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The Act of Asking Was Their Portion of Responsibility

They were free to ask. However, they established a horizontal relationship without asking God. That was the problem.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1026

    During sermon time, a boundary is created that decides who enters heaven and hell. If someone comes to our church thinking, “I’ve always wondered about the Unification Church, let’s see how it is!” but then is disappointed with the sermon, saying, “What kind of sermon is that?” it is the same as cutting that person’s throat. Giving sermons should be a serious occasion, even more so than when a judge passes sentence in court. (96-169, 1978.1.3)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1245

    What would life have been like if woman had not been created to stand before man in the Garden of Eden? It is a universal truth that women exist. It is a miracle of miracles that both men and women exist. If one existed without the other, it would be the same as having no existence at all. That would be the end of humanity. The Blessing of the Unification Church should be understood and appreciated in this context.
    Once you meet your spouse, that relationship will last forever. You must be thankful for the original love between husband and wife, which you cannot buy even if you offered the universe or God Himself. You must also be strong and bold. Those who have tasted the true love of the Unification Church will be followed by the light of love wherever they go. You cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven if you do not love humanity and the whole universe, centering on true love. (Blessing – 287)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity
Chapter 1

Fundamentals of Indemnification and the Principle of Restoration

Section 2. Human Beings Have a Portion of Responsibility

2.1. The reason God gave us a portion of responsibility

Summary:
The difficult concept of “restoration through indemnity” (making up for past wrongs) only exists because human beings failed to fulfill their original portion of responsibility. Because the principle of human responsibility is absolute, neither God nor church headquarters can help you overcome your spiritual trials; you must defeat Satan and complete this course entirely on your own. If outside help were allowed, it would violate the Principle, which is the exact reason God could not step in to stop the Fall of Adam and Eve. Originally, Adam and Eve could have avoided the Fall simply by choosing to ask God for advice, but instead, they acted independently and formed a wrong horizontal relationship. Ultimately, while this five percent portion of responsibility gives human beings the immense privilege and equal value of participating in their own creation, no one in history successfully fulfilled it until True Father uncovered this hidden heavenly law.
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Human Responsibility Unlocks the Dominion of Love

However, we must understand that problems arose over the fulfillment of human responsibility and that human beings fell.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1268

    When I speak of rebirth, I do not mean that you must be reborn through the bodies of parents who are the descendants of fallen Adam and Eve, but through those who are not in any way connected to the Fall. Unless you are reborn through such parents, you cannot return to God. The root of sin began from Adam and Eve. Unless you step over this and are reborn in a position not related to the original sin, you can never ever return to the presence of God. (22-269, 1969.5.4)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1056

    Your family should not become secularized or slaves of habit. You should not think, “Things will be better in the future even though it is terrible now.” You are to be perfect now; the present is the problem. When the past and the present are perfected, the future will be perfect. Not having had a perfect day in the Garden of Eden still causes us to suffer the effects of the Fall.
    The ideal is the place where the past, present, and future can be united into one. You should be able to offer up the present. God’s desire is to set up the eternal stepping stone on earth. This is the historical point of synthesis. (21-77, 1968.10.20)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity
Chapter 1

Fundamentals of Indemnification and the Principle of Restoration

Section 2. Human Beings Have a Portion of Responsibility

2.1. The reason God gave us a portion of responsibility

Summary:
God gave human beings their portion of responsibility to share His highest authority and creative power, allowing them to participate in the work of creation and rise to a position that truly represents God Himself. This responsibility was not created because of the Fall; even in a perfect world, God completes ninety-five percent of the ideal of creation, and human beings must fulfill their own five percent portion to achieve perfection and earn the key to dominate the universe with love. Because this principle is absolute and carries no exceptions, God cannot simply fix everything as He pleases, which is why He has also had to walk a long path of intense hardship to help restore humanity. Ultimately, this five percent responsibility is a grand privilege that gives human beings the value of becoming God’s true partners, meaning that both God and humanity must bear the weight of responsibility together under any circumstances.
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True Parents are Most Needed in the Fallen World

Who have gone beyond the realm of the Fall. According to the Principle, they are the ones who have completed their portion of responsibility.

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    You enter the spirit world without money. Take care of Satan’s children. Each of you is to look after more than 120 people. The Kingdom of Heaven lost all its citizens. By engrafting them, we establish a condition for them not to be lost.
    In order to go through the twelve pearly gates in the spirit world, you must, while on earth, recover the citizens of heaven from Satan. To do so, you must shed tears, sweat and blood. With the heart of true love for re-creation, invest your heart more than that of the fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, and sons and daughters of the satanic world, and bring about that transitional process by shedding your tears, sweat and blood. Without doing so, you cannot claim any heavenly citizens as your own. In proportion to this number, the conditions for your position of glory and your proximity to God in the other world will be established. (211-352, 1991.1.1)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1180

    It was fourteen years after the liberation of Korea that I received Mother. It was in 1960. Why was it fourteen years? It was because our first ancestors fell at the completion level of the growth stage when they were still passing through their second seven-year course; they fell in the very end of this seven-year course, before the beginning of the third seven-year course. Therefore, according to the principle of restoration through indemnity, I settled in Korea through a course of fourteen years of persecution, built the altar called the Unification Church, and chose Mother and raised her to this position while battling the established churches and the nation of South Korea. From that point, when Mother was chosen and designated to her position, God’s providence could settle on earth for the first time. (143-178, 1986.3.18)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity
Chapter 1

Fundamentals of Indemnification and the Principle of Restoration

Section 1. The Realms of Indirect and Direct Dominion

1.2. The realm of direct dominion

Summary:
Fulfilling your human portion of responsibility allows you to move from the indirect dominion into the direct dominion of God’s love, where your heart becomes completely one with His. In this direct dominion, vertical and horizontal love connect to create a pure divine lineage that completely locks out Satan and allows you to travel freely between the physical and spirit worlds. Because the fallen world has struggled to reach this state, it desperately needs True Parents, who have already completed their responsibility, overcome the Fall, and established a perfect foundation of absolute love. When families follow this path and unite with God’s love, heavenly fortune is set in motion and the Kingdom of Heaven automatically appears on earth. Ultimately, entering the direct dominion means belonging entirely to God’s heart and living under His perfect, eternal guidance where no evil can ever interfere.
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Love God First, then Husband or Wife Second

When you have completed your portion of responsibility, you cross from the realm of indirect dominion into the realm of direct dominion.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 2085

    Do you know why I have proclaimed tribal messiahship to both Korea and the world? It is because I have returned to Korea and have now connected Korea to all the nations. Imagine the mobilization of spirits in the spirit world, whose eyes are wide open in anticipation of liberation and who are saying that it’s the right time to return to earth to indemnify thousands or tens of thousands of years of history. So if I do not lay down all these bridges to connect the spirit world to earth, would that be right? Because everything has collapsed, there is no place for me to stand. In order to create a place, I had to send out Blessed Families as tribal messiahs and have them set up three-generation ancestral standards: perfection of Jesus, perfection of oneself, and perfection of Adam. This foundation created an environment upon which I could stand. This is why I have proclaimed tribal messiahship. The unification of North and South Korea does not just happen automatically. It is possible only after all these things are tied together. Since all these things are connected to the family level and the tribal level, they will then bond to the national level, and the Unification Church and the government should then become one. (219-97, 1991.8.25)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 963

    To this day, no one has been registered into the heavenly kingdom. The kingdom did not have a nation. It did not have a family or nation. When you go to the spirit world, your parents, and – if there are ten people in your family – all ten of your family members would be separated. However, from now on it will not be that way. You should know that originally, if human beings had not fallen, heaven would be the place where you enter with your mother, father and clan.
    If your grandparents, mother and father, couple, and children, become one based on true love, and inherit God’s true love that lives for others, then even God would be absolutely obedient to that. In the world that strives to live for others – a world that moves according 964 Book 6 • Our Life and the Spiritual Realm to the love that submits to the tradition of living for others – the basis for peace would surely emerge even if it resisted being formed. (210-354, 1990.12.27)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity
Chapter 1

Fundamentals of Indemnification and the Principle of Restoration

Section 1. The Realms of Indirect and Direct Dominion

1.2. The realm of direct dominion

Summary:
The realm of direct dominion is absolutely necessary because it is the only place where we can connect to God’s love, which is the essential foundation required to inherit the universe from Him. True Father emphasizes that he did not invent these spiritual concepts or terms on a whim, but rather discovered them through a lifetime of extreme hardship, prison, and persecution that only God could fully understand. Once we receive the Blessing and enter this higher dimension, denying it is a terrifying sin worse than Satan’s fall, meaning members must faithfully establish a strict heavenly tradition. To cross over from the indirect dominion into this new dimension, men and women must reach spiritual maturity by loving God first above all else, which fulfills their human portion of responsibility. Ultimately, living in this direct dominion means directly sensing True Parents in daily life and bubbling over with so much joyful emotion that we can instantly feel the character of others and experience the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
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When the Perfect Love of God Is Manifested, Satan Cannot Appear

That is the fulfillment of the portion of responsibility. …There the vertical love of God and the horizontal love of Adam and Eve are connected.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1183

    Throughout history, there have been numerous paths of suffering and hardship, but you must realize that the path of hardship of the eight stages that I have passed through never existed in past history. You must understand that it was the way of indemnity where, because of the difficulties, I still wasn’t allowed to shed tears, crying out, “God, I am not able to endure this position!” Those who are going to build the kingdom must not shed tears for themselves while walking this way. It is the heavenly principle that unless we pass through the place of tears with joy, the foothold of the heavenly kingdom will not remain in this earthly world. (161-194, 1987.2.3)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1964

    Japan was the one that divided the Korean peninsula into the North and South. For this reason, Japan should go to the source and influence it. This is why I am uniting the left-wing and right-wing to return to the position of the bridegroom. I must come back and even turn around Kim Il-sung. The leftwing and right-wing are like sons. After restoring the right of the eldest son, in order to restore the right of the parents, I even have to involve Kim Il-sung. Hence, once a unified realm unfolds here on the Korean peninsula, the Western Civilization of democracy and the Asian civilization, left and right, will become one. They will become one because communism will have disappeared completely. (228-233, 1992.4.3)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity
Chapter 1

Fundamentals of Indemnification and the Principle of Restoration

Section 1. The Realms of Indirect and Direct Dominion

1.2. The realm of direct dominion

Summary:
Fulfilling your own portion of responsibility is the ultimate formula for entering the Kingdom of Heaven, as it links the realms of indirect and direct dominion, unites the physical and spirit worlds, and locks out Satan entirely. When human beings successfully mature and connect with God’s vertical love, they become the true embodiment of love, enabling them to naturally love God, their families, and the entire universe. If the original ancestors had achieved this maturity, their horizontal marriage would have allowed God to descend and dwell with them, merging vertical and horizontal love to unify heaven and earth forever. Once this portion of responsibility is met at adulthood, human beings enter into an eternal, inseparable oneness with God’s perfect love inside the realm of direct dominion.
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