Ep 560 - The Collegiate Association For The Research Of Principles Part 2
CARP 195-40-14-40-560 - May 8, 2022 - Mother’s Day
Today is Mother’s Day. To all mothers, congratulations from our hearts. Korean time yesterday the Korean headquarters and all churches arranged for True Mother’s Mother’s Day and invited Mother to a big celebration. It was a very beautiful event.
Today I’d like to talk about “CARP” from True Mother’s Anthology 1.
What kind of dream do you have? You should have the same dream as our Heavenly Parent and True Parents. I hear that most of you here are second-generation and third-generation members. It is not wrong to say that when our Unification Church started out, it was started by young college students and CARP members like yourselves. When there is no foundation, the central persons have to struggle and start out from the bottom. Though we were strongly persecuted by Christians during the 1960s, college students and intellectuals starving for the truth were excited by the Word. Though it is true that they were persecuted even more for that, from those difficult circumstances we have already reached CARP's 50th anniversary.
True Parents have fulfilled all of their responsibility and are victorious. They opened the new era of Cheon Il Guk. Cheon Il Guk is Heavenly Parent's dream and True Parents' hope. It is the hope of humankind—7.3 billion people. Therefore, those who are aware of this hope, especially the blessed children and first generation members who have heard these teachings need to change. You need to be able to embrace all the people of this world. The dream of the world's people is to meet True Parents. With a new lineage through True Parents, you must fulfill your responsibilities as blessed families here on the earth before you go to your eternal life. That is the purpose of our life here on earth. (2016.03.12, Cheong-Shim International Youth Center)
We must become a nation that attends God. We must become a nation that can receive God's blessings. That means that this nation and all its citizens must attend True Parents. However, there are still people who do not know who True Parents are. No one dislikes light on a dark night. You must become that light. As the light, you must create the environment. You should not just hang around in your surroundings. First of all, at the school you attend you must think, “I am just one person but I will change this school,” and then dedicate yourself sincerely and set conditions. You must embrace the entire campus. It would be nice if all university students across the nation became CARP members. That is why you must stand in the position to shine a light not only on this nation, not just on Asia, but throughout the world. (2017.03.12, CheongPyeong Training Center)
True Mother’s Words to CARP
1. Mother said you need to have the same dream as God and True Parents as CARP members.
> Cheon Il Guk is the dream and wish of God and True Parents.
That is why whenever you have a dream, you need to relate (it) to cheon il guk. It (should be a) dream of cheon il guk.
2. You need to embrace the students of the world. Let them receive a new life and lineage from True Parents.
That means you need to really witness and let them know who True Parents are.
3. Let your country attend Heavenly Parent and True Parents
That is our ultimate goal. Our nation should be a nation of cheon il guk.
4. Mother says (to) be the light that brightens the world.
Our job is the mission of light, how to raise all humankind. We need to do the role of the light and brighten the world.
5. Take ownership of your school and sweep across the college campuses so that every student becomes a CARP member.
Especially our CARP students, Mother pays so much attention to CARP activities. Our goal is to establish CARP chapters in every state in America. Let’s fulfill our goal this year. Now I can’t travel (to) each state. Centering on sub-regional leaders we need to fulfill that goal to establish CARP chapters in every state.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 46. The Process of the Creation of the Universe - Was it Created? Or Did it Evolve?
• According to the account of the creation of the universe in Genesis, Chapter One, amidst the primordial state of chaos, void and darkness, God created light. God next separated the waters below the firmament from the waters above it.
• He then divided the land from the ocean, created plants, fish, birds, mammals, etc., and finally made humankind. All this took a period of six “days.”
• From this account, we can surmise that the process of creating the universe took a period of time represented by six days.
• Considering that the account of the creation of the universe recorded in the Bible nearly coincides with the findings of modern scientific research, we are reassured that this biblical record must be a revelation from God.
• The universe did not suddenly spring forth complete without regard to the flow of time. In fact, its origin and development took an enormous length of time.
• Hence, the biblical period of 6 days for the completion of the universe is not to be reckoned by the number of literal sunrises and sunsets. It symbolizes 6 ordered periods of time in the creation process.
Based on this EDP content, let’s study Father’s word in more detail.
The Mental Origin of an Amoeba
<117-68> If an amoeba was the origin of the mind, how did the tiny mind of the amoeba expand? This is the problem. So, would the mental origin be from the amoeba or not? (No) Then the mind, during which part of the evolution process was the mind of a human being inserted? When was it inserted? That is the problem. We know in the present world that the mind which we have, a human being’s mind, is so unimaginably large and vast.
From Where is the Source of Energy for a Phased Development
If a small amoeba has a mental origin, then in the process of evolution there should be a mental plus for expansion. There should be this kind of logic. Then in evolution, is there a leadership which makes the object itself evolve to generate greater energy? Such a thing doesn’t exist. Can you generate the energy’s source to make the object which should evolve, to evolve? Does that existence itself have the energy to create? No it doesn’t. When seen theoretically, it doesn’t. Therefore the logic that there had to be a 3rd being’s investment is formed. Who supplies that energy? ‘I don’t know that but let’s cover it and say it is evolution’; this logic doesn’t work. In order to evolve, and in order for a phased development, there has to be a mental, motivational energy source for development. It is the logical conclusion that without this, the resultant form cannot emerge.
Do Amoebas Really Have Minds?
Do you think amoebas are able to think or not? Can they or not? (No) So do you think that if you gather them together, beings without any mentality, would they give birth to a mental origin? (No)(Laughter) Also, no matter how simple an amoeba is, would it have an internal structure and an external structure? (Yes) So then do the internal and external structures work together or do they work separately where one has a floating body structure with an outer form? These are complicated problems. So which part do you think is the center? (The internal structure)This is the point in which materialism and spiritualism are divided. A big problem is created in history.
Although the amoeba has a flesh-centered mind, it does not have a spirit body. Only human beings possess a spirit body. The mental world never goes through the process of evolution. God only created a body and breathed a soul into man. Animals and plants do not have spirit bodies.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Reason to Inherit God's Heart of Suffering
1. If you overcome the difficulties you face or the hardships that come find you, you will inherit the heart of God. If you think of it as God's difficulties and sufferings and take responsibility for them, you will grow more and receive more grace from those troubles. It is human responsibility to receive or lose grace in the midst of difficulties. God allows His children to experience His sorrow when they grow to a certain extent. Why would God not bear His suffering alone and let His children know about it? Parents who have experienced sorrow cannot exchange hearts with their child unless their child recognizes and understands the parent’s sorrow. A sorrowful heart cannot be resolved without someone who understands and shares in them.
The reason suffering comes to me is to inherit God's suffering.
If you think of your difficulties and sufferings as God's and take responsibility for them, you will grow more and receive more grace from them.
When I think of difficulties and pains as my own, it becomes pain, but when I think of them as Heaven’s, it becomes grace and blessing. There is a human portion of responsibility here. If I treat my pain as my own, it becomes discontent and resentment.
Then why should we bear God's suffering? Parents who have experienced sorrow cannot exchange hearts with their child unless their child recognizes and understands the parent’s sorrow.
A sorrowful heart cannot be resolved without someone who understands and shares in them.
The heart of a parent who has lost a child can only be known by those who have lost a child.
I heard about a father who lost his child in a car accident and was unable to get out of the pain, (but) when he thought about how sad God must have been for losing Adam and Eve, (he testified that) it was comforting as tears flowed from his tears to God.
That is why experience is very important. Without experience we cannot understand each other. We cannot exchange (with) each other. …
Healing and comforting a person who has suffered can (be done by) a person who has suffered. So I can experience God's pain (to the extent that) I have suffered. Therefore, my suffering is the way to inherit God's suffering.
2. When we share sadness with each other, we become more affectionate and love each other. How can I get closer heartistically with the other person when they don’t know my sorrow? Can I have a conversation with someone who does not know my sorrow? In order to have heart-to-heart exchange, you need to know each other's positions well. If human beings do not understand God’s plight that He suffered due to the fall of man, no one can inherit His heart. How can children who do not understand and experience the sorrow of God, the parent, inherit God's heart?
The world of heaven is a world where hearts are exchanged. When we share sadness with each other, we become more affectionate and love each other. If we don't know each other’s sorrows, we can't get close to each other heartistically.
Can I have a conversation with someone who does not know my sorrow? In order to have a heart-to-heart exchange, you need to know each other's positions very well.
Children who do not understand and experience the sorrow of God as their parent cannot become heirs of God's heart.
3. Jesus also told his disciples to take up their cross and follow him. In a way, don’t these seem like cruel words? If Jesus took up his cross by himself, then that could have been all, so why did he ask his disciples following him to also carry the cross? In order for heart-to-heart exchange and for hearts to unite, unless God and humans share each other’s hearts, an eternal relationship of heart cannot be established.
When Jesus and the thief on the right were crucified and died, their hearts had an exchange.
When the right-hand thief recognized Jesus’ righteousness and had the same heart and situation (as Jesus), (he was able to build) a parent-child relationship with Jesus.
When Abraham was about to pierce Isaac with a knife to offer him to Heaven, there was an exchange of heart between God and Abraham.
When Jesus comforted Heaven while dying on the cross, he had an exchange of heart with God.
When True Father comforted Heaven while getting tortured, he had an exchange of heart with God and inherited all of God's heart.
That is why suffering is the way to inherit God’s heart. When we inherit and understand God’s heart, it is the way to come closer and closer and finally build a parent-child relationship between Heavenly Parent and ourselves.
4. When Abraham had to sacrifice Isaac, it was more urgent and sadder than losing his wife. How did Abraham feel when he had to sacrifice his son, whom he had waited for until he was 100 years old, by stabbing him with a knife? Abraham must have felt unimaginable sorrow. When Abraham took Isaac to make his offering, Isaac asked his father Abraham, “Where is the sacrifice to be offered?” Abraham replied, “God is preparing everything.” What was Abraham's heart at that time? His heart must have been filled with indescribable sadness.
Genesis 22:9-13 9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
11 But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.
12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”
13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
It is an incredible and beautiful story about how Abraham built the father-child relationship with God.
Abraham was able to become the father of faith because he loved God more than himself and his son whom he had after waiting 100 years.
Today, we must become the ancestors of eternal faith before our ancestors and descendants in this Cheon Il Guk era.
Do you really love God’s Will more than your children -- like Abraham? At the crossroads where we have to choose God and our children in the place of death(?), can we really put God’s Will first?
To become the father of faith, we have to transcend death and put God first and love Him.
Today, in the era of Cheon Il Guk, is there anyone who has as much faith as Abraham? In that sense, Abraham is truly our father of faith.
Our faith is not like that of Abraham. We are still far from his standard. That is why I truly respect Abraham’s faith. He is really our father of faith. How come he loved God more than himself and more than his son? This is not a simple job. No matter what, he put God as the top priority over everything. That is why we call him the Father of faith.
True Parents ask us to take ownership as the owner of cheon il guk. In the era of cheon il guk we need to become the owner. We have to be a man or woman of faith in front of our ancestors and all descendants. That is our job as the owner of cheon il guk.
5. God saved Isaac who He was about to kill and offer as a sacrifice. Here, Abraham is determined as the father of faith. Through Abraham's family, God's three great sorrows in Adam's family were expressed through Abraham. The first is the sorrow of humans leaving their loving parent, the second is the sorrow of giving a loved one to the enemy, and the third, the greatest sorrow, is seeing His only son murdered in front of His eyes. I would rather suffer than make a loved one suffer. God showed His sorrow well through Abraham. We didn't know this until now. Until this day, while we were learning about Abraham's course, we did not know God’s sadness and sorrow behind it.
The course of our faith is, in a word, the course of experiencing and inheriting God's sorrow. Taking responsibility for God's sorrows, we build an eternal parent-child relationship with God.
In that sense, the sorrows and pains we face are the blessings of meeting God and forming a parent-child relationship of heart with Him.
This is important content today. I have recently spoken continually about suffering and pain. We need to really understand this. That is why I repeat it again. For a few days more I would like to talk about it. You will understand the meaning of suffering and pain. The Korean words (for these) and the English words have a different sound, but I hope you understand what I am talking about. When we face our own difficulties and pain, we really need to understand God’s suffering and pain, our True Parents’ suffering and pain. This is how we can have a more heartistic relationship with Heavenly Parents.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony that Anything is Possible
Today let's take the time to hear Yuriko Arakawa's living testimony.
(Testimony of Mrs. Yuriko Arakawa)
Wow! Yuriko-san, it was a beautiful testimony. Even though you are such a busy person, you take time to witness. You try to really break through with young people. Thank you so much! Also, I really appreciate your son who always attends Morning Devotion. You raise your children well! Thank you so much! God bless you!♦
NOTE: This lightly edited transcription may contain errors and omissions. Indecipherable or uncertain words and guesses are tagged with a “(?)” and indecipherable phrases, with an ellipsis “...”. First, second and third person pronouns have been left as spoken if the meaning is clear, and other apparently Korean English expressions have been preserved. Some repeated phrases have been eliminated. This text and the powerpoint slides from this speech are available as pdf files at the top of this text and at text.morndev.com & yong.hoondok.com. Audio only is available at anchor.morndev.com, spotify.morndev.com & audio.morndev.com. Notes or transcripts of Dr. Yong’s Morning Devotion speeches from November 11, 2020 through January 2, 2022 are available as five paperback books at cost at Lulu.com/Shop -- search for Dr. Chung Sik Yong -- and as PDF downloads free of charge at MDBooks.Hoondok.com.♦