1. Those Who Have Experienced It and Know It Must Do It

2. God Created It That Way from the Very Beginning

Main Scriptures:

<John 5:24> “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.”

<Matthew 22:37–38> “Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.”

<1 Corinthians 13:13> “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

Hallelujah!

This past Sunday, I delivered the message on the theme:

“First, knowing is blessing.

Second, God and the Holy Spirit bless by enabling you to know.”

Today, I will deliver the message on the theme:

“First, those who have experienced it and know it must do it.

Second, God created it that way from the very beginning.”

• God repays everyone according to what they have done, whether good or evil. This does not apply only to those who believe in God. It applies to everyone who has breath.

• Consider a car. At the factory where its steering system is manufactured, it is made so that when anyone turns the steering wheel to the right, the car moves to the right.

Just as a car is made from the very beginning to move according to how the driver turns the steering wheel, God created human beings in the same way. Whether they believe in God or not, God made their bodies act according to what their brains and minds, which are like a steering wheel, do. In other words, He created them so that things would turn out according to how they act.

•   God has also made it so that people are treated by Him according to how they act. To communicate well with God, you must know what kind of being He is. God is a being of love. Therefore, if you treat Him with love, you will immediately connect with Him. The same is true of the Holy Spirit.

Therefore, you must treat God and the Holy Spirit with absolute love. Since this is the time of the bride, if you act in accordance with this time period, become an absolute counterpart of love, and treat God accordingly, you will immediately connect with Him, and God will also treat you according to how you have acted.

• No matter who it may be, you will connect with them the best only if you treat them in ways appropriate for the purpose and time. With someone who runs a business, you will connect well with them only if you speak with them about business. With someone who lives focusing on religion as their core, you will connect well with them only if you speak about religion. With athletes, you will connect well with them only if you speak with them about sports. With ornamental rock collectors, you will connect well with them only if you speak with them about ornamental rocks.

• God created the world because of love. The thousand-year history of this time period in the present is a time of fulfilling solely the purpose of love for which God created heaven, earth, creation, and people.

• There is also an appointed time for fulfilling that purpose for which He created.
  
  The Old Testament time period carried out the first-stage, infancy-level history of love for the sake of the Complete Testament time period. Therefore, God treated human beings as a master would treat servants.

In the New Testament time period, the child-level history of love was carried out for the sake of the Complete Testament time. God carried out history with Jesus as the core figure on the earth. Because Jesus loved God as His son, he said, “Everyone, love God as I do. If you also love Him as I do, you will be given the authority of sons.”

(John 1:12) Yet, to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

The New Testament time is a time when the level of love, as children, grew more mature than in the Old Testament time. If Jesus was the father on earth in terms of faith during the New Testament time, then God is the original being of faith and the Father in heaven. Therefore, the New Testament history is a history of the authority of children.

• In the Complete Testament time, the one who is sent became a counterpart of love and a bride by loving God and being the first to receive Jesus, who has returned, as a bridegroom. Everyone becomes a bride if they accept his teachings and love God as he does. This means, “If you also live loving God as His bride in the same way, you will be given the authority of a bride.” 
  
  
• God always manifests Himself according to the mission of the one who is sent. In this time period, when Jesus returned, he came as a bridegroom. God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son—the Trinity—came together with him. I, Seonsaeng, received the Trinity and Jesus. Therefore, I am a bride before the Trinity and Jesus. Those who know me, Seonsaeng, and have received the Trinity and Jesus as I have done are brides. 
  
  
• God is the source of love. Therefore, the fundamental purpose of the 6,000-year history of religion—the purpose for which God created heaven and earth and human beings—is “love.” Since God becomes our counterpart of love, we, too, must live as His counterparts of love. If you live such a life, you become one who has received the authority of the bride.

• There is something important when living this life. You must not think only about the one sent to the earth. Jesus said, “Believe in me, and believe absolutely in the One who sent me. Only then will you cross over from death to life.”

(John 5:24) “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. 

This is because God took action through Jesus’ body.

• The “one who comes” is a counterpart to the “one who receives.” In any time period, God treats people according to how they receive and treat the “one who comes.” In this time period, he comes as a bridegroom. Therefore, those who receive him are brides.

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• A “father” is a son to the grandfather, who is his [own] father. And to the son he bore, he is a father. He is a son to the one above him and a father to the one below him. Likewise, Jesus is a son before God and is like a father to those who follow him.

(John 14:9) … Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 

(John 10:30) I and the Father are one.”

(John 14:11) Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 

The same is true for this time period.

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• This is the key point. So, the head leaders should surely teach people about things regarding this time period.
  
  
• The key is indeed God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son. God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son are the bridegroom, and we are the bride. The one who is awaited and comes is the bridegroom, and the one who receives him is the bride.

• You must not stop after merely receiving the one who is sent. You must receive God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and Jesus, who are the core and the subject. They are the bridegroom of love for a thousand years. The one who receives is a bride. Only when you know all of this clearly will your efforts in your own position not be in vain.

• The owner of the purpose of creation is God, and He is in the position of a bridegroom. You fulfill the purpose of creation only if you are absolute about God, who is the bridegroom. You must not stop at just seeing the one who is sent as a bridegroom. You must surely listen to the words of the one who is sent, become a bride to the bridegroom and the core Beings, who are God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son, and receive Jesus, who has returned in spirit as a bridegroom. Only then will you come out from death or the domain of children. That history of love continues for a thousand years. [Humanity] grows for 6,000 years and fulfills that will for a thousand years.
  
  
• God said, “Always regard the one I sent as being identical with Me and one with Me.” When you know correctly, you will clearly know the mission of the one who stands on the side of God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son.

• The ‘one who comes’ is always on the side of heaven. It means that he has the same heart and shimjeong. In this time period, the ‘one who comes’ is a bridegroom and the ‘one who receives’ is in the position of receiving that bridegroom. The one who is sent in this time period is the first to receive the one who comes, and is in the position of being one with heaven’s side.
  
  
• In the Old Testament time, God sent Moses. Therefore, Moses was in the position of having the same shimjeong and heart as God and doing the work God instructed him to do as His body. In the New Testament time, God sent Jesus. Jesus, too, was in the position of God.
  
  In this time period, the one sent by God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and Jesus is in the position of God and Jesus. He is called a “symbol” or a “representation.” Because Jesus sent him, he is the symbol of Jesus, stands in Jesus’ position, and is the representation of Jesus.
  
  
• If I, Seonsaeng, sent someone, that person stands in my position and is my representation and symbol. If one has been sent, then they stand in the position of the one who sent them. This is the formula, principle, and logic. Only if you understand clearly will you act clearly.

• God said, “Know this correctly and teach correctly. If you do not know, you cannot carry out the wedding banquet. Only the one who knows will do it.” Only if you act with clear knowledge will your deeds not be in vain.
  
  
• You must never stop at the one who has been sent. The one sent by God came in order to tell people about God as the person who is sent. God sent him in order to save lives by connecting them to him. If the one who is sent is the Alpha, then you must meet God, who is the Omega. Only then will you go to the end.
  
  
• The one who is sent is the mediator. God lets people come to Him and live by saving them through the one who is sent.  
  
  At the same time, the one who is sent is in God’s position. God takes him as His body and works through him to convey God’s position, speak, and act. As such, the body of the one who is sent guides people to go to God. The one who is sent always brings people to God and lets them receive salvation.
  
  
• For example, a father, who is the head of a family, takes his young children in the world to his house. However, if the children do not like that, refuse to go, and live somewhere else, they are finished there. 

• Going together with the one who is sent—the mediator—equals going to God after listening to the one who is sent. This is because the one who is sent is one body with God. God always takes action working through the one who is sent. Even now, God is writing the Word and working through me, Seonsaeng.

• The one who is truly sent testifies for the one who sent him, while those who are not sent only center on themselves and act in self-centered ways because they have not heard any instructions.

• For example, when I, Seonsaeng, send someone, I send them with instructions on what to do. However, one who has not been sent by me, Seonsaeng, testifies for themselves because they have not heard any instructions from me. The one sent in the past has ended in the past. Only someone who is sent now tells you about the present me, Seonsaeng.
  
  
• God said, “Look at the religious people of this time period. They only do the work of the old time period because I have not sent them for the thousand-year history. The thousand-year history is a history that was started by Me sending the Man of Mission of the time period. So, he speaks about My, God’s, purpose of creation and the wedding banquet.”
  
  
• The former faith always speaks of waiting. Even now, they tell the same stories from 10 years ago and 50 years ago. Children always speak about children and servants always speak about servants. The bridegroom and the brides always speak about the new time period and love. However, even among those who have come to Providence, those who do not know speak about something else. By this you will know who they are.

• The highest-level life is living the life of a bride while perfectly knowing the one who is sent, loving God, loving the Holy Spirit, loving the Holy Son, and loving Jesus. Since this is a wedding banquet history, it is to live while loving.
  
  Eating and drinking all pertain to the wedding banquet. A married person is married and thus, everything they do in life—eating, making a living, etc.—is all a wedding banquet. The same is true for this time period. However, if there is no love, it is not a wedding banquet. 
  
  
• The highest faith is “loving God.” Like an ornamental rock or a diamond of the greatest hardness, that love must be supremely strong. And it must possess diverse forms and shapes. Like an ornamental rock smoothly polished by water, we must love with a heart polished into a good and kind heart that is like the Lord’s heart. 
  
  
• Even as people hold a wedding banquet, the reason they fail to feel it as real is that they do not know the foundation. Another is that they did not work zealously even if they participated in it. If you work zealously with knowledge, you feel it as real.

• Whether it is soccer, volleyball, basketball, running, or any other sport, if you do not participate together, it does not feel real. Also, if you participate without knowing that it is a competition, it does not feel like the day of the competition. Whether eating, listening, testifying, evangelizing, praying, managing, administering, preaching, or carrying out various missions, you must work zealously with knowledge for it to feel real.

• Today, in accordance with the Word that knowing is blessing, I taught you the key point of this time period which Providence people must act on with 100% clear knowledge. In particular, you must know what God created to be that way from the very beginning, because that is the formula, principle, and underlying logic.

God said, “Understand today’s message well and take action to the end. It is a life of love lived together with God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son, and the Lord every day.

I bid you the peace of the Holy Spirit’s love.