The Sixth Principle: Align with heaven to share blessings on earth

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LESSON 27: What is Heaven's Blessing?

A. The blessings of Heaven.

1. Blessings are founded in God's true love, His absolute living for the sake of His children.

2. God's children can inherit them through making their own effort in the same direction of true love.

3. There are three categories of God's blessing (Gen. 1:28).

• He blesses us with perfected individuality (a mature, fruitful personality).
• He blesses us with an eternal marriage and wholesome family life.
• He blesses us with a secure, pleasant and abundant environment, physically and spiritually.

4. By striving daily to put the spiritual world above the physical, we can mature our personalities to become complete (living for the sake of others). When Jesus said that "you must be perfect" (Matt. 5:48), the Greek term for perfect means to reach maturity or completion. On that basis, God can bless us as His fruitful sons and daughters. This is the first blessing.

5. We then can receive God's second blessing, that of perfected marriage and family life.

6. This second blessing is the original family ideal. Adam and Eve did not achieve it, because they did not reach individual maturity, the first blessing. Hence this ideal must be recovered.

B. Recovery of the original family ideal through the Blessing of marriage.

1. In 1960, Reverend and Mrs. Sun Myung Moon established the first marriage completely free of sin, for the sake of granting this Blessing to all marriages.

2. They are called by God to grant the Blessing upon the marriages of all humankind. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have received their Blessing.

3. Many are members of the Unification Church. Many are not; they belong to every religious faith.

4. The Blessing opens up a realm of life never before attained, the realm of the true family.

• To participate in the Blessing is an act of love based upon faith. Our faith is that God is working in and through Reverend and Mrs. Moon and that their ministry of Blessing is a culminating step for all religions. Therefore, people of all religions are invited to receive the Blessing.
• The Blessing draws a man and woman as a married couple into the realm of God's holiness.
  • Although individuals could aspire to holiness through religion in the past, it was only as individuals.
  • It was never before available to married couples in their lives together, in their conjugal union.
  • Hence it was never possible to multiply God's Blessing to the children within the family.
• By participating in the Blessing, the path to spiritual completion as parents is open.
  • By co-creating our children with God, and rearing them with God, we share God's ultimate heart of a parent. Thus we can fulfill the image of God, as a couple and family.
  • Through the Blessing, and our life to give God's blessings to others, our home becomes God's dwelling place (Rev. 21:3: "Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them").

5. The Blessing opens the door to become a True Family.

• The Blessing comes from Reverend and Mrs. Moon, on the foundation of the Old Testament and New Testament, having expelled Satan and inherited God's love, life and lineage.
• By living according to the true family values, based on the Blessing, all couples can inherit this liberation from selfishness, and inherit God's love, life and family lineage.

6. God's true love can blossom in your family.

• The seed of God's true love is planted by the Blessing. It expands throughout your life and is bestowed to all future generations.
• If you tend this seed, by making effort to live with godly love in your family, it will grow and bear fruit in your lives and the lives of your children and grandchildren.
• Our families will become as God intended them to be, thriving in harmony with nature and universal law.
• God, who dwells within our conjugal love and family life, is eternal.
• Therefore, our family love is eternal. We live in heaven on earth and in the spirit world together as families and tribes.

7. Your religious faith is a foundation upon which to build life as a Blessed family.

• If you are a Christian, you already have found fellowship with God in Jesus Christ, as an individual. Jesus ordained Reverend Moon to deepen our relationship with God on the level of the family. The Blessing of Jesus and the Holy Spirit is present in Reverend and Mrs. Moon's Blessing.
• Likewise, every faith has enabled believers to experience God's holy presence-as individuals. The Blessing is an added benefit, building upon the foundation of the faith you already have, to sanctify the family.
• All Blessed families, of whatever religious tradition, can attain the highest ideal according to their integrity, effort and devotion. The Blessing is not a cure-all, but an opening to a life of the greatest freedom to reach the ideal of True Love without hindrance.

8. A godly life is not only a matter of individual faith and character; more importantly it is a relationship between husband and wife, parent and child.

9. To cultivate true love in Blessed families successfully, Reverend Moon has taught us true family values. True family values cover seven principles on the way true families ought to live.

10. By participating in the Blessing, you can begin to address the root cause of family breakdown and social breakdown.

• By renouncing forever the corruption of love. Through the Blessing all men and women make a commitment never to commit adultery and never to divorce, and to educate this standard of true love in their children.
• By accepting God's grace through the Blessing. Without God, we cannot accomplish this great victory of love.
• By committing your marriage and family to help form a peaceful and prosperous society, nation and world.

11. You can join with millions of other Blessed families to form one great family throughout the world.

• These are families of all races, nationalities united as one family through the True Parents.
• This will overcome the motivation leading to war, racism, poverty and immorality, bringing world peace.

C. Through the Blessing of True Parents we are building a substantially new society, based upon the ideal of true love.

1. The Blessing is a new stage of spiritual benefit.

• The True Parents are God's gift, pioneering the true family. While selfish love, the work of Satan, is destroying the family through the decadent modern culture, True Parents have appeared as the first true family and the model for all families who wish to establish themselves 100% in God.
• We can see from the events of history that humankind is at the beginning of a new stage of history. However, only through the transformation of man-woman relationship in marriage can we find any substantial spiritual change on earth.
  • All other signs of progress are external: scientific and political. Meanwhile, in the established society, family life goes on as it always has, and is moving to destruction.
  • True Parents bring salvation to the family, liberating it from sin and Satan.
  • They have brought God to dwell within the family through true conjugal love.
  • They have established the foundation for eternal marriage and family to be enjoyed by all people, based on our own effort of true love.
  • This is the true sign of progress and hope for the world. Without restoration of the family, science and social progress will be for nothing. Money, power and knowledge have no value without love.

2. The True Parents have set the tradition of true family life. We can learn from their example.

• By sharing the heart of love toward all people, we can connect with the fullness of God's love.
• True love bestows equal value upon all families.
• Reverend and Mrs. Moon's work includes active development in social, economic, political, educational and civic activities to establish the kingdom of heaven in the real world, which begins with our hometowns.
• To work as a Blessed family for substantial betterment is the ultimate meaning of being a representative family and a central family. It means that we become a family of the body of God and True Parents.

D. Conclusion.

1. The most significant blessing of God, given by faith, is the Blessing of marriage.

2. Through the Blessing, we can receive the abundance of God's true love, which naturally clears up the causes of free sex, homosexuality, and materialistic, self-centered lifestyles which are destroying this world.

3. Through the Blessing, all the people of the world can become true families, to build the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven. Thus the Blessing is the gate to all blessings.

4. This is to create a new culture upon the earth. We call this the culture of heart. The final lessons explore the meaning of the culture of heart.

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