If Your Husband Loves You, You Do Not Need Anything Else

Saturday November 18th:
Strengthening Families and Communities Forum

10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.: Screening of the documentary
Gender Transformation
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Audience and panel discussion on:
Understanding parent’s rights and stopping sexual indoctrination in public schools.
Peace Kingdom Center, Harpers Ferry WV, and online by Zoom

Lunch will be served following the discussion.
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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1231

Until now, who has completed the payment of indemnity for the portion of responsibility? Can you pay that indemnity with money? Can you pay it by selling your house and your country? Then what should you do? There is nothing you can do. You can only be absolutely obedient. You must be absolutely obedient until you are in your twenties. Adam and Eve insisted on their own way. They had a sexual encounter, thus falling before they reached the age of twenty. Until you reach your twenties, you must be absolutely obedient. Before you reach twenty, you must obey. Therefore children are absolutely obedient. They are, even if you do not teach them to be like that. They know that if they do not become one with their parents, they will go to ruin. You will go to ruin if you do not become one with God. (133- 136, 1984.7.10)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1303

Christianity failed to stand in the position of both physical and spiritual perfection. In other words, it achieved the realm of the second Israel spiritually but not physically. As a consequence, we must additionally achieve the substantial standard. The day on which we achieve this is the day of the Second Coming. Christians who have waited and yearned for this day must receive the returning Lord on the spiritual foundation of the second Israel, and establish the worldwide realm of the chosen People of the third Israel. (16-223, 1966.6.19)
Richard: We should all join the realm of Blessed Couples.

True Family Gateway to Heaven
Rev. Sun Myung Moon

CHAPTER THREE

Our Course of Life
Centered on Love

Section 4. What is God’s Love?

Try to discover God’s love. How can we characterize God’s love? It
can be compared to a warm spring day where white clouds gently
float in the sky, heat rises from the ground, insects fly around, ants
crawl in and out to see the world, pussy willows shoot out by the
stream, frogs sing new spring songs, bees swarm and butterflies
flutter. You feel intoxicated in such an environment and feel
sleepy, but in reality you are awake and feeling so good that you
want to stay like this forever. When God finds His ideal object
partner, He gets the same feeling, as if He is in a beautiful garden
of flowers where butterflies and bees fly around. When thinking of
this, do you feel good or bad? These dull-witted men may not be
aware of this. It feels good.

When you run into someone you are pleased to see, you hold his
hand firmly and shake hands. When someone joyfully says, “Long
time no see!” and holds your hand firmly, do you feel good or
bad? If there is someone who says he feels bad, just kick him,
saying, “You jerk!” When you are glad to see someone, do you
hold hands tightly or not? Do you like it when someone grasps
your hand firmly? You want to like it, but maybe you really do
not. You have to know something to like it, and if you do not
know it, then how can you like it?

Be honest! If your husband loves you, you do not need anything
else. You live clinging tightly to your husband. It is always great to
see a man and a woman firmly holding hands, especially when the
man’s hand is as rough as a cow’s front hoof. When watching
movies, we enjoy seeing scenes like that. If the woman says to the
man, “Oh, you have pretty hands,” the man will be offended. This
is how things are. Love is eternal. Love is united, not divided. You
become one. When a man and a woman become a couple and love
each other, they are bonded together. Of course this does not
happen literally, but in heart they reach a level even higher than
this. That is God’s love. If you live with such love, will you be
united or not? Think about it. Everything is destined to become
one. (Blessed Family – 106)

When a man and a woman fall in love, all kinds of things happen,
right? But if you find a way to know God’s love and really taste it,
then His love cannot be compared to anything in this world. If
there is someone who has tasted this love, no amount of difficulty
or sorrow can defeat him. Such a realm of absolute liberation
should exist, should it not? The question is how to find it. (39-240,
1971.1.15)

God’s love can largely be divided into three great forms of love.
They are parental love, conjugal love, and children’s love. The
center where these three forms converge into one is God’s love.
(173-278, 1975.11.23)

Complete Obedience Means a Person Has No Sense of Self

Cheon Seong Gyeong 2256

What constitutes a wonderful and good husband or wife? The quality of seeing the spouse as absolute in the place of God and in the place of the True Parents. Such a husband and such a wife together constitute the true couple. Children who are born into the family where God is seen as absolute, parents are seen as absolute, and the conjugal relationship is seen as absolute, must themselves be seen as absolute. This is what is referred to in the Unification Church as the ideal of the four-position foundation. (147-231, 1986.9.28)

Richard: What a wonderful image of a true family. Join us in August to study this wonderful Principle of Creation.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1188

As viewed from God’s original ideal of creation, the eldest son should come from God’s side and, of course, the second son should also come from God’s side. Due to the Fall, the position of the first son was taken by Satan, and the position of the second son went to God. This has to be made right. Thus, when we consider the story of Esau and Jacob in the Bible, Jacob united with his mother and received her help. He gave Esau the pottage of lentils and bread in exchange for the birthright of the firstborn son. Until today, we could not understand why Bible history is the way it is. With the appearance of the Unification Church, its meaning was clarified for the first time. (134-304, 1985.8.16)

Obedience and Submission

2. Striving for Absolute Obedience—to Make My Will as God’s Will

Teachings of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Complete obedience means that a person has no sense of self in front of his Subject Partner. (271:118, August 23, 1995)

Everyone should practice obedience. However, while anyone can obey, not everyone can totally surrender him or herself. Only through total surrender can we fulfill the indemnity condition. (18:188, June 7, 1967) Continue reading “Complete Obedience Means a Person Has No Sense of Self”

Make God’s Will as Your Will

Cheon Seong Gyeong 2236

A true person is someone living with true love. True love will live eternally for the sake of the center. This is God’s core essence. True love is God’s love. A person who loves God for eternity will become an owner of true love. (123-328, 1983.1.9)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1406

    Through this ceremony, the environmental conditions necessary for all humankind to be able to participate in the Blessing have been created, and all people connected to the mainstream ideal can now belong to You through attending it. This amazing and incredible miracle has been wrought, not just by the work of the Unification Church but also by the joint efforts of Yourself and the spirit world. Therefore, I hope and pray that You can forever hold the victorious dominion and sovereignty of eternal love and glory gained from this ceremony, and establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in the spirit world through the liberation achieved by this Blessing. All humankind connected to the 360 Million Couples can now unite in heart and strive to achieve the unity of mind and body, husband and wife, and within the tribe, race, nation, world, and cosmos. These couples have been established as the nucleus representing the True Parents on earth and the family in the garden of Your love. They have been blessed in order to complete the Kingdom of Heaven on earth with the sovereignty of the love central to the ideal of creation, which has been Your eternal dream.
    I stand before them on this occasion which You have long desired, and bless them to become Your children who from this moment can inherit Your will to build Your kingdom on earth and in heaven as true individuals by uniting mind and body, husband and wife, parents and children, and with their siblings in the blessed world. Please be with them and bless them as they march forward to the place of victory and glory. I pronounce my benediction upon the 360 million Couples in the name of the True Parents! Amen! Amen! Amen! (299-109, 1999.2.7)

Richard:  This is part of the benedication prayer from the 360 Million Couples Blessing.

Obedience and Submission

2. Striving for Absolute Obedience—to Make My Will as God’s Will

A sacrificial vessel:
The superior man, taking his stance as
righteousness requires, adheres firmly to
Heaven’s decrees.
    I Ching 50 (Confucianism)

Make [God’s] will as your will,
so that He may make your will as His will;
make naught your will before His will,
so that He may make naught the will of others before your will.
    Mishnah, Avot 2.4 (Judaism) Continue reading “Make God’s Will as Your Will”