How to Become the Central Figure

The person who sacrifices the most becomes the central figure.

Today's young people do not understand or realize this simple truth.  The one who sacrifices the most in the family becomes the filial son.

A patriot will become the central figure to the nation because he sacrifices more.  A sage that sacrifices more than the others will become the central figure of the sages.

This is the heavenly law.  Youth who can harmonize with heaven, humankind, and all things, new sprouts of hope will appear wherever this kind of youth goes.

Youth is the place where God's hope builds a nest.  

These youth is the place where God's power of love increases.  We must know this amazing fact.

Young people are the persons in the subject position that can carry out the reformation for God. University students who are to do the work of restoring universities cannot be blessed in the fallen state that they are currently living.

The wife will compete with the husband after he says just one word.  She will say that she can do everything just as well as men.  This is not good.  This behavior in the marriage only hurts you.

We study God's word to become better people in order to meet a true man and to become a true wife and mother.  To become a true mother, you should study for the sake of the nation.  You must serve your husband as a true husband and you must become a true wife who serves a true husband.

Do we see these kind of marriages these days or do we see the wife and husband constantly in competition for who should be served?

A woman who cannot serve a true husband centered on God, you will not bare a true son.  

Women should become true wives.  As a housewife of a family, you must live together with your husband till old age.  If you are studying how to be a true wife, when you graduate, you could stay with your husband until your old age.

Do many people in America live until they are elderly as husband and wives or do they divorce?  Without doing any research, we can clearly see that those that don't have degrees or are illiterate seem to live together with their spouses longer.


The Standard Sung Hwa Students Must Maintain

The reason why university campuses are falling into immorality like Adam and Eve fell when they were teenagers is we are living in the time of harvest.  Humanity is reaping the fruits of fallen history and not a true history which God intended.  This is why you are witnessing the destruction of adolescence.

The Messiah returns in these days to restore the fall according to heavenly law.

Once students go away to university, there are many temptations.  It is easy for them to be pushed around in different directions. This is why young men should not readily hold hands with young women.

Even by just sitting still, you must become a group that cannot be ignored by the environment.

There once was a time when it was announced on the radio that young people had to go home before 10 o'clock, right?

If you are a university student, you must be the central person who will take responsibility in the future and lead the nation.

In order to lead toward a world of goodness, there must be a standard to follow.  By centering yourself on the Principle, universal law,  you can move freely backwards and forward.

Which side do you think you are on?  The good side or the evil side?

When you look at the word 'satan' in Korean, sa means 'to buy' and tan means 'to ride'.  Who buys?  You are the people who are going to be bought.  If you are stolen by Satan, how can you raise your head to a high position and stand tall?

Sung Hwa students already know their destination has been set after graduation.  It is best to not think of other things.  You should not use your hands, eyes, nose, body and mind recklessly.  You will stand in the vanguard holding a beacon for the salvation of the nation. From there, a new history begins.


Restoration of the Nation

How can the morality of this nation be restored instantly?

The male and female university students must become one and stand at the forefront of the nation.  When you view the principle, you know which direction you should go.  You should go in the place of your elder and younger brother from a long time ago.

Jesus came to bring not just Heaven in Heaven, but to bring Heaven on Earth.  This means salvation not just only in spirit, but also the flesh will be liberated which carries the blood lineage of sin.  This was Jesus' hope. But instead, he lost his physical body and could not bring salvation except in spirit only.

This explains why Jesus asked God at first to let the cup of death pass him, because he was very aware of how Israel and people of faith would be persecuted and walk a bloody path until his return in our time.

We must dissolve Jesus' sorrowful resentment deep in his heart which he experienced during his adolescence due to the faithlessness of the prepared  people of Israel.

As you walk the path which the Messiah laid, you must overcome Jesus' lonely and miserable situation when he was persecuted and kicked out alone.

When you are able to do this, it will be like you are triumphant in the boxing ring going against Satan.

This is Heaven's law to accomplish indemnity and resolve the historical resentment.Those who oppose going this way will perish;those of you who are receiving that opposition will not perish. If you just believe and go forward, you will never be forced out. Just overcome for three years treading forward.


After Graduation, the Way of the Will Is More Important than Finding a Job


Let us sit and think for a moment about the existence of 'I'.  Let us think about ourselves for awhile.  Where did this existence of 'I' come from?  How have I lived from the past until now?

You attended kindergarten, primary school, junior high, high school and university, but where are you headed?  From this point, there is a course which tells from where and to where we are to go.  This course we must go by any means.

The general goal of university graduates its to get a great position in a company or a bank and make a pretty good salary.  This is their final goal.   Once that foundation is solid, the next step is they think they want to meet a beautiful partner and have children.

In this process, there are no concerns for humankind or for anything higher.  What would you become if you live like this?

Thoughts about salary and receiving so much money is actually trivial things that doesn't amount to blowing your nose.  Do you want to become a slave of money after graduation:?

If you don't want to be a man chasing after a salary or a slave of money, what are you going to do?  Wouldn't you become a boss?

You cannot be included in the group of humanity if you say you cannot go the Way of the Will because of a job opportunity.

The youth of today are very concerned about money, making this much dollars, jobs this, jobs that.  To them, getting and having a job is more important than anything else.  Can you relate to this mentality?

Young people, especially those who attend university think only centering upon their own ideas of how to succeed in their own country and how to realize a happy life.

Those who follow God's will must not be like that.

You must think for the sake of the people and the world based on the moral ethic of a higher dimension more than your own happiness.  From the Principle viewpoint, you must have the consciousness to carry out a central mission.

You must broaden your view of happiness beyond obtaining material and view it from that higher dimension and practice it.  This follows the principle of living for the sake of others.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Is World Peace Possible?

This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook World Scripture.

Cause of Evil Society

If someone asked you whether our world today is good or evil, what would you answer? Without a doubt, you would answer that it is evil. But it is not just the world of this age that is evil; we cannot help but say that all the ages of the past and all the nations and the world were evil.

Therefore, our world has been one in which sin continues to grow more than good deeds, war more than peace, immorality more than righteousness, hatred more than love, and division and discord more than unification and harmony.

No one wants this kind of evil world. Therefore, we cannot help but investigate how we can establish an ideal world of true love overflowing with peace, freedom and happiness and clear up this world of evil. What all individuals and leaders of the family, tribe, race, nation and world desire as well must be the establishment of a world overflowing with freedom and happiness. Since the beginning of human history, for thousands of years, humanity has been struggling toward this kind of ideal and dream, but we have not yet established the ideal world we desire.

Today, I would like to reveal to you the fundamental cause of these problems. In addition, I intend to present the solution which will make it possible to realize the ideal world which people have desired so much. This is not content which comes from human speculation or wisdom. As you already know, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, whose teachings are the basis for this blog, has devoted his entire life to solving these problems. Thousands have been moved and inspired beyond words by his teachings and by his life of love for God and humanity.

Be Fruitful, Multiply and Fill the Earth

If a wife, as she lives supporting her husband, gains deep insights into the truth and is continuously moved and inspired by his life and character, this is an occurrence which should be revealed to the world.

Why? Because the fundamental reason for this world becoming an evil world where sexual license, criminal activity, conflicts and corruption are rampant is the breakdown and disharmony in the basic relationship between husband, wife and children.

At present, over seven billion people are living on the earth, but if we look at it in another way, only two people are living here. We could say that a man and a woman, a husband and a wife, only two people, are living here.

Countless numbers of people are living together and there are all kinds of relationships and problems, but at the core of all of those problems are the problems and relationships between two people, a man and a woman. When we look at things in this light, it becomes important for us to investigate the way of heaven that man and woman were to go when God created the first ancestors.

In Genesis, it is recorded that after God had created the heavens and the earth, He created the ancestors of humankind: a man, Adam, and a woman, Eve. At the same time that He spoke about the three great blessings, He gave them a portion of responsibility.

The three great blessings were: "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing...." But to the man and woman He also gave the responsibility: ". . . but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat. . ."

This teaches us the purpose for which God created the universe and humanity, and also shows us the basis for life. The blessing to be fruitful means that all people born on the earth must grow to be people of perfected character.

The second blessing of life, to multiply, means that, as a man and a woman with a perfected character, they must establish the bond of husband and wife, give birth to children, and raise them. God's purpose of creation is, as a husband and wife fulfilling their duty as father and mother leading a family, they should construct a far more comfortable, prosperous world and establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

This purpose of creation was to be realized if the first ancestors had obeyed God's commandment, ". . . but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat...." But before the first ancestors, Adam and Eve, were perfect, while they were still immature, they did not keep God's commandment; because of Lucifer, they fell, and all humanity became the recipients of an evil blood lineage.

Due to the Immoral Fall of the Original Human Ancestors, Humankind Has Lost the Purpose of Creation

Ladies! What is the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil that God told the original ancestors, Adam and Eve, not to eat? It is not the real fruit of a tree. It is a way of expressing the husband and wife love relationship that the first ancestors were to have in the future.

Due to the temptation of a third being, while still in an imperfect state, the first man and woman entered into an immoral sexual relationship. Actually, in the Garden of Eden, the third party besides Adam and Eve was the archangel. In the Bible. it is revealed that Lucifer was the archangel who tempted Eve and committed an immoral sexual sin. This was the fall of man, the original sin which planted the root of sin in the world.

Man committed the sexual sin before his Father God, the Lord and Master of heaven and earth, and the first ancestors had children out of this immoral love; and the world of evil was realized. In other words, they married centered on Satan and by planting false love, false life and a false lineage they became ancestors of evil.

As human society expanded from the individual, family, tribe, race, and nation to the world level, due to this immoral relationship between man and woman, the root of the evil blood lineage was established everywhere, and this world became hell on earth: it became a false world filled with sin, war and fear. The fallen ancestors, Adam and Eve, should have established the position of True Parents as the eternal good ancestors of humanity, but they fell to become false parents leaving a blood lineage of evil.

This is the first cause of all the tragedy and misery of humankind. What could be more tragic or cause greater indignation than becoming the descendants of false parents and all humankind losing their True Parents?

And how great must be the suffering and sorrow of God, the Father of humanity, whose purpose of creation, to establish the true ancestors of humankind and to multiply people of goodness, was stolen by the blood lineage of sin through the immoral fall of the first human ancestors. Just as the cause of a disease must be discovered and treated in order to save a person suffering from it, in order to liberate human society from the suffering of such sin and misery, the fundamental cause of this sin and misery must be revealed and corrected.

The fundamental cause is the fall of the human ancestors, the original sin.  Accordingly, unless the cause of the disease called original sin is eliminated, we cannot pull up the root of misery and sin from the world. No matter how many great men, heroes, scholars, politicians or philosophers appear and try to straighten out the world through the reform of the laws and systems or through the education of moral principles, unless the original sin and the content of the fall is clarified, it will be impossible. All remedies will prove useless. That is because the original root of sin and misery is still alive, and it will continue to sprout buds.

The Role of Religion: 

The Salvation of Humankind from Evil

Religion teaches the fact that man fell, it reveals the contents of the fall, and directly and indirectly shows God's providence through which He seeks to save man completely from sin. Therefore all religions are the most active prescriptions for saving the sinful world.

Religion is the foundation of all education or teachings. The teachings of the four great saints Confucius, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad and the teachings of the founders of other religions transcended their ages and locations and have preserved the conscience and morals of humanity, and have been the generative powers of cultural development. Accordingly, all religions seeking to liquidate the world of evil and to establish the ideal world which God and people desire are co-workers and collaborators.

Among them, the scriptures through which God most directly revealed His providence of salvation is the Bible. Through the Bible we can know that the ancestors of humanity, Adam and Eve, committed the original sin and became false parents, and that God's work in the providence of salvation is to restore the lost purpose of creation.

The main point of the message of the Bible is that in order to give rebirth to all, the Messiah or the True Parents must come in place of Adam and Eve who became false parents.

Adam should have become the true father, and Eve should have become the true mother; that was the purpose of the original creation. In order to restore the purpose of creation back to its original state, God cannot help but carry out the providence for the recreation of Adam.

That is the main point of the providence of preparing the chosen nation of Israel and having Jesus born there. From the time Adam and Eve fell and humanity multiplied with its blood lineage centered on Satan, God immediately began working to separate the blood lineages of goodness and evil.

From Adam's family, God separated the second son, Abel, who was in a position to relate to God, and the first son, Cain, was in a position to relate to Satan. He sought to restore the order of the creation to its original state by having Cain yield to Abel of his own accord. Through Cain's murder of Abel, the history of struggle to separate good and evil was extended for a long time.

When we look at the bible in this context, from God's viewpoint of history, we see that His process of restoration had many setbacks that lead us to the Last Days where the Messiah has become the true father and reverses the mistake of the false father, Adam.

In these Last Days, evil society will thus separate from the dominion of Satan as it follows God's commandments leaving no base for evil to have a partner in which to work through. This will be the beginning of a new era of hope where all humanity will begin to flow and follow God as the true ruler of this world.


Return to continue this post tomorrow: Jesus' True Mission

Textbook For World Peace, Chapter 5 "The Central Role of Women in the Ideal World" was taken from the wife of Dr. Moon, Hak Ja Han Moon who gave this speech in July 1992 to the Women's Federation for World Peace Rally in Seoul, Korea.