Ep 543 - Top Gun Training For Young Leaders Part 4
Top Gun Training for Young Leaders 178-23-14-40-543 - April 21, 2022
We can see our True Mother here (in Korea), but at the same time I truly miss each of my North American brothers and sisters. I miss you all!
Today I’d like to talk about “Top Gun training for young leaders” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Yet, if you leave for self-centered reasons and live for yourselves, you will shrink and become smaller. On the other hand, if you live for the sake of others, you grow and develop. You must ensure that no one suffers pain because of you. As people who save lives, you must not destroy any lives. I am talking about people now. You should embrace all your siblings, members—all people; ensure that no one leaves the Unification Church because of you. You must do everything you can to bring this people, this nation, in front of Heaven and restore the world. If you can accomplish that, how proud an accomplishment would that be? However, one person alone cannot accomplish this.
It can be achieved only if you join hands and accomplish twice, 3 times, 4 times, 10 times or 100 times more than you have. You should never forget how important the time we are living in is, and who enabled you to live such a life. True Parents enabled you to have such a life. In 1975, True Father chose missionaries from the United States, Germany and Japan and dispatched them to nations around the world. True Father, centered on the United States, created then what we can call today an elite group. He gave it a special name, educated the members of the group and gave them responsibilities. Have you ever heard of the term “Top Gun?” Will you become the Top Guns of the new providential era? (2013.09.23, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Mother said, “if you leave for self-centered reasons and live for yourselves, you will shrink and become smaller. On the other hand, if you live for the sake of others, you will grow and develop. You must ensure that no one suffers pain because of you.”
If there are many people who suffer because of me, it is certain that I live centered on myself. If I live centered on myself, it hurts not only the people around me but also the heart of heaven. Breaking a person's heart is the same as breaking God's heart.
Abel's position is to save lives, but True Mother said that we should not use Abel's position to destroy any lives. And, “You should embrace all your siblings, members—all people; ensure that no one leaves the Unification Church because of you.” Everything is a relationship. In the end, those who successfully form relationships and win can enter the next stage, the world of God's heart.
… Abel cannot hurt someone’s heart. A long time ago I learned this content. That is why I really repent. In elementary school did I hurt someone? Or in middle and high school? When I joined the Unification Church, one of my friends strongly opposed me for joining the church. In the beginning I waited and persevered so much, but this guy day and night persecuted me so much.
One day I could not endure (it) any more. I followed him out and hit him. It was the first time I hit anyone. He fell down. I cannot hit any more because my mindset doesn’t do that. “Don’t do that, please.” He was a kind of evil guy. He persecuted me so much!
About a month later -- he always liked to use a bicycle -- on the way home it was very dark in the evening. He got into an accident. A truck hit him and he died. After I heard this news, I saw his body and cried a lot and repented so much. If I had embraced him, this could not have happened.
When I was in the army, someone persecuted me because I joined the Unification Church. I endured and endured. But one day he spoke about True Father. I can (endure his persecution.) But when he talked about Father’s name -- he was in a higher position than I was, and in the Korean army you cannot rebel against your higher Abel -- I really scolded him. He was so surprised. … Later he had some accident and went to prison. …
After I joined the church and became a minister, a missionary, national messiah and … continental director, I always reflect on whether I hurt someone or not, whether I misused someone’s heart or not. My heart would not allow it. If I make a mistake and hurt somebody … Father talks about it here; Abel’s position is very important; you need to save people’s life, not just misuse your position.
In 1975, True Father chose missionaries from the United States, Germany and Japan and dispatched them to nations around the world. Today, we call them (selected members who did not go out as missionaries) an elite group, but he gave the elite group the name “Top Gun.”
True Mother's request today is for our first generation to educate our 2nd and 3rd generations as the top gun in the new age of providential history. And as General MacArthur said, “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away,” the first generations of our unification family should do their best until the moment they die with the mind of an eternal top gun, and then fade away.
I think this is my mission as well. My concern, my love, my commitment to God and True Parents never changes. Finally I will get old with no more power to go forward and then someday I will fade away. That is our job, your job.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 32 - Original Value and Our Lifestyle - Types of Value and Intellect, Emotion and Will
Section Four: Original Value
Today is a new chapter.
Fallen men have a wrong set of values. Therefore Fallen men create a confusion in values. The original value is that God is eternal, unchanging, unique, and absolute, so God has such values.
Original value is eternal, unchangeable, unique and absolute. Therefore, the value that exists with God is eternal, unchangeable, unique and absolute.
Let’s study this centering on the Unification Thought point of view: what sungsang value means.
Sungsang Value
Sungsang value is a spiritual value which satisfies the Sungsang desire: it consists of truth, goodness, beauty, and love. To be precise, love is the basis for the values of truth, goodness, and beauty. Truth, beauty, and goodness are the values corresponding to the three faculties of the mind, namely, intellect, emotion and will. That is to say, when the subject appraises an element of the object as being valuable, the subject appraises it as truth, beauty, or goodness, according to the faculties of intellect, emotion, or will, respectively.
Original Emotion, Intellect and Will, and Original Beauty, Truth and Goodness
1. The human mind has three faculties: emotion, intellect and will.
2. When the body responds to the mind’s emotion, intellect and will, its actions pursue the values of beauty, truth and goodness respectively.
3. God is the subject partner to the human mind; hence He is also the subject partner to human emotion, intellect and will.
4. Desiring to realize his original value, a person responds to the emotion, intellect and will of God through his mind, and acts accordingly through his body, thereby manifesting the values of original beauty, original truth and original goodness.
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Intellect Emotion Will
To seek a society of truth To seek a society of beauty To seek a society of goodness
Theory of True Education Theory of True Art Theory of True Ethics
True Teacher True Parent True Owner (True King)
Let’s become a champion of intellect, emotion and will!
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The Purpose of Intellect, Emotion and Will
1. What is the purpose of Intellect, Emotion and Will to achieve a true society? It is to seek a true society, to seek a society of beauty, to seek a society of goodness
2. The way to achieve this ideal society through Intellect, Emotion and Will is the theory of true education - the theory of true art - the theory of true ethics.
3. The three subject thoughts seen through Intellect, Emotion and Will are the thought of True Teacher, True Parents, and True Owner.
Purposes of Intellect, Emotion and Will
1. Purpose of Intellect: To understand God intellectually (in theory, scientifically, logically)
So that no one can deny him.
2. Purpose of Emotion: To experience God’s inner heart and love.
3. Purpose of Will: To realize God’s embodiment and kingdom.
Let’s study Father’s word.
Relationship Between Intellect and Emotion
1. If we analyze our mind we find that it has the functions of intellect, emotion and will. What is the most fundamental among the three? It is neither will or intellect but emotion. (1969.9.14 )
2. The emotional relationships of fallen human beings have yet to be established centering on God. That is why, intellect was brought to the front as a means and way to recreate this relationship in fallen human beings. However, originally intellect does not come first. Emotion should come first. That is why it should be “emotion, intellect and will” rather than “intellect, emotion and will.” You should clearly understand this point. (1967.4.10)
This is an important point. In God’s original creation emotion came first: (the order was) emotion, intellect and will. However, in the fallen world, we are very dull (in being able) to understand God’s heart, wish and mind. (As a result) the fallen world needs to begin (with) intellect, then emotion and will. But in God’s original ideal world, it begins from emotion, right?
If we focus on intellect more than emotion, that is a problem. Everybody seeks intellect more than emotion. But part of the intellect and part of the will actually need to support emotion. The emotion part is the most important part. Some people ask, “Is emotion first? Or intellect?” Without recognizing the (role) of the intellect, how can we feel and experience emotion? … Father said very clearly, “Emotion first.”
When you feel very cold, do you need to practice how to become cold? Do you first know and feel it through knowledge? Or do you feel it first and know it through your knowledge? Intellect is not first.
When you leave your home during very cold weather, you immediately feel the cold. You don’t need any knowledge to experience this. You already feel that. That is why Father said, “Always emotion comes first.” If the intellect preceded emotion, people will seek intellect more than emotion.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Being Good at Harmony is the Secret to Opening Your Spiritual Eyes
1. If we are good at being harmonious, our spiritual eyes will be opened. Even if they believe for several decades, the spiritual eyes people who can’t create harmony stay the same. The spirit of the irritable and discordant person is always dark. Reconciliation between Cain and Abel is the secret to opening spiritual eyes. Those whose Cain and Abel are still not reconciled and who express their own emotions are always in darkness. This is the Principle. The question is how we can inherit God's heart, but we just need to hand over the resurrection life to Cain's heart. If you prefer to give to Cain rather than receive, you become spiritual because Heaven gives more.
If you do well in human relationships, when you have good give and take with your brothers and sisters, your father, your spouse, your children, your spiritual eyes will be opened. Those who can't make harmony are proof that they still have their own faith, and that is that you are still arrogant and your standards are horizontal.
When Cain and Abel are reconciled, their spiritual eyes will be opened. The secret to opening spiritual eyes is peace and harmony. When Cain and Abel become one, the eyes of our heart are opened because we feel the presence of God. The constant lesson that God gives us humans is to become one and create harmony. The constant lesson that God gives us (is) that body and mind become one, Cain and Abel become one, the husband and wife become one, and parents and children become one.
Being good at being harmonious is the secret to opening your spiritual eyes. When you restore your Cain, you need to check his emotion, his feeling, his attitude, his good points, his weak points. In order to witness to Cain, we have to be very sensitive in order to serve him, care for him, and to restore him. … Father said (in this way) we can open our spiritual eyes, we can know how to love people, right?
However, the most important thing in making harmony is becoming one centered on what? It means to become one with each other centered on God's will, heart, and desires
Cain and Abel are still not reconciled, and those who express their feelings are always in darkness. People who are self-centered do not always have peace of mind, are easily stressed, and blame others for their own faults.
If you, as Abel, always touch Cain’s heart and hand over the life of resurrection into Cain's heart, then he is already a person who has a foundation of substance. When Cain and Abel create a Foundation of Substance of oneness, that is the foundation that the Messiah can come on. If you give Cain an embrace and touch his heart, God's heart will always come and stay there.
That is why God’s utmost wish is unity between Cain and Abel. Most people can reach the goal of the foundation of faith. But most of them fail at the top of the growth stage at the foundation of substance. That is why God really pays attention to how brothers and sisters can create harmony and unity, how Abel can embrace Cain so that he respects and follows you and can even die for you at the risk of his life. Wow! Heavenly Father looks at that kind of beautiful unity between Cain and Abel, harmony, reconciliation. That is God’s greatest joy.
2. If we stay at home without a life of witnessing, our spiritual feelings become dull. However, if we go to the front line and struggle to save our spirits, our faith and senses become more sensitive spiritually. As our members exchange well with Cain and share their pitiful circumstances while visiting each family and church, we have many experiences that our spirits become more sensitive and spiritual. Through harmony, the foundation of substance is realized, and on that foundation, the providence to fulfill the foundation for the Messiah begins, and the Holy Spirit can be poured out. It is difficult to live a victorious life without the work of the Holy Spirit.
The way to love Cain is to witness. When Abel stays at home without saving Cain, our spiritual feelings are dulled.
If you do not focus on restoring Cain, (if you do) not witness, you spiritually become dull. It makes problems between husband and wife, between parents and children, between mother and child. When you nurture your spirit through the training of witnessing, you will know how to take care of and serve Cain and what the best way is to approach his heart and how to touch his mind and nurture him, then you become spiritually very sensitive. You develop so much. When you come home (after witnessing), you will know how to take care of your spouse, parents and children.
In human history, there are very few people who have achieved peace in the relationship between Cain and Abel, so if anyone creates a foundation for Cain and Abel to become one, the coming of the Holy Spirit begins.
The victorious life is a life that serves Abel well and always moves Cain.
3. How did God come to be with Joseph in prison? He took hold of God's circumstances and served well. Didn't God finally connect him so that he could go all the way to King Pharaoh through him and become the Prime Minister? Our True Father moved even the heart of God by moving Cain while in prison, so he stood in a place where Satan could look up to him. It is said that True Father had never been urged by the prison warden to write a letter of reflection from prisoners every Saturday. In the communist prison, if you do not submit a statement of remorse, you will be punished immediately. It was Heungnam Prison, a prison that was so starving and bloody that when a prisoner died with food in his mouth, people took out the food in his mouth rather than mourning the death.
4. In such an environment as the Heungnam Prison, when the prisoners received food from their homes and would want to share it with True Father, even God would shed tears to say that True Father had such an influence on them. Even in prison, I believe that True Father’s life of living for the sake of others ultimately quickly paid the indemnity that he had to pay, so God rescued him from Heungnam Prison and led True Father to the South. True Father is the one who led the heart of God to come down to this earth. Only when Cain is moved and influenced in this way can we gain spiritual strength, conquer God's heart, and Satan can look up to us. However, while God provided the providence of restoration over and over again, He took trouble because of mankind.
In the prison, Joseph moved the officers who worked in the prison, (and) the prisoners. Joseph was a genius in creating harmony. It was possible because he always had God at the center of his heart.
Our true father also moved the prisoners that were with him. There was no one who could not achieve harmony with True Father in the life of True Father and the practice of true love.
We must make harmony between mind and body, in the relationship between Cain and Abel, between husband and wife, and between parents and children. God always comes to those who fulfill harmony.
That is why you need to really think, “I will never create disharmony. My job is to serve, attend, care and nurture. How can I create beautiful harmony and unity with my Cain and with my Abel?” If you do this, if you become a champion of harmony, then God … (will) tell you that you are a son of God, a daughter of God, a peacemaker and a harmony maker.
That is why God’s providence was delayed again and again, because of disunity, disharmony. That is the main issue.
What is the best way to create harmony and unity? We need to practice it. We need to get out and try to find our Cain and raise him. He will become better than I, better than anyone. If we have that mindset and practice living for the sake of our Cain, our spirit will always grow and develop, and finally we can bear incredible fruit.♦
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