Application of the Principle from the Application of the Principle from the Viewpoint of the History of RestorationViewpoint of the History of Restoration

Chapter 10

separation from Satan F/Fsubjugation of Satan F/S

A. Restoration through Indemnity

1. Indemnity

F/M

I

Satan God

growing period: original period in which to fulfill the human portion of responsibility;

indemnity period from the position of a fallen person

The entire life of a fallen person is in the indemnity period. There is no separation between one’s own life and life of faith.

2. Indemnity Period

- Real indemnity conditions are made through following and practicing Father’s words.

- If the motive in making an indemnity condition is directed toward God, and remains unchanged throughout the indemnity period, the indemnity condition is made successfully.

3. Indemnity Conditions

To make indemnity conditions we have to walk the way of suffering.

4. Reverse Course

satanic world casual life continuation of the satanic world

satanic world serious life realization of the ideal world

hardship,

suffering

In climbing a mountain, after reaching halfway up,if I descend from it, the only way to climb again to the top is by beginning from the foot of the mountain.

5. Example of Mountain Climbing

1) Equal indemnity the full indemnity condition is necessary

2) Lesser indemnity less than the necessary amount, requiring a

supplement through heart 3) Greater indemnity more than the original

amount is demanded

6. Degree and Quality of Indemnity

The restoration of God’s Heart

e.g.,Noah’s lying naked was to restore God’s Heart in Adam’s family

resolve God’s resentment (“Han”) liberate God from suffering

7. Central Point of Indemnity from God’s Viewpoint

As the representative of my ancestors and all humanity throughout history, I must attend the LSA.

my purpose = the purpose of human history such a person is beloved by God

servant requests a salarymaster feels responsible for the whole

Never be a spectator or an onlooker.

8. My Historical Position

Adam and Eve received the Commandment to fulfill the Three Great Blessings. They entered into the relationship of

engagement.

God knew the dangerous situation, therefore He gave the Commandment, “Do not eat.”

B. Adam’s Family

1. Motivation and Process of the Fall

a. Turning Point of Heart at the Top of the Growth Stage

b. The Fall of the Archangel, Eve, and Adam

(1) The Archangel

The Archangel knew the Principle, but failed. Why?

power of love power of the Principle

The Archangel justified his actions.He should have checked the motive of his emotion.

Emotions of the Archangel:

1) Envied the position of Adam and Eve as lord of the angels.

2) Jealous of Adam and Eve.

arrogance (self-pride) jealousy hatred violence and murder

3) Resentment toward God.

(2) Eve

Eve was intellectually and emotionally confused.Eve wanted to do something for the Archangel who felt lonely. Eve should have had a deeper relationship with Adam, her subject, and should have explained everything to him.If she had done so, no problem would have arisen.

Eve’s great mistakes:

1) Did not keep God’s Commandment, “Do not eat.”

2) Did not pray and report to God.

3) Did not confess and repent.

4) Was not willing to receive the punishment befitting a prostitute (Jn 8:3-11).

5) Brought Adam with her into hell because she did not want to go to hell alone.

6) Committed a sexual act with the Archangel and multiplied it by committing the act again with Adam.

Reasons why fallen Eve could not confess:

1) Ashamed of having become a prostitute.

2) Afraid of rejection by Adam because she was no longer a virgin.

3) Arrogance (self-pride), pretending she was still in her original condition although she had

committed a terrible sin with a servant.

(3)Adam

Adam allowed Eve’s confusion to influence him.Adam reciprocated with fallen Eve without recognizing her Fall.When Eve was seducing Adam, Adam should have recognized that Eve’s behavior was against God’s Commandment and should have kept some distance from Eve.But, Adam was emotionally dominated by Eve, severing his relationship with God.

The order of responsibility to prevent the Fall was Adam, Eve and the Archangel, although the order of evil was the Archangel, Eve and Adam.

Adam did not want to take responsibility for his actions but blamed Eve.

a. Midway Position

Adam’s position after the Fall, an unclear state

If we do not make indemnity conditions to move away from the midway position, we become unclear and vulnerable to Satan’s invasion. To come out of the midway position, we must treat the precious time period connected with the providence with utmost sincerity.

2. The Providence of Restoration

b. The Providence of Separation of Good and Evil

God sees everything from the aspect of blood lineage.Blood lineage is related to the motivation of heart.blood lineage = blood lineage of heart, love

c. The Original Sin

Inheritance of Satan’s blood lineage after the Fall

To remove the original sin means to remove Satan’s blood lineage; this means to inherit God’s blood lineage; this means to become one with God in heart we can resolve the resentment (“Han”) God

experienced after the Fall.

d. Common Base

God could not work with Adam.God can work only through a common base of heart.

Abel faithfulAbraham abhorred evilJacob internalMoses righteous

a. Cain

Cain knew nothing about God’s providence.He only knew that Abel had received a blessing from God and that Abel was favored by God. Cain knew his choices:

love or hate, serve or kill Abel.

3. Responsibilities of Cain, Eve, and Abel

Cain suffered because of his unprincipled thinking, just as a sick person suffers with disease (Gen 4:5).

God said, “You must master it” (Gen 4:7). A begrudging emotion (seed) grew to sin

murder

b. Eve

If Eve had comforted and guided Cain in the right direction, Cain would not have killed Abel.

Eve’s mission:to unite Cain and Abel to unite the children (Cain and Abel) with their

father (Adam)

c. Abel

Abel should have known that Cain was suffering, and should have had compassion toward him.Abel should have comforted Cain with a humble attitude.

We should know that behind any grace, someone is shedding tears. Those who are only grateful without understanding the tears of others will someday find themselves miserable.

a. The Father of Faith

Noah received a revelation from God only once, but he remained unchanging in his commitment for over 120 years.

C. Noah’s Family

1. Noah’s Faith

It was not easy to accept the revelation to build an ark on a mountain.

b. Noah’s Mission during 120 Years

- to build the ark- to witness to his family- to educate Ham

Noah’s unchanging faith in God should have been inherited by his sons.

Criticism and action from a self-centered viewpoint failure need patience, humility and obedience to perceive God’s viewpoint

Satan’s rightful accusation: We are not centered on God (the Divine Principle).Rather we are centered on our emotions, anxieties, joys, attachments, etc. fallen nature which comes from Satan’s blood

lineage

2. Ham’s Failure

Ham felt ashamedPeter was afraid: “I do not know him”

contrary to the internal faith of Noah or Jesus

difficulty arose separated from God’s Will

Since Ham, the second son of Noah, was taken by Satan, God took Abraham, the first son of Terah, an idolater.

God never gave up his providence of salvation even though He encountered difficult situations and went on to challenge even more difficult situations.

D. Abraham’s Family

1. God’s Tenacity

Abraham had to leave his homeland, Ur, and again from Haran, with no attachment to anything of the past.

Even though he might meet many difficulties, he must not regret leaving his homeland and must not have resentment toward God.

2. Leaving the Homeland

sister brotherPharaoh Sarah Abraham

Sarah believed that God was at work behind their course.She believed that Abraham’s direction to declare themselves brother and sister and not husband and wife came from God’s wisdom no complaint.

3. Sarah’s Faith

Abraham educated Lot by his exemplary life until Lot reached a certain point of growth. After that Abraham sent Lot an independent way.

Even after Lot was on his own, Abraham continued to have concern for him, as a parent would.

4. Lot’s Education in Faith

Formation stage:

Dove symbol of purity, innocence

feel joy listening to God’s Words;the time to make relationship with God’s Words

5. Symbolic Offering

Growth stage:

ram symbol of obedience

work for the church, obeying the guidance of church leaders;the time to make relationship with people

Completion stage:

heifer symbol of loyalty

live for the sake of God absolutely, go out for pioneer witnessing;the time to establish a family and to stand in the position to receive respect from others.

At the time of the symbolic offering Abraham fell asleep. This meant the decrease of his sincerity compared to the time when his wife was taken to the Pharaoh’s palace. Because of this his offering was invaded by Satan.

Abraham was more concerned about his wife than about his offering to God.

6. Abraham’s Failure

Satan tries to make us fall asleep at very important times.

the disciples during Jesus’ prayer at Gethsemanewhile listening to a Divine Principle lecture

e.g,

a. Internal Struggle of Abraham

- faith in God love for his son- God blessed Abraham God seems to retract the

blessing

Even if a blessing is taken away from me, I should deny myself and follow God’s direction.

7. The Offering of Isaac

What is your Isaac?

We should love God and His Will more than anyone or anything else, sacrificing any personal attachment for His purpose.

God requires sacrifices, because He wants to give something even more valuable than them.

Isaac asked, “Where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”Abraham was in great distress, but he could not explain his inner world of suffering inner crucifixion.

God sympathized with Abraham.God suffered with Abraham.God’s blessing and grace would come later.

b. Isaac’s Faith

Isaac entrusted himself completely to his father, Abraham, like a carp on a chopping board.He kept no attachments.

Father’s words:“An offering symbolizes obedience and surrender. Therefore, it is selfless, does not have the consciousness of possession, and does not resist even on the verge of death.”

Satan makes people anxious about themselves. Satan’s invasion

e.g., Elijah was defeated by Queen Jezebel’s abuse he worried about his life and fled.

We should entrust ourselves completely to God’s Will through the Messiah.

Abraham had to undergo trials similar to what God had experienced in order to inherit His suffering and pain. Through seeing Abraham’s overcoming the trials, God sought to have His own Heart comforted.

1) Abraham had to leave his homeland Ur, and again Haran; God lost the Garden of Eden.

2) Abraham had to offer his wife, Sarah, to gentile kings; God lost His wife, Eve.

3) Abraham had to sacrifice his son, Isaac; God lost His son, Adam.

8. Inheriting God’s Suffering and Pain

Jacob had such a strong desire to get the birthright that when Esau asked Jacob for his stew, Jacob immediately responded, “First sell me your birthright.”

An angel wrestled with Jacob, pushing Jacob’s thigh out of joint, but Jacob never surrendered.

E. Jacob’s Course

1.Jacob’s Tenacity (the spirit of a snapping turtle)

mother/son cooperation:Rebekah helped Jacob get the blessing from Isaac.Rebekah protected Jacob using her wisdom.

Rebekah’s mission:to unite Esau and Jacob to unite the children (Esau and Jacob) with their father (Isaac)

2. Rebekah’s Wisdom

Jacob started alone from Canaan to Haran. Halfway to Haran, God encouraged Jacob through a dream. Jacob realized that God was always with him.

3. Jacob’s Absolute Conviction

Gen 28:20-22Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God, … and of all that thou givest me I will give the tenth to thee.”

Jacob made a pledge to God.

Jacob had the strong conviction to accomplish his mission even if he received no support. God could work because of Jacob’s confidence and conviction.

Jacob’s foundation for victory:Even though Jacob was allowed to marry Rachel, Laban’s daughter, he lived the life of a servant of servants, so the servants respected and supported him.

4. The Victory of 21 Years of Suffering

The Lord opened Leah’s womb, but Rachel was barren. Leah came to realize the position of a woman who is beloved. Rachel came to realize the position of a woman who is not beloved. Therefore, Leah and Rachel could understand each other’s situation. God expected them to unite and support each other, and to help Jacob.

5. Leah and Rachel

Jacob knew the danger of going back to Canaan, but he obeyed God’s Commandment with courage and succeeded with wisdom based on love.

1)He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, herds and camels, into two companies.

He prepared carefully for the worst case, being attacked by Esau.

2)He showed his love to Esau, preparing gifts.

6. Jacob’s Courage, Wisdom and Love

3)He bowed to the ground seven times, until he came near to Esau.

4)He showed his gratitude and appreciation, praising Esau for his welcoming Jacob.

The power of love overcame the power of hatred natural surrender

Jacob loved Joseph most and gave him a richly ornamented robe.Joseph had two dreams that suggested that he would become the leader of the family.

F. Joseph’s Course

1. Elder Brothers’ Jealousy and Resentment toward Joseph

Joseph’s 10 elder brothers hated him out of jealousy and they conspired to kill him, but Judah persuaded the brothers to sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites instead of killing him.

Joseph was sold as a slave at the age of 17 in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard.

Joseph became the most trusted servant of Potiphar’s house and became the overseer of the whole house and all the servants.

2. Overcoming Adulterous Temptation

Potiphar’s wife was attracted to Joseph and every day attempted to seduce him.

Joseph overcame the numerous adulterous seductions made by Potiphar’s wife.

However, Joseph was imprisoned because Potiphar’s wife falsely accused him of attempting to seduce her.

Adam failed to overcome fallen Eve’s seduction, but Joseph succeeded; Jesus also succeeded.

Without committing any kind of crime or sin, Joseph, at the age of 28, was thrown into prison for two years.

In spite of his punishment he never complained, never had resentment and never lost his faith in God.

3. Prison Life

Through interpreting Pharaoh’s dreams, Joseph, at the age of 30, became the Prime Minister of Egypt.

Joseph predicted seven years of famine and organized all of the preparations in Egypt necessary to overcome this.

When the famine struck, Jacob’s family began to suffer, and Jacob sent Joseph’s 10 elder brothers to Egypt to buy grain.

The brothers did not recognize Joseph.As Prime Minister of Egypt, Joseph had the power to kill his enemies, the 10 elder brothers.

4. Loving and Giving All Things to His Enemy

After 21 years Joseph’s dreams were realized at the age of 38.

Joseph gave all things to his enemy.

However, he did not. He loved his enemies with tears and restored the elder brother’s birthright.

The Pharaoh gave to Joseph as his wife Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, when Joseph reached the age of 30.Joseph should have married a daughter of Israel.

Joseph should have made his brothers and family members high officials in the land of Egypt, which would have prevented the Israelites from becoming slaves.

5. Joseph’s Mistakes

a. 40 Years in Pharaoh’s Palace

separation from SatanInternally, Moses walked a thorny course. Moses never lost faith and loyalty to God nor brotherly love for the chosen people Israel.

G. Moses’ Course

1. The First Course

Heb 11:24,25By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.

Cain killed Abel, making Satan a historical criminal. Therefore, Satan had no condition to accuse Moses when Moses killed an Egyptian.

b. Moses Killed an Egyptian

Moses’ action was to cut his attachment to Pharaoh’s palace, and was to help the people of Israel to believe and follow Moses by understanding his love for them.

However, this action was not God’s original plan for Moses. Moses should have persevered for the sake of facilitating the liberation of his people.

a. 40 Years in the Wilderness of MidianMoses thought that he was sent to the wilderness of Midian by God. Therefore, Moses had no complaint about it.

prince shepherd (top) (bottom)

Moses’ heart was not changed by external circumstances.

He worked hard and gained the respect of his wife; she determined to go to Egypt with Moses at the risk of her life.

2. The Second Course

1) God appeared from a fire in the midst of a bush.

For 430 years the Israelites had lived a thorny way of life.

b. Meeting God at Mt. Horeb

God had also gone a thorny course.

2) “Put off your shoes from your feet.”

Relinquishing one’s past lifestyleRelinquishing all past human relationships

3) God’s call

Moses hesitated to accept God’s call.“Just a moment!” – Moses’ mistake

God knew everything, even that Moses was not a good speaker. Moses should have trusted God completely concerning the details of his mission and responsibility.

c.God Tried to Kill Moses

Moses should have gone to Egypt to liberate the Israelites without seeing miracles and being pushed by God. However, even though the time had come, Moses did not realize the importance of going there by himself, so God pushed him by showing miracles.

Moses had to pay indemnity for God’s intervention by going to Egypt at the risk of his life; therefore his son was circumcised, shedding blood.

d. Reasons God Hardened Pharaoh’s Heart

- To show the people that God sided with the Israelites

- To make Pharaoh relinquish his possession of the Israelites and realize his impotence

- To help the Israelites cut their attachment to Egypt and make them hostile toward Pharaoh

God utilized even the power of Pharaoh, the representative of Satan, to raise the faith of Israel.

e. The Symbols of the Lord’s Passover

Ex 12:5-11“Your lamb shall be without blemish,….They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled with water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts……In this manner you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s passover.”

1) A lamb without blemish or defect

the symbol of the Christ eternal life from partaking in the flesh and

blood of the Christ

flesh the incarnation of the Logos God’s Wordblood lineage, heart God’s love

2) “With unleavened bread and bitter herbs”

leaven: the center of the spirit and customs of the satanic world

1 Cor 5:6-8…Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?....Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

bitter herbs: the way of tribulation through which we can understand the real value of the Christ

3) “Do not eat any of it raw or boiled with water, but roasted.”

We should accept the Christ who would receive the fire of God’s anger, paying indemnity by shouldering the sins of humanity.

4) “Its head with its legs and its inner parts.”

accepting everything of the Christ

inner parts

emotion

legs

will

head

intellect

5) “In this manner you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste.”

be prepared to move immediately – never compromise with the satanic world

by doing things in a relaxed or casual manner

Reference: God’s Selection of His Soldiers

Judg 7:2-7…and the Lord said to Gideon, “Every one that laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself; likewise every one that kneels down to drink.” And the number of those that lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water….

f. At the Red Sea

1) When the Israelites met the greatest difficulty, they easily forgot God and His power which had caused the 3 signs and 10 plagues.

They thought that they had walked their way by themselves and shouted, cried and complained to Moses. Believers must not retreat even

during times of dilemma.

2) Moses was influenced by the faithless Israelites and cried to God.

Ex 14:15The Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward.”

From this time, God considered the possibility of Moses’ failure in the future.Moses had to keep absolute faith in God and His word, not be influenced by faithless people.

They should have repented for having cursed Moses, but without doing so they were just joyful and danced. Therefore, they would repeat the same mistake many times after this.

3) The Israelites were saved by the miracle at the Red Sea.

g. The Idol of a Golden Calf

When the Israelites were not under Moses’ strict leadership during his 40-day fast, they easily compromised with their evil sexual desires, pushing Aaron to make an idol of a golden calf.

Moses was an uncompromising person.Aaron was a compromising person.

Moses and Aaron had to be united centering on God’s Will.

Moses failed to educate Aaron to be able to separate from Satan and made the great mistake of destroying the two tablets of stone out of hisshort-tempered anger.

We must be careful at the time of absence of our central person; we are apt to forget God, to judge and to act in a self-centered way.

h. Intercession and Suffering of Moses

1) After the Israelites made the golden calf

Ex 32:10 God’s anger

Ex 32:11-14 Moses’ intercession

Ex 32:19 Moses showed God’s anger toward the Israelites

Ex 32:31,32 Moses’ humility

2) After building the Tabernacle

Num 11:1-6 complaints of the IsraelitesNum 11:10-15 complaints and suffering of Moses

Each time when they expressed their resentment and complaint, Moses should have reflected himself in such a manner: “I also grieved God’s Heart, complaining always to Him.”

Moses should have cried with repentance considering the Heart of God who had to rely upon such a person.

3) Moses’ dual role

substitute for God strict in front of the peoplemodel for Jesus humble, meek in front of God

Num 12:3Now the man Moses was very meek, more than

all men that were on the face of the earth.

Num 11:25-29

Moses had no consciousness of being privileged, he accepted all works of God as good.

i. Failure of the Spying Mission to Canaan

10 faithless

2 faithful (Joshua, Caleb)12

When the 10 spies met with difficulties, they easily forgot God and His works and were dominated by self-centered thinking.They failed to see from God’s viewpoint.

Num 14:11,12 God’s anger

And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs which I have wrought among them? I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

Num 14:17-19 Moses’ intercession

Num 14:26-35 failure of the 40-day spying indemnification through 40 years

Only the internal Israelites, who were born in the wilderness, survived.The external Israelites, who had come out of Egypt at the age of over 20 years, 600,000 died, all except Joshua and Caleb.

3. The Third Course

a. 40-Year Wilderness Course

Because of the disbelief of the Israelites, the restoration of Canaan was prolonged from a 21-day course to a 21-month course, and

again from a 21-month course to a 40-year course, sacrificing many people.

b. Striking the Rock Twice

Num 20:10-12

Moses lost the parental heart and love, the parental position, and the role of representing God to the Israelites, through his self-centered temper and anger.This was the internal cause of his failure.God dislikes self-centered emotion and judgment.

c. Moses’ Death

God loved Moses 120 years and desired to bring him to Canaan, but it became impossible because of his failure. Therefore God showed Moses all the land of Canaan from the top of Pisgah, Mt. Nebo. God’s love for Moses to the end

Moses asked God to let him go to the land, but it grieved God’s Heart, therefore God stopped his mouth.

Deut 3:26“...speak no more to me of this matter.”

Joshua remained faithful to God and Moses through the entire course into Canaan.

He inherited Moses’ mission.

d. Joshua

God encouraged Joshua to be strong and of good courage, standing firmly on the Words.

Josh 1:5-9…Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you; turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

As long as we live in God’s Words, we also can get victory, at any time and in any place.

The internal Israelites were loyal and obedient.

Josh 1:16-18

And they answered Joshua, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you; only may the Lord your God be with you, as he was with Moses! Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and of good courage.”

True Parents are now expecting us to have strongerfaith than the internal Israelites of that time.

6 days unchanging indemnity period

On the 7th day, the 7 priests with the 7 trumpets marched around the city 7 times.

On Joshua’s command the people raised a great shout, and the walls crumbled.

e. The Fall of Jericho

f. After Entering Canaan

Many Israelite women expected their children to live comfortable lives through marriages with the Canaanites, and from them the Israelites inherited evil customs and idol worship. Great chaos in faith

They had to keep absolute faith in God, seeking to establish the ideal community centered on God rather than seeking an externally comfortable life.

a. Mary

Revelation from God, “Jesus = Son of God” The testimony of the three wise men from the East

Mary knew who Jesus was.

H. Jesus’ Course

1. The First Course

After giving birth to Jesus, Mary lost her internal standard, felt indebted to Joseph through his constant influence on her, thus Mary felt constrained.

After marriage with Joseph, Mary became secularized.

Jesus could not testify about himself. Mary was to have done that, but failed. She looked at and loved Jesus as her son, not as the son of God.

At the age 17, 27, and 30 years old, Jesus asked her to prepare his marriage with John the Baptist’s sister.

Mary could not accept it because it meant a marriage with a relative, uncommon in Israel society.

Zechariah, Elizabeth and John the Baptist knew of this and rejected it, saying “Absolutely not!” Therefore, Jesus’ attitude toward Mary was negative.

God did not instruct Mary, Joseph and John the Baptist about their internal missions. They should have realized their missions through desperate prayer.

John the Baptist should have attended Jesusfrom the moment he baptized Jesus.

He should have become Jesus’ first disciple, attending him directly,and guiding all his followers as Jesus’ disciples, but he did not do so.

b. John the Baptist

Jn 3:30“He must increase, but I must decrease.”

John the Baptist decided not to follow Jesus, even though he knew Jesus’ identity and mission through revelations from God.

He did not want to lose his position as the greatest prophet.

His attitude was the same as that of the Archangel Lucifer.He was dominated by his fallen nature.

The reasons for John the Baptist’s disbelief:

1) Feeling of decrease of love

2) To save his face and to keep social dignity

3) Ignorance about God’s providence

4) Judging Jesus humanistically

5) Wrong concept about the Messiah

6) Could not understand Jesus’ words and actions

a. Three Great Temptations (Mt 4:1-11)

1) Stones bread

Satan tried to destroy the unity of mind and body of Jesus.

No matter what difficult situation we may encounter, we should make the desire of our spirit mind stronger than the desire of our physical mind; unifying our mind and body.

2. The Second Course

2) Temple

Satan tried to discourage Jesus, “Why do you call yourself the Son of God? Nobody will believe you; you had better give up your mission.”

I should see myself from God’s viewpoint and never lose hope.Hope belongs to God; hopelessness (despair) belongs to Satan.

I should never lose heavenly dignity anywhere, anytime; “Second Self ” or “Chosen One”

3) “Worship me.”

We should not worship the glory of the satanic world –money, position, honor, knowledge, sex, etc.

Jas 4:4Unfaithful creatures! Do you not know that

friendship with the world is enmity with God?Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the

world makes himself an enemy of God.

1 Jn 2:15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

b. Entry into Jerusalem

God’s expectation was to see His beloved son being welcomed by the Israelites as King of Kings in glory. But this became impossible because of the disbelief of the Israelites.

Therefore, Jesus tried to comfort God at least by riding on a colt, imitating the original status of the Messiah.When the faithless Israelites tried to stop even that, Jesus said with a painful heart, “...the very stones would cry out.”

c. Jesus’ Prayer at Gethsemane

Mt 26:38,39…“My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.”

Jesus did not want to go the way of the cross, but finally trusted God with his life.Jesus’ first priority was God’s Will.

If Jesus had not entrusted his life to God, he would have failed completely.

d. The Crucifixion

Jesus prayed asking forgiveness for his enemies.

Jesus united with God in heart.

The thief on the right consoled Jesus.He was the first person to enter Paradise with Jesus.

God cannot forget those who protected His son in great tribulation.

Father’s words: “The sloping road of indemnity is too severe. The way to pass over it immediately is only one, that is to long for the Messiah.”

longing for the Messiahbecome one with the Messiah in heartinherit the victorious sphere of heart of the Messiahdeny oneself naturallyreceive God’s grace

The Messiah is the fruit of God’s providence of restoration. Therefore, if we accept and follow him all our sins will be forgiven.

Jesus cried, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” but finally entrusted his life to God, “Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit!”.

Jesus’ first priority was God’s Will.Therefore Jesus could resurrect after that.

3. The Third Course

Jesus’ disciples scattered because they did not want to be persecuted on behalf of Jesus, but after the Crucifixion he called on them again from the spirit world. They surrendered to Jesus because of his true love, and determined to follow Jesus’ words at the risk of their lives.

Originally they should have attended Jesus risking their lives while he was living on earth.

Jn 21:15-17… He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” And he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.”

Peter had to indemnify his three denials of Jesus.