Ep 378 - The Cape Of Good Hope And Righteous Hyojeong Part 3
The Cape of Good Hope and Righteous Hyojeong - Racism & Sexual Immorality #13
♦ KEY POINTS: We really need to appreciate our True Mother for all her effort and sacrifice for the sake of Africa. She is the one who liberated all the spirits who died unjustly. ♦ A fundamental solution to the problem of racial discrimination is to hold international and interreligious blessing ceremonies that transcends national borders and races. Also, sexual immorality is one social vice that human efforts alone can never eradicate. Conventional Christianity is powerless to solve this problem. To gain the strength to resolve the problem, we need to unite with God, experience the holy spirit, read or listen to God’s word and feel its power, offer jeongseong and go to the front line -- sometimes enduring suffering. If we really understand God’s heart, no one will ever commit sexual sin. ♦
Now I am in Seattle. It has been raining and raining here. I can see that rain is a blessing here.
Yesterday we had a meeting with Tain Linda (?) Nishigawa and our Oregon State leader together with Rev. Kevin Thompson and Rev. Ryan’s couple. It was a beautiful gathering. Then we gathered at the holy ground with members and prayed together. We visited the Oregon Korean War memorial and prayed together and met Senator Lin(?). True Mother gave an incredible donation of $30,000. All the leadership, including Moon Shik Kim, made so much effort. I really appreciate all of you.
We had a lunch meeting with members and ACLC pastors at the Oregon church.
After the meeting we drove to Seattle and arrived here last night. Thank you, David Ryan, for driving all the way to Seattle.
Today I would like to speak about “The Cape of Good Hope and Righteous Hyojeong” from the contents of True Mother’s memoir.
<Mother of Peace, Page 314-315> Prophet Radebe is the founder of the Revelation Church of God and Inkululeko Yesizwe, both major religious organizations with millions of followers throughout Africa. Prophet Radebe comes from a long line of Prophets well known throughout Africa. During the Blessing, he testified to me, “South Africa, and Africa as a whole, welcomes Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, who has devoted her whole life to the cause of peace as True Mother, the only begotten Daughter of God.” The entire nation was in a festive mood as the South African public television network, SABC, broadcast the Blessing event.
I’ll share some background on this Blessing. The previous November, as I mentioned earlier, I had hosted a Summit and Blessing in Cape Town to celebrate the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s birth. At that time, Prophet Radebe was in Mozambique launching a new church. After Dr. Yun Young-ho spoke with him and expressed my heartfelt desire to meet him, Prophet Radebe immediately rented a plane and flew to Cape Town, arriving just in time for the Blessing.
When we met in the green room, I poured out my heart, explaining God’s ideal of creation and God’s providence of salvation for humankind, including the Fall, the providence of True Parents and the only begotten Daughter. I felt that Prophet Radebe was moved by my words. He called me “True Mother” and during his keynote address, even though our theological frameworks are different, testified about me as the only begotten Daughter that Heaven has prepared.
After that Blessing, Dr. Yun laid out my vision to him: “True Mother would like to host a 100,000-person Blessing Ceremony next year.” Prophet Radebe gladly replied, “Let’s do it!” I felt that Prophet Radebe understood why I came to Africa: to give blessing. Eager to work together and help the flower of true love blossom in the continent, Prophet Radebe prepared meticulously for the June 2019 Blessing Ceremony at Orlando Stadium. From the hotel where I stayed to the airport welcome, Prophet Radebe invested himself and his entire foundation to welcome me and prepare for the Blessing Ceremony.
On June 7, 2019, on the eve of the Blessing, I visited the historic township of Soweto. Soweto is known throughout the world as the location of the first anti-apartheid uprisings in 1976. The home of global luminaries such as Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, its people played an important role in the civil rights movement in South Africa.
From 1948 until the 1990s, institutionalized racial segregation, known as apartheid, was enforced in South Africa. South Africa’s minority white population dominated the nation’s political, economic, and social institutions and actively discriminated against other races. The white government removed black people from their land, forced them to learn the Afrikaans language, and required them to have special permits to travel outside designated areas. They could not eat in the same restaurants or take the same buses as white people. Interracial marriage was illegal, and black people could not own land in white-designated areas.
In 1976, high school students in South Africa protested the forced introduction of Afrikaans as the official language through the Soweto Uprising and the many other protests that followed. Thousands of people were killed or injured during these uprisings, which became a major movement against apartheid. Archbishop Desmond Tutu and others denounced the law on learning Afrikaans, saying it forced children to learn the “language of the oppressor.” The sacrifices young students made during the protests are truly heartbreaking. Police opened fire on the students and Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old student, was killed. The photo of Hector carried by Mbuyisa Makhubo and his sister Antoinette weeping transformed South Africa and shook the world.
The day before the Blessing Festival, I visited the Hector Pieterson memorial in Soweto to pay my respects and offer a prayer for the victims of Apartheid and of all racial discrimination. I prayed to God, asking for the liberation of the black race from the painful history of racial discrimination, for the liberation of the students killed and deprived of their hopes and dreams, and for God’s blessing on South Africa and Africa. I was particularly moved to see Antoinette, along with 400 youths from throughout South Africa, gather with me at the Hector Pieterson Memorial at Prophet Radebe’s invitation. The youth danced and sang beautiful songs of hope. I felt that these young people were my children.
Based on True Mother’s word I would like to introduce True Parents prayer and liberation ceremony at that time.
True Parents' Prayer and Liberation Ceremony in South Africa (Hector Pieterson Museum, Soweto, South Africa 6/7/2019)
Jesus Christ said to “love your neighbor as yourself.” But the people who went out as missionaries all over the world, in Jesus Christ’s name, did not understand Jesus’ essence. They had such selfishness, only thinking about themselves. Instead of thinking of giving love, they actually took love from those nations, but today, in Soweto, in this nation, in the name of Christ, we stand here. All those people who came in the name of Christ were missionaries. In front of God, humanity is one family; we all are brothers and sisters. How can it be that in history, human beings selfishly discriminated against one another?
How will we ever receive forgiveness for murdering that young boy, ending his future? The youth… How will they ever receive forgiveness for doing that, especially in the name of religion?
However, Heaven is with us. As humanity is seeking equality, peace, freedom, we seek historical truth. It is hence a miracle once again that Heaven could bring True Parents to earth. Through sixty years of history on earth, the earth has known this truth.
Our beloved Heavenly Parent, Finally, your painful history will now be healed. All Your past sorrow and pain will be healed in this place. You will bless this land and open a new path of blessing here. Heavenly Parent! Thank you very much!
This blessed youth who sacrificed his life here, had a beautiful dream, Heavenly Parent’s dream, humanity’s dream of one family under God.
And the blood that he shed here, will clean the earth, this nation and usher in a new history centering on Prophet Radebe.
Especially with the responsibility of political leaders and other religious leaders, and centering on Heavenly Parent and True Parents, they will proclaim True Parents. And we will be able to establish and move towards the day of creating a great hopeful future.
Please remember this day, Heavenly Parent! All those who have led lives of suffering, please remember them, resurrect them. May this country, the African continent, be one that can fulfill Heavenly Parent’s dream. May this continent become the leading light of the world.
Heavenly Parent, please bless this continent. In the name of our True Parents, we pray. Aju
We really need to appreciate our True Mother, how much effort, sacrifice, dedication and contribution she made for the sake of Africa. She is the one who liberated all the spirits who died unjustly. Wow! Thank you, True Mother, for your great han and for embracing the African continent.
Living Divine Principle: “Solution to Sexual Immorality”
This title is a very challenging title, but this title is very important. Let’s be serious about this issue: Solution to Sexual Immorality.
『The actual situation of today's Christianity』
• Conventional Christianity stands powerless to carry on God's providence to save humanity in this present age.
• Although Christian doctrine teaches that all humanity descended from the same parents, many citizens of Christian nations who profess this doctrine will not even sit together with their brothers and sisters of different skin colors.
• This illustrates the actual situation of today's Christianity, which has lost much of the power to put the words of Jesus into practice.
We are talking about Christian racial discrimination and the solution to it.
• There is one social vice that human efforts alone can never eradicate. That is sexual immorality. Christian doctrine regards this as a cardinal sin. What a tragedy that today's Christian society cannot block this path of ruin down which so many people are rushing blindly!
• This is evidence that conventional Christianity stands powerless to carry on God's providence to save humanity in this present age.
Christian Nations Today
”Although Christian doctrine teaches that all humanity descended from the same parents, many citizens of Christian nations who profess this doctrine will not even sit together with their brothers and sisters of different skin colors. This illustrates the actual situation of today's Christianity, which has lost much of the power to put the words of Jesus into practice.”
• Christian Racial Discrimination and the Solution
1. Christian nations today lost the power to put the words into practice
Our nation of America is the nation of Christianity chosen by God.
• In order to solve this problem, we need to experience the fact that God is the parent of mankind.
• We must realize the fact that we are one brother and sister and one family under God.
If we really realize this concept, it is not just a concept. We need to experience that God is my parent. We are children of God. If we really realize and experience this, we cannot kill each other, cannot hate each other. How do we understand that we are children of God? This is very important.
• A fundamental solution to this problem is to hold an international and interreligious blessing ceremony that transcends national borders and races..
That is why Father showed the fundamental solution. First, he clearly teaches the relationship between God and human beings, parents and children. Secondly, the same brothers and sisters under one God need to fully embrace each other and forgive each other. That is why he really encourages (supports) the international Blessing ceremony and also the interreligious Blessing ceremony in the name of God and True Parents and then the mixing together of blood lineages and living together. This is a fundamental solution to overcoming racial descrimination.
2. Christianity exists only in form.
How can we solve this problem?
• Therefore, we must create a heart cultural revolution centered on God.
If our mind and heart do not enter the realm of God’s heart, we become very external, that is, we just follow external religious tradition. What is important is how to cultivate our heart, how to create a cultural revolution centered on God. Otherwise we cannot change this world.
1. “There is one social vice that human efforts alone can never eradicate. That is sexual immorality. Christian doctrine regards this as a cardinal sin. What a tragedy that today's Christian society cannot block this path of ruin down which so many people are rushing blindly!
The Divine Principle says the solution to the problem of fornication is externally impossible for human beings to overcome by force. We cannot overcome sexual immorality which is really the sin of adultery. It is not possible to overcome it as human beings alone. No matter how much we meditate and pray, it is impossible. Christian doctrine recognizes this as a cardinal sin, the most serious sin. What a tragedy that today’s Christianity society cannot block this path of ruin down which so many people are rushing blindly.
2. “This is evidence that conventional Christianity stands powerless to carry on God's providence to save humanity in this present age.”
This is reality. Do not say I am criticizing. Do not say the Divine Principle is criticizing. This is reality. How can we deal with this? If we do not deal with this sexual immorality, which is really fornication, then there is no hope.
“If the problem of sexual immorality cannot be resolved, all religion becomes incompetent”
This means Incapable. Very serious!
• If the problem of sexual morality is not resolved, you become an incapable parent, an incapable leader, an incapable Abel, and an incapable church.
This is the most serious problem. If you cannot solve sexual immorality within yourself, within your family, within your church, within your nation, surely you will decline. God cannot be there any more. God hates sexual immorality. Why? Adam and Eve committed sexual sin. Why is sexual sin so terrible? Because our lineage became the servant’s blood lineage, Satan’s blood lineage, Satan’s life, Satan’s love. God warned Adam and Eve, “If you eat the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, you will surely die, surely die.” But they disobeyed God’s commandment. Without exception there is punishment. Without exception you need to pay indemnity. Even your original mind cannot forgive you. Anyone who commits sexual sin, how does your original mind feel? What do you feel? Are you really happy? Maybe temporarily for just a few minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes. What do you feel? When I hear our second generation’s confession, when I hear people’s confession, even though you don’t commit sexual sin, just looking at pornography, how much you feel the pangs of conscience. What does it mean? Human beings originally should have been absolutely pure. That is why you cannot solve this problem as an individual. You are really an incapable person. You cannot solve this problem if you have this problem with your children. The Divine Principle says that you are incapable parents. As a leader, you do not know how to solve this. As a minister when you see this problem in your congregation, if you cannot solve it, you are an incapable minister. If as an Abel you do not know how to solve this issue -- including me -- you are an incapable Abel.
What is the main reason God is leaving each church and departing and going elsewhere? What is the reason? Our church -- and all religion -- has become the kingdom of sexual immorality. This is the main reason. Even pastors themselves very easily divorce, and very easily commit sexual sin. Who can become my leader? How can God trust this church?
• If the problem of sexual immorality is not resolved, the providence of restoration becomes incompetent and God withdraws.
• To resolve the problem of sexual immorality…
1. Know the Principle clearly, become the substance of the word, practice the Principle. (importance of Hoon dok hae)
Without knowing the Divine principle, it is impossible. That is why, first, you need to know the importance of God’s word, which is the Divine Principle.
2. Be reborn through the Messiah and receive the blessing.
3. We must walk the model course with the Messiah to make Satan surrender.
You need to follow True Parents model course on how to win over Satan. Without training we easily become evil. Without listening to God’s word, we easily become evil, easily become influenced. This is the reality.
4. We must completely entrust ourselves to God, submit to God, and experience the Holy Spirit.
This is very important. We cannot resolve this issue by ourselves at all.
• The problem of sexual immorality cannot be resolved by a couple of lectures or training.
It is continuously coming and coming and coming and attacking and invades you. When you open the door, wind comes in, right? It is the same thing. From the time you wake up until going to sleep, Satan’s main viewpoint is fornication. Satan always repeats the same words again and again and again and again: “Have sex! Watch pornography. Look at that woman. Look at that man.” Man is looking for the hole, “Where is the hole?” Woman is looking for where the stick is. “Where is the stick?” This is the reality. We cannot deny it. This is reality. Adam and Eve’s fall is not a concept. It is reality. That is why I need to deal with this in myself, within my family, in my society and in my nation. This is the reality I am speaking to you about.
• Must completely change the fallen cells through voluntary Hoondok training.
Without gaining strength from God’s word, it is impossible.
• Continuous care and training is necessary.
Even though you may overcome (sexual immorality) for the time being, you cannot relax any time. Your age does not matter, 10, 12, 20, 30, 40, even 60, 70, 80. As long as you are alive, you have that kind of fornication spirit.
• The struggle with sexual immorality is like WW3. Even though we know the Principle, it is difficult to be liberated from this fight.
WW1 is over. WW2 is over. What is WW3? Fighting with fornication within myself, within my family, within my nation, within my church. Fighting with this fornication. This is like WW3.
• If even the Unification Church cannot resolve this problem, then there is no hope for mankind.
If a Unification Church pastor cannot solve this problem, there is no hope. Really no hope.
• If you hold a clear alternative or measure against sexual immorality, you can become the center of all people wherever you go.
If you know how to control sexual immorality, sexual desires? God will recognize you. Wherever you go, you can become the center. You have dignity. You have authority. People will recognize you and respect you. If you really control sexual immorality, you already have a certain dignity. Satan cannot invade you. God recognizes you. People respect and follow you. Wherever you go, you become the center. How can I become the center? Control sexual desire. “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus forgave our sin.” Even though we may preach, if we do not become the embodiment of God’s word and we repeat the same problems again and again and again, we become Satan’s tool, Satan’s slaves. Satan’s slaves. Do you know what I am talking about? Of course, some people do not like the word “slavery.”(?) That is reality. How can we be liberated from Satan. He is the ruler of evil using sexual immorality.
• The order of the church, society, and country lies in solving sexual immorality.
If you solve this sexual issue within yourself, your body becomes a temple of God. If you solve this problem in your family, you become an ideal family. If you solve this problem in your church, your church becomes an ideal church. If you solve all kinds of sexual issues in society, your society will become an ideal society. How can we deal with these sexual issues?
• All churches, priests, and political leaders have this problem.
Externally we have a necktie. “I am a minister. I am president. I am the boss. I am a reverend. I am a top religious leader.” But when HF looks at their reality, Oh my God! Oh my God!
• Sexual immorality is humanity’s common enemy.
Not just my own enemy, but our family’s enemy, our social enemy and our national enemy. Satan’s main weapon is sexual immorality.
• Liberation from sexual immorality is complete freedom.
Without overcoming this sexual immorality issue, you will never enter the world of God’s heart. You will never go beyond the top of the growth stage. Never! “I am still struggling with sexual issues.” You cannot control yourself? Then you are still under the control of the archangel. You are still under the top of the growth stage. You cannot enter the world of the heart. We are still the archangel’s slave. This is a serious issue. Are you free from that? I am not completely free from that yet. Even my family is not free from that. Externally all three children have received the blessing but we don’t know what will happen. We cannot relax. How about myself? I am really upgrading my spiritual life, really feeling God’s heart, but no one knows what will happen. We really need to be careful. Always keep dignity. This is an important issue.
It is already four o’clock (PST). There is no time to share Youth Ministry. You need to listen to the Divine Principle. You need to listen to God's word. Our mind and body are always fighting 50/50. Our physical body is stronger than our spiritual body’s power. Our physical body always controls our spiritual body. Some say they are really strong and always listen to God’s word. He is 50/50 fighting and fighting.
How can I gain more spiritual power and control over my physical desire? I need to borrow power. Then my 50 percent power becomes 60, 70 and 80. How can I do that? I cannot do it with my own power. I need to borrow power. How can we borrow power? From God. We need to unite with God. We need to experience the holy spirit. We need to feel the power of God’s word. Then our spiritual power becomes much, much stronger with prayer and jeongseong, then your physical power is less and less and less. That is why without listening to God’s word, you become evil, easily conquered by physical desires.
That is why our second generation and third generation, even first generation, without learning the Divine Principle -- not just learning Divine Principle, secondly without practicing to live for the sake of others, really deny myself, serving others means really denying myself, without training, we need training, go to GPA, go to the frontline, serve people, sometimes we need to have an incredible suffering experience -- without this kind of training and education, without borrowing power from heaven, without pursuing (?) the Holy Spirit, according to my 46 or 47 years of experience since I joined the church it is impossible. It is not a simple issue. If it were a simple issue, everyone would have already solved the problem.
Even in our Unification movement Principle, we know the Divine Principle very clearly. This is a serious issue; am I correct? Am I telling a lie? I am a minister. I want to be honest. There is no guarantee. We are still struggling with that. That is why I am talking about what God’s heart is. If we really understand God’s heart, no one will ever commit sexual sin. We can be liberated by really understanding God’s heart. I don't want to hurt God’s heart any more. Without understanding God’s heart and experiencing God’s heart, just with my own power, it is impossible to overcome. That is why you need to listen continuously to the Divine Principle.
Thank you very much. Kamsa hamnida.