Ep 450 - The Need For National Restoration Part 1
The Need for National Restoration 85-10-12-40 - January 18, 2022
Today I’d like to talk again about “The need for national restoration” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Even now we should repent that we have fallen short, and we should make a new determination to do our utmost to return glory to God and fulfill His expectations. Henceforth, our church should never make so much as a crack through which Satan can enter. We absolutely need to unite. I am saying that there should not be “my voice” and “your voice.” We need to speak with one voice. By doing so we can be a model for this nation and world. We need to uphold the dignity of the living Heavenly Parent and True Parents. We need to become one with True Parents. If we do this, we will have no need to be ashamed before our descendants. We will be able to have pride that we have lived during this age as blessed families. All our leaders and members should be of one mind and one heart, and we all should stand up once again with new resolve to accomplish God's Will. (2014.07.01, Cheon Jeong Gung)
What is the very first thing we, FFWPU, must find so we can realize Heaven's providence, Heavenly Parent's dream, True Parents' dream and humanity's dream? You must inform all the people of this nation that they are the chosen people that Heaven has prepared. They are the people of Korea, the Republic of Korea, the people among whom True Parents were born. Through this long period, God has waited for True Parents, who would be able to realize His dream. Christianity, which Heaven had prepared to spread the providence, did not cooperate and no choice remained but to start again from the very bottom. We have experienced many of those desperate moments over the last 50 years. God had originally planned to send the returning Lord with a national foundation. Through that one nation, all the world's nations would participate in our Heavenly Parent's providence. Your duty when Father was alive was to achieve national restoration; you should have sent Father to the spirit world as the chosen people of Heaven's homeland. That was your filial duty. Blessed families and early members, you must deeply repent. (2017.01.03, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Mother said, “Your duty when Father was alive was to achieve national restoration; you should have sent Father to the spirit world as the chosen people of Heaven's homeland. That was your filial duty. Blessed families and early members, you must deeply repent.”
And True Mother continues to speak about the importance of the restoration of the nation.
Then what must I take responsibility for in this age of CIG? Let's think more specifically.
What Must I Take Responsibility for in This Age of Cig?
1. I need to be responsible for the liberation of our pitiful Heavenly Parent
How miserable God must feel, looking down at souls who could not be saved and died -- even though they lived during the earthly lifetime of True Parents!
I think he is crying continuously. Until we completely liberate each human being on earth and in the spiritual world, we need to have a strong determination to liberate our Heavenly Parents.
2. I need to be responsible for the bitter sorrow and deep grief of True Father who died without restoring even one nation.
We need to repent, True Mother said. We are the one who (should have) built one nation before True Father went to the spiritual world. We could not do that. So, we need to have a strong determination and unite with True Mother in order to restore one sovereignty, one nation and one people for our True Parents.
3. I need to be responsible for building Cheon Il Guk instead of True Mother.
Based on the restoration of one nation, we need to take responsibility to restore 3 nations, 7 nations, 12 nations, and even 20 nations. There are 200 nations in the world. So we need to take responsibility for at least 20 nations which are equivalent to one tenth of them.
Giving 10% of what I own means giving everything I have. Therefore I think we need to take responsibility for at least 20 nations which are equivalent to one tenth of them.
4. I need to be responsible for the liberation of 7.8 billion pitiful people.
True Mother said that one-third of people in the world should know True Parents. Therefore, using the technology of modern civilization, True Parents should be made known to all mankind as much as possible.
5. I need to be responsible for my family and tribe. I need to make three generations of my family a noble family.
I need to form a family which practices absolute sexual purity, absolute blessing, absolute hyo jeong, and absolute hoondok tradition in three generations.
HTM and ancestor’s Blessing as well.
6. I need to be responsible for the future of the Unification Movement. I need to establish the foundation for all traditions, while True Mother is alive so that I can set a tradition to inherit True Parents’ legacy.
That is why True Mother is always speaking about how to raise our second generation for the future. This very much relates to our second generation and third generation.
7. I need to be responsible for all reality which has been unfolding before my eyes.
8. By establishing standards of absolute faith, absolute love, absolute obedience, and a track record that no one can deny, even those who were far from the church should naturally surrender, repent, and support True Mother in establishing CIG.
I mentioned in more detail what I must take responsibility for in this age of cheon il guk.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 9 - Life of Give and Take Action
• Through the agency of universal prime energy, the subject and object elements of every entity form a common base and enter into interaction. This interaction, in turn, generates all the forces the entity needs for existence, multiplication, and action.
• The interaction generating these forces through this process is called give and take action.
Based on this EDP content, let’s study Father’s word related to give-and-take action.
The Way to Let One Bear the Debt Which Cannot Be Repaid Eternally
<85-134> Do not be indebted to your country. No matter what kind of situation may be, don’t be indebted to your church. This is why Christian churches treat me like an enemy, but if I hear that pastors of the Christian churches are starving I cloak myself in a believer’s name and bought them many sacks of rice. Why? Because I must not be indebted in front of them. It’s a scary strategy, is it not? Jesus was hung on the cross and had his side pierced by a spear, and yet he prayed for the Roman soldiers who covered him with a crown of thorns, praying ‘Father forgive them, for they do not know what they do.’ Why did he say this? It was for them to bear the debt. He offered this prayer in order for them to bear the debt which cannot be repaid eternally.
True Father said, “No matter what position you are in, you should not be in debt to the church or the country. Most church members try to do something for their own church, but they don't think they should not be indebted to the country, but (they are?) indebted to the country. If you have to pay taxes, then you have to pay taxes.
Do not avoid paying taxes. This is an important condition for the people of our nation. Willingly, happily, joyfully we need to pay taxes. We need to pay taxes for our nation.
Church money is not the only public money. State money is also public money as well.
We have to live a life of having others be indebted to us. In particular, we must live a life of having our enemies be indebted to us. Even if the other person opposes us, persecutes us, and tries to kill us, we have to give to them so they will eternally have unrepayable indebtedness.
Even when Jesus was dying on the cross, he forgave his enemies, so he owed them a debt that could never be repaid.
This is Jesus' greatness. When he was dying on the cross, he forgave his enemy. Many people can curse their own enemies. Why did Jesus forgive his enemies? How can the Roman soldier who killed him ever repay him eternally? Maybe he cannot. That was Jesus’ incredible quality of love.
According to True Father’s word, “The reason Jesus was able to be resurrected as soon as he died was because he prayed for forgiveness and blessing for his enemies, the spirit world, and even God who could not help but be surprised.”
Even Satan totally surrendered to Jesus. That was the condition (for) God to resurrect Jesus. According to Father, if Jesus had not made that condition in the last minute, there would have been no condition for him to be resurrected. (He was) recognized by the right-hand thief and forgave his enemy. That was the condition for Jesus to be resurrected. (As a result) we gained eternal spiritual salvation from our beloved Jesus, our Lord, the Messiah.
To Become Higher…
<85-134> The Bible states, ‘For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.’ This means a humble person who lives for others, who makes effort to be indebted to others will rise. Therefore, the external path to bear one’s debt by another person is through dying, to go the path of suffering, but the person who goes this way prospers. On the contrary, a person who goes the easy way perishes. Being indebted to others is the path to perish, ruin! It means Unification Church believers must absolutely not put themselves in debt. If you go to a village, look around the village and let yourself bear others’ debt. If there is something to clean, then clean it; if there is a place to put a bridge, build a bridge…. You have the responsibility to be let people be indebted in front of the village.
The Bible's words, "For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted," means that those in low places who try to have others be indebted to them will be raised to higher places.
That's why you should have others be indebted to you until death. Although the road is externally a way to die and a path to suffer, those who go that way are prosperous.
On the other hand, those who want to live and go on a comfortable path will go to ruin. If you owe debts to others, you’ll go to ruin.
When I was young, my father and mother always said, “Don’t owe a debt to others. Otherwise your life is not so good.” This was one of my family’s mottos. My father and mother told me -- and my brothers and sisters -- they always educated us not to owe debts to others.
Unification Church members should never be indebted to anyone. When I owe someone, I start to be dominated by them. However, if I give it first and have others owe me, Heaven tries to put me in the position of owner.
Who is the owner? Giving and giving and giving, then finally you can become the center and others will follow you.
When you go witnessing, when you go to your tribal area, you always need to think about this important guidance from Father: “Being indebted to others is the path to perish and be ruined. You always need to remember this. Father’s guidance is incredible!
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: You Need to Live a Life of Making Others have Unforgettable Indebtedness
I love this title and beautiful guidance.
1. There is a verse in the Bible that says, “Do not throw your pearls before pigs.” (Matthew 7:6). What are pearls? Pearl means love. When we give love in the name of the Lord, it is implied in the words of this Bible that we must discern whether the other person is an object of good or evil.
How to distinguish whether this guy is a good guy or a bad guy is very important. Is this person utilizing me or misusing me? You need to be spiritually sensitive. Otherwise you will waste your time, even though you try to live for the sake of others. That is why in the Bible, Jesus said clearly, “Do not throw your pearls in front of pigs.”
It means that when I give in the name of the Lord, give to someone who will never forget. Jesus asks if you can give to someone who does not know the value of love, that is, to a person who will trample on pearls like a pig. Knowing this, Jesus looked for someone who could be indebted to him. Jesus knew well the people who could be indebted to him. He knew well about their ancestors’ background. He knew well about what kind of sorrow and Han was behind their ancestors.
2. He knew well about their ancestors’ background. He knew well about what kind of sorrow and Han was behind their ancestors. Even in the position of being rejected by the people prepared by Heaven, he created the foundation of love for him to stand on this earth. Those people were the lepers, the incurable, and the poor. Even in the most desperate place, Jesus went down to the lowest place, found the most pitiful people, and made them unforgettably indebted to him for eternity.
Can you imagine? Lepers and disabled. When Jesus cured them, they could not have forgotten eternally. They were really grateful to Jesus eternally. Jesus knew why a person had become poor or blind or disabled. Jesus knew spiritually very well. It was not that person’s fault actually. It was an ancestor problem. When Jesus cured him, (it was not) only for that person. All (the person’s) ancestors came down and bowed before Jesus.
By placing unforgettable indebtedness on them, he set the standard for saving and liberating them on behalf of all their ancestors who came and went in the Old Testament Age.
3. Like Jesus, we must think about how to make the people around me be indebted to me eternally and unforgettably.
We need to learn from Jesus. Why did True Father in Heungnam Prison share half of his food with other prisoners? That person (who received food from Father) could never forget Father. We need to learn from True Father and Jesus how they gave that kind of lifestyle to other people.
If I make the people around me be indebted on behalf of their ancestors, in this way, the spirit world and their ancestors will appear and mobilize and help, and they cannot help but help me along the way.
This is the way to mobilize the spiritual world. This is the way the entire spiritual world needs to help me. The spiritual world will have no choice but to help.
Therefore, we must live our daily life making people indebted. You must practice giving often. If you keep giving, the person Heaven has prepared will appear. We must continue to give in the name of the Lord and in the name of True Parents and make others indebted. Such a person is never lonely.
According to my experience, when you give and give and give and forget and give some more, you never feel lonely. Your spirit is always inspired and very stimulated. If you don’t feel any spiritual power, you can just decide to give. When you give something, when you help others, I’m telling you, your spiritual power will come back very quickly.
Even in a lonely place where you are persecuted and betrayed, you can have a foundation of love as Jesus did.
When you are in a lonely place, many (may) persecute you and betray you; even though you are in such a place, if you bless them, forgive them, give them something, this is an incredible condition. The spiritual world and their ancestors need to come down and help.
4. If a person on Cain’s side is indebted and they know and come to believe in Heaven, our ancestors will be liberated and saved. Jesus also really loved the outcasted Israelites during his lifetime. The love of Jesus moved the ancestors in the spirit world, and when Jesus was on the Mount of Transfiguration, Moses and Elijah from those nations appeared and bowed down to Jesus. Actually, King Herod, who had more power than the prophets or ancestors in the spirit world at the time of Jesus, and the priests of Jerusalem were supposed to be grateful to and bow down to Jesus, but because they could not, many prophets from that nation appeared to help Jesus on their behalf. Their testimony of Jesus meant that the spirit world of that nation has come on the side that can help Jesus.
5. The reason our church can proclaim the will of True Parents in front of our nation and world today is because True Parents have already received official recognition from the spirit world. True Parents have always said that the spirit world has already laid the foundation to support True Parents. That is why True Father told us to pray to the spirit world and ask our ancestors. He often told us to pray about what they say about the Unification Church and what True Parents are like.
True Father always says to pray and ask the spiritual world who he is. Why? Our True Parents are already recognized by heaven, by ancestors, by the spiritual world. The entire spiritual world knows the position of our True Parents. Without recognition, how can they do that? True Parents are already recognized not only by the saints and sages; importantly they have even been recognized by Satan. Even Satan confessed that Father Moon and Mother Moon are the messiah for all humankind.
What this means is that the heavenly world has already officially recognized the Unification Church. It means that True Father also holds such authority in the spirit world. Because there is such a spiritual foundation, True Parents said they can proclaim, “Let’s unite the churches. Let’s make all people of the world one family.”
Even though we may deny that True Parents are the messiah; (we may say) True Father is not the son of God, that True Mother is not the only begotten daughter of God, even though we deny and deny and deny, as long as Heavenly Parents, Satan, all saints and sages recognize that they are the messiah, then they are the messiah. This is an important point.
Even though we respect Father and follow him, try to unite with him and believe in him as the messiah, without recognition by heaven, by Satan, and by saints and sages in the spiritual world, they cannot be the messiah. That is why True Father is very confident; True Mother is (also) very confident. They have recognition by heaven. This is really powerful. It doesn’t matter if Christianity and the secular world persecute them. True Parents are the messiah. This is undeniable.
This is why Father said, “Do not judge me simply humanistically. Pray. You need to have a negotiation prayer about who they are. Are they truly the messiah or not?” Why don’t you have that kind of negotiating, showdown prayer. …If your utmost jeongseong reaches heaven, then God will surely give you an answer about who they are. Once you receive that confirmation, your life of faith becomes very stable. No matter what, you can overcome any difficult circumstances. This is really powerful. We are so proud of our True Parents. We don’t simply believe (in them); we are really sure they are the messiah. Recognition.
Two thousand years ago Jesus came, was not welcomed by the people and passed away. But we know that he was the messiah. His life was very short, he died and no one recognized him, but we know he is the messiah recognized by Satan and by Heavenly Parent. In the relationship between True Parents and me and between Heavenly Parent and me, we need to recognize who God is and who True Parents are.
6. However, Jesus lost all the foundations of Judaism and his disciples. All the elders and scribes and leaders of the church were lost. Even John the Baptist was lost. The spiritual people who testified for Jesus were also lost. From such a standpoint, where would Jesus have established His accomplishments?
He lost his foundation. He had so much persecution here and there. He could not find any foundation. However, he had many accomplishments in the spiritual world by devoting himself to the poor and the sick whom no one even looked at. He laid the foundation through prayer and jeongseong. No one denies Jesus utmost jeongseong.
Jesus made accomplishments in the spirit world by devoting himself to the poor and the sick, whom no one even looked at. At that time, if the people who were indebted to Jesus had followed him, saying that they would die with him, Jesus would have built a strong foundation on this earth, but the people that came to Jesus went back to their own places as soon as their own Han and wishes were solved, and they became people who had nothing to do with Jesus.
That was Jesus’ agony and sorrow. When they solved their own problems, they just went back home. Nobody asked Jesus, “Jesus, do you have wishes? Why do you bring such miracles? Tell me, what is inside? Who are you?” No one asked. No one. Can you imagine … how sorrowful he was.
7. As a result, Jesus had no place to rest. So, the last course he chose was the course of the cross. The Jesus we know in the spirit world is the Son of God whom we all look up to, but on earth, he was doubted by everybody and had no choice but to go on the cross. Now, we must know the spirit world ourselves. True Parents, who came to this earth, took full control of the spirit world and appeared on this earth. It means that they appeared on earth with the authority officially recognized by the spirit world.
8. Since True Parents came to this earth and went through and were victorious in the indemnity course from the course of the servant of servants to the cosmos, they established actual achievements that heaven and earth could not deny. Now, the only task that remains is how our Family Federation can expand the substantial foundation of Cheon Il Guk. True Father is a person who knows the spirit world better than anyone else, and although he has made great achievements on earth, it is also undeniable that there are still many people who do not know him. We have everything. God, True Parents, the Divine Principle, the Blessing, and True Parents’ victorious actual achievements. Now, all that remains is to find my tribe and expand the foundation of Cheon Il Guk on this basis.
9. So, from now on, what are the specific things we need to do to build Cheon Il Guk?
Today we learned from Jesus and … True Parents.
Just like Jesus and True Parents, you need to live a life of making others and (your) tribe have unforgettable indebtedness.
Then teach the Divine Principle and give them the Blessing. Then they will realize this incredible grace from God. They will not forget you eternally. Through saving them, helping them, giving to them -- that is our job, our portion of responsibility.
Today we learned important things from Jesus. Even though he was in such a miserable situation, (we learned) how he survived spiritually, even at the last moment, by forgiving his enemies and praying for all mankind and for the Israeli people. That was the condition for him to be resurrected and for us to receive eternal spiritual salvation. Beautiful!
We need to make that kind of commitment wherever we go and whatever we do. Centering on our heavenly tribal messiahship, (ask yourself) how can we make unforgettable memories for our neighbors and tribe, offering the Blessing and the word and giving something substantially. That is our job and our task.♦
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