What’s all this stuff about change of blood lineage?

Part 2

What is lineage?Great-grandparents

Grandparents

Parents

Children

Grandchildren

Great-grandchildren

Our identity is sociallyconstructed by relationships

Most signficant relationshipsare familial

To reveal ourselves is to tell our story, where we come from

Our identity comes fromour lineage

What should be our lineage?

SocietySocietyNationNation

WorldWorld

True True LoveLove

ChildChildof Godof God

GodGod

Husband Wife

Family

Way of life: living for sake of others

Hospitality to strangers

God is Love Life Lineage Identity

God’s love fully expressed through Four Realms of Heart and Three Great Kingships

Identity:“God is my father”“I can possess the love of God”“I can inherit God’s kingdom”

What is fallen human lineage?

SocietySociety

NationNation

WorldWorld

CorrupCorrupt Lovet Love

ChildChild

SataSatann

Husband Wife

Family

Way of life: mixture of good and bad, selfish

and unselfish Fallen nature

Fallen traditions

Identity: Confused

“People are deluded into believing thatthe lineage of the enemy is the lifeline upon which the world depends.” TF

LuciferLucifer

“Original Sin”

Evil elements

DescendantDescendantss

AdamAdam EveEve

ChildreChildrenn

Evil elements

Evil elements

Evil elements

All people affected by the fall

Original Original naturenature

FallenFallen nature nature

True love

Selfish love Evil

inclination

Good inclinatio

n

We inherited contradictory nature

Born in the midway position

Confused identity

Changeable

Who has to do the work of eliminating the satanic blood lineage deep within man, which was inherited through generation after generation? True Parents. They must become one with the love of God and love the world as if it is theirs. Otherwise it is absolutely impossible to remove fallen nature and original sin. Therefore, parents of evil and parents of goodness have to struggle and compete with each other for love, but the love of the True Parents will endure. Satanic love will be removed from man; the blood lineage will be changed.

The Messiah may be able to remove the satanic blood, but you must attend and follow him so that he can do that.

Everybody has to carry his own cross. If you cannot fulfill that standard, you cannot be saved. You must be willing to face death itself. By establishing that absolute standard, your evil blood lineage can be cleansed. In order to have it cleansed, we must work and take action, not just talk about it or have feelings about it. We must do strong things, such as fasting and prayer, thus going through the boundary of life and death.

What is change of lineage?

Where is the change of blood lineage done? On the individual level, man has to go beyond the boundary of life and death. The individual has to go through life and death situations for the sake of God and the future dignity of man. (True Father, 1970)

Change of lineage through Jesus and the Holy Spirit

What was God’s original ideal?

Mature Person

Mind BodyBody

God

SocietySocietyNationNationWorldWorld

Happy Family

Adam

God

EveEve

Heaven

Person CreationCreation

God

What went wrong?

Ideal and Fall

God

Man

Perfect Person

God

Man

Fallen Person

God

ManSatan

What were the results of the Fall?

Sinful Person

Mind BodyBody

Satan

SocietySocietyNationNationWorldWorld

Fallen Famil

y

Adam

Satan

EveEve

Hell

Person CreationCreation

Satan

Salvation

God

Christ

ManSatan

“I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.”

John 14:6

The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy theworks of the devil.

I John 3:8

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men; the man Jesus Christ.

1 Timothy 2:6

What is the mission of the Messiah?

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulders and his name will be called, ‘Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.’ Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David, and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time and forever more.

Isaiah 9:6-7

The Messianic vision

The Messiah comes to change the lineageGod Satan

TrueFather

TrueMother

EveEveAdamAdam

Child of God Child of Satan

Rebirth

“Unless one is born anew, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”

John 3:3

Complete salvation

MessiahMessiah

SpiritSpirit

BodyBody

Spiritual SalvationSpiritual Salvation

Physical SalvationPhysical Salvation

“Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”Matthew 6:10

The two possible courses

Jesus Christ

Lord of Glory Lord of Suffering

Accepted Rejected

Isaiah 9Luke 1

Isaiah 9Luke 1

Isaiah 53Isaiah 53

God’s Will

“I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” Matthew 9:13

A perfect sacrifice

He offered himself without blemish to God, a spiritual and eternal sacrifice; and his blood will cleanse our conscience from the deadness of our former ways and fit us for service of the living God.

Hebrews 9:14

Scourging of Jesus

He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 53:5

The crucifixion of Christ

And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, “You would destroy the temple and build it up in three days, save yourself.”

Matthew 27:39-40

The last words

“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”

Mark 15:34

“Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit.”

Luke 23:46

“Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”

Luke 23:34

Salvation through the cross

GodGod

ChristiaChristiansns

SpirituaSpiritual Selfl Self

Spiritual Salvation

PhysicalPhysicalSelfSelf

JesusJesus

PhysicalPhysicalSelfSelf

SpirituaSpiritual Selfl Self

SatanSatan

Jesus’ blood on the cross became the price for the redemption of mankind.DP Level 4 p.59

Subjugating Satan

There was only one way to recover this lineage and ownership. This was the path to win the natural subjugation of Satan, to have Satan surrender voluntarily. It can only be accomplished by the power of true love, when we love our enemies more than we love our children.” True Father

Why did the cross becoming the redeeming

condition?

Jesus

God Satan

People

Spirit Body Spirit Body

SatanSatanGodGod

JesusJesus PeoplePeople

Salvation through the cross

JesusJesus

SpiritSpirit

BodyBody

Spiritual SalvationSpiritual Salvation

Physical SalvationPhysical Salvation

““. . . we ourselves, who have the . . . we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the spirit, groan first fruits of the spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.”sons, the redemption of our bodies.”

Romans 8:23Romans 8:23

Romans 7:21-25

Resurrection

If Christ had not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.

I Corinthians 15:17

Establishes the Church

Foundation of Faith

Foundation of Substance

Foundation for the Messiah

Offering – Word

Central person - Jesus

Time period – 40 days

Restored disciples

Pentecost and rebirth

What happened at Pentecost?

Jesus sends Holy Spirit

Jesus and Holy Spirit became spiritual True Parents bringing spiritual rebirth

Spiritual salvation - enter realm where Satan cannot invade

EDP, 280

The Holy Spirit descends

Spiritual salvation

But to all who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God; who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 1:12-13

Believers

Jesus

God

Holy Holy SpiritSpirit

What is the process for the change of lineage in

Christianity?

Living a Christian life"Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?” "What is written in the Law?" he replied. "How do you read it?"He answered: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbour as yourself.'""You have answered correctly," Jesus replied. "Do this and you will live."But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbour?"

Luke 10 25-29

Who is my neighbour?

Parable of the Good SamaritanRace, religion, nationality irrelevantLove the main qualification for heavenNeighbour is the ‘other’

Prodigal sonGod’s lovePath of salvation

The path backRecognition of het or harmartia

Missing the mark or target, go astrayAn act, not a state of beingBreaking divine lawDamages relationship

RepentanceTo return to God

AtonementRectify wrong doing to best of abilityCan never be enough

ForgivenessReconciliation

Sacraments

An outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace

Human beings are sacramental beingsInvisible realities expressed through outward signs

Rituals are creativeWords can be performative utteranceSacraments change a person

Baptism Sacrament through

which a person is made Christ’s

Water - outward sign Life giving, Cleansing Flood judgement Church is the Ark Crossing Red Sea Slavery to Freedom Death to Life Buried with Christ Resurrected with Christ

Gifts of Baptism

Sign of the Cross Jesus’ victorious life

Receive a ‘Christian name’ New identity God knows us personally

Member of Christ Union with Christ Metaphor of the vine

Child of God New birth into God’s family Brothers and sisters in Christ

Inheritor of God’s Kingdom

By making the indemnitycondition of baptism by water, we can be spirituallyborn anew through Jesusand the Holy Spirit. EDP, 177

Last Supper

"Take and eat; this is my body."

“This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”

“Do this is remembrance of me”

You are what you eat"I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.”

John 6:55-57

Sacrament of EucharistOutward sign

Bread and wineInward grace

Body and blood of ChristCom-panion of Christ

Share bread with Christ & fellow Christians

Sharing in the life of ChristDrink from a common cup

“I am the vine, you are the branches”Christ’s blood, life, flowing through

veinsChrist lives in me

By taking a piece ofbread and a cup ofwine at the sacramentof Holy Communion,we receive the preciousgrace of partaking in Jesus’ body and blood.

EDP, 177

Sacrament of marriage

Sanctification of the union of a man and a woman for a Christian life together and for procreation

The spouses confer the sacrament on each other

Sacrament to restore chastity lost at the fall

Conditions for marriage

Both spouses are Christians

Freely entered in to

Service - PrefaceIn the presence of God, Father, Son and Holy

Spirit, we have come together to witness the marriage of N and N, to pray for God's blessing on them, to share their joy and to celebrate their love.

Marriage is a gift of God in creation through which husband and wife may know the grace of God. It is given that as man and woman grow together in love and trust, they shall be united with one another in heart, body and mind, as Christ is united with his bride, the Church.

Freely entered into

N, will you take N to be your husband? Will you love him, comfort him, honour and protect him, and, forsaking all others, be faithful to him as long as you both shall live?

Vows

I, N , take you, N , to be my wife, to have and to hold from this day forward; for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part; according to God's holy law. In the presence of God I make this vow.

Exchange of rings

Heavenly Father, by your blessing let these rings be to N and N a symbol of unending love and faithfulness, to remind them of the vow and covenant which they have made this day through Jesus Christ our Lord.

N, I give you this ring as a sign of our marriage. With my body I worship you, all that I am I give to you, and all that I have I share with you, within the love of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Purpose of marriage

Place for conjugal love, mutual support and comfort

Proper place for sexual intercourseFor procreation and raising of children

When husband and wife are united in marriage, they are no longer seen as something earthly, but as the image of God Himself.

St. John Chrysostom

Marriage and family

Marriage lays the foundation for the family which is a "home" or "domestic" church headed by nuptial priests—the parents.