REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON
 SPEAKS ON
JESUS WHO LOOKS BACK
 ON WALKING THE
 PATH OF HIS FATE
February 10, 1957 (Sunday)
 Chung Pa Dong Church
 Seoul, Korea
  
Luke 22:54-62
 Prayer
Father, Your sons and  daughters who have  struggled and striven
for the past week  centering  on the will, who have fought not to be
deceived by the cunning tricks of Satan, are prostrating  themselves in
the presence of the Father in this hour.  Please  manifest  Yourself,
and govern the mind and the body of each of us.
 Is there anyone who has resentment that has pierced to the very heart
in this  hour?  Is  there  anyone  who has the mark of Satan  in his or
her body?  My Father who is full of love,  please  show them the  miracle
of recreation.  Extend the hands of  compassion.  Please  bestow Your
grace on us.  Sanctify  us in this hour so that we can become ones who
can bow to the Father with  sufficient and adequate  minds and bodies
before the will that You desire.  I pray with a most sincere heart.
 Beloved Father, we hung down our heads and prostrated  ourselves
before the will of the Father,  who called  upon us the  unworthy  to
inform us beforehand  about  the  work of the  dispensation  on the  order
of the cosmos.  Please command our minds in person.  Urge our bodies.
Guide us to be able to run toward the garden of goodness  that You want,
the will of  goodness  You  desire, and the garden of triumph for which
You hope.  Beloved  Father, I  ardently  wish and pray that You will
raise us to be able to make  strenuous  efforts  toward  the  fulfillment
of the will.  Allow us to step forward  with  conscious  strength  and
self-awakening determination.
 The sinful  elements,  which are  unacceptable  in the  presence  of
the Father,  remain  within us.  Therefore,  Father,  please  liquidate
our wickedness  with Your  dignified  power of authority and, by
touching us with the hands of authoritative  power, produce the heart
of repentance.  I pray this sincerely.
 This day is a holy day, the day on which You  promised  You would
bless us.  Therefore,  please bless the numerous altars that are gathering
for the sake of the people and guide us to raise the triumphant beacon
fire.  Father, I  sincerely  desire that You bless the many sons and
daughters who are bowing  respectfully  in this hour, and that You lower
to us the faculty of the sacred spirit.
 Father, we have  gathered  here to  frankly  reveal all about
ourselves before  You.  Please  guide us to do  self-analysis  again  to
find  out whether  we are  appropriate  beings  in  front of the  Father.
Beloved Father, I pray from the depth of my heart  that if there  still
remains anything  insufficient  which is not appropriate to the Father,
You will allow us to repent  about it and  candidly  reveal all of it,
so that we can receive the Father's  advice and  counsel.  In this time,
when there remains part of the course of struggle to be completed,
please allow us to unite our minds into one and to become the soldiers
of Heaven who can dash forward towards the garden of life.
 We know that Your lonesome sons and daughters  scattered  throughout
the countryside are building the altars of blood, sweat and tears to
testify to the words of the gospel.  Wherever they gather  together,
I pray with a most  sincere  heart that You will  manifest  Your powers
in person to openly  acknowledge that they are Your triumphant sons
and daughters.  I pray You will guide them to be able to build the altar
of  victory  that the Father can personally control and unfold the work
of power.
 Please allow Your sons and  daughters  present in this place not to
have any self-centered  concepts,  doctrines or subjective  opinions.
Please allow us to become sons and daughters who can put down  everything
they own with the  mental  attitude  of a child.  Listening  to the  words
of command, let them become contrite about their  deficiencies  and able
to speak about them  before the  Father.  Please  allow this hour to be
one when we can be grasped by the hands of the Father's recreation.
 We entrust  everything to You, Father, so please do not let this hour
be the hour when Satan invades.  Wishing sincerely and desperately that
You will guide this hour to be one in which only the glory of the  Father
is manifested, I pray all these words in the name of the Lord.  Amen.
  
In this hour  today, I will speak  briefly on the topic  "Jesus
Who Looks Back on Walking the Path of His Fate."
 THE  ADVENT OF JESUS AND THE
 DISTRUST BY THE CHOSEN PEOPLE
Due to their fall, Adam and Eve lost the garden of eternal  ideals
that God had  granted.  In other  words,  Adam and Eve  lost  the
garden  of goodness  where they could  share the  pleasures  and pains
of life with God.  For that  reason,  they came to leave the bosom of
God and started the  sorrowful  life of  longing  for God.  Accordingly,
humankind  has walked  along the course of a 6,000- year  history of
sufferings  until now,  looking  back  toward  God  with  sorrowful
hearts.  Just  as our ancestors  walked the course of life looking back
toward  Heaven,  today all humanity is also walking forward through the
course of life, looking back toward Heaven, wishing to restore their
original  position.  Jesus, too, who came to save humankind, was looking
for the people on the earth who could look back toward Heaven.
 God sent Jesus  Christ out of love,  hoping that the people of the
world would listen to the new gospel of Jesus  Christ, who was turning
things upside down and  altering  their life  course.  He was hoping they
could cling to Jesus Christ.  However,  humankind then and the numerous
people since then have not been able to  rightfully  welcome and attend
him, as their  master  who can make them look back  toward  Heaven.
Because  of that, history has been flowing forth without  fulfillment
of the purpose of  life  in  which  they  can  proceed   looking
back  toward  Heaven.  Similarly,  you of today  also are faced  with
the  destiny  to go forth looking back toward  Heaven at all times.
Because  humankind  cannot go back toward  Heaven by its own  ability,
God provided the way by sending Jesus  Christ,  through whom  humankind
can go back.  If humankind  had looked in the  direction  that Jesus
looked and walked as Jesus  walked, humankind could have  accomplished
the hope of returning to the bosom of God.  You must know for certain
that this was the central meaning of why God sent Jesus Christ.
 The  Israelite  people and the whole world  should have gone back
to the bosom of God after achieving the purpose of life that they must
go forth looking back toward  Heaven,  holding on to Jesus.  However,
because of humankind's  distrust,  Jesus and humankind  have become
separated from each other, each going different ways.  Therefore, you
must bear in mind that Jesus was put in a  situation  where he had to
stop  walking on his course and look back toward the earth.
 While  humankind has been passing  through the course of the 6,000-
year history  until today, there has been no one among them with enough
faith to turn back toward Heaven and exert himself or herself both
physically and  mentally.  What is more, there has not been a single  soul
of faith who has  wholly  devoted  his or her  life,  love and  action.
In other words, there was no one who became the undefiled  sacrificial
being who could halt Jesus Christ from stepping further on the course of
suffering toward Heaven for  humankind.  You must know that this was the
source of the  bitterness  that pierced  God's heart.  Humankind  must
go forward, sweeping  aside the  influence  of the world,  appealing
for mercy from Heaven.  Yet they  distrusted  Jesus,  having  held fast
to the  earthly ground  and   centering  on  the  hope  of  the  land.
Therefore,   the dispensation  of the will that God had  unfolded  on
the earth for 4,000 years  suffered a  setback.  God sent Jesus  Christ
to fulfill  the will that  humankind  on the  earth,  at that  time,
hoped  to be  realized.  Because  they did not elevate  Jesus  Christ,
God ended in a  situation where He has had to look back again to the
earth,  passing  through  the long  history of the 2,000 years since
Jesus'  death.  In like  manner, Jesus and the Holy Spirit came to stand
in a position  where  they, too, have to look to the earth again.
 What then was Jesus'  desire  that he  cherished  throughout  the
thirty years or so of  life?  His  desire  was to  devote  himself
solely  for others'  benefit.  Although he felt  sorrow and  lamented
in his heart, Jesus did not express those feelings.  Instead, he led a
life of serving and caring for others.  If humankind  at that time had
known Jesus to be the master who could  restore  and fulfill  their
whole  desire and had turned  around  toward  Jesus, Jesus would not
have gone to the cross to die.  The Israelite people were to go forth
toward God in unified action with Jesus during his course of life to
awaken ignorant  humankind.  Yet because they  betrayed  Jesus, Jesus
had to stop  stepping  forth on the path he was meant to take.
 You must fix this in your  memory:  Jesus could not  fulfill the
mission assigned to him by God.  Therefore, he had to stand in a position
where he looked up again toward  Heaven for the sake of humankind  and
to take the steps seeking the bosom of God as the  representative  of
humankind.  If humankind had devoted itself for the sake of God and Jesus
and walked the direction  Jesus was taking, in his place, and had taken
care of him for his sake, Jesus could have  reciprocated  with humankind
in place of God, who loves humankind.  The relationship  between humankind
and Jesus would  have been the same as Jesus'  reciprocal  relationship
with God.  Further,  Jesus  could  have  ushered  in the  day of  glory
by  having established  the altar of  rejoicing  on this  earth.  However,
because humankind  at that  time  did  not  advance  toward  Heaven,
Jesus  and humankind have become separated.
 Since God bears the responsibility founded on the principle of
creation, He  wanted  to see the day of  triumph  when  humankind
reversed  their direction  and moved forth  toward the bosom of God
through  Jesus.  You must understand  that, since Jesus who came on the
earth was rejected by the  Israelite  people  and  crucified  on the
cross, the will of God's dispensation to be carried out through Jesus
resulted in failure.
 THE SHIMJUNG OF JESUS
 WHO LOOKED BACK AT PETER
By the way,  while  Jesus  was going  the path of the  crucifixion,
the lonesome  path to the summit of Golgotha, he looked back at someone.
He looked back at Peter, who was the  representative  of the beloved
twelve apostles.  That was because  Jesus  feared that Peter, who
should be the first one  following  him, might  change his mind.
You must  become the ones who  experience  again the  sense of being
gazed at by Jesus,  who looked back at Peter with a loving heart despite
having bitter grief in his heart over the fullness of his concern about
God's will.
 Yet three  times  Peter  denied he knew  Jesus.  Therefore,  he ended
up standing in a situation  where he was completely  separate from the
will of Heaven and had nothing to do with Jesus.  Although  Jesus knew
all of this, he wanted to find just one  person on this earth who could
defend him to the  last as he  walked  the  path  to  death  and  could
deeply sympathize with him, so he came to look back at Peter, who was
the best, most  beloved  disciple.  You  of  today  must  understand
that  Jesus' intention  to find one true  person was buried  deep in
the gaze that he sent in the direction of the beloved disciple, Peter.
 There  cannot be any more  grievous  scene to  Jesus,  who came with
the responsibility  of  carrying  out the whole  dispensation  of God,
than standing  in such a  situation  as  this.  Not  even  one  person
could understand the feelings of longing and  lamentation of Jesus,
who wanted to find one person who could  inherit the mission of him who
was heading for the pass of  Golgotha,  the path of death,  owing to the
distrust of humankind.  Accordingly,  Jesus'   heartrending   feelings
were  beyond description.  Only God  understood  Jesus'  sorrowful  heart
and worried about the lamentable situation of Jesus.
 When Jesus  reflected  on the course of  toilsome  effort he had
walked representing  Heaven  alone  in  bitter  sorrow  for his  lifetime,
the resentment  with  which he wanted  to scorn  humanity  and to call
down curses  on the earth  pierced  him to the very  marrow.  However,
Jesus restrained  himself and stopped to look back at Peter, who was
following behind.  You  must  know  that  unless  you can  understand
such  inner feelings  of Jesus'  heart,  you  cannot  proudly  stand in
front of all humankind after inheriting the work of the dispensation of
God centering on Jesus.
 What then would be the heart of Peter, who was watching Jesus
concluding his life by walking the course of tribulation alone?  He might
have been in awful misery, pining in desolation, not being able to forget
the love relationship  of the original  nature he had with Jesus in
the past.  Of course, the heart of Peter who was watching the  grieving
and  innocent Jesus  being  insulted  and rebuked  and dragged in bonds
must have been aching very much.  However,  because Peter did not realize
Jesus was the Messiah who came with the representative mission to restore
the whole of humankind,  he ended in a situation  where he could not
step  forward on behalf of the other disciples but instead thought only
of himself.  When servant  girls  came out before  Peter to ask  whether
he was one of the fellows  who were with  Jesus, he  replied,  "I do not
know  him"  three times.  You must  know this  clearly  -- that  aspect
of Peter  was the representative  attitude of  humankind  on the earth.
When we look back upon the  circumstances  of Jesus and Peter  again,
the fact that Jesus turned to look back at Peter, who denied him three
times,  did not take place  only  between  Peter  and  Jesus,  but is
shown to have  happened throughout the course of the whole of history.
When all the humanity of the world steps forward before Satan as true
Christians on behalf of the will of  Christ on the  course  of  Heaven,
they will  definitely  meet ungrounded  accusations  three times.
This can be seen as the  symbolic expression  of the  positions  of Adam,
Jesus and the Lord of the Second Coming during the 6,000-year history.
This will again take place in the final  days in the forms of World War I,
World War II and World War III.  Such  happenings  will appear not only
during the whole of history  like this, but also within your  individual
course of faith today.  You must understand this.
 PETER'S SELF-AWAKENING
Today  then,  what is going to happen  right  before  you meet the
Lord?  Just as there was the hour of  betrayal  in which Peter  said,
"I do not know him," toward Heaven, we must be aware that such a time can
possibly come even to us today, faced with the final days.  We are faced
with the historical,  dispensational  and  religious  fate to  follow
after  the triumphant  Jesus and to find and  establish  ourselves in the
external position  of Peter.  We who must climb  over such a hill of fate
as this must understand we are responsible for whatever situation exists.
 As Jesus walked on the pass to Golgotha  before he resurrected
from the cross,  all  Christians  of the world must walk on the path to
Golgotha with the Lord in the final  days at the time of Second  Coming,
to take part in the  glory of  resurrection.  We must  bear in mind
that such a time will surely appear.
 Today then, from what  position must we lead our life of faith?
just as there was a moment in which Peter could not externally say,
"I know him" while being  heartbroken  internally as his beloved and
innocent teacher was being dragged on by the Roman soldiers, there will
be a time when we of today will be put in a situation  where,  because
of certain  worldly conditions,  we have to say against our will,
"I do not know Jesus."  We then  must be able to say, I know  Jesus.
What is more, we must  lead a life of faith, constantly paying attention
to such vulnerable points.
 Jesus, who walked to the pass of Golgotha on the earth has walked
forth until today to the pass of the  world-level  Golgotha even in the
spirit world.  Similarly,   Jesus  who  personally   walked  the  path
to  the crucifixion  and the course of  tribulation  on earth and in
the  spirit world, leaving  behind the beloved  faithful  believers,
will develop a great conclusive war against Satan in the future.
 In what  kind of  situation  should we stand  when such a time of
fierce battle  comes upon the earth?  We should not be standing  in
a situation similar to Peter's  when he said he did not know  Jesus.
We must become those  triumphant sons and daughters who can defend
the course of blood, sweat and tears  that  Jesus  walked to the end,
standing  in a similar situation as Jesus, having  divulged all of
our reasons,  circumstances, sinfulness and inadequacy  reflecting on
ourselves again.  Unless we can stand in such a position, we can not
take part in the glorious  position to receive the returning Lord.
 Although  Peter  denied  Jesus three  times,  saying he did not
know the teacher who stood in the  difficult  situation,  Jesus truly
turned his body  around  to look at  Peter.  Consequently,  when  Peter
saw  Jesus turning around to look at him, forgetting all about his own
difficulties and sorrow and his own reasons and circumstances, a complete
revolution took place in his mind.  Despite his three  dreadful  denials
of knowing Jesus, upon  seeing  that Jesus truly cared about him and
worried  about his future, in spite of his own sorrow Peter experienced
an explosion of emotion   within.  The  moment  he   remembered   and
sensed   the  old relationship  of having  shared the joys and  sorrows
of the Lord, Peter became aware of his own identity on the spot.
 Peter saw the fact that Jesus, having determined to risk his own
life to accomplish  the one will of Heaven, was making a great effort
to proudly cultivate the path of salvation for humankind without being
affected too severely  by the  resentment  that he felt as a human  being.
Peter saw that even as Jesus  walked the path  toward  heaven to death,
Jesus was even   concerned   about  the  well-being  of  him,  Peter.
Peter  felt insufficient  and  inadequate  internally.  In other  words,
when Peter contrasted  the  position  of  Jesus,  who  represents  God,
and his own position,  which was to represent  Jesus as the disciple
who had pledged to render  devoted  service for the sake of Jesus only,
he realize  that there  existed a world of  difference  between his
devotion to Jesus and Jesus' reverence for God.
 What is more,  although  he had thought he believed in Jesus,
the minute he found out his faith  was based on  self-centeredness
rather  than on Heaven-centeredness,  as was the case with the Lord,
Peter received such a great  shock as to be deeply  ashamed of himself
at the gaze of Jesus.  In short, he lamented about being distrustful.
 PETER'S   CONTRITION  AND  THE  VALUE
 OF  HIS NEW DETERMINATION
We must know that the minute Peter saw Jesus who endured the course of
a cosmic  level  mission  without  being  doubtful  at all -- a figure  of
eternal  immutability  in the course of faith  toward  Heaven -- Peter's
mind  underwent  a complete  change.  He felt an impulse to live for the
sake of the Lord for the rest of his life.  Once he came to  realize  he
was being  distrustful,  Peter  thought about the  relationship  between
Jesus and himself and  contrasted  their life  courses.  As a result,
he felt his own inadequacy more strongly.
 Jesus offered himself as a sacrificial  being before Heaven for the
sake of the One will, without  pursuing his own happiness but for the
benefit of humankind on the earth.  He did not show any  resentment
in spite of being  dragged away bearing the cross on his  shoulder.
Watching  this, the three  disciples  came to  realize  that  their  lives
had been too self-centered.   Thereupon,    before   Jesus   Christ   who
was   not self-centered, the disciples reflected on themselves of their
own accord and could make a definite promise and pledge to take over
the will Jesus had hoped for and to realize the will on this earth.
 What  did  Peter  feel  next?  He  felt  his  own  distrustfulness
and simultaneously the  mistrustfulness of Jesus' entourage.
While watching those wicked ones around him tie Jesus up and enjoy
themselves  whipping Jesus  Christ, who was  innocent,  and about whom
anybody and  everybody would say he was  guiltless,  Peter could see
through the heart that was sorrowful  and lonesome  when he met the
gaze of the  persecuted  Jesus.  Before the warm glow being sent off
in his  direction  by Jesus, who was showing  the way to  protect  and
obey  Heaven's  rule  even in such an undeserved  situation,  Peter felt
the haughtiness of the  surroundings.  Then  Peter,  Jesus'  disciple,
made a  righteous  resolution  to fight against the haughty  power of
the  surroundings  until the time when the Lord would  return to destroy
the wicked  crowd who could not be on the side of Jesus Christ.
 There was a cosmic  difference  between the good, immutable  attitude
of Jesus  who  was  heading  toward  Heaven  and  the  haughtiness
of  his surroundings  .  Through Jesus' gaze, who turned  briefly to
look, Peter could  liquidate his fatuous life history and determine
to establish the standard of goodness by purging the  environment  and
devoting  himself toward God all the more.  Through  Jesus'  dying in
silence for the sake of Heaven, earth, humankind and the will, Peter
came to respect the Lord naturally and shed  penitential  tears, weeping
bitterly in the face of such a death.
 This  fact made  Jesus  Christ,  who  turned to look for the last
time, realize that there was a disciple  who  understood  him, and that
it was the moment in which the link that was  disconnected  between
Heaven and humankind  was  being  restored.  Feeling  insufficient  and
inadequate toward  Jesus,  who died  before the will of God on behalf
of heaven and earth,  Peter  alone  shed  the  tears of  contrition
representing  all humankind and the many disciples.  After seeing that
Jesus was being put to  tribulations  before being  crucified,  only
Peter wailed,  shedding tears.  Because  of this, you must know that a
standard  by which  Jesus could  uphold the  dispensation  centering  on
the  disciples  and a new standard by which Jesus and humankind could
connect was created.
 Just as  Christians  have hoped and longed for the time of
resurrection and the Second Coming, holding onto the will of God alone
since the time of Jesus' crucifixion, you have to go through a similar
situation.  What is  more,  you  must go  through  the  process  of
restoration  through indemnity from a position  similar to that in which
Peter found himself.  Since this is the last fate left in the course of
your  faith,  you have to be able to model yourself after the  principles
of Jesus by earnestly looking  back on the  relationship  between  Jesus
and  yourselves  in a serious  manner.  You must  bend  down  and be
contrite  before  Jesus' countenance.
 The problem is whether we have cared  about the Lord while  living,
the way the Lord has been  concerned  about us, throughout the course of
our life of faith up to now.  Although you may say you have lived your
whole life being concerned about Jesus, how can that bear comparison
with the life of Jesus, who was looking at Peter while  thrusting his
way through the place of death?
 Now, in accordance with the principle of restoration  through
indemnity, in the same  manner that Jesus  looked  back at the crowd
on the path to death, we, too, must  become  those who can turn to
look at Jesus on the path to death.  In such a  situation,  we have to
suffer  and  worry in place of Jesus  while  looking  back, to stand in a
position  where  we represent  Jesus.  At the same time, we must attend
and worship Jesus in a glorious  environment.  The  question  is whether
you ever had such an occasion.  If you  never had such an  occasion,
on the last day, on the day we receive the glory of resurrection,
as Mary Magdalene grabbed hold of the  resurrected  Jesus  Christ, you
will not be able to grab hold of the  Lord  of  resurrection  and  say,
"Oh,  my  Lord!,"  and  "Oh,  my bridegroom!"  Although  Peter and the
three  disciples were restored for the first time by looking back at
Jesus on the cross, there has not been any faithful believer who has
gone to the kingdom of Heaven holding onto Jesus in person.
 THE  RESPONSIBILITY OF THE FAITHFUL BELIEVER,
 WHO IS TO LOOK BACK AT JESUS
Now to become true, faithful believers whom Jesus can live with and
whom Jesus  can  motivate  according  to  his  instructions  to  become
true disciples  who are loved by Jesus,  you of the last days must
be able to be concerned  truly about Jesus'  well-being  and to fight
against Satan for Jesus, just as Jesus  looked  back at Peter even while
walking  the path to death.  Otherwise, you must  understand, you will
not be able to bow respectfully to God, holding onto the glorious Lord.
 Although  we are  leading a life of  religious  faith, we have not led
a life of being concerned about the well-being of Jesus  throughout all of
our  day-to-day  life.  Therefore,  although  Jesus came  looking for us
hundreds of thousands of times, because of our distrusting lifestyle, he
might have only looked at us with sad eyes, turning around  reluctantly.
Although  Jesus came looking for us and had many  occasions to do so,
we cared only for ourselves,  not being  sensitive to his situation and
his state of mind.  We have led an easy  religious  life hoping  that
things would work out as we wished.
 When Peter  contrasted the history of his life and the history
of Jesus' life before the gaze of Jesus, he felt  remorse  about
his  distrust and became  conscious  of the fact that he had  lived
too  self-centeredly.  Similarly,  when you, too,  contrast  your own
life history with that of the thirty or so years of Jesus, and when
you  compare  your life course with the  dispensational  life  course
of  Jesus,  who has  upheld  the dispensation  for 2,000 years  until
now for the sake of God, you cannot but feel  that you  have  lived
self-centeredly,  just as  Peter  felt.  Unless you shake  yourselves
free from the path of such  distrust,  you must know that you can in no
way greet the returning Jesus.
 From what  position then do you have to move forth?  Acting in line
with Jesus' unceasing gaze, you must be able to feel and experience the
state of Jesus'  mind and to move  forward  as far as the seat of the
grace of resurrection, after crossing over the hill of crucifixion --
not the top of Golgotha, which is on the verge of seeing the suffering
on the cross.  To  do  that,  you,  like  Peter,  must  be  contrite
about  having  a self-centered  concept of religious faith.  In the same
way Jesus lived, having his center on the will of God, not on himself,
you too must live for God's  will, not  having a concept  that your
faith is only for your salvation and for the benefit of your well-being.
 You of today have a concept of faith based on self-centeredness,
just as Peter  did.  Peter's  faith  was  based  on his  own  well-being.
Peter betrayed  Jesus three times while he was not aware of it.  You must
keep in mind that such  occasions  when you reject  Heaven will occur
at some time, some moment and some period while you are not aware of it.
 In other words, you must lead the life of faith in which you have
faith, not in yourselves but in Jesus, in which you seek not for
yourselves but for  Jesus,  and in  which  you  make  your  goal  not
for  the  sake of yourselves,  but for  Jesus.  You have to be aware of
the fact that when Peter tried to lead a life of soul-searching faith, he
had to go through indescribable hardships and deprivations.  As a result,
his relationship with Jesus was  finished,  so you must steer clear of
such a  situation.  You must  change  the  style of your  religious  life
of faith  from one seeking your own benefit to one seeking the good of
Jesus and God.
 Next, just in the same way Peter  restored the  atmosphere  from that
of distrust  to that of trust and was  grieved at the fact that he had
been distrustful,  you too must move forward with righteous  indignation
and animosity  against the distrust that is against God's  desire.
You then must walk on the course of goodness that God desires.  What is
more, the goodness must not be self-centered,  but God-centered,  and
the goodness must be linked  with  ourselves.  Only when you find this
goodness  can you, too, for the first  time, feel sorry for the sake
of  humanity  and for the good of heaven and earth in Peter's position,
just as Peter felt grievous upon seeing the atmosphere  where the will
of God was not being fulfilled.
 Now today, you have the  responsibility  to achieve the final victory
in front of the Father,  Jesus and the Holy Spirit.  What is more, you
must become  the ones who can follow  Jesus,  who is  walking  on the
path to Golgotha, not betraying him.
 You should not become the ones who are concerned about their
well-being.  Instead,  you  should be able to  exhort,  "Oh, my  teacher,"
following Jesus, who forgot about his own suffering.  In other words,
you must not become the ones at whom Jesus gazes out of concern.  Rather,
you should become  those who can  comfort  Jesus with the heart of caring
and being concerned about putting yourselves in Jesus' position.
 Who was doing this work?  Only Jesus has  repeated  the work of
shedding blood, sweat and tears for the sake of humankind until today,
hoping the day when this work was completed would come.
 Now you must not become the target of Jesus'  concern  while living
your lives.  You should not become the ones who offend the faith, against
the will  of  Jesus,  who  has  placed  all  of  his  hopes  in us  and
the dispensation  of God.  Just as Peter  sighed for grief  looking  back
on himself  after he had  distrusted  Jesus, you too must lament about
your own distrustfulness and move forward, ready to risk your lives,
with the heart that has tacit understanding  about the circumstances
of sorrowful Jesus, who was  sacrificing  himself  for the will of God.
Accordingly, only when you move forward with the determination that you,
too, will go Jesus'  course and cross over  Golgotha,  can you greet
the  resurrected Jesus as the bridegroom and return happiness and glory
before Heaven.
 Prayer
The mission to pass  through  the  grievous  high road with the heart
of painful memory at the cosmic level Golgotha,  blocking the course
of the wrongful  history of humankind  and building the  victorious
grounds of Heaven, is left to the 2.4 billion  people in humanity.
Loving  Father, please  allow  us to  become  the  ones  who  can
understand  that  the solicitude  You showed  after You sent off Jesus
did not arise just from the Golgotha of the past only, but also struck
home before our very eyes today.
 I pray from the bottom of my heart that although we must also become
the ones who can cry out of anxiety about our  insufficiency  at the
present time, please  guide us to become sons and  daughters  who can cry,
being concerned  first  about the result of Jesus'  hope.  Please  allow
us to become the ones who cry worrying about our own imperfect selves,
and who simultaneously  shed tears and repent of our sins for  Satan's
making a fool of Jesus, howling at him and throwing  obstacles in his
path as the world  changed  into a  wicked  place  that did not see the
will of God fulfilled.
 Jesus offered himself as the sacrifice  until the moment of his
death to complete the course of restoration  through  indemnity,  always
feeling God's gaze upon him.  Like  Jesus, no matter  which day and what
time he comes to see us, Father,  please do not let us forget his gazing
upon us and his pacing  toward us.  Please  allow us to be awakened  to
the fact that we have refused  countless times until now to have Jesus'
gaze upon us and step toward us.
 Father,  please  guide us to repent  for not being  able to comfort
the sorrowful shimjung of Jesus, who kept coming back looking for us
without change,  though we betrayed  him two or three  times and were
unable to shed tears before  Heaven on so many  occasions.  Father,
since we know that the time of world-level judgment is near and that
the garden of the cosmic-level Golgotha is coming around the corner,
please guide us, Your lonely  sons and  daughters,  not to walk the
self-centered  course  of religious faith.
 Our life is not our own, the life we are leading is not our own,
and the hope that we cherish is not our own.  So,  beloved  Father,
I  earnestly hope and desire  that You guide us not to lead our lives
for the sake of ourselves  and not to take  all of our  ability,  our
demands  and  our desires for the benefit of ourselves.
 Peter  shed  tears as a comrade,  believing  in God, upon  seeing
Jesus bearing the cross,  having  understood  at last about the  constancy
of Jesus' faith and lamenting in his heart about  misunderstanding
before.  Even if we step onto the path of death for Jesus, loving
Father, I pray sincerely that You, before  Golgotha's  judgment day
comes, can guide us to become the sons and daughters who can shed tears
of repentance before Jesus,  who can cry  before  the  Father,  and who
can speak  out  their mistakes, undertaking to repent on the cosmic level.
 Father, since we will follow in Jesus' footsteps, please entrust us
with the  mission to save the  miserable  people of this  earth.  Allow us
to walk the remaining part of the pass to Golgotha.  Beloved Father, I
pray from the bottom of my heart that You will guide us to destroy satans
all over the world, to establish the glorious  foundation of victory,
and to serve and worship the resurrected Jesus during our lifetime.
 Please  allow us to fulfill  the will of the Father in the last days.
I pray that You will let us shake ourselves out of being  distrustful
and leave the world of mistrust to the world of eternal  trust.  I pray
that You will  guide us to  become  the  sons and  daughters  who can
repose eternally  with the Father who can subjugate and give commands
to Satan, standing on the side of Heaven with the love of the Father.
I prayed in the name of the Lord.  Amen.
  
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