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My New Self and the Heaven Where My New Self Can Dwell

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01The Ultimate Hope of Humanity and Our Reality

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Countless people live on this earth, yet no one can confidently say that they possess Heaven in their mind. The ideal world that humankind has admired and sought is surely heaven.

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In this world, many would wish to live well and be in a blessed position; however, those who can say “I lived well” and “I was blessed” are very few. When we look at this situation, we cannot deny that our life in this world is indeed not life in heaven, but it's the very opposite.

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I stand on such a borderline; I stand in a position to search for Heaven. We cannot deny that we should seek and live in such a place. Therefore, our mind searches for a better ideology, and our body seeks a better resting place.

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However, the place we can confidently say is the best in the whole of human history, the place where the original human mind can dwell, has not appeared yet. The lifestyle and social organization of such a life have not appeared in human history.

02Therefore, although our minds yearn for a world of hope, we are living amid difficulties in a situation where we cannot avoid the undesirable environment.

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Tomorrow will be the same. No one can deny that we live in an environment where we desire a world of hope, yet we live with lamentation and grief.

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We have to think again about the problem of when we will be able to fulfill the garden of hope, the garden of ideology, and the garden of happiness by overcoming ourselves and our environment. When will we be able to live centered on what we truly hope for? That is the most difficult problem humankind has to consider and resolve.

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This problem is so very troublesome that we cannot remain indifferent to it. Moreover, we know well enough through our life experience that our destiny does not allow our mind to stay cut off from the problem just because it is difficult to resolve.

03Were We Born in the Garden of Hope?

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We were born on this earth. However, we did not contemplate whether being born on this earth into our lives was a good or a bad thing. Many people do not even think about whether this reality is true or not.

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After being born and living our lives, we are bound to die, leaving our bodies behind. We know well that each of us must go over the valley of death.

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The issue of whether we die a true death is related to us and our lives. We should not forget that as we begin, so must we end.

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There may be many who are proud of the fact that they were born on this earth of their parents' lineage. However, a person with a true parental heart should grieve over the child she has borne.

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Even if a baby is lying in the cradle of happiness at birth, no one can be certain whether that child's whole life will be happy. The parent herself should experience a heart of sadness before a heart of happiness.

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If we acknowledge that the child is not born in the garden of happiness, then the life he will lead after birth will be the same; the valley of death he will cross after his life will be the same.

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We must not forget that we are living in this kind of realm. Let us ask ourselves, “Have I yearned for the true life? Have I lived a true life? Do I have the confidence to victoriously face death as I sing of the preciousness of true life?” Everyone would have to say, “No.”

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For these reasons, we cannot deny that all people are within the fallen realm and all people have a deplorable destiny. We are not in the world of the normal mind; we are in an abnormal world and environment.

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Consequently, no one can assert the word “happiness” from the day he is born to the day he dies. We have to remember that such things as happiness, the ideal, and hope have no relationship to us. The reason my mind is not happy is that I have not become a person who can be joyful.

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If I had a heart that substantiated hope, then I would rejoice amid that fulfilled hope. However, I do not possess such a joyful heart. If I had substantiated the ideal, then I would be in the position to confidently command all things to follow me, but I do not stand in such a position.

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Humankind should have possessed the true ideology, yet they did not. Humankind should have lived in a happy environment, yet they lost that environment. I should have become a person who sings the melody of liberty and peace and who returns the glory of all the happiness swelling in my heart to the Creator; yet I have not become such a person. We have to realize that there is nothing more miserable and sorrowful than this.

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Jesus bore the whole burden of the four-thousand-year history. He bore total responsibility for the forefathers in history. He bore all the ideologies of happiness and the Kingdom of Heaven and the hopes of humankind throughout history.

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Therefore, Jesus is indeed the friend among friends, the center among centers, the center of our total life. He is the center of hope and ideology and even of life and death. Jesus left a word of hope on this earth.

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Heavenly Father toiled over four thousand years of long history so humankind might gain new hope and recover happiness in the realm of the new heavenly ideology, coming out of the realm of lamentation and death.

04To Fulfill the Dispensation

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What kind of strategy is needed to fulfill this dispensation?

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God had to raise one person and sanctify him. Because people on this earth cannot establish a relationship with Heavenly Father as they are, He had to choose a people as He persevered through dispensational history.

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We know well the history of God's dispensation of the chosen people. God chose Noah, Abraham, and Moses for this purpose.

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God's heart desired to complete the four-thousand-year history by raising Jesus and resolving all historical heartaches through him. Therefore, Jesus was essential and indispensable for God and the Israelites, whom God chose for the historical dispensational will.

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Not only the chosen people, but all those who lived in the world then, needed Jesus. Even all things that existed in heaven and earth then necessarily needed Jesus.

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If we accept the existence of God, the central ideology that humankind desires, which will realize a joyful environment, must start with one principle standard. That would be an iron rule of the dispensation.

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We cannot solve any problem without using a formula. Likewise, one principle standard must be established, which will enable us to rigorously reject the historical resentment and introduce happiness into the hearts of humankind.

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If not, then even if there is some happiness, some ideology, and life in God, they cannot have any relationship with humankind. For that reason, God toiled to educate the Israelites in heart to represent His heart.

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Their happiness was to represent God's happiness. They were to uphold the ideology of God's nation. Accordingly, God sent Jesus after four thousand years of dispensation for Israel to build a garden of happiness and goodness by which they could connect with God in a real and substantial way.

05Who Was Jesus?

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Who was Jesus? During the four thousand years of the historical dispensation, no one was qualified to introduce the happiness of God.

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By the coming of Jesus, however, God's happiness was to be introduced at last, and the garden of happiness that God permitted was to be built. We should understand that Jesus was such a new being in history.

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The Israelites at that time should have known that Jesus represented the sole substantiation of the hope of their ancestors, the substantiation of the happiness their ancestors had fought to attain. He was the hope for the restoration of Israel's national sovereignty and the establishment of the heavenly foundation.

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Jesus resurrected the hope of the ancestors and of the earth, which was buried deeply in the heart of God. Moreover, he was the representative of God, the one whom God had sent to bring about a world where the ideal of the Kingdom of Heaven could be fulfilled.

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Jesus was our representative, the representative of humankind who would build the garden of happiness. The Israelites should have known this; however, they did not realize it.

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Therefore, even though Jesus came to this earth, he had to go without becoming the central person of the new world. He had to go without possessing the people of the new world and without building the society and nation of the new world.

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The world we live in today has fallen. Because nothing in this fallen world became the reality God hoped to fulfill, God can rejoice in nothing. God looks at this world with judgment; therefore, our lifestyle, environment, and nation cannot communicate purely with His heart.

06What does God long for now?

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He is longing for something new. When Jesus appeared before Judaism and the Pharisees, who bragged of being chosen, he said, “The things you assert and have pride in are not enough.”

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We should know that Jesus' three-year public life was the record of the battle he fought to declare and proclaim that everyone had to go through him, that he was the cosmic new being who brought a new ideology and worldview.

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Jesus hoped that his disciples and the numerous people who followed him would become new people. Nevertheless, among those who met Jesus at that time, only a few believed and understood that Jesus came to introduce and build a new heart, a new ideology, a new life, and new happiness.

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Therefore, when Jesus came, he could not speak fully about these things and the blueprint for the new world before he departed.

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Nicodemus appeared before this agonized Jesus. He was a government officer of Judea, a person in the position of a teacher and leader of the chosen people. Jesus emphasized to him the necessity of being reborn. We are destined to be reborn today, just as Jesus said.

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If there is a last day in the six thousand years of history, then God expects to resolve everything at that time. God knows that He should judge and resolve this sinful world at a certain time.

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Therefore, we are walking our course of faith today, fearing the last days. What kind of time is the last day? It is time to liquidate the old and assert the new.

07Things Jesus Brought to Fulfill the Will of God

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When we consider the course of history, numerous assertions of the past have changed as history progressed. As we face the last days today, democracy and communism are confronting each other, and each is looking to dominate the other.

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Therefore, you should know that the time is coming when a new direction out of this battleground is to be discovered.

08God is hoping that humankind will become his new second self.

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For that reason, our conscience is searching for our new self, which is different from our present self. If we live conscientiously, we cannot deny this. Our conscience constantly feels, “Oh, things should not be like this.

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We should not live like this.” This indicates that we realize this kind of society, this kind of world, must change. Accordingly, by the action of our conscience, we can find peace of mind, where we move toward our new selves and the new ideology without being consciously aware of it.

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Jesus came to complete God's four thousand years of restoration history. What did he bring? He brought new life, a new ideology, and new love.

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If a certain heavenly fortune were to flow through your heart today, would you feel the vitality of life to join and move with that fortune? Do you feel the heart of the one central ideology that can move all beings, all cosmic ideological existence?

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Do you feel the heart of love that can embrace and melt all existence? We do not.

09If God Exists

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If God exists, who is He? He is the Subject of life who moves all beings that possess life today, tomorrow, and into eternity. Moreover, all living beings have an inherent nature to want to be with God eternally, to live centered on God, and to share life and death with God. God is the Subject of the realm of ideology and this inescapable world. Moreover, God dominates the whole cosmos with love and heart, pouring out all His passion.

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Today, we are yearning for a new heart. We are seeking a new ideology.

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Where would that new ideology end?

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It is not a place of mere human involvement. Rather, it is a place where God and “I” can be together.

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In the historic last days, there will surely be judgment. What is judgment? The judgment will clear out all the conditions that are set between God and humankind. When these conditions are resolved, a new history will start where God and humankind directly intertwine.

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If that does not occur, then God is powerless. If God does not move His dispensation centering on such a person, then there should not be the word “judgment” in Christianity today.

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However, there is certainly an important word called “judgment.” Therefore, we can undoubtedly understand that the God who drives His providence toward that purpose exists.

10Six Thousand Years of Dispensational History and I

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We lost everything due to the fall. I lost the central figure who is the subject of life; I lost the central figure of ideology; I lost the central figure of love. Our mind, therefore, yearns for a life that can taste true joy. Our mind longs for a better cosmic ideology. Our heart demands a higher love.

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The life, the ideology humankind sought, and the love that was entangled in fallen people's emotions started from fallen history, not from the garden where God's ideal is fulfilled. Therefore, now is the time when a life force that can drive away all the things resulting from the six thousand years of history is needed.

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We need a life force that can represent history and drive away all the things that boosted the power and value of life during the six thousand years.

What is the six-thousand-year history?

It is the history of the restoration of humankind, which possesses life force. Therefore, we should have the great power of life which can drive away everything that moved within the realm of Satan's protection and rule for six thousand years. We should realize that only then can we be reborn as our new selves.

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To present ourselves as new selves, we should have an ideology that can drive away any thought or ideology formed through the six-thousand-year history. If we cannot, then we cannot come forward as the vanguard of the new age. I cannot be reborn as my new self.

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Without possessing the great power of life, which can deny the six-thousand-year history, and without having a new ideology that can drive away any other kind of thought or ideology, I cannot become a new self.

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It does not end there. History has developed in a direction where human emotions of love are intertwined within our families. God has demanded this.

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However, since the family did not become the perfect foundation upon which the ideology can be practiced, it will all be broken apart in the last few days.

11What Kind of Time Is the Last Day?

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Humankind has brought about the civilization of the twentieth century and seems to move around the world freely. Nevertheless, when it comes to moving this world, their power in life is fragile.

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Their ideologies are in a state of utter ruin. Their emotions and love are in the same situation. Materially, people of the twentieth century have advanced worldwide; in the internal aspect of life, however, they are utterly weak. History is descending toward the age when no one possesses a fervent heart toward an ideology; no one can find the heart of true human love.

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As a result, when we look at the family in this age, we cannot find the heartistic relationship between husband and wife, parent and child, that can be proud before God. The relationships between husband and wife, brothers and sisters, and between friends are all the same. Not only righteousness and the laws of human morality, but even the standard of love itself is facing demise at this time.

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We have reached the time when God is about to demolish all these. For these reasons, now is the time when the great power of life and ideological authority is needed to straighten out this chaotic world.

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Such a time has come. The time has come for the love that contains the great power of life to be joined. Subsequently, all can unite and act toward one common purpose.

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God has spoken words to many people. God spoke of the chilling of love in the last days. He foretold that everyone would reject and betray God. God said that everyone would fall on the suffering and painful path when the time came.

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If one possesses the power of eternal life, then he will overcome any pain; however, in the last days, God said they would betray Him and their heart of love would fracture. Such a time is the last days.

What Will the Lord Bring When He Comes Again?

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What will God bring when He comes again?

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Since we know that God is not going to destroy the world but will come again with a new ideology, what will He bring? He will come with the great power of life and the authority of a new ideology. He will come with the origin of love. Such a person is called “the Lord” in Christianity.

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We who have trod and walked the course of fallen history need the touch of life, which is stronger, more permanent, and more eternal than anything we have enjoyed or experienced before. The place where we experience such a touch will be our eternal resting place, a place we would never want to leave.

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The three disciples who saw the transfiguration of Elijah, Moses, and Jesus wanted to remain in that place. Have you attained and experienced the state of the heart where you feel, “This is my eternal resting place, the place of eternal happiness?

This is where there is no beginning and no end. When one appears with the great power of life to which all creation will bow their heads, he will naturally become the master of all things. In his ideological world, all things and even God would want to rest and remain.

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When his loving, emotional heart wells up, all things should want to harmonize with it. Even God should want to rejoice with it. There is such a loving, emotional state. If these contents are not fulfilled in the last days of human history, then God's dispensation will end in destruction. The whole dispensation of God for this world would become a total failure.

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God has been toiling until now, for He cannot allow such a conclusion. Therefore, we cannot deny that the garden of new life, new ideology, and new love will certainly come to humankind today.

12What Should We Do as We Enter the Last Days?

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What should I, as an individual, do in these last days?

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To solve this problem, we have to hold on to the Messiah who came for all people. Humanity has progressed to today through numerous historical relationships.

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God's dispensational history was brought about through the chosen people God so lovingly chose. This history was to embrace His loving sons and daughters.

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Therefore, we have to conform to the heavenly content that moved six thousand years of history to possess the power of life that can push the whole of it away. Jesus drove away the four thousand years of history when he came two thousand years ago by being connected to the historical heart of God.

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After clarifying everything in the four-thousand-year history, Jesus wanted to build a new garden upon that foundation. Therefore, holding on to the heart of Jesus, we should clarify history and think of the future. We have to think of how much Jesus longed for the emergence of his new ideology at that time.

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Jesus told Nicodemus that unless he was reborn, he could not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore, I must deny the life I have lived until today. No matter how much I think I have accomplished, I must deny myself. Because I am a fallen person, I cannot escape from that realm. My life and my lifestyle should be denied.

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What we think of as normal is not indeed normal. We live an abnormal life; we have an abnormal lifestyle, and we die abnormally. The natural place for us to enter would be hell. What is heaven? It is the place where the person who lives a normal life has an abnormal lifestyle and dies normally.

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If Jesus came to distinguish between hell and heaven, to close the door to hell and open the door to heaven, to build heaven, then he certainly did not come with an ideology, a life, and a love that can be denied. You should understand this.

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Who did Jesus come searching for when he came to this earth?

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Jesus came searching for the Israelites, whom God had established as the chosen people after indescribable hardships.

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Jesus was necessary for Judaism, the religion of the chosen. That necessary one was hung on the cross and departed.

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You should realize that Jesus was necessary for the Israelites and Judaism. The cross was unnecessary. It should not have been.

13The Value of Jesus and the Cross

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Why did Jesus come to this earth, and for whom did he come?

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Representing God, Jesus came to this earth to make people walk the historical path with hearts that could connect to God's heart and the heart of history.

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The Jewish people understood how to follow God's history, but they were unable to follow God's heart. They upheld God's dispensation, yet they failed to uphold God's heart.

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For that reason, Jesus came with the historical heart and God's heart, moving beyond the dispensation. Jesus came with a heart that substantially represented the four thousand years of history. The Israelites and the leaders of Judaism, however, did not know this.

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Searching for God means grasping the life that emanates from God's heart, finding the ideology that comes through God's heart, and searching for the love that comes from His heart.

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There cannot be life without going through God's heart. There cannot be ideology without connecting to God's heart. There cannot be love that does not come from God's heart.

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For that reason, when Jesus came to this earth, he came as the owner of the four-thousand-year history in the realm of the heart. Because his heart represented God's heart, whatever came out of his heart had the power of life. His heart was the substantiation of the historical life, of the historical hope and ideology, and of the historical love.

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Therefore, Jesus should have been regarded as more important than the people and nation of Israel and Judaism. The Israelites, however, killed the most significant Jesus.

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They were ignorant of the fact that they could have gained his heart and ideology for the nation, for God's dispensation, and for the whole universe through this one person, Jesus. They killed Jesus, for they did not know.

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Today we believe in Jesus. We should not believe now in the dead Jesus. We should believe in the substantial Jesus who had a new ideology, a new life, and a new heart of love. However, where did Jesus go? He is no longer on this earth. Because he was killed, he is no longer on this earth.

When will he come again?

When Jesus came to this earth, he had the responsibility to establish a new form of ideology and to build a new history and people intertwined with new life and a new heart. Jesus left the word that he would come again, for he had to go without fulfilling these things.

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The word that he would have to come again was indescribably tragic. Today's Christians, however, understand this as a glorious word. They do not know that they should mourn for the dead Jesus before having expectations of that word with hope, as a glorious word. Therefore, if one comes looking for a new self, we should attend to upholding that person.

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We are in the last days of the six-thousand-year history, two thousand years after Jesus came. What should we do at this point? The descendants of Abraham should inherit the faith and loyalty of Abraham.

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The sixty thousand Israelites who followed Moses should resemble the faith and loyalty of Jesus. This is the Alpha and the Omega. For this reason, we can become friends with God and Jesus in the world of the heavenly heart only when we fight to resolve the aching heart of God as He worked throughout history.

14Our Attitude of Faith in the Last Days

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Who are sons and daughters of filial piety?

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In daily life, if someone just feels happy when he sees his parents happy, that is not a filial son. The real filial son or daughter would not only feel the happiness, but he or she would also feel the course of past hardships that went before the present happiness.

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If a son or daughter only rejoices without knowing everything about the process that led to happiness, this is not a truly filial child. If that is the case in the human world, it would certainly be true in the case of the heavenly dispensation and of God's will for the future.

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Who was Jesus?

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He was the substantiation of a new resurrection, culminating the four-thousand-year history. The people of that time did not know that he was unprecedented, representing Heaven and Earth.

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Had the high priests and Pharisees known that Jesus came for the followers of Judaism and the Israelites, they would not have opposed the people going to Jesus.

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However, they opposed and prevented this, and Jesus lived a heartbroken life on this earth and departed in misery. This is certainly the sin of humanity, not of God or Jesus.

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How absurd is the fact that the birthplace of the Messiah, whom God promised for four thousand years through the prophets, was stable? Think about it. In a stable?

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Many people today celebrate Christmas as a wonderful day, but, actually, it is heartbreaking. Many do not know it is a sorrowful day for which no number of tears would suffice.

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Had there been people at that time who truly longed for and prepared for the Messiah, such that their sincerity even touched the heart of Heaven, they would not have treated the Messiah in that way. There should have been people who prepared for Jesus, but there were none.

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As we face the era of the last days, we hold resentment against our forefathers. For what? For allowing the historical conditions that culminated in the persecution of the Messiah. Moreover, we hold resentment against the people of Judaism and the Pharisees of two thousand years ago.

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If there were any indignation in the heart of Jesus, it would have been against the Israelites. However, Jesus did not resent them, for if he had abandoned them, God's foothold on the chosen people would be broken.

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As Jesus thought of the heavenly heart that had toiled for four thousand years, he knew that all the work of God toward the Israelites would be lost if he abandoned them.

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Knowing this, he had to bless his enemies out of the fear that the historical relationship would break and the suffering of his people would follow upon his death. He did not bless his enemies out of joy.

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He did not bless the people of Judaism, the Israelites, out of his love for them. We should realize that Jesus blessed humanity out of concern for the further burdening of God's tearful heart in the dispensation of history.

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Therefore, we can understand God's heart only when we dare to do the work in place of Jesus, who died so regretfully, when we dare to feel anger concerning his death on the cross.

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People say that Jesus came to die, but that is not true. As Jesus walked to his death, he was heartbroken, and so was God. Jesus came for God and his people.

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The day he was killed, Heaven could not help but become utterly dark. We should understand this today.

15For Whom Did Jesus Live?

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Jesus was born on this earth as a new being in human history. However, he lived a miserable life.

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For whom did Jesus live? He did not live for himself. It was not because he did not have pride. Although he was persecuted, he had within himself the power of life and ideology and the power of intense love.

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We should know that he lived without fully spreading his authority of life, ideology, and love. For whom did Jesus live?

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He lived for his miserable people. The resurrected Jesus has toiled until today to resurrect our dead existence with his living substance. That has been the historical course of the two thousand years since his death. For whom did he live his thirty-odd years? It was not for himself but for God and fallen humanity.

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For that matter, for whom did God toil? God has never lived for Himself. He lived to save the people who had died because of the fall.

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What kind of days are the last days?

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Since Jesus did not live for himself, humanity has to offer a time when Jesus can live for himself. Since God also has not lived for Himself, humanity also has to establish a time when God can live for Himself. The last days are such a time.

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God could not live for Himself until today because He had to save the dead people who had inherited the fallen lineage.

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Jesus could not live for himself during the two-thousand-year history. Holding on to humanity in the realm of death, God has been working for six thousand years to save them and to restore a new day.

16What Determination Should We Make?

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What determination should we make today?

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We should inherit Jesus Christ and be born again. Have you felt the power and touch of life permeating your mind? Have you felt that this is the only ideology for humanity?

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Have you felt that this is the only thing that can resurrect humanity at last and initiate a new history? If you have felt this, you should abandon living for yourself and walk the path Jesus walked.

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After the resurrection, when Jesus looked down upon this world and saw how God's worry and concern filled this earth and how much toil remained, he wanted to pray, “Oh, God!

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Please entrust everything to me and rest in peace.” That was the heart of Jesus. However, God could not rest. As Jesus felt sorrow, God also felt sorrow; as Jesus was dying on the cross, God also felt the pain of death.

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As long as we believe in Jesus, we should not envy the world of glory, even if we have confidence that we will be elevated to the position of glory by attending the resurrected Lord, having crossed the judgment altar of the last days.

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Jesus came as the king of kings to restore the heavenly sovereignty, to attend to God as the son of glory, and to bring peace to all people. However, he was unable to rejoice even for a moment.

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Jesus lived and died solely for us, humanity. God is still holding on to this earth. Jesus is still holding on to this earth. The Holy Spirit is still holding on to this earth. If we are to become friends of the heart with Jesus, we should have a heart that says, “God! Holy Spirit! We will hold on to this earth now.”

17To Truly Sing of Glory

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What was it like for Jesus to come to this earth?

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He was born in a stable; he lived with the persecution and contempt of others; he died miserably and hung on a cross.

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Therefore, our task today is to feel the heart Jesus felt as he passed through the way of the cross.

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If there is any glory, before I can sing of the glory, the Lord should sing to the Father, and the Father should sing to all people. Only after that can I sing of the glory. For the Father to sing of glory to all people, first there must be the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

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Therefore, we should make the environment for God and Jesus to rest. We should re-establish the dignity of God as the Creator and the dignity of Jesus as the Savior. Heaven and earth, all things, the countless spirits in the spirit world, and hell, even Satan himself, should say, “You are indeed the Son of God.”

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You know that the sad historical course has not ended yet, and the time of the judgment has not yet arrived. Nevertheless, you felt the heavenly life, embraced the heavenly ideology, and received the shock of the heavenly heart. What is it all for? Of course, it is for God's hope to be transferred to you. That is the purpose of God.

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The people of this nation remain as God's and Jesus' concern. We should be willing to take responsibility for all such concerns and liberate Jesus and God.

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Therefore, centering on such a determination, you should bring the victorious results from the war and attain the qualification of being a friend of Jesus. Only then can you substantially elevate to the level of resurrection.

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Because Jesus lived such a life and was resurrected after his death, we also must go beyond the condition of being resurrected after living such a life. Therefore, we must follow the path of Jesus to discover our new selves.

18The Process of Resurrection

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God's dispensation is not only searching for new individuals. He must find a new family, a new people, a new world, and ultimately, the Kingdom of Heaven.

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Jesus was unable to leave the value and standard of his heavenly character or personality as a new being on this earth. Therefore, he left behind the term “bridegroom and bride” as he left. God's will is to establish a heavenly individual to find a family.

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Having that family as a model, He is to find a people; having that person as a model, He is to find a nation; having that nation as a model, He is to find the world, restore heaven and earth, and ultimately build the Kingdom of Heaven.

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What should we do to become a new, resurrected self? We must establish the standard upon which God can say, “I can now defend you, and I will take responsibility for your life, your ideology, and your love and heart.”

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No matter how we are attacked, we can be resurrected if we have the standard upon which God will take responsibility for us. Jesus was able to be resurrected after the attacks of countless satanic forces, for he had such a standard. His authority of life, ideology, and love was connected to God's heart. For that reason, Jesus' substance was able to be resurrected.

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If we have that kind of heart, who can attack the power of my life, my ideology, and my love? As long as God is with us, we have the authority to be resurrected after countless beatings from Satan, even after countless deaths.

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We should realize that we can be recognized as a new self with a new standard, a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven and a heavenly family, only when we stand on the judgment altar with that authority.

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For this reason, Christianity teaches, “Those who are willing to die shall live, and those who want to live shall die.”

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In the last days, we must die first if we are to become a new self, for everything in history is death. We can become a new self only when we die in the fallen world and feel the glory of resurrection as we step over death by the power of God's heart, ideology, and love.

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We should become those who can courageously withstand any kind of storm with God's life, God's ideology, and God's heart embraced in ours. Only then can we become the long-awaited new self who is qualified and worthy to be the central figure in the new age?

19God's Wish

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No one can see through God's sorrow now on this earth, and no lineage can be connected to God's heart of love. No people is willing to acquire God's ideology. There is no lineage connected to God's life that can remain together with God for eternity. Is all this true?

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We are God's adopted children because Satan took possession of everything in history until today. The adopted child has a different lineage from the parents. For that reason, if we are to become children of the direct lineage, we must become a new self from the adopted child position.

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To attain the form of the children of direct lineage, we must receive the power of heavenly life, the touch of life, the ideology of life, and the impact of love. Without them, I cannot be reborn as a new self, a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven, and a parent who can have the children of the Kingdom of Heaven.

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God wishes to accomplish this. This is our wish, humanity's wish, Jesus' wish, and God's wish; yet we did not know this until now.

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Think this over. You should not be without a longing mind that searches for a new life. You should remember clearly that you cannot remain in the new age if you do not search for the new ideology and the new love.

END OF SERMON

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Moon, S. M. (1959, June 14). My New Self and the Heaven Where My New Self Can Dwell [Sermon]. True Parents Legacy Archive (J. Auror, Ed.). https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/the-heaven-where-my-new-self-can-dwell

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Moon, Sun Myung. “My New Self and the Heaven Where My New Self Can Dwell.” True Parents Legacy Archive, 14 Jun. 1959, https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/the-heaven-where-my-new-self-can-dwell.

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Moon, Sun Myung. “My New Self and the Heaven Where My New Self Can Dwell.” Sermon, June 14, 1959. True Parents Legacy Archive. https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/the-heaven-where-my-new-self-can-dwell.

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@misc{moon1959,
  author = {Sun Myung Moon},
  title = {My New Self and the Heaven Where My New Self Can Dwell},
  year = {1959},
  month = {jun},
  howpublished = {True Parents Legacy Archive},
  url = {https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/the-heaven-where-my-new-self-can-dwell},
  note = {Sermon}
}
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Text bySun Myung Moon, Founder of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity
TranslationWorking translation from the Korean. Official editions are reproduced verbatim.
Editorial scopeTexts are not abridged or paraphrased. Paragraph numbers are stable for citation. Report an error