Ep 456 - Our Global Mission Strategy Part 3
Our Global Mission Strategy 91-16-12-40 - January 24, 2022
(Response to sharing) I think visualizing your dream is really important, thinking about it, and imagining it. Our vision, as long as we have God’s vision centered on God’s will, will always come true. When you set up your vision, you need to think about how to accomplish it and what will happen if you accomplish it. That kind of beautiful imagination and thinking continuously is also a kind of prayer and jeongseong.♦
Today I’d like to talk again about “Our Global Mission Strategy” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
This is an important topic about our global mission strategy.
The Korean church must witness a lot and become a central nation that can send many missionaries around the world. Korea must become the source nation. In light of this, I am greatly interested in CARP and the youth movement. Cheon Il Guk is the goal of this age in which we are living. We should become devoted children and patriots that bring forth many Cheon Il Guk citizens. You must save your tribe and liberate humankind. The season of harvest is a good season for witnessing. We are in an era that is different from past eras. We must be innovative when it comes to witnessing methods. And you must start in gratitude and joy. It is a very joyful thing to find one life. Please pray that we can succeed in awakening our young people and reviving the church. When this happens, the whole church will be alive.(2014.10.01, Cheon Jeong Gung)
Whatever I have decided and have told you will surely come true. The problem is you. In this respect, as long as I am on earth, I will directly help you. The same applies to everyone else. We must be victorious while I am on earth. Centering on True Parents, we must accomplish the dream of our Heavenly Parent, the dream of True Parents, the dream of humankind. Centering on True Parents, we must become global citizens who can move forward to develop and accomplish a new providential history. Please work hard to accomplish your strategic goals. (2016.07.20, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Mother said, “The Korean church must witness a lot and (Korea must) become a central nation that can send many missionaries around the world. Korea must become the source nation. In light of this, I am greatly interested in CARP and the youth movement.
Today I would like to talk about sending missionaries to the world. This is important guidance from Father. Let’s study Father’s word.
A Nation That Has Sent Many Missionaries Overseas Will Not Perish
<18-182> A nation that has sent many missionaries overseas will not perish. Spending the money of one’s own country for another country is goodness of all goodness. In the future, if many Unification Church members go abroad and struggle as missionaries, fortunes of the world will flock to your country. In order to pass the Twelve Pearl Gates, the hearts of twelve people must match the hearts of twelve nations. Among them, there are also enemies. Therefore, we must do everything during the short period on this earth. In order to restore the world, we must go beyond death and fulfill our missionary duties. The reason we fear death is because you have not accomplished everything you have to do in this world. If you accomplish all your tasks, there is no fear.
True Father said, “A nation that has sent many missionaries overseas will not perish.”
I visited the Mormon Church in America and had a very good experience with key Mormon leaders. I heard many testimonies from them, and we had questions and answers. I spent time with them and learned so many things from them.
The Mormon Church currently has more than 50,000 young people between the ages of 18 and 21 who go on global missions as missionaries. If we, the American Unification Movement, create a foundation to send 100,000 young missionaries to the world, I think it will surely become the center of the world.
In terms of the size of the land, in terms of the population, in terms of the financial stability, I think America is really a chosen nation. Also, the nation is Christian. That is why America is really the proper nation to send missionaries all over the world, more than Korea, more than Japan, more than any other nation. That’s why as long as we help the world, as long as we send missionaries to the world, I am telling you, America, the elder son nation, will become a very powerful nation that can influence the entire world. That is why we need to have that kind of vision from now on. Now is the global era. The coronavirus pandemic, even though it started from China, has spread everywhere and influences everywhere. Now we are really, even though externally, one family under God.
True Father also said that if any country sends a lot of missionaries to the world, global fortune will eventually return to that country.
Even ten years ago which nation was the greatest nation to send missionaries to the whole world? America was No. 1. But now it has changed. Korea is the No. 1 nation sending missionaries to the world. In terms of sending missionaries, Korea is really a chosen nation. We as the elder son nation are raising up our second generation, third generation, youth generation and properly educating them and sending them to the world. Even the Mormon Church can do that.
Most young people willingly, happily become missionaries. Why not? We have very clear principles, we have God, we have True Parents, we have the Divine Principle, we have powerful content, we have everything. The problem is that we do not have a clear system, and we have not created a model and an example of the educational process. If we set (this) up, then I think many second generation and third generation, many of the young generation will come. I see great hope in America. We can do more than any religion because our religion is the last religion. Outside religions without exception is declining so rapidly.
I am thinking and praying about when our church will send out 100,000 missionaries to the world centering on the 2nd and 3rd generation in the future.
I am really praying about this. This is one of my visions. As long as I have this vision, then uniting with American brothers and sisters, someday our dream, our vision will come true.
Now we have to recognize that our stage is not just America, but the world.
Now is really a global era. Everything is really connected to the world. You cannot insist on your own nation.
In order to restore the world, we must go beyond death and do our missionary work. According to True Father, the fastest way to indemnify the sins of our ancestors is to become a world missionary.
When Father spoke to the Japanese members… Japan is a nation that has committed so much sin (such as) World War II and all kinds (of sin). Father forgave them and accepted Japan as the Mother nation. (But) he told them, “Your country committed so much sin. The best way to pay indemnity (for this sin) is to leave your country and become missionaries. This is the fastest way to pay indemnity. If you stay in your nation, it may take 70 or 100 years to pay indemnity for your own ancestors' problems, but if you go overseas, you can pay (the indemnity) in just a few years.” He is saying the best way to pay the indemnity is to leave your country, go to some nation and serve that nation.
At least you need to serve a minimum of twelve nations. There are twelve kinds of characters. You need to really overcome how to relate to twelve different kinds of character. Then your character will become round. At the same time, you will become a global citizen. In order to become a citizen of cheon il guk, you need to serve a minimum of twelve nations. Then you can become a heavenly global citizen.
The reason you fear death is because you have not accomplished everything you have to do in this world. If you accomplish all your tasks, there is no fear.
No one wants to die unless our spirit body is perfected on this earth. However, just as the fruit automatically falls when ripe, everyone wants to naturally go to the spirit world when the spirit body is complete. (Then there is) no fear of death at all.
Ask yourself (whether you) are ready to die? Are you going to the spiritual world any time? You don’t have any regret? That means your spirit has reached a certain level already. (If you feel) “I don’t want to die. Really I want to live longer.” Then your spirit is saying that your spirit body is not yet complete, not ripe yet. That is why you need to stay on the earth longer and live for the sake of others through serving and helping and establishing an ideal family. Then your spirit can become complete (in your) spiritual body.
Our spirit knows very well whether “I need to die or not. I am ready to go to the spiritual world or not.” But if your spirit is afraid(?), (this) means that you have not yet completed your spiritual body. The best way (to prepare) is to go out and become a missionary and serve the world.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 13 - Life of Origin-Division-Union
Today is a new chapter, “Life of Origin-Division-Union.” I would like to share 6 to 7 topics based on this content.
The process of God's creation begins when the dual characteristics within God form a common base through the prompting of His universal prime energy. As they engage in give and take action, they generate a force which engenders multiplication. This force projects the dual characteristics into discrete substantial object partners, each relating to God as its center.
These object partners to God then assume the position of subject partner and object partner to each other as they are prompted by the universal prime energy to form a common base and engage in give and take action. They then join together in one harmonious union to form a new object partner to God.
This whole process - in which out of God, the Origin, two entities are separately manifested and reunited in oneness - is called origin-division-union action.
Today let’s learn origin-division-union action. Based on this content, we can share later on (about) the four position foundation. Today I’d like to talk about Origin-Division-Union Action. Especially I want to focus on the Origin.
Meaning of ‘Origin’ from Origin-Division-Union
1. Means God
2. Means the Will of God
3. Means the purpose of creation centered on God
4. Means’ God’s shimjeong (heart), love, and ideal
5. Means absolute standard and value centered on God
6. True Father’s words: “All existence can be measured from the position of origin“
What is really important in our life course and faith course is that we should consider the Origin (as) the most precious.
The origin of man is who? God. Therefore, nothing can be thought of without God, our origin.
Where do we come from? Where is the origin of our life, lineage and love? That is God's absolute sex. Therefore, absolute sex is our hometown and source. It's a start. It is our origin. Therefore, we must love and serve our origin more than anyone else.
So how should we serve our origin? Jesus said: ‘Love the Lord your Origin God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.
How do we love our origin? The origin is the most fundamental thing. We need to serve our origin more than anything else. What is our attitude? We need to love our origin. Jesus said very clearly, “Love your origin, who is God, with all your heart, with all your mind and with all your soul. That means you are prepared to die. You need to give everything 100%, 120%. Then nothing is left. Are you still alive? Then you have not invested 100% yet. Investing 100%, 120% means we have already given our life. We need to love our origin that much. This is how important it is.
Who is our origin in the home? It is our parents. Therefore, we should serve and attend our parents as God and cherish them at all times. “Even though they are fallen parents, I came from there. My origin is my father and mother. God is the origin of human beings. That’s why anyone who respects, serves and attends the origin, I am telling you, will never perish. That is why True Mother on and on emphasizes filial piety. What is the best way to love and serve and attend the origin. That is filial piety. Vertically we need to love our origin, our Heavenly Parent. Substantial God on earth, our True Parents, are our origin. We need to really love them and serve them.
It is Satan who ignores the Origin.
“I don’t care about my father and mother. I don’t care about God. I don’t care about seniors. I don’t care about my origin.
It is Satan who ignores his parents and does not fulfill his filial piety.
If anyone ignores the origin and leaves, it becomes indulgence (which) flows horizontally.
Living ignoring the origin is called indulgence. It was the fall that ignored the origin. Humans fall immediately if anyone ignores the origin.
Heavenly Parent is the eternal vertical origin, and True Parents are eternal horizontal origins.
My father and mother are my physical origin. Those who ignore their origin have no future. To serve the origin what is the most important attitude? That is filial heart (hyojeong), filial piety.
When we talk about origin-division-union, the most fundamental point is what? The origin. If we ignore the origin, how can we make division and union? How do subject and object partners unite? Centered on the origin. How to get ….? Centered on origin. You need to love your husband centering on the origin. You need to love your wife centering on the origin. You need to love your children centering on the origin. Everything is centering on the origin. Then you can find your identity.
Ⅰ. 正 : All Existence is Centered on Origin
1. The center of all existence is ‘origin’.
> The center of humans, the center of the universe were created centered on ‘origin’.
2. The subject and object of all creation is centered on ‘origin’ and the center of give and take action is ‘origin’.
3. Consequently I must live and check whether I live a life of give and take action centered on ‘origin’
We always need to check in our life of faith whether we are centered on the origin. I am a resultant being. I am not the origin. We always need to think, “I came from the origin. As long as I came from the origin, I need to think about how to relate to the origin. If you go a different direction and create another direction, this has nothing to do with the origin. In order to make division, it is centering on the origin.
We Korean people say the origin is Jeong. It is not heart. That is another term: jong. The right position, the original position is jeong.
All Existence is Centered on Origin (正: Original principle, rules,)
The sun, moon, and stars each have Origin (Jeong). Because they abide by Origin (Jeong), we can believe the universe and go on living. What would happen if the sun lost Origin (Jeong), the moon lost origin (Jeong), and the stars lost Origin (Jeong)? All the things in this world would lose Origin (Jeong) from that day on. It means the destruction of the universe.
We must Become People who Live Centered on Origin (正, Right Way)
Therefore people’s bodies contain Origin(Jeong). In between the eyes, the nose, mouth, and belly button must become vertical. All the features have an original position (正位置). All parts of the human body have their own Origin (Jeong). The blood flowing in the blood vessel has its Origin (Jeong). The red and white blood cells have their Origin (Jeong). If any part of the human body loses its Origin (Jeong), the whole body loses its righteous path(正). It means death. What does it mean to die? It means all the limbs and body parts which make up the body has lost Origin (Jeong).
We Must Become People who Live Centered on Origin (Jeong, Right Way)
Origin (Jeong) exists even in the everyday aspect. If you look at the words on a model lifestyle on page 646 in Hoon Gyo Gyeong, one can know Jeong exists in daily life. There is Origin (Jeong) in eating. It means you can’t just eat anywhere. Many people ignore the hour and time, carrying food around and eating but that is not good for health. There is Origin (Jeong) for wearing clothes. One must dress upright. Even when tying a necktie must be centered on Origin (Jeong). There is also Origin(Jeong) in wearing shoes. If you look at the shoe’s sole, both sides have to be equally leveled for a person to walk normally. There is also Origin (Jeong) in sitting. One must sit upright. When sitting upright, the back has to be vertical in order to sit for a long time.
There is Origin (Jeong) in learning too. Where there is spiritual knowledge and physical knowledge, the former always has to come before the latter to go the right way. Otherwise the equilibrium is broken. However, recently a lot of people’s physical knowledge comes before spiritual knowledge. Therefore the equilibrium breaks.
There is Origin (Jeong正, right way) in Family Life
There is Origin (Jeong) in both family and social life. There is Origin (Jeong) between parents and children, spouses, and siblings. The completed testament age is the age where everything pursues Origin (Jeong). When God created human beings, he made an instrument to measure Origin (Jeong) within us in order to live centered on Origin (Jeong). This instrument is the conscience. The conscience is the instrument that can measure Origin (Jeong). Therefore if you don’t live righteously, you receive the pangs of conscience.
Based on this, let’s study Father’s word directly.
The Path Centered on Origin (Jeong 正, right way) is Fast and Comfortable
<94-120, 94-126> “What is the most comfortable thing? Living righteously is most comfortable. It’s most comfortable because it is right. Therefore, because the right thing is easy and good, when I say ‘do it’ and you do it, you will understand and say ‘Ah, so that’s how it is’. Why must we go the righteous path? Because it is the quickest. If you go like this, you will take a detour. If you go around, and back, you will only turn more unable to reach your destination. Therefore, the quickest way is to go the righteous path. We arrive at this conclusion theoretically. My character has to be upright, I have to live righteously, and I have to love righteously. That is all. There is nothing more. That is all in life. Do you understand?”
TF said, “What is the most comfortable thing? Living righteously is most comfortable. It’s most comfortable because it is right. And it is the quickest way.
What does this mean? That is, the route centered on the origin is the most comfortable and fastest. So, don't compromise to go the easy way. Rather, the road may be further and may be the slowest. Therefore, it is the most comfortable and the fastest way to go based on the origin and principle. If the road I'm on isn't the origin, I'll have to pay an indemnity and come back again. There are many hardships and sacrifices that do not follow the path of Origin.
This is incredible guidance.
If you stand in the position of Origin(Jeong), the mind and body are comfortable. Living righteously is also comfortable. How restless and agonizing will it be to live while committing crimes? Therefore the principle says ‘there is no freedom outside of the principle’. The bible also says, ‘where the spirit of the lord is, there is freedom.’ (2 Corinthians 3:17)
The righteous path is the shortcut to completion. There is only one path. The path to a physical spot can be walked around, but the path to the original world cannot be walked around. If you walk another path, it is all headed the opposite direction and must be restored. Therefore the quickest path is to go straight.
If You Stand in the Position of Origin (jeong), What Will Be the Result?
1. My mind is at ease and my body is at ease.
2. My heart is always free. Therefore the principle says ‘There is no freedom outside of the principle’. The bible also says, ‘where the spirit of the lord is, there is freedom.’ (2 Corinthians 3:17)
That’s why as long as we go the principled way, everything is easier and more comfortable. That is why we need to live centering on the origin, centering on God, centering on the Principle, centering on God’s heart and love.
3. I can take a shortcut because it leads directly to the path of perfection.
It seems the way of the origin is very challenging, not easy. We need to overcome so many things. That is why people start to compromise, go here and there looking for an easy way. However, Father said, “If you stand in the position of the origin, you can take a shortcut because it leads directly to the path of perfection. That is why Father never, ever compromised. He always went God’s way centering on origin. He never compromised. Even when he went to North Korea and talked in front of Kim Il Sung, in front of the communist leader, he said communism needs to recognize God. “You need to accept God. Communism is wrong.” This is really challenging. He never compromised anywhere. That is why his way was always difficult with many challenges, trials and persecutions and hardships. Father said even though it was difficult, it was the fastest way. This is the most direct and comfortable way.
4. There is only one way to the origin.
There are not two ways, only one way. The Bible says the way to the kingdom of heaven is very narrow. But those who go to hell try to find a wider way: drinking, smoking, (indulging in) all kinds of Chapter Two. They are living centered on their physical desires. But in order to enter the kingdom of heaven, to go to God’s world, we need to give up everything. We need to deny everything. There is no other way. There is only one way to home.
5. The road of origin is a way to find the original world. So you can't go back.
It is only one way.
I really love the Principle: origin-division-union. I will share more details tomorrow and afterwards -- for a few days. Father’s guidance is very interesting. How we apply the principle of origin-division-union in our daily life.
Today I don’t have time to share youth ministry. I will share it tomorrow.♦
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