Your Attitude in Prayer

The most important thing in prayer is the attitude of the person who is praying. 

The most essential part is your commitment to go forward without any reservation.

If there is anything that is trying to block you from praying, you have to be decided that it will never stop you. Unless you have this kind of commitment to continue, God will not waste His time trying to help you.

God has trusted many people of faith in the past to accomplish His will and He has been disappointed and deceived.  He has been looking for proof of what you are made of and how strong your commitment is.

You may tell God that you are completely committed and will do whatever it takes and never quit.  But He would just shake His head and say that He will wait for at least three years to see.  If God sees that something isn't quite right within you, He will wait before sending His help.

God has to be absolutely sure.

If God was to just freely give out His help and at the end of several years the person is broken into pieces, it would make God foolish.


 If I were God I would also wait and see. Suppose you were God; what would you do? You may tell God, "You see I am living as a church member and I will die as one." Then God will notice and look more closely.


No matter how firm your prayer is, without this basic commitment nothing will happen and you will be wasting your time.  This is where the decisive attitude is the key.


Do you think I made a commitment to God that I would never change, not for fifty years or the rest of my life? I prayed first for the absolute faith which could say, "Even if not a single person in this world can believe, I will believe and follow in whatever incredible course You give me." Second, I asked for absolute knowledge and wisdom. Third, I asked for absolute love. I prayed for these three things throughout my life, and now in looking back I see that they have been fulfilled, even when I didn't know it was happening. 

There is no other power that could go beyond the boundary of race and nation. 

With this absolute wisdom, the Divine Principle and the truth about the world was the result of an arduous search.

The attitude of absoluteness is the basis for everything.

Nowadays, some worry that they are getting too old to marry and have children.  This kind of attitude shows that your absolute commitment is starting to shake.  Instead of shrinking under this challenge, you should have the thought that even if you are not married yet, it does not bother you or change your commitment.

When you are faced with great problems and agony, once these challenges are overcome, your faith will be iron hard.

When you are able to see the obstacles that are blocking you path, you are able to clear the field.

Since God could give me this absolute wisdom, I could search and find the Divine Principle and the truth about the world.

What if along this road, you were very much in love with your husband or wife, but they suddenly die.  Will heaven and earth crumble for you?

This could be the very moment that you would curse God for taking your loved one away.  But what if instead you were able to thank Him for giving you a situation that will strengthen your faith?   Then you faith will become stronger instead of weaker.

God is a parent who loves His children.  If He takes a loved one away, it is not because He hates you and wants to see you suffer, but it is for a greater reason.  If you are able to accept and digest this situation, and have faith in that purpose, then you are ready for another challenge.

In this movement the most beautiful word to our ears is 'indemnity'.

Through paying indemnity, we can pay for the debt of our sins and our ancestors.  Many mistakenly believe that because Jesus died on the cross for our sins that all sins here and in the future have been  eradicated through the cross.

This is incorrect.

If that was true, when Jesus died on the cross, every child born thereafter would have been born without sin and without need for redemption.  Yet, you and I were born with sin and continue this stained lineage.

Jesus paved a way for each person to come to God to be forgiven of their sins.  We still have a mountain of sin we inherit on the individual level, family,/ancestral love and so on that needs to be paid for.

We are living in the Completed Testament age where all the sins of the past are being completely erased through paying indemnity while humanity steps one foot closer to God's ideal world of Heaven on Earth.  God is asking you as His champion to pay indemnity because no one can stand such a burden..

Accept indemnity with a thankful heart. 

When you compare the time on earth that you are apart from you loved one with the millions of years your descendants will live,  your payment of indemnity is small compared to the huge blessing God will give your descendants.

If in fact, the death of your spouse was an accident, and was not a direct intervention of God, but you are still able to have a grateful attitude God will feel that you are an extraordinary child and His blessing will automatically be yours.

Your attitude will decide the amount of blessing. 

Are you ready?

If an extraordinary grief or tragedy hits you, are you ready to thank God and ask what is next?

When you understand the law of indemnity, you know that you cannot only accept the pleasant situations and then curse God during the most unpleasant events.  With this knowledge about indemnity, there should be nothing that you cannot bear.  This is the attitude of those who truly know God.

When you first join the church your eyes are filled with such fervor and hope, but as the years pass on they get a little duller.  What about in ten years?  It is easy to say that you have the same enthusiasm, but do you really have the confidence?

Prayer is an absolute necessity. 

It is important to first make an environment of serious commitment before praying.

If you do not have this basic attitude, no amount of prayer and tears will suffice.  Many in the Christian world pray everyday.  Do you think that they pray for the Christian churches to decline?  Of course they pray for the churches to prosper, but the churches are crumbling anyway.

Prayer is very powerful, thus there is a disconnect between their prayers and God.

We should pray for the big things: the nation, the world and the liberation of God.

This way you are praying for an even bigger cross than your own church.

If you only pray for smaller things than the church, God will not answer because He is not interested in listening to such boring prayers.  When you pray for the nation and the world, God takes notice and will want to help.

This way of prayer is training for how to love greater things.  If you live this way of life, then God will still back you up even if you do not have time to pray.

In churches today, people pray for their denominations, their Social Security check or their family problems and their pet. God's ears hurt when He hears those prayers and He will plug His ears. It would be the equivalent of a child begging their parents every moment for some candy.

When you only talk about yourself in your prayer, God is thoroughly bored and nothing will happen. But if you pray for His righteousness and His kingdom, He will be caught up in your passion.

In order to fulfill bigger things you need an adventurous mind and be willing to take risks.

When you work for larger goals, you will not have to worry because God will be right behind you.  If you work hard to overcome the stonewalls and persecution standing in your way, God will take up your battle for you.

God is able to distinguish who is just and who is unjust.

God would wait and give you a chance to knock down your opponent with your own might before He rushes in to help.  This is the same thing a father and mother would do for their children.

If you were to run to your parents first before confronting your enemy, God, like any parent would be ashamed to hear your complaints and will send you back out again.

Create a good problem: be a heavenly troublemaker instead.

I came to America and became a good troublemaker, and that's why America doesn't like me. America has built a prosperous society, but I came to shake this nation and Americans resent my disturbing their peace.  But I did not come to destroy America, only to warn this nation that there is danger ahead. 


Someone has to warn the people of America and bring them out of disaster.  We must prepare ourselves for this big battle.  After you go first, then you can ask God to come and help you with any area you lack.

Then God will say, "Go ahead, I am right behind you."

In those circumstances, if you sit down and pray with seriousness, then God will encourage you.  When God finally has proof of your commitment, an avalanche will come to you.


I have had the experience of thinking about some problem and not even praying about it, but already God knew my thoughts and went one step ahead of me. When I discovered that my thinking had been fulfilled, He smiled and said, "See what I did?"

You need the basic attitude of sincerity as a foundation of prayer. 

If you do not exhibit this basic attitude, then no prayer will work.  To create this atmosphere, you should serve one more person, knock on one more door, receive more persecution for restoration.

That would be more valuable than sitting in a dark room for hours praying.

Praying is only needed only after you have exerted all of your energy into a cause and it was still not enough.  Then at that time you can ask God to come help.  When you can do the mission on your own, then you don't have to ask God for help, and you can tell Him to relax.

The prayer for all seasons is the prayer for God's kingdom and His righteousness.

Does God pray sometimes?

When a parent, without thinking, will whisper to themselves that they wish their son would do this or that.  That is God's prayer also.  He prays about you and me because we are living in a time of emergency and He is engrossed in His concern.

That is God's prayer.

You do not even have to sit down and pray.  You can just murmur as you go.  That is prayer.  In our case, praying and doing is the way of life and praying and waiting is not life.

If you pray unconsciously throughout your daily life, then you undoubtedly are becoming sons and daughters of prayer.

If you give your last ounce of energy but it is not enough, then ask God for assistance and your prayer will be answered.

If this was not the case, how could we have the ability to subjugate Satan?

Satan has caused unending anguish and heartbreak to God for over six thousand years.  If there was no way to finally subjugate Satan, then there would be no end to this hell.

But God has made a way for us to overcome this evil world of darkness.

The power of prayer works wonders.  But when you pray, you must be serious and pray with one united hear, not a heart divided.

How serious is it to pick your own spouse?

It is dead serious, but prayer is even more serious than that.  At the moment your parents are on your death bed is a serious moment, and the words  you speak then are urgent. You will not doze at that time.  Your prayer has to be even more serious this moment in picking your spouse.

Prayer is like a covenant between you and God, a promise. 

Once you make this contract through prayer you follow through and without a doubt, God will fulfill it.

This is the attitude you should have through prayer.

You should not be disappointed that your prayer is not answered immediately.  Some answers come late.  As well, as you should not be overjoyed when your prayer is answered quickly.  That is not necessarily the best thing either.

The answer to prayer does not come from you, but down from heaven and it takes time to reach you.

You are surrounded by the world where there are many stages to go through horizontally and vertically.  There were many foolish people who received answers to their prayers up to a certain point, but who didn't go to the final inch.  They gave up when they were not satisfied and betrayed God.

When you pray for the world you may not see things changing immediately around you, but far away the communist world starts to crumble. 

Your prayer may be felt in a far-away place.  You must think that your prayer might not reach you today or be fulfilled for thousands of years from now.


I pray such prayers. I am not praying just for this world today; I am praying for 1,000 and 2,000 years from now. If that prayer makes a bridge between that time and now, then the Unification Church will continue to flourish even a long time after I am gone from the earth. That kind of prayer is needed.


What if everyone was to pray that kind of prayer?

That kind of eternal prayer would shake the world and the impact would be far reaching.  Prayer, sweat and tears would be the root of that prayer, and out of it beautiful flowers will blossom. When Jesus prayed in the garden of Gethsemane, he was deadly serious.

All day long, you should be in prayer mindset, not just one hour, but 24 hours.

What prayer position do you prefer?

The best position is to kneel and bow your head  Restrict your body's freedom as though it were bound.

You will feel pain, but overcome it because you must be serious in your prayer.  This is necessary for prayer. Then God will know your serious attitude.

If Jesus and other saints did not pray, they would not have been able to carry out the great things that has impacted the world.  When you resort to the power of prayer, you can have hope because you never know when the fulfillment will come.



Return for Tomorrow's Post: The Power of Prayer

This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Importance of Prayer

Persecution is Necessary

God created man to have true love but man fell; thus, God agonizes that true love has not been achieved. He has been trying to raise man so that they can both have true love. True God can have true love and true man.

Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon

True man can have true God and true universe.   True creation has true man and true God. 

True love is the most important.  Without possessing true love, there is no way for you to become a true, absolute man or possess true things.

Do you want to have true love then?

What if you were to go hungry for a few days, would you want true love more than you want food if you had to choose?

You may have experienced a fasting period so you could focus more on God.  One minute before the fast is to end, do you want true love or good food at that moment?

In just that crucial moment, your thoughts can destroy the whole purpose of your three or seven-day fast.  If in that moment you feel that you could continue to fast even more for true love, then you have served the purpose of the fast.  But, if you were thinking about eating once more and to become full as quickly as possible, then the purpose has been lost.

The providence for God to restore humanity's fallen history is thousands of years.  But, now, we have the tools to cover this same distance toward true love within one generation.

If we really plant our stake in true love then God will be overjoyed.

Once we reached this standard, then human life has reached its goal and mankind can experience joy eternally.  Everyone would then celebrate.  A true man might be the most foolish in the world because he will understand this concept and like persecution.  He understands that true love is man's ultimate goal.

The main problem we encounter during the process of restoration is how do we inherit the correct pattern that will help move history back in the right direction.  The Messiah returns not to take believers immediately away to a paradise, but to lay a foundation and tradition that reverses the fall.

As sinful sons and daughters, we are not really qualified to inherit this tradition.

Then, what is needed to qualify as a true son?  Would a true son leave their parents' house from one argument?  But, we witness this in many families.

It is not easy to be a true son or daughter.

Out of a family, maybe one child would struggle to stay at home during the rough times.  Such a son will say he will leave no matter what actions his parents do.

God is the toughest to the ones He loves the most.

He does not sympathize, or worry if you had eaten or not while you are performing His mission.  He would wonder what time it was and why do you sleep.  With such a standard, He might think His son would leave, but would be surprised to see the true son keep going during the difficult barriers.

Why does God set such a difficult path for His soldiers?

Satan can follow those who are working for God to a certain height, so God would want you to make it over the highest point where Satan can no longer follow you and your progress from there on is not so difficult.

From God's point-of-view, He does not think that Satan is all bad when it comes to your mission.  He thinks that if there was no Satan to push you, that you would not work so hard for God.

In school, no one likes examinations, but teachers know that if they were never to give out tests, that you would never study the material.  With each exam for which you study hard, you gain more knowledge and become more useful.

Persecution is in order for us to get the blessing.  If we get persecution, then we keep going.

An offering must be pure.  The criterion in ancient times was to make a sacrifice of virgin women through offering of the first love.  This was the same with animals.

During the Old Testament times, people of faith would offer things of creation which are closer to God than fallen man.  While in the New Testament, man himself was dedicated as the offering.

Now that we live in the Completed Testament age in the era of the Second Coming, the standard of offering is elevated and we experience sacrifice of the heart.

Therefore, once we dedicate everything for the sake of goodness it is painful to be rejected and misunderstood.  A person that is constantly persecuted can be seen as an offering.  The best material is used as an offering, so a pure wonderful person should be used as an offering.

If you don't proclaim your love for God and receive persecution, can we truly say that we are an offering?

All the fifty states of America belong to the nation, not to one individual.  Likewise, America belongs to the world.  If the Messiah is going to bring the whole world and spirit world into unity, then he belongs to God.

This confirms that the individual comes under the family, the family belongs to the tribe, the tribe to the nation, nation to the world, world to the cosmos, the cosmos to God, and God to absolute love.

By following this reasoning, then we can conclude that we are living for the sake of love.  This should be our concern.  Everything in creation is included in true love.  Even within a couple, if the husband snores, the woman might go into the other room, but a couple of true love, the wife could stay and snore just as loudly, what a sight that would be.

In Korea we say that a man who has already reached his destination is a crazy man. 

This is the kind of craziness that God wants to see.

Without true love, thinking about uniting the races and the world would be just pure fantasy.

To reach this destination, your course will lead you to all things of creation and mankind.  If someone asks you which country you are from, you tell them that you are an American, not the state you are from.

People of faith are fishers of men.

We catch people for true love.  When you are doing mission work, it is to help build the bridge so all those people can cross.

We must contribute not just our material, but also men, and give them with God's heart.  We dedicate our families to that bridge, centering on love.  When we recover the nation, we will offer it, when we recover the world we offer that to God also.  For the sake of true love, we shall recover the universe and dedicate it to God.

We don't offer just a few things, but all things gather for the offering including men and heart.  We dedicate our property, money, bodies and heart to God.  This is the same as offering all material, people and all their heart.

Then whose property does it become?

Then everything is returned and owned by God.  Your ownership is external while God's ownership is internal.  All of this can be indemnified in one individual.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Persecution Brings Blessings, Endure



This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Persecution and Blessing

Restoring Fallen History

"If you know the will of God more and more, you realize your physical body is being made dirty through Satan and you feel like burning that which has the filthy blood of Satan flowing through it. 
You feel like throwing away your hands and feet and your whole body, which is used by Satan. If you think you want to preserve yourself as you are, stained by Satan, you are being stupid. 

Have you ever had that experience? Since we cannot remain dead, we need the conditions to eliminate our past relating with Satan."

Reverend Sun Myung Moon



Fallen people were not born from God-centered parents in the direct blood lineage of God. Therefore, our birth must be denied, and we must make a new relationship with God.  In other words, because we were born from the fallen dead world, in order to return to life centering on God, we must be resurrected. We need to be born again. But being born is not the conclusion; we then must go through the growth period.

In order to pass through that, the indemnity condition(pay for a wrong done) must be established. You can think of it in a way as 'the sins of the father are visited upon the children'.

For instance, the Principle teaches us that when a wrong is done to someone and they cannot forgive, when they die, they may visit that person in spirit or their descendants and take revenge from the spirit world.  This can be caused through diseases or broken marriages.  Indemnity is when someone makes a condition whether equal or greater to pay back the mistake of the original ancestor.

The greatest indemnity paid in history was through Jesus Christ suffering and shedding his pure blood to pay for our fallen blood. In making the indemnity condition, not only the individual's responsibility but also the national mission and world mission together are included. You must know that what you did concerning this responsibility determines what happens with your Blessing.

Father Moon has taught the true way to make an indemnity condition or pay back what has been wronged in history.  For instance, if there had been a person that could have thinking more on the worldwide level and indemnified Japan's history, the world could have been unified through Japan.


The Bible states:

What good is it if you gain the whole world and lose your very soul?

Life is this precious.

We must know the true method for an indemnity condition, which results in your own precious life.  This is the way for salvation - through paying indemnity.   Indemnity means you climb through the path by which the fall of humanity happened. Then go the opposite way.

Father Moon, the messiah of the Second Coming, has established all of the historical indemnity conditions and won victory.  Now, it should not be a problem when satan attacks good people as he has been throughout all of history until now.  We must be determined to stand fast against these attacks with the methods like Stalin liquidating religious people, we should use satan's attacks against him.

Perfection does not happen automatically but is established through indemnity.

Indemnity was not needed in the original ideal of creation.  Adam and Eve were born in the most perfect conditions for growth toward God as the center.  Indemnity was only necessary after their mistake.

Were Adam and Eve ever perfected?

We know that Adam and Eve were not born perfect for one simple reason: they fell away from God.  If Adam and Eve were born perfect yet were still able to make a grave mistake such as linking to Satan's ideals instead of God's ideal, then the whole ideal of God's creation and perfection would not in itself be perfect.

You and I were not born into ideal situations or conditions, but born through a fallen blood lineage linked to satan.  Therefore, you and I cannot be perfected without making an indemnity conditions first.  This is how we obtain self-perfection.  Those who did not go over the hills of indemnity and reversing the fall within ourselves absolutely have no way to be perfected.

Religious practices before the Second Coming make a condition to link us to God through the Messiah and to be saved spiritually, but this is not perfection and our blood line is still linked to Satan.

When we pay indemnity in order to perfect back to our original sinless selves to God's side, we can call this restoration.  Therefore, we can never separate these two words: indemnity and restoration.

Centering on perfection, reach perfection through the course of restoration through indemnity. After indemnity, then restoration. After being restored, then go the way of perfection. Therefore, you can think of indemnity and restoration as one.



The Indemnity Condition Has to Be Established By Myself

This is Rev. Moon's explanation of why humanity must go the way indemnity:

"What result came about due to the human fall? God and the angelic world were chased out of the human world, and we lost the world of all things. Next, the individual base, family base, clan, tribe, nation and world foundations were all lost.

The word "lost" means that Adam and Eve themselves chased them out. Who has the responsibility for that? That responsibility isn't God's, it is not the angelic world's nor the creation's; it is the human responsibility.

This result was the human responsibility. Therefore, human beings must take the responsibility and assume the destiny to go the course of restoration. However, the course of restoration cannot be traversed by oneself.  Absolutely, you must go through the re-creational principle with the help of the spirit world.

It cannot be otherwise, because it is the principle of salvation that God and the spirit world mobilize for recreation. Before God created human beings, He created the angelic world. With the help of the angels, He created all things and through all things as material, He created human beings.

Because the fall was committed by human beings, restoration through indemnity must be done by human beings.



The Principle is that the one who committed the sin should indemnify it. 

Since the parents became fallen parents, unless the True Parents come and indemnify this humanity cannot go back to God. The one who can solve these things is the True Parent. The value of the True Parents is not comparable to ten million dollars or even billions of lives.

That is why, when you've found the True Parents, you should be able to say, "I'll follow with my life." Jesus said, "Those who want to live will die and those who want to die will live," because that describes the way, the beginning point of restoration through indemnity.

Indemnity conditions must be established by your own self. Another person cannot substitute for you. The fall means the loss of the authority of subjectivity. In restoration, no matter who interferes, you must be confident of yourself and go with the clear subjectivity.

No matter where others are going, I must be busy going my way. At night, there is no time to sleep, there is no time to find a place to sit comfortably and eat a meal. Without having a heart this serious, you cannot go the way of restoration." SMM



To Eliminate The Satanic Sovereignty

If you want to find complete salvation, you must liquidate your own sin and your past. Now through your activities you must clean up the sins you've committed. In order to eliminate sin, you must not do things against the Principle.

Christianity teaches that Jesus has paid the highest price for our sins.  This is correct, but where we make a mistake is believing that just by believing in the blood that all our mistakes are cleared.  Our past is forgiven as a condition to link us to God through Jesus, yet we still bore children of sin.  The work of restoring our fallen blood lineage is ultimately up to us.  If it was easy to clean sin 100%, God would have liquidated sin from the beginning when Adam and Eve followed satan's will.


What is Sin? 

It is when you allow a condition for Satan to invade and attack.  We must clearly know the root of sin.  Evil is Satan himself and Eve set a condition for him to attack with the beginning thought, "Let me be the subject, let me be the center".

We liquidate evil when we reverse the fall and go in the opposite direction toward God's original principle of creation which thinks "Live for the other (spouse)".  "Live for only myself" is satanic human and fallen nature. In order to avoid falling into this self-centered thinking, we must clearly know the origin of good and evil.  God and Jesus want to break this evil thinking down.  This is why Jesus' basic teaching was to not be arrogant, live for others and serve others.

This is God's way of thinking.

Humanity fell away due to the fall based on thinking of oneself without God as the center.  In order to go back toward the original Principle way of life before the fall and become one with the principle of creation, we must go through the course of re-creation.

The fall occurred between Adam and Eve when one was motivated by thinking the other person exists to invest in me instead of thinking I exist to invest in others.  In order to invests, we must do away with ego and do the opposite of the fallen world.  This is why religion teaches to sacrifice yourself for others.

After the fall of Adam and Eve, what kind of illness did the human race contract?

Centering on Satan, we got the sickness of love, and through the sickness of love, the blood lineage of Satan has multiplied. 

In other words, the illness is received from Satan's blood and is born in Satan's direct children. But how did that love sickness start?

When God's order and the heavenly principle was denied when one centered their actions on their own thinking, the sickness of the fall was born.  Therefore, in order to heal this love sickness that has infested across the world, we must deny ourselves and live absolutely centering on God.

If Lucifer, Adam and Eve had centered their whole life centered on God, there is no way they would have gone in their own direction away from God. and they would have established the ideal world.  This would be Heaven on Earth - a place where everyone's life attends and makes a direct relationship of love through God.  God has been striving throughout history to straighten out this mistake.  When you or I are proud about our fallen, sinful self we cannot hope to change toward God's direction.

When we are faced with difficulty while we walk the way of restoration we may think, "This is too hard and I cannot do this".  This is not heavenly God-centered thinking, this is thinking centered on one self.  In order to get away from this self-centered thinking we must have a God-centered sovereignty.  When we walk this path with a complaining heart or deny the work of God's will then our work becomes unqualified.  One who walks the path complaining will eventually give up and claim the work he does for God as his own doing.

Walking the way of faith is difficult so we must think:

God is in front of me, my friends are beside me and my brothers and sisters are there.  We must also think that the fate of humankind's future remains in front of us.

To continue going through the toughest of times in our life of faith, we must think that "I would give up my life to keep going". Isn't this the kind of thinking which all the saints had in history?

When we have this kind of thinking, our self-centered thinking will fall away.  When we go the opposite of me-centered thinking, we can overcome the fallen sovereignty.  We must remember that the most difficult times mean we are kicking out the most difficult fallen sovereignty and getting closer to the day of liberation!


Determine to Go the Opposite Direction of the Fall

Originally, the fall brought us into a place of death. In order to salvage this, you must run into the place of death. No matter what, we all have to go through that fate, so you must do it with a joyful heart as a real man and woman.

Like that, make the determination; the members will increase as they go according to the will of God, and the world will go in a new direction. Our heart must be burning to establish that mother-baby desperation. In your heart, do you have the faith to go beyond the limit of life and death?

We must make the determination with a burning in our hearts and desperation a mother has for her baby to go beyond the limits of life and death.  In order to bring the teachings of the Divine Principle, the Completed Testament to the earth, Father Moon had to fight dozens, hundreds, many tens of thousands of life and death situations.  Even though these situations come like waves, he has never wavered from his goal.

"Even if my legs are broken or my eyes are popped out or my neck is being cut, I do not change from the beginning point of determination. Therefore, I'm victorious as long as I'm alive."


How do we get out of this love of the fallen, satanic sovereignty that plagues the world and this fallen blood lineage?

We must remember, that whenever we think about only ourselves and love ourselves only, satan can take us away.  When we do the opposite and deny myself and think centered on God, by living this way, satan cannot follow or manage me and thus God abides in me and manages me.  When we go in this direction, we can be liberated from the archangel in the satanic world.

When we speak about restoring the world we must see that it will not be accomplished all at once but stage by stage.  Many people of faith are waiting for Jesus to return to destroy this fallen world and take away only the people of faith to live eternally with him in the clouds.

This is thinking not following the ideal of the principle of creation, it also means that satan has won and God is an imperfect God whose principle was so defeated that He destroyed his own creation.

This will not happen.

Adam was the center of the whole.  Because he fell from the individual position representing all of humanity, he must restore the world.

Once the individual position is restored then the family environment, and clan, tribe, nation and world and the cosmic environments must be restored.  Every human must pass through these eight stages.  Once we solve these problems, then and only then will we create the ideal world and freely meet with God who is the subject of love.

One who desires the absolutely unique subject must fulfill the condition by denying the fallen reality. 

Therefore, restoration through indemnity cannot be established even if a small condition of affirmation remains.

We find God when we return to the original position before the fall.  We all have the responsibility to return back to the sinless Adam and Eve's position.

Adam and Eve were to become True Parents who had no trace of sin.  Here we make the true family, true clan, true nation and true world.  To reach this level we must go in the opposite direction of fallen love.  We as fallen people are walking the way of indemnity.  Without overcoming this course we cannot clean out our fallen self.

How can we restore from the individual problem to the family, clan, nation and world? We must have a clear God-centered ideology.


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This post was rewritten and taken from the textbook Blessing and Ideal Family section "The Indemnity Condition to Receive the Blessing"

Make New Relationship With God

The Bible states that we can see God's characteristics, emotions, will and intellect evidence when we observe the creation.  God didn't haphazardly create the universe, but like an artist plans their masterpiece before painting, God did the same.

When God made a plan to create the world, He first began from the model of a man and a woman.  Evolution believes that humanity happened from chance of the smallest of cells without realizing that there was a First Cause - God.

This God has an intellect, emotion and will.  Would this loving God want a world full of misbehaving entities or one that centered on His own love and characteristics?

We understand that somewhere in history, the line of love between God's direct blood lineage has been severed.  In order to return to God, we must deny our fallen birth and blood lineage and make a new relationship with God.

We cannot return this world into a peaceful one without going back to the origin.  In other words, in order to be reborn from this fallen dead world, we have to return our life and center it on God and become resurrected.  Being reborn is not the conclusion where many religions may stop.

We then must go through a growth period to reach the perfection level where God resides.

During this growth period, it is a time where we restore what has been lost through indemnity conditions or what we call redemption.  It is the individual's responsibility to make an indemnity condition to return what is rightfully God's back to its original position.  This is not just on the individudal level, but is the national mission and world mission together at the same time.

As one comes closer to the truth of God's will more and more, one is awakened to how our bodies have become dirty through Satan.  We feel like burning off any part of our fallen body and cut off the filthy blood of Satan that flows through our body that causes us to do what we wish not to do.

When we realize our body is filled with sin and is our enemy, we feel like throwing away our hands, feet and even our whole body which is used by Satan.

Those who wish to believe that they are great and perfect and want to preserve their sinful, fallen selves through the ego are not very smart.

Since humans cannot remain dead in this state, we need to set up conditions which God can grab onto to eliminate our past relating with Satan.

This is different from the theory that, just by believing in God and the Messiah that all our sins fall away, yet we still bore children of sin.  Once we recognize there is a method to make the indemnity condition and it is not just by faith but through putting faith into action will we become perfected and closer to God.

There is no business in the world as great as that. In the Bible it says, "What good is it if you gain the whole world and lose your life?" Life is that precious. We must know the correct method for the indemnity condition, which results in your own precious life.

The way to restore oneself is to pay indemnity by going the opposite way of what occurred at the Fall. Also, by going where Satan and evil cannot follow.  Evil cannot be humble, follow their conscience or sacrifice for love.  This is why saints and religious founders in the past recognized the importance of practicing this method of faith daily in order to have a clear mind and become closer in oneness to God.

Teacher established all the historical indemnity conditions, then he won victory. It should not be a problem even if Satan attacks with all of his methods and ways, as Satan has done to goodness until now.

When it gets tough, we can imagine using the same method that Stalin used to liquidate all religious people and use it against Satan when we carry out maneuvers. Teacher even has that side.

Perfection does not happen automatically but is established through indemnity. 

What does it mean to be perfected?  We falsely have grown to believe that it means a person who doesn't make mistakes and obtains knowledge without learning it first.  This is superficial definition.  We obtain perfection when we unite our conscience which is close to God and subdue our body. This brings us a clear path to lead a life centered on God without falling prey to Satan's traps and temptations.  This being is said to have restored themselves and are perfected.

No matter how great a person is in the fallen world, they absolutely are  unable to perfect themselves without going over the hills of indemnity condition.  Self-perfection is accomplished through the perfection of indemnity.

God thinks of this perfection of the individual self as restoration of the self.   Perfection of indemnity could be called the perfection of restoration. That is why it is restoration through indemnity. Therefore, we can never separate these two words: indemnity and restoration.

When we say "perfection through indemnity," it means "indemnity for restoration."

Centering on perfection, reach perfection through the course of restoration through indemnity. After indemnity, then restoration. After being restored, then go the way of perfection. Therefore, you can think of indemnity and restoration as one.



The Indemnity Condition Has To Be Established By Myself


What was lost due to the fall?

First when Adam and Eve made love before the time of maturity, the angelic world and God were chased out of the human world and then we lost the world of all things in creation.  Next, the indiviidual, family, clan, nation and world foundational base were lost through Adam and Eve choosing Satan's words over God's.

Who has the responsibility for that?

The responsibility to reverse this mistake does not belong to God, the angelic world or creation.  It is human responsibility.    We must take responsibility for this tragedy and go the course of reversing this mistake.

Humanity will not be able to go this path alone, but with the help of the spirit world.  God created the angelic world before He created human beings.  The angels helped God create all things and through all things as material.

Because human beings caused the disruption and broke away from God's way, man must restore through indemnity or pay back condition.  Since the first parents became fallen parents, we must establish a True Parent to indemnify the past or else, we have no hope of returning our lineage back to God.  Thus, the one who can resolve the mistake in the Garden of Eden is the True Parent centered on God holding God's blood lineage.

The Principle is that the one who committed the sin should indemnify it.

Indemnity conditions must be established by your own self. Another person cannot substitute for you. The fall means the loss of the authority of subjectivity. In restoration, no matter who interferes, you must be confident of yourself and go with the clear subjectivity.

When we find the True Parent, we will not be able to compare their value to ten million dollars or even billions of lives.

When we find the True Parents in the Last Days, we should want to follow with our own life the traditions they set to reverse the Fall.

Jesus said, "Those who want to live will die and those who want to die will live," because that describes the way, the beginning point of restoration through indemnity.

No matter where others are going, I must be busy going my way. At night, there is no time to sleep, there is no time to find a place to sit comfortably and eat a meal. Without having a heart this serious, you cannot go the way of restoration.


In Order To Eliminate The Satanic Sovereignty

Jesus came to be a True Parent, but his mission was cut short by the disbelief of the people and could only leave a tradition of spiritual salvation.  In order to have complete salvation of the physical and spiritual bodies we must liquidate our own sin and past.  We must clean up any sin we committed by not doing things that are against Principle.

When we allow something we do to lay a condition for Satan to invade our lives, it is evil.

What is sin?

Whatever you do, say or any content you have that allows Satan to attack is sin.

Therefore, Christians more than anyone must clearly know the root of sin. Evil is Satan himself, needless to say, and in Eve evil starts with, "Let me be the subject, let me be the center." God's original principle of creation is, "Live for the other (spouse)," while "Live for myself" is the satanic fallen nature.

What is the origin of good and evil?

Many people wrongly theorize that evil always existed and is part of creation.  This is not true.  Humanity left its position due to the Fall.  In order to fix this broken past, we must return to the path of the Principle that existed before we broke down.  Then we must go through the course of recreation in order to become one with the principle of creation.

Evil people say that we should live for myself; God and Jesus want to break down this evil tradition.  This is why Jesus taught us to fight our arrogance and live for and serve others.  By going the opposite way of evil, we are doing the work of restoration.

Eve was motivated that someone else exist to invest in her, not that she exist to invest in others.  If she thought about Adam, she would have not tempted him.  This is why religions teach to sacrifice the self for others.  We must do the opposite from the world and invest in others.

After the fall of Adam and Eve, what kind of illness did the human race contract?

You have heard of lovesickness?  Through the sickness of love, we could not connect to God's true blood lineage and the blood lineage of Satan has multiplied.  This illness was infused from Satan's blood and bore satanic children through his blood lineage.  Where did this sickness directly begin?

It first began with the thinking of one self and centering on oneself and leaving God out.  By denying God's words and order and centering on oneself, the sickness of the fall was born and has continued throughout history centering on selfishness.

In order to heal and reverse this matter, we must deny ourselves and live absolutely centering on God leaving our own thinking out.

If the archangel, Adam and Eve, were hoping centering on God, they would not have fallen but would have established the ideal world.

Heaven is where we live a life attending God absolutely and make the relation of love through Him.  God has been leading this providence of restoring the past and straightening out this origin.  When you are too proud of your fallen self, this cannot happen.  You will not be able to separate from what holds you back from returning fully back to God.

We must have a God-centered living if we want to begin to come out of the self-centered, fallen sovereignty we currently witness in the world.  There is no other way to separated from this self-centered, satanic world. We all must take this way inevitably.

While you are doing witnessing or business activities, do you ever happen to say, "It is too hard and I can not do this"? That cannot be God-centered but is centered on your own self.

In light of this principle, if you complain while you are doing mission work, and deny the work, you must know clearly that your work is unqualified. He who works the Godly missions centering upon himself will complain within a short time when hardship comes. He will claim that all the work he has done in the church is his own.

The way I must go might be difficult, but I must think: God is going in front of me, my friends are beside me, and our brothers and sisters are there. Also, we must think that the fate of all humankind's future remains in front of us. I must think that I will go until I give my life. By having this thinking, you can overcome the self-centered fallen standard.

Not me centered; by thinking centered on God, you can overcome the fallen sovereignty. During our most difficult times mean we are kicking out the most difficult fallen sovereignty and getting closer to the day of liberation.

The Fall brought us into a horrific place of death and sadness.  In order to return to God, we must run into this place of death with a joyful heart as a real man and woman.  Every human must go through this fate no matter what.
As more people do the will of God, the world will go in a new direction.

 In your heart, do you have the faith to go beyond the limit of life and death?

The author of the Divine Principle speaks on this point:

"Teacher has been watching many dozens, many hundreds, many thousands, many tens of thousands of life and death situations, and has fought with Satan. Although the countless situations of difficulties come like waves, the goal that Teacher made has not changed.

Even if my legs are broken or my eyes are popped out or my neck is being cut, I do not change from the beginning point of determination. Therefore, I'm victorious as long as I'm alive.

How could we get out of the love of the fallen sovereignty and the blood lineage of the satanic sovereignty? Whenever you think about only yourself and loving yourself. Satan can take you away.

If I do the opposite, denying myself and thinking centered on God, and live this way, Satan cannot manage me and God abides in and manages me. By doing this, you can be liberated from the archangel in the satanic world. From the position of fallen archangel you can climb to the unfallen archangel's position." SMM

Adam fell away from God on the individual level because he was the center of the whole and he must restore the world and turn them to the right direction.  This restoration process does not all at once, but stage by stage.  First the position of individual, the family environment, clan, nation and world then the cosmic environments must be restored.

All together there are eight stages or levels which we must pass through.  When we solve these problems, human beings who are looking for the ideal world will be able to freely meet with God who is the subject of love.

While doing that, if some level is blocked, one may pass the lower levels but one cannot pass the level above. That means that one cannot continue on the way to be one with God.

If you are only able to reach a certain level of restoration and your path is blocked, you will be able to go freely to the lower levels you have conquered, but you will not be allowed to pass the levels above.  This means that you cannot continue the path to connect directly to God.

You will get help from spirit people on that level, but you will not be able to communicate with God.  God worries about fallen men and women and how we can expand the environment from the individual level to Him that allows us to directly communicate with Him.  God did not have these worries before the Fall and Adam and Eve were talking directly with Him.

Absolute denial must be established in the beginning on the individual, then to the family, clan, society, nation world, cosmos and ultimately to God.  This is how the world of peace will come about.  Are we as a society exhibiting a life of denial and living for others?  How about the individual or family. Without the sacrifice of one own's thinking, a world of peace will never come about.\

Then the eight levels are completed and connected to the ideal direction. Level by level, unless we pass through the course of denial, we cannot be connected to God.

One who desires the absolutely unique subject must fulfill the condition by denying reality.

Men and women fell through taking the orders of the archangel.  In order to reverse this past we must deny ourselves first.  When we pursue the absolute subject, God, we must do so through the position of absolute denial.  This is what every major religion teaches.

God appears in front of an unfallen Adam and Eve.  This is where we find God.  Each of us must return to the position of sinless Adam and Eve before the fall.  This tradition begins with unfall True Parents where we can make a true individual, true family, clan, nation and true world.

World peace begins with the unfallen Adam and Eve who become True Parents.

The Divine Principle is the only thought that makes this claim.  To reach this level of perfection, we must go through the opposite side from the fall. Our indemnity course naturally appears for us fallen people and we must each overcome this fallen past.  Without overcoming our ancestor's past, we cannot go back to the origin of a sinless Adam and Eve.  How can we restore the eight stages?  We begin with a clear ideology that gives us God's direction.


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This Post was rewritten based on a speech and teachings of the Divine Principle taught by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon.