The problem of Adam and Eve

Even though a person may be strong and gifted in accomplishing the purpose of his life of faith, he can lose his vertical connection because of horizontal emotion. In the beginning when you joined, you were so eager. You would rush to the center as soon as you finished your meal at home. You wanted to work under your church director and follow any orders from him.

This is like the time of restoring through indemnity the Old Testament Age in which people followed closely the orders of the priest. But after this you may to through a period when you are not willing to go to the church and follow the orders of the church director. During this period, you’re apt to feel closer to brothers and sisters in a horizontal way. Then unless you have a strong vertical heart, your emotions will flow horizontally and brothers and sisters will come closer. Since this problem is necessary as an indemnity condition for spiritual growth, no one can judge it as wrong automatically. This phenomenon is inevitable in the course of restoration.

If you struggle about this problem, talk to your church director and tell him everything about it. It’s absolutely not advisable to talk about this problem horizontally with other brothers and sisters. A church director must be able to control this kind of horizontal love by standing between the two people and connecting both of their emotions with God. You will face the time when your emotions will flow strongly in a horizontal way. You must know beforehand how to control it vertically. The problem of love is an indemnity condition because it was the cause of the fall. Then, we must go over this action of the fall. When it happens, we have to grab that point where we can change the emotional, horizontal flow into the vertical flow.

The emotion is the flow. Love flows wherever a reciprocal relationship is made. When you witness to a person you never met before and begin to have a connection with him, for instance, in speaking with him all day, he might become your central concern and you’ll wait for him and think about him, rather than your work or anything else you’re doing. Then your emotions are flowing to him. In this case, the leaders must be able to connect the emotion of their members with themselves, who are in the central position. But of course they can’t always stop what they’re doing to help. Then you should be able to control your love. You must have the ability to perceive whether the love is yours or not. When you long for something, you must check whether you are longing for it or God is longing for it. Don’t think of it as your own feeling and don’t connect these things with yourself.

It’s good to talk about these things with your church director or state leader because they are not directly involved with your problem and can see the situation more objectively to give you advice and guidance as to whether you are right or wrong. In the case where the church director has this problem of love, you as members must pray for him in groups of two or three and report to his Abel or state leader by mail, telephone or by meeting him.

109. Adam and Eve Problem

Now I want to talk about the Adam and Eve problem.

To fulfill our mission we have to overcome this problem. For brothers, if a woman begins to approach you with affairs of love, first you have to take care of her. Afterward, you should educate her to have a higher view of value. As for a sister, if a man in the Archangel’s position approaches you, you have to recreate him internally. They approach you with the Adam and Eve motivation. They don’t come to you with pure love. They come from the Archangel’s side. You cannot lay the foundation from the beginning. Therefore, sisters should think that it’s natural for fallen men, but you should educate them to the true value of love. To pull out original love from fallen people is the mission for the people who are aiming at the ideal world.

Because you don’t have experience, you cannot unite with your respectable person. At the time of the Fall, Eve did not know what to do when the Archangel appeared before her. If Eve had united with her heavenly partner, though she didn’t have any experience, she would never have failed. Therefore, you have to think about whom you should unite with in love. You should not relate with fallen love but you should be concerned how to deal with love.

Man is unbelievable. Because man is in the Archangel’s position, he sometimes does secret things. He keeps secrets from his parents and elders. He does as he likes. Man is a problem. According to the Fall of Man, the Archangel would not have fallen if the Messiah would have come. If you report your secrets to your Abel, you don’t want to act by your free will. Yet, if you still want to take your own way, it shows that your secrets develop within you, because you don’t speak. Do you understand? When it develops within you and becomes bigger, then it makes you commit sin, because you cannot prevent yourself from committing sin. You cannot control yourself, so you have to report to the person who can control you. You can tell everything to your spiritual father, or parents.

If you get a letter from the opposite sex, first you have to show it to your Abel. Through Abel, you can hear the contents of the letter. In this way, the personal relationship between you and the person cannot deepen horizontally. Then, including your Abel, you can develop the heavenly love between three people. You can explain to your guest that loving you means to love your Abel. You introduce your spiritual parents or your mother of faith to him. If the guest yearns for you very much, you suggest to him “The reason why you yearn for me so much is because of my parents’ love to me. You also report your love to the parents.” You should let him do so regularly. He should not keep any secrets. And other people also can suggest to him directly. You can educate him like this.

First, he can report to your Abel through the person who received his letter. But after a certain period, he can come and report directly to your Abel. If he could establish this foundation with Abel, both of you will never fall. Absolutely not. You can examine by yourself whether this method is right or not. If Eve had asked Adam, and Adam had asked God, they would not have failed. Think about it. The love of God is much more strong than that of the Archangel’s. You have to know your existence, and whom you should center on. This is most important.

A missionary who was sent to a local area by the local director could contact deeply with the guests. When their relationship became deeper, he disappeared and left the church. A neighbor said that he disappeared with a woman. How do you think about it?

Faith & Life • Rev. Yo Han Lee • 1977