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Don’t Hold Grudges

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CSG 898

When God sees humanity dying in
hell, He becomes desperate, trying to
give them eternal life. Only then will His
responsibility as the parent of heaven be
fulfilled. If He were to say, “Ugh! Let
me eliminate everything,” He could not
stand in the position of a parent. There-
fore, this establishes the logic that God
even has to liberate hell. When a son sees
his parents desperately trying to save
him, he will say, “My mother and father
have done so much for me!” and repent
thousands of times for his sins. If there
is such a mother and father, the son will
repent till his bones melt and flesh falls
away. Because of the parents’ heart, such
a way can be made. (62-51, 1972.9.10)
Not even Satan can accuse God for
His love in trying to save humanity.
There is no rule preventing forgiveness
for the one who repents through the love
of his parents. Hell must also be liber-
ated through this kind of heart. That
is the way of a true devoted child, isn’t
it? Therefore, the Unification Church
believes that it must liberate even hell.
Why? It is because God has such a paren-
tal heart. (62-51, 1972.9.10)
Hell is the place where you can nev-
er escape once you are caught. Despite
this, you do not feel desperate about the
fact that your mother, father and rela-
tives are going to hell. You just think, “It
will work out somehow.” However, let’s
think seriously about your beloved par-
ents really going to hell. Human nature
is such that if your parents were to go to
prison, you would cry and do all sorts of
things to have them released. Then, even
more so, if you knew that your sons and
daughters, parents and relatives, broth-
ers and sisters – with whom you have
bonds made in heaven – were going to
go to an eternal prison, could you just
think casually about their fate? (34-266,
1970.9.13)

CSG 1345

Jesus shed his blood on the cross
because the seventy-two disciples and
twelve apostles totaling eighty-four were
disunited. Hence, every one of you must
substantially restore eighty-four peo-
ple through indemnity. Only on such a
foundation can you lead married lives.
The same was true for me. In order to
fulfill this, I blessed the 36 Couples, who
can be subdivided into three groups of
twelve each, representing formation,
growth, and completion. Strictly speak-
ing, they are three groups, but they can
be compressed into one; similarly, the
72 Couples. On that foundation, the 120
Couples were blessed, and on that basis,
the world could be connected. After
Jesus’ resurrection and ascension, didn’t
the 120 followers gather on the day of
Pentecost? They symbolized representa-
tives of the world. (122-117, 1982.11.1)

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Work to Build the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth

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CSG 2172

Jesus said, “Worry not what you will
wear or what you will eat, for the Gen-
tiles seek after these. Seek ye first the
Kingdom of God, and His righteous-
ness.” As this shows, the central stream
of thought in the Bible is that kingdom.
This philosophy says to seek that nation.
It does not say to seek your own happi-
ness. If you are born as a citizen of that
nation and you have a husband, then
that husband represents that nation, so
you have to love that nation before you
can love your husband. And the wife
also represents the nation; you have to
love that nation before you can love your
wife. You have to be able to ask him or
her to die in the position of being able
to say, “I did everything I could; there
is nothing more I could have done.” It is
no good if you die having said, “I should
have tried such and such.” For this rea-
son, we are busy even though we may
have accomplished a certain amount.
Even if you walk a way on the path, you
have got to go even further. When every-
one else is sleeping, we have to go one
step further. “Hey Satan’s world! Take it
easy! You guys, rest the whole day if you
like! We are going off to seek that nation.”
That is what you have got to say.
Fellow compatriots, all you who seek
the unification of the North and South! I
especially want to say the mission of you
women is to restore the young men and
women, and the mission of the students
is to be true children through true edu-
cation. That is what you must do.
And beyond that, mothers and chil-
dren have to unite to set the standard, so
that the husbands can be raised and edu-
cated to be the true sons of Heaven. Then
following True Parents, and attending
God, restore the ideal of the Kingdom
of Heaven on Earth.
In closing, let me say that it is my
fervent hope that these words today will
help you build a nationwide movement
to bring closer the day when North and
South meet in true love.
May God’s blessing be with both you
and your families. Thank you.

CSG 1520

If you cannot experience heavenly
love on earth, you are not able to enter
God’s Kingdom in the spirit world. Have
you sincerely loved a Cain-type person?
In order to go to the Kingdom of Heav-
en, your love should surpass the paren-
tal love and conjugal love of the satanic
world. If the parents in the satanic world
are able to die for the sake of their child,
we should demonstrate a love that sur-
passes them. (Blessed Family – 953)

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Exert Yourself to Build God’s Kingdom on Earth

CSG 2120

In the future we will have to be reg-
istered. When the North and South are
united, the families of the Unification
Church around the world, those Blessed
Families who have been active, will all
go beyond the tribal level and become
registered. If the North and South are
united through my power, heavenly law
will establish the loyal officials of the
Unification Church around the world as
the representative people and the peo-
ple who provide the seed. Who would
oppose this? Historically speaking, who
would oppose me, when I have worked
as hard as I have for the sake of the inde-
pendence of Korea and the return to
hometown in Korea? (197-212, 1990.1.14)

Jeremiah 35

^12-13Then the Lord told me to say to the people of Judah and Jerusalem:

I, the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, want you to learn a lesson ¹⁴from the Rechabite clan. Their ancestor Jonadab told his descendants never to drink wine, and to this very day they have obeyed him. But I have spoken to you over and over, and you haven’t obeyed me! ¹⁵You refused to listen to my prophets, who kept telling you, “Stop doing evil and worshiping other gods! Start obeying the Lord, and he will let you live in this land he gave your ancestors.”

¹⁶The Rechabites have obeyed the command of their ancestor Jonadab, but you have not obeyed me, ¹⁷your God. I am the Lord All-Powerful, and I warned you about the terrible things that would happen to you if you did not listen to me. You have ignored me, so now disaster will strike you. I, the Lord, have spoken.

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Experience All Material Things on God’s and Jesus’ Behalf

CSG 407

Can you see your mind? The spirit
world is a world where your mind takes
form, and it is a world that transcends
time and space. There you can eat meals
whenever you want. You do not have to
worry about your meals. You do not have
to worry about water. Nor do you have to
worry about drinking. There is no need
to worry about clothes. The spirit world
is a place where you rise above the need
for clothing, food and shelter. Would
you need cars there? Do you think there
are automobile factories there? Do you
think there are food, clothing or textile
factories there? There are none of these.
It is a place where you can move hun-
dreds of millions of kilometers in an
instant. But by what force? By the force
of love. If you say you want to see your
loved one, he will appear before you.
(210-225, 1990.12.23)

Song of Solomon

²My darling has gone down
    to his garden of spices,
where he will feed his sheep
    and gather lilies.
³I am his, and he is mine,
as he feeds his sheep
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Comfort the Sorrow of God and Jesus

CSG 1932

The reason why human beings are
still unable to make true peace is because
they are ignorant of true love. Why? The
answer, as mentioned in the Bible, is that
humankind has separated from God.
Due to the Fall of the first human
ancestors, Adam and Eve established
the first family without God’s blessing.
Peace has been absent from this world
ever since. Instead, divisions, conflicts,
and struggles have come to rule this
world. In the individual, the struggle
between mind and body, the conflicts
between husband and wife at the family
level, and the struggles between societies
are accepted as normal, everyday life.
It is my conviction that all human
Chapter 3 • The Pacific Rim Era and the Island Nations Federation 1933
problems are caused by the fundamental
loss of true love. The fall of humankind
meant the loss of true love. Consequent-
ly, Jesus came as the King of true love
in order to restore the love that Adam
and Eve had lost. By the same token, the
Lord at his Second Advent is coming in
order to restore true love. That is the log-
ical conclusion, seen from the view of
the providence of salvation.

CSG 1700

Why were human beings born? No
one is born for him or herself. Human
beings are born for a greater purpose
than just themselves. Those who live
only for themselves are acting contrary
to the fundamental principle of their
birth. People who live in this way are
deserters, dropouts, degenerates, and
destroyers. Did you learn this in school?
Those who say they were born for them-
selves are not wanted by this universe.
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