Pyeong Hwa Gyeong: Episode 178
Pyeong Hwa Gyeong: A Selection of True Parents’ Speeches
Book 4: The True Family Movement
Speech 13: God’s Model for Absoluteness, Peace and the Ideal Is the Family and Global Kingdom Upholding Absolute Sexual Morality, pg 627-630
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God’s Model for Absoluteness, Peace and the Ideal Is the Family and Global Kingdom Upholding Absolute Sexual Morality
November 21, 2006
Korea International Exhibition Center, Goyang, Korea
Forty-seventh True Children’s Day Celebration
Beloved blessed families of the world, respected ambassadors for peace, leaders from all walks of life, and distinguished guests from home and abroad:
Today is a significant day in the history of God’s providence. It begins the forty-seventh year since I declared Children’s Day. I had to reach and establish four great milestones in the providential course of restoration through indemnity, in order to fulfill God’s purpose of creation that was lost through the Fall of Adam and Eve, our first ancestors. They are: God’s Day, Parents’ Day, Children’s Day, and the Day of All Things. Having victoriously accomplished the Enthronement Ceremony for the Kingship of God in 2001, I proclaimed the beginning of the providence of Cheon Il Guk at the time of the entrance ceremony of the Cheon Jeong Gung Peace Palace and the coronation ceremony in June this year. Today marks the first observance of True Children’s Day since then.
To commemorate this significant day and renew our resolve, I would like to convey Heaven’s words on the topic, “God’s Model for Absoluteness, Peace and the Ideal Is the Family and Global Kingdom Upholding Absolute Sexual Morality.” It is a summary of the message from Heaven that I delivered to the 6.5 billion people of the world over the past year. It is to remind you again of your role and mission from the viewpoint of God’s providence, and of the importance of the age in which you are living.
These are the words of life that one hundred twenty international religious leaders, who received them directly from True Parents, are proclaiming in one hundred twenty nations of the world. The world speaking tour carried out by members of three generations of True Parents’ family has opened the path to the salvation of humanity through Heaven’s message and the Blessing. On that foundation, these religious leaders who represent the Cain-type world have taken up the cause and are traveling to every corner of the world.
God’s purpose of creation
Ladies and gentlemen, throughout history, people have worked continuously for peace, based on human effort alone. Consider the confrontation between democracy and communism. Outwardly, the difference between the two was the extent to which they recognized and ensured individual rights and freedoms. Yet from the viewpoint of God’s providence, communism and democracy have been like children who lost their parents. The two divided into the positions of Cain and Abel, respectively, and became trapped in the fetters of fraternal conflict.
Throughout history, peace movements inevitably reached their limit and could not achieve their goal because imperfect human beings carried them out. This is why the United Nations, although launched with the splendid dream of realizing world peace, today has to admit its innate limitations and confess that it can no longer give hope to humanity. That is simply because the UN was launched during the era prior to the time when God could directly govern the unfolding of His providence in history.
Now, however, it is entirely possible for the Universal Peace Federation to fulfill its mission to unite heaven and earth and form the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world. That is because it represents God’s victory and the fruit of True Parents’ blood, sweat and tears. Therefore, the Universal Peace Federation is the world’s cherished hope. It will carry out the role of an “Abel-type” counterpart to the existing “Cain-type” United Nations, to renew the UN and provide the leadership for a new sovereignty of universal peace known in Korean as Cheon Il Guk. Therefore, please bear in mind that you, as leaders from around the world, have the heavenly mission to build God’s substantial homeland, which is no less than the ideal that God intended at the time of creation.
Respected leaders from around the world, what do you think is God’s ultimate purpose for creating human beings? It is to experience joy through relating with ideal families filled with true love. What does an ideal family look like? When God first created human beings, He made Adam representing all men and Eve representing all women, with the intention that they become owners of true love. Then what was the quickest way for them to cultivate a character of true love? Simply put, it was to secure a parent-child relationship with God, whereby they could live in attendance to God as their Parent and form a model family embodying God’s ideal of peace. They were to have followed the path of living as one family with God, experiencing joy eternally.
God created Adam and Eve and established them as the first ancestors of humankind to form the model family and realize the ideal of peace. God committed Himself completely to raising them as His son and daughter, who were to be encapsulations of the entire cosmos, mediators between the spirit world and physical world, and lords of creation, united with God through true love, true life and true lineage.
Ladies and gentlemen, Adam and Eve were to establish a model, peaceful, ideal family. God, the Absolute Being, created human beings as His children in order to instill in them absolute values on the basis of an absolute standard. Thus, we have to follow the way of that absolute standard in keeping with the demands of the heavenly path. This means we must follow our destined life course in order to attend God, the Absolute Being, as our Parent. In other words, for people to perfect themselves in resemblance to God and obtain the stature of people of character who can be called sons and daughters of the Absolute Being, they need to follow the path based on the absolute standard determined by God. The essence of this path is the standard of absolute sexual morality.
Absolute sexual morality
The first stage of absolute sexual morality is to maintain a standard of absolute sexual purity prior to getting married. After we are born, we go through a process of growth. We pass through infancy and childhood in a very safe and secure environment formed by our parents’ love and protection. We then enter the period of adolescence, which signals the start of a new and dynamic time of forging relationships on a totally new level with the people and things of creation all around us. This is the time we begin to travel the path of becoming a truly mature person, internally through the perfection of our character, and externally by reaching adulthood.
Yet all people, no matter who they are, must meet one absolute requirement if they hope to grow to spiritual maturity. That requirement is to maintain their sexual purity. True love among true people is based on the model of absolute sexual morality. God gave this direction to His children as a destined responsibility and duty, to be carried out in order to fulfill the ideal of creation. The only way to perfect the model of absoluteness in conjugal love is to follow this heavenly path.
What was the one and only commandment God gave to Adam and Eve, the first human ancestors, after He created them? It was the commandment and blessing to maintain an absolute standard of sexual abstinence until God’s approval of their marriage. We find the basis for this in the Bible passage that indicates that Adam and Eve would surely die on the day they ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. If they had refrained from eating and observed Heaven’s commandment, they would have perfected their character and stood as equal co-creators with God, the Creator. Furthermore, they would have taken dominion over the creation and become lords of the universe, enjoying eternal and ideal happiness.
It was God’s blessing that He warned Adam and Eve to preserve their sexual purity, so that they might marry with His Blessing as true children, become true husband and wife, give birth to true children and become true parents. This explanation deepens our understanding of this commandment; it was essentially a loving parental warning to Adam and Eve about absolute sexual morality, which is a principle of God’s creation. The profound truth hidden within God’s commandment throughout history was that we are meant to inherit and live by a model of sexual morality that is intrinsic to God’s ideal for creation. Only by doing so can we perfect our individuality as God’s children and establish ourselves as lords of creation.
FFWPU, USA