Ep 476 - Europe Part 4
Europe 111-36-12-40 - February 13, 2022
(Response to sharing) I participated directly in yesterday’s events. I sat beside Mother. She was very happy. Now so many leaders recognize our Mother’s leadership.
I am really grateful to Prime Minister Hun Sen. He is my friend, and he came to Korea. Can you imagine a prime minister staying for our events for more than five days? This is unusual. Also, today’s event was more than four hours (long). He sat from the beginning to the end. Can you imagine a current prime minister doing that? He really respects True Mother so much. I can’t tell you many secret stories (about) how he spoke to the Korean President Moon about Mother and how he talked to Ban Ki Moon. I can’t talk publicly, but he now has become a John the Baptist to testify about True Parents -- True Mother especially.
Also, I am so grateful to the entire American leadership, especially the UPF and Washington Times team. They are taking care of all of the prominent American leaders. It is really incredible. That is why everyone greets me by saying that America is doing a great job. I can feel total unity among all North American brothers and sisters. You have really united together, prayed together, joining Morning Devotion. We are doing an incredible jeongseong condition. Thank you so much.
(Second response to sharing) In Asia, more than five current heads of state have tried to come to Korea, but because of Covid-19 the Korean government could not accept (all of) them. Actually five current heads of state (wanted to come) but under the Covid-19 situation, there were incredible miracles.(?)♦
Yesterday, we had the 2022 Sunhak Peace Prize Ceremony and the 2022 Sunhak Peace Prize Founders' Special Honorable Award Ceremony as well.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen received the Special Achievement Award for Founder of the Sunhak Peace Prize.
At the ceremony, Newton Gingrich, the 50th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, delivered a congratulatory speech. It was nice to have time to greet him and his wife.
His speech was very beautiful, very well delivered to the people.
Following the award ceremony for the Seonhak Peace Prize, we had a luncheon with True Mother, mainly for those who won the prize, in Cheon-Jeong-Gung Palace.
(Photo) True Mother, Hunsen Prime Minister and Dr. Gilbert.
I was so happy to meet Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen at Cheon-Jeong-Gung Palace. When I was in Asia before coming to the United States, I always felt close to him heartiscally because we hosted a lot of events together.
He was pleased to meet me.
After the luncheon, we took a commemorative photo with True Mother.
Today I’d like to talk about “Europe ” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Even in the history of Poland, there must have been many ups and downs. And at such times, many people must have prayed. Now you need to change. You should never forget that you are proud people whose task is to substantially fulfill God's Will, that is, His ideal of creation. People of past times wished for God to help them and to do things for them, but you need to lead a different kind of life. You should live a life where you report what you have accomplished to God. (2006.07.03, Warsaw, Poland)
Romania's history is by no means inferior to that of Rome. Be that as it may, what is important is the result. Until now, it has lived as a wild olive tree, but from now on, God will take more interest in any nation or people that becomes perfected as the true olive tree. In a friendly competition, the more intense it is, the better. This is only the beginning. Anything that lives and moves also thrives. Anything that stays still dies out. In comparison to the rest of Europe, this country may seem to be developing more slowly in various aspects. However, if it were to take the lead in the work of the providence, it would rise to a position higher than that of the more advanced nations of today based on the standard set by God. All problems in the world can be resolved when we all attend God and True Parents. We need to let everyone know about that. It is your mission to open the eyes of people, who at this moment can only see their living environment, so that they can see the wide world and the universe. (2006.07.04, Bucharest, Romania)
True Mother said, "You have to live a life of reporting to God what you have done." Last time, True Mother gave Mont Blanc pens to world leaders and told them to keep a diary every day.
She said that our moments and daily life in the golden age attending True Mother is a source of eternal education in front of our descendants.
Most people who keep a diary are sincere. And they always reflect on their lives and try to move forward to live a better tomorrow.
Furthermore, True Mother said, “Until now, fallen human beings have lived as wild olive trees, but from now on, God will take more interest in any nation or people that becomes perfected as true olive trees.”
The current era is an era of total salvation in which all people are saved at the same time with the benefits of the victory of True Parents. First of all, if you are satisfied with your past performance just because you knew True Parents, it is easy to fall behind.
So in the Bible, in the last day, the first one becomes the later one and the later one becomes the first one. In order for the first to become the first, one needs to serve and attend the later well and make sacrifices. So, if you are respected by those who are the later one, you can always be ahead.
If the first one is easily disappointed that the first one is not recognized by the later one, the later one becomes the first.
True Mother said, ”Anything that lives and moves also thrives.”
Stagnant water decays. Living water always flows. And living water creates and reproduces life.
So as long as I'm alive, I have to move. If I don't move, it's like stagnant water, and my soul rots. Being alive means that I still have missions and responsibilities to do.
You and I are still alive. That means I have a mission and a responsibility to do something for the sake of God’s will.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 19 - Living For The Sake Of Others
Center of the Universe
● Considering the purpose of existence of the individual embodiments of truth that make up the material universe at different levels, we can surmise: energy exists in order to form particles, particles exist to form atoms, atoms to form molecules, molecules to form matter, and matter exists for the creation of all the individual entities in the universe.
● The activity of matter is for the purpose of constructing the universe.
● What is the purpose of the universe? What is its center?
> It is none other than human beings.
> This is why God, after creating human beings, commanded them to have dominion over the universe.
Human beings have dominion over the universe.
As shown in the chart above, all beings in the universe exist for the sake of all things from one to ten.
Energy exists for the sake of particles, particles for the sake of atoms, atoms for the sake of molecules, molecules for the sake of matter, matter for the sake of the universe, the universe for the sake of human beings, human beings for the sake of God, God for the sake of all of the universe including human beings.
The first law of existence in the universe is the fact that all beings, including God, exist for the sake of all beings.
Therefore, it is concluded that the existence of myself must also live for the sake of others according to the laws of the universe.
Lifestyle At The Center Of The Universe
1. Energy exists in order to form particles, particles exist to form atoms, atoms to form molecules, molecules to form matter, and matter exists for the creation of all the individual entities in the universe
2. God’s purpose of creation is fulfilled when a being lives for the sake of the greater center. Consequently, living for the sake of others is the truth in this universe. Herein lies the reason that we must live for the sake of others. All order in the universe can be established when we live for the greater center.
3. Therefore, to live for oneself is evil. This would completely destroy the laws of the universe. Satan is always self-centered.
That is why we are talking about a lifestyle at the center of the Universe.
Eight-Stage Principle For Living For The Sake Of Others
● An individual must live and exist for the family, the family for the tribe, the tribe for the people of the nation, the people for the nation, the nation for the world, the world for the cosmos, and the cosmos for God.
● We must perfect the dutiful way of filial sons and daughters in our family, Tribal Messiah in the tribe, patriots in our nation, saints in the world, and divine sons and daughters in heaven and earth.
● Therefore, order can be brought when human beings who are the center of the entire universe live for the sake of God.
The Principles Of 8 Stages For Living for the Sake of Others
I will explain it over and over again.
An individual must live and exist for the family, the family for the tribe, the tribe for the people of the nation, the people for the nation, the nation for the world, the world for the cosmos, and the cosmos for God. And God needs to live for the sake of the entire Universe, including human beings.
This is the eight-stage principle for living for the sake of others
We must perfect the dutiful way of filial sons and daughters in our family, Tribal Messiah in the tribe, patriots in our nation, saints in the world, and divine sons and daughters in heaven and earth. This is our life course.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: A Life of Finding Spirit Mind
Luke 15:3-7, 19:10: 3 Then Jesus told them this parable:
4 “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?
5 And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders
6 and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’
7 I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
19: 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
What we come to realize through the parables of the Bible is how earnestly God is working as a parent to find each human soul (one by one).
From God's point of view, each of our fallen humans today is like a lost sheep. Just as parents go out of their way to find their children when they lose their children, God has also been looking for His lost children for 6,000 years.
God, who found the lost sheep, was so happy that he invited the people around him to have a banquet. Jesus is telling us that God's joy when God's children return to His arms one by one is incomparable to anything else.
Jesus said that the Son of Man came to seek and save the lost (sheep).
What we can learn from the Bible is that God worked tirelessly to inform humans that God Himself is the parent of humankind through the central figures and prophets of the providence of restoration to humans who fell into ignorance due to the Fall.
God comes to mankind with such a desperate heart, so how can we find God? (Ours) must be a life that seeks the spirit mind, the heart of the spirit body, which is our inner man.
Whenever I read this Bible verse again and again and meditate on it, I can feel God’s desperation, how much he has a desperate heart to find his children. He is really desperate.
When (as parents) you have lost one of your children, you become crazy and cannot sleep, cannot eat, cannot rest searching day and night for your children.
How about God? God is a champion of true love. As a parent since he lost his children, how desperate he has been looking for his children. How much he is searching for me and you, not just for a second, not only for one day but until now. What a heart of desperation God has had! If we have the same desperation as God, we can absolutely find God. The problem is that we do not have that kind of desperation. That is why we cannot feel him. We cannot understand God. Through this Bible parable we can really understand God’s desperation.
Based on this I would like to talk about “a life of finding the spirit mind.”
1. Although we are fallen descendants, God is the Creator and Parent of humankind. As His children, we are His eternal object partners. In finding and going on the path of the original nature of creation, the most important thing is be clear about the subject and object partner relationship. No matter what circumstance, the view of faith that God is my subject partner and I am His eternal object partner must be clear. If this relationship is ambiguous and the subject and object partner relationship cannot be formed well, we lose our place to stand on. This subject and object partner relationship not only must be formed between God and human beings, but also between human beings as well.
The most important thing for us in going on the path of original nature is to take the path that our spirit mind requires rather than the physical mind. The spirit mind is the heart in which God can be present in me.
Therefore, I must always think from God’s and True Parents' point of view so that I can (follow) the path that my spirit mind demands.
Next, the notion and belief that God is my subject partner and I am the object partner of God must be clear.
We need to have such a clear confirmation, a clear confirmation that God is my subject partner and I am his object partner. If we have such a principled concept and really believe the relationship between (God and) me is (that of) parent and child, that is the starting point to communicate with God. Where there is a subject partner, then there is an object partner; when there is an object partner, then there is a subject partner. We need a clear concept of that kind of inseparable relationship. We need to have that kind of principled attitude.
Secondly, I am really focused on my spirit mind, centering on my original nature. What does my original nature require? Our original nature, which is our spirit mind, is always searching for the parents. This is the point.
2. If you look at the Bible verse we just read, a shepherd that loses one sheep will leave ninety-nine sheep and will worry until he finds that lost sheep. As the Parent who created human beings, God is always worriedly searching for human beings, His object partners, with the heart of searching for the lost sheep. According to the age and environment, God has worked the providence of searching for ignorant human beings. God has the responsibility of telling ignorant human beings that He is the Creator and Parent of humankind. That is why He sent prophets to show evidence to human beings and tell them what kind of being He is. On the other hand, human beings, standing in the position of God’s children, have the responsibility to find God, their parent, and keep their position.
In order to know how much God loves me and how much he seeks for me, we have to abandon the physical mind and find the spirit mind that the spirit body requires.
My spirit mind is constantly trying to be in alignment with God for 24 hours a day.
3. God cannot treat human beings who have fallen into ignorance due to the Fall as unconditional sinners because they do not know that God is the Creator and Parent. He is not in a position where He can unconditionally hold people responsible when they do not know anything. Therefore, God has a responsibility to teach us that He is the Parent of humankind. Jesus came to the Israelites and taught them the gospel, but when they disbelieved, Jesus showed signs and miracles to make them believe in Him. But when people did not believe him, how many sorrowful words did Jesus say? “You cannot be saved except through me.” “I am your shepherd and you are my sheep.” Even though he said these words many times, people at that time rejected Jesus.
4. The subject partner has the responsibility to tell the object partner who the subject is and what kind of person they are. Therefore, Heaven has sent people of faith until now. Doesn’t God guide people in dreams through the spirit world even today? If human beings have wrong thinking, the spirit world teaches them through dreams. God is working hard, knowingly and unknowingly, to take responsibility for each and every one of us. We may not know, but God is constantly trying to teach humans that He exists. However, among fallen humans, those who seek to know God and to know His will and circumstances, God will surely guide them. He will guide them and say “Oh! Pleased to meet you. My situation is like this”
Just as the subject partner is responsible for letting the object partner know who the subject is and who he is, we also have a responsibility to let the world know who God is and who True Parents are.
We can't blame the world for not knowing the True Parents unless we properly inform the people of True Parents.
God always works through dreams to His children to let them know who He is. He often tells us through dreams whether we are thinking the truth or whether we are thinking wrongly.
This is because God is responsible for nurturing and raising me as a parent.
God teaches me through dreams, but sometimes he sends people to teach me. If you still don't realize it, he makes you realize it yourself through small accidents.
Therefore, when I have an accident or problem, I should not think externally and habitually. I have to seriously ask my spirit mind what that event means.
As children, if we want to know God with all our heart, Heaven will surely teach us because He is our parent.
Our Heavenly Parent is really desperately looking for his children every moment, every second, every day.
God’s heart has desperation. If we as children search for God, “Where is my God?” “Heavenly Father, who are you? Are you really my Heavenly Parent?” If we have such desperation -- God has that kind of desperation and human beings have such desperation searching for God -- that is the way to communicate heartistically.
5. So the Bible says, “Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.” It says “Even evil parents will not give their children stone when they ask for bread, and no parent will give their children a snake when they ask for fish. How much more can the good God leave you with what you want?” If fallen parents take responsible for their children, won’t God, who is the subject, take responsibility for us? However, looking at the history of providence, many people of faith disbelieved God. In fact, we all know who our subject partners are. Unless you are a psycho, is there anyone who does not know who they are loved by? No matter how mentally ill you are, you are bound to like those who love you.
I think many people misuse this Bible verse. “Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.” Many people misuse this Bible verse for their own benefit. We need to understand why Jesus said this. The words of the Bible are not for the food, drink, and clothing that my physical mind requires.
In order to find God, the parent whom my spirit mind demands, to find the truth, to find the true truth, it is telling us to ask and seek earnestly and knock on the door.
In this way, if we ask God according to the demands of our spirit mind rather than (according to) what our physical mind demands, God will surely give it to us, and we will get it.
We really need to ask and seek and knock with God. “Where does my original mind, which is my spirit mind, need to go? Where is the truth?” If we sincerely ask and seek and knock, surely we can get an answer from heaven. (It is) not talking about asking and seeking and knocking for the sake of eating or sleeping or for the sake of what my physical body requires. It is not like that. (Rather it is about) how desperately we are looking for Heavenly Parent. This is the point.
6. God created us human beings and makes much effort to lead us, saying “I am your God.” “I am your parent.” Then what can we do to meet such a God? First, we must find spirit mind. A spirit mind is the the heart of the inner self (spirit body). A spirit mind is the heart that God had direct dominion over. In order for me to not leave God’s position, I must always live according to my spirit mind. I must live while distinguishing my spirit mind and physical mind well. Finding my spirit mind means that I need to live by my original nature. Because it is difficult for fallen man to suddenly become the substance of the Word, is it important to find an entity that represents the Word in the individual? This is the spirit mind. The spirit mind can be said to be the God inside myself.
7. Therefore, we must know how to find the spirit mind and cultivate it well. We must always make sure the fire of our spirit mind does not go out. The one whose spirit mind has fire lit can tell whether God is happy with me or not. They can also distinguish good and evil. Also, they can grow with the love from realizing the truth. A person who finds their spirit mind can distinguish public and private well and live a life of the heart. When I am sad, am I sad because God is sad? Or am I sad because of my circumstance? Is my worry actually God’s worry? Only by being clear of such standpoints, I can go and find my spirit mind. Only then can I receive God’s blessings and preserve the fireworks of the spirit mind that I obtain from the Word and grow. We should make the spirit mind the subject partner within ourselves and then judge all matters. In order to do that, we must always fight with the element of disbelief in our hearts.
We must always listen to the voice of the spirit mind. We need to check whether the words and thoughts we speak come from the physical mind or the spirit mind.
When you say something to another person, you have to live by carefully checking whether the other person's words come from his physical mind or his spirit mind.
Our spirit mind is always searching for truth, always searching for God’s will, always searching for our Heavenly Parent. We need to know how to distinguish between our physical and spirit mind. Our physical mind is always searching for food, how to sleep, where to go, how to make money, how to survive. But our spirit mind is always searching for God, for the truth. How can I comfort Heavenly Parent? How can I live for the sake of others. As long as we follow our original and spirit mind, this is the way to communicate with our Heavenly Parent.
Just now I mentioned that God is really searching for human beings with desperation. We also need to have that kind of desperate heart in order to search for Heavenly Parent centering on our spirit mind. That is the way we can nurture our heart and mind and grow every day and finally become filial sons and daughters.♦
(Response to sharing) I came to realize more and more that God is searching for each human being with desperation. He is really, really desperate. In order to hear God’s voice seriously searching for his children, when we are focused on the physical mind, we cannot hear God’s searching voice; but when we focus on our spirit mind, which is the mind of our spiritual body, then we can hear God’s voice, how desperate he is. But fallen man is focused on what to eat, what to wear, what to drink, how to make more money, focused on the current environment and reality and our physical mind. That is why in order to connect to God, we need to completely deny our physical mind and really focus on our spiritual mind, which is the mind of our spiritual body. Then we can hear God’s voice. We can know his wishes and his requests. This is the way to bring parent and child together. Today I spoke about the life of focusing on the spirit mind.
Also, I mentioned that universal law is the law of living for the sake of others. As long as we unite with the universal law, which is living for the sake of others, and if you are always very inspired, you can get incredible energy. That is because you are united with God’s law, which is the universal law of living for the sake of others. (If you) just live for your own sake, you cannot get any power, any strength. That is why we need to unite with heavenly law. Then we can overcome so many things.♦
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