Matther 21
18 When Jesus got up the next morning, he was hungry. He started out for the city, 19 and along the way he saw a fig tree. But when he came to it, he found only leaves and no figs. So he told the tree, “You will never again grow any fruit!” Right then the fig tree dried up.
20 The disciples were shocked when they saw how quickly the tree had dried up. 21 But Jesus said to them, “If you have faith and don’t doubt, I promise that you can do what I did to this tree. And you will be able to do even more. You can tell this mountain to get up and jump into the sea, and it will. 22 If you have faith when you pray, you will be given whatever you ask for.”
1 Cor 4
15 Ten thousand people may teach you about Christ, but I am your only father. You became my children when I told you about Christ Jesus, 16 and I want you to be like me.
Let Us Become Beloved Children and Receive the Seals
Rev. Sun Myung Moon
September 14, 1958
Today I will speak upon the topic, “Let us Become Beloved Children and Receive the Seals.”
Everyone, who has hope, desires to be at the center of hope. If God has a hope, you desire to be within this hope. The same mentality exists in a family, where all members desire to dwell within the master’s heart. It is the same with a country, the world and the will of the Father, who has been restoring the creation. Thus, you should be remembered in the heart of your leader. If you are religious, you should be remembered in the heart of the religious leader. Furthermore, if there is a God, you should be remembered in the heart of God.
Instead of being remembered by God momentarily, if one is remembered eternally, taking God’s hope, situation and Shim Jung to heart, God will tell him all His stories. Moreover, He will try to unconditionally give all the blessings He has gathered through the 6,000 painful years of the providence. You must understand that this is the Father’s Shim Jung.
Although you were born as single individuals through your parents’ lineage, you are not isolated. Heaven has ruled over religion throughout history. The world follows Heaven’s way, the nation follows the fate of the world, the family follows the law of the nation, and I follow human norms. Thus, there should be a smooth relationship from Heaven to the world, from the world to the nation, from the nation through the society to the family, and from the family to me. No one can deny the existence of such a relationship. For whom are we moving now, we who stand in such a position of undeniable relationship? Where are your families going? Where are this world and this nation going? These are crucial questions, requiring our serious consideration.
We know that God has been sorrowing in regard to humankind ever since the fall of the first human ancestors. Where do you think this sorrow is flowing to? Where does it long to stay in the end? Through what historical course, what nation, and what clan, to whom has God’s pain been transmitted? Through what historical course and for what relationship has God’s hope been moving? It is not the world, not a country, not a family; it is none other than me. You must know clearly that God’s hope is realized from me, the single individual. Therefore, if there is no foundation in me acknowledged by Heaven, no matter how good Heaven is, I have no relationship with it. If there is no standard in me, though a world- renowned theory may appear, it will bear no relationship with me. Have you ever felt such a fact thoroughly through your Shim Jung, body, bone and flesh, that the historical sorrow, suffering and difficulty are determined centered on “me”? If not, your ancestors will accuse you, for they have gone through the path of death with blood and tears.