Ep 463 - Japan - A Mother's Mission Part 4
Japan -- A Mother's Mission 98-23-12-40 - January 31, 2022
(Response to sharing) I remember when I was young … every evening after dinner when it was dark, my father always disappeared. I wondered what was going on. I realized that every day without missing a day, he went up a mountain near my home and always prayed every day. I asked him what kind of prayer he was doing. He said, “I am a doctor. I pray for each patient. I asked God to help them be cured.” I was really surprised. I think that, not because of his treatment but because of his jeongseong, many patients had a healing experience. Those who could not have a baby after 3, 4 or 5 years, when my father treated them, many people had a baby. Wow! Maybe because of that kind of jeongseong from my father’s ancestors, I joined the movement.♦
Today and tomorrow are important days for the Korean people. Today is the Korean New Year’s Eve. Tomorrow is Seollal, New Year, centered on the lunar calendar, the Chinese New Year. Everyone goes home to celebrate with his or her family. Because of the quarantine, I cannot meet my mother.
Today I’d like to talk again about “Japan -- A Mother's Mission” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
The longest we can live in this world in our physical bodies is 100 years. We, however, know about the spirit world. That is why the way for you to become rich is by witnessing. The providential work, for which humanity yearned for 6,000 years and for which the Heavenly Parent also yearned and waited for so long, was carried out by True Parents and thus God was released from His sorrows. He was liberated and made free. I do not know if you can understand this, but it is thanks to True Parents that God can now be free. Our hope is a world of freedom, peace, unity and happiness. God also wants this.
True Mother has blessed us to become rich. The rich people on earth are people with a lot of money. But in the spiritual world, the rich are people who have a lot of love.
Then, how do you become rich in love? We need to become the people who save countless souls with true love while on earth. That is, we need to become the people who have done a lot of witnessing.
That’s why witnessing is love. It is salvation. Those whose spirit is alive always concentrate on saving people. Witnessing is training how to become a man of true love. It is training how to multiply true love.
The rich on earth will not live even for 100 years, but the rich in the spiritual world will live eternally by receiving praise from their ancestors and descendants.
Our human life is very short. Can you imagine that our True Mother is already 80 years old. How long can we still live with True Mother? How about your age? Are you still young? Even though we try to live longer, we can live a maximum of 100 years. It is a very short life. While we are on the earth, how can we become rich people centered on True Love? That is what True Mother is talking about.
It has taken this long because throughout thousands of years of history the perfect True Parents who could complete the providence of restoration through indemnity did not appear. Now, having attended True Parents, we have entered a new era, but is it enough if only we are happy? Isn't our goal to open a happy kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven, and attend True Parents and our Heavenly Parent together with our neighbors, our nations and the world? To achieve this, you have to stand in the position of proud filial sons and daughters, loyal patriots and divine sons and daughters. (2013.10.18, Port Messe Nagoya, Japan)
The mother's mission is to guide the children in the world to True Parents. In the fallen world, Eve's mission is to find the sons and daughters who have gone wrong because of her, and bring them to the presence of the Messiah, the True Parents. It is the mission of Japan, the Eve nation, to fulfill that responsibility. That is why Japan needs to unite with Korea. Eve alone is not enough. She needs Adam. Adam and Eve must become one and fulfill their responsibility to True Parents. You need to bear in mind that it was True Parents who blessed you and thus enabled you to carry out that task. For Japan to survive as a nation respected by the world, it needs to uphold True Parents' will and fulfill its mission as Eve. (2013.10.20, Nagano Church, Japan)
Japan has the mission of the mother’s nation. First, Japan, as a mother, has a mission to embrace and educate all children who do not yet know God and True Parents, and return them to heaven's bosom, True Mother said.
In order to do that, the mother must first and foremost become one with the father. When parents become one, children surely will return. Korea and Japan, as the nation of father and mother, need to mutually support each other, embrace all peoples, and return them to heaven's bosom.
If Japan, as a mother’s nation, becomes one with True Parents’ Will and fulfills its mission, she will become a nation that will survive forever as a nation respected in the world.
Let's study True Father's words about the mission of Japan a little more.
<Chambumo Gyeong, P. 683> From now, America will become the nation with the authority of the elder son, Japan will become the mother nation, and Korea will become the father nation. These three nations, Korea, Japan and America, are one nation. From today, April 17, 1998, we have to think of them as one nation. When these three nations unite, they will have no problem influencing the entire world. When these three nations unite, everybody else will follow. Then a united world of peace will manifest on earth. That is the kingdom of God on earth.
What a great blessing!
Because True Parents declared that Korea, Japan, and America are one nation, these three nations were restored to the position where the father, mother, and son, who had been separated, live together in one family centering on True Parents.
When the father, mother, and elder son become one in a family, as the Korean proverb says, “When one's home is harmonious, all goes well.” As such, when Korea, America, and Japan become one, it’s really just the realization of the restoration of the world. 200 countries around the world are automatically forced to follow. Finally, a unified world of peace will be realized on this earth.
That’s why in order to restore the entire world and all humankind, the key point is the nations of Korea, Japan and the United States (Nations?) (need) to become one. We need to really become one nation; then we won’t have to worry about other nations. The whole world automatically can follow. The most important providential countries are three nations: the nation of Korea as the father nation, the nation of Japan as the mother nation, and then the United States (nation?) as the elder son nation. If these three providential countries are united, everything will follow. On April 17, 1998, Father declared (this); some day his declaration will come true.
<Chambumo Gyeong, P. 683> America, the elder son nation, has to obey True Parents ’ commands with absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience just as much as the Eve nation chosen by True Parents does, in order to unite with the two parent nations, Japan and Korea. Japan, the mother nation, and America, the son nation, have to unite and follow True Parents.
Everybody competes with each other. Korea and Japan are competitors, Japan and America are competitors, and America and Germany are competitors. People must live for the sake of others with love and break all the barriers so that these competing nations can unite. Then people will follow them. That is the principle for settling accounts in the providence.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 15 - Three Object Purpose and Life
Let’s study EDP.
As a result of origin-division-union action, four positions are formed: the origin at the center, the subject partner and the object partner (distinct substantial object partners to the origin in the pattern of its dual characteristics), and their union.
Any one of the four positions may assume the position of subject partner and engage the other three as its object partners, forming a communion of three object partners. When each of the four then acts as the subject partner and enters into give and take with the other three revolving around it, they fulfill the three object purpose.
Based on this, let’s study Father’s word.
What is Heaven, Earth, Humankind: Conclusion of 3 Object Purpose
“Because Adam and Eve couldn’t become perfect centered on humankind, God could not become perfect, and True Parents could not become perfect. Then what happens when love is centered on humankind? God cannot find love by Himself. Parents of heaven, earth, and humankind also cannot realize love without an object partner. Due to becoming the parent of heaven, earth, and humankind, through taking the mind position of God, bodily position of True Parents, and you all take the position of the 3rd generation of children, it becomes Heaven’s fruit of harvest which can enter the storehouse, the seed and fruit of two parents. Therefore the parents of heaven, earth, and humankind are the most precious.”
The mind represents the Cosmic Parent who is God, the body represents the True Parents of Heaven and Earth, and the children represent the parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind.
God’s 3 object purpose eventually are completed when the third-generation grandson grows up and stands in the position of the perfect subject.
After all, God starts as the Cosmic Parent, who was in the position of the invisible God, wears a physical body through True Parents, the position of Adam and Eve, becomes the parents of heaven and earth, and goes to the generation of grandchildren, the children of Adam and Eve, to stand in the position of the parents of heaven, earth and humankind. This will achieve the three object purpose. When God also fulfills the three object purpose, (he) becomes a God who has been perfected with true love.
When God becomes a perfect God, when his providence becomes complete, it is through the third generation: Heavenly Parent, Adam and Eve, and their children - 3 generations.
Grandchildren are key. Through grandchildren (they) can complete the object purpose.
Without grandchildren, God’s providence is not yet complete. God will not yet become a perfect God.
We need to know how important the three objects are in our lives. Neither God nor True Parents can complete the three objects without grandchildren who are the third generation. As a Blessed family, we also need to realize that the 1st generation is the position of the Cosmic Parent, the second generation is the position of the parents of heaven and earth, and the third generation is the position of the parents of heaven, earth, and humankind, so that we must fulfill the three object purpose on this earth.
At work, at church, and at home, we need to live our lives centering on these three object purposes. When we fulfill the three object purpose with superiors, colleagues, and subordinates, the organization is destined to develop forever.
When I learned about the 3 objects purpose, it is a really important point. Each person has to take full ownership. God has to fully become an owner. The position of Adam, the position of Eve and the position of children, these four positions need to fully take ownership, then they can complete the 3 objects purpose. Then God’s purpose of creation can achieve its goal.
“When parents of heaven, earth, and humankind appear, God feels good, parents of heaven and earth feel good, and of course the parents of heaven, earth, and humankind feel good. When becoming their sons and daughters, it opens the era of eternal cheers of Mansei filling all of heaven and earth, and because they become the inheritor of the authority to say ‘I am my own lord throughout heaven and earth’, the parents of heaven, earth, and humankind are the best, amen.”(44회 참자녀의 날 2003.10.25./422-257)”
When you receive the blessing, based on you, you are first generation. Your children are second generation. Your grandchildren are your 3rd generation. Of course, Heavenly Father is the first generation; True Parents are the second generation; and I am third generation. But substantially based on me, I have to be the first generation. My children have to be the second generation and my grandchildren, third generation. Without producing the third generation, … until each of my grandchildren take ownership and have already become mature, Father said, until our last grandchild marries, we need to survive on earth.
For example, I have three children. My last son, Chunchin(?), let’s say he has 3 or 4 children, until the last grandchild marries, I need to survive on earth. Then I can complete my mission on earth. This is the completion of the 3 objects purpose.
The final point in completing the three object purpose is the position of “union” as the 3rd point of origin-division-union of the completion of four position foundation as the position of God’s grandchildren, therefore True Father set us (blessed family and children) as the owner of the 4th era.
Therefore True Parents proclaimed the Declaration of the Settlement Era of the Cosmic Parent, the Parents of Heaven and Earth and the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind on the 23rd of March, 2004, at the Congress Capitol Building, Washington D.C. Afterwards on the 5th of May, 2004, in Yeosu Jeong-Hae Garden True Father proclaimed the “Declaration of Ssang-Hab Sib Sung-Il in the Era After the Coming of Heaven”.
The owner of the first era is God, the owner of the second era is True Parents, the owner of the third era is a Blessed family, and the owner of the fourth era is the Blessed children who were born after their parents got Blessed.
In the end, the completion of the grandson is the completion of the 3 object purpose and the completion of the four position foundation. True Father said that after fulfilling the foundation of the owner of the 4th era, children born after that will go to heaven right away.
That’s why any blessed family on receiving the blessing, you need to absolutely keep your faith and love and obedience, and follow that tradition. Until your third generation you need to set up the standard, no matter what. My couple has received the blessing; my second generation all have received the blessing and have kept purity, even though some of them have left the church, but they come back and fix (the situation) -- no matter what, you need to fix (it). Your second generation situation is like that, and the third generation should also be like that. Based on three generations you can complete the 3 object purpose. This becomes the standard. Afterwards anyone who gives birth to a baby after that foundation, your descendants -- no need to talk about it -- will enter the kingdom of heaven right away, immediately. This is Father’s guidance.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Original Nature and Growth
1. To practice true faith, you must be able to live a life of original life in the place you belong to. If you are a student, at school, if you are an office worker, at work, or if you work at a church, you should be able to find the way of your own original nature and live well in your church. You can grow well if you live according to your original nature. Then, what kind of person is a person who lives centered on original nature? First, you must have a clear sense of belonging to God. Faith is treating oneself as God’s belonging. If you are one that is possessed by God and are His, your thoughts, your heart, and your actions will be what God performs.
This is very important. I was really shocked when I was young, a 20-year-old boy, and participated in a UTS class. One day Yo Han Lee guided us; he asked, “Do you know what faith means?” We said we believe in God and offered many answers. He said, “Faith means to treat myself as God’s belonging.” Not only “treat,” but think and believe that “I belong to God. I am God’s.” When you treat yourself as God’s belonging, this is faith. Then you can change your entire life. This really impacted me. Wow! Faith means I need to treat myself as God’s belonging. My mouth, my nose, my hand and my stomach, my feet (all) belong to God. I cannot treat them as my own. Treating them as mine is the fall. I belong to God; I am the son of God or the daughter of God. I am God’s. How can I complain? How can say no. How can I say something is impossible? How can I say “This is a really big problem”? I can’t say (these things) because I belong to God. How seriously do I take this and practice it? (If I do,) then surely incredible miracles can happen. That is faith.
2. If you have a strong belief in regarding yourself to be God’s, amazing spiritual powers begin to emerge immediately. I am not mine! If you have absolute faith that you belong to God, you will have the confidence that nothing is impossible and gain courage and power that you did not know about. To say that I consider myself to be God is to deny myself completely. In other words, I will completely entrust my everything to God and act according to God’s Will. To regard myself as God's, I must give myself up completely. It is completely giving up 100% of my thoughts, ideas, and actions.
How powerful that is: to treat myself as God’s belonging. That means completely give myself up not just 100%, but 120%. I do not exist. I completely belong to God, and I completely deny my own fallen nature, my own self. That is faith. That is why Jesus said if you have that kind of faith “I belong to God. I am God’s,” then incredible miracles will happen to you. The Bible says:
Philippians 4: 13 “I can do all this through him (God,Jesus, True Parents) who gives me strength.”
Nothing is impossible. Everything is possible. I can do all this through God, Jesus or True Parents who give me strength. I can do anything. I can overcome any problem. This is faith.
Why don’t I have power? Because I treat myself as my own. That is why True Parents always tell us to deny ourselves. You are not yours. You belong to God. In another Bible verse:
Mark 9:23 “‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.”
Believe in Jesus and believe in you. You belong to Jesus and to God. If you have that kind of faith … change your mindset. You are not yours. You are God's belonging. Then as Jesus said, everything is possible for one who believes.
This is the power of self denial. Then our original nature comes out. Based on this kind of standard of faith, my original nature starts to come out.
Everything becomes possible; we are grateful for everything; everything can be digested -- in the name of God, of True Parents, of Jesus, of faith.
3. The fall is thinking of oneself as one's own. If I do not deny myself, my thoughts, heart, and knowledge become the subject. Everything is self-centered. There is no existence of God at the center of that person. Even if there is, the existence of God is just a concept. The reason many people cannot put forth their energy is because they treat themselves as their own, so they feel limitations and get frustrated as they go. But have absolute faith and really try to believe that you belong to God. You will experience the amazing miracle of making the impossible possible. The moment I believe that I belong to God, spiritual power will take over my body and confidence, joy and gratitude precede everything I do.
In order to kick Satan out, you need this kind of faith. “I belong to God. I don’t belong to Satan. God is my father. I am the son of God. I belong to him.” If you have that kind of absolute faith, Satan cannot invade you any more -- because you have that much confidence, that much faith. Why can Satan invade you? Because your concept, your belief is unclear. As long as we have the concept, “I belong to God, I am God’s,” then my original nature starts to come out and helps me to go forward and to overcome any difficulty. This helps me grow my original nature.
4. Next, in living by original nature, as a person who belongs to God, you must place importance on relationships with people around you in the place you belong to. You should serve the Abel of the place you belong to with respect and joy. Also, you should build a heartistic relationship with co-workers in which you long for each other and are always happy to give and receive. And you should be able to take responsibility for your responsibilities, missions, and work given to you with joy, gratitude, and pleasure. If you take responsibility with a joyful heart, you will be able to generate many creative ideas in your field, increase your capabilities, and show off your abilities to the fullest. That is why no one can win against someone who fulfills their responsibilities with joy in the work assigned to them.
What is the first point? You have to be clear who you are. Your identity. My identity is what? I belong to God. I am God’s. Then based on that foundation you really need to practice (this) with your neighbor, your Abel, your colleagues, your brothers and sisters. You need to treat them very well. You need to have a heartsitic relationship with your co-workers in which you long for each other. This is our responsibility. If we really treat our Abel, our neighbors, our brothers and sisters with this kind of absolute faith, “I belong to God,” then your life will be grateful and very powerful and very joyful.
5. If you just try to take responsibility for the task entrusted to you with a sense of duty or a sense of mission, you will always fall behind. To joyfully take responsibility means to become the owner of your work.
If I am happy with a job, I become the owner of the job, but if someone just asks me to do the job with a sense of responsibility, the job becomes my subject and I become a servant to the job.
Whenever you take anything as a responsibility, if you do it unwillingly and by force with an unhappy heart, then you become a servant to that job. Why does God ask us to do anything with a happy and grateful heart? It means you have to be the owner. Anything you do with a happy heart, a volunteer heart and a grateful heart, then you can become the subject and your job will become the object.
However, if someone asks me to do a job with a sense of responsibility, the job becomes my subject, and I become a servant to that job.
Taking ownership means I need to do it happily, gratefully, joyfully. Then I can win over anything.
6. When anyone fulfills their responsibilities joyfully, it is their original nature rejoices the most. Therefore, if you want to live the life of original nature, you should always do it with a happy and grateful heart. When my Abel, who tells me to fulfill my responsibilities, gives me responsibility, do they want me to just reluctantly do it with a sense of duty? Or would they wish for me to joyfully bring proud substantial results more than the one who gave me the responsibility?
7. Just as God's purpose in creation was joy, my responsibility is to start with a joyful and pleased heart and bring about proud, substantial results of joy. When you are happy and delighted with the task you are given, progress will be faster. It is like the principle that a person who forcibly eats food he dislikes without a grateful heart cannot gain strength. If you force yourself to eat, it will be painful after eating, and when digestion is not good, you will regret and complain that it would have been better if you hadn't eaten.
8. Similarly, in the course of faith that we are growing by reviving our original nature today, we must voluntarily participate when given tasks and goals in our company, workplace, school, or group, and have the capabilities and substantial results that can please anyone. Just like when it becomes time to eat, even though my parents did not tell me to eat, I eat because I want to, not because someone told me to, we need a voluntary attitude. It is the same with studying. The person who gives me a responsibility and commands me to “go study” tells me to do so joyfully, not reluctantly. Therefore, as long as you rejoice and obey what God has told you to do, God will do the rest for you. If you have your own original nature and do your responsibilities with a joyful heart, God will give your original nature infinite power and there will be nothing impossible.
We can learn what our original nature is. Our original nature wants to create and produce joy and happiness. In order to produce joy and happiness, I need to walk joyfully, happily and voluntarily, not reluctantly. This is basic. God’s purpose of creation is joy, right? Whatever I do, I need to do it joyfully, happily, voluntarily. Then I will become the owner. But when someone orders (you to do something) and you do (it) unwillingly, then you eternally(?) become the servant. However, when you take it happily, joyfully, thankfully, gratefully, you become the owner. Then you can produce more results. Everyone is happy. Even if someone orders you (to do something), you are happier than what your owner says to you, you will win over your Abel, your owner who orders you to do something. That is our original nature. When we know our original nature, when we can be most happy is when we do everything voluntarily, happily, joyfully. Our original nature loves it because we can become the owner.
9. When God gives me commands, He sees it as something I can do joyfully. Just like not advising a person who is full to eat more, God knows well in which areas I can joyfully fulfill my responsibilities. When I look at myself, I may feel that my heart is unwilling and that I cannot do well. However, if you change your mind and attitude, you can do anything with joy. If you think that the portion of responsibilities that Heaven gives me is for me to feel greater joy and worth, God will work and bring greater results of joy. Therefore, you must take good care of your heart.
Everything is up to our mind and attitude. If we change our attitude, our mindset, then we can find a really different world. How to change? This is your job, your responsibility. How can we say it? We have already told you everything.
Change my attitude, my mindset, change my paradigm. This is my portion of responsibility. Already God has taught us and his word clearly shared (this with) us.
If we change our mind, our attitude and have a paradigm shift, we can discover an incredible world. We can overcome everything. You must take good care of your heart, your mindset, your attitude, your paradigm. What kind of paradigm shift (do I need), what attitude or mindset?
If we really know how to change our mindset and attitude, this is the way to live centered on our original nature.♦
(Response to sharing) In our life of faith, if we just obey because of duty and responsibility, that is the formation stage. Growth stage is half-half. And in the completion stage, we do everything with a voluntary heart. That is the completion stage. When you do anything with a voluntary, happy heart, you will become the owner. The owner always has a happy heart. The servant is different. He just obeys and does his duty. There is no happiness, just obedience. Obedience is ok, but no happiness is a problem.
(Response to second sharing) In our life of faith, in the formation stage we sometimes need to push ourselves by force. Formation stage is like that. It is difficult to wake up, but no matter what I need to wake up and attend Morning Devotion. Pushing myself like that in some sense is good, but we need to upgrade (our motivation) to do it voluntarily. That is a different stage. But in the formation stage, we need to do things by force, we need to obey, follow the law. Without the formation stage how could we grow our heart and attain a volunteer heart?♦
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