Meet God at Time of Worship

Why do we faithfully follow the Sabbath?

Sabbath is a Saturday to some and Sunday for other people of faith.  But why do we follow the sacred bonds set thousands of years ago?

We observe the Sabbath to bring about salvation to humankind and to find thenation of God's desire.

Christianity observed the Sabbath to elevate itself and focus its efforts on magnifying the goal of salvation.

We observe the Sabbath to promote the path to our salvation.

Furthermore, it is to increase the importance of the goal for the world to be saved.  This is God's desire.


When we worship, this is where we offer God our time.  You should atone for your past before God.  This time is a time without freedom.

 

 

 

 

The time for worship blocks the advancement of all of Satan's authority.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is a time where we promis Heavenly Father that we will return the glory of victory to Him.

 

This is a place that is more serious than when we meet our enemy in battle.  When we come early for church service, that value cannot be exchanged or bought with any amount of gold.  Therefore, to come late to service is stealing from God.

 

By being on time for service, you can stand before God with dignity.

 

You come closer to heaven with a heart better than that of yesterday.

 

If you come to church late, even when you pray, you will just sit there wondering what Father will talk about?

 

When you are seeking God, can you attend church without wearing holy robes? I'm not talking about external robes. I'm talking about the holy robes of your heart.

 

If inspiration wells up within your heart during the sermon or hymns, Heaven will work with you. 

 

When Adam and Eve were expelled from Heaven, they shed tears.  Therefore, you should shed tears of joy in such a way that you can meet God with a huge smile.

 

Those who have not shed tears of God's sorrow first cannot shed tears of joy.

 

You should prepare three days before worship service with an eager heart.

 

Enter the gates of the church while passionately praying for the happiness of all the people that will gather there so that they can connect to the authority of resurrection and life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You should attend service with a heart that is full of emotion for God.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even if you do this, it will not be enough.

 

Be more brazen than a traveling salesmen. For Sunday service, you should purify yourself by bathing, offering a deep bow before God and visit holy ground to pray.

 

Even if people do not show up to service, you must lay the foundation of heart that enables God to look kindly at your village and work with you.

 

You will never be lonely when you pray alone with tears in front of God; God is with you, therefore, you will never be lonely.

 

If there is no one that is restored to their Godly position from that village after you have totally devoted yourself for more than three years, that place will go to ruin.

 

 You should have invested your invisible heart and devoted for two day before coming to service.  Do not come to service thoughtlessly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The more you offer yor devotion, the more you will shine.

 

For this reason, the greater your heart is, the more Heaven will protect and shield you.

 

If a wife thinks about her husband all day with her invisible mind and smiles with her invisible face, a light of glory will shine through.

 

Such a shining, smiling face will have such a captivative power that will draw her husband near.

 

In the future, messages will be reports instead of sermons.  Families will report about the things that have made them proud.  Then the entire family will offer worship.

 

The less successful families can follow and be guided by these families.

 

In this way, the Family Kingdom of Heaven will be built. This is the way to world peace.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If we do not build the Kingdom of Heaven within the family, the Kingdom of Heaven on earth cannot exist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First, be meticulous in your church life.

 

Be a good example by strictly attending service at the official hours for worship - be strict in keeping your promise to God.

 

Is it possible for someone who does not keep their promise to receive grace?  A person who is blessed who did not keep their covenant with God will eventually fall away from their godly path.

 

Set a good example by attending Sunday service and the official church gatherings.

 

Husbands and wives should come together with a loving heart so that their children will follow them because they envy their parents' devotion.

 

Come to church early and prepare for Sunday service.

 

 

 

 

Church service is a time for battling Satan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How can you sleep during such a showdown?

 

If you see such a person, you should shake him awake.

 

It is love to strike him on the side just like Jesus said, "Get behind me, Satan!"

 

 

 

 

"I will not allow anyone to sleep during service.  I should lock the doors after service begins. I do not want to gather and talk to people who come late. I gather people here and talk for two or three hours in order to raise them up to a certain standard. Only then can I maintain the standard of heart that I set while praying with determination before God."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is it right for people who offer devotion to be late for service?  Such people should be ashamed so that they cannot show their faces and feel that they are the greatest sinners.

 

Such people should pledge to be on time and offer even greater devotion than others.

 

How can anyone pray, "Oh! Heaven most high!" if they do not even get to church on time!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your devotion is not for others to observe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you are offering devotion at church, then come to church on foot instead of car.

 

Do not just go to church and pray.  This is how you offer devotion: it is better to pray before coming and then come here to pray even more earnestly.

 

God does not randomly just visit anyone, therefore, you should at least absolutely be on time.

 

Heaven relates to those who earnestly yearn for God.

 

Time is of the utmost importance more than anything else when you come before God.  If you cannot be on time, you will fail.  Then, if you fail to connect at the right time, you will perish.

 

God demands a sanctified environment as well and the utmost pure heart.

 

But if you are not even on time, you will have to sit in the back and sing praises.  God does not want such praise.  You should keep the official time for services; then you will surely propser.

 

 

Return for Tomorrow's Post: What is the Purpose of Your Life? Cheon Seong Gyeong – Sun Myung Moon

Book Seven - Etiquette And Ceremonies
Chapter Three - Worship Service and Etiquette in Church Life
Section 2

Victory for True Love

Love. How do you define love?  Doesn't everyone have their own idea of what true love is?  Even all the movies and story books have their own version of what is a fairy tale romance.

Is love like a commander who calls others to come to his side while he just stand there and give directions?

Love is the positive power to influence other people without your having to say anything to them

Any influential movement or new ideology does not motivate people with position, power or knowledge.  It may make people interested in the beginning, but there is some other power there that motivates them.

Our motto in the Unification movement is "To have Father's heart, go forth in a servant's shoes, and to shed tears for all mankind, blood for Heaven, and sweat for Earth".

What does that really mean?

This is the place where others sacrifice themselves for the sake of other people and erect the world of God's will.  The will is to build the Heavenly Kingdom on Earth as citizens to spread Heaven's blessings to others.

"To sacrifice yourself" can be explained in three key points:

You must work more than anyone else.  When you eat and wear clothes, you must use humbler things than others.  And when it comes to shelter, you must live in a more humble place than anyone else.  When you behave in this way, no one will complain against you.

You will then be able to have a heart-to-heart in oneness with others as they come to you.  Other people around you will see that you live in such a low place and will want you to live in a better place, wear better clothes and have better things.

"In our movement, many races and many nationalities are being melted together into strong oneness. If we are successful in this it means that we are going to be successful in making the world like that. The boundary point of our success or victory is the church.


If you have created oneness between your mind and body on the individual level, and husband and wife have unity on the family level, and then we make unity on the church level, and societal, national, and world-wide levels, there will be no human being on the face of the Earth who would object to our movement. If you can play the role of a central figure in our church, you are going to be one in society."

Rev. Sun Myung Moon



After you accomplish this, you can influence the nation.  In the movement, the first three stages of individual, family and church are important.  You have to make these three stage into one in order to be successful in the mission.  If a family consist of two different religions, it will be difficult for them to unite.  Either one of them must give in to the other in order to have one faith in the family.

The Unification Church would have more people interested if the members are strongly united into one.  A black member should feel they represent all the black race on Earth.  A white member must think he represents the whole race of whites and the yellow think they represent the whole yellow race.

You must think that our church is the extended form of Adam's family: Adam and Eve and their three children and their spouses, eight. Noah's family also had eight members. In Noah's family, Shem represented the yellow race, Ham represented the black race, and Japheth represented the white race. It is in accordance with the Principle that the third son was more blessed than the others. But it was not for the sake of the third son alone that God blessed him.

God blessed the third one not for his own sake, but for the sake of the two other sons.  Therefore, he was in the position to help his two brothers.  Likewise, people of the white race will lose the blessing if they forget their mission of helping underprivileged people or other races.  To return to God, you must be reconciled with other races.  After being united into one, you can go back to God.

Adam and Eve went against God's will when they fell.  In Adam's family, Cain and Abel failed God's will when they were not able to reunite.  Also in Noah's family when the brothers were not united they went against God's will.  During the course of restoration, members must become one with other races and brothers and sisters in the group.

The best team for a mission will comprise different races united into one.  God would gladly accept such a beautiful team of brothers and sisters.  He would abide with them and would be able to erect the Kingdom of God through such unity.

If God exists at all, he would want the whole world like this full of families of all races which are united into one.  In the United States, there are all races of people and nationalities.  With this kind of foundation, all problems can be solved.  The problem of God, the relationship between God and Satan, and the problem of brotherhood and the modern way of family life.

This one goal is what all the past saints and martyrs struggled hard to realize.  In our age it is possible for unity.  

There will be many obstacles and difficulties ahead that must be overcome.

There is a secret to overcoming the situation: first, understand each other; secondly, be patient until the goal is obtained.  Husband and wife at the core of the family life are united into one despite encountering many obstacles and difficulties.  This symbolizes that it is possible to unite the whole clan, society, nation and world.  Your efforts should be on concentrating on making your home unified with a beautiful stronghold of unity in love.

The Communist strategy is like Satan's.  The goal is to cause disunity in the nation with fights among black and white people.  They use the dialectic method to prove that capitalistic society will collapse.

We prove to them that the world of love is possible, because in the movement, all the races and nationalities are united into one which is expanding to the worldwide scale.

The Communist society uses an ideology where there is always a constant struggle as long as there is a distinction of class of people.  The Godly ideology does not differentiate between the classes or races - only the relationship of parents and children and there will not be any discrimination between parents and children.

The ideology that will be able to fight against Communism atheist views is the concept of one huge family under God as our Parent.  The Communist will not be able to shatter that philosophy because it is already united into one with divine love as its binding force.

Before you see yourselves as being black, whites and yellows, you see yourselves as brothers and sisters under one Parent.

This ideology will become the norm recreating the Christian society.  By expanding the movement, this ideology will influence people in every field of life and before long, people will envy it and be interested in the movement. If they are influenced and practice this type of ideology, this foundation will expand and change the whole world.

Let us come to the conclusion now. Can we be victors on the individual level? Can we establish the norm on the family level? Can we establish it on the church level? Can we establish it and be recognized by the people on the societal level?

If so, you are going to be recognized by the people of the whole world, and by God too.

Starting on the individual level to the level of family, nation and world, those who are resolved to finish the job without wasting a moment, that is the point where they become victors at every turn.

At every moment you must be thinking of the salvation of the whole world. 

It is more difficult to have a victory of this kind on the family level than it was on the individual level because the whole family must be united.  It is more difficult to have such victories on the church level than on the family level as well as on the societal level is harder than the church level.  Yet, you must not be contented and stop at any of these levels.  Satan will test you on the individual level first, then on the family level, the church level, and the societal level.

Could you stand on your own on the individual level and take responsibility for the nation of America?  What about the family level?  It is not as easy as it sounds.  In order to succeed on the family level, you would have to double or triple your effort.

In order to remake this society and recreate the nation, you must be first successful on the family level and expand that foundation.  Before success on the family level, you must make yourself a success on the individual level.

You must always remember that from moment to moment we are always on the battlefield on this providential frontline. We are always on the battlefield. Every motion, expression and utterance every moment of our lives is the boundary point of our victory. We are a husband and wife ready for the battle in the unit of our family; our church is ready for the battle, our nation is ready for the battle, until we win the whole world.

To have victory in battle, we must first be united into one.



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