Ep 454 - Our Global Mission Strategy Part 1
Our Global Mission Strategy 89-14-12-40 - January 22, 2022
Today I’d like to talk again about “Our Global Mission Strategy” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Strategic nations, all nations, need a strategy. Today, there are many religious conflicts arising all over the world. A few days ago, many people died in France. The only organization that can resolve this issue is the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. Not only that, what is China doing right now? When we look at China's territory, there isn't much sea area. Therefore, they are trying to expand their ocean sphere by building an artificial island. This is a boundary issue. The only organization that can resolve this issue is the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. Only the True Parents can do it. With the current system, there is no way to resolve all the issues happening worldwide. There are serious family and youth problems in every nation. We have the answers to these issues. That is why we must start educating youth in elementary, middle and high schools. (2016.07.17, Cheon Jeong Gung)
In the history of Christianity, we can find many examples of people who joined Christianity by following the king or governor's determination. You can also achieve such miracles in your activities. Do you think God was just sitting back and waiting for this moment to come? He could not bear fruit because there was no one on earth who could become his object partner. From now on, you must consider yourself as all grown up. For how much longer will you depend on your Parents? You must bear fruit. Try praying to God while earnestly offering sincere devotion. True Parents have given you everything. You must offer more sincere devotion if your report prayers are to reach the level where God can answer them. I will teach you the way. Why aren't there miracles on your path? You cannot hope for a miracle to come in a day when you haven't offered sincere devotion. All the Unificationists must unite and do whatever it takes so that the nations that were selected as strategic nations this time can be victorious. This must become your greatest goal today. (2016.07.17, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Mother said, “True Parents have given you everything. You must offer more sincere devotion if your report prayers are to reach the level at which God can answer them. God will teach you the way. Why aren't there miracles on your path? You cannot hope for a miracle to come in a day when you haven't offered sincere devotion.”
True Mother emphasizes that on the course to the realization of the final Cheon Il Guk, we need to offer jeongseong to find and establish one nation that God desires.
Today, let's study True Father's words related to jeongseong, which is utmost sincerity.
A Person Who Sets Jeongseong Is the Scariest Person
<17-22> That is why I am the most scared of a person who sets jeongseong. Those who rule the whole country with lots of courage are nothing. I am scared of a person who makes heaven and earth obey and say “Yes” when the person orders them. If you tie up God with a rope of jeongseong, God cannot but be bound completely. There is no heavenly law able to cut the rope of jeongseong. That is why you who are in this process must offer jeongseong. Even if you think that you started well, you need to start with jeongseong at the outset.
The first step in our faith is jeongseong. You must offer jeongseong by which even God cannot help but be moved. You must offer jeongseong by which the spirit world cannot help but be mobilized.
What is the capability of a leader? It is the skill to mobilize the spirit world. Do not think humanistically whether it will work or not.
If you offer jeongseong with all your heart, soul and mind, God will surely teach you. On the course of God’s Providence of Restoration, those who offered jeongseong have always been the center and have advanced the work of the providence.
So, what is the best strategy for missions? It's utmost Jeongseong, utmost sincerity.
Many people talk about structure and content (of the mission). They talk about all kinds of things. But Father says here the best strategy for the mission is utmost jeongseong.
If you give utmost jeongseong, Heaven will teach you everything and give you wisdom. And through Jeongseong, the spirit world helps you to make all things possible.
God is really fair. Why? Because a person who gives utmost sincerity, regardless of his or her position, or regardless of whether he or she has money or not, or regardless of whether the person has a lot of knowledge or not, the fact is God helps and works(?) (through that person). Those who have jeongseong don’t care what kind of position or knowledge they have. It doesn’t matter. God always helps those with jeongseong. “I don’t have much experience; I am not a great leader; I do not know much Divine Principle; I do not know True Parents (very well); I do not have much experience” -- it does not matter. If you put (in) your utmost sincerity and empty your mind and deny yourself and put your soul and heart and mind (in), God will surely work through anyone (like this). That is the power of jeongseong.
The Result of Morning Prayer and the Importance of Jeongseong
<23-249> If you sincerely offer morning prayer for your appointed area for three years, it will greatly rise.
<31-253> In terms of getting up early in the morning and offering morning prayer, frankly speaking, it is hard for me too. (laughter) It is not easy to get up at 3 am. and pray. Since today is the Day of All Things, I got up at 1 am. Since spirit world has expectations, I cannot help but pray. Even though I feel quite sleepy I cannot help but pray saying, “Aigo! I need to pray because today is the Day of All Things.” It is so difficult to pray in this way. When everybody else falls asleep, I pray. I must do it. I feel at ease when I do like that even though it is so difficult. Unless I pray, I even feel kind of awkward to talk about this.
Father is the messiah. He is God’s substantial word. Actually for him there is no need to pray; he is God’s son. However, he himself emphasizes the importance of prayer.
In my life as a leader, if I wake up at 3 a.m and just attend morning devotion without praying, I have had many experiences where my tongue could not move, so I could not convey the Word. This is my experience.
So, what I realized is that a leader must first get up in the morning earlier than anyone else, get down on his knees, and have the thrill and moving heart of meeting God. To touch the hearts of members with that jeongseong is what we call Morning Devotion, dawn(?) prayer.
This is really important, especially for a leader.
We should try to make it a habit to at least get up in the morning and kneel in front of heaven to pray.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the lack of jeongseong is the cause of many conflicts between leaders and members, as well as between Cain and Abel, and lack of performance in the field when we work.
TF said, “If you sincerely offer morning prayer for your appointed area for three years, it will greatly rise.”
My dear brothers and sisters, think for a moment. What will happen if the Morning Devotion that our North American continent is devoted to is three years old? You said that True Father's words will bring about great revival. If we give our sincerity, the spirit world is mobilized to help us, so nothing is impossible.
Already True Parents laid the foundation. In order to inherit their foundation, (if we) kneel down and pray and invest our jeongseong, surely God will work through us. As long as we are doing jeongseong, there is nothing that is impossible. This is the power of jeongseong. There is no need to say, “I don’t have much knowledge of God’s word,” “I don’t have much frontline experience,” “I am not a leader,” “I’m not so great.” It does not matter. Jeongseong works. If you do jeongseong, it really works. Definitely.
Every morning as a leader (I) struggle so much with the preparation … of morning devotion. You don’t understand me. I am not American. My English is very poor. But God pushed me to deliver morning devotion in English. I am really struggling! In Korea few people my age speak English well. But God pushed me to deliver his word in English so I can deliver it to more people. Oh my God! If I do not invest my jeongseong, my devotion, my sincerity, then I cannot do anything. I have no choice. I wake up early in the morning and kneel down and (shed) tears and tears and tears. “I don’t have any ability, Heavenly Father.” You asked me to deliver and convey your message every day. Sometimes True Father appears to me, “Do more! Do more!” God knows my ability and my language. Somehow when I do jeongseong, I can feel that God speaks through my mouth.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 12 - The Function of the Conscience and Life
I realized that we have one or two more topics to cover about the conscience.
Today I would like to talk about “The Function of the Conscience and Life.”
• 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 Father’s word.
Liberation of the Conscience
<261-96> Even if you search for tens of thousands of years, you will never find such a precious conscience which God gave as a substitute for parents, teachers and God. But this body scorned, kicked and violated it as it wished! As we have come to know this now, we cannot leave our body as it is. As we now know this content, we can liberate our conscience. It is liberated through knowing the truth.
The liberation of conscience comes from dominating the body according to the commands of the conscience. The reason our conscience has not been liberated until now is because my body has reversed dominion over my conscience.
Now, we must absolutely obey the commands of our conscience so that our bodies will no longer violate the conscience. In order to do that, we must be stimulated by the Word of God and dominate our bodies with the grace of the Word.
Just using your conscience is not enough. The outside fallen world is much stronger. (It is) a great evil environment. It is not easy to conquer our body. That is why you need to borrow power from heaven. As a fallen man without having the stimulation of God’s word, it is impossible to overcome our physical desires. Always our physical desires dominate our conscience. There is no freedom. That is why in order to conquer our body through our conscience, you need to borrow power from heaven. Without studying God’s word, without being stimulated by God’s word, it is impossible to overcome our physical body. That is why if we do not listen to God’s word, if we do not receive God’s grace from his word, I am telling you, our body will really dominate our conscience. If we do not listen to God’s word, we become the same as outside people, the same as animals.
Next, I must live serving and receiving guidance from my heartistic Abel who will always supervise me.
(We should) not just (be) stimulated by God’s word. In order to get more power with your conscience, you need someone who really loves you and guides you and always gives you advice. If you are dominated by your heartistic Abel, you can control an evil environment. You can listen more to your conscience.
The Bible (says in) John 8:32 you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
When we are liberated from our bodies, our conscience becomes free.
Are you free from your body, and is your conscience really happy about that?
Those who can swim are not afraid of the sea and are free. Just as there is freedom where there is the grace of the Word and freedom where we serve God, so there is true freedom where the conscience dominates the body. From now on, let’s liberate our conscience which has suffered because of my body.
Respect the Conscience More Than God
<285-350>The conscience knows even without teaching it. It knows the good and bad deeds. You didn’t know this simple truth. By emphasizing this, the conscience can stand straight. If you gain the senses of God’s love, the body will lower itself. Do you understand?
<258-63> You must uplift the conscience higher than God. Don’t believe in religion. Religion is not necessary. You didn’t know this. After knowing Reverend Moon, you found out that religion is not necessary. You must respect your conscience even more than God
This is really great guidance. You must lift the conscience higher than God. Don’t believe in religion. Wow! Father emphasizes the importance of the conscience that much!
Since the root of the conscience is God, uplift the conscience higher than God and respect it even more than God.
In this way, if we receive God’s love through His Word in the normal function of the conscience, you will definitely gain the power to dominate the body.
That’s why the power of your conscience plus the power of God’s love plus God’s word -- with the combination of these three things, you will surely overcome any kind of evil environment, any kind of evil nature. The power of conscience needs God’s word, needs your Abel, and also expects(?) God’s love. In this way our conscience will be completely liberated from our physical desires and environment.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: I am the Good Shepherd (1)
I would like to introduce Jesus’ words. Jesus said:
John 10:7-15 I am the good shepherd
7 Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.
8 All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them.
9 I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
12 The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it.
13 The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me
15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Jesus said, “I am the good shepherd because I have life. I have life. Those who believe in me can gain eternal life. Accept me. No one (else) can give life. If you believe in me, you can gain life because I am the good shepherd.
I have summarized a little bit:
1. Jesus is the gate for the sheep.
2. The gates of Jesus allow the sheep to receive eternal salvation through his gates.
3. Through the gates of Jesus, the sheep find eternal pasture.
4. Jesus came so that the sheep might have life.
5. Jesus came so that life may be more abundant.
6. Jesus is the good shepherd.
7. Because Jesus is the Good Shepherd, he lays down his life for the sheep.
8. The good shepherd takes care of his sheep, and the sheep know their shepherd well.
Who is Jesus? He is my good shepherd. He is my eternal shepherd. Do you believe that? Do you think so? That is why we can give our life to Jesus. Who is a good shepherd: According to Father, the good shepherd is eternally responsible for his sheep. Secondly, he always protects his sheep eternally. Finally, the good shepherd always educates and nurtures his sheep forever. He has three kinds of nature. Do you have that kind of good shepherd? Or are you that kind of shepherd? Jesus showed us who Jesus is.
I truly respect Jesus. I completely accept that he is my lord; he is my good shepherd; Not only a good shepherd, but an eternal good shepherd. The nature of the good shepherd is (that he is) responsible for me, protects me and nurtures and educates me forever. He never gives up.
We need to resemble Jesus. How can we become a good shepherd? How do you take care of your spiritual children? Whenever I see my spiritual children, I am always thinking that I need to inherit from True Parents that kind of spirit. How can I be responsible for my spiritual children forever? Once you become my spiritual child, as an Abel how can I be responsible (for you) forever? No matter what, how can I protect you forever, and nurture and educate you forever? How do you take care of your church members?
Since I came to America … True Parents spent and invested half of their lifetime for America. God and True Parents gave me this mission, asked me to take care of North America on behalf of Father and Mother. What kind of attitude should I have? How can I be like Jesus? How can I be like True Parents? They are the good shepherd. Can I be responsible for our North American brothers and sisters no matter what? How can I protect them forever on behalf of True Parents? How can I nurture them and educate them without missing even one day and give Morning Devotion all the time. Can I inherit Jesus (attitude and activity)?
Let’s apply this to our True Parents. … What is the first step?
John 10:7-15 I am a False Shepherd
1. All false shepherds are thieves and robbers.
2. The sheep do not heed the words of a false shepherd.
3. A false shepherd comes to steal, kill, and destroy.
4. A false shepherd is not a true shepherd. The sheep are not his sheep.
5. When a false shepherd sees a wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away, and when he sees the wolf attack the flock and scatter it, he stands by.
6. When the sheep see the false shepherd, they begin to run away.
7. A false shepherd sacrifices his sheep for his own life.
8. The false shepherd pretends to know the Father, but in fact does not know the Father.
Father appointed people as tribal messiahs, national messiahs, family leaders. Let’s reflect on that. Am I a false shepherd or a good shepherd? Everybody without exception, we have to be a good shepherd in front of the members of our heavenly tribe. That is our job.
Let’s apply this to our True Parents:
John 10:7-15 True Parents are the Good Shepherd
1. True Parents are the door that leads all humankind to heaven.
2. The door of True Parents allows all mankind to obtain eternal salvation through their blessings.
3. Through the door of True Parents, all mankind will obtain eternal pasture. That is, you will receive the food of the eternal Word, which is the Divine Principle, Father’s word, and morning hoondok hae.
4. True Parents have come so that all mankind can gain true love, true life, and true lineage.
Jesus talked about life, but True Parents don’t only give life. We can gain true love, true life and true lineage through the Blessing.
5. True Parents have come so that the blessings of all mankind will be more abundant.
6. True Parents are the good and eternal shepherds
7. Because True Parents are the good shepherds, they lay down their lives for all humankind.
8. Because True Parents are the good shepherds, they know and guide the circumstances, shimjeong, and wishes of all mankind better than anyone else.
Based on this content, I would like to share today: I am the good shepherd.
1. In the course of the Providence of Restoration, many people of faith and prophets came, but because they were called in the providence of God and were in a position to lead the people of that age to God, they were messengers.
2. Because they did not possess the true life, they could not give the true life. They could become moral people who made efforts as good people, but they could not become true shepherds who could give eternal life.
3. Church leaders in Jesus' day were far from God's will, and there were many people who worked with self-centered faith, wishes, and views. So Jesus saw them and called them thieves and robbers.
4. Jesus boldly emphasized to them that He alone is the Good Shepherd. He said that only Jesus could give them true life. So Jesus was accused of being a heretic and suffered numerous persecutions.
5. Jesus, the Messiah, came with the true life to let us be reborn. However, True Parents came with the true life, true love, and true lineage that can let us be reborn forever. Therefore, we must establish a parent-child relationship with True Parents. Since we do not have the truth, we must inherit everything from the True Parents s, who are the true shepherds with the truth.
6. Until now, many religions have come to God in their own way, but most of them have come to solve their own problems and desires. Therefore, in their hearts, there is no content of filial piety of serving for Heaven.
Two thousand years ago Jesus made many kinds of signs and miracles. (People) came to Jesus because of their own wishes. They wanted to solve their own problems. (There was) nothing dealing with Jesus' wishes, Jesus’ heart. They had no content of filial piety. They found Jesus and believed in him centering on their own wishes and circumstances, their own business. Even though they tried to follow Jesus and believe in him, (it) was based on their own wishes. There was no content of filial piety. If they had filial piety (and were concerned) not only about curing their sickness but came to Jesus (saying), “I am so grateful to you, Jesus. Who are you Jesus? What I know is that you believe in God. I am trying to believe in him. You cured me. You are not just my physical savior, but my spiritual savior. From now on I will try to follow you and unite with you. If you ask me to die for the sake of God’s will, I will do that.” Nobody had that kind of filial heart and filial piety. That was the problem.
7. Any ideology or thought without the content of filial piety will eventually flow horizontally. Without filial piety at the center of that thought, it can never become the truth. It flows into lies. Any thought cannot become the truth without filial piety to serve Heaven at the heart of it.
That is why in any religion or philosophy if there is no filial piety (then it) is centered on humanism, centered on their own center(?), centered on their own doctrine, own dogma. That is the problem. No one has that kind of filial thought, filial piety.
Even though Jesus’s disciples followed him, no one had that kind of serving heart centering on filial piety. (They did not say(?),) “Your wish is my wish, your sorrow is my sorrow, your difficulty is my difficulty, your pain is my pain.” No one had that kind of filial piety. That was a big issue.
Are you a true shepherd or a false shepherd? How can you know? Do you have filial piety? Then you can become a good shepherd. However, you need to have a filial heart. You can easily become a false shepherd. Jesus had (a) filial heart and filial piety toward God. That is why he was able to sacrifice for all mankind and forgive his enemies. He tried to comfort and console God. No matter what, he absolutely obeyed God’s will. That is why he was willingly crucified on the cross. Because of Jesus’ filial heart, he loved God so much. But no one among the … disciples inherited (this) from Jesus.
8. Truth has a center. And at that center, there is always hyojeong, a filial heart, that always tries to serve Heaven. People without hyojeong cannot give the joy of life to others and have no ability to serve others. It easily flows horizontally and is prone to falsehood.
9. So, in regard to the leaders of that time, he conclusively spoke of them as “false shepherds.” Most of the people living on this earth live their lives centered on their own interests, their own wishes, their own situation.
The good shepherd always has filial piety at the center. Jesus was like that. True Parents was like that. Like Jesus and True Parents we, too, must have filial piety at our center.
I love True Mother. She said, “What is the essence of heart? That is “hyojeong.” Filial heart. As long as we have a filial heart, we cannot betray Heavenly Parent; we cannot betray True Parents. Hyojeong.
Any philosophy, any expert, any idea, any field of academics, if there is no filial heart, it just floats away. Only hyojeong will remain forever. As long as you have the content of hyojeong, always trying to comfort God, Jesus, your own parents, our True Parents and worrying about all mankind, this is really beautiful. Let’s become good shepherds by inheriting Jesus’ filial heart and our True Parents’ filial heart.♦
(Response to sharing) That is a top secret. Father and True Mother say, “Nobody (does?) jeongseong. Nobody. Those who do jeongseong become the center. They can do anything that they want. You can get power from heaven because you can move(?) God’s heart through your jeongseong and your filial heart and filial piety.♦
NOTE: This lightly edited transcription may contain errors and omissions. Indecipherable or uncertain words and guesses are tagged with a “(?)” and indecipherable phrases, with an ellipsis “ ...”. First, second and third person pronouns have been left as spoken if the meaning is clear, and other apparently Korean English expressions have been preserved. Some repeated phrases have been eliminated. This text and the powerpoint slides from this speech are available as pdf files at the top of this text and at text.morndev.com & yong.hoondok.com. Audio only is available at anchor.morndev.com, spotify.morndev.com & audio.morndev.com.♦