Men Owe the Debt of Sin and Toil
Originally, when God created the universe, He did not lay down the principle of owing debt. The purpose of God's creation is to build a relationship of oneness with men, though they (God and men) have the form of two entities. They are to give and receive, and whatever belongs to one belongs to the other.
Because Adam and Eve, who were created for this purpose, did not fulfill it, from that time to this, countless created beings have come to owe an infinite debt to Heaven. Jesus Christ was the one God sent to open the way for men to pay back the debt incurred by the fall. As we have passed through the course of history based on Jesus, we have been paying back the debt. Moreover, through this kind of lifestyle, we have been seeking eternal life.
Although you might think that you have qualifications you can present before the universe, you must understand that, while you do not realize it, you have the debt of sins that you have inherited in your lineage through the thousands of years of history.
Moreover, we possess the debt of God's suffering and toil accumulated during His dispensation for men. Besides that, we have the debt of toil collected through the restoration work of the countless prophets and sages or Heavenly soldiers and angels.
When we reflect on this, we realize that we have no way to pay back the debt we owe to the universe today and have no way to be dignified. Nonetheless, the one who came to represent us and restore our dignity before the universe is Jesus Christ.
The Debt of Eternal Life, the Debt of Life, the Debt of Love, and the Debt of Karma
Since the time of our birth, we should have possessed eternal love centering on God. When we were born through our parents, we should have already represented the love of God. Moreover, centering on us as a couple, we should have represented the love of our parents. We should have also built a relationship of love with all things.
Because we could not become such people, men owe a debt of eternal life to God, and we owe the debt of life to our parents. We owe the debt of love to couples, and we owe the debt of karma to the creation.
After God created the universe and all things, the reason He elevated Adam and Eve to be the center of all things was to give eternal responsibility to men.
Consequently, we bear the responsibility to give eternal love. In other words, because Adam and Eve did not follow the will of God and were dragged into the bosom of Satan, the debt for life centering on the eternal love of God remains unpaid in each of us today.
Moreover, after we have been born through our parents, we owe a debt to them because they have loved and taken care of us in their lives. We also owe a debt for the love of God, which must be paid back by living the life of a couple. To all things, we owe a debt for the love that nature has given to us.
When you reflect on this, you must understand that we today owe a debt to God for eternal love, to our parents for life, to our couples for the love centering on life, and to all things we owe the debt of the relationship of love which we have incurred in our daily life.
As the center of the creation, you must be able to display dignity. You must realize that men owe eternal debt to God, the debt of their lives to their parents, the debt of love to couples, and the debt of life to the creation. The creation demands that men pay back all of this debt.
Jesus Came to Pay Back the Debt on Behalf of Humankind
However, based solely on the ability of men, that debt cannot be paid back or canceled. Thus, Jesus was the central figure who would make it possible for such people to go before Heaven.
In other words, he would allow them to represent the eternal parents and stand before Heaven, represent the eternal couples and stand before Heaven, and represent the eternal love of the creation and stand before Heaven.
Because Jesus Christ came, the eternal love of God was manifested. The accomplishments of love that God wanted from men were revealed. Jesus was the one who came as the embodiment of love, representing the eternal parents.
Moreover, Jesus also came as the fruit of love, representing the eternal couples. It was also Jesus who built an eternal relationship of love with all things.
Accordingly, in the person of Jesus, the 4,000 years of long history is connected. Even the eternal future is connected to him.
Although Jesus came to pay back the debt that the fall of man had incurred to the eternal God, the eternal True Parents, and the creation of goodness that was not infiltrated by evil, he had to leave the earth before he could pay everything back.
Therefore, we must pay back the remaining portion.
Centering on Jesus, we must build a relationship with the creation, the couples, the parents, and with the eternal God. We must realize that unless we do that, the purpose of the coming of Jesus, who came for our sake, will again stagnate in the state of incompletion.
When we closely observe the course of history, the period until the coming of Jesus was the period of worshiping nature. It was the time when men believed in all things in place of God and stayed close to nature in place of God. Next, people focused on their children more than on anything else.
After passing through the time of worshiping all things and the period of worshiping the children, we entered the period of worshiping the bride and bridegroom. Now, even that period of worshiping the bride and bridegroom is also passing by.
The period of worshiping the parents is the period that lies ahead of us. The time will certainly come when we can elevate the parents more completely. Therefore, our bodies must create a relationship with God. We must join in union with God and, while observing all the mysterious natural phenomena, we must live a life of direct intuition in which we stay within the bounds of the relationship of life with God.
With the gleaming sunlight and the blowing wind, we must build a relationship with all these creations, which represent the pulse of the eternal life of God. Although we have not been able to feel anything until now, when we center ourselves on Jesus, we can feel new things and build a new relationship of the heart with all things. Moreover, we can build a relationship centering on God's principles of possession.
Thereafter, you can rejoice with the creation and simultaneously be drawn into the realm of God's love. You will lead a life in which you can attract that kind of love to you at will. When you enter the realm of such profound grace and stand before Heaven, you can whisper with any part of the creation.
There will not be any existing-created being, such as the sound of the wind, that does not have a relationship with men. Therefore, we can conclude that all things of the creation, created for the sake of men, exist to manifest their true value through the relationship with and by being recognized before men.
To Pay the Debt Owed to All Things
Nonetheless, because we dwell in the fallen realm today, we do not know how to recognize the value of all things. Therefore, you must realize that when you feel new love coming from God, all things can also feel new life. You should lead a life in which you can brag and set the highest standard of love. Even if you are alone, you must be able to sing of the boundless love of God. If you become this kind of person, your heart will never feel confined.
When this happens, then all things can be in harmony because of us, so we can feel at peace, regardless of where we are. This cannot be blocked by any force. God set this one standard as the purpose of creation and chose men as His representatives who would fulfill the purpose. He sanctioned men to have dominion over all things, but humankind today cannot command dignity before all things. Rather, today we stand in a position of unspeakable grief before all things.
Therefore, just like the words written in the eighth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, what all things wish for is the appearance of the sons of God. The reason is that all things should have become connected to God through the mediator, men, who represent the love of God, but due to the corruption and the fall of men, the essence of their ideal has been demolished.
Consequently, even today, 2,000 years after the coming of Jesus, the creation longs for the fulfillment of that one purpose through us.
When we think about this, we can understand that while we are not aware of it, we have incurred a debt to the creation. We owe a debt for the hope it holds for us.
We must obliterate the debt. While we must become qualified to attain oneness with the creation, we must also become the children of God, whom all things can love and to whom all things can give. Furthermore, we must become the children of God and receive the love of God.
One Who is Qualified to Pay the Debt of Love
Jesus and the Holy Spirit are giving new birth to you. Having obtained the elements of Jesus and the Holy Spirit, and after passing through the position of the children, men are heading toward the position of bride and bridegroom as the goal. Today, we are inspired and moved by the Holy Spirit through our belief in Jesus. Relying on that power, we are moving forward.
What is it we must accomplish by ourselves? Even if the grace of the inspiration of Jesus is not given and the Holy Spirit does not make a deep impression, we must perfect ourselves as the bride, as if we have received a deep inspiration and impression.
This is not being manifested in the Christianity of today. Today, we also feel the love in the position of the bride only when the Holy Spirit is at work. Since we have grown up with the works of the Holy Spirit, even if we do not receive grace from the Holy Spirit, we should learn to long for Jesus as the bridegroom.
If you can only accomplish it with the continued aid of the Holy Spirit, then there is no way that you can pay back the debt for the love of husband and wife on earth.
Therefore, even if we do not receive inspiration from the Holy Spirit, we must become the bride who can serve Jesus as the bridegroom. This is the only way that we can become the couple who is established in the original position before the universe and someone qualified to pay back the debt of love.
What would fallen men do after they are restored to the position of bride and bridegroom, after they pass through the positions of all things and the children through the dispensation of restoration?
Because we could not be linked with the love of the True Parents, who took responsibility for our lives and loved us, we must indemnify the debt for the love of the True Parents, who were elevated based on God's will of creation.
You must recompense spiritually and physically for the debt of universal love that the True Parents have displayed in their concern for our lives.
In other words, after we are restored to the bride and bridegroom, after passing through the positions of all things and children through Jesus Christ, we must find the True Parents. Nonetheless, the people of today's world do not realize this.
They must find the True Parents who have not fallen for the sake of the fallen parents, but they do not know when these True Parents will appear. The True Parents appear at the time of the Second Advent.
The Time When We Must Pay Our Debt to the True Parents
In the Christian churches, they talk about the Marriage of the Lamb, centering on the ideology of the bride and bridegroom. What kind of people are the bride and bridegroom, centering upon whom the Marriage of the Lamb is conducted?
They are the people who have become connected with the True Parents through love.
Jesus Christ came to the earth on behalf of the universe and humanity. To pay indemnity for the debt that humanity bears, he has been at work until now. For this reason, you must pass through the position of all things, the positions of the children and the bride and bridegroom, and, centering on Jesus, usher in the day when you can serve the True Parents.
Only after the mission to serve the True Parents is completed in this way can the love of the True Parents, representing the eternal God, emerge on the earth. At such a time, the mission of Jesus comes to its conclusion.
Jesus wished that the purpose of the dispensation of restoration in the spirit world could be materialized in substance amid all things on the earth. Therefore, if the followers today who believe in the resurrected Jesus cannot pay back the debt of the bride and bridegroom, who realize the purpose of the True Parents, and usher in the day when they can offer the prayer of restoration on behalf of humanity, then there is no way that the debt of eternal love to God can be paid off.
Therefore, Jesus also stands in the position of someone who has owed a debt for 2,000 years. Because he could not complete the will of True Parents, he still has the responsibility to pay back that debt on behalf of all humanity.
However, that responsibility does not end as a spiritual responsibility. When the position of Adam and Eve before the fall is restored, and, centering on the eternal life of God, we form the family that can represent the True Parents amid all things and sing and bow before the love of the eternal God, only then can the purpose of the 2,000-year course of the history of Jesus be concluded.
Longing for the fulfillment of this one purpose, Jesus has been praying earnestly before God for 2,000 years. By doing so, he tried to establish the highest standard with which to claim back the original world of God, who created the universe and all things.
If the fall had not taken place, the love of True Parents would have become the pivotal point around which the husband and wife, children, and all things could build a relationship.
However, because men fell, God is carrying on the dispensation in which He must pull it back. After all things, children, and husband and wife become connected, the eternal world can come.
The so-called eternal world that the Christians refer to is this world in which all the creation can respond to the words of the True Parents and appear before God centering on Jesus, who came as the True Parents, centering on the standard of the bride and bridegroom.
We who dwell in the Second Advent must now be determined to take charge of and assume the burden of all the work of Jesus done in the last 2,000 years. Only with such determination can you finally stand tall as the children who have paid back the debt of love owed to the True Parents.
Moreover, you can become the central figure who can govern the creation in God's place. If that happens, the will that God intended after creating Adam and Eve and giving the blessing to them will be fulfilled completely due to you.
What is more, when you pay back the debt that you owe to True Parents, the true couple, and the true creation centering on the love of God, and then go before God, your mind and body will naturally go close to God. You must feel the impulse to naturally offer a bow of gratitude to God. You act before you think and realize the purpose before you make a demand.
To Pay Back the Debt to God
What do we need to do to attain that purpose?
The fortune of heaven and earth moves from heaven to parents, from parents to couples, and from couples to all things. Accordingly, you must become connected to all these stages before stepping forward.
Only when you become that kind of person can you stand before God and call out, “Father!” The world of direct dominion stands in such a position. We must move forward until we can appear in such a position and relate with God.
To achieve this, we must inherit the conflict that Jesus has conducted in the spirit world and the fight that the Holy Spirit has carried out on the earth to pay back the debt that we owe until the present. This is the way that we can have a relationship with the creation from the position of substituting for the True Parents. We can fight and win over Satan on the earth.
When you can do this, you can liberate the grievous heart of God, who has shown a deep concern for fallen humanity while He was guiding the dispensation of restoration. At the same time, you can win the recognition of Satan: “This person deserves to receive the love of God.” You must understand that God's love will be present through the appearance of such a created being.
Thus, we have this type of grave mission. You must pay back the debt through your life of faith, in all the surrounding environments that are reachable to you. You have to pay it back. Accordingly, you must reflect on whether you are living a life in which you are paying back the debt.
When you live a life of faith today, you are joined in a relationship with the debt to the eternal God, parents, couples, and all things. Because you are aligned with the time when all of this debt must be indemnified, you have to think about what kind of heart you should possess.
Right after we fell, we were people who could not stand before God and could not relate to God. If God wanted to hold grudges against us, His grudges would be limitless. If he wanted to lament and despise humankind, there would be no end.
As you can see, although we have a debt from the fall, we also bear the debt of resentment and enmity incurred throughout history.
What Is the Reason We Must Endure and Forbear?
What is the reason that we must endure today? If we cannot forbear, then we cannot pay back the debt we owe and cannot resolve the grievances inside the bosom of Heaven.
Because the fortune of heaven and earth moves along with the dispensation of God, the satanic world will be judged if you play when God plays and are on God's side as you share the bitterness and grievance of God. This is the reason Heaven teaches us to restrain our anger and persevere in our life of faith.
Satan will invade if we step out of step with that and create a gap in the dispensation of God. Therefore, we who have faith must unconditionally sacrifice and obey, following only the internal aspects of love.
We have led a shameful life as the ones who have shattered the universal laws of God and the ones who owe a debt to the creation. We have caused much concern and trouble for Heaven. Therefore, the husband and wife who are leading a life of faith must be able to act on behalf of the Lord. Furthermore, we must build the relationship to serve (the Lord) as the parents on behalf of God, Jesus, and the earth.
You must forge this relationship horizontally and three-dimensionally, in which Heaven reciprocates with the True Parents, the true couple, and the true creation. Having accomplished this, you can say to God, “I have finally won the victory.
Father! I have offered my life to eradicate all the relationships with Satan in which men had worshiped Satan in place of God and fallen into the temptations of Satan.
What is more, I am a perfected child who has paid back all the debt to the universe and brought Satan to his knees.” You must understand that only when this is done can we be dignified before heaven and the creation as ones who have paid back the debt to the universe.
