God Has Guided Human Beings toward Goodness
Originally, human beings were to love Heaven, love their brothers and sisters, and love this land. They should have loved Heaven, people, and the earth.
When God created humans, His goal was for them to love in such a way. Yet, all who are living on the earth today have lost the ability to love Heaven, their brothers and sisters, and the earth because they are fallen descendants. This is the grief caused by the fall.
Therefore, to bring fallen people back to their original state, God sorrowfully has faced every kind of battle without hesitation and has repeatedly sacrificed Himself for 6,000 years. In other words, we know that God has been seeking us with the responsibility to restore the lost people.
Although we are ignorant of the will of God's providence of restoration, our minds are subconsciously following the heavenly relationship, which has had a dominant influence on our lives. We often experience this in our daily lives.
How do your minds ceaselessly, yet subconsciously, move in pursuit of goodness and the world of greater ideology?
Why is your mind not moving in the direction you desire?
This is because there is God, who is leading you in a direction of which you are not consciously aware. He is working through a relationship that surpasses your imagination. This is how our minds are being led by the ideology of goodness.
Heaven is the highest good and the loftiest of all ideals. Heaven is the pinnacle of human life and the center of hope. It has been active in the past and present and will be active in the future.
Hence, we must understand that our minds are being guided in the direction of goodness, which Heaven is pursuing.
Even if your heart is drawn toward goodness, and you possess a good nature, you should not assert that this is your doing. Moreover, just because your body has been fashioned in the way of goodness based on heavenly nature, you should not boast that it is your own.
Even if you possess something praiseworthy, good, and illustrious, you should not consider it to be yours alone and manifest it as such. If you forget that Heaven has created such in you and are proud of yourself, you will be committing a crime against Heaven. We often witness people committing these kinds of sins all around us.
Today, we all desire goodness and righteousness. Even our minds, which pursue goodness and righteousness, do not belong to us. You have to understand this. If you look at the history of good minds, you will discover the 6,000 years of human history, God's work of creation, and finally God's original nature.
You must act on behalf of historical and future relationships and possess the original goodness that operates through this center. If someone tries to block your way as you are trying to possess this goodness and sets up an opposing condition, how can you be sure that this violates the heavenly law?
People today should pursue this good mind. Furthermore, after they come to possess this good mind, they should not live for themselves but for the greatest center of goodness. Nevertheless, we know there are not many people who understand this.
The Realization of Goodness and the Function of the Conscience
Goodness is never realized by oneself. It is realized when one transcends one's self, one's environment, nation, and world and connects with the highest goodness of the Creator. Goodness is possible only through a course of accomplishment.
We must understand that we should find the direction of goodness, understand its destination, and move in that direction. At the same time, we must become goodness itself and leave behind the accomplishments of a good life.
It is not an overstatement to say that no one in history has ever understood this truth and led their life responsibly and confidently. God has worked laboriously with human beings.
For 6,000 years, God has been guiding human beings, who do not know how to repay His work and who are not grateful for His having saved their lives.
We must live each day based on goodness, with one heart. A good heart must govern our daily lives. While we are working to reach the goal of our lives, we must make accomplishments of which we can be proud, within the ideal of goodness.
Those who cannot achieve this certainly have not made any contribution to history or the course of restoration, which seeks Heaven's goodness. They have not brought any results.
How did the human fall come about? Human beings fell because they thought their lives belonged solely to them. Adam and Eve, the first ancestors of humankind, thought that every affair was fulfilled through them, everything began based on them, and every goal was to be reached through them. This is why they fell. We should understand this.
Accordingly, we must expose the sins of our ancestors and abandon the mentality that we should do everything based on ourselves.
We must cultivate a true heart that seeks to bring solutions based on the people, the world, heaven, and earth. We must pursue a good world. If there are such people, God will call upon them.
God works to accomplish the goal that the conscience seeks and is looking for these kinds of people. We must keep this in mind.
The connection of love can be forged only when one clearly understands this truth. One must then have a fresh realization about oneself, possess one's value system and perspectives on daily life, human life, history, and the universe, and say, “I love Heaven.” You can say that you truly love your nation only when you love it from this perspective.
We must understand that this is a path that both historical figures and the great people of our age must walk. We must analyze ourselves anew.
Although we feel that our conscience is at work, due to the human fall, we do not understand the destination toward which goodness is striving.
Although we are under the influence of our conscience, we have been unable to lead the type of life in which we do not feel any pangs of conscience.
Now you must expose such contradictions within yourselves. You must reflect and measure yourselves against the new goal and new ideology.
In doing so, you must abandon all concepts, assertions, and thoughts and march toward a new goal of goodness. We must understand that humanity living in the last days faces a crisis that compels them to walk toward the goal of goodness.
What Kind of Person Truly Loves Heaven?
How low did people fall? They fell to a position opposite to God's ideal of creation. Originally, human beings should have been able to consider this world their own. All of humanity should have lived as one tribe. They should have attended to the Creator God as their God.
Have the people who live on Earth today formed their world?
They have not. Is there someone or some nation that considers all humanity their clan? There is not. Moreover, is there a group of people who attend to God as their God? There is not.
Therefore, we must first establish the standard of goodness and make our best efforts to seek our world, our clan, and our God. We have to understand that this is the historical mission that fallen people must accomplish.
Our God has disappeared into nowhere; our human clan has scattered in all directions. The land we should govern has been divided into many pieces.
If there is a Creator, then what is His ideal?
It is to make this land our land, to make humanity into one clan or members of one family, and to attain unity and harmony with us. We must realize that the Creator wants to emerge as the God of humanity and of this world.
If there is someone who says, “I love Heaven,” what kind of person should he be?
He should make a great effort to search for our world, to make all of humanity brothers, to make the Creator the God of humanity, and to attend to God in his life. This kind of person can be said to love Heaven.
Since people have lost this standard, even though they feel the workings of their good minds, their lives cannot bear good fruit. We know this all too well.
The work of goodness is taking place ceaselessly in our minds, based on the heavenly and worldwide ideals that human beings are destined to fulfill. Yet, we have entirely ignored this, severed ourselves from it, and have lived lives of violation.
We should feel this deeply, to the core of our flesh and bones, during this hour. Unless we can do this, there is no way we can love God as fallen people.
What then must we do with all our effort?
What must we do at the cost of all kinds of sacrifices?
We must build the world for which God wishes, the world for which humanity longs. God is looking for one clan that stems from one parent. In other words, He is looking for the one clan rooted in God.
We must understand this and lead our lives according to this standard. Otherwise, even if the ideal world, ideal humanity, and ideal Kingdom of Heaven are built, they will not have any connection with us.
God created human beings and blessed them to have dominion over all things. He also said, “Multiply and fill the earth.” God intended to govern the people directly who have fulfilled these words and attained perfection.
This was the standard of creation. Yet human beings have failed to fulfill this standard. Therefore, we have failed to rule the earth, multiply the world of true love, or receive God's true love. This is the source of our sorrow. Because we live in such a realm, we have become sacrifices in Satan's tests.
God has to raise humanity again and have them rule the earth. He has to make good accomplishments to bring resolution to every aspect of fallen human life, which has been thrown into confusion and evil. He has to bring people together in harmony and create a heavenly clan.
After all this is done, God plans to govern them. This is the goal for which God is working. This is the historical goal that human beings are pursuing. It is the standard of hope that the heart of humanity reveres.
We should have lived in such a world. Therefore, we must learn to be deeply grateful that every element in us is headed toward that place of our hope.
Human Beings Should Build a World of Love under God
Originally, human beings were to love Heaven, yet they fell to the lowest possible place; they have been working to recover it all in the opposite way.
Originally, they should have received God's love and formed loving relationships with siblings, spouses, and parents, but they became fallen people instead.
Therefore, even if one proudly insists that he is a true parent, a true spouse, and a true brother, no one has forged a true relationship with God.
Because this is the nature of the clan to which we belong, we do not have any basis to claim that anything we govern belongs to God. This world, which was created to be God's world, does not even belong to human beings. It has become Satan's.
How pitiful! People must emerge who experience the sorrow Heaven feels as He beholds this situation. There must emerge those who experience the sorrow of humanity. Otherwise, there is no way to undertake a movement to liberate this world from Satan's bondage.
To conduct such a movement, God has worked to strengthen the influence of the conscience in people. Because human beings, whom God should have governed, were lost, He sent central figures in each age.
Taking responsibility for all human problems, God sent the central figures who revealed the mission of humanity in the time they lived. These were the prophets and sages of history.
Due to the fall, we human beings lost the six days of God's creation. We can worship God only on the Sabbath. Consequently, having lost human beings, with whom He wanted to relate frequently, God has searched hard for an opportunity to make it possible.
He has been seeking human beings with no concern for the infinite efforts He has to make in the process. Yet human beings do not know of the many toils God has undergone.
The prophets and sages who came to their assigned times, the heavenly people who came with a mission for their time, what did they present to the earth? They insisted that people should not value anything on earth but should believe in God.
They insisted that the land in which the people lived was not the eternal land, that the lives they were leading were not eternal, and that the joy they felt on earth had no connection with eternal joy.
Our ancestors fought to kill the prophets whom God sent, representing their particular moment or age in the 6,000-year course of providence. Our ancestors betrayed the heavenly will.
They not only betrayed the people God sent, but they also betrayed God Himself. We must consider this background and reflect upon what kind of position we are in today.
God raised these people and made endless efforts to build a relationship with fallen people. Even though these efforts have piled up and become the grief of Heaven, the grief of the land, and the grief of all people, no one mourns over the affairs of heaven and earth. Countless are ignorant of this grief and mourn only over their individual affairs.
Many people testify that the last days are nearing. At this crucial time, have you ever felt the heart of Heaven?
God realizes that no one grieves over His sorrow. Although God has been regretting and lamenting for 6,000 years as He clung to humanity and carried on the fight, human beings still possess conditions for lamentation.
Have you opened the doors to your hearts today and fathomed the sorrowful heart of Heaven found deep in heaven, earth, and all things?
Have you ever fathomed the sorrow of Heaven, piled higher than the highest mountain? This sorrow is deeper than any people's or any nation's sorrow. We must understand that no sorrow ever experienced by a human being can ever compare with God's sorrow.
Abandon a Self-Centered Mentality
If we are to be part of the people who sincerely love Heaven, as descendants of fallen people who must follow this destiny, our minds that seek goodness must explode within us so that we can feel the sorrow of Heaven, which lies deep inside everything.
We must become people who fulfill the responsibility to alleviate this sorrow.
Unless such a group of people emerges, there is no way that the strong will of providence can be accomplished.
Yet human beings have been battling until now, based only upon themselves. They have been fighting, centering on their families, nations, lands, and peoples. Yet, this is not Heaven. God has been toiling to become our God for the sake of our world and humanity.
On the contrary, humanity on earth has been searching for their own self-centered families, their self-centered nations, and the land they can rule based on themselves. This has been the course of history until now.
Due to the fall, human beings have lost the heavenly heart, conscience, body, and all things. Still, they are not aware of this incredible truth. Instead, they have been pursuing material things, their bodies, their minds, and their love, all centered on themselves.
If there had been no work done by God to grab these people and drag them through how they can transcend themselves, humanity surely would have perished. They would have been destroyed.
We must be eternally grateful to Heaven, which has been directing us in our daily lives, through our minds, to awaken us. Fallen people, living selfishly until today, have fallen to the lowest possible state.
However, fallen people face the destiny of restoration, by which they must return to their original state.
Your body is to fulfill cosmic value. Everything you possess is a sacrifice that can connect with the cosmos. Yet human beings have been ignorant of this truth. The heart of love you possess can connect with the heavenly heart.
You have to understand that God has been laboring until now to build a relationship with ignorant people who stand opposed to Heaven.
All things that commonly took place in the course of history until now were battles fought for the individual's sake. The battles were fought for their people and their territory.
People have not gone any further than to fight for the sake of their territory, their people, and their sovereignty. All the battles have been fought based on selfishness. Yet if we do not go beyond such battles, humanity will inevitably be doomed.
Countless peoples and nations have declined. Many people have demonstrated love and loyalty to their nation or people, their territory, and the sovereignty of their era.
Where did all these patriots go?
All the patriots whose names are recorded in history have disappeared. Although there were many patriots in sovereign nations throughout history, their hearts of integrity have disappeared.
After the passage of the imperialist age, when land is seized and expanded, what must we seek? After the age of imperialism, we must seek people. Such a time will come. Ideology and beliefs are necessary to find people.
However, if we try to take land based on ideology and beliefs, the ideology will not survive. You cannot deny the historical trend that sought a new ideology after the great crisis of the First World War.
After the age when battles are fought over the land, there will come an age when battles are fought over people. It is the time when battles will be fought with ideologies.
A New Religion Must Appear Which Overcomes Nationalism and Loves Heaven
What kind of age will come after that? An age will come when people make efforts to recover what the original people lost. Because we have the responsibility to rule all things, our original mind is at work to make the world our own.
If we have the power to influence a certain sovereignty, it is human nature to want to elevate that sovereignty to a worldwide standard. This desire of the original mind directs us toward a certain place and governs our minds.
Since the world is to be filled with God's sons and daughters, each nation must overcome nationalism based on ideology and thought. Nationalism and national concepts must be finished. This is the kind of fight Heaven has been carrying on even while human beings were unaware.
After governing the earth and recovering brothers and sisters, what must be done?
We must love Heaven. Since this is the unavoidable destiny for people, when a new religion emerges, it must love Heaven and surpass the religions of this age.
For the people who are searching for their land, Heaven has mobilized their people to help them find it and has worked to break down barriers and expand territories.
For humanity living in the age of the heavenly dispensation, Heaven has established an ideology and philosophy that can dismantle the walls between peoples. What should emerge next?
The ideology and philosophy that teach people to love Heaven must emerge, the ideology that can dismantle the walls between religions and denominations. This is the only way the history of restoration can be concluded.
Therefore, those sovereignties that desire only territory and that love only their people as they plan to invade other nations, will perish. On the contrary, if a nation invades other nations with the new ideology and the guiding philosophy of the new age, it will maintain its power and influence as long as the philosophy is still in effect. This has been the flow of history.
In this way, countless tribes have merged. Which nation possesses the most heavenly ideology? When a nation's ideology is close to the heavenly ideology, it can command sovereignty. Otherwise, it will lose its sovereignty to a third party.
The actual situation of the progress of history has been that sovereignty is always seized by those who have an ideology with the greatest potential to approach the heavenly ideals.
As you all know, today is the celebration of the Sam-Il Jeol. Our people suffered the worst hardships for 36 years under the Japanese Empire. The hope we cherished was that Japan would perish.
Our people endured, hoping that such a day would come. The more the external situation developed, the stronger our internal determination became. It finally exploded on this day, March 1.
You know well that right after the First World War, President Woodrow Wilson's advocacy for the independence of nations spurred the March 1 uprising.
America is the leading nation in the democratic world and has the power to influence it. It will remain in power only as long as the direction it takes is in line with Heaven's providence of restoration. If there is a deviation, America will decline.
In the 36 years of colonization under Japan, we saw many patriots. Many patriots shed their blood on this land. Even as they shed their blood, they fought on with the hope that, although our people were under oppression currently, they would not be defeated but would certainly become independent. For this reason, the Republic of Korea was able to reinstate its sovereignty.
The Reason Jesus Could Become the Messiah
The patriots fought against all conditions of oppression because they loved their nation and land. They had hope for the one victorious day and had an unshakable belief that such a day would surely come.
This is how they were able to not submit to the oppression and carry on their struggle. We should understand this.
These principles hold for winning a nation. To establish a heavenly ideology, we must have a stronger sense of unchanging camaraderie. Hoping for the holy land, we must act on behalf of Heaven.
Although there have been many religious people who upheld God's providence in step with the flow of history, among them all, Christians were offered miserable sacrifices in fierce battles with Satan. We should understand this.
Even when we look at the 4,000 years of Old Testament history, and the 2,000 years of Christian history since Jesus, we find that numerous people have followed the teachings of Heaven, while other people have not even dreamed of such an ideology. As they pursued Heaven's ideals, many people were sacrificed.
In history, many people were sacrificed to establish Heaven's ideology.
Where will these two groups of people come together: those who have been sacrificed for the sake of God's will and those who have been sacrificing themselves in the fight for their nations?
This is the very question of this age that raises our curiosity. People say that a world government will emerge in the future. History is flowing toward one government and the world of one ideology.
These two are approaching each other today. What must we do when these two do not seem to be coming together harmoniously?
We must never forget those who fell due to brutal bloodshed for the sake of Heaven and who clung to Heaven's ideals and battled on. God has been guiding them toward the one opportune time. Hence, the time when people seize land and use ideology to win people over will pass behind us.
Religions have already secured their basic form and are moving toward the direction Heaven pursues, but human desires fail to go that far and stop in the middle.
Therefore, although there have been many patriots in history, what can they be proud of in the age when history is glorified and the world is actively moving? What can our famous national patriots be proud of on the world level? They can only be proud of themselves on the national level.
If we compare ourselves with Jesus, who came 2,000 years ago, what kind of person was he? Jesus had the ideology and qualifications to govern a nation, the world, and humanity.
He served God as the Father and insisted that he was the only-begotten Son of God. Is there anything more to be done besides this? He was indeed qualified to be the Messiah.
Today, we wish at most to become the son or daughter of an emperor or the child of a master of this world. Yet, Jesus asserted that he was the only son of the Creator Himself. Truly, he was qualified to be the Messiah.
Jesus, who came with such a mindset, did not lament, regardless of what kind of difficulty he confronted. This was the greatest contribution he made to humanity.
Because Jesus had this firm resolution and preserved his devotion and integrity, despite the storm of countless tribulations, he can be praised as the Messiah of all people today.
Jesus had this moral standard and offered his life to accomplish the one ideal.
When they blocked his path, Jesus said to his parents, “Go your way.” He said the same to his people, tribe, and religion.
He abandoned everything and only held on to the world and humanity. He died clinging to the world and humanity. Even if his parents, family, religion, and people were to go their separate ways, he believed that the world and humanity could not part from him. This was the essence of Jesus' thought.
For this reason, the world needs Jesus. Humanity needs Jesus. Before he passed away, Jesus clung to Heaven and lived his life for Heaven's sake.
Hence, God also needs Jesus. Since he is needed in Heaven and Earth, Jesus is certainly the Messiah. We should understand this.
What Are We Going to Throw Away, and What Are We Going to Take with Us?
If history were to end, what would we be going to connect on a worldwide level after that?
This is the crucial question that young men and women full of hope, ideals, and courage must resolve.
What we should hold on to and what we should throw away is an issue upon which humanity, awaiting the judgment of the last days, must decide.
Judging from that time, Jesus was considered a traitor to the people. He was considered a traitor to his church, tribe, and tradition. Yet, in truth, he was not a destroyer but a builder; he was not a traitor but a patriot. He truly loved Heaven. People have come to understand this truth only recently.
When we think of a true patriot, we probably have some idea of what kind of person he is. If someone is a true patriot or a true democrat, they should see the entire world as one people, as Jesus did.
We must reflect again that Jesus, whom we should worship, courageously walked the path of Golgotha, the path of the cross.
Even though he walked such a torturous path, where will Jesus find those who understand his bitter course?
The last days of history, which can resolve this grief, will one day come, as long as the fruits of Jesus' martyrdom remain on the earth and his sorrows are found in the deepest parts of Heaven.
Such a time will come, as long as God's will remains unfinished. We call this time the day of judgment, the last days, or the end of time.
In this time, when we deeply feel the reality of the last days, where should we go, and what should we attain? You must ask yourself for an answer to this.
Where, among this nation and this world, can we find people who can follow in the footsteps of Jesus' boldness? We must cultivate the wisdom with which to shift our gaze and look at these people with a different perspective.
Ladies and gentlemen, how is Jesus' day different from our own? There is no difference. We who live in the same time must contemplate whether we can attend to Jesus, who was ostracized in his time.
At this time, when we are pursuing the world, we may ask what the nature of communism is, which claims to advocate equality. Communism advocates, “Let us save the workers and farmers; let us live and prosper.”
Let us examine the flow of history again. What kind of people can influence the world in the future? What kind of ideology can impact the world? What kind of religion can sway the world?
As I have explained earlier, it is a democratic religion that agrees with the ideology of goodness.
This means that goodness is not self-centered. Is there a family that lived only for its sake and did not perish? Is there a nation that attempted to pursue the world for its sake and still lived? One might think that an individual or nation can dominate the world, based on some seemingly eternal and unchanging ideology, but wait and see. If you leave Heaven out, everything will be doomed.
Originally, people were meant to live centered on heavenly principles. The standard of the conscience found within is what serves as the substitute for the heavenly principles in human life.
There is an ideology confronting this standard of conscience, and there is heavenly love confronting this standard of ideology. Restoration is the process by which one seeks the heavenly principles amid this internal environment.
All People Are God's Sons and Daughters
The time when we find our world, our people, our Tribe, and our nation and serve our Lord is the last days for which Heaven is hoping.
These are the last days determined by Jesus, when he came to the earth for the sake of God's will, the day of hope we should seek. It is the day for which Heaven, Jesus, and all of us are hoping. Everything will be resolved on that day.
It is the Principle that the Lord of the Second Advent will return in the same way he left. When you lose something, you must look for it where you lost it. If something is broken, you must fix it in the pattern opposite to the way it was broken.
Because this is an ironclad rule that is bound by the principles governing human affairs, the Lord of the Second Advent will return in the same way he left. You have to understand that things are recovered in the same way they were lost.
Today is the time when all that was granted to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden will be recovered. All the people who live in this land today are descendants of fallen Adam and Eve.
You are the descendants of fallen parents. You are not descendants of True Parents. Hence, you must become the descendants of True Parents again. What I mean is that you must receive the blessing of True Parents inside the realm of God's love, where you can relate to God and True Parents directly. You must then form a couple and enter the lineage of the True Parents.
Yet, until today, humanity has never properly governed the earth as children of the True Parents. They could not become the sons and daughters of the True Parents. Isn't this true?
Heaven labored for 4,000 years to establish a doctrine near humankind and raise their Lord. God raised Jesus, who cried out, “This world is mine. All people are my kinsmen, and God is my Father.” This is how God has come to be connected to human beings.
Yet, since Jesus could not realize this will on earth and died on the cross, Christ must return. This has elevated the last days as the day of judgment on the national level to that of the world level.
When Jesus returns to this world in the same manner he left it, he must accomplish the purpose left unfulfilled when he had to abandon everything and die on the cross. There must arise a movement of tribes around Jesus in the garden where the world-level ideology is established.
For this reason, a movement must unfold that promotes unification. This does not just apply to the unification of Christianity. All religions must work toward forming one body. Christians say, “You believe in Confucianism and Buddhism, so you will go to hell.” Yet, that is not how it is.
Go and see; you will find that it is not true. If that is how it is, then I will go to the next world and protest. That is not true. People are trying to pull Jesus over to their side. Since it is difficult to pull him horizontally, each claims that they are the best and drives him upward. All humanity dwells inside the realm of God's will.
Jesus abandoned, all at once, the people and his lineage, which God had worked 4,000 years to establish. He gave up Judaism and the chosen people, for whom God had toiled for 4,000 years. This does not mean that the chosen people have lost all connection to God. They had absolute bonds with God.
They could claim, “God is our God,” under any circumstance. When Jesus gave up these people, heaven, earth, and humanity also gave them up. Consequently, the Jewish people became the most pitiful people on earth. They had to wander throughout the world and be persecuted by other people.
We who hold our hope in Heaven have also lived miserable lives. Although people have been ignorant of this, when the day comes, we will rise to the position where we will be respected, based on the movement of world history.
The chosen people, who could have possessed the glorious worldwide ideology had they been faithful to Jesus, have suffered all ordeals and have been seeking. Hence, the people who were blessed by God are no longer any different from those who were not blessed.
Jesus forsook the people whom God had raised to claim the world. Jesus was not attached to a narrow mentality, promoting only the good of his religious tradition.
He moved forward with a new ideology and a firm determination that if the Jewish people were to disbelieve him, then he would march forward without them. When we reflect on Jesus' attitude, we learn that Christians today must repent.
Let Us Become the Heavenly People Who Unite the World Based on the Heart
When we summarize these things, we can understand that it is required by the Principle that, after democracy has settled and new doctrines have arisen, religions must be united. What must we do to remain on the side of democracy?
To remain in the free world, Jesus must be with us. If a nation lives for the entire world and all humanity together with Jesus, abandoning everything for the sake of Heaven, then it will remain intact.
Jesus called out to God even when everything he had was taken away from him.
Jesus was intoxicated with the love of Heaven, to which he clung, and he offered all that he had. If we follow Jesus, we will remain alive. When a person possesses this ideology, all other people will be defeated at their hands.
What determination should we, the pitiful people of the Korean Peninsula, make? Upon what should we reflect? We must pray with burning zeal, “We who live in this divided nation have given up all that we possess.
Without any hesitation, we have left behind our parents, brothers and sisters, families, tribes, and all our material things. Heaven, we wish that You would allow the place on which we stand to become Gethsemane, where Jesus cried out. We wish this land to be the garden of Gethsemane on the world level.
We hope that it can become Golgotha on the world level.” If many young men and women are found in this nation who offer this kind of prayer, this nation will never perish.
Those who pray, “Even if history, this age, our ideology, and our tribes are to be abandoned, we will not forsake that which Heaven loves,” will come to dominate the world. These are the true people of Heaven.
It has been said that Jesus will return in the same way he left, yet where can we find his footsteps?
Where can we find the sorrowful heart he felt in the garden of Gethsemane?
Where can we find the sorrowful heart Jesus felt when he was carrying the cross to Golgotha, shedding tears, sweat, and blood? Jesus is not the problem; we must find the heart of Jesus.
Those who forgive through the heart, unite through the heart, harmonize through the heart, and live in the genuine love of humanity will live inside the garden of hope.
Only when people become masters who can look at the world through their hearts will all things in this universe find peace.
Only then can we call God “our Father” and hold on to Him, overcoming any number of hills of grief built up throughout the 6,000 years. These are the actual fruits of Jesus, who cried out in the garden of Gethsemane and was crucified on the hill of Golgotha.
Only when such people emerge can all of humanity serve God and unite with each other in harmony in the garden of goodness as members of the same family. That is not the world of those who want to receive. It is a place where those who want to give reside.
Satan is the one who has fought hard to seize and receive throughout history. The Kingdom of Heaven on earth, which we pursue, is the world of those who promote goodness and unity not for their own sake, but for other people.
God infused the concept of the chosen people into the Israelites, yet the true chosen people are those who can practice the concept of the chosen people in their lives.
Therefore, the person whom God has been seeking understands God's sorrow over having lost the chosen people. He is one who fully manifests the idea of the chosen people, whose purpose is to build the Kingdom of Heaven.
The place of unity of all people is the place where the idea of the chosen people is fully manifested in harmony. Therefore, those who live inside this realm will never perish.
What is more, when we base our actions on this ideal, everything we do will work out smoothly. The world of those who live with such a heart to live for others and give to others is the world of God's will.
It is the world where God's will is fulfilled. It is the garden of hope for which God suffered all tribulations and hardships.
Those Who Truly Love Heaven Are Those Who Sacrifice All They Have and Live for the Sake of God's Will
If we can find an ideal nation on earth, which nation would that be?
We will call that nation “the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.” Only when that nation is realized can we realize the will of God's blessing to Adam and Eve: “Govern all things when you have grown to perfection.”
Only then can human beings emerge as the true masters of this earth. Only then can humanity become true brothers and sisters to each other and the true sons and daughters of God. Before God, we must become true sons and daughters of filial piety and loyal subjects. We must stand before the world as the true masters.
When we accomplish this, God will pass to us all our rightful powers, not just external powers, but also the internal center of the heart. We will become sons and daughters to whom God can entrust everything and be at peace.
Such sons and daughters are greater than any patriot, woman of chastity, or son or daughter of filial piety. The day must come when we can be proud of these people before the world.
Although communists today have created models of ethics and heroism based on their ideology, this is not what democracy has done. We must surpass them and honor those heroes who have made contributions to the fulfillment of God's ideals and respect their characters.
We must follow in their footsteps and possess their ideals to become people who can march toward the world of God's ideals.
Dwelling inside this realm, we must march forward to the day when we can unite this world and humanity as one and attend to the Lord of our hope, the day when we can become one with the creation on behalf of heaven and earth.
God seeks those who truly love Heaven and their nation, those who long for that one day as they offer all they have and continue to battle with the determination to sacrifice everything.
