Ep 555 - Wonmo Pyeongae Scholarship Institute Part 5
Wonmo Pyeongae Scholarship Institute 190-35-14-40-555 - May 3, 2022
Printable Text and Images + Testimony of Sun Willet’s Couple
Today I’d like to talk about the “Wonmo Pyeongae Scholarship Institute” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Today, your dreams should resemble those of True Parents. In the beginning, God dreamed a great dream, after which He created all of the created world, including human beings. However, as you know through the Divine Principle, Adam and Eve, the first human ancestors, fell. However, the natural world did not fall. Despite that, because of the greed of fallen people, up until today their recklessness and ignorance has been destroying nature. Serious climate problems are arising all over the world.
I hope each of you will pursue and develop your dream in your chosen field, and bring healing to the earth. For this you will need specialized knowledge and expertise. Then you must share what you have learned and teach those who have not completed their education. To do this you must lead by example and think about how you can save our polluted Earth. If you all join forces, follow True Parents' teachings and live up to them, your hopes and your dreams can be realized. In order to make that happen, each of you must become the best in your field. I will support you unreservedly to help you achieve that. (2016.02.14, Cheong- Shim International Youth Center)
True Mother talks continuously about pollution (and) the protection of nature. When we heal nature, nature can heal our broken heart. As humans we really need to protect and heal nature. That is one of our important jobs. We need to teach people why we need to live for others and for the sake of nature.
[True Mother’s words, February 23, 2018] After Father's Seonghwa, you know what the first thing I did was don't you? I created the Wonmo Scholarship system for the cultivation of our future generations and that was through selling the helicopter True Father rode in and using that as seed money. Since then, each year we have provided more than ten billion won in scholarships [to recipients] in Korea, Japan, and throughout the world. At Sun Moon University hundreds of students have come and they are all studying thanks to the scholarships I am providing. If you ask why I am doing this, it is because you must take responsibility for the future.
I said this earlier too but, unlike other things in God's creation, humankind did not fulfill their responsibility and created this fallen world. This world is not God's will. Today, the things that are occurring throughout the world are things that should not happen. You who know God's will and even further have been born as second generation through True Parents' blessing; you must make the beautiful Kingdom of Heaven on earth that God originally created. In order to do that, you must solve all the problems that are occurring throughout the world now. You must know the essence.
The greater people are, the more they look beyond 100 or 200 years into the eternal future. The more good people are, the more they think about the future, and they make infinite investments for the growing generation and look forward to the eternal world.
The Wonmo Pyeongae Scholarship Foundation is True Mother's tremendous investment and love to nurture the dream tree of future generations. The more evil people are, the more they think only of themselves. (For them) everything is temporary and there is no investment for the future.
No one else in this world has (made) such effort for future generations (as) True Mother (has). Let's express our gratitude to True Mother, who established the Wonmo Pyeongae Foundation with such a grand dream for future generations.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 45 - Righteousness and Unrighteousness
Again let’s study righteousness and unrighteousness first.
Righteousness refers to the quality in a person which leads him to pursue goodness and further its purpose. Unrighteousness refers to that quality in a person which leads him to pursue evil and further its satanic purpose.
Let’s study Father’s word.
<87-281> Now, today when you go out you have to think that you would be able to love the worst person out there like your husband. You should buy them lunch. Even if you don't have the money for that then you should be able to wish for them to have a hearty lunch, and think, "I must find a way to love that person," even in the worst scenarios. If you really do that, then God would be able to give you something more than what you expect.
Righteousness does not repay evil for evil. When a righteous person sees injustice, he feels righteous indignation, and he does not give up and makes continuous efforts to the end to make it into righteousness.
So, righteousness means (that a righteous person) constantly strives so that he can even come to love people who could not (be) loved without giving up.
God always gives strength, courage and wisdom to those who want to love their enemies beyond the limits of their fallen nature. Your fallen nature disappears only when you love your enemies. Your spiritual body grows only when you love your enemies. When you love your enemies, your heart will eventually be at peace.
Think of it as an encouragement that the reason God gives you enemies is that you must love even your unlovable enemies and become a champion of true love. As long as there are accusations of Satan and the enemy, it means that you are not yet a true man. So thank God for giving(?loving?) your enemies (in order) to be(come) a true man or true woman. A righteous man loves even his unlovable enemies.
… Even though you are an evil guy or a good guy, or the weather is good or bad, it does not matter. Keeping the same mindset and heart and practice is righteousness. It is not easy to love our enemy, but the righteous person tries to love his own enemy and treat him as his own brother or sister. This kind of mindset and attitude is the (mindset and) attitude of the righteous person.
When I would be taking a wife, I prefer if she graduated from Primary School. I also thought that it was ok even if she hadn't gone to school. As long as she is determined for God's will.
Finally, I received True Mother. Heaven gave her to me. True Mother is not like any other ordinary women. If you wish for something simple, then Heaven will give you something great. If you wish to die, you will live. If we know how to appreciate everything even from the smallest thing, then we can be happy in Heaven as well. We should have this kind of thinking.
True Father praised True Mother for being a wonderful person. Have you also become someone who can be praised and recognized by your partner heartistically?
If you wish for something simple, then Heaven will give you something great. If you wish to die, you will live.
That is why the Bible says, “For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
And whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life will find it.
(In) the life of a righteous person, (he) is always grateful for everything. No matter how difficult the situation, I live a grateful life. Righteous people do not live a life of gratitude and dissatisfaction that depends on their circumstances.
A righteous person always maintains a life of gratitude from one to ten. If you want to live a life of gratitude, you shouldn't take everything for granted. I have to think that everything that has been given to me has been given to me by God.
We need to understand who is righteous and who is unrighteous. A righteous person is grateful for everything. In a difficult situation, good situation, joyful situation -- in any kind of situation or circumstance -- he is always grateful. His gratefulness never changes. He is grateful for everything. Even yesterday, today and tomorrow, even ten years ago, five years ago, the present situation and the future, (he is) always grateful, always thankful. This kind of heart and mind never changes. This is the attitude of the righteous person. His heart never changes. He is always grateful to God. Even in unfortunate situations he is still grateful and thankful. We call this kind of person what? Righteous.
Then let's look at righteousness and unrighteousness in the Bible.
Passages from the Bible
Romans 3:10-12 “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one”
The Bible explains in Romans 3:10-23 that there is not a single righteous person among fallen human beings. It also said that the righteous one is God who is the subject of righteousness, and there is no one who seeks for God.
Righteousness only comes from God. So you cannot be righteous unless you seek God. If you serve and love God, you automatically become righteous.
Romans 3:26-28 “It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By law if works? No, but by the law of faith. For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.”
It also explains in Romans 3:26-28: For we hold that one is justified by faith. What is faith? It is treating myself as God’s belonging.
Faith is believing that God is my eternal parent and I am God’s child like no other. If you have that kind of faith and practice it, you will become righteous.
Habakkuk 2:4 “Behold, his soul is lifted up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith”
An unrighteous person is always self-assertive, dishonest and arrogant. But the righteous live by faith. They believe that God is their Father and loving parent. As long as God does not change, I will not change either. Even if God changes, Father said, I live with a heart that does not change.
Wow! Father has such firm faith. Even if God changes, I will not change. … That is Father’s attitude. Wow! Amazing, right?
Romans 5:19 “For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.”
Unrighteous people do not obey God's commands. They hate obeying the Word. But the righteous will absolutely obey God's Word. Why is Noah called righteous? He absolutely obeyed God's word. Why is Abraham called the father of faith? He absolutely obeyed God's word and tried to kill the child that was born to him when he was 100 years old. Why is Jesus called righteous? He absolutely obeyed God's word and died on the cross for sinners. Even when he was dying on the cross, he never resisted, but instead prayed for blessings and forgave his enemies and died.
Acts 13:39 “And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which yet could not be justified by the law of Moses.”
If you truly believe in Jesus, you become righteous. Like Jesus, the desire to forgive enemies comes from within. So many people became martyrs after resembling Jesus.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Era of Cheon Il Guk and the Current State of our Blessed Families
Let’s study.
1. The present age is the Era of Cheon Il Guk in which we must show through our families what kind of heaven God appears in and works. But what kind of image are our Blessed families really showing in front of Heaven? Even though the present age is truly amazing, what about our families? Have you ever wondered how sad and worried God and True Parents must be when you see our blessed families still wandering without being settled? True Parents were victorious in paying indemnity to accomplish restoration and give us the Blessing and wish for us to lead good lives, but have you ever thought that Heavenly Parent and True Parents look really pitiful for our failure to create such a family?
The present age is not the age of faith. Gone are the days when people were asked to believe in God unconditionally. This is a time when everyone is opposed to believing unconditionally. And this is not an era in which we are forced to obey only unconditionally. Who would obey something when they don’t even understand it? This is not an era where we simply proclaim True Parents. If you do not show True Parents and just declare them, they will accuse you of believing, too.
Now is the time of showing. This is the time to show that God is here. This is an era in which we do not emphasize that we must believe in order to go to heaven, but show that heaven is here. The kingdom of heaven is right here. This is the time to show that there is an ideal family rather than just (teaching) the principle to create an ideal family. This is a time when people show that they have seen God by looking at you. This is the time to show God through me and through you. Looking at your family, it is the age that says that the ideal family is right here and that the heavenly family is here. The era of propagating is over. The era of proclaiming is over. Why are all existing churches regressing rather than developing today? They all run away because they don't show it, they just talk.
The era of Cheon Il Guk is the era of showing: “This is what Heaven is.” This is not the era of the invisible heaven, but the era of the visible, substantial heaven. But what kind of image are our blessed families showing in front of heaven?
After hearing the word of principle and following True Parents for decades, what is the reason I cannot change and the church cannot develop? It is because we failed to show the life of showing, that is, the life of putting it into practice. If we do not show it, our faith ends up being just a conceptual faith. We have to become what God wants to be proud of, what the spiritual world wants to be proud of, and what our ancestors want to be proud of.
True Mother told me this time, “You need to show an exemplary church. Yong, you can do this! You need to create a model and exemplary church. You need to create such a model that everybody will follow you, all of America will follow you. Not just America, but the whole world can follow you. My couple has spent two-thirds of our time in America, but when I look at the young generation, I worry very much. How can we revive them? How can we revive America?
“I know you are working very hard and going state to state on a 50 state tour. You have already laid the foundation. Based on that now the time has come to show an exemplary church. God’s substantial kingdom of heaven is here. God is not just an invisible God. You need to show the invisible God. He must substantially appear now here. He will become a substantially visible God through your church.”
I received that kind of important direction from True Mother. Now I am thinking day and night that I need to choose one church and make it a model church.
When I was in Korea taking care of one church, among 500 churches I brought the No. 1 results, especially blessing candidates results. … (That was in) 2001. At that time I was strongly determined and God guided me. This time True Mother directly guided me. It was kind of as if she were begging (me). “You need to do it!” That is why I am encouraging each sub-regional leader not to just go here and there. You need to have one church in particular to focus on. That is Mother’s wish. I am suggesting that all sub-regional leaders have a really good competition: which church will really grow in terms of the numbers, new membership, participation of old members in service, and members who have left coming back. Let’s make that kind of substantial kingdom of heaven. We need to show that the kingdom of heaven is here and now.
2. When Jesus came to this earth, he looked at his disciples and told them “Take up your cross and follow Me”. When Jesus came to this earth and met the Israelites who were called the chosen people prepared by Heaven, who could understand the frustration of Jesus, who had so many words to convey the circumstances, heart and wishes of God, because they were only holding onto their own suffering and concerns? Everyone who encountered Jesus simply said, “Please heal my disease, my epilepsy, my leprosy, and my lameness.” When I meet only such people, I think about how frustrated Jesus must have been because he could not tell us about the circumstances, heart, and wishes of Heaven.
Like the disciples who followed Jesus, if we are centered on our own wishes and circumstances and follow Him, that is, if we do not take up our cross and follow Jesus, we will all become hypocrites. Such beliefs do not change a person even after many years have passed. To a person centered on his own circumstances and wishes, God cannot mention His circumstances and wishes at all.
So Jesus came to this earth, he looked at his disciples and told them, “Take up your cross and follow Me.” It is not easy to live for and worry about the circumstances of others beyond one's own.
Even though Jesus healed so many patients and sick people, no one tried to understand Jesus’ heart, worries and wishes. That is why Jesus could not (bring out?) his inner suffering situation, his real wishes.
3. While following God’s will until now, True Parents have declared that all indemnity was over and we had triumphed, but looking back, we Blessed families who have ended indemnity seem so regrettable. The truth is there is nothing we can proudly show. If we have followed the will and completed the course of restoration through indemnity and entered the era of Cheon Il Guk, shouldn't we have something to be proud of? True Parents said that we were victorious, but shouldn’t we have to prove through our lives whether we have really gained victory or not, whether indemnity is really over or not? Heaven's circumstances and heart set a certain standard of victory, but we who have followed will see that they do not fit the age that God and True Parents desire. Then, God will feel sorrowful and regretful about us. True Parents cannot say it, but I believe they must be very sad.
True Parents declared that the indemnity was over and that they were victorious, but looking back, we blessed families who have ended indemnity seem so regrettable. The truth is there is nothing we can proudly show.
The age of indemnity was the age of the wilderness. But now is the era of The Establishment and Settlement of Cheon Il Guk. In order for our hearts to be settled, God should be able to enter us and live within us, so that God can settle down.
When my family becomes a family where God can enter and stay, God can settle in my family. However, if you wander and go back and forth like in the wilderness era, you will not be able to settle down.
Can my individual allow God to come in and settle down? Does my family have a place where God can settle down?
We must become individuals, families, tribes, and even a nation that show what kind of age we are living in today and where our blessed families are currently.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony that Anything is Possible
Today let's take the time to hear the Sun Willet’s couple’s living testimony of their outreach. They are a great exemplary case. They are working so hard! One of their top secrets is great unity between husband and wife. They are our hero and heroine. Let’s hear their testimony today and tomorrow.
(Testimony of Sun Willet’s couple.)
I think you can share tomorrow and one more day if you need it. I think everyone admires your hard work. (But) they really want to know how you convince (people), how you explain the 43-day condition. They want to inherit from your couple the way to explain and convince people, what method you use. I think you need to share more details. Your sharing today and your many photos is great evidence of how you are doing. Thank you for your beautiful testimony!♦
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