Value of Sexual Organs - More Than U Thought

Even though Communism was defeated officially through the falling of the Berlin Wall, it still exists and is followed wholeheartedly by multitudes of people through force.

The ideals that we find happiness and salvation through the materials we achieve was based upon, not any religion, but the ideology of Communism.

Communism had a mission to bring about world peace but through force and without God.  In fact, under the communistic regime, anyone who pronounces any sort of faith was murdered or persecuted.

We were able to see the trend of this ideology take over the Western world beginning in the 1980s.
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The 'me generation' was the first generation which alluded to the fact that the trend of materialism was taking over the ideals of spirituality and religion.

The Me generation was the label given to children raised during that era, who were no longer about humanity and their neighbors, but their own joy, suffering and accomplishments.  It was the first generation, raised by the idealist of the 60s, where America truly begin to see the slip in values.

What is the basis of individualism; where does it begin?

No one can claim anything as his own; God owns everything and bequeaths it to His children.

When a child grows up, through the love of his parents, 99.999 percent of his existence springs from the mother's bone, flesh and blood which combines with his father's .001 percent of the father's sperm.

When you break this down, you do not see any concept of "myself alone" in nature.

Nothing Was Created for its Own Sake

No one is born with the concept of "myself".

No matter how great any of us are, we cannot claim that we became great all by ourselves.  Bone, flesh and blood and the important parts of our body are all inherited from within our mother's womb.

Every essential element of our body is included in the egg and sperm.

There is no exception.  Therefore, there is no base or foundation for any self-centered individualism.

When you think of above, you automatically acknowledge below.  Will individualism be able to stand with the concept of above by itself?

There is not a concept of the individual by itself.  

This is not part of the creation which exists in pairs.

When we talk about right, it presupposes the existence of left.  In the relationship between front and back, front presupposes back.  The word man also cannot exist by itself - it presupposes woman.  This is not just the claim of any person, but is a universal fact.

Why did God create man?

Usually a man said that they would be perfectly fine if they live alone by themselves and they do not care why they were created.

Despite this fact, man was created for the sake of the woman.  Without women, there is no need for a man.  Actually, nothing in creation is made for its own sake.

Take our five senses for example.

Are our eyes created for looking at themselves?  In the same way, our nose, ears, mouth and hands were created for the sake of our partner - not for ourselves.

The force that can mobilize and focus the five senses is true love.

 Eyes, nose, ears, mouth and hands are the tools that were created for the sake of true love.

If people take things that do not belong to them without permission for their own use, we call them thieves.

Therefore, any person who uses his five sense and even his body just for his own sake alone is a thief.  This is because these were created for his wife and future descendants, not for his own sake.

What is the main difference between men and women?

Of course, their bodies and the sexual organs in particular.  Then who absolutely needs the male organ?

It exists for the sake of the woman.

One of the sexual organs is concave and the other is convex.  Why are we created in this way?

Because each of them exists for the sake of the other.

You did not know that the female organ absolutely belongs to man.

Who thinks of such a concept in the time of women's equality that says women and man should be equal in every aspect of life.  Women absolutely wants what is man's and vice versa.

Through each occupying each other's sexual organs, man and woman come to know love.

Only through the experience of these two becoming perfect in oneness, will they come to know the highest level of love and not the secular form of love of having different partners every night.

Everyone must acknowledge these facts as truth and not deny them.  Today's popular trend is to date as many people in a week or night as possible, but this is far from the ideal way and is the reason marriages have lost value.

An ideal couple comes into being in the place where the two achieve complete unity.  Absolute love exists in that very place.

God would come to dwell in such a place of unity where love is absolutely unchanging.

Man Owns Woman and Woman Owns Man

How does the subject and object, or yin and yang unite?

Would it be through kissing?

Love is abstract and not concrete.  Do you know what makes a man a man and a woman a woman?  It is none other than their sexual organs.

Who dislikes these organs?

Up until this point, you may have not known the virtue in valuing the sexual organs.  From now on we should cherish them.

What will the world be like in the future?

It will be a world that will not abuse their sexual organs, but will absolutely cherish them.  Will that world be good or bad; will it prosper or perish?

Which part did God invest the greatest creative effort when He was creating human beings?

If humanity was to be able to completely transcend into traditional fields of morality and religion while being absolutely in harmony with the sexual organs, earning welcoming praise from God, then what kind of world would that be?  Who owns the male and female organs?

The organs of the husband's sexual organ belongs to the wife; her sexual organs belongs to the husband.

Have you ever thought that a person's sexual organ is owned by the person of the opposite sex?

This is a simple truth that cannot be denied.  Even after thousands of years of progress, this truth will not change.  Typically, a man thinks that his sexual organs belongs to himself to do however he pleases.

One believes since they think their sexual organs belong to them that it does not hurt anyone else.  But to carelessly misuse this organ does harm not only to the future spouse, but eventually to the whole of society which degrades through such behavior.

A woman thinks her sexual organs belong to her.  This is why the world is perishing due to this individualistic thinking centered on one self and not God.

Everyone has mistaken the ownership of the sexual organs.

People have thought that love is absolute, eternal and dreamlike, but they were unable to grasp the true ownership of the sexual organs which lies with the opposite sex.

If humanity had known this simple fact, it would not have become the hell on earth as today.

Even thousands of PhD recipients and scholars have never thought of this point of the most important part of the human anatomy.

If you could ask your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, the original ancestors, even God who is the origin of the universe, they would all agree that the sexual organs belong to the spouse.

This is an iron-clad rule which will remain as an universal principle even after the universe has existed for billions of years.

The natural conclusion then is that when you stand before God, He will judge you as either righteous or unrighteous according to this law.  In fact, the Fall originated in the violation of this very law.

Adam and Eve, each thought that their sexual organs belonged to themselves to use as they please even before they were mature.

Because of their selfishness in not listening to God's warning, they were driven out and could not be acknowledged anywhere in the universe.

The sexual organs are reserved for the sake of one's partner of love.  Adam and Eve did not know this.

Why do the sexual organs exist?  They exist for love.  Thus the male and female exist in order to find the pure love of God.

All men and women must become humble when they receive their spouse's love.

Love comes to you through your partner.

There is no love that is separate than love for the sake of others.  We must remember, that we find absolute love wherever we absolutely live for the sake of the others.




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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook cehon Seong Gyeong book four, True Family, chapter Twelve Section 1,3

Even Evil People Wants to Possess Good

We must always remember that daily life is a continuous struggle. There are many kinds of struggles and therefore we have to determine what kind we are going through at any particular time. Many people struggle daily in order to make a living and receive a salary.

We all face all kinds of continuous struggle in our daily life.  There are many different kinds of struggles, therefore, we must determine what kind we are going through at any particular time.

Some people struggle to earn money, but some people are more worthy of receiving their salary than other because they do better work.  Therefore, those who do inferior work can be criticized.

Then there are those people who work just for themselves and do not receive a salary.  In this case, the quality of their work determines whether they will be a success or not.  According to the work one does, they are also subject to judgment or criticism.

There are some Americans who better the country and are liked and respected, and there are the citizens that do not contribute to the country in any way.  Within every group, this kind of difference can be found.

There are the people who are looked up to and we want to emulate and then there are the people who are not well respected.  Only the person himself can criticize himself because he knows himself better than anyone else.

Each person knows where his or her weaknesses lies and he knows how he needs to change.  Within an individual, every element knows whether it is being used for something good or something bad.  Your own eyes know if you are looking at good things or bad things.

Also, your ears can distinguish between good things and bad.

You may feel inspired when you hear these words because you recognize them as true.  Someone else might think that this is too general and is not inspired.

Would you want to be on the good side, exhibiting only good qualities or would you be content to remain on the bad side of everything?

Everyone, naturally, would want to experience the good qualities.

At the national level, some nations are criticized by the other nations because they damage the rest of the world.  Each nation can judge and criticize other nations.  We see that God must be evaluating the nations of the world according to how they are performing for the total benefit of the world.

God certainly desires goodness. 

If there is also an evil god in existence, he would also want something good.

We may think that an evil god would want evil things, but an evil being desires good things.  If the evil god was not able to get good things, he would go and plunder good things from others.

The good God just wants to stay with goodness.  He wants to have good things all the time and wants to cherish them eternally.  But the evil god would try to snatch the good things away from God the first chance he gets.

Isn't this true?  This is how the fall began with Lucifer wanting to possess the good Eve for himself taking her and humanity away from God.

In all levels of life there is struggle between good and evil. 

Do you think that you are a good person or a bad one?

Truthfully, you said you are only good in a half-hearted way, you must not have much confidence.  You are right to answer in that way, because if you completely good, you would not have to struggle or restore yourself back to your original position.

If you are already a completely good person, there would be no struggle with evil.

Where there is something good, both bad and good people want it.  What do you think is the best thing in the world?

You might say 'true love', but even before true love exists a person must exist first.  If many good people exist, then there would not be so much struggle in the pursuit of true love.  It would be found freely flowing everywhere.

The main question is, did human history start from an evil or good foundation?

Is it possible that man was good in nature but gradually became evil after he was born or it was the other way around?  Were we created to be evil and then to gradually struggle to be good?  Would a perfected, good god create such a contradictory being?

This does not make sense.  If people were born to be evil, then we could never have the possibility to to improve ourselves or root it out because it would be forever part of our being.

Is there a possibility that you can become completely good, almost perfected?  Then we can say confidently that we were not born in a hopelessly bad condition.  We know for a fact we were born relatively good, but not perfected.

Even though one is born with a good nature, if he is surrounded by a bad situation, he will struggle hard to come back to his good state.  This is logical.

Therefore, we can conclude that man's original nature was created good, but something happened after he was born.  The Principle explains that human beings were created for goodness, but were corrupted and fell into a bad situation.

What is the element that influenced humans to become evil and have to struggle to go toward goodness?  Many would say 'self-centeredness'.

What is that exactly?  It is placing yourself ahead of God and everybody else.

When this first occurred, people began the path of false self-centered love.  We can surely see that self-centeredness and false love put human beings on the wrong path in history.

When mankind fell, it was as if he received injections: one was self-centeredness and the other was false love.

These evil elements began to circulate in the human body.  Have you been able to cleanse from this fallen blood?  No.  In fact, evil renews itself with each new individual.

If you were to get food poisoning, you then a need an antidote.  Therefore, because we were poisoned by self-centeredness and false love, we need an antidote to cure it.

What do you think that would be?  We easily say 'true love'.  But where do you find it?

Let's examine ourselves.

Have you been able to cleanse this evil blood from your system or is it still circulating within you?

You know it is still there and you can feel it easily.  Where are you going to eliminate this poison?  Do you just do nothing and think that it will go away automatically through time?

This is what many people of faith believe to be true.  The belief is that by simply believing in the Messiah and sitting in pews and being nice to people that their fallen blood is somehow cleansed.

Jesus died for our sins, but how do we explain that we are still born into sin and no matter how devout we are, we still bear children with the fallen blood lineage?

There are different stages of awareness.  There are some people who don't even know they are doing evil.  There are others who know when they are doing bad things and want to become good and struggle to do so.

Those who want to become very, very good must go through tremendous struggles.

To whom does love rightfully belong?

Love itself is a common possession.  True love is owned by everyone at the same time, but there should be a master or subject of love.  Who would that be?

God is the master of love.

To fulfill the purpose of love, there must be a man and woman who practice and appreciates true love.

The first two people who come into contact with love for the first time would think that they would like to have that.  There is nothing bad about that.  This is very natural.

People were born to appreciate good things.

What then is the difference between a good person and a bad person?

Both good people and bad want good things.

Everyone was meant to experience love at the proper time.  We see that love belongs to everybody.  But there is a proper order to achieving everything.  First things come first, second things come second and so forth.

The order of love was God was to receive it first, then man and woman were to have it, then it was to pass love to the angels.  This is the correct order for true love.  Any other order is false love.

Thus it is the orderliness, the right order, that made the difference in love.

When man did not abide by the right order, false love came into being and then the distinction between true love and false love came into existence.

Let's look at a family of brothers and sisters for an example.  Each are born in a certain order, one after the other.  There is the first child, a second child, a third and so forth.  Even if there is only a difference of a year in their ages there still is an order.

If it became necessary, the first-born child could take responsibility for the second-born.  The second could do the same for the third and so forth.

Suppose the elder brother said to the younger one, "Do this," and he replies, "OK, but I must do something else first." That would be the proper way for him to reply, rather than to shout, "No, I Won't do it," without giving any ounce of obedience or explanation.

Violating the rules of conduct in regard to order is wrong. 

In America, this concept is strange.  They may wonder why the elder brother has more authority than the younger one.

But when you observe more closely, even in America, it is natural to give difference to an elder.  Let's suppose there are five brothers lined up in order of age.  The eldest is first, the next one is second and so forth.

In America, would they line up at random?

What about the parents; would the parents go in line in front of the children?  No.  The parents would go first and then the children.  So, even in America, that would seem logical.

When the parents give direction to the children, they are expected to obey.

Unlike what we see in American homes today, the child shouldn't say that they don't have to listen to their parents.

This is not acceptable.

Even if the parents were to give a wrong direction, the child should say, "But if I do it now, it would create a bad situation.  Could you please reconsider?"

Then a good mother or father would think about it and answer, "I guess you are right, so you don't have to do that."  Through this mutual respect and understanding, the parent and child can come to resolve any differences properly.

In any situation, parents should not stubbornly cling to their 'authority' and demand the child do what they have to say.  If a parent did that, then any child would rightly be forced to rebel against the parent's unreasonableness.  Then the parent would have to yield to the children if the children are in the right.

When parents ask their son to do something That he is sure will turn out badly, then he should not be demanded to blindly follow their instructions.  He should explain his thoughts to his mother or father  so that the correct course of action will bring forth good results.

You may wonder how this relates to human history and mankind's problems and think this may seem too simple of analysis of the problems experienced between children and parents.

This actually describes the basic element of human history from the beginning point of mankind's problems and the solution.




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This post was rewritten from the speech The Victorious Person and the Defeated Person

The Power of Prayer

Through prayer you can receive visions into the future and guide yourself accordingly. You will know what kind of difficulty is coming and how to divert it and overcome. If you know how to steer yourself, then you can do big things, and prayer alone can pioneer such a path.


Reverend Sun Myung Moon


Prayer is more important than eating.


I go out to nature because it gives me a better environment for prayer, and I love nature for that reason. I love the quiet of midnight. I don't say much about the visions I receive, but if you receive them then don't you think I do, too? That kind of new world can only be reached through prayer. In that position, you can taste love. 

This world is desert-like, but the world created through prayer has a climate where love can thrive.

You must learn to generate your own power.  You should not expect to be pushed and pulled out to your mission.  Be self-propelling.

In order to have this, you must have prayer as your daily diet of life.

Even if people do not recognize your efforts, you must do your duty enthusiastically because you have a covenant with God.  With this determination, day and night you move on without pause.  This is a living testimony.

Each year, this topic of prayer changes in Father's speeches, which shows that we are progressing into a new era.  Through having a prayerful mind, Father knows precisely God's timetable.  This kind of preparation is needed for self-perfection, and you must learn it through the power of prayer.

Do you prayer for His kingdom and righteousness?

Pray that this country can become the center of God's righteousness.  Many fervent patriots have come through this nation, but you must be able to pray with more fervor than any of them.  If you have the determination to care for this country more than God, then this country will prosper, otherwise it will crumble.

You are being led where God desires for you to be.  Obstacles do not matter, the important thing is not in getting there, but getting there in the shortest possible time.  If we are able to go quickly, then there is less danger.  If the process is stretched, there are many opportunities for disaster that we must not allow.

This is, therefore, a critical moment for you and God.  The ability to witness the Completed Testament to 360 homes, or home church, to spread this new truth is a gift to mankind.'  This has never existed in history and will not again in the future.

This is a transitional period; we are entering into a new era, a new plateau and history of faith. 

When you take this gift as your own, you are definitely becoming a true son and daughter of God.

This gift has been freely given to you and is an incredible opportunity.

Your home church area should be the subject of your prayer. 

You should pray for the people in your area with a parental heart, just as your own children who are struggling in hell.

As a parent, your heart should grieve and desire to save them.  If you have not reached this level where you feel you are in a dire emergency, you must open your heart to parental feelings of love toward your people.    If you do not have real love for the people you witness, just push yourself until you do.

No one really has to teach a parent to love his own children.

If you are able to feel that you are a parent to people in your home church, then your love will be the same and no one will have to teach you.

Elementary school takes six years to complete, how much more important is this home church?  You should give your heart and soul for your home church area because this is the best teaching you can receive.

The entire universe is represented in your area.  When you work hard serving and witnessing your home church, God will treat your efforts there as though you had given them for the entire universe.   By serving your area for three years, is the same as serving the universe.  You may be able to do so in six months time.

Home church should be your priority.

You can test this power of prayer: take one person and pray for them fervently, constantly, but do not tell them you are doing so.

When you pray tearfully for this person, they will feel a magnetic attraction to you.

Such phenomenon happen once you adapt this prayerful life.  You may receive a revelation in your prayer that you will meet such and such a person when you go to a certain place.

The power of hypnosis can place someone in a trance like state, but how much more powerful would prayer change lives?  You can mobilize the entire spirit world through your prayer.

There is no limit to the power of prayer.

When you have the right attitude in prayer then miracle after miracle will happen.

The foundation is the most important part of a launch pad. Your prayer is like a missile firing.  When it is time for take off, it should not break under the intense heat and pressure.  When you pray, you must not pray for greed for yourself.

A selfish prayer will be harmful to you.  Public prayer will cleanse you and elevate you higher and higher.

When you live in this high sensitivity to the spirit world, you are able to sense what is about to come.  Your perception will be keen and it will help you prepare for the future.

You are really two people in one.  Your inner man is like a mirror, clean and bright. When the inner and the outer man does not synchronize into oneness, you will feel pain and anguish.  When the two
are perfectly aligned, you then feel joy and power.

Everyday, this inner battle is within you.  Your inner man can tell you about a person like a sixth sense and how truthful they are.

Everyone should experience these spiritual things.

Do not neglect this inner man.  Just like you need to feed and nourish your physical body, you also need to nourish your spiritual body.  When you are working at a higher spiritual level, you are always speaking with this inner man.

Don't pray empty prayers.

A person like this will pray for the nation and the world before they pray for their own family.  God would concern Himself with this person's well-being because he would be concerned with God's well being.


If I only paid attention to my family instead of to the world and God, my family would get sick. I don't concern myself with my family's well-being; I concern myself with the Church and God's work and I know God will take care of them in the meantime. This is the principle of give and take. 

Those who want to do more for others will receive more.

The Principle states that those who want to go down will be lifted up and vice versa.  Now you fully understand the power of prayer.

You should know beforehand, whether the things you do will succeed or fail.

You will be able to feel a pull in the direction of things that will lead to your success and you will be eager to go ahead.

Think of your body as a receiver of the radio.

You should be able to free yourself from thinking that is only centered on you.  Once you are able to free your mind, then it becomes like an open valve.  You have the right to ask for God's power, but only if it is for the sake of righteousness and His Kingdom on earth.  Then God will come down.

Pray then act.

Once you are able to have this attitude toward prayer and live this prayerful life, you will feel different from yesterday and you will know when the power of prayer is in action.

Today is only the beginning.  You can pray and report to God that you are just beginning to live in this daily prayerful life and that you need His help to continue to do so as a frontline soldier.

Make this kind of showdown prayer with God everyday.  This way of praying should become second nature and not forced along the way as a daily habit.

You can then live this way all the time without even being conscious of it.  Let's do it then; take action.

Let us pray.



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

Principles of True Love

Welcome to a new week, and the last week of posts for the year of 2012, the Chinese symbol of the Dragon. Let's get started!  Does anyone think that love has rules or principles that are absolute?

True love happens in relationship with others. Even God required an “other” to fulfill His love. He created human beings as love partners, to whom to share the glory of His creation. He needed an object—someone to share with. He needed a relationship in order to experience love fully.

True Love Is Principled
 

Modern cultural notions have it that love is a spontaneous feeling in one person’s heart toward another. Yet, in fact, ethics weighs prominently that in successful and loving relationships. Examination reveals that ethics and morals enable true love.

Love based on feelings alone can be dangerous.

A man may feel he has fallen in love with another woman and desert his wife and children for her, leaving emotional devastation in his wake. A teacher may feel aromantic attraction toward a young student and wind up psychologically damaging the student for life with sexual approaches.

Psychologist M. Scott Peck points out, “Many, many people possessing a feeling of love and even acting in response to that feeling act in all manner of unloving and destructive ways."

In order to benefit the other, true love adheres to ethical principles.

Based upon principles, a truly loving person will behave benevolently toward a person he or she does not feel benevolent toward in the moment. To be kind to a spouse even when the spouse is being surly means a person believes in kindness, even when the other is not evoking it. It means a person believes in preserving and protecting marriage itself. To help the homeless man on the street means a person believes in treating one’s fellow human beings with compassion, even when that fellow human being is disreputable. To love those who have done a person harm means belief in the ultimate redemption of all, including the reprobate.

 

Ethics Enable a Life of True Love
 

Principles help stiffen the will to love the unlovable. They provide the impetus to enact the prodding of the conscience, which tells a person to act caringly even at his or her own expense. Mother Teresa could not have overcome her natural revulsion at the sights and smells of the diseased and dying in Calcutta had she not believed that the image of Christ was alive in each person. When she saw filthy people being gnawed on by rats in the gutters, it did not cause her to turn away, leaving them to the trash pile. Instead, she saw them as Jesus in a “distressing disguise” and asserted their eternal value as children of God. Adherence to a strong belief system enables a life of true love.

The necessity for ethical principles in love may be noted in the visceral reactions people have to violations of right and wrong in their relationships. For instance, learning that a spouse has been unfaithful is always an occasion for great anguish and pain. Marital love is bound up with expectations of loyalty, and these expectations are not just culturally conditioned. The emotional pain—the rage and hurt—that adultery causes is testimony enough to the deep affective content of the principle of fidelity in married love.

 

All other forms of love depend upon principles, too. You may have sensed these principles even in relationship with your friends.  In the love between friends, ethical violations are felt keenly as personal betrayals. The friend who lies, the friend who talks behind one’s back, the friend who passes one over in favor of another,the friend who is always willing to let the other pay the check - all of these kinds of ethical shortcomings cause friendships to flounder.

Ethical expectations accompany every human interaction and relationship—even fleeting ones. A person expects the clerk in the store to be polite and helpful. A driver expects fellow motorists to drive in a safety-conscious way in order to prevent injuries. Passengers on buses expect other passengers to make a minimum of noise, to say “Excuse me” when brushing past, and to move their things out of the way when the seat is needed.

The other-centeredness of these ethical expectations is clearly discernible. In fact, all virtues may be seen to be other-centered in perspective; all vices may be seen to be self-centered. It may be said, therefore, that “living for the sake of others” is the most all-embracing and all-encompassing moral principle.

 

True Love Is Serving and Sacrificial

True love is active. It involves enacting through willpower the promptings of beliefs and principles. Author and Christian philosopher C. S. Lewis noted that the more one feels without acting, eventually the less one is able to feel. This echoes the Book of James:

 

If anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his own face in a mirror, he sees himself, then goes off and promptly forgets what he looked like.

 

But the one who peers into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres, and is not a hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, such a one shall be blessedin what he does.

Many faith and ethical traditions emphasize service and self-sacrifice.   The great disciplines require fasting, prayer vigils, caring for the poor, the sick, the imprisoned, working to bring others into the light of truth, lengthy periods of silence and contemplation, and the giving up of worldly goods and pleasures in order to direct the mind toward God and others. It is as if in order for love to come down from Heaven, service and sacrifice must create a vacuum on earth.
 

Sacrifice in service to others creates a pocket in the usual maelstrom of selfishness—an empty space where God may dwell. As Reverend Moon has said, “God is creator and the originator of the two basic principles of service and sacrifice,” and when those principles are put into effect, God’s true love moves in.

The touching story of Shay shows how sacrifice and service to others creates an open place for heavenly love to come down to earth. Shay was a young, learning-disabled boy. He and his father were walking past a park where some boys were playing baseball.

Shay wanted to play, and his father reluctantly approached one of the boys on the field. The boy said, “Well, we’re losing by six runs, and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team.”

Oddly enough, Shay’s team started to score until they had a chance to win the game. But Shay was up next. Knowing it meant they would lose, Shay’s team still gave him the bat. He didn’t even know how to hold it. Thoughtfully, the opposing pitcher moved forward to throw Shay easy soft pitches. When Shay managed to hit a grounder, the pitcher instead of throwing it to the first baseman, lobbed it in a high arc out into right field. Everyone started yelling,

“Shay, run to first!” Startled, eyes wide, Shay ran to first and past it.

The right fielder then deliberately threw the ball way over the second baseman’s head, and once again, everyone shouted for Shay to run to the next base. The shortstop from the other team even turned him in the right direction. Another wild throw over the third baseman’s head had boys from both teams shouting, “Run home, Shay!” Shay ran home and was cheered by all as the hero who had hit the winning home run.

“That day,” the father said, with tears rolling down his face, “The boys from both teams helped bring a piece of the Divine Plan into this world.” They did so by their willingness to sacrifice their own interests for the sake of a little boy who needed a win more than they did, and who would always remembers the day other created a special space for him to belong.

It is hard to give things up that are in a person’s own self-interest.  Yet when a person does so to serve others, a window seems to open in the heart. It is a window through which the warm sunlight, gentle breezes, and the pure oxygen of the love of God may be seen and felt. For a moment, heaven comes to earth, and the whole world breathes a little easier.


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Today's text was taken from Textbook: Educating for True Love, Explaining Rev. Moon's Thought on Morality, Family, and Society.

Homosexuality Root: Incest, Free Sex

We summarized in yesterday's post that the reason why religion views two men and two women as not a valid couple in front of God is because it doesn't have qualities of God's purpose for creating humanity. God endowed humans with the gift to inherit the three blessings: to be a True Olive tree like Jesus that bears good fruit; multiply with a True family not multiplying evil through children as we do now; and be co-creators with God in the creation.  No one has done that, and all marriages are conditional in front of God because we all are born with sin and can not have a True Marriage because we are not True Man or Women.  We even connect to God through a Messiah who is a True Man.

There are billions of people and billions more that have existed, and not one of them comes from the result of two men's bodies becoming a union or two women's bodies coming into union.  Furthermore, if this is the case, what is the purpose of people of the same sex having sexual relations in the first place if it does not result in the higher purpose God intended?  Is this union for the higher purpose of multiplying God's children or for selfish purposes?

Having established this, when the religious want to speak about homosexuality and lesbianism as wrong, their point is IGNORANT unless they make sure they do not leave out the fact that all relations outside the sight of God is a sin.  In fact the fall multiplies evil through the acts being inherited through the production of children, where homosexual acts do not produce children, and this sin can be eradicated through one generation, where other sins are perpetuated and passed on to each generation thereafter.

There are two methods to receive homosexuality.

All people receive odd and bad merit from their ancestors. Our ancestors have little choice whether or not merit is transferred to their descendants. When a person with a homosexual history dies, someone within seven generations of descendants will receive that desire and will either overcome the temptation or, if not, add more strength to the temptation.

The other method is when a person doesn't necessarily have any homosexuality in the ancestry, but becomes involved in it. Then it is something like a contagious disease, influencing the spirit world. It is this "spirit world" that makes it common for people with the homosexual orientation to recognize each other almost instantly. In some cases where people are fighting homosexual tendencies, the spiritual influence becomes more intense because of Satan's work through the spirit world.


Angels and Homosexuality

The angels did not have homosexual relationships originally, but since Lucifer and one third of the angelic realm fell under him, the result of the fall was the multiplication of evil and all kinds of perversions of the ideal. Fallen nature became so uncontrollable that it tried to multiply itself in every direction: incest, sex with animals, homosexuality, etc.

Do not make love in a manner shameful to God, humankind, or this earth. Until now, those groups advocating free sex who call themselves hippies or yippies all have such past experiences and have done everything imaginable, but was that for the self? Is that what love is? We must know that this is what destroys humanity, disgraces God's name and spits the blood of love on planet Earth. That is the same as spreading the original blood of human beings on the earth.

Since Satan knows that, in the Last Days, God will form His kingdom on earth, bring humankind to order, and cause them to enter His kingdom in heaven, the devil insists on behavior that is opposed to God. As a representative example, he completely crushed the one and only first love through free sex. First love was meant to be eternal, yet he turned it into a love between mutts and bitches. Heaven and earth became a world of such worthless love. This is the story of the human lifespan of seventy years.


Origin of Homosexuality

The fallen angel was not created by God as a fallen angel. Lucifer was created good (see Ezekiel 28:12-19). Lucifer originally had a status and a position of goodness. In that position he was to fulfill a role to guide or protect Adam and Eve in their growth to perfection (he is referred to as a covering cherub in Ezekiel 28:12-19). When the angel fell and tempted Eve, he was in fact also falling away from his God-ordained role, not unlike when a preacher called by and inspired by God, turns from that calling and misuses his position to further his own self-centered purpose.


Process to Bring Ruin
 
American youth have no ties to the world, their country, family or parents. Based on free sex, they accept homosexuals and lesbians, and deny masculinity and femininity. If this continues, humanity will all disappear within a century. How unspeakably pained must God's heart be as He looks upon this miserable state of humanity caught in the devil's spell! (208-265, 1990.11.20)

We must know that the hippie movement and the current problems of immorality and drugs are things that have all appeared as one aspect of the global communist strategy. Things such as free sex and the homosexual-lesbian movement are one form of behavior that destroys human rights and dignity. Viewed thus, the current destruction of the family, society and church has already reached its zenith, reaching a stage at which no individual, no theologian nor any state power can prevail against it. (128-33, 1983.6.1)

                      Timothy Kurek, straight Christian pretends to be gay for one year

I know America well. Americans talk about sexual freedom, this and that, have one-night stands and then say good-bye. Everything is based on individualism and self-vindication, and they don't like it if the self is not at the center. Greetings are diplomatic; they may look you in the eye, but the mind may be elsewhere. Emotions and lifestyle are based on expediency.

What kind of weapons did Satan use? He used an airborne weapon: that is smoking. Next, the liquid weapon is liquor; and then the solid weapon is drugs. Through these means, everything including your spirit is made to rot. He makes everything rot -- your body and spirit, and everything from the nostrils to the lungs. So those of faith who want to rid themselves of Satanic influence do not drink liquor or smoke cigarettes. These are the weapons Satan uses to destroy human beings.

These three things, which are elements that prevent one's spirit from communicating with God, are the enemy's best weapons. What comes next? Free sex that destroys the order of love. All these things the Lord of the Second Advent must put in good order single-handedly.

Free sex, homosexuality and lesbianism -- these things should not exist. In the Last Days, things that did not obviously exist in history have come to appear in the world in broad daylight. Things that could not possibly exist in this universe have come to appear openly. The order of love is now completely destroyed. We must know that is why America has now become the bottom of hell. The order of love is totally destroyed, and through using drugs, the physiological order of man and woman is totally destroyed. What that means is that young people will be ruined. Moral principles and order will be destroyed.


Immorality in America

The problems of the world today are serious. If you go to a place like America, you will see many gays among whom men are marrying each other and women are doing the same. Really, where can we find such laws? Physiologically, they are not made to be that way. After one generation their lineage will die out. Everything will be gone. Heavenly fortune will drive them out, and it is not as if their hearts will be happy. They will accept suffering as such, and more complicated problems will arise. Thus, subject and object partners will always coexist in a living environment. You must know this as you lead your life in society.

Free sex is indeed the wicked trend that we must completely eradicate from this planet. The elements that are related to free sex such as drugs, violence, homosexuality, and AIDS are driving humanity toward destruction.

Today, those that are gay appear and deny their parents; husbands do everything imaginable and wives likewise.

As true love is most precious, violating it is a universal crime. Immorality, juvenile promiscuity, family breakdown, incest, homosexuality, indescribable sex crimes, and so on are the reality of today. These cause God grief. The ideal of creation lies in the fulfillment of the family ideal which is based on sublime and eternal love, but why did it result in today's miserable way? We can say that in the Last Days the result of the Fall of the first ancestors is bearing fruit in displays of decadence, just like the seeds that were sown.

Americans do not understand that there is no foundation of true love in their nation. Ultimately, things will go to ruin because of false love. Couples, siblings and parent-child relations break up. Incest spreads and sweeps people into hell, destroying everything. Having come completely to the zero point, American society must be built anew.

Chicago and Los Angeles are the same as New York. All of America's big cities are the same. Satan thinks that if he can totally ruin the family, which is central to Christianity, by corrupting sexual morals through sexual liberation, then the foundation that has been established globally until now will collapse. So he injects everyone with free sex, and in that way people all become little satans.

If we ask whether Adam and Eve gave birth to sons and daughters before or after the Fall, nobody would say they gave birth before the Fall. Who took responsibility for their marriage for the sake of those sons and daughters? God cannot take responsibility for people whom He drove out. There is no doubt the marriage was conducted by Satan the devil.

Thus, Satan occupied the place, where God would have entered Adam's mind and where Adam and Eve would have fulfilled conjugally, and planted his fallen lineage there. Didn't they conceal their sexual parts after the Fall? If they had "eaten" with their mouths, they would have concealed their mouths and hands, but they did not do so. Those sexual parts became the basis of lineal resentment. Even the phrase "he ate her" has the same sexual meaning as it did in the Garden. Does this shock you?


Restoration of Adam and Eve

The two tablets inside the Ark of the Covenant refer to Adam and Eve -- they symbolize them. The most holy place refers to the sexual parts, which are inviolable. Didn't those who tried to touch it perish? The most holy place is that very place. Next came Aaron's staff with sprouts!

What is the staff?

It refers to eternal life. As new buds sprout from a dead staff, it means one will never die. Centering on what? Original love. You would die without love. Thus, new buds sprouted forth from Aaron's staff. Since there was such significance, it was laid and attended to in the sanctuary. The tabernacle symbolized God's body. The body is the sanctuary and the most holy place refers to the sexual organs.

Restoration of Sexual Organs

You must guard your sexual organs. We must launch a movement to guard the original organs. God created organs of pure love. You all must protect them. They are absolute organs. They are absolutely unidirectional. You must eternally follow the way of love connected to that absolute one direction. They are the organs God originally desired. People must know that they are the palaces of love, life, lineage, and conscience, where four palaces have gathered in one place. They are the most holy place. You must preserve their purity eternally.

The question is: how do we bequeath a tradition of absolute purity?

The people of Israel used to stone the offenders to death if this was defiled, but not today. It is more frightening than that. We cannot think even in our dreams of falling again before the heart of God who had to expel His only son and only daughter, Adam and Eve. Thus, the boundary must be declared. Those who are left behind on the day when that is declared are all the evil firstborn among all the firstborn left behind on Satan's side.

Where is the center of the universe?

It is in the family. Where is the base in which true love can settle? It is the family that you are living in. Therefore, the original family holds sway over universal love, experiencing the aspects of universal protection and expanding the realm of universal love; it must transcend itself to go the way of patriots loving their nation and then proceed to transcend the race and the nation by loving the world. Those who truly love their families are called devoted sons and daughters, and if those who love their nation devotedly are called patriots, then what are people who love humanity sacrificially called? They can only be called saints.

Had Adam and Eve not fallen, they would have established an ideal family and tribe, and their descendants would have formed a race and nation within the realm of God's direct love without the need of a Messiah, and these would have expanded and accomplished an ideal world in which Adam's ideals would also be realized. Just as the root, trunk, and leaves of a tree are connected as one living body, human beings centering on love, attending God as their Father above, and attending each other as siblings below, making them into one living body, turn themselves into beings of love and establish an eternal and ideal God-centered world. This was indeed the worldview of God's will.

People living in such a world do not require salvation or the Messiah because they are God's good sons and daughters.

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The information above came from a compilation of speeches from the Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Eleven Chapter 3  "The Results of the Fall" religious textbook from Rev. Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church Spiritual Medium Dae Mo Nim of Question and Answers about homosexuality.