The Kingdom also has a Culture

The Kingdom of God (2)

March 13, 2016

Now people are becoming more and more aware, this is the reality.  It's not we're just saying this because we like spewing out hatred and we are against our Mom. We're just telling the truth. If you fought with your family and your whole movement against communism your whole life, and then your Mom comes out as a communist and trying to hijack that organization to now build communism around the world, what would you do?  You'd have to say no.  Right?  You would have to do that. Which is of course what they are doing. Their endgame, their end goal as they stated from their own mouths and pens, their end goal is to create what they see as the law of Cheon Il Guk, which creates the supreme council totalitarian state. They love it because that's where they will be worshipped as gods. They're classic "R" types. They want centralized power. They want to hold onto that power, why? Because it will increase sexual resources for themselves and their children. You see that? And their children. They may be personally moral and not sleep around, but they want options for their children. They believe that if they have power and resources, then their children will have more sexual options to spread and propagate their genetics. Did you get that?  Okay. In the end it's about the genetics!  But these are very classic "R" types.

So you can see right there [pointing to a slide], nobody deleted a chair. Even when we did these events, we always had Father's chair there too.  So you now see these things slipping in. And just this week, one of our ministers who got saved and who departed from the heresy, and who got blessed this time.  He gave us the documents of a training that he received, [showing slide of FFed training material] what is that, "2014, second semester training." This was for ministers. And this was what they called the "True Parents Theory" or "True Parents Ideology" and this is, as you can see, of course, produced by Family Fed. And look here, on point number 3, in their new teaching in the second semester of last year, I'm sorry, two years ago, 2014.  But they repeated it last year, okay?

This brother got it last year, he was a minister in the Family Fraud, and the education that they got was right here, look at number 3.  "Cham Omoni Hananim Laut."  Which is what?  "True Mother God Ideology."  See, I told you, her claim of the Messiah was not the last level.

Because when she told me, when she confronted me about it, and she said, "Who do you think I am?"  I said, "Mother, you are the victorious Bride of Christ.  You are the True Mother of humankind."  She said, "No. I am God." And I said, "Mother.  No you're not. And you cannot say that.  You cannot say that. Everything will collapse if you say that. All of heaven's blessing will be removed." Okay?   Anyways, you heard about that, right?  I told you that many times. And I told you that it's coming down the pipeline.  "Mother as God" theology.  Here it is now manifesting in their teaching. Cham Omoni Hananim Laut.

And here again down at number 7, Cham Omoni, True Mother as Messiah.  So True Mother as God and True Mother as Messiah.  Now it's interesting, because I don't recall Father allowing this type of teaching when he was alive. Isn't it convenient that this teaching only pops up after Father's gone. If this was really the teaching, how come this teaching was never taught during Father's life. It's kind of coincidental, maybe it's by chance, that it's only after he passes that you see these kind of teachings come out?  Because when he was here, this was clear heresy.

So going back to Matthew 6 here, Jesus came and also when he returns, he came not to build religion.

We many times talk about how he came to give us a relationship with him.  And I think also on a macro level, he came to build a kingdom.  Think about the whole Bible story.  In the beginning, Adam and Eve were promised to be fruitful, multiply and have dominion over the earth.

Dominion is a term in Hebrew that refers to the sovereign rule of a king. So there was a kingdom that was given to Adam, and he would be the first ancestor, he would be the king.  And then his lineage would be the lineage of the family of God.  Now this is hard for us to understand because most of us grew up in the western world and we were taught that kingdoms as bad, and there is good reason for that because the history of kingdoms have been totalitarian. They've been socialist, they’ve been dictatorial. They've been concentrations of power.  So in the West it's very hard for people to understand the idea of a kingdom because we don't live in a kingdom, right?

We don't live in a kingdom where there is some connection to a king. The kingdom is a place or a territory. [HJN refers to a slide] In the Greek, what is it called? It's called basileia, okay? This is a kingdom. Now it's interesting that this word is a feminine noun.  And it comes from basileus, which is king.

So it's interesting that a kingdom is like the object partner, and the king is like the subject partner. The kingdom revolves around the king. The kingdom has territory, it has laws, it has a constitution, it has all those things, but the kingdom also has a culture. It has a morality that is reflected in the culture or that is a projection of the culture of the king, or of the wishes and the desires of the king.

It's very hard for us to understand because we are not accustomed to understanding kingdoms. It is centered on a king. Kingdoms are centered on kings, on families, on lines and successions. Kingdoms are also centered on bloodlines, a lot of Europeans, you've had kingdoms in the past, anyone from Europe.  The realm in which a king sovereignly rules, a kingdom always requires a king, as the kingdom does with the King Jesus.  Especially it refers to the rule of Christ in believers hearts, which is a rule that "one day will be universal on physical earth."

Now I heard one pastor talking about this. One black pastor who passed away.   And he inevitably led to socialist conclusions, which I don't agree with obviously, he was actually an ambassador for his government, he was from the Bahamas.  But his general thesis was, and I think the Principle agrees with it, is that Jesus did not come to build a religion, he came to build a kingdom.  Now when you tell Christians this, this is very shocking.

It's not necessarily shocking for us, but when you tell normal Christians, evangelical Christians, that the Gospel, what is the Gospel?

The Gospel is in normal Christianity, is the birth, it is the death, it is the crucifixion, it is the resurrection of Christ. That's the Gospel. And God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that all who believe shall have eternal life. So then it talks also about God's grace. 

But this pastor was saying, "no, but if you look at the words of Jesus, that's not how He refers to the Gospel." He does not refer to the Gospel as the cross, the death and the resurrection.

In fact, Jesus never preached the cross, death or resurrection.  He taught it to his disciples privately.  He never preached it to the masses.

Never preached it, not once. Not once in the Bible does Jesus preach to the masses that He's going to die, that He will die for the forgiveness of sin, and through believing in Him you will have eternal life.  He never preached that.  When you look at your Bible, Jesus never preached that Gospel. Ahhh, that's gets you in trouble!   Am I in trouble?  That gets you in trouble in the evangelical world.  Real trouble, because for so long the tradition has been to teach the Gospel in that way.  But what did Jesus say His gospel was?  Evangelion, which is gospel in the Greek, good news.  What was the good news that Jesus was talking about?  Well, He first said, "seek ye the kingdom first," etc.

Here [pointing to a slide] are just some pictures of a kingdom, this is what a kingdom really is.  It's a heliocentric view of a territory.  The king is the source of that kingdom, right?  The king is the reason that that kingdom is a certain kingdom.  The king --- Jesus, Father -- the king is the thing around which all other objects rotate.

Now this is an important view, because in the Divine Principle we see the pictures of God, husband and wife, and children, and especially father, mother and children, we see a picture.

So most members have a relationship with a picture.  So they have an intellectual, or a theological, or a religious view of True Parents. Not a relational view.  It's a religious view.  It is a dogma view.  It is a belief that they have and that's why it's so hard for them to see the truth, which is what?  This is why they can't erase this from history even though they try to do that, and redact Father and make Him into some kind of Hindu guru.  Because his heir and successors, his own children know how it was in the household with the Messiah.  We know that everything revolves around the sun.  In fact, it was very clear when Mother was blessed to Father, that she has to be his object, has to have absolute faith, love and obedience.  She has to revolve around him.  In fact, that was the reason why everybody loved Mother, because we were always told that she has absolute faith, love and obedience.

Which was the reason why we should have love, faith and obedience too, because our Mommy is doing it.  So this is the heliocentric view of our relationship with Christ.  Not a religious view.  This is how it really was in our home.  Father shows where Providence is moving, the entire family moves in that direction.  The entire church family moves in that direction.  Everything moves in that direction.  They revolve around him.  The reason why they won't release all the videos of Father is because it's so clear to see, that it's so documented that he was the center of everything.  And that makes sense, because Christ is the center of his kingdom.

Rada and Krishna Shiva and Parvathi

So this shows different views [pointing to slide] of heliocentric views.  It's not this [showing slide of Shiva and Parvathi]; this [heliocentric view] is different from this [Shiva and Parvathi].

Now this is what Family Fraud is teaching now, they're teaching a form of Hinduism.  This is Shiva and Parvathi.  This is the masculinity of God, the femininity of God expressed as Shiva and Parvathi.  Or Rada and Krishna, or Vishnu and Lakshmi. Pretending that what they are teaching is new, but it's very old, it's eight thousand plus years old.  This idea of the divine masculine and the divine feminine coming down to earth as divine parents --- it's eight thousand years old, folks.  The problem is that people don't know religion so well.  So this is what they're teaching [shows slide of Shiva and Parvathi] when in reality, the centrality of Christ [shows slide of heliocentric view] is that he's the sun.  He's the sun and the Son, right?  The sun and the Son of the universe [laughter].  

Everything rotates around him.  Because Christ came not to have a new religion where you worship some deity, he came to build a kingdom in which you do not become a religious member or follower of a church.  That you become a citizen of [applause].  He didn't come to give us membership into a club, a rotary club or a church club.  Christ came to build the kingdom.  

A kingdom also needs citizens. What's interesting about when you become a citizen is that you have rights.  Isn't that interesting?

When you become a citizen of a kingdom you have rights.  If you are a member of a religion, you don't got no rights! All you have to do is appease your deity, right? Whereas in the kingdom you have rights that are granted to you by the center of that kingdom. And the rights even the king must obey. Haven't we heard in the Divine Principle that God could not go back on His own principle?  

In a true kingdom, even a king cannot go against his principle that he has set down.  Just like God.  So even in Matthew 10, when Jesus is talking to the disciples directly, He says, he's talking about, don't just go into the way of the Gentiles, go unto the lost sheep of Israel, but he says again, as you go preach, saying what?  The kingdom of heaven is at hand.  He didn't come to set up a new religion.  He didn't come to set up a new hierarchy.  He came to build a kingdom.

Luke 4.  "And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him that he should not depart from them.  And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also:  (not just to you, but also to other cities, for what?) for therefore am I sent." 

Now, what is normal Christian doctrine?  Jesus was sent to die.  But what does Jesus say himself, out of his own mouth?  What does Jesus say himself?  The reason why he was sent?  He said, "I come to preach the kingdom of God!"  He didn't say "I come to die for your sins."  He said, "The reason I am sent is to preach the kingdom of God."  This is what Jesus says.  This is in your Bible.  In your Bible.  Yet theology has told us that Jesus came to die.  When your own Bible, and Jesus, out of his own mouth in Luke, says, "I am sent for the purpose of preaching the kingdom of God."

Ahhh, that's going to get you in trouble in evangelical Christianity. It's going to get you in trouble in looking at the Scripture and not reading into the Scripture, but reading out from the Scripture.  Letting the Scripture tell you what it's saying instead of reading into the Scripture with the dogmas and doctrines of Catholicism and religion.  Isn't that fascinating?  It's proof, Jesus himself says he's not here, he's not here for other reasons, he's here to preach the kingdom of God.  It gets worse.  Matthew 4:23.  "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom..."

But when you look at regular, evangelical Christianity, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, born-again, Reformed Church in Christ -- whatever it is -- what is the Gospel?  The Gospel is the birth, the death --- the crucifixion --- the death, the resurrection of Jesus.  But what does the Bible say, what does the actual Gospel say?  It said Jesus went about the synagogues teaching and preaching the Gospel.  It defines the Gospel, the Gospel of what?  The Gospel of the kingdom.  He was describing the Gospel; the good news is not the cross and the resurrection.  Look at it.  The good news is the kingdom that is to come.  That should be shocking if you are from a Christian background.  The four Gospels are not talking about cross, death, resurrection.  The Gospel of the kingdom.

Again Mark 1:14.  "Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel ….." of what?  Of the cross?  The gospel of the resurrection?

The gospel of the kingdom of God.  And saying, "the time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel."  Look that this.  He says this is the gospel.  What is the gospel?  Is the gospel the cross?  Is the gospel the resurrection?  This is standard Christian doctrine.  You will be stoned in church if you say this!  [laughter].  It says he was "preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, the time is fulfilled, and kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel."  It tells you what the gospel is.  It's the kingdom of God.

The kingdom was given to the first Adam.  The kingdom was lost when Satan tempted Eve and then tempted Adam.  The kingdom was lost.  The kingdom that they had to rule, to have sovereign rule over the earth, was lost.  Everything after that is the kingdom trying to be restored.  Everything after that.  Right?  Everything after that, the whole Bible, all the rest of the Bible is about the kingdom that is coming.  In fact, the Bible really is about kingdom.  We talk about it, in the Bible about war, fight of blood lineage, all those kind of things, those are fights between kingdoms.  Satan's blood, God's blood, those are kingdoms.  The wars and all those things, kingdoms.  A kingdom that was given to Adam and Eve, lost, and trying to be regained.  In your own Bible.  Isn't that interesting that the Gospel is defined as the kingdom of God?

Matthew 9.  "And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching" the what?  The gospel of the cross?  The gospel of the resurrection?  

The gospel of the kingdom.  The kingdom.  The kingdom is the reason why Jesus was sent!  This proves the Principle.  This proves that the cross was not the first choice of God.  God used it; it is redemptive purpose, yes.  But it was not the first choice.  In your own Bible.  I don't think these quotes are all even in the DP, all these.  It says in your own Bible what the gospel is!  It's about a kingdom.  Matt: 24.  "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come."  Did it say this gospel of the cross and the resurrection?  It said again, the kingdom.  

Jesus came to build the kingdom.  In fact, when he talked about it, "this is how you should pray."  You say, "Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy Kingdom come.  Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven."

Now you look at that prayer, and you see most Christian doctrine says what?  You do this for the after world, for heaven there. [sings] "I'm going to heaven, I'm going…" What's that song?  Swing low Sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home. I'm not making fun of Christianity because they know the love of Christ; they're totally right on loving Christ as the center. Hundred percent right, hundred percent right.  I'm not making fun of them, okay?  I'm not making fun of them.  I'm pointing out clearly that in the Bible it says that it's the kingdom.  The gospel is the kingdom.  Jesus himself, in his own prayer when he said, you must pray like this, you should pray like this, he speaks about "Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, not in heaven but on earth."  It's about a kingdom coming to earth.

Not about us going to a kingdom in heaven, it's about a kingdom coming to earth is the gospel.  And we're going to get into this in the next few weeks, we're going to dissect and go into the different parables that Jesus told when he talked about the kingdom, but we're going to look at it from this perspective and from the perspective of the Cheon IL Guk Constitution. [applause]  Because that is the blueprint of the kingdom. In fact only through that, you'll see in the next few weeks as we do this study, you'll see that only in that type of land can the words of Christ come to fruition. It can't come to fruition through the kingdoms of the past.  The millennial kingdom is different, and we're going to enter into that study from next week on.

But this is important, I think, for us to understand.  I think God is moving us in a way where we actually can confront the reality of Christianity.  We have Christian friends, confronting them, "wait a minute, look at your own Bible, let's look at the Bible together.  You don't believe me; you don't have to believe me.  Look at your Bible and look what it says.  Christ came for the kingdom to be also on earth, folks."  The Bible itself, the gospel says, shows clearly what the Divine Principle says.  The first path of God was not for the death of Jesus.  He said it with his own mouth, "I come to preach the gospel of the kingdom, for this reason was I sent."

To many things, we're going to have to do so many studies, I think, on this issue.  But I'll end it with this. Remember that whole episode? Who did Jesus say, in all of Jerusalem, this person has the greatest faith?  Does anybody remember?  It was the centurion, it was the Roman soldier. Now remember this Roman soldier? This Roman soldier, remember what he said to Jesus "my manservant is sick, and Lord I need you to heal him." And Jesus volunteers, and he says, "I'll go heal him. Take me there, I will heal him."  And this man says, "No, Lord.  All you have to do is say the word."  He said, "I'm a man under authority."  What does that mean?  He said, "I'm a man under authority." That means, "I'm under the authority of Caesar."

So Caesar is in Rome, he's thousands of miles away, and this centurion is in Palestine.  He doesn't see Caesar.  But his point was that Caesar doesn't have to physically come to me for me to follow an order, remember?  And he said, "I tell my troops 'go' and they go. I tell them 'come' and they come, for I'm a man under authority."  Remember this?  And he said to Jesus, "Just say the word and it will be done." And Jesus marveled at him and He said, "In all of Judea, I have not found a man of this much faith."

What was this man talking about?  Why is this man's faith greater than other people who believed, they worshipped him, they followed him, they are like, fans of Jesus.  They are like, "oh, he's going there to preach.  We've got to go, go, go."  Why did he say this man has greater faith? This man understood a kingdom. This man understood a kingdom.  He understood that, in the kingdom, if the king Caesar gave the order, then that has to be followed. Right?  And Jesus said, "Oh, you understand what I'm talking about, kingdom." Really, another word for kingdom, think about it, this Roman soldier, was he a civilian or was he a government official? Ok, if you are a centurion, you have control over government troops.  You are a government official.

So this man was approaching Jesus as a lord of a kingdom.  And he was speaking to him as somebody who understands the dynamics of a kingdom.  And so he could understand how Jesus could just say the word and it would be done.  Because what were the miracles? The miracles that were present at the time of Jesus, were they just fantastic events? The miracles, were they just fantastic evidence of God, evidence of His power, evidence of His authority? What were they really? The miracles were evidence of a greater kingdom, a greater government that can rule over the governments of this world.

The world's law says if you have a sickness of fifty years, you cannot be healed.  The world's law says if you have issues of blood.  For how many years did that woman have issues of blood?  What was it, thirty years?  Thirteen years?  I can't remember exactly.  Issue of blood.  Jesus said, "You're healed."  He said, "Take up your seat and walk."  The miracles are evidence of the power of a greater kingdom in which Jesus is king.  Isn't it interesting that when Christ was taken before the Sanhedrin, he didn't answer their questions?  "So you claim to be the king of the Jews, you claim to have a kingdom?  What is it?"  Jesus didn't answer.  Then they take him to Pilate, who is a government official in a kingdom, and when Pilate asks him the question, Jesus answers the government official.  He didn't answer the religious courts because it was the wrong court.  It's not a religious issue.  It's an issue of politics, and issue of government, it's an issue of kingdoms.  It's an issue of kingdoms that are clashing.

The Bible says very clearly, it's the kingdom that is to come.  The kingdom, on earth, that is to come.  We're going to go on to this; we're going to stop now.  We're not going to go into any more.  Next week we'll start picking up on the parables and other things.  But isn't this incredible?  I find that this is an incredible way to look at Scripture, because by doing this, we can understand why the focus on Father, on sovereignty, on kingdom, on kingships ---- all this focus --- actually trying to create a sovereign territory.  This is all biblical.  Real.  This is the gospel.  This is not extracurricular.  This is not extra, on the outside.  This is the gospel.  It is the gospel, it is the good news.  [applause]   The good news is of the kingdom.   Amen.

Ok, young people, come on up. Let's praise the King of the kingdom that is to come.