Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Because our world, nations, families and ourselves were built on the foundation of evil, God cannot exist in them. We cannot love God this way. This is why Jesus taught to love our neighbors as we love ourselves, love other families as we love our own.
Then the question arises, who is your neighbor and do you love them more than yourself?
It does not pertain to your brothers or sister, your neighbor is all other people in all other nations. To go the way of love and love your neighbor, you do not put yourself first, you sacrifice yourself.
Without sacrifice we cannot perform God's love.
As we receive Gods love, we have to sacrifice ourselves to love our neighbor. The Bible states that we should love God with all of our heart, our minds and all of our spirit. We might think that God is a dictator
demanding love and devotion from us.
On the contrary, all of these commands are not for God's own sake.
When we love God with all of our being, He will love us just as we love Him. This is God's intention behind the commandment. When we love God, he loves back.
God sacrifices the one He loves the most.
For God to love others, He sacrifices the one He love the most. The command which asks for us to love
Him with all our beings means to love Him with our life by sacrificing our life. This teaching shows clearly why God had to sacrifice Jesus in order to love the whole world.
Because of such teachings, we call God love. God is the greatest love. An ideal nation that loves and sacrifices for others is different from those of Satan. Satan always uses others to protect his own position, God makes His own sacrifice for others, not for God's sake. This is the difference between God and a dictator.
There should be an individual of such sacrificial character who is perfectly one with God. We say there are many sacred men, but there is not more than one who is completely united with God's Will. Only one person is truly united with God and His purpose. This person is the Messiah.
The Messiah does not come to save himself or a particular country, he comes to save the world.
The Messiah does not just appear, God has been making preparations to make a way for the Messiah through sacrificing men, families, tribes and nations. To prepare for Jesus, the Israeli people were sacrificed. To prepare for the Messiah's return, millions of Christians were sacrificed.
If the disciples had been united with Jesus and he was able to pave a way for the true family and nation, he would have been able to lay a foundation to save the world then. Thus, the way of the cross would not have been necessary.
Thus, Jesus did not have a foundation to stand upon in which to sacrifice the nation and church for the whole world. This led to the second choice of salvation through the cross to await his return to our time.
Jesus' people had a smaller notion than God.
They believed that when the Messiah came, it was to raise their nation to lead all other nation. They did not think about sacrificing themselves.
Therefore Jesus prayed for a way to sacrifice the nation and people for the whole world. Then Jesus would not have been killed and he would have established God's nation on this earth through his true family. Then Israel would have been the first nation to sacrifice itself for the whole world.
Through the sacrifice of Jesus' body, Israel was lost and Jesus had to find another way to sacrifice his followers for the sake of the world. Therefore, through many sacrifices of people of Christianity, it prospered when it had the spirit of sacrifice.
When Christianity lost this spirit, it declined and has become absorbed by the secular world.
The current churches try to establish a world of peace, but only center on their own nation, their own religion. This narrow scope will never open the way. This is why in the last days at the Christ's return, a new spiritual movement whose people are willing to sacrifice for the whole world will grow and prosper.
We live in a world today where no nation is willing to sacrifice itself for the sake of the world. Therefore, religion must sacrifice itself for a nation, and then that nation must sacrifice itself for the sake of the world. The world then sacrifices itself for God.
Through this sacrificial spirit, God's ideal world will come about. If this religious movement is in America, then the movement must sacrifice itself to save America. This church should not work to multiply buildings, but should do the work to save the nation by sacrificing its own churches.
Through this spirit of sacrifice for the whole, that nation will come to eventually unite with the movement. Then when this religion unites with the nation, together they must go forward to save the world through sacrificing themselves.
Therefore, without sacrifice, God's will cannot be realized.
We do not unite in this way for just one day or a special church holiday, we must do it for life, but no one likes to sacrifice themselves. We think that we become less through sacrificing ourselves. However, in sacrifice our value is not lost.
Sacrifice does not lead to destruction. Even if one was to die while sacrificing, they will live on in history. Someone will admire you for your sacrifice. Jesus sacrificed his life for the world, and two thousand years later he is still remembered. People of faith should sacrifice the comforts that the body desires to save the spirit.
Destruction came about through the fallen body taking over the good mind with its evil desires. When our body and spirit become one on the individual level, we take this foundation and then sacrifice for our family.
Throughout history, saints and sages were not welcomed or understood in their time and were seen as complete failures. Afterwards, they were praised as famous historical figures. Because of their sacrifice, they did not fail and were honored.
We revere Jesus now as a prophet, but during his time he was rejected by his family, his church and even his disciples did not revere him as the savior of the nation, the son of God. Jesus had nothing and he left the earth with nothing. However, Jesus did not sacrifice for his own sake, but for the people and the whole world.
For this reason, Jesus' teachings have multiplied and had such a deep impact to the present day Christianity. Buddha also went the same course.
When a man sacrifices himself for others, people will come later and bow to him and select him as the central figure.
If the youngest son of a family sacrificed and dedicated himself for the sake of the whole family, then even the father will tell him to be the center of the family. If a man served his friends with his life, they would not want him to leave. If the man tried to leave, his friends would grab him and ask him not to leave.
Finally, they would ask him to become their leader. One does not become a good friend without sacrifice, without serving.
The good father, mother, or son cannot be obtained without sacrifice. A bad mother wants to take everything away from the family. But if she serves the family and if a friend serves his friends, they will come. They will also bring all his friends.
The good father, mother, or son cannot be obtained without sacrifice. A bad mother wants to take everything away from the family. But if she serves the family and if a friend serves his friends, they will come. They will also bring all his friends.
If the friend continues to serve throughout his life, such news of how he was as a friend will be spread all over the country and all people will come to him. We come to destruction when we overcome others, but the way to prosperity is to serve others. This is the dividing point between God and Satan.
Egocentric works will fail and public spirited ones will live.
Through going the way of the public men, we gain the individual, the family, tribe, nation and the whole world without fighting. But if we can only think of our own self to gain our family and nation, we would have to fight and even if we win them over, they will not last long.
Therefore we cannot but conclude that the teaching of sacrifice is God's.
Those who deny God say, "Mine is mine and yours is mine". We must think, "Mine is yours, yours is the nation's, the nation is God's, and God is mine."
Love has the power to make two things one. If I love God, then God's love is my love. For example, if people love and respect the president, then they will also love his wife, although she may be uneducated.
The United States was once revered by many other countries, but now because of the immorality America is falling to destruction. If the United States would serve the world, the world would do its best not to let her be destroyed.
God had raised Christianity to be able to bring His children to the truth in the Last Days, but is lacking in being able to follow the course of self sacrifice. Therefore, a new movement has come that understands the individual sacrifices for the nation, and the nation for the world.
We must create programs, not to save ourselves, but save the millions of people of America.
This movement will sacrifice itself to save America, and once America is saved, she must serve the world standing on that foundation.
If you were to die while walking this course, you will not go to hell. God saves His children through the sacrifice of His most beloved ones. God's chosen ones are called to restore God's true nation. Therefore, we should go beyond the thinking just for our nation.
Not only Communism, but Democracy is also declining because neither has been able to look past their own national desires. Through the international weddings uniting former enemies through a Godly marriage, these national barriers are being broken.Through the struggle of Adam's sons, the world became evil.
So, in the last days, three sons must struggle and unite. The nation that sacrifices the most for the sake of the world, will become the leading nation in the future.
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