Happy Anniversary to the 3.6 Million Couples, Blessed in marriage at RFK stadium in Washington DC in 1997!
News for Youth Success-November 2024-Family Breakdown = Community Breakdown
Cheon Seong Gyeong 1030
When you make a donation on Sunday at the church, if children say: “Mommy, Daddy, money for donation, please….” would you say, handing any old bill, “Here, this is for your Sunday school.” Is God a beggar? Is the church minister a beggar too? The church and the minister should not be treated that way. You should offer the core of your property for donations. You should prepare with a sincere heart and keep the donations deep in your safe until the time of offering.
In the fall, when you harvest grains, a tithe from what you reap must be separated and stored in a separate barn. Then, during the year, your children and relatives should gather together and humbly offer that tithe with sincerity and love. (166-71, 1987.5.28)
Cheon Seong Gyeong 1232
A true filial son is the one who obeys. A true loyal subject even when being chased and put to death by traitors never calls his king incapable. A true loyal subject is a person of integrity and loyalty, who sheds tears with a sorrowful heart, and wishes his king a long life even when persecuted by treacherous courtiers to the point of death. This is absolute obedience. The only way to bring about success through absolute obedience is the way of true love. (164-48, 1987.5.3)
Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Book 4
TRUE FAMILY
Chapter 10
The True Family of Humankind Must Be Restored
Section 1. The Purpose of God’s Providence of Salvation
The question is: what is it that God needs most? What is God called? He is the King and Owner of true love. If He is the King and Bridegroom of true love, it is an absolute principle that He needs a queen to become His partner. Who can be partners of true love for the absolute God? True human beings. It was Adam and Eve who were to attain oneness with God’s love. You need money, knowledge and power, but if you lack a spouse, all these are in vain. Husbands need their wives and children, and wives need their husbands and children. The place where such objects of love live is called the family. Families who attend God, the Subject of love, must form the base for the beginning of God’s Kingdom on earth centered on His true love. The core family is comprised of a man and a woman who are united as the object partners of God’s love, who fulfill the desire of the conscience, who have sons and daughters within God’s love, and who live happily as a family,
Just as human beings wish for the appearance of a beloved partner a million times or infinitely more valuable than themselves, God also wishes for His beloved partners to become beings of infinite value. Such people are true men and women. None of you have realized the fact that such a man and woman were none other than Adam and Eve, who were supposed to reach perfection without falling. (270-238, 1995.6.7)
Due to the Fall, God lost the true mother and children of Adam’s family. There have been no true sons and daughters for God. There has been no family of God who could inherit the lineage of His love. Our minds and bodies came into conflict, having inherited false love, false life and false lineage through the fallen parents. Adam and Eve became enemies. Bloody wars broke out among Adam’s sons and daughters.
Therefore, God’s providence of salvation must be completed. The providence of salvation through which God restores everything is the providence of restoration and it is fulfilled in this manner: sons and daughters with unified minds and bodies should attain absolute oneness as couples centering on God’s love; they should then build true families where they can live attending God eternally; and then, inherit His lineage by connecting with Christianity, the religion positioned as the Bride. Together, they will reorganize through God’s true love a unified family, tribe, people, nation and world. (270-243, 1995.6.7)
What is God’s purpose in establishing religions? You should clearly know that it has to be His will to form a beloved family, tribe, people and nation centered on His most beloved sons and daughters, in whom His bone and flesh can become one. Then you should know what kind of person the Messiah is. He is the one who will finally come to earth with God’s eternal true love as the root and perfect the ideal desired by all religions. Thus, the purpose of God’s providence of salvation has been for him to become the True Parent, regaining the lost true love, true life and true lineage by establishing ideal families all over the earth. (270-242, 1995.6.7)
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