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.



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

7 days of Holy Sex`Day 3 - Original Moral Code

“The owner of a husband’s sexual organ is his wife, and the owner of a wife’s sexual organ is her husband,” teaches Reverend Moon. "Marriage is finding the rightful master of one’s most holy place of love.”

In the previous post, we spoke about 8 points of the benefits of sex in a marriage.  These are the basics of sexual codes: An individual's sexual expression was meant to be reserved for only his or her spouse.

The only priest or priestess allowed to enter the Holy of Holies in the temple of the body is the married partner.

 The Qur’an concurs: “The believers are . . . those who guard their private parts except with their spouses”

When it comes to conjugal love, partners already have this sense of belonging to their beloved. "You own my heart,” they profess to each other.

In the Song of Solomon, the young woman says, “My beloved is mine and I am his”.

Couples promise their undying commitment, share their fortunes and futures and give all they have and what they will acquire to one another.  The greatest gift of this love is the exclusive affection and trust in an exclusive sexual relationship.  This is why it is natural for a husband and wife to claim their spouse on their beloved's love and his or her sexual expression.

Legal codes have historically recognized this expectation as “conjugal rights.

St. Paul, for example, speaks of this standard when he states, “The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.”

1 Corinthians 7:4


This means that each of us is a caretaker of our reproductive organs, attending them as a treasure for the sake of the true owner our spouse and the Creator.  This sense of entitlement or proprietorship, of course, is necessarily in the spirit of respect and care.

Again, the Bible goes on to say that, “Even so, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.”

Spouses are to love one another even as god loves and sacrifices for each of them.  Each denying themselves  for the other and the duty to satisfy each other sexually is part of the larger promise within a marriage.  The world's major religious traditions for thousands of years have been consistent and of one accord in affirming commitment in a sexual union as the norm.


Religion Teaches Sexual Sacredness

Rev. Sun Myung Moon has used his 93 years of knowledge of the spirit world and different religions to bring about the truth of absolute, pure sex in the following speech:

All religions share the strict prohibition against sex outside of marriage, especially against infidelity within marriage. “You shall not commit adultery,” is among the Ten Commandments recognized recognized by Christians and Jews Exodus 20:14 and affirmed by Muslims Qur’an 6.151-53.

Among the ten precepts recognized by Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism is the charge of chastity.

This uncompromising norm will never change or become outdated. It is everlasting, having originated in the Creator and conforming to the very design and purpose of human creation.

Reverend Moon calls it the absolute sex standard. This is the standard “in the beginning” to which

Jesus was referring when he commented about matters of marriage Matthew 19:8.

The gold standard of sexual morality This norm is indeed latent within people’s consciences and “written on their hearts” Romans 2:15.

Common sense tells us abiding by this simple standard establishes the safety and security necessary for the greatest sexual satisfaction for both partners, and only these conditions will contain all the potential consequences of sexual union for the partners, their families and society.

Those involved with public health policy call it the “gold standard” of sexual morality, because it averts all the myriad negative health, social and other consequences of sexual behavior.



Confronting the Permissive Standard

However self-evident this original standard that links sexuality to marriage might be, reaffirming and reinvigorating this is sorely needed in contemporary times.

The developed nations remain in— and developing countries continue to fall under the thrall of—the sexual revolution that broke down traditional taboos in the 1960s.  Men and women relate in a 'low-commitment culture of ‘sex without strings, relationship without rings'.

Popular sexual morality has evolved since the blatant hedonism and promiscuity of the early days of the sexual revolution, but the basic “free sex” ideology still persists among many people of influence.

This is an outlook that sees sex apart from marriage as an act of liberation against unfair restrictions and that physical involvement is no one’s business except the partners.

Fun is considered justification enough for sexual relations; lovers should expect to be discarded when someone new comes along, and marriage and parenthood are unnecessary constraints on personal freedom.

In the aftermath of rampant unwed pregnancies, divorce, disease and heartbreak, this “free sex” philosophy of sex for pleasure has progressed to what is called the “ethic of intimacy", the belief in sex for love.

Warm feelings are now the acceptable reason for men and women to enter into a physical relationship. “Loveless” or “meaningless” sex is the only kind that might be condemned. Sexual activity itself is still regarded as morally neutral; it is its motivation that determines whether it is good or not.

Such an ethic of intimacy represents a moral advance in the many cases where sexual relations are brutally selfish and exploitative.

Yet it is a far cry from the authentic standard and remains just a variation of the older idea. Mutual consent, tolerance and a loose definition of love and intimacy easily legitimate temporary liaisons based on fickle feelings.

“We were crazy about each other,” recalls one young man. “I thought, ‘This is the one.’ We even discussed marriage. I gave my virginity to her. Well, so much for ‘undying love'. Now I don’t even know where she lives.”

Such an ethic does not protect partners from agreeing to use each other and inflict harm on one another and innocent parties beyond themselves, however this might go undetected at the time.

Whether the old free sex perspective or the newer ethic of intimacy, sexuality is regarded as a domain with its own rules, a unique impulse that cannot and must not be overly controlled. Sex is seen as a need to be addressed like that of food and sleep, and thus vital to mental and physical health. More than this, it is an entitlement, a right that cannot be denied.

In popular culture, sex is the universal gateway to joy, love, wisdom, transcendent experience, personal growth and discovery, worthy of endless participation, depiction and discussion. It has taken on mythic dimensions, like the Holy Grail or fountain of youth, and is almost an object of worship, as mentioned above.

This is a well-worn detour from the truth.

History abounds with examples of societies exalting sex out of all proportion and outside its rightful boundaries. Fertility worship in ancient Israel is a Biblical illustration.

History also testifies to the fact that whenever a society allows this to happen, destruction follows. Anthropologist Carl Zimmerman and others have discovered that the acceptance and practice of adultery and other aspects of sexual license are reliable predictors of the disintegration of a civilization.


Addressing Flawed Premises

The original sexual norm represents the enlightened and responsible standard, because it respects the realities of the heart and conscience as well as the body and harmonizes unselfish love and passion according to the human nature endowed by the Creator. The absolute sex standard confronts the flawed premises of the old “free sex” ethic: Absolute Sex Morality

The primary human motive and need is to give and receive love.

Sexual love is one dimension of this need and, while conjugal companionship and sexual intimacy are both good and healthy conditions, neither is a necessity, especially genital sexual relations. Sexual restraint is expected of any mature person.  Sexuality has intrinsic moral, spiritual, psychological and social dimensions.  Sexual love is a feature solely of the marital relationship.

It is responsible only in the context of this commitment and it is enriching only when accompanied by both love and commitment. Sexual expression is a responsibility and both a personal and public
matter.


“Free Sex” Morality

Sex is the primary human motive and need. As such, regular sexual outlets are a necessity. Too much sexual restraint is unhealthy and destructive.

Sexuality can be simply physical pleasure; it has no necessary moral, spiritual, psychological and social dimensions.  Sexual love can be a feature of any relationship; all sexual behavior is either normal or a variation.

Sex can be enriching free of love and commitment, while mutual consent and the use of birth- and disease control make it responsible. Sexual expression is an entitlement and a wholly personal matter."SMM



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This text was rewritten and derived from the Textbook: True Love, Chapter "The Meaning of Sexuality".