REGENERATION AND SANCTIFICATION IN NATURE

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ow many days have passed now? Today is the 4^th day. Are your hearts now beating with the life of heaven, and are you happy and joyful? The people around you are saying that they’re so happy and that they can’t even sleep at night. They’re saying that they have met our Real Daddy and are changing. They’re so happy. They’re smiling and dancing– but you, you don’t have that happiness or joy. Others are transformed and dancing, and they’re saying that they can’t sleep at night. But you don’t have this overflowing happiness in your heart.

When you listen to the message, it sounds correct, but why don’t you have that happiness? There’s nothing wrong with the messages, everything seems correct. But why isn’t your heart like the people around you? And why are you not filled with joy? Perhaps God has forsaken you. Perhaps the Holy Spirit has not come to you….But please do not worry. Jesus said that you are trees and He said that He Himself was a tree. He said, “I’m a tree and you are the branches.” We are all different kinds of trees that will live in our Father’s paradise.

Apple trees, date trees, and pear trees – they smile when they become regenerated and sanctified. But do fig trees smile? There’s no flower or smile or laughter. That’s why they’re called figs. They have no flower. They just sit there quietly. They don’t smile or laugh. But they bear some of the best fruits.

Apples, pears, and peaches – when you peel off the skin and throw away the pit, there’s not much to eat. But with the fig, you can eat the skin and everything inside. You eat it whole. When we go to heaven and sit at the silver table, you’ll be eating figs again. Others may be happy and joyful, but even if you don’t feel that way, don’t worry because you are like the fig tree. You will bear better fruits.

Once there was a stingy man in Seoul who used to sell dates. He wanted to make a lot of money, so he went down to the countryside to see how the date trees were doing. It was early spring, so the date trees should have been regenerated and sanctified, with flowers and leaves already blossomed and sprouted. But when this stingy date seller went to see them in the countryside, they all looked dried and dead. While all the other trees had leaves and flowers of regeneration and sanctification, the date trees didn’t have any leaves at all. Date trees usually bear the leaves of regeneration very late when all the other trees already have leaves that have been dancing with regeneration long beforehand.

This stingy, selfish date seller in Seoul saw that all the other trees had leaves and flowers but the date trees were all dried and dead. “Oh, I see. This year all the date trees are dead. I’ll invest all my money and buy all the date trees in the country and sell the mat a most expensive price.” He got a loan and bought all the dates throughout the country when they were the most expensive. He stocked them in his warehouse and said, “Since all the date trees are dead, I will keep these and sell them when they are most expensive.” He went back to Seoul filled with selfishness and greed. But the date trees had a meeting. “Let’s teach that stingy, greedy date seller a lesson.” So after he left, all the date trees started to bear the leaves of regeneration and fruits and flowers of sanctification. That year they bore an abundance of dates. And it was said that the stingy man from Seoul went completely broke. Do you know why date trees bear leaves and flowers so late? It’s because they are so hard. That’s why they say in Korea that people who have a stubborn heart and are hardhearted are like date trees. Those whose hearts and characters are firm and strong like those dates trees may not be so quick with the celebrating, singing and dancing, but when they bear fruits, they certainly bear the most abundant fruits. So don’t worry and just be happy. Those who so easily dance and sing while they are here also tend to easily fall when they go back home. But those who listen quietly without showing any reaction will never fall.

There’s a saying that a room that gets hot quick gets cold quick. Once I went to visit our prophetic school in Mageundam. In the evening it was very cold. I was rather worried because I get cold easily in the winter and I thought, “Oh, if it’s so cold now, it’ll get colder as the evening progresses.” But as the night passed, it began to get warmer and by the time it was morning, it was burning hot! So I asked one of the teachers what was wrong with the room. “How is it that in the evening it was so cold but as the night progressed it got hotter and hotter?” This teacher replied, “Once you warm up this room, it lasts for three days.”

There are many people who sing and dance and say that they’re so happy, but when they go back home, they’re empty and they collapse. They stumble and fall. But those who just listen quietly never stumble when they go back home. So even if the people around you are happy and they sing and dance, don’t worry. Do you all believe that the King of the universe is your Real Father who begot you? Then that’s all that matters. You have become a tree with deep roots. All you have to do is be rooted in the truth. So don’t worry. Though you are like the date tree or the fig tree, you will bear the best fruits.

If you look at the strong oak trees, they produce leaves very late just like the date trees. But once the leaves appear, even during the winter those leaves don’t fall off until the new leaves appear in the spring. Other leaves have fallen and are so dry that they crumble to pieces, but the leaves on the oak trees that appeared the latest remain on the tree until the following spring when it’s time for the new leaves to appear. But those leaves that come first early in spring all fall early in winter. Just because you don’t feel joy or happiness, and just because you don’t feel like dancing right now, don’t worry about it. If you firmly believe that Real Daddy is your Father who begot you, you have nothing to worry about and can rejoice.

Once there was an apple tree. It was a very cold winter day and the owner of the apple tree approached it and said, “Apple tree, I really want to eat an apple. Will you give me an apple?” He asked very nicely. After a few weeks, he went back, but there were no apples on the tree. “Oh, what’s wrong with me? I forgot to give this tree some fertilizer.” So he went over to the fertilizer pile and got some fertilizer. “Now it will bear fruits because I gave it fertilizer.” After a couple of weeks, this owner went to check but the apple tree just stood there with no fruits. “Hey, what’s wrong with me? I forgot to give it water.” So he went to the reservoir and gave the tree plenty of water. “Now that I have given it fertilizer and water, it will bear many apples.” But after a couple of weeks, when the owner went to check the tree, it just stood there bare and empty. “What’s wrong with this tree, it needs to get whipped!” He brought a stick and began punishing the tree by hitting it. “Now that it has been punished, it will surely come to its senses. Now I’m sure it will start bearing fruits.” But when he went to check a few weeks later, though it had been punished so severely, it remained empty and bare. The owner became so angry that he brought an axe and chopped the tree down.

What did this tree need? Not water or fertilizer, it needed the sun. When it receives the sun in the spring and summer, even if you don’t give it much water or fertilizer, even if you tell the tree not to bear fruits, it will smile and bear beautiful fruits. Later it will bear so much fruits that you will have to support its branches.

This fertilizer represents Jesus who came down to this earth and died for us. The water represents the Holy Spirit and the sun represents the heavenly Father’s love. Do you know why those people go to church all their lives but are not regenerated and sanctified? What do they say? They say, “Jesus, Jesus! Lord, Lord!” They always cry out to Jesus and the Lord and they always ask for the Holy Spirit. But who do they not call on? They did not call our Real Father and they did not seek His love. But when people come here, they change right away. They become regenerated and sanctified and bear many leaves and flowers. Why? Because, of what? The light of the Sun shines on their souls. Did you come to a good place? Yesterday, you were picking up your bags and conflicted about whether you should leave or stay, but I’m so thankful you decided to stay. You really made a good decision.

The churches in the world, all they do is cry out to Jesus and the Holy Spirit. One time, some church members decided to live deep in the countryside. They were city folks who went there and decided to farm though they didn’t know much about farming. But they weren’t able to harvest anything and ended up leaving the countryside empty-handed. They had planted rice paddies and though water was in abundance in the mountains, they lacked sunlight there. No matter how much water and fertilizer they poured into the paddies, without sunlight, the rice stalks grew tall but there were no grains. You need the sun for the rice grains to grow big and plump. So even though you lack water and lack manure, if the sun shines strongly, then the rice plant may be short but it will still bear beautiful grains.

Even though you may have less of Jesus and the Holy Spirit, if you just receive our Real Father’s love, it’s guaranteed that you’ll be regenerated and sanctified. People who always call out for Jesus and the Holy Spirit are doing so in vain, they will never bear the fruits of regeneration.

When raising plants, you need a combination of the three elements: nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and kali, as well as the sun, water, and air. This formula of elements is needed to raise plants. Likewise, there is a heavenly formula that we need for our souls to bear the fruits of regeneration and sanctification. They don’t just appear from thin air. Even when we grow things which we end up eating, all the conditions have to be right. Do you think just calling on Jesus’ name will resolve everything? When the fruits of your character have to be grown, do you think it just happens automatically and without any effort? You have all been planted in the heavenly orchard to become the fruits borne in the hands of heaven’s Owner. Truly you are fortunate in meeting this Owner! But if you leave this orchard, then you’ll be in big trouble.

(Teacher draws on the chalkboard)Here is a fruit tree. On this tree, there are leaves and there are fruits. There are both leaves and fruits on the tree. They live together from spring to fall. But when the owner comes, he only picks the fruit and puts them in the basket. He doesn’t even look at the leaves. How sad it is, isn’t it? Yes, it’s sad. Can you believe it? They lived in the same tree, on the same branches. They received the same sunlight, water, and fertilizer. If anything, the leaves came out first and worked so hard for the fruits to come out. The fruits would only come out much later. The leaves came up early and worked so diligently. They even “spoke in tongues” as they swayed and swirled on the branches whenever the winds blew. But the owner came and only picked the fruits. The fruits couldn’t even speak in tongues or anything, only hanging on the branches mute and quiet. But the gifted leaves were left behind and only the fruits were chosen.

Must you become leaves or fruits? This is a lesson I learned while lying on a thick bed of leaves in the mountains and meditating about nature. We must become fruits. And so these leaves are so upset with the mistreatment that they fall to the ground and roll about in tears. Then later these leaves become like mulch for next year’s fruits as they die and disappear for eternity. But these fruits, even if they fall to the ground, they can live again. Did you ever hear about fruits that die? Even if the fruit is dropped and covered with dirt, it will live and it will sprout. They live for eternity while leaves, once they fall, they die forever. We must be fruits.

Then, how does one become either fruits or leaves? Leaves come out early and start waving around, fanatically making noises and speaking in tongues. They show themselves off and are so clamorous. But though they are on the same tree hanging on the same branches, they only drink the water without bearing any life, wasting its existence in vain. There’s no life in them. However, the fruits may appear late, but they drink the life sap from the tree, and because they drink the life sap, they become the seeds of life.

People believe in the same God and the same Jesus. But those who appeared first only clamor about, screaming and boasting, speaking in tongues and dancing about. And yet they have no life, only continuously drinking those futile, lifeless doctrines. They came out early but have nothing to show for it. However, the group from the Upper Room came out so late, but they drank the life sap from the same God and the same Jesus. What is our Father’s life? It’s love. It’s the reason why you bear fruits immediately when you come here. Is there love in your heart that you never had before in all your life? Is there peace? Is there joy? Those are the fruits of the Holy Spirit. I hope that you will continue to drink this sap of life even when you return to your homes, to drink it until you go to heaven. Don’t ever drink those lifeless doctrines ever again or else you may end up as a leaf.

The fruits may grow but not all of them bear complete fruits. Sometimes while growing, they fall off the branches. Look at persimmons, they fall off. Why? You have to hold on to the branches very tight and continue receiving the sap of life. If you don’t hold on tightly, then you will fall even before the leaves have fallen. If that happens, you’re no better than leaves. I hope that all of you will become eternal fruits that the owner picks when he comes to harvest. May you not become leaves that roll around on the ground and die.

Then who is the King of heaven and the universe? How many are there? Only one. Who is He? He is our Real Father. And what does our heavenly Father only accept and give out? He only takes love and gives out love. He is the God of love. Have you become royalty coming here? Who begot you? Because the King of the universe begot you, you are all royalty. Why? What did you eat? You ate love, our Real Father’s love. So there’s no need for you to wait to be seated at the silver table in heaven; you’re already sitting at that table eating the heavenly food here. That’s why you are royalty. (Teacher draws on the chalkboard) This is a queen bee and this is a worker bee. The worker bee lives for little more than a month. It works day and night whether it’s raining or windy. It just does its work and leaves after a month. The queen doesn’t even work. It just flies around. The worker bee lives for forty days and the queen bee lives for more than 2,520 days. The worker bee only lives for a month. The queen bee lives eternally compared to the worker bee. Do you want to be a worker bee or a queen bee?

[But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood.] (1Pet 2:9) You are what? A royal priesthood. You are royalty. Then how can one become a queen bee? How does one become a worker bee? Someone might say, “Oh, the eggs of the queen bee are big and the eggs of the worker bee are small.” Is that true? There are many people here who take care of bees, who harvest honey. So I can’t lie. The eggs are the same. They are the same exact eggs. The difference is that if an egg is fed royal jelly, it becomes a queen, and if it’s fed sweet honey, it becomes a worker bee. So depending on what it eats, it becomes a queen bee or a worker bee. The queen bee will live long, almost eternally compared to the worker bee that will live for only a short period and die.

In the same way, if you look in Jeremiah 31:27, He said that in the last days in the church on Earth, there will be “the seed of the beast and the seed of man.” And who is man? It is written in Genesis1:26, [Let Us beget man in Our image.]When it says “man,” it is speaking of those who have God’s image. Those who don’t have God’s image, it doesn’t matter if they’re pastors, priests, or the pope, they’re all beasts. I hope that you will become the “man” who bears the image of God. People who are like the heavenly King are also the royalty of heaven. Who is beast then? It is Satan, the devil, that serpent of old. Here we have the seed of the beast and the seed of royalty. What’s the difference? Those who eat what the heavenly King eats the food of kings, become heavenly royalty. Those who eat the erroneous falseness of the beast become the seed of the beast. So depending on what you eat, you will become a part of the royal family of heaven or a beast of this earth.

But look at the people in the world. Instead of eating God’s love, which is life, they eat those lifeless doctrines and false teachings of the beast, that devil. And that’s why they have all become seeds of the beast. Have you come here to a good place? But you didn’t come here on your own. Our Daddy, He carried you here. So when you return back home, do not ever eat the food of the beast ever again. Jesus said that the food we eat on this earth is the food of pigs; when the prodigal son left the father, he just ate the food of pigs. Do not eat the food of beasts, those false doctrines, ever again. I hope that you will only eat the royal jelly of our Real Daddy’s love. Then you will live eternally and never die.

So this worker bee, all day and night it only thinks about work and what to eat. Those churches in the world only worry about their businesses. Do the people here in the Upper Room worry about business or not? No. All year long the people in the churches have discussions and meetings. Here, even though we’re an international group, we don’t have discussions or meetings. Once, a pastor from America came and when he heard that we were having a general assembly meeting, he thought people would raise their hands and give ideas, and we would hold a discussion for several days. But after reading from God’s Word, giving a message for an hour, that was it, end of the meeting. That was the whole of our annual meeting.

But this worker bee worries about his business all day long and all his life and then dies. The queen bee doesn’t worry about working. Instead, all it does is lay eggs. That’s why the people in the Upper Room just give birth to living souls. But what do the workers do? They lay smelly things. All of you have become the royalty of heaven. Because you ate what? You ate the royal jelly of our Real Daddy’s love, the very love which our Real Father accepts and eats. You have all become royalty. So I hope that you’ll only eat this royal jelly and never again eat those false doctrines – the food of the beast.

Let’s look at Ephesians 4:22-24. […that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.]

(Teacher draws on the board)These are the eggs of silkworms. I’m sure there are many people here who grow silkworms to make silk. The government used to make announcements for people to raise silkworms to make silk. They could take as many as they wanted. Anyway, when the silkworms are hatched from the eggs, they are these little white larvae; they are completely black and so small. You can’t even tell which part is the head and which is the tail. And you can’t feed it. So you have to cut off the leaves and sprinkle it and they will eat that. After eating for a while, they grow a little more and then stop eating. They lift up their heads and start their fasting prayer to God. I don’t know who told them to do that and whose sermon they heard, but if you listen to what they’re praying about, they’re saying, “O God, I have to grow bigger but I can’t grow anymore because of my skin. Please give me the power to take off my skin.” Sothe silkworm prays and receives an answer and sheds a layer of skin, this layer of skin of sin. And after he takes it off, he becomes so happy and starts to eat again. And he grows even bigger, and then he starts to fast and pray again. “O God, it isn’t good enough, please take off my skin again.” Then he sheds its skin again and again up to four times. So, since he took off his skin of sin four times, now he has become a senior of a theological school. Since he has shed his skin four times, shouldn’t he be proud of himself? Yes, he should be proud of himself.

Look at the humans in the world. They aren’t even able to shed their skin even once but they’re so proud. However, this little silkworm has taken off his skin of sin four times. He should be proud and lift his head high, but this silkworm doesn’t know how to be proud. He just shakes his head, “Oh, it isn’t good enough. No! It’s not enough. This isn’t it.” He keeps on examining himself, and then one day he makes up his mind. “I must make for myself a prayer room. I need to pray and fast for a long time.” So he builds his own prayer room. He stops eating and drinking. Just like in Daniel 1:8, he has made a resolution, a determination to go in this cocoon and only pray. He begins a prayer meeting for himself.

And while diligently building this prayer room, someone outside knocks on the door. “Who is it?”“Mr. Silkworm, it’s me!” It is his old girlfriend. “I’m sorry, please go away. It’s been a long time now that I’ve crucified all affection and greed on the cross.” And he doesn’t even open the door for her. “I’m sorry, please forget about me.” So his girlfriend leaves in tears.

A few moments later, “Knock-knock!” “Who is it?” “It’s me, your friend. You remember the money that I borrowed from you, the $500? Here it is.” “Just take it. I gave up all my selfishness and greed. You can keep the money.”

Even if his girlfriend comes, she is asked to leave. Even if his friend comes to repay his money, he doesn’t care. He doesn’t change his mind. He has made a firm determination and will not yield. I hope that you will all become like this silkworm and make a firm resolve.

So after praying for a long, long time in his prayer room, just as he eagerly desired, he becomes an angel with white wings. He becomes a white angel that can fly. Did he receive an answer to his prayer? Yes, he received an answer. You will go to heaven in the same way. But those who cannot make a firm resolve, who cannot crucify their affections and greed on the cross, will never be able to go to heaven.

There are some silkworms that mistakenly defecate in their house; such silkworms fail in their goal. We should never make any mistakes and defecate in our lives and characters. Like the holy prayer place, we should also be holy. So at last, this silkworm becomes an angel that flies in the sky. No matter how large this silkworm may grow to be, no matter how much it eats, what does it do? It only defecates. But this butterfly can fly around here and there. The silkworm must chew on something, a leaf or a bark, it just keeps chewing and defecating. But the butterfly flies around this flower and that flower. Though it sits on so many flowers, it does not chew on or harm any flower, all it does is help flowers to pollenate. It becomes a worker that helps flowers regenerate and sanctify.  

So please ask yourselves, “Am I a silkworm or a butterfly?” Please search yourselves as you ask that question. If all you can do is chew on your husband or wife, or chew on the brethren around you and cause them pain, then you’re still a silkworm with only smelly things coming out from your characters. So the butterfly goes here and there and it can meet many people but it doesn’t hurt anyone. It will not harm anyone but instead, it gives out life. It shares life to others.

Nature is our lesson book. It’s written in the Bible, “You lazy being! Go and learn from the ants.” But I would like to say, “You foolish people who do not know how to be regenerated and sanctified, learn from the silkworm!” Even bugs that can’t talk shed their skin four times, and still that’s not enough for them as they continue to pray and fast, to end up becoming angels. But how is it that those people in the world that have believed in Jesus all their lives are not able to shed off their skin of sin even once. I hope that you will daily shed this skin of sin. Not every meeting but every single day. That is the only way you can go to the eternal heaven.

Those who say, “Oh, I attended the seminar many, many times,” shouldn’t be proud of that. Just as I told you before, those who attended the seminar many times are arrogant and they have become critics. “Ah, this hour we will listen to this.” And when it’s time to watch the video taped messages, they say, “Teacher is not going to come out this hour, so let’s go to sleep.” Will my flesh, will my body change you? It’s the words from my lips that will really change you. Video hours are the most important and that’s why I don’t come out personally; I come out during the hours when you are most sleepy or not paying much attention. People don’t realize that. So whether you watch a video or listen to me directly, I hope you will listen to me carefully that you may shed your skin of sin everyday, during every hour, to eventually fly to heaven. But now you have all become critics and think that you know everything. You say. “It’s the same thing, the same story.” You go to the small seminars and you say, “That speaker is so-and-so and she’s so-and-so….” You have become so stubborn and there’s no way for the Word to inter into their hearts. We must cut off the outer layer of our hearts and receive the Word. The Word must be the flesh that newly grows around our open hearts.

I was originally born in the family of a farmer so I used to farm as well. Last year, there was an unused plot of land and it seemed like a waste, so I decided to plant watermelons there so we could enjoy them in the summer. I gathered all our brethren that lived below and suggested we plant watermelons, so they came and we dug holes and put in fertilizer. We put in chicken manure and mulch, mixed them all together. We put fine dirt and made all these holes for the watermelon seeds. Now if you want to eat watermelons, what do you need? Who do you have to invite? You have to invite watermelon seeds. You have to convince them to grow and bear fruits. So I took the watermelon seeds and gave them a sermon. Watermelon seeds are so full of sin that they’re black. They’re so stubborn and hardhearted, crafty and cunning, without much of a conscience. So I gathered those fastidious watermelon seeds together and gave a sermon. “You watermelon seeds, will you listen to me? Please listen to me. Don’t fall asleep.” I woke them all up. “I will regenerate and sanctify you and make long vines of regeneration grow out from you that are thousands of times longer than your small bodies. And you will bear the fruits of sanctification hundreds and thousands of times larger than you. Will you say, ‘Amen’?” Are you watermelon seeds? I’m talking about the watermelon seeds right now.  

But never mind saying, “Amen,” these watermelon seeds began to laugh in derision, saying, “How ridiculous! Look at us! We’re so hard and so small. But you’re saying there will be vines of regeneration and fruits of sanctification hundreds, thousands of times larger than us that will sprout from us?” They all started laughing amongst themselves and didn’t even listen to me. They just looked at one another all black and shiny, and only laughed at me. How frustrating. But I was persistent and I spoke to them again. “If you can’t believe me and you can’t say ‘Amen,’ then will you just entrust your hearts and bodies to me? I will take responsibility and make you bear the vines of regeneration and the fruits of sanctification. Will you do that?” And they agreed to that, so now we had an agreement.

After finally convincing the watermelon seeds to trust me, I went to the well and brought some water. Then I threw the watermelon seeds into the bowl of water. As they went in, they said, “What? You said you were going to regenerate and sanctify us, but instead you drown us and throw us here inside the water.” They started to complain as they bobbled up and down, up and down. Later, they were very angry as they settled at the bottom of the bowl. In the evening, when I took them out of the bowl, they were a mess, furious and swollen with tears and mucus. “You said that you’d make us grow big and bear huge fruits, but how could you treat us like this!”

Regardless of their complaining, since they agreed to commit themselves to me and I guaranteed that they would bear fruits, in order to fulfill my promise, I took them into a room and wrapped them in a damp towel. After that I set them under a blanket in a warm room. Then they started to yell at me, “Hey, it’s so stuffy here!” They had been crying all day long and were so upset at me, but I threw them under a blanket in a towel. They were so frustrated and made a big uproar. “I don’t need regeneration and I don’t want sanctification. I don’t need anything. Let us out!” They cried and yelled all night long.

The next morning, I took them out and looked at them. All of a sudden they were saying, “Hey, look at me! What’s wrong with me? I have a tail! You have a tail too!” They all had white tails coming out from their rear. Oh, how embarrassing. They were all so embarrassed. “Oh, what a shame. Look at me, I have a tail!” Then I took them to the field, to the pits and holes that we had dug. I took two or three of them and I put them in the furrows so that they could live the country life. But when I put them in there, they said, “Oh, it smells like chicken manure. It smells so bad here!” They forgot that they were embarrassed. “Get me out of here!” For many days they struggled like this to get out, and finally they did. As they looked up, the sun was shining on them, saying, “Good job! You made it!” Without even realizing it, true leaves of regeneration had sprouted.

“What happened to me? Where is my tail?” The tail was in the ground and his tail became roots and his arms became two leaves that spread out into a V for victory. “Finally, I’m victorious. I did it.” From then on, the vines of regeneration came out hundreds and thousands of times longer than the seed it originally was. That small seed not even an inch long grew vines that were many feet long. Later, big leaves came out of these vines. Then this big watermelon came out.

At first, the owner’s words seemed so unbelievable. To the stubborn-hearted, not even a drop of water would enter their hearts. But because the watermelon seeds committed themselves to the owner, they became regenerated and sanctified.

There are times when you believe the words that I say here, but there are times when you just can’t, you cannot even bring yourself to say, “Amen.”Since you can’t believe what I’m saying, how you can say “Amen.” But even if you can’t believe it, if you only commit yourselves to our Real Daddy, then that’s it, that’s all you need to do. How can you say, “Amen” when you can’t believe? No one can say, “Amen” when the belief isn’t there. How can you force yourself to believe something you can’t believe? But even if you can’t believe what I say, just commit yourselves to Real Daddy. That’s all you need to do.

Next, I live in Songni Mountain. Every year the mountain birds would come down and have their young under the roof of my house. Last year, even the squirrels and chipmunks had their young in the bathroom and closet outside. So the birds would come and lay their eggs. One time, I gave a sermon to the bird’s eggs.

“Hey eggs, listen to me. I made this nice house here. I made this nice storage closet where the rain and snow won’t get in and to protect you from the wind. I’ll make it so that you can fly way up into that blue sky. Not only that, you’ll become angels that sing as you fly. Say ‘Amen.’” Why you are saying “Amen”? Are you the birds? I was talking about the birds. I told them to say “Amen,” but instead they said, “What a joke! How funny!” They turned their backs on me as if I didn’t know that they were making fun of me, as if I didn’t know that they were laughing at me. They said, “Look at us. We’re so weak and so fragile. If someone just flicks a finger, we’ll crack and die. We don’t have the ability to roll around on our own. We don’t even have the legs to stand up. But what? We’re going to fly like an angel? No way! It’s a joke. Say something that makes sense. You’re saying that we’re going to fly and sing like an angel?” It was impossible for them to believe and they couldn’t say, “Amen.” “You’re crazy. It’s not possible!” they said.

Though I was rather upset, I just remained patient. I said, “Fine, just do what I tell you to do. Will you do that? Stay in your mother’s bosom. Stay in there no matter what happens. Inside this storage closet where there’s no rain or snow that will get to you, just do not be arrogant and fall off to the side but stay in your mother’s bosom. Will you do that?” “Yes.” They made up their minds to obey. Staying in their mother’s bosom was something they could do. After many days, they came out as little chicks with beaks that picked through their eggshells out into the world. Since I told them to stay in their mother’s bosom, how frustrating and claustrophobic it must have been at first. “How come I haven’t any wings? How come I can’t fly?” And when they can’t be patient and fall out of the nest, they end up dying. But the birds that stay in the nest and eat the food that the mother gives them, later on their wings become strong and they are able to fly.

All of you are like these bird’s eggs. You might say, “Look at me, I’m so fragile. Even if I fall from a high place I’ll break my arms or legs, but you’re saying I will ascend to heaven? I will fly throughout the stars? That’s inconceivable!” And you can’t bring yourself to say “Amen.” But don’t worry about it. Just don’t leave our Real Daddy’s bosom, then He will take responsibility to making sure you become an angel that flies. Even eggs become birds that can fly in the sky. Why couldn’t you become angels that fly throughout the universe? So even though you can’t believe it, don’t force yourself to believe, don’t even say “Amen.” Just commit yourselves to Real Daddy, that’s all.

This time I took pine tree seeds and I gave a sermon. It seems I always give sermons wherever I go. The pine tree is the king of trees. It’s an evergreen but its seed is so small. The seed of pumpkins and watermelons are quite big, but even though the tree so big, the pine tree seeds are tiny and as thin as paper. So I took the small seed and I gave a sermon.

“You pine seeds, I will make you grow a hundred thousand times larger than you are now. I will make you pierce up to the heavens as an evergreen, an eternal tree. Later people will come to your branches and they’ll sing, they’ll climb up on your branches and play their flutes, and birds will come and make their homes in your branches. Will you say ‘Amen’?”

But instead of saying “Amen,” they looked at me with narrowed eyes. They wanted to fly out. They wanted to go away. “No! This is all wrong!” And they tried to run away. “I might get caught in this fanaticism.” And they wanted to ride on the wind of heresy and run away. “Be patient, be patient I say! Please listen to just one more message.” But they only replied, “Look at us, we’re as thin as paper. We’re so skinny and small. You said that we were going to grow thousands and millions of times bigger than we are now. We’re going to pierce through the sky and birds will sing in our branches and people will climb on us and play the flute? This is unimaginable, it’s fanaticism!” They couldn’t even imagine such a thing happening. When the winds blow, their bodies would be blown away together with even the slightest breeze. So how could people climb on them and birds lay their eggs and sing for them. There was no one who could say, “Amen.”They all wanted to run away.

I barely got them to be patient for three days. And I kept giving them a sermon. “If you can’t believe what I’m saying, then I have one request. I will guarantee that you’ll grow into a beautiful tree, the king of trees. Just give your body and soul to me, and then I’ll guarantee it. Will you do that?” And they agreed to endure just three days. So I took these pine seeds to a nice piece of land where it was sunny and I buried them in the ground. And they said, “What? You said you would make us pierce the sky and people will climb on us and birds will come and sing to us, but you’re burying us here in this dirt?” The seeds were so angry. “You buried me alive! You deceived me! I knew this would happen, I’ve fallen into error!” They were in an uproar. “You said that you’d make us pierce the sky but it’s dark and we can’t even see the sun! Where is the sky?”

So I told them, “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit!” I also was upset now so I said this rather loudly and went home quite angry. Pine trees need to have some patience. I didn’t care whether they screamed or yelled out curses. Even after many, many days passed, of course, they were still upset and wouldn’t listen to me, being even more rebellious. But my words had become a seed in their hearts. After many struggles, they pierced through the ground and came out to face the sun. “Good job! You made it!” How astonishing it was! They had leaves of regeneration and they kept on growing and growing. Finally that little pine seed became a tree so large that it pierced the sky. Birds came and sang for them. People climbed up the tree and played their flutes. They became the trees of eternal life.

Whether the watermelon seeds, the pine tree seeds, the eggs – it’s speaking about all of you. All of you were black– filled with sin like the watermelon seeds. You were so stubborn. Your conscience was so hardened that not even a needle could penetrate it. In the beginning, you looked at me with narrowed eyes, saying, “This is fanaticism! Let’s get out of here!” You barely made it until the third day. But as I look at your faces now, you’re all smiling. Two leaves of regeneration have come out. Since the leaves of regeneration have come out and you have the root of faith that has sprouted, I hope that you’ll continue to grow and commit yourself to the heavenly Farmer. Then He will make you an angel that can fly throughout the universe and the heavenly host will come and sing to you. You’ll be like that eternal living pine tree. You’ll bear many fruits all throughout the world like the watermelon. May you become like a bird that flies to heaven to live for eternity.

DOALNARA (GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE DECALOGUE STONE COUNTRY)

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