path of being swallowed up in a storm, the path on which there is not a moment of rest. Such was the path Jesus walked, and the path of numerous prophets and sages.</p>
|
||
<p>You must realize the sorrowful fact that, even where you eat comfortably and rest in comfort, the sounds of undeserved pain and the bitter weeping of Heaven are heard. Unless you hear them, you are not qualified to receive love from the True Parent.</p>
|
||
<p>Thus, you must feel greatly indebted, even as you sleep and eat. You must feel that you are the sinner of sinners, whom Heaven and earth cannot forgive. You must realize that the things I see, the things I hear, and all the facts I see and feel are insufficient. “I myself am the fruit of a traitor.” You must feel that you did not know the situation of God, who wandered in search of you.</p>
|
||
<p>Faithful believers today must know this situation and be able to weep bitterly, holding the hands of their brothers and sisters. Looking at a beggar wandering about in the street, you must know how to weep bitterly, embracing him. When you look at a laborer in hardship, you must be able to lament, saying, “How did my brother end up in such a miserable situation?”</p>
|
||
<p>When we lift our eyes to our brothers’ plight, we must feel compelled to seek the historical course of the heavenly principles and raise them. Through them, we must seek and raise ourselves. God has been anxiously awaiting human beings who, knowing this, are steeped in such feelings as to be able to relate with every person they meet. He has been shedding tears for the emergence of such people for 6,000 years. Meanwhile, one who eats his fill and rests, even after seeing the starvation of other people will be judged. Those who dance, contented with themselves, while other people are in need will be judged.</p>
|
||
<p>What must fallen humanity do? Even if you yourself are starving, you must have feelings of deep regret for the starvation of your brothers and sisters. Even if I cannot eat or wear good things, I must live for the good of my brothers and sisters and for the sake of the world’s humanity. By doing so, you must achieve restoration by indemnifying what Heaven has wept for, weeping for the sake of the humanity of the world. You must understand that Heaven is seeking this kind of faithful believer.</p>
|
||
<p>When has anyone throughout the 6,000-year historical course faced the Father in Heaven with such a heart? Who has ever called Heaven “Father” and called the rest of humanity “his true brothers and sisters”?</p>
|
||
<p>Where are the minds of the professionals who guide the religious orders today, the teaching professionals who are said to be walking the course of faith? The people Heaven has anxiously sought for 6,000 years of history, who took part in the difficulties, grief and hopes of Heaven, also went a path like this. Where are your minds and bodies going? You must make this clear. You must realize that you belong to humanity, which must resolve this matter; humanity, which is deeply steeped in the bitter resentment of the fall.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Position From Which One Can Connect to God’s Heart</h3>
|
||
<p>The character who goes down in history is not one who has stepped forth asserting himself. If one is to be recorded in the history of the people, he should be a person who has stepped forth holding onto the people, to society. To be a worldwide character, he must be one who stepped forth on behalf of the world. To be a heavenly character, he must be one who stepped forth on behalf of Heaven. Because you are the sinners of sinners who killed your own parents and cannot be forgiven, you must think it natural that even if someone calls you bad names and persecutes you, even if you become the target of pursuit and are hounded, you will have to say, “Thank you,” having felt God’s sorrow and historical mortification.</p>
|
||
<p>The place where one can shed tears, embracing brothers and sisters who curse you, is the place where you can connect to God’s heart. The path upon which one walks bearing the heart of Jesus, who worried about the ones who were striking him on the cross and prayed in tears for them, is the prototypical path a true man must walk. He must walk this path, penetrated by this heart to the very marrow of his bones.</p>
|
||
<p>You are sacrificial offerings. All Unification members must become sacrificial offerings. Heaven wants historical sacrificial offerings.</p>
|
||
<p>What kind of being is a sacrificial offering? It is someone who lifts his head for the first time after God and all humankind rejoices. If Christianity today lifts its head before God and all humankind rejoices, it will break down. If Christianity does not fulfill its mission to serve all humankind, if it does not function as a sacrificial offering for the sake of all humankind, then the time has come for reform.</p>
|
||
<p>Jesus, who is the King of Kings and the Crown Prince of Heaven, is unable to be glad and rejoice. He came as a sacrificial offering. Even if God and the faithful believers rejoice in him, Jesus, the sacrificial offering, cannot rejoice in himself. Only after God and all humankind rejoice in themselves can Jesus rejoice in himself for the first time. That is the day of the Second Coming. This is the path a sacrificial offering walks.</p>
|
||
<p>When you look at all the persecution that the people of Korea receive, how do you feel? We Koreans have walked a path of all kinds of suffering through 2,000 years of history. If we were sad, we did not know where to go to appeal. Even if there was mortification and injustice, we did not know how to complain of it. What should we do then, we Koreans? Although we are like orphans, we must be able to weep bitterly, holding hands among ourselves. By this alone will these people come to life.</p>
|
||
<p>Regardless of whether brothers and sisters have made mistakes or not, since they are brothers and sisters born with the blood and bones and flesh that Heaven granted, tolerant people who can weep to connect to the historical blood lineage and shimjung of a parent, going beyond their own situations, will have to emerge. Such young people are in great demand.</p>
|
||
<p>If there were such impassioned young people, where should they devote that passion? If they put their hearts into achieving success and satisfying their desires, their efforts will conclude in the limited individual realm. The original ideology of human beings wants to feel joy, holding onto God beyond infinity. Accordingly, one must devote his passion for the sake of this original human ideology.</p>
|
||
<p>If God’s dispensation was behind the historical course that this nation has come through, what kind of people would God demand at the end of that dispensation? They would be the people who know how to cry for the realization of the Will of God. They would be the people who are determined to be sacrificial offerings above all, crying, having been involved with a Will, a shimjung, and in action. Heaven will be seeking such people.</p>
|
||
<p>Facing the people 2,000 years ago, Jesus said, “He who loves father and mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” (Matthew 10:37) On the surface, what kind of contradictory, nonsensical remark is this? Although it seems incomprehensible, Jesus knew that humanity, fallen after having lost love, would all perish if they centered on themselves at the conclusion of history. Jesus spoke to prevent that. If such a miracle had come about, that the words Jesus spoke then were put into practice by the people, the last 2,000 years would have been very different.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">God’s Providential History is to Restore Lost Love</h3>
|
||
<p>Now is the time to break down the parental love, conjugal love, and children’s love that is not centered on Heaven. Christianity is to break down this kind of false love and teach the parental love, children’s love, and conjugal love centered on Heaven. That is why Christianity uses the words “bride and bridegroom,” “father” and “children.”</p>
|
||
<p>Fallen human beings have lost love. For the sake of such fallen human beings, Jesus came as the champion of love to restore heavenly love on the earth again. However, Jesus left for the spirit world unable to accomplish that task. That is why, having set up a spiritual standard of love, humankind is walking the course of restoring physical love. You must know this.</p>
|
||
<p>There is a top and a bottom, front and rear, left and right. At the top are the parents, the children are at the bottom, in the front and rear are the husband and wife. Brothers and sisters are to the left and right. This is the principle of love. Do you understand?</p>
|
||
<p>Humanity has to proceed seeking this path. Among these relationships, the conjugal relationship at the front and rear is the most important. That is why Jesus stressed the notion of the bridegroom and bride.</p>
|
||
<p>What kind of heart does Jesus seek in his bride? He is trying to search for the bride who represents God, the bride who represents the children, and the bride who represents brothers and sisters. Do you understand?</p>
|
||
<p>God’s Will is to set up a standard on the earth by sending the bridegroom and bride. God’s intention is to establish the form of a four position foundation, centered on the bride, with God at the top, the children at the bottom, and brothers and sisters on the left and the right. The history of God seeking the bride, who is the object being representing such love, is the 2,000-year providential course.</p>
|
||
<p>What then must you do now? Males must respect females and females must respect males. Only when mutual respect exists can females relate to males, and males relate to females. The male is the offshoot of the father and the female is the offshoot of the mother. They are alter egos.</p>
|
||
<p>For that reason, relating to each other as man and woman in the course of restoration, the person who looks at the object externally will be shattered. The object is one of the dual characteristics of God. That being the case, men have to respect women and women have to respect men.</p>
|
||
<p>Human beings must walk the original course of mutual respect, seeking the reciprocating nature of each individual. Even when relating to one’s children, the sons as the offshoot of the father, the daughters as the offshoot of the mother, the parent must have a heart of respect toward that gender. One must become a parent who knows how to embrace and love his children, bearing in mind the ideology with which God created all of the creation, having expanded His ideal and creating humankind as the master of all creation. One must become a truthful parent who, upon seeing the children standing in the fallen world, is impassioned with the emotion with which God has grieved for 6,000 years, knowing how to shed tears, saying, “Yes, become a man in whom God takes delight, whom humanity anxiously awaits, and for whom all of creation has longed.”</p>
|
||
<p>Because he saw things like this, Jesus had the qualification to relate with all creation and with the universe. That is why Jesus searched for the bride with the emotion of seeking the replacement of God, the replacement of humanity, and the replacement of the descendants of many, many generations. You must know that this was the heart of Jesus, the bridegroom. When you meet such a bride, you will feel the emotion of having embraced heaven and earth in love. When meeting with the parent as well as meeting with the children, it will be the same. You must become such central people.</p>
|
||
<p>The day when we meet as brides and bridegrooms equipped with the substantial forms of united minds and bodies, ready to take the place of parents, children will have to come. Only when that day comes will the tragedy-stricken things of heaven and earth, that is, the created world, blocked in heaven and on earth, be able to move in harmony in the directions of front and rear, left and right, and top and bottom. You must know that this is the day to which all of humanity is looking forward.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Ideal Garden Where Man and God Can Mingle as One</h3>
|
||
<p>Where is the place humanity must seek today? It is this very place. In order for you to seek this one place, you must be able to feel such a mind toward parents, toward brothers and sisters, and toward your objects. You must be able to feel the emotions of everything in the world.</p>
|
||
<p>You must be able to step forth in front of heaven and earth, after equipping yourselves with such a heart of love. Only then, as God established Jesus and the Holy Spirit after working for 4,000 years, will you be established in the position of the embodied bridegroom, and you will come to meet the embodied bride. This is God’s purpose of creation. Meeting the embodied reciprocating partner is the objective of humanity. The ideal garden where God can enter into man’s body and mingle as one with Him will then come to pass. You must know that this is the final objective humanity seeks. This is the inevitable fate humankind must attain. Let us pray.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Prayer</h3>
|
||
<blockquote><p>Father, we have come to understand that each of us is a substitute for God, a substitute for husband or wife, a substitute for parents, a substitute for children, and a substitute for brothers and sisters. We also have come to know that an inevitable historical course exists wherein we cannot but establish the resting place of the mind that can determine the great fundamental existence of the universe.</p>
|
||
<p>Now we understand that each man and woman among us is looking for true elder and younger siblings, True Parents, and a true reciprocating partner. We are aware that humanity is wandering about seeking the same ideology. Humanity is in the same situation. Humans can never be enemies. Humanity is entangled with the ideology of creation.</p>
|
||
<p>However, because of the fall, parental love, conjugal love, and brotherly love have been destroyed. Accordingly, in order for us to proceed forth in seeking these, we must first feel the emotion of love between brothers. Furthermore, we know that only when we meet the reciprocating partner whom we can love, taking the place of God’s sorrow of 6,000 years will the principled standard whereby we can take the place of heaven and earth be restored.</p>
|
||
<p>None of us is a simple, isolated being. We must not lack in any aspect of completeness. We will be sad if we do not have brothers and sisters, friends, parents and children. That is because the Principle, based on the rules of Heaven, is for humankind to love one another by having attained completeness. That is the everlasting original mind, the first standard of life that God granted. Therefore, I sincerely wish and desire that You allow Your sons and daughters gathered here to know that humans feel sad when they face the phenomena of the fall in real life.</p>
|
||
<p>Please allow us now to have the minds and hearts with which we can embrace humanity in place of God, the Holy Son and the Holy Spirit. Please allow us to embrace humanity as heavenly children. Allow us to become those who can think of heaven and earth with such a mind. I ardently wish and desire that You allow the day of happiness to come as soon as possible, when we can be restored as a center before the everlasting world of all creation. We do this by becoming such that we can rejoice, even when subjected to sadness and pain.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, please allow us to understand today that at the terminus of our wandering in search of truth, he who does not have brothers whom he can love will receive punishment. He who does not have children and parents whom he loves will the one who has not received the beloved bridegroom and bride.</p>
|
||
<p>Please allow each of us to achieve, in accordance with this kind of absolute, ironclad rule, the tri-position form on a horizontal level, equipped with incarnate parents, incarnate brothers and sisters and an incarnate husband and wife. Let us also have such relatives of the mind and of the spirit, centered on the spirit in the ideological world, three generations of parents, three generations of brothers and sisters, and three generations of husbands and wives. We must usher in the day when we can receive the blessing, after receiving God’s recognition through being attested to as the substantiated fruit. Otherwise, please allow us to know that none of our problems today will be solved.</p>
|
||
<p>Each of us now is going to have to wander about seeking for the True Parents of my body, the True Parents of my mind, and the True Parents of my spirit. Since the Parent of my spirit is God, the parent of my mind is the Lord who is coming again, and the parents of my body are the parents who bore me, I ardently wish that You please allow each of us to be able to meet with our children, brothers and sisters and reciprocating partner who correspond to these. I pray in the name of the Lord. Amen.</p></blockquote>
|
||
</div><!-- .entry-content -->
|
||
|
||
<footer class="entry-meta">
|
||
</footer><!-- #entry-meta -->
|
||
|
||
</article><!-- #post-978 -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<article id="post-976" class="post-976 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958">
|
||
<header class="entry-header">
|
||
<h2 class="entry-title">
|
||
<a href="/blog/2018/06/07/let-us-seek-and-establish-the-blessed-land-god-wants-to-administer/" title="Permalink to Let Us Seek and Establish the Blessed Land God Wants to Administer" rel="bookmark">Let Us Seek and Establish the Blessed Land God Wants to Administer</a>
|
||
</h2>
|
||
<div class="entry-meta">
|
||
<span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="/blog/author/fami1yfed/" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-07T08:46:50+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/07/let-us-seek-and-establish-the-blessed-land-god-wants-to-administer/" rel="bookmark">June 7, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-07T08:46:50+01:00">June 7, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/blog/category/speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958/" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1958</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
</header><!-- .entry-header -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
<div class="entry-content">
|
||
<h2 align="center">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
|
||
<h3 style="text-align: center;" align="center">
|
||
Former Church Headquarters<br />
|
||
Seoul, Korea<br />
|
||
December 14, 1958</p>
|
||
<p><em>Genesis 1:24-28</em></h3>
|
||
<div class="list top-05" style="text-align: center;">
|
||
<p class="hang-2"><em><span id="en-NIV-24" class="text Gen-1-24"><sup class="versenum">24 </sup>And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds:the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.</span> <span id="en-NIV-25" class="text Gen-1-25"><sup class="versenum">25 </sup>God made the wild animalsaccording to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.</span></em></p>
|
||
<p class="left-2 first-line-1"><em><span id="en-NIV-26" class="text Gen-1-26"><sup class="versenum">26 </sup>Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,<sup class="footnote" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;" data-fn="#fen-NIV-26a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NIV-26a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]">[<a title="See footnote a" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1:24-28#fen-NIV-26a">a</a>]</sup> and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”</span></em></p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="poetry top-05" style="text-align: center;">
|
||
<p class="line"><em><span id="en-NIV-27" class="text Gen-1-27"><sup class="versenum">27 </sup>So God created mankind in his own image,</span></em><br />
|
||
<em><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Gen-1-27">in the image of God he created them;</span></span></em><br />
|
||
<em><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Gen-1-27">male and female he created them.</span></span></em></p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="list top-05">
|
||
<p class="left-2 first-line-1" style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-28" class="text Gen-1-28"><sup class="versenum">28 </sup>God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”</span></em></p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<h3 align="center">
|
||
<p>Prayer</h3>
|
||
<blockquote><p>Please allow us to feel and experience through our minds and bodies the heart, situation and image of the Father in this hour. He has come forth through the sorrowful restorational course to find His lost, true children.</p>
|
||
<p>Please allow us to be Your sons and daughters who can feel and experience Your heart, You who have hankered for love for 6,000 long years, unable to love Adam and Eve with affection deeply penetrated by shimjung. Please allow us to be Your ardent children who can offer comfort, embracing the sorrowful heart of the Father.</p>
|
||
<p>Please allow us to offer these minds and bodies as the Father’s now. We ardently wish You will lead us to be the sacrificial offerings who do not think of their minds and bodies as their own, but who pride themselves on belonging to the eternal Father. By doing so, Father, I sincerely wish and desire that You will allow us to be Your blood relatives who can ease the shimjung that could not express love for the past 6,000 years, embracing You with a true heart of love.</p>
|
||
<p>Although so many people live on the earth, we know that there are no sons and daughters You can love as Your own, whom You can embrace and excuse in the presence of Satan. We also know that You could not express Your love personally, holding Jesus as he walked the course of struggle on this earth 2,000 years ago for the sake of saving all humankind.</p>
|
||
<p>We know that absolutely no one can take away the children You love. Although Jesus touched Your heart, we know that he could not receive Your total love. Since You could not love us, please give relief to the deeply hurt shimjung by setting up a day of glory and raising heavenly sons and daughters to whom You can unburden Your heart, expressing love and embracing them. Please allow us to know that it is the Father’s wish for such heavenly sons and daughters to emerge on this earth. Although we have lost everything and have nothing today, we desire to be sons and daughters who can receive the Father’s eternal love, embraced in Your bosom of love.</p>
|
||
<p>Beloved Father! Please bless us. Please sanctify us by extending Your hands of authority. Please allow our minds and bodies to be free of blemish, belonging to You, having eradicated the evil elements. Allow this to be such a gathering. Father, I sincerely wish and desire this.</p>
|
||
<p>Father! You know our minds and bodies. If there is something insufficient in those of us who are prostrated before Your dignified presence in this hour, please manifest Your ability, Father. By Your competent hands, please bring about the miracle of re-creation. Please allow us to be sanctified figures. Beloved Father, I pray from the bottom of my heart that You will allow this to be the hour in which only You can operate, only You are in charge, and only You give counsel.</p>
|
||
<p>Even though so many people live on the earth, You chose unworthy us from among them all and called us, even though we are of no significance. Since we are fearful of not being able to fulfill the responsibility and mission in the presence of the Father, please, advise us in this hour. We know that the Red Sea waters were divided when Moses struck them with his staff. Beloved Father, I ardently wish and desire that You become our staff, and that You allow us to be the heavenly rods that can move according to the direction of the Father’s hands.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, please personally supervise Your sons and daughters who are gathered here this day. The last hour, when we are compelled to march toward the battleground, has already arrived. Please allow us to discern where we are, having taken a good look at us now. Please guide us to be offered as the Father’s. Father, I pray from the bottom of my heart that You allow us to be the sons and daughters who are offered as sacrifices before the Father in all our unique situations and positions.</p>
|
||
<p>Since we have decided upon, expect and are eagerly looking forward to the day of battle on behalf of the thirty million people, please, Father, bless this day. Father, I sincerely wish and desire that You allow those who were dead to be restored to life by us. Throw us like a bomb of new life. We pray that You will allow the day of happiness in which You can rest in an earthly settlement, in the midst of this nation, to dawn as quickly as possible.</p>
|
||
<p>Since we now desire to bind our insufficient minds and bodies together and offer them to the Father, please bless us to discard all elements of sin of our accord. With pure minds and bodies, may we be offered as the Father’s alone. Please allow there to be no satanic invasion. I pray all these words in the name of the Lord. Amen.</p></blockquote>
|
||
<h3>Prayer</h3>
|
||
<blockquote><p>Father, please rule the minds of these people. Even if the spirits of these children, who are prostrated here, take various forms, I sincerely wish and desire that, in this hour, You allow them to be the children who can minister to the Father as one sacrificial offering, having a unified disposition according to the movements of the Father’s life.</p>
|
||
<p>Since we understand that today is the day when all sorts of people come forth in the presence of the Father and sing His praises, please extend Your hands of love everywhere Your name is sung. I pray from the bottom of my heart that You will bestow the grace of Heaven.</p>
|
||
<p>I know there are lonely families beseeching the Father in this hour, so please listen to their pleading voices. I earnestly wish and desire that, by treating their earnest shimjung with pity, You will fulfill the Will for which they wish and the hope they cherish.</p>
|
||
<p>Since I want to deliver a word to Your sons and daughters gathered here now, please guide the mind of the giver and the mind of the receivers not to become divided. I pray from the bottom of my heart that You allow this to be an hour in which we can feel and experience the joy of the original garden, which You created together with the Father, and the heart of grace. May we do this by becoming blended into the Father’s incarnation, participating in all aspects of You, whether You are at rest or in motion.</p>
|
||
<p>Please allow us not to have any faulty, self-centered thoughts or doctrines, assertions, concepts and formalities or a shimjung that saddens Heaven. Please allow this to be the hour in which we can reveal everything. With a heart of selflessness and a child-like mind, let us offer ourselves to the Father and submit to Your Will. Ardently soliciting this, I pray all these words in the name of the Lord. Amen.</p></blockquote>
|
||
<p>The word of the text we just read is the word of blessing God bestowed after He created Adam and Eve. It is the word of blessing of God after creating a man and a woman in His image, telling them to multiply and have dominion over all of creation, as well as the earth.</p>
|
||
<p>The title of the sermon I would like to share with you today is <i>“Let Us Seek and Establish the Blessed Land God Wants to Administer.”</i> I will speak upon this topic.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">“I” Am to Be Restored</h3>
|
||
<p>God created the world of creation centered on a lofty ideology we human beings have yet to comprehend. God created the world of creation thus to live together with human beings in the realm of eternal love.</p>
|
||
<p>However, human beings could not become united with the Will of the Father; that is, the Will of the Creator God. For that reason, the ideology God wished to manifest before human beings has remained unfulfilled; His administration has remained incomplete as well. In the meantime, the sad condition called “restoration” or “salvation” came to stand between God and human beings. We understand very well, from the Principle, that God has been relating with human beings under such conditions.</p>
|
||
<p>If this is the case, the fallen “I” of today should go back to the original “I” before the fall. This is the unavoidable duty of human beings and the inevitable responsibility God must carry out. For that reason, God has struggled until now to seek human beings on this earth. This is also why human beings have striven to seek God.</p>
|
||
<p>It is our life of faith to go forth seeking the footprints of God, who likewise comes seeking us. You should not forget that God and the prophets and sages, as well as our ancestors, have walked a course of laborious effort, a sorrowful, bloody course, to restore us.</p>
|
||
<p>What then is the terminus both we and Heaven seek? It is “I.” Accordingly, we should become the “I” whom Heaven can recognize, the “I” who can represent history. Now, in this providential final age, such a person inevitably must appear. Should such a person not appear, you must understand that the providential course God has walked for 6,000 years, as well as the religious course of humankind’s striving in search of the Will, will result in failure.</p>
|
||
<p>What kind of “I” does Heaven and humankind need? It is the “I” who has the shimjung, the situation and hope to equip himself with the ideology of creation which God could not manifest. It is the `”I” who can sing for all creation after equipping himself with the heavenly shimjung that has thus far been incomprehensible to humankind. It is the “I” who has equipped himself with the heavenly value and glory of one who can dominate the universe. You must become such a one.</p>
|
||
<p>Human beings today must find such a person and form a connection with him. If they do not form such a connection, they cannot be saved; nor can God’s providence of salvation be accomplished; nor can the goal of history meet any standard of completion. That is why, until today, human beings have been aiming for that ideological target.</p>
|
||
<p>We know that human beings are fallen. What is the fall? We can consider the fall to be that human beings lost the position of being a master. In other words, they lost the position to step proudly forth as dominators of the whole universe. Originally, God created human beings to raise them up as His embodiments, such original beings as to make all things in the universe follow the dictates of their commands. However, because human beings fell, unable to fulfill this original Will, we are as we are today. You must understand that it is the course of restorational history to wander about searching for the original “I” to restore this.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">To Restore the Word,<br />
|
||
the Love and the Substantial Being</h3>
|
||
<p>What have human beings lost through the fall? They have lost God’s love, they have lost God’s Word, and they have lost the substantial incarnation of that Word. What must we, who seek our original selves, inevitably do? We must regain what has been lost. That is, because God’s love, God’s Word and God’s person have been lost, we cannot help wandering about seeking them. God has unfolded the providence of salvation until today trying to regain these things.</p>
|
||
<p>Human beings have lost the love, the Word and the incarnation. What could have caused them to lose the love, the Word and the incarnation? They lost them because they did not have faith. For that reason, for God to seek human beings, people must set up the condition of faith. God relates to human beings through the condition of their faith. Furthermore, He unfolds the salvation providence for human beings on the condition that they have faith.</p>
|
||
<p>In the course of restoration, in which we go forth seeking the incarnated being, the Word and God’s love, what must we seek first? We must seek faith. This is an important matter for us. Before faith, God’s love has been introduced, God’s Word has been introduced, and the substantial being that God wishes to find has been introduced.</p>
|
||
<p>What is complete faith? Although we believe in Jesus Christ today, we must be completely united with him. At the same time, we must possess God’s love, God’s Word, and God’s incarnation. This kind of faith is the inevitable condition in the course of restoration.</p>
|
||
<p>If human beings become substantial incarnations with the Word and with love, love and faith harmonize so that only love remains. That is the essential part of the restoration which God has been leading human beings toward, to return that love. It is absolutely inevitable that such a thing occurs in the course of the restorational providence.</p>
|
||
<p>When we look at ourselves individually, each of us has a body, a mind and a spirit. However, since we could not have faith and fell, we lost all of creation, along with our bodies. We lost God’s Word, and we lost God’s love. These are the consequences of the original sin. Therefore, for us to restore these as individuals, we must eradicate the collective sins in the course history.</p>
|
||
<p>How must we walk the course of restoration today? This fallen world today is wandering around seeking succor for the body. In other words, we lead a life centered only on the body. Since we need material things for the body’s succor, humankind has struggled for material things.</p>
|
||
<p>My body has to rest. My mind also has to rest. Where is the garden of rest for my mind? Human beings have wandered, seeking that place until today.</p>
|
||
<p>After finding the blessed land for the mind, what must we seek? You must seek the eternal blessed land for the spirit and the eternal blessed land for your life. Accordingly, after you have found the blessed land in which the body can rest, the blessed land in which the mind can rest, and the blessed land in which the spirit can rest, you must link it up with God’s love. That is the completion of your faith.</p>
|
||
<p>When you look carefully at the course of historical development, before World War II, history was a struggle for material things. Humanity played the game of wandering around seeking economic foundations, seeking the place of rest for the body. What kind of history followed World War II? The spiritual sphere, that is, the phenomenon of human beings seeking their original minds, has taken place. Phenomena occur centered on thought and doctrine, yet no thought or doctrine has discovered the blessed land of rest for the human mind. They have not fulfilled their responsibility. You must know that we are stymied now.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Course of Restoration We Must Go Through</h3>
|
||
<p>Because human beings fell, they lost their bodies, their minds and their spirits. Human history is the history of humankind wandering around seeking the restoration of these things and the place of rest. Having passed the stage of wandering in search of material things, history has now reached the stage where human beings seek the conscience. What is more, you must understand that the world is standing in a face-off between two camps divided by thought and doctrine.</p>
|
||
<p>Since we are in a position where we must go through the course of restoration, we must seek the ideology centered on the mind, rising above the ideology centered on material things. You must understand that this is a necessary concluding point in the course of human history.</p>
|
||
<p>What then must we do after finding the blessed land of the mind? We must find the eternal, blessed land of love. What is the one condition of victory that can endure until the very end on this earth? That is a doctrine based on a love that transcends the heavens and earth, a love that can stimulate a person’s mind and set the universe in motion as well. This universe will never be put in motion by any other force. You will understand, through your conscience, that even God is seeking an ideal world filled with such an ardent feeling of affection.</p>
|
||
<p>The age of capitalism has passed, and the age of thought has also passed. Now the age of conscience will have to come. What is more, beyond the age of conscience in the future, the age of shimjung centered on eternal heavenly love will have to come. You must know that it is the fate of fallen human beings to go through these ages.</p>
|
||
<p>We must now seek the place of eternal rest for the spirit, for the mind, filled with a feeling of affection centered on God’s love. You must understand that this is the fateful path human beings cannot help walking.</p>
|
||
<p>Standing in such a situation, what kind of authority must we restore? We must restore the authority with which to manage heaven and earth. This is the original authority human beings must come to exercise deservedly. Human beings must manage heaven and earth, representing them. By uniting heaven and earth, we must seek and establish the ideal world of one shimjung. We are entrusted with this kind of responsibility. In addition, we must realize that, even though such a world was the original place of rest for human beings, because they fell, they lost that original place of rest. The course of restoration came into existence because of that.</p>
|
||
<p>Through what kind of course must we go? We must go through the course of the individual self, the family, the society, the nation and the world. These are the steps in the course of restoration.</p>
|
||
<p>If human beings had not fallen, their minds and the original ideal would have made everyday life harmonious. However, because of their fall, the ideal remained on its own, and their minds went a separate way. You must realize that this distance between the ideal and the fallen human mind has stood as a point of suffering for humankind.</p>
|
||
<p>What caused this? It was Satan, who betrayed God and violated the law of heavenly principles. How much of the blessed land of the ideal has Satan ruled with regard to human beings until today? He has ruled this land mass, this earth, the visible substantial world only.</p>
|
||
<p>With the original blessed land of the ideal in such a state, God has been fighting against Satan by loving all humankind on this earth, which Satan rules. This is restorational, providential history. Now a new world will have to unfold in sight of humanity, a world that can connect to God’s shimjung. The day when such a world can come about is the day of the Second Advent, in Christian terms. It is the day of judgment about which some religions talk.</p>
|
||
<p>Human beings have fought against one another since ancient times. As they fought against one another from the clan level through the tribal level, the level of a people and the level of states, nations gradually became united, and now they have formed two worlds.</p>
|
||
<p>Humankind had to go through this process because we could not shake ourselves free of the fate of restoration. That was how such phenomena came into being on this earth. God and Satan are still fighting on their respective sides of these two worlds.</p>
|
||
<p>The Age of Material, the Age of Thought, the Age of the Conscience, and the Age of the Religious Ideal</p>
|
||
<p>If we look at a human being, we see that he has not yet been able to restore his body. The history of struggle to restore the body was the history of struggle before World War II. Before World War II, the history of struggle centered upon material/that is, it was concerned with economy. Until World War II, the sovereignty of whole states and the whole world were affected by materials and economics. Only after this age passed, after World War II, did the age of thought come. This was the natural flow of historical development. Now the age of doctrine and thought centered on the spirit has arrived. What kind of thought will reap a victory? It will be the thought system that controls materials. As the mind must control the body, so the thought and doctrine have to control material things. All the sovereign states of the world today are established on an economic foundation. Yet, if an ideology is to achieve worldwide stature, it must transcend materialism.</p>
|
||
<p>Various nations of the democratic and communist camps are in a face- off. Which camp is going to win? What will determine that victory? This hinges upon which camp first shares its materials with smaller and weaker nations. This is how victory or defeat will be decided.</p>
|
||
<p>Although the democratic camp should support smaller and weaker nations economically, there has not been any noticeable result regarding this. Exploiting this weakness, the Soviet Union has been on the offensive. While she supports nations like Egypt economically, the Soviet Union is launching military maneuvers to take advantage of the weaknesses of the democratic camp. Yet the democratic camp is not aware of this.</p>
|
||
<p>In order for a doctrine or thought to spread through the entire world, it must be able to control material. What is more, such a thought system must be able to sacrifice everything to spread throughout the world. There is no other way.</p>
|
||
<p>What is the last path human beings must seek? They must continue with the world of the conscience in mind. To do that, something must emerge that can make human beings go beyond the age of doctrine and thought and go on to the age of conscience, ultimately with a view toward the world of eternal life, the ideal world, which is filled with the love of God. Human beings today have not been able to perceive this.</p>
|
||
<p>If God exists, for what has He been aiming and proceeding toward, having mapped out a plan of action? God has continued with the age of the conscience, preceded by the age of thought, in mind. God’s operation and plan will go into action then.</p>
|
||
<p>Now we have the Arab bloc, which is equipped with a form of religion, confronting the two great camps of democracy and communism. What does this signify? They have formed a bloc with a religious ideology, an Islamic civilization modeled after the ancient Saracen empire, God’s providential purpose of bringing humanity into unity through a religious ideology is thus revealed. In the end of this restorational providence, this sort of operation will inevitably take place.</p>
|
||
<p>If the communist camp breaks down after having fought with the democratic camp, what is going to happen? There are more prospects for the various nations in the communist camp to be absorbed into the Arab bloc, rather than the democratic camp. We must realize this.</p>
|
||
<p>A united world centered upon one purpose and ideology must be built upon this earth today. What, then, must happen in the democratic camp? A religion equipped with an ideology centered on God’s shimjung, a religion of love for human beings, who are God’s embodiments, must emerge. This religion must represent all doctrines and assertions. Human beings today are not aware of the fact that the last days are approaching, when such a religion will come forth. When will a religion appear with a Unificationist ideology that will enable the democratic world to embrace the Islamic camp?</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Human Mind Longs for the Ideal Land,<br />
|
||
The Developmental History of the<br />
|
||
Sphere of Civilization</h3>
|
||
<p>Unificationist ideology is the historical standard, the universal standard and the macrocosmic standard which must appear in the new age without fail. You must realize that this is the standard upon which the unification of religion will take place. In this sense, the name “Unification Church” makes sense. No crowd of people has appeared until now who are being hounded yet who are ceaselessly progressing toward a Unificationist ideology, asserting that ideology and fighting at the forefront of this world.</p>
|
||
<p>What must we seek and establish in the age of thought, the age of doctrine? Human beings have always longed for the original homeland in their minds, eagerly desiring and dreaming of the garden of love they can enjoy, centered upon God’s shimjung.</p>
|
||
<p>When we look carefully over the course of historical development, the first human civilization was the Egyptian, a watercourse civilization centered on the Nile River. In other words, the Nile River was the cradle of Egyptian civilization. Yet how did Egyptian civilization develop? They were curious to know, “What is on the other side of the river?” They wanted to go and see. This became the spiritual background of the development of Egyptian civilization. After the watercourse civilization age had passed, Mediterranean civilization was established. Human society has come to develop stimulated by the ardent mind which looks at the other shore, the heart of hope. What is more, you must understand that the ardent shimjung toward the other shore caused the revolution of civilization.</p>
|
||
<p>During the age of Greece and Rome, civilization was established centered on the Mediterranean Sea. The people who took an interest in the other shore beyond the Mediterranean Sea reigned. By the sixteenth century, Mediterranean civilization had weakened, and the Atlantic Ocean civilization circle came to be established. After that, traversing the Atlantic Ocean through their will and laborious efforts, the people who had wished to see and cross the Atlantic Ocean arrived in America. Now a new Pacific Ocean civilization that connects America with Asia is being established. Such a time is almost near.</p>
|
||
<p>Now human beings live freely on this earth and have fulfilled the cherished hope. They are trying to move into the cosmos, stepping out to seek another new shore. Therefore, the cosmic age will open in the future. Human beings will land on the moon, just as they have wished, “I will go to the moon.”</p>
|
||
<p>Will the climate of man’s mind, the hope for a new ideal homeland that made him pioneer the course of historical development, ever change, even after he conquers the cosmos? No, it will not.</p>
|
||
<p>The mind’s longing for the ideal homeland will end only after having found the garden of the mind beyond the cosmos, the garden that can govern the minds of all humankind of the world. Beyond that, it must enter the world which has formed one body with God, in God’s world of ideology. Needing nothing more, man’s quest for the ideal homeland will then end.</p>
|
||
<p>Scientific civilization is only four hundred years old. Only since the latter half of the sixteenth century have we been singing the praises of science. However, for 6,000 years of human history, humankind has yearned for the ideal homeland, the heavenly kingdom, and sought God. It is an undeniable historical fact that humankind has come forth wishing to form a connection with God according to the heavenly principles.</p>
|
||
<p>You have not seen many books denying man’s mind or conscience. There is no doctrine on this earth that denies the mind. There is no doctrine that denies that human beings entertain a high regard for and have the eternal world of ideology in view, the world of feeling and experience that can connect with man’s emotion.</p>
|
||
<p>Since numerous churches and numerous religions have taught humankind about this world of the mind, have they taught them useless things? No, not at all. Even if you study tens of thousands of books, you will never find any that deny that ideology.</p>
|
||
<p>Yet in spite of the fact that the ideology of religion is right, why has that ideology not come to pass in human reality? It is because human beings fell.</p>
|
||
<p>Now human beings will have to march, breaking through the world of the mind, the eternal spiritual world. You will certainly understand that this is the most important matter of concern for human beings today, faced with the last days. God is looking forward to the time beyond the world of doctrines and assertions to a religion and the truth.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Necessity of a New Word Which<br />
|
||
Can Cause a Revolution in Shimjung</h3>
|
||
<p>Although communists today are advocating a materialistic revolution, this is not enough. A materialistic revolution is not the answer. A revolution of conscience is what is called for. Where will be the one doctrine that brings forth a revolution of conscience? Will there not be a doctrine that can cause a “heartistic” revolution? We need to think about this. Until this sort of doctrine comes forth, this world will not be united. If such a doctrine comes forth, that doctrine will have to be based on materials, and it will have to be based on the Word.</p>
|
||
<p>Because of man’s fall, he lost faith, love, the Word, and the incarnated being. That is why human beings have first gone through the age of materialism and are now going through the age of ideology and thought. In the future, the age of sentiment will come.</p>
|
||
<p>Emotion is what makes a person believe in the Word. We speak of intellect, emotion and will; however, emotion comes first. A great artist must emerge who can detonate man’s original emotions and sing in praise of all creation with the sentiments of original emotion. A great scientist of emotion and religion must emerge.</p>
|
||
<p>What have human beings wandered about seeking until today? Human beings have not found satisfaction in doctrines nor in faith. We have sought the true Word, the truth. What are we going to do with that truth after finding it? We mean to usher in a spring garden that can be vibrant with life. Only that which can make human beings full of life and energy will be the true truth. Don’t you agree?</p>
|
||
<p>God has introduced the Word of truth through Christianity. Although God gave human beings the Word for the sake of restoring the incarnated being, history has been flowing onward without the mission of the Word being concluded.</p>
|
||
<p>Although Jesus came to this earth 2,000 years ago and tried to fulfill the mission of the Word and bring about a revolution in mind and emotion, human beings did not believe and minister to him. Therefore, none of this happened and these things remain to be fulfilled today.</p>
|
||
<p>It is not only the Christian believers who are eagerly awaiting the true world; numerous other people are eagerly awaiting it too. If the mind and body come about which can restore fallen human beings, restore emotion and the Word of truth, the world will be united naturally. While there has to be the restorational providence to save fallen human beings, there must be an internal revolution that will recover those lost things from the fall. The people who must carry out this internal revolution are the Christians, the religious people, and the individuals of conscience of the last days. In fact, the individuals of conscience do not render significant services to God’s restorational providence. No matter how much hardship they go through, the end of the world will still come.</p>
|
||
<p>We should be very grateful for the 66 volumes of the Bible. However, it is difficult to call upon and create the original mind of a human being and induce the original shimjung through the Bible. Therefore, we must seek a new Word that is equipped with this two-fold power.</p>
|
||
<p>If we cannot find such a Word, God’s 6,000-year providential history will result in failure. Given the historical trend of the cultures and thought of the world and how they rallied the world, what we definitely need now in the last days is the Word that can move the original mind and the original shimjung, in order for God’s restorational dispensation not to result in failure. This is the matter for concern.</p>
|
||
<p>When he came 2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ could not say all that he wished to say. What was more, even though he wished to love human beings, he could not do so to the fullest extent. This was the great sorrow of humankind. It was God’s sorrow, too. It was God’s sorrow, as well as Jesus’ sorrow, that Jesus was unable to introduce the world of the mind and body, the world of emotion, and God’s shimjung to the people who were in the course of restoration.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">We Must Know God’s Shimjung and Jesus’ Shimjung</h3>
|
||
<p>God does not exist higher than the cosmos. No created thing can achieve completion without having a connection with God. When we build a house, we must link up all the materials and have them relate to each other to be a complete house.</p>
|
||
<p>Now we must seek God’s and Jesus’ mind and shimjung in the 66 volumes of the Bible. Only when we get to know God’s and Jesus’ mind and shimjung can we know our minds and shimjung. Yet God’s and Jesus’ mind and shimjung are not completely manifested in the Bible. It is written in the Bible that the Kingdom of Heaven is in your mind. Yet how many people are there who can indeed say, “The Kingdom of Heaven is in me”?</p>
|
||
<p>Where are such people?</p>
|
||
<p>There are many people who have memorized good scriptural passages, wonderful, celebrated verses. Yet in order for us to know Jesus’ mind and shimjung, we must know why Jesus, the Savior of all humankind and the True Father of all human beings, grieved on this earth. What caused him to grieve the most? We must know these things. Only when we know these things can we say we have come to know Jesus’ mind and shimjung. We must know what the most unjust, vexatious, and painful thing was to Jesus, and the reason for it.</p>
|
||
<p>By doing so, we must be able to comfort Jesus, saying, “Aren’t your heart and mind in such and such a state? I understand your heart and mind.” Only then will we become true human beings for the first time. You must know this.</p>
|
||
<p>You must know that to restore one human being, God has gone through the vicissitudes of history, grieving and suffering. You must understand the content of the current age. Furthermore, you must understand the hope for the future. Because they do not know this, the people of the world today are struggling hard.</p>
|
||
<p>Jesus received the joyous day of resurrection only after having walked the path of sorrow, the path of suffering, the path of the cross. Jesus could feel joy toward Heaven, yet he could not feel joy on earth. You must know this. How could this be, that while he felt sorrow facing earth, Jesus could feel joy facing God, calling out, “Abba”?</p>
|
||
<p>Jesus knew God’s mind and heart. That was why he was able to express his gratitude and joy, holding onto God’s heart and mind and shedding tears. Yet there was no one on earth who felt similarly toward Jesus. That was the reason Jesus could not feel joy in relation to human beings. If human beings had been able to feel joy with Heaven in the glorious realm of resurrection, the 2,000-year historical course of sorrow would not have taken place.</p>
|
||
<p>Jesus resurrected, bearing the heart of these vicissitudes. Having seen Jesus’ resurrected appearance, Mary Magdalene tried to grab hold of him, saying, “Oh, my Lord!” Yet Jesus said to her, “Do not lay hands on me.” What does this mean? This showed us decisively that no matter how much human beings desire to grab hold of Jesus, they cannot become one with him without knowing his sorrow and pain, without knowing his mind and heart.</p>
|
||
<p>Now the time has come for human beings living on this earth to discard the material things and doctrines to which they subscribe and step forth. What kind of people opposed Jesus? We must know Jesus’ heart, even if we have to abandon our ideology, and all that we have. Jesus’ heart was not for his good but for the good of God. He tried to remember God’s heart to attend Him constantly.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">In Order for God and Jesus to Feel Happy</h3>
|
||
<p>God’s heart had gone through a course of turns and twists. Shedding light upon this, Jesus uttered, “God, now I know. I have come to know the final meaning of Your having unfolded the dispensation and what kind of heart You had as You did it.” Jesus then grabbed hold of God and rejoiced, shedding tears, forgetting his dignity and image. You too must be able to rejoice, holding onto Jesus and shedding tears. Only then can the ideology of the internal world be manifested as that of the external ideology. You must understand this.</p>
|
||
<p>The very core of faith, what is left after human beings believe in the Lord with uplifted hands, put the Word into practice with love and restore the incarnated body with faith, is for their minds to become united with the minds of God and Jesus. Beyond that, the love of God, Jesus and human beings must become united. This is the last, emotional problem to be solved for religious people. For that reason, Christianity, the religion of love, will survive to the end. People in the heavenly kingdom are people who strive for the sake of giving. They are people who strive to give their bodies and minds and all of their things. Most people of this fallen world, on the other hand, strive to live centered on themselves. Only when they can bring about a revolution in their minds can people like these become God’s sons and daughters who can receive the love of God, the Creator of humankind and all creation, who tries to embrace them in His bosom.</p>
|
||
<p>Not once has God found a person whose flesh and spirit are united, whom He could totally love. Not once could Jesus find such a person. That is why Jesus is still praying in paradise.</p>
|
||
<p>Therefore, we must yearn only for the love of God, who tries to embrace our spirit and flesh. We must receive God’s love, compared to which the love of parents for their children is insignificant. Within such a realm, we must be able to govern all of creation, having justified ourselves as God’s children for the first time. You must understand that such a world is the world of dominion and the garden of rest God is trying to restore.</p>
|
||
<p>Going back to the issue of our individual selves, what are we, fated to go through restoration, to do? We must wander about seeking a new ideology. The time has arrived. In the future, the problem of a true viewpoint of life, of the universe, will arise. Any view of the universe based on the visible substantial world will miss the mark. Through the perception of the world of the mind and the feelings felt, the invisible world will be utilized.</p>
|
||
<p>If a macrocosmic ideology, a doctrine that can unite the world of the mind, appears on this earth today, that doctrine will be the last one. Only love is after that.</p>
|
||
<p>Today, scientific civilization is extremely well developed. Yet, in order for individuals to be able to govern in a scientific civilization, they must improve the level of spiritual civilization. They must definitely find some particular doctrine that can govern the world of the mind and, beyond that, the world of the spirit. It is our fate to find this doctrine. You must understand this clearly.</p>
|
||
<p>After that, you must be connected with God’s love. Since God’s love includes the universe, if you grab hold of that love, the whole universe can come into you. You must become sons and daughters who can feel such a universal feeling, who can sing before Heaven, representing all things in the universe, who can live happily with Heaven. Going further, you must be the sons and daughters equipped with the dominion by which they can govern all things. Only when you become such sons and daughters will you be acknowledged for the first time as sons and daughters who can live in God’s ideal garden of creation. You then will be able to become sons and daughters whom God can embrace and love. You must know this.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Prayer</h3>
|
||
<blockquote><p>Father, although human beings do not comprehend the flow of history, we know that You personally have been operating the will of the providence. Your sons and daughters have come here today. Please allow us to reflect honestly upon ourselves to see what kind of circumstances we are in now. Is there a person who lives for the sake of succoring his body? Is there a person who lives for the sake of his mind’s rest alone? Father, I pray from the bottom of my heart You allow us to be Your sons and daughters who can attain rest through the Father’s love, after our restorational course is completed.</p>
|
||
<p>We have come to know that this is the inevitable restorational course human beings must undergo. Please allow us to stand proudly in front of human history. We have wandered around seeking what we lost due to the fall, faith, the incarnated being, the Word and love. I sincerely wish and desire that You allow us to be Your sons and daughters who can step forth with stately dignity before all creation on this earth with a heavenly heart, heavenly love, and heavenly hope.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, ardently soliciting that You embrace our minds and bodies forever with Your eternal life, I pray all these words in the name of the Lord. Amen.</p></blockquote>
|
||
</div><!-- .entry-content -->
|
||
|
||
<footer class="entry-meta">
|
||
</footer><!-- #entry-meta -->
|
||
|
||
</article><!-- #post-976 -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<article id="post-972" class="post-972 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958">
|
||
<header class="entry-header">
|
||
<h2 class="entry-title">
|
||
<a href="/blog/2018/06/07/gods-possession-and-our-possession/" title="Permalink to God’s Possession and Our Possession" rel="bookmark">God’s Possession and Our Possession</a>
|
||
</h2>
|
||
<div class="entry-meta">
|
||
<span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="/blog/author/fami1yfed/" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-07T08:45:37+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/07/gods-possession-and-our-possession/" rel="bookmark">June 7, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-07T08:45:48+01:00">June 7, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/blog/category/speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958/" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1958</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
</header><!-- .entry-header -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
<div class="entry-content">
|
||
<h2 align="center">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
|
||
<h3 style="text-align: center;" align="center">Former Church Headquarters<br />
|
||
Seoul, Korea<br />
|
||
November 9, 1958</h3>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Matthew 6:16-34</em><br />
|
||
<em> </em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="text Matt-6-16"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">16 </sup>“When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23300" class="text Matt-6-17"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">17 </sup>But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23301" class="text Matt-6-18"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">18 </sup>so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="text Matt-6-19"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">19 </sup>“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23303" class="text Matt-6-20"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">20 </sup>But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23304" class="text Matt-6-21"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">21 </sup>For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-23305" class="text Matt-6-22"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">22 </sup>“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy,<sup class="footnote" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;" data-fn="#fen-NIV-23305a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NIV-23305a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]">[<a title="See footnote a" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6:16-34#fen-NIV-23305a">a</a>]</sup> your whole body will be full of light.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23306" class="text Matt-6-23"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">23 </sup>But if your eyes are unhealthy,<sup class="footnote" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;" data-fn="#fen-NIV-23306b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NIV-23306b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]">[<a title="See footnote b" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6:16-34#fen-NIV-23306b">b</a>]</sup> your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-23307" class="text Matt-6-24"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">24 </sup>“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="text Matt-6-25"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">25 </sup>“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23309" class="text Matt-6-26"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">26 </sup>Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23310" class="text Matt-6-27"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">27 </sup>Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life<sup class="footnote" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;" data-fn="#fen-NIV-23310c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NIV-23310c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]">[<a title="See footnote c" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6:16-34#fen-NIV-23310c">c</a>]</sup>?</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-23311" class="text Matt-6-28"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">28 </sup>“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23312" class="text Matt-6-29"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">29 </sup>Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendorwas dressed like one of these.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23313" class="text Matt-6-30"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">30 </sup>If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23314" class="text Matt-6-31"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">31 </sup>So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23315" class="text Matt-6-32"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">32 </sup>For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23316" class="text Matt-6-33"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">33 </sup>But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23317" class="text Matt-6-34"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">34 </sup>Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p>Prayer</p>
|
||
<blockquote><p>Father, the time is approaching when we must direct our steps toward Heaven and run. We have begun to know the great hardships the Father has suffered and learned about His Will. We have also come to know how difficult is the children’s responsibility, which the Father wishes us to fulfill.</p>
|
||
<p>A person who understands the Father’s Will, a person who is to live in the garden the Father grants, understands that he will have to shed tears ceaselessly before the Father. He understands that he will not be able to avoid sustaining an injury as he attempts to go toward the Father. He understands that he will have to go in company with the Father. That person’s body will have to bear the marks of all this. He will have deep regret and endless, bitter grief in his heart. He must appeal to Heaven in preparation for the day of the Father’s judgment. We know that we must make eternal ties with the Father who seeks such sons and daughters. Please guide us not to stand in a position where we feel we already belong to the Father. Let us not forget that we are too ashamed to speak, too ashamed to act, and too ashamed to even lift our faces.</p>
|
||
<p>If there is a person among us who has opened up his mind to the heavenly anxiety and who has experienced the shimjung of the Father in his heart, he will become a friend who cannot help weeping bitterly in sorrow, representing the Father and the people of this nation. We know that he will mourn bitterly in sorrow, representing humankind and will share in the grief that pierced the depth of Heaven and earth and all of the spiritual world.</p>
|
||
<p>As we ponder whether we ourselves are in such a position today, Father, please let us become people who at least feel greatly indebted, if we are unable to face the Father who toiled, the Father who was concerned for us, the Father who walked the path of tribulation. My Father, I pray this from the bottom of my heart.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, what great sorrow You went through to command and lead the chosen people into the holy castle, the gates of Jerusalem. How great Your suffering has been as You have tried to take care of us and lead us into goodness! Nevertheless, we have forgotten the Father’s toilsome effort; we have forgotten the Father’s concern. We have forgotten to follow in the Father’s footprints as He guides us. Now, since Heaven’s elite soldiers are taking action, please allow those actions to follow in the Father’s footprints. Allow them to be actions of dignity.</p>
|
||
<p>Humankind is unwilling to walk this path. We know that many people today and tomorrow may wish to go this path mentally, but they are not able to put their thoughts into action. Please awaken us to the fact that the responsibility to solve this is not only the Father’s responsibility or some leader’s responsibility, it is ours.</p>
|
||
<p>However, since we have realized that there is an extremely small number of people willing to be responsible for this stark reality, please let the Father’s ardent passion overflow our idle minds. Let the Father’s sorrowful shimjung overflow in us, thereby allowing us to be righteous people who can step forth seeking the path of Heaven’s Will. Father, I ardently wish and desire this.</p>
|
||
<p>There are many people who wish for Heaven’s blessing, and many people are exerting themselves to the utmost to become the Father’s children. However, we know that today, after 6,000 years of history have elapsed, it is still difficult to find the Father’s true sons and daughters: devoted people who are willing to be sacrificial offerings before the Father.</p>
|
||
<p>We are extremely fearful of becoming a pitiful throng of people who disrupt the Father’s providential course. Please allow us to be concerned about the fact that we cannot guarantee that will not happen any more than the ancient Israelites could. Father, I sincerely wish and desire You to guide us to become sons and daughters who, feeling concern about our inadequacies, make exhaustive efforts not to be shameful, anxiety-causing children in the presence of the Father.</p>
|
||
<p>Now, when the bitter resentment of our ancestors is blocking our way, when billions of satans of distrust are leading us into temptation, Father, I sincerely wish and desire that You will allow us to be found to be persons of value who can be fully proud in the presence of the Father.</p>
|
||
<p>Since we came forth on this day to bow respectfully before You, please allow us to stand in such a position where, by reflecting upon our minds and bodies, we can set up the condition of being able to unite into one, the condition of goodness.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, who are these people who pray with concern for You this day? Who are these people who shed tears? Who are these people who grieve on behalf of Heaven and earth? Please bless them and allow the day of glory to come upon them as quickly as possible.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, please allow Your sons and daughters gathered here to be responsible, on their own, for what many other people have not fulfilled. Father, I pray from the bottom of my heart that You will allow us to be the sons and daughters who are truthful before the mission that has been left to us, honest and trustworthy before the Will, who can fight on, giving their all for the sake of the one Will of the Father.</p>
|
||
<p>Please allow us to analyze, of our accord, how far our paths and positions are from the original ideal garden. I sincerely wish You will guide us to be able to win victory in the fight to dash past that concern.</p>
|
||
<p>Please materialize everything this day according to Your Will. If there is a person who is equipped with the heart that can receive the grace of happiness, please work through him and manifest Yourself as he relates to You. I sincerely implore and desire that You bless him according to the devoted efforts he makes for the Father.</p>
|
||
<p>Since we entrusted everything to You, Father, please take charge of it all. Ardently soliciting that You will not allow this hour to be one of which Satan takes advantage, we pray all these words in the name of the Lord. Amen.</p></blockquote>
|
||
<p>I will speak briefly on the topic <i>“God’s Possession and Our Possession.”</i></p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Created Things Lost Their Master</h3>
|
||
<p>We know that the created things have lost their master. We know very well that this is true of us as well. Due to the fall, human beings cannot belong to God in any absolute sense. They cannot own the created things and this world in an absolute sense either. We should know the sorrowful fact that until today, even God, the Absolute Being, has not been able to take charge confidently, asserting that all His created things belong to Him.</p>
|
||
<p>For this reason, the historic course until today has been for the purpose of belonging to one master. We must keep in mind that until today, human beings have come through a history of struggle, full of ups and downs, to achieve this purpose, having passed through ages and centuries.</p>
|
||
<p>We cannot deny that all created things exist. Therefore, there must be a master who is in charge of these created things, an absolute being. Unless we find an absolute, stable point under the management of that absolute being against whom no one can make a false charge, this world cannot escape the history of struggle.</p>
|
||
<p>Believers today know very well that God is unable to assert that all of His creation belongs to Him. In other words, God is in a position where He cannot manage all that He Himself devoted His complete energy to and created according to His Will. He cannot use them as He wishes. That is why God’s providential history to restore the original position came into being. That is why religious people have sought God’s Will, even as they arrived at unjust death and undeserved persecution.</p>
|
||
<p>Heaven cannot directly supervise the numerous children who come forth fighting to attain the one Will, devoting their efforts and risking their lives for the sake of Heaven, centered on goodness and the glory of victory. This is also God’s sorrow. You must understand that this is also the grief of righteous people who try to walk the truthful course of faith.</p>
|
||
<p>You must realize that the day God is able to boast of His own existential value of possession before the whole cosmos is the day all the accounts of God’s providence are settled. It is the focal point of the whole creation’s desire, the basic point that Jesus and all the sages, who came and left, idealized.</p>
|
||
<p>Look carefully at yourselves and the living environment in which you are. To whom do the things in your possession, you, your family, your society, state and world belong? Can you affirm that they belong to Heaven? You cannot say they belong to Heaven nor can you say they are yours. You must realize that this has been the greatest sorrow of sorrows for fallen humankind. Having set up providential salvation, God could not tell the people following Him to keep all their worldly things and take care of themselves. We have to feel and experience this situation of God’s. It is an appalling situation. God was to put human beings in the position of the lords of all things, yet He cannot command them to keep the things they have and still follow Him.</p>
|
||
<p>Therefore, he who goes forth on the course of seeking truth will have to realize keenly and feel the sorrowful shimjung of God, from the bottom of his heart, who must tell him to cut off from all the belongings he has and follow Him. He who cannot do that will have no connection whatsoever with God when the time of the restoration of God’s right of possession comes.</p>
|
||
<p>Religious people today speak of receiving salvation. They speak of their wish to become heavenly people. What is more, they wish to step forth as the chosen third Israel. You must understand that while it is good to have such a mind, the question is whether I, as an individual, have the standard and qualification to become so. This will become a matter for concern. Because Heaven is in a situation where it cannot manage all of creation, we must understand that regardless of how many great people have come and gone on this earth, no brave person has appeared who could completely manage this earth and call it his own.</p>
|
||
<p>Until when will this historic course continue? It will continue until the day when the one central figure comes who can assert that this earth belongs eternally to him. Until then, history will go through a course of ups and downs. Some human beings have come forth boasting of their cultures or their political influence and religion as if they belonged to them. However, the center of culture has been transferred to different places according to changes in the stream of thought. Political influence, centered on certain doctrines and assertions, has also taken new turns. Religions have undergone changes. We can see such facts very clearly as we research history. That is, as we look back on the historic course, we can understand that no movement has ever stood in the position to have the decisive right of possession.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Standard of Moral Doctrine by<br />
|
||
Which Human Beings Must Abide</h3>
|
||
<p>The beginning of the fall was when human beings acted at their discretion during the time when God could not completely manage things. If they had acted after welcoming the time when God could completely manage things, they would not have fallen. Ever since the creation of the world, God could not exercise His managerial authority. Incidentally, although numerous people throughout history tried to move a race, tried to move a state, or tried to move the world, no one was able to stand as one totally responsible for his particular age.</p>
|
||
<p>The time must come when God manages not only individuals but also the clan, the tribe and the state. Beyond that, He must manage even heaven and earth. Therefore, if Heaven, the earth and the spirit world exist, the ideology of the whole cannot be actualized unless the inevitable movement of God coming to manage them appears in the closing age of history.</p>
|
||
<p>That is why Heaven is asking us to give up all the material things we possess, to lay down our lives, to abandon our ideologies and forsake even the feelings of affection we may enjoy on this earth. This is the standard of moral doctrine (truth) upon which God insists.</p>
|
||
<p>Why did God set up such a demanding condition as this? Since the time is surely coming when the authority of His possession will be made manifest, God wanted to make us qualified to stand in full measure before Him when that time comes. That is why it has been the indispensable condition by which the people who follow God and seek the Will of goodness must abide.</p>
|
||
<p>Looking back on the history of Christianity, we see that God made human beings suffer before giving them happiness. He made them suffer persecution before allowing them to boast. He commanded them to pray ceaselessly, keeping away from environments of enjoyment. The reason God raised this sort of moral standard or truth before human beings was to make them belong fully to Him.</p>
|
||
<p>A major directive of the Bible is, You must give up everything and seek His kingdom and His righteousness. Where then will be the Kingdom of God and God’s righteousness? Where will be the person who can claim himself as a person of God? What kind of nation will be God’s nation? It will be a nation of goodness. It will be a nation that transcends religion, a nation uninterested in nationalistic viewpoints, a nation that stands aloof from discriminating human beings and which rises above sovereign power, beyond any culture or thought.</p>
|
||
<p>For that reason, the Kingdom of Heaven is the kingdom that good people, without distinction of East and West, contend is their ideal kingdom. It is the place where they would like to live. Furthermore, the Kingdom of Heaven is the place where one can freely lay claim to his possessions, where one can set forth the notion of truly owning. This is the Kingdom of Heaven for which we yearn.</p>
|
||
<p>If there are people within Christianity or in some religious denomination who are immersed in a self-centered or denominationally limited notion of owning, the time will come when those people will surely be struck. The time will definitely come when any doctrine that tries to draw and rally the whole, centered on a single nation, will be struck. It is an ironclad rule.</p>
|
||
<p>God forgives even Satan. Why does God forgive Satan, unable to strike him? In the name of what goodness does God listen to Satan’s pleas and accept the conditions of Satan’s false charges? It is because, although Satan stands against the Will of God and does not follow Him, Satan does not dislike God. Although he does not follow the Will of God, in his mind, he respects and likes God. Satan is earnestly requesting, “Oh, God, I will offer You this world that is in my possession. Please put aside Adam and raise me in his place. If only You will do that, I will then serve and minister to You more than any human being.” That means that Satan will attend God in a better fashion than human beings, if God puts him in such a position. Thus, God is put in an awkward position.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">God’s Possession and Satan’s Possession</h3>
|
||
<p>What did Heaven wish to do by sending numerous prophets and sages and by sending Jesus? It was to exercise the right of possession against Satan by raising a person who knows God’s situation more than Satan and who cares for God more than Satan. Accomplishing this task is the purpose of the history of the Second Advent.</p>
|
||
<p>What was Satan’s motive for becoming Satan? What was the motive that destroyed the heavenly principles? He wanted to receive more love than Adam and Eve. If he had tried to love Adam and Eve more than God loved Adam and Eve, if he had tried to love God more than Adam and Eve loved God, he would not have fallen. Here was the condition in which he was caught. What is evil? Evil is being unable to care for others, rather than oneself. Evil is being unable to serve goodness. Fallen human beings today all are caught in this condition.</p>
|
||
<p>What kind of nation is the nation of goodness? What kind of nation is the nation which God can possess? What kind of person can belong to God? What are the created things that can belong to God? What will be the point of conclusion? Whatever is centered on oneself cannot be possessed by God. The being who is centered on God can be absorbed into God. God can possess such a being.</p>
|
||
<p>The law in the satanic world demands that one serve and care for oneself. Therefore, people in the satanic world have the notion that the family, the society, the state, the world, and heaven and earth should all exist for their sakes. This is the point of departure from God’s law of goodness. What kind of person then is a good person? He is the person who knows how to use all things that he owns, including his ideas, for the sake of others, feeling they all belong to others. He uses them for the sake of the whole, feeling that they belong to the whole.</p>
|
||
<p>What kind of phenomena surround being fallen? The phenomena of attempting to draw all created things and the world, even God, into one’s self-centered life are fallen phenomena. This happened due to Satan’s work.</p>
|
||
<p>What is the history of goodness? It is the history of carrying out a revolution within oneself which goes on to pioneer the course of a new direction for the sake of God, the world and others. This is the very purpose of religion.</p>
|
||
<p>Looking back on the history of Christianity, we see no one among the people who followed the Will and mission of God who lived for the good of themselves, regardless of their era. The great men who commanded and attached importance to themselves, served and cared for themselves all have disappeared. All such people will face criticism after the lapse of time in history.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Doctrine Which Jesus Promulgated</h3>
|
||
<p>What was the purpose of Jesus’ coming to this earth? The purpose was to restore a nation God could own, a man whom God could own and to restore all created things. What doctrine did Jesus promulgate? His principle was to sacrifice himself and serve the nation, the world and the cosmos. The person who serves and sacrifices for the sake of the cosmos becomes the central figure of the cosmos.</p>
|
||
<p>We can see many such people, even in the evil world today. We can understand that the people who give devoted service and sacrifice in silence will become the central figures wherever they go, in their nation, their society, anywhere.</p>
|
||
<p>Now we must feel we have the responsibility to restore God’s authority to own our individual selves, our families, our society, our nation, the world and the cosmos. This kind of right of ownership is not for God Himself to set up; it is for human beings to establish and resolve for Him. Because this very important duty has been left unfulfilled, the numerous sages and wise men who represented the historic providence could not but go forward, even at the price of beheading and death, to fulfill this duty.</p>
|
||
<p>Jesus could not claim to be the son of God while working for thirty years in the house of Joseph. He could not claim that he was the heavenly ambassador plenipotentiary. Jesus knew that even God had not been able to make such a claim throughout the long history. That is why even in the moment of his last prayer in sight of the cross in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus could not center on his will. Rather, he prayed, “Father! Not according to my will but according to Your Will.”</p>
|
||
<p>The more strongly Jesus felt a sense of mission and responsibility toward the earth as the Savior, the stronger and greater grew his awareness of his existence and ownership. Yet Jesus knew only too well he should not live for his own sake. Furthermore, Jesus knew that he had to be owned by God, be God’s possession to the furthest degree. He knew how to experience God’s heart and, at the same time, how to seek the Will of God. Therefore, he was able to substitute his heart for God’s heart, and he came to stand in a position where he could substitute his will for God’s Will. Furthermore, you must know that he was able to equip himself with the qualifications of the Savior before all created things and before humankind as the one who must follow the Will and heart of God.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Qualifications of the People<br />
|
||
of the Heavenly Kingdom</h3>
|
||
<p>What kind of people would the people of the heavenly kingdom be? They are the throng who steps forth under the flag of service. For that reason, to save a certain race today, we must distribute everything we own for that race. If that is not enough, we must become the people who know how to give even their lives. These are the very people of the heavenly kingdom. God is in a situation where He has to gather this kind of person and accomplish the ideology of the heavenly kingdom.</p>
|
||
<p>Since you have come to know that Jesus wishes to fix the value of true ownership upon this earth, you should think about yourselves. Jesus said, “Do not be anxious, saying, `What shall we eat?’ or `What shall we drink?’ or `What shall we wear?'” (Matthew 6:31) This was the word of warning that seemed contradictory to the people of that age.</p>
|
||
<p>Why did Jesus speak such words? The heavenly ideology of ownership remained to be restored even at the cost of not eating, drinking and dressing well for 6,000 years.</p>
|
||
<p>If there is a certain race that is starving and miserable, God is in a more miserable situation than that race. If a certain race feels mortified, God is in a situation where He feels more mortified.</p>
|
||
<p>Nevertheless, God is more concerned about us than we are. When Jesus saw that the people who should have understood this could not understand it and worried only about themselves, he spoke such words. Accordingly, if there is a person today who seeks His kingdom and His righteousness as the word of Jesus said to do, he should lay aside his hunger and anxiously appeal to Heaven, saying, “How many good people are subjected to starvation like myself on the earth?” It is not strange for one who cannot stand in a position of goodness to be subjected to starvation, but people who are in a position of goodness should not face starvation. We must feel concern for the sake of such people. We must realize that we are saddled with this kind of fate. That is why Jesus spoke such words, willing that even if one is not able to wear things and eat, one can still make effort to build the kingdom and the people God can own.</p>
|
||
<p>Since it is said that God exists, what kind of people would He then choose? What kind of people would He choose to keep as His children? He would look for the person who goes beyond his hunger and his difficulties, who is able to give his blessing for the sake of others with uplifted hands. He would look for a person who knows how to go beyond his vexation and sorrow and cry out of concern for God’s vexation and sorrow.</p>
|
||
<p>Therefore, looking at his enemies from the top of the cross where his own fate hung in the balance, Jesus was unable to say, “Oh, Heaven! Eternal Heaven! Please administer divine punishment upon them.” Instead, he lifted his hands and invoked blessing upon them. You must know that such a heart is the heart of the heavenly kingdom. It is none other than the heart of God.</p>
|
||
<p>On the basis of this principle then, when we look carefully at our own religious life and Christianity, which is said to believe in God, how many people are there who are worthy of the heavenly kingdom? Going farther, where is the race that God can eternally claim as His own? Where is the land that God can claim as His kingdom? Where are such things, such a person?</p>
|
||
<p>You all wish to go to the Kingdom of Heaven. Not only that, from time to time we happen to see people who confidently claim, “Ah! The Kingdom of Heaven is mine.” When we see such people, we come to wonder how anyone could declare that so confidently, more certain of the aspect of ownership than God Himself.</p>
|
||
<p>Since even God Himself cannot stand in a position where He claims that the heavenly kingdom belongs to Him, and since Jesus also cannot stand in a position where he claims that the heavenly kingdom belongs to him, how can they do so? Jesus is still in a position where he prays to Heaven. God also is making effort as of this moment.</p>
|
||
<p>What is the reason billions of people in the spirit world are cooperating for the sake of the earth and are unable to lead a joyful life in the seat of liberation, the seat of glory? Why would they have to stand in such a place? From the time of the creation of the world to the present, God has been unable to stand in a position in which He could realize the heavenly kingdom and claim it as His own. In spite of God being in such a situation, some faithful believers on the earth today are speaking so, contrary to the principles of the heavenly way.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Reason the Faithful Believers<br />
|
||
Must Walk the Path of Hardship</h3>
|
||
<p>The closer you walk toward Heaven, the more you dissolve Heaven’s bitter resentment, and the more deeply indebted you feel. For 6,000 years, God has been seeking His kingdom and people on this earth. Consequently, the historic debt of the toil of His seeking has accumulated for 6,000 years. Therefore, even if my individual self has satisfaction and happiness, I cannot say I own the heavenly kingdom.</p>
|
||
<p>If one is a son or a daughter of Heaven, he or she is left with the earth and the world for which he or she is responsible and for which he or she must be concerned and offer protection in God’s place. In other words, as long as anything that God cannot own remains, he or she should feel that he or she cannot have confidence in himself or herself.</p>
|
||
<p>For that reason, although Jesus came to this earth with the privileges of the Prince of Heaven, he could not exercise them, not even once. Everywhere he went, he washed the feet of his disciples and aided people. Jesus did not live even one day of his life for his purpose.</p>
|
||
<p>Looking back on Jesus’ life, we realize that he lived only for the good of others. His was a life of grief in which he struggled hard for the sake of others; he shed tears for the good of others; he was abused for the benefit of others; he was torn in the interest of others and he faced death for the good of others.</p>
|
||
<p>If God cannot dissolve this sorrow of Jesus, then God is useless. For that reason, we must liberate God from this iron chain of sorrow. Until the day He can claim that the whole of heaven and earth are His with uplifted hands and say to all humankind, “Let’s rejoice together!” we cannot make a case for ourselves. Because these vicissitudes existed, Christianity put emphasis on love, sacrifice and service and made an emphatic point out of living a life of persecution and contemptible treatment.</p>
|
||
<p>What do we have to do to be owned by God? We have to be able to shed many tears for God’s sake. You will be God’s possession as much as you have the mind to grieve for God’s sorrow in His place. You will be God’s possessions as much as you shoulder God’s hardships in His place. You will be God’s possession as much as you take false accusations from Satan in God’s place.</p>
|
||
<p>Therefore, you will become God’s possessions as much as you have rendered devoted service. That is not realized in a fair place; it is realized when human beings cling to sorrow or pain that all others have shunted aside, detesting them, and when they give devoted service. This is the path of Principle which Christians must walk.</p>
|
||
<p>The reason Korean Christianity caught fire was that Christians in the early days walked this kind of course. If a throng of people had appeared denying this, saying, “Since we are the people of the heavenly kingdom, why do we have to die?” God’s providential Will would not have spread throughout Korea.</p>
|
||
<p>If Jesus himself had denied this, saying, “Since I am the Son of God, why do I have to die? Why do I have to be abused and receive contemptuous treatment?” the course of salvation that you believe in today would not have been possible in human history.</p>
|
||
<p>What was the reason that all nations educate their people as patriots or in devoted service? Some patriots deserted their families, abandoned their desires and their honors to represent the will of their nation. You must know that they were people who took upon themselves the pain of their nations. They took upon themselves the sorrow of their nations and grieved. They tried to take responsibility for everything in their nation, representing the central figure. You must know that this is the right attitude to have in abiding by the laws of Heaven.</p>
|
||
<p>In this confused world today, numerous people insist upon having a high opinion of themselves and try to manifest their authority. It is difficult to find a truthful Christian. It is even more difficult to meet true sons and daughters of God, truthful people whom God can own. Now we should usher in a friend of ours, become people of the heavenly kingdom and organize a tribe by forming a religious order.</p>
|
||
<p>Where in Korea is one saint or faithful believer who has been claimed as the possession of God? Where is that one religious order? Where is that one race? We must shout, pouring out all the strength that is in us, until we are completely exhausted. We must realize that the time has arrived when we must seek, running until we fall.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Youth Who Must Save the Race and the World</h3>
|
||
<p>The mind that desires to serve the thirty million Korean people before you serve yourselves, the mind that tends to think of all humankind on this earth before you think of yourselves, must seep out of you today. Going further, the mind that can cry, holding onto even one blade of grass, should be unconsciously exploding in the midst of your mind. Unless you have this shimjung, you cannot become God’s complete sons and daughters.</p>
|
||
<p>Such human beings are the fruit of God’s tears, the fruit of God’s pains. They are also the sacrificial offering on God’s bloody altar. In spite of this, human beings do not think about this and step forth asserting themselves shamelessly. The same goes on with all created things.</p>
|
||
<p>Who is the person to pioneer the path for these Korean people to walk? The people who beat the ground and weep bitterly, beating their chests for the sake of these people, must emerge. Who is to straighten up this fragmented religious scene? The young men and women who have burning a passion to grab hold of the religious scene should come forth prepared for a bloody battle, beating the ground and appealing to fight against the hypocrites.</p>
|
||
<p>Who are the people who will save this world? They are none other than you young men and women. You must think about this again.</p>
|
||
<p>Today’s Western material civilization is highly developed. With the continent of Egypt as the starting point, Western civilization has been shaped until now by going through the Assyrian, Babylonian, Greek and Roman civilizations.</p>
|
||
<p>Upon what did Egypt, which boasted of its civilization of more than 3,000 years at the time of Jesus, build its civilization? This is part of the history of religion.</p>
|
||
<p>The Egyptians worshipped a sun god and believed in a god called Osiris. They armed themselves with this faith and thought. With unified energy, they built a powerful nation and civilization. By adopting this religion as their policy and ideology, they consolidated an established format, and by leading the people toward that ideal standard, they created the Egyptian civilization.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Lesson Learned in the Process<br />
|
||
of the Development of History,<br />
|
||
Centering on Religion</h3>
|
||
<p>Thus, the Egyptians established a standard they could maintain as a nation. Through that, they held sway over the world. Yet beyond their own people, they should have absorbed any good points that existed in other nations. If they had changed by sacrificing whatever they needed and accepting the better standard, they would not have perished.</p>
|
||
<p>Although that nation perished, civilization continued to develop with the progress of history. While the Assyrian and Babylonian civilizations developed in the Orient, Hebraism, centered on Judaism, was formed in Palestine, and a God-centered civilization developed.</p>
|
||
<p>In Greece, civilization centered on the ideology of an external god. This developed and later harmonized with various trends of thought and worship of the arts. The realm of knowledge is the unique religious ideology founded by the Greeks.</p>
|
||
<p>The worldwide sphere of civilization was formed in such a manner. While passing through a period of confusion, it merged with Christian thought. This later traversed Rome and Christian civilization was thus established.</p>
|
||
<p>In medieval times, Christianity absorbed everyone under it indiscriminately and brought about homogeneity. However, because it could not actualize its purpose and became very worldly, God had to strike medieval Christianity.</p>
|
||
<p>If the papal court at Rome had not been corrupt and had a sense of mission to exist for the sake of the world and the good of the humankind, subscribing to and promulgating the thought of putting the benefit of others before one’s own benefit, it would not have collapsed.</p>
|
||
<p>Since the Roman papal court could not do thus, God deemed it too reprehensible to be left alone. He struck it externally by bringing about the Renaissance and internally by bringing about the Reformation. After that, the Puritans crossed over to the American continent, and came to build a nation there centering on Christian ideology. The political ideology of Rome, the religious ideology of Christianity, and the intellectualism of Greece all blended into one and led to the formation of Pan-Americanism, which controls the democratic world today.</p>
|
||
<p>Now, to fulfill its national responsibility and mission and to be able to exercise the authority of ownership until today’s democracy can be connected to the heavenly principles, what kind of thought must America have? First, it must discard its “America First” policy. This is the most important thing, above all else, for the American people.</p>
|
||
<p>If America insists that its economy, culture, technology, scientific advancement and political system exist only for the sake of its people, America will be struck. That was why the Renaissance sprang up to awaken people. Today communism has appeared and has been awakening people. From now on, ideologies and religions will be invaded by a movement. In times like these, we must discern heavenly movements with the mind of a seer.</p>
|
||
<p>From where will the religious ideology that can land America a blow emerge? People will have to consider this with an open mind.</p>
|
||
<p>This is a processional phenomenon of the development of history that takes place because human beings could not recover the authority of the Absolute Being’s ownership. This takes place to lead them to that position, even if they must be struck.</p>
|
||
<p>What was the Renaissance? It was the restoration of Hellenism; that is, it was a movement to restore the original human nature, based on the Greek ethos, emphasizing human consciousness. Similarly, within the domain of today’s America-centered democracy, Christianity must return to the original Christian spirit. A movement must take place in which people believe, not only in the words already revealed, but find the thoughts contained in the words and re-arm themselves centering on that. If the present Christianity cannot do so, it will end up in the same position as Roman Catholicism in the Middle Ages.</p>
|
||
<p>Why is that? What is required is not God’s Word, but God’s person, God’s people and God’s nation. The words emerge for that purpose.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">What God Wishes to Own</h3>
|
||
<p>Now the time must come when, having passed the absolute age of the Word, we will have to build the absolute age of substance. Therefore, after going through the Word transit age, the final historic age of the substance transit age will come. This age is the so-called “age of judgment.”</p>
|
||
<p>When we consider this, we see that history is ringing an alarm for us today. The steps of the prophets and sages of the past are guiding our lives and their spirits are governing the trend of our thoughts in the background. For that reason, people who drift away will definitely see the day when heavenly laws will judge them.</p>
|
||
<p>What then will happen after God has reclaimed the earth, having restored an earthly person and made him Heaven’s? That person must recognize the day when he can boast that God’s life is his own. He must recognize the day when he can boast of God’s ideology and love before the whole universe and humankind.</p>
|
||
<p>Is there anyone among you today who can boast thus? If there is, please come out. Is there anyone who has wanted to risk even his life in trying to realize the heavenly kingdom of glory? If there is, please come out. Furthermore, is there anyone who can step forth saying that he will become God’s own and build the heavenly kingdom on this earth?</p>
|
||
<p>Many people in the process of restoration may have tasted the heavenly kingdom while still in the domain of Satan’s accusations. Yet there is no one who has truly experienced the taste of the fatherland of eternal peace, the heavenly kingdom, having eliminated Satan. He who has experienced the taste of the true heavenly kingdom and felt the love of God will receive the impetus to fight with Satan. Once a person experiences the taste of the true heavenly kingdom and receives the love of God, he will never leave God again. A man who has experienced the love of God must appear on this earth.</p>
|
||
<p>What must belong to God? It begins from a clump of grass, from a pyung of land, from a man and from the smallest unit. It includes everything up to the heavenly kingdom; going further, it includes the world of God’s shimjung. That ownership should not be relative or conceptual. It should be subjective. Only if such a world is built will God rest for the first time.</p>
|
||
<p>Human beings cannot help liking what God likes. For that reason, God decided upon the seventh day as the Sabbath and told man to rest. Did you know that God has not been able to rest on a Sabbath day even now, after 6,000 years of history?</p>
|
||
<p>Jesus emphasized the Word of God and came forth inheriting the vicissitudes of 2,000 years of providential history, during which the Sabbath was upheld as most important. However, has the day of triumphant glory come when Jesus could vaunt himself to the Father and say for Him to take a rest, together with humankind? No, there has not. Since God and Jesus are not in a situation where they can rest, neither can we.</p>
|
||
<p>Before the time of rest comes, there will be a war; before the time of rest comes, there will be suffering and death. When we steel ourselves and pass over this, we will then enable ourselves to taste rest for the first time. Jesus tasted one aspect of resting after his crucifixion. That was after he had passed through such a path.</p>
|
||
<p>What must we possess? We must possess the garden of rest, the garden of happiness, the garden of goodness, the garden of love and the ideal. However, before we possess these, we will have to be hit by Satan, as well as by Heaven. Jesus was hit by Satan and by Heaven. The Pharisees chased Jesus out, and at the same time, the Romans chased him out. In view of the fact that Jesus ardently prayed at the crucifixion, “My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46) we can see that God had abandoned him too.</p>
|
||
<p>Therefore, he who will possess and be possessed by the Kingdom of Heaven is one who will be put in a most miserable situation in the course of seeking God. Among the races of the world, which will be the one that will own God? The most miserable race will possess God. The closer a race is to such misery, the nearer it is to God.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Man and Race God Can Own and Their Responsibility</h3>
|
||
<p>Consequently, a great tribulation will come in the last days. What does this mean? The one who is strongly minded to own things centered on himself, the one who works to ensure his own self-centered comfort, will receive a strike in the face. This is the great tribulation. Still, considering that the Father is trying to awaken human beings by allowing them to pass through such tribulations, we must return thanks to Him.</p>
|
||
<p>People who try to live and die for the sake of truth will become miserable. Therefore, we must understand that the group of people who are saved from the grave of death will become the central figures in the garden of rest. He who holds onto and lives according to the truth to which Jesus attested will become Jesus’ and God’s possession, even if he casts away the rest of the Bible.</p>
|
||
<p>A person who says he is in charge based on who he was in the past, or who complains that people do not recognize him even though he has done such and such, should pack his bag and leave. Such a group of people will eventually be cleared away.</p>
|
||
<p>Suppose you have a mind aglow with righteousness, eager to build the new garden of ideology. Your every movement should then be for the purpose of attaining the Will and authority of God’s ownership. Accordingly, you will now rise above yourselves and fight representing the world. Your hands, your footsteps and your bodies will have to move in that direction.</p>
|
||
<p>Today is the age of the macrocosm, in which we must fulfill the ideology of re-creation. To become brave hearts of Heaven and build a new garden of rest in such a time, we should first push out all the elements with which Satan can meddle. What is more, we should serve and minister to God and offer Him comfort after bringing everything over to the heavenly kingdom. To do that, you will have to have the shimjung to walk the difficult path more gallantly than Jesus, who walked for the sake of Heaven; more gallantly than anyone who walked for the sake of the Will during the last 6,000 years.</p>
|
||
<p>Before you own the world and ideal of God, you must own God’s pain and sorrow and the difficult situation He has endured. Such people will be able to take charge of hell, as well as the heavenly kingdom.</p>
|
||
<p>How could Jesus take charge of hell? If Jesus had assumed the responsibility for the Will of God only in its good aspect and died for the sake of God only in its good aspect, then he would have been able to manage the heavenly kingdom, but not hell. Therefore, because Jesus established the heavenly standard by keeping his integrity even in hell, he set the standard of being able to manage hell too.</p>
|
||
<p>Now you should tread over the tribulation of hell and stand up and equip yourselves to be able to win victory over Satan in high spirits. To do that, you must know how to give witness to the goodness of God, how to be concerned about the righteousness of God and how to manifest the comprehensive Will of God, all in high spirits.</p>
|
||
<p>Only when that happens can we receive Heaven’s blessing for the first time. When that time arrives, we Christians can step forth before Heaven. For that reason, we must run to the stage of the final judgment, the point of the final decision. Accordingly, you must now run toward that place as an individual, as a people and as a world. Yet to go over it, all individuals and the world beyond the individual will face a strike in the face.</p>
|
||
<p>You must realize that the throng of people who go over this, feeling thankful to become a new heavenly people and establish a new family, a new society and a new nation, will build the Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore, he who feels concern and cries for himself will become a pitiful person. That is why we Unification Church members are induced to fast on occasion. What is it for? It is to have you leave the position of self-centered striving. That is why you are made to fast and endure ordeals. If you avoid such suffering, you will get a strike in the face. You must go over it, saying, “Thank you.”</p>
|
||
<p>God has endured with patience for 6,000 years to raise Satan to the standard where he too does God’s work. The day when you subjugate all human beings who acted in evil-centered ways into going the way of goodness is the day of the great judgment. He who can boast of himself in the presence of God will rise above the great judgment and be owned by God.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Priority for Human Beings<br />
|
||
Is to be Owned by God</h3>
|
||
<p>People today speak of God in a self-centered way, but they are wrong in this. Jesus said, “I am in the Father and the Father in me.” For this we should be grateful. You too must experience such a feeling. If that happens, you will realize that the world, the whole universe you thought you had lost, is in front of you in a more splendid way, with God.</p>
|
||
<p>The words “I am in you and you in me,” are not empty words. Only when that happens do things that belong to God simultaneously belong to me, and vice versa. That is something about which to boast. God cannot do without me. Why? God created all creation for human beings. Because He established human beings as the object or focal point that returns all of creation to Him, without human beings, God cannot do anything.</p>
|
||
<p>Therefore, when we look at the world, all things are in line with the principles of circular movement. If force expands only on a straight line, it is an eternal waste. The foremost principled purpose of God’s having created the world was to bend the direction of force expanding on a straight line. Therefore, the principles of the world are the principles of circular movement, and they are the principles of motion. When you study chemistry, you research and analyze materials and observe all phenomena of moving and acting. You then come to realize that nothing that exists goes out of line with the principles. All things are revolving 360 degrees. The universe revolves, society revolves, and my mind also revolves.</p>
|
||
<p>He who knows how to revolve centered on God’s heart, which is the center of the whole universe, will revolve if God revolves. As long as God revolves, this universe will revolve too. If God revolves, we will revolve, and all of creation will revolve too.</p>
|
||
<p>Only when we stand in such a position will we feel God’s heart transform into our own and be able to experience God’s heart. Having done so, St. Paul not only strongly felt the state of not knowing whether he was inside his body or out of it; he was also able to feel the heaven of three stories, the value of the existence of an invisible substantial entity. The power of a person of faith springs forth from there.</p>
|
||
<p>Jesus has endured until now, looking forward to the time when he could make a plea for such a state. Christian believers also have been enduring until now, looking forward to such a time.</p>
|
||
<p>Has the state of your minds reached such a standard? You must first become God’s possession. My subjective point of view belongs to God, and my life also must be God’s possession. Going further, the family, the society, and all the things we have belong to God. All must be God’s possessions.</p>
|
||
<p>God cannot take things that have been made dirty through Satan’s management. Satan’s elements of sin should not be there. God takes only after eliminating the elements of sin by striking them. Restoration history has been fraught with this sorrow of God’s.</p>
|
||
<p>For that reason, when we offer up a sacrifice, we must lift a sword and split it. Such a time will come to you too. Therefore, the last days will be a time of dividing. Having divided, wars will be waged. Korea is divided into north and south. More than six nations similar to Korea must emerge in the world. Things cannot move out of line with this principle.</p>
|
||
<p>Having understood these things, even if you offer up your lives to the Father, He cannot readily accept them. If He did, God would get caught in the Satan’s eternal false charges. Therefore, He takes only after striking. Only then will Satan not make false representations.</p>
|
||
<p>That was why Noah, whom God had chosen, was in such a position. Abraham, Moses and Jesus were also in such a position. It is the same case for us today. If there are people who wish to avoid that path, they are not the throng of people who may enter Heaven by the gate. They are like thieves or robbers who try to go over, not through, the main gate by climbing the fence.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">We Must Know God’s Mind and Situation</h3>
|
||
<p>What is a thief or robber? He who attempts to employ and make use of what belongs to others is a thief and a robber. We must know this and go over the crest of restoration.</p>
|
||
<p>In this light, you must understand the Father’s sorrowful situation. No matter how hard you pray, saying, “I will offer up my life to You,” He cannot accept it, saying, “Oh, yes, I have truly longed for your life.” Before you understand such a situation, God will never be able to accept it, even if we offer up all that we have in His presence. Jesus was to tell human beings about this situation and help them resolve it. However, he died without being able to do so. Therefore, you must understand that the sorrowful reality of the need for a Second Advent has remained until this day.</p>
|
||
<p>What then must we who are faced with the last days do? We have to earnestly request, “Please let us know of the Father’s sorrowful situation, of Your mind full of vicissitudes.” Furthermore, if there is a way to receive redemption by paying indemnity only once rather than ten times, then you should step forth looking for that way. This is the path Christian believers must walk in the last days. We are faced with the worldwide fate to look for such a path and go over it. We are to go over the path of tribulation and win a victory.</p>
|
||
<p>It is being prophesied that in the last days there the great judgment, the seven year tribulation, will come. He who dislikes being struck and avoids it will have difficulty going to the heavenly kingdom.</p>
|
||
<p>However, you must understand that God wishes for sons and daughters to emerge who can enjoy such a time and who can say, “Please let it come promptly. By striking me again and again, even if I breathe my last breath, please allow me to go over the seven year tribulation.”</p>
|
||
<p>If you become a person like this, it will be no problem for you to possess the history of 6,000 years. You will own the heavenly kingdom and God’s heart. Consequently, you must know that if you report to Him and make a request, you stand as a being whom God can possess and lend His ears. That is, you have the value of being God’s absolute representative. When that happens, you must understand that God will boast of us for the first time, and the day will come when we can politely bow our heads and offer comfort to the Father who has toiled for us.</p>
|
||
</div><!-- .entry-content -->
|
||
|
||
<footer class="entry-meta">
|
||
</footer><!-- #entry-meta -->
|
||
|
||
</article><!-- #post-972 -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<article id="post-968" class="post-968 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958">
|
||
<header class="entry-header">
|
||
<h2 class="entry-title">
|
||
<a href="/blog/2018/06/07/who-will-become-the-friend-of-golgotha/" title="Permalink to Who Will Become the Friend of Golgotha?" rel="bookmark">Who Will Become the Friend of Golgotha?</a>
|
||
</h2>
|
||
<div class="entry-meta">
|
||
<span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="/blog/author/fami1yfed/" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-07T08:44:28+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/07/who-will-become-the-friend-of-golgotha/" rel="bookmark">June 7, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-07T08:44:38+01:00">June 7, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/blog/category/speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958/" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1958</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
</header><!-- .entry-header -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
<div class="entry-content">
|
||
<h2 align="center">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
|
||
<h3 style="text-align: center;" align="center">Former Headquarters Church<br />
|
||
Seoul, Korea<br />
|
||
October 19, 1958</h3>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Luke 12:26-43</em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-25486" class="text Luke-12-26"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">26 </sup>Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-25487" class="text Luke-12-27"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">27 </sup>“Consider how the wild flowers grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-25488" class="text Luke-12-28"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">28 </sup>If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you—you of little faith!</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-25489" class="text Luke-12-29"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">29 </sup>And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-25490" class="text Luke-12-30"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">30 </sup>For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them.</span></span><span id="en-NIV-25491" class="text Luke-12-31"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">31 </sup>But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-25492" class="text Luke-12-32"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">32 </sup>“Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-25493" class="text Luke-12-33"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">33 </sup>Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-25494" class="text Luke-12-34"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">34 </sup>For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="text Luke-12-35"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">35 </sup>“Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning,</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-25496" class="text Luke-12-36"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">36 </sup>like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-25497" class="text Luke-12-37"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">37 </sup>It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-25498" class="text Luke-12-38"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">38 </sup>It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-25499" class="text Luke-12-39"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">39 </sup>But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-25500" class="text Luke-12-40"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">40 </sup>You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-25501" class="text Luke-12-41"><sup class="versenum">41 </sup>Peter asked, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everyone?”</span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-25502" class="text Luke-12-42"><sup class="versenum">42 </sup>The Lord answered, <span class="woj">“Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the proper time?</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-25503" class="text Luke-12-43"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">43 </sup>It will be good for that servant whom the master finds doing so when he returns.</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p>Prayer</p>
|
||
<blockquote><p>Today we have gathered before You again. We are afraid of not being able to return glory to You in Your distress. We are afraid of revealing reckless falsity before Your will. Father, if we are unworthy, at least grant us the sincere heart to be able to humble ourselves and wait for Your mercy. Without Your care, how can we see Your glory on the earth? Without abiding in Your shimjung, how can we see the garden granted to us? Father! We have desired from the beginning and pursued the will to become those who can abide in Your heart, harmonize with Your shimjung, and live with You.</p>
|
||
<p>We sang about You when we first experienced Your shimjung. Yet along the way, many of us have been wounded in the heart. Please have sympathy with our plights. We have learned through the process of restoration that the initial determination we made before You must remain in the last garden of restoration. We know too well that the Israelites who did not fall in the wilderness were those whose ardent shimjung toward You was unchanging from the time of the departure from Egypt throughout the forty-year course. Those who had the shimjung of loyalty toward You received the blessing of the second Israel. At this time, guide us to question whether we are now able to obey Your commands after having pledged and determined before You.</p>
|
||
<p>We know that You are lamenting because the last days are approaching, yet there are none who can take responsibility for Your sake. Although we seek You, we behold Your glory, and we call ourselves Your sons, we know that You are grieving because no one appears to take responsibility for any area in Your will, providence and battle course. Father, allow us again to set up the altar of repentance and shed tears of deep regret. We know the Israelites fell in the wilderness by desiring comfort and complaining against You. Since we have gathered here to hold Your hand and not become like them, lead us to participate in Your glory. I eagerly desire and ask this.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, have pity now on the thirty million people. Father, have pity on these people. Since the many altars set up for the nation may be far away from the nation and Your will, as long as the providential will is to be accomplished through them, please intervene with them directly. If they do not listen to Your advice, teach them their path even by using whips. I eagerly desire and ask this, loving Father. If there are people who remain to the end, shouldering the responsibility to awaken this sleeping nation, Father, allow even one more life to come into harmony with Your loving shimjung. You have mourned for 6,000 years. I eagerly desire and ask, loving Father, that we may become Your sons and daughters who can repent before You, obey You and fight against Satan.</p>
|
||
<p>In spite of Your work of the providence, human mistakes brought sighs and grudges. Pacify Your grief with us. Father, we are trying to find Your ideal garden, so please work with us directly and with an eager shimjung. I earnestly desire and ask, loving Father, that You will consecrate whatever needs to be consecrated so that we can offer it to You as a glorious sacrifice and keep Your altar clean. As we are now looking for Your sons and daughters who will work hard for the earth, let us not simply hold onto ourselves before You. Loving Father, I sincerely desire and ask that we can feel our own shortcomings for ourselves. Please protect the path of Golgotha to the end. Although we are unworthy to appear before Your altar, let us remain on this course until the end.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, although the allowed will and time should be fulfilled and manifested through us, we are worried that if we become unable to serve the will, You will install another prepared people and put us to shame. Father, manifest the day of glory and soothe Your grieving shimjung through us. Establish one day of joy, and let us participate in Your joy. I eagerly desire and ask this, loving Father. Although we want to appear before You, we are worried that it may deeply disturb You. Therefore, Father, I eagerly hope that we can go forth for the will of Your desire without hesitation and move according to Your command, so that the day comes soon when we can comfortably trust each other.</p>
|
||
<p>Since we are anxious that we may not possess Your shimjung and may simply become objects of Your sorrow, let our hearts resemble Your heart. Let our situations converge with Your situation. Let our hopes resemble Your hope. Father, I eagerly desire and ask that You guide us so that in life and in death we live, centered on You, as Your possession. We leave the rest of the hour up to You. Please rule over us as You please. There are righteous people throughout the country who are offering ardent prayers. Please spread over them Your hand of grace and bless them with admonition so that they can experience the heavenly glory. We pray all this in the name of the Lord. Amen.</p></blockquote>
|
||
<p>The title of the speech I would like to reflect upon with you today is “Who Will Become the Friend of Golgotha?”</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Jesus Brought the Truth, Life, Love and Ideal of Heaven</h3>
|
||
<p>As you well know, Golgotha means the place of the skull and thus is the place of death. To become a friend of Golgotha means to become a friend of death. Christians believe in Jesus of Golgotha. Golgotha reminds us of the cross of Jesus, and the cross reminds us of his internal character. His internal character reminds us that God grieved over his death. With the dying Jesus, Heaven was stricken with sorrow and the earth took delight. Jesus came for the sake of the earth and Heaven; yet only Heaven understood him as he died for Heaven and earth. We should know that this is the sorrow of history.</p>
|
||
<p>If the chosen people had understood Jesus as God did, human history would not have become so deviant. Jesus came as the representative of truth, life, the ideal and love. Yet the truth, life, ideal and love he proclaimed were centered on Heaven and not on humanity. They were the truth a fallen person had to find to find hope, the life he had to possess, the ideal he had to find, and the love he had to possess eternally. Although Jesus came with truth, life, the ideal and love, when he died none of these, for which humankind searched, could be found. We should realize that for this reason humankind could not help roaming about.</p>
|
||
<p>So far there has been no one who possesses the word of truth which emanates deeply from the shimjung of Jesus. No one has the life which deeply grasps the bone and flesh of Jesus. There has been no one on earth who possesses the ideal to which Jesus aspired with his united mind and body and the love which enabled him to bring people together and run toward one purpose. Jesus, who came with the heavenly truth, life, the ideal and love sought to fulfill God’s ideal and will of love centering on earthly people and to fulfill the unifying purpose of the Creator God. Because of the lack of faith and the betrayal of our ancestors, however, in the course of history the truth, life, ideal and love God tried to find have vanished.</p>
|
||
<p>Thus, buried in fallen ties, humankind has had to wander around looking for the true word, life, ideal and love. Therefore, there should come a time when in the last days humanity can go through the woe-stricken process of battle in history and find one life. In other words, there should come a time when the common purpose is achieved, with a movement of one life directing the world and one ideal embracing all humankind. The sages who have come to serve God’s will have hoped that humankind would harmonize into inseparable oneness. In the last days, the unifying movement of love occurs which can melt anything. We are in a desperate time when humankind is living in the last period of history in distress, bitterness and fear. We must feel again how the sages have been struggling, disregarding death, to achieve such a day.</p>
|
||
<p>Though Jesus died on the cross, it does not mean complete ruin. Rather, his truth, life and love remain after his death. How then can humankind find this remaining word, life, ideal and love? You should know that this is the final question man should resolve.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Ignorance and Distrust of the Chosen People</h3>
|
||
<p>What then is the sorrow of Jesus, who came with God’s will? What were his mistreatment and anger? What was his utmost pain? You should know that the greatest sorrow for Jesus was the shimjung he had when he could not complete what he wanted to say, give life completely, leave behind the joyful ideal, and share heavenly love. He knew he carried the heavenly word overflowing with life, the ideal and love.</p>
|
||
<p>Throughout the thousands of years of history, God tried to have our ancestors assist Heaven, but they betrayed Him in every age. Thus, we should feel and know that since we have such ancestors, we in the last days are standing at a great crossroad in which we may easily become historical and cosmic betrayers again. Jesus was sent to the Israelites as a promise, after thousands of years of effort from Abraham to Moses. The Israelites were chosen as the center of the word, life, the ideal and love. Yet the chosen people, who had waited and prepared for the Messiah, standing on their historical merit, were unable to serve him. Jesus was to be served as the hero of history, for whom countless ancestors had hoped. Yet there was no one to serve him.</p>
|
||
<p>We should not allow Jesus to be born in a stable. At that time, there was a prophesy that the Messiah would appear in Bethlehem. Yet there was no one who waited for the Messiah, who might appear without warning, with even a small hut prepared. When Jesus was born, the whole of Jerusalem was in commotion. The rumor spread quickly that Messiah would be born in Bethlehem. Yet no one prepared for his birth in Jerusalem or in Bethlehem.</p>
|
||
<p>Today’s Christians should think again that Jesus, the prince of Heaven, the Messiah, was pitifully lying down in a stable. Since the chosen people did not recognize Jesus as the Messiah who would speak about and witness to Heaven, today they cannot stand before Heaven. The Messiah needs clothes to wear and a house to live in on earth. Among all the religious believers at that time, especially the Pharisees and Sadducees, there was no one who even prepared one room for the Messiah.</p>
|
||
<p>We should be deeply sad looking at the sin of our ancestors, who followed Heaven so recklessly. To not repeat the historical error, we should listen to the worries in our heart and plead with Heaven. After 4,000 years of preparation, who would have imagined that what happened to Jesus would occur! Where did the 4,000 years of effort go? The chosen people and Jerusalem were deep in sleep, aware of nothing, when Heaven sent the only chosen son of the promise. They bragged about their religious order and wished it could replace the sovereignty. The fact that Jesus appeared to such a people is a story that stands between humankind, who has to face God’s will, and God, who is carrying out the providence. You may not know this.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">True Faith in Jesus</h3>
|
||
<p>Jesus was a carpenter until he was thirty. If someone has had a holy, spiritual experience, he would know a part of the thirty years of Jesus’ life. If there is someone who knows, his heart will be torn with sorrow when he eats a good meal, wears good clothes, and lives in good circumstances. God was with Joseph when he took Mary, according to God’s will. Growing up in Joseph’s family, however, Jesus was treated disdainfully as a stepchild. As the children of Joseph became many, Jesus became more isolated. Thus, without being able to share his situation and feelings, he spent the thirty years of his life humbly, making other people’s doors with a saw and plane. Who knew his situation? No one. At that time, he could not appear as the historical Jesus as you believe in him now nor as the Christ with the historically acknowledged character.</p>
|
||
<p>Who are the ones who will receive the Messiah when he appears in the last days? Not the one who serves the historical character of Jesus. You should know that it is the one who serves the character of Jesus of the age. You should know that though Jesus carried the way of Heaven in his heart and worried about the earth, he suffered the sadness of not being recognized by his parents, and brothers and sisters.</p>
|
||
<p>Now we should believe in this Jesus. Our Unification members should believe, but believe in this Jesus first, know this Jesus first. We should know that, though we know Jesus as having taken the path of the cross and death, in fact he came to live. We should hold onto the deceased Jesus and cry.</p>
|
||
<p>Jesus was in a wretched situation. He could share his feelings in preparing for his death with no one. He could share his shimjung, stricken with the worries, sorrows and grudges of Heaven and earth, with no one. If there had been people who could cry with Jesus, understand his situation and befriend him, they would have become his disciples. Why Peter? How could Peter, fishing at the shore of Galilee, become the chief disciple of Jesus? This was to be deplored. What happened to the prepared religious figures and the chosen people? How could Peter and the fishermen, who were not even in God’s plan, unexpectedly become the disciples of Jesus? Jesus must become indignant. Jesus grieved because there was no welcome from the chosen people.</p>
|
||
<p>Thus, as you believe in the Lord today, do not simply believe in the deceased Jesus. Believe in Jesus as he worked when he was alive. Believe not only in Jesus who died on the cross but in Jesus who worried over the will of Heaven for the thirty years of his life. You should know that the course of his life was one of sighing for the sake of the will. It was one of a sorrowful shimjung, culminating in the sadness of the cross. Where is someone, on the earth, who understands Jesus’ suffering shimjung at Golgotha? Where is the one who can be his friend? Jesus needed friends in his family, friends among his brothers and sisters, friends who could represent all the fathers and mothers, and friends who could represent the church. He needed friends who could carry the cross in his place. Jesus needed friends who could tread the worldwide path of the cross and Golgotha in his place. There is no one now who knows this will and believes in Jesus thus.</p>
|
||
<p>Jesus, who appeared in the flesh with the historical will, was brought down after working under adverse circumstances. Those who have walked the historical course following the will Jesus left behind also have found themselves under the miserable circumstances of the ages, and they cried out for Jesus. When Jesus carried the cross at Golgotha, the whole universe was at stake. We should understand the heavenly shimjung, which therefore roams around to find a friend of Golgotha. That is, Heaven is looking for the friend who can understand the shimjung of Golgotha.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Human History, Present and Future,<br />
|
||
Considered from the Standpoint of the Struggle</h3>
|
||
<p>Historically, as evil grew strong, the good became weak. When evil was too strong for the good to guide it, history went on with evil conquering the good. Amid this, however, a small goodness sprouted forth, formed a greater goodness, and proceeded toward the purpose of goodness. You should know, then, that the historical course thus far has moved through the process by which goodness rises. Thus, history flows from the individual through the family, and with a social character. Through the form of the collective clan, the tribe, and the nation and country, it comes to the stage of the world. Furthermore, history will not stop at the visible world. It will extend toward the spirit world of the universe.</p>
|
||
<p>Human history has been going through the ages of goodness centered on the individual, the clan, the tribe, the nation, the country and the world. In this way, a small goodness in history has been developing into greater goodness. Thus, the individual battle turned into a family battle, the family battle turned into a clan battle, the clan battle turned into a social battle, the social battle turned into a national battle, the national battle turned into a worldwide battle. If the spirit world exists, there will be a battle between the spirit world and the earth. If God exists, only when the war between God and the countless evil spirits of the earth is over will the age of peace come to this universe. You should realize God’s situation, who is working through such a process of the Principle. The age of cosmic peace will come only when God resolves all the problems after a clash with Satan and the evil hordes on the earth.</p>
|
||
<p>Now that the battle is growing from the individual to the clan, the tribe, the country and the world, what will happen to the world from now on? If there are a spirit world and Heaven, we must fight against the spirit world. How can you avoid the fear that creeps into your mind in the last days? There will come an age where you will feel greater fear than that of the atomic bomb. That is, not only the external terror of the atomic age will attack you, but a wave of dread will come in your mind. Thus, people these days have much fear. Mental patients are growing in number. This is because they are faced with spiritual combat with Satan. We should finish this fight, become one with God, and take responsibility for the Father’s war, sorrow and pain. The day on which to assign the responsibility for the Father’s pain, sorrow and mistreatment is the day of the returning of Jesus and the day of the great judgment upon man. This is the way of God’s providence.</p>
|
||
<p>After this historical process, what will happen then? Now the age of the national struggle is passed. It is the time when democracy and communism are waging a worldwide struggle. They will eventually become one. Why, then, has Christian history gone through this process? The form of the right-hand and left-hand thieves at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion is making a worldwide appearance today. The right-hand thief appeared in the form of worldwide democracy representing God, and the left-hand thief appeared in the worldwide form opposing God, centered on man and material. What will appear next? The crisis of resurrection with the death of Jesus will come. That is, the left-hand thief started as an individual, and this led to a family and a clan. It formed a tribe, a people, a country and a world. On the other hand, the right-hand thief also formed a world. The result of Jesus’ being sown as a seed in the ground has come down to this in the last days.</p>
|
||
<p>Now what we should be worried about is in what position democracy stands. You should understand Jesus’ shimjung at the time of death so that you will find yourself and rejoice upon the arrival of the kingdom of God. We should know what the conclusion of this democracy will be, since it does not possess God’s ideal, which can represent Jesus’ shimjung. Today, those of us on the side of democracy should at least become like the right-hand thief, who could cry for the death of Jesus while taking his own death as a matter of course. Now is the time you should become like this.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Peter and the Twelve Disciples<br />
|
||
Should Have Become Friends of Golgotha</h3>
|
||
<p>To examine worldwide phenomena from the Christian viewpoint, they are a result of history. You should pray to find out what historical process God has gone through to cause this result. This way you should realize that the prayer you inevitably came to offer, “Father! Let this nation receive the worldwide blessing as the chosen people. Send judgment against those who failed in the past and punish the unfaithful rebels,” was also an option for Jesus.</p>
|
||
<p>Yet, what anger did Jesus harbor upon death? The chosen religion of Israel tortured his heart and the chosen people nailed him to the cross. This was his anguish and lamentation. Though Jesus personally had great sorrow, however, he could forget his death and pray for them. He thought about the situation of God, who had walked through blood and tears for 4,000 years and about the people of Israel, whom God had chosen and raised for 4,000 years. Today’s Christians of the world should think about this again.</p>
|
||
<p>If Jesus had not prayed for them, the chosen nation and the religious believers would have received the judgment first. You should know that Jesus gave them blessing because he thought that if only there were some room granted by Heaven, they would follow in his footsteps and come over to his side. When I see Jesus’ words about the right-hand thief, tears unconsciously come out. The people did not know that God’s sorrow of 4,000 years was embodied there in Jesus. Only a thief recognized it. This was a sad scene. There were countless people in front of Jesus. It was the religious believers and chosen people who were to move and halt with the blood and flesh of Jesus, but they failed to do so. They should have shed blood together at the cross with Jesus. How preposterous that there was no one, but a murderous thief, to accompany him! Although Jesus was the Savior of all, he was in a pitiable position. It is extremely shameful that the only one who accompanied Jesus in his death was a murderous thief.</p>
|
||
<p>Had Peter been a friend of Golgotha or any of the twelve disciples, God would not have had any grudges. Jesus would not have died. If the twelve disciples had united and resolved to die with Jesus, a miracle would have occurred and Jesus would not have died. Jesus grieved for 33 years looking at the chosen people, and he shed tears for the three years of his public life, for the sake of the people of the earth. Yet where did the people who had put their hopes in Jesus go? Where did the religion go which had been watching? Where did the disciples go, who had shared joy and sorrow, and followed Jesus for the three public years? When they saw advantages to it and joy, they said that they were friends and disciples of Jesus. They tried to stand in the position of Jesus more than anyone else. At the end, their path had nothing to do with that of Jesus. As this formed the root of the beginning of a new history, history developed in this shape and has reached its end today.</p>
|
||
<p>Who received the blessing of Jesus? It was not the twelve disciples who had followed him nor the religious leaders, who had believed in Heaven, nor the Israelites, who had been chosen through blessing. The right-hand thief, who shed blood with Jesus and died on the cross with him received the historical blessing and went to Paradise before the chief disciple. This is the tragedy of tragedies. If both of the thieves had failed to participate in the death of Jesus, the providence of salvation would have been thwarted. You should know that Jesus could resurrect to appear again on earth and meet the unfaithful people again because the blood of the thief could establish with heavenly fortune the condition for building Paradise on earth.</p>
|
||
<p>Since there was one person who received Jesus as the bridegroom in the place of death, through this foundation, the fruit of goodness will surely appear on earth. It will appear for Jesus. No matter how strong Satan’s power is, he cannot demolish and eradicate the seed of goodness. If there is a faithful person who not only stands in the situation of death and sacrifices for goodness, but also collapses while holding onto goodness, goodness will multiply many-fold simply because of this. This is the ironclad rule. Those who opposed Jesus thought he would be wiped out once he was put to the cross. Since there were no followers, they thought that Satan took away all. Christians do not know that the history of resurrection arose with the thief on the right as a condition.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Path of Golgotha Which Must Be Gone Over</h3>
|
||
<p>Satan struck Jesus and the right-hand thief. After the death of Jesus, he struck the twelve disciples. Heaven gave even the twelve disciples to Satan. Why did he have to hit like this? Though the course of Jesus was an individual course to Golgotha, because of it the twelve disciples, the chosen people and the nation of the Israel also had to go through the course of Golgotha. Today all the Christians of the world and all humankind must also go through the course of Golgotha. Today’s democratic world does not know that it has to go over the worldwide hill of Golgotha, centering on democracy. Jesus tried to go over this worldwide hill of Golgotha. As you know, the reason Jesus prayed, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46) was not because he mourned his own death but because he was worried that if he died, humankind would have to go through the course of Golgotha. That is why he prayed, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.” (Matthew 26:39)</p>
|
||
<p>If Jesus had not gone through the course of Golgotha, there would not have been the worldwide course of Golgotha. However, once Jesus went through this path, carrying the worldwide and cosmic mission, the individual course of Golgotha remained to his followers. The family course of Golgotha remained in the age of the providence centered on the family. When the providence expanded from the family age to the stage of society, the social road of the cross also remained. In the providential age of the country, in which a national providential will is served, the paths of the family cross, the social cross, and the national cross had to be trodden. Thus, if the worldwide Christ comes on the earth, he has to carry the crosses of the world, the country, the society, the family and the individual. Today’s Christians do not know that such a hill of destiny remains.</p>
|
||
<p>What kind of Lord do today’s Christians want to receive? If there is Heaven, where would they meet Jesus? They would meet him in the place of resurrection after going over the hill of the cross. This is the resurrection of the second advent. For this reason, in the historical course after Jesus up to now, the path of Golgotha has been followed by the individual, the family, the society, the country and the world with many struggles. Now is the age when the democratic camp gets smitten by the communist camp. How, then, can we go over the worldwide Golgotha? Just as Jesus did, one must have a desperate shimjung for this nation, and the whole nation must be able to move as one body.</p>
|
||
<p>Until we become such a people, the tough worldwide path of Golgotha is blocked for us. Therefore, only when we find and establish one root or fruit of goodness in an extremely evil situation does the road open in which sinners and good people can become one. We should restore the twelve disciples relying on the authority of the risen Jesus. At that time, individuals and the twelve disciples should have received persecution for Jesus. Most of the twelve disciples were killed, however, because they could not do this. When the twelve disciples took the road of death, there was one person they pushed out, and this was the apostle John. One thief stood in the position where he was pushed out by the religion and people of Israel and the rebellious twelve disciples. Among the chosen people, God installed Jesus, and after his resurrection, He established the twelve disciples again. Furthermore, in place of the disciples, God installed a controversial figure. This was Paul.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">God’s New Providence Centering on Paul</h3>
|
||
<p>Today Christians say that Paul loved Heaven and knew the will of God. At that time, Paul was being persecuted by the twelve disciples. Though he conveyed the gospel as an apostle, he was persecuted by the twelve disciples. Paul met the risen Jesus and received the heavenly mission. Thus, in the position of an apostle who did not betray Jesus, Paul went to a foreign country, Rome, and spread the gospel under persecution. Since Paul sought the Lord in place of the martyrdom of the twelve disciples and the death of John, the focus of the providence shifted to a foreign nation. Do you understand? In this way, Paul entered Rome and received persecution alone.</p>
|
||
<p>Just as Jesus had gone the way of Golgotha with the cross of humankind, according to the one will of the providence, Paul persisted, no matter what persecution he received from Rome. His attitude of proceeding for the sake of Heaven, regardless of death, resembled that of Jesus. Thus, Christianity moved, centering upon Paul, and developed through the forms of the family, the tribe, the nation, the country and the world. Just as Jesus took the way of Golgotha, Paul volunteered to take the path of Golgotha for the twelve disciples, against the world of Satan. He went through the extreme persecution of Nero and was killed.</p>
|
||
<p>The individual sacrifice of Paul aroused groups such as the tribe, the twelve disciples and the Israelites. Since they united and fought beyond death, they could conquer Rome. Therefore, for the next four centuries, Christianity prospered. In the Middle Ages, centering on the Pope, Christianity had its heyday. The whole world was dominated by Christianity. The Roman Catholics had the mission to go beyond the national course of Golgotha and explore the worldwide stage. However, when they neglected this and preoccupied themselves with the desire for the national ideal, God struck them. This happened through the Renaissance. Through the Reformation, the stale consciousness was shattered and the papacy was fundamentally challenged. It gradually went downhill.</p>
|
||
<p>Among Christians, a new force of renovation appeared. This was the Protestants, centering on Luther. While attacking the old faith, those who were being persecuted formed a new faith centering on Luther: Protestantism. The Puritans, who inherited this spirit, went to America and created a new continental culture. They built the worldwide Christian kingdom. Although world history has moved this way, from now on, God will strike the world. We should consider where are those who are being hounded among people. We should find those who are most oppressed and the nation that is most miserable in the democratic world. Just as the thief became the friend of Jesus on his bloody cross, in the worldwide course of Golgotha, there will appear one group and one nation who differ from the betraying Israelite nation. Considering the historical providential viewpoint, it is right that such a group and nation must appear.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">God Works Centering on the Oppressed People</h3>
|
||
<p>In today’s world, however, there is communism, which does not believe in God. They claim that God does not exist, asking where He is. The right-hand thief appeared and befriended Jesus at the time of his death when Jesus was being smitten. Communism today commits massacres to fulfill its ambition. You should know that this massacre serves as a conditional sacrifice for being on the side of the democratic camp. Now that all humankind is driven to the course of the worldwide Golgotha, what should Christians who should go over this path do? They should first volunteer in front of the world to take the path. There have been those who were oppressed on the front-line of Christianity: Paul, who was persecuted by the apostles; the thief, harassed by the people; and the Protestants, denounced by the Papacy. Today we should always look around to see whether a people will appear who are being persecuted as a worldwide reformist movement. This is proven by history.</p>
|
||
<p>Now our Unification members should be oppressed by all the twentieth century ideologies and philosophies as a new reformist religion. We should be persecuted in this world of democracy and religious sectarianism. If there also is a country with the worldwide ideal, it should bleed before the world like the thief. Thus, Korea shed blood when the right and left clashed, with the fate of the world at stake through the June 25 War [the Korean War]. Considering this, it cannot be said that the Golgotha course of today’s democracy is dissimilar to the situation of the thief.</p>
|
||
<p>If the Korean people have sorrow, what should they hold onto? It is not time to fight with the ideology of the Lord. Carrying Jesus’ shimjung of Golgotha and the shimjung of being betrayed by the people, history and the world, we should be willing to take his part lest he suffers again. It seems that if this nation has a shimjung like the right-hand thief’s, who wanted to praise the glory of Jesus, this nation will meet Jesus who resurrected from death at Golgotha and enter the glorious age of resurrection.</p>
|
||
<p>So, Unification members, do not be distressed. You receive blessing. As you receive more persecution, you will understand Jesus’ shimjung. As you meet Jesus, you will understand his shimjung at the time when he eagerly prayed at Gethsemane, faced with Golgotha and death. As Jesus, at the extreme of persecution, united with Heaven and brought the grace of resurrection, a new history can start at the place of your persecution.</p>
|
||
<p>As we possess the worldwide ideal, only when we persevere through the persecutions of the world, the country, the church, the society, the family and the individual can we become the original heavenly sons and daughters who will pass beyond the cosmic trail of Golgotha in the age of universal resurrection. We will receive the power of resurrection as a bride before the coming Lord. You have been wandering to find a true friend, a true family and a true teacher. You have been looking for the true ideology, the country and the world, but in vain. You should know that, from the standpoint of Jesus, you have lost the position to achieve the purpose. Thus, if I want to find a true friend, I should be a true friend during my friend’s Golgotha. If I want to find a true family, I should take responsibility for the family’s Golgotha. Furthermore, in the national and worldwide course of Golgotha, you should take responsibility for the path of Golgotha with a shimjung like Jesus’. You should clearly know that to be a friend of Heaven in the worldwide course of Golgotha, you should be able to handle the eternal questions of life if everyone entrusts you with them. You should be able to handle the problems of the world.</p>
|
||
</div><!-- .entry-content -->
|
||
|
||
<footer class="entry-meta">
|
||
</footer><!-- #entry-meta -->
|
||
|
||
</article><!-- #post-968 -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<article id="post-966" class="post-966 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958">
|
||
<header class="entry-header">
|
||
<h2 class="entry-title">
|
||
<a href="/blog/2018/06/07/the-freedom-liberation-and-unification-god-seeks-to-attain/" title="Permalink to The Freedom, Liberation and Unification God Seeks to Attain" rel="bookmark">The Freedom, Liberation and Unification God Seeks to Attain</a>
|
||
</h2>
|
||
<div class="entry-meta">
|
||
<span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="/blog/author/fami1yfed/" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-07T08:37:14+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/07/the-freedom-liberation-and-unification-god-seeks-to-attain/" rel="bookmark">June 7, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-07T08:43:32+01:00">June 7, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/blog/category/speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958/" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1958</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
</header><!-- .entry-header -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
<div class="entry-content">
|
||
<h2 align="center">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
|
||
<h3 style="text-align: center;" align="center">Former Headquarters Church<br />
|
||
Seoul, Korea<br />
|
||
October 12, 1958</h3>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>John 8:31-47</em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="text John-8-31"><sup class="versenum">31 </sup>To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, <span class="woj">“If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-26414" class="text John-8-32"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">32 </sup>Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-26415" class="text John-8-33"><sup class="versenum">33 </sup>They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?”</span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-26416" class="text John-8-34"><sup class="versenum">34 </sup>Jesus replied, <span class="woj">“Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-26417" class="text John-8-35"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">35 </sup>Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-26418" class="text John-8-36"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">36 </sup>So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-26419" class="text John-8-37"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">37 </sup>I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me, because you have no room for my word.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-26420" class="text John-8-38"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">38 </sup>I am telling you what I have seen in the Father’s presence, and you are doing what you have heard from your father.<sup class="footnote" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;" data-fn="#fen-NIV-26420a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NIV-26420a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]">[<a title="See footnote a" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8:31-47#fen-NIV-26420a">a</a>]</sup>”</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-26421" class="text John-8-39"><sup class="versenum">39 </sup>“Abraham is our father,” they answered.</span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="text John-8-39"><span class="woj">“If you were Abraham’s children,”</span> said Jesus, <span class="woj">“then you would<sup class="footnote" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;" data-fn="#fen-NIV-26421b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NIV-26421b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]">[<a title="See footnote b" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8:31-47#fen-NIV-26421b">b</a>]</sup> do what Abraham did.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-26422" class="text John-8-40"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">40 </sup>As it is, you are looking for a way to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-26423" class="text John-8-41"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">41 </sup>You are doing the works of your own father.”</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="text John-8-41">“We are not illegitimate children,” they protested. “The only Father we have is God himself.”</span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-26424" class="text John-8-42"><sup class="versenum">42 </sup>Jesus said to them, <span class="woj">“If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-26425" class="text John-8-43"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">43 </sup>Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-26426" class="text John-8-44"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">44 </sup>You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-26427" class="text John-8-45"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">45 </sup>Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-26428" class="text John-8-46"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">46 </sup>Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me?</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-26429" class="text John-8-47"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">47 </sup>Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p>Prayer</p>
|
||
<blockquote><p>Father! Do not abandon Your sons and daughters who prostrated before You. Guide us not to hesitate in offering our entire mind and body to You. We have many points of dissatisfaction before You, but we dedicate our minds and bodies, relying upon the historical shimjung with which You worked hard to find us. Please have dominion over us. I sincerely desire that at this time, You will burn our shortcomings with the fire of the Holy Spirit and consecrate us so that we can dedicate our minds and bodies as a whole and acceptable offering to You.</p>
|
||
<p>Father! Your sons and daughters have taken the trouble-filled steps to this place instead of Your tearful course, filled with sorrow and stabbing pain. Please take note of our determination and actions. Lead us at this time to Your deep and loving shimjung, and let no one fall into Satan’s accusation.</p>
|
||
<p>We know that You want to spread the new word to the nation through us, but we are anxious that we may fail our responsibilities due to our disloyalty and shortcomings and bring sorrow to You. Father, I earnestly pray that You look at the faults with which we have served Your will and fill them with the power of Your life and love. Bless us so that we can take on any mission and responsibility. There is a myriad of satans in our path. Father, lead us so that our determination remains intact and we become an offering of life before You, enduring until the end without losing to Satan. I sincerely pray that You will guide us to proceed with our initial determination and fight for the sole purpose of revealing Your glory.</p>
|
||
<p>Have pity on Your children who are gathered here, and lead them to Your loving heart. Remove all elements of darkness. Allow us to serve You with the authority of life and as one body. Let us sing glorious hymns and show gratitude for Your blessing of glory. Keep Satan away from this gathering from the beginning to the end, and reveal only Your glory through our mind and body. We pray in the name of the Lord. Amen.</p></blockquote>
|
||
<p>The title of the sermon I want to reflect upon with you is <i>“The Freedom, Liberation and Unification God Seeks to Attain.”</i> I will speak briefly upon this topic.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Place of God and His Hope</h3>
|
||
<p>I will speak about “The Freedom, Liberation and Unification God Seeks to Attain” from the standpoint of faith. You think that God is omnipotent and nothing is impossible for Him. God has so many abilities. Yet if one asks, searching deep down in his shimjung, whether God’s heart is free, I cannot say it is. If one asks if God is amid the joy of liberation with a promising providence in front of Him, that is not true either. Moreover, if one asks whether the activities of man and all things are motivated by God’s shimjung, that is, whether they are in a unified position in which they move with the movement of God’s heart, we cannot but discover that this is not true.</p>
|
||
<p>It is the original character and original shimjung of God to want to be free. God also is the Father who should dominate the universe from a liberated position. The fact that He cannot do so is the grief of God, all things and history. Although He should bind the created world with the unifying ideal and dominate it, He cannot do that. We cannot but acknowledge that this is God’s sorrow, pain and grief.</p>
|
||
<p>When God first created the world, the original ideal was the garden of freedom, liberation and unification. Yet you cannot deny that there was a reason God’s ideal was not fulfilled. That became the source of sorrow for God, humankind and all creation. What was this source of distress? We know well that it was the fall of man. In restoring humankind, God must have an ideal for this society, and we must also have that ideal. What is the standard of this ideal? You should know that freedom for the sake of God’s shimjung, liberation centered on God’s situation, and unification centered on God’s ideal are God’s hope, our hope and the standard of the ideal.</p>
|
||
<p>It is written in the Bible, “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” (II Corinthians 3:17) The Father is a spirit of freedom, liberation and unification. How can the shimjung of freedom, which transcends any trials, be instilled in your shimjung, you who serve such a Father? How can the point of liberation be found which can overcome all the walls of suffering? When will the peaceful moment of total unification be found, which our center of ideals desires? These are questions you should seriously consider.</p>
|
||
<p>Since God is not free, liberated and unified, the freedom being advocated on the earth today is not true human freedom. The liberation being proclaimed is not complete liberation, and the unification being promoted is not complete unification. Humankind has progressed from a clan, to a tribe, to a nation and a country, but such partial unification is not true unification.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Standard of True Freedom, Liberation and Unification</h3>
|
||
<p>Since we were created by God, the complete freedom, liberation and unification which we desire can be realized only when God becomes free and becomes the master of liberation and unification. Thus, we cannot deny from a logical standpoint that God’s freedom, liberation and unification are the standards for the freedom, liberation and unification humanity desires.</p>
|
||
<p>Looking back upon history, freedom, equality and love were promoted centering on humanism after the Middle Ages. Original freedom, equality and love are the attributes of whom? They are God’s attributes. If the Christianity of the Middle Ages had stood centered upon God in the position of freedom, liberation and unification, through which they could connect with the heart of God, words such as revolution or reformation would not have been needed on earth. Since Christianity did not achieve complete freedom, liberation and unification centered on God, the movement for freedom, liberation and unification was transferred to the outside world. This is what we now call the Renaissance.</p>
|
||
<p>Afterward, the ideology of freedom revolutionized monarchies and fought against imperialism, but all eventually became shattered. Though they brought revolution to find freedom, they did not completely overcome imperialism and finally collapsed. Afterwards, there were many ideologies and political ideals, but they are all being dismantled.</p>
|
||
<p>People, who long for freedom, insist upon external freedom, instead of seeking and possessing the perfect ideal of freedom. They lose true freedom by that. Though they call for freedom on the levels of the nation, the society, the family and the individual, they have repeated the history of losing true freedom. The kind of freedom being advocated now is not a freedom that can be eternally enjoyed by the original mind. Those who call for freedom often become excessively individualistic and isolated. You cannot deny this. Thus, it is clear from the trend of the present age that, unless the complete and unchanging ideal of freedom is established which can connect with the heavenly ideal of freedom and resonate with the freedom desired by the universe, the more one seeks freedom, the more one moves toward the dearth of freedom.</p>
|
||
<p>Thus, the question is whether there is the shimjung of freedom in our hearts which can harmonize with all. If we stood in God’s freedom, our shimjung of freedom would be at the level at which we could rejoice with all the people of the universe. Today, people do not stand in such a position of freedom. Though they proclaim freedom, they form a view of freedom within the boundary of themselves.</p>
|
||
<p>Freedom that departs from the Principle is not true freedom. Freedom that avoids responsibility is not true freedom. Freedom that produces no results is not true freedom. Thus, any act of freedom must be within the Principle. It must carry responsibility and produce results. If one seeks freedom without these conditions, naturally he will become far removed from the heavenly way. Thus, imperialism appeared after the Middle Ages only to fade away. There will soon come a time when all the ideologies hitherto presented will collapse upon the advent of the true ideology of freedom. This trend is gradually touching individuals. With a focus on your individual self as you work for freedom, you will feel the need to transform society and the family. The flow of history is such that it now separates, even my mind and body.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Freedom Pursued by Man and the Essence of True Freedom</h3>
|
||
<p>Democracy takes its ideal from Christianity, while it is saturated in science-centered individualism in regard to daily life. Thus, though democracy is based on freedom, it is fundamentally opposed to Christianity. When Christianity calls for freedom, it calls for the freedom of the whole universe. When Christianity pursues liberation, it pursues liberation of the whole. When it demands unification, it demands unification for the sake of God’s shimjung, that is, from the standpoint of Heaven’s rejoicing with the world. Since the people of the democratic world understand freedom based upon individualism, when they insist upon freedom, they eventually wind up denying their country, society, organization, and even their families and conjugal relationships. Eventually, they fall into a situation where they even deny the center of their heart. What will remain for them then? Loneliness.</p>
|
||
<p>When loneliness reaches its peak, they will become people of distrust, unable to trust either the other or the self. When the self becomes lonely and suspicious, it will be swallowed by cosmic fear and finally will be destroyed. This is the trend of current history.</p>
|
||
<p>Therefore, when we proclaim freedom, it should not be the irresponsible freedom advocated in the past and present. It should be true freedom, which is accompanied by God’s love and ideal which connect to shimjung. It must lead to the world in which it operates like an unchangeable iron rule along with your power of life. It should follow free law, which must make motion.</p>
|
||
<p>Where is the original spring of happiness which all people desire to possess? With this they are assured of being delivered from sin, and they can experience the joy of liberation. At the end of history, we have never possessed the ideal which should surely be possessed. You should know that unless you search hard for the ideal, you will have nothing to do with the world of the ideal and the garden of freedom, liberation and unification to be created at the end of history. Since this is our hope, we believe that God’s hope is also like this. When will God’s and our hope be realized within myself? When will the heartistic foundation to represent God’s shimjung be prepared so that I can discover within myself the freedom, liberation and unification that God feels and hopes? You should realize that, unless you discover this, you will generate historical sorrow and become a victim of judgment.</p>
|
||
<p>Until now, humankind has been struggling to build the world of freedom. We have been fighting to attain freedom. God, however, did not use the kind of strategy that makes sense to humankind. Though God had to go through strife for the sake of liberation, His method was different from the bloody battles of the nations of the world.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">What Kind of Person Is the Master of Freedom?</h3>
|
||
<p>While achieving freedom, God never used the method of striking others, though He struggled against certain sovereigns to liberate and save the individual. In human history, the quest for freedom involved an individual attacking an individual, a nation attacking a nation, and a country attacking a country. God takes the opposite way. In restoring the individual, before hitting the individual, He allows Himself to be hit first. In restoring the nation, before striking the nation, He personally walked the suffering road to liberate the nation. In restoring the world, before striking the world, He personally walked the arduous path.</p>
|
||
<p>What kind of person can be the master of freedom in the future? He is the one who can serve God. To find the ideal of freedom that resonates with God, one must follow God’s strategy. That is, in restoring the family, he must strike himself as hard as the value of liberating the family. In restoring the nation and world, he should be able to hit himself as much as its value. For the sake of Heaven, again he must hit himself the corresponding amount, and he should be able to rejoice while being hit. You need to know that only those who possess such a shimjung of freedom will necessarily remain in the last days of history.</p>
|
||
<p>Without the master of freedom, liberation and unification appearing on the earth as a substantial being, as God desires, God’s freedom, liberation and unification cannot be connected to humankind. Jesus came as a substantial incarnation of freedom, liberation and unification representing Heaven. Thus, with Jesus, you should feel the valuable shimjung which grasped the freedom deep in God’s shimjung and realized liberation and unification. Without the shimjung with which one can be delighted simply with Jesus even without any worldly things, one cannot reach the realm of freedom, liberation and unification in which God can rejoice with humanity.</p>
|
||
<p>The freedom sought in the world today and that which is sought by God have different directions. In the world, nations attack nations, and sovereignties struggle against sovereignties to gain freedom, risking their own lives. Heaven, however, extends to the whole, willingly being smitten, voluntarily taking responsibility, and finding solutions on its own. You should know that this is God’s secret for reclaiming freedom.</p>
|
||
<p>Focusing on yourself, if you have the heart of freedom such that you can rejoice even when you have to give up your life, you can be regarded as having the highest freedom. Considering this in light of the providence of restoration, there was a liberation movement in the spirit world at the same time there was such a movement in the physical world. Since God cannot treat a human directly as a child or His representative, the human has to ascend from the position of a servant through the position of a child until he can directly relate to God. Such an historical course has been pursued.</p>
|
||
<p>In the Old Testament Age, God built the garden of freedom and liberated the Kingdom of Heaven by using angels as servants. To enter the realm of grace in which one is liberated as a son of God from the position of a servant, one should be able to feel joy even when losing one’s life. You should know that only those who have such a shimjung of freedom can go beyond the position of a servant and take the position of a son. Thus, the ancestors who have until now served God’s providence had the shimjung of freedom to rejoice even in death. They could boldly overcome all trials and even death. With the establishment of such a standard of shimjung, there could be hope for transition from the position of a servant to that of a son, and from the age of the servant to that of the son. With such a standard established, God could send His only son. Jesus had to rise from the position of a son to that of a father.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Achieving True Freedom, Liberation and Unification</h3>
|
||
<p>When Jesus came to the earth, he could freely choose between life and death for the sake of God until he was acknowledged by the Father. He could complete the eternal and never-changing ideal of the only son. Thus, before all people, he has been liberating those in the servant’s position into children. You must know this well. Because Jesus overcame the suffering course of death and set up the standard of oneness with God’s internal shimjung, we can receive the benefit of going to the position of children by believing in Jesus.</p>
|
||
<p>If in your heart you desire the freedom, liberation and unification God seeks to connect it to you, you must voluntarily pursue the course from the age of the servant to that of the children and from the age of the children to that of the family in which one serves the parents. You should know that this is determined by the principle of freedom. This is not achieved under a certain command, restriction or by coercion. Only when we overcome the question of life and death and can share a free and joyful shimjung, thinking of God and Jesus, can we make a relationship with God’s ideal.</p>
|
||
<p>The history of the providence of restoration repeated the history of liberation. One pursued the course in which he was liberated from the age of the servant through Jesus and the Holy Spirit and became a child, but now we should become God’s sons and daughters centering on God’s love, children who can receive God’s inheritance as God’s family. If you want to establish the living standard of an eternally inseparable relationship with God, you should be able to freely control even death. Only then can you have the authority to receive your inheritance from God as His sons and daughters.</p>
|
||
<p>Today this earth wanders around searching for freedom. God also carries on the providence searching for freedom. Just as Jesus fought for God without regard for death, God worked for Jesus disregarding greater difficulties. You should know clearly that if those in the servant’s position live with the shimjung of freedom and transcend death for God, God comes to them with the shimjung that can freely overcome the valleys of death.</p>
|
||
<p>If you establish the standard of freedom by which you can overcome any hardship with joy, even without God’s presence and dominion, you can defeat any previous fear, anger, grief, sorrow and mistreatment, and turn the realm of death into the realm of God’s life. Only when the fundamental issue of rebirth is resolved can we freely love God, and God can freely love us. When we become one with God, God’s shimjung of freedom and liberation and the ideal of unification will turn into our shimjung of freedom and liberation and ideal of unification.</p>
|
||
<p>Though Jesus gave his life for God, there is an area in which Jesus cannot communicate with God. Though Jesus freely went to die for our sake, there remains an area in which Jesus and the Holy Spirit cannot unite. The reason is that since Jesus is in Heaven and the Holy Spirit is on the earth, there is a distance that keeps them apart. We are also distant as we proceed toward the position of children centering on Jesus and Holy Spirit.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Starting Point of Freedom, Liberation and Unification</h3>
|
||
<p>To remove this distance between Jesus and God, God should be able to love all humankind as His children and freely hold them. Only then can all the walls between God and Jesus be eliminated at once. Our desire to follow Jesus and freely pass through death for the sake of God should not simply be a concept. A standard of overcoming any toil and a liberating standard of forgetting the pain of death should be established by us. This is because only then can the relationship of freedom, liberation and unification start to be made with God. As we strive for God’s will, within God’s ideal realm of freedom, liberation and unification, we should be the masters of freedom representing God. We should liberate all the people for God and accomplish unification.</p>
|
||
<p>To do this, you should be free individuals who go over the hills of death with a deep and eager heart toward Heaven, not taking suffering as pain, sorrow or grief. Heaven can hold up such a person, disregarding His own pain and suffering, even giving up all His authority and dignity. Only in such a situation can God be our God and we His sons and daughters. Among the many prophets after Jesus, no one was exempt from suffering. Though God has the level of heart by which He can go beyond all His dignity, suffering, ordeals and sorrow for the sake of regaining His beloved children, He has never met anyone who has the same level of shimjung. You should know that this is a condition of great lamentation for God.</p>
|
||
<p>The power of love, the grace of liberation, and the principle of unification, which are generated when we pass through the realm of death with the assistance of God, can become the standard for freedom, liberation and unification for the entire world of existence. In this stage, though the son God searched for might be one individual, he would have indemnified all historical grief and death. His value is higher than the entire cosmos. When will such a connection be made between Heaven and earth and between God and us? Without this connection, Jesus cannot stand in a state of freedom and liberation nor can the ideal of unification be realized. Thus, even in the spirit world Jesus has to pray constantly.</p>
|
||
<p>Only when such a standard is established in today’s Christians can we establish, as an unchanging standard within you, the principle of love, the principle of liberation from all evil and death, and the principle of unification, all of which are deeply cherished in God’s shimjung. With such a standard, you can look upon the world with the shimjung with which God looked during the 6,000 years of the providence and with which He endured innumerable sorrows, pain and ordeals to find His beloved son.</p>
|
||
<p>When such an individual appears and forms a family, a society, a nation and a world, God’s garden of freedom will be created within your daily life. You should know that the garden of liberation and the world of unification desired by God starts from such a standard.</p>
|
||
<p>So far, the world of Satan persisted with the sovereignty of false freedom. It looks like freedom, but it is not. It looks as if it is unifying the individual, the tribe, the nation, the country and the world, but in fact it is separated from the principles of freedom, liberation and unification.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Current of the Providence and the Proper Human Attitude</h3>
|
||
<p>The more freedom, liberation and unification one has based on a worldly standard opposed to God, the more anxiety, dissatisfaction and fear will swallow one up internally. One may look successful externally, but he is collapsing internally. Externally, he appears unified, but internally he is disintegrating into pieces. How then can such an internal crumbling be compensated for? God is the one who works to compensate this. Without Him, humankind today would be frustrated, would give up, and would finally expire in the realm of death.</p>
|
||
<p>As for people like Americans, they have no parents, no children and no relatives. Because of this, many people even desert their country. Furthermore, many people follow a religion purely for their own profit and abandon it when there is no more to gain. Since the world is created, not for the individual, but for the whole, those who live only for their own profit will suffer before the world, which exists for the worldwide ideal. They will suffer in proportion to how selfishly they lived.</p>
|
||
<p>Therefore, the society in which individualism and selfish lifestyles are prevalent will finally become a society of isolation, distrust and fear. It will finally give up and destroy itself. You should know that we are entering the age where such a fate sees its historical conclusion.</p>
|
||
<p>Looking upon this state of affairs, we should have the ideal of freedom, liberation and unification. Where can we start? If you start from your old ideology of individualism, you will lose the world unawares and inevitably be rejected by the world. Unless something appears which can unify humankind and return man to the original individual, family, society, country and world, it is a big problem for God and humankind. In this age of the last days, God has the responsibility to accomplish freedom, liberation and unification with humankind. Therefore, although the external world has been disintegrating, God has installed in the world one force of the root of the heart and has worked to establish the standard of the absolute principle of freedom, liberation and unification. This is impenetrable by death. God has worked to establish an individual with such a standard, and a family, a tribe, a country and a nation.</p>
|
||
<p>Consequently, the Bible describes Jesus as the king of kings, the master of our lives, and the master of the cosmos. He is also depicted as the subject of life, the ideal and love. Thus, until I make an eternal relationship with the subject, Jesus, and that relationship advances into an eternal relationship with God, we cannot fill the gaps between God, Jesus and us. If you have the power of life such that even when distrust, loneliness and fear sweep society, you confidently and freely overcome it, your life will not be destroyed, no matter what world of judgment and destruction comes into being. As long as such a standard remains, you will not be a victim of judgment in the fearful realm of death.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Why God Worked Hard for 6,000 Years</h3>
|
||
<p>Such a standard should not be established simply as an ideal, but with the substantial unity of mind and body. Whether you will be preserved in the future will be determined by whether you can possess that ideal. Only with this am I entitled to serve God with my life, as God comes to us investing all He has with His life. Only then can God institute a free way of life after restoring me and establish the ideal of freedom, liberation and unification. If you have such a qualification, as long as God exists eternally, we have nothing to do with the power of death.</p>
|
||
<p>Now looking at your own self, are there a free shimjung, free life and free ideal in your heart which can rejoice centering on true life?</p>
|
||
<p>This is the question. When you have such a shimjung, life and ideal, you will be qualified to freely digest and pass through any path of death and suffering and restore the elements of life. In this way, you can live forever in God’s world of freedom, liberation and unification.</p>
|
||
<p>However, there are trials and sufferings in the quest for freedom. What can block the ardent shimjung of love from God and the spurting shimjung of freedom? No one. It cannot be shattered even when everything else is. No matter how strong the realm of death may be, it cannot suppress the shimjung that rises. When a living connection of eternal unity between God and you is formed in your life, God’s eternal freedom, liberation and unification are established in your heart. Without such a standard in your heart, though the freedom, liberation and unification which are aspired to as ideals may be realized, they will have nothing to do with you.</p>
|
||
<p>What is the reason God worked so hard for 6,000 years? It was to find one individual who could carry, feel and establish with God the freedom, liberation, and unification desired by God’s shimjung. You should know that just as God is eternal, only when an eternal and unchanging standard is determined can such a world of the ideal come to you. Without such a standard of heart, no matter how well the external world is formed, no matter how it may appear externally that the world of freedom, liberation and unification is realized, it will not be the world of complete freedom, liberation and unification.</p>
|
||
<p>Today the power of life, the ideal and love are leaping in our hearts. Unless the firm standard of this leaping force and the standard of the efforts of God, who suffered for 6,000 years, are established in yourself, you will be swept away when the power of darkness and death comes to envelop your life. This power has fought against God for 6,000 years. When you possess the power of your life, ideal and love at the stage of relating to God’s love, the freedom based on this foundation is complete freedom. The liberation based on this principle is complete liberation. The unification based on this principle is complete unification.</p>
|
||
<p>Without such a standard, when the world is swayed by chaos and fear, you will not be able to prevent it. What can move it is the power of life, the ideal and love. You should clearly know that without the standard of going over this, no matter how hard God has worked in the history of the providence, the freedom, liberation and unification that God has sought to attain through the history of the providence cannot be found.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Prayer</h3>
|
||
<blockquote><p>Father! Have pity on humankind, who has lost the garden of freedom, liberation and unification. We thought that all that was lost could be regained in the external world, but now we have learned the sorrow of history: that even with a certain external standard, there have been internal divisions. Let the power of life, love and the ideal of God overflow in us so as to take back the internal world of freedom, liberation and unification so that the standard of shimjung that can laugh at death and overcome pain and sorrow can be planted in our hearts. Help us realize that in the world of shimjung we can feel the freedom of all the saints, feel the whole circumstances, and move with the life of the whole.</p>
|
||
<p>Father! Looking at the historical world, it proceeds centered on the material, instigating divisions within and putting on a deceptive form of unification without. Internally, on the contrary, we realize that history has been flowing to avoid poverty of the spirit, life and love. Now that we have arrived at the time when we should reinforce the time of life, the time of the ideal, and Your love, please give us the heart that can rejoice even in crossing the line of death. We should attain the loyalty of heart to be able to call You Father. We should know that You had worries and battles for us. Help us realize that only when we have a change of heart and feel that Your hard work comes to us with a value 10,000 times greater than that of our death can the power of life emerge which can replenish the deficiency of the spirit.</p>
|
||
<p>Father! Today not only material famine and urges but also spiritual death and thirst are arising in the hearts of the people on earth. Grant us the fire of the Holy Spirit, Your life and Your love, which can fill this emptiness. Grant us Your shimjung of freedom, liberation and unification which can digest all attainable internal life at the place of its explosion, and the ideal of freedom. Father, we know that You are driving all, from the individual to the whole, to such a place to find us. We also know that from the world, the country, and the nation to the individual, they are driven out to that position in Your name.</p>
|
||
<p>Today, when things are flowing toward the final moments, we do not have the standard by which we can eternally keep Your power of the whole and by which our contradictory selves can be connected to the world. Grant us a greater shimjung that can find it and make the connection. Let Your existence, Your life, Your ideal, Your love and true freedom, liberation and unification be realized in my one being as they have been moving internally. We have learned that only then can we have the qualification to call the distant kingdom of God ours, the distant Kingdom of Heaven our kingdom, and the shimjung that can connect with the distant ideal our shimjung.</p>
|
||
<p>Since only those who have such a shimjung in their hearts can possess the heavenly kingdom and fulfill the ideal of the Kingdom of Heaven, the Father told us, “I am in your heart.” Jesus also told us, “I am in your heart.” I eagerly pray that we will see that everything will find resolution only with the heartistic standard that believes that the Kingdom of Heaven is in our hearts. I eagerly desire and ask that we understand and feel Your shimjung as more valuable than my body, my freedom and my life. I pray that we may restore one shimjung that can deplore Your sorrow more than the death of the whole world, and we can stand before You as individuals who can understand it.</p>
|
||
<p>With Your toilsome historical course of searching and wandering before us, let Your shimjung explode in our shimjung. Guide us to prepare the foundation of shimjung such that we can realize freedom, liberation and unification based on Your life, ideal and love and fulfill Your desire, saying, “Father! Please receive consolation now. We know Your heart.” Guide us to be Your sons and daughters who, singing of glorious life, the ideal and liberation with You, will soothe Your heart which led the movement of freedom to resolve the sorrow, pain and lamentation of restoration. Let the whole of humankind gather around and sing of freedom, liberation and unification with You.</p>
|
||
<p>We learned that if we have the shimjung of freedom and liberation, even a hundred million satans and enemies cannot harm us. We have also seen that an ideology cannot restrict us. Once our shimjungs unite with You and move forward based on freedom and liberation, Heaven and earth will automatically unite, harmonize and move. Therefore, grant us such a standard in our hearts. I eagerly desire and ask for it. For the sake of this life and hope, guide us to establish the standard of uniting with Your shimjung, even risking our lives. Save us from the ridicule of our enemies until we receive You in our hearts. Keep us unchanged until Your shimjung is settled in our hearts beyond the persecution of our enemies. Make us Your children who can overcome all fear. We pray all this in the name of the Lord. Amen.</p></blockquote>
|
||
</div><!-- .entry-content -->
|
||
|
||
<footer class="entry-meta">
|
||
</footer><!-- #entry-meta -->
|
||
|
||
</article><!-- #post-966 -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<article id="post-963" class="post-963 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958">
|
||
<header class="entry-header">
|
||
<h2 class="entry-title">
|
||
<a href="/blog/2018/06/07/let-us-possess-the-everlasting-love-of-the-father/" title="Permalink to Let Us Possess the Everlasting Love of the Father" rel="bookmark">Let Us Possess the Everlasting Love of the Father</a>
|
||
</h2>
|
||
<div class="entry-meta">
|
||
<span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="/blog/author/fami1yfed/" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-07T08:35:34+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/07/let-us-possess-the-everlasting-love-of-the-father/" rel="bookmark">June 7, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-07T08:35:45+01:00">June 7, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/blog/category/speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958/" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1958</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
</header><!-- .entry-header -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
<div class="entry-content">
|
||
<h2 align="center">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
|
||
<h3 style="text-align: center;" align="center">Former Headquarters Church<br />
|
||
Seoul, Korea<br />
|
||
October 5, 1958</h3>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Matthew 22:34-40</em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="text Matt-22-34"><sup class="versenum">34 </sup>Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together.</span><span id="en-NIV-23908" class="text Matt-22-35"><sup class="versenum">35 </sup>One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:</span> <span id="en-NIV-23909" class="text Matt-22-36"><sup class="versenum">36 </sup>“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”</span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-23910" class="text Matt-22-37"><sup class="versenum">37 </sup>Jesus replied: <span class="woj">“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’<sup class="footnote" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;" data-fn="#fen-NIV-23910a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NIV-23910a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]">[<a title="See footnote a" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+22:34-40#fen-NIV-23910a">a</a>]</sup></span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23911" class="text Matt-22-38"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">38 </sup>This is the first and greatest commandment.</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23912" class="text Matt-22-39"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">39 </sup>And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’<sup class="footnote" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;" data-fn="#fen-NIV-23912b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NIV-23912b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]">[<a title="See footnote b" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+22:34-40#fen-NIV-23912b">b</a>]</sup></span></span> <span id="en-NIV-23913" class="text Matt-22-40"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">40 </sup>All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p>Today I will speak briefly upon the topic of <i>“Let Us Possess the Everlasting Love of the Father.”</i> No person or created thing can maintain existence separated from this world in which they exist through relationships. Thus, you should know that in this world of relationships, nothing can exist apart from motivation and purpose.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Several Attempts to Explain the World of Relationships</h3>
|
||
<p>Since we cannot exist apart from the world of relationships, we should clearly know that in our maintenance of life and our struggle in our life courses, everything moves within the world of relationships. We know that science has been trying to explain this world of relationships through experiments. Philosophy has tried to explain it through logic. History has tried to explain it through facts.</p>
|
||
<p>How has religion been trying to elucidate this world? Until now, religion has sought to discover the motivation and purpose of the Absolute Being. Thus, it cannot be denied that though your individual selves are extremely small, you are seeking an ideal of enormous value. Also, you can never deny that your original mind desires a greater course of life, a greater ideal and greater love and affection. This tells us that we have the common standard of relationship.</p>
|
||
<p>We should then re-examine ourselves, searching for a greater life although we already have a life, for a greater ideal, although we already have an ideal, and for a realm of greater affection than we feel daily through our shimjung. How did it come about that we demand a greater life, greater hope and a realm of greater affection?</p>
|
||
<p>It is undeniable that the earth, on which this higher demand occurs, is itself engrossed in relationships. It is also undeniable that there is a certain greater being of life that is the source of our life. There is a certain greater being of ideal that is the source of our ideal. There is a certain being of affection greater than our own affection. When will I see the day when my energy of life extends forth and pierces all things of the universe? The desire of my ideal is to dominate all things according to heavenly law, but when can I be a being of hope who can do this? When can I regain the power of shimjung that can melt even God? You should reflect upon these issues again today.</p>
|
||
<p>The force of my being will exist tomorrow; that is, it will exist eternally. It is the same with the force of my ideal and shimjung. There is surely a being who makes that possible. Someone determined the motivation and purpose centering on relationships. We should be beings of eternal value who fulfill this motivation and purpose centering on relationships. If you are aware of becoming such, your force of life, your ideal and shimjung should make an inseparable relationship with the ideal, shimjung and life of the Absolute Being. If there is someone who has no such relationship, although he may appear to have the value of life, he has no value in this world of relationships. Humankind does not understand this.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Common Problem of God and Man</h3>
|
||
<p>What must finally be explained to everyone through science, philosophy, history and religion? It is the common problem of history, the current age and the future. This is also a problem for God. You should know that the cosmic value of your life and whether you can be proud of it depends upon whether you can establish the standard in your life of an inseparable relationship with God in which you move with God and halt with God.</p>
|
||
<p>What is the common problem of history, the current age and the future? Since all of humankind, past, present and future, commonly possesses the desires for life, the ideal and love (shimjung) a truth or ideology or person must appear who will enable us to feel all these simultaneously in the daily process of our lives. History and religion are all thoroughly mobilized to address this problem.</p>
|
||
<p>Do you have the force of life by which you can live and the automatic force by which you can move toward the whole world of existence? There should be a source that brings connection and the stimulation of hope to the world of relationships. Do you have such a source? You should also ask yourself whether the power of life springs forth from within the relationships you have with such a source.</p>
|
||
<p>You should bring the ideal of the entire universe to your shimjung and the whole ideal of creation to your hearts. You should have the shimjung, feeling and intuition which say that since Heaven is moving in such and such a way, no existing being or thing can be neglected. If you do not have this, you should rethink the hopes you are pursuing today.</p>
|
||
<p>You long for the love that deeply touches your heart. It is not humanistic love, pursued by man. It is heavenly love, desired by the original mind. You are longing for the kind of love that can sing for eternity and penetrate and move the eternal ideal and life. Thus, the whole of your thinking and movements should express the shimjung of love. You will, thus, be the greatest victor of life if you can make the connection with such a realm of love, which embraces the environment and universe in which you live and can even embrace God.</p>
|
||
<p>As for theistic believers, though they acknowledge that God is the absolute and omnipotent Creator, why has their love for God and for absolute goodness become weaker than the love of secular people? This is why God sighs today. God’s sorrow is that while God’s love is greater than human parental love for a child, He cannot love humanity this much. How does God relate to humankind? Through love. We want to receive God’s love within the realm of our life and forget everything through the shock of His love. If we connect with the power of love that can melt all the grief in our heart, we can never betray Heaven. We would have no need to teach goodness then.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Reason Man Has Not Made a Relationship with<br />
|
||
Absolute Love and Goodness and the Result Thereof</h3>
|
||
<p>Why could God not make man have a relationship with absolute love and goodness? I have struggled a lot with this question myself. Was God like this from the beginning? No. God is a being such that, without the fall, we could feel Him even before we thought about His existence. We could feel His existence inside us as the substance of hope even before we had wishes. He would appear even before we longed for Him. However, the fall means that humankind has not reached such an emotional, ideological and living standard. Everything was lost through the fall. You should know that this is the sorrow of humankind.</p>
|
||
<p>Now we are wandering about, searching for truth, life, the ideal and God’s love. With our ultimate power of life, the ideal and the standard of shimjung, we cannot help loving God and cannot help thinking that God is the center of the whole ideal and the cosmos. If you carry such feelings and make the connection within your life with the source of such a stimulus, God’s eternal life will become your eternal life. You will move and halt as God moves and halts. You should know that this is the hope of the Creator of humanity.</p>
|
||
<p>Throughout history, humankind tried to control the world through the powers within their possession. There once was an age in which they tried to move everything through the power of life, but this age has passed now. What kind of age is today? Now we are coming into an age in which the philosophy which inherits the ideal of Jesus controls the world. What kind of age will then come after this? It will be the age in which the unifying central person appears before humankind, the one who can connect to the love of the Absolute Being beyond the power of life and ideology.</p>
|
||
<p>History so far has been limited to merely introducing hopes and ideals. Thus, it has not been able to find the heavenly kingdom of love in which new creations, resurrection, hope and the power of love can arise through the individual shimjung of human beings. What is the final standard of hope to which humankind aspires? It is the loving view of history, life and the cosmos. That is why Christianity expresses this in one word and says that the center of the scriptures is Jesus. The center of Jesus is love, and the center of love is the bride and groom. You should know that this is the most valuable good news for suffering humankind. When this shimjung fills the world to the full, and the root of the hereditary sin is revealed through your blood and flesh, then humankind can truly and fundamentally hope for peace.</p>
|
||
<p>You have forgotten that the love of the parents for the children, the love of the husband for the wife, and the love of children for the parents are connected through the ideal and motivation of those relationships, though they are not yet ideal. Moreover, you did not know that the greater principles of the love of parents, the couple and children are originally connected to humankind. Thus, Christianity called the unity of God and humanity a marriage. The kind of love religious people seek is not simply the ordinary love of parents for children. It is the love that can move a greater and higher life and harmonize with a greater ideal. Thus, the day should soon come on the earth in which we can see the power of life, hope and love that can transcend time and embrace everything. You should know that, at that time, we will see the world where evil is absorbed into goodness and follows goodness.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Jesus Is the Substance of God’s Life, Hope and Ideal</h3>
|
||
<p>When we ponder God, who exists as an Absolute Being in the world of relationship, and cannot deny the reality of His existence, we should feel that God has the same movements of life, ideals and affection as ours. This is because we have all of His attributes, since we were born of Him. Thus, we should know that our form reflects God’s.</p>
|
||
<p>Though God should appear to us as the subject of life, hope and love, He does not. This is the cause of humanity s sighing and sorrow today. To remove this, God maintains an inseparable relationship with humanity. To resolve human suffering, God has sent a substantial incarnation as the master of ideals, justice and life. This is Jesus.</p>
|
||
<p>Though God is invisible, there must be an intuitive cosmology and world of principle that can be felt directly. Through what can God’s absolute realm of life be felt? It cannot be felt through science nor philosophy. This is not something that can be felt through any field of human knowledge. Since God has the responsibility to clarify this with man, however, He has been explaining the motivation and purpose of the Absolute Being by establishing religions and cultivating the foundation of the human mind centering on relationships. Yet this motivation and purpose cannot be explained by logic. You cannot explain power through logic. One can only partially explain an ideal through logic. Love cannot be completely explained in this way. One cannot establish a view about life. One tries to form a view on life, history and religion in vain through logic alone. Nor can logic provide a view on love.</p>
|
||
<p>Since we cannot have a view, we cannot have a relational stance from which to explain everything nor can we establish the condition of explanation that can provide the relational stance. Thus, a certain viewpoint is required that precedes every view and explains everything. We talk about intuition today. Intuition cannot be understood by the world of the five senses. Through what does intuition move and come to be felt? It does not come through perceptions and feelings that come through our five senses, from outside ourselves. It comes through perceptions and feelings that come through the mind. That intuitive perception can instantly elucidate the motivation and purpose, transcending time, and feel the presence of a certain substantial being. God’s presence can be explained in this way. Thus, today we can solve those problems centering on our minds. That is, we can grasp them only through supernatural and lawful intuition or feeling.</p>
|
||
<p>The problem is the tie and relationship between God and humankind. This tie and relationship are in the process of pursuing a certain purpose with a certain motivation. This process is concerned with history, the current age and the future. You should know this. We experience and learn all such feelings through religion. However, the religion which is worthy of our faith should be able to arouse in us a stimulation of power that is like the attributes of God’s life, ideal and love. We should find such a religion today. With regard to the tendency of relationship, such a religion surely exists. Another problem is how we can experience it and learn.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Greatest and Foremost Commandment</h3>
|
||
<p>Today you exert enormous efforts through religion, seeking the infinite world of being. Why do you fail to find it? Why are you unable to recognize the world? From the standpoint of relationship, it is because the motivation and purpose deviate and you cannot make a relationship with the resulting value. All entities, individual, family, national, country and world, have their own wishes and purposes in their own situations. When the purpose of an entity differs from the heavenly purpose, it can hardly feel the eternal world of being. Heaven helps humankind feel this world through religion, not through intellectual conditions. This world is felt through ultimate emotional issues by holding up the standard of love.</p>
|
||
<p>Thus, God comes to us only with love, and we can meet God only with love. You must first know that God has been trying infinitely to reach out to us, giving hope to those without hope, giving life to those without life, and giving love to those who cannot be loved. You should know that God thinks of us before we think of Him. He existed before we existed and moves for us before we move. You should feel in your hearts that a Being exists who is greater than the value of our existence, ideal and affection, and He moves before we do.</p>
|
||
<p>How does God find humankind with the condition of love? As in the passage we read, God allowed us a commandment: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.” (<a href="http://bible.gospelcom.net/passage/?search=Matthew+22:37-38">Matthew 22:37-38</a>) You should remember that God kept this commandment before humankind did. Thus, you should clearly know that this is the first commandment a fallen person must keep.</p>
|
||
<p>When listening to the word, if you think that the word originates from you, it is a serious misunderstanding. You should feel that to bring this word to humankind, God, who is the subject of human life, ideals and love, has gone through a historical course of exerting all His mind and will for the sake of humankind. In other words, before humankind kept the commandment, God loved humankind with all His heart and character. God could establish it as a commandment because God kept it Himself. Thus, in our search for God’s ideal of life, before we love God, He approaches us with great love, ideals and life to find us, to love us, to save our lives, and to establish us as beings of the ideal. You should remember that God has been reaching out to us, upholding the first commandment. God toiled for 4,000 years trying to present His will to humankind, but it was not fulfilled because of human ignorance. Thus, Jesus was the one who appeared to substantially perfect the word and establish the way of the commandment.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Jesus Exerted All His Heart and Will for God</h3>
|
||
<p>Before Jesus told others to invest their hearts, he first invested his heart for God. Before he told them to exert their wills, he did it first. Before he told them to love God with their utmost effort, he practiced it first. Thus, he became the substantial incarnation of the commandment. Jesus, who appeared on the earth with God’s mission for humankind, witnessed to God’s great power of life through words. When they went unheeded, he used miracles to witness. He introduced the ideal of the world and the cosmos to a nation who wished for their own happiness. The Israelite nation understood God’s ideal as being individually and nation-centered. Jesus showed God’s love to them through examples. He demonstrated a love which embraced the gentiles beyond the limits of the nation so that they could actually see and hear it.</p>
|
||
<p>Who received the stimulation of life from Jesus? Those who overcame death received it. Who felt the great power of hope? The same ones. Who felt the great power of love? Again, it was those who overcame death. They should have believed in Jesus when he was alive. They should have received the power of life to overcome death and attained the power of love. Only after they let Jesus die and saw his resurrection did they realize that he was their substantial ideal of life, ideals and love. Thus, they boldly went over the hill of death without fear.</p>
|
||
<p>What then is your position now, you who believe in Jesus as an object of hope? We should not be like the disciples, who did not recognize Jesus even when he appeared as the original incarnation of the ideal, love and life. If you become like them, you will commit the historical crime again and become the object of God’s sorrow. God has worked for 2,000 years since Jesus. Thus, in place of Jesus, who comes as the hope of believers, you should be able to dedicate your power of life for the sake of the past, present and future and to sacrifice your life for God. Where are the people who have such determination? This is the big question. You say you have faith, but the question is what standard of faith you have.</p>
|
||
<p>After meeting the returning Jesus, receiving the infinite stimulation of life, seeing the ideal world of creation, and feeling the infinite power of love, we have realized that the footsteps of Jesus were not for his own sake. Rather than complaining against his enemies, he produced the fire of love to melt them. When he received persecution from his enemies because of their excessive desires, he embraced them with greater love and exploded with the shimjung of a greater ideal and life. The whole world then came whirling into his bosom. If there is life, an ideal and love in God, what should we do centering on them? We should become original substances of love and life who can unify all the people of the world, whether on the brink of death or in the realm of life. You should know this.</p>
|
||
<p>Thus, the fact that Jesus came and we can follow him is a word of blessing or gospel for humanity. Knowing this, you should not think centered on yourself. You should, first, feel the fact that God totally invested His heart, will and character for us. You should also feel the fact that there has been a substantial person who thoroughly exerted his heart, will and character for us. That was Jesus. The footsteps Jesus left were loving humankind with all his heart, will and character. The question is if you have the shimjung which can experience this directly without explanation. You should know clearly that the existence or absence of such a shimjung determines God’s decision whether He can make a relationship with you.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Day of the Messiah and the Age of God’s Love</h3>
|
||
<p>The world of shimjung transcends time. Thus far, no one has been able to revolutionize the parents’ loving heart for their children. Its essence has remained unchanged throughout the vicissitudes of the ages. This happens in the world of love. When a beloved child is leaving the parents, no one, not even a powerful authority, can block the movement of the world of love. The movement of the world of love can transcend the hurdles of a giant mountain and the entire cosmos. Thus, to have an experience of shimjung, we should connect with the standard of the heart. Only in the world of shimjung can we establish the condition by which we can receive Jesus, who came to save us 2,000 years ago. Thus, in calling upon God, we should go beyond the situation and see the shimjung behind it. A parent’s love for a child transcends life. Love itself is the complete answer and complete motivation.</p>
|
||
<p>The day when we receive the Messiah as the subject of life, the ideal, love and the center of humanity is the day when God, the universe and humankind will all rejoice. It is the day when humankind finds the lost God, God finds the lost human and the earth. On the day of the Messiah, three conditions will be simultaneously restored. The real world will be created in which everything moves and halts through one heart. It is the day of hope for God, humankind and all things. What, then, is the standard of hope? It is the love that represents all.</p>
|
||
<p>Now the time is approaching in which I, standing at the end of the 6,000 years, must establish myself and possess God’s love, life and ideal. When is God’s age of life, beyond the age of the life of Jesus and the Holy Spirit? When is God’s age of the ideal, beyond the age of the ideal of Jesus and the Holy Spirit? When is God’s age of love, beyond the age of the love of Jesus and the Holy Spirit? This is the question. Thus Paul says, “For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38-39) Jesus, too, came for the love of God.</p>
|
||
<p>Believers today think that love in Jesus is the ultimate, but it is not. God’s love is linked based on the love of Jesus. One can know the love of True Parents only when one comes through that process of love. You should know this clearly. The fallen parents on earth, namely, our physical parents, are not True Parents. We all have parents of the fallen lineage. No matter how polished one’s appearance is, he belongs to the tribe of the fallen lineage. Therefore, people do not know that the original love of True Parents before the fall is the last fruit of love God has prepared for fallen humankind. Jesus departed without introducing this love. After feeling this love, one needs a certain principle. The principle is that children come after the parents. They grow up, become husband and wife, and become parents in turn.</p>
|
||
<p>What is the ideal of Christianity today? What is the ideal of husband and wife? It is to find and establish the love of True Parents. Only when we grow up in a blood relationship with the love of True Parents can we become true husband and wife and have true children.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">God’s Course to Restore the Children of the Direct Lineage</h3>
|
||
<p>If God has a grudge about the earth, it is that there are no true parents, true couples or true children. This is why Heaven is sighing. Thus, Paul said that fallen people would be saved as adopted sons. No matter how excellent one is, he is only an adopted son. What then is God’s sorrow? It is the fact that His real children became adopted children. Thus, history has been a bitter process of restoring the direct children. Only one who knows God’s woeful shimjung of history can serve God closely. The parents who produce and raise children can feel God’s shimjung through loving their children. Thus, the ones who feel the true love of husband and wife must be able to feel God’s original love through this. It is the same with the children’s love for the parents.</p>
|
||
<p>When such a standard appears on the earth, we need an ideal of goodness. Though we are original bodies of goodness, we only have a relative view of life around that center. Only within the loving shimjung of the True Parents can we become the center of value, life, the ideal and love. We can then stand as the subject of all. You should know this clearly.</p>
|
||
<p>God tries to create this with fallen humans, but they all have different situations. These situations are not simple. They are historical situations. You know that with these situations, history has been filled with bloody strife and tragedy. What is this situation? In order for God to take you back, He gets hit by Satan as hard as your value. God takes back the world after being struck as much as the value of the world. He pays for what He regains. This has been God’s strategy and situation.</p>
|
||
<p>To stand a person in the place of life, God made him first go through death. If there was a dying person, God went through valleys of death to save him. With hope amid infinite frustration, He went over innumerable hills of sorrow and suffering. We should be able to feel that God came through 6,000 years of tearful history to introduce the ideal of love I desire. He fully invests His heart, will and character today to make a tie with my individual being. When you can feel such a heart, you can resonate with the situation and shimjung of historical saints like Noah.</p>
|
||
<p>Though we are a distance from the life of Abraham, the world of shimjung transcends distance. I can make connections through my shimjung. It is the same with the ages of Moses and Jesus. Therefore, you should make a connection with the shimjung of God today through Jesus and the Holy Spirit, who worked for 2,000 years. Thus, when one establishes the returning point of shimjung, Jesus can install him as his bride. You should remember the fact that Jesus said to such people, “You are not servants but my brothers and sisters.” When you know this, you will feel that when you are sad, God has experienced sadness before you. When I was angry and oppressed, the Father was angry and oppressed first. When I was frustrated, the Father was frustrated before me.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">To Stand as God’s Direct Children</h3>
|
||
<p>From this standpoint, we should be true sons and daughters and say to the sorrowful Father with the proper attitude of children, “Father, please be happy and not sad with me.” When I get mistreated, it should be for the sake of the Father. We should have the shimjung of true children, which seeks to console the Father, who is saddened on behalf of our mind and body. If you have such a shimjung, even when you are on the path of the cross, you cannot dare to say, “Father! The pain of death is severe. Please help me avoid this path of grief.”</p>
|
||
<p>Although it looks as if Jesus prayed to avoid the pain of death or was surrounded by fear, this was not true. When Jesus experienced God’s shimjung, who had suffered for 4,000 years to find Jesus, his own death was not a problem. Jesus prayed, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt,” (<a href="http://bible.gospelcom.net/passage/?search=Matthew+26:39">Matthew 26:39</a>) for God’s and humanity’s sake, not for his own. You should know that God’s will can be realized with such a shimjung.</p>
|
||
<p>Members of the Unification Church, do not cry over your own situation! Despite our various situations, we should be able to cry only with the Father’s shimjung. Be filial sons and daughters who can console the Father with tears, since He cried for us first. Just as Jesus received the grace of resurrection by saying, “Not what I want but what You want,” we should go over this hill too. You should go over the realm of resurrection with a living body. Only when you can love all people in the substantial world for the True Father, and they serve you for the Father will we see the conclusion of the ideal with which God created the world, a conclusion of the providence for humankind. We will then see the conclusion of our hope and of the providence for my love and life. Only when such a world is realized can we understand God’s shimjung, He who suffered and went through mistreatment, anger and sorrow, all to find “me.” We can also understand the Father’s love, which cried for us in our distress. We can know His joyful, loving shimjung.</p>
|
||
<p>However, the love with which God sought to complete His ideal on earth with Jesus and rejoice in has not appeared yet. Though countless people in history came forward holding onto the hand of love to appease God’s sorrow, the scene has not appeared in the human world in which the Father and the children can hold hands, sing, dance and share love together having established the original garden of flowers. How can we understand the sorrowful shimjung of the Father? We have to be in a similar place. You should clearly keep in mind that only those who feel God’s joyful and sorrowful shimjung can occupy the everlasting love of God and stand as the direct children of God rather than as adopted children.</p>
|
||
</div><!-- .entry-content -->
|
||
|
||
<footer class="entry-meta">
|
||
</footer><!-- #entry-meta -->
|
||
|
||
</article><!-- #post-963 -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<article id="post-960" class="post-960 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958">
|
||
<header class="entry-header">
|
||
<h2 class="entry-title">
|
||
<a href="/blog/2018/06/07/let-us-become-beloved-children-and-receive-the-seals/" title="Permalink to Let Us Become Beloved Children and Receive the Seals" rel="bookmark">Let Us Become Beloved Children and Receive the Seals</a>
|
||
</h2>
|
||
<div class="entry-meta">
|
||
<span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="/blog/author/fami1yfed/" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-07T08:34:15+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/07/let-us-become-beloved-children-and-receive-the-seals/" rel="bookmark">June 7, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-07T08:34:27+01:00">June 7, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/blog/category/speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958/" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1958</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
</header><!-- .entry-header -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
<div class="entry-content">
|
||
<h2 align="center">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
|
||
<h3 style="text-align: center;" align="center">Former Headquarters Church<br />
|
||
Seoul, Korea<br />
|
||
September 14, 1958</h3>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>John 10:31-36 </em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-26513" class="text John-10-31"><sup class="versenum">31 </sup>Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him,</span> <span id="en-NIV-26514" class="text John-10-32"><sup class="versenum">32 </sup>but Jesus said to them, <span class="woj">“I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-26515" class="text John-10-33"><sup class="versenum">33 </sup>“We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”</span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-26516" class="text John-10-34"><sup class="versenum">34 </sup>Jesus answered them, <span class="woj">“Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are “gods”’<sup class="footnote" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;" data-fn="#fen-NIV-26516a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NIV-26516a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]">[<a title="See footnote a" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+10:31-36#fen-NIV-26516a">a</a>]</sup>?</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-26517" class="text John-10-35"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">35 </sup>If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside—</span></span> <span id="en-NIV-26518" class="text John-10-36"><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum">36 </sup>what about the one whom the Father set apartas his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?</span></span></em></p>
|
||
<p>Prayer</p>
|
||
<blockquote><p>Father, we have realized that without the desire to serve and humbly bow down to You, we can have no relationship with You in the other world of eternity. We long for the day when our heart opens to feel Your shimjung in our center, so that our body follows our mind as the subject. Please guide us to regain our lost bodies today by hearing Your voice from the depth of our hearts. Let us realize Your suffering course to find each of us and humbly bow down to You. Guide us to feel a deep gratitude toward You.</p>
|
||
<p>We thought that You, Father, come to us only in glory. In fact, You came in sorrow and suffering, with a face stricken with misfortune. Since we did not know this, we wanted to lay our sorrow, our sufferings and our misfortunes upon You. Please forgive us.</p>
|
||
<p>We should realize that we are a fallen race who cannot call You Father. You have come through such sorrows and sighs in history. We should relieve Your burden of 10,000 years. I sincerely pray that no one will be ignorant of Your path of sorrow.</p>
|
||
<p>You have called us today, but do we deserve it? I sincerely pray that those who are gathered here can resolve Your situation and that their hearts are filled with such matters. Please embrace us at this time. Restore Your lost grace and remove our sins. I sincerely pray for and desire this.</p>
|
||
<p>Father, please take dominion in this service. I am giving a speech today. Do not let the hearts of the giver and receivers be divided. We know that the one who attacks on this point is not us, but Satan. We do not want our secular minds to communicate with Satan. Therefore, please guide us to believe in Your will alone. We repent before You. Do not let us follow this path with a heart different from Yours. If there is such a heartistic gap, even to a small degree, I pray that we may all work together seriously to overcome it.</p>
|
||
<p>Today is a holy day. Bless those who do not yet realize Your will, the pitiful thirty million people of Korea. Bless Your children everywhere who bow down to You for the sake of the nation on this day. Have mercy on the people who are screaming and fighting, and broaden their hearts to be able to tolerate and accept one another.</p>
|
||
<p>Now is the time to cry with the earth for the sake of Your situation. I believe You will take those to Your side who possess Your shimjung. Please forgive our baseness. Please forgive those pitiful people who follow the enemy while professing to follow Heaven. Please forgive those foolish people who take as enemies those who are not, in fact, enemies and persecute them. Who can preserve their life? Who will shed light on their path? I earnestly pray and desire that they can truly receive Your word.</p>
|
||
<p>Father! We know Your heart agonizes over the fate of the nation. Father, who worries about the future of the nation, have pity on this nation, which is cornered all around by the world. Please remember those who are piling up conditions before You, as representatives of the nation. Guide us to able to plead that the whip of judgment does not descend upon this nation in the last days. I sincerely pray and desire this.</p>
|
||
<p>Now we have realized that we have the responsibility to, first, call upon You and then proceed. If we live, pray and plead to Heaven, and make You the center of our lives for the sake of this responsibility, we know that necessarily Your will shall be fulfilled upon the earth. Thus, I eagerly pray that You will place these people in that position.</p>
|
||
<p>Please come and rule over this time. We pray all these words in the name of the Lord. Amen.</p></blockquote>
|
||
<p>Today I will speak upon the topic, <i>“Let us Become Beloved Children and Receive the Seals.”</i></p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">God’s Hope and I</h3>
|
||
<p>Everyone, who has hope, desires to be at the center of hope. If God has a hope, you desire to be within this hope. The same mentality exists in a family, where all members desire to dwell within the master’s heart. It is the same with a country, the world and the will of the Father, who has been restoring the creation. Thus, you should be remembered in the heart of your leader. If you are religious, you should be remembered in the heart of the religious leader. Furthermore, if there is a God, you should be remembered in the heart of God.</p>
|
||
<p>Instead of being remembered by God momentarily, if one is remembered eternally, taking God’s hope, situation and shimjung to heart, God will tell him all His stories. Moreover, He will try to unconditionally give all the blessings He has gathered through the 6,000 painful years of the providence. You must understand that this is the Father’s shimjung.</p>
|
||
<p>Although you were born as single individuals through your parents’ lineage, you are not isolated. Heaven has ruled over religion throughout history. The world follows Heaven’s way, the nation follows the fate of the world, the family follows the law of the nation, and I follow human norms. Thus, there should be a smooth relationship from Heaven to the world, from the world to the nation, from the nation through the society to the family, and from the family to me. No one can deny the existence of such a relationship. For whom are we moving now, we who stand in such a position of undeniable relationship? Where are your families going? Where are this world and this nation going? These are crucial questions, requiring our serious consideration.</p>
|
||
<p>We know that God has been sorrowing in regard to humankind ever since the fall of the first human ancestors. Where do you think this sorrow is flowing to? Where does it long to stay in the end? Through what historical course, what nation, and what clan, to whom has God’s pain been transmitted? Through what historical course and for what relationship has God’s hope been moving? It is not the world, not a country, not a family; it is none other than me. You must know clearly that God’s hope is realized from me, the single individual. Therefore, if there is no foundation in me acknowledged by Heaven, no matter how good Heaven is, I have no relationship with it. If there is no standard in me, though a world-renowned theory may appear, it will bear no relationship with me. Have you ever felt such a fact thoroughly through your shimjung, body, bone and flesh, that the historical sorrow, suffering and difficulty are determined centered on “me”? If not, your ancestors will accuse you, for they have gone through the path of death with blood and tears.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">What a Person Should Feel and Find First</h3>
|
||
<p>We have the tradition and connection left behind by the believers in history. If anyone forgets this, it would be an ungrateful betrayal of the universe, which incorporates the heavenly way and the human way. Now is the time to realize this.</p>
|
||
<p>In the internal life of faith, what is the first thing you should feel and find before the heavenly way? It is not joy, happiness nor glory. Since humanity has brought sorrow to Heaven, the first thing to find is heavenly sorrow, which has been ruling the earth. You should know that despite time and place, the seekers of the truth are the ones who are carrying the cross and establishing the altar of heavenly appeal under unjust oppression to remove the heavenly tears.</p>
|
||
<p>Why does Heaven drive its beloved children out to the path of the cross? It is so that the heavenly connection may reach me, through the world, the country, the nation, the society and the family. It is so that the connection of the world directly reaches us. Thus, you must feel God’s shimjung, which must have you experience in your single lifetime the sorrow of 6,000 years to establish you as God’s children.</p>
|
||
<p>When God created the Garden of Eden, He wanted there to be eternal happiness, but the blessing of Eden totally disappeared due to the fall of man. Thus, God became a God of sorrow, rather than one of happiness. He has been trying to regain the country and the entire blessing of the universe while being persecuted by the country and people. Since God’s bitter course throughout history is entangled with human tragedy, His sighs and His situation are deeply related to you. Since this is the responsibility of humanity and Heaven, in seeking God, man must know God’s sorrow. We can defeat the myriad satans with God’s anguish, sorrow and grief. You must realize that without experiencing such an historical shimjung, you cannot fight against the enemy.</p>
|
||
<p>Certainly people agonize over lost property. Some mourn over lost children. Though there are many who bewail a loss of earthly valuables, there is no one who bewails a loss of the self and of God. Few indeed grieve over the loss of the self, which cannot be exchanged even for the universe, and of God, who is more glorious than the universe.</p>
|
||
<p>For the seeker of truth, sorrow is not in losing material property. It is in having lost the self and Heaven. The path of the truth, which is to find God, is the path of finding sorrow. That is why Jesus said, “Follow me with a cross on your back.” Therefore, we can stand before the Father only when our sorrow, anguish and anger can replace His. The Father’s footsteps have been such in the 6,000 years. In order for you who are connected with the historical providence to make the connection with God, the center of the historical providence, you must be able to bear such sorrow, agony and grief.</p>
|
||
<p>This is the way of Heaven. Although the historical ages are strewn with sorrow, God has been walking this path to fulfill His will: that is, to find all things, all people, His children and God’s own self. God is not operating fully as God because He lost Heaven and earth through the fall of man. He lost power, dignity and authority. The movement to restore this is the standard of human norms and the heartistic standard of the seekers of the truth. By all means, we must regain the lost universe.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Situation of the Present World and<br />
|
||
the Task of the Children</h3>
|
||
<p>What then must I do? I must resolve God’s sorrow by restoring myself, my family, my society, my country, the world and the universe into being acceptable to God. In this way, I should dominate all things with God’s authority and serve God. This is the crucial task you should pursue throughout your life. If you cannot relate to God this way, you will have nothing to do with God, even when God comes to the world, the country, the society or the family.</p>
|
||
<p>Throughout history, all the ideologies moved according to the way of Heaven. Many ideologies have merged, and now we have a world of one global ideology. By principle, when two ideologies fight, one is inevitably crushed. We should know that now is not a time for a two- dimensional battle centering on humanity. It is a time for a three- dimensional battle centering on Heaven, and this time the spirit world is waiting to attack us. That is why there are many phenomena of the last days all over the world. For instance, there are many mental patients and nervous phobias. Just as Adam had intense fear right after the fall because of the sin of betraying Heaven, this world is filled with people suffering from extreme fear.</p>
|
||
<p>This world is losing its guiding ideology. It is useless to insist on one’s own way. You are in the last days of the universe, in which everything is swayed back and forth in chaos, without the center. At this turning point of history, what should you do? What should you do, beholding the world and the nation, which are falling down? To be the one God can proudly present before the nation and the universe, I must make a father-son relationship with God and follow God’s ideal to dominate the creation.</p>
|
||
<p>However, we are blocked in front. In the back, it is incomprehensible. There are enemies on either side. Wherever we go, there are enemies who try to destroy us. We must protect ourselves at this time, protect Heaven and the heavenly way, and deflect the satans. Heaven, the master of the universe, and all things must have an ideal and want to realize it through one person.</p>
|
||
<p>For those who have gone out to find Heaven, there is no happiness in the process. There is no satisfaction. If there is satisfaction, he is not genuinely searching for Heaven. By Principle, agony and sorrow should come first. That is, joy will appear only after one experiences sorrow, pain and grief. That is why Christianity refers to the day of sweeping away the history of the 6,000 years as Judgment Day.</p>
|
||
<p>Why does Heaven come to us with sorrow, pain and grief? It is not to ruin you. It is to make you children of Heaven. A child shares blood and flesh, ideology and the ideal. You should move forward on that reciprocal base with Heaven.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Two Sorrows of God</h3>
|
||
<p>Who shattered our father-son relationship with God? Sadly, this relationship cannot be restored with heavenly strength or with our strength alone. There must be nothing that provokes your anger more. We should be the children who can feel the sorrow, pain and grief of losing the loving Father and being unable to serve, meet or follow the parents who should be served eternally. Coming down the road of misfortune, God has been trying to find people who could share joy as His children, but we knew nothing about His sorrow. We are unable to be called children of God due to our fallen lineage, though theoretically we are sons with an inseparable blood relationship. In real life, we have countless elements of the enemy within us.</p>
|
||
<p>Thus, God has two kinds of sorrow. One is having lost the son and the other is not being able to regain the relationship. We should feel that we are the sinner of sinners and the debtor of debtors to have generated such woe in God. We must repent and work hard for having put God through 6,000 years of toil.</p>
|
||
<p>The relationship of father and son is based on shimjung, which can never disappear from the heart, even with all the denials and unworthiness of being called a son. The relationship centering on eternal love flows on as the affectionate shimjung that even God cannot deny. The tragedy is that even with such a shimjung, God cannot freely call us sons and daughters.</p>
|
||
<p>Our sorrow is nothing compared to that of God. Do not rejoice over having much money. Having good external conditions does not gladden the heart. You should know that the more material affluence you have, the more indemnity conditions you will incur, which will bring you down. Is there anyone on the earth who can confidently say, “I can be a child of God because I have given up everything”?</p>
|
||
<p>Looking at the sky, we should be able to feel the grief of humankind, which prostrates itself and cries out before the tears of God. We should be able to feel the woe of all things, which scream out, pierced by God’s tearful shimjung and sighs. We should also experience the Father’s sorrow and pain. We must know the mistreatment He has suffered. Only when we dominate the earth with the ideal of Heaven can we fulfill His will.</p>
|
||
<p>Since this world is fallen, you cannot meet God. Since there is the heavenly principle of creation and the cosmic heavenly standard, God cannot come directly to man, ignoring these principles. Thus, in the Old Testament Age, humankind and animals were connected through sacrificial objects. In the New Testament Age, Jesus was the sacrifice. Through Jesus, humanity and all things and humanity and Jesus were to make the connection. Heavenly blessing was attained by Jesus, the son of God, going through an extremely sad situation. This made the connection between Jesus and humankind.</p>
|
||
<p>Now what needs to be established is the relationship of father and son. For this, the father must be struck for the sake of the son. This way, the connection should be made from all people to the subjects, and from the subjects to the son, and from the son to God. This is the law of God, who is restoring happiness, glory and the ideal.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">To Become Children Acceptable to God and<br />
|
||
Achieve Complete Restoration</h3>
|
||
<p>Where should this relationship be made? This relationship should not be made in the spirit world, but on the earth. That is why it is emphasized that Heaven is the groom and the earth is the bride. This is an undeniable connection. The shimjung by which humanity feels this never changes. No one can transcend this shimjung, regardless of whether he lived thousands of years ago or lives 10,000 years from now. The groom sets up one absolute standard. By establishing the bride’s name as a condition, he spreads the connection toward sons and daughters. He then regains the earth, subjects, the substance of children and parents. This is restoration.</p>
|
||
<p>Thus, to make the connection between humankind and all things, all things are offered as a sacrifice. To make the connection between the subjects and the son, the son is sacrificed. To make the connection between the son and the father, the father must carry the cross. Looking at such a process of establishing the ideal, since we have the responsibility to restore this historical process through indemnity once and for all, now is the last day of finding myself through the Father.</p>
|
||
<p>In the Old Testament Age, salvation was possible by sacrifices centering on the priest and keeping the law. In the New Testament Age, salvation was attained by believing in Jesus. From now on, however, one must believe in God, our Father, to whom we are connected through an eternally undeniable standard, undeniable because it is rooted in our blood and flesh.</p>
|
||
<p>In this woeful course that repeats the 6,000 years of history, when sons and daughters appear whom God can acknowledge as His own, not only in mind but in body, they will realize God’s tears which were shed for the world and teach the ignorant people. They will understand the tearful situation of God, of which people have been unaware throughout history.</p>
|
||
<p>Who will be the one who understands God’s shimjung, representing all people, Heaven and earth? It will be he who knows the distance- transcending and unlimited heavenly shimjung. It will be the one who knows a parent’s loving, eternal heart toward the children, who says, “Father, Your sorrow is mine. Your agitated shimjung is my shimjung. Give me the cross.”</p>
|
||
<p>Do you know the plight of Heaven, who has to take up the painful cross again? We should be able to feel God’s shimjung toward the nation and all the historical shimjung of the ancestors who struggled for the sake of God, the earth, the subjects and the son.</p>
|
||
<p>In agony, Paul sighed and said, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” (Romans 8:35) This means that Paul was aware of God’s love in Christ. Jesus is also a bride before God. Jesus, our groom, even needs God’s love. The position of the bride and groom is external. Complete restoration starts with all things and ends with the restoration of the children. Thus, one must meet the Holy Spirit and Jesus through the position of husband and wife. He then must move on to say, “Father, bless me in place of the lost children of the Garden of Eden.” We must become the children who, without a speck of the fall, can become the true ancestors of humankind and receive the blessing, free of the bitterness of the fall.</p>
|
||
<p>What would be the grief of God? It is the fact that though He cried with the earth and the subjects, He has not shed tears of joy with a victorious son. In other words, God’s sorrow is that there is no one who can be acknowledged as a victorious son. Moreover, there has not even been one person who has cried with God, who has wandered about tirelessly to find the lost children.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Children Who Can Receive the Heavenly Seals</h3>
|
||
<p>When one is trying to find his lost child, even if he is the prime minister of a state, his dignity is not in consideration. He will burst into tears, clasping his hands and body, ignoring his reputation and dignity, not caring even if he is a beggar. The fact that such a scene has never occurred between God and humanity from the time of creation is the sorrow of God, all things and humankind.</p>
|
||
<p>At the time of sacrifice, humanity ascended through sacrificial objects. At the time of the national providence, he ascended by following a leader. Following a leader was the sacrifice. Next he ascended by believing in Jesus. From now on, he must believe in the True Parents. In other words, he must become a true son or daughter of the True Father. Now you must struggle on your hands and knees to follow the path.</p>
|
||
<p>The ideal of the 6,000 years is now to bear its fruit on earth. When will the leader appear on earth who can cry with the earth, with the people and with Jesus? Humankind desires that the substantial being appear and join the history that was separated stage by stage. Humankind wishes that a substantial being appear who represents the ideal of the entire universe and touches the heart of the Father and the bride and groom. Humankind desires a leader to appear whose shimjung can connect to all people and arouse and preserve the heart that can cry with the earth. We should serve this one person in place of Heaven, Jesus, all people and the earth. Like him, we should become able to cry with and love the earth, people and God. Thus, God’s grieving shimjung should turn into a joyful one.</p>
|
||
<p>In this way, you should receive approval from the Trinity, from all the saints, and even from satanic people, as well as from the Father. By zealously fighting to resolve God’s grief, representing the historical shimjung as a child long sought with sighs for 6,000 years, you must be established as the son who took revenge upon Satan and be confirmed as God’s beloved child. Only then can you receive the seal.</p>
|
||
<p>Christians talk about the 144,000. Words are easy. The heavenly children who set up the conditions for restoration and manage the heavenly providence and receive the seals, do Christians quite fit these words? The one who can receive the heavenly seals must have the shimjung to cry with the earth for Heaven. In other words, to receive the seals, you should be able to cry with the people, endure suffering and mistreatment for the sake of Heaven, heal the historical sorrow of God and all the inequities of man, and overcome all trials.</p>
|
||
<p>From where should we receive the seals? We receive the seals from God. We should receive it from God’s shimjung, from God’s situation, from my family and from society. We should clearly know that we can receive the seals only when we find the unifying point of God’s historical shimjung.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Prayer</h3>
|
||
<blockquote><p>Father, shall we say that our path is long and rugged? Please guide us to realize that our hearts cannot compare with Your aching shimjung. Our mistreatment cannot compare with Your steps through the formidable satanic realm. Amid our tribulations, grant us a seething desire to take responsibility for Your will. Amid our sorrows, make us Your children who can befriend and accompany You on Your woeful journey of history. Make us friends of Your shimjung who suffer because we feel the historical anguish with You. Make us Your eternal objects of joy who can befriend You in Your anger and Your internal and external sorrow.</p>
|
||
<p>We realize that, above all, we ourselves, who wander after blessings, are the problem. We have realized that if one cannot find sorrow in his heart, he can never find happiness. If he tries to avoid inevitable pain, he can never escape from the pain. For those who have lost the patience to overcome anger and grief, help them realize that without patience, they cannot avoid pain. We have understood the heavenly principle by which the blessing of the day comes only after going over the hills of sorrow, pain and bitterness. Now grant us the ability to say in tears, holding onto the Father’s shimjung, earth and all things: “Father, Your sorrow is my sorrow, and Your pain is my pain. Give me all Your burdens. You stand in the place of happiness.”</p>
|
||
<p>Since we know that there is the inseparable relationship of father and son in which both agony and affection can be shared, make this a time when we can be accepted by You. We know Your shimjung, which desires to use victorious sons to restore the universe. Guide us so that we can appear carrying that shimjung. Make us Your children who can gratefully keep Your way, whatever sacrifices we make or whatever road of death we tread. Make us those who will fulfill Your will, by all means, without ever betraying You. We pray all this in the name of the Lord. Amen.</p></blockquote>
|
||
</div><!-- .entry-content -->
|
||
|
||
<footer class="entry-meta">
|
||
</footer><!-- #entry-meta -->
|
||
|
||
</article><!-- #post-960 -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<article id="post-957" class="post-957 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958">
|
||
<header class="entry-header">
|
||
<h2 class="entry-title">
|
||
<a href="/blog/2018/06/07/jesus-who-came-with-the-destiny-of-restoration/" title="Permalink to Jesus Who Came with the Destiny of Restoration" rel="bookmark">Jesus Who Came with the Destiny of Restoration</a>
|
||
</h2>
|
||
<div class="entry-meta">
|
||
<span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="/blog/author/fami1yfed/" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-07T08:33:10+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/07/jesus-who-came-with-the-destiny-of-restoration/" rel="bookmark">June 7, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-07T08:33:21+01:00">June 7, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/blog/category/speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958/" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1958</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
</header><!-- .entry-header -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
<div class="entry-content">
|
||
<h2 align="center">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
|
||
<h3 style="text-align: center;" align="center">Former Headquarters Church<br />
|
||
Seoul, Korea<br />
|
||
August 3, 1958</h3>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Acts 3:13-24</em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-27010" class="text Acts-3-13"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. You handed him over to be killed, and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go.</span> <span id="en-NIV-27011" class="text Acts-3-14"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.</span> <span id="en-NIV-27012" class="text Acts-3-15"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this.</span> <span id="en-NIV-27013" class="text Acts-3-16"><sup class="versenum">16 </sup>By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through him that has completely healed him, as you can all see.</span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-27014" class="text Acts-3-17"><sup class="versenum">17 </sup>“Now, fellow Israelites, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders.</span><span id="en-NIV-27015" class="text Acts-3-18"><sup class="versenum">18 </sup>But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets,saying that his Messiah would suffer.</span> <span id="en-NIV-27016" class="text Acts-3-19"><sup class="versenum">19 </sup>Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,</span><span id="en-NIV-27017" class="text Acts-3-20"><sup class="versenum">20 </sup>and that he may send the Messiah, who has been appointed for you—even Jesus.</span> <span id="en-NIV-27018" class="text Acts-3-21"><sup class="versenum">21 </sup>Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets.</span> <span id="en-NIV-27019" class="text Acts-3-22"><sup class="versenum">22 </sup>For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything he tells you.</span> <span id="en-NIV-27020" class="text Acts-3-23"><sup class="versenum">23 </sup>Anyone who does not listen to him will be completely cut off from their people.’<sup class="footnote" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;" data-fn="#fen-NIV-27020a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NIV-27020a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]">[<a title="See footnote a" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+3:13-24#fen-NIV-27020a">a</a>]</sup></span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-27021" class="text Acts-3-24"><sup class="versenum">24 </sup>“Indeed, beginning with Samuel, all the prophets who have spoken have foretold these days.</span></em></p>
|
||
<div class="footnotes" style="text-align: center;"></div>
|
||
<p>There may be many people who come to church on Sundays as a matter of course, through habit or as an established custom, thinking that because this is Sunday, they should come to the Father’s temple and attend a service. You must understand that this place in which you are sitting should not be taken so lightly. This gathering materialized through some unknown background connection of which you are not aware. From the viewpoint of your individual being, as the center, your position and connection relate with the front and the rear and the left and the right. It is also a connection related to above and below. You must deeply remember this.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Background of Jesus’ Coming and<br />
|
||
the Result of the Chosen People’s Disbelief</h3>
|
||
<p>The fact of the emergence of the one person Jesus within history was not a chance accident. It was the result of the predetermined will of the heavenly principles. That is, Jesus came to materialize the connections of history, the current age of that time, and the future. If there had been a person who understood this fact, Jesus would not have died on the cross.</p>
|
||
<p>Though Jesus was merely one individual, if the connection Jesus carried had been extended to the whole and extended further from there, the historical connections of human beings would have been drawn together, even the connections of that age and the future would have been drawn together. No one knew of this at the time. Besides that, no one knew that Jesus was the figure who came with the central mission to mobilize the billions of faithful believers in Heaven and on earth and even Heavenly Father, based on the connections Jesus had with them.</p>
|
||
<p>In their ignorance, the chosen people were not aware of this. They thought highly of themselves, believing that they stood in the midst of God’s will and promise. However, because they rejected Jesus, they deviated from the will. Although they came forth having built a historical religious order, they ended up being placed in a situation where that religious order could not belong to Heaven. In addition, the Israelites had the national hope that the promised blessing of the last days would be materialized centering on them, and they boasted about the privilege of being the chosen people. Yet because they did not recognize Jesus, who was the subject of the macrocosmic ideology, they ended in a position of being soundly ruined. The people did not know in time that Jesus countered the great tragedy that was unfolding in human history with sorrow-filled tears and the blood of sacrifice.</p>
|
||
<p>The words Jesus cried out were the words of truth, overflowing from his earnest heart. The thirty-year life course Jesus walked was not spent to fulfill his own individual desires. He did not hope for his own benefit. The chosen people should have known this, but they did not. Only Jesus, who tried to accomplish the will of Heaven forgetting himself, knew it. Now this sorrow has become the root of our grief today. We must know this. Further, from the position of a man of faith, you must realize that the steps Jesus took were steps “I” have to take. The garden of ideology for which Jesus longed is the garden of ideology that “I” must accomplish.</p>
|
||
<p>Jesus yearned and hoped for the one ideology of the bride and bridegroom who could live in the realm of God’s blessing. Besides that, Jesus wished to embrace the crowd of 144,000 people centered on the banquet of the lamb that could consummate God’s blessing. With these people, he wished to return songs and the glory of bliss before the presence of the Father. This was Jesus’ earnest desire. However, because of the chosen people’s disbelief, Jesus could not materialize such an original hope and instead was crucified on Calvary. The prayer Jesus offered, shedding blood and sweat in the garden of Gethsemane, was a prayer that represented God’s earnest and intensely sorrowful heart. That earnest prayer was not meant for the sake of solving his own problem. It was for the good of the ignorant, slumbering people of that nation. It was for the beloved three disciples.</p>
|
||
<p>Jesus bore the responsibility to lead the ignorant people, embracing God’s hope. What would the heart of Jesus Christ have been like when he had to pray to Heaven asking for the hands of forgiveness to be extended again, in spite of the heavenly ways being violated? What was his heart like, trying to stop the chosen people from becoming a people of betrayal who deserved judgment? When Jesus pleaded earnestly, “Please do not lay their sinfulness to their charge,” he was facing the enemy in a crowd of people while walking the course of the tribulation on the cross. What kind of relationship did he wish to form with humankind, with the course of the providence or with the heart of heavenly nature?</p>
|
||
<p>We today should be able to go back into history and delve into the heart of Jesus. To that heart, we should bow our heads. By walking the steps the Lord took, following the traces the Lord left behind, and rendering devoted service to the altar for which the Lord died, we should become the people who can embrace God’s grievous resentment in His place. Further, we should reflect upon ourselves to see if we can seize Jesus’ heart, which represented the whole of humankind and the historical ties holding onto heavenly compassion. That is, we should ask ourselves whether we can become true friends of Jesus who can represent Jesus’ historical relationship, the relationship of the age, and the relationship of the future.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Awakening to One’s Own Worth</h3>
|
||
<p>There is nothing one can do all by himself in this world. You can never shed light upon what kind of being you are if you put aside your relationships. The same principle applies to God’s providential restoration. If there is one, two will appear. If there is a gathering of one, it will by nature connect with front and rear, left and right, and top and bottom. By doing so, when that one being comes to be equipped with one subjectivity that can pass through the characteristics of history, the current age and the future, a new history can be developed from there. You must understand that as fallen humankind was falling further away, more and more, going further down, God has been unfolding the providential dispensation of pulling them up and up, transcending time and space.</p>
|
||
<p>When asked by others how long you have believed in Jesus, you easily answer that you have believed for “ten years,” “twenty years,” or “such and such number of years.” Yet looking carefully at the history of the relationship, you must realize that you are standing in a position where you must add to it the 6,000 years of history. You must be able to locate the position of your faith.</p>
|
||
<p>Because humans cannot escape from the history of relationship, you today must become the people who can confidently say that you have the center of faith that is absolutely necessary in the realm of relationships for the age. Going further, the descendants of many thousands of generations should be able to model themselves on the foundation of faith you start building now. The matter for concern is how you can move forth with the foundation for such future relationships from your present realm of faith.</p>
|
||
<p>Therefore, you who stand in such a position today must have faith with which you can appear proudly before God in substitution for the 6,000- year history and say, “My Father, who has labored for 6,000 years.” The Father has endured with patience, unconcerned about having to go through a course of toil to embrace the 2.4 billion people of humanity in His bosom today. You must be able to call this Father “My Father.” Going further, you must stand before Heaven with a faith and a determination that can touch the hearts of posterity’s billions of generations through the appeal of your faith. Only then can you call God, who operates His providence according to eternal law, “Father.” Therefore, now the matter of concern is whether I have become a person who can reveal myself, or be revealed by another, before God as having consolidated the present and the past, after taking in the future.</p>
|
||
<p>Only after 4,000 years of history had elapsed could Jesus come for the first time to this earth to pioneer the realistic course of such a mission. Accordingly, you today must not have an ideological faith. You must not have a faith that cannot free itself of ideology based on knowledge that became known through history. Since you are stuck in history and your way is blocked, you must realize that the time has come to review the course of history and re-evaluate it. Many churches that passed through the path of faith until today, many religions which boasted about their ideologies, have their paths blocked upon arriving in the last days. This proves that they are in a situation where they cannot form a historical relationship, a relationship of the current period or a futuristic relationship of hope.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Truths and the Mission Toward the Central Figure</h3>
|
||
<p>What kind of man of faith are we looking for today? We are looking for a man of faith who can form relations representing the historical, periodical and futuristic relations. Yet today we are guided by our five senses. Would there be any truths that could encourage the world of the mind through those five senses?</p>
|
||
<p>Such truths may seem to have nothing to do with our living environment today, but that is not so. They are truths which tally with our lives one hundred percent. They are the truths we will need when we forget the ideology we have cherished with hope and are in a condition of clouded consciousness. That is, they are the truths which will guide us when we come to be placed in a situation where we are blocked by the wall of darkness and cannot think seriously upon the center of our mind.</p>
|
||
<p>For that reason, you today must penetrate into the future and, by every means, find the truths that connect to the past. Accordingly, today you must remember that you have a worldwide mission to find such truths and plant them in this land which stands in defiance of any of our toilsome efforts, sacrifices and tribulations.</p>
|
||
<p>The word of that one person, who has come and formed such relationships, is really the good news of good news. When you come to think of this, you must pursue the truths Jesus asserted. By doing so, you must equip yourselves with the historical relationship of blessed faith.</p>
|
||
<p>Have you become one with a historical relationship that is flowing out of Jesus’ shimjung? If you have not, you must realize that you are sinners who have violated the relationship with Jesus, who inherited the historical course and has come forth connecting with us until today. You must become people who can bow their heads unconditionally. You must also understand that you have violated the thirty or more years of the life of Jesus, who transmitted the words of the gospel in substitution for the periodical relationship and walked the practical course to fulfill the periodical responsibility.</p>
|
||
<p>The person who cannot comprehend the words of the gospel Jesus introduced through this kind of relationship is a man very deeply in debt. Jesus Christ is connected with God, and the truths of Christianity are connected through Jesus Christ. We today must realize that we are indebted to those truths. You have to realize again that, until Jesus stepped forth before Heaven, God had to make toilsome efforts for 4,000 years. Those truths are covered with God’s shimjung and blots of the blood of numerous ancestors within history.</p>
|
||
<p>If you now anxiously long to find the relationship of ideology and have the mind that wishes to obtain your own position according to that relationship, have you ever felt the weight of the great debt you owe on the front and in the rear, to the right and to the left, and on the shoulders of both sides? Although the laws of relationship and the laws of the heavenly principles urge us into the field, we are staying at a level of individual relationship centered on one person: ourselves. If you live tied up only with such a relationship and are not able to free yourselves from that relationship, heavenly compassion will compel judgment. The blood of the many sages who died for their belief in the course of history will make an appeal.</p>
|
||
<p>You must understand the heart of Jesus, who could call Heaven “Father” even within such a sphere. Jesus’ mind and God’s mind could make a connection. The whole heart of the Father who had toiled during history could be consoled by Jesus. What was more, one person, Jesus, could substitute for God’s comprehensive hope for the future. Jesus was such a unique, awe-inspiring being that he cannot be compared with any one. Yet no one at that time knew this.</p>
|
||
<p>Consequently, although it was God’s will for men to alleviate the historical sorrow, they were ignorant about it and marched forward in a way which would bring glory and happiness. On the contrary, it became sadness and an altar of the cross. With what can you then alleviate the shimjung of the Father who was watching this? This is the greatest matter of concern. That is why spiritual restoration history ever since Jesus is being turned upside down during our spiritual restoration. You must know this.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">We Are to Be Responsible for Jesus’ Sorrow and His Hope</h3>
|
||
<p>In the field where men have to fulfill the macrocosmic mission of relationship, the spirit must be united, let alone the relationship between top and bottom. Just as one cell of my body is moved by the unified shimjung, it should be possible for my mind to connect to the historical course.</p>
|
||
<p>What kind of relationship do you have with Jesus, who cried out bearing the historical responsibility; with Jesus, who thought only of God’s will; with Jesus, who died on the cross? This is the important matter of concern. You should be able to say, “Father! Though I am feeble, please allow me to be responsible for even one part of Jesus’ burden.” You must have a tragic shimjung that can cry with Jesus, feeling the fretful heart with which he cried, unable to discuss his own grieved heart with anyone. With such a mind, you must take charge of even one part of Jesus’ difficult situation.</p>
|
||
<p>In your life of faith today, to not fall into ruin, there should be at least three people who pray all night in the church, clinging to Jesus. Such a church, such a religious order will not perish. Although the gospel Jesus transmitted has been propagated on this earth and many religious orders have formed, when we look at how Christianity has strayed from the will of Jesus, we should reflect on ourselves today and become the people who can follow in the footsteps of Jesus as he struggled hard during the three years of his public life.</p>
|
||
<p>Having connected with God’s shimjung and the historical shimjung, Jesus had a commanding mien and was full of confidence when he appeared before the people. Yet when he was not facing the people, he would quietly shed tears. When he saw people straying from the righteous way and from the ties of God’s heart, believing mere formalities and ceremonial functions, in his heart he felt like lifting a whip and striking them.</p>
|
||
<p>Now we should restore Jesus’ mind that can connect with our heart and the ties of our life. We should also search for a group of such people with Jesus’ mind. Since we do not have such a mind, we should consider to whom we have to hand over this task as an unfinished work.</p>
|
||
<p>Since we are placed in such a position as this, we must bear all the historical mistakes perpetrated in the past. Going further, it is not enough to know the grief of the days past. Going beyond that, you must know even the shimjung that cherishes a hope for the future and be able to say, “Since I will be responsible for all this, please take a rest.” Since no part of your life has been aglow with this kind of passion, you must repent.</p>
|
||
<p>Toward what kind of age is this world today moving? The present time is the age where we fight centering on materials, but in the future, there will come an age of struggle centering on thought. That is, stepping beyond the age of materialism that can affect the body of a human being, the age of an “ism” based on thought, representing the mind, will emerge.</p>
|
||
<p>In a human being, there is the body and the mind. Above the mind, there is the soul; above the soul, there is God. Therefore, only when the human being unites completely into one with God will he or she become perfect. Each person is one mere, small, independent entity. However, he or she represents the whole of history and all relationships of the future. Therefore, he or she possesses macrocosmic value. Why has human history been flowing down until now? What did our many ancestors and the prophets and sages come forth wishing for? Because they were fallen human beings, they have been seeking the center, after having connected from afar. That is, we have been coming forth from the age of the clan to that of the tribe, through the age of the race to the age of the state and the international age, through the age of a worldwide federation. Heaven has been searching for the one person who can be a representative, linking God’s heart on top of the foundation of having combined the historical relations, the current period relations, and the futuristic relations. You must remember this.</p>
|
||
<p>Therefore, the time of World War I was a time of struggle centered on materials. In other words, all people in this world tried to obtain materials. There was a time when the world cried out for materials.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Life Centered on the Mind</h3>
|
||
<p>Will this be true of every age? No, it will not. In looking for the relationships of his or her life, an individual has to go forth with attendance of his or her mind in front. This is the iron rule of the heavenly principles. He who does not obey the command of the mind will be struck by Heaven. Heaven has told human beings in the course of history that they must live in accordance with their consciences. They must belong to the good side, centered on their minds. They should not get caught up in some materialistic condition of evil.</p>
|
||
<p>Is the human conscience then able to accept the heart of the heavenly principles one hundred percent as it is? No, it is not. Rather, it is blocked by many fences. Before the Cape of Good Hope for which you wish, that is, before the boundary gate of Heaven, there lies the gate of turns and twists. Spoken in Christian terms, this is the checkpoint of the judgment. The trend of thought today sees a period of fear, uneasiness and confusion. In other words, it is the age when you cannot take hold of the center.</p>
|
||
<p>Today you should not keep many material things. Why? When creating man, God breathed the soul into the body. A person is made of soul and flesh, and the soul is the center. When this world moves in a unified way centered upon materialistic power, what kind of period of struggle is going to come about? A period of ideological strife will come about. In reality, such a phenomenon has been conspicuously presenting itself since after World War II. The age of ideology centered on the mind will then appear.</p>
|
||
<p>What kind of thought should that ideology be? It should be thought that penetrates material things and the mind and centers on the soul. To go forth seeking the age of ideology centered on the soul is the restoration course. Humankind is still stopped in the state of having lost this and is moored in a state of having lost the harmony between the soul, the conscience and the body. Such has happened symbolically in this world. That is, the world today is the battleground between the major powers of the democratic and the communist worlds. This fight is also a showdown between God and Satan. It is a fight in which individuals struggle against one another, centering on religion.</p>
|
||
<p>Therefore, if in the future a tribe tries to move the world, it will not be able to control the world with its own ways and means only. Today’s domain of thought is two in the present state of things. However, in principle, it should be four instead of two. For that reason, just as the nations in the Third World, today, are holding hands with the left-wing camp, with religious formalities that are on the satanic side, something has to emerge in the democratic camp which can hold hands with the people of the world, having equipped itself with a new religion. I personally foresee that in the future a worldwide religious movement centering on Christianity will come about.</p>
|
||
<p>In other words, because Christianity falls within the purview of the realm of the conscience within the democratic camp, a push from the opposite side will be expected. Just as there are two minds in us and they fight against each other, I see that there will be a conflict between two worlds. What humankind wishes for is one starting point, a starting point in which two unite into one. That starting point is the beginning of relations, the synthesis of relations, and the result of relations.</p>
|
||
<p>For that reason, you must set up an inward standard that can link the subjective ties and live making it the center of life. By having realized such a stage of life on the earth, finding the common value that connects to the whole of humankind’s shimjung, all problems will be resolved. The world will then usher in the time of judgment. Accordingly, the young men and women who are put in the process of such an urgent history as today must set their resolution in good working order and proceed afresh toward Heaven.</p>
|
||
<p>When we look back at the modern history of the world, ever since the political revolution in France, after the Renaissance and World War I, material civilization has developed to the highest degree. What caused the Industrial Revolution? It was because man began to understand the power of steam and gasoline. The Industrial Revolution was realized on the foothold of steam and petroleum.</p>
|
||
<p>Since then, as it came into the first half of the twentieth century, it transformed into the electrical civilization. Although water and petroleum are substances, now the age of electrical civilization uses power that is invisible. What came after the stage where substance was acted upon to cause light to be emitted? The age of the energy civilization came, that is, the atomic age. This is the last age. Similarly, human history has passed through three stages of similar revolutions.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">What this Age Demands</h3>
|
||
<p>If there exists a nation and a people that can create some stimulative momentum that can have a big influence on the economic systems that have appeared in history until now, that nation and people will control the world. England today has borne such a mission. However, England was not aware of it.</p>
|
||
<p>As the material civilization of today developed, who would have known the fact that a movement of one person would come along which could carry out the mission of a small flame to break through each age, which could mobilize the world? No one knew that. Today, in the last stage of material civilization, atomic power has come and radiates one flame. The important question now is who is going to inherit that flame.</p>
|
||
<p>After the stage of substance, what stage are we going to? We go into the stage of thought. The providence is to search for and go into the mind. Therefore, centered on the trend of thought after the Renaissance, with the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a turning point, we have experienced an age of drastic change until now. The two great doctrines of left and right have materialized, as of now, after many crossings of thought.</p>
|
||
<p>In this age, which is the last days, what would be required of these two doctrines? That is, just as atomic power emerged in the place where the material civilization was being praised and threw out a flame, a new doctrine that can be the flame for this age must emerge in the arena where democracy and communism are both boasting about their respective superiority. If there are young men and women with serious minds that wish to seek a new doctrine which can be such a flame, they will be unable to sleep until they do.</p>
|
||
<p>Since the fight is on one way or another, we are put in a situation where a judgment has to be passed. When a great doctrine came out, it ruled over substance. When the mind reached its perfection, it ruled over the body. In the same manner, the time has come for the ideological doctrine to be resolved and sweep away the worldwide economic power. For that reason, although America continuously prospered economically until World War II, because now is the time to find a doctrine of thought, she has been struck in a material sense. Upon thinking about it, we can feel grateful for this. When you discard something, do it in style. That means to discard determinedly, like a state that knows how to discard things, without mentioning aid and so forth. This is the issue we must bring up in the future age.</p>
|
||
<p>What is the matter of concern in democracy? Where will the strength to spew out the flame of thought come from? Suppose that strength is welling up in our minds. From where will the flame that can explode shoot up? These are the matters of concern. These kinds of matters cannot be solved by your mind. Only the soul can solve these things. Accordingly, if there is a person who starts a revolution that can create a spiritual flame, he or she will be more precious than any ascetic who labored for the sake of the will of Heaven in the past, more precious than today’s doctrines, assertions or any worldwide ideology.</p>
|
||
<p>Therefore, I mean to suggest that by throwing out the flame of an economic system centered on the soul, we can take in the world’s economy. What is more, by throwing the flame of spiritual thought and doctrine, I suggest that we can move the world. The world appears to have been divided into two different paths. While communism is self- destructing by having centered on the search for material things rather than discarding what is to be discarded, democracy, to be grateful, must proceed to look for God. Similarly, you must understand that the two worlds are standing at widely divergent crossroads.</p>
|
||
<p>Because humans are in the course of restoration, the body is to succumb to the mind, the mind is to succumb to the soul, and the soul is to succumb to God. Because this is the law of absolute relations that the heavenly principles have set up, no one can exist while going against this law.</p>
|
||
<p>Do you have the courage to subjugate your conscience which pleads with you? You do not succumb to the mind now, but you will succumb on the day of your death. Humans are born this way.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Korean People Are the Ones Who<br />
|
||
Must Start up the Flame of the Mind</h3>
|
||
<p>You should now reflect upon yourselves to see if you have become the people who can sweep aside material things. Because until today it has been the age of doctrines, everything was okay since you lived according to your conscience. Today, the people leading a religious life are failing. There are also people who think and live saying, “Regardless of any religion, as long as you live according to your conscience, it is okay. Heaven and such are useless.” The principled course of a human being is not that way. After going through doctrine and thought, when the mind strikes the body with the right power of mind, where will the power of the mind appear? The day when the dominion of the mind falls, you can never demonstrate again the power of the mind with any worldwide doctrine.</p>
|
||
<p>Most men of faith today are stubborn. Because their mind has the ideological condition that it will succumb only to the soul, they do not listen to anyone. Do I then have the authority to grab hold of such a person and have dominion over him? No, I do not.</p>
|
||
<p>Where will the flame that can revolutionize that mind come from? Do you have the guts with which you can protest, raising your mental horizon and going over the race, the world, the religion and ecclesiastical authority? The person, who knows how to bow his or her head upon listening to one word that makes the mind cry rather than the ten million sermons that reach your ears, is the truthful man of faith. People today believe that salvation belongs to Heaven, but it does not. Only when you can show it through your mind can you come to create the history of a true salvation. Just as the doctrines today are then unable to locate a place to settle, our mind also wanders about, unable to locate a place to settle. It should not be so. If there is a person who sleeps comfortably bearing this kind of mind, he or she will then wind up the very last.</p>
|
||
<p>Today is the age of awakening, when you are to save your own lives and the lives of your ancestors. Upon thinking about this, the one self “I” is not a being who is to freely move around and live in this manner. Within the cosmic sphere of relations, you should feel substantially that this whole world of existence is yearning to establish “my” value of existence. Not only should you feel with your mind and with your head, you should proceed to where you can feel it emotionally.</p>
|
||
<p>Going further, even if someone gives you a mountain of gold and treasures, you should be able to valiantly give them up if they are not the things your mind wants, saying, “They are too pitiful, Father! However, we are aware of the fact that You have the responsibility to give material things to people of conscience and the will to have dominion over the body of a person who has a true mind. We know as well that the true soul itself has to be under the Father’s dominion.” The question is whether you can also step nimbly over great material suffering. Accordingly, since the value of my body is bigger than the cosmos, when my mind subjugates the body, my mind surpasses the cosmic value.</p>
|
||
<p>All the religious problems today originate from here. Looking at Buddhism, it too is a religion that focuses its efforts on attaining the mind. “He who brings his mind to light is the master of all laws.” This is the summary of Buddhist doctrine in its totality.</p>
|
||
<p>The material things that are being connected today are the things that used to build a wall of historical sins. Accordingly, you should not bow your heads before those material things. You must know that Heaven demands a group of people who can mercilessly cut them off whenever their mind does not want them.</p>
|
||
<p>Although these Korean people are pitiable, when viewed in the light of principles like these, we come to have one hope. We are a people who are lacking in material things. If there is a chance for us to live here, we should now unite our minds. For that reason, Heaven wishes for a group of people to emerge who embrace their minds and struggle complaining of the hunger of their minds. The time is coming when, binding with this mind that starved and strived, the spiritual flame must break out. That is why this nation, this people, is experiencing poverty economically and inwardly.</p>
|
||
<p>What then must we be concerned about? It is whether we can find God and cause the spiritual flame. All problems will be brought to an end there. The first Christian believers could laugh in the face of death where blood was splashed and flesh was being torn in the age of confusion in the past. They caused the worldwide revolution by having thrown out a new flame. You today also must cause a new history by throwing such a spiritual last flame.</p>
|
||
<p>As the last, you are left with the mission to push away all, including the doctrine you have believed in and the contents of your faith, and be able to cause a revolution of the mind. That is, you have to bring about a new flame. If there is a last cry here, that will be, “Please grant us the eternal flame that Heaven can throw in this dry garden of the mind and body.” The day when that flame saves this nation is the day when the whole world will soon bow its head to the man who caused that flame.</p>
|
||
<p>If such spheres of relations appear, a contradictory phenomenon that humanity has not seen throughout the ages of history will take place. At that time, an unknown mysterious event will happen. Our mind cannot solve that. The solution has to be that which can cause some new impulse that can make us say no, even if somebody takes our life. That has to be a three-dimensional action, rather than a horizontal action.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Laws of Restoration</h3>
|
||
<p>How then has God come through this kind of historical course internally? Before Jesus came, God went through the age of indemnity through material things. In order for man, who lost his body to sin, to step forth before the Father, first he has to go through the age of bringing material things before the Father. That is, he has to go through the age of sacrificial offering.</p>
|
||
<p>Jesus was born as the fruit of the age of sacrificial offering. Consequently, since the spiritual flame centered on Jesus has been accomplished, history has been unfolding as a form of an ethereal doctrine centered on Jesus ever since. It once appeared in many forms, but today it is being gathered again into two parts. Furthermore, centered on Christianity, the world now will see a unification movement taking place.</p>
|
||
<p>For that reason, the providence to offer something new that makes us feel the heavenly emotion we could not imagine and enables our conscience and body to form harmony is left to Christianity today. At first, a rise and fall of small-scale movement will happen repeatedly. Later, it will gradually happen in a bigger way. Consequently, you must know that the time when you have to unite the rearward sort of cardinal point and the futuristic cardinal point in the center is the completion age for the restoration of ideology, the completion age for the restoration of history, and the conclusion age for the providence of restoration. For an individual, it is time to connect the external world view and the internal providence to him or herself. Because humanity went off base in a world of principled relations, he will surely have to liquidate that.</p>
|
||
<p>A human being has a soul, a mind and a body. In the surroundings, there are living circumstances, all creation and the land. Incidentally, the land was formed first. All creation came about next, and humankind lives by eating that creation. For that reason, the body grows, the mind grows, and the soul is raised. After that, man is to meet God. This is the law conforming to the Principle. Regardless of whether people started revolutions, there has yet to be one who has not deviated from this law. We have set up a condition of being related in a straight line, without aberration.</p>
|
||
<p>Therefore, now you must find the world. Do you have such a desire? All of you may have such a desire. To try to make this land mine, to try to make the whole of all creation mine, that is not greed. That is a principle. That is because if we become true sons and daughters of God, what God has is mine. For instance, if your father is a rich owner of wealth, that wealth will automatically become yours.</p>
|
||
<p>In addition, having analyzed the whole world of existence, we can see that man is behind material things, and God is behind man. Accordingly, only when we reach such a standard can we find the worldwide ideology and the worldwide material things. Meanwhile, we must first find a worldwide person. For that reason, Jesus developed a movement to find a worldwide person. After finding the worldwide relationship, he then tried to establish macrocosmic relations. In other words, the heavenly providence is going higher step by step. Accordingly, you must understand that humanity cannot escape from this restorational fate.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Flame of a New Mind and I</h3>
|
||
<p>In a time when the doctrine, the providence and history have unfolded in this way, what do you have to do? Since communism is materialism, it will surely break down some day. As the democratic camp has to seek and climb to Heaven, centered on whom will it climb? This is the field of our mission to resolve. Accordingly, you must be able to demonstrate the true love and the value of the ideal of the doctrine and thought which have existed up to this point.</p>
|
||
<p>After overcoming material things and going over the soul, we must proceed as far as the front of God. Viewed from the worldwide angle, now is the time of entering into the spiritual age of going beyond the mind. Therefore, many insane people will come out in the streets these days. Such a phenomenon occurs when the spiritual world attacks and reaches the people whose conscience is keen and try to live according to their conscience. Above the conscience, an evil spirit rules. Just as the body is in Satan’s dominion, if my conscience steps over one stage, above it the evil spirit rules. Therefore, the last spiritual problem is to defeat the evil spirit that controls my body and to manifest a good spirit in its place.</p>
|
||
<p>For that reason, many mentally deranged people will come out among conscientious people. Many kinds of phobias will occur. For that matter, a world-level phobia is being broken up. The matter of concern at this point is whether I have the burning passion with which I can fight against that phobia centered on my conscience. The person who has settled down with such a center cannot be controlled by a revolution in the world, unless it is a heavenly revolution that can put Heaven and earth in motion.</p>
|
||
<p>Accordingly, the determination that such people have is an eternal determination. Not even an atomic bomb or a satellite can make an orbit that makes heavenly law change. For that reason, centered on an immutable conscience, having set up one principle, you should be able to connect with the ideology of the principles of the rule of Heaven. By having that value stay within the mind and body substantially, you should then form relations on a straight line with Heaven. By doing so, if you can put everything of that value into practice one hundred percent in the living arena, you are the very person who has found it, the person who possesses everything. We are entrusted with the mission to go forth with this purpose.</p>
|
||
<p>What then is the problem here? Even if there is some doctrine that shouts to the world, unless it relates with me, it has nothing to do with me. Even the flame of some mental revolution that unfolds throughout the world, unless it connects with me, it has nothing to do with me. For that reason, you must form such relations. When you recognize your own value as cosmic and as hundreds of thousands of times more valuable than anything in this world, you will then become able to dissolve all grievous resentment on this earth. Furthermore, only when you can embrace all humankind and set all of their mental standards right can you can call God “Father.”</p>
|
||
<p>That is why Jesus said, “For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? (Matthew 16:26) Although it has reached the age of the cosmos today, nothing can reach the world of the mind. You must understand that man is to make this the ideology of the land and live rejoicing.</p>
|
||
<p>Now, when you emerge after having gone through the providence of such mental relations, even God, let alone Satan, cannot do anything to you. No matter what is said in evil, regardless if it is a piece of stone or a piece of iron, you can digest it. No doctrine or thought can swallow you. Accordingly, you should recognize the value of the goodness of an individual with relations of this magnitude. You should lay a bridge that can end in that value with that great relation. Having laid a bridge from yourself, by connecting to the parts of the small number of the units left in the past, you then should establish the value of the whole. This is going to be the decisive standard. For that reason, you must now form a great cosmic relation going beyond your own individual relations. You then have to drop it to be in keeping with the reality; that is, you must make it a zero. Only when you do that will you, for the first time, come to stand as one godly being. God of the whole cosmos also will come to stand with you. Consequently, the world in which the big God and the small god can sing together of the heavenly value is the world of relationship completion, the world of the heavenly kingdom on earth that we desire. You must remember this.</p>
|
||
</div><!-- .entry-content -->
|
||
|
||
<footer class="entry-meta">
|
||
</footer><!-- #entry-meta -->
|
||
|
||
</article><!-- #post-957 -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<article id="post-954" class="post-954 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958">
|
||
<header class="entry-header">
|
||
<h2 class="entry-title">
|
||
<a href="/blog/2018/06/07/let-us-become-survivors/" title="Permalink to Let Us Become Survivors" rel="bookmark">Let Us Become Survivors</a>
|
||
</h2>
|
||
<div class="entry-meta">
|
||
<span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="/blog/author/fami1yfed/" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-07T08:31:46+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/07/let-us-become-survivors/" rel="bookmark">June 7, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-07T08:31:46+01:00">June 7, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/blog/category/speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958/" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1958</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
</header><!-- .entry-header -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
<div class="entry-content">
|
||
<h2 align="center">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Former Headquarters Church<br />
|
||
Seoul, Korea<br />
|
||
June 29, 1958</h3>
|
||
<p>As He is eternal, God created all things with an eternal ideology. Because individuals, races, all humankind and all things failed to become beings of eternity, God has been seeking them with grief until today. In other words, though God lost the ideal garden of creation because of the human fall, He did not abandon hope for the created world. He fought relentlessly with Satan throughout a long history to fulfill the vast ideology of creation. He has been persevering until today.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Inheritor of the Surviving Hope and Ideology</h3>
|
||
<p>God has this great hope. His agony lies in that He must start with the smallest thing. This great hope was to be fulfilled in the individual, but because the individual fell, hope for the whole was lost. Consequently, before the hope of all humankind and all things could be accomplished, God’s hope had to be fulfilled in a single individual. This was God’s situation. No one knew about this. To fulfill this hope centering on an individual, God set up Cain and Abel. When that providence failed and 1,600 years passed, He set up Noah’s family. Yet Noah’s family also failed through the mistake of Ham. Therefore, the providence was prolonged after Abraham and Moses until the time of Jesus.</p>
|
||
<p>Before Jesus came, the many prophets were to fulfill God’s ideology within the individual. Yet they could not, and this hope was transferred to Jesus, the only begotten son. Jesus came as an individual, but he was not just a common individual. He was the fruit of God’s 4,000 years of constant perseverance, His longed for ideology, and His shimjung. He came carrying with him all the hopes of the prophets who had died during the 4,000 years of human history. As the fruit of 4,000 years of goodness, Jesus came on a level surpassing the individual, racial, national and world levels. He came on the cosmic level. He came with an ideology that was to eradicate the resentment of Heaven.</p>
|
||
<p>Accordingly, the people of Jesus time were not supposed to allow Jesus, who came with God’s awesome ideology, to have an ideology that remained only with himself. Instead, they were supposed to implant this ideology within the whole Israelite nation and from there reach each person of humanity. Yet because they did not know and accept the ideology, that great ideology of God stopped with Jesus. Moreover, because Jesus died, that vast ideology could not survive as an ideology of the physical world and remained only as the ideology of the spirit world. Consequently, the people of the physical world had to wait for the ideology that could survive eternally in the physical realm. Jesus was forced to come again to re-establish this ideology in the physical realm.</p>
|
||
<p>Where and when will the individual, the family and the people who possess this ideology, those people for whom the physical world has been longing and who will survive eternally, appear? We must know the place and time.</p>
|
||
<p>When Jesus passed away, he left behind his word and his hope, but he did not leave behind his ideology. Thus, this ideology has to appear.</p>
|
||
<p>In the last days, what kind of person can possess Jesus’ ideology? That person should first acquire Jesus’s hope and will. Beyond that, he should possess a mind that can retain that ideology and a grieving heart of knowing the course of human history. Accordingly, he should be able to experience God’s ideology for the creation. When Jesus preached the gospels in the physical world, he sincerely challenged people with the directive to love him more than anyone else in the world. (Matthew 10:37)</p>
|
||
<p>Was there anyone who understood the profound meaning of Jesus’ words and practiced them? No, there was no one. Even among the disciples who followed and lived with him, there were none who practiced Jesus’ words completely. Jesus also told people to love their brothers. After his resurrection, he appeared to Peter and asked three times, “Do you love me more than these?” When Peter answered in the affirmative, Jesus said, “Feed my lambs,” (John 21:15-17). Moreover, Jesus told his disciples that they must prepare and wait for him, for he would come again. If you select important words of Jesus from among the words he spoke, these can serve as a summary of them.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Jesus’ Sincere Request</h3>
|
||
<p>Who can fulfill this earnest request Jesus left behind? The person who fulfills this word can escape judgment in the last days and meet Jesus. Have you ever loved Jesus in your lifetime? Can you say that the intensity of that love was greater than your love for your parents, your spouse or someone else in the world? You must re-think this point. The sincere desire of Jesus in Heaven is that someone will appear who can love him more than they love anyone else. If there is such a person on this earth, that person probably knows and deeply cares for God’s ideology of the creation, God’s 6,000 years of labor, and Jesus’ painful heart.</p>
|
||
<p>Jesus represented a value based upon God’s Principle of Creation. He is within the lawful realm of Heaven’s creation, without any contradiction or conflict. Because Jesus was in this position, his mind and body were one. Though he was separated from Adam by a distance of 4,000 years, he could exist, transcending time and space. This is why Jesus could perceive immediately that God’s ideology of creation was embedded within Adam 4,000 years ago.</p>
|
||
<p>What kind of mission did Jesus have? Humankind, who was to connect with God’s eternal love, did not connect with it. Jesus had the mission to connect humankind with God’s love. He also had the mission to tie a knot of love between humans and all things. Because Jesus came to complete this kind of mission, he told his disciples to love him, the representative of Heaven, more than they loved anyone else in the world. At that time, however, there was no one who loved Jesus that way.</p>
|
||
<p>When we examine the course of human history from this viewpoint, we know that we are individuals who have inherited a lineage of sin. We do not possess the ideology of creation. We have not attended Jesus from the position of a bride. Because the people of Jesus’ time entered a situation where they could have loved him but did not, in the last days people in the physical world have to love Jesus more than they love anyone else on a worldwide level. From the position of a loyal subject, were you ever intoxicated with a love that could surpass any in history toward Jesus, the king of kings and your bridegroom? If not, you cannot claim that you love God more than others.</p>
|
||
<p>God came to ignorant sinners by abandoning everything that belonged to the 6,000 years of history. If I do not receive this God with love, this ideology of God that comes to me will be suspended because of me.</p>
|
||
<p>Thus, when you pray for your family at this time, you should pray that they will be people who love God and Jesus more than any other. When you pray for your nation, you should pray that there will be people in your nation who love God and Jesus more than any nation. When you pray for humankind, you should pray that the Christians of this world love God and Jesus more than the followers of any other religions. If you yourselves cannot love God and Jesus more than all others, you should at least pray this much.</p>
|
||
<p>What does all creation desire from humanity today? They desire for someone to appear who can fulfill this earnest request of Jesus. His wish that someone would love him more than they love any other person. Though all things wish this, that kind of person has not appeared. That is why all things and Heaven are lamenting. You must know this clearly.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">Love God and Jesus More than Any Other</h3>
|
||
<p>What kind of grief is that lamentation? In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were supposed to connect with God’s love and His ideology. Yet through the fall, they failed to make that proper relationship with Him. The lamentation of all things is the lamentation that longs for humans to recover this situation and connect with God’s ideology and love. Consequently, a person who cannot liberate this lamentation of all things will be judged in the last days.</p>
|
||
<p>What kind of person will survive this judgment? The person has to know God’s and Jesus’ heart more than any other, and love them that much.</p>
|
||
<p>By knowing this heart of God, a person can connect with God’s ideology through that shimjung and thus possess the power to drive the enemy out of this universe. The reason Jesus could bless his enemies, even when he was on the cross, is that God’s heart constantly and powerfully boiled within him. This is how Jesus could stand firm even in the face of death.</p>
|
||
<p>Jesus referred to a bride and a bridegroom. What are the bride and bridegroom? In the 2,000 years from Jesus’s death until today, there was no bride who loved God and Jesus more than they loved any other. Many people talked about Jesus and about history arising from Jesus, but there was no one who knew Jesus’s grief at not being able to show God’s ideology of creation to humankind. It is important to talk about Jesus and the history arising from him, but it is more important to deeply experience his heart. Accordingly, in order for us to be able to represent God’s ideology and survive in the last days, we must unite our shimjung with Jesus’.</p>
|
||
<p>Jesus loved his disciples more than he loved himself. If there is a grief of Heaven, what could that be? To leave behind God’s ideology of creation in the physical world, Jesus loved his disciples more than his own body. Yet the disciples ignored the heart and circumstances of Jesus who was loving them. They thought of other things when following Jesus. They failed to receive and cope with Jesus’s love while he was alive. Thus, the fruit of his love was not produced. This is Heaven’s grief. The disciples felt Jesus’ love for the first time only after he passed away, only then did they understand the intent of Jesus’ words.</p>
|
||
<p>What kind of people was Jesus hoping to find? He hoped to find people who despised and abandoned themselves. Jesus was looking for those people so he could love them more than any other. Therefore, the person who can meet Jesus in the last days is a person who gropes for Heaven with a heart of love, even at the cost of despising and abandoning himself more than anyone else. The people of the world long for Jesus to come back. Yet we must not just hope for Jesus to come back but must seek him. To do this, we ourselves have to go over the hill of sadness that God experienced within human history. We must go over the hill of hardships that Jesus went over, carrying the cross. In this way, we must shorten the period of providential history and transcend time and space to deeply experience the painful heart Jesus experienced 2,000 years ago.</p>
|
||
<p>Who went to Jesus’ grave? It was Mary Magdalene, a person considered insignificant. It was Mary who loved Jesus most: Jesus, who was chased away from one town, cursed at in another, and ridiculed wherever he went. Jesus appeared in his resurrected body to Mary, who was so sincere. This is a symbol that shows the course that Christians of the world in the last days must follow.</p>
|
||
<p>What kind of life did Mary Magdalene lead? Because she loved Jesus, she forgot clothes and food, and lived only for Jesus. Her path of life transcended life and death and forgot any reputation. This is the course that the saints in the last days have to go. If there is a person on this earth today who has the same heart as Mary Magdalene, his eyes will be filled with tears, moved by the 6,000 years of God’s dispensational history. He will realize that he is infinitely indebted to God.</p>
|
||
<p>Moreover, he will know he cannot pay back the love he has received, even if he commits his body to the flames. He will know he has to walk the road of death. Have you ever had this kind of heart at any moment? That kind of person will know the heart of God, who has sought us from the time of the creation, throughout the past, the present and the future, abandoning everything. That person will not be able to raise his head in front of God because he knows that he is infinitely indebted to Him. The kind of person who feels this shimjung and gives up everything he has to follow God can survive the last days.</p>
|
||
<p>Therefore, a person who wants to believe in Jesus but be comfortable at the same time can be a messenger for Jesus, but can never be his friend. Moreover, even if a person believes in Jesus, if he does not know his shimjung, he can be Jesus’ friend but never his bride. Both God and Jesus want a bride, not a messenger or friend.</p>
|
||
<h3 align="center">The Person Who Can Survive the Last Days</h3>
|
||
<p>Jesus cried out to God after fulfilling the qualification to become the substantial being who has gone through the ideology of creation by loving God and humankind more than any other person in history. There was an instant when God forgot the dignity and position of being the Creator and clung to Jesus. No one knows this. Furthermore, God confronted Jesus with a shimjung of wanting to raise him to a position even higher than Himself, the Creator. Nobody knows this either.</p>
|
||
<p>Jesus was rejected and driven out by the chosen people, but because he knew the shimjung of God, who had persevered for 4,000 years, he had to endure. In addition, Jesus knew that God had sacrificed everything in the 4,000 years of history to find one son. Therefore, Jesus realized that to find a bride, he also had to endure his hardships, no matter what kind of sacrifice and rejection came upon him. Therefore, he did not curse the people who confronted him as if he were their enemy.</p>
|
||
<p>Mary Magdalene knew at least a little bit of Jesus’ shimjung. However, when she tried to touch the resurrected Jesus, he told her not to. This meant that as long as the person who has the qualification of being a bride does not appear, attending Jesus on earth completely, the shimjungs of Jesus, the Holy Spirit and God’s sorrow cannot be dissolved.</p>
|
||
<p>Therefore, in the last days you must find one being who appears in substance representing God. You must love him more than any other person, and you must be able to be his substitute. Furthermore, there must appear a church where those kinds of people are gathered and a nation. This church, this nation and humankind should be fulfilled centering on the heart of God. Yet as long as the people of today do not feel the heart of God, they will not survive the last days.</p>
|
||
<p>At this time you should realize that you are a historical sinner. You should know about and pray about yourself before slandering and criticizing others. You should think of and pray for the nation and humankind. Subsequently, when you confront humankind, which has to fulfill the world of God’s ideology of creation, humankind will infinitely welcome you. When you confront all things, they will know that you have sacrificed and have been rejected and will comfort and welcome you. Moreover, when these people appear in front of God, He will wipe away their tears and comfort them. Only these people will survive the last days. God, Jesus and all things long for these people.</p>
|
||
</div><!-- .entry-content -->
|
||
|
||
<footer class="entry-meta">
|
||
</footer><!-- #entry-meta -->
|
||
|
||
</article><!-- #post-954 -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<article id="post-951" class="post-951 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958">
|
||
<header class="entry-header">
|
||
<h2 class="entry-title">
|
||
<a href="/blog/2018/06/07/the-forsaken-jesus/" title="Permalink to The Forsaken Jesus" rel="bookmark">The Forsaken Jesus</a>
|
||
</h2>
|
||
<div class="entry-meta">
|
||
<span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="/blog/author/fami1yfed/" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-07T08:30:21+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/07/the-forsaken-jesus/" rel="bookmark">June 7, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-07T08:31:13+01:00">June 7, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/blog/category/speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958/" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1958</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
</header><!-- .entry-header -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
<div class="entry-content">
|
||
<h2 align="center">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
|
||
<h3 style="text-align: center;" align="center">Former Headquarters Church<br />
|
||
Seoul, Korea<br />
|
||
June 22, 1958</h3>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>I Peter 2:1-10</em></p>
|
||
<p class="chapter-1" style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-30401" class="text 1Pet-2-1">Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.</span> <span id="en-NIV-30402" class="text 1Pet-2-2"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,</span> <span id="en-NIV-30403" class="text 1Pet-2-3"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.</span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="text 1Pet-2-4"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by Godand precious to him—</span> <span id="en-NIV-30405" class="text 1Pet-2-5"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house<sup class="footnote" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;" data-fn="#fen-NIV-30405a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NIV-30405a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]">[<a title="See footnote a" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=I+Peter+2:1-10#fen-NIV-30405a">a</a>]</sup> to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.</span> <span id="en-NIV-30406" class="text 1Pet-2-6"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>For in Scripture it says:</span></em></p>
|
||
<div class="poetry top-05" style="text-align: center;">
|
||
<p class="line"><em><span class="text 1Pet-2-6">“See, I lay a stone in Zion,</span></em><br />
|
||
<em><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text 1Pet-2-6">a chosen and precious cornerstone,</span></span></em><br />
|
||
<em><span class="text 1Pet-2-6">and the one who trusts in him</span></em><br />
|
||
<em><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text 1Pet-2-6">will never be put to shame.”<sup class="footnote" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;" data-fn="#fen-NIV-30406b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NIV-30406b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]">[<a title="See footnote b" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=I+Peter+2:1-10#fen-NIV-30406b">b</a>]</sup></span></span></em></p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p class="first-line-none top-05" style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-30407" class="text 1Pet-2-7"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,</span></em></p>
|
||
<div class="poetry top-05" style="text-align: center;">
|
||
<p class="line"><em><span class="text 1Pet-2-7">“The stone the builders rejected</span></em><br />
|
||
<em><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text 1Pet-2-7">has become the cornerstone,”<sup class="footnote" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;" data-fn="#fen-NIV-30407c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NIV-30407c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]">[<a title="See footnote c" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=I+Peter+2:1-10#fen-NIV-30407c">c</a>]</sup></span></span></em></p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p class="first-line-none top-05" style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-30408" class="text 1Pet-2-8"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>and,</span></em></p>
|
||
<div class="poetry top-05" style="text-align: center;">
|
||
<p class="line"><em><span class="text 1Pet-2-8">“A stone that causes people to stumble</span></em><br />
|
||
<em><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text 1Pet-2-8">and a rock that makes them fall.”<sup class="footnote" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;" data-fn="#fen-NIV-30408d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NIV-30408d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]">[<a title="See footnote d" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=I+Peter+2:1-10#fen-NIV-30408d">d</a>]</sup></span></span></em></p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<p class="first-line-none top-05" style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="text 1Pet-2-8">They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.</span></em></p>
|
||
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span id="en-NIV-30409" class="text 1Pet-2-9"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.</span> <span id="en-NIV-30410" class="text 1Pet-2-10"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.</span></em></p>
|
||
<p>These Bible verses metaphorically describe Jesus as a stone. They also describe how the stone which the builders rejected became a cornerstone. We can see that this situation was not recognized by Jesus family, his religious order, the Israelites nor even his own beloved three disciples.</p>
|
||
<p>God drew out the chosen people from among their enemies. He raised them for salvation. Through this people, He tried to accomplish His great will. However, although the Israelites saw this will of God from the viewpoint of an ideology or history, they still could not live up to that will.</p>
|
||
<p>To seek one person of hope, God came through a toilsome course. God toiled so that each individual might experience His will. In other words, through 4,000 years of toil, God had reached as far as the realm of life. However, though the people had longed for the Messiah to come in their minds, when the Messiah actually came, no one welcomed him. There was no one who understood.</p>
|
||
<p>Throughout her life, Anna had eagerly waited for the Messiah to come. She did not leave the holy temple, and she fasted. However, when the Messiah actually appeared, because she could not attend him even after bearing witness to him, she too finished distanced from the will of Heaven. This was Heaven’s sorrow.</p>
|
||
<p>Jesus came as the fruit of God’s providential dispensation of 4,000 years. If Jesus’ parents or relatives at that time had known Jesus was the Messiah who was to save their own nation, they would not have allowed Jesus to be born in a stable. Had the chosen people known him to be the Messiah, they would not have let him be harassed from this village to that, during his thirty years of private life as the son of a carpenter and in the course of his three years of public life. When He saw this, God felt sad and so did Jesus himself.</p>
|
||
<p>Since Jesus was driven out as a traitor, God’s will and the hope that the chosen people had cherished could not connect. God could not form relations with them. Consequently, since the gap between Heaven and the people could not be made up, Jesus could not help worrying again about the eternal connection of the past history of the nation to the present and the future. Because no one knew Jesus, that is, because no one could attend him as the Savior of the nation and the Messiah, among all things of the world of creation and all humankind, no one could form a direct relationship in any way with God.</p>
|
||
<p>As Jesus whittled at a piece of wood in his carpentry work, he imagined he was shaving off the sins and blots of the people. His words and deeds and meditations during his life were done as preparation to establish the heavenly ideology centered on goodness. Yet no one understood the situation and heart of Jesus then. For that reason, even if Jesus had wanted to talk, he came to be in a situation where he could not talk openly to anyone. Even his family could not understand his will, and therefore they rejected him. Finally, he left home. At this time, Jesus sought and entered a religious order, but then again, he came to receive rejection from the religion which could not understand God’s heart and will. In the end, Jesus came to be driven out as a traitor of that nation, but because he knew that there remained for him the path of Golgotha that is even bigger than the nation, he resolutely determined never to separate from Heaven.</p>
|
||
<p>Only those people who form relations with God and the universe will be granted cosmic value and worldwide value. Because Jesus felt that he was connected with his family, the religion, the people, the earthly world, and even the spirit persons in the heavenly world and hell, he was undaunted in spite of the rejection of his family and church. Although the chosen people expected that everything would end due to Jesus being crucified as a traitor, because there was a flame in the remaining set of people, including the twelve disciples, Jesus could work through them. Consequently, Christianity could expand worldwide as it has today.</p>
|
||
<p>In the last days, we must above all become the people who comprehend God’s mind. Humans have the three elements of intellect, emotion and will. He is left with the mission to attain emotional heavenly compassion based on intellect and will. Because the love of God flows, and there is a heavenly providence concerning us, an ardent passion and loyalty and piety toward Heaven must flow more strongly from the heart of the Korean people than any other race.</p>
|
||
<p>We do not need any leader to know God’s heart and truths. At the time of his crucifixion, Jesus cried out, “Why have You forsaken me?” Due to this one word, you must realize that a new point of transition in history began to develop.</p>
|
||
<p>After Jesus’ death, the whole universe was mobilized by several women who could share his blood and flesh as their momentum. For that reason, we can see that although the Korean people do not have anything, we can and should own the core of God’s deep heart. Even if the Korean people are deprived of everything, we must become the people who do not lose the heart of God. By doing, so, if this nation becomes the altar of spraying blood for the sake of Heaven and earth, and if we can cry for the sorrow of all humankind and all things in Heaven and on earth, there is a way to live here.</p>
|
||
<p>God is a Being who sheds tears even as He lifts the whip in a rage and strikes. He who delights in seeing this will fall victim to the condition of judgment. Therefore, you must now find Jesus again whom you abandoned in the past and become his friend. Only then will you be able to stand as the bride before Jesus who comes again.</p>
|
||
</div><!-- .entry-content -->
|
||
|
||
<footer class="entry-meta">
|
||
</footer><!-- #entry-meta -->
|
||
|
||
</article><!-- #post-951 -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
</div> <!--content-masonry-->
|
||
|
||
<div class='pagination_container'><nav class='pagination'><span class='current'>1</span><a href='/blog/category/speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958/page/2/' class='inactive' >2</a><a href='/blog/category/speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958/page/3/' class='inactive' >3</a><a href='/blog/category/speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1958/page/4/' class='inactive' >4</a></nav></div>
|
||
|
||
|
||
</div><!-- #content -->
|
||
<div id="secondary" class="widget-area sidey" role="complementary">
|
||
|
||
<ul class="xoxo">
|
||
<li id="nav_menu-2" class="widget-container widget_nav_menu"><div class="menu-menu-3-side-bar-menu-container"><ul id="menu-menu-3-side-bar-menu" class="menu"><li id="menu-item-84" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-84"><a href="/the-founders/">The Founders</a></li>
|
||
<li id="menu-item-87" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-87"><a href="/services/">Sunday Services</a></li>
|
||
<li id="menu-item-85" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-85"><a href="/contact/">Contact</a></li>
|
||
<li id="menu-item-2566" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2566"><a href="/speeches/">Speeches</a></li>
|
||
</ul></div></li> </ul>
|
||
|
||
|
||
</div>
|
||
</section><!-- #primary -->
|
||
|
||
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
|
||
</div> <!-- #forbottom -->
|
||
</div><!-- #main -->
|
||
|
||
|
||
<footer id="footer" role="contentinfo">
|
||
<div id="colophon">
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
</div><!-- #colophon -->
|
||
|
||
<div id="footer2">
|
||
<div id="footer2-inner">
|
||
<div id="site-copyright"><b>Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) Ireland</b>
|
||
<br>Charity no. CHY 6071 All Rights Reserved 2013</b> <br>
|
||
<a href="/speeches/" target="_blank">Speeches</a></div> <div style="text-align:center;padding:5px 0 2px;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:12px;margin:1em auto 0;">
|
||
Powered by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cryoutcreations.eu" title="Parabola Theme by Cryout Creations">Parabola</a> & <a target="_blank" href="http://wordpress.org/"
|
||
title="Semantic Personal Publishing Platform"> WordPress. </a>
|
||
</div><!-- #site-info -->
|
||
</div>
|
||
</div><!-- #footer2 -->
|
||
|
||
</footer><!-- #footer -->
|
||
|
||
</div><!-- #wrapper -->
|
||
|
||
<script>
|
||
( function ( body ) {
|
||
'use strict';
|
||
body.className = body.className.replace( /\btribe-no-js\b/, 'tribe-js' );
|
||
} )( document.body );
|
||
</script>
|
||
<script> /* <![CDATA[ */var tribe_l10n_datatables = {"aria":{"sort_ascending":": activate to sort column ascending","sort_descending":": activate to sort column descending"},"length_menu":"Show _MENU_ entries","empty_table":"No data available in table","info":"Showing _START_ to _END_ of _TOTAL_ entries","info_empty":"Showing 0 to 0 of 0 entries","info_filtered":"(filtered from _MAX_ total entries)","zero_records":"No matching records found","search":"Search:","all_selected_text":"All items on this page were selected. ","select_all_link":"Select all pages","clear_selection":"Clear Selection.","pagination":{"all":"All","next":"Next","previous":"Previous"},"select":{"rows":{"0":"","_":": Selected %d rows","1":": Selected 1 row"}},"datepicker":{"dayNames":["Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday"],"dayNamesShort":["Sun","Mon","Tue","Wed","Thu","Fri","Sat"],"dayNamesMin":["S","M","T","W","T","F","S"],"monthNames":["January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"],"monthNamesShort":["January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"],"monthNamesMin":["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"],"nextText":"Next","prevText":"Prev","currentText":"Today","closeText":"Done","today":"Today","clear":"Clear"}};/* ]]> */ </script><script type="text/javascript">var cryout_global_content_width = 800;</script>
|
||
<!-- Shortcodes Ultimate custom CSS - start -->
|
||
<style type="text/css">
|
||
.su-column-size-1-4{
|
||
width:18%;
|
||
}
|
||
</style>
|
||
<!-- Shortcodes Ultimate custom CSS - end -->
|
||
|
||
</body>
|
||
</html>
|