“To Change World, Treat Each One as Child of God”

“In order to create the world we all long for, we should think of and treat the other as a child of God,” says Dr. Michael Balcomb in message delivered in Copenhagen 10th Nov. 2024.

Part 3 (final part) of extracts from a sermon titled “With Whom I Am Well Pleased”, that Dr. Michael Balcomb, the President of the Europe and the Middle East Region of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, gave at the Sunday service in Copenhagen, Denmark on 10th November 2024. Slightly edited.

See part 1: God and You: “With Whom I Am Well Pleased”

See part 2: Mother Moon: How to Be a Filial Son or Daughter

But why can’t we make unity? I think it’s because we can’t hear these words. I asked us, first of all to say to each other, “You are my beloved son.”

But when you said that did you have any doubt? Did you think,

“Wait a minute, I know some things about this person.”

Or did you really feel able to speak from the perspective of God, unconditionally? It’s such a difficult word – unconditional. But this is what Mother is trying to teach us, “I love you anyway. God loves us in any case and will always love us.”

There’s no one on the planet to whom God would not say,

“You are my beloved son, with whom I am well pleased.”

That doesn’t mean that we haven’t done things that hurt God. We have, all of us. But there’s nothing we can do, nothing that we can say that would bring God to say, “I’m not well pleased. You’re not my son.”

The only way to keep that alive is to be reassuring each other. You don’t hear the word of God so often, but what if every morning, every time you met somebody, you affirmed them in that way, to say, “You are God‘s beloved son with whom he is well pleased.” To feel that kind of affirmation and blessing.

And if you look at the life of Jesus, he always treated people that way. They might have been sick with a disease like leprosy. Everyone else would cross to the other side of the street, but not Jesus.

Or they might have been somebody that society looked down on, or even, like the woman caught in adultery, unmistakably a sinner. But the only thing that Jesus had for them was to tell them,

“You are special, you are loved, you are cared for.”

[…] Let’s imagine that we become so filled with the Holy Spirit that instead of a hundred people a month, we get a thousand people a month to come to our lectures. Won’t that be better? Yes, it will be better, but it will still take 4,000 years to spread the message just to one country, let’s say to Poland. So that can’t be the answer, right? It can’t be like that.

Father always gave us a very simple formula, and that was 1, 1, 1. He said,

“If you find one person in a month, and then that person is sufficiently inspired to find one person in the next month, how long will it take?”

2 years and 8 months to reach 8 billion people. […] Of course, it’s easy to say, and the math is simple. But what it would really mean is that that encounter was so transformational that each new person felt,

“Yes, I realize now who I am – the son of God and the daughter of God – and I’m going to tell somebody else.”

And this could really multiply. Mother has that kind of confidence. If we can be that sure of who we are, and who our Heavenly Parent is, how else can she believe that the world is going to change? That kind of conviction.

And she’s particularly asking us to feel that way, to think that way, as we look forward to next April and the great entry into Cheonwon Temple.

[…] My sermon is very simple. We already are the children that God loves unconditionally. And so are the people out there across the street, and every single one of them.

But we’ve become blinded by so many things. So today I want to give you some homework. Every person you see, as you look at him or her, think,

“This is a son of God, this is a daughter of God.”

And maybe we’ll feel,

“I have to tell them that! I have to share that!”

And if you’re living with someone, your spouse, your brothers and sisters, how about each morning before you do anything else, look at each other and say,

“You are a beloved son or daughter of God, with whom I am well pleased.”

Even though there might be so many reasons that we feel we can’t. I think it’s an exercise worth doing. We need a spiritual revival here in Europe. Right? We can’t carry on doing the same thing the way we’ve been doing it for all these years.

We need something that sets free the fiery love of God. And actually, it can only come through us. Mother sometimes talks about it, that it can’t be by human effort alone. But she doesn’t mean that there’s going to be some kind of burning bush or some fire from heaven.

No, that miracle has to come out of the hearts of the sons and daughters of God, who we are!

Let us pray!

“Our Heavenly Parent, Heavenly Father, Heavenly Mother, how long you have waited to hear your children say those words.

In the beginning, we didn’t know you at all. And then later on, people worshiped you in nature and sometimes in violence, like storms and thunder. Then through the law and through the commandments. When Jesus came, he revealed that God is our daddy. But even Jesus couldn’t reveal that you are also our mom, longing for us, caring for us, seeing in us all the beauty you created.

We’ve allowed ourselves to be convinced we’re not like that, that we’re not worthy.

We are! If we could treat each other that way, our world will change so dramatically. We don’t have 40,000 years or 4,000 years or 400 years or even 40 years. While the True Parents are here on earth, we have a few short years.

We want to believe that this kind of revival and change is not only possible, but probable and definite.

This is why True Mother‘s investing so much to create a place where you can dwell. Why she’s inviting each of us to come to see it for ourselves. And even before we get there, to see it in each other.

Thank you for our gathering this morning here. We’re truly grateful, and we ask you to fill us with conviction of our value and our preciousness to you.”

See part 1: God and You: “With Whom I Am Well Pleased”

See part 2: Mother Moon: How to Be a Filial Son or Daughter

Featured image above: We are all a child of God. Illustration: Microsoft Designer Image Creator, 26th Nov. 2024.

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