The Reality of Fallen Life
If there is someone who can claim to have succeeded in life and who is proud before the providence, we can surely see that he is not someone who lives in the present world of chaos.
No such person has appeared in history, and certainly no such one has ruled history. We yearn to find such a self in our hearts, and we pursue it repeatedly through ideologies and the vicissitudes of life.
We know that history has been flowing, searching for an individual who can say, “Father, look at me. Father, hold on to me. Look at me and forget all the historical sorrow.”
Owing to the human fall, “I” have not achieved the hoped-for self, struggling on a mysterious path in lamentation and frustration. Moreover, we are grieved, wondering by what means we can hasten such a self into being and thereby transform the society, country, and world in which we live.
We should never forget that humans are fighting today and will fight tomorrow, this year, and in the coming years, for the sake of the moment when the self that betrayed the hope can determine and find the long-sought-after self, proudly showing it to all things and proclaiming ownership. Considering such a destiny, we must know how big a responsibility we carry.
When Adam and Eve were growing up in God's bosom, they had confidence in everything. After violating the heavenly law, however, their confidence vanished. We should look at the tragic and intricate details here.
God, who could not give up on humankind, presented a movement to restore them because He took responsibility for having created them. This was a religious movement.
The Correct Attitude of Life in the Time of the Second Coming
Although human beings fell, the law created by God as the ideal of creation and freedom, with which we can boast of the original self, has remained unchanged deep in God's heart from before the creation.
No one, however, has explained God's heart. No one has proclaimed God's ideal.
If Heaven exists for the sake of humankind and people are created for the sake of Heaven, the world of the ideal, where God and original humanity can live, which has been hidden in the heart of God, must necessarily appear.
We know from history that rather than walking a normal path, God has been going through a course of twists and turns for the sake of fallen people. The Bible tells us that God has been following a complicated course since the time of Cain and Abel.
The flow of history will run toward the one ideal world in the end, and God will surely drive people toward it. The human conscience is certainly prompting us to run to that world quickly today and again tomorrow. No one can deny this.
We should recognize that the moment God and our ideal meet is the moment of humanity's hope and the purpose of God's providence.
Heaven foretold the last days to religious people, especially Christians. He told them that this was the day of the Second Coming and that the hero of this day would be the Lord of the Second Coming. Thus, we cannot deny that this day is the point of the final settlement of God and humanity's hope.
In what kind of shape should we be?
The problem comes down to this: how should we be? Hitherto, there has been no logic, no religion to truly teach us this, no one to bring our hearts into order. Such is the human situation. Our hearts are changing every moment. Social life, ideologies, and philosophies change according to the time and place.
Considering that faith is a process of finding the absolute and eternal self that can stand as a representative of the entire ideal, everyone needs to worry about what kind of heart to have, what road to take, and what to organize and establish in this extremely complicated world.
The problem is where your eyes are directed in the present moment, when we cannot tell where the awaited sun will rise. We should align our minds and bodies carefully, with all our efforts, in the direction of the sunrise
We must proceed, examining it carefully, because the destiny of humankind should be concluded on such a path. We are living a life of faith within the confines of such a relationship. That is why the title of my speech is “The Path of Faith, Which Should Be Examined Carefully.”
The Self Which Should Be Denied
Do you have a self? Can you claim that with confidence?
If you have a self, what has the self gone through? Can it go through the individual and the environment? Can it go through society, country, and world?
Furthermore, can the self go through the way of Heaven if there is such a way? Unless you can respond with confidence, you should deny yourselves.
Since this is about humankind, you should wander in the direction of heavenly Popoipoint, which manifests itself. The heart to do this should be more intense in you than anything else you claim or have confidence in or in which you take pride.
The more one boasts of oneself and moves in a self-centered direction without realizing this, the more he will appear to be a traitor to history in the last days
We are unworthy. We are driven around and swept up by our situations. Can we then confidently ask the heavenly way to support us? No. We cannot have such confidence.
Our ancestors also tried to find Heaven with steps that lacked confidence. We know that for this reason, whenever they followed God's orders, they were careful in each step, in everyday life, and in every night's sleep.
If one cannot live like this, it is possible that in the final moment, he will steer away from the heavenly will, although he has served it, and will turn the will over to the satanic world.
The world, family, nation, state, and world have confidence hanging in the heavenly way. Since we are in such a situation, we should be careful in our daily lives, in our yearly lives, and throughout our whole lives. We should walk, realizing that the movement toward goodness consists of taking such careful steps.
Take such careful steps, such careful steps, individually in the clan, the tribe, the nation, the state, and the world. The numerous clans in the past had their ideals and opinions.
When the age changed from that of the clan to that of the nation, however, all the philosophies of the clan age were subsumed by those of the national age; the philosophies of the national age were subsumed by those of the age of the state; the state was the age of the world.
Those of the world will be subjugated by those of the heavenly way.
We should know that history has been moving toward a single point of unity in this way.
As we cannot deny this fact, the problem is in what position I am living, moving, and standing today. If the place where you stand now is the point of the final settlement, the problem is simple.
If a task of history remains that calls for another transformation, however, you will only stay in the middle without arriving at the final destination of the historical, providential ideal of faith.
The ideal of faith establishes the World of God's Ideal
Since Heaven has an inseparable tie with human beings, He has not abandoned them and has been moving history for their sake. He gave a new ideology in each new age. When the clan age turned into the tribal age, he provided the ideology that enabled this passage.
An ideology far beyond the tribal level would be impossible for a clan to follow; therefore, He gave an ideology just one step in advance, within the limits of their consciences.
Whether we study the history of faith or the history of humankind, we cannot deny that God gave the tribal ideology in the clan age, the national ideology in the tribal age, and the worldwide ideology in the national age.
What age remains in the course of history? The clan that can hold on to the heavenly way and go through the transition from the clan age to the tribal age will remain.
The tribe of people who can go forth for the ideology of the state when the heavenly way indicates for them to do so, and for the worldwide ideology beyond that, will remain.
Such people will remain in the end, building and ruling the world. Only when we complete these clans, tribes, nations, states, and worlds can we stand as historical victors.
There should be a tribe that seeks such an ideology and serves such a providential will. There should be a nation struggling to serve the providential will.
That is why Christianity and Judaism came into being. Herein lies the reason Jesus insisted upon a unified family, state, and ideology.
Who is Jesus?
He came as a hero of the original nature, the substantial being who embodied the heavenly ideology for the first time. He perfected the ideology through which to live with God eternally.
He is a leader for humankind as a whole, a father for each one of us, and a bridegroom from the standpoint of regaining the original world of the ideal of creation. This is what Jesus left behind.
What kind of ideology will be upheld when the world, garden, and country of one ideology are realized?
It will be an unchanged ideology, even by historical transformation and revolution. It will be an ideology of love, parental love, for instance. Shimjeoung, through which parents relate to children, never changes.
Revolution cannot exist in a world where people are closely bonded, centering on the unchanging love of God, where loving feelings come first, wherever one goes. It is the world where God's shimjeong is revealed through everyone's lives. It is the world where everyone experiences the shimjeong through which God considers all people to be His children.
Thus, it is a world where everyone must inevitably consider one another to be brothers and sisters. Such a world is the final destiny to which human beings should find and go. When Jesus came, he called God "Father" and himself a "bridegroom." Having uplifted us, he called us brothers and sisters. This is a word of grace for which to be truly thankful.
Jesus did not come to this earth simply as an individual. He was the person whom God had promised to send through the numerous saints during the prior four thousand years. Jesus came based on the heavenly way and the will of providential history to bring human history into order.
This is why the world has been moving, centering on him, and why his name remains to this day.
The Hero of History Who Must Appear in This Age
What kind of age is the present one?
It is the age when good and evil intersect, merging into the good. What will happen as we find ourselves in this age? What kind of world will come into being when good and evil cross each other and merge into one?
What kind of world will come after this world passes?
These are curious problems. Conscientious young men and women today should pause and understand the existence of Heaven, the hopes of all things of the earth, and that they, and not the world, are the locus of hope.
God has been working to solve these problems for us. If Adam and Eve had not committed sin in the sight of God and had not gone the sorrowful course of the fall, Adam would have been serving God's will even now, after six thousand years.
Have you ever thought about this?
If Adam had received God's blessing, served God's will, taken responsibility for God's providence, and lived with God, we would have avoided the tragedies of the murder of countless saints, ancestors, and people of goodness.
For what do we hope and long? What are we trying to find?
It is the character that has not fallen that can remain eternally in history, the one that can make order in history and establish the ideal of goodness. If such a character appears in the last days, we will not lament. We will not despair.
What should we lament and despair?
We should lament over the fact that no hero of history can stand in front of the will. Since the purpose of history is to find this historical hero, we are walking this path again at this time, unable to stop, even if we fall here and there.
There is something for which the whole of humankind today must plead. It is expressed in the question, “Where is the hero of history, the age, and the future?”
We should be eagerly awaiting this hero. History has already passed.
When will the hero come?
If there were no heavenly way, the hero would not come to humankind. Since there is, however, he will certainly appear one day. You should learn in what form he will come.
Although the hero came in the past, he was not recognized. Today, since you know that there is heavenly providence to bring the heavenly will to completion, you should think about who this hero of the age might be.
If you do not have the confidence to become the hero, you should at least be able to bow your head and decide to act to find him.
The hero we demand is not simply a hero for this age but also for the future. For this reason, in today's Christian thought, we should be thankful for the idea of the Second Coming.
Humankind needs Jesus because he will come as the hero of the future, after having come as the historical leader representing the four thousand years and the age. Humankind needs the returning Jesus because he can take the responsibility of being the hero. He is needed by humankind. No one can deny this.
What should you do, having arrived in the last days?
You should become heroes of this age and of the future. You must prepare for this.
You should not forget that this is the final and central question facing people who are going toward Heaven.
If you cannot clarify this and assert this ideology, you will be swept up by a certain flow. You should know that unless you have the confidence to prevent this sweeping up and wait for something new, you will become the tribe of a fallen nation that must retreat before the final judgment.
Unchanging in a World of Change
This world must change. It should change on a great scale. Can you go without changing in such a world?
You should become people who do not change in a changing world. What, then, do you have to do? The solution to this must be provided by religion and truth.
History has been, is, and will be progressing toward one purpose. The human mind, however, is changing. Your mind changes many times even in one day. The ideology you uphold also changes several times in your lifetime.
We should feel in our daily lives that we are people of viciousness, descendants of the fall, the betrayal of Heaven.
The time has come to shout aloud, baring our chests and lamenting the sorrow of the cosmos, wondering whether there is a religion or leader who can stop it.
History has been changing in every age and century. In God's history of providence of six thousand years, there was the age of sacrifice, the age of the law, and the age of faith.
There have been the Old Testament and New Testament Ages, and the Completed Testament Age will come. Now the world of the new ideology should come.
However, without changing the present world, this world of ideology will not come.
We should know, however, that today we are the fruits of historical sorrow, who sleep comfortably even when we change thousands of times a day. No matter how proudly one boasts of his beliefs and justifies himself, it is pride and excuses that will change.
As people, history, and the earth change, what heartistic attitude will bring them to order? The only way is to be careful. The only way is to look around carefully.
Wherever you go, you should hold your breath and be careful. To go over the age of change, you should have the heart to yearn for the new world, to avoid changing things, and to proceed carefully.
The prophets of the past bravely came forward when Heaven called them. However, they all lost when they confronted Satan.
Was that not the case?
Although they started with the joy of the heavenly call, when they had to march against Satan to realize the purpose of the call, they all collapsed. We should understand this history of failure.
What Should We See Carefully?
What should we see carefully?
We should be able to see carefully that Heaven is trying to find humankind, even though we deserve to die thousands of times in the realm of death.
We should never forget that when Heaven comes to us in the realm of death, He comes with something more precious than anything in the world. When He saves us from the realm of death, He does so with anguish and a worried heart. Do you understand this? When Heaven claims us away from the realm of death, He is willing to sacrifice everything.
Thus, we should understand the toil, the loving heart, and the path of battle through which He came to find us.
Originally, the Father and I were one. Thus, since His heart is my heart and His purpose is my purpose, we should go where He tells us to go. We should go, deeply seized by the heart of taking responsibility.
Despite the countless paths of suffering, regardless of what walls of the cross lie before us, we should go forward with confidence. With the determination and conviction to rise above all the historical details with conviction and the Father's heart, we will necessarily win.
Only when you have such a soaring shimjeong will you be able to reject the world?
You must keep the heart that can hold on to the Father's heart of desire to bring the providential will and the historical battle to a conclusion. If it disappears from you, you people of faith, you will change along with history.
The Book of Revelation tells us not to lose our first love. Our first love cannot be exchanged even for life. You should cherish what Heaven gave you as the most precious thing in your life.
You should feel its value at a higher level than the present conceptual one. The one who feels that this grace cannot be changed for anything in the world, even if he has to die tens of millions of times, can possess the great works of God because he stays within God's shimjeong and love.
For what should we be carefully looking?
When has Heaven given us precious gifts? Looking back upon history, our ancestors were historical gifts. Jesus, who came two thousand years ago, was a gift of love for humankind.
The moment we wail loudly with gratitude for such a history, our hearts will connect with Heaven. Heaven's work of re-creation will be based upon this shimjeong.
Only the one who is consumed with such a shimjeong and who has the confidence that nothing can suppress his passion can appear as the greatest winner in the real course of history. Jesus was such a person.
God has come to us and sacrificed for us countless times. Have you ever thought about the grace that we can never repay? We should admit to being historical traitors. Lamenting over being sinners, we should at least repent.
You, members of the Unification Church, are here to follow the path that others refuse. I would like to ask you why you have come here. We should be grateful, representing our ancestors, even when Satan takes away all that we have.
We must have an unchanging heart that says, “I can never forget the heavenly grace that protects me and worries about my work,” even when everything is sacrificed and we go to death. Only then can we remain until the day when the idea of unification is accomplished.
If such a shimjeong does not sprout in your hearts, and if feelings toward the world of such an ideology do not move in your hearts, what will become of you?
Wandering and wandering, in the final moment, you will fall into the pit of death, unable to make excuses for yourself.
If there is someone who does not know this, he should re-examine things. The attitude of a good person of faith is to examine things carefully about others. You should have such a heart of careful examination. Without it, one is irresponsible.
History seeks a person in charge who is responsible for history, the age, and the future. The saints in the past and our ancestors spoke out for historical responsibility in their times. This is why their words move our hearts even today, in the final age of history. Their acts invigorate our hearts, and their lives give direction to our own. This cannot be denied.
The Person's History Demands
You should look and be careful in your speaking, hearing, seeing, and feeling now.
How hard have you tried to fulfill the historical responsibility?
Have you ever surrendered everything and come forward, disregarding difficulties, anger, being chased away, hunger, and death? How careful a heart have you had?
How often have you been overwhelmed by the shimjeong that burns with a sense of responsibility and desire to regain it?
How often have you examined whether the heavenly hand was guiding you within your circumstances, reaching out to you, thereby coming to deny your previous position and embarking upon a new reflection? If you have not had such an experience, you should feel that you cannot show your face.
In the Garden of Eden, the archangel was created first. The archangel had been ruling over the environment. When Adam and Eve appeared, he became an attacker. This was the beginning of history.
Human beings, who insisted on habit and tradition in history, always opposed God's way. They never cooperated. As the ancestors were, so are the descendants.
Those who were being driven away have been leading history, fighting all the while.
It was thus with Noah as he served Heaven. To those who insisted on the social tradition, he appeared to be a madman. He looked demented, ridiculous, and stupid. It was the same with Abraham. He tried to kill Isaac, whom God had blessed him with at the age of one hundred years.
It was the same with Moses. Who instigated the people to accuse, betray, and drive out the people of the mission? They were the ones who clung to the historical traditions. If there is a Heaven, they should receive its judgment.
The ideology of restoration is to sever attachment to the historical details, to take off the old clothes of the past, to meet the new morning in the new garden, and to appear in white clothes with new hope.
Since fallen people have come through such a historical course, they have struck out against new theories. Any new opinions or doctrines were attacked.
Being struck on the family level is for the mission of the family; being struck on the national level is for the mission of the nation; being struck at the level of the state is for the mission of the state. Being struck by the state and the people of the age is for the ideological mission of that age, state, and people.
With the progress of history, democracy and communism are now confronting each other. In the future, a severe battle will occur. Unless this becomes the final point of all history and all problems are solved through this, something new should appear.
What will happen to this new thing?
If it comes through religion, it will be smitten by religious people; if it comes with responsibility, it will be rejected by social circumstances.
If it comes with a certain ideology, it will be rejected by the ideologies of the world. Later on, it will be expelled by democracy and communism.
Since the present world has fallen, only when something appears that does not bend even under rejection and persecution can this world turn into a new one. We know that something will necessarily appear.
We are speaking to introduce such an ideology. We are here to accomplish this purpose and go forward today and again tomorrow, disregarding persecution.
What kind of determination must you make?
We must not decide for history or age, nor a momentary determination. We must decide for the universe. Heaven, which rules over the universe, will gather those with such determination.
If people gather with a burning ambition, burning with the heavenly ideology, and if they persist without being brought down by age, they will be able to move the history of a later age.
A New Religion Must Appear
Hitherto, religions have been making proposals.
Jesus said, “Let us save the multitude of humankind.”
Religions have been making proposals to lead humankind to the realm of goodness and to introduce a new world of purpose.
If a new religious ideology appears now, it must save the many great saints who left the earth and even the spirits who betrayed the will and went to hell, as well as the people on earth.
A new religion with a new ideology must save all the spirits in Heaven, the sinners in hell, and Satan, who betrayed Heaven, not to mention the myriad people on earth.
Such a religion must appear. Such a religious ideology must appear, unifying all religions, kindling fires in the hearts of religious people, and inspiring peace and joy in those who do not feel peace and joy.
It must help people decide and pledge to march toward the new world of the ideal. This new movement should appear on Earth.
Have you thought about this? Have you tried to find it?
Have you at least imagined it? The purpose of this ideology is to unify everything.
It is to unify the Earth, to unify the spiritual world if it exists, and to liberate hell, which is consumed with resentment.
If it cannot be done directly, a religion should appear with the ideology. Only when a religion with such an ideology appears can the world for which we yearn, the world of goodness, make a relationship with the world of evil.
What are you looking for? You know that the present is the last day. The ideology bearing on the problem of life touches you through one extremely tiny word, one touch of the hand, one footstep, and one symbol. People have forgotten all this.
If you see the world from this standpoint, there is no enemy. When I collide with evil, it spurs me on my way, as does good. From this viewpoint, we should live in such a way that we search and examine things carefully.
Be Children of God Who Have Overcome Everything
Today and again tomorrow, we should have hope toward Heaven and receive a heartistic shock with which we can sever our attachment to sinful reality and the disorderly world and move forward.
You should know that whether this shock continues for one day, one year, or your whole lifetime determines whether you will arrive at the destination for which you long.
Without such a shock, you will be highly anxious. At this age, one can recognize how anxious and fearful one is without knowing quite why. If one has even a small conscience, they will feel driven into anxiety and insecurity.
Although many young people feel this, if something that can remove it sprouts forth, the fear and anxiety that have been occupying a person's ground of hope will retreat, and the world of things that square with a conscience will appear.
Thus, if the heart that carefully searches for this is quickening your walk and your body beyond anxiety and fear, it is not too late.
The final point of unity is an earnest shimjeong that explodes in my heart and is unaffected by materialistic or humanistic ideologies. It is the shimjeong that makes me move to the one place of ideology that remains in the end. In other words, shimjeong determines the final me.
The one who holds on to shimjeong alone and searches carefully can hear the word, see the vision, and analyze all situations in life. If there is a movement of shimjeong such that young men and women search for the new ideology, feeling their responsibilities suppress their anxiety and insecurity, and their voices of outcry are heard, you will be able to do it all at once.
Through their shimjeong, all these historical details, and what you have been feeling for a long time.
The master of history, providence, and the heavenly way is the one who feels this shimjeong, awakens himself, and cries out almost unknowingly, “This is the subject of ideology for which Heaven has been looking!
This is the true image for which the world has been looking! This is the image that can be presented proudly in the sight of Heaven and Earth!”
You cannot deny that you cannot stand alone. You cannot deny that we are following the path of life where we must fulfill our responsibility and bring results in the world of relationships.
What happens when we fulfill our responsibility and bring results?
You can boast that you are the winner, representing the original human being. Presently, the world will become yours, and so will the universe.
God, who has been working for the providence until today, will become your God, and you will become His children, the direct heirs of His work.
What is most important in finding all this is to examine things carefully. I would like you to bear in mind that these things can be accomplished and found through such efforts.
