God's Child Doesn't Need An Appointment

When I speak to you, my desire is to speak the words you can learn from the most. Often people comment that Unification Church members are good at speaking; probably this is because you have listened to so many sermons!

You are capable of speaking with renowned scholars and heads of state with confidence because you know that the knowledge you have gained from your understanding of Divine Principle is superior.


Reverend Sun Myung Moon



Some of you doze during the sermon; some of you may be thinking of what you will be doing after this and other of you are truly listening, but when it comes time for you to defend your beliefs you become very animated and eloquent.

If Adam had followed God's guidance and reached perfection, he would have undoubtedly have been able to walk into heaven without an appointment.  You want to do that as well.

If you have a close relationship with someone, appointments are not necessary in order to see each other.

A rich man's servant would not desire a close relationship with him, while his children are able to freely move about the house and go wherever they desire.

Since you are the children of God, do you think that you should get permission to visit places within your Father's world which He created for you?

The world we live in was not the world which God desired.  This world that we experience with boundaries and barriers only came about as the result of the Fall, after we followed Satan's will.

Everyone desires the kind of world which is open to everyone. 

A world free of boundaries is better than the world that we are currently a part of.

What if we lived where it was possible to buy a pass that enables us to travel freely around the world and even in spirit world without limits?  You would probably give up everything you had in order to gain such freedom.

Since we are the Creator's children, wouldn't He want to issue us a pass that allows us to go anywhere in creation?

But Satan makes his demands and tells God that He cannot freely just give permission to fallen man who has followed him.   Satan will say, though,  "If another man makes the right conditions in following  your direction, I will accept it, but You cannot do it for them."

In order for mankind to be able to freely enjoy passage throughout God's creation, we have to make an indemnity condition.  We set the foundation through home church of witnessing to 360 homes in our area.

Through this providential work, we are working for the world with the people in our area representing the people of the world.

Whatever the parents own, the children inherit.

We are living in the age where we can pay indemnity conditions through restoration.  You are doing home church providence not because you are highly capable, but because you are the children of the True Parents, the Lord of the Second Advent and his bride who have reversed Adam and Eve's mistake.

As you are walking this path of home church, you are telling people the good news of the Completed Testament and about the coming of the True Parents (Returned Messiah and True Wife) who reversed the sins of the fall created by our first parents.

Thus, people can be proud of the True Parents who have reversed the sin caused by the fallen, false parents who inherited the sinful blood lineage of Satan. They can be proud of the heavenly family and proud to be related to God.

Through this work of restoration, you inherit the position and heart of true parents through taking care, loving and teaching those in your area as if they were your own children.

Thus, you free yourself from any accusation and judgment from Satan before God.  This is a requirement for everyone that God cannot do for you.


This is why I push you out to do home church. I want you to get that free pass, that Heavenly I. D. card, which will allow you total freedom. Since I have passed on to you this inheritance, you must share it with your home church members; otherwise, it will go nowhere. Either way you look at it, home church is a necessity.


As Father has walked this course to complete the mission of Jesus, which is not just spiritual salvation, but physical salvation, all the powers of Satan and his forces came against him.

It is like the story of Job in the Bible, Satan accused God saying that it was only because God blessed him that he achieved anything.  Satan demanded that God test him by taking everything away from him and see if he would stay strong.

God had to push Father into many suffering situations.

As we walk this path of restoration, we must also go through similar trials, but our encounters are small in comparison to Father's experiences.

You may think that God has left you and is nowhere near you and you will feel that He cannot help you at all, but as soon as you keep going beyond that situation, God can pour out His blessing abundantly upon you.

Whenever you go into a situation, remember that God has made preparations for you; you are not entering haphazardly.

Even though God has made all of the preparations, He still has to let you tackle the situation and make it a success.

The True Parents go beyond all satanic blame and received the I.D. card of total freedom.

In order for you to receive this card, the archangel must sign it as well as the perfected Adam.  As soon as you receive the signatures, you can travel freely in Adam's world, the spirit world and even in Satan's realm without any accusations.

The heavenly hierarchy is God first, then Adam and Eve, then the angelic world, then all the things of Creation.

This of course was the original heavenly order, but was disrupted.

Satan came into existence through our listening to the archangel's word instead of God's holy word.  We have fallen so low that we don't know the world of spirit, we don't know if God exists or what kind of relationship we were supposed to have with God.

We don't know the heart of the original Adam and the true parental heart.  The only thing we know is the fallen realm of suffering and disobedience.

All mankind can see is the 'I', and we only see the visible and tangible world of creation.  Mankind is degraded and is lower than the creation.  The creation follows God and the laws of the universe absolutely, while man disobeys these laws.  Because of this situation, no one truly knows the dignity that human beings were supposed to possess.

Before you learned these facts through the Divine Principle and the horrible situation we have fallen to, you weren't even aware what you had lost or what kind of ideal to search for.

Finally, in the Completed Testament Age, we can know what the true ideal is.

Everything else, including our possessions, our nationalities. our careers. is meaningless until the basic questions of life are resolved.

The only real value is in finding out how to restore mankind's dignity and recovering that lost ideal.  How wonderful it will be when each level of God's ideal world is established from the individual, family all the way to the worldwide level.

You are able to achieve all of these of restoration through one 'school' without having to spend hundreds of years to achieve them.  Through the realm of the 360 homes in  your area, everything is represented, 360 days of the year and 360 degrees of a circle.

But you need to gain a certificate which shows that you have completed the seven levels of the human ideal.

There is one thing that Satan hates and fears the most and that is the day He is able to give that certificate to all of mankind.  It does not matter, because Satan has to bow down before the Principle.

When the Messiah discovered the secrets of the Fall, and a way for people to COMPLETELY free themselves from Satan's dominion, the Divine Principle is like a newspaper revealing Satan's deepest secrets.

This is Satan's situation today; he feels desperate as the truth is revealed.

If we were to witness people one-by-one to the truth of the age, it would take centuries to liberate the entire world.  If you were in the Messiah's position, wouldn't you want to find a more effective way to bring all mankind back to God?

If you were to ask God where He would most like to dwell, He would answer "Home Church".

When you witness to your area, the heavenly hierarchy is being restored.  The house represents all the things of creation; the ancestors of the people already in spirit world represent the archangel's position; and the Adam position is filled by the people themselves.

Once God has relation with all of the elements, the ideal of creation will be realized.  Satan will have to leave as a result because he will not have any place to call his own.  Since you are in America, all races of man are contained in your area.

All the races have freedom within America, according to law.

When you look into history, it is no coincidence, because this country's foundation was laid by people searching for liberty, especially religious liberty.  The first 200 years of American history, indemnity was paid for the 2000 years since Jesus.

This is the time when we must succeed.

We should feel that the time of the fulfillment of God's ideal world of Heaven on Earth is drawing near.

The founders of the world's religions namely Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha and Conscious themselves can work directly on the earthly plane because of the foundation and sacrifices laid by the people of faith.

What kind of work do you think they will be assisting?  This time of restoring the world is not only the work of people on earth to inherit.

Definitely, people on earth and in the spirit world are called to do the work of home church to receive the heavenly certification.  Because your ancestors have direct access to you and your inheritance, they can assist you in your work and receive the heavenly certificate alongside you.


Last Sunday, February 22, I went to the Holy Ground and prayed about these points. This is the time that all indemnity must be paid for the failures during Jesus' time. Also the persecution of our movement by the world, both the communistic and democratic, must be indemnified. 



There must be a spiritual as well as a physical indemnity that must be paid for all the wrongs done throughout history.  Therefore, the spiritual and the physical worlds must be mobilized.

There is no other way to go toward a world of peace.

Before this time, your 360-home area was under Satan's dominion, who is the chief criminal of the angelic world.  He was able to do as he pleased according to his desire using the people with Cain-type personalities.

Now you are working with the Messiah and you have the assistance of the good angels as well as God Himself through this path of restoration.

As you go to your area, the good angels will work with you and chase away the evil angels.

This is not just fantasy, that kind of confrontation will take place.  Until now, Satan had greater power over the good people on the earth.

Before, even with the shedding of many tears, much prayers and indemnity, good people could only make Satan retreat for just a short time and only in a small way.

But in the time of the Second Advent where the Messiah clears the path and makes Satan bow down, we have not only achieved equal leverage with Satan, but we have achieved dominance over him.

You should see evidence to the truth of this.

You must know that you are truly living in an amazing time never witnessed before but prayed about by million of saints throughout the ages.

Armed with this knowledge alone that you are obtaining about God's viewpoint of restoring the world and the truth about the fall, you are able to confront evil forces squarely.

Your odds are better than 50-50 to win this battle.

You will not go into this battle alone.  All the good angels can work alongside you with and support you which has never been the case.

America is experiencing many problems such as youth alienation, drug abuse, and breakdown of the family.  How can we fathom conquering these problems without finding the root cause of them through the new truth of the Bible revealed in the Completed Testament?

We must push past the boundaries of what we mentally understand and we must know and act.  We should deeply understand the importance of doing home church.

When you go out to your area. you can command the spirit world, in the name of God and True Parents, to come and help you; and your command will have effect.  More and more spiritual phenomena will occur in our favor.

The best way to lay a foundation to be able to command the spirit world, including your ancestors, is to follow the directions and examples of the truth given by the Messiah.

By following the examples of the True Parents, the children become true children not just by name but also in reality.

Then the children incorporate the pure tradition of the parents and pass it on to their own children.  You should be proud to hold this title.  Whenever you are persecuted for following this path, you should demand a some reason for such attitude.

If Jesus' disciples had followed him along with all of Israel as the Messiah and son of God and he lived beyond 33 years old, the next major step was to conquer Rome.  There would have been no need for Jesus to return in our time or 400 years of Christian persecution.


I have spoken out very boldly and strongly here and by doing so, I took many risks for myself and the movement's progress. Why have I done this? In this way, Jesus' inability to go to Rome and fight for God's purposes could be indemnified. These next seven years must be a successful period. Otherwise, communism would totally occupy the world and religion would be wiped out everywhere.


At this time, we have a direct connection with the highest realms of spirit world.

Those in the highest of spirit realms are coming down to participate directly with us.  Accordingly, your pray should directly appeal to those higher spiritual realms.

Your prayer can be strong and short, "Heavenly Father, whatever True Parents are planning, let it be done.".  You can, also, ask spirit world to come and help you with your mission.

You must make a determination that you will accomplish a total victory in your home church area leaving nothing for others to finish later.

You should have the attitude that you will invite the Messiah to come and receive joy and glory at the successful completion of your home church work.

With this confidence, you can call upon the spirit world and receive direct help.  You are in the subject position, so you must work hard and feel responsible for your area.  Only then will the spirit world be able to assist you.



Return for Tomorrow's Post: Utopia is Possible

This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Total Completion of the Ideal

Love is Foundation of Unity and Happiness

"Can you call someone a "human being" only because he has a body? A human being must have a mind also."

Does a true human being laugh when they see someone sad or get sad because they see other people are happy?  No.  This is a human being in appearance only.

Does a true human being laugh at someone's sorrow or become sad when they see others in happiness?  No, this kind of person is only a human being in appearance only.  As human beings, we are capable of all sorts of emotions: delight, anger, love, happiness and so forth.

When we look at humanity in the context of emotional responses we can see the world is united.  

Do not Easterners cry over the same thing that a Westerner does such as death and other tragedies?  The same thing that would make a person from the West weep, will also make an Easterner weep.  The scenes that make a Korean weep will also make its enemy from Japan weep.  Is there a difference between the parental love of a Korean or a Japanese?  No, there are not because it is all the same.

What is the foundation of unity?

People are not the foundation, nor words.  It must be based on feelings like a couple in love.  What makes a couple united.  They united based on emotional feelings.  Isn't this so?  If two people coming together in marriage do not carry out their emotions it is just an empty shell of a relationship.

What is the definition of a couple without experiencing any emotion?

It would be likened to a wound-up doll or a talking doll.  They become a talking female and male doll.  If they feel emotions for one another, then they are not like dolls.

Is there a possibility to have friends without them feeling friendship?  No, there can't be.  People feel patriotic toward their country for their country.  Those who feel this love for their country can unite with others with the same feeling.  Isn't this a great thought?

Love is the foundation of unity and also of happiness.

Is it possible to have happiness without unity?  Mothers and fathers become one to be happy.  Parents and children must become one to be happy.  Is there happiness in a family that is full of disarray?  How can there be happiness with a family that quarrels and fights among themselves constantly?

They will not know happiness in this setting.

This is the formula - there is no unity without love, and no happiness without unity.  How can we attain this happiness?  First, two people must become one.  When one weeps, the other weeps.  When one laughs so does the other.  When one goes, so does the other.

How do two people become one?  They unit through their feelings of emotion.

The highest authority is the heart.

Internal unity needs to be achieved more than external unity.  How can there be happiness or peace within a family if the human heart does not participate?  The human heart transcends history, following absolute standards.


Unity Through United Hearts


"This is the universal temple where unity is attained. But people tend to think they can attain unity only because they arrived here. To achieve unity, however, one must want the unity of heart from one's own deepest heart and must be prepared to overcome all sorts of hardship on the way. We must be prepared to die for the idea of unity."

Many people cannot achieve unity even when they are pushed.  Is it easy for you to unite with another person?  We must be in unity first within ourselves. How can we unite two separate entities without  first uniting our own mind and body ourselves.

We must unite all disjointed hearts first. We must not fear death if that's what it takes to unite hearts.
 

In order to even begin speaking about working for God's unity, we must first begin to overcome the hardships of our individual and familial life.  Heaven will recognize this merit when you fall from exhaustion from your efforts for peace.

Unity does not happen automatically; it must first go through the valley of tribulation before it reaches a plateau.  Unity does not just happen, we make effort for it to happen.  Don't just remain the flour, we must become the yeast.

We must achieve unity and triumph over the valley of death the same way as Jesus.  

Religious people may wonder why they have endured such hardships.  It is because they have lost their confidence.  As long as people are standing on their own feet, your endurance is actualized in your own people.

But if you are enduring suffering just for yourself and not for your people or for God, then your doubting mind will not receive any help.

When you look around with this selfish thinking, you will look for help but there will be no source of extra strength for you to keep going.  We must offer our life at the altar of God.  Your goal should be for the unity of God and your nation, your people and not for the individual self.


Unity As The Goal Of Love


When does the unity around God arrive and what would this ultimate center of unity be that is the ideal monument of God's Creation?  Would it be the power of God that brings unity?  If power alone exampled in the churches with God could establish an eternal paradise on earth, then this power would have stopped the Fall from happening in the first place which brought about disunity.

"That's just illogical dreaming which only leads to ruination. Power is not it; God's omniscience or omnipotence are not it. You just misunderstand the whole thing. It's not your knowledge. It's not Heaven's unlimited treasure. It's love. It's love that's at the center of all things."

What is unity with love at its center? It's love that belongs to God.

So where should the foundation of unity for God be?

Whose love does a wife's diamond ring symbolize?  The ring is not hers alone, but symbolizes the love of her husband.  The ring will fade if it does not mean love because love is its substance.  Will the gold or gem have happiness within it if her husband's love is lost?

God would be pleased with the object of love that satisfies all of God's mind and body that will make him scream out "That's it!".  That's love.  Adam and Eve took part in their own love not connecting to God's love leaving God out of partaking with them.

If Adam and Eve's first love was true, this love would have made Adam Eve's and Eve Adam's.  and both God's.  Therefore all of creation would have belonged to all three.  Then when this true love centered and connected to God connected the two of them, all things on earth would have been theirs as they were also God's.

That's why love unifies all things. Love unifies God's mind and body, and will unify even the once alienated Adam and Eve, and all creatures on earth. 

That's what makes love such a great thing. Love bridges social standings, obliterates time and space, establishes collective belonging of all to all, and places everyone within the sphere of collective power.

It's a surprisingly great fact that should be taught throughout the universe.

The Fall would not have occurred if Adam and Eve would have connected their love to God.  This is why God had warned Adam and Eve of their misuse of love by requiring them not to eat of the fruit until they were mature.

If they had waited to partake in love all would have belonged to God - Adam would be God's, Eve would be Adam's, Adam Eve's, the woman the man's, the man the woman's, parents their children's, children their parents' centered on the true love of God.  All would belong to everyone else as the firm foundation of things.  We must have a clear understanding of this in the process of restoration.


Love for God is the Foundation of Unity

This love becomes the source of power to unite every nation, to lead all nations for eternity.
Love begets greater love, just as parents love children. Love becomes one. No one can divide one's unity with God in love. Is there any love grander than this?

When we look at the world this way, we can clearly see that no good can come through the workings of the God-denying Communist countries.

Perfect unity is possible only in perfect love for God.

Would God create all things including man in order that they would return to Him Joy or grief?
Where would unity take place? Thinking about it alone doesn't do it. Only love can make it happen. It will happen when your love unites your whole mind and body. That's how it's done. Because of that, unity is possible only through love.

Even Satan will obey love that's higher than himself.

Through this, oneness is possible only this way.  Perfect unity, the final unity of all including the horizontal unity begins with love.  When it is centered around God, the nature of goodness is in love.  Unity becomes automatic true love.  God created heaven and earth to give us the greatest good and to give us love.

Love as the Absolute Secret of Unity


The foundations for the mind is love. If we connect this explosive power of love to God, it would be able to multiply a hundred, thousand-fold.  What is the secret to achieve our wishes and to have eternal life and heaven on earth?

Mothers and fathers will not be able to achieve unity without having children.

The secret is love.  It is the elevator toward unity and its absolute secret solution.  Neither banquets nor money can bind parents and children. Only love can bind them.

The rope of love binds the mother and the father into one. The mutual love of parents is much stronger than their individual love.  A link made of iron will eventually rust, but a chain that is made of love will last forever.

Only love binds brothers, families, clans, tribes, peoples, and eventually the world. Love binds humanity with God as one.

"The reason we prefer love is because it is the foundation that unifies all things. You don't understand completely why love is such a wonderful thing. That's why Teacher brings out the issue of love now."

Without love, oneness is not possible.

Words do not have the power to bind two people.  So what is needed to make two people one?  What if they were bond by material or through a third agent and it disappeared and left them?  How do you bind two people forever?

It is love.  Without love, nothing is possible.

Does love make things grow farther apart or grow closer together?  Closer together.  Love is good; it brings things that are far apart closer together.

Will we ever be able to unite the Westerners and the Easterners with political, military or cultural power?  Mankind has tried throughout history using these tactics and we have not reached a world of peace.  We have not been able to achieve world peace through these fields.  So what can create everlasting unity?

Love can make two sworn enemies one entity and reconcile two extreme opposites. 

Men and women are extreme opposites.

If love is true, you can get into God's bosom, pull him by the nose or anything else, to anywhere in the world, even heaven and hell without boundaries. You can go anywhere, anywhere with true love.

Even the world observes the Principle in this way?  Do you have to have a doctorate to become the First Lady or be highly intelligent to do so?  Can she have just one eye, or one leg disqualify her from being the First Lady?  

Even with a gimpy leg, if the president loves her enough, she automatically inherits the title First Lady once he becomes president of the nation.  Even a peanut farmer can leap to greatness if he is loved enough by those who are great.

Is love so powerful that this is possible?  How is it possible?

Love unites and transcends all things, there being nothing irreconcilable through love. No matter what kind of sin you might have committed, God can forgive and fill in the gaps with love.  Don't you believe that? Is that true? This is always possible. If Rev. Moon didn't know this, he would have faded a long time ago.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Mutual Love as the Solution for Unity

This text was rewritten and taken from the Textbook"Way Of Unification" Written by Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

Role of Husband and Wife

What is the true position of a husband and wife?  Is it like Leave it To Beaver where the husband works and the wife stays home with the children?  Of course, women have moved far from the traditional roles that kept marriages stable and demand equality in their marriages.

"As love matures, sons and daughters are born as the fruit of love."

"For woman, her sexual organ is the holy place of love and only the husband has the key to the door of her love.

If the husband has two keys to open the holy place of love, he is Satan. The woman's holy place is to be opened only by her husband's key. If it can be opened by any other key, the woman is Satan.

When the husband opens the wife's holy place with his key of love, the most precious and valuable children are to be born. The children are the crystals of love. Through giving birth to a child, human beings can experience God's heart of having created Adam and Eve." Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

 If a woman complains about the way her husband smells or if the husband doesn't like his wife's facial expression or gestures, it is easy to see that perfect love has not been established between the couple.  Such couples relate centering upon their own advantage.


The Destiny Of A Couple

What is the deepest definition of marriage?

It is when a couple sets their sights upon a common destiny, to pursue the dual destiny and overcoming one's individual destiny.  Once a man and a woman are bound to this common destiny through marriage, they cannot freely change it by their will.

"A man is bound to a man's destiny because he is born as a man; a woman is bound to a woman's destiny because she is born as a woman. No one can deviate from this; there is nothing that we can do about this destiny. Therefore, it is wise for us to follow the given orbit of destiny."

Once you are married, you cannot do whatever you like. You are to follow the destiny of your family at the risk of your life.

 

"When we extend the trajectory of the heartistic road that a man and a woman are to go, it converges in oneness, focused upon God's principled road. That is the ideal point of the settlement of family love, generated by the oneness of man and woman."

Before marriage, a man and woman should individually find the central point where they can settle themselves down in God's heart; then as a couple, they find the settling point of family love by extending their individual focus toward the family as a whole.

A husband and wife are a pair beginning with the very moment of love, they are one, not two anymore.  They can no longer behave individually, but should take responsibility collectively for everything.

"Everybody's fortune is as different as everybody's face is different."

Everyone's destiny is different.  If a husband's fortune is bad, the wife's good fortune can change his destiny toward good.  The wife's bad fortune also can be made better by the good fortune of her husband.  Therefore, the destiny of a couple is like leveling the land, raising up the valleys ad bringing down the mountains.

Upon this fertile ground centred on the couple's common ideals and a variety of plans for the land, they can plant trees or plow field.  Thinking in this manner, the couple should not unite centering upon the other's external looks.  When a couple marries, there is more at stake and can be fearful.

There is a principle that takes place even though we are not completely aware.  If a marriage of a couple is not matched well or accomplished, either the man dies or the woman dies, or both of them die at the same time.  You have seen this phenomena many times.

Just because your generation is enjoying prosperity, it does not guarantee that the future generation will enjoy the same.  We see that as America was being raised, generations suffered in poverty and after World War II, the fruits of thousands of patriots sacrifice for this land made America one of the greatest countries in the world.  But, America became complacent and after the 1960s with the 'free love' era, the generations have further lost their footing on what made America great.

"A minimum of three to seven generations should be settled centered upon God. Your spouse may seem unfit for you to your human eyes, but you will realize the truth after making effort to live together for more than three years. Father is teaching about history from the aspect of tradition, so you couples should endeavor to become one."

You are in the same position as Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

When you are centered on God and you invest your tears in saving others' lives, multiplication will surely take place.  You should research whether this is true or not; if it is not true, than Father Sun Myung Moon must be a lie. 

You should absolutely unite upon God's will at the risk of your life and for the sake of the glory of God's will and for the sake of your descendants.  First establish a foundation where you can have give and take with God.  Procreation begins when you completely engage in this give and take action.  This is the Principle of Creation.  Every household should practice this principled life.  The fact that this standard is not practice by all, we have become stagnate in our way of life.

Unless you accomplish relational love first, you cannot reach the absolute love of the subject. This destiny was given human beings in the original creation, so when you cannot accomplish the purpose of love, you are bound to bring about a rupture.

In order that you reach the absolute love of the subject, you must first relational love first.  A husband should keep his promises.  The husband's mind and body should be unchanging.  Otherwise, when he passes on to spirit world,  he will be judged, not by God, but his wife.

"The perfect person is the one who accomplishes oneness of mind and body, oneness with God, and oneness with their spouse. There is only one love.  There is only one heartistic standard for a couple to establish."

Once a man and a woman are bound in love, they are to live one hundred years on earth and eternally in the spirit world.

The mind and body of a couple should be one.  Love is eternal; It is one not two.  When two physical bodies become one centering their lives on God's ideal and establish the four-position foundation of love (parent-child, husband-wife, brother-sister, God-man) this is the beginning of the ideal world.  Satanic false love cannot invade there, only true love will dwell there.

Those who complain about their spouses after God has walked a painful and sorrowful path to bring about such a spouse, they do not know how God is headed toward establishing the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth through the love of your spouse.

 God understands the differences in standards that you and your spouse have.

When a spouse is not satisfied with you, if you keep a grateful heart to God for giving you such a blessing, He will bless you abundantly in the near future.  A grateful heart is the absolute condition for receiving God's blessing.  We must all be the ones with this kind of heart.

The first three years is a hard time for spouses as they engraft to one another.  Differences in family backgrounds, habits, and etiquette do not fit one another, but both spouses should make a determined effort to fit together.

It is the husband's responsibility to increase his wife's willingness to be supportive and obedient to him.  Through the husband's relations with his wife, he will teach her substantially how the Principle works centered on God.  This is why Father Moon teaches that the first three years of married life discipline the couple to learn how to be united with God's will and ideal.

"Give birth to a child after being a parent without any trace of shame, according to God's will and the Principle. Such a family life is the principled form."

Reverend Sun Myung Moon, tells his congregation how a woman's standard of love should surpass her husband's mistake:

"It is not easy to play the role of a parent; neither is it easy to play the role of a husband or a wife. You have to inherit the tradition set by the Completed Testament age of the Principle.

Everything that a woman possess God made to belong to others, so it is the woman's responsibility to keep others' belongings well. When we think in this context of a woman's breasts, hips and her sexual organs, we see that none of these were made for woman's sake.

A woman is in the position of a guest, an errand girl and a servant. She enters the other's house as a servant, goes through the course of an errand girl for her husband and parents-in-law, and finally becomes a queen -- the most precious guest.

Originally, a woman's voice should sound softer than the voice of an average man. Her voice should be like the whispers of love.

In an Oriental family, the husband even hits his wife to correct her bad habits. An American woman divorces right away if she gets even one fist from her husband, doesn't she? What kind of love is that, which can be abandoned because of one blow?

If she is slapped by her husband, a woman with true love weeps, holding her husband's hands. What can you do with love so shallow that it runs away because of one slap? True love makes you risk your life. A woman of true love doesn't abandon her husband even though he does this. I want to make you such a woman. But you know it is really not good for a husband to hit his wife.

What kind of woman do you want to be ? Do you want to be the kind of woman who divorces after being slapped by her husband? Don't you all want to be the women of true love, who can love sacrificing their lives in spite of your husband's misbehavior? Raise your hand if you want to be such a woman. All of the American men want to get married to you if you are such a woman.

What kind of bond do we have? We have the bond which will avenge God's lost love.

In order to make a bond of life, a man and a woman should march forward toward world peace. Peace cannot be achieved by only a man or only a woman. It is to be accomplished by the unified power of a man and woman. The way to achieve unity and peace is to rush right into the center. The driving force to rush into the center is the power of love. When your object appears, your mind automatically is to be stimulated to love.

When you are in suffocating agony, nobody can help you get out of that state. Even God cannot do anything for you. But how precious it is to have a horizontal partner who can understand your heart! The partner's shortcomings can be the condition for you to be grateful to God and to mitigate God's burden. When your partner comes up short in every helm of life, it can be a good condition for you to show yourself in front of God.

Individual destruction is acceptable but the family shouldn't be destroyed. The wife is the most needed person in the world for her husband and the husband is the most needed person in the world for his wife. You should be each other's walking stick, advising each other.

Whether your partner is good or bad, he or she is your partner. When a husband faces the fate of death, so does his wife. The wife who curses her husband when he is on the verge of death will surely perish. The same applies to the husband.

The subject or object who lives for the sake of his or her partner never perishes. When there is a perfect subject who lives for the sake of others, a perfect object is bound to appear. When there is a perfect object who practices life for the sake of others, a perfect subject will definitely appear. Even though the partner doesn't appear right away, if you don't give up until the end, he or she definitely will come.

You have to know this point very clearly. You shouldn't give things up so easily after trying just several days. Once you start something, your mind should determine to persist until death. If you cannot get the direct result in your lifetime, your mind should believe that it will surely come in the following generations.

Waiting for generation after generation is not bad, if it is the result of God's plan to give you the worldwide blessing. God will think, 'You are a very patient tribe, so wait for ten or twenty generations more. I'll pour the worldwide, historical blessing upon your descendants.'"


Return for Tomorrow's Post:  Why God Made Men/Women Opposites

This post was rewritten and based on the Principle written by Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Textbook: Blessing and Ideal Family, The True Husband and Wife Ideal Family

Why Doesn't God End Evil?

Out of desperation, even the faithful at one point in time has asked, "Why don't you stop this evil, God!" It is not blasphemous to ask, it is a cry that is mimicked by God's heart which has been pained ever since He lost His direct link to His children to Satan.

What began with one fallen family grew to encompass tribes, nations and a world. It is a world where the 7 billion people which make up present humanity are descendants of Satan, incapable of denying that we inherited the lineage of evil parents.

No one knew Satan's blood was present within our body and that this was so displeasing to God. This is the essential problem.

And how are we going to eliminate those roots within us? Satan dug his roots into our physical body, our flesh body.


Why Doesn't God Stop Satan?

Why doesn’t Satan release his claim on human beings? He asserts to God, “Didn’t You set up the principle of creation that dominion is based on love? Whether my love was lawful or unlawful doesn’t matter; I definitely loved Adam and Eve. Isn’t love the original basis for dominion?

"Since I loved Adam and Eve, I have a right to claim them and their descendants under my dominion. I will not relinquish my claim over human beings to You unless You love me more than I loved them."

God has been fighting against Satan internally, and against evil people externally.  But in fighting He does not act capriciously in violation of His own laws. God never fights in a way that would violate the laws of the universe. Jesus also never fought outside the laws of Heaven.

Accordingly, when we wage the universal fight in the Last Days, we must understand the laws of Heaven and learn how to fight in accordance with those laws. Although you might not be aware of it, Satan also cannot be so insolent as to fight in a way that transgresses the laws of Heaven.

For this reason, when you set conditions of restoration and fight Satan, if you deviate from the Will of God, then Satan will accuse you. Even Jesus was not exempt. Whoever violates the principle, Satan will attack without mercy.

Then, why does God, who aspires to be lord of all creation, not bring Satan under His control? It is because Satan does not have God’s unchanging nature—quite the opposite. God is unchanging while Satan is always changing to suit himself. God is unique and Satan is not; God is eternal while Satan is temporal.

This, in essence, is their dividing line. Why, then, are human beings the objects of both God’s desire and Satan’s desire? People stand between God and Satan. They have qualities that can relate to both God’s world and Satan’s world.

Is someone who changes from moment to moment more on God’s side or Satan’s side? Is someone who is constantly creating divisions and fights in the home more susceptible to God or to Satan?

What about the person who is immersed in his daily affairs and does not think about the whole, or the world, or history, or eternity, or any kind of long-term vision?

What about a father who neglects his wife and children, who only goes off to the local bar and drinks every night, seeking his own pleasure? Certainly, Satan will claim such people.

Hell on Earth

We are living in a fallen realm. That is why we need to live a life of faith. Remember this, and always be aware that Satan governs this fallen world in which we live our daily lives. This is not merely a concept; it is reality.

How to Conquer Satan With God's Word

The Bible exhorts us to pray ceaselessly. The Devil can attack us and even work through us twenty- four hours a day. Although God is with us, He stays in a vertical relationship with only the mind as His base; how effectively, then, can He work with us?

Satan can come at us from any direction, from 360 degrees; hence we are bound to be overwhelmed.

Evil activity in the spirit world had been increasing gradually ever since the Human Fall. But the situation changed drastically in the 1980s, when hosts of evil spirits descended to the earth and greatly increased their activities there.

Why did this happen?

In former centuries, when the central figures of the Providence did not know the identity of Satan, the root of sin, or the nature of the Original Sin, Satan felt at ease and could take his time creating his self-centered world.

However, when the True Parents, the Messiah and True Woman reverse Adam and Eve our first parents mistakes, the world the situation began to change. The True Parents revealed the identity of Satan.


Satan Needs Object Partner to Do Evil Works

Just like God needs a partner to do his works, Satan needs an object partner to do his evil work. This is through earthly people who have died and became evil spirits and through you and I - no matter how faithful we are. Our every moment, we decide which side we choose, hell or heaven's.

If at the beginning of creation, a family could have been realized in which God and man could have united in a relationship of True Love, today we would not have to worry about Hell or Heaven because we would have automatically entered the Kingdom of God while still on earth.

The problem here is that God's true love and true man's love did not begin at a common point, united as a subjective and objective love. God's love and man's love began in two different directions with two different goals.

Therefore, it has been impossible to realize the ideal world which God and man long for. God's ideal of beginning in a common point was completely frustrated. False parents arose centered on Satan's love. By being their descendants, we inherited that false love, that false life and that false lineage and are thus destined for Hell.

We have nothing to do with the Kingdom of Heaven. We did not know that we were supposed to conquer God's love through our conscience by being people whose spirit dominated our body through willpower.

 Have you heard the expression "love-sick"? If someone is "love-sick", when we can solve the cause of his sickness, all of his problems will be solved. The human being is a sinner but there remains within him a part of Adam's original nature. This is what causes man to miss God's love like someone who is love-sick.

Satan is constantly accusing all people before God, as he did Job, in order to drag them into hell. However, even Satan cannot perpetrate his evil activity unless he first finds an object partner with whom he can form a common base and engage in give and take action. Satan’s object partners are evil spirits in the spirit world. The object partners to these evil spirits are the spirit selves of evil people on the earth, and the vehicles through which these evil spirit selves act are their physical selves.

Accordingly, the power of Satan is conveyed through evil spirits and is manifested in the activities of earthly people. For example, Satan entered into Judas Iscariot (Luke 22.3), and Jesus once called Peter “Satan.” (Matt. 16.33) In the Bible, the spirits of evil earthly men are called “angels” of the devil. (Matt. 25.41)

The Kingdom of Heaven on earth is a restored world in which Satan can no longer instigate any activity. To realize this world, it is necessary for all humanity to eliminate their common base with

Satan and not engage in give and take action with him.

God Does Work to Bring Us Back


God cannot avoid working to separate good from evil and thus reverse this situation. God is public-minded and continues on the path of living for the whole and going toward the goal of love and peace. On the other hand, Satan is selfish and individualistic. Satan is always trying to destroy the good side through hate, evil and war. His intent is to prevent earth from returning eternally to God's side.

God cannot severely punish humanity after having gone with Satan. God's strategy for regaining humanity to His side is to allow that evil to attack Him. Later, He can claim indemnity for damages and abuses.

Satan's strategy is to strike first but in the end loses everything. Satan has come throughout history wishing to ruin God's plan with hate, with evil and war while on the contrary God has been working to recreate love and peace.

In the Last days, humanity will return to God's side and evil will lose support and respect. For that reason, Satan introduced atheistic materialism, humanism and communism to stop that from happening. That was the essence of the Cold War between right and left.

After the Second World War, with the victory of the Christian world, there began an era of transition toward a world of peace.

The present era is the era of the realm of individualism, the era of free sex, the era of children denying parents, the era of parents denying children, the era of denying the couple. Through lesbianism and homosexuality, an attempt is being made to completely destroy the family ideal which the Messiah in his Second Coming intends to establish in order to change this hell into the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

Tomorrow is Achieve World Peace's day off, please rejoin Sunday for more talks.

This is a compilation of speeches given by Dr. Reverend Sun Myung Moon who passed away a few months ago leaving hundreds of volumes of books, textbooks and thousands of speeches.  For more information about his organization, please visit www.familyfed.org