Month: July 2018

Ideal Families Are the Key

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 431

By the will of God, Adam and Eve
should have become perfect, received
the Blessing, and, upon the basis of their
family, established God’s nation. They
should have achieved perfection based
on true love. If Adam and Eve had estab-
lished their horizontal object partner-
ship under God, the fulfillment of the
purpose of creation would have been
laid and that world would have extended
to the cosmos. A world based on the tra-
dition of oneness achieved through the
union of Adam and Eve as husband and
wife would then have been established.
However, Adam and Eve disobeyed
God’s will and fell. (Blessed Family – 332)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 443

The family is a training ground of
love. The extension of this family is the
world. The world is made up of smaller
worlds: there is a grandfathers’ world, a
grandmothers’ world, a world of fathers
and mothers, there are husbands’ and
wives’ worlds and sons’ and daughters’
worlds. When these combine we have the
whole world. Thus if you love the people
of the whole world as you love your fam-
ily and as you love God through the fam-
ily, this will make a straight road to the
Kingdom of Heaven. Thus the first com-
mandment is, “You shall love the Lord
your God with all your heart, and with
all your soul, and with all your mind.”
And the second commandment is, “You
shall love your neighbor as yourself.” If
you love God and love humanity, every-
thing will be accomplished. If you can-
not do it, your spiritual training will
have been in vain. No matter how great a
religion’s spiritual discipline may be, if it
does not know how to love God, human-
kind and the whole universe it will fail
the test.

The Incarnation of Jesus, A Pioneer

Sun Myung Moon
February 1, 1959

Matthew 8: 18-22

18 When Jesus saw the crowd,[a] he went across Lake Galilee. 19 A teacher of the Law of Moses came up to him and said, “Teacher, I’ll go anywhere with you!”

20 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens, and birds have nests. But the Son of Man doesn’t have a place to call his own.”

21 Another disciple said to Jesus, “Lord, let me wait till I bury my father.”

22 Jesus answered, “Come with me, and let the dead bury their dead.”[b]

Prayer

Father, although we are unfaithful, since we have come seeking You, please look down upon us with compassion. We have come forward after hearing the Father’s call. Please allow our minds and bodies to be the possessions of the Father.

Please allow us to become eternally connected to You in this place. Please allow our hearts to be in resonance with Your heart. Allow our bodies to be in touch with Your sacred form. On that foundation, please allow us to build an eternal relationship and connection with You, so that we move when You move, acting in accordance with Your Will. Continue reading “Ideal Families Are the Key”

Honor the True and Righteous Way, Just Like Jesus

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2 Peter 2

20 When they learned about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they escaped from the filthy things of this world. But they are again caught up and controlled by these filthy things, and now they are in worse shape than they were at first. 21 They would have been better off if they had never known about the right way. Even after they knew what was right, they turned their backs on the holy commandments that they were given. 22 What happened to them is just like the true saying,

“A dog will come back
    to lick up its own vomit.
A pig that has been washed
    will roll in the mud.”

Isaiah 2

Stop trusting the power
    of humans.
They are all going to die,
    so how can they help?

The Sorrowful Heart of Jesus as He Went to the Mountain

Rev. Sun Myung Moon
January 25, 1959

Matthew 17: 1-8

Prayer

Father, we know that in search of religion, humankind needs beautiful and great mountains. We know well that the great figures of history had relationships with mountains, sharing their situations with mountains and determining the standards of life and death and victory and defeat on mountains. We have learned that Jesus visited the top of a mountain as the representative of humankind and there pleaded with Heaven from the depths of his heart. Continue reading “Honor the True and Righteous Way, Just Like Jesus”

Jesus Was Never Free to Share His Heart

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 404

Earthly life and life in the spir-
it world are not separate. Earthly life
is important, and so is life in the spirit
world. In other words, life in the spirit
world is connected to earthly life. Both
are important, but the people living on
earth today are not aware of eternal life.
They think that only life on this earth
is important. That is the problem. Even
among our Unification Church mem-
bers, there are many who do not grasp
that their present life affects their eter-
nal life. (217-85, 1991.4.16)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1086

Because in front of God your blood is
not pure, you should be totally obedient
in order to change this. Therefore, if you
are disobedient you have to be taught
the way of obedience even if it means
being chastised. That means that you
are taught God’s love. This is the Unifi-
cation Church. This is why the Unifica-
tion Church will become the center of all
religions. (33-332, 1970.8.23)

The Sorrowful Heart of Jesus as He Went to the Mountain

Rev. Sun Myung Moon
January 25, 1959

Matthew 17: 1-8

When Jesus prayed three times, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me” (Matthew 26:39), there was no one who prayed with the same Shim Jung: “Father, if possible, let me be taken to the cross instead of Jesus.” You should know that there was no chosen believer or person capable of offering such a prayer.

The life of Jesus was a continuation of grave events like those on the mountain, without any joy. Whenever he was lonely, Jesus visited the valleys of the Mount of Olives. Whenever he was sad, he gave a silent sermon, with the quiet forest as his friends. We should know that he never had a free place where he could share the depth of his heart with anyone. Continue reading “Jesus Was Never Free to Share His Heart”

Jesus Grave Shim Jung

1 Corinthians 16

13 Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.14 Do everything in love.

John 5

1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. [4] [b] 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

The Sorrowful Heart of Jesus as He Went to the Mountain

Rev. Sun Myung Moon
January 25, 1959

Matthew 17: 1-8

For whom did Jesus come to the earth? Although he came for the sake of history, the age, the nation and the church, his path was full of pathos. Since he knew that his sorrow would not end simply as his own, but would be expanded as the sorrow of history, the age and the future, he was consumed with anxiety.

For this reason, Jesus went to the garden of Gethsemane. We should be able to feel sadness about this matter. The place where Jesus, the Savior of all people and the King of Kings, shared his final sorrow was not in the home of a disciple. It was not in a Jewish church nor a palace of the Jewish state. The place to which he went to decide everything in consultation with God was the garden of Gethsemane, where there were no visitors that late night. We should know this. Continue reading “Jesus Grave Shim Jung”

Try to Understand Jesus’ Heart

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1542

A perfected human being should
become a citizen of the one global nation
that is also God’s kingdom. Which coun-
try do you belong to? Among those of
you gathered here, some may be Amer-
ican, some German, some Korean, and
so on, but where is God’s kingdom? This
world, earth, is your nation as well as
mine. Where is our hometown? This
world is our hometown. We are not con-
cerned with national boundaries and
things like that. Neither are we con-
cerned about the differences between
blacks and whites. All of us are God’s
children. (79-247, 1975.8.24)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1763

When the sexual organs are sancti-
fied, they can be connected to heaven.
Their importance should be taught from
elementary school. The goals pursued by
man and woman are the sexual organs
of love. They are shaped as concave and
convex for love. Why were the genitals
shaped differently? For the sake of love.
Which love is it for? It is for true love, God’s
eternal and unchanging love. (278-271,
1996.5.26)

The Sorrowful Heart of Jesus as He Went to the Mountain

Rev. Sun Myung Moon
January 25, 1959

Matthew 17: 1-8

When Jesus climbed the Mount of Transfiguration, he was accompanied by three disciples. Although they were chosen as representatives of the nation, they failed to establish any condition of support for Jesus on the mountain route.

When Jesus went to the wilderness, angels served him. When he ascended the Mount of Transfiguration after fighting for the nation, determined to die for it, even the three disciples failed to serve him. Considering this, we cannot help feeling that the life of Jesus, which started and ended in sorrow, was full of pathos.

Jesus knelt down and prayed to Heaven that he would follow His Will to the limits of his strength and with all his effort. Although he followed the three-year course of public life with greater dedication, loyalty, sincerity and effort than any ancestor in history, Jesus was driven out by the nation and the church. Even with no relatives or disciples standing by his side, he still lived a life of prayer in sight of Heaven. Continue reading “Try to Understand Jesus’ Heart”