Attend the Messiah to Liberate Your Sin

Liberation of your forefathers will take place in proportion to your efforts.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon

We have entered the era where the unification of North and South Korea is possible.

Everything is possible.

Now, there is a welcoming environment in which heaven's law can work.

You should feel mortally ashamed if you are unable to witness your tribe in such an environment toward the heart of God. 

History is a course seeking the truth. 

The truth should show the true path of the true individual and a true family should live.

How a true society, a true nation and a true world should establish.

Therefore, the perfection of the world, nation, tribe and family and the individual is possible when the focus from the individual  level to the world level is one.

The person who brings these logical key words, the truth, is the True Parent.

The truth is God's true love.
Now, people of the world must listen and pay attention to this truth.

The teachings of Rev. Moon is the truth for the salvation of the world.  They are humanity's words of true love and life which are needed for eternity.

If the Savior comes to save the world, then he should not come to judge humanity with a rod of a real iron in the real sense.

Not even one person would give in by being hit by the messiah to submit to God.

The sacrificial love of a mother, with hands as tough as a toad's back, whose fingers are so bent from working hard for her children they cannot be straightened out, can have the power to make the disobedient child repent and come back to the right path.

Even though God is the mighty king of judgment who leads heaven and earth according to His will, the cosmic unification is impossible without true love.

In other words, we are living in the time where we can bring about humanity to God through love - not through war, fight or force.

Difficulties are not an obstacle in true love. 

While in true love, there is the vigor to go forward at the sacrifice of one's own life.

We fail if the people can say, "In that church, the words are good, but the people are bad."


Did I give you only words? No, I did not just speak. I have done all the things that I am teaching you now. Therefore, there should be no doubt about them. I am teaching by creating a system of thought that is free of inconsistency and contradiction in both its intellectual and the practical aspects. No one can say anything about that. Both Satan and God approve of it.



God is calling us with His words.

Therefore, we must go according to His words.  What is the way that True Parents and true children can meet each other?

It is through true words.  Those words are my words.  You cannot be children without knowing Father's words.

My words are absolute and true. You won't feel tired even if you listen to the same words for a thousand or ten thousand years. You'll never get tired of them. We must search for such words.


Just finding words is not logical enough.  It is a dominant principle that can give life even after one hears them again and again for eternity.

You must seek such words and live such a way.

The words of the True Parents are eternal and transcend time and space.

Therefore, God's words transcend history.

These words transcend time periods, principles, and ideologies.  They are more precious than the words of others.

These words whether you listen to them at night or during the day or read them at night, flow into your heart endlessly.  You must seek these words.

What is my bitter sorrow?


I failed to fulfill my duty as a filial son; I should have cried  and pleaded with my parents to join the Unification Church. I am trying to resolve this through you. I could not even witness to my family. There were eight brothers and sisters, but I could not say one word of the Divine Principle. My older brother obeyed me completely whenever I said something. I have restored Cain completely. If I told him to sell the house, he sold the house, and if I told him to sell the cow, he sold the cow. My mother and father could not be like him. To that older brother, I could not speak about the Divine Principle once.

From now on, don't keep quiet.

When people gather around, try teaching for seven years as I taught you for seven years in the 1950s, without sleeping more than two hours a night. You don't have to do this for seven years. It won't take four years, either. It will all be done within four months. When I return to my homeland, I will unite it in an instant. Therefore, you must teach your parents well.


Also, teach your brothers and sisters the true significance of these words.

Through your own blood sweat and tears, you should teach this yourself without the help of others.

Then you will become the precious uncles, younger siblings, older sisters, and sons and nieces and nephews who follow the model of the sincere attitude you have when you are teaching.

You must confidently proclaim these words from now on.

From this moment, you must proclaim the Principle to your neighborhood for eight hours or however many hours a day, even staying up through the night as I have done for seven years. You must do so. It won't take seven years; it will probably be restored in seven months. When this happens, I may load up a truck and come and see you. I am sure your families will invite and welcome me.



Father made the national leader, Mr. Eu lecture for sixteen hours a day for three and a half years.

When Mr. Eu was tired, Father felt his heartache when he would tell him, "Who are you trying to kill by lying down?  You lay down without even asking me?"

Why did they live in such a way?  They lived that way in order to establish a tradition.

Organize Reading of God's Words/Hoon Dok Hae

Words of the Messiah's speeches, which this blog is based upon, can be considered Hoon dok hae or reading of God's words. Reading The Divine Principle or various books by Reverend Sun Myung Moon has the same spiritual effect.

Why?

Father's words are never spoken directly by him, but they are words spoken by God through him.

Your hearts will be moved no matter where or when you hear these words.  There will be a great revolution within your body, when the heart is inspired.  There is such a power in those words.

Whenever there is a meeting, this is an opportunity for studying.  Whenever you find that you have time, this is a time for studying the word.

You should continue to read material hundreds and thousands of times until it becomes yours and you can embody its substance. 

Our members will become sick if they are inactive.

In order not to become sick, you must read hard, be tested and put forth the effort.

In other words, don't just read the word, but become the embodiment and put them into practice and spread it to others.

True Parents are the ancestor of words, character and heart.

Hoon Dok Hae, the reading of God's word,  is the treasure chest that I stored up under all sorts of hardships and deprivations and that I have opened up to the people. I have told everyone not to translate it; it cannot be translated. You should do Hoon Dok Hae until I say otherwise. You must know that. You should do Hoon Dok Hae whenever time permits. You should always keep a speech book in your pocket and do Hoon Dok Hae even when you are alone, even in the bathroom, and keep a record of the part you have read, even if it was for a couple of hours a day.

You should read the Divine Principle, but you should also read Blessing and Ideal Family and all the other major speeches because they are the records of victory over the satanic world.

We should become one with these speeches which include all past battles of the True Parents up to the present point.

By uniting with and following these contents, you will become one with True Parents.

These speeches and posts should take root in yourself, in you family up to seven generation, and then 160 or 180 families horizontally, all united together.

Between husband and wives in the Blessed Families, Hoon Dok Hae should be done for one hour every morning. If you cannot do it in the morning, then you should do it in the evening before midnight or 1 am.

Father has done Hoon Do Hae every day.

When he had to do a tour in South America, even though he was tired, he still did Hoon Dok Hae, even after midnight.  He did not miss even one day.

Therefore, he instructs us, too, to try to read it every day without fail.  Since he has built the super highway road to restoration to bring a world of peace, we should be able to become cars filled with gas and go at the maximum speed.

Talk about the contents of the Divine Principle until it makes you sick to even think about it.

When you keep going until you get sick of it, you will find that it is very interesting and exciting.

You should clearly know that sermons have the ability to create. 

Because God is with you, then your heart will influence the people directly.

Do you understand?


If you have not read the entire collection of my sermons, you are a dreadful bunch of people.


Father did not even speak the deepest contents in those speeches and he is unable to express them now.

You must understand how precious these words are that are held captive in text with the source of life within them.

This source of life is flowing away.

It is our responsibility to find a way to have this eternal water of life, finding a way to connect the water pipe to this source.

 But what have you done?

Are all of those books something that you can just sell to an antique book shop?

The contents of these words hold a greater value.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Grandparents Have Value

This post was rewritten and derived from Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Thirteen,  Chapter 4, Section 4,5

Become Part of God's Direct Lineage

We have spoken in many posts about how Adam and Eve were suppose to become true parents. They were to attain true oneness centered on God and pass their pure blood lineage on generation after generation.

These true sons and true daughters who are born into God's direct blood lineage would fulfill God's ideal world full of peace.

As we know from the biblical account, the first ancestors formed a bond with Satan and thus became the satanic ringleaders giving birth to children of death born into sin.

Therefore, you and I are fallen ancestors.


If we are not true parents, this means we are false parents still passing on the lineage of the fall nonstop.

We are in the point of history where humankind must deny this false lineage of false parents and find the true parents who do not have any trace of the fall.

They carry God's direct lineage.  This has been God's Providence of Restoration, restoring the fallen world, since the moment of the Fall.

The Hope of Fallen People

Even if they are not aware of it, all fallen people have a deep desire to meet God's true son.

Even the communist nation had the notion of a world of peace; we all have a deep desire for peace.

They lament that they were born as Cain's children through a fallen blood ties with Satan.  We each can feel the internal conflict between our separated minds and bodies.

Imagine if Abel and Cain had united in their offering and Abel or even Jesus was to have children.

They would have been born on God's side.  Yet, mankind has suffered greatly while seeking God's true son at the individual level and family level.

God sent the Messiah; if people had received the Messiah they could have found God's son.  The time of the Messiah was to convey the joyful news that humankind could finally meet God's son up to the national level.

You and I were born with sinful, fallen blood inherited from Satan.  We have to meet God's son who can transcend all of the accusations of Satan which holds each of us down.

Then we would meet him as our parent after he fulfilled Messiahship on the individual level.  We have been raised by fallen, sinful parents, not true parents no matter how well they are, they carry the fallen bloodline of Satan.

Therefore, we seek true parents whom God directly loves and is connected in lineage.

Next, we must seek the family that those parents create.

After that, we must seek God's love upon finding it, we can meet God.  So, when the Messiah returns, he will perfect himself on the individual level, find a true bride, create a true family of true children that carry the direct lineage of God without any trace of the fall.

We should be aware that this is the pathway of humankind.  If parents and children who live a life worthy of God's love form families, they automatically prosper.

They will sing songs of love in a setting that can bring success to everything through harmonized families.  When this happens, a race centering on God's love will automatically be formed.

Is this a dream or is this where humankind is headed?  Will this standard of world peace be found through political ties, force, war, science or philosophy?

This standard must be found through religion.

If a true family becomes the model for the world to live is not established, then an ideal family, tribe, people nation and world will not be established.

Humanity needs a model of how to live such as shown through religions such as Jesus, Buddah who accomplished much on the individual level.

What is our ideal desire and hope?

This is the conclusion: first, attend God as our Father is our greatest hope; second, we are to become His beloved sons and daughters; and third, we are to inherit everything He owns.

What other human hope is greater than this?

The Goal of Restoration is Adam's Family

Our goal as we walk the path of restoring the world of peace, is to establish Adam's true family.

Immediately after Adam and Eve fell, God launched His providence to restore them through their children Cain and Abel.

That foundation was lost when Cain (representing Satan's side) killed Abel (representing God's side).

Therefore, the providence passed from Adam's family to Noah's family, building a foundation for His providence by annihilating all humankind through the flood judgment establishing a family that transcended above Satan's accusations.

Noah lost that foundation of building the Ark through his sons not completely following him and doubting him and covering his naked body when he was drunk after his successfully accomplished God's will.  

Again, this task was passed on through several saints: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and Jesus down to the Second Coming.

Through each age, a condition failed to be completely set in order to eradicate sin from the earth.  This caused each time period to elongate and the conditions were of a greater indemnity each time.

What has God sought until now?  He has been seeking an ideal object partner, not a subject partner.

God has been searching for one who resembles Him and has the same inner and outer qualities of the world He created.

What is the starting point?  The family.

Nothing else can represent the universe better than the family.

Then where will history conclude?

With substantial true children and true parents; it concludes at the level of the family.  This is the basics of the universe.

Without parents, then children cannot be born.  Children should inherit and have dominion over all things centering on the parents.  Adam and Eve were meant to rule over all things.

This principle applies to everything.

Through the six thousand years of God's Providence He has sought to establish a family through which they would be His true object partner.

Family is indispensable in the formation of a nation.

The basis of everything is the family.

Since the first family was destroyed, it is our responsibility to restore it.

Jesus had been born on earth as the unfallen Adam. Therefore , he was the second Adam.  Since Adam, who was the first ancestor of humankind, became a fallen ancestor, God sent Jesus who was the true ancestor to reverse Adam's mistake and start anew.  

We must establish Adam's family centering on such true ancestors. 

The Bible testifies of the Fall of the first human ancestors. 

This occurred between two people, Adam and Eve.

If after Eve and the archangel gave into the fruit of evil, Adam had refused to eat the fruit, then the problem would have been simple to reverse.  In such a case, God as the Creator would have re-created her.

Why did God have to restore the world starting from a family?  Because this is where everything went wrong.  

Evil began in the human world from the first human ancestor's family.

Humanity experienced a loss of God, the expulsion of the angelic world, the loss of the perfect world of creation and the loss of the value and love of humankind.  This all occurred through an unprincipled union of a man and woman in Adam's family.

All religions show a way to individual salvation, especially Christianity, but they do not represent perfection.

This is just a rudimentary form of salvation that is just the beginning, the very first step on the road to complete spiritual and physical salvation.  

The goal of salvation has family salvation as its unit; individual salvation is the beginning.  These families can lead the world and bear responsibility even for world salvation.  

Our life of faith should have the highest ideal of realizing families with such a realm of heart is firmly established.

The Restored Family Was to Be Realized by Jesus

What was Jesus' main purpose for being born?

He came to establish a true family centered on God.

This history of salvation from Cain and Abel to Jesus is the history of restoration.

This is where those who are sick need to be healed.  Jesus came in order to save fallen people and open  a pathway directly to heaven.  

What is salvation?  Since the family was destroyed, it must be restored.

How do we restore the fallen family?  We must return to the original position that was lost because the original family was destroyed.  

Humankind is sick and needs healing.

God absolutely conducts Himself according to principles and laws.

Since Adam was lost, he must be recovered from the satanic world.  Adam had the responsibility to dominate and possess Eve, but he failed his role as a husband and she was taken by Satan.

Thus, she must be recovered from the satanic world.

Will this be done easily without a struggle?

God worked throughout the ages to lay family, religious and national foundations to restore Adam and Eve.

He established Joseph's and Zechariah's families.  

Then if Jesus, who was from Joseph's family and John the Baptist from Zechariah's family had united, God's will would have been fulfilled in a short time.

What if John the Baptist would not have questioned later on that Jesus was the one they were looking for and followed him?

Also, what if Jesus was to receive Zachariah's daughter as a bride and they start a true family with God's direct blood lineage reversing the sinful blood lineage on earth?  Jesus would have become True Father bearing True Children of God's blood lineage.

Then the will of God would have been fulfilled.

Such fundamental facts such as these are immediately opposed by Christians.  They cry and argue over it.  But it will be to no avail.

Those who oppose these facts will realize that this is the truth when they pass on to the spirit world.

God planned for Adam and Eve to achieve unity as substantial father and mother and complete the perfection of a family of love, which is God's ideal of creation.

God did not create this world to be full of evil, struggle and broken families.  To conceive of such an ideal for a perfect God is hurtful to the work of restoring the world.

Yet, since this was not accomplished, Jesus had to come in order to complete it.

Jesus came as the bridegroom to receive his bride.  Then, if the Israelites  had united with God and restored the position of the perfected Adam in the Garden of Eden and bonded in that love, then nobody could have made them repeat the Fall.

What was God's will?

It was for Adam and Eve to establish the standard of perfection of man and woman and establish God's family based on love.  Was this accomplished in Adam and Jesus' time?

God's family was not established.

Jesus understood and believed in this aspect of God's will.  But because the Jewish people could not follow and believe that Jesus was the son of God, Israel's four-thousand year foundation for Jesus collapsed.

Therefore, Jesus died a miserably death on the cross as God's second path toward only half salvation - spiritual not physical.  Even Jesus lost his physical body to Satan, but brought spiritual salvation to earth.

If death was God's first and only choice, Jesus would have gladly went the way of the cross, instead he asked God if it was His will to let this cup pass and he lamented to forgive them for they know not what they do.

If the Jewish people accepted Jesus and God's will, he would have lived to start a family and pass on God's true blood lineage through true children.  Followers would have been able to engraft to Jesus' true blood lineage and start true families.  Heaven on Earth would follow thereafter.

Through the cross, Jesus lost his physical body to Satan, but was able to bring spiritual salvation to mankind.  This was not God's original intention for bringing Jesus to that time.

Until now, who has been able to truly understand this heart-wrenching situation?

No one!

Since this is the case, how glad Jesus must be to witness this being taught for the first time.

Without Jesus' family being established, the will of God remained unfulfilled.

Without a God-centered family carrying God's pure blood lineage, neither the nation nor the world could be restored.

As a bridegroom, Jesus must find his bride.

This is the reason Jesus' mission must be returned to this earth to center the providence on one man that true parents, true couples and true siblings can emerge.

This will be decisively fulfilled through the prophesied Marriage of the Supper of the lamb in the Last Days.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: The Love of a True Parent

This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seon Gyeong Book Four, "True Family", Chapter 10, Section 3-5

This is Completed Testament Age

If you have noticed, the Bible references to the number three as stages of completion.  The Principle states these stages as the formation stage, growth, stage, and the completion stage.

Therefore, the Old Testament age refers to the formation stage.  God used this time period in history for the preparation of the Coming of heaven on earth.  The New Testament Age is the growth stage of history.

And we finally come to the Completed Testament where all of history comes to fruition with the return of the Messiah to the earth.  This is the age where all that God had hoped for at the beginning of creation will finally be fulfilled.

In other words, all the wrongs of history will finally be reversed and humanity can return to their rightful positions as true sons and daughters of God.

On the path of restoring the world to heaven on earth, we should go from the age of servant of servant, the age of servant, the age of adopted child, to the age of the direct lineage or true sons and daughters.

We have come to say that we are God's sons and daughters, but in actually, at best we are His adopted children because we do not carry God's true blood lineage.

If we carried the blood lineage of God, there would be no such thing as sin running through our veins.  Jesus' sacrificed his life to link humanity to God as sons and daughters.  In the Completed Testament Age, he returns to raise humanity to the True Son and True Daughter position.

Jesus came to restore the blood lineage and liquidate sin from the earth by his followers linking to his true family.

Since no one in Jesus' time practiced absolute faith that he was God's son, Jesus was only able to give us spiritual salvation through his death, but left complete physical salvation unfinished through sacrificing his own body.

How are we able to go from the adopted child's position and connect directly to God's lineage?

However, can we complete the course from the age of the servant of servants, through the age of the servant, and the age of the adopted child, and be connected to the age of direct lineage? Connecting to the age of direct lineage cannot be done just like that.

True children should go through the change of lineage and rebirth

The lineage of the true son and that of the adopted son are different.  This is why we need a change of lineage from our sinful one.

The Messiah is the true son of God.

The Fall was the first parents basing their love relationship on Lucifer's will.

This mistaken has been rectified through True Parents who create proper marriages through which the change of blood lineage is possible through linking to their lineage of God.

True Parents clear away evil deeds of false parents, thereby abolishing hell on earth, and giving marriage blessings to hundreds of billions of ancestors in the spirit world.

Since humankind obtained satanic blood, people are unable to return to God on their own without a mediator who carries God's pure bloodline.

This transition of our blood defiled by Satan must transition.  This is why the Messiah must come again to establish a family carrying his blood lineage.  

If he does not return to the earth, there is no way to restore the blood lineage.

True Parents must rectify the wrong lineage that forms the root of the satanic world.  The Messiah does not return to destroy the earth, but to turn the sinful lifestyle and correct the misdirected course of love.

Why did Jesus mention the paradox, "Those who seek to live will die, and those who seek to die will live."?

It is because the sinful world must die.  The tradition of the sinful individual must die.

The loving relationship between God and humankind is based on the true love which God desired as His ideal at the time of creation.  Humanity was to enjoy loving oneness in unity with God.

If the first parents had followed God and united with His word, then we would have never been banished from Heaven and we would enter the Kingdom of Heaven without ever worrying about hell coming into existence.

There were three stages in history: The Old Testament Age, the New Testament Age, and the Completed Testament Age.

The Old Testament Age was the time for the redemption of children through the offering of sacrifices.  They sacrificed material things to prepare for the coming of God's True Son.

In the New Testament Age, Jesus was the offering for us to receive spiritual salvation and ultimately physical salvation through the reversal of false parents to true parents.

This age of the Second coming prepares for the parents as the bride and bridegroom.

The reason that I, having the name of the True Parent, have been suffering for forty years as the center of the Completed Testament Age, is to receive God on earth. This will lead to the oneness of God and humankind in love.

The original relationship between God and humankind is one of parent and child. 

In the New Testament Age, human beings were God's adopted children.

Now in the Completed Testament Age, we are in a parent-child relationship.  Now, what the son does is what the Father does and what the Father does is what the son does.  They act together.

What belongs to the Father belongs to the son, and what belongs to the son belongs to the Father.  The reason the movement which teaches this fact is feared is because it teaches this destined parent-child relationship.

The True Parents, that restored the fallen position of the first parents, come on this level plane and walk a suffering path in order to invite God in.

What position do they arrive?

To the original, vertical plane.

Since humanity was cut off from the original principle of heaven and earth, peace did not begin as long as that root is not restored.  This is absolute.

This is why human effort alone in human history was never able to bring about world peace without redeeming the root cause of humanity's problems.

You should think of the Messiah as being the same as you.  What is his mission?

The Old Testament age was the sacrifice of creation to find true sons and daughters. In the New Testament Age, the true son were sacrificed for the coming True Parents.

The Completed Testament Age is the True Parents paving the way for God to come.

The True Parents are to build a base, encompassing all the people of the world for the Father.  As the Father's heart unfolds, then the Father's realm of heart will naturally emerge and settle here.

God will be able to say that, "Everything is finished," when He is in the central position of love and reorganizes the original, ideal authority.  The first parents obeyed Lucifer's word, restoration of humanity following God's word is the time we are living today.

The method has been different for each age for people to return to God according to the level of intelligence during that time period.

In the Old Testament Age, people connected to God through sacrifices; in the New Testament Age, it was through believing and following Jesus; the Completed Testament Age, is people can go to God by attending the True Parents.

God looks at three generations of a family.

God wants to bring you into unity after three generations.  Your marriage represents the Old Testament Age, the New Testament and Completed Testament Age is next. The tradition will be established by the third generation, who is born through the second generation of your sons and daughters.

True Parents sacrificed in order to bring the vertical God to earth and have dominion, in the Completed Testament Age.  

Through the unity of the horizontal and vertical love, God's love and life finally burst forth.

The seed of life that began in God's love and based on the original Principle standard will appear on earth.  Based on the love of True Parents, new blood ties expand with the harmony of God and humankind for the first time in human history.

Now, we must restore the rights of ownership. 

Now in the Completed Testament Age, you must stand in the position representing the mother and father.  

Satan became owner of creation who stole God's true position because everything deviated from God's true love.

However, we must indemnify all this and bring everything to the original owner. 

The Completed Testament Age is the time of accomplishment, in other words harvest.

Everything God strives for throughout history will finally be accomplished as individuals all the way to the worldwide level.

These levels are linked through God's love, God's life and God's true lineage.  This is the tradition of one lineage, one love and one life.

When everything in creation is connected back to God, then Satan will have to leave.  The work of engrafting to God's true blood lineage through the True Parents, will remove the connection we have with the satanic lineage.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: God Finally Reveals Himself

This post was rewritten from the Book,  Cheon Seon Gyeong Book "True God"  One chapter 3, section 4

Adam & Eve Followed Satan's Will

Any person of faith has been taught that the world in which we live is not the original creation God had planned for His children.  If this is the case, then there has been some cause that has turned the creation away from God's original plan.

Many religions have their own version of this cause.

The Divine Principle teaches that evil came about because God's servant Lucifer went against Him creating Satan.

Satan was not the creation of God.  Evil came about because of Satan's will which is the opposite of God's will.

Thus, sin came about when man acted in accordance with Satan's will instead, which is totally against God's Will.

The Source of Evil is Satan.

Satan came into being when the archangel rebelled against God.

God created the archangel as a servant who was originally in a position of obedience to God.  This position was not eternal, but temporary once he aided in the perfection of God's children, Lucifer would have been able to choose the best mate among Adam and Eve's offspring.  Instead, Lucifer abandoned God and stole Eve for himself.

We must understand how adamant an enemy Satan is and how easy it is in our daily lives to side and sympathize with Satan, thus following his ways.

We currently live in a satanic culture where Satan's will is glorified and made to look beautiful, such as promiscuous sex, lustfulness and bad behavior.

Satan is the one who stopped God from carrying out His will. 

Adam and Eve, the first parents of creation carrying God's spirit, are incarnations of God's ideal.

They were originally created as temples of God in whom God would abide forever.  Through fulfilling God's will of unity with Him, they could have become the true ancestors to later generations passing on the true tradition of God's sinless lineage.

Instead, Adam and Eve followed the tongue of Satan and fell far below God's will and united with Satan instead.

In the position as God's children, they could have realized God's ideal in the position of God's children.  Through them, the Kingdom of Heaven on earth would have been established in their lifetime.  Instead, the first children of God were kicked out of heaven creating an alternative hell on earth led by Satan.

Originally, Adam and Eve were to not eat of the fruits (sexual organs) and God would have been our source through Adam and Eve passing down this true tradition of following God's Word from the beginning.

Thus, religion would not be necessary if the first True Parents of history followed God's will connecting humanity to God for eternity uninterrupted.

God was to be the source of human goodness from the beginning.  Then you and I would have been born directly into God's lineage free from sin and free from Satanic attack.  This would have automatically been Heaven on Earth.

Just imagine how free the world would have been if Cain and Abel were true brother having True Children and passing this godly lineage on to your family.  Abel would have been a humble servant of God allowing Cain to easily follow his brother instead of becoming the first murderer of history.

We would live in a world without division and where everyone was seen as brothers and sisters in one family under the true God.

When we see the world God originally planned, we see how far away from the idea we have fallen.

Then all mankind would have known of God's existence never doubting that God existed.

Atheism, corruption and Communism would not have risen in society to try to destroy God. God's arduous work through religion to teach His children about Him would not be necessary.  We would not have to just 'believe' in God, but we would live with Him.

As father and son, we would have a relationship of true give and take never questioning God's existence and His presence within us.  In this kind of life, we would rejoice forever in dancing and singing and in everything joyful.

If your mind is not happy, your body cannot respond to it. 

On the other hand, if your physical body is not happy, your mind cannot respond to it.

What if Adam and Eve actually followed God's word and waited until marriage to partake in the fruit of each other?

Then God would have been the source of everything good, virtuous, joyful and happy.  There would not be any confusion of what is wrong or right.  As God's object, you could directly respond to Him causing your joy to be great and varied.

It would not be necessary to be taught how to live righteously, how to act or think in the proper manner that does not separate you from God.  Most importantly of all, you would be well aware of the existence of the spiritual world.

But because we fell away from God, the door is closed to the spirit world.  We have ignorance to the world of spirit.

Any individual does not just exist as an individual but he exists in the position of an object to the whole universe. 

Adam was just one man, but had the responsibility to represent all male beings.

Eve played the role as the representative of all female beings.  They laid the tradition for the world to follow whether it was good or for bad.

Adam was able to have the sight to feel what would become of later generations.  He should have known that he was supposed to be the object of God.

If Adam was in the position of object to a God that is omnipresent, omniscient, transcendent of time and space, then he was in the position of representing the spirit of God in the external.  He would thus feel the same as God.  Wasn't this true for Jesus?

Since Adam and Eve were intended to be the external God and He lived directly in them, He thus would not be ever separated from them.

We as religious people, always say that we are God's children and God lives within us and He is always there.  But this is only a conditional behavior.  Being that God is a good, perfect God, He could not truly dwell where sin is exhibited.

Because God created Adam and Eve as the external God and intended to live in them, He could never have been separated from them. The result should be an ideal kingdom of heaven on earth.

Fulfillment of this ideal was barred by Satan.

Because God is considered the generating station, we must connect to God in order to act right.

Anything that uses electricity to work, must be connected to an electric source if it is to fulfill its purpose.

Without electricity, electric mechanisms would never work.

Because Satan disrupted this connection between humans and God, we cannot work properly either.  Because of this fact, we should see how fierce an enemy Satan is to us.

Satan has deprived you and me of experiencing God's true love.

He is the enemy who has cut off God's love from us.

A being like Satan to those outside any faith sounds like fiction, but he works through even the people close to you.  Your own mother can work on the behalf of Satan in your life.  This is why Jesus set the standard that one should love him more than his own family to be considered worthy of him.

Satan destroyed God' ideal of creation and is still active today in each of our lives.

The core teaching of Christian ideology is forgiveness.  We are taught to forgive other's sins seventy times seventy times.  Then why does God not forgive Satan for all of his misdeeds done to society?

Man struggles daily to separate themselves from the grasp of Satan.  Because of this, God feels pity for His children and feels inclined to forgive man seventy times seventy times.

But God cannot forgive Satan Himself.  This is because he is the enemy of God's love.

Satan deprived God's family of divine, true love, so God cannot forgive him now.  Once all men are restored and man wants to forgive Satan, then God might in the future have to forgive Satan for turning the ideal upside down.

Satan came into being through Adam giving him power by believing in his unholy words.  Thus, it is only through Adam or man that God can separate Satan from him, deny him, and at last forgive him.

Due to the human fall, Satan is abiding in us, in place of God. 

Therefore, we are the incarnation of Satan.

Why do we stubbornly stand by the idea that we are born of God's lineage when God is perfect, yet we carry sin within our own blood and carry about ungodly acts with ease?

If God created us in His image, this means He created us to reach perfection, not fall from His standard.

We are in the lineage of Satan, instead of God.  Wouldn't this go against God's law of creation?

When we look at religious history of martyrs, even in primitive religions, men were sacrificed or killed before God.

This was the symbol of shedding the satanic blood that flows within man.  The age of animal sacrifice had the same meaning. Nature is closer to the ideal because they follow the laws of God.  Bird do not discriminate against other birds who come from a different territory.

Since we live far from the ideal, there is a way to return to God's lineage.

We must live an ascetic life which presents difficulties and hardships if we want to change our satanic lineage.  This is the course each of us has to take in order to be restored to God's standard.

This is how God restores us to the perfected beings He envisioned in the beginning.

When we look through God's eyes, He doesn't see us as men of His creation.  We do not even look like original human beings.  We are satanic beings that stand in the position of His enemies.

Isn't this true when you look at the world's situation and in the history of mankind?  Is it a glorious history, or one full of pain, violence and heartache.

This is because we are truly the children of Satan who we followed and caused the fall.  We are God's enemy.

God has worked throughout history to reverse this problem and restore us to our original state which He created.  Every moment that we breathe, it is a constant fight against the satanic power which is established on this earth.

Can you imagine the difficult job of restoring us to the position before the fall to nurture us to grow into mature beings without any trace of the satanic blood lineage?

We think we are truly God's children even though we are imperfect, but it is likened to if you adopt a child from a friend.  No matter how much affection and love you give, you still cannot love him as your own children who are of your own blood, flesh and carry your spirit and character.

This is the situation God is in.  We are more like adopted sons and daughter of God since we do not carry His true, sinless blood lineage.

How is it possible for God to love us as His own children the same way He loved Adam and Eve before the fall?

God tries hard during this course of restoration to love you and I born into sin by imagining that we are immaculate beings and has the potential to return to our position before the fall.

Since we are the children of Satan, who is God's enemy, God naturally feels a sense of resentment towards us at first.

It would be likened to a father whose wife had a child her first child with his brother, yet has to care for and raise the baby as if he was his own.

Likewise, Satan stole the true father position from God.

We are able to ease this painful heart of God by receiving hardship and difficulties coming from Him.  Once you are able to become completely obedient to God's will, He will feel like forgiving you.  Thus, we must determine to win the sympathy of God by going through difficulty as though it was natural.

When we are able to bear this, compassion for our position will swell up in God's heart for you.

God places us as the offering and checks to see if we are able to obey Him in that difficult position.  No matter how difficult or hard the situations you have to endure, you must go through them with a grateful heart.

The only way to win God's heart is to go through difficulty and get over them alone.

So, in the Bible we read that those who persevere to the last will win the love of God.

Human history has been one of restoration.  There has been many rises and falls of nations and people with good and evil woven throughout.  Through this process, our sins have been indemnified or cleared away.

However strong the faith that you have, it does not matter if you fail to believe in God at the end you
are destined to go to hell.

Since your blood is stained with Satan's blood lineage, you cannot restore yourself to the true position all by yourself.  To be saved and restored, you must be placed in a position of a living sacrifice on the altar of God.

Yes, Jesus died for our sins, but we are still born into a sinful lineage.

However hard you may struggle to restore yourself, you cannot do it all by yourself, because your blood is stained by satanic lineage. Only by putting yourself in the position of a sacrifice, a living sacrifice, on the altar of God, can you be saved and restored.

It is hard for a non believer to understand the concept of sin when our external body does not show signs of sin.  Jesus was sinless, but it was hard for people to believe because he looked like any other person.

Since God is a good God and we were made in His image, then there is a way for us to return to our original position before the fall.

But, even if we cannot see it, satanic blood that we inherited runs through every part of our body including our limbs.

Our eyes have been accustomed to seeing evil things.  How do we go about restoring our eyes to recognize virtuous and good sights?

What do we have to do to restore our five senses to recognize the good in our environment?

Also, how are we going to restore our limbs and every part of our body for the purpose of goodness?  We must first deny ourselves and love God more than we do anybody else.

Just as Jesus said, you must deny your family and your sinful way of life before God can have His object as pure as before the fall.  When you have a traditional marriage that is still tied to the fallen lineage with your own children, then your fallen family and surroundings are all elements that make God grieve.

From God's viewpoint, this multiplication of the fallen lineage is not acceptable and is against God's will.

The Bible stated that in the Last Days that it would be burdensome for those with children and family for this reason.  Satan would have even more hooks to work through the fallen family and make it harder to restore each individual.

The Messiah comes to reverse the fall and to give his faithful followers into marriage that erases the fallen blood lineage and connects us to God's direct blood lineage.  This was Jesus' desire.  This makes more sense why Jesus was grieved and not happy at fulfilling the way of the cross.

Jesus carried God's true blood lineage, which he would have been able to pass this lineage on through the a True Marriage and leaving True Children on earth carrying God's blood.

Thus, humanity connecting to this true lineage through following his path and what the Bible calls the Marriage of the Lamb.  This is the Marriage blessing which the Messiah gives to his followers that is given directly by God.

A true religion must teach you to deny yourself and to sacrifice yourself, to drain the satanic blood out of you. 

Once you completely yield yourself in total obedience to the altar of God, you utterly deny yourself and are re-created by God's hands.

Once you deny yourself, you will finally feel that you have cut the satanic chains and separated yourself from Satan's grasp and return to God.

But as fallen people, we turn around and deny God and rebel against Him through our actions.  Then God has no choice but to place you back into the satanic world and test you many times.

Before each of us can be fully restored and recognized by God, we must get rid of any signs of betrayal of the fall.

Even though we are chased away for our disobedience, we must return to God with tears in repentance for our sins.

He may get rid of His resentment of being treated poorly even though He only gives us love through putting you through hardships.  You must endure these times and cling to God without leaving Him.

We must be like Jesus who is always symbolized as a lamb because he represented the whole of mankind.  The lamb is a creature that is obedient to his master's call and will obey him even at the moment of death.  We are each symbolized by a lamb as followers and we should be obedient to God.

Through Jesus going to the cross, God was teaching mankind how to be obedient to Him even at the moment of death.  Jesus went tearfully the way of sacrifice, because he knew that it was not God's original plan.

Only through the Jewish people not believing Jesus was God's son and not following him to the end did he have to go to the cross.  Even though he knew it would prolong God's will of heaven on earth, Jesus obeyed God all the way to his last breath.

What is more virtuous than faith and actions?

Your heart toward God, the pure love of God is more valued.

You then must first understand God's heart and how much He has suffered in the work of restoring the world of peace He originally planned.

Are you in a position where you can receive the love of God?  Can He can rely on you?

Is God happy with your actions in your life?  Are you where He can really love you?  Since we know that we are not of God's blood lineage, then we should understand that it is difficult for God to love us naturally.

If God is going to love us at all, He has to go through difficulty.

We are the sons and daughters of God's enemy.

Thus, we should try hard to win His heart and turn it towards us.  We must clearly understand what has caused God grief throughout history and we must reverse what we have done in the past including our ancestor's tradition of sin and restore the original state within ourselves.

Through this course of restoration, we should bring ourselves into a position that is better than Adam and Eve before the fall.  Thus, we would be obedient to God not repeating the fall through our selfish desires.  This is our ultimate goal.

The Fall, caused God so much grief.  God has been imprisoned not able to work freely without a direct connection to His children who were stolen.  We are in the position to help liberate His heart.

Even God's own happiness has been wrapped in bondage.

What Father could be happy seeing His children stolen and destroyed?

As His adopted children, we also should not sit by and watch Him suffer because of our disobedience.  Therefore, we should liberate Him and relieve Him from this grief.

Because we have not known this, throughout history, people of religion have been asking God to help liberate them.  They pray for God to do this and that for them without having the notion of our responsibility to liberate God instead.

The Unification Church was created on this earth with that mission, to liberate God's broken heart.

We teach the grief of God and whose people feel such grief, and then teach others how to liberate God's heart.

The most important question or problem is how to relieve His heart by restoring ourselves on the individual level, family level, nationwide level, and worldwide level.

We should know that this world is not the world God wanted, and He does not want it to stay the way that it is.  He does not want Christianity to stay as it is either.  God wants the world of Christianity to relieve Him from His sorrow.

How many Christians have thought of this?

Who has thought of comforting God in all of the betrayals and heartache He has suffered throughout the work of restoring the world?

Has there been a nation that has thought of liberating God's heart from sorrow?

This must be taught through religion.

In order to this, one man must be restored to the position of Adam before the fall, who is not born into sin.  He will work through his family without the fall up to the level of the whole world.  This is what God wants.

This man will set the tradition completing the teachings of Jesus to lead people through the restoration course.

A rebellious son may run away and return with billions to his father.  But for this father to be consoled, he would have to see that his son has more piety and obedience.  Without this attitude, the father's resentment toward his betrayal will not be cleared away.

This is the same for a wife whose husband has stopped loving her.

Even though she might have a huge diamond ring and lots of money, nothing can restore the love she has lost.  What is more important than that diamond is love.

Jesus had the mission to restore God's love through his family.

Thus, the Lord of the Second Advent returns to carry out this same mission.  Jesus left us an example how to be a true son and brother.  The Messiah returns to give the example how to be a True Parent and True Husband through his sinless family on earth.

The mission of the Unification Church is to restore our love towards God, then restore God's love for us. 

We advocate liberating God's heart first and winning His love before liberating ourselves.

Many may not accept this notion, but what religion has truly been able to reverse the acts of the fall and bring about a sinless society?

When you first come to God, He would view you the same way He views Satan at the beginning.  He would want to see the love you have for Him is more than your love for anyone else.  This is the only way to clear away His resentment.

The Messiah, who is not born perfect, also has to grow to maturity in spirit.

Even the Messiah has been rejected by God to restore the fact that we have rejected God many times.
Even though he was put in an even more difficult position, he would go back to God's bosom and cling to Him in prayer and love, then God would accept Him.

But after awhile, God would send him back into satanic hands to go through even more tribulations and hardships.  After conquering these things, he would go back to God. And so many times he has had such things happen to him




Return for Tomorrow's Post: To Be a Leader, Live for Others

This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Day of Resolution of Victory.

March Forth, Heavenly Soldiers!!

The Bible warns to be careful in every moment because the devil is couching at the door waiting for you to make a misstep and let him in to destroy your life.

Where is the boundary of Satan?  We must be able to reanimate the people of this nation.  In this way, we please God who is longing for his children who are lost.  Our point of victory must be there.

This is similar to a rope in tug-a-war with you pulling the rope on this end and whoever is on the other side will be dragged toward the winning side.  On one end, there are the presidents of major companies and famous political figures and behind them are thousands of people connected to them. You can wind the winch and those on the other side will be pulled toward you.

If you can win and pull a college dean or university president to your side, behind them will be even more top-level people pulled along.  You must think as the Bible states that you are fisher of men that have cast anchors and hooks to grab hold of men and pull them toward heaven.

The most important thing in this struggle is to stay strong and never waver. This is where the boundary point of victory lies.  It is right here in front of us.  There are many who are so weak that they can be easily persuaded and compromise their value by the opposition.

When you are active, you seem to be strong, but at times you are defeated. 

We all have hooks that the opposition knows about and pulls them in order to pull you in the wrong direction.  Our innermost self compares our situation to those of our friends.  If we are running forward on a mission and see one of our old friends and see that they are dressed nicely and have great success in a worldly way, we will in that moment lose courage to go forward as we look at our humble dress and lifestyle.

When you work hard at your mission witnessing in the streets or fundraising and doing many activities many people will say that it is no different from being a beggar.  But Heaven knows.  Before this work, you didn't dream about doing such things.

Wait until ten years later, and we will be far excelling those people. If we endure for ten more years, we will soar up and be conspicuous in the human scene, while other people will decline and be corrupted.

The fruit of the labor will be evident in the future.

In other words, even though it looks like working hard for God's providence may seem like you are defeated, but you will win the game.  Along the way you may be screamed at, called many vile names and even be spit in the face, but you must endure. You must have the resolve in those moments that you will have success in 10 years and if not 10 years you will see success in 20 years. You can scream this out in your mind when you face such difficulty.

"I took every rebuff as a challenge and because of the opposition coming from those people I had more courage to fight against them and win over them. I would sometimes feel like retreating, but because of the enemy, because of the opposition, I could never retire. More than anything else, the vow I took before God is always with me. When I took my oath before God, He was confident I could do the job. I took the vow when I was at the zenith of my zeal and enthusiasm."

Reverend Sun Myung Moon


Even though you know that God is there helping you out, you must be confident to think that without God's help you are going to carry out the mission.  When you encounter hunger, think of a situation where you could be more hungry and then you can endure the hunger and continue on the path.  When faced with these situations, you can look at those who are in a more poor condition than your own.

In face of any difficulties, you must be able to say, "Come what may, I can have my courage doubled and tripled in face of more difficulties. "

When your dignity is offended you must imagine a time when you were more offended and degraded.  If you can realize a purpose in five years time where it took others 10 years, then you are determined to endure the double efforts.  If you want to shorten the time period first imagined, then you must triple, and quadruple the effort to compensate for that time.  You should be ready to do twice as many obstacles and encounter twice as tough situations if you are going to shorten the time.

Youth is a dynamic power. 

If your friends, relatives, neighbors, and nation oppose you and are against you, you can cut them all off and do the divine job and fight.

Set the goal that you can be triumphant to the point where God cannot not follow the difficult path.  At every moment of our lives, the question where do you put that goal?

For instance, if you have to do your work at a certain time, but you determined to get up two hours early and you arrive an hour early, some would feel that while waiting they will doze off. If those people are situated where they have to fight through a fierce battle without sleep, it would mean defeat for them. This is the point that will determine your success or failure.

Victory means that you have more power over other people.

Every moment of our lives, where there's any event, you will determine for yourself whether you are going to be victorious or defeated.

Whenever there's a new event in your nation, you must be resolved to participate in it and win over other people, to be patient, and to be confident. You must throw away the old way of thinking: "Well, God is there, and if I pray hard, He will help me. "

God does not work in this way and it will not happen.  You must make the effort to do your utmost best.  When you work hard toward the goal, for the part that you cannot carry out, you can pray before God and then He will help you.

This is the way to pray before God when there is a difficult task.  Resolve to accomplish the goal even if you might not be able to get adequate sleep.  If you were to start getting sick, you can say that this was happening because you wished it, then the disease would be fearful of such a person and back away.

When  you endure many sleepless nights, your brain may become brighter and brighter.  Have the insight to pierce through the future and determine with your utmost as this is what most people do not do.

From this viewpoint, can you really be resolved to take responsibility for this nation? You must beat against the nation, until the nation resounds and echoes to the call. Stir up the nation so that you rouse the Christians. We are not talking about shooting your enemies with pistols.

Shoot the hearts of the people with love.

The question is, where is the boundary point of our victory?

If you are as confident as that, and if a man of that confidence and a woman of that confidence were to be marry, they would find perfect balance in their marriage.   When you are blessed in holy matrimony you shouldn't think that your happiness as a family will be everything.

It is the woman's way of life to feel happy deep in her heart after actually making her husband happy first.

Your job is to make your spouse happier than you, without his or her being conscious of it.
 

After thinking of the husband's happiness first, then the wife can express her happiness.  There was a married couple where the woman expressed her happiness everywhere and would even scream she was so happy.  After awhile the husband grew to dislike her.

It is natural for a married woman to want to be well dressed and have the best jewelry because she is married, but before doing that, you should want your spouse to glitter and shine.  This is the way a couple helps one another in a partnership.

Divine Principle ideology profess that when you are made a couple, you are one, and with the magnetic power of love created between the two, they can attract other families and end their disunity.  This is the way to win more and more families to God's side.

The ideal couple will have such influence more not when they are living the luxurious life, wearing glittery clothing, eating the best foods or driving the best cars.  The ideal couple that lives in poor conditions that experiences misery and many difficulties yet they still shine, other families will know that you have an ideal family life.

Your exemplary family should be like a lighthouse for those in the corrupted world where families are disunited.  Your family must become the norm for corrupted families. Your family should become the norm for the secular family.

You must never complain about your spouse, saying, "Oh, she's an Oriental girl, she's shorter, she's not beautiful, she's not smart," because God chose her. However ugly he or she may be, whatever defects he or she may have, in God's eyes he or she has a certain place.

When one lives this type of life working hard for the mission moving from place to place, they will see that there are not too many places that are tidy and clean.  By living in such ugly and dirty places, it is to one's advantage and practical  to have an ugly spouse rather than a glamorous, tidy girl who might not like the place.

If there is disunity in the family, everything will be shattered into pieces and there is no way to influence other people.  There is a saying "How can one rule the nation if they cannot keep their own household in order?".

Next comes the church as a whole. The Unification Church is a unified family with couples of various types and nationalities.  If one thinks that it is easy to unite all the various couples, they are deceiving themselves.

You deal with different faces and different backgrounds.  There is Oriental, Occidental, black, white and yellow where there are vast differences not only in culture but ideals.  So, what is the secret to handle this group?  Money, power?  Is this an everlasting way to unity?  Then what?

It is the power of True Love.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Victory for True Love

This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Boundary Point of Victory

Educating for True Love

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God,punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.


Exodus 20:5,6     

"God created humankind for a reason. Why were we necessary?  God needed to create humankind in order to fulfill His love. It is for the sake of love that human beings are the supreme creations."

Educating for True Love

True love has the highest value.  To give and receive love may be more vital to life than breathing or eating.  Yet true love does not come to us naturally without a lot of effort.  It must be taught, learned and practiced.

As children, we must spend many years dependent on our parents.  As we spend our childhood in immaturity, we learn how to interact with the world and provide for ourselves within it.  We attend school to obtain knowledge about the world.  We go to school, libraries, university and learn the fundamentals about life from our parents.

Yet have you ever thought that there is no formal school that provides education on how to love and to be loved?  

How do we usually learn about love?  Through painful experiences and trial and error.  Because we do not have instructions on how to love, we are lost when it comes to loving one another   Science and the arts progressed through the ages, but our wisdom about love is uneven and the growth of how humanity loves is slow at best.

To love and be loved is one of life's most intimidating challenges.  Humanity should turn away from this ignorance.  We will never have a world of peace without remedying the situation.

How do we learn about love?  What school of thought can touch the depth of how to love someone that is hard to love?  

Jesus taught how to love one another through loving others as we love ourselves.  But why didn't this spread all over the world like wild fire and begin a world of peace?  Was Jesus' painful death just for us to enjoy peace and love in the spirit world?

People need to embrace that learning about love is the most essential aspect of life in order for people to succeed.  Counselors will testify that they help high-powered intellectuals and professional people who have qualifications and accolades, but breakdown because they are at a complete loss when it comes to their important personal relationships of love.

We also witness celebrities, politicians, businessmen with power, wealth and immense talent, but when it comes to their love lives, they fail just as much as the general public.

How is this possible?  Why are we on a worldwide level lost when it comes to love relationships or all levels and how can we begin to fix this situation?

When should begin studying the original way, the true way we are to live our life.  It begins with the understanding of the nature of true love and the nature of human beings who can only feel complete within love.  

Only after we are well versed in the nature and practices of true love will we be able to comprehend the path we are to walk.  A life that actually satisfies all the human desires and fulfills life's highest aspirations.  Other words, we need to study the original idea God had for love and what it was to accomplish in our lives.

Understanding True Love

The most precious philosophy is to live for the sake of others.

—Sun Myung Moon

In order for us to begin to live in love, we need to first understand it.  We may find just by trying to define love, this may seem as a difficult task?

The ancient Greeks divided love into numerous categories and described the various features of each:

"Eros was impassioned romantic attraction; philia was friendship; eunoia stood for general benevolence or good will; physike constituted kindness toward people of one’s own race. Xenike represented kindness to the guest or stranger. Agape love, which the Greeks defined as unselfish affection for others, became the keystone of Christianity and is a recognized feature of all the faiths of the world." 

Agape love is called “compassion” in Buddhism and Hinduism and “human-heartedness” or jen in Confucian thought."

In addition, we find more categories of love within the context of a family.  We have the devotion of parents toward their children and the affection that the children return toward their parents.  Then the relationship of siblings who care about one another in a unique way.  Then the profound love grandparent hold toward their grandchildren. Then the love shared between spouses is a world unto itself.

 All these types of love have their distinctive features.

To get a clearer understanding and grasp the concept of love we need an all-around definition of love that encompasses all the forms of love.  "Live for the sake of others" is the definition the author of the Divine Principle provides.  This is expressed as to live in order to benefit others.

God had created each individual not for their own individual sake, but for the benefit of others and the whole.  We do not see this type of society.  We have grown into a society of individualism and living for myself and the need for others to live just for us.  This is against principle and why the world is turning upside down in these last days.

This definition is clear as it helps to weed out the aspects of love that are not true.  Knowing that we are meant to live for the whole and others, aspects of selfish love that leads to despair rather than joy will be easier to see.  Knowing this is how humanity should live showcases the specific attributes of how true love looks and feels and how far we are from achieving this as a society.

Then, this definition of love raises issues:

What are the qualities of true love?  Where does it originate?  Who are the "others" that are to be loved?  And how about the individual factor into living only for others?

True Love Is Other-Centered

True love begins with the interaction of relationships with others.  Did you know God also requires an "other" to fulfill His love?  He cannot have love all on His own.  He needs an object in which to share His love.  He needs human beings as His love partners to share in the glory of His creation.   This is how He designed the world of creation.  Even God needs a relationship in order to experience love to the fullest.

If God needs love, so does His creation.  Everything in creation was created for the purpose of love.  Every human yearns for love no matter how high in society they have come.  Nature follows the order of love.

"As author Sherwood Anderson said, 'Two oddly sensitive human atoms' find one another, cling together and think, 'Here is this other'."

Love fulfills its purpose only in the presence of another person.  

The Bible emphasizes that when one loves God, it is always coupled with the love of others.  When Jesus showed his love for God, we see the countless accounts of how he treated and visited the sick and the lonely.  We don't hear about Jesus just praying unceasingly to God only, but taking action to love God's people.  

The Old Testament law and the prophets greatest commandments were to love God and to love one's neighbor.

Jesus spoke about forgiveness of others before approaching the altar and that God only forgives those who forgive others.  Jesus told his followers also not to judge others, because the same measuring stick they used to judge others, God would use to judge them as well.

Also, Jesus mentioned the necessity for believers to seek communion not only with God, but with one another when he said that he would be present when two or more gathered together in his name.  Loving others is always coupled with loving God well.

This is confirmed by the words (Hadith) of the prophet Muhammad:

“On the day of judgment God Most High will say, “Son of Adam, I was sick and you did not visit Me.” He will reply, “My Lord, how could I visit Thee when Thou art the Lord of the Universe!” He will say, “Did you not know that My servant so-and so was ill and yet you did not visit him? Did you not know that if you had visited him you soon would have found Me with him?”

Russian thinker Vladimir Solovyov said that love 

“forces us with all our being to acknowledge for another the same absolute central significance which, because of the power of our egoism, we are conscious of only in our selves . . . shifting the very center of our personal lives.”

Reverend Moon calls this shifting of center from self to others a “revolution,” and holds that such a revolution toward true love is necessary for happiness and peace. 

Return for Tomorrow's Post: Children Should Receive Parental Love


Today's text was taken from the Textbook: Educating for True Love, Explaining Sun Myung Moon's Morality, Family and Society.