Ep 572 - True Parent's Museum Part 2

True Parents' Museum - May 20, 2022

PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony of Madoka Tsuchihara

(Response to sharing) The time has come now. God’s spring has come to bring the people and let them know True Parents.♦

This morning I am so excited to see our beautiful MC Rebecca and to hear the beautiful testimonies from here and there.

Recently when I focus on prayer, God gives me incredible hope and so much revelation and inspiration. I feel that in our American movement spring has really come. We can revive America. If we go back to the original point, really reading the Divine Principle and witnessing to people, bringing people to workshops and praying for them. Brothers and sisters have been totally united. Let’s create and show a great model church where God is really present with us. That is one of True Mother’s greatest expectations of the American movement. 

Today I’d like to talk about “True Parents' Museum” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.

The True Parents' museum should not stop at depicting only their lives and achievements but should inspire a direction for the future. True Parents have carried out a diversity of providential tasks. I am designing a building people should not pass through absent-mindedly. Even if they have not lived at the same time as True Parents, they should have the natural instinct to emulate True Parents' lives and take part in proliferating their will. This is the concept I have for building the museum. Therefore, members as well as non-members should come and think, “This was the purpose of my life: to meet True Parents. Not just meet, but I should inherit True Parents' will and resemble them. I should also love humankind and the world.” 

There is no other way to change the hearts of everyone in the world. People will not be able to restrain themselves from repenting. “I have longed for the day that both Heaven and fallen humankind are liberated. I have hoped for heaven on earth and a world of happiness. True Parents, who have opened that path, have come and this was what their providential history was like. Yet how come I am only coming here now, after True Father has ascended to the spirit world?” That person will determine to uphold True Mother's will for the rest of his life. Thus, the CheonJi SunHak Won needs to have a stage. I will make it into a cultural center where people can watch movies and see musical theater. 

On the second floor, there will be murals of some of the providential work True Parents have done for the world such as the Washington Monument Rally and the World Rally for Korean Freedom. Just like Michelangelo's painting of the Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, the museum will have vivid historical scenes painted on both walls. Then naturally, the main entrances will be on the southwest side. The third floor space will display True Parents' life courses in murals and videos. There will also be a balcony. On the third-floor balcony facing the square, I hope to spend quality time with our members while I am still alive. (2014.11.11,Cheon Jeong Gung) 

True Mother’s plan for True Parents’ museum is (on) an enormous scale beyond our imagination. We really look forward to May of next year. 

As of now, the basic construction of the framework of the Cheon Won Gung is completed. I would like to ask for everyone’s jeongseong and prayer for this. 

 Mother is investing so much jeongseong in this.

LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 50 - The Indirect Dominion and the Human Portion of Responsibility

• During the growing period, all created beings grow by virtue of the autonomy and governance given by God’s Principle.

• God, the Author of the Principle, has regard only for the fruits of their growth which are based on the Principle. In this way, He governs all things indirectly. We call this growing period the realm of God’s indirect dominion or the realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle.

• All things reach perfection after passing through the growing period by virtue of the autonomy and governance given by God’s Principle.

• Human Beings, however, pass through the growing period and reach perfection by fulfilling their own portion of responsibility, in addition to the guidance provided by the Principle.

• We can deduce from God’s commandment to Adam and Eve in Gen. 2:17 that the first human ancestors were responsible to believe in the Word of God and not eat of the fruit. Whether or not they disobeyed God and fell depended not on God, but on themselves.

• God endowed human beings with a portion of responsibility for the following reason:

• By fulfilling their given portion of responsibility, with which even God does not interfere, human beings are meant to inherit the creative nature of God and participate in God’s great work of creation.

• God intends human beings to earn ownership and become worthy to rule over the creation as creators in their own right, just as God governs over them as their Creator.

• This is the principal difference between human beings and the rest of creation.

The Importance of the Portion of Responsibility

<January 30, 1983, Belvedere> All the contradictions and all the historic tragedies in the entire universe spring from the lack of fulfillment of the human portion of responsibility. You must be aware of the importance of the portion of responsibility. You have your own opinions about the portion of responsibility. Some people even think that the portion of responsibility is just something that is taught in the Principle, and has nothing to do with themselves. They believe that they can live freely as they want. You must be aware that something great was revealed when Rev. Sun Myung Moon discovered the words "portion of responsibility." The entire universe depends on those words, "portion of responsibility." Because of this, God is not free, the universe is not free, even hell is not free yet. All the problems that society and history have been suffering are due to being fenced in by the portion of responsibility. 

You must be aware that something great was revealed when Father Moon discovered the words "portion of responsibility“ among what he discovered in the Principle. 

In human history until now, no one knew that there was a human portion of responsibility in realizing God's purpose of creation. 

God has his own portion of responsibility. So do humans.

If we do not know the human portion of responsibility, we cannot solve all contradictory facts and all the twists and turns of misfortune in the course of history. 

As long as human beings have a portion of responsibility, they cannot live carelessly. They cannot live in indulgence just because they have freedom. This is because they have no freedom to deviate from the principle or from responsibility. 

My life, my destiny, and my universe are at stake depending on whether I fulfill my responsibility or not. If humans do not know their portion of responsibility, neither God nor the universe nor hell can be liberated. Without understanding the human portion of responsibility, we cannot understand anything.

This is one of the top secrets: human beings have their own portion of responsibility – even though God is omnipotent. By fulfilling our responsibility we can take ownership as the owner of all things. Without paying the price, without fulfilling our portion of responsibility we cannot become the owner of all things. Even though God loves us, we need to fulfill our portion of responsibility. 

Is the portion of responsibility easy if you are not fallen? Yes, it is easy. The portion of responsibility became difficult due to the misuse of love. You must be aware of the fact that all of creation has been destroyed and that the entire universe holds you responsible for that. You must realize that all human beings carry the cross of this portion of responsibility. You must hold fast to the condition that you will accomplish your portion of responsibility no matter what. The portion of responsibility has not died. 

 The portion of responsibility and indemnity are the right side and the left side. You have forgotten that they are just like the right leg and the left leg. Without indemnity, there is no progress. 

If human beings had not fallen, would the portion of responsibility be easy? Or difficult? True Father says it would never have been difficult. However, once human beings have fallen, it is the most difficult thing to restore them with the human portion of responsibility. 

We humans are all descendants of the fall, but once we fall due to false love, we have to pay tenfold or twenty-fold the effort and indemnity to restore it. 

In that sense, maintaining purity – one of the most important responsibilities under God’s Direct Dominion – is a matter of life or death in the human portion of responsibility. 

As long as I don't fulfill my responsibility, I need to know that all things accuse me and the universe questions me. 

All human beings, without exception, should know that they carry the cross of the portion of responsibility. 

Jesus told us to bear the cross. What does it mean? To bear the cross means to fulfill the portion of responsibility. 

To say that you should carry your own cross means that you must fulfill your portion of responsibility by yourself. To carry other’s crosses is to help others fulfill their portion of responsibility. 

Therefore, you should have the condition of fulfilling your portion of responsibility regardless of what is sacrificed. You cannot transfer the responsibility of one person to another person. 

You need to fulfill your portion of responsibility. God cannot help you. Your father and mother – even though they love you so much – cannot help you. Your children, your friend cannot help you. You have to fulfill your portion of responsibility. 

You need to get a driver’s license by yourself, even though your father can help you with part of it. To get your driver’s license, you need to put in the effort. This is your portion of responsibility. Nobody helps you with your homework. You need to do your homework. What is your homework? To get a love license, to fulfill your portion of responsibility to become the owner of all things as children of God.

The portion of responsibility and indemnity are the right side and the left side. Human beings live having forgotten that those are just like the right leg and the left leg. 

TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: One Person’s Responsibility

This connects very well to today’s Divine Principle content.

1. All beings are playing the role of beings as God created them for the purpose of creation. Even a single machine cannot function without one extremely small accessory. Even huge trucks carrying loads cannot move if one small part is missing or if it breaks down. The same is true of human physical functions. If one part goes wrong, it gives a fatal blow to the whole. However, unlike machines, humans are beings of the heart. What must be done for the human heart to function smoothly? Everyone needs to properly evoke their heart in order to fulfill their role as a true person. Humans can create joy and love only when their hearts are evoked, even in very small things. 

The original humans are beings of heart. When peoples’ hearts do not function smoothly, they become insensitive beings, sometimes, like animals and other times, like machines. Fallen men are always external and the trigger of emotion is severe, so they always change and sometimes, they seem like beings without any affection. 

Fallen man has no heart. Then what must we do to make our heart well up all the time? You need to think about how to make your heart well up all the time voluntarily, joyfully and happily.

It is by putting in all your devotion and being sincere in even the smallest things. Those who are not sincere in even in the smallest things cannot evoke (stimulate? awaken?) their hearts. 

When Abraham was sacrificing the three offerings, not cutting the small dove became a big mistake. God's work of restoration for two thousand years was extended because it was considered a little dove and not divided. His descendants suffered 430 years of slavery in Egypt because of this small condition of not cutting the small doves. Can you imagine that?

Human beings do not lose their hearts when they make mistakes in big things, it is when they make mistakes in regarding the smallest things as insignificant. Even when doing the smallest of things, when they invest their heart and utmost sincerity, their hearts are evoked and they can create joy and love. 

... Abraham had no way to divide (the doves) into two.(?)

Human beings may not make mistakes with big things, but always make mistakes in the small things. That is why we have to really be careful.

2. Humans will not have strength if their hearts are not evoked. Not only that, but they can't do their part as a person of love. The activation of the heart begins when the subject and object become completely one. When the subject and the object form an inseparable relationship in the midst of the unity of “I am you” and “you are me,” the movement of the heart begins. Machines made by humans are also precise, and you can really guess how precisely God created humans since they are the greatest being that God put His heart into. Think for a moment about how God created human beings as the second Creator who has love and heart and has to rule over all things. 

Humans will not have strength if their hearts are not evoked. In order for the heart to well up, you must dig inward often. You must gradually enter the internal world of the heart, the root of the human heart, to meet God. 

Whatever we do, we need to go deeper inside. Then we can find God. 

If the human mind keeps paying attention only to external things and is greedy, the mind becomes empty. 

The activation of the heart begins when the subject and object become completely one. According to the law of give and take, if people don't give and receive well, they will not have strength. 

Activation of heart is triggered when you try to give first. When giving, you should give sincerely and forget. When you receive, you should receive with a grateful heart. And when you receive it, you have to have the heart to repay it even more. If you give and receive well like this, your heart will be activated all the time.

How can your heart well up very well? It becomes so active when you need to have heart, when you have the heart to give and give.

That is why the heart of one who really lives for the sake of others really starts to come out and well up. We have no choice. In order to upgrade and activate your heart, you need to always serve others, give to others, (put?) others first. Your heart voluntarily, happily, joyfully comes out. 

When we just give and receive as a formality without sincerity, we get tired on the way. Therefore, when giving and receiving, please be sure to give and receive through your heart. 

Without involving one’s heart, human beings are not inspired at all. That is why we need to be a human being of heart. We need to be a heartistic person (growing through) formation, growth and completion stage.

The completion stage is the world of heart. When there is no heart connection, no heartistic relationship, everything is meaningless and has no significance at all. 

Because heart is much bigger than love.

3. Just as a small part of a machine is absolutely necessary, I can know that I am an indispensable being in front of the whole and should be considered necessary in the position I am in. I cannot assert myself when I must think of the whole purpose in order to fulfill my responsibilities as a human being. I cannot assert myself disregarding the whole. Since a person's life is a part of the universe, he cannot assert himself. You cannot set up yourself and go on the path of self-assertion in the relationship with the whole. Just as all machines have an organic relationship, my existence is for the whole purpose, so if I can’t fulfill my role, I am useless. 

In order for a human to fulfill his portion of responsibility, he must first know how precious he is and have a clear idea of his own identity. 

Next, he should always think about the whole purpose first. We should live for the whole in a place where we always deny ourselves, thinking that I exist for the purpose of the whole. 

Although I am a precious being, my heart comes out when I think of the whole first and live for others. If you think of yourself first, your heart will never come out. 

If you always try to give first, your heart will come out. If you always think about the whole purpose first and try to live for the sake of other, your heart will come out automatically. If you try to give first and think for the whole, you will always have spiritual strength. But if you try to live only for yourself, you become useless. 

 4. Human beings fall apart if they do not fulfill their role in front of the whole. They will break away from themselves. As the Bible says that if the eye sins, the eye must be plucked out or if the hand sins, it must be cut off, if you don't do your job, you will be removed. Aren't those who can't give and receive in the world of heart are immediately alienated, can’t relate with others, and receive judgment? If we do not give and receive in the world of our families, societies, and nations today, or in the world of the heart, will we not be buried? You will not be able to relate. In this way, the existence of a human being is not an existence that may or may not exist. One human being is absolutely essential in relation to the whole. 

Human beings fall apart if they do not fulfill their role in front of the whole. They will break away from themselves.

If you do not give and receive well in the world of heart and live only for yourself, you will be immediately alienated and receive judgement. 

In this way human beings are not beings that may or may not exist. All creations that God created on this earth were created because God absolutely needed them. God is an all-knowing and all-powerful being. God would never, ever create unnecessary beings.

God created you and me. Do you think he created us as unnecessary beings? No! God would never create an unnecessary being. You are an indispensable person.

For what reason would an omnipotent and wise God create unnecessary beings? To say that God created you means that you are absolutely necessary for God. It is not something that simply exists or does not exist. It is said that God never creates a being that will lose. 

God is a clever guy. He is a God of wisdom. Everything he created is absolutely needed. God absolutely needs you and me. This is very important. You need to know your own value. Almighty God absolutely needs you. You are necessary for God.

How much do you appreciate your own value? If you know your own value, how did Heavenly Father create you? Heavenly Father created each item of all things and you and me, our children and our family. Do you think he created anything unnecessary? Are they unnecessary? Is God such a stupid, foolish God? God is an omnipotent God. He is so powerful! He would never create an unnecessary being. You and I are absolutely necessary beings for God. 

You need to ask each of your children. ... Are you a necessary or unnecessary being? (They are) absolutely necessary.

Yet people ignore themselves, think that they are unnecessary, so they are pessimistic, and some even commit suicide. Ask God. “God, am I really an absolutely essential being to You?” So, what would God, the parent, answer? 

Suicidal behavior is like a murderer who kills his own parents. Suicide causes permanent scars on one's parents. What is the purpose of God's creation? What is the purpose of life? It exists to bring joy to others as an indispensable existence for everyone. 

You are an indispensable person for God, for your spouse, for your children and parents, for your neighbor, for your nation, for everybody. You have incredible value.

In this sense, one human being is absolutely essential in relation to the whole. 

You need to know your value. How inspiring, how powerful you are! God says, “I am a necessary being.” 

How about God? Do you think God is a necessary being? God is an absolutely necessary being. 

If we have that kind of relationship between parents and children, between God and me, that is so powerful! You can solve any problem. You can settle any issues, right? Let’s have power! God loves me in such a way. We need to love God in such a way.

LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible

Today, Let's take the time to hear another living testimony of witnessing. I would like to invite a YCLC director in Los Angeles, Madoka Tsuchihara.

(Testimony of Madoka Tsuchihara.)♦

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