Ep 455 - Our Global Mission Strategy Part 2
Our Global Mission Strategy 90-15-12-40 - January 23, 2022
(Response to sharing) The American conscience (is) based on the culture of Christianity and democratic thought. American people have developed the conscience; actually (they have) quite a good and moral standard compared to (that of) other countries. I agree that the American conscience is so beautiful. When I met many American people; what they have in common is that they are very honest and they try to keep the law and rules. This is a really very high level compared to other places. In other places there is stealing here and there; they don’t have any kind of guilty feeling about it.
I really love Father’s word. We are not just speaking about conscience as what is good, what is bad, what is right, what is wrong. That’s fine, but (additionally) based on the conscience, how can we cultivate our heart to become a filial heart? This is a higher standard. How can we reach the level of heart based on conscience? If we talk about conscience, how can we talk about cultivating our heart? Everything needs to begin based on the standard of the conscience.♦
I was happy to hear the reflection of our brothers and sisters. We are really a beautiful global community.
Today I’d like to talk again about “Our Global Mission Strategy” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
You should not make excuses anymore. Do not make the excuse that it is too hard. You should be positive: I can do it. I just have to do it! I did it! You need to make a habit of this attitude. The status of the Unification Church has soared all around the world. It is different from the past.
The history of civilization is the same. Many conveniences make life more comfortable and faster, save time and space and contribute to civilization. By utilizing these to their utmost, we should teach all of humanity about True Parents. We should let them know, "True Parents have come as pioneers and have worked for the sake of humankind. Thus, they have opened Cheon Il Guk. You all have the opportunity to become citizens of Cheon Il Guk. Come!" (2015.06.22, Cheon Jeong Gung)
Just now True Mother said, “You should not make excuses anymore. Do not make the excuse that it is too hard. You should be positive: “I can do it. I just have to do it! I did it! You need to make a habit of this attitude.” Wow! Why does Mother say this?
How can we have that kind of positive concept and positive faith and positive attitude? How can we have that? True Parents always say very simply, “Treat myself as God’s belonging.” If I treat myself as God’s belonging, then nothing is impossible. Why do you say you cannot do it? “It is very hard. It is very difficult.” (This is) because you are insisting on your own self. However, (if I) treat myself as God’s belonging, then I am the representative of True Parents. Nothing is impossible. That’s why when I treat myself as God’s belonging, whenever we challenge anything, nothing is impossible. In the name of God, in the name of True Parents, we can do anything whenever we want (to). We need to have that kind of mindset.
Already True Parents have laid a beautiful foundation through their indemnity course. That is why Mother asks us to have that kind of positive concept and go forward without making any excuses any more.
We have sent missionaries to many countries all over the world, but in reality many countries still have not accepted the Family Federation or the Unification Church. Even Europe is still like that. I know that it has been difficult for members because it is where the Christian culture originated and we have received great opposition there. However, this is a new era. The Christian culture is of the past. Currently, there is no other path to the future but us. We need to teach this.
The Word, the Principle, is important in raising a human being. Those who do not grow up with the Principle will bend here and there depending on the situation or environment, like a wavering reed. Yet, those who know the Principle do not waver. This is why I have stressed church innovation through the spirit and the truth, and cultivating and educating competent individuals among our second generation! (2015.06.22, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Mother said, "The Word, the Principle, is important in raising a human being. Those who do not grow up with the Principle will bend here and there depending on the situation or environment, like a wavering reed. Yet, those who know the Principle do not waver.“
True Father also kept talking about the importance of the Words of the Principle, that is, Hoondok Words.
So, today I would like to tell you once again about the attitude toward hoondokhae and its results.
This man (in a photo) is the champion of Hoondokhae. Father asked us to read the eight textbooks. (This man) is the one who has read all eight textbooks one hundred times. He is the champion of Hoondokhae. I raised him; he became a missionary and works together (with us). He is still doing hoondok. He is really an incredible guy. God always shows some kind of example that all mankind can follow. He shows a great example for hoondokhae.
I would like to talk about:
The Attitude Toward Hoondokhae and Its Results
1. You need to read the words with a heart of offering devotion every day.
> Stagnation leads to death.
If you stop doing Hoondokhae, it is like death. Just as the plant dies immediately if it stops even for a moment in the process of growth, we should not stop the growth of our spirit body even for a moment.
2. If you read every day, you will resurrect every day.
That is the power of Hoondokhae.
3. If you read every day, you will grow every day.
4. If you read every day, you can make atonement every day.
Would you like to resurrect every day? Would you like to grow every day? Would you like to receive God’s love every day? Would you like to make atonement every day?
> First, read the Divine Principle one hour, 3 hour, 12 hour lecture manuals one hundred times.
If you complete this condition -- the first is the one-hour Divine Principle content. The second is the 3-hour Divine Principle content, and the third is the 12-hour EDP content one hundred times -- if you read this, I am telling you guaranteed, everyone will develop the habit of reading hoondokhae until you die. Step by step you need to challenge (yourself) how you can have hoondok. You need to have a clear schedule for how you want to read hoondokhae.
Do you know professor Jung Chang Choi? He worked a long time in America; he is one of the main teachers and professors of Unification Thought. Recently I had give and take with him. He resolved to read Father’s 600 volumes. He wants to complete this before he dies. He just had his 80th birthday. He said he reads one volume every day, each day. He told me it is an incredible experience. One volume is about 400 pages. Can you imagine? (He reads) one book each day. I don’t know how many books he has completed. He feels such an incredible experience through Father’s word. Hoondokhae is that powerful!
(You will become a hoondok champion and be infected by the hoondok virus.)
5. If you read every day, you will be infused with God’s love every day.
Think of (the) hoondokhae time as a time to infuse God's love into your spirit self and do hoondok. Then it will result in eating God's love every day.
According to this guy … I asked him each time after reading each textbook 100 times, how does he feel? “What is your conclusion?” He said, “I realized God’s word is God’s love.”
The more you read, the more you eat God’s love. Then you can grow very quickly. Just (through) reading hoondokhae already he can feel his spiritual growth every day.
6. If you read every day, a grateful mind wells up every day.
7. If you read every day, you will feel joy every day.
8. If you read every day, you can overcome your body’s limitation.
Without the power of the Word and without grace through the Word, you will never be able to overcome your physical body. We must always overcome the flesh through the stimulation of the Word. If you do not educate your spirit body with the Word, you will surely become just like the people of the secular world. Anyone who is not educated in the Word becomes a sacrifice to Satan. You become Satan’s offering if you do not do hoondokhae and (you) must follow(?) horizontally.
What is Hoondok?
This is my conclusion after reading EDP one-hour 100 times, 3-hour 100 times and then 12-hour 100 times and the EDP content and all the books I am reading, then what is hoondok. This is my conclusion, what I realized.
1. Hoondok is your mission. This is your main mission.
2. Hoondok is your responsibility. When you do hoondokhae, you know clearly what your portion of responsibility is.
3. You can be perfected by hoondok. How can we complete our spiritual body? The more you do hoondokhae, then surely you have no other choice. You need to practice. You need to get out. And you need to do witnessing.
4. Hoondok is God’s love.
Not just the word itself. Father said clearly God expresses his love substantially through his word. Do you want to feel God’s love? Do you want to feel God’s heart? You need to do hoondokhae. Whenever you read hoondokhae, whenever you read the Divine Principle, you can read God’s mind; you can read God’s heart; you can read God’s situation, God’s wishes.
The word of God is the love of God. Therefore, the more you practice hoondokhae, the more you will grow from the love of God everyday.
5. Those who do hoondokhae will greet an eternal golden age. Your life will be so exciting, so hopeful, so powerful, so strong. That’s why every day will feel like a new day, very fresh. Every day, every second will be so meaningful. You are living in an eternal golden age.
6. Hoondok is food for your spirit.
It nurtures your spirit.
7. Hoondok leads to God’s direct dominion.
If hoondok becomes a habit, God directs and guides you through the word. When you read hoondokhae, you can get answers, you can know where to go. (It is) like a kind of GPS. Very clear. Everything True Parents discovered … when you study you can get any answer from it.
8. Hoondok is multiplication. The more you read hoondokhae, the more inspired you are. You almost cannot control your spirit. You need to get out. “I really multiply. I want to convey this blessing to everyone. I want to tell this good news, great news, everywhere.” Automatically you can multiply. That is the power of hoondokhae.
9. Hoondok makes everything go well for you.
Father said that any family that sets up Hoondok, everything will go on very well. Now we are living in our family (as 4) generations together. God always protects us. I 120% believe that (this is) because of the hoondok tradition. Whenever you establish the hoondokhae tradition in your family, God will never leave your family. God will always protect you. He will send his incredible blessings to your family.
10. Hoondok is Jeongseong devotion.
What is the jeongseong of jeongseong? This is reading hoondokhae, growing yourself, and being inspired by hoondokhae.
11. You will experience the Word becoming flesh through hoondok.
You can become the incarnation of God’s word. You will have great dignity. That is why hoondokhae is everything. How (can we) save human beings? Not by external power, but by God’s word, which is hoondokhae. That’s why Mother speaks about the power of the word. You need to have the keys of the Principle in your heart. Then we can go forward and follow God’s providence.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 12 - The Function of the Conscience and Life
Let’s study the conclusion of “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
<257-98> You must liberate the conscience. The body is the bad part! This eye, nose, mouth, hand, female organ, all these things must be controlled. Do you have confidence? That’s why I trained. There are 3 great Satanic doors. They are eating, sleeping, and sex. The male love organ must not be excited even if you bump into one hundred beautiful naked women! The fall occurred because of that.
Father said that you have to liberate your conscience. There are three major doors of Satan that are the most problematic in liberating the conscience. They are eating, sleeping, and sex.
Sometimes Father includes materials also.
The man’s love organ shouldn't be excited even if you roll around and bump into a hundred beautiful naked women. The fall occurred because of that.
You have to train yourself because you can be dominated by your sexual organ at any time just by thinking about the other person and just by looking at the other person. The intangible Satan is pornography. You need to be careful about that. Pornographic Internet.
If you are not freed from this, you will be an animal under Satan’s dominion throughout your life.
If you do not overcome the sexual Satan, you will become a slave to Satan's sex forever.
In order to liberate our conscience, what disturbs us the most?
This is Chapter Two. Even though we try to overcome it, it is not easy. That is why our conscience has resentment towards us. Even though it warns us repeatedly, “Don’t do it; do not watch pornography, OK? Do not think about spiritual fornication.” But always we are trying to listen to Satan’s word. How much we hurt our conscience.
It becomes a human being (who is) less than an animal. All human beings are perfected only when they overcome Satan of fornication.
True liberation of conscience begins with overcoming (the) Satan of fornication.
What is the main course of the fall? That is fornication.
Are you free from fornication? If you are not freed from fornication, it is proof that your spirit body has not yet passed the formation and growth stage and has not yet entered the stage of completion.
Without overcoming this, we cannot enter the completion stage.
When we overcome it, we can graduate from the top of the growth stage and our heart definitely can enter the completion stage. Then our conscience can be liberated from that kind of disturbance of fornication.
Liberation of the Conscience
<257-98> At the climax of excitement when a couple makes love you have to go back to zero by shouting ‘Hey Satan!’ Can you do this? Can you do it? The concept of loving at the climax of excitement must return to zero. Therefore when any religious person enters the world of mystery through prayer, a beautiful naked lady approaches on the last test. For ladies a handsome man appears. You must be able to transcend that temptation. Without training, you cannot conquer this. Do you understand?「Yes.」
If you overcome the temptation of fornication, then Satan will give you a certificate. Wow! You passed my test. You now have the qualification to become the owner of all things. You can control me; you can subjugate me. I will give you a certificate.
We must overcome spiritual fornication first. If you do the spiritual fall a lot, you will inevitably bring about a physical fall.
Actually with spiritual fornication, you spiritually fall many times thinking about Chapter Two, thinking about woman or man. This kind of guy someday will definitely physically fall. Before the physical fall he fell spiritually many, many times. He already reached a certain degree. Then when the environment is right, he will definitely physically fall. That is why in order to prevent the physical fall, you need to start with spiritual protection, which is (avoiding) spiritual fornication, which is pornography, enjoying internet pornography. This kind of thing is really terrible! It destroys human beings. You know what to do. There is no other way. That is our portion of responsibility to overcome it.
When You Become Completely One Centered on the Conscience
<275-309> Why do we have to pray? We pray in order to subjugate Satan. Expelling Satan is the problem. We must directly become one with God and expel Satan. When people become completely one centered on their conscience they rise up to a position higher than Satan. Because you rise up to a position higher than the fallen Adam and Eve, it is possible to expel Satan.
How to kick out Satan? How can we expel Satan? How can we obtain the liberation of our conscience? The Bible gives the answer to this. I often mention this powerful verse.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 “ Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
“Rejoice always:” Why do we always need to rejoice? Because we have discovered that God is our Father; God is our parent. Also, ”I have met True Parents. Thank God? So much rejoicing! I discovered the eternal Divine Principle. I am so grateful! Furthermore, I gained the incredible Blessing. The Blessing is salvation. Already I have everything!” Rejoice always! “Heavenly Father, why did you give me this incredible blessing? I am an unworthy person to receive this kind of blessing.”
“Pray continually:” Even though you received the Blessing, we are still relating to Satan. When you open the window and the wind comes in, if you space out a little bit, immediately Satan attacks and educates you: “Have sex. Have sex.” Day and night Satan never stops. That is why the Bible says “Pray continually.” Prayer is really protection for you. When you pray you can get strength and power from heaven. Without receiving power from heaven, you cannot overcome Chapter Two and the evil environment, the temptations of power and money, many things. That is why the Bible advises us to pray continually.
“Give thanks in all circumstances:” In our life of faith there are all kinds of difficulties and struggles and conflict and difficult environments, hardships, sometimes unusual things happen. It is easy to complain, easy to compromise. In that kind of situation, you need to thank God and True Parents. “Give thanks in all circumstances.” This is the way to overcome.
The Bible concludes, “This is God’s will.”
I would like to add two more to this. First of all, always study God’s word. This is hoondokhae. Always do hoondokhae.
One more thing I would like to add. Always love people, including your enemy. Loving people is my hobby. Loving my enemy is my hobby. I don’t want to do something but I want to do it: this is my hobby. Through this lifestyle we can really liberate our conscience.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: I am the Good Shepherd (1)
This is very powerful content, so I would like to share more detail more deeply about this.
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.
1. It is amazing to hear that Jesus has come to give eternal life and give it in abundance. This is a great declaration and revolutionary words. Jesus declared that He would give me the most precious eternal life. What a wonderful gift it is that I can receive eternal life. No one in history has ever declared that they would give us eternal life.
This is powerful. Jesus said I came to the earth in order to give eternal life. So far so many saints and sages and philosophers and great people came to the earth, but no one said such a thing: ”I came to give eternal life.” Because of these words, Jesus is qualified to be the messiah. If he is not the messiah, how could he say that? He came to the earth to give eternal life and give it in abundance. I am really grateful Jesus came to earth to give God’s eternal life. That is why we need to appreciate our Lord Jesus.
2. Today, many believers look for the Lord for themselves. They look for the Lord for their own wishes, to solve their own family problems, for their own work, economic problems, and health problems, etc.
3. It is like every religion has a sick person looking for a doctor. Patients visit the hospital because of their own illness. When they are healed from illness, they no longer seek a doctor.
4. How is today’s Unification movement? Since we became true children through the True Parents who came as the Lord, we live to realize God and True Parents’ wishes. This is essentially different from other religions.
2,000 years ago Jesus proclaimed his word and healed so many disabled and sick people. They thought of Jesus as a doctor who had patients. Patients visit a hospital because of their illness. But when they are healed from the illness, they no longer see the doctor. They don’t care. “Hello Doctor, I came to this … hospital. Do you have any wishes? Do you have any dreams or visions? Can I help you?” What patient would speak like that? That’s why there was a complete misunderstanding 2,000 years ago. People treated Jesus (as someone who) made miracles centering on their own wishes. They did not realize that Jesus was the messiah. All the patients treated Jesus as the doctor. After they were healed by the doctor, there was no longer any need to see the doctor.
However, the Unification Movement is different. I want to explain more.
5. The Unification Movement is a religion of filial piety that tries to please Heaven rather than pursue one's own joy. And it is a religion of heart that tries to liberate and comfort God’s sorrowful heart due to the Fall.
6. Unification believers should have fundamentally different faith from believers of other faiths. God should not be there for me, but rather, I should live for God’s Will, dreams, and heart. So you have to have the thought of returning filial piety to God. You have to think essentially differently from other religious believers.
Do you understand what I am talking about? There is a big difference between our Unification religion and other religions. They are completely different. Our movement is a religion of filial piety, of filial heart. What is filial heart? Never think of myself. Take care of my parents first. I was born for my parents. I live for my parents. I can do anything for my parents. I can die for my parents. I live centering on my parents' vision and hope. I want to really return joy and happiness to my parents. That is filial piety.
The servant’s religion doesn’t care whether the owner has difficulties or has money or not, has a difficult(?) or a good situation. He doesn’t care. He just receives a salary, and then everything is alright(?).
Filial piety is different. Filial piety really takes ownership for parents. “How can I make my parents happy? How can I comfort them? How can I console them? How can I liberate them? Their pain is my pain. Their sorrow is my sorrow.” This is the Unification religion. That is why Father says the Unification religion is the last religion. We need to understand the difference between other religions and Unification religion. Many people learn the Divine Principle and say, “Oh, many things are similar to our theory, our religion.” They do not know the fundamentally different point.
7. Our Unification believers should be grown-up children. We should not be a servant religion centered on our own wishes and asking for blessings from our parents. Just as immature children like their parents centered on their wishes, then think to take responsibility for their parents’ worries and concerns when they grow older and mature, Unification believers should be different from believers in the formation stage.
8. Our Unification believers should also pray differently. If you still take your self-centered circumstances and wishes and pray, "God, grant my wish," you are still immature and do not know the Principle.
In the formation stage you try to believe in God. You have a childish faith. But when you grow up to the growth stage, you try to be responsible for your own things(?) and try to understand God’s situation. When you enter the completion stage, you completely deny yourself and become filial sons and daughters. Your own purpose of life is for the parents. It is a mature faith. A mature faith never thinks only of “myself;” everything is for the sake of the parents.
9. We must not forget that we must become people whom God needs because of His wishes and dreams. No matter what environment we are in, we should have an attitude where our interests and concerns are always centered on the circumstances of God and our surroundings. This is what Jesus calls a good shepherd.
10. People who aren’t good are always full of self-centered thoughts. There is no room for other people's unfortunate circumstances or sadness to come into them. Such a person cannot be good. However, a true shepherd who is good is a person who cares about the whole more than the surroundings in which they are in. He is a person who is always worried shedding tears for Heaven’s Will, mankind and the country.
Jesus said, “I am the good shepherd.” Jesus cannot be the only good shepherd. We are the ones who need to inherit from Jesus, from True Parents. We are the ones who have to be a good shepherd and convey the Blessing to others, worry about other people’s problems and try to help them and always worry and shed tears for heaven’s will, mankind and (one’s) country. “God’s worry is my worry. God’s resentment (han?) is my resentment (?). How can I help God’s providence?” Always think of the entire purpose and think of all mankind. We call those who practice that way a “good shepherd.” You can sacrifice. You can die anytime for your sheep. You care for your sheep more than for your own sheep. We call that (kind of person a) good shepherd. Jesus sacrificed for all mankind. That is why he is a good shepherd. When he died on the cross, he forgave his enemies and took care of their eternal life. If when his enemy killed him, he (Jesus) had cursed him, what kind of life would his (life) have been? That is why Jesus blessed him and loved him. Wow! Jesus is a good shepherd.
So now True Parents tell us, not only Jesus and True Parents are good shepherds. We need to inherit this. We need to be good shepherds and convey the Blessing to others, to our neighbors, the world and our nation.
11. What kind of good is meant when Jesus said, “I am the good shepherd”? It means that Jesus is (True Parents are) there for the concerns and worries of all mankind. He is (True Parents are) there to give true life, true love, and true lineage. Jesus (True Parents) also said that he is there to make life abundant.
12. The words “abundant life" mean to live for the whole and give them hope and joy through the Words and love. In other words, it revives everyone’s will to practice goodness.
13. True Father often said, “Try to test me, try to listen to me and obey me, and test whether I'm a true shepherd or not." It is also important for us today, who are in the Unification Movement, to test our True Parents.
14. If I live according to True Parents’ words, will I gain strength in my life? If I obey True Parents, do I become a person who can take care of other people's concerns? When I accept True Parents' words as they are, do I experience the feeling of goodness that I have not had until this day? Let's test these things.
Father has real confidence. “Why don’t you test me? Are you the messiah or not? Are you the True Parents or not? Why don’t you test me? Ask the spiritual world. Ask God? Do you really exist? Does the spiritual world really exist? Who is Rev. Moon? … Is he really the messiah or not?” Why don’t you challenge me, test me?” Wow! That’s why many people test True Parents and have a showdown, a negotiating prayer. In the end everybody will have a very clear answer.
I really challenge God. I challenge and test our True Parents, especially his word: “Is this really correct or not? If you say it is, I want to practice with all my sincerity. Is your word really correct or not?” I challenged (heaven?) many times, but I completely surrendered. True Parents word has really given me incredible strength in my life. This is really the truth. I experienced this. I cannot deny True Parents’ word. I cannot deny our True Parents’ identity.
15. You've already experienced that, right? If you have experienced it, then you know that True Parents are real. When you are in sorrow and pain, think of True Parents. Then test if you gain the power to overcome your sadness.
You need to challenge and test God. You need to test the spiritual world and True Parents. Does God really exist or not.
God is a reality. Spiritual world does exist. Challenge and test True Parents whether they are the messiah or not at the risk of your life. Why don’t you have a showdown prayer. And you can come from there (with the realization that) they are really True Parents.
16. Test whether our True Parents are the ones who give us life or not?
This Blessing (works?) really? Can we really gain eternal life?
If we recognize the true people and try to live as true as True Parents do, we will gain sudden strength. We know well that our True Parents are real because we experience a lot through our faith.
Jesus is a true shepherd. Our True Parents are true shepherds. We need to inherit the leadership of the shepherd. We also have to become a true Shepherd.♦
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.♦