The Consequence of the Fall and the Importance of Restoration Centered on Human Responsibilty

Sunday Service Sermon 

April 24, 2022

I. HDH:

"The Fall violated heavenly law through Satan’s selfish and false love. Consequently, it brought about ignorance of God and true love. Through this human beings lost not only God, but also any sense of their own original value. Dominated by Satan’s false love, we lost the ability to establish true families centered on true love. Without this fundamentalp

 lifeline to happiness we have been unable to become true people, unable to attain the oneness of mind and body necessary to complete the original ideal. "

Ref:Pyeong Hwa Gyeong: A Selection of True Parents’ Speeches

Book 4: The True Family Movement

Speech 7: True Family and World Peace, pg 573-576

II. The original consequences of the Fall:

In Divine Principle we teach the following results of the fall:

A. Satan became the God of the World (section 4.1)

A1. An AA became our false creator and set up a system of control throughout the Cosmos. 

A2. EVIL Spirit working through certain fallen humans and cultural norms to influence our lifestyle. 

A3. Today they are working as Aliens 

B. The knowledge of Evil came into existence (section 4.3)

B1. Remember the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil". This symbolizes the Physical Mind World - linked to human free will action. 

B2. HP created the original  COSMIC UNIVERSE via Their  Divine Creativity centered on ABSOLUTE GOODNESS.

B3. They then made Adam and Eve in their IMAGE as their Direct Object partners with mandate to fulfill 3GB, centered on  FREE WILL .But by the Fall Evil came into existence.

C. With the Evil Mind came S.I.N. (section 4.5)

C1,  S.I.N  = Selfish Individual Nature

D. With SIN came Fallen Nature. (section 4.6)

D1. Fallen Nature is the historic memory of SIN recorded in our lineage. Today we call it cultural heritage.

D2. Inability to see things from God's viewpoint.

D3. Leaving proper position

D4. Reversing Dominion

D5. Multiplying Evil

III. Today's HDH brings to light a new view of the consequences of the fall as follows:

1, Ignorance of God and the Ideal of Love (True Love)

The 3 great Blessing are the pathway to our eternal life and the building of a Peaceful Ideal World. Through the fall we lost all of this ... becoming ignorance TRUTH 

2. We lost the sense of our human value... Man is both Spirit and Flesh.

3. We became slaves to False Self Love (S.I.N). We became slaves to fleshly thing.

"13.For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only `use' not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another. 14. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, `even' in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" Gal 5: 13-14

4. As slaves to S.I.N. we are unable to establish True Blessed Families centered on True Love... meaning :

A. We are unable to live for the sake of each other... meaning we are unable to love the way God loves

B. We are unable to see each other as One Family Under God... Heavenly Parent's Holy Community (HPHC)

C. Instead we have  become entangled to SATAN'S CULTURE. His ideal of life.

C1. Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow you die 

C2. "For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage (bondage to S.I N)." Gal 5:1

III. Talk about Liberia as a Nation of Destiny for Africa:

*Liberia is a nation of Destiny for Africa, we are a chosen people of God no different from the 1st Israel. 

*Principle teaches we are a part of the 2nd Israel Christianity  and as Unificationist we are part of the 3rd Israel.

*Explain the futility of human existence without restorative justice...without Reconciling our differences as Children of God.

We will live a lifestyle of perpetual conflict...

*Use Liberia's recent history as an example. 

-Nation built on Christian principles 

1847 to 1980 133 years

-Nation fallen to a failed state status 

1980 to 2020

-Nation seeking restoration via restorative Justice. 2020 to 2027

IV. How can we restore this our Motherland of Africa?

How can we collectively restore Heavenly Africa as our True Mother has requested?

Answer: We must follow our True Parents by simply fulfilling Human Responsibility as Tribal Messiahs

(The 3 great Blessing)

A. FRUITFUL: Human spiritual maturity to perfection

B.MULTILPY:  "The Family is a School of Love"

 Without a "True Love Family Foundation"  there is hope to build a peaceful ideal world.

C. DOMINION:  Restore Heavenly Ownership of Earth and Heaven

 Without a Peaceful Ideal World  as Cheon-Il-guk (An Eternal Peace Kingdom) there is no meaning to Sustainable Development. 

AGAIN WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?

Without Sustainable Development on Earth and in Heaven centered on True Families working together responsible there will be  no Eternal Life of Happiness

Love you all forever until we win the victory for our Heavenly Parents centered on our True Parents as ONE WORKD FAMILY.