Where is the refuge in which
Heaven can dwell?
Former Church Headquarters
Seoul, Korea
January 12, 1958
Matthew 8:18-22
The mission of the people of
faith who are living in the last days
In the original
Bible verses, a scribe came before Jesus and said, "I will follow wherever
the teacher goes." Jesus replied, "Foxes have their holes and birds
in the air have their nests, but the son of man does not have a place where he
can lay his head." What Jesus meant by those words was that because there
was no one who could receive his words as the words of hope, he could not find
a place of rest for his heart.
Furthermore, only when a
person comes forward who can understand the words of God and represent the
heart of God centering on those words can Jesus establish the heavenly laws,
live a heavenly life, and discuss the heavenly ideology.
There was not even one such
person.
Accordingly, the heart of
Jesus in looking at this world was indescribably distressed and sad. You must
learn to feel the heart of Jesus, who was mourning because he could not find a
place where the precious words of Heaven could rest.
In the Last Days
today, what kind of mission then must you shoulder? You must become people who
can possess the words of God in your minds and bodies. In other words, you must
come to possess the words of God, which no one else could possess until now,
completely in your minds and bodies.
Moreover, when we consider it
from this position, what was the fall in the Garden of Eden? It was the failure
to unite the mind and body as the place, where the words of God could dwell.
Therefore, now your minds and bodies must become the resting place for God. You
are living in this kind of time. Therefore, you who are living in the Last Days
must clearly understand that Jesus left without finding a person who could inherit
his words on this earth.
What did Jesus
then leave behind on this earth? Jesus left behind the words that came through
his mind and body. Therefore, your first mission today is to alleviate the
grief of God that came about because of the fallen people in the Garden of
Eden, and also the sorrow of Jesus, who was pleading desperately to awaken the ignorant
people 2,000 years ago.
If the words that produced the
miraculous works of creation were to appear on the earth again, human minds
would have to move according to those words. Although
humankind has fallen, this must be so because they still have the original
heart. Therefore, in this historical, concluding era, you must now find, during
your life, the words that can move your original hearts and bodies. You
have to clearly, understand that if you cannot find these words, there is no
way for you to form an eternal relationship with God.
You will be enslaved by
lamentation and grief.
What must you do for Heaven
now? You must mitigate the sorrow of Jesus, who said, "Foxes have holes,
and birds of the air have nests; but the son of man has nowhere to lay his
head." (Matthew 8:20) You shoulder the historical mission to alleviate
this grief of Jesus today.
You must realize the words
Jesus spoke then were not meant only for one young scribe. Those words apply to
everyone in any period during the thousands of years of history. Therefore, the
desperate voice of Jesus calling out to you is, still heard in your ears today,
in this moment. You have to clearly, understand this.
What then is the central
purpose of God doing away with the mistakes of the first Israel and unfolding a
new movement by raising the Christians, the second Israel? He was trying to
establish the temple of the words that Jesus was trying to build. Therefore,
you must now recognize the words that God is conveying to you as the words of
the eternal laws. You must think, these are the words of life for me. You must
not only receive those words; you must also see them as the words with which He
created humankind at the time of the creation. If
you do not possess these words and cannot substantially feel these words of God
through your flesh, you cannot become the sons of God.
The Human Mind and Body must
become the resting place for God
Consequently, God has been
leading men to sacrifice their bodies and cultivate their minds to pursue
goodness. Moreover, when the minds of people are near truthfulness, if the
words, which fulfil the purpose of that truthfulness emerge, God made it so
that people will be pulled by those words. In this way, God hoped people's
bodies would also move harmoniously with their minds. You have to understand
that God had this earnest and desperate heart that longed to reveal the words
people could understand through their minds and bodies.
If in your course of seeking
Heaven in your life of faith, you have not experienced your minds and bodies
being governed by the words, then you can never escape from the realm of sorrow
and mourning. You have no other choice but to remain in that state forever.
If, on the contrary, you have
felt or experienced that the laws of the heavenly principles that represent
your body and life, and your substantial and mental self has become one, you
will not fade away from this earth for eternity when you go to the spirit
world. Therefore, you must secure the one nucleus that will never disappear in
your minds and bodies. You must establish the laws of the heavenly principles
that can never be separated from your minds and bodies so that you can create
the place of rest where God can dwell in person.
Thus, you must now reflect
upon yourself as to whether you are capable of receiving the words of the laws
of the heavenly principles. Now that the Last Days have come, everything will
come to a conclusion. Philosophy will come to a conclusion, science will come
to a conclusion, and the world economic system based on material will also come
to a culmination point. At one point in the future, due to infinite progress in
science, scientific research will invent improved food.
Furthermore, you
who are living in the last concluding era today, you must repent about your
faith until now and try your best to live according to the words Jesus gave us.
Therefore, you must find the words of the Heavenly Father. If there is someone
who is not trying to seek these words but instead forsakes them, they will
surely be judged. Those who are avoiding or blocking the words that seek them
to realize the holy of the holies of Heaven will surely perish. Because Jesus
understood this, he could not speak all the words he wanted.
The more you feel a sense of
mission to establish the laws of the heavenly principles, the more you must
make your best effort. You must liberate the grieving heart of Jesus, who said,
"If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you
believe if I tell you heavenly things?" (John 3:12) You must understand that
in the concluding era of human history today, the historical sorrow is
implanted deeply inside Heaven and the earth. Accordingly, even in this moment,
God is watching over all human beings today with concern for how they are
living and how the faithful believers are conducting their life of faith.
Therefore, you must have room
in your heart to cherish the words, which represent the infinite universe, the
words which represent the eternal laws. It will not be acceptable for you
merely to have the vulgar hearts and vulgar emotions with which you have lived
on the earth until now. You must come to possess a new heart that can receive
the new words. Therefore, in this concluding era, when the temple of the words
is sought, it is a great fear that you might become the heir of Adam, who
betrayed the words of the heavenly principles.
Where did sin
begin? It began from the point of not being able to receive the words of God.
It was human responsibility to receive the infinite words, but that
responsibility was not fulfilled. Therefore, the place of rest where you must
welcome the words now must be your mind. In this manner, you must realize the
substantial body centred on the words.
Those words are linked to the
sphere of your character. In other words, your words must become the words
which represent the laws of God's heavenly principles. Your actions must become
one with the words of those laws. Just as you come to know things through the
Principle, when the substantial being who represents the words appears, God's
heart will dwell there. Therefore, those in whom God's heart dwells move toward
the direction where they can be connected to the eternal ideology. Their minds
and bodies can live a life on behalf of the ideology of the Father in the
actual sphere of life.
It is our hope to enjoy that kind of life. The place where the will is actualized is the ideal garden of Canaan and the lost original Eden. You have to clearly understand this.
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