Section 1. Understanding The Kingdom Of God (Part 1)
1. The Location Of The Kingdom Of God
The Kingdom of God, according to the Bible, is in your mind. The Kingdom of God is not at the end of the world as you might expect, but is in your mind. What kind of mind is that? It is not the mind that has elements of death from the fallen world, but the mind that has waves of the grace of life. This is the mind that can extend the grace of life to the world by removing the elements of death.
The Kingdom of God cannot be found in the physical world. The Kingdom of God is not in this world. Accordingly, the starting point of the Kingdom of God is where you make a resolution and practice it. As you find the starting point, you can meet the Kingdom of God.
Therefore, the Kingdom of God does not come at the end of the world, but comes with the starting point united by mind and body. When you weigh something on a scale, you make a balance by using the middle weight. The starting point of the Kingdom of God can be compared to the middle weight of a scale. The middle weight makes a balance by making the scale level, while the starting point of the Kingdom of God should not be at the level place. The purpose of a scale is to become level, but the starting point of the Kingdom of God should be slanted to the right side. It should not be slanted to the left. To be slanted to the right side is the starting point.
So, where does the Kingdom of God come from? It starts from the mind. What kind of mind is that? It is the mind that is victorious over the world. Even if the Kingdom of God comes externally, if your mind is evil and cannot harmonize with it, then you will have nothing to do with the Kingdom of God. Therefore, the foundation to be able to meet the Kingdom of God is not the environment, but yourself. In this sense, the problem is yourself. The foundation to be able to maintain the Kingdom of God is not the environment, but your mind. (46-23)
Where is the Kingdom of God? Although Jesus' disciples did not clean-up their present reality, they were expecting to receive high positions of authority in the world and were dreaming of a happy life in the coming Kingdom of God. Jesus fundamentally destroyed their wrong thinking and taught that the Kingdom of God is in the mind. People who don't create the Kingdom of God within their minds cannot harmonize with the environmental Kingdom of God when it comes. If your mind doesn't make a firm decision, perfect action cannot follow. Firm decision brings firm action.
Therefore, the Kingdom of God begins with an unchanging, absolute mind and perfect action. How does your mind long for goodness? The mind that desires goodness has to unite with historical goodness. The mind has to overcome tremendously difficult circumstances in order to work towards goodness. The mind should be unchanging, and resolved to go the lonely way of struggle even till the end of history. Such a mind has to be united with perfect action. From there, the direction of the Kingdom of God is decided and is started. However, when mind and body are separated, the Kingdom of God is not made.
In this sense, Jesus was not teaching that the unity between mind and body is slanted to the right or to the left. By removing the conditions that cause the slant, as one has subjectivity, one can meet the kingdom. You should understand this clearly.
The Kingdom of God does not originate in others, but comes from yourself. Because you are fallen people, you have to deny yourselves. When you do not create the Kingdom of God in your mind and act accordingly, someone else will create it instead of you. If that happens, then you have to unite with that person in order to reach the Kingdom of God. You have to keep in step with that person. If he goes east, you have to go east. "Although he's doing it this way, I'll do it another way." If you think like that, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God. So, you should not have any criticism. (46-24)
Jesus said that the Kingdom of God is within your mind. What is the Kingdom of God? It is the place centered on God's love. The Kingdom of God is where the bond of God's love is made, and the realm of the universal environment is established. Then, who can live there? They should be people who are harmonized with the essence of God's love. Only such people can go there. What does it mean to be harmonized with the essence of God's love? A person who is centered on himself does not have any value. The one who can invest life and devotion for the sake of his objects can live continuously in the realm of God's love. Historically, great people and saints went such a way. (46-36)
2. Christians And The Kingdom Of God
Those who are attending today's meeting, please think seriously if you can enter the Kingdom of God or not? Even if you've been attending church for a hundred years, if you still have a self-centered mind, you will never enter the Kingdom of God. If anybody thinks that Rev. Moon's word is wrong, please die and check its validity. A self-centered person can never enter the Kingdom of God.
You should know which religion is true today. You should know what kind of person is a true person, and what kind of nation is a true nation. (78-118)
The ideal of the Kingdom of God is that, first of all, the Kingdom of God is established on earth through the ideal of love; then it is connected to the spiritual world. However, according to the traditional concept, the Kingdom of God comes from heaven, and the Lord of the Second Advent comes riding on the clouds. This is not the content of the Principle, and also it is not logical. As you know, people today are flying in airplanes, aren't they? (191-112)
When True Father went to the spiritual world, he came to understand that the martyrs who died for the purpose of entering the Kingdom of God did not actually get there. On the other hand, those martyrs who died with a grateful mind did enter the Kingdom of God. "God walked the suffering path to find me; He shed blood. I will go anywhere in order to return God's grace." They went the way of martyrdom with this kind of mind.
For whom did they die? Did they die for their own sake? They died for the sake of heaven and earth. On the other hand, some martyrs thought, "I will die like this in order to enter the Kingdom of God." For whom did these people die? They died for themselves. A fallen person can never enter the Kingdom of God by insisting on himself. (41- 355)
Let's look at how Christians pray. If they are Presbyterian, they try to make God a Presbyterian. If they are Methodist, they try to make God a Methodist. They try to figure out God from their own perspective, despite the fact that God is an infinite and immeasurable Being. How suffocating it feels! How surprising it is that such people oppose Rev. Moon! (laughter) Rev. Moon has been relentlessly blamed and persecuted for forty years by such people, who are less than the eye of a needle.
God also likes humor. Sometimes God says. "Rev. Moon, listen to this prayer of a minister of the church! He is praying for you to die." Then God lets True Father listen to the microphone. It says, "Rev. Moon is the master of evil. . ." so on and so on. Well, let's see who is destroyed! Let's see who fails!
While True Father goes forward measuring the time of the universe according to formal data, all they have is blind faith in order to enter the Kingdom of God. That is miserable. True Father cannot deal directly with such a miserable situation. True Father knows all the secrets of the traditional churches. (147-185)
Those who want to enter the Kingdom of God, please raise your hands! What! Can traditional Christians go to the Kingdom of God? Do you think that because you listened to a Sunday sermon, carrying a Bible, you can enter the Kingdom of God? That is nonsense! The Kingdom of God does not come for such a cheap price. The Bible says, "Love God with your whole mind, life and will! This is the first commandment." Those who do not pass through this commandment cannot enter the Kingdom of God.
What is the second commandment? It is, "Love your neighbor like yourself!" The one who loves God first and loves his neighbor second can be a filial son. Do you understand? (198-259)
Can Christians go to the Kingdom of God just by believing in Jesus? No way! If Jesus himself does not fulfill the ideal of the objective partner, even he cannot go to the Kingdom of God. Can Jesus realize true love alone? Even God could not realize true love by Himself. Therefore, Jesus has to come again. Can he realize true love by coming on the clouds? That's nonsense! With such fake and shameful concepts, Christians are judging that Rev. Moon is a heretic and that they themselves are true. Let's see whether they or Rev. Moon are defeated! Now, the nation that knows the present content will follow Rev. Moon. They will not follow traditional Christianity. Don't you think so? [Yes!] (76-210)
Today's Christians believe they can go to the Kingdom of God just by believing in Jesus. They say that each person goes to the Kingdom of God alone, as an individual. Only a few people say that they want to take their father and mother to the Kingdom of God. In the future, religion should not teach only about individual salvation. If a religion is a true worldwide religion, founded by God, then it must be able to remain universally and finally. The kind of religion all mankind desires is the religion which pursues more than individual salvation. It teaches about the Kingdom of God not only on the individual level, but also on the family and tribal levels. If people humble themselves to that content, then everyone will enter the Kingdom of God together. (41-341)
3. Jesus And Paradise
People say that by believing in Jesus, one can enter the Kingdom of God, but practically speaking, who can go to the Kingdom of God? According to these people, individuals go there. Until now, there was no religion that taught about salvation of the family. Religions have been teaching only about individual salvation. However, only when the concept of family level salvation emerges can the door of the Kingdom of God be opened. So far, every religion has pursued individual salvation. Thus, the life of celibacy was emphasized to cultivate one's spirituality. The family became a kind of enemy for those going the way of truth. Jesus also said that members of your family are your enemy.
After achieving the pinnacle of the way of truth, a religious person has to hold the authority of the world. Men and women have to attend the blessing ceremony. The Kingdom of God is where sons and daughters get married and receive God's love. That is the Kingdom of God, the place where mankind does not fall and which he originally is to establish.
Did Jesus go to the spiritual world alone or with others? [He went there alone.] Because he went alone, he went to paradise. Paradise is a waiting room to the Kingdom of God. It is not the ideal Kingdom of God. The ideal Kingdom of God is where couples enter together with their family members. Therefore, Jesus has to come again, blessing bridegroom and brides, and taking them to the Kingdom of God. In order to do that, God had Jesus stay in paradise. Therefore, Jesus should come again into the world, making his public inner foundation, and entering the Kingdom of God. In this sense, God's providence is not to be realized without a plan and formula.
In the future, your father and mother will be saved. If a religion can save every family and teach everyone the way of salvation, is it good or not? From that point, the nation can be established. God's nation starts from the family. It cannot be established by the individual. In this sense, Christianity has no nation because Christianity is a religion in which unmarried men and women are gathered. You've seen Catholic priests and nuns, haven't you? In this world there are many Christian countries, but there is no country whose supreme ruler is a priest or member of the clergy.
God's nation and the nations of the world are completely different. Christianity is a spiritual nation. Christianity doesn't have its own country on earth. Because of that, a great number of Christians have been killed so far. If they had had their own country, they would not have been killed. However, because they didn't have their own sovereignty, they became dispersed and were killed as groups. In the future, we should unify all Christianity and find my home, my country, and my world by having the national sovereignty. Christianity should do that. (41-346)
Until now, God has not loved the person who made unity between mind and body. Jesus also has not loved such a person. Therefore, Jesus is still praying in paradise. That is why we should know the love of God, who is trying to embrace our whole mind and body. Only when we become God's children in the realm of God's love can we have dominion over all things. That world is God's restored world, the world of sovereignty, and the garden of rest.
Then, turning our focus to the problem of the individual, what shall we do in this destined restoration? We should seek new thought. The time has come to do that. Sooner or later, the issue of the true way of life and the true view of the universe will be raised as the major problem. (5-49)
Why didn't Jesus go to the Kingdom of God? The Kingdom of God was created by God as His gift, and only living people, who do not fall, can enter it. Only when a person lives according to the original standard can he enter the Kingdom of God. In this sense, Jesus also has to save fallen mankind, and enter there with his children in the position of parents of mankind. However, because Jesus came and went alone, he had no children. That is why he went to paradise, which is like a waiting room to the Kingdom of God. So, Jesus should come again and find his bride.
In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve originally were to get married and establish the Kingdom of God. Although the first human ancestors fell, because the Principle remains, which must be fulfilled, Jesus must come again to complete the Principle. Because he went alone, he could not enter the Kingdom of God. That is the same contents as the Bible, which says that Jesus should come again and solve everything on earth. (41-300)
If not for the fall, the Kingdom of God would have been established, where God's only begotten son and daughter got married, made a happy family in God's love, and moved to the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God can be entered only by the family unit. Individuals cannot enter. Since Jesus did not make a family, he is waiting in paradise, which is similar to a waiting room. The Kingdom of God cannot be entered by an individual.
In this sense, the Kingdom of God is vacant. Thus, God's providence of restoration has been a sorrowful history. God lost Adam and Eve. This means God lost the whole clan of Adam and Eve. The clan expanded to the people, the nation, and the world. As God lost one man, Adam, God also lost his only begotten son and daughter, God's sons and daughters, God's tribe, God's people, and the Kingdom of God centered on God's kingship. (143-25)
4. Heaven And The Kingdom Of God
What is the Kingdom of God? It is where one can take pride in the results of one's life on earth, such as the life of service and the life of attendance. Who can enter the Kingdom of God? It is not the place for those who believe in order to receive a reward. Those who prepare themselves for heartistically attending the Kingdom of God can go there. Even if someone were to die while preparing, if he lived with a heart of attendance, he would go there joyfully. That is the real resurrection. Look at the circumstances of your own life. The inner contents of your life are not visible. How we should live is the important question in our life of attendance. (8-304)
You know that we cannot enter the Kingdom of God without having contents of heart. The Kingdom of God is the nation of original nature, which is to be able to have dominion over the whole. So, those who have some situation cannot enter that nation. Only people who have a deep bond of heart can enter.
Therefore, Christianity is not ultimately the religion for sharing situations but for sharing heart. The purpose of God's providence on earth is to make the foundation to be able to share heart beyond the bond of situation.
What is the fall? The fall is not that people do not share God's situation, but that people do not share God's heart. God, searching for fallen humanity throughout history, has the heart that longs to meet His lost sons and daughters; yet He could not find one person who could share His heart. In this sense, the history of salvation is the history to find one who can share God's heart. You should know that the one who is sent to be such a heartistic person is the messiah.
Before we wish for the Kingdom of God, we have to think of God's heart. Moreover, before thinking of God's heart, we must think about how to conduct our lives. We must have the heart of attendance. The original mind of man longs for a high and valuable being, and respects that. Although humanity is fallen, the original heart of man wants to attend the high and valuable heart of God. Therefore, the person who has not lived the life of attendance centered on heart has nothing to do with the Kingdom of God.
In order to live a life of attendance, preparation for attending is required. After the preparation process, one needs to practice the life of attendance. After the preparation process and living the life of attendance, one can go to the Kingdom of God. The place where people who have attended heartistically go is the Kingdom of God. The place where we can be proud of our preparation for attendance, and where we can be proud of our life of attendance, is the Kingdom of God. You should know this clearly. It is our destiny to go the course that advances the world of this purpose.
From the moment the fallen blood lineage began, up to the present time, there has not been even one day when all mankind attended God with all their heart. Before Adam and Eve fell, they grew according to the principle of creation, but they were not able to attend God centering on the bond of heart. What is God's heart? The one who was supposed to attend God centering on heart fell into the position where he could not attend God.
In other words, God, who should have been lovingly attended, was not attended. This is God's very heart. God's heart is not that there's no one believing in Him, but that there is no one who knows Him. The heart of heaven and earth is that nobody attended God through heart. (8-290)
Today, many religions teach that the Kingdom of God will be established only through their own religion. This is a nonsensical fantasy. Many religions say that the Kingdom of God will be established through their founder's teaching. Let me give an example. Christianity is divided into many denominations. They are exclusive of one another. They usually regard a church outside of their own denomination as heretical or Satanic. If they do this from a position authorized by God, there is no problem. But, if they do it for their own benefit then their motivation is not pure. Accordingly, that kind of denomination will gradually diminish. If today's Unification Church does this, the Unification Church will also have to diminish.
In this sense, the primary issue of religion is not to establish the Kingdom of God. This is not the first purpose. Before the Kingdom of God emerges, a special nation that can inherit the Kingdom of God is needed. God prepared His chosen people to establish such a nation. This idea of a chosen nation proves that God's work to leave a good group was always in the background of history.
When the chosen people emerge from the evil world, God's nation begins to be established. However, in order for God's people to appear, first the children of God's people should appear. Moreover, before a people and a nation are established, the family that can establish God's nation should first emerge. In order to make that family, one man and one woman whom God can guarantee at the risk of His life have to first appear. Then, when such a man and woman appear, has everything been completed? No! Sons and daughters should be born from them.
And then a family that God can guarantee as eternal sons and daughters should emerge. Without that family, a tribe and people cannot be made, and without such a people, a country and the world cannot be made. This is a logical and natural conclusion.
The base that God searches for is the individual. God has been stuck at the level of the individual throughout history. Therefore, the purpose of religion has been the salvation of the individual. However, God's original purpose of salvation was not individual salvation. It was the salvation of the family. In this sense, the foundation for the salvation of the family has to be established before the Kingdom of God on the level of tribe, people, nation, and world can emerge. (47-250)
What is the dividing line between the Kingdom of God and hell? It is not decided by knowledge of the Bible. It is decided through heart and results. In the end, the dividing line between the Kingdom of God and hell is decided by the boundary line of heart and results. (32-231)
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Section 1. Understanding The Kingdom Of God (Part 2)
5. Fondness Of The Body For Hell
Adam and Eve were supposed to be God's body. I Corinthians, Chapter 3, says, you don't know that your body is God's temple. The body is similar to a house where God can dwell. However, that house is not like the bodies of today's fallen people. That house is not like the bodies of people who want to be saved simply by believing in Jesus. That house is not like the bodies of people who are just repairing what was broken. Adam and Eve would have grown up as the ideal creative humans, and would have experienced pure, first love in their adolescence. But they failed, and came to be far away from the realm of God's love.
What is hell? It refers to the realm of Satan's love. Satan adores only hatred, jealousy, separation, and destruction. Thus, the realm of Satan is filled with only these things. These characteristics of Satan are expressed in war.
What made God's heart painful? Because Satan came to exist. The fact that Satan's blood lineage was born through love made God's heart painful. The fact that Satan's seed was planted made God's heart resentful. The fact that God saw Satan's family gave God the heart of suffering. The family of God would have lived for billions of years in God's love, but it was destroyed by the appearance of Satan's family. The family centered on Satan spread all over the world. Now the world has about 180 countries. Throughout history, strong tribes absorbed numerous weak tribes and unified them, so the number of countries was reduced to about 180. However, these countries should be united into one according to God's will.
Where did Satan make his base? Satan also knows God. Because God is the owner centering on the original nature of creation, He is on the side of the origin. On the other hand, since Satan [Lucifer] was created through the origin, Satan is on the relative basis.
The original base for humans is the conscience. Whom does the conscience resemble? Because the human conscience resembles God, the human mind is regarded as being on God's side. On the other hand, whom does the human body resemble? Because the body resembles Satan, the body is regarded as being on Satan's side. Do you understand? Why is the mind on God's side? Why is the body on Satan's side? These are not simply casual words of Rev. Moon, given without authority. You should clearly understand this.
How has the conscience been sacrificed? Do you know the situation of the conscience, which has been violated throughout your whole life? The conscience is weary from taking care of you day and night. However, no matter how tired it may be, the conscience prevents the body from behaving in a wrong way. "Haven't you done that enough? You should stop doing it! Shouldn't you listen to my words?" Your conscience says things like that. Therefore, your conscience is the closest thing to you, like your parents, your teachers, and God. The mind itself doesn't need education. Do you understand? However, the body absolutely needs education. Don't you agree?
If you are doing as your body wishes, it is connected to hell. On the other hand, if you do as your mind wants, it is connected to the Kingdom of God. In this sense, the boundary line between the Kingdom of God and hell is yourself. just as Korea is divided north and south by the 38th parallel, Satan divides and occupies you. By dividing, Satan occupies. Thus, in order to separate from Satan, the left foot should be moved to the south. It is simple. Because of Satan's tactic, every existing being is divided between good and evil. If one were to die without separating good from evil, the 38th parallel of the individual could not be overcome. Then, one could not enter the spiritual world. The 38th parallel of the family and country could not be overcome. Then, how could we go over the 38th parallel of the world and universe? It would be impossible.
You must deplore the fact that your body has become the dance hall of Satan. Your body became Satan's place of love. Your body inherited Satan's blood lineage through his love. Satan's blood has controlled you by the realm of power in order to trample upon your personality. Satan is trying to have dominion over you for millions of years through your blood lineage. Your country cannot remove Satan for you. You have to do it yourself.
What is religion? The historical struggle of religion is fundamentally to defeat the root of sin. However, liberation theologians do not know this. Despite the fact that they are in a position destined for hell, and that they themselves are Satan's ballroom, they are noisily trying to save society for the sake of religion. Crazy people! If Rev. Moon were not here, they would create a big problem. They are like communists.
You should understand the content of what I'm saying. You should hate yourself. You should hate your physical body. "I am a child of the enemy! I myself was born through the love of the enemy's son and daughter. I inherited the blood of Satan, who killed the King and trampled upon the Kingship. I inherited the blood of Satan, who devastated the ideal of love within the heavenly universe!" You should realize that Satan's blood vibrates within your body. You cannot even cut it out with a knife or bum it away with fire. (214-281)
From the viewpoint of the providence of restoration, if you think that the present time is the final will of God then you should ask yourself if you are living every moment seriously. You should not be swept along by environmental conditions regardless of your will. If you failed to live seriously even for one moment, you will be ashamed of yourself before God. Such a moment is a problem. How much do people like you? You should figure out which is more, liking or disliking. "How well do I keep the universal law? How well do I live a life that enables me to be authorized by heaven and earth?" Before your death, when you reflect upon your life, if the percentage of goodness does not exceed 60 percent, you will be sent to hell.
Although your body is limited, your mind should have a history of struggle, in which you were not willing to be limited. You should be able to proclaim, "I am liberated; so, all people should inherit my tradition, before heaven and earth, before history and the present, and before your descendants." If you did not have such a proud moment, you must be sent to hell without mercy. (19-27)
The world is in chaos. How about the spiritual world? Since confused people are living in the spiritual world, the spiritual world also cannot help but be in chaos. For example, a person with a criminal record of stealing cannot just drop his bad habits. When such a person goes to the spiritual world, he naturally wants to get something without making effort. Since such a person cannot be treated properly in the spiritual world, hell was formed.
God did not make hell. Hell was formed. For example, do people build their house after making a garbage can? [No!] After building the house, while they are living in it, the garbage can comes out. (laughter) Hell is the same. Traditional Christians do not know their root. They are saying, "We are fine even though we don't know our root. Everything will be fine if only we are fine." When such satisfied people go to the spiritual world, where shall they go? They must go to hell. People who do not go through the root have to go down to the bottom. They cannot be welcomed. (148-28)
If you are living a false life, when will you clean it out? Don't you have such a mind? If your left eye loses its sight, you will have to remove it or cure it. Likewise, you should discern good from evil in your life. If there is a God, then God must teach a method for correcting one's mind. That is why religion emerged.
God did not make hell because of jealousy or envy. Since many false people appeared in history, God could not help but make hell as the warehouse to manage them. Do people build their house after first making a trash can? For instance, if you bought cabbage to make kimchi, but while making it discovered the outer leaves eaten by worms, you would dump it into a garbage can. The fall was committed by the human progenitors. Therefore, in order to indemnify that and remove the sin, persons who have the qualification of True Parents should emerge. You must understand this clearly. (20-118)
Who is the highest grandfather in the universe? It is God. Who is the final descendant? In the future, he will unite the world and cosmos into one. Both the first one, God, and the final descendant have to be connected. How can they be connected? That is the family. It is not the country. In entering the Kingdom of God, nobody can have a special privilege. No matter what country you are in, such as America, Korea, or an under-developed country, no special privilege will be given to you, In the Kingdom of God, only the model family is authorized. Centering on the organization of the major family, the model family has to connect the past, the present, and the future. This is the formula to unify the whole world. The warehouse where the fruits of such families are stored is the Kingdom of God. These families are the best and highest.
Because people who lived in this world had no condition for God to save them, they were sent to hell. Even though insects were eating them and worms were attached, God had such people stored in order to feed even pigs. That very place is hell and paradise. Thus, from the viewpoint of the Unification Church, the Kingdom of God is vacant. (135-118)
In the spiritual world, all people are staying in various stages of hell. Why do they stay there? It is because they did not practice filial piety, as filial sons and daughters, centering on the order of love. It is because they did not fulfill their mission, as loyal patriots, centering on the country. It is because, although someone was supposed to be a saint centering on the world, he did not reach that stage.
Humans have to go the right way on earth. What is the right way? There should be the right way on the level of individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, universe, and even God. Such a singular way should exist. What is that way? It is the original way of love. (147-183)
In the spiritual world, when you cannot correspond to the power of love, a strong reaction comes against you. Nobody tells you to go to hell. Do you understand? Therefore, the Bible says, "Love your enemy!" True love has influence on the enemy. If you overcome the first, second, third, and fourth difficult situation centering on love, the enemy will disappear. Because love has such great power, Jesus also said, "Love your enemy!" Christians today think "enemy" refers to an individual enemy, but there is no enemy before God. Then, who is the enemy? The enemy is the one who violates the law of love, which has infinite value. Who is Satan before God? Satan is an adulterer before God. That is a very tragic and sad fact.
True Father is called a heretic because he disclosed what he recognized in the spiritual world. People say Rev. Moon is the king of heresy who is trying to destroy Christianity. They are wishing that Rev. Moon would die. However, while True Father is still alive, some of them have already died. Why is this so? It is because of the Will of God. True Father still has a lot of things to do. (121-173)
Let's suppose you have a son who committed murder and was sentenced to death. When your son goes to his execution, are you going to say, "It is good for you to die. Sa-yo-na-ra! Good-bye." Are there such parents? Upon seeing your son's death, do you say, "I hate you! I don't want to see you any more. At last we can be separated."
If such tragic deaths were to continue forever, do you think any parent could just watch without doing something? You would try to do everything possible in order to liberate your son, don't you agree? Loving parents will continuously try to save their son, even at the risk of their lives. Are there any parents who will say, "That's enough, let's stop trying." Although it may take eternity to save their son, they will forever try.
In this sense, God is a miserable God. As long as the door to hell is closing, God is anxiously trying to liberate his children. That is to fulfill the responsibility of heavenly Parents. God cannot say, "Let me eliminate everything." Because of His parental heart, God has to liberate even hell.
Keeping in mind such a Heavenly Father, are you going to follow your wife if she says, "Honey! Let our son stay there forever! You are struggling too much. You've done enough! Please turn away from him!" When we consider this situation, how miserable it is!
If your son comes to know your heart, he will repent thousands of times for his wrong behavior. Do you understand what I am saying? If there is such a father and mother, the son will repent to the death. Because of the parents, the way to liberate the son can be made. Will anyone accuse the parents because they tried to liberate and embrace their son when he repented? Therefore, Satan cannot accuse God, who loves mankind and tries to save him. If someone goes to God and unites with him, Satan cannot say, "You can't stand in such a position." Not even Satan can accuse the one who is standing in the perfect position before God. On the contrary, Satan naturally surrenders before such a person. There is no rule preventing forgiveness for the one who repents through the love of parents.
The Unification Church has to liberate hell through this kind of heart. That is the way of a true filial child, isn't it? Therefore, the Unification Church can say, "We will liberate even hell." Why? Because God has such a heart. Reflecting upon your life, have you been a dutiful child? Do you have the contents of life to become a filial son or daughter? Your answer has to be "no". Everybody is less than a dutiful child. All of you are not dutiful. (62-51)
If your beloved parents and relatives do not believe the Unification Church, they will go to hell. Are you sure about this! They will have to go to hell. If your elder brother, younger brother, mother, father, or relatives do not believe the Unification Church, they will all go to hell. Do you firmly believe that or not? [We believe it!] You don't seem to be that certain. Once someone is drawn into hell, he can never escape. In spite of this, you are not feeling substantially the fact that your family and relatives will go to hell. You are just being optimistic. However, let's think seriously that your beloved parents are really going to hell. If your parents were to go to prison in their lifetime, you would be really anxious to release them through all possible means. How much more desperate it is if your parents and relatives go to eternal hell.
You don't know anything yet. You don't know whether there really is a hell or not. You don't know what the Divine Principle means to you. Do you really know or not? It must be vague to you. You can understand clearly if you die. However, once you die, it is too late.
Nowadays, many spiritual persons, who came to understand about the Unification Church after they died, are leading people to the church. During their lifetimes, they opposed their son or daughter attending the Unification Church, but in the spiritual world, they began to understand about the church. So, they are coming to this world spiritually, and are eager to lead people to the church. If they don't do this, they cannot be resurrected. Do you understand? If you oppose your son attending the Unification Church, you cannot advance in the spiritual world.
Therefore, spiritual persons want to descend to this world. They devote themselves to God and receive special permission, in the name of their good ancestors, to come to this world. They appear before their sons and daughters and testify about the Unification Church. However, without a special condition, spiritual persons cannot come here. When they recognize in the spiritual world what the Unification Church is, how amazed they are! Do you not know this?
The Unification Church is not where you just come and go without any meaning. If you separate yourself from the church, it will be lost forever. When the door is closed, nobody opens the door eternally. When the door is opened, nobody can close it forever. Because what is tied on the earth should be solved on earth, you should solve by your. self what you tie. This is a problem. Therefore, when you evangelize, you don't need to go to another place. (34,266)
6. People In Hell Also Long For The Kingdom Of God
Suppose there is a dying person who says, "The Principle of the Unification Church is certainly good. I can go to the Kingdom of God. Although I did not fulfill True Father's words completely, my mind was really trying to fulfill them. So please regard me as having established the proper indemnity conditions!" Then God will try to put him into the Kingdom of God because God is fair. (laughter)
Where did God try to put him? Because the person tried to go to the Kingdom of God, God put him where he wanted to be. Do you understand? God rewarded him according to his actions. God put him where he tried to go. However, one cannot go everywhere one wishes. Because one receives his reward according to his actions on earth, his destination can be beneath paradise or even in hell. Even people in hell want to go to the Kingdom of God. Such horrible things are happening every second, minute, and hour, but you don't feel it substantially. This is the human situation. (57- 265)
7. The Kingdom Of God On Earth And In Heaven
In order for the individual to rest, the resting realm of the family has to be established. That is, the fence on the family level has to be made. Isn't that so? In order for the family to rest, the fence on the tribal level has to be made. If there is no fence, the family or tribe will always be invaded. Then, in order for the people to rest, the fence on the national level has to be made. In order for the nation to rest, the fence on the world level has to be established. In this sense, only after establishing the worldwide fence, can the nation rest. In order for the world to rest, the fence of unification between the spiritual world and physical world has to be established. After that, the Kingdom of God on earth can be realized, which God's love can spread all over the world. Through that process, the Kingdom of God on earth is established automatically. Do you follow? [Yes] (68-20)
The place where we want to live is the heavenly nation. Are there any borders in the heavenly nation? [No!] Does the heavenly nation have two languages? [No!] Is there segregation? [No!] What is the heavenly nation? Because all people were born from God's bosom, all are in the same brotherhood. Centering on God, all humans are brothers because they are sons and daughters of God. Centering on the Kingdom of God on earth, all humans are people of the Kingdom of God.
Three elements are needed to establish a country: first is sovereignty, second is people, and third is land. Did this world become the place that God rules over? [No!] Did all the earth become God's country? Did the world become God's nation of people? Though you talk about the Kingdom of God, God's nation cannot be established until the world is united into one. Because world unity is not yet established, and Cain and Abel still remain, the history of struggle continues. Therefore, we cannot rest in this situation. We don't want to live in the process of restoration, but in the Kingdom of God.
We have to establish God's nation. Our living place can be prepared only when God's nation is established. In order to prepare our living place, we must fight, investing our utmost effort. If we do not establish God's nation, our descendants will be pitiful people. We should not be the ancestors who leave such a burden to our descendants. (66-281)
Jesus is dwelling in paradise, isn't he? [Yes!] He cannot enter the Kingdom of God. In order to enter the Kingdom, a person must go the course where he can receive God's love directly. In order to receive God's love directly, one needs to have the qualification of God's son or daughter, who does not need a savior. Moreover, when such people, who received God's love directly, go to the spiritual world, the ideal Kingdom of God in heaven can be realized.
Such an ideal world was not established by Jesus' blood lineage. Therefore, Jesus has to come again and establish it. Otherwise, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God. Where is the condition made to open the door of the Kingdom of God? It is made on the earth. Therefore, Jesus left on earth the key to the Kingdom of God. So today, centering on the Unification Church and your families, the history of restoration is being developed on earth. Moreover, since Jesus and his 12 disciples did not make their families, in order to indemnify that, 70 tribes and 120 tribes have to be restored. If that is done, the door to the Kingdom of God will be opened. (160-89)
Six thousand years ago, God was waiting to celebrate the wedding banquet of Adam and Eve after they became mature. But the ideal of the True Parents centering on Adam and Eve was destroyed because they became false parents. However, the ideal of the True Parents, which was lost 6000 years ago, could have been restored by the marriage of Jesus and his bride. Isn't that so?
Then, are the sons and daughters of the True Parents true children or false children? [They are true children!] From them, the true family can emerge. The true children of the True Parents will multiply true families and expand to the true tribe, true people, true nation, and true world. That world will create the life of the Kingdom of God on the level of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, and world. Then this world can become the Kingdom of God. After living the life of the Kingdom of God on earth, when you go to the spiritual world, your life will be connected to the life of the Kingdom of God in heaven. This is the general survey of God's providence.
All people were born from Satan's blood lineage. They are different from God's blood lineage. Therefore, in Romans, Chapter 8, it says, "We call God 'Father' in the name of the adopted son." They can call God "Father" through a bridge like Jesus. Otherwise, they cannot directly call God "Father" because the blood lineage is different.
Only Jesus had the bond of the direct blood lineage of God. Thus he was called the only begotten son. None of you are the only begotten son. Then, who are you? You are the failed sons and failed daughters. You are sons and daughters who would have failed. (160-44)
The Lord of the Second Advent will not establish the new ideal realm within the Kingdom of God, but at the bottom of paradise and hell. At the place connected to the bottom of hell, he will find Cain and Abel, and create the realm of God's new family. This will be expanded to the realm of a new tribe, new people, new country, and new world of God. Through the establishment of this ideal worldwide realm, all people of the world will be restored. That world will unify all people through restoration by indemnity centered on Cain and Abel. God's hope and Will can be realized by replacing the empty spiritual world with the new organized world of unification on earth.
Thus Jesus said that "Whatever you tie on earth, shall be tied in heaven, and whatever you solve on earth, shall be solved in heaven." Is it possible to establish the Kingdom of God in heaven without establishing the Kingdom of God on earth? [No!] The Kingdom of God in heaven can never be realized without establishing the Kingdom of God on earth. (143-30)
You should not think you are entitled to go to the Kingdom of God in heaven. Instead, you have to first establish the Kingdom of God on earth. But before that, you yourself must be a member of the Kingdom of God on earth. In order to become such a person, you have to make unity of heart to the degree that you can say confidently, "Father's mind is mine and my mind is Father's mind." Accordingly, you should be the person representing God's mind and True Father's mind as well as the mind of the ancestors. If you are doing so, all historical problems can be solved on earth. (3-295)
8. The Right Viewpoint For The Kingdom Of God
How much are you united with God at the most serious position in front of God's enormous Will and historical hope? Do you have absolute faith centering on God's Will?
No matter how strong a storm and wind may come, even if you are destroyed and dying, you should have absolute faith, saying, "This faith is absolute. Even though I was wrong, only this Will is absolutely right." If your faith is different from morning to evening, and if you lose the Kingdom of God, how foolish you are!
If there is a way to go to the Kingdom of God, what is it? The way to the Kingdom of God does not appear at the self-centered place. If you feel that you are far away from that nation, you have to deny yourself completely. Only when you deny yourself can the desire to enter the Kingdom of God remain. However, if without denying yourself, you try to make the environment applied to yourself, you cannot make a relationship with the Kingdom of God.
It is obvious that the Kingdom of God starts from yourself. Even if the physical Kingdom of God is established, if you don't become a person who fits into that nation, you will have nothing to do with it.
What is the Kingdom of God? It is the place to go after overcoming Satan. It is not the place you go to just by overcoming yourself today. The Kingdom of God cannot be within our present social environment, the realm of the fallen world, nor the habitual environmental realm. Because Satan has occupied and dwelled in this habitual environment, you can see the Kingdom of God only after overcoming this realm of Satan's. The Kingdom of God will be established at the place opposite to Satan's world. Is that correct? If it's not correct, it could not really be the Kingdom of God. Although that world may have the name Kingdom of God, it would be nothing but a deception to the environment.
Therefore, the Kingdom of God can be established from the position of subjugating Satan, denying everything related to Satan, and removing it. The Kingdom of God comes close to you when you remove the negative historic relic of Satan, and when you deny all the contents of Satan's lifestyle. Without removing these satanic contents, the contents of the Kingdom of God cannot be provided to you.
The Kingdom of God is such a valuable thing. Although the Kingdom of God is described as the absolute standard, people today seem confused about it. Most people are expecting the Kingdom from an extremely self-centered position. Only when you overcome your circumstances with absolute faith can the Kingdom of God emerge. However, that cannot be the origin of God's Kingdom. Based on the individual's foundation of subjugating Satan, the Kingdom of God can be realized. Therefore, the Kingdom of God is not established simply by obediently following God's will. It cannot be realized only with faith. Since Satan always tries to destroy us, that nation can be fulfilled only by us getting victory in the battle. However, in the battle against Satan, sovereignty is necessary. There should be people of the nation. If the level is country, a large number of families in the country have to make the whole organization for the sake of one purpose. Then, people of that nation should be able to harmonize with their leader, centering on God. without any conflict.
One may be able to feel, in one's mind, the Kingdom of God at the place where one is ready for death, but that is not the actual, substantial Kingdom of God. Although a great amount of martyrdom and suffering has taken place throughout the past 2000 years, the Kingdom of God is not yet realized on earth. In this sense, the Kingdom of God is not to be established in such an easy way.
When we consider the phrase "The Kingdom of God starts from myself," if the word "myself" were omitted, it would create a serious situation. The Bible says, "Love the Lord your God with all your mind, will and heart." However, the word "Lord" does not have a simple meaning. The fundamental meaning of the word "Lord" can be recognized substantially only at the place that has absolute contents, which cannot be forgotten eternally. The Kingdom of God does not come by believing in the Lord God, but by loving Him. God's Will is fulfilled not by believing in God, but by loving Him.
In this sense, you should recognize how immature your faith is and how far away it is from the Principle. Even though some of you are attending this meeting for the first time, someone will receive consolation and feel joy centered on himself. However, though the Kingdom of God may exist in your own mind and God feels joy from you, it does not mean that the Kingdom of God has been established on earth. It may be an individual Kingdom of God, but it's not the whole Kingdom of God. From this viewpoint, what God desires is not the individual Kingdom of God. God does not feel joy seeing that. Can we say that because a man feels joy, the nation is established? God tried to fulfill the whole Kingdom of God by unifying all the nations horizontally. Consequently, God sent the Messiah, Jesus, to this world and could not but have him sacrificed. (46-74)
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Section 2. Preparation For Going To The Kingdom Of God
1. The Base Of The Kingdom Of God
In this world, nobody can pull out God's life and love. The closer we are to the truth, the more we are absorbed into it. That truth will become the center, which nobody can take by force. Even if the earth falls into chaos millions of times and the universe is suddenly destroyed, if you have the truth as your mind's center, you will never be changed or shaken.
However, if you are not prepared to receive the truth, no matter how correct the truth may appear you will not recognize it. No matter if true life appears, you will not know it. No matter if true love appears, you will not know it. From this viewpoint, if today's Christians are looking for real truth, true life, and true love, they should deny themselves and establish a new center in their mind.
When new continents were being discovered, it seemed the earth was expanding, but now the earth seems to be getting smaller and smaller. In other words, when civilization was not developed, the world seemed huge, but as history and civilization developed, the world seemed to become gradually smaller. In this sense, the ideal world will be the universal time when everything is directly related to everyone. Therefore, it is necessary that the love and life of the heavenly nation be completed in one's mind and within oneself.
Because truth, life, and love are like one family, love and life should necessarily follow truth. Life and truth should necessarily follow love. In the same way, love and truth should necessarily follow life.
Why are truth, love, and life always connected to one another? As you know, in order for one being to exist, there should be above and below, front and back, and right and left, centering on that being. No existing being can escape from the realm of the number three. This is the basic structure of any existing being. These three elements make the unified form. But if the force proceeds in the reverse way, a different action of the force occurs. Accordingly, God is the origin of love, life, and truth, but after the fall, when those three did not make a balance, God could not work providentially. (2-133)
The disciples of Jesus thought that when Jesus became King of Israel, having dominion over the Roman Empire, they would also receive high positions. However, that is not the essential problem. First of all, one has to make the heavenly nation within one's mind and make unity between one's physical body and God, centering on one's mind. This is the greatest problem. The Kingdom of God starts from oneself.
Therefore, the base of the heavenly nation is one's mind. Do you want the world to become good without you! You probably want the world to become good together with you. Do you want to join the place of death? You probably don't want that. Even people at the age of 70 or 80 may not want to join the place of death. Here, you grandmother! Do you want to join the place of death or not? Although, because of old age, they don't have long to live, they still probably don't like the place of death. Why is this so? When people are getting old, they may become miserable and therefore say that they want to die. However, most people tend to say that they, with their wrinkled face, would like to see such and such things before their death. What does this mean? It means they don't want to die. This is a problem because they may be thinking everything is meaningless without themselves in the world. (47-273)
Where is the base of the Kingdom of God? A great number of Christians believe that they can go to that heavenly nation by believing in Jesus. Then, where is the base of the Kingdom of God? When Peter asked, "Where is the Kingdom of God?" Jesus answered that it is not in heaven but in your mind. Then, what is the base of your mind? Can a sad mind be the base of your mind? Can a proud mind be the base of the Kingdom of God? Can a mind that denies society be the base of your mind? These are not the foundations we are expecting and not the foundations that God can approve.
In this situation, the person seeking the base of the Kingdom of God cannot help being more solitary than anyone else. Why is this so? Because God is solitary, the person has to be solitary. Because God has taken the history of conquest, that person has to also go that way.
Then, if humankind always repents, feeling sad and shedding tears because heaven and earth are filled with sadness, can that be the base of the Kingdom of God? That alone cannot be the base of God's Kingdom. Even when you serve the church, expecting the time of new joy, you have to determine to resolve the problem of evil in this world.
Without such an attitude and determination, the base of the heavenly nation cannot be made. This is an obvious fact.
Where is the base of the Kingdom of God? Some people confidently assert that because they have a certain social position, the Kingdom of God starts from them. If good and evil start together, their opinion might be right. However, good and evil cannot start together. When evil goes east, good has to go west. When evil stops, good has to move. Moreover, when evil has desire, good must have no desire. Good and evil are opposite.
In this sense, when God comes to this world, who would be the most desirable one to make a bond with God? The heavenly nation starts from the place where God abandoned all hope for mankind. Therefore, people who are satisfied with their present lives cannot be true religious persons.
When you are confronted by the sorrowful fate of life and death, and when you sink into despair and distress, losing the meaning of your existence, you should not be excessively attached to your past. On the contrary, you should seek new value at the place of self-denial. In this process, the base of true goodness can start.
From this point, is there anybody who can confidently say that his personality is the base of the heavenly nation? [Nobody] Nobody can insist that his family is the base of that nation. No tribe can insist that God must recognize that tribe because of the historical good achievements of its ancestors. The people, nation, and some thoughts or theories are the same. This is a tragedy.
Therefore, while the one who wants to die will live, the one who wants to live will die. What does that mean? The one who wants to live for one thousand years can realize such a dream only when he makes effort to detach himself from the evil world for one thousand years. The one who wants to live for ten thousand years can find the base of his wish only when he gratefully sacrifices himself for ten thousand years.
Likewise, the one seeking eternal life, happiness, and the Kingdom of God must overcome the present difficulties centering on the eternal, and must be able to endure sacrifice. Only when one takes such an attitude can the eternal base emerge. (47-247)
2. The Standard To Go To The Kingdom Of God
What is the standard to go to the Kingdom of God? It is to love God more than one's own child. Without loving God more, one cannot leave the realm of Satan. Therefore, if one does not love God more than one's wife or husband, one cannot enter the Kingdom of God. Fallen people are in the situation to leave the realm of Satan and stay in the edge of the realm. In other words, they have not left Satan's realm completely. Therefore, one should not love one's father and mother more than God. (41-299)
Who can enter the Kingdom of God? First of all, it should be the one who is in accord with God's mind. How much does one agree with God's mind? If God works towards the eternal purpose, one should harmonize with God's mind centering on eternity. Is that right or not? If the accordance lasts only for about ten years, real accordance cannot be made. The accordance with God has to last eternally. How can it be eternal? One should be the child who can agree with God's mind and love God eternally. In order to be such a child, one should not become an object of sadness. The Kingdom of God is to be in eternity.
Then, one should be in accord with God's body. The body has a direction. It manifests some direction. While the mind represents the central point of every direction, the body manifests a direction. In order to be God's child, when God's body goes east, one must go east with God. If God likes a warm thing, but Jesus likes a cold one, is that the right attitude? When God wants to laugh and talk, if Jesus wants to sleep, is that right? Everything that is manifested through the body should be in accordance with God's mind. That is not enough. When God wants to be amiable, one should not be hot-tempered. When God is amiable, one should also be amiable. The internal and external should be matched. If they are matched, then mind and body will always go together. If God exists, one should do what God likes. If Jesus is God's son, Jesus also has to do what God likes. (47-257)
Although you may want to enter the Kingdom of God, you can never go there without sacrificing your life. If you have been to the Kingdom of God, you will know that nobody is there who did not sacrifice their lives. The essence of the life of faith is manifested so. (37-250)
3. The Starting Point Of The Kingdom Of God
Where does the Kingdom of God start? Without liberating God's sorrow, mankind cannot enter God's Kingdom. Since mankind has made a history of sorrow since the fall, all the bonds of that sorrowful history should be found in order to be restored. All the bonds of the six-thousand-year history since Adam and Eve have to be found. It is the Principle of the Unification Church that teaches about such a God of sorrow.
People in the secular world are trying to escape from the world of sorrow. While the secular world tries to escape sorrow, the Principle has a fundamental motivation to undergo the world of sorrow. The original human is different from people in the secular world. The more one knows God's sorrow, the more one gains strength in the Unification Church. Once you know the tragic situation of God, that becomes the source of explosive power to resolve it. This is the great strength of the Unification Church.
4. The Essence Of The Kingdom Of God
What kind of world is the Kingdom of God? Because the Kingdom of God is the original world, the individual, family, and tribe cannot go there because of Satan's accusations. Therefore, members of the Unification Church have to unite their family, relatives, and tribe into one, centering on God. In other words, three generations should become one. In Adam's family, Adam was the first generation, Cain and Abel were the second generation, and the children of Cain and Abel were the third generation. These three generations were supposed to unite. Centering on God, God was the first generation, Adam and Eve were the second generation, and Cain and Abel were the third generation. (21-54)
Because the Kingdom of God is the world where people live for the sake of others, it will never perish only if it keeps the principle of living unselfishly. In other words, if people only wish to be treated well, the Kingdom of God would perish. Don't you agree?
The Kingdom of God is the world filled with love. The essence of love is to live for the sake of others. Thus it is different from the love of the secular world. Therefore, religion teaches to live for the sake of others, that is, to be obedient, to serve, and to sacrifice. The secular world has no such teachings. These elements are somehow practiced by groups like beggars, who know nothing. However, that was God's secret strategy to have Satan's side receive good fortune, even though they were not aware of the higher purpose -- heavenly law. How wonderful yet miserable God is to have developed such a strategy for thousands of years! (46-42)
5. The Meaning Of The Kingdom Of God
Did you find your original homeland? [No, we didn't.] Since you lost the original homeland, you lost the original home country. The home country is the Kingdom of God on earth. Earth is to become the actual home country. What is the home country? The home country is to be the Kingdom of God on earth as well as the Kingdom of God in heaven.
Three major elements are required to establish a country: sovereignty, land, and people. In this world, is there a sovereignty over which God can have dominion? [No!] Did mankind allow itself to be governed by God? [No!] Therefore, we don't have our country. This world is not where the original human can live.
Thus, the desire of mankind is to console God and establish God's country, but that has been continuing endlessly. Also, your conscience pushes you to make a better world. Although you might have done good works for a stranger once, that cannot satisfy goodness. Your conscience pushes you again and again. Even though you did good works thousands of times a day, your conscience will continuously push you. Doesn't it do so? [Yes, it does!] Such a conscience may seem like a fool. The conscience pushes us because the mind wants individual goodness to accumulate rapidly and expand to goodness on the world level.
Therefore, goodness does not stay down. It pushes you forcibly. "You have to give goodness to three billion people thousands of times a day, and you have to give it again." It will speak like this. If there are no more people to give to, you have to give goodness to the mountains, the sea, and heaven and earth. The mind is trying to give goodness like that. Why? Because what the mind has desired throughout mankind's long history has not been fulfilled yet. (155-26)
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Section 3. The Qualifications And Conditions For Entering The Kingdom Of God (Part 1)
1. The Qualifications For Entering Tim Kingdom Of God
1) Necessity of Suffering
What remains forever is the suffering of a public life. If, when you go to the spiritual world after undergoing the suffering of a public life on earth, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God, you can complain to True Father. Those who receive persecution for the sake of the nation, the world, and the cosmos are wise men. (19-30)
What kind of tradition are you going to leave in this country? We are within the realm our enemy was occupying, because the man who took responsibility for the country got captured by the enemy. However, that man should not be given preferential treatment. If he is treated well, unity cannot be made. Do you understand what True Father is saying? The more miserable the responsible person's death, the more closely united the relationship between that man and us becomes. Don't you think so? Conversely, the more the enemy country loves the responsible person, the more our unity with him becomes vague. Even in killing him, he has to be killed in the most miserable way, by amputating his arms and legs, and by extracting his eyes. If that is done, the group that is bonded to him comes to be completely united. Don't you think so? That is the only method.
What can create unity between the spiritual world and us? That is for us to encounter difficulties. The harder a time you have, the more the spiritual world unites with you. Despite the fact that the Unification Church and the spiritual world are in a relationship of father and son, and a brotherhood relation, if we endure a lot of suffering, the spiritual world will completely unite with us.
Therefore, we are mobilized directly and are battling with Satan. If we do not encounter difficulties, the spiritual world will not work actively. In this sense, God unfolds His strategy through Satan. God lets us have an extremely hard time. Sometimes He lets us be killed. Death itself is a tragedy, but it can create the reaction of unity. Isn't that what happens? (49-108)
What kind of example should we leave on earth? Filial son? Loyal subject? Even though you become a filial son or loyal subject, or if you leave your name in the history of your country, that does not give you real meaning. This is because a filial son and loyal subject in the fallen world do not have the original heavenly standard. Accordingly, in order to reach the original heavenly standard, one has to be the most filial son among filial sons, the most loyal subject among loyal subjects, and the most exemplary woman among exemplary women. When is that time? Now is the time.
Therefore, those who want to enter the Kingdom of God should live miserably and die miserably. Are these good words or bad words? [Good words!] Then, are the words: "Go out and desperately lead people to the church!" good or bad words? [Good ones!] Then, why don't you go out and work hard? You should die for the sake of others. If you die for the sake of others, the world, and the universe, you will be treated as the subject of the great universe.
The most valuable things are the creation, humans, and God. Those who sacrificed, risking their lives to embrace the world from the position of goodness, are essentially sacrificing for the sake of those three things. Therefore, God has to compensate them with something more valuable than those three things. Because Jesus had such a viewpoint, he proclaimed, "Members of your family are your enemy," and "He who seeks to die shall live, while he who seeks to live shall die." Otherwise, people cannot go to the Kingdom of God. Thus, Jesus' proclamation was the most wonderful news. Do you understand? It was the most magnificent, valuable, and absolute gospel.
Thus, the Unification Church does not teach that one should live a rich and comfortable life. Even though you may live a miserable and poor life, and die in a tragic situation, your sacrificial life will be resurrected at the time of blossom. Every holy person will gather together and adore you before your holy life. What kind of life do you want to create? True Father is going to let the members of the Unification Church have an extremely hard time, and make you filial children and loyal subjects. Do you feel good or not? [Good!] How shall True Father treat people who are not willing to go such a way? In the relation between father and child, brother and brother, teacher and disciple, one should say firmly, "Father, please cut off my bone! Elder brother, please cut off my bone! Teacher, please cut off my bone!" It is true love to make some one overcome his present difficulties by kicking him with your foot.
Therefore, the first commandment is: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind!" Then, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself!" Who is your neighbor? The people of the world are your neighbors and brothers. You have to invest your mind, will, and life for the sake of the people of the world. If you stake your life, that is your best. Because Rev. Moon made such a resolution, Rev. Moon passed the age of 50, but he still has a long way to go. Rev. Moon never hesitates to go that way.
In order to realize the hope of tomorrow and become a manager of the world, Rev. Moon goes that way of death, devoting himself and shedding tears with his whole will and effort. Thus, True Father has to find one standard from which everything can be united. This is the major thought of the Unification Church. This is the way of adventure. We are now undergoing the path of a bloody fight.
What do you think of this way? Is it good or not? The foundation that was established at the price of one's life will be a model for mankind, and will be the foundation for the happiness of the world's people. All people will regard that base as the starting point of harmony, and will make the world united. The one who feels responsible for the history of the universe at such a place of hope, is never a small-minded man. Don't you agree? You should understand this well. (49-303)
He who begins the way of truth must go the way of death until he dies. In order to pay the indemnity, which would normally have to be paid after death, one has to go that way during his lifetime. This is to reduce the period of indemnity, which would have to be paid for billions of years after death, by suffering on earth. Accordingly, the way of truth is to indemnify on earth the suffering course that would have had to be paid eternally. (31-320)
God gives blessing to people who endure difficulties for the sake of God's Will. Where do you receive the blessing? In the spiritual world. You come to receive the highest blessing in the spiritual world. The blessing is found in prison. Therefore, the day to enter prison is the day of hope. The day your hands are handcuffed is also a day of hope.
When True Father went to prison with a grateful mind, everything was prepared to welcome him. Everybody was waiting to receive True Father's teachings. If I felt hungry, someone brought food. That cannot be compared to Elijah's miracle, who received food from ravens. I let communists bring food through the spiritual world. (103-207)
2) The Necessity of Love
What will you ride to get to the Kingdom of God? You cannot go there by jet. You can go there by riding the track of love. When True Father says this, do you feet it substantially? [Yes!] The line of love does not become thin when it is pulled, like an elastic band. On the contrary, the more the line of love is pulled, the thicker it becomes. That gives two kinds of benefits in one action.
In this sense, to encounter the most difficulties for the sake of God's will is a secret method to occupy the world. Do you understand? [King of suffering!] The king of suffering. When True Father uses this kind of world, you may actually feel that. What will the king of suffering become in the spiritual world? He will be the one who can take God's glory alone. Religious people today say, "Let's go to the Kingdom of God!" But can people go there with no qualifications? People should meet that nation first on earth. In order to meet that nation, one has to go through the law of love. You should pray that all of you go through the law of love.
When you come to have many children, you should feel the additional cross to love the Kingdom of God more. The reason many children are sent to your family is because your family has to carry many crosses. Your family has many responsibilities for the sake of that nation. Upon knowing this, you should fulfill your responsibility completely. Such a family can have a great descendant who can inherit heavenly fortune. (32-232)
How can you go to the Kingdom of God? You have to be crazy for God's love. You have to love God more than Adam and Eve did, more than Peter, James and John did. You must love Jesus more than Peter, James and John did. Without that, the relative realm of true love cannot be restored, from which God can love you. Only when that is restored will everything be fulfilled.
You should not worry about money. You should not worry about children even if you don't have any. You should go that way continuously. When you go continuously, you may feel that you are diminishing, but rather you are going higher and higher. The Unification Church becomes bigger and bigger by being persecuted. Don't you think so? In a family of ten, the one who is opposed by the others, and continuously endures for the sake of the common purpose, can become the lord of that family. That person can be the Lord of the heavenly nation. (142-289)
You must be able to embrace children of all five races, and embrace their grandchildren. So, you must be able to love people of the world with God's true love, and you must be the lord of the family as true parents. Only when you become true parents centered on God's true love, and represent the family standard of true love, can you enter the Kingdom of God.
In order to enter the Kingdom of God, one has to be united with the true God and the true love of True Parents. Those who have lived in the relationship of God's blood lineage can go to the Kingdom of God, but until now, nobody has lived such a life. Therefore, the Kingdom of God is vacant. (176-2 10)
The way to the Kingdom of God is opened by loving your brothers like God. You are trying to follow True Father. With such a mind, let you brothers follow True Father. From this viewpoint, the one who teaches the highest, quickest and best way to go to the Kingdom of God is neither God nor True Father, but your brother. (66-125)
Then, to what kind of Kingdom of God are you going? Are you going to the world Kingdom or the individual Kingdom? [The world Kingdom!] Because True Father is very greedy, in order to hold the line of love to be able to enter the world Kingdom of God, he has been going this way, enduring persecution for 40 years by going beyond the individual, the line of family, tribe, people, nation and world.
Where do we go after that? We have to go find the nation. Because we found the world level line of love and there is no bigger place, we have to go back to our hometown. Because we received the blessing, we have to help poor people in our hometown. Because we found the line of love of the world, where do we go? We came in order to save the country. (143-141)
3) We Must Have Results
Only the ideal of the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven has been close to us, and only the way of happiness to secure glory and prosperity remains before us. Until now, the way to advance happiness and the ideal was blocked by various walls. Servant and servant, subject and object were blocked. Numerous walls were blocking the spiritual as well as the physical world, but True Father opened them all. True Father made the foundation so that the spiritual world can freely settle on earth.
In the past, a person who prayed and devoted himself could meet the deceased founder of a religion only for a short time, and then had to separate, because the religious leader had to return to the spirit world. However, now is the time when all spirit persons can descend to earth, centering on the realm of religion. Thus, if you are not able to substantially move the past, present, and future, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God. You should know this.
The time of the past was the period of angels and good spirit persons who had gone to the spiritual world. The present time is the period of parents. And the future will be the period of God. Therefore, those who are not able to mobilize the spiritual world, parents, and God, cannot enter the Kingdom of God. This is the same situation as when the angels and God helped Adam and Eve. Afterwards, Adam and Eve were supposed to move the universe. Only those people who can move these three worlds centering on God can enter the Kingdom of God, which is the original world. (161-199)
What must you do in order to enter that nation? What is the condition to enter that nation? You have to love God more than your own children. You have to love the Lord more than your own husband or wife. You have to love the Holy Spirit more than your own body. That is the unity of trinity. (?-100)
Then, who can live in the heavenly nation? Sons and daughters who bring joy to God can live there. However, after the fall, multitudes of fallen people lived throughout human history. Out of these fallen people, do you think people who gave joy to God were born or not! [They were not born.] (43-23)
You might hope to go to the Kingdom of God by believing in the Unification Church, but if you did not bring results on earth, even if you were allowed into that nation, you would feel ashamed of yourself. We are not the group that wants to go to the Kingdom of God just by having faith, like traditional Christians. We are the group which tries to establish the Kingdom of God with all our heart and effort. We cannot forgive the people who try to oppose and prevent that.
In order to go this way, you have to invest all your mind and body as well as all your belongings. And you must take responsibility not only for the fate of the country, but for the destiny of Asia. You should understand that now is such a time. (22-226)
4) Living for the Sake of Others
If you are fifty years old and you lived for the sake of the universe and heavenly law for over 25 years, you can go to the Kingdom of God. You can go beyond the boundary line to be able to stay in a better realm of the spiritual world. But people who live their whole life centered on themselves go to the original homeland of evil -- hell -- regardless of their feelings. This has to be true. You have to recognize your situation and reflect on your past. You should make effort to live for the sake of the whole, the country, the world, heaven and earth, and God, during the rest of your lifetime. If you do so, it follows that you will march forward to the ideal world in heaven. (78-119)
You may not know much about the spiritual world, but True Father is an expert. I have experienced the spiritual world more than anyone else has. The spiritual world is my special major field. What is the origin of the spiritual world? The world which is composed of the principle-living for the sake of others- must be the Kingdom of God that mankind is expecting. That is our original homeland.
We are destined to go there regardless of our will. That is our way of life. We are going the way of a traveler. What can be a problem in your life? Whether you are living more for the sake of others or for yourself. If you lived more for the sake of others, you will go to the Kingdom of God. If the opposite is true, you will go to hell. You may be unable to believe this fundamental formula now, in your present situation, but when you die you will come to understand.
God has worked providentially to save mankind through religion. Therefore, the higher the dimension of a religion, the more that religion teaches higher contents which are in accord with the principle of the original homeland. Therefore, many high religions could not help but teach the idea of sacrifice and service.
Because God has been working providentially behind religion to match the world to the original world, we cannot deny that God is working within human history. Accordingly, a religion that is living for the sake of others will develop, while a religion which tries to take the subjective position, centered on itself, will decline. (74-51)
What is the Kingdom of God? You should know with certainty what the Kingdom of God is. It is the world of love. It is the world of living for the sake of the center, God. (98-35)
2. The Standard To Be Able To Enter The Kingdom Of God
1) Our Position
God is our Parent; then why did He create us? God's creation of humankind started from the place participating in love. Humans started from God's mind, growing up in God's bosom of love, becoming mature in God's bosom, and making the family which can connect with the love of the world. Through that, they come to return to God's bosom of love as mature persons. This is the way to live. Due to the fall, this was fundamentally destroyed. The relationship between God and humankind was completely severed. No matter how people try to return to God, they cannot. Furthermore, God is also the same. Such a big gap was made. The wall and boundary line were made.
What kind of wall is it? That wall prevents humans from going to their Parent, God. What is that wall? This is the problem. That wall, which even God could not handle, must be raised as the most important problem for religious people.
That wall divided the individual's mind and body. That wall, with various historical contents, also came between husband and wife. That wall was made in the family, tribe, people, nation, world, and all of the spiritual world and physical world. That wall was made between heaven and hell. Although God dwells in the glorious place called heaven, without removing that wall, humans on earth can never go over the summit of the wall, the surrounded boundary line.
This is the tragedy of human life on earth. How can we overcome this tragedy? Despite the fact that humans are meant to live attending God as their Parent and be led by Him, they don't even know if God exists. Humans came to radically insist that God does not exist. Furthermore, they proclaimed that God is dead. You are living in this kind of tragic environment that is demanding, "Let's remove God from human society!" Who made such a world -- God or humans? That is the problem. This is not what humans want. Then, who made it? Who raised this environment? (135-267) )
2) When You Cannot Enter the Kingdom of God
True Father himself is worried about the Unification Church. What should be our motivation: God's Will or our own will? The self should not become the motivation. However, in many cases, the motivation is derived from the self instead of from God's Will.
While God's Will asks us to go the way of suffering, the self tries to betray it. They are opposite positions. While God's Will asks us to go right, the self tries to go left. You try to excuse yourself by saying, "I had a harder time than anyone else since joining the Unification Church."
The one who makes excuses for himself cannot enter the Kingdom of God. The position of absolute faith is not a place to excuse oneself. There is nothing to say. The Kingdom of God is where one cannot be proud of one's achievements. What you call a hundred percent might be just one percent from God's viewpoint. What you think is a hundred may be just one from God's viewpoint. Therefore, the one who is centered on himself cannot enter the Kingdom of God.
From where does the Kingdom of God start? It starts from absolute faith. Absolute faith means to not insist on one's opinion. It is the place to deny oneself absolutely. Without denying oneself absolutely, absolute faith cannot emerge. If you follow the secular environment, and at the same time, try to pursue the life of faith then the life of absolute faith cannot emerge.
Most people live their routine daily lives saying, "I am fine in God's eyes." However, regarding the fundamental problem, living a routine life in this fallen world cannot bring us to the Kingdom of God. Such a person cannot be fine before God. Without having a certain objective standard authorizing oneself, one cannot have the absolute standard of faith. Because there is no absolute standard of faith, the Kingdom of God, which would be established after surmounting absolute faith, cannot emerge. Why is this so? Because Satan stays in that place. (46-79)
Historically, those called by God were usually over the age of fifty or sixty. Most of them were getting old, and were close to their own funeral day. God was working with these old people in the past, but he knew that in the future He would work with the young generation. So, in the background of His providence, God was concerned about how to develop the providential history with that young generation. God has walked the providential way of history having such contents.
Old age passes over the prime of life, the prime of life over youth, youth over childhood, and childhood over infancy. Through that course, you should be born again, or you will not be able to enter the Kingdom of God. You should be pure and innocent like a child. That's why Jesus said to Nicodemus, "You must be born again." If you are not born again, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God. Therefore, God developed the history of salvation from the mother's womb as the highest history of salvation. How tragic it is! (20-95)
3) Our Life to Enter the Kingdom of God
If two-thirds of your life of seventy or eighty years is sorrowful, how shall you handle that period? You should make that period a joyful life centering on God. You should make your life the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is where one gives, and gives again. God also has to give. Parents have to give to their children. The parental mind is to want to give, and give again when you have something better to give. (34-141)
You are now fighting. You are shooting a gun centering on you whole life. Before meeting the world, your mind and body are fighting each other. How can you make peace? Which side will win -- mind or body? How about you? Which side will be victorious, your mind or your body? You should be a person who can say, "My mind definitely wins over my body." The one whose mind wins over his body is on the good side, while the one whose body defeats his mind is on the evil side.
Then, what is the secret method for the mind to defeat the body in this struggle? Or conversely, what is the method by which the body defeats the mind? This is the problem. What can solve this struggle? This is important. What is the essential element to establish goodness for people living in this evil world? What is the essential element to establish evil? By knowing this, let's add or remove some elements. This essential element is very simple. (36-61)
If there is a great man and a great woman in history, can the man say that he wants to receive God's blessing alone? Can a woman say that she wants to receive God's blessing alone? [No!] You have to think of God's Will as absolute and go through all the conditions that are raised as the hope of mankind. By doing this, you can be qualified to receive God's blessing. In the Kingdom of God on earth in the future, the way must be found for husband and wife to be welcomed and respected worldwide. This is the way of life in the Kingdom of God on earth. Can you do that? (162-69)
You alone cannot go the way of goodness. The world should be occupied by good or evil. When good occupies the world, it is the way of life, but when evil occupies the world, it is the way of destruction. This world is running the way of life and death.
The individual is the result of history. The family, nation, and world are the results of history. However, out of these results, how many are good results? In the individual, how many good results do you have? What percentage of good results do you have in your living environment? What percentage do results of goodness have in your personality? That is the problem.
Looking at our surroundings, we see that the whole environment is surrounded by evil elements. The way of evil does not need to be taught. Everybody can go that way without education, because history started from an evil base. Do we need to be taught how to be bad? Because humans fell by themselves, human society educates people to act according to their conscience centering on human morality. What is the center of education? Although people are educated according to goodness and conscience, how many are able to fit that education? Evil things can be done without education; everybody can get 100 points.
In this environment, our conscience is always telling us to be a good person. Although your mind always stimulates you to be good, did you actually become a good person? If we think about this problem, our whole life is continual lamentation. Today is lamentation, tomorrow is lamentation, this year is lamentation. Youth is lamentation, the time of middle age is also lamentation, old age is lamentation, and one dies with lamentation. In other words, one's whole life may be filled with evil.
This is the present reality. Because humans were born from an evil base, they are struggling in evil and go toward evil. This has been the way throughout all human history. When we consider today's religion, what about the Unification Church? Does it teach people to be evil? If so, then the Unification Church is not needed. Evil does not need to be taught. (36-56)
4) Ourselves and the Kingdom of God
Before his death, Jesus said, "Father! If it is possible, please let this cup pass from me. But please do not do as I wish, but as the Father wishes." Before his death, he did not protest to God, but offered himself for the sake of God's Will. Jesus' attitude brought him to the closest position to God forever. Before such a person, even God cannot do as He wishes. The one who opposes such a person will be destroyed. God treats such a person directly. Therefore, what the right hand is doing should not be known by the left hand.
If you lend money to someone and remember it with added interest, you cannot be an owner of the Kingdom of God. One has to forget about the money he lent. When parents raise children, do they remember how much money they used for the children? The parents' mind is to give and forget. Moreover, after giving and forgetting, they are also anxious to give something better. Because the love of parents is eternal, the person who has no parents is called an orphan, and nobody wants to be an orphan. (36-85)
Do you know about the spiritual world? The Kingdom of God is where people go who live for the sake of others. The one who lives centered on himself can never go there; he will go to hell. No matter how great a priest he is, where will he go after death?
Our Unification Church tries to save our enemy and even communists. Communists try to cut off the heads of the Unification Church members. That is the difference. So, what kind of thought should have dominion over the world? [God!] You must be stronger than the communists. Do you understand? You should not be evil like communists. If we become strong, centered on love, living for the sake of others, it will be enough to save the world.
Are you the people who live in the Kingdom of God, or are you the people who are going to the Kingdom of God? [We are going to the Kingdom of God!] When? [Now!] When is "now?" How long will "now" last? Will it finish today or will it take ten years, or a hundred years? While you are doing that, what will you do if you die? Therefore, you should be engrafted. You should be cut off and engrafted. (91-173)
Finally, what kind of world are you going to? Are you going to hell or to the Kingdom of God? [Kingdom of God] On the way there, are you going to be a person who says, "Father, please help me!" or are you going to be a person who says, "Welcome, True Father!" Which person are you? That is to be or not to be. After marriage, you say, "We will live a happy life." When True Father says to live well, it means becoming an unchanging couple. In order to be an unchanging couple, you should go to the world of easily-separated couples and take instructions, and you should not separate wherever you may go. You should reach such a trained standard. (129-182)
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Section 3. The Qualifications And Conditions For Entering The Kingdom Of God (Part 2)
3. The Four Position Foundation And The Kingdom Of Heaven And Earth
1) The Family Can Enter into the Kingdom of Heaven
If I have only worked for the family level until now, why have I been persecuted? I have confidence that if my father, mother, clan and all my relatives are gathered in one place, then I can deeply touch them all through God's word. Surely, I have confidence that I can bring all my clan and relatives to God's will. I was not able to do that because it was not God's will. Jesus was expelled by his own relatives because he was not able to do it.
But, you who live in the environment of this era, can touch your parents and relatives by expressing your sincere heart, by shedding tears.
In a sense, you have a better situation than mine. Now is the time for you to touch your parents and relatives, whoever among them does not accept God's word, by shedding tears and other means. It is difficult to face your elder brother, but you can tell your younger brother to come to the Unification Church and say "My brother, are you going to believe it or not?" Even if you have to be forceful with him. Although you entered this kind of time, if you do not fulfill your responsibility, you cannot face God. From now on, Father also cannot relate with this kind of person. Do you understand? [Yes.] If you do not fulfill this, you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. You can only enter the Kingdom of Heaven after you have established your family. (21-66)
The Unification Church teaches that salvation absolutely cannot come to you as an individual alone. Is that right? Individually, you cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. You cannot enter alone. That is the Principle. In the Garden of Eden, both Adam and Eve were able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Can the husband enter the Kingdom of Heaven alone? Doesn't the wife have to go to the Kingdom of Heaven too? You cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven without the unity of husband and wife, and family unity. That is the ideal. Do you think it is good if a father goes to hell and the mother goes to the Kingdom of Heaven? That cannot be the Kingdom of Heaven. You must enter the Kingdom of Heaven as a couple and as a family, and not only the family, but all the relatives and the whole nation. (50-63)
From where does the Kingdom of Heaven start? It starts when you deny the root of all your innate heartfelt feelings. So, the person who is living according to the way of truth lives a single life. But, there are some difficult problems here. In the future, the Second Coming who comes again can solve these problems easily. Until then, you have to face these difficulties alone.
There is no way to achieve individual salvation. In order to save mankind, we have to save the family. To open the way to give salvation as a whole family, the Messiah is coming again to the earth. Nowadays, Christians believe that they can go to the Kingdom of Heaven if they believe in Jesus. They are indulging in individualism. Originally, you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven alone. Do you think Adam and Eve were able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven or not if they had stayed in the realm of God's love without falling? If it had happened, there would have been no such thing as hell.
How can we then go to the Kingdom of Heaven? This is the place we go as a family, with children whose parents as a couple gave birth to them. This is the place to go as a clan with sons and daughters and grandchildren. One step ahead, this is the place for the entire nation to go. That is why this place becomes a heavenly nation. The Kingdom of Heaven in forming in this way today. Today, Christians are trying to go to the Kingdom of Heaven by themselves, but the Kingdom of Heaven is not the place for individuals. They absolutely cannot enter as individuals. (41-300)
Centered on the individual, if you say, "Here is the Kingdom of Heaven. Here is the Kingdom of heaven," how much will Heavenly Father feel suffocated? So, do you think you like this way? Do you? Don't you? When Heavenly Father looks at the human world or the religious world, will he feet suffocated or not? Heavenly Father will say "Oh dear!" (96-71)
What standard do you as a Unificationist have to attain? You have to be better than Buddha, or Jesus or Confucius. Until now, the purpose of religion was individual salvation, but the purpose of the Unification Church is family salvation, rather than individual salvation. This is the difference between Unification Church and other religions. In order to receive salvation, you need to save the family. You cannot go alone to the Kingdom of Heaven.
The Unification Church view of salvation is not that only the husband goes to the Kingdom of Heaven and the wife goes to hell. Both have to go together. Also, we cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven while letting our father and mother go to hell. We cannot let our father and mother go to hell. We are going to the Kingdom of Heaven with our sons and daughters and parents together.
The Unification Church is on a different level of teaching from any other religion as it shows the way to go to the Kingdom of Heaven with the family, all of the clan together, whom we love. That is why the Unification Church emphasizes the family while other religions emphasize the single way of life. We are going this family centered way living for the sake of God and the world. This is the way for Unification Church members to go. From now on, you have to clearly understand how to live your life. (34-359)
What is happiness? As I mentioned before, our original nature strives to go forward to future happiness. Who can be the greatest source of happiness in your family? For the husband? [Wife] For the wife, who is it? [Husband] For the parents, it is the children. For the children, it is their parents. From this foundation, it is possible to establish the Kingdom of Heaven.
Imagine how lonely and miserable Jesus was when he could not say that the Kingdom of Heaven is in the family. Instead he said that it is in you. You have a family, and you can even sing with happiness. At some time, you could be thankful and happy even if you were to commit suicide together by drowning in the river and become fish bait while your body is floating in the water. Even if the whole society and nation were to come against you, you could throw them off as if you were taking off your shoes. Isn't that right? For the human being, there is a way to lead this kind of life.
Jesus, the savior, as the only son of God, came to save this world by bringing the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. He said, "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you," without even fulfilling his dream, which is the basis of the environment of the Kingdom of Heaven. He was crucified after wandering around for almost three years keeping to himself the idea of fulfilling the restoration of the Kingdom of Heaven. How lonely and miserable Jesus was!
Then was the Kingdom which Jesus wished for only the Kingdom of Heaven in his mind? When could the Kingdom of Heaven be established beyond the Kingdom of Heaven in his mind? It was not possible. It was also not possible to build the Kingdom of Heaven beyond the family to the society and nation. How about the Kingdom of Heaven on the world level, and the Kingdom of Heaven in the spiritual world?
When we think this way, the savior as the Messiah has the responsibility to liberate the entire spiritual world and heavenly Father through saving mankind. It would only be possible for him to do this by going through all these stages. When you think about his situation, how lonely and miserable he was. The fact that Jesus was crucified on the cross was not a big thing compared to this. It was not a big deal.
If I collapse, I cannot face heavenly Father because I failed to establish the ideal of the Kingdom of Heaven and the ideal society. I cannot hide myself. Who can understand Jesus' shameful heart which cannot be removed even if he were to die a hundred times? (120-48)
You cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven alone, the place which is the Kingdom of Heaven. You cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven alone. Is that right? You can enter the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven after you establish the ideal of a spouse. For a fallen man to enter the Kingdom of heaven, you have to go through the history of restoration, or the history of resurrection, or the history of recreation. To give the Blessing to you is to open wide the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven. Entering the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth is up to you. What is the meaning of giving you the Blessing? What does the word Blessing mean? Through the Blessing, the closed gate of the Kingdom of Heaven is opened in front of you.
You cannot enter alone even though the gate is open. The family enters. Do you understand? I am saying that you can enter with your sons and daughters. What we mean by the family is the historical family as a result of accumulated merit, so heavenly Father's six-thousand years of restoration history went through the first Adam, the second Adam and the third Adam's era. Therefore, you can enter as a family. (152-240)
2) Jesus and His Family
Who is the most saintly of all the saints in history? [Jesus.] You said it is Jesus. What did Jesus say? Are you just saying this? Didn't we talk before about the definition of a true person? Then let's find out whether Jesus was a true person or not. Jesus said that God is his Father. Didn't he say that? [Yes.] He said true life is to become God's son, and Jesus was longing for the position of God's son, wasn't he? [Yes.] Also, he said "I am the only son of God." Because he is the only son of God, he can receive all of God's love, right? [He can receive everything.] Did he take the position to receive God's love or not? [Yes, he did.]
Next, Jesus said, "God and I are one body," From this point, Jesus is not only in the position of the son of God, but he prepared himself internally and externally. And then he said "I am the bridegroom, you are the bride." He connected himself with God as well as with mankind in a relationship like that between bride and bridegroom. And he said "You are my brothers." Isn't that right?
From this point, we have to understand what Jesus was wishing for. What did both God and mankind desire? It is the religion which shows the eternal standard of love to live forever centered on God, that should be Christianity. Isn't that the reason why God wants to find man to fulfill this? It was also man's desire. There is no other desire above this. Jesus strove to establish his family but he was crucified without its fulfillment, leaving the concept of bride and bridegroom behind him.
So, after Jesus comes back again, he will conduct the banquet of the Lamb. This refers to the appearance of the ideal family in which God can dwell. And then, Jesus can enter into the position of True Parents. In the position of True Parents, he has to establish true children and true brothers and sisters. Centered on this, true families, true tribes and a true race have to be established, and finally a new race and new nation have to emerge. Now, we can make a clear conclusion. Jesus has to come again to realize this. Do you understand? [Yes.] (39-344)
3) Four Position Foundation and the Kingdom of Heaven
We need to understand that our husband and children, our mother and father, and grandparents are the three angels to guide us to the Kingdom of Heaven. Grandparents, and spouses, and sons and daughters, are the three angels. We have to understand that they are the representatives of the three angels, because they exist as pairs. So, the father and mother have to learn from their grandparents, and from their sons and daughters. Do you understand? The husband has to learn from the wife, and the wife has to learn from the husband. This is the family tradition.
What is marriage? Marriage is for women to learn what they do not know about men. Men have to learn what they do not know about women. You have to understand this. Marriage is the program to learn about the opposite sex. We have to understand that marriage means you are going to this kind of school. So you each have to achieve 100 points. The husband likes this and the wife likes this too. You have to achieve 100 points. It would be good if I could tell you more details and talk until I could totally convince you of this, but I don't have time now.
The reason we give birth to our sons and daughters and live for them is to learn how to love the world. Sons and daughters can connect us to the world and the future. If we don't have sons and daughters, we cannot be connected to the future. We have to understand that God gave us sons and daughters as the source of education to connect us to the future world. And then our ancestors, and grandmother and grandfather are the source of education about the spiritual world. If we take care of our grandfather and grandmother with filial piety, that kind of system exists in the spiritual world. This is for you to receive education about the spiritual world. You have to understand this.
What can be the center of this? Under the title of love, everything can be connected. Centered on love, everything can be connected. Grandfather and grandmother, husband and wife, sons and daughters can be connected all together centered on love. If you have that love, you can be connected to millions of generations of your ancestors in the spiritual world. You can also be connected with your descendants only with this love. The system of the spiritual world is just like our blood circulatory system. That is the system of the universe. The realm of love is so wonderful! It is amazing! Right? [Yes, it is.] The word right contains two meanings, might, and power. Everyone wants to follow righteousness. How about you? We can make a clear conclusion. The greatest happiness is to become the slave and servant of love. (135-120)
What is it that needs to be restored? Is it not to restore the Four Position Foundation? To restore the Four Position Foundation, we have to restore father, then mother, then sons and daughters. Therefore, you have to be completely restored as a Blessed couple and give birth to children and bring them to the position of an unfallen person. You must understand that this is your most important mission. To do that you have to infuse a new tradition which is far better than that of the saints. (58-35)
First, you have to establish the Kingdom of Heaven as an individual. Next, you have to establish the Kingdom of Heaven as a couple. Where is the Kingdom of Heaven as a couple? Where is it? That is the place where plus and minus become totally united as one. In the beginning, you say you like your spouse. And then after a few years you say goodbye and divorce. That kind of marriage is not like this.
Do you think it is true love that you married him because he was handsome before you got married? What if one week after the marriage he had a car accident and his chin is twisted, he injures his eyes and breaks his arm and you divorce him because of that. Is that true love? [No.] Is this American woman's love? Is that true love or false love? [False love.] I investigated one hundred people. Among them, one third had divorced. The initiator in one third was the husband, and in two thirds it was the wife. That's true. (laughter)
Now do you know what is the Kingdom of Heaven as a couple? Nobody can separate the couple who are completely attached together, even though they lose their legs by exploding dynamite. (laughter) What kind of love are you looking for? [True love.] True love. You can achieve that kind of love when your mind and body are completely united.
The Kingdom of Heaven as a couple can emerge. After that, what will happen? Are you satisfied with only the Kingdom of Heaven as a couple? How can the Kingdom of Heaven as a couple emerge? When father and mother become totally one and love each other, the son will think he wants to marry a bride just like his mother, and the daughter will think that she wants to marry a bridegroom just like her father. When the father and mother as a plus, and the sons and daughters as a minus are totally united as a family, that is the Kingdom of Heaven as a family. Do you understand?
The place where the Kingdom of Heaven can be established in the family is the place where the Kingdom of Heaven can be established on earth, which is God's ideal. The four position foundation has to be formed. The Principle says that the completion of God's ideal of creation is the completion of the Four Position Foundation. Do you understand? Why do things have to be like this? Centered on three stages by God, Adam and Eve, the vertical world and horizontal world can be extend. ed. Do you understand? [Yes.] This is the Principle.
That is why Adam and Eve have to have sons and daughters in order for the horizontal world to expand. If this horizontal world becomes larger, the vertical world can emerge naturally. The horizontal standard of the body is the children, and the vertical standard of the mind is the spiritual world. From this point, finally, heavenly Father can go freely between the spiritual world and the physical world, and the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth can be realized. Do you understand? [Yes.]
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Section 4. The Gate Of The Kingdom Of Heaven And Entering The Kingdom Of Heaven
1. The Door To A Man's Heart
While the Buddha was in an esoteric state he said he was the only person who exists in all of heaven and earth. When someone is training himself to achieve the unity of mind and body, he can experience the divine spiritual world. During that time, he stands in a totally object position before God who is the subject. So we can say he is the only person who exists in all of heaven and earth. Once I felt that I was grasping the world tightly in my hand and it seemed to melt. If I wanted to lift it, I felt it was lifting. In that state, if you hit something, at the same time you will feel everything is melting. When you reach this level, miracles can happen automatically. The miracle of curing diseases is a natural result of religious life.
That is why you have to cultivate the quality and direction of your heart towards the door of your heart. You have to find God who is the subject to be able to cultivate the quality of heart and pioneer the standard of the direction of heart. How can you make the connection to God who protects you? To totally concentrate your mind, you have to start from your mind. That is the only way. If you brighten your mind you can surely find the direction in yourself.
Can you? It is like a magnet. Minus exists naturally where plus exists. Does it happen because somebody said to do so? It happens naturally. Then whatever is in there you will feel it. Even though I am facing eastwards to pray, entering the divine state, my direction can be changed. That will happen. Do you understand? That is why we can say the mind has a door.
Are you able to pray well sometimes? Everybody will understand this. Sometimes you can pray well. No matter how sincere you are and giving your whole heart and taking a bath to pray, sometimes you cannot pray well and say "Oh no." It depends on different rooms. It depends on the location of the room. You have no control over when it happens. There is only one center. Based on the central point, North, South, East and West exist. Every location is different. Also every direction is different. When you go to the mountains, there are places where you can pray well. Also there are places where Satan is gathered. Those are the shady places. Spiritually shady places and sunny places are formed in this way. If you experience this many times, you will understand this.
When you receive hints, dreams, revelations and apocalypses, you have to make effort to apply them to your life. Do not neglect them because these phenomena are the inevitable essence to pioneer and develop the relationship between God and man. For your own life of faith, you have to open the door of your heart and develop the quality of heart within yourself. The day you achieve this is not the final goal; you should then apply this to the world you relate to. (76-143)
2. What Is The Meaning Of Opening The Gate Of Heaven?
1) The Reason to Open the Gate of Heaven
Why do we need the Day of the Opening of the Gate of Heaven? God took full responsibility for all the mistakes which Adam and Eve made since the Fall. He has to open the gate under His jurisdiction. He has to open the gate from the individual level, family and tribe. All of those gates have been blocked. The door for races, nations and the world have been blocked. All of those doors have to be opened. By what? By Unification Church families. Reverend Moon has to open them. Do you understand? [Yes.]
God's strategy is to prepare small steps to achieve victory, from the individual, family, tribe, nation and world and universe and even to the spiritual world. Have they been blocked by heaven and hell? By whom have they been blocked? If Adam and Eve become True Parents, the whole cosmos can be united. But because of false parents, through the Fall, the Kingdom of Heaven and hell have been blocked. Who can break down this historical world of grievous resentment?
True Parents have to do it. When they do it, they are not doing it from the position of a king or that of an imperial throne. Because mankind lives a suffering life in hell on earth and in the spiritual world, the gate of hell first has to be opened on earth. Then the gate of hell in the spiritual world has to be opened. Through that, the pathway is opened on earth for the individual, the nation and the world. The highway connecting earth to the spiritual world has to be constructed. They have to connect to the mainstream. With the standard of unity between mind and body, we have to go beyond family, tribe, race, nation and world and the spiritual world to break down all the barriers. Everything has to be broken down.
The worst and last problem is to open the gate of hell and heaven in the spiritual world which has been blocked. We have to go to the depths of hell on earth and open the gate of hell on earth. We have to go to the first gate of hell in the spiritual world and open it. Otherwise, nobody can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only the person who wins over hell can open it. How can you win? Not by a prayer, but by God's love. Unless you can do this, you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. That is the reason why Reverend Moon paved the way from earth to heaven by opening the gate of hell on earth and in the spiritual world centered on God's love. The name of the International Highway came from this. Do you understand? This is to break down the wall which has been blocking us.
The reason that Jesus became the prince of heaven and had the authority as God's only son was that he was able to love not only the Satanic world but also the spiritual world. The spiritual world has been blocked by boundaries, such as the boundary sphere of the Buddha, the sphere of Confucius, all of the barriers have to be broken down by a higher standard of God's heart than theirs. From the high throne of heaven, all the walls must be broken down from the highest level to the lowest. The barriers of ancestors from tens of thousands of years ago, many thousands of years ago, many hundreds of years ago, and the barriers of ancestors of only many years ago, have to be broken down on earth and pave the way to connect to hell. Otherwise, the opening of the gate of heaven cannot come about. It is complicated. (140-43)
2) The Origin of the Opening of the Gate of Heaven
These days, I appreciate Mother. Mother had many very deep experiences of the heart during my time in Danbury. Since Mother met me when she was young and innocent, she has had to pass through a parallel course with me. Because she has lived this way, Mother's standard has been lifted higher and higher. Because of Danbury, True Mother was able to realize much more the value of True Father, and understood how lonely it is for a woman without her husband.
As a result, Father and Mother conducted a ceremony to open the gates of hell and heaven. Now, they cannot be closed. True Parents stand as opposite poles. The poles are vertical, not horizontal. A solution can emerge from the place where the two poles connect. This is where the spiritual world and physical world can be connected. On February 1, 1985 at 3 a.m. American time, this standard was established at Danbury and East Garden. With what kind of heart was this done? With God's heart, we have to play a role so that the power of love can connect. Do you understand? [Yes.]
Now you know the way for the family. You have to decide whether you will become a brazen leader who stands before God in need of salvation by leaving your position or whether you will go straight up vertically. The way to heaven is the way for both man and woman to be united as one. Where does that oneness originate? You have to become one at the polar axis. You become one at the polar axis and must follow that axis. Do you understand what that means? Everyone has to go this family-centered path up to the sphere of the tribe, race, nation and world following the principle of indemnity. Everyone has to go through this path because you are in the realm of the fall. (136-47)
On February 1, 1985 at 3 a.m., Mother and I established this condition through special prayer. It cannot be done without effort. From that point, all of the barriers of hell crumbled. So, whoever makes effort on that foundation, he can enter the heavenly world. Also, if there are good ancestors among your relatives, they will come down to you and then you can educate them and lead them to the heavenly world. Do you understand?
The way of salvation has been limited to the earth. But now, by opening the gate, the way has been prepared so that good ancestors in the spiritual world can educate the evil spirits and play the role of savior. (136-187)
3) True Parents and the Gates of Heaven
What is the mission of the Unification Church? The Unification Church is different from other religions from the past which emphasized individual salvation. The Unification Church wants to build the original ideal world before the fall. When men perfect themselves and marry centered on God's love, and multiply by giving birth to children, they can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. It is the original ideal world.
How can we say it is the Kingdom of Heaven if the father goes to hell while the mother goes to heaven, and if the parents go to heaven while the children go to hell? The Kingdom of Heaven is the place where everyone goes to, such as parents and children, tribes, races, and nations. Because false parents created all the barriers, True Parents must appear to open the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven. Even God cannot open the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven. If He could, why did He not do it if He is omnipotent? It is man himself who fell. That is why man who committed sin has to receive punishment. In other words, man has to find the Kingdom of Heaven by himself because he lost it. For that reason, it took six thousand years to be restored.
To open the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven, what do we have to do? God has to elevate the person who is in the position of servant of servants through giving him the special privilege to connect to the son of God's direct blood lineage. Who is the son of God's direct blood lineage? He is Adam before the Fall. Who is the adopted son? He is the archangel before the Fall. Originally, an adopted son as an archangel is in the position of servant, so he cannot receive love directly. (42-286)
If the people in the spiritual world had not fallen, they would be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven on the foundation of uniting with the core of True Parents' love, centered on God. Everything has been delayed because man did not have that opportunity. Where did the delay originate? It has been delayed in hell and paradise. So nobody is in the Kingdom of Heaven. The only people who can enter the Kingdom of Heaven are True Parents. If I say the Kingdom of Heaven is empty, people will think I am demented. But Jesus could not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. You cannot go there alone.
If our original ancestors had grown into adolescence, and had established the three objects of love which is the ideal of love centered on God, they would have become the parents who could leave the seeds of true love. The Kingdom of Heaven is the place where such parents enter first. But until now, there has been no couple who has been able to leave the seeds of true love, and also there is no foundation for the descendants to inherit. So the Kingdom of Heaven is empty.
Due to the Unification Church, the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven has been opened. But because Father did not go there yet, there is no one who has entered. Even Heung-Jin is waiting to enter while he goes in and out of there with Jesus. I am not just making up a story and trickily telling this to you. After I checked and checked, even worthless things, and researched and ran through everything, I found that there is only one way to go directly. That is to go to the family, tribe, race, nation, world and spiritual world and up to the heavenly throne. On the way, you have to give others directions with a signal of love to guide them. You cannot communicate with other signals besides that, or else you cannot go. Do you have confidence to go to the Kingdom of Heaven? Do you have confidence? [Yes.] Can you go by driving a love car? If it happens that an angel of love can give signals to the love car, it can guide you to the Kingdom of Heaven. Even though this road is winding, it is a highway.
In 1985, Father at Danbury and Mother at East Garden finally opened the gate to connect heaven and earth. Ancestors who went to the spiritual world many thousands of years ago came down to their descendants. If you enter the Kingdom of Heaven, you have to descend on earth through hell. If you want to go to the Kingdom of Heaven, you have to win over hell. Only persons who win over hell can go to the Kingdom of Heaven. Paradise is like a waiting station before you enter the Kingdom of Heaven, after having gone to the depths of hell.
When you look at humanity, you have to look at them as one man and one woman. "Two billion people among the four billion people are women, and two billion people are men. If you say two billion, that is a man with two billion cells, and a woman with two billion cells. With that mind, I will love those two people." You have to think that way. With what kind of name? With God's name. When Heavenly Father recreates humanity, he plants 4 billion people and recreates the historical Adam and Eve.
That means that God chooses one representative man among the two billion men and one representative woman from the two billion women to be His first loves. These representatives are the fruit of the love of humanity. If you make the determination that you are going to love the two billion people of humanity more than the father and mother who gave birth to you, and you become a person who can love the four billion people more than you love your father and mother, then you have nothing to do with Satan, because you are totally one with the realm of God's love according to the standard of the Principle and you are in the position of loving mankind in oneness with God. Isn't it simple?
Who can be the representatives? They are the true father and true mother. If you can love mankind more than you love True Parents, everything will be okay. Do you understand? The gate of hell in the spiritual world and on earth can open immediately. Wherever that person goes, it will be a highway. But, you have to pay the price for gasoline. You should not ask your father and mother for the expense of gasoline. I gave you a car, so you have to drive the car at your own expense. "Well, parents have to drive for me." You cannot say that. In the original world, angels would lead the way to the Kingdom of Heaven, not True Parents. And, this is the right way, that you come to see True Parents, to greet them, rather than True Parents coming to you and leading you. That is not the way of the Principle. True Parents paved the way, so if you love True Parents, you can automatically follow that path. Everything will go well when you love mankind more than you love True Parents, with the attitude of following their footsteps and loving True Parents. You must follow the mainstream of heart which can be directly connected to the highway. Therefore, you can directly enter the Kingdom of Heaven from the Earth. (applause)
Well, am I a man or a woman? [Man] How about Mother? Is she a man or a woman? [Woman.] Right. I am a man. Mother is a woman. When you look around this world, there are two types of people, and male and female animals. Because of the fall, some men and women are just like animals, are they not? You can enter the realm of heart with a mother's heart which goes beyond the Satanic world. If you have made bad conditions in front of Father, then you have to try again. Throughout my life, as a parent, I have prepared the way for my children to go, through taking all responsibility.
If you stand in the place where you love mankind with the same heart as you love True Parents, you will become one with True Parents and stand in the same line horizontally with True Parents. If you can do this, Satan cannot influence you, because your heart is much higher than fallen man's. You can connect to heaven directly. Do you understand? [Yes.] To accomplish this, I declared the Day of the Opening of Heaven's Gate. (140-45)
4) Our Attitude Towards the Opening of Heaven's Gate
From the earth, I have prepared the highway and brought the victorious power of heaven and passed it on to you. So, you have to love True Parents absolutely centered on True Parents' standard and realm of heart and separate from the roots of heart caused by fallen parents. By doing so, centered on new parents, you have to plant God's love in your mind and body and attain absolute oneness. Then, Satan cannot separate you from God.
What will happen to you if you can love the world with more of a loving heart than you love True Parents? In this way, I went through the history of indemnity to save Cain-type sons and daughters as the representatives of the world. From now on, there is nothing in the spiritual world or physical world which can block you. You start from the earth and can go beyond the world and the spiritual world directly to heaven. But if you cannot fulfill it, your way will have so many barriers. Because Father knew this, he dedicated his life up to now to prepare the way, and gave you the privilege to attend the Day of the Opening of Heaven's Gate. I wish you can become a victorious person who can pass without obstacles to attain such a heart. (140-62)
3. The Front Gate Of The Kingdom Of Heaven
The way of true love is to live for others. You have to understand clearly that you have to live for others. If it is wrong I will ask you one question. Raise your hands those who think, "It is a lie." I want to ask one question. No one? Because I said I will ask a question, are you holding back? Then I am asking you, so please raise your hand. (laughter) Then shall we go on, since you admit it is true? [Yes.] Do you feel bad or good? [Good.] If you feel bad, this universe feels bad, and God feels bad too. That is why we can make the conclusion that true love is that you live for others even at the price of our life.
If there is a front gate to the Kingdom of Heaven, when such a person comes before it, the door will open automatically, just like an automatic door. Will God then say, "Who opened that door?" [No.] As soon as the door is opened, he will be wide-eyed in surprise. Will his mouth open in astonishment? How about it?
The husband is given to his wife to live for her all his life. Is that good? No matter how ugly the woman is, she will like that and say, "God sent my husband to me so that he can love me. So I am a happy woman." Doesn't she say that? [Yes.] On the other hand, in the same way, the wife is given to her husband to live for him. The woman is given as a spouse to live for her husband throughout his life. Isn't that right? So they are a happy husband and happy wife. Why? They can become friends forever.
In the universe, there are always two actions. When they try to give to each other, there is a cycle of giving. If they try only to receive from one another, what will happen? Their relationship will end and in that situation it will finally disappear. When you give to and receive from each other, you will flourish. When you want only to receive, you will die. If a man and a woman do not unite, they will disappear. (128-298)
4. Questions And Answers On The Kingdom Of Heaven
Where are you now? You have to know yourself. You have to understand where you are. Satan and God can claim man based on their portion of responsibility. "This person is yours, that person is mine." Do you understand? Unless you fulfill your portion of responsibility, you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Then Satan will say, "He is mine."
You have to long for God's love, the ideal love of a couple and the ideal love of children. With that attitude, you have to fulfill your responsibility. "Oh, I need money. I need this or that. I have to educate my children." You cannot fulfill your responsibility with this kind of thinking. You must understand this point. It is all trash. It is wrong.
Before you enter the Kingdom of Heaven, what will the gatekeeper ask? He will say, "Did you fulfill your responsibility? In the fallen world, absolutely no one can go to the Kingdom of Heaven. There is no way to go to the Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore, God has raised the third Adam, through the time of Adam, Jesus, and the Second Coming, centered on the providence of restoration, to break through in the fulfillment of man's portion of responsibility.
Satan will say, "Even though you give all the religious people of the world as a sacrifice, I cannot give this to you!" But God thinks, even if all the religious people in the world were to die, if I can restore man's portion of responsibility, I will do it. Now the reason that religious people can believe in religion is that they can go to the Kingdom of Heaven by fulfilling their portion of responsibility. Satan does not want to give this portion of responsibility even though he may take all the religious people as a burnt offering. He does not want to give this to humanity, but Heavenly Father thinks that even if he were to sacrifice all of the religious people, He wants to restore this portion of responsibility. (149-323)
5. Heaven And Hell Are Not Places To Be Sent To
In our life of faith, we can never complain. Answer me, can you find any reason to complain, or not? [No.] Why? "Oh, I'm dying, I feel suffocated. What is it? Can you complain like this? [No.] You have to be joyful, laughing while shedding tears. You have to go this way. You have to go shedding tears and smiling. Now, do you understand or not? [We understand.] If you understand, are you going to do it or not? [We will do it.] After I have taught this, if you don't do it, what will happen?
If you don't do it, there is no other way. God cannot help you, I cannot help you. Because of that, you have to decide whether you are going to the Kingdom of Heaven or hell. Reverend Moon does not decide. God does not decide. You yourself decide. Each of you decides. If you complain, it is hell. If you do it without complaining, and feel thankful, that is the Kingdom of Heaven, if you maintain a thankful heart. (96-122)
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place you go by being taught. A person who lives according to his conscience can go to the Kingdom of Heaven automatically. Look, when the sun rises don't all the buds of the trees turn toward the sun? Isn't that right? Trifling things like grass and trees can turn towards the direction of the sun by themselves. Furthermore, man as the lord of creation can surely understand the way to go. These things will happen. (75-42)
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Section 5. Instruction Regarding The Kingdom Of Heaven And Hell
1. Formulating (Seul Jeung) A View Of The Kingdom Of Heaven And Hell
Establishment is not Seul jeung. Seul jeung means establishment and setting up something. This is talking about actual results. The mission of the Messiah is to restore tribes centered on his family. We are talking about actual results. This is not establishment, it is Seul jeung. Do you understand the meaning?
Through understanding the mission of tribal messiah, we have to formulate a view of the Kingdom of Heaven and Hell. "There is the Kingdom of Heaven, here is Hell." You have to clearly divide them. After you clearly divide them, don't go below that standard. Everybody has to understand not to go that way. If you formed your tribes that way, many tribes around you, even villages have to follow you.
2. The Importance Of Life In The Spiritual World And Life On Earth
Life in the spiritual world and life on earth are not separate. Life on earth is important as is the life in the spiritual world. That means that our eternal life is connected to our life on earth. Both of them are important. Nowadays, people who live on earth don't understand the concepts of life in the spiritual world. They think that only life on earth is important. That is the problem. Even many members of the Unification Church do not understand that how you live on earth guarantees your life in the spiritual world.
Because of that, you have to feel that it is important that you live for your eternal life through having the concept that eternal life starts from now and making the foundation of the Kingdom of Heaven. If you don't understand this point, you will go a different direction. What I am doing now determines my eternal life.
If they face each other, each will move. If one climbs up, the other will climb up; if one goes down the other will go down; if one turns the other will turn. So you have to live your life on earth to bring heartfelt benefit to your life in the spiritual world. The spiritual and physical worlds are not separate. If you do not understand clearly about the Kingdom of Heaven and Hell, you cannot understand this clearly. In this way you must always work with the feeling that both the life in spiritual world and on earth are important. No one can take care of your life except you. You yourself know God better than anyone. You yourself know well. If you can become like that, wherever you go heavenly fortune will embrace you. In that case if you are gone from your village "Where did that person go? I haven't seen him for a few days. I miss his voice, as I am used to hearing him in the morning and evening," and they will want to follow you wherever you go. You cannot keep it from happening. Because heavenly fortune is with him, someone who lives according to his conscience automatically draws people to himself, just like iron moves towards a magnet, just like whatever has life moves with all its tactile sense towards the light. This is the same principle.
If I am not here, will it be a problem? For Japanese and Korean and American, why is that? Within the concepts of life in the spiritual world are contained unity and order. Through these concepts, we can make a standard for the physical world and the eternal world. This is most important. Do you understand? (217-84)