Matthew 2

¹³ After the wise men had gone, an angel from the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up! Hurry and take the child and his mother to Egypt! Stay there until I tell you to return, because Herod is looking for the child and wants to kill him.”

¹⁴ That night, Joseph got up and took his wife and the child to Egypt, ¹⁵ where they stayed until Herod died. So the Lord’s promise came true, just as the prophet had said, “I called my son out of Egypt.”

Isaiah

Tell those who obey God,
“You’re very fortunate—
    you will be rewarded
    for what you have done.”
¹¹ Tell those who disobey,
“You’re in big trouble—
    what you did to others
    will come back to you.”
¹² Though you are God’s people,
you are ruled and abused
    by women and children.
You are confused by leaders
who guide you
    down the wrong path.

Let’s Be the Person Who Has the Heart of Jesus Christ

Sun Myung Moon
January 26, 1958

Phillipians 1:1-11

What is more, Jesus’ throbbing heart represented God and the Israelite people. Therefore, God’s sorrow is Jesus’ sorrow and the grief of Israelite people became that of Jesus. Here, the disciples who represented God, Jesus and the Israelite people could have become not three, but one. Jesus felt deep in his heart that God, the people and he must become united into one. You should understand that Jesus treated and loved the disciples following him more dearly than his own children.

Jesus’ three-year course of public ministry was the course of the life of true love he led with a parent’s Shim Jung who sacrifices for the sake of children. There was no one who understood Jesus, who represented God’s Shim Jung, feels pity for humankind struggling in the realm of sins and evil, and represented the Shim Jung of the people and disciples. There was absolutely no one who understood Jesus’ situation on this earth.

Jesus tried to move on, fighting with the heartrending Shim Jung of Heaven in the midst of no one’s recognition. Can you imagine what Jesus’ Shim Jung, rejected again by the people, who lost the people that had followed him and who had to pray alone at Gethsemane in the end, would have been like? You should think about this. Jesus’ Shim Jung, which prayed all night at the Garden of Gethsemane, was indescribably heartrending. The three disciples following Jesus, nevertheless, could not harmonize with him in action but, instead, acted individually. Despite that all Jesus had to go through and all that had to appeal with a Shim Jung like that of Jesus, and despite the appeals Jesus made with a Shim Jung that cared for the beloved disciples and was concerned about them, they were ignorant of Jesus’ Shim Jung and fell asleep.

The Shim Jung of Jesus, who stood in a circumstance that called for a showdown between life and death and stood at the crossroads of living and dying, was an unspeakably fretful Shim Jung that felt as if Heaven and earth were being melted away. God knew of Jesus’ Shim Jung like this. However, the three disciples whom Jesus had brought up for three years like his own sons and daughters did not understand Jesus’ Shim Jung and dozed off to sleep. That is why he came out three times to wake up the disciples with a burning, fretful Shim Jung. You should feel that pitiful Shim Jung of Jesus.

What kind of Shim Jung could Jesus feel at this time? He felt the sorrow God had felt at the time of losing Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Although Jesus went through the course of the three-year public ministry because the Israelite people, who were chosen as the nation before Jesus, put up opposition and even Judaism itself raised objections, when he came to not be able to find one person who absolutely trusted him, he must have realized that the people could not be trusted.

There was no one who dealt with Jesus’ feeling the sorrow God felt after Adam fell and that Jesus felt during his thirty-year private life and three-year public ministry and, further, that heartrending Shim Jung of Jesus who prayed at the garden of Gethsemane. No one felt God’s Shim Jung. Even those disciples, who shared his feelings during the three years of public ministry, did not know.

Despite the life of being one walked for God, despite the purpose of Jesus’ having walked for the sake of the people, for the sake of the world and for the sake of humanity, the thing that was left after walking the 33-year life course was himself alone. On top of that, at the time Jesus finished fasting for forty days, the enemy Satan appeared to Jesus who was deeply agonizing with fretful Shim Jung and sorrowful circumstances.

In a time like this, what would Jesus’ Shim Jung have been like, and what about his throbbing heart? Despite being placed in a fretful situation where there was nothing that could be trusted in the human world, no place to lean on and no place to settle down, the enemy Satan appeared and tried to tempt Jesus. That made Jesus’ Shim Jung indescribably bitter. Nevertheless, he was anxious worrying about the well- being of the chosen people and humankind. You must understand the Shim Jung of such a Jesus.

Since we have the responsibility to walk the course of indemnity for the historical mission again, we should be able to represent Jesus’ heartrending Shim Jung representing God’s Shim Jung, be able to fight for Jesus and feel concerned for Jesus’ throbbing heart. Heaven is waiting eagerly for true sons and daughters such as these to appear.