You feel like throwing away your hands and feet and your whole body, which is used by Satan. If you think you want to preserve yourself as you are, stained by Satan, you are being stupid.
Have you ever had that experience? Since we cannot remain dead, we need the conditions to eliminate our past relating with Satan."
Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Fallen people were not born from God-centered parents in the direct blood lineage of God. Therefore, our birth must be denied, and we must make a new relationship with God. In other words, because we were born from the fallen dead world, in order to return to life centering on God, we must be resurrected. We need to be born again. But being born is not the conclusion; we then must go through the growth period.
In order to pass through that, the indemnity condition(pay for a wrong done) must be established. You can think of it in a way as 'the sins of the father are visited upon the children'.
For instance, the Principle teaches us that when a wrong is done to someone and they cannot forgive, when they die, they may visit that person in spirit or their descendants and take revenge from the spirit world. This can be caused through diseases or broken marriages. Indemnity is when someone makes a condition whether equal or greater to pay back the mistake of the original ancestor.
The greatest indemnity paid in history was through Jesus Christ suffering and shedding his pure blood to pay for our fallen blood. In making the indemnity condition, not only the individual's responsibility but also the national mission and world mission together are included. You must know that what you did concerning this responsibility determines what happens with your Blessing.
Father Moon has taught the true way to make an indemnity condition or pay back what has been wronged in history. For instance, if there had been a person that could have thinking more on the worldwide level and indemnified Japan's history, the world could have been unified through Japan.
The Bible states:
What good is it if you gain the whole world and lose your very soul?
Life is this precious.
We must know the true method for an indemnity condition, which results in your own precious life. This is the way for salvation - through paying indemnity. Indemnity means you climb through the path by which the fall of humanity happened. Then go the opposite way.
Father Moon, the messiah of the Second Coming, has established all of the historical indemnity conditions and won victory. Now, it should not be a problem when satan attacks good people as he has been throughout all of history until now. We must be determined to stand fast against these attacks with the methods like Stalin liquidating religious people, we should use satan's attacks against him.
Perfection does not happen automatically but is established through indemnity.
Indemnity was not needed in the original ideal of creation. Adam and Eve were born in the most perfect conditions for growth toward God as the center. Indemnity was only necessary after their mistake.
Were Adam and Eve ever perfected?
We know that Adam and Eve were not born perfect for one simple reason: they fell away from God. If Adam and Eve were born perfect yet were still able to make a grave mistake such as linking to Satan's ideals instead of God's ideal, then the whole ideal of God's creation and perfection would not in itself be perfect.
You and I were not born into ideal situations or conditions, but born through a fallen blood lineage linked to satan. Therefore, you and I cannot be perfected without making an indemnity conditions first. This is how we obtain self-perfection. Those who did not go over the hills of indemnity and reversing the fall within ourselves absolutely have no way to be perfected.
Religious practices before the Second Coming make a condition to link us to God through the Messiah and to be saved spiritually, but this is not perfection and our blood line is still linked to Satan.
When we pay indemnity in order to perfect back to our original sinless selves to God's side, we can call this restoration. Therefore, we can never separate these two words: indemnity and restoration.
The Indemnity Condition Has to Be Established By Myself
This is Rev. Moon's explanation of why humanity must go the way indemnity:
"What result came about due to the human fall? God and the angelic world were chased out of the human world, and we lost the world of all things. Next, the individual base, family base, clan, tribe, nation and world foundations were all lost.
The word "lost" means that Adam and Eve themselves chased them out. Who has the responsibility for that? That responsibility isn't God's, it is not the angelic world's nor the creation's; it is the human responsibility.
This result was the human responsibility. Therefore, human beings must take the responsibility and assume the destiny to go the course of restoration. However, the course of restoration cannot be traversed by oneself. Absolutely, you must go through the re-creational principle with the help of the spirit world.
It cannot be otherwise, because it is the principle of salvation that God and the spirit world mobilize for recreation. Before God created human beings, He created the angelic world. With the help of the angels, He created all things and through all things as material, He created human beings.
Because the fall was committed by human beings, restoration through indemnity must be done by human beings.
The Principle is that the one who committed the sin should indemnify it.
That is why, when you've found the True Parents, you should be able to say, "I'll follow with my life." Jesus said, "Those who want to live will die and those who want to die will live," because that describes the way, the beginning point of restoration through indemnity.
Indemnity conditions must be established by your own self. Another person cannot substitute for you. The fall means the loss of the authority of subjectivity. In restoration, no matter who interferes, you must be confident of yourself and go with the clear subjectivity.
No matter where others are going, I must be busy going my way. At night, there is no time to sleep, there is no time to find a place to sit comfortably and eat a meal. Without having a heart this serious, you cannot go the way of restoration." SMM
To Eliminate The Satanic Sovereignty
If you want to find complete salvation, you must liquidate your own sin and your past. Now through your activities you must clean up the sins you've committed. In order to eliminate sin, you must not do things against the Principle.
Christianity teaches that Jesus has paid the highest price for our sins. This is correct, but where we make a mistake is believing that just by believing in the blood that all our mistakes are cleared. Our past is forgiven as a condition to link us to God through Jesus, yet we still bore children of sin. The work of restoring our fallen blood lineage is ultimately up to us. If it was easy to clean sin 100%, God would have liquidated sin from the beginning when Adam and Eve followed satan's will.
What is Sin?
It is when you allow a condition for Satan to invade and attack. We must clearly know the root of sin. Evil is Satan himself and Eve set a condition for him to attack with the beginning thought, "Let me be the subject, let me be the center".
We liquidate evil when we reverse the fall and go in the opposite direction toward God's original principle of creation which thinks "Live for the other (spouse)". "Live for only myself" is satanic human and fallen nature. In order to avoid falling into this self-centered thinking, we must clearly know the origin of good and evil. God and Jesus want to break this evil thinking down. This is why Jesus' basic teaching was to not be arrogant, live for others and serve others.
This is God's way of thinking.
Humanity fell away due to the fall based on thinking of oneself without God as the center. In order to go back toward the original Principle way of life before the fall and become one with the principle of creation, we must go through the course of re-creation.
The fall occurred between Adam and Eve when one was motivated by thinking the other person exists to invest in me instead of thinking I exist to invest in others. In order to invests, we must do away with ego and do the opposite of the fallen world. This is why religion teaches to sacrifice yourself for others.
After the fall of Adam and Eve, what kind of illness did the human race contract?
Centering on Satan, we got the sickness of love, and through the sickness of love, the blood lineage of Satan has multiplied.
In other words, the illness is received from Satan's blood and is born in Satan's direct children. But how did that love sickness start?
When God's order and the heavenly principle was denied when one centered their actions on their own thinking, the sickness of the fall was born. Therefore, in order to heal this love sickness that has infested across the world, we must deny ourselves and live absolutely centering on God.
If Lucifer, Adam and Eve had centered their whole life centered on God, there is no way they would have gone in their own direction away from God. and they would have established the ideal world. This would be Heaven on Earth - a place where everyone's life attends and makes a direct relationship of love through God. God has been striving throughout history to straighten out this mistake. When you or I are proud about our fallen, sinful self we cannot hope to change toward God's direction.
When we are faced with difficulty while we walk the way of restoration we may think, "This is too hard and I cannot do this". This is not heavenly God-centered thinking, this is thinking centered on one self. In order to get away from this self-centered thinking we must have a God-centered sovereignty. When we walk this path with a complaining heart or deny the work of God's will then our work becomes unqualified. One who walks the path complaining will eventually give up and claim the work he does for God as his own doing.
Walking the way of faith is difficult so we must think:
God is in front of me, my friends are beside me and my brothers and sisters are there. We must also think that the fate of humankind's future remains in front of us.
To continue going through the toughest of times in our life of faith, we must think that "I would give up my life to keep going". Isn't this the kind of thinking which all the saints had in history?
When we have this kind of thinking, our self-centered thinking will fall away. When we go the opposite of me-centered thinking, we can overcome the fallen sovereignty. We must remember that the most difficult times mean we are kicking out the most difficult fallen sovereignty and getting closer to the day of liberation!
Determine to Go the Opposite Direction of the Fall
Originally, the fall brought us into a place of death. In order to salvage this, you must run into the place of death. No matter what, we all have to go through that fate, so you must do it with a joyful heart as a real man and woman.
Like that, make the determination; the members will increase as they go according to the will of God, and the world will go in a new direction. Our heart must be burning to establish that mother-baby desperation. In your heart, do you have the faith to go beyond the limit of life and death?
We must make the determination with a burning in our hearts and desperation a mother has for her baby to go beyond the limits of life and death. In order to bring the teachings of the Divine Principle, the Completed Testament to the earth, Father Moon had to fight dozens, hundreds, many tens of thousands of life and death situations. Even though these situations come like waves, he has never wavered from his goal.
"Even if my legs are broken or my eyes are popped out or my neck is being cut, I do not change from the beginning point of determination. Therefore, I'm victorious as long as I'm alive."
How do we get out of this love of the fallen, satanic sovereignty that plagues the world and this fallen blood lineage?
We must remember, that whenever we think about only ourselves and love ourselves only, satan can take us away. When we do the opposite and deny myself and think centered on God, by living this way, satan cannot follow or manage me and thus God abides in me and manages me. When we go in this direction, we can be liberated from the archangel in the satanic world.
When we speak about restoring the world we must see that it will not be accomplished all at once but stage by stage. Many people of faith are waiting for Jesus to return to destroy this fallen world and take away only the people of faith to live eternally with him in the clouds.
This is thinking not following the ideal of the principle of creation, it also means that satan has won and God is an imperfect God whose principle was so defeated that He destroyed his own creation.
This will not happen.
Adam was the center of the whole. Because he fell from the individual position representing all of humanity, he must restore the world.
Once the individual position is restored then the family environment, and clan, tribe, nation and world and the cosmic environments must be restored. Every human must pass through these eight stages. Once we solve these problems, then and only then will we create the ideal world and freely meet with God who is the subject of love.
One who desires the absolutely unique subject must fulfill the condition by denying the fallen reality.
Therefore, restoration through indemnity cannot be established even if a small condition of affirmation remains.
We find God when we return to the original position before the fall. We all have the responsibility to return back to the sinless Adam and Eve's position.
Adam and Eve were to become True Parents who had no trace of sin. Here we make the true family, true clan, true nation and true world. To reach this level we must go in the opposite direction of fallen love. We as fallen people are walking the way of indemnity. Without overcoming this course we cannot clean out our fallen self.
How can we restore from the individual problem to the family, clan, nation and world? We must have a clear God-centered ideology.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: Three Stages of Judgement
This post was rewritten and taken from the textbook Blessing and Ideal Family section "The Indemnity Condition to Receive the Blessing"
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