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Today the world is lost in great confusion and cries out in agony.
Sermons about Family
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Today the world is lost in great confusion and cries out in agony.
The problem of unification today is not limited to the problem of the nation.
This is partly because you pure-hearted men and women from around the world, transcending boundaries of race, religion and nationality, have been chosen to form the main pillar of the Blessing ceremony.
God directed me to build a global movement and help establish His Kingdom on the foundation of two thousand years of Christianity.
I would like to reveal today the fundamental significance behind the true family movement, which I have spearheaded for all to see.
Consequently, Jesus came at the national level, as the second Adam, to restore the mistake of the first family.
But when God created Adam and Eve they were the ones who were meant to build the ideal family, nation, and world.
When we raise the question of the purpose of life with ordinary people, no one seems to know the answer.
The oriental way of writing is always vertical, whereas the Western way is horizontal.
Those who neglect to attend official gatherings such as this are the ones who don't care about their lives.
To reach this one goal, there should be one central figure and central direction which will be set by God and True Parents.
If the human beings Adam and Eve had become one body under the love of God, everything would have been complete and perfect.
The purpose of the creation was to see the coming of the True Parents who would create an ideal world.
The restoration of the human race is a recreation process, and we shall see what kind of recreation process should take place in the Last Days.
The Bible teaches us that because of having sinned, Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden.
God's will is to accomplish the original purpose and ideal of creation. This is the establishment of the four-position foundation.
Religious ideals, together with the wisdom and values that accompany them, must permeate the education, scholarship, art, physical education, media, politics, and economics of the world and serve as their standard.
The road establishing the way of Heaven is straight; it allows for no compromise.
Beloved members of the Women’s Federation for Peace in Asia and Japanese representatives who have come across the sea to celebrate this meeting!
From the beginning of human history until the present time, there has never been a period when people did not long for lasting peace, nor has there ever been a person who did not wish deeply in his heart for true peace during his lifetime.
After all, the Blessing was supposed to be consummated through Adam and Eve.
In oriental teaching, there is a saying that goes, "All goes well if there is true harmony in the family.
The Day of Victory of Love is the day that symbolizes the substantiation of the ideal world through the interconnection of God's providence and human will.
If I said that you were all very evil, you would be upset and hurt. On the other hand, if I said that you were all good people, you would feel happy.
You all know that our lives have a historic quality. When we say historic, we include the past, present, and future.
Our world is certainly in a state of confusion economically, militarily, and ideologically.
Such a human proclivity will continue as history flows. It was the case in the past, it is the case in the present, and it will be the case in the future.
From where should the ideal of love start being realized? From the Unification Church? The nation? The world?
The mind and body of man are in the relationship of subject and object. The most serious question for us is whether our mind and body become one, thus equipping us with a starting point.
Today is January 6th in the lunar calendar and my 51st birthday. It's my starting point toward the latter semi-century.
The word "family" comes from blood relation but we call ourselves family members regardless of surnames.
During the 1960s we have been laying the base for the Foundation for the Providence, chiefly by means of "All Out March" or "Victorious Front Line for Unification" aimed at the external world.
By offering a tithe from your material possessions to God, you can establish a condition equal to having offered all that you have.
The family encompasses history, the present, and the future. So what is the ultimate point that God has sought for six thousand years?
A husband and wife can be considered a pair; however just as every face differs, people's fortunes differ.
We are not focused on the individual but on the family. Still, we are not trying to solve everything based only on the family.
Everything divides from one into many, which eventually merge into a larger whole.
This is the standard of historical hope and the standard of the hopes of all peoples of the present time.
These three great loves make it possible for human beings to exist forever.
You will have to live with your family until the day you die. In your families, the members are leading lives full of both happiness and misfortune.