Humankind Wanders In Search of the Truth

Today, you may know very well that you feel indescribably impetuous and busy, yet at the same time, you feel sad.

You cannot deny that there is a mind within you, nor that there is some kind of purpose within the mind's yearning, which causes the mind to ceaselessly seek to influence and absorb the body into that purpose. You cannot deny that you live in a condition where you feel that something, even if you do not know what it is, is leading you ceaselessly toward an unknown destination.

If you feel something like this, you must re-examine your mind and body. If there is some kind of ideological, invisible world of which human beings are ignorant, we must re-examine ourselves centered upon the spirit of that world.

Thus, by forming a relationship of oneness with that ideological realm, you can continue in a certain direction. If you do not do that, there will be no peace in your hearts. Even though you may hope for peace and other things, your hopes will not be attained. I affirm and assert this to you.

As you study the Principle, you learn that humankind was originally good. Yet history has proven that because of the mistake of one day, humans became beings who were not good. Religious people have proven this to be so; we cannot deny that fact.

The standard of good is the ideology that all of us are pursuing. That is our hope.

Furthermore, it is the center of eternal love that is moving inside our minds, the focal point of any ideology of feeling. At the same time, the standard of good leads our minds to pursue an absolute resting place. It operates as an influence that, transcending time and space, controls our bodies, the direction of our minds, and the ideology we seek.

This standard of goodness must become the center of all that I am in mind, body, and spirit.

Thus, by relating to this freely, we must transform and create an environment where an individual's emotions in life can be connected to the emotions of the whole.

Otherwise, we cannot find the value of our minds or bodies, nor the value of spiritual movements.

Please review yourselves. Toward what are your bodies moving? Toward what are your minds moving? Where is your spiritual body headed? Even though humans are destined, certainly, to seek a true form of the absolute ideology, a true form of good, a true form of life, and love, we now want.

The question becomes, in what direction and at what angle am I compared to the direction and angle of the absolute good? If my mind wishes to go right, why am I going left?

My mind wishes to have a higher ideology. Why, then, do I have a limited view of the universe?

Individuals today are walking the path of restoration to find their original selves to escape this situation. Now, the time to look soberly at yourselves has arrived. You must be able to look at the headstrong attitude with which you strive and search.

Your minds and spirits must transform into incarnations that can represent the value of glory. No such figure has appeared since the Creation. Therefore, we must realize that we must walk the path in which we search for something unknown, the path of fate.

There is body, mind, and spirit in each of us. We must become a being who has a unified body, mind, and spirit. Accordingly, if some kind of Creator exists, then the one who can be led to the presence of that Creator and be embraced and who can embrace others will be the one for whom the Creator is looking. We humans are looking for that person, too.

My mind commands my body to seek true things. It is commanding me to seek a true body first. Humanity today is wandering about seeking that which is true without knowing what it is. Because they are living in this world, which is deeply penetrated by the bitter resentment caused by the fall, they are being drawn into the fate of having to seek what is true without knowing what it is.

Now you must realize that you cannot rejoice over your original selves. You must know yourselves to be faced with grief, yet you are not to feel sad. Even if you feel pain, you must not feel pain from things that happen in the world.

If you are to feel sadness and pain, you must feel the sadness and pain of not having been able to find your true self.

Who has God the Creator been looking for until now?

He is looking for you—that is, “me.” For that reason, I must find the true me. If not, I cannot make a connection with a true family centered on perfect, substantial entities, a society, a nation centered on true families, and a world made up of states, or a macrocosm made up of worlds. Becoming a perfect “me” is the standard for all the other stages.

God has been feeling immeasurably sad about humanity for 6,000 years.

You must realize that there is no more mortifying event than that of having lost one's beloved sons and daughters.

Although the whole of creation fills up the universal space, that is not what is important. The whole macrocosm has turned into a world of deathly darkness because of the loss of Adam and Eve. What is more, God is feeling endless pain and sorrow.

They must reflect upon God's shimjeong at the time of the loss. Otherwise, there is no way to restore the original “me.”

In the same manner that you can recover what you lost only when you go back to the place where you lost it, you must reflect upon God's shimjeong at the time of losing “me” to restore yourself. Without this, individuals cannot restore their original selves.

That is why Heaven has been seeking human beings for 6,000 years. In other words, God has come through the 6,000-year historical course to restore me, the individual. That 6,000-year historical course has been full of blood and tears, paths of persecution and death.

While coming through such a course, God has fought to seek me, the individual being, not forgetting the heart of pain or the tears of sorrow He shed after losing Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden 6,000 years ago.

Treating the 6,000 years like a day, with the shimjeong of the time of loss, God has come forth fighting to recover humankind. You must understand the heart of God.

Because the sorrow started from God's heart 6,000 years ago, history until today has remained sorrowful. The fruit of sorrow has accrued to us. Therefore, humanity's sorrow cannot be eliminated before we alleviate the sorrow that penetrated the depths of God's heart. We must realize this.

The tangled thread will have to be untangled where the tangling occurred. It must be restored to its original state through indemnity. This is the ironclad rule of the calcific providence.

If this is the ironclad rule, we human beings today must realize that the historical age of conclusion will come when we must wander about seeking the heart that was lost to find and establish ourselves.

Judgments will be made having decided upon a standard of shimjeong.

Looking at yourselves today, you must know that your bodies are stained with the tears of God's sorrow of 6,000 years, with the blood of God's pain. The bitter resentment against evil has pierced to the very marrow.

What is more, you must know that God's sorrow and pain regarding eliminating this condition of bitter resentment have penetrated deeply into all of our hearts.

When humans were cast out of ancient Eden, they grieved and centered on themselves, not knowing God's heart. Thus, forgetting our body's sorrow and pain, we must first liberate God from sorrow and pain. Unless we do this, we cannot dissolve the grievous historical resentment and move beyond it.

Therefore, you must now feel that each of us is a crystallization of God's tears of 6,000 years. We are not only the crystallization of God's tears, but we are also the crystallization of God's pain. Only from such a position will our value be restored to life again.

For that reason, we who are placed in the last days, when we must dissolve the sorrow and pain caused by the fall, must now represent God's heart. We must know how to grieve and receive pain in place of God, who has grieved and received pain for 6,000 years.

Since humans have no comprehension of this, you must know that Heaven has unfolded the dispensation, shedding tears for humanity, having laid down the term “Heaven's judgment.”

How is one to avoid judgment?

We are not to cry, holding on to our bodies or over our pain. We must know the pain of God, who bears greater pain than ours, to save us.

We must know that God's sorrows and difficulties are greater than ours. We must deny everything about ourselves and dissolve all the pain that has penetrated deeply into the heart of God, who has been guiding history from behind the scenes.

Today's humanity is fated to seek the one who can carry out such a mission.

Viewed from this standpoint, for fallen humans to break out of themselves and go on, what must they do? What can move my mind, what can move my body, and the material that I have? That is the shimjeong of perfect love.

You must become people who can feel that your spirit embraces your mind and loves it, that your mind embraces your body and loves it, and that your body embraces all creation and loves it. Such a person is the very destination and terminus we are seeking.

However, no one has accomplished this. Although God is holding on to our spirits, our minds, and our bodies and is loving them, no one could feel that. You must know this.

If God embraces my spirit and loves it, my spirit loves my mind, my mind loves my body, and my body loves all creation, the shimjeong will then become united.

In such a world, the shimjeong that loves all creation will be connected to the body; the shimjeong that loves the body will be connected to the mind; the shimjeong that loves the mind will be connected to the spirit; and the shimjeong that loves the spirit will be connected to God.

This is the terminus humanity seeks. No one takes hold of you and asks, “Do you know what mission you are entrusted with?” Yet, though you are not aware of it, there is a being who stands in your way and asks, “Who are you? Where are you going? What will you do?” You do not realize this.

Do you understand that?

God's love is the foothold of the eternal ideology of the heavenly kingdom for the building of the substantial heavenly kingdom on earth. However, humankind lost God's love, the ideological foundation of the eternal world, because of the fall.

Because of God, God had to leave. That is why God's love, which can build the heavenly kingdom on earth, has gradually been broken down.

The fall was the loss of God's love. When we think of the course of the fall, what kind of path did it take? At the very first, Eve lost God's love. Next, Adam lost God's love, and their children did the same. You know this very well. Human history is the history of losing love.

Who was the first person to step forth after having discussed love? It was Eve. Who was next? It was Adam. Next were Cain and Abel. These are the archetypes of fallen history. This model of fallen history took place in the beginning. Individuals have been walking through this kind of history ever since.

Love is the center that can command the whole universe. It is a subjective center, a commanding center, and a tolerating center. This is the ideology of love. This ideology was to be the foundation of history.

Thus, when we study the historical course, there were primitive ages in the time of clan societies centered on the maternal line. This is because Eve, the mother, discussed love for the first time. After the tribal society, history centered on the paternal line. Thereafter, coming into the age of democracy today, the age of brotherhood began.

History, which has flowed in that fashion, has now arrived in the last days. It has become impossible to find love for parents among human beings nowadays. The democratic nations today are like that.

In the end, the time will come when anything attempting to resemble husband and wife from the position of brother and sister will be broken apart. Hence, the ladder of love that can connect Heaven and humanity today is being disconnected.

Consequently, humankind today is living in the position of an orphan who lost parental love, lost true conjugal love, and lost true brotherly love.

These phenomena formerly took place vertically in advanced nations, but now these phenomena are taking place horizontally throughout the world.

The fall took place because Adam and Eve were unable to make a vertical relationship with God and instead made an objective and horizontal relationship with Satan. Therefore, human beings in the final pages of history today are crying out for egalitarianism, centering on democracy.

What event took place in the Adam and Eve family because of the fall?

Cain killed Abel. Abel was a substitute for Eve. Therefore, in advanced nations today, where egalitarianism is being advocated, women have more authority than men.

Accordingly, this is the time to set up the vertical side through the horizontal side.

Since humankind cannot form a complete vertical relationship, everything is falling to pieces.

The path you seek today is the path of a new ideology, the path of life, and the path of love that Heaven is presenting. You must realize that you are standing in the historical course where you must proceed, seeking the path of love that introduces you to this new ideology and life.

What kind of parents have you lost? What kind of man and wife have you lost?

What kind of children did you lose? You lost the parents who did not fall, the man and wife who did not fall, and the children who did not fall.

Thus, a throng of people who can surmount the sorrow of Eden and win the joy of Eden will have to emerge on this earth now. Unless such a throng appears, God's 6,000-year restoration providence will face a critical moment of fundamental collapse.

Salvific history has conformed to the principles of indemnity. It was a history in which the sovereign authority has been carried over from mother to father, from father to children.

Now we have ushered in a great historical conversion age. Therefore, the fortune of heaven and earth is being restored to life again. You must know that humanity is placed in the inevitable fateful course of restoration through indemnity.

Therefore, in the present world, equal rights between the sexes are being advocated. The time for women to receive better treatment from men is here. Don't you think so? This is the process of restoring, through indemnity, the fact that Eve, the mother, ruled Adam in Eden in reverse.

The history initiated by the fall was not normal. It was a discriminatory, one-sided, and one-directional history.

Therefore, it must turn back the way it has come. Heaven unfolded the dispensation of dividing humans, cast out by the fall, into two sides: one on the left, the other on the right.

Likewise, division into left and right has also taken place between man and woman, between human beings, between states, and between the world. The left symbolizes what is wrong, and the right symbolizes what is right.

Humans lost their innate character because they fell. That is why they have walked the path of good, according to the truthful reporting of the conscience.

Today, you must stand steadfast before Heaven and become central figures who can govern the whole universe. What is the essence that can determine the central figure of all creation?

It is not vitality or ideology. It is love.

That is why Corinthians 13:13 says,

“Faith, hope, and love abide, these three, but the greatest of these is love.”

St. Paul spoke thus because this is the path a person must walk.

Jesus had to establish a standard of love that could demonstrate the position of children by uniting the internal spirit and the external flesh. Because the Israelite people did not believe in him, that standard could not be established.

What must the Holy Spirit accomplish by embracing spiritual children among the faithful on earth? She must recapture the ideology of Eden. That is why the Holy Spirit came.

Therefore, we must seek the Savior, the bridegroom, by the moral obligations of the children of the Holy Spirit. Yet, Christians seek the Savior on the ideological level. We do not attain the state of unity between the spirit and flesh.

People who walk the path of righteousness, the path of faith, must also lead a life of denying the flesh. Faithful people have wandered, searching for the world of the mind and the world of the spirit in such a way.

The faithful believers of today, the children, must continue toward restoration, focused upon the Holy Spirit as their spiritual mother, seeking to unite the spirit and flesh. The mother, Eve, governed the father, Adam, in the Garden of Eden.

Inversely, the mother must be governed properly now and her correct position restored. After this, the children are governed.

The hope of Eden must be attained by uniting the spirit and the flesh. Since the spirit and flesh were severed by the fall, humans must unite them. What is more, humankind must not only stand in a vertical position but also in a horizontal position. Because humans have continued in a one-sided way, rather than taking an all-directional view, their minds and bodies have become separated, and their minds and spirits have become divided.

Jesus left the Holy Spirit to work on the earth after his coming and ascension. That will not suffice, however. Because Jesus left behind the promise of his Second Coming, he must return to keep that promise. The

ideology of the Second Coming is to seek the physical mother who was lost in the Garden of Eden. By governing the fallen mother, the restored mother will have to restore the physical father's position. Thus, Jesus' hope will be realized.

The realization of this hope is attainable in a world where spirit and flesh are united. Only when that happens will parents with united spirit and flesh appear for the first time before Heaven and Earth.

In light of this Principle, the day when a one-dimensional view of history changes to an all-directional historical view will inevitably have to come. For that reason, if humanity takes only a one-sided viewpoint today, it cannot help but writhe in agony in the world of sadness.

What do we who are walking the fated path of restoration seek? We must seek our true bodies, which we can love forever, and seek the parents of our bodies. Before we find the parents of our bodies, there is no way that the parents of our minds, the parents of our spirits, can appear.

The creation of heaven and earth began with external matter. That is why you begin writing from the left side when you write.

You do not write from the right side. This is an expression of how the world of the ideology of creation exists.

When will the moans from the pain of human beings end?

Not until we usher in the day when we find the parents who can love our bodies in place of God. No matter how great you are, you have lost the innate, true physical parents.

Therefore, without true parents, true children cannot exist. This world cannot avoid being a world of sin and evil, a world of hell and pain.

God has been seeking such a person. Through the spirit, God has been seeking our spirits and bodies. God is the True Parent of humankind. He exists as the True Parent of our spirits and minds.

While God stands in the position of a Parent who has united the spirit and mind, He forewarned humankind of the day when humankind would find physical parents and meet them. That day is the Marriage of the Lamb.

Now such a time has come. That is why, having passed through the age of the maternal line, humanity passed through the age of the paternal line and has now entered into the age of brotherhood.

Although humanity emerges with new doctrines, assertions, and systems, if an ideal object, ideal brothers, ideal children, and ideal parents cannot emerge, those doctrines, assertions, and systems will all break down. How far out will humanity be pushed? It will be pushed out to a position of less than all things. It will arrive on the day of judgment.

Viewed from this standpoint, humanity today must wander about searching for True Parents. Substantial True Parents, with physical bodies, must come seeking humanity with a new ideology and vision. The world where humans live ministering to the True Parents is the veritable ideal world. To accomplish such a world, Jesus left a word that he would return. That is why the term “Second Coming” came into existence.

After finding yourselves in such a position before the whole created world, the time has come to subdue your flesh. You must voluntarily subdue your flesh in place of Satan attacking you. This is the path of righteousness. You must subdue your flesh.

We cannot seek the path of the parents, the path of love, alone as individuals. Why is that? Each of us came to exist in this world of sin and evil, having passed through the fallen historical course. We live within the realm of the epochal fate of the fall.

Therefore, this path cannot be sought alone. A tangle of historical problems lies within it. There is the problem of the family, the problems of society, nations, and the world. Furthermore, there is the problem of the spirit world. Only when we form ties with the world of the new ideology and parley with it can the world of ideological love be sought.

The path of righteousness is the path we seek after fighting through hardships. This is the course of God, who has been fighting on the course of restoration for 6,000 years.

What then are you? You are a sacrificial offering representing 6,000 years. To be the sacrificial offering representing 6,000 years, you must gain knowledge of the heart of God, who has made humankind offer sacrifices for 6,000 years.

What was it like when Adam and Eve were cast out of the realm of God's love after they fell in the Garden of Eden? They lamented their misfortune.

This was the origin of the tears of humankind and the beginning of pain and suffering. Yet, the sadness of Adam and Eve was not all there was. God had a shimjeong of greater sadness than that of Adam and Eve when He cast them out. Humans do not know this. You must know this.

Thus, you are the tribe cast out of the realm of God's love and have become its descendants. While individuals are grieving, centered on their misfortunes, God is grieving even today, looking at individuals who have been cast out.

What must humans, made outcasts for having centered on themselves and betrayed Heaven, do for restoration? They must become beings who can shed tears, holding on to God's sorrow, God's pain, and feelings of dejection, having denied all things of their own. They must not be influenced in the least by the presence of their grief, their feelings of dejection, and death. Otherwise, they cannot be restored.

For that reason, Christianity cried out, “Repent!” This means to weep bitterly. In other words, we must restore the origin of history, which began with weeping. To achieve that, we must not cry over our sorrow. We must be able to cry, holding on to God, who has embraced humankind for 6,000 years, who fell to the line of death and shed tears and grieved in pain without humanity being aware of it.

If there exists a person of such tears, God will say to him, “Yes, you are the very son I love.” Accordingly, if a person emerges whom God can joyfully receive with such words, God will be able to indemnify the whole experience of having grieved and been subjected to mistreatment and suffering. His resentment will be dissolved.

He is the true father of humanity. He is the man who came to the earth with the heart of a True Parent, in the place of God, after the lapse of 4,000 years. He was the father who came to meet, embrace, and love the humans who had struggled in misery for 4,000 years.

Individuals could not recognize Jesus as such and instead crucified him. Only after they had killed him did they realize he was their true father.

Jesus, who was our true father, came to this earth to lead us to life. Although one might have killed Jesus without knowing such things, there would be no one who would not shed tears if he realized that it was truly his father he killed. No matter how terrible a villain or robber who has killed human beings, even an unimpressive person will weep bitterly, beating his chest. It is impossible for him not to know of the Father's sorrow.

From this standpoint, it can be construed that Jesus' death on the cross became an impetus for human beings to weep bitterly. Humankind was ignorant of the heart of the Parents, who had toiled for them for 4,000 years. Therefore, he who has met the cross must weep bitterly.

Remembering that humanity killed Jesus, who came to this earth as the True Parent representing Heaven, one must weep bitterly first for the sake of God, then for the sake of the True Parent who came, and further for the sake of humanity on the earth.

The time to weep for one's benefit has passed. The time to weep for the sake of one's family, one's society, and one's nation has also passed. Now we must weep bitterly for the sake of the world, for Heaven, and for the Holy Father, the Holy Son, and the Holy Spirit.

You must know that only then can we participate in the realm of ideology that has dominion over the whole of the created world, centered on love.

Although they killed him, human beings came to realize that Jesus was the True Parent. Feeling sorrow and keen regret over the loss of their True Parent, they wished for him to be resurrected. Because human beings have that kind of true character, God is sending the Lord of the Second Coming to fulfill that wish.

The faithful believers of the last days, who are to usher in the Lord of the Second Coming, will have to shed tears together. They will have to shed tears representing history and the eras as substitutes for those events and times. Thereafter, they will have to shed tears of joy.

We must shed such tears while we live. Although human beings have shed tears of sorrow, they could not shed tears of happiness. That is why human beings have been anxiously looking forward to the day when they can shed tears of joy. That is the day of the Second Coming, the day when they regain the lost True Parent.

The True Parent you so anxiously await was not coming after only a few decades of preparation, nor was there preparation for only the lifespan of a human being. The preparation time was 6,000 years. When he comes, he is not coming in comfort.

Even while you sleep comfortably, Heaven took pains to seek you. Having the appearance of a beggar, a poor person, a wanderer, a prisoner, or a persecuted and extremely miserable person, Heaven has been seeking you, starting from the bottom of the human echelon.

Therefore, even while you were sleeping, Heaven walked forward on the path of tears, the path of sorrows, the path of being swallowed up in a storm, the path on which there is not a moment of rest. Such was the path Jesus walked and the path of numerous prophets and sages.

You must realize the sorrowful fact that, even where you eat comfortably and rest in comfort, the sounds of undeserved pain and the bitter weeping of Heaven are heard. Unless you hear them, you are not qualified to receive love from the True Parent.

Thus, you must feel greatly indebted, even as you sleep and eat. You must feel that you are the sinner of sinners, whom Heaven and Earth cannot forgive. You must realize that the things I see, the things I hear, and all the facts I see and feel are insufficient. “I am the fruit of a traitor.” You must feel that you did not know about God, who wandered searching for you.

Faithful believers today must know this situation and be able to weep bitterly, holding the hands of their brothers and sisters. Looking at a beggar wandering about in the street, you must know how to weep bitterly, embracing him. When you look at a laborer in hardship, you must be able to lament, saying, “How did my brother end up in such a miserable situation?”

When we lift our eyes to our brothers' plight, we must feel compelled to seek the historical course of the heavenly principles and raise them. Through them, we must seek and raise ourselves.

God has been anxiously awaiting human beings who, knowing this, are steeped in such feelings as to be able to relate to every person they meet. He has been shedding tears for the emergence of such people for 6,000 years. Meanwhile, one who eats his fill and rests, even after seeing the starvation of other people, will be judged. Those who dance, content with themselves, while other people are in need, will be judged.

What must humanity do? Even if you are starving, you must have feelings of deep regret for the starvation of your brothers and sisters. Even if I cannot eat or wear good things, I must live for the good of my brothers and sisters and the sake of the world's humanity.

By doing so, you must achieve restoration by indemnifying what Heaven has wept for, weeping for the sake of humanity in the world. You must understand that Heaven is seeking this kind of faithful believer.

When has anyone throughout the 6,000-year historical course faced the Father in Heaven with such a heart? Who has ever called Heaven “Father” and called the rest of humanity “his true brothers and sisters”?

Where are the minds of the professionals who guide the religious orders today, the teaching professionals who are said to be walking the course of faith? The people Heaven has anxiously sought for 6,000 years of history, who took part in the difficulties, grief, and hopes of Heaven, also went a path like this.

Where are your minds and bodies going? You must make this clear. You must realize that you belong to humanity, which must resolve this matter; humanity, which is deeply steeped in the bitter resentment of the fall.

The character who goes down in history has not stepped forth to assert himself. If one is to be recorded in the history of the people, he should be a person who has stepped forth holding on to the people, to society.

To be a worldwide character, he must step forth on behalf of the world. To be a heavenly character, he must be one who stepped forth on behalf of Heaven.

Because you are the sinners of sinners who killed your parents and cannot be forgiven, you must think it natural that even if someone calls you bad names and persecutes you, even if you become the target of pursuit and are hounded, you will have to say, “Thank you,” having felt God's sorrow and historical mortification.

The place where one can shed tears, embracing brothers and sisters who curse you, is the place where you can connect to God's heart.

The path upon which one walks bearing the heart of Jesus, who worried about the ones who were striking him on the cross and prayed in tears for them, is the prototypical path a true man must walk. He must walk this path, penetrated by this heart to the very marrow of his bones.

You are sacrificial offerings. All Unification members must become sacrificial offerings. Heaven wants historical sacrificial offerings.

What kind of being is a sacrificial offering? It is someone who lifts his head for the first time after God and all humankind rejoice. If Christianity today lifts its head before God and all humankind rejoices, it will break down.

If Christianity does not fulfill its mission to serve all humankind, if it does not function as a sacrificial offering for the sake of all humankind, then the time has come for reform.

Jesus, who is the King of Kings and the Crown Prince of Heaven, is unable to be glad and rejoice. He came as a sacrificial offering. Even if God and the faithful believers rejoice in him, Jesus, the sacrificial offering, cannot rejoice in himself.

Only after God and all humankind rejoice in themselves can Jesus rejoice in himself for the first time. That is the day of the Second Coming. This is the path a sacrificial offering walks.

When you look at all the persecution that the people of Korea receive, how do you feel? We Koreans have walked a path of all kinds of suffering through 2,000 years of history. If we were sad, we did not know where to go to appeal. Even if there was mortification and injustice, we did not know how to complain about it. What should we do then, we Koreans?

Although we are like orphans, we must be able to weep bitterly, holding hands among ourselves. By this alone will these people come to life.

Regardless of whether brothers and sisters have made mistakes or not, since they are brothers and sisters born with the blood and bones and flesh that Heaven granted, tolerant people who can weep to connect to the historical blood lineage and shimjeong of a parent, going beyond their situations, will have to emerge. Such young people are in great demand.

If there were such impassioned young people, where should they devote that passion? If they put their hearts into achieving success and satisfying their desires, their efforts will culminate in the limited individual realm. The original ideology of human beings is wanting to feel joy, holding on to God beyond infinity.

Accordingly, one must devote his passion to the sake of this original human ideology.

If God's dispensation was behind the historical course that this nation has come through, what kind of people would God demand at the end of that dispensation?

They would be the people who know how to cry for the realization of the Will of God. They would be the people who are determined to be sacrificial offerings above all, crying, having been involved with a Will, a shimjeong, and an action. Heaven will be seeking such people.

Facing the people 2,000 years ago, Jesus said, “He who loves father and mother more than me is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” (Matthew 10:37)

On the surface, what kind of contradictory, nonsensical remark is this? Although it seems incomprehensible, Jesus knew that humanity, fallen after having lost love, would all perish if they centered on themselves after history.

Jesus spoke to prevent that. If such a miracle had come about, that the words Jesus spoke then were put into practice by the people, the last 2,000 years would have been unique.

Now is the time to break down the parental love, conjugal love, and children's love that is not centered on Heaven. Christianity is to break down this kind of false love and teach parental love, children's love, and conjugal love centered on Heaven.

That is why Christianity uses the words “bride and bridegroom,” “father,” and “children.”

Fallen human beings have lost love. For the sake of such fallen human beings, Jesus came as the champion of love to restore heavenly love on the earth. However, Jesus left for the spirit world, unable to accomplish that task. That is why, having set up a spiritual standard of love, humankind is walking the course of restoring physical love. You must know this.

There is a top and a bottom, front and rear, and left and right. At the top are the parents, the children are at the bottom, and in the front and rear are the husband and wife. Brothers and sisters are to the left and right. This is the principle of love. Do you understand?

Humanity has to proceed to seek this path. Among these relationships, the conjugal relationship at the front and rear is the most important. That is why Jesus stressed the notion of the bridegroom and bride.

What kind of heart does Jesus seek in his bride?

He is trying to find the bride who represents God, the bride who represents the children, and the bride who represents brothers and sisters. Do you understand?

God's Will is to set up a standard on the earth by sending the bridegroom and bride. God intends to establish the form of a four-position foundation, centered on the bride, with God at the top, the children at the bottom, and brothers and sisters on the left and the right. The history of God seeking the bride, who is the object representing such love, is the 2,000-year providential course.

What then must you do now?

Males must respect females, and females must respect males. Only when mutual respect exists can females relate to males, and males relate to females. The male is the offshoot of the father, and the female is the offshoot of the mother. They are second selves.

For that reason, relating to each other as man and woman in the course of restoration, the person who looks at the object externally will be shattered. The object is one of the dual characteristics of God. That being the case, men have to respect women, and women have to respect men.

Human beings must walk the original course of mutual respect, seeking the reciprocating nature of each individual. Even when relating to one's children, the sons as the offshoot of the father, the daughters as the offshoot of the mother, the parent must have a heart of respect toward that gender.

One must become a parent who knows how to embrace and love their children, bearing in mind the ideology with which God created all of creation, having expanded His ideal and creating humankind as the master of all creation.

One must become a truthful parent who, upon seeing the children standing in the fallen world, is impassioned with the emotion with which God has grieved for 6,000 years, knowing how to shed tears, saying, “Yes, become a man in whom God takes delight, whom humanity anxiously awaits, and for whom all creation has longed.”

Because he saw things like this, Jesus had the qualification to relate to all creation and the universe. That is why Jesus searched for the bride with the emotion of seeking the replacement of God, the replacement of humanity, and the replacement of the descendants of many, many generations.

You must know that this was the heart of Jesus, the bridegroom. When you meet such a bride, you will feel the emotion of having embraced heaven and earth in love. When meeting with the parents as well as meeting with the children, it will be the same. You must become such a central person.

The day when we meet as brides and bridegrooms, equipped with substantial forms of united minds and bodies, ready to take the place of parents, children will have to come.

Only when that day comes will the tragedy-stricken things of heaven and earth, that is, the created world, blocked in heaven and on earth, be able to move in harmony in the directions of front and rear, left and right, and top and bottom. You must know that this is the day to which all of humanity is looking forward.

Where is the place humanity must seek today?

It is this very place. For you to seek this one place, you must be able to feel such a mind toward parents, brothers and sisters, and your objects. You must be able to feel the emotions of everything in the world.

You must be able to step forth in front of heaven and earth after equipping yourselves with such a heart of love. Only then, as God established Jesus and the Holy Spirit after working for 4,000 years, will you be established in the position of the embodied bridegroom, and you will come to meet the embodied bride.

This is God's purpose of creation. Meeting the embodied reciprocating partner is the objective of humanity. The ideal garden where God can enter into man's body and mingle as one with Him will then come to pass. You must know that this is the final objective humanity seeks. This is the inevitable fate humankind must attain. Let us pray.