Ep 452 - The Need For National Restoration Part 3
The Need for National Restoration 87-12-12-40 - January 20, 2022
Today I’d like to talk again about “The need for national restoration” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
You all have a responsibility you must fulfill while the True Parents are on earth, which is to complete your mission as heavenly tribal messiahs and establish Cheon Il Guk. In other words, you need to restore the nation, the fatherland of faith, God's homeland, before the whole World. Heavenly Parent and True Parents are our pride. We need to use the word to bring spirit and truth that will bring rebirth to this country as God's homeland by 2020. Once you have decided your goal, you need to be ready to risk your life in order to achieve it. I want to take all of you who are sitting here right now to the position of the future's proud ancestors and true owners.
You must not hesitate before the Word. You must bring the Word to all the elderly people in all the remote country towns and mountain valleys in every corner of the country. How painful it would be if you are not remembered by the True Parents even though you lived in the same age and even in the same country as they did. True Parents are the answer to everything. We now need to be forthright in teaching this to all the VIPs, or peace ambassadors who are connected with us, and open the path for them to fulfill their responsibility before the end of their lives. (2015.04.24, Cheon Jeong Gung)
Right now, the world is in the midst of chaos and confusion. The great nations are concerned with their own nation's benefit. It is the same with smaller nations. And the same with the religious realm. Then how can we unite the people of the world? The only way is to teach them the fundamental truths. They must come to know about God. They must know God's hope and dream. The only people who can teach them this is the True Parents. If we don't know True Parents' words and will, we cannot become one. We must absolutely succeed in our goals and plans. You must not hesitate. We do not always have such opportunities. Time is of the essence. When we look at how this nation and the world is revolving, we can say that God gave us an opportunity. This is not possible by human strength alone.
That is why I am emphasizing that you must know the truth and that you must know God. The original owner of this universe was God, the Creator. There is no way for resolution without knowing God. You who know God should be marching forward boldly and strongly. The religions are longing for True Parents. Without True Parents, you cannot separate yourself from Satan's lineage. From now on, you must put your life on the line and carry out revolutionary works during your lifetime. Don't wait for someone else to do it. What is there to fear? We have to teach and educate people. People are wasting time. It will be quick if they come to know God and True Parents and move forward in the direction of creating one world under God. Their wish is also for a peaceful and free world. In order to build this world, there must be a center. We have to become one. We must become one with True Parents as the center. (2017.02.09, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Mother is emphasizing that all mankind should know God because the original owner of the universe is God, the Creator. She is saying that human beings, the resultant beings, are because there is no solution unless they do not know the God who brought them into existence.(?)
Up to now, human beings have pursued human happiness, peace, and the ideal world by devising all methods and means through human methods for 6,000 years. But the world is increasingly falling into chaos, people are centered on selfishness, and each nation is only taking care of its own interests.
Therefore, human beings must eventually return to God, the center of the world of essence. Therefore, we must know who God is, and unless we serve and attend God in our lives, human freedom, peace, and happiness are far away.
The reason why we need to attend God, I would like to talk about this.
The Reason Why We Need to Attend God
1. It is in order to receive love from God.
It is in order to receive love from God.
God is the source of love. God is the beginning of love. The more we attend God, the more we will inherit God's love and become the owner of True Love, so we must attend God.
2. It is in order to separate from Satan. If you love God, Satan will be separated from you. The reason why you cannot separate from Satan is because you don’t love God.
It is in order to separate from Satan. If you love God, Satan will be separated from you. The reason why you cannot separate from Satan is because you don’t love God.
The best way to separate (from) Satan is to love God, to attend and serve God. As much as we love and serve God, Satan will fall away.
Therefore, the best way to separate (from) Satan is to focus more on serving God than on how to separate Satan.
Many people are focused on how to separate from Satan, how to kick Satan out. I think that is not the best method. What is the best way to separate from Satan? How can we kick out Satan? We need to focus on how to love God more, how to experience God’s love. As much as i focus on God’s love, Satan cannot invade me.
A person who truly loves God cannot commit a crime.
That is why we need to attend and serve God.
3. It is in order to enter the realm of God’s direct dominion.
It is in order to enter the realm of God’s direct dominion.
It is to pass through God’s indirect dominion, which is the period of sharing of responsibilities that God has given to humans, to inherit God's love, and to enter the kingdom of heaven under God's direct dominion and live with God.
That’s why God’s indirect dominion is very important. It is the time to inherit God’s love and heart. That’s why the period of growth is important. When we receive love from God through attendance and loving God, finally we can enter God’s direct dominion.
(4. It is to experience God's heart and circumstances, inherit his wishes, and become the second Creator.)
5. It is to return joy to God by becoming a filial son and filial daughter of God.
It is in order to become God’s filial sons and daughters.
Why did God create humans? In order to feel joy and happiness through his object partner. Adam and Eve were children of God. We are the object partner of God. Heavenly God is our parent. When we become God’s filial sons and daughters, this is the best way to return our joy and happiness to Heavenly Parent. That is the reason why we need to attend God.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 12 - The Function of the Conscience and Life
Today, we will have time to study “The Function of the Conscience and life” with a new title.
• However evil a person may be, the force of his conscience, which impels him towards a virtuous life, is always active within his inner self. The minute a person commits an evil act, he immediately feels pangs of conscience.
• If the function of the conscience were absent in fallen people, God's providence of restoration would be impossible
• How is this force of conscience generated?
• Since all forces are produced by give and take action,
• The conscience can generate the force only when it (as object partner) forms a common base with some subject partner and engages in give and take action with it.
• The subject partner of our conscience is God.
Based on this EDP content let’s study more about the function of the conscience through True Father’s word.
The Conscience is God’s Objective Concept
<258-63> The conscience comes before God. It means I know the things I will do before God does. Do you understand? God knows after you performed the action. Why is it like that? The self is another personality. To use the term of the Unification Church it is an individual embodiment of truth. If God knows together with you, you become a part of God’s characteristic and a linked body. If God knows your action at the same time then the concept of object disappears. It is an equal object, where the objective concept’s wish that the object is thousands of times better than oneself disappears.
I already explained about the meaning of conscience. The conscience comes before God, before parents, before the owner, as we already discussed.
When Mind and Body Become One…
<261-281> Through absolutely obeying the conscience, it is possible to freely subjugate the body. It is the mission of religion to subjugate the body. When mind and body become one, there will be no need for religion. It will be possible to go in front of heaven naturally. Because this body received Satan’s love at the fall, a stronger power than the standard of conscience at the time of the fall exists.
TF said, “Through absolutely obeying the conscience, it is possible to freely subjugate the body.”
It is the mission of religion to subjugate the body. When mind and body become one, there will be no need for religion.
What is the role of religion? You need to educate your congregation how to control the body, how one’s mind becomes the owner. If a religious organization can not guide (people) properly in these things, it will surely decline. Today, why are so many religions declining? Because it has no more power to guide young people how to control their body. This is the issue. Even church leaders and ministers, major religious leaders, are corrupted. They have a lot of women and men issues. So now they cannot become a model (for young people). That is why church leaders do not know how to guide their people about unity between mind and body, how to control the body. Surely their religion and their group will decline.
However, where there is unity between the mind and body, you know how to subjugate your body through your conscience. Listening to your conscience is the only way to control your physical body.
Because this body received Satan’s love at the fall, a stronger power than the standard of conscience at the time of the fall exists
Therefore, to overcome the temptation of love, the power of conscience must be added to something greater. It is the power of love that comes from God.
Because the power of love comes through the Word of God, you must always be stimulated by the Word and resist the temptations of the flesh.
That’s why without receiving and being inspired by God’s word and only using the conscience, this is not enough to overcome Satan’s love because the power of love is stronger than that of the conscience. That’s why you need to borrow power from the spiritual world which is connected to Heavenly Parent. You need to get God’s word. When God’s word becomes my life and functions(?) very well in my heart centering on God’s word, it has incredible power to overcome our physical body. That’s why without God’s word, there is no way to overcome our physical limitations. Of course, we need to absolutely follow our conscience, but that is not enough. We need to get more great power from heaven which is God’s word.
The Conscience Requires no Education
<261-228> You must become one with your conscience. The conscience is an amazing thing. Did you ever hear ‘let’s educate your conscience’? 「The conscience is inborn.」That means you never heard it. The conscience doesn’t require education. No matter how amazing and prestigious you become externally, the conscience educates that. What’s more is that the conscience even tries to correct God… If a beloved person does wrong it has to be corrected.
(The) conscience needs no education. Conscience is inherent in nature. My conscience is ready to educate anyone, including myself, when they are (or I am) wrong. If God is wrong, my conscience tries to educate even God.
True Parents say that if the body absolutely obeys the commands of conscience, unimaginable miracles will happen. If you absolutely obey your conscience, you will have the power to occupy even God. As long as human beings have a conscience, they are bound to return to God at some point.
Why can’t we feel power? Why can’t we conquer the secular world? We do not know the greatness (of) the unity between mind and body. As long as we absolutely follow our conscience, I am telling you, there is nothing that is impossible! You can overcome anything. That is the power of unity between mind and body. Why are you struggling between husband and wife, between mind and body, between Cain and Abel? What’s wrong? Because there is no unity. You do not follow your conscience. If we really follow our conscience and make unity between mind and body, Father said, you can go forward, whatever you want, everything, you can achieve it. And unimaginable miracles will happen. That’s why we need to reflect. Is something wrong? Am I creating beautiful unity between mind and body or not? Between husband and wife? Between parents and children? Between Cain and Abel or not? we need to check all the time.
If human beings do not have a conscience, God's providence of salvation is forever impossible. Therefore, no matter how evil a human being (may be), if you do not give up on his conscience and appeal to him to the end, it is a human being(?) to surrender and repent in the end.
When your conscience becomes one with your body and you receive strength from God, you will receive tremendous power (to) accomplish anything if you make up your mind. The reason we do not feel the power of God in our lives is because we have not experienced the perfect harmony of our body and mind with our conscience at the center.
This is really great guidance from our True Parents.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Three Cases When Faith Goes Wrong
1. When are you lonely? In what cases does our faith go wrong? It can be divided into three main categories. The first is when the Word is lost.
Then you become confused. You lose your life of faith.
The second is when your Abel is lost.
You don’t have a proper Abel to report to and communicate with heartistically.
Third is when Cain cannot be found.
However, these problems always start from me, and in the end, these problems must be resolved by me, too. We must keep in mind that we have to fix these problems within our living sphere centering on our own environment. To be more specific, I need to identify and solve these three problems in my family, church, and workplace. Otherwise, where can my spirit grow?
What is my environment? My family, church and workplace, right? Three places. Without these three places, how can we grow our spiritual life? You have relationships with people in your family -- with your brothers and sisters, children and parents -- in your church -- with your Abel and church members -- and in your workplace -- with your supervisor, your colleagues. Otherwise, (without these relationships) where can our spirit grow?
If I do this wrong, my faith will not be stable and float in the air. Even if I hear the Word, if I am not stimulated, when I try to find my Abels, they go away because of my self-centered attitude; if I distance myself from Cains because I dislike them, they will always accuse me from a position close to me.
How can my life of faith become stable? Number one is God’s word. When you lose God’s word, we easily become secularized. Father said that fallen men who are not educated by God’s word become animals -- sometimes worse than animals. That is why every human being needs to be educated. Through what? Through God’s word. God expresses his love through his word. That is why God’s word is God himself; God’s word is love, nutrition(?). In our life of faith one of the most important things is how we can keep God’s word. When God’s word comes into our heart, it becomes life. It will function(?) very well and stimulate us, and we can digest anything.
However, if we lose God’s word, we lose our relationship with God and with our spouse, our children, our Cain and Abel. That’s why those who do not pay much attention to God’s word are actually not men of faith, not faithful people. In our daily life, the important thing is the word. The word is God. The word is life. The word is love.
That is why in order to recover my life of faith when I have lost it, you need first of all to study God’s word again. Secondly, even though you are very inspired, there are all kinds of evil environments and good environments. In order to protect yourself, you need to have a good Abel. You can respect him all the time. You can communicate with him all the time. A heartistic relationship with your Abel (allows) your life of faith to become stable. Third is when Cain cannot be found. You have the word, you are always inspired by God’s word; You have a good Abel, but you do not have Cain. Then your life becomes very lonely. Even though the relationship is very good between husband and wife after marriage, one year passes, two years, three years, no children. That is not very stimulating. That’s why when parents have their own children, (their situation) becomes very stable and they enjoy it very much. That’s why … in your family you need to have children. In your workplace, you need to have your own Cain who relates well with you heartistically. This is important in our life of faith.
2. If these three problems are not settled, I will float in the air and I will be lonely on this earth. From a spiritual point of view, such a person is like a psycho, spiritually sick(?).
A person who wanders because there is no one to become attached to and there is no place to rest his heart, he becomes like a psycho. From this point of view, we think about how Jesus, who came after 2,000 years, must have been so lonely. Jesus found and comforted pitiful people, yet he could not live a life of give and take of the heart. Jesus left, only able to be a servant like a parent serving children.
3. Even though parents have a lot to say, they cannot talk about their circumstances in front of their immature children. Even those in positions in the church should not talk about their own position and circumstances in front of immature church members. There is no need to talk about my frustrating position and the circumstances of the church. Those who entered the church first and took on responsibilities in the office are well aware of the difficult situation of the church, the difficult economic situation of the church leader, and the complicated situations of the members. However, this does not mean you can slam such talk about positions and circumstances recklessly anywhere. If that happens, even a developing church will not do well. Today, there are people who joined the church first and recklessly talk about the church situation to immature church members, but many people who just joined will be hurt and it blocks their way to the church. It is foolish to talk about my frustrating words to an immature person.
4. Our family is no exception. In the family, if the husband and wife give and take well, they are serving God. However, if you do not give and take well, you will end up driving God out. If you speak the wrong way to the other person, it will result in driving God out. In other words, the spring garden of my heart will disappear. Then there is no joy. Without joy, God cannot be present.
When a husband and wife fight or (are in) conflict, they immediately expel God. If brothers and sisters are in conflict, God will drive them out immediately. When body and mind are in conflict, God immediately withdraws.
In order to overcome this -- we are talking about three categories of issues -- in order to protect ourself and our relationships, we need to listen to God’s word. We need to rule(?) our body through God’s word.
Secondly, whenever you have a problem, any fallen human being has a problem, then you can discuss (it) with your Abel. “What should I do in this situation?” When you listen to the guidance from your Abel, you can solve the problem. If you don’t have an Abel and you want to solve the problem by yourself, where do you go? Also, you need to receive a lot of grace from your spiritual children. When you inspire them, they inspire you. We call that grace. We need to receive grace not just from heaven but from our Cain figures when we inspire them.
When immature members who have just joined the church, you need to know how to handle them. From the beginning if you talk about internal church situations, conflict and this and that, this kills our young people, those who have newly joined the church. You need to know how to handle this.
Even if the husband was a little wrong, the wife should think from the position of having received the Blessing and of the value of the Blessing. You must think that if it was not for this husband, I would not have come before Father. If you think that you have a bond with Father because of your husband, how much would you cherish your husband?
(In) conflict between husband and wife, between Cain and Abel, and between others -- in any situation, I must rule myself well with the Word, and secondly, I must rule myself well by serving others as God's substitute.
5. In this way, my husband should not be viewed as just an individual. Husbands and wives should treat each other in the name of TPs. When we always deal with each other in the TP’s name like this, God can be present. This is the way we invite God and serve Him in the family. To say that this is the time of attendance means that it is a time to serve each other in the Father’s name, in God’s name, and in True Parents’ name.
6. In conclusion, as a result, I’d like to remind you in what cases does our faith go wrong? It can be divided into three main categories. The first is when the Word is lost.
That is why the word is so important. From a young age we need to guide our children through the word. Satan has his own word. He keeps telling human beings, “Please eat the fruit, please have sex.” He reminds us again and again … In the entire environment, Chapter Two is everywhere. If we do not hold (on) to God’s word; if we are not inspired by God’s word, how will we control our physical body? That is why in order to stabilize our life of faith, number one is God’s word. We need to go back to the original point. Adam and Eve lost the word because of(?) the fall. In order to restore myself, I need to really go back to God’s word first.
Secondly, when we are vertically inspired by God’s word, we need to build a good relationship with our Abel. Definitely there is your Abel, better than you. Anytime you can discuss (with him); you can communicate (with him). There are some good Abels. God knows how to take care of you. God knows where to go to get satisfaction. If you are very thirsty to know and you are very serious about developing your life of faith, then God has already prepared around you who can be your Abel. Definitely God has a plan. That’s why when you lose your Abel, you lose everything.
Third is when Cain cannot be found.
You need to have spiritual children, someone who respects you and follows you. Centering on the four position foundation with a parents’ figure, front and back, right and left, vertical and horizontal relationships including husband and wife, then children. You need to have children, spiritual children. If you have such a four position foundation structure, your life of faith is very stable.
If these three problems are solved, we can overcome any conflict and our life (of) faith will be settled (and) very safe. Aju?♦
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