Ep 564 - The Meaning of HyoJeong CheonWon Part 2
The Meaning of HyoJeong CheonWon 199-44-14-40-564 - May 12, 2022
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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 is putting a lot of effort into making Cheongpyeong a HyoJeong CheonWon, which is like Heaven’s garden. Cheon-Il Temple, the center of HyoJeong CheonWon, will be dedicated in May next year.
This will be a historic Cheon Il Guk temple that has never been seen before. It cannot be compared to the temple that Solomon built. All church members should prepare now to attend the dedication ceremony of the Cheon Il Guk Temple there with True Mother.
I think this kind of chance … There is not much opportunity to meet True Mother. The dedication ceremony with True Mother is not a simple matter.
We encourage everyone to participate in the dedication ceremony of the Cheon Il Temple, the first in human history.
Do you know how much True Mother has paid attention to the building of the Cheonil Temple? She is really praying and investing her jeongseong. She often comes down to that place and always gives some instructions. This is one of the greatest offerings for God and for heaven.
Please go to Hyojeong Cheonwon to see and experience the realization of Heavenly Parents' dream and True Parents' providence.
Once you see the Cheong Pyeong area, Hyojeong Cheonwon, you can introduce (it) to many people and (even have them) go to Korea. This is one way to witness to many people.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 48 -The Growing Period of Created Beings, the God of Night and the God of Day
From about the year 2000 Father talked often about God of the Night and God of the Day. That was the first time I heard that terminology, but when I heard his explanation, it was very meaningful. What is the meaning of the God of Night and the God of Day? Let’s study.
The Growing Period for the Creation
• When the first day of creation was completed, Gen. 1:5 states, “There was evening and there was morning, one day.”
• One would think that the arrival of the morning after the passage of an evening and a night would be reckoned as the second day, yet it is referred to as the first day. The Bible states “one day” to show that a created being must pass through a growing period symbolized by the night, before it reaches perfection in the morning. Then, as it greets this new morning, it can step forward and realize its ideal of creation.
• All phenomena occurring in the universe bear fruit only after the lapse of a certain interval of time. All things are designed to reach completion only after passing through a set growing period.
The Bible said:
1. “And the evening and the morning were the first day.” (Gen 1:5 KJV)
It should be the second day. Why does the Bible say (it was) the first day? The evening and the morning were the first day. We already learned this from the Divine Principle, right?
2. The growing period, which is called the evening, is the time when the incorporeal God creates human beings, and the day that Adam and Eve become perfect as God’s substantial body is called the first day.
3. The day when the God of night becomes the God of day is the day when God's ideal of creation begins.
4. Foundation Day marked the first day in human history on which God’s ideal of creation began for the first time. Foundation Day was the first day that we transitioned from the time of the God of Night to the time of the God of Day.
Adam and Eve (were to) marry and start family. That (would have been) a kind of Heavenly Parent’s completion. The start of God of the day begins from that time.
5. All phenomena that occur in the created world require that a certain amount of time pass before they bring results.
6. Therefore, it goes against the laws of creation to ignore the growing period or the need to invest and to merely look for results. Someone who tries to simply obtain results without making any effort is nothing but a thief.
7. Only a result that we obtain through investing blood, sweat and tears, and the price that we pay to get that result becomes our own.
8. The growing period itself is God’s joy. Investing and waiting should itself be our joy and gratitude. It’s important to get to the conclusion of perfection, but what is more important than anything else is that we are devoted to each step of the process.
Not just the results. Each process is really incredibly important and beautiful. The process itself, growing itself, is already a great thing.
9. Therefore, our life of faith is to be devoted to each moment and to reality. Since every moment is connected with completion and eternity, each moment must be treated as if it were eternity. One that ignores the few moments results in ignoring eternity.
Every second, every moment, every minute, every hour are incredibly precious and beautiful and connected to eternity. That is why we (should not) ignore (even) one second, one minute, one moment (which are) connected to eternity. Always, every day we need to be grateful and thankful. You need to spend with your incredible value.(?)
What is the purpose of time? (It is) for you to grow well and bear fruit. …
How do you spend time? If you do not concentrate in each moment, you waste time. Then someday you (will) not be (able to) be perfected, not (be able to) connect to eternity. That is why for me in my life of faith, every second, every moment connects to eternity. Each moment is so precious to me. I have to be grateful and joyful. I need to totally concentrate. Wow! We can learn through the Growing Period of Created Things how Heavenly Father created human beings and how human beings need to go through a growing time period.
God Also Had a Growing Period
<256-225> God, too, needs sons and daughters, siblings, a spouse and parents. Then is there a place where God can have them? This is how it works. God, too, went through such positions. God did not just appear all at once. It would be much trouble if He did. Then do you think God grew all at once, or in stages? It would be nice if there were some Christian ministers here for me to ask them.
For love to be complete, a growth period and an object partner are necessary. Therefore, in order to perfect God's love, God Himself needs a period of growth.
The perfection of God's love is completed through the ages of children, brothers and sisters, couples, and parents as Adam and Eve, who resemble God's Sungsang and Hyungsang, grow up.
Therefore, the completion of the love between Adam and Eve is the completion of God. In that sense, God's love also had a period of growth.
Many people misunderstand and (find this) questionable. God also had a growing period. (This is) very sure. Even though God is a perfect God, an almighty and omniscient God, I am talking about love. In order to experience love, you need an object partner. Without an object partner, your love cannot become perfect. Even though God is an almighty God, in order to complete love he needed to have give and take with his object partner, Adam and Eve. So God’s love only can be completed through his object partner.
When Adam and Eve were growing, God also was growing at the same time. When Adam and Eve were able to become perfect beings, then finally and substantially God’s love also became perfect. True Parents’ explanation is really beautiful.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: True Filial Piety
1. We must bear God’s sorrow. Now is the time to feel infinitely sad for God’s sorrow as His child. Not only that, but it is also time to take on the last sorrow of True Parents. To become their child, you must take on the sorrows and wishes of your parents. What does it mean to take on sorrows? It means being filial to your parents. If you are filial to your parents, wouldn’t they be happy? We must take on True Parents' sorrow and serve True Parents. Then how do you serve? Servants only serve outwardly without knowing True Parents' sorrow. Servants! Servants just work regardless of the owner’s sorrow.
Filial sons and daughters are those who bear the sorrows of their parents and take responsibility for them.
When we talk about God’s sorrow and suffering, maybe for Western countries(?) it is not easy to understand. But for Koreans it is easy to understand because Korean history has gone through so many difficulties and sorrows. We are talking about sorrow.
Heaven cannot help but bless children who take responsibility for their parents' sorrows and show filial piety.
If you try to move Heaven with filial piety and take responsibility for Heaven’s sorrows, the amazing work of Heaven will unfold on the basis of that jeongseong of filial piety.
Our mission is to move Heaven and the spirit world with our filial piety.
Is there anything that cannot be done by those who touch God and True Parents?
Anyone who touches God’s heart and that of True Parents we call filial sons and daughters. That is why anyone who can touch God’s heart and that of True Parents can do anything. You easily move people’s hearts; you can easily move any kind of person who really has gone through such difficulties or suffering.
2. In Korea, many people go to funerals just to greet or eat. When you go to a funeral home, you quickly find out who is an owner and who is a servant. There are very few people who share their hearts through tears and comfort the chief mourners after they lose their parents or their partner. Even in the church, some people make money by communicating with the spirit world and reading other people's spiritual backgrounds. There are many people who do not stand in the owner's pitiful position and circumstances but try to get benefits for their own circumstances. Among the executives who joined the Unification Church, there are some today who think, “I don’t know about True Parents’ circumstances, but I wish the church would buy me a house or a room when I am blessed. I wish they would buy me a car or something. It’s not my job whether the father has circumstances or not.”
3. How many Unification Church members are concerned with True Parents' circumstances, heart, and wishes these days? Many church members think that their worries come first. There may be people who think that True Parents don’t have any sorrows because they came down from Heaven, so nothing is impossible for them and they make what doesn’t exist. What kind of sorrow do I have today? What am I usually worried about? Is this worry really the concern of someone who has a parent-child relationship with God? The question is whether the circumstances of the one who called me feels like my circumstances in any way. You have to find out who you are from here.
What kind of sorrow do I have today? What do I usually worry about?
If you look at what a person is worried about, you can tell what kind of standard that person has.
A person who cares more about the country than himself and his family is a patriot, and a person who cares more about the world than his country is a saint.
We are Cheon Il Guk citizens in the Cheon Il Guk era. In this age, above all else, we need to worry a lot about building the kingdom of heaven. We have to worry a lot in order to fulfill True Parents' wishes.
How often True Father cries! His cherished hope is what? How to build the substantial cheon il guk on earth. He says, “I really want to see that kind of substantial cheon il guk, even if I can stay (in it only) for one single day (before I) pass away, then I will have no resentment (han?).
When I think about this wish of Father, my tears come down. As a son how can I fulfill his dreams and his goals?
What kind of sorrow do you have? What do you usually worry about? Like Jesus you need to be concerned and worried about God’s kingdom of heaven on earth. Don’t worry about what to wear, what to drink. Even True Mother is continually talking about God’s substantial cheon il guk. She is always worried about that. She often cries.
How can I be responsible for True Mother’s job? How can I really bear True Mother’s cross? I think this is the attitude of the cheon il guk citizens as filial sons and daughters.
4. Now is the time for blessed families to bear God’s sorrow, but who will bear this? Those who offer deep prayer and jeongseong will know Heaven’s sorrow more than anyone else. Then, the task is how to convey this sorrow of Heaven and True Parents to the church members. When you know True Parents' sorrow, your heart to serve them arises. Only when you know True Parents’ heart can you deny your own assertions and circumstances. Those who are unaware of True Parents' circumstances or suffering are still centered on their own circumstances. They may be called believers, but they have not yet been born again.
One of our tasks is how to convey the sorrow of Heaven and True Parents to many people.
When you know True Parents' sorrow, your heart to serve them arises.
This is very important.
Whenever I feel God’s sorrow and that ot True Parents, automatically my heart to serve them arises. How can I keep that kind of motivation and heart all the time? I don’t want that kind of feeling to leave me. Can I feel God’s heart and sorrow all the time? Can I feel True Parents’ dream, sorrow and wishes all the time? Whenever I think about their sorrow, wishes and dreams, my heart automatically tries to serve them. Then I can feel my heart is alive.
Only when you know True Parents’ heart can you deny your own assertions and circumstances.
When your heart feels God’s heart, you heart really tries to serve them. Then you can completely deny yourself. How can you deny (yourself) completely? When you have the mood(?), the feeling of God’s and True Parents’ heart and their dream and their worries, then I can completely deny my own emotions, feelings and assertions and my own circumstances. I realized this. If you worry about God’s and True Parents’ sorrows and circumstances, your worries will completely disappear. This is a wonderful secret that True Parents taught us.
It is said that if I worry about God’s sorrow, all my worries will completely disappear.
When I am responsible for God’s, True Parents’ and all of humankind’s worries, mine completely disappear. That is why as sons and daughters when I am responsible for God’s sorrow, his feelings and his wishes day and night, this is the way to completely deny myself. There is no time to think about my own sake. We call this kind of person God’s own son or daughter. How can you and I be? Since we joined the church, has our heart grown that much? Are we really worried about God’s and True Parents’ sorrow?
Therefore the way to get rid of your worries is to first know and worry about the sorrow of God and True Parents.
Many people do not know this secret to get rid of their worries.
One who truly lives for the sake of others, who is truly responsible for the problems and worries of others, then there is no time to worry about your own problems. They will automatically be solved. This is a real secret! One who truly lives for the sake of others, God always takes care of your heart. He will always inspire you. … One who totally lives for the sake of others, your empty heart and mind will be occupied by God’ s love. This is a very mysterious, strange way.
Some say that just carrying my own … cross and thinking about my family’s worries is already too much. How can I think about the problems of God and all humankind? But if you truly try to think of others first, of the world first, and True Parents first, of God’s worries first, … this is really mysterious, very strange. How come my own wishes, problems and worries completely disappear? Many people do not know this secret.
As filial sons and daughters, focus on how you can make your father and mother happy; then your own worries, your own situations are immediately settled. This is really amazing, right?
5. Many church members weep because of their sins, their ancestors, and while carrying other people's burdens. In other words, they can bear Cain's burden and shed tears. However, children should have tears because of Heaven and their parents. This is what a child is. We must have God’s sorrow that we can know through Abraham. To do that, we also need to feel sorrow for this earth in place of God and take responsibility for it.
The formation stage weeps while they worry about their own cross.
The growth stage worries and weeps a lot to bear Cain's cross for the sake of others.
The completion stage worries and weeps a lot to bear the cross of God and True Parents.
We have already entered the era of cheon il guk.
If you worry for others and for Heaven, your worries will disappear completely.
The era of Cheon Il Guk is the era of taking responsibility for True Parents' sorrow and worrying for them as filial sons and daughters.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I am a Living Testimony
Today, let's take the time to hear another living testimony, (this one by) Francis Marsal. He is taking care of the USA missionaries group. This brother is really amazing! His dedication is so beautiful and powerful. His spirit is always young. I really love him! Today we have a great chance to hear his beautiful testimony.
(Testimony of Francis Marsal)
Amazing report! Really beautiful! How can we inspire ACLC ministers? Through our youth group. Of course, we need to teach (them) the Divine Principle. I think that one of the best ways to stimulate them is through our youth activities. In that sense the role of the YCLC is very important. Thank you, Francis, for your beautiful and powerful report.♦
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