Ep 563 - The Meaning of HyoJeong CheonWon Part 1
The Meaning of HyoJeong CheonWon 198-43-14-40-563 - May 11, 2022 - Jerusalem Declaration (2003)
(Response to sharing) Why did you receive such a blessing? Because of obedience to God’s word. Where there is obedience, surely God will bless (you).
(Response to another sharing) In order to cure your physical sickness, I think we need to really think about internal and spiritual sickness. Your eternal medicine is God’s word. Our doctors are our True Parents. Also, you need to do exercise. Exercise is witnessing. When you do exercise, listen to God’s word and to your doctor, True Parents, I am telling you, even your physical sickness can be cured.♦
I am trying to go to the Clifton Church every day to check the church’s situation and structure and everything. I am so excited to hear (from) our leaders and members and their reports, and I also guide them. I am inspired by their reports. It is really an exciting moment to build one of the model churches together with Naokimi.
Today I’d like to talk about “The meaning of HyoJeong CheonWon” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
I am thinking of creating the environment where the 7.3 billion people of the world can visit CheongPyeong to honor the lives of True Parents, and feel the love of our Heavenly Parent. This land is where the True Parents were born. It is a place that must become the Garden of Eden. Therefore, I want to make it into a place that automatically attracts people's hearts. (2016.02.17, Heaven G Main Shop)
You know the meaning of HyoJeong CheonWon. CheonWon means Heaven’s Garden. The 6,000-year history of the providence of restoration through indemnity was like a long winter night. After 6,000 years, through the True Parents, the spring came when Heavenly Parent's dream, True Parents' dream and the hope of humankind could be realized. This time is precisely that kind of time. The HyoJeong CheonWon complex will become different every day, every year. People will come to this place and see and experience our Heavenly Parents' dream and True Parents' providence being realized. When making the kingdom of heaven on earth that can realize Heavenly Parent's dream and the hopes of all people, what should you do? You should have a dream, study hard, do your very best in the work you are responsible for, and contribute to the development of the HyoJeong CheonWon complex. (2017.02.05, CheongShim International Youth Center)
True Mother changed the name of the Cheong Pyeong training area to “Hyo Jeong Cheon Won” and is investing everything in order to make it the substantial model of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Through HyoJeong CheonWon, we will see and experience how our Heavenly Parent's dream and True Parents' providence is being realized. In the end, HyoJeong CheonWon will become the model of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, that is, the Garden of Eden that God has dreamed of.
Just as True Mother is making HyoJeong CheonWon, the model of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, through CheongPyeong, we who have responsibilities must also be able to create model churches in accordance (with) True Parents’ dream to show all of humankind.
Ultimately, we are model individuals, model families, model churches, model people, and a model nation where God directly works and is with us. We, North American members, are currently trying to create such a model centering on the Clifton Church and on each region.
First of all, I am going to create the Cheon Il Guk model mega church centering on the Clifton Church.
We have already created a great model (of an) online mega-church through Morning Devotion all over the world. This is incredible! Based on that foundation, it is time to create the cheon il guk model mega-church centering on our Clifton Church.
We are trying to create a model Cheon Il Guk mega church where the number of worshipers increases, new family members increase, (there is a) Sunday school revival, and many young people return. So, let's all become one and all of us become (those) who make the dreams of God and True Parents come true.
I am going to work together with you all to build a beautiful headquarter church in the America and offer it before the end of the 2nd 7-year Cheon Il Guk course. We always try to achieve that goal purely with our own power, without borrowing power from anyone. I really want to show that the model church is right here, God’s kingdom of heaven is here, and the model kingdom of heaven is right here.
This is my strong determination. We have already laid the spiritual foundation through online Morning Devotion. It is already a kind of substantial online mega-church. Now we need to build a physical (mega-church) and show to God and True Mother: “Mother, now the elder son nation is alive. They are doing (it), Mother.” I really want to respect True Mother’s expectation: “Our elder son really can become the center of the world.”
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 46. Section Five: 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.
God’s Process of Creation
1. The process of creation was a process of God investing His True Love. God put 100% and 120% of His energy and love for the creation of His human beings and all things.
Many believers think that God’s creation and the universe just dropped from heaven. Whenever Heavenly Father proclaimed (something) , it just appeared immediately.
It is not like that. We need to understand that God’s process of creation took time. This is amazing! It took six “days,” six periods of time.
2. In His process of creation, God invested the entire mind and His entire energy, so you must understand that He was working so hard.
I am so grateful to God. (The creation) did not just drop from the sky. In order to create each human being and the universe, God worked so hard! Wow! When I think about that, I am so grateful to him. He invested his effort and energy and love. He did not just invest 70% or 80% but 100%, 120%. He poured out everything. (He had) no more power left. That was God’s investment, his creation process. Without knowing that, nobody (can) appreciate how hard he worked. “God is an almighty, very powerful, omniscient and omnipotent God.” That has nothing to do with you.
But when you think that God invested for me, for you and for the universe, putting so much effort in, 100%, 120%. In order to create me and my environment he worked so hard. Wow! “You are my eternal father, my eternal true Parent.”
3. Making each of the things of creation was not a simple matter. God had to invest as much as a mother does when she bears a child. Due to God's 120% offering, the universe was born, and I was born.
When a mother delivers a baby, she prepares to die. It is so painful! She invests 100%, 120%. She has no more power left when she delivers a baby. God created each human being and each item of the creation with a kind of desperate heart. He put everything (into it). He had no more power left. That was God’s process of creation.
If God only made a miracle and (the creation) appeared all of a sudden without effort (with his) investing (only) 30% or 40% of his power, no one would respect God. He was just the one who created. But as a parent he invested 100%, 120% in order to create each human being. Then He has the qualification to be a parent. Am I correct?
4. God made the heavens and the earth, the seas and the light, the sun and the moon and the stars and the plants and the animals as the environment for me to live in. This means I must understand how precious they are, and how much God has done for me.
We need to be grateful to our Heavenly Parent, to our True Parents. True Parents are the ones who discovered Heavenly Father’s effort and sacrifice.
What we Must Understand Through the Process of Creation of the Universe
1. The fact that the process of creating the universe required the passage of time
This is very important. The whole universe did not appear all of a sudden. A process of creating was needed.
a. This means we must understand that when we make anything, the process will require the passage of time.
b. The process of something becoming perfected is not instantaneous. This means we need to be patient because time is required. As we live, we need to think of the process as a beautiful thing and do our best in every passing moment.
When Heavenly Father created something, in the process of creating in every second, every moment he did his absolute best. Without wasting time he invested totally. We need to love God’s process of creation. How beautiful (it was)!
c.You must not try to sidestep the necessary passage of time and expect the desired results. (Do not ask for things for which the time has not yet come.)
You need to be patient. You need to invest every moment, every second, not just expecting some great result. Before waiting for a great result, how much are you investing every second, every moment in the process of your growth? When we lecture the Divine Principle, we need to teach this point: when we talk about the process of creation, how hard God worked.
2. The fact that God invested His 120% in the process of the creation of the world.
> Investing True Love 120% and forgetting what you have invested. This is the way to create an object partner.
Even though he invested 100%, 120% with no more power left, he still wanted to invest more. Wow! We (need to) learn that kind of heart of God in his process of creation. Then when we create something or witness to someone, what is the way to invest for the sake of my object partner? It is true … Principle. I really love the Principle of Creation. I really appreciate how True Father discovered this and taught it to us.
> Investing a moderate amount is not True Love. When you are creating an object partner, you must invest 120%, as God did when He created the world and humankind.
I love the word “utmost investment.” “Utmost sincerity moves heaven.” When he created human beings, he invested with his utmost sincerity, effort and love and energy. He is God; we need to inherit from God in such a way.
3. The fact that we must have gratitude to God for His investment and His work.
> We must inherit the True Love of God's process of creation.
Grace Without Hard Work and Sincere Investment Will All Pass Away
<43-301>There is no perfect answer or solution to every kind of problem. That is an unchanging reality. In order to maintain God’s grace, you have to invest thousands of times more effort than it takes just to prepare and receive that grace. The more sincere effort you invest, the more you can avoid calamity and rise to a position from which you can receive God’s blessing. If you don’t want to invest your sweat, tears or blood, there is a great possibility you will perish or end up on the road to destruction. However, if you pour out your sincere effort in gratitude, wanting to give something back, you will never perish. That is an iron-clad rule.”
I love these words of Father so much because he is the one who practiced in that way.
Grace without effort all flows away, Father said. In the secular world people say, “No pain, no gain!” No investment, no gain. No sacrifice, no gain. Therefore, do not like things that are free.
I don’t like “free of charge.” Anything that is free of charge is not mine. I need to pay the price; then it becomes mine.
In the end, what is gained without effort is lost.
Just as God invested 100%, 120% in order to create all things and human beings, we must resemble God’s spirit of total Investment and invest 100%, 120% in the responsibilities given to us and inherit God’s shimjeong and become the second creators of true love.
Just as a mother puts herself through the pain of dying and waking up when she gives birth to a baby, I don't get anything if I don't put in an input that pays the price to save a life, like the labor that a mother has to pay when giving birth to a baby.
Therefore, while looking at each item that God has created, we must live a life of gratitude, knowing that God's unimaginable hard work and sacrifice were there. I too should be like God, and I should always make the decision to work hard for the creation of my object like God.
I always reflect on how hard I (need to) work for America's restoration. More than George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, more than any American patriot in history, I reflect on how I (need to) love and work hard for this United States.
I (need to) live with more blood, sweat, and tears than True Parents, and reflect everyday whether I want to work from dawn to late at night. As I begin a new providence in America, I struggle every day to live a life with no regrets for a moment.
Abraham Lincoln will accuse me unless I work harder than Abraham. “Hey, Dr Yong, I think that you, as the son of True Parents, know God's will, and (I) accuse you of not working harder for this America than I, Abraham Lincoln, did.”
God chose us to love our nation of America and all humankind in the world(?).
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Inner Person Must be Resurrected in Suffering
1. We have all entered the realm of resurrection because of True Parents’ victory, blessing, and grace. We should be grateful that we all entered the realm of resurrection, but the important thing is whether or not my spirit, my inner person, was reborn or not. Despite entering the realm of resurrection, many people cannot grow. While we go through the same hardships, there are those whose inner selves are reborn, and there are those who commit crimes. Even while going through the same hardships, some people only complain. Last time, we talked using the three crosses centered on Jesus as an example. The thief on the left cross resented Jesus, and the thief on the right cross recognized Jesus and said, “I deserve to bear the cross, but Jesus is truly innocent, yet he bears the cross.”
While we (all may) go through the same hardships, there are those whose inner selves are reborn, and there are those who commit crimes. Some people resent and complain even though they are going through the same hardships. This is the same position as the thieves on both sides when Jesus was crucified to death. When we encounter difficulties and trials, will we go on complaining like the thief on the left, or will we go (on), knowing the Lord's circumstances and comforting (him) like the thief on the right?
The human portion of responsibility is to be grateful without complaining in any circumstances of hardships, sufferings, and trials. If you are grateful in a very difficult environment, you will surely experience resurrection. Faith is either gratitude or repentance. If there is nothing to be grateful for, we must repent. If you live centered on yourself, your gratitude will disappear.
2. Of the two men who carried the same cross, one resented Jesus and the other believed in Jesus. Even around us today, there are people who, when faced with hardships in life, think about how hard it must have been for those who came first and think of suffering as natural. On the other hand, some people criticize or find fault with early members who joined the church first, and point their finger at them when they have a small drawback. Even though they are suffering, Abel-type people think of the persecution of those who came first and think of the path of hardship they have walked. Those who go through the same hardships but know how to comfort Heaven will be saved.
The specialty of fallen man is complaining in any situation. On the other hand, the specialty of true people is going (on) with gratitude and tears in any situation.
When trials and tribulations come, if you give thanks, everything will be indemnified. Satan no longer comes. Therefore, the secret to defeating Satan is always to be grateful for everything.
That is our portion of responsibility. “I am grateful to God, to True Parents.” (We are grateful for) everything. Any suffering, any trial that comes, there is a meaning (to) why God gave me this kind of suffering. I should be grateful and thankful (for it).
3.We must know how to suffer well. If you get annoyed, have resentment, and complain while suffering, you are going on the path of being ruined in suffering. However, while knowing the circumstances of those who went suffered before you and thinking about how sorrowful God must have been when they went through hardships, you must think that it is only natural to comfort God through your own suffering. Such a person is rather saved through suffering. The suffering is mine, but we must learn to think of His suffering as mine and exchange with God's suffering. God revealed His three great sorrows through Abraham. Today, we too must go through such sorrow like Abraham to be resurrected. Just as Abraham was going to kill his son Isaac and offer him as a sacrifice, we too must have the faith to offer a sacrifice by killing our sons with the knife to become sons and daughters of God.
If you feel gratitude during trials, you will be saved and the indemnity will go away. We must trade our sufferings with God. I have to go out with the heart of filial piety that God takes care of my hardships and I take on God’s hardships.
What we need to know whenever we suffer is that suffering is God's best way to save man.
Therefore, there is something to always remember and think about when suffering and pain come to our life course. Do not try to avoid suffering, but always think about why God has given you such suffering and pain. I need to think about what God is trying to teach me through this pain and suffering and ask God (about it). If you try to cover it up and avoid it, the pain and suffering will only get worse. One very clear thing is that there is no suffering or pain that has nothing to do with my growth.
This is reality. Do not try to avoid suffering. You need to ask, “Why has Heavenly Father given me this suffering? What does it mean? What do you want to give to me? What should I realize through this suffering?” You need to ask God. He will surely answer you. When you (receive an) answer and realize (why you are suffering), then you can grow up more and more than before. That is why suffering is a blessing.
4. Can you cherish the word of God and sacrifice your own children like Abraham? It's not easy. In that sense, Abraham is truly the father of faith. There are many of our early Unification Church members who followed the same path of faith as Abraham. There were many early members who went to the forefront of witnessing by separating (from) their young children. It is like Abraham killing his son with the knife and offering him as a sacrifice. At True Parents' orders, they all ran to the front lines, abandoning their babies and families. Because of the sacrifices and hardships of such early members, the Unification Church was able to overcome the many paths of indemnity. The thought of Abraham's offering was to throw away all his circumstances in the sight of God and to obey his father's words.
Now the era of indemnity has passed and the era of Cheon Il Guk has arrived. The era of Cheon Il Guk is an era in which everything settles on the foundation of victory in restoration through indemnity.
We should always be grateful for the merits of our early members who sacrificed everything for the will of God in the past and went to the front line.
When I thought(?) of our early members sacrifice and (of their) giving up their children and going to the front line, when I herd early church members’ testimonies, I decided (that) I need to unconditionally respect any senior blessed couple. Because of their sacrifice and hard work, we laid an incredible foundation. True Parents went through all kinds of an indemnity course with you.
Today's unification movement would not have existed without the hard work and efforts of early members. Our early members were the ones who practiced the idea of offering the sacrifice of Abraham's only son, Isaac.
We must inherit the sacrificial ideology of our early members, and we too must overcome the hardships and difficulties we face and be resurrected.
Suffering is a shortcut that can resurrect our spirit, and it is a shortcut that can experience and sympathize with God's heart.
Thank you so much for listening to today’s internal guidance.
LIVING TESTIMONY
Today, let's take the time to hear another living testimony of Markus Van Euw’s witnessing. Let’s welcome him.
(Testimony of Markus Van Euw)
Thank you so much, Markus, for your beautiful testimony. You did not only focus on witnessing, but you are always involved in service projects. Wow! You are one of the great exemplary members. I am so grateful to you. Thank you so much for your beautiful testimony, Markus!♦
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