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May 8, 1960 (Sunday), Former Headquarters Church.
Ephesians 3:1-21
Prayer
How greatly Father has longed for Your blessing to fill this three-thousand-li peninsula, these thirty million people! Yet the three-thousand-li peninsula is not within Father's bosom, the thirty million are in a position with no relation to Father, and although there are denominations, even those denominations stand in a position far from Father. Where in this three-thousand-li land is there a place for You to set foot, and how many true sons and daughters are there who can welcome You?
Seeing this, the earth laments, and the forlorn voice of indignation by which the good spirits of the spirit world cry out for the sake of these thirty million shakes heaven and earth. We know that, because the earth is not earth-like and human beings have not become human-like, the voice of lamentation and the voice of resentment have arisen.
This is the time when Heaven, who hears these voices of lamentation and resentment, must certainly lead this people, but please forgive us that this people is in a state in which Heaven cannot lead them.
Today, we who are insignificant, as a multitude that has been driven and chased, have prostrated ourselves here. We know that on the road of going forth toward one destination that others do not know, the marks of thorns will remain and there will be wounds.
Father, who knows that we must press on without minding this, please let us know that to walk this road, we cannot but make a thoroughgoing resolution, vow, and determination.
Knowing that the true heart-level relationship with Heaven cannot but be formed in this place, Father, please personally hold us with Your hand, and please embrace us with both Your arms in the bosom of Your love. How long have you looked forward to and wished for this? Now we can guess at that heart, and we can guess at that sorrow.
Repenting once again of our past life — in which, although we received the astonishing grace of being able to receive atonement through the altar of blood built up by countless prophets, we did not know how to give thanks — these unworthy figures who cannot call You “Father” ought to come before Father with our works, but we have come empty-handed; please forgive us.
Because you are not a Father who demands anything of the world, we offer before Father only an earnest mind and an earnest heart. We have come forth wishing to offer before Father the figure that, longing for Father's face and yearning to see it, sheds tears; we have come forth wishing to hold fast to Father's wounded hand and shed tears, and yearning for that hand.
Although the wounds of Your mind and body are deep, You take no thought of them; we have come forth to lay hold of Father's gaunt figure, sunken in worry, wandering to find the lost children. If Your sons and daughters, who, with such a heart, call You “Father” have gathered here, then we know that, just as Father called us and sought us at such a time, You will not forsake them when they too come to be in such a position.
Father! The road You commanded us to walk was not sorrowful, and once walked, it was a wonderful road of grace. We have come to know that even the road on which You drove us out, saying “Die,” was not a road prepared to kill us. When we come to know its inner twists and turns, what more could we hope for?
We have come to know that all of this is the providence of showing us the evidence of the labor by which Father has labored first for our sake. We give thanks even that You have permitted us to grasp through experience such feelings and to shed tears of overwhelming emotion.
Now, what have these come here to find?
What have they come here to see, and what bond have they come to form? We know that what we have to show is only tears and sorrowful circumstances, and what we have to bond with is only that which is sorrowful.
Yet we are a multitude that has come forth out of the fear that, if not for this bond and these circumstances, we, not knowing where to go, may vanish as Satan's offerings and lament; therefore, we earnestly desire and beseech that at this hour You uphold us.
If there are children whom You can hold fast and over whom You can shed tears, and sons and daughters whose names — “So-and-so” — You can call, then from this place the work of Heaven will lead the thirty million, and we know that this will become the origin of moving the hearts of the sleeping humanity of the world to face Heaven.
If, here, the breasts of young people blaze up and they take one another's hands and cry out, “So-and-so, let us go for the sake of the Will” — the way to live will be opened for the thirty million, and to the garden of death the army of life will come and fight together with us.
We have gathered yearning for such a multitude; we have come forth fighting to walk such a road; we have come forth in such a place to set up the altar of victory and present it before all the cosmos together with Father; therefore please do not let this heart of our first resolve change, and please make us Your sons and daughters who do not bend this single-hearted devotion, this resolve we have determined to offer.
Please make us Your sons and daughters who, so long as the heavenly law of kinship does not change, do not change but keep the resolved loyalty.
Father, here I stand. What shall I convey to the multitude that has gathered? They struggle with the hope of breaking through the resentful environment in the world of death and singing the song of victory, but we know all too well that this cannot be done by human strength alone; therefore, we earnestly desire and beseech that You take responsibility for this work.
Now, please do not let our body be our own, and please do not let our heart be swayed by any subjective view or conventional notion of the past. Like a child, like clay laid hold of by Your hand, we earnestly desire and beseech that we be molded according to Father's Will as You wish to mold us, and that we become young sons and daughters who, to appear in the form You desire, lay open all of our minds and bodies.
Now what shall we say? Many words have already been spoken. Father, please take responsibility for those words. Because there is the responsibility of having to speak, again I have come forth; we earnestly desire and beseech that You counsel before them what You wish to counsel.
Please make the heart of the one who delivers and the hearts of those who receive be one, and let us not be those who move by lending an ear to words, but those who move with the heart and movement of Heaven.
We know that there are many of Your sons and daughters in this heaven and earth at this hour who, binding their lonely hearts before Father, build hidden altars and plead; please bless them as well, that they too may feel and grasp through experience that the heaven-rooted grace and time of glory have drawn near. We commend all things to You; please govern. We have prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen.
Today, centering on the Scripture read aloud, I shall speak before you under the title “Let Us Become Those Who Live Together with God's Love.” In other words, “Let Us Become Those Who Live with God's Love.”
The History of Humanity Coming Forth Seeking God's Love
Countless people have died on the road to going forth seeking Heaven. We know that the history of Christianity until now is a history dyed with the blood of martyrs. Whenever a life fell, the only One whom they cried out to and sought was God, who possesses perfect love.
From the day human beings fell, the history of sorrow began. Therefore, the human beings passing through that history could not but fight against sorrow, could not but fight against suffering, and when fighting with all their strength was not enough, they could not but go on fighting while shedding their own blood.
Therefore, we know well that until now God's sons and daughters have resisted sorrow, resisted suffering, and because that did not bring it to an end, in the end they have come forth resisting even by shedding blood and offering up their lives.
Then, where lies the purpose of doing so? It is in possessing God's love. We must know that they fell to make the flower of God's love bloom upon the foundation where they had fallen.
We must not forget that Jesus' shedding blood at Golgotha and ending his life of more than thirty years was for the sake of leaving God's love behind, and that his shedding blood was for the sake of sowing God's love.
God's love thus sown should have spread and spread until the world, this entire earth, became a victorious foundation centered on love; that this has not come about is a thing to lament. I think we must know that, unless the earth becomes such, again sages must meet death and saints must shed tears and shed blood.
Originally, God did not create all things of heaven and earth as some plaything. He did not create them as a hobby. He did not just make them without any purpose, direction, or ideal substance.
You can know this well even by common sense. He created them with a great purpose and the great cosmic ideal in mind. Therefore, we cannot deny that, from the most minute creature to the awesomely vast cosmos, every existing thing carries within it an ideal communed through God's heart.
Then what would be the purpose for which He created such an ideal? It must undoubtedly be the ideal world centered on God's love — that is, the world that communes with love, rejoices with love, lives with love, and dies with love.
A Community of Common Destiny Toward One Purpose
When we wake from sleep and open our eyes, we see all the phenomena spread out before us. Through these phenomena that we see, we receive some indirect impression we cannot identify, and through the sensitivity that responds to it, we heighten our sensitivity in life.
Even the most minute creature around us is, certainly, bonded with us and related to us. Even though we ignore it, day by day, that creature, according to the ideal of the heavenly law of kinship, displays the value of its existence and forms a bond with human beings. We have lived without knowing this fact.
Why is this so?
Because, looking at it centering on the purpose of existence — from the most minute existing thing to the human being, who is called the lord of all creation, capable of governing all things — all are within the realm of the ideal of love through which the great cosmic ideal of God can be communed.
Therefore, what is small is absorbed into and moves with what takes charge of a large field in accomplishing the great cosmic purpose. Thus, the universe is set to move. The small is absorbed into the great, becoming its material, becoming one element, and centered on the great ideal, oriented toward one purpose.
We cannot deny the fact that history advances thus and that the world of existence moves for the sake of one purpose along the orbit of the principle called the heavenly law of kinship.
Not only is creation so. Then, not only relatively, but subjectively, centering on yourself, when you look at it, how is it with you yourself? You yourselves are the same.
We cannot deny that, in the course of your living, if there is even the most minute part of the body that you do not utilize one hundred percent, that too is moving within an inseparable common-ideal realm for the sake of the purpose of life.
Even a one-minute finger may be considered symbolically representing something of the great cosmos. We must know the fact that even one cell is moving, beneath the great cosmic ideal, bearing one piece of the mission.
Science is what has, by reckoning the world of existence by laws and formulating them, made up part of knowledge. Science is not everything. When we touch our skin, there is body temperature and, of course, the sense of touch, but you must know that there is also something else that is felt.
The cosmic ideal, while gathering our lives, says when we try to go in the opposite direction, “Go in the direction that accords with the cosmic purpose.” We must once again think that, undoubtedly, we are living while receiving such admonition.
Therefore, whether a great thing or a small thing, whatever the thing may be, all of them are within the realm of the great ideal of God, who created heaven and earth.
And He created them centered on love. The great cosmos thus created must become a world of peace in which God, looking upon it, can feel the highest joy.
That purpose must be fulfilled so that God can say, “I am happy.” You must know that, to bring such a purpose to its conclusion, within this realm of the great cosmos, there is God's ideal, and, at the same time, love resides in it.
We human beings now lament, grieve, suffer, and make a great commotion about life and death. Why is this? Because of the Fall. Because we do not know what value we possess or what position we are in, we do not know the direction we must go and the destination at which we must arrive.
The one who knows that, regardless of what suffering, sorrow, or difficulty befalls, the position of his self within the realm of the great cosmic ideal must not be shaken by such difficulty, will cross over the ridge of suffering. And one who feels, “I am not one who cannot endure such suffering; my life is not one to be exchanged for such a ridge of death” — that one is a successful person in the course of life.
The one who says, “However persecution and the ridge of death may approach, the direction in which I go cannot be changed; my value cannot be exchanged for anything on earth” — that one, even while on earth, is a person of Heaven. Even if he dies on earth, he is a person of Heaven.
A New Vision in Facing All Things
If the center of the world God created is God's love, then if there is one who, centered on God's love, possesses the value to be boasted of, who, in such a position, lives upholding love forever and ever, that one is the supreme victor in the course of life. There is nothing he cannot do on earth. He may do whatever he will.
Toward that place, human beings are moving. Until such a position is settled on this earth, centered on one Person, the world cannot be gathered. If there is one who has such an ideal, such a value, such a position, and such a direction, the authority of death cannot govern him, and however much any ideology or thought may swell, that ideology or thought cannot swallow him up.
To bring this about, Heaven set up religion and set up such things as the Way, conscience, and goodness and came forth seeking. Then, on the foundation of God's labor over 6,000 years, has Christianity built upon it stood in such a place today? It has not.
Have those who believe in Jesus stood in such a place?
They have not. Unless this work is brought to its conclusion, God's enterprise will not be accomplished; have you sought to take charge of even one part in accomplishing this enterprise of God?
Have you tried to bear responsibility for even a small field in bringing the entire providential Will to its conclusion? Ask yourselves.
Then how must fallen human beings find and enter into the world of God's love that is hidden within the realm of this great cosmic ideal? This is the issue. How must they find and enter it?
The method is simple. When a poet, looking at nature, has written one stanza of poetry, if the reader can, within that one stanza of poetry, depict the natural environment the poet was looking at and even sympathize with the feelings of the poet, that one is called a great poet.
Furthermore, if from one dot some painter has placed, one can fathom the painter's character, his heart, his world of feeling, and his ideal, then that work will be a splendid work.
Not the form that appears on the flat surface, but the inner image, hidden within that form and containing the complex cosmic view, is the origin of all value.
Therefore, we must not look upon all phenomena absentmindedly. Because the existing things in the world of God's great ideal of creation all move toward one love as their purpose, even the most insignificant existence has all of God's energy dwelling in it.
Although God created the created world in six days, in each one of the existing things — for example, in the things created on the first day or the second day — the great cosmic ideal of creation that would unfold after the six days is connected.
When we think of this, we can declare that there is not one thing among them that was made apart from God's heart as its root.
Today, we treasure relics left by famous people of old. We treasure the antiques they kept and lived with. But when a grain of sand falls before your eyes, you must know that even one grain of sand is bonded with God's heart.
It is the fruit of the heart, formed through the hand of the Creator, higher than any precious or splendid person. If there is one who, knowing it is such an existence of value, treasures even one grain of sand as he would the cosmos, he is, undoubtedly, a son of God.
All things are thus bonded. And bonds are formed from the most minute. You yourselves, as individuals, are also living beings bonded by some 40 billion cells.
The world of the ideal of creation is centered on God's love — that is, all the existing things of the great cosmos; there is not one of them that came to be apart from God's heart. The poet who feels this would be a great poet.
If there were a poet who, seeing one leaf shaking, could feel a cosmic-level heart and express it, he would be a cosmic-level poet.
Today, we have been too contemptuous and indifferent toward this. We did not know the fact that all phenomena, unfolding around us, even unbeknownst to us, exist together with God's love.
When one enters a spiritually attuned realm, one can see that even in one grain of sand, the principle of the cosmos is contained and even in one atom, the inexhaustible harmony of the cosmos is contained.
We cannot deny that everything that exists, although we cannot know it well, is the result that has appeared through some compound force. Past molecules, atoms; past atoms, subatomic particles…. These exist not unconsciously but with some consciousness and purpose. Therefore, you must know thoroughly that everything that exists has come forth through the hand of God's love and exists certainly in a heart-level relationship with God.
What sort of person is the seeker of the Way?
The supreme seeker of the Way would be one who, even holding one blade of grass, with a heart that can call out, "God!" recognizes its value as equal to his value.
The supreme artist would be one who can sing of that value. If there is one who has the feeling of looking upon all phenomena of heaven and earth that exist in every form, discovering the subtlety of God's manifold love and heart, and becoming friends with them and rejoicing with them, that one would be one who can represent all the cosmos. Such a person is the lord of all creation. Yet can a person who knows nothing but eating become the lord of all creation?
When God created the created world, joy was there. Having created it, He said, “It was good.” There was joy. What is joy? It is what one feels when some purpose has been fulfilled. Because the consciousness of God's purpose dwells within the created things, God felt joy looking upon the created things.
The Fallen Human Being Who Must Throw Down All Notions of Possession
Then what kind of world is the world of restoration?
In a word, it is a world in which there live people who, even while seeing each individual being among all phenomena, are fully prepared with the heart-level bonds by which they can praise God.
The value of personality that Heaven sees lies there. Therefore, the saying of old that a man like Saint Francis preached to animals and to birds is not a lie. It is like a dream story, but it is not a dream — it is a fact.
Today, human beings, crossing over the resentful ridge of restoration, wish to become masters of a new heaven and earth.
We are people who all the more wish to become such. To become such a person, we must first realize that all that belongs to us is not ours. There must be no self-consciousness. There must be no notion of “my possession.” I, in a subjective position, must not seek to take some object. I can become an individual being responsive — that is, an object body that can become the material of some subject — but I cannot, as a subject, possess an object. Therefore, even the visible things are not mine. Nothing that pertains to me is mine. Even the “I” that asserts itself as “I” is not mine. So it is.
Therefore, to find God, one must deny oneself. To say it in a word, that is so. Deny the self. Why? Because, while the consciousness of being from the Fall and the notions of possession from the Fall remain, it is impossible to form a relationship with God. All must be denied. I am not my own.
Then who am I? I belong to the country, to the world, to the cosmos. Going further, I belong to God. Human beings must certainly bring this relationship to its conclusion.
Human beings, from the time they were created, possessed such a bond, but through the Fall, the channel of that relationship has been blocked. To open this blocked channel again, one must deny oneself.
The history of God's labor over 6,000 years is for the sake of opening that road. The purpose of leading the clan to the tribe, to the people, to the nation, and today to the democratic and communist camps lies in this.
The people who can hereafter rule the world are the people who, transcending the people, lay hold of the world.
If America today is to move the democratic camp and lead the world, it must not move with its individual national ideal. Only when centered on democracy and transcending the dimension of one nation can it lead the democratic camp; only then will it be able to lead the world. All things are so.
God says to fallen human beings, “Deny everything.” This is to drive human beings into the realm of the great cosmic ideal. Therefore, on the path of the Way, all is denial. Denial. He does not allow anything. This is not the word of the man speaking here, but it is so in the Bible. He tells us to deny the ideologies and “isms” of the world, deny the family environment, and deny the individual. Going further, He teaches us to deny even the mind and even the heart.
Why is this? What is the purpose?
Because God can love only what has not fallen. He absolutely cannot accept anything that has formed a bond with the elements of the Fall. He has said to deny moving us into the original world that has not fallen.
Had human beings not fallen, all heaven and earth would be ours, and God too would be ours. But because, through the Fall, we lost the qualification to possess, we must throw down all that we possess.
We must say, “The visible world is not our world, and all created things are not ours. All these belong to God,” and return them to God. The purpose of salvation is, in such a position, to form a bond with God again, and after being reborn, to set us in the position of governing all things.
For us, who must traverse such a course, what is most important? It is the heart.
Where to set my standard of heart is the issue. All that I see, hear, and rejoice in is not mine but belongs to the realm of Satan. To draw all of these and transfer them into the realm of Heaven, fallen human beings have, until today, struggled. This is the purpose of history, the purpose of Heaven's providence, the purpose of creation.
God's Heart That Can Be Felt Through All Things
Open the door of the heart and once more recall the original world that has not fallen. Originally, the relationship between God and Adam and Eve was that of parent and child. But Adam and Eve, not knowing it, fell. Therefore, today human beings do not know who God is.
Having set up Adam and Eve as the masters of all creation, God had a goal He hoped for. He hoped that the feeling of God's love would seep into them and that the feeling of creation of the God who created all things would seep into them.
When you enter adolescence, you feel a sense of mystery in facing all things, do you not? Is it so or not? When your passion blazes up at its peak, if you write a poem, you can write an astonishing poem.
Likewise, God created human beings, setting up the goal of completing them as human beings bearing the heart of the great cosmos. And He longed and longed for human beings to mature according to that goal. He waited for the time. He hoped that the more they matured, the more, when a man faced a woman and a woman faced a man, each would sense in the other the substance of the great cosmos as a whole. He hoped that human beings would mature to the point that, into their world of feeling, even God could enter and all things could enter.
If Adam and Eve, having entered such a position as a couple, had harmonized at the level of heart with God and harmonized at the level of heart with all the cosmos and could have heard from God the words, “By creating you, all the purpose of hope has been brought to its conclusion,” this heaven and earth today would not have come to be in this state. When we enter the mysterious state, the path of the Way, we can feel such feelings seep in.
The one who can, in the air he breathes every day and in his beating pulse, feel that the feeling of the cosmos overflows, who, looking even at his hand, can laugh and feel infinite feeling, is a fine person. We must become such a fine person.
If Adam and Eve, having not fallen, had reached such a state, how beautifully would they have lived together with all things and Heaven?
Did Adam and Eve, when they fell, know such a fact?
They did not know. So we, who were born as their descendants, also cannot know it. That is why God says, “Pray, walk the path of the Way, deny everything, and stand up; standing up, ascend.” Up to where must we ascend? Up to the point before Adam and Eve fell. This is the standard of the Way that God demands of the human world.
You must yearn for the original world, for the original human being, and for the original heart. Yet is your heart so? The world in which, the moment one calls “God!”, one can harmonize with God and love and recognize one hundred percent the value of being even without hearing an explanation, is the world of the heart, the world of love. The world that needs explanation is the world of reason.
Today's world develops new reasonings and sets up philosophies, but it absolutely cannot govern the human being who has a heart.
In the end, we must seek not a heart that can be clarified by some reason, but the world of the heart of infinite love that no reason can clarify — something absolute that one cannot explain.
If something can be clarified by some logic, even human beings can create it. We cannot clarify God. We cannot clarify God's love. But it exists.
Can you clarify your life? Can you clarify your conscience?
If we had entered the state in which we could harmonize with the heaven-rooted, infinite cosmic feeling, if we had become such human beings, today's human beings would not be living like this. The scientific world of twentieth-century civilization would already have been built up long ago. It would have been done thousands of years ago.
The civilization of the present twentieth century is a civilization that has taken 400 years to build. It is the civilization since the Renaissance.
Today, we lament and struggle and make a great commotion about life and death. It is fitting that we walk such a road. After walking it, the road that human beings finally come to take is the road of the Way. Because there is nothing in the world to believe in or to lean upon, the road of the Way is taken. Those who walk the road of the Way are, in some sense, the stragglers of life's course. They are the multitude that has been left behind and cast away from social life — the castaway multitude.
Although a castaway multitude, by the castaway multitude, history has been gathered until now. The present civilization, too, has developed by the rejected multitude.
The Heart That Treasures the Gift
Why is this so? There must be some reason latent here. Think a little.
If there is one who knows his value and knows the value of his family, society, nation, world, and cosmos centered on himself, could he not call God “Father”? But in our present position, we cannot call God “Father.” Is God so flippant a Father? Has he been fighting until now to become such a God? Think a little.
If parents make a handkerchief to give to their beloved son or daughter, how do they make it? They make it pierced with heart, with love, with all their devotion.
If, then, this handkerchief made with such care, this handkerchief that stands in place of one's love and stands in place of one's heart, when it is transferred to the hand of the beloved son or daughter, has been given with all devotion, with the thought, “When this is transferred, my love and heart will be transferred too” — yet the son or daughter receives it casually, can they be called sons and daughters?
It is the same with God, who created all things of heaven and earth. It is not a matter of the level of the handkerchief that parents make for their beloved children.
As substantial existing things bearing the value of the eternal unchanging — not only at that time but throughout all generations of descendants — God created all things as existing things that can sing the bond of His heart.
Therefore, God regards more preciously one who, looking at a flower, smiles and rejoices than one who, looking at a flower, weighs and analyzes its components.
Science is to analyze, but art is to express the feeling that one feels looking at something. It is feeling. Therefore, art comes before science.
When you go to a mountain or field and see one blade of grass, which is more precious — to say, “Ah, this is such-and-such a grass, born of such-and-such a seed, formed from the combination of such-and-such elements,” or to say, “Ah, how beautiful,” and to face it with admiration and heart? When one faces a heart, it is not facing one-to-one. It is facing the whole. It is incomparable to facing it analytically.
Therefore, one who lives with God's love, one who lives together with God's love, is God's son and daughter. He is the master of all the cosmos, who can govern heaven and govern earth. Such an astonishing being is the human being.
If there were such sons and daughters, would God curse them, saying they have become so splendid? Would he curse them? There would be nothing He could love more.
If something made by your hands faced you and called you “Father,” or “Master,” and laughed and rejoiced, would you say to it, “Hey, you wretch, may you be struck by lightning”? You would not. There would be nothing better.
Because human beings are placed in such a position, they are the lords of all creation. Then what is the essential substance by which the human being can be determined to be the lord of all creation? It is love. Love.
You must know clearly that the human being can become the lord of all creation because he stands in the central position from which this feeling of love can be bonded to the infinite world.
All Things in Which God's Heart Resides
Since I have said we are to live with God's love, what now must your living goal be?
You must, with the heart of love, live a life of attendance.
Even if, with such a heart, you bow before such a handkerchief, it is not idol worship. It is not idol worship. With the heart of love, when one bows the head, what could govern it?
When, transcending one's own glory, one bows in worship with heart, Satan also says, “Stop.” On the road of communing with the heart of the cosmos, there is no idol.
Buddhists are criticized for making the Buddha out of stone and offering worship, but if only the heart is communed with before Heaven, even Heaven cannot strike. Standing in such a position, even one believing in Buddhism goes to the Kingdom of Heaven.
However much it is said to be idol worship, he goes to the Kingdom of Heaven. It is because there is no piercing heart longing for the law of Heaven that one goes to hell.
You must know that everything we see and hear and face today through the five senses has its root in God's love. In such a world of the heart, even saying “God!” while looking at this clock does not become a sin.
Rather than entering the mountain to pray, doing a dawn prayer or an all-night prayer, become people who, looking even at one blade of grass, shed tears yearning for the hand of Father who created it and the heart of Father who must have rejoiced in creating it.
If there is such a person, he is, undoubtedly, a son or daughter of God, the great Sovereign of the cosmos. He is one qualified to receive a perfect score.
Do you not wish to know? Have you thought about what kind of heart God created all things of heaven and earth with? Have you, looking at a stone, said, “Stone, with what inner ideal connected to God's heart were you born into this heaven and earth?” Looking at one blade of grass, “With what inner bond were you born?”
“God created all things of heaven and earth to make His heart known through all things; if I am so insensitive even before you, curse me.”
Yet people, looking at one whose senses are keen, say he is an idealist or whatever and call him crazy. They call one who feels a world beyond the world felt by the six senses crazy.
Even being crazy, if one is crazy for a purpose, it is well. Is dancing not a kind of spinning? When one sees dancing, one says it is good. If it is spinning, what spins more than that?
Yet if one spins centered on an environment in which one can rejoice, it is good. Even being driven, while being criticized as crazy, is well. If one can sing of God's love and reveal God's love, however it may go, it is well.
Now you have come to know to the extent of knowing. You have also come to know what kind of person one must be to recover the original standard we have lost and live in the Kingdom of Heaven of the new ideal.
You must know that all created things are bonded with God in love, and you must feel them as Father's shadow. In fact, all things are like the shadow of Father's heart. They are what Father created with all His energy poured in, what was created passing through Father's hand; therefore, all things hope to be treasured and loved as preciously and as valuably as Father's representative. Yet from the Fall until today, no one has faced them this way. So how could they not lament? That is why the Bible says all things lament.
Now we must know. Looking at nature, in which God's love resides, we must have the heart, “Can it be compared with a splendid object owned by some king of the world or some famous person?
Can it be compared with antiques?
Can it be compared with the gorgeous garments worn by some famous lady?” If we cannot, we are committing sins before the natural world, even unbeknownst to ourselves.
If, looking at one living being, there is one who, holding fast to all things created with God's poured-in heart, feels them more preciously than anything, saying, “Can they be compared with anything made by humans?
However splendid a person may be, can he be more splendid than God?” — That one is, undoubtedly, a son, or daughter of Heaven. Such a person needs no prayer. He lives together with God. Heaven drives human beings to such a place.
We Must Have a Heart That Feels God's Hand Even in One Blade of Grass
Look. Human beings love and treasure whatever belongs to the one they love, do they not? Yet they do not know how to treasure the things created by God, whom they ought to love most. Can such people become God's sons and daughters?
You, who bear the responsibility of resolving the han of the lamenting creation, must, even in one tree, even in one blade of grass, grasp through experience God's heart and the hand of creation at the time He created them 6,000 years ago. You must have such a heart.
That is why we, the family members of the Unification Church, must be able to shed tears even at the sight of one blade of grass while walking the road. We must be able to weep even while holding fast to one tree, saying, “How lonely you have been, having lost your master.” Try it once. The man who speaks here has wept much. He has wept, holding fast to a stone, and wept seeing the wind blow.
Now that you have heard the message, you will understand why. “The valuable creation that God created, the precious creation that has formed an eternal bond with God, today does not receive even the treatment of an object treasured as a national treasure or jewel in some palace; that grief I must know, I alone must acknowledge it.” With such a heart, I have come forth.
If you possess the heart, “Even if all 3 billion people living on this earth do not acknowledge it, I will acknowledge it,” these people will hereafter become a new people that can rule over the 3 billion people. This is not a notion but a fact.
Who, regarding all things as more precious than the heirloom of his family handed down through generations, more precious than the diamond said to be the most precious jewel in the world, holds fast to them and refuses to let go?
Where is such a person?
When God sees one who acknowledges at the level of the heart what He has created and weeps, holding fast to them, He says, “Yes.” Think whether He would or would not. The deeper one enters the spiritually attuned state, the richer such feelings become. The mastery of the Way is realized in such a place. Through the heart, all is one.
Now, while becoming sons and daughters of God, you must at the same time become masters in whom God can rejoice. Whether man or woman, when one enters a family, one must become the master who can move that family. And that family must become the master who can move the society; that society must become the master who can move the nation; and that nation must become the master who can move the world.
Now, things made by humans display one hundred percent of value. But I hope for a world in which one can feel that this one blade of grass, born through Father's hand, is more valuable than anything else. The taste of the air is better than any fragrance. As I have said, even when I went to Yamok, if one knows the taste of air, the taste of sunlight, and the taste of water, there is no getting sick. If one lives with such a heart, one will become a healthy body.
All things have welled up from God's heart and were created so that, together with that heart, they can sing the value of eternal existence. Therefore, even while taking one spoonful of food, try saying, “Thank you.“ I am awed. What a thing this is before this fallen descendant!” Try it. We must not say, “It is tasty or not tasty, well-dressed or poorly dressed, good or bad, high in position or low.”
The Path of Becoming God's Companion
One who has entered the realm of Heaven's heart can give infinitely if asked to give, can play infinitely if asked to play, and can go infinitely if asked to go.
Jesus' words — that when an enemy strikes the right cheek, turn the left, and if asked for the outer garment, give even the inner garment — must be understood from such a standpoint. He did not say it from the position you take.
You must possess the cosmic-view-level heart that says, “Though I seem to have lost, I am rich; though I seem to have nothing, I am rich.”
Since you have come to know this, we must now strive to bring about the heaven-rooted ideal world. And the goal of life of those of us in the position of having to form a bond with Heaven in each one's environment of life must be, “Let us live together with God's love; let us become those who live as companions with God's heart.”
If you know this truth of life, you become the supreme poet. That is why people prefer going to the seaside or the mountains rather than the complex life of the city. That is why human beings seek beautiful scenery and yearn for it.
If such a man and woman receive God's blessing and marry, what kind of sons and daughters will come forth?
Sons and daughters of such a heart will come forth.
What did God hope for, having created our ancestors Adam and Eve?
He hoped that they would yearn for one another, form a heart-level bond, and grow up as Adam and Eve in place of all things, as Adam and Eve in place of God, as Adam and Eve in place of all heaven and earth.
When Adam and Eve, having completed the form of value that surpasses the entire cosmos, came joyfully before God, God sought to bless them and have them marry.
Because that did not come about until today, the one walking the road of the Way has had to live celibate. Because the principle of Heavenly Law has not been established, the world of the Way has had to walk alone. Until today, reciprocal relationships have been enemies.
Even Jesus did not form a family but left only the words, “I am the Bridegroom; you are the bride.”
Now you, who as brides must welcome Jesus as Bridegroom, who comes in God's stead, must possess what inner heart-level value the bride must bear, and from where must you gather the matter of heart? Will praying alone do? It will not. However much one prays, it will not. We must, from the very life, trace and find the traces of God's labor and become companions of God's heart.
If there is one who seeks to become so, God strikes him once, having him endure historical suffering. He puts him in the place where Satan throughout the world flocks. But if, facing that Satan, one can resist, “Will you govern me, who has set up the bond of heart that can stand in place of the purpose of creation?” — Satan retreats.
Do you know why Jesus has been receiving Satan's tests until now? Even after going to the heavenly Kingdom, Jesus is fighting with Satan. And he said that to come again, he must fight with Satan. Why is this? Because he went without setting up on the earth the standard by which he could love all things and human beings in one bosom. So Satan was able to invade.
That is why people of the new age hereafter, even when farming, must regard one blade of grass as preciously as their wife or their sons and daughters.
When this comes about, heaven and earth will be filled with the elements of life, and where the heart turns, life will follow, and where love moves, life will naturally extend.
If there is one who farms thus, the time will come when the farming is good even without giving fertilizer. Are there those who farm with hearts overflowing in tears, even from the clod of earth dug up by the hoe to the leaf of grain held in the hand, facing them as friends, treasuring them, and saying, “Grow well”? People of the new nation, the new age hereafter, must become so.
When this comes about, because the movement of all life in the cosmos becomes vigorous, things made by human strength become unnecessary there. Such a time will come.
A fitting example is one of our family members in Yamok. Whenever he weeds, he sings hymns; while others weed three times, he weeds only once. But when one goes in autumn, although the grass is overgrown, the harvest is greater than that of those who weeded three times. In that region, this is a most interesting tale. So it is.
When the fortune of decline comes upon a country, decline begins from the things in that country. Whether the fortune of decline is coming upon a household can be known by looking at the sons and daughters of that house.
The household in which the volume of heart, the volume that dwells in and is felt in the heart, becomes smaller and smaller will not last long. The feeling comes: “Ah, it will not last several generations.”
The Heart That Can Bring Down the Satanic World
Then what kind of people will hereafter receive blessings?
It is the people that take the bond of heart as the feeling of life. That people will rule the world. Korea is so. I look at this one thing and place hope in it. Heart—on the day these people form a relationship with the great cosmic ideal and shed tears, it will become a people that rules the world. The principle is so. Therefore, you must now know well. You must have the breadth even to face one blade of grass with heart and make it your friend.
Although the people living on this earth today are descendants of sin, before the Fall in the past, when they were created through the original hand of God, they were sons and daughters who could stand in the place of God's heart.
Yet because of the Fall, they have come to be in this state — it is grievous and indignant. The one who, holding fast to such a heart, weeps will surely become a historical figure.
Jesus also came with such a heart. Even though in his age he was driven, chased, and put to death, what could remain in the world is the foundation of the heart; therefore, such people surely became historical figures.
When we think of this, we must feel that all things are pitiful, all peoples are pitiful, and Heaven is pitiful. “All things! Throughout the long 6,000 years, having lost your master, how greatly you have grieved! Human beings! Having lost the foundation of rest for the original life, how greatly have you grieved? Heaven! Having lost the sons and daughters whom You created to govern all things centered on the bond of heart, how greatly have You grieved? Pitiful Heaven! Pitiful all things! Pitiful all peoples!” When one appeals with such a heart, Satan retreats.
Do you know with what heart Jesus subdued Satan? It is the heart, “God is pitiful, all peoples are also pitiful, and all things are also pitiful.” Because the exploding heart was there — “How pitiful is God who has lost His sons and daughters?
How pitiful are all things that have lost their master? How pitiful are human beings who have lost their value, purpose, and position!” — Satan retreated. Satan does not retreat upon hearing some word.
In the third trial, Jesus, against Satan, said, “Worship me," and said, “Worship the Lord your God.” Do you know what those words mean? It is not a word, but a heart.
It means, “You wretch, you are a betrayer who has betrayed the heart of the heavenly law of kinship; but I, standing on this standard of heart, worship God.
The only one worthy to receive this worship offered with all heart is God alone. Will you not also do so?” Before such a heart, the satanic world collapses. Because they do not know this, things have come to be like this.
The Path of Going to the Kingdom of Heaven
We must seek. Moving our footsteps, we must seek. The heart of love is hidden within this realm of the great cosmos.
On the day this heart takes its place, all things will rest, and Heaven will rest. From where must such a heart be sought? It must be sought in your daily life. Everything is prepared there.
Does one who has been to a fine sight return home with a deathlike face? He returns smiling. Is it not so?
If you live with such a heart, however weary the work, you will not become weary. If, while working, you say, “Throughout history, many people have grieved while taking up such work, but yes, how greatly I have longed for such work” — you will not become tired at all. Is there not even the saying, “The musician lives musically and dies artistically”? The human being is so set.
You who have gathered here today have gathered to become people who live together with God's love, together with God's heart. I am like this.
Today I have put on relatively good clothes, but I often go, even in shabby clothes, to gatherings of those said to be splendid. But that is not the issue.
Eating and clothing and living are not the issue. Rather, however well one prepares the external form, one whose inside is rotted cannot be regarded as a person. That is why Jesus said, “Woe to you, hypocritical scribes and Pharisees” (Matt. 23:13) and poured it out.
One who possesses the substance to move Heaven's heart has no problem wherever he goes — at the waterside or on the mountain. Wherever he goes, he has a friend. I have lived such a life somewhat; even if I should sleep on a cold rock, I must say, “Yes!”
Even if going to a labor site and shouldering a sack, one says, “In the past it was such, but today it has come to this”; one must not lose heart. One must possess the heart: “No one can take such a heart of mine.”
One must become such a person. Such a person is not in touch with whatever element on earth is said to be evil, sorrowful, or any element of Satan. They cannot touch him. Such a person, undoubtedly, becomes a person of the Kingdom of Heaven.
If not, come to the man who speaks here and protest.
Today, we have stood as the pioneers of the vanguard who wander seeking such a heart. Yet what kind of world is the world we are now living in? It is a fallen world.
Therefore, the history of opposition unfolds. One step forward, and they pierce.
Two steps forward, and they pierce. We must cross over this place of being pierced. This is the course of life.
So long as we are within the realm of the Fall, we must, centering on this heart, regardless of what difficulty befalls, cross over and set up the standard of having gained victory.
Only such a one can stand before the people, can stand before the world, and can stand before the cosmos. This is the iron rule. Until that standard is crossed, it cannot be done. Going about painted red and shining sleekly will not do. Eating fine things and wearing pretty things will not do. It cannot be done.
Only with the heart of “Although I cannot eat, I wish to save the one who has eaten; although I cannot wear, I have a pitying heart for the one who has worn; although I have no house, I can shed tears looking at the one who lives in towering mansions” — can one cross over the standard of having gained victory. “You who would go to the Kingdom of Heaven! Know that only after conquering hell can you go to the Kingdom of Heaven.” The principle is so. What is the road that goes to hell? It is the road that goes seeking worldly satisfaction.
What is the road that goes to the Kingdom of Heaven?
It is the road that goes seeking the place the world does not enjoy. It is simple. If you wish to go to hell, seek the happy places of this world.
If you wish to go to the Kingdom of Heaven, seek the unhappy places of this world. The historical great figures were all those rejected by their age.
The Path of Salvation Through the Bond of Heart
Today, we must once again be indignant that we live in a fallen world. We must pray, “God, why was I born as a son or daughter of fallen Adam and Eve?
Why was I born as a descendant of the Fall?
If God had created me as the ancestor of human beings, I would not have fallen as Adam; I would not have fallen as Eve. Therefore, God, can You not grant me the heart of Adam and Eve before the Fall?
If there is the substance with which You looked upon Adam and Eve with the heart of hope, can You not show me that substance of heart?” On the earth, from among the descendants of the Fall, one must come forth who prays this way.
The Bible also did not say He would simply give. He said the door must be knocked on for it to open and must be sought for it to be found. Jesus offered such a prayer.
When Jesus came, he did not first try to become the King of kings, governing the earth. He sought to become the king of those who grieve, the king of those who weep, the king of those who suffer and die and stood on the road of pioneering to conquer the satanic world on earth.
Today's believers say of Jesus that he is the only-begotten Son of God, our Bridegroom, but these are all resultant nouns.
Those who would become Jesus' bride must take after Jesus' heart. Jesus is the One who became the victor of the heart, the One who, with heart, wept to become the king of those who grieve, the One who, with heart, suffered to become the king of those who suffer.
Because Jesus, with his heart, died to become the king of those who die, those who believe in him receive salvation. But unless one forms a heart-level bond, one has nothing to do with salvation. What of the Kingdom of Heaven? Hell would be closer. The principle of heaven and earth is so set.
We are living to fight. Since the work of salvation is the work of restoring, with single-hearted devotion, the world of the heart in this great cosmos, in the course of that work of salvation, we must think only of how much material we can become.
We must take all things as material, take humanity as material, and take the millions of saints in the spirit world as material; and according to how much I move, all things move; how much humanity moves; how much the millions of saints in heaven move; and to what extent what I cry out on earth raises a response of heart in this cosmos — my value in heaven is determined.
Jesus' grief at the moment of death was reflected in heaven and in all the cosmos. Therefore, Jesus is the Savior. What sort of Savior? The Savior of heart — the Savior of heart.
In such a state, facing all things, you must possess the heart, “I am unworthy. How greatly have you longed to sing of God's heart together with the original ancestors of humanity and forever to live embraced in His bosom?
The first hope you longed for was broken, and you welcomed the resentful descendants of the Fall, and how greatly have you labored, passing through the historical course of being within the realm of lamentation to welcome the second human ancestors?”
Although they should have been in the world of joy, all things, by reason of human beings, came to be within the world of grief, within the realm of lamentation; only one who, looking upon them, feels that within them, inexhaustible grief is contained, can become a companion of God's heart. Why? Because God is so.
What do human beings have to boast of? Nothing.
Therefore, Jesus said, “Be not proud. Love your neighbor as yourself. If anyone would follow me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.”
Why did he say this? Because all the twists and turns until now must be indemnified all at once. To do so, he spoke paradoxically.
The Sons and Daughters Who Can Console God
Now we have come to know. What is this providence of salvation? What is this word “salvation” to me? The word “salvation” should not have been needed; that this word “salvation” exists is a sorrowful thing. The word “salvation” is a sorrowful noun.
What is this word “Savior” to me?
Where have Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden gone, who had no Savior? Did the original Adam and Eve also need a Savior? Did they need Jesus? Because of the Fall, the Savior is needed.
If they had not fallen, prayer, religion, morality, self-cultivation, or any worldview—none of these are necessary. If they had not fallen, Adamism would be worldism and God-ism.
Restoration is the course of mending and mending what has been ruined by the Fall and presenting it before Heaven. Yet the people who shamelessly stick out their bellies, saying, “I have done this much; this is enough”—I want to give them one strike. Such people are sinners among sinners.
While being in a position before Heaven where, as a betrayer, they cannot be forgiven, they go about boasting. The deeper one enters the world of the heart, the more dumbfounded one is beyond words. There is nothing but tears.
When the beloved husband dies, does the wife not weep without end?
In that moment of weeping, everything from the time of childhood comes to mind.
The grief that wells up through the feeling of love brings to mind even the scoldings she received from her mother in childhood. Therefore, the woman who has wept much, having lost her husband or beloved one, comes first to the seat of repentance.
The place where one weeps aloud, having lost her husband, having lost her loved one, is the place near Heaven's side.
Likewise, you must know that God, too, having lost beloved sons and daughters, has, holding fast to fallen human beings, wept aloud and come forth for 6,000 years — for 6,000 years. He is not a God who says, “You have fallen, but I will receive glory.”
If He were such a God, He would have no relation with us. The God I know is not such a God. The course of struggling for 6,000 years to find the only Son and only Daughter is the history of God's providence of salvation until now.
Until these sons and daughters are found, even though all things were to fill heaven and earth, God cannot boast of them. Why? Because all things were created for those sons and daughters. Therefore, we human beings must gather up the things God created for us, must lead the world of humanity with whom we must live, and must attend Heaven, which guides us.
If you know that God is such a One, you cannot help but shed tears. If you think of God's heart that grieved presently Adam and Eve fell, even decades of weeping aloud will not bring it to an end.
When you pray, you must feel such things. You must feel Father's such heart, and that grieved when Adam and Eve, not knowing that heart, fell; and you must feel that heart that, to save them, set up Noah after 1,600 years and made him labor 120 years, but had to look upon his son Ham standing in the position of having fallen.
If you enter the position of knowing and grasping through experience Father's heart from Adam through Noah, Abraham, Moses, the time of Jesus, and until now, you will feel that you are nothing. You cannot but disregard the value of your being.
You must now possess the heart, “Even if I die a hundred times, it is fitting; even if I am ruined a thousand times, it is fitting.” Then Heaven will say, “I will enter the place of ruin in your stead, and I will enter the place of death in your stead.” You must take after such a Father.
Jesus, in such a place, said, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.
Yet not my will but Yours be done.” Such a place is the place where Father and Son, taking no thought of face, hold fast to one another and shed tears. It is the place where the Father who has been seeking and the Son who has been searching meet and, worrying about one another, weep, holding fast to each other.
Do you know what kind of place the place near God is?
It is the place of repentance. But when one comes to know, one need not say, “I have committed such-and-such a sin; please forgive me.”
If one repents of not knowing Father's heart, all is forgiven.
A greater sin than the child squandering all the parents' money and going about doing all kinds of things is to wound the heart of the father who loves him. There is no greater sin than this. Therefore, if there is a child who, shedding tears, says, “Father, are not these things, having or not having, of any account? But this sin of having wounded Father's heart — how can I receive forgiveness for it?” — the Father will, saying “Yes, yes,” and forgive. So it is. As fallen parents are so, God too is so.
People go to the church and pray, “I have committed such-and-such a sin; I repent. Please forgive me.” But more than that, one must say, “Please forgive the sin of having destroyed the principle of the heavenly law of kinship, having trampled the bond between Heaven and human beings, and having destroyed the bond between human beings and all things—the sin in the matter of the heart.”
If, by repenting thus, one is forgiven, gains victory, and receives Father's recognition, all things are resolved. Heaven seeks such a repenter. Looking into it, that is so.
To one who has communed in heart, all things of the world also become one's own.
Therefore, for one who has communed with Father's heart, even taking and giving anything of the world is not a sin to Father. In the future, in the world of the Kingdom of Heaven, even going to a neighbor's house and eating something one wishes to eat without a word does not become a sin. Because they are connected at the level of the heart.
You must know there is no sin greater than the sin of having a trampled heart.
Now today, weighing God's heart of love, we must know that we are sinners who have trampled God's heart, sinners who have rejected the heart of all things, hindrances who have prevented the world of heart from coming to be. I hope that, knowing such things, you become people who repent with heart at stake.
Now you must be able to escape the place of grief and say, “God, please grieve no more; please weep no more.” We must move God, who is in a place of grief, to a place of joy.
The place where, in such a position, we laugh and rejoice with one another is the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, and the place where such sons and daughters live is our home, the original world where unfallen Adam and Eve lived.
To enter such a world, we must find the bond of heart with the cosmic ideal; we must know God's heart of the ideal of creation, His heart immediately after the Fall, His heart of restoration, and His heart of hope, and we must strive to live together with God.
If there is one who, with that heart of God, fights; who, with that heart, repents; who, with that heart, dies — that one, even in death, is alive, and even having lost has gained. In the end, this entire world is embraced in his bosom and becomes his — I hope you know this clearly.
Father, we were human beings who did not know value, human beings who did not know our position of being, and human beings who could not find the direction of the ideal world. We did not know heaven-rooted value or heaven-rooted bonds. Now we have come to know that all of this is the recompense of the Fall.
Father, when we ask what the standard of life is upon which Your sons and daughters gathered here, who must live as the new workers of the new nation we hope for, must live, we know that it is to become sons and daughters of glory who, with the heart of recreating all things that Father created with love, feel Father's heart of creation and to become subjects of harmony who can sing of such a bond of heart not only as individuals but in bonds before the whole.
We desire and beseech that, in recovering such value and position, however much hindrance may come, You permit us to harden a resolve and determination that, without retreating, will surely cross over.
Father, we yearned for Father's love. We wished to embrace and love all things created in Father's bosom. But we did not know that such a bond was already prepared.
Now make us masters who, saying, “One thing is precious. The value of one being is eternal," can sing of what is connected to the elements of my life, and can live, feeling that value at the level of heart together with heaven and earth and all things.
Thus, by consoling Your sorrowful heart together with all things and preparing a heart of joy, we earnestly desire and beseech that we may, being moved from the world of sorrow to the world of joy, become the final victors who receive Father's blessing — Father who can say, “Forgetting the sorrowful past, let us live with you forever and ever.”
Now we have commended all of us to You; please govern. We earnestly entreat that You permit us to be sons and daughters who live together with Father's heart, live together with Father's love, and, giving thanks even for one material thing, even for one existing thing, repioneer our essential world; and we have prayed all these words in the name of the Lord. Amen.