Heaven is a World of Pure Love

Heaven is the world of living for the sake of God

“If I say that heaven is empty, people will think I am demented. But Jesus could not enter heaven. You cannot go there alone. Our original ancestors should have grown through adolescence, established the ideal of love in which God dwelt, become parents and bequeathed the seeds of true love.

“Then the first place they would have entered would have been heaven. But up until now, there have been no parents embodying God's love, who were able to leave the seeds of true love.”

Adam and Eve did not leave such a glorious foundation to have such descendants.  Thus, heaven is empty.
“I have been going this way, enduring persecution for forty years, because I too am greedy to grasp the line of love that leads to the global heaven.

"This was so I could grasp the line of love beyond the individual, family, tribe, people, nation and world. Then, with this in my grasp where will I go?

“After finding the love line of the world, we must go back to our hometown because we have received many blessings and succeeded in life. Shouldn't we go to our hometown and save the unfortunate people there?”


The way to heaven is opened by loving your brothers as God does. You are trying to follow me, but while keeping such a heart you should strive to reach out and bring your brothers with you.

We can conclude that the one who teaches the highest, quickest and best way to go to heaven is neither God nor me, but your brothers.

People of faith scream out about going to heaven, but can people just automatically go to heaven without encountering it first on earth?

In order to enter heaven on earth, you have to go through the law of love.

A family that has many children can restore many sins and the greater the additional cross of loving God’s Kingdom.

A family has many children because they have many responsibilities for the sake of the kingdom.  Children will be born in this family who can inherit good fortune in the generation to come.
What kind of person can enter heaven?

The person who can enter heaven is the one who is one with God’s mind.  They should center on God to the point when God works on His will that person should be in harmony with God’s mind for eternity.

This harmony should not last for just ten years, but eternally align to the eternal God.

How can we find unity with God and be like God?  In order to be His son, you should not appear to be a sad person.  Heaven is established from removing the satanic lifestyle and denying everything that is related to his will and thinking.  Futhermore, we should eliminate him.

To enter heaven, a person must not sin, must receive God's love directly.

A person who can unite completely with God and eliminates Satan, does not need a savior because they will be directly linked to God.

Only when a person such as this goes to heaven can a peaceful world be established.

The future descendants will unite this world and all heaven.  God, the first one, and these descendants are connected by the family.  Not the nation or individual.

When you go to heaven, no one will recognize you because you are an American and you will not be rejected for being from a poor nation. Only the family that can exhibit a true family will be acknowledged. This is the formula.

The warehouse where the fruits of such true families are stored is heaven.

You must practice a life of attendance before attending God.

Those who wholeheartedly attend God while on earth go to heaven.  This is our destiny to follow the course that advances toward the world of heavenly purpose.

You cannot enter heaven without being joined in heart. 

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Heaven is the original nation, the which can have dominion over the whole of humanity.

This nation had the original godly nature, not the fallen nature of today.  

Only people who have a deep bond of heart can posses such a nation.  Christianity deals with heart.  God is creating a foundation where we share our heart beyond our personal circumstances and live for others.

What kind of place is heaven?

Is heaven for those who just want to seek blessings?  No, it is for those who prepared themselves attending God with their whole heart while on earth.  They leave their life of attendance as their legacy and continue to push forward even if they were to die in the process.

It is where you can take pride in what you prepared during your life on earth, and where you take pride in your life of attendance?

We should think seriously about the importance of how we should live from now on in this life of attendance.
Dr. Lee Sang-hun talks about the reality of the spirit world.  He saw heaven and said it is bright wherever you go.

Heaven is where God's light of love shines into all  corners of the universe, and all creation within its bosom. 

If we are liberated from Satan’s hold and let go of all their resentments, we should shout out for liberation!
To enter heaven, you must be united with God and the Messiah of the Second Coming’s true love.

Now that the True Parents have emerged and restored the fallen act of the first parents on earth, those related to children who are born from God’s lineage can go to heaven.

Up until this era, no one has been able to live such a life and go to spirit world.  Therefore, heaven is empty.

Even one who goes to church service for a hundred years, but they have a self-centered mind, they can never enter heaven or salvation.  A person who centers everything on him or herself has no value.

What kind of person is a true person?

Only the one who invests all of themselves including is own life for the sake of other people can live continuously in the realm of God’s love.

The great people of history and saints lived in this way.   This is the way we were all meant to live.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious book Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Six, Chapter two, Section 2.

In Service to Others

All the great saints and sages of every generation have practiced one commonality no matter what religious path they sought: living for the sake of others.

They greatly sacrificed complacency or any comforts in life in order to lay a foundation and to live for the goal of bringing God's children toward God's path.

Each generation seems to lose the value of living for others as they practice more selfish ways of individualism.

Suppose there are two students who rent an apartment.  Of course they have their own responsibilities and possibly chores assigned to each one of them.  Maybe one of them gets up and cooks breakfast for the others.

What would happen?  The other person has the potential to become proud that their roommate is serving them or they could be humble and thankful.

They can become very arrogant and take the person for granted for serving them and think they are foolish and take advantage that the person is serving them unselfishly.  He has the freedom to be proud, but others who are witnessing this may protest and not allow such behavior.  Such a person that takes the other's generosity for granted will be blamed and scolded the more proud he becomes.  Isn't this true:?

When you serve other people, you can win either the other people or the environment.

If you sacrifice yourself for others, then many people can come to your side willingly.  If Jesus had committed any crime and then was crucified, would humanity had been sympathetic toward his cause?

No.  Jesus was blameless before God and sacrificed himself for the sin of humanity, he won the hearts of mankind.

Many of God's warriors and prophets had walked the path of difficulty, but no path was more difficult than to be crucified on the cross for others' sins.  Knowing that Jesus was faultless yet gave his life for humanity, he has become the highest prophet and saint of all history.

His patience, in the face of difficulties and rebellion, was valuable, as well as his love for other people at the sacrifice of himself. With those two elements, there will be peace, love, happiness and all ideals.

In the beginning, God and man were separated due to the first parent's actions.  Jesus' love, service and sacrifice would restore the true link between God and man, and man and Jesus Christ.  Jesus taught this principle through his own actions in his life and through his death: patience and living for other people.

You have inner and outer struggles. You must win the inner struggle. 

By being patient and having a serving heart, you will be able to win over your enemies whenever they come against you.

Many people rather have an easy relaxed life than a sacrificial one.  What if those who race forward everyday for the mission of bringing God' children back toward restoration just sat around and took the easy way of life?

Would America become a happy nation this way?

Some may say, "Well, you have worked enough, you have experienced difficulties and hardships. Just relax and don't irritate us!"

If America is left in the state that it is, it will face peril.  Americans has turned far away from the mainstream of Godly ideology which it was founded upon.  There should be a nation, society, family and individual on the same vertical line.

Are the nation's young people concern with the rise of their nation?  They claim that promiscuous sex is the way.

Is that the true way?

Everything starts with the mind.

The youth of America thinking that has been corrupted by society must be revolutionized and be restored to the vertical line linking to God.  They must be led toward a very clear view of what the Godly world will be like.  What a Godly society, Godly nation and Godly world must be like.

We know all these thing and that God relies on this type of ideology of living for the sake of others.  So, we must not sit still.  We cannot, but go ahead and get the job done.

Everyone may think that the person in charge must be the most happiest in his position because he can command people and they just immediately follow his orders.  Is that an easy task?  Being a leader is not an easy job.  One must always be patient even when their emotions are on the brink of exploding.
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Those who are connected to the leader like cars on a train they will be led to the goal, dashing forward.  If one complains against the leader and separates, they will become lifeless.  So, it is best to just attain the goal and see that the evidence will be apparent.

Each moment of our lives will determine if you will lead yourself to misery and unhappiness or happiness and glory. You are either going to the side of God or Satan. You will either go to Heaven or Hell. You cannot relax or you are apt to fall into the dungeon of Hell. So you should always be alert, to be watchful for the future.

You are in the satanic world, but with patience and service to others, you can freely go back and forth even when there are many obstacles.

With this in the back of your mind, you can imagine many hardships that you will encounter.  If you think of each obstacle as another challenge, you can bring victory.  You should be really dedicated, brave soldier in this final spiritual battle.  You are sure to have victory which God would enjoy, that Jesus would enjoy by following the example.  His victory is your victory.


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This post was rewritten and derived from Opportunity for Happiness or Unhappiness

Sacrifice 4 Love

"Love requires one hundred percent devotion. When God was creating the universe, He invested Himself one hundred percent through His love. That is why true love begins with living for the sake of others." 

God is not the dictator that many people believe Him to be.

He gave everything of Himself for human beings.  He is close to us because He wants to live for us.  Has any dictator or ruler in the past surpass this kind of relationship which God gives to us?  This is why we want to follow God.

The natural law is to live for the sake of others.  To maintain our state of existence in the world, humanity must live in this way.  Only when we live for others will there be a connection between the East and the West and go far beyond the ages and the present.

When we give and give again for the sake of others, we are exhibiting the nature of God who gave of Himself for the creation.  When you put everything you have into something, you create a second self. This is the same as God investing everything He had at the same time of creation.

Only when one invests everything one has, is the only time recreation takes place.  History has been nothing but recreation - bringing humanity back to the original position we once enjoyed before the fall.  This course of restoration is through indemnity - paying back for any wrongs done.

You will never come to ruin when you live for the sake of others.  The idea of eternal life lives on this logic of investing oneself.   From giving small things, you move on to giving bigger things.  Then it circles back and comes back to you.

We will never be satisfied when we give true love - instead, you want to give more and more and you feel ashamed you are not able to give more.

Those who feel ashamed even after giving are truly the owners of true love.

In true love, the more we give, the more we receive in return.  The more we carry out this principle, the more the power that comes back exceeds the power that was given.  In this way, you will never perish, but only prosper.

There is no way to be prosperous without love. 

You can never exhaust true love.  The more you set it in motion, the greater it gets.

The laws of mechanics state that the more something is in constant motion, it becomes exhausted in time.  We have adopted this ideal into our lives, but in the case of true love this does not apply.  The more that true love is set into motion, rather than being used up, the greater it becomes.

The essence of love is such that when you live for the sake of others, your love becomes greater, but when you want people to live for you, your love diminishes little by little. 

"What is true love? It is giving, and then forgetting about it; it is giving and giving and then giving some more."

No matter how much you give, the world of love lasts forever.  Even the word "love' is truly mighty.

There is a Korean saying, "One well-spoken word can clear away a large debt".  This means that one word can indemnify something even great.  Even if you have a debt of a billions dollars, one word of love can more than indemnify the debt.

Only the house of true love has the authority to govern the universe with its infinite magnitude.  Even God the Creator has to bow His head to love.  Love comes from living for the sake of others.

God cannot fulfill love alone.  It can only be attained in relation to another. So, where does love begin?

Love doesn't happen when one person is by themselves, it does not come from oneself.  It grows and develops through having a partner.  

Where is the root, the beginning of true love kept?  Surprisingly the root of love is not kept within the all-knowing and powerful God.  Even though He is the central figure of true love He does not want to keep the root of love within Himself.

He rather have love take root in the person who is His object of love.  Isn't this true within a couple?

A man who is bursting with love for his lady will not want to keep this love within himself, but would want to share it and give it to his beloved.

The more love you give, the more love you have.  It is never ending.  You will have a reserve of love to give out even on a larger scale.  But there is a laundry list of things that have an end: money, knowledge and authority all come to an end at some point.

If it has to do with human circumstances or sentiment in the world, it comes to an end.  On the other hand, eternal true love never comes to an end no matter how much you continue to give.  The quality of love is amazing in that it continues into eternity.

One thing about true love, if you center it on yourself, it is something you cannot fulfill.  It does not begin from oneself, but it begins and is later fulfilled through one's partner in love.  Therefore, love cannot be fulfilled without a counterpart or partner.

No one can attain love by themselves.  Even the richest and greatest person on earth cannot achieve love if he is alone.  Isn't this true?  We see this among the Hollywood stars and people who seem to 'have it all'.  If they divorce or are alone, despite their wealth and successful careers, they may seem to have nothing.

This is because love is only formed in a relationship between a subject and object partner.  Even God cannot feel the stimulation of love if He tries to obtain it for His own sake.  This is the reason why God chose to create the human world of creation, for the purpose of love.

The core of the universe is human beings, and the core of human beings is life. 

The root of life is love, and the root of love is God, but this love cannot be realized by someone all alone. As God is the origin of love, the only beings qualified to be partners in that love are human beings. 

Have you thought that we do not use the word "hope" or "love" being fulfilled in the true sense  in relation to someone who is alone?  Even our life does not come from ourselves; life only comes through the bonds of a relationship with another.

What are two things that last for eternity?

Life and love.

Which comes first, life or love?  For God, love did not exist before He did, it came into existence after God existed.  For God, life comes first and love comes second, for humans beings love comes first and life comes second.

What kind of beings did God create us to be?

God created us to be equal to His absolute and unique value to Him and to be an object partner to His love.  Man and woman were created to enter a partnership of love with God, thus endowing them with greater value than that of even the whole universe.

We are born from love, raised with love and then live in love until the day we die in love.  But when we die, we do not disappear.  Since God is eternal, unchanging and the subject of love, then His object partner should have the same quality of eternal life.

The reason God created Adam and Eve was not to just look at them and watch them from afar or just speak to them.  He wanted a relationship where He could attain joy based on love.  God is an Absolute Being and needs another being in which to partake with love.

This partner is none other than human beings.  If we are His object partners, when we appear before God's perfected love as a perfected individual, He can then become the God of happiness and the God who found His ideal of joy.

Where does love come from?

It manifests from your partner. If your partner is ugly and you dislike him or her, you want to withdraw your love. And if the partner is beautiful and good, the dynamics of love are set off that much quicker.

In other words, the workings of love are determined by the qualities of those in partnership, such as their words, beauty, fragrance, and flavor.

God had only one dream He wished to fulfill and that was to realize the ideal of true love.  God could not make this dream happen on His own.  Love, happiness or joy cannot be achieved by one entity alone.  They will never be substantiated without a partnership. 

So, where does love originate?

Even for God, love does not come from self but from our partner.  This principle gives value to our partner such that we should bow and live for that person who is our partner in love.

This is why the law of nature instructs us to, "Live for the sake of others".  This means that we should live for and revere our partner since this precious and valuable element we receive only comes when we practice the philosophy of living for the sake of of our partner and others.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon explains more on this philosophy of living for others:

"It is not without meaning that I am vibrant and active in many fields; I do so because I have a purpose. That purpose is none other than to realize the world of love.

Human beings exist with the aim of realizing and attaining love. Since the purpose of human life lies in the realization of true love, the value of human existence is also decided by this true love. How wonderful this is!"SMM

You might wonder how a perfect God could have any relation with human beings who are imperfect.
This is why He sent the Messiah as a mediator who carried His blood lineage, but this was not part of creation He planned from the beginning of an ideal world of love.

Everyone wishes for an ideal partner who has even thousands of times the value or infinite value more than we possess.

In the same way, God wishes for human beings who are His partner in love, to have infinite value.  A person who is perfected achieves a divine nature and becomes flawless just as Heavenly Father is and thus they attain the same value as the Father.  This is the quality the Messiah possessed after perfection.

Some people mistaken that Adam and Eve were born perfect.  They had a growth period first they had to experience and then they could reach the perfection level by having faith in God's word and following His will.

We know that Adam and Eve were not born perfect for the simple fact that they fell.

A perfected being does not fall.  If it was possible for a being that had reached perfection to fall, then it would undercut the very principles of attaining oneness with God.

What is true love? It is a love that moves you to want to stay with your partner for a thousand years, and that makes you want to love that person forever. 

With such a love, there can be no hell and Satan cannot get at you. 

With a love this great, hell does not exist and Satan cannot reach you.  The principle states that a partner who has reached the level of becoming one through the eternal love of the Creator who is an eternal being, they must also be eternal and live forever.

Religion must begin to understand the relationship between eternal life and love.  Eternal life does not lie within man, woman or even God.  Eternal life is in the LOVE of God.

When you do not have a subject partner in love, you feel lonely, correct?

But as soon as you find a subject partner in love, everything feels full.  Only when something is filled to the top with love, then everything else can be filled up as well.

Then you can truly give out your love infinitely.  The reason why we exchange love with others is in order that we achieve an ideal and thus multiply that ideal through loving others.  The world of love transcends distance and time.

"Love is so fast that even light cannot follow it. Love is the fastest thing in the world. It is also the brightest and the most perfect. Love is the only thing that fills things up completely." 

Who is closer to the center: someone who is willing to sacrifice love to sustain life, or someone who is willing to sacrifice life for the sake of love? 

Who is closer to the truth? 

The person who can sacrifice their life in order to attain love is closer to the center and closer to what is true.  This is the type of life the Messiah lived.  This is because anyone who is willing to sacrifice love to further their life is living self-centered, this is not God or other-centered.  Whereas the one that is willing to sacrifice life for love is practicing the philosophy of living for the sake of others.

Reverend Moon continues his speech about loving others:

"As I wandered through the five oceans and the six continents, I preached earnestly about the path of love. I have sought to shine the light of love on all people, who, living without love, are like a desert. 

If the path people are ultimately to follow will lead them to that other world of love, the most important thing for humanity must be the "love beacon".  Only that beacon of love can lead humanity to the original homeland.

Once you become one with God, circular motion manifests in all kinds of forms and figures. That is why the older sibling must love the younger, following the example of their parents in loving them. In such a family that is united into loving oneness, the love within the family blossoms.

Then that love becomes the love within a society, and then the love within a nation. In this way, it later becomes the love of the whole world."

God was lost in the rapture of love when He created man to live forever.  This is why aging is not the enemy.  We are born from love, live with love and finally we are harvested as the fruits of love when we pass away.

We live our lives receiving love of our parents, our children and after experiencing love as a couple we love our children as their parents.

Therefore the love of God and everything we have sown in the inner world of love is to be brought to fruition over the course of our lives. When we pass on to the next world we reap the fruits of the earthly lives we lived and take them with us. 

On the foundation of love, God maintains life.  

His power, omnipotence and omniscience is based on true love.  Only on this basis of true love can He stand as the ideal subject partner to humanity.  This subject partner who can transcend history and time.

If God held the subject position using only the power of life, then all things of creation would not be able to unite.  Even the microscopic animals and plants or your house cat wish for a master of love to tend them and take care of them.  They like to feel the touch of loving hands.

A subject partner should not demand, "I'm stronger than anyone else, so you have to do as I say!".  The root of life begins in love.  Only when love is involved is life set in motion.  The basis for God's continued existence is not life, but love.

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This text was rewritten and taken from the textbook: Cheon Seong Gyeong

Book Three - True Love
Chapter One - What Is True Love?