Sunday Sermon 2023 - In the Year of the Rabbit - Sermon topic: Body of God

“In Chinese traditional culture, the color of water is actually black. That’s why it’s “Black Rabbit”, but also water means fortune and this year, you’re going to have plenty of fortune,”

Sunday Sermon <month> 2023

In the Year of the Rabbit

Sermon topic

Why does God need a form like Adam? God is an invisible being.

You cannot see God even in the spirit world. God is not visible. Can you see energy? Since God is the original Being of energy, He cannot be seen even in the spirit world.

He has no body. Hence, in order to guide and govern the physical world, He must assume physical form. (Adam&Eve)

On the road to Damaskus Saul => St Paul St Paul saw a blinding light (Jesus) and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?

1st World War 1915

One of the most moving paranormal experiences on military record which occurred in Europe at 10:30 P.M on November 14, 1915, was witnessed by French, German, Russian, Italian and British troops.

1st World War 1915

A Spiritual manifestation that, still in spite of the tremendous human suffering in 1st World War; there was a meaningful great result of that suffering - Indemnity = again a Holy Divine Physical and Spiritual Body on Earth the Birth of Christ! 1920 2nd WW - Mission 1945

During a 1933 baptismal service at the Ohio River at Jeffersonville, Indiana, 1933 a SUPERNATURAL BEING appeared before hundreds of people saying to him, “As John the Baptist foreran the first coming of Christ, you will forerun His second Coming.”

This picture is displayed today at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

William Branham USA had been hearing voices since he was seven years old. Finally, in May of 1946, Branham was commissioned by an angel from God 1946 to be the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.

Comment: In June 1946 TF (Sun Myung Moon) went to Pyong Yang to search for the prepared Spiritual groups for the Second Coming of Christ.

It seams like that Heavenly korean mission “spilled over” to Branham in USA.

Who would you say is the greatest prophet in the Old Testament?” That will usually start a debate. Some will say Elijah, some will say Jeremiah, some will say Isaiah, and people will mention their favorite. Then I say, “Well, I think that the most important prophet in the Old Testament is John the Baptist.”

Old Test ruled until John.

/Pastor R.C. Sproul

“Before Jesus became manifest there were people who had been prepared — John the Baptist came prepared.

But the world has grown and multiplied — the means of communication have become simpler and easier. It takes not one man in a little country to be a John the Baptist, but many men in many countries to herald the coming.”

”The purpose of the coming Lord is that some day… all shall be like him - like Christ.” /SMM 1965

In Christian theology, the term Body of Christ (Latin: Corpus Christi) has two main but separate meanings: it may refer to Jesus Christ’s words over the bread at the celebration of the Jewish feast of Passover that “This is my body” in Luke 22:19–20 (see Last Supper), or it may refer to all individuals who are “in Christ” 1 Corinthians 12:12–14.

As used by Paul in the Pauline epistles “Body of Christ” refers to all individuals who “heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit” Ephesians 1:13, “are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit” Ephesians 2:22,

are “joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love” Ephesians 4:16.

Human beings were fashioned from clay, water and air; consequently they contain elements of the mineral kingdom.

Moreover, the earth displays a similarity to the structure of the human body: the earth’s crust is covered with plants, its underground waterways exist inside the substrata, and beneath it all lies a molten core surrounded by a rocky mantle. This resembles the structure of the human body, which has skin covered with hair, blood vessels running inside the musculature, and marrow lying deeper still within the bones.

The position of human beings in the cosmos has three aspects;

Human beings, composed of flesh which can dominate the physical world and spirit which can dominate the spiritual world, likewise have the potential to rule both worlds. (3rd Blessing)

Second, God created human beings to be the mediator and the center of harmony of the cosmos. When a person’s flesh and spirit unite through give and receive action and become God’s substantial object partner, the physical and spiritual worlds can also begin give and receive action with that person as their center. They thus achieve harmonious integration to construct a cosmos that is responsive to God.

Like the air that enables two tuning forks to resonate with each other, a true person acts as the mediator and center of harmony between the two worlds.

Third, God created human beings to encapsulate in a substantial form the essences of everything in the cosmos. God created the universe by projecting and developing the pre-existent prototype of the human internal nature and external form into countless substantial forms. The human spirit encapsulates all of the elements found in the spirit world, since God created the spirit world as the unfolding of the spirit’s internal nature and external form. Since human beings contain within themselves the essences of all things in the cosmos, each person is a microcosm.

The Completion of God’s Purpose of Creation

Kingdom of Heaven has the form of an individual who has achieved perfection of character. Just as the members of the human body are coordinated in horizontal relationships with each other and move as one in response to the vertical commands of the brain, in this society people will form cooperative horizontal relationships with each other and live together in tune with the vertical directions emanating from God.

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References: Main Source: Divine Principle: www.unification.net/dp96 Speeches by Sun Myung Moon: www.tparents.org/Lib-Moon-Talk.htm

Short Vocabulary:

AGS =Absolute Good Spirits Ahn Shi Il = 8th Day Pledge CBG = Chambumo Gyeong, Holy Textbook CSG = Cheon Seong Gyeong, Holy Textbook CIG = Cheon Il Guk, Two persons become one, Kingd. of Heaven Cheonju Tongil Pyeonghwa Guk, The Nation of Peace and Unity of Heaven and Earth CSW =Cheonji Sunhak Won (Museum) CP = Cheong Pyeong, Spir. training ground Korea DP = Divine Principle, v1973 EDP = Divine Principle, v1996 ODP = Original Divine Principle, 2008

Short Vocabulary:

KoH = Kingdom of Heaven LSA = Lord of Second Advent OT = Old Testament NT = New Testament CT = Completed Testament PHG = Pyeonghwa Gyeong (Peace Messages) TF = True Father, SMM = Sun Myung Moon TM = True Mother, Hak Ja Han Moon TP = True Parents, TF+TM TTM = Textbook and Teaching Material UC = Unification Church

See also extended Vocabulary: http://www.slideshare.net/bdp003/vocabulary-uc

Remember the beauty in Gods nature is there to inspire the most Holy original inside us all! Have a great Blessed week. Prepared for 2nd,3rd… Gen inspiration by Bengt de Paulis.