Ep 569 - The Organization Of CheonJi SunHak Won (Cheonwongung) Part 4
The Organization of CheonJi SunHak Won (Cheonwongung) - May 17, 2022 - Washington Times Published 1982
(Response to sharing) Just a simple word can touch a person’s heart. If we start to worry about our limited language (ability), then we can’t do anything. You always need to go by spirit and heart. Then even though you have simple words and simple sentences, God will speak through your mouth. We need to have that kind of experience often when we think about God’s sorrowful heart. We are talking about a longing heart. We need to practice witnessing to many spiritual children with our longing heart.♦
I want to show a big smile to you. Everybody please show your beautiful smile to your spouse and children and neighbors. It is great to begin with a smile.
I would like to show some photos.
The day before yesterday, we had a Sunday Service at the Clifton Church at 9 a.m.
I go to the Clifton church everyday checking here and there.
Yesterday I had a beautiful time with ACLC ministers, some key ministers, and talked with them about how to break through to become Cheonbo families. It was a very good time. How to do follow up. I gave a very clear vision. This was very hopeful.
Also, (concerning) our church Sunday Service format, I am working on the best way to communicate with the audience and have everybody participate. (We should) not just rely on the speaker. Like Morning Devotion, many people love the Morning Devotion format with prayer, appreciation, sermon, testimonies, reflection and singing.
I will gradually create the best way to communicate with the audience during Sunday Service. If you have a really good idea, please tell me and I will apply it.
Monica was the MC and offered a prayer, and Shogo gave a beautiful testimony regarding his matching process and the Blessing ceremony he attended in Korea last month.
I gave a sermon with the title of “Be a model church of prayer and jeongseong (devotion)” and emphasized the importance of prayer and jeongseong in order to grow the church.
Then, I went to the New Jersey KEA church and attended the farewell and inauguration service.
Rev. Ki Yeal Lee has been a New Jersey KEA Pastor for last 14 years. His wife Seiko offered a beautiful song. I was really touched.
We all thanked Rev. Lee for his dedication for the KEA church, and we all wish him good health. He is quite sick, so please pray for him to recover quickly from his sickness. Then he can help our movement.
On behalf of the KEA Church in New York and the US headquarters, President Naokimi Ushiroda participated and delivered a plaque of appreciation and donations.
Rev. Hoon Moon Choi became an Associated Pastor of the New Jersey KEA and I became the Pastor of the KEA church. Rev. Choi has seven children. The last two are twins. Beautiful! When I heard his message, I was very touched by Rev. Choi. I have great hope. I think he will do very well. He and his wife are very dedicated and totally united.
I gave an inaugural message with the title of “Create a Church that Shows Others” based on True Mother’s words. (There was a) cake cutting and a group photo. It was really beautiful.
Today I’d like to talk about “The Organization of CheonJi SunHak Won (Cheonwongung)” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
In the HyoJeong CheonWon complex, I will build CheonJi SunHak Won with the most unique qualities that can fulfill Heavenly Parent's dream, and True Parents; hope. We will open it up to all of humankind. There, you and your future descendants will be able to experience and feel True Parents' love. I am going to make it a shrine where we can give Heavenly Parent infinite gratitude and glory. (2016.05.07, Outdoor plaza, CheongShim Training Center)
In the 1950s and 1960s, we had no foundation. Do you know what True Father said in Beomnetgol at that time? He liked mountains of course, but he liked the ocean more. Father suffered a lot in Busan in the early days and did a lot of historic work there. Whenever he went by the ports in Busan, which were especially large and had many big boats going in and out, he would say to the members, “Wait and see; the day is not far off when people from all around the world will come here to see the True Parents. Try to imagine it.” I am building the CheonJi SunHak Won in order to fulfill that desire. It will have the most advanced architecture and a cutting-edge design. People will forever come and enjoy it; they will be able to see it exactly as it is for the next 1,000 or even 2,000 years. I will use this masterpiece to introduce True Parents to the world. (2015.05.10, Hilton Hotel, Vienna, Austria)
We should know how great True Mother's devotion, dedication and effort to make True Father's dream come true, and we should always give thanks to True Mother.
Mother is putting so much heart and effort into building ChengWon Gung. We need to pray for that. This is one of Mother’s greatest wishes: to offer the heavenly temple, the CheonWonGung, the CheonIl Temple.
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.
Human Beings Pass Through Formation, Growth and Completion Ages
<299-67> As people, we also pass through three stages of formation, growth and completion. In other worlds. Namely, we pass through the ages worlds, we go through the underwater world in our mother’s womb, the atmospheric world on Earth, and finally the world of space in heaven. We pass through the water age during our time in the womb, and then we are born on the earth, use our physical selves and live for a hundred years passing through the land age, which is the atmospheric age, and finally we pass through the space age when we fly, thus three ages.
The Three Stages of the Restoration Course
<15-49> If we observe carefully the historical restoration course from an overall perspective, we can realize that God’s providence has gone through the three stages of formation, growth and completion. The restoration course went through the servant’s age in Old Testament Age, the adopted child’s age in the New Testament Age, and is going beyond the True Children’s age in the Completed Testament Age to the True Parents’ age.
Human Beings Were Created to Live in Three Worlds
Human beings were created to live in three worlds. Firstly, we spend around 10 months breathing water in our mother’s womb. Secondly, we spend perhaps one hundred years on earth breathing air, and lastly, we shed our physical bodies and live for eternity in the spirit world. Then, how can we breathe in the spirit world? We breathe love in the spirit world. Since the spirit world is indeed the world of love, we cannot live without love. Therefore, we need to live a life of accumulating our actual results of love on earth.
When we die and go to the spirit world, we cannot take anything with us. According to True Father, we can only carry the achievements of true love. Nothing else. We cannot bring money or property or anything else. We can only carry with us our achievements of true love.
Then, when I die and go to the spirit world, how can I know how much love I have accumulated?
Generally speaking, we can tell by looking at how much people miss a person after he dies and how many people weep over his death.
Just now Nancy from Maryland in our breakout session told me her husband passed away recently. She said, “I really appreciated all the brothers and sisters who came to his SeongHwa ceremony. She is really grateful to all of the members.
When you die, how many people appreciate you and shed tears for you?
How many people have I created who will never forget me? How many people can truly thank me with tears in their eyes for me? If I truly lived for ten people, ten people would cry, and if I lived for 100 people, 100 people would cry for me.
When a patriot dies, the whole people of the country weep because the he lived for his country. Because a sage or saint lived for the world, people around the world shed tears when he dies.
When you die, how many will shed tears, not just physical tears but tears from their heart. How many will come to your SeongHwa ceremony and cry. Of course your family and relatives will cry. Your children and relatives will cry, but who really will appreciate with tears and incredible gratitude: “Thank you so much. You saved my life. I cannot forget how you took care of me. I have unforgettable memories of you. Thank you so much.”
You need to think when you die, how many people will deeply appreciate you with tears?
Saving people's souls is what can give people unforgettable impressions and move their hearts. After all, the results of love are the results of witnessing.
Witnessing, which is salvation, is the work of instilling unforgettable memories and impressions on the other person and forming an eternal spiritual relationship between parents and children.
Who is the most pitiful person in this world? Someone whom no one misses. No one. Nobody longs for him. His relatives and family have no choice, wife and husband and children have no choice. They need to send him off. Not even 2-3 people recognize him or her.
That is why raising the three spiritual children is about building the foundation of love that will never be forgotten.
Actually creating three – or four or five – spiritual children is more difficult than raising your own children. Spiritual children are the substantial result of true love.
When we go to the spiritual world, we need to prepare gifts to offer Heavenly Parent and our ancestors. How much did I love people? How much did I love my nation and world.
You live in the spiritual world not just for a single day or two days or 1,000 years. We live in the spiritual world forever. It is the world of true love. That is why while you are on earth until your last breath, try to initiate: how can I love more people. That is why I am telling you: witnessing is your salvation. Witnessing means to practice true love. It is liberating God’s sorrowful heart. It is everything. It is love. It is the way to practice true love.
Don’t die early. Live a long life. For what purpose? I want to save even one more person, to let them know about who God is, let them know that God is our eternal parent, let them know about God’s sorrowful heart and who True Parents are. This is our mission.
To have a job and make money to take care of your children is fine; you need to do it. But our core portion of responsibility is how to save people until your last second. This is an incredible and beautiful job.
Don’t think of witnessing as a duty and responsibility. You need to think that it is incredible joy. When some children come back to God’s bosom, get to know God, get to know the eternal truth, and get to know True Parents, this is amazing.
That is why you need to think that witnessing is my hobby, not my duty. I love it, I like it. If you have a grateful and longing heart to save someone, that is the best preparation. Even though you want to do witnessing (out of a sense of) duty, without a longing heart, it does not work. What is the best preparation to witness to people? That is a longing heart. We miss our spiritual children so much.
“Why did I get up so late? Quickly. I want to get out of the house. I want to see someone prepared by God.”
This kind of longing heart, parents really searching for children, is parental heart. It definitely works.
Don’t do it out of a sense of duty or responsibility. OK? Do it with a joyful heart full of gratitude.
We have to be a champion of witnessing, a champion of true love through witnessing. That is our eternal mission and job.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: A Church Where God is Present
1. God's fortune must be able to come down in our common gatherings. Let's think about the time of Jesus. Looking at Jesus as an individual, he was truly amazing as the only begotten Son sent by God. However, God could not operate because the Jewish people drove the Lord, who had a common destiny with them, to the cross. Likewise, you, me, and all of us have a shared common responsibility for True Parents' will. We are in the realm of common destiny or the realm of God's common providence: "If you're wrong, I'll be wrong, and if I'm wrong, you'll be wrong too." In this way, we, who have a common destiny with True Parents, need a substantial foundation for God's presence.
When Jesus came, Jesus and the Jewish people had a common destiny in fulfilling God's providence. If Jesus fails to take responsibility, the entire Jewish people will fail, and if the Jewish people fail to accept Jesus, Jesus will also be in a position where he has not been able to fulfill his responsibilities.
It is the same with Adam and Eve. If Adam and Eve do not fulfill their responsibilities, God takes the position where He has not fulfilled His responsibilities. This is because the perfection of true love is realized only through the object partner.
That is why you need to invest your effort in your object partner to fulfill his responsibility.
“Oh, I am the subject. I am already done. I have fulfilled my portion of responsibility. From now on it is your job.” We cannot say that. “As parents I have done everything. From now on it is your job.” Your children cannot fulfill (this way), so as a parent, you also can not fulfill your job. Why?
The perfection of true love is realized only through the object partner. If the object partner fails, the subject partner also fails. If the object partner has great success, that means the subject partner also has great success. It is an inseparable relationship.
The same is true of today's era. Regarding God's will, True Parents, we, and humankind all have a shared responsibility. When our Blessed families fulfill their responsibilities, True Parents and all humankind will stand in a position where they have fulfilled their responsibilities.
However, if it fails, even True Parents will be in a position where they have not been able to fulfill their responsibilities. No matter how good the parents are, if a child stumbles, the standards of the parents will drop.
Even we who are living in the era of Cheon Il Guk today, no matter how True Parents complete restoration through indemnity and set the standard for victory, if we who follow True Parents do not win, eventually we cannot set the standard that True Parents have won. Because there is no perfection of the subject that does not complete the object.
This is the Principle.
Therefore, we must become blessed families who can help our objects, who are in the Cain’s position, to succeed. Just as the perfection of Adam and Eve's love eventually brings about the perfection of God's love, we have to maket sure hat our victory ultimately brings true victory to True Parents.
Just as we set the standard that parents win only when their children win, we must become someone who makes our objects, Cain, successful.
Only (for) those who make Cain successful will God be present in that individual, and God will be present in the church where such victorious people are gathered.
Cain and Abel share a common destiny. One cannot separate the destiny of Cain and Abel.
The right and left arm cannot be separated. The relationship between Cain and Abel is the same as that between the right and left arms. It cannot be separated. The relationship between parents and children cannot be separated. The relationship between parents and (their) blessed family cannot be separated. True Parents’ victory should be our victory. Our victory should be that of True Parents. If we cannot fulfill our responsibility, this affects whom directly? Our True Parents as well.
Can True Parents alone (say), “I got a victory!” You failed. Don’t have such a principle.
Why did Jesus die? Because of common destiny. He could not fulfill his common portion of responsibility. Do you think True Mother alone can say, “I have done everything. You could not fulfill your responsibility, so you will go to a low level in the spiritual world”? How can she say that.
You and I, True Parents and we, share a common destiny,
In this way, just as Cain and I have a common destiny, we and True Parents also have a common destiny.
We really (need to invest) our effort and contribution so that everybody can say, “You really gained a victory.” Is this true?
Children are the ones who make their parents a great success. Even though parents do very well, if their children have this and that problem, how can we say we have a victory in front of God? We cannot separate the relationship between parents and children. Why? Because we have a common destiny.
2. In our church today, how many people and churches can God be present with? We need to build the foundation for God's presence, centered on our family, with just three people. When there are three people centered on the will who care for each other, can communicate without speaking words, and can agree with each other, God can say, 'I will make your wishes come true.' In other words, even if there are two or three people on this earth, if they become one and unite in their hearts, God can be with them and take responsibility for them. For example, if three people unite in prayer to heal a sick person, the Lord will heal the sick person. It is said that if the three of us unite and seek God's will, heaven will surely work. This is the principle.
How many people and churches can God be present in in our movement today?
God is present in the people and the church who has moved Cain. In Principled terms, God is present in people and churches who have fulfilled the foundation of substance.
In order to personally set up the foundation of God’s presence, you must find and build at least the three spiritual children. Rather than just conditionally finding and establishing spiritual children, we must fulfill the inseparable heartistic foundation.
As long as Cain and Abel care about the Will, and if there are three people who have a common heart and can agree with each other, God will grant us all our wishes. God said that He would take care of it.
It is said that if three spiritual children unite in prayer, centering on the spiritual parent, they will be able to overcome any challenge and win victory because that itself becomes the heartistic foundation (through which) God can come upon them.
It is said that if three people unite in prayer to be healed, the Lord will heal the sick. It is said that if the three unite and seek God’s Will, heaven will surely work. This is the Principle.
Who is God? Unity is God. Where there is unity, God is definitely present. When there is unity between mind and body, everybody without exception can feel God. When there is incredible unity between husband and wife, everybody can feel God’s presence.
Unity is God. Unity brings miracles. Unity has incredible power. Especially if you have 3 spiritual children who support you and really unite centered on their spiritual parent, Father said, even someone with an incurable sickness can be cured. Why? God is there. Unity is God.
Do you think Abel alone, Dr. Yong alone, Naokimi alone can do anything? This is nonsense. God works through unity. Where there is unity, God is present,
Why did Adam’s family fail? Because of disunity between Adam and Eve, disunity between Cain and Abel, disunity between parents and children. Why did Noah’s family (fail)? Because of disunity between father and son, between husband and wife. Right? With disunity, Satan invades. It doesn’t matter what kind of disunity you have. Your position or money don’t matter. Who is a capable leader? How can you create unity? Through loving and investing.
3. If two or three people unite in heart for God’s will, the Lord said that I can be with you. It is principled that three people become one. We are talking about the trinity. Now, we have transcended individuals and have been blessed and have all entered the era of family. In this era of family, if there are at least three families who value each other and try to bear each other's cross, then heaven will open. Heaven will begin when three people become one before the blessing and three families become one after the blessing. Centering on the number “three”, you need to build the foundation of heart (ShimJeong). How valuable would it be if you have 3 people and 3 families who could interact with each other heartistically? If that is the case, then God will be present. A family with such a trinity is a treasure among treasures.
If even two or three people unite with each other for the Will of God, the Lord said that “I can be with you.”
Before receiving the Blessing, we must restore the 3 spiritual children and create the trinity which is 3-position foundation centered on ourselves. After starting the family, we need families of the trinity, 3-position foundation who want to follow, centering on our family and using my family as a model.
The era of Cheon Il Guk is the era of families. Therefore, heaven will open there if at least three families who have come into this family age, value each other and try to bear each other's cross. How valuable would it be only if there were 3 people and 3 families who could heartisticly interact with each other? If that is the case, then God will be present. Such families of a 3-position foundation, which is a trinity, are a treasure among treasures.
God’s Kingdom of Heaven is where? Unity of 3 people. Unity centered on three spiritual children. Unity centered on the trinity. God is present there. God’s Kingdom of Heaven begins from there.
How can we create a model church in Clinton? Or in Sub-Region 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5? First, we need to create a unity spirit. Three people together. Everyone has 3 spiritual children who follow you and respect you and multiply (in turn). That is already the Kingdom of Heaven.
“You cannot create the Kingdom of Heaven centered on three people.” What are you talking about?
“After you die and go to the spiritual world.” What are you talking about?
You do not know the taste of the Kingdom of Heaven. After you die, can you taste the Kingdom of Heaven?
We need to build the Kingdom of Heaven in the beginning. You need to start from 3 spiritual children first. (You need to) center on the trinity first.
Having 3 spiritual children before starting a family will be the best gift for your future children. Also, it will be the best foundation of trust and love for the couple to become one. In addition, the 3 position foundation (trinity) that starts and builds an ideal family will be the best expectation for completing a family kingdom and Heavenly Tribal Messiahship.
Those who start a family without 3 spiritual children have many conflicts between husband and wife and conflicts between parents and children. No matter what happens, we need to make 3 spiritual children, the foundation of love, and the heaven where we can show it, so that we can become individuals with God's presence. Also, the church where such people gather automatically becomes a church where God is present.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony that Anything is Possible
Miilhan will give the Living Testimony. I am really inspired by him. Since he became the pastor of the Manhattan Church, wow! Even though we don’t have many members there, they are really united. Joshua couple is so dedicated to witnessing. He goes to the University. Do you know what happened the day before yesterday, Sunday? Miilhan encouraged all the congregation after the service to go out witnessing. The entire congregation went out of the church to go witnessing. Where can we find such a spirit in our movement so far – that the congregation and minister all go out witnessing? I can feel everywhere, including Clifton, they have a full spirit of witnessing.
I am telling you, America can be changed. Really, we can go back to the earlier church when True Father directly guided our ministry. So I am very proud of Miilhan, the Joshua couple, Naokimi. They are my trinity and are doing very well. Let’s support them.
Although I all of sudden asked him to do this, let’s invite Miilhan, our MC, to give a testimony.
(Testimony by Rev. Miilhan Stevens.)♦
(Response to sharing) I always think about Father’s witnessing in Heung Nam prison. He could not talk to anyone. However, through his utmost prayer loving people, ancestors mobilized (people). Even though he could not say a word, how did he restore 12 people? The power of Jeongseong is incredible. God really responds. Our jeongseong really needs to move heaven. It has to be 100 degrees Celsius. We need to reach that (level of) jeongseong, and then God will do everything. Do not worry much about your own situation, this and that. Everybody has their own situation.
Many people are scared about how to break through in witnessing. I think you need to deny yourself. God does not work much through your own language or words. Your portion of responsibility is just to go out, go to the witnessing area and say, “Good morning, good afternoon. I am very happy to see you.” That is all. The rest relies on God. Let God talk. Just a greeting. Then don’t worry about what you are going to talk about. Let God speak. Why do you worry so much? Worry. Worry. Worry! (With worry) you cannot do anything.
This is really a big problem: no confidence. Where does this mindset come from? Who asked you to worry? You need to get permission in order to worry! You need to have confidence.♦
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