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The Kingdom of God

2. THE STANDARD FOR GOING TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD
What is the standard for going to the Kingdom of God? It is to love God more than one's own child. Without loving God the most, 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. Some fallen people are in the situation of leaving the realm of Satan and yet stay-ing 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 moth-er 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 accor-dance 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 eter-nally. 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. That is to say, while the mind represents the central point of every direction, we understand a direction to he manifested only through a body. In order to he God's child, when God goes east, one must go east with God. If God liked a warm thing, but Jesus liked a cold one, would that be right? When God wants to laugh and talk, if Jesus wants to sleep, is that right? Everything that is man-ifested 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-tem-pered. 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. Since 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 ~() 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 sor-row, humankind cannot enter God's Kingdom. Since humankind 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 6,000-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 sor-row. 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 in the face 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 gen-eration, and the children of Cain and Abel were the third generation. These three generations were supposed to unite. Centering on God, God \vas the first generation. Adam and Eve were the second generation, and Cain and AI)el 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 as long as the principle of living unselfishly is maintained. In other words, if people only wished to he treated well, the Kingdom of God would perish. Don't you agree?
The Kingdom of God is the world filled with true love. The essence of love is to live for the sake of others. Thus it is different from the love in the secular world. Therefore, religion teaches to live for the sake of oth-ers, that is, to be humble, to serve, and to sacrifice. The secular world has no such teachings. Yet, these elements are somehow practiced by groups such as beggars, who know nothing. 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 STRUCTURE 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: sovereign-ty, land, and people. In this world, is there a sovereignty over which God can have dominion? [No] Did humankind allow itself to be governed by God? [No] therefore, we don't have our country. This world is not where the original human should live.
Thus, the desire of humankind 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 1 stranger once, that cannot satisfy goodness. 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 good-ness to accumulate rapidly and expand to goodness on the world level.
Therefore, goodness does not stay clown. 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 humanity's long history has not been fulfilled yet. (155-26)

SECTION 3. THE QUALIFICATIONS AND CONDITIONS FOR ENTERING THE KINGDOM OF GOD
1. THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR ENTERING THE KINGDOM OF GOD
1) Necessity of Suffering
What remains forever is the suffering of a public life. If, when you go to the spirit 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 people. (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 spirit world and us? It is for us to encounter difficulties. The harder a time you have, the more the spirit world unites with you. Despite the fact that the Unification Church and the spirit world are in a relationship of father and son, and a brotherhood relation, if we endure a lot of suffering, the spirit world will completely unite with us.
Therefore, we are mobilized directly and are battling with Satan. If we do not encounter difficulties, the spirit 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 sub-ject? 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 cosmos, you will be treated as the sub-ject 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 pro-claimed, "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, valu-able, 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 blossoms. 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 will-ing 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 someone 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 humankind, and will be the foundation for the happiness of the world's people. All people will regard that foundation as the starting point of harmony, and will make the world united. The one who feels responsible for the histo-ry 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, through 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 spirit world. You come to receive the highest blessing in the spirit 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 com-pared to Elijah's miracle in receiving food from ravens. I let Communists bring food through the spirit 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 feel it substantially? [Yes!] The line of love does not become thin when it is pulled, as does 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 spirit 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 country first on earth. In order to meet that country, 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 country. Upon know-ing 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 actually 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 country. (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 rep-resent 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, no couple has lived such a life until death. Therefore, the Kingdom of God is vacant. (176-210)

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 your 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 nei-ther 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 global Kingdom or the individual Kingdom? [The global Kingdom!)
Because True Father is very greedy, in order to hold the line of love to be able to enter the global Kingdom of God, he has been going this way, enduring persecution for 40 years by going beyond the individual, the tine 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 at the level 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 block-ing the spirit world as well as the world on earth, but True Father opened them all. True Father made the foundation so that the spirit world can freely settle on earth.
In the past, a person who prayed and devoted himself could meet the deceased founder of a religion for a short time, but then they had to sep-arate, 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 substan-tially 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 in the spirit 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 spirit 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 realms 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 country? What is the condi-tion to enter that country? You have to love God more than your own chil-dren. 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. (10-100)

Then, who can live in the heavenly country? 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 giving joy to God were born? [They were not born .1 (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 country, you would feel ashamed of yourself. We are not the group that wants to go to the Kingdom of God just by having faith, as do traditional Christians. We are the group which tries to estab-lish 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 spirit world. But people who live their whole life centered on them-selves go to the original homeland of evil-hell-regardless of their feel-ings. 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 spirit world, but True Father is an expert. I have experienced the spirit world more than anyone else has. The spirit world is my special major field. What is the origin of the spirit world? The world which is composed through the Principle-living for the sake of others- must be the Kingdom of God that humanity 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 orig-inal 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 that 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. The creation of humans started in God's mind. They were to grow up in God's bosom of love, become mature in God's bosom, and form the family which can con-nect with the love of the world. Through that, they would 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, with God it is 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 var-ious historical contents, also came between husbands and wives. That wall was made in the family, tribe, people, nation, world, and between the spir-it world and world of earth. That wall was made between heaven and hell. Although God dwells in the glorious place called heaven, without remov-ing that wall, humans on earth can never go over the boundary line sur-rounding it.
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, people don't even know if God exists. People came to radically insist that God does not exist. Furthermore, they proclaimed that God is dead. You are living in this kind of tragic envi-ronment 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. These 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 can-not 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 per-son cannot be fine before God. Without having a certain objective stan-dard authorizing oneself, one cannot have the absolute standard of faith. Where 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 funer-al 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 devel-op the providential history with that young generation. God has walked the providential way of history having such contents.
old age must pass over into the prime of life, the prime of life into youth, youth into childhood, and childhood into 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 is 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 devel-oped the history of salvation from the mother's womb as the highest his-tory 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 cen-tering 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 issue. What can solve this struggle? This is impor-tant. 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 occu-pied 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 (10 results of goodness have in your personality? That is the issue.
Looking at our surroundings, we see we are surrounded by evil ele-ments. The way of evil does not need to be taught. Everybody can go that way without education, because history started from an evil foundation. Do we need to be taught how to be bad? Because humans fell by their own decision, 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 l)e 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 lamenta-tion, 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 marked by evil.
This is the present reality. Because humans were born from an evil foundation, they are struggling in evil and go toward evil. This has been the way throughout all human history. When we consider today's religion, whit 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 spirit 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 t6 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 unchang-ing 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 stan-dard. (129-182)

3. THE FOUR-POSITION FOUNDATION AND THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
1) The Family Can Enter into the Kingdom of Heaven
If I had only worked for the family level until now, why would I have 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 yet God's Will. Jesus was expelled by his own relatives because he was not able to do it.
However, 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, whomever 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 enter the Kingdom of Heaven only 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, Adam and Eve together would have been 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 stalls when you deny the root of all your innate heartfelt feelings. Therefore, 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 Lord at Second Coming can solve these problems easily. Until then, you have to face these diffi-culties atone.
There is no way to achieve individual salvation. In order to save humanity, we have to save the family. To open the way to give salvation as a whole family, the Messiah is coming 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 can-not enter the Kingdom of Heaven alone. Do you think Adam and Eve would have been able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven or not if they had stayed in the realm of God's love without falling? If that had happened, there would have been no such thing as hell.
How can we 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 grandchil-dren. Further, this is the place for the entire nation to go. That is why this place becomes a heavenly country. The Kingdom of Heaven is 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 like that way? Do you or don't you? When Heavenly Father looks at the human world or the religious world, will he feel 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 dif-ference 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 daugh-ters and parents.
The Unification Church is on a different level of teaching from any other religion, since it shows the way to go to the Kingdom of Heaven with the family and the clan, 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 hap-piness 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 par-ents. 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 had 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.

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