Ep 568 - The Organization Of CheonJi SunHak Won (Cheonwongung) Part 3
The Organization of CheonJi SunHak Won (Cheonwongung) - May 16, 2022
(Response to sharing) Life begins from 70-years old. You need to have great vision. If you have great vision, you become younger and more passionate. You can do so many things. You have accumulated much ability and many experiences. At your age – almost the same as my age – you can contribute for God the most because you have already had so much experience.
Many people say, “I am already too old. I cannot do much.” Then God cannot do anything. Remember that life begins at 70-years old based on your accumulation of experience.
(Response to second sharing) This morning I asked Miilhan how was yesterday (Sunday). He said, “It was very beautiful.” After the Sunday Service most of the membership went out witnessing – almost everybody. I really love Miilhan’s encouragement for brothers and sisters. We need to do it. Our Miilhan is really doing a great job.
I love the word Jjak Sarang. Even though you do not like me, you hate me, I still like you, I still embrace you. As long as you have a jjak sarang list continually loving and putting (in) your effort and investment, sometimes someday definitely it works. When you do jjak sarang, you never lose. The way of jjak sarang is: you can even love your enemy. Even though you don’t like me, you kill me, I still love you and embrace you and smile at you. Jjak sarang! We need to be full of a longing heart. We are created to see the people. “Where are God’s prepared ones? Where? Where?” (When you are) full of a longing heart, jjak sarang, you can break through!♦
Yesterday was such a busy day. I needed to deliver three sermons for Morning Devotion (and the) Sunday Service at the Clifton Church. Later on I went to the Korean New Jersey KEA church. We had a beautiful ceremony; it was very good.
Today I’d like to talk about “The Organization of CheonJi SunHak Won (Cheonwongung)” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
I will fulfill Heavenly Parent's dreams one by one centering on the Cheon Won Complex. The most important task regarding the Cheon Won Complex is the CheonJi SunHak Won. We must reveal True Parents' achievements in front of future generations. We need to show what kind of lives True Parents lived in order to fulfill Heavenly Parent's dream. Whoever visits the CheonJi SunHak Won should be able to say after they've seen everything, “Ah, I should also take part in this providence. I should also become a Cheon Il Guk citizen,” and sign their name on their way out. It will naturally become an environment that can educate people in such a way.
Therefore, it needs a lot of preparation. The design of the building should also be good; to complete one building there needs to be a lot of preparation. The most important part is the exhibitions. We need to think about how we can say ten different things with just one display. Everything has to be expressed with up-to-date technology. To make this happen we need to start preparing and dedicating ourselves. (2016.06.01, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Mother is devoting her heart and soul in realizing God and True Parents’ dream through the Cheon Won Complex.
True Mother said that she will make the Cheonwon Complex a place where anyone can visit and be able to say, after they've seen everything, (that they) have the heart to take part in God’s providence.
In other words, the Cheonwon Complex will become an education facility for all humankind.
Wow! Mother is investing so much heart! She comes very often to the CheonJi SunHak Won, which is the Cheonwongung which we are constructing. She is paying great attention to it.
I really want to resemble True Mother and go to the Clifton Church more often. Also, I want to have some interviews and eat with each family. I really want to see each one of the children and blessed families at the Clifton Church. I really love them. I am full of a longing heart to see each (member) one by one and also each family.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 49 - The Three Ordered Stages of Growth
• The universe unfolds and manifests God’s original internal nature and original external form based on mathematical principles. Hence, we can infer that one aspect of God’s nature is mathematical.
• God is the one absolute reality in whom the dual characteristics interact in harmony; therefore, He is a Being of the number 3.
• All created beings, having been conceived in the likeness of God, manifest their existence, movement and growth through a course of 3 stages.
Based on this Divine Principle guidance, let’s study Father’s words.
The Restoration Course Must Pass Through a Process of Stages
<67-113> In carrying out restoration through indemnity, although we human beings fell all at once due to the Fall, we cannot cross over to the completion stage all at once. Until we pass the perfection level, we must pass through the formation, growth and completion stages. The indemnity conditional offerings that must be made in crossing to the completion stage are the formation indemnity conditional offering, the growth indemnity conditional offering and the completion indemnity conditional offering.
God’s creation is completed through the three ordered stages of growth. Therefore, even the course for human beings to be restored cannot ignore these three ordered stages.
In achieving anything, we must always be conscious of the stages based on the number three and set conditions in order to do it. Even in offering indemnity conditional offerings, you need the condition of the process of three stages of formation, growth and completion. It is easy to fall once, but the right way is to go through the 3 stages again and rise.
The fall of Adam and Eve happened in an instant, but their restoration has not been fully (completed) even after 6,000 years of biblical history. Even today, even a momentary mistake is made in the blink of an eye, but its restoration requires unimaginable indemnity and effort. Therefore, we must live each moment as if it were eternity without making a mistake moment by moment. He who neglects a moment must live with the notion that he has missed eternity.
Just one second. You made a mistake in one second. Can you imagine how we can pay indemnity back for that? It takes a long time.
When Eve had give and take with the archangel sexually, how much time did it take?(?) 10 minutes? 20 minutes? or 30 minutes? Then how long should they pay indemnity? (Their restoration) still could not be completed.
Fallen man focuses on just momentary satisfaction. He cannot see long periods. He is focused on instant kinds of feelings. That is the problem.
They have momentary satisfaction without thinking of eternity. Once anyone falls one time, they regret it for their entire life. So many brothers and sisters came to me and cried and cried. Once you have lost (fallen), it takes a long time to restore it. How stupid we are, we fallen men. (Fallen man) is always controlled by physical desires, not spiritual desires. That is why we need to really fight physical desires. Every moment, every second, we need to fight with the Chapter Two spirit, fight with our individual selfish style. Every morning we need serious determination: “I don’t want to lose. I want to win over Satan.” Otherwise we will lose. The life of faith is very serious, like life and death. If you are not tense and serious and don’t have the heart to fight with Satan, you will surely lose. If you just relax, Satan will surely invade and conquer your body and spirit.
Once we lose something, it takes a long time. We have to go back again to the formation stage, growth stage and completion stage. (Losing or falling happens) within a short moment.
When we look at God’s overall providence, we realize that there must be an Old Testament Age, a New Testament Age and a Completed Testament Age. The Old Testament Age is the time of making offerings through all things, the New Testament Age is the time of making offerings through a person, in other words through the Son, and the Completed Testament Age is the time of making offerings through the Parents. This is how it is divided. This is in reference to material, to children and to parents.
The Old Testament Age is the time of making offerings through all things. The New Testament Age is the time of making offerings through the Son. That representative was Jesus.
And the Completed Testament Age is the time of making offerings through the True Parents. Therefore, it is the age in which True Parents take responsibility for everything and become sacrifices.
However, in the era of Cheon Il Guk is the time of making offerings through all blessed families (who) become the owners and sacrifices on behalf of True Parents .
The era of Cheon Il Guk is an era in which all blessed families take on the cross of True Parents and God in their stead and offer sacrifices to relieve their sorrow and comfort them.
The Unified Realm of Oneness in Three Stages
<249-240> In Adam’s family, through Cain’s killing of Abel, the brothers were lost and through Adam and Eve’s fall, the parents were lost. The parents and the children were lost. Since the restoration course must go the opposite way, we have to first find the children. That is the battle of Cain and Abel. Your body and mind are Cain and Abel, and you and your spouse are Cain and Abel. The parent-child relationship is vertical, so Cain and Abel must become one. The body and mind becoming one is the formation-stage united realm of oneness, and next the growth-stage united realm of oneness is for husband and wife to become one, while the completion-stage united realm of oneness is to become one with God. You need to understand that God’s work of unification begins there.
In the Providence of Restoration, you must go through God’s Principle of Creation. For example, you must pass the processes of restoration of material things, restoration of children, and restoration of parents.
However, in the era of Cheon Il Guk, all three eras must be offered at the same time. In order to restore all material possessions, you have to offer the total living offering, and then you have to restore Cain and Abel, and you have to go through the stage of restoring the parental authority.
Next, you must pass through the course of restoration of parental authority, restoration of kingship, and restoration of the royal family.
There is a clear order: three ordered stages. In order grow up, to restore and to pay the indemnity, we always need to follow the Principled way.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Church That Shows
Mother asked the USA to create a church that shows. Today I want to show what kind of church we can show. Based on that, you and I need to reflect about that and be strongly determined to reach our True Mother’s expectation to create a really showing church.
1. Now, we must become a church that can take responsibility for the suffering of God and True Parents and show it to others. We must become a church that lives together with God. There are many churches in this world. There are many Unification Churches all over the world, but if we make a mistake, we can become a church that has nothing to do with God. We might become a church that has principles but does not have a spirit. The church where God is with, has both spirit and truth at the same time. Although we put up a sign that says “family church,” the truth is that it may not be the true Unification Church that True Parents desire. A true church should be able to connect brothers and sisters of the church with each other if they establish a heartistic foundation. There must be an exchange between hearts. And only when our hopes can match each other can we become the kind of church that Heaven wants us to be.
2.Originally, the church should be a place where the Holy Spirit will come down, many people will be restored and resurrected, and it will become a place of hope for all people, a place of repentance, and a church that can harmonize with anyone who enters. But so far, that has not been the case. That is why we want to build the church that will show from now on, a church where God is with us. That is why our church is to become a church that can be revealed to God and to all people. We must not forget this. So how are we going to build a church that shows? Each of us must have a sense of ownership and become an indispensable person. We need to become unforgettable people between our brothers and sisters. You need to become people who can be remembered by each other and long for each other with family members in the family and members in the church.
3. Let’s become a church where we miss brothers and sisters if we don’t see each other, want to be proud of each other, and show each other that this place is really Heaven. When we like each other, others envy us, and the exchange of love and heart between brothers and sisters reaches heaven. If this is not realized in our Unification Church today, we cannot say that we are true believers of the Unification Church. If we fail to show that we long for and love each other like this, we are the same as a secular church. If you just come and go to listen to the Word, what is the difference from secular churches? We must not become the people who come to church just to hear the word. We must become people who come because they miss the church, the members, their spiritual parent, and spiritual children.
Let’s summarize the church that will show one day.
What must a Church that Shows Look Like?
1. It must become a church that takes responsibility for God and True Parents’ wish and suffering.
Our Unification Movement, our Family Federation, is very different from other religions or from Christianity. Our religion, our church, is very focused on how to be responsible for God’s burden, God’s wish, God’s suffering and (God’s) liberation.
2. As a church where God lives together, it must become a church that shows that God is living and working.
Everybody can feel that God is working here. Everybody will feel that there is something different about this church. Once they come and join and attend a workshop, they don’t want to leave because they feel here is really heaven.
3. It must become a church that worships in spirit and truth.
Not just conveying the truth and a message. It feels as if it is full of the Holy Spirit. Everybody can feel God’s presence.
4. It must become a church where members and brothers and sisters have heartistic exchanges and come to long for each other.
One day (when we were talking) with Yo Han Lee, he (asked) members, “Why do you go to church?”
They responded: “It is the duty of a Cheonil Guk citizen.” “I want to be inspired by God’s word.”
Maybe we can say this: most of them attended Sunday Service out of a sense of duty and responsibility.
Yo Han Lee said, “You are a wrong guy! Church has to be a church where members long for each other. Why are you motivated to go to church? ‘Because I long for my spiritual children. I really long for my spiritual father, for my Abel, for someone. He really loves me so much!’”
Yo Han Lee said, “That is really a true church. The Kingdom of Heaven is like that.”
Through the life of the members, we must show that visible heaven is here. We are not just talking about the invisible heaven.
5. Through the lives of members, it must show that the visible heaven is right here.
The Kingdom of Heaven is right here. God’s Kingdom of Heaven is here.
How can we really create that kind of church? Not just talk about it. (It is) not just a concept. How can we really create that kind of church? Even though the Unification Church talks about God, True Parents, the truth and the holy spirit, how can we create that kind of environment? How much can we show it?
Maybe many brothers and sisters and Naokimi(?) need to show first, then I can follow! Yes. I really want to do it. But not just me; I need to work together with you.
6. A church where the Holy Spirit will come down, many people will be restored and resurrected, and it will become a place of hope for all people, a place of repentance, and a church that can harmonize with anyone who enters.
7. A church where we miss brothers and sisters if we don’t see each other, want to be proud of each other, and show each other that this place is really Heaven.
If someone regularly attends Sunday Service, but someday you see that this person does not appear; then you are really curious and you immediately call (and ask), “How are you? What happened? Is your family ok? Are you children ok? Is your spouse ok?” Or you can visit that home. That is a real family member.
8. When we come to church, we need to become a church that we come to because we long for God, True Parents, and our members, not because we feel obligated to attend worship service.
You cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven by condition, by duty and responsibiliy. The Kingdom of Heaven is the world of the longing heart. If you don’t have a longing heart for anyone, you are spiritually dead. If those who are spiritually dead gather, that church is very cold. You do not even greet each other, do not smile. Your name is being alive, but you are dead. The church is very cold. No greetings.
I am telling you frankly. I visited many churches in Korea, in Japan and everywhere. There(?) was such a beautiful environment. They longed for each other. “You are my brother, my sister. I have not seen you for more than one week. How are you?” Then they embrace ... and kiss(?) each other. I miss that kind of church. I really want to create that kind of church. Everyone comes to church because of a longing heart.
I am the one who created High Noon (?) Federation for World Peace. I am the chairman of the High Noon Federation for World Peace. We really embrace each other as True Parents’ sons and daughters, as brothers and sisters.
If you cannot create this and try to go to the Kingdom of Heaven without any experience on the earth, what are you talking about? If you cannot love your neighbor nextdoor, how can you talk about entering the Kingdom of Heaven? It is nonsense. We need to love the nearest person.
Let’s create our church. Heavenly Father, how much we are talking about ... the Divine Principle church, truth church?
When I see some Christian churches, I can feel a really beautiful atmosphere. They do not know much Divine Principle and do not know True Parents, but I feel such a warm (feeling). I can feel a family atmosphere. Our church is very cold. Are we really true Unificationists? Do we really follow True Parents? Do we really practice a life of true love?
The Church That Shows (continued)
4.Our members must come to church because we long for each other. You should not come to church just out of a sense of duty. Heaven is a world of longing. If somebody didn't come to church, you should wonder why they didn't come. If you do not see a member who used to come, you need to find out where they are and what they are doing. From now on, on Sunday mornings, when you leave your house, throw away the old notion that you go to worship and think of going to see the people you miss. From now on, the church must become a place where God can manifest, not just a place where people gather. It should be a place where many sacrifices of love where God can appear are gathered. Therefore, the church should not be a place where just anyone gathers, but a place where the sacrifices of love that can bring down God's fortune are gathered.
Heaven is a world of longing. I love the word “Longing heart.”
Coming to church out of a sense of duty is the formation stage. It is the growth stage that people come because they want to hear the word of God. However, the completion stage comes because we long for each other, for our brothers and sisters. We miss God. We long for True Parents. This is the completion stage in the Kingdom of Heaven. There is no need of any duty and responsibility or conditions. We just love each other. That is it. That is the completion stage.
Why do you go to Sunday Service? Because of duty? Because you want to hear God’s word? The Kingdom of Heaven is a world of longing.
When you come to church on a Sunday morning for worship, you should be excited at the thought of meeting your loved ones (whom) you miss. You should be excited at the thought of meeting your loved and esteemed Abel.
“I love our Abel. I want to see our Naokimi, the national president. I want to see Crescientia, our leader. I want to see Dr. Yong and his smiling face. I want to see my spiritual parent. I want to see my guest. You need to come to church full of a longing heart.
Let’s create (this). We need to show that the Unification Church is like that.
God also comes to the place where people gather because they miss each other, because the attribute of God's true love is longing.
The place where the people you miss gather to worship is the place where the family members offer sacrifices of love to God.
What is the offering? An offering of love. Uniting. Longing for each other. That is a love offering.
What kind of Sunday Service is centered on the Completion stage? A love offering. The offering of a longing heart. “Heavenly God, I really love you. How hard you are working. I am sorry I cannot do much. I really miss you, Heavenly Parent. True Father, you are in the spiritual world. I really miss you.” Then there is no way to stop the tears from coming down.
I really want to have that kind of church, to show that we are really true brothers and sisters really embracing each other. If we create that kind of environment and new guests come, they will remain.
5. Which church does God want to visit? He wants to visit a place where beloved members shed tears because they long for each other. God wants to come to a church where we long for each other so much that we have to go to church worship. If we become a church where members respect, love, long for each other and want to see each other more than our own family and relatives, God will also want to visit and cannot stand but come down. We need to create a truly visible heaven where the praise of loving God and True Parents resounds in the church and the brothers and sisters communicate with each other. We are not building a heaven we go to when we die. I have to create a heaven where I am. Our Blessed Families must know the sorrowful feelings of Heavenly Parents and True Parents and grow into a family and church that can shed tears and comfort them. To become a true church of true love, we need to comfort Heavenly Parent and True Parents vertically and share difficult circumstances with each other horizontally and create a relationship of longing.
Which Church Does God Want to Visit?
1. A place where beloved members shed tears because they long for each other.
2. A church where members long for each other so much that we have to go to church worship.
What is your motivation to go to church?
3. A church where members respect, love, long for each other and want to see each other more than our own family and relatives.
Who are my family and relatives? You are my relatives. (My realtives are) not just (from my) physical blood lineage.
Who is my relative? You are. Not just (those from my) physical blood lineage.
4. A truly visible heaven where the praise of loving God and True Parents resounds in the church and the brothers and sisters communicate with each other.
5. Rather than the invisible heaven in the spirit world, it should be a church that shows heaven on earth.
6. Our Blessed Families must know the sorrowful feelings of Heavenly Parents and True Parents and grow into a family and church that can shed tears and comfort them.
Not just talking about God and True Parents. Our church can do that. We pray to God and True Parents. But what is your relationship with your brothers and sisters? Very poor. If you truly love God and have a longing heart for True Parents, then we truly love each other. That area is really poor. We talk about vertical alignment, but we don’t have a horizontal alignment. I am talking about the Principle way. Horizontal alignment is to care for each other, love each other, to communicate with each other. We sometimes emphasize vertical alignment too much. What is the purpose of vertical alignment? It is to expand the vertical alignment to the horizontal way, loving our brothers and sisters.
That is why Jesus asked: what is the second commandment? You need to love your neighbor as you love God.
7. We must become a church of true love that comforts Heavenly Parent and True Parents vertically and creates a relationship of longing by sharing difficult situations with family members horizontally.
True Mother asked the the USA church to become a showing church. What kind of showing church? Today I am talking about that. True Mother has a great expectation. Not just increasing external numbers. Internally we (need to) have that kind of longing heart. Then the external numbers will automatically increase. And our second generation and all blessed children will surely come back. We need to create that kind of environment of true love. This is the way to create a beautiful and showing church.♦
(Response to sharing) If you cannot find any brothers and sisters near you, (if there is) no one to have give and take with even though you prefer to find brothers and sisters near you, then you need to create two or three spiritual children who have a longing heart for you. There is no need to blame the church or other brothers and sisters. You need to really create that kind of object partner whom you can love, embrace and communicate with.
Jesus said you need to gather in the name of Jesus and have a close relationship; that is the Kingdom of Heaven. Why don’t you create and build the Kingdom of Heaven based on your foundation. Then (you will already have) the Kingdom of Heaven with 2 or 3 people who love you, long for you, wait for you, miss you. That is already the Kingdom of Heaven. It is a small church already.
(Response to second sharing) If you don’t have anyone to long for, your spirit is already dead. Something is wrong. If you don’t have a heartistic association and communication with somebody, spiritually something is empty. That is why you need to create people who can long for you. Or you need to have an Abel figure whom you always long for. The Kingdom of Heaven is based on a longing heart. You need to have a way to recharge your spirit through meeting and loving people.
Of course, under the era of indemnity, everyone was busy paying indemnity. Now is the era of safe settlement. Safe settlement of what? Our heart, our mind, our love.
True Mother gave us a very urgent task: to create a model church. First of all, let’s create a church of a longing heart. That is my recommendation.♦
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