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1. Everyone on earth should be born again through True Parents. Born again means born anew.
When Nicodemus came one night to Jesus and asked him about the meaning of being born again, Jesus answered him, "Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?" (John 3:10)
Rebirth means to be born again, to be born anew. What is being born again? A person who was born of false parents is born again through the True Parents.
When being reborn and inheriting God's love, life, and lineage, one must have no relationship to the love, life, or lineage of Satan's world. You have to completely erase them from your mind. (211-307, 1991.01.01)
2. As we do the mission of tribal messiah, we are reborn. The way to be born again opens to us. It is a return to the mother's womb. On each level, from the family messiah to the tribal, national, world, and cosmic messiahs, we must go through the mother's womb, the place where God, the Father, and Mother are one in love, and come out dyed the color of love.
After entering and going to the left, we have to turn around and come out, thus emerging from the womb of the mother of the family. Since we began as a family, when we return to that original standard, settle all things, and emerge, we have no relationship whatsoever with Satan.
We have to experience the labor pains of rebirth. In this way, the families that have received the Blessing become true parents. They achieve the position of God's direct descendants with no relationship to Satan, become true parents, and make a new beginning.
The family and relatives become a tribe of the same color as the True Parents and can go directly to heaven. Thus, the tribe and the people are formed, and when they connect with the nation, the nation, and the world can go to heaven as well.
Training through the Word
3. What teaching is a true teaching? What will it contain? It will teach about the individual, the family, society, the nation, and the world. If heaven and earth exist, it will teach about heaven and earth; if God exists, it will teach about God.
There has to be a way to teach about that one path, that direct path; to instruct people how to take that path and persevere on that path. If God exists, there has to be a way to reach God. If God's heart exists, there has to be a way to connect with His heart. (274-187, 1995.10.29)
4. You are receiving training so you can defeat and judge the enemy. To achieve that, you need to study my teaching first. Where did this teaching come from? It came from God's heart at the time of creation and went through the course of restoration. Never forget that fact.
Without this teaching you cannot manifest the substantial being; without the substantial being, you cannot express the deep heart. Therefore, when you hear this teaching, you have to listen with your body, with your mind, and with your heart. (11-159, 1961.06.01)
5. As you receive training based on my teaching, you should revive the earnest heart that you had long ago when you first followed Father, started on the way of the Will, and longed for the Will.
Otherwise, you cannot open the door of the kingdom of heaven. You need the ability to see people with a compassionate heart, and you need to live for others. You should long to see members, and long to live with them. If you don't rekindle this heart you will lose the key that allows you to go to heaven.
(22-169, 1969.02.02)
6. You have to be able to reject the way of the world and go the opposite way. Moreover, you have to set the world right by living a true life. You should pray for the success of each person you meet.
You should share the happiness of others. Your heart should be full of hope and gratitude to Heavenly Father; your mind should behold the glory of His light, which gives rise to a heart of peace.
You should live each day with a heart that can bring people together. If you do this every day for your whole life, when you go to heaven you will be able to sing of the glory of God. Therefore, if you enjoy singing the praises of God when you go to heaven, you should learn about His Will and fulfill it while you are on earth.
(2-252, 1957.06.09)
Spiritual children
7. You have to reclaim your family. To achieve that, find three spiritual children and then, with those sons and daughters, form a four-position foundation. After establishing this external, spiritual four-position foundation, your spiritual children have to support your physical sons and daughters, your direct lineage.
What do these three spiritual children represent? They correspond to the three archangels in the spirit world. The three archangels attended Adam and Eve from the time they were created. After you are blessed, your spiritual children should attend to your children from the time they are in the womb.
Here on earth, they are restoring through indemnity the standard of cooperation that the archangels should have maintained. This should have begun before Adam was created and continued through his birth, maturation, and blessing in holy matrimony. Therefore, you need spiritual children. (21-062, 1968.09.01)
8. To become a parent, you have to receive the Blessing. To establish a family, you have to restore Cain. To be resurrected as an individual, you have to inspire Cain to surrender to you.
Adam is in the position of the parent, but for God to be released from His grief, and for Adam himself to be redeemed, Cain must surrender. By the principle, in the course of indemnity, restoration occurs only if you restore Cain and Abel, with your spiritual children in the position of the eldest son and your children in the position of Abel.
If you don't do that, you cannot rise to the position of true parent. It is a fundamental rule that to establish the position of a true parent, Cain and Abel have to be restored. Cain must surrender to Abel. (23-239, 1969.05.25)
9. Having spiritual children is the highest ideal for which thousands of generations of religious people have hoped. Even Jesus could not reach that. During his final prayer in the garden of Gethsemane, everyone rejected and opposed him.
But we have built a victorious family in the realm of resurrection, a family honored by the cosmos. It is a blessed family of that value. It is your responsibility as blessed couples to convey the proper tradition to your children.
This is the family's responsibility. We must not burden our children with heavy indemnity. (055-105, 1972.04.29)
10. Why do we need spiritual children? We require them to find the three archangels, to find Adam's three sons, and to find Cain, the elder brothers of Satan's world. It is to find the Old Testament Age, the New Testament Age, and the Completed Testament Age.
The Old Testament Age represents the people, the New Testament Age represents the nation, and the Completed Testament Age represents the world. The Old Testament Age was the period of the redemption of Canaan by the six hundred thousand people of Israel.
Jesus took the redemption of Canaan from the national to the world level, and the Unification Church is taking the redemption of Canaan from the world to the cosmic level. The redemption of Canaan is the last gate. The expression of three stages has this meaning. (128-104, 1983.06.05)
11. You eat what you want to eat, wear what you would like to wear, and do what you want to do. But based upon those conditions you will be accused. Your couple in the prime of life has not been able to raise young people loyal to God. You should be ashamed before God.
From now on, you should raise such young people. We should be truly grateful that in the Unification Church, we have what we call spiritual children. Your spiritual sons and daughters save you couples in the prime of your life.
It is for this reason that I tell you to keep going until your bone marrow melts. When you bring tears of hope to the eyes of the young people, on the foundation of that hope, the Messiah can come. (020-096, 1968.04.28)
Rebirth through the Blessing
12. Humanity has to understand the foundation of true love and return true love to God. Only people who have been consecrated, reborn through the True Parents' Blessing, can appear as the true children of God.
A person who has not gone through the Blessing cannot qualify as a first fruit. (399-050, 2002.12.18)
13. The Blessing ceremony engrafts people into the lineage of God and cuts them off from the lineage of Satan. It starts with the baby in the womb. The children of each blessed family must receive holy wine in a conditional rebirth ceremony. In that way, they are born again.
The rebirth ceremony is to be done in the womb. The mother in a blessed family is to do that, too, and it is the same for every woman who has not been blessed. They come to stand in the same position as Mother. Drinking the holy wine is the condition. In this way, everyone can inherit the perfect lineage of True Parents. (289-060, 1997.12.30)
14. We must have everyone participate in the Blessing, not excluding even one person. One needs to have the rebirth ceremony when in the womb, the resurrection ceremony after kindergarten, and then the Blessing ceremony, which is the eternal life ceremony.
Having set the goal of eradicating sin from the bloodline, our responsibility is to go forward representing God, our True Parents, and Jesus. We have established the messiah on the levels of the tribe, the nation, and the world, and the kingship on the levels of the family, tribe, nation, world, and cosmos.
If you cannot accomplish these things in your family, you need to unite with the world family. If you were unfilial in your family, even if you were a traitor to your family, by going forward as a loyal citizen of the world, you are freed from all this.
We need to sweep away such contradictions in our environment, step by step, and create a higher level foundation to progress toward the future. This is the responsibility of the True Parents and the Heavenly Parent. (299-044, 1999.02.01)
Sun Myung Moon