Ep 379 - The Cape Of Good Hope And Righteous Hyojeong Part 4
The Cape of Good Hope and Righteous Hyojeong - Sexual Immorality - Inheritance #14
♦ KEY POINTS: Heaven revealed to Archbishop Johannes Ndanga of Zimbabwe that True Mother is the only begotten daughter. He got blessed and inspired 300 bishops to bring more than 60,000 couples to the Blessing. Heaven subsequently protected him during a coup in his country. ♦ Our True Parents very clearly declared to God, the spiritual world and all humankind who the devil Satan is, namely, the adulterer of God’s love. What is precious in our life of faith is that we value the origin which Adam and Eve did not value. Our origin is the sexual organs of our parents, ultimately of God and True Parents. Our parents' sexual organ is the palace of love, lineage and life. We should keep our sexual organs pure as the gateway through which our descendants pass. God’s sexual organ is absolute sex, our original palace of blood lineage, life and love. That is why we need to respect our origin. If we keep our sexual organ as a holy place with absolute purity, we will become the center and God, True Parents and the entire universe will recognize and protect us. Also, we will keep spiritual dignity. The way to overcome pornography and sexual immorality is to control the body by fasting or self-denial and other forms of mortification. The second way is to borrow a lot of spiritual power from God and the spiritual world through jeongseong and prayer. The third way is to become filial sons and daughters by understanding God’s sorrowful heart. Then you absolutely won’t want to hurt or betray God. ♦ Fallen man is fickle because his respect depends on results and his mood is determined by circumstances. He loses respect for a person when he finds faults -- despite that person’s accomplishments, struggles to overcome and heart. Fallen man is like a wave, up and down, alternately happy and disappointed. Ham glimpsed his father’s greatness but then judged him for his mistake and could not maintain his respect for him. We need to take responsibility for our Abel’s faults, identify with his pain, participate in his challenges, and help him succeed in spite of his flaws. Then we may draw closer to and inherit from him. To inherit, we need to respect, resemble, participate and obey, work hard and invest, love God’s will more than he, and take responsibility for flaws, never criticizing or complaining. ♦
Yesterday we had a breakfast meeting at Wanda Mia(?), True Parents residence in Seattle with the leaders. Wow! I saw the beautiful river over there! The view is really incredible. I was so happy to be there having a meal together with the leaders.
Then we gathered at the holy ground and prayed together. Many brothers and sisters came together and joined this holy ground tour prayer condition. There was a group photo in front of our holy tree. We had Sunday service at the Seattle Family Church. All brothers and sisters introduced themselves and I gave them internal guidance. And I shared such beautiful testimony, especially CARP activities. It was a full house. So many brothers and sisters came. We had a group photo.
Then we visited Ocean Peace. Michael Ferris(?) and his staff have done a really great job. I heard a report from Michael Ferris, what he is doing. He introduced his staff. It was really beautiful. Thank you, Mike, for your incredible contribution to our movement, and all the staff for your dedication for God’s providence.
Today I would like to speak about “The Cape of Good Hope and Righteous Hyojeong” from the contents of True Mother’s memoir.
Archbishop Johannes Ndanga of Zimbabwe is the Chairman of the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ), the largest Christian council in Zimbabwe with thousands of affiliated churches and millions of members. Dr. Yun recognized Archbishop Ndanga as the third righteous man Father Moon had indicated in his dream.
Archbishop Ndanga’s relationship with our movement began when he came to Kenya to offer congratulatory remarks during an interfaith Blessing Ceremony. As he spoke, the Heavens opened and he heard, “Don’t just offer congratulatory remarks, receive the Blessing as well!” Archbishop Ndanga promptly received the Blessing and joyfully came to participate in the 2017 Peace Starts with Me Festival in Madison Square Garden. Archbishop Ndanga stated, “I recognized True Mother as the only begotten Daughter through Heaven’s revelation. I am grateful to have received the Blessing and I am now sharing the gospel of True Parents wherever I go. I hope that True Parents’ ideal of world peace can be realized.”
On the eve of the Madison Square Garden festival, I invited the three “golden key” religious leaders to dine with me at our East Garden residence. There, Archbishop Ndanga said, “You are the True Mother humankind has eagerly been waiting and longing for.” The following day, he testified to other religious leaders about his encounter with me, saying, “True Mother is our True Mother. I am her blessed son.” Inspired by what he experienced in the US, Archbishop Ndanga returned to Zimbabwe, where he mobilized over 300 bishops from ACCZ and, together with FFWPU leaders, hosted a special Divine Principle workshop and Blessing for them. With the support of the government of Zimbabwe, each of those bishops educated and blessed 210 couples. In all, more than 60,000 couples received the Blessing.
On November 11, 2017, Archbishop Ndanga offered congratulatory remarks at the 80,000 Rally of Hope to Support the Peaceful Reunification of the Korean Peninsula at the Sangam World Cup Stadium in Seoul. As he was preparing to go home, he received the news that Zimbabwe was caught up in political upheaval and a change of leadership in government. The political turmoil was severe, with riots in the street and unrest throughout the nation.
Archbishop Ndanga was apprehensive about the situation. When he arrived in Harare, he saw several ministers being apprehended and taken away. Yet it was as if no one recognized him. He passed swiftly through the airport and arrived home safely. Amid the turmoil engulfing the nation, as he was a prominent Christian leader, his life was certainly at risk. He firmly believes that I protected him from coming to harm, testifying, “It was True Mother’s miracle.”
In 2018, I appointed Archbishop Ndanga to the position of Cheon Il Guk Special Envoy for Zimbabwe. He responded with determination, saying, “I will be a dutiful son who will testify throughout Zimbabwe and Africa to the True Mother as the only begotten Daughter of God.”
All people are God’s children. God does not discriminate based on skin color. True Parents have blessed Africa as Heavenly Africa and prayed for its liberation from past afflictions. A new history is being written, one where African families are being reborn as true families through the Blessing. This is initiating the change that will raise Africa to become the shining continent of hope for all humankind.
Johannes Ndanga of Zimbabwe religious figure and leader of the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe. This is part of the speech of Johannes Ndanga at the 80,000 (person) Rally of Hope to support the peaceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula at the Sangam World Cup Stadium in Seoul November 11, 2017. Let’s study this content.
“True Mother, my wife and I have heeded your call to renew marriages and family. Not only did we rededicate our marriage by receiving your Blessing, we are mobilizing religious leaders from the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe, an umbrella organization for more than a thousand independent churches with a membership of eight million members to take part in the Blessing Movement. We are happy to report that so far two thousands bishops and pastors have taken part in the Blessing Ceremony. Our vision is to see marriages in Zimbabwe officiated more and more by blessed religious leaders! Next, we have started to take this Blessing Movement into the churches and communities. The result so far, is very encouraging. Testimonies of the positive impact of the Blessing on marriages are plentiful. Zimbabwe is reviving spiritually, thanks to your blessings, True Mother!”
Living Divine Principle: Solution to Sexual Immorality - Introduction 4
Based upon True Father’s word, let’s study again the content of the EDP Divine Principle.
The actual situation of today’s Christianity:
●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.
●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.
Based on this EDP content, let’s study our True father’s words directly.
Sexual Immorality is the Cause of the Fall
<197-263> You reap what you sow. In the last days, one woman will be with over a dozen men because sexual immorality caused the Fall. It is a time when a man will be with a dozen women. The direction has been lost. The direction has been pointed out from the center but you don’t even know what degree, what time it is. You don’t know where you are going. It has become such a chaotic world.
Do you know why Rome collapsed? It is because of sexual immorality. It is the source that destroys the ideal. It is the source that destroys life. It is the source that violates lineage. Who is the devil? He is the adulterer of God’s love, the adulterer. This is the historic proclamation declared by Reverend Moon. The lineage of the fallen descendants is connected to the devil’s lineage.
Our True Parents very clearly declared who the Devil is. Since Adam and Eve fell, nobody clarified who the devil is, what Satan’s identity is. Of course, we call him the devil, the ruler of the secular world. However, no one has clearly declared who the devil is. Father said Satan is the adulterer of God’s love. He is an adulterer. So, we came from that kind of background. Satan is an adulterer. This is really a clear declaration. Can you imagine that? Satan is hiding and hiding and hiding his identity. When True Parents appeared and officially declared in front of the spiritual world, in front of God, in front of all humankind, “Satan, you are the devil! You are the adulterer of God’s love. Wow! This is an incredible declaration. The things that True Parents declared about the identity of Satan, he cannot hide any more. This is really an amazing declaration by our True Parents. Why can’t we win over Satan? Because we do not know his identity. But (now) through Chapter Two of the Divine Principle, we know who the archangel is. We know Satan’s identity, about the relationship between human beings and the archangel. We clearly understand this point.
What is precious in our life of faith is that we should value the origin. Faith that does not value the origin eventually leads to destruction. Adam and Eve’s origin was God. This is very important. Satan is not our origin. The fall lost the origin.
Why do we miss our hometown? Why does everybody miss our hometown? Because my hometown, where I was born, is my origin. If so, where from our parents were we born? That place is (from?) our parents. Our origin is our parents’ sexual organs. Our parents’ sexual organ is the gate from which new blood lineage comes. New life comes from there. True love comes from there. Our parents’ sexual organ is the original palace to produce new life, a new origin, true love. How beautiful it is! Our parents' sexual organ is the palace of love, palace of lineage and the palace of life. It cannot be dirty. Our origins should be very, very pure. If the origin is dirty, then everything comes out as a dirty result. Adam and Eve misused their sexual organ, corrupted it. That is why any children who come out of Adam and Eve’s sexual organ become a very dirty result.
That is why True Parents ask us to keep absolute purity. Your sexual organs should be the origin. You should keep your sexual organs pure. Your sexual organ is a gate. You can produce so many descendants who come out of your gate, the original palace. That is why we need to know what our origin is. What is our origin? Our origin is our heavenly parent. We are supposed to come out of our origin, our heavenly parent.
God is not a vague God. Human beings came from where? From their parents' sexual organs. Our parents’ sexual organ is the most holy, holy, holy of holies place. Why? It is producing a new blood lineage, producing new life. Wow! How holy is this place! If we make it dirty, the original sexual organ, we cannot imagine! We need to know the value of the origin. Our vertical origin is Heavenly Parent. We come from God. Which part of God? We came from God’s sexual organ.
God’s sexual organ is absolute sex. God’s absolute sex is our origin. God’s original sex is our original palace of blood lineage, life and love. That is why we need to respect our origin. God is our origin. Our vertical and eternal origin is God’s absolute sex. Our horizontal, eternal original absolute sex is our True Parents. Our True Parents! Where is our horizontal, eternal origin? Our True Parents’ absolute sex.
Then centering on me, where is my origin? My father and my mother are my origin. That is why if you ignore your origin, how do you stand? My hometown is my parents’ sexual organs. I came from there. That is why in order to produce a really pure blood lineage, we absolutely need to keep our sexual organ as a pure organ, as a holy organ. If you keep your sexual organ as a pure organ, you really keep your dignity. If you keep your sexual organ as a holy place with absolute purity, you will become the center. Wherever you go, God will recognize you, True Parents will recognize you, and the entire universe will protect you. Then you will be able to keep spiritual dignity. Even if your position is very high and very powerful and you have a lot of money, if you make your origin dirty, you no longer have dignity.
How can I keep holy dignity and guide my children? We need to have that kind of spiritual dignity. We need to keep that kind of internal dignity. This is very important. If we cannot keep our sexual organ as a holy organ, what kind of outcome will emerge? Can you imagine? We need to understand that our origin is very, very important.
That is why I love the concept of the origin. Every day I go to a new place and visit the holy ground. Our holy ground is our origin. Father and Mother came to America and set up the holy grounds. Our movement begins from the holy grounds. That is why I go back to the origin. I kneel down and pray. That is why we really need to love our origin. Our original origin is Heavenly Parent. Our horizontal origin is our True Parents. Our physical origin is our parents. If you ignore your origin, where do you stand? Adam and Eve did not know the importance of the origin.
The Fall of Humankind is Restored through True Love
<197-265> Human life is connected with whom? It is from the father. However, we met the wrong father. The devil became the father and stained everything so the true father has to come. That is the Messiah. A man in oneness with God must come. This is a different root. The devil’s root, the archangel’s root. It has nothing related with God’s eternal life.
Satan is the first father and mother of fallen human beings. Therefore, fallen humans must meet a true father and true mother. True Father and True Mother are the True Parents who are the messiah. The True Parents, the messiah, came with God’s direct lineage. That is why Jesus called himself the only begotten son and True Mother called herself the only begotten daughter.
That is why religion was established. It is to follow that law. Religion must strike our body. We must fast and do volunteer work. Striking the body means weakening it in order to make it follow the mind’s command. Another method is to offer jeong seong. One must offer jeong seong and cultivate oneself morally to strengthen the mind several hundred times. This is the only way.
The way to overcome pornography, sexual immorality, is to control the body. And there are two ways to control the body, Father said. The first, through fasting or self denial and hitting ones own body to weaken it in order to control it. That is why many saints and sages, also religious leaders, in order to control their physical desires and physical body, are always fasting and fasting and going through all kinds of training and suffering. This is one of the ways. The second way is very interesting. Father said the second is to borrow a lot of spiritual power from God and the spiritual world through jeongseong and prayer so that they can make themselves stronger than their body in order to control it. And then I would like to add one more. The first and second are fine. We do need to borrow power from the spiritual world. The third point according to Father’s word in order to completely subjugate your physical desires is that you need to become filial sons and daughters. In order to become filial sons and daughters, you need to understand God’s heart. You need to understand God’s love, how much God loves me, how much his heart embraces me. Once you have that kind of heartistic, inseparable relationship between God and you, nobody will break that relationship. Then you can overcome any other difficulties.
I think True Father also did self training. He said, “You need to control your body before controlling the cosmos.” Of course, he has serious training in that. One more thing, how does he have such strong will power to go forward without any tiredness? He can continuously push himself. It was because he knew God’s wishes. He experienced God’s incredible heart. With that kind of filial piety, he can control his physical desires.
If I go the wrong way, God worries about me. I don’t want to hurt God. That is filial piety. In order to develop filial piety, you need to control your body, right? But I would like to add this very important point. Of course, you hit your body and you have to borrow power from the spiritual world. Then your character, your personality becomes really mature and you understand God’s heart. No matter how tired you are, no matter how much difficulty you experience, you cannot betray your father and mother. You cannot betray Heavenly Parent. That kind of inseparable relationship between God and human beings, that is the way to really control my desires.
Today’s Youth Ministry: The Law of Inheritance Seen Through Noah's Family (2)
I would like to re-emphasize this again with a somewhat different point of view.
11. Fallen humans move their hearts only when they see results. When they have a hard time, they always complain, then calm down.
12. But one day, Noah drank wine and lay naked. When Noah's son saw this, his standard fell to the ground to the point he couldn’t believe in his father. Noah's children looked up to God, but fell into a position of distrusting God when they saw their father.
13. We also often do this in our life of faith. If you respect someone, but find out their faults or see misconduct, you lose respect for them. When I respected the other person, I looked at the person's work or results, but the moment I saw their faults, I didn’t see the results and hardships they had worked so hard for.
This is fallen man. Fallen man’s heart is always changeable, up and down, up and down according to the situation, according to the environment. “You made me disappointed? I also disappoint (you?). And then my spirit really goes down. And when I see that you are really great, and my heart is so inspired. Your heart is a level up(?) This is fallen man. He is like a wave. According to the situation he is up and down and up and down. He is easily disappointed and complains. When his result is good, then he is happy -- “hee hee, ha ha.” Oh my God! This is fallen man, easily disappointed. That is why Father says, “When you respect your Abel so much but one day you see his fallen action and misconduct, you become so disappointed, “Don’t be like that.” You need to keep your standard. I told you already: when you see good points, (you say?) “I need to inherit this.” But when you see some point that is not so beautiful, a weak point and misconduct, they haven’t been responsible, you need to keep your respect. This is important. You need to keep your respect for what he has done (in spite of his failures) . If you do not keep your respect (for him), what happens? Your level of heart goes down.
When Noah’s children saw the results after the 40-day judgment after Noah‘s 120 years of jeongseong foundation, they really looked up to Noah, “Wow! My father is great,” but one day they saw Noah’s naked body and were so disappointed. They needed to keep their respect (for him). “Wow! God worked with my father for 120 years. I misunderstood my father, but I need to respect him, I need to love him.” Then when Noah drank wine and lay naked and they saw that situation, they should have thought “There is a meaning to this. There is a meaning.” They needed to keep that kind of respect continuously.
That is why I would like to encourage you: when you see your Abel’s fault, you need to be responsible for that. Even though he showed his misconduct and fault, some weak point, he also has great points as well. You need to think continuously about his great points rather than his weak points. That is the way to keep and maintain your respect. Once you are disappointed (in a person) you cannot keep your standard. It will go down. This is the problem. Our heart should keep (to) a certain standard, not up and down, up and down, up and down. This is fallen man. If the result is good, then he is happy. If the result is not so good, he is disappointed. Oh my God!
14. When we see a person who runs first in the marathon, we cheer with excitement. However, if someone who loves that person there watches it, they will feel the difficulties and hardships of the person with their skin. A wife, watching her husband's boxing match, will feel like she's getting hit when her husband is hit by his opponent.
15. Parents who love their children do not get closer to their children after winning a certain game, but in the position of suffering with their children.
When parents participate together with their children (who are) suffering, it is a time (when they are) closer and closer (to their children) than when the children are winning.
16. Fallen human beings are spectators. Therefore, it is our psychology that we like to go to banquet houses and not to houses of mourning. Also, they gather with joy if their friends succeed, and turn a blind eye if their friends fail.
17. Noah's children should have known Noah was a righteous and patient father when he built the ark, but only after being judged by the flood did they know of Noah's greatness. Therefore, Noah's children only have the justification of being his children, but they were not true children.
That is why you cannot trust someone who respects you because of your great result. That is why you cannot trust fallen human beings. Someone who loves you because you bring great results, then this guy will be disappointed in you any time you fail and cannot bring (good) results. That is fallen man. How can I maintain, how can I keep that kind of respect and my standard no matter what without changing my heart? If you love someone, how can you keep that kind of heart and love for them?
18. The children should have known their father was suffering and should have comforted him when the world persecuted and rejected him. Looking at Ham’s shame when Noah was lying naked, you can see what kind of mind Ham had when Noah was suffering.
How can we inherit? Participate together, suffer together, sacrifice together, have a joyful life together. You always need to participate. Without participating you cannot become a co-creator. That is why we need to participate in God’s providence. We need to participate with True Father and True Mother together, suffer (with them) together, have a joyful life together, participate in everything together. That is the way to inherit God’s heart and True Parents’ heart.
19. Peter was by the Lord's side when Jesus performed miracles and wonders, but he ran away when Jesus carried the cross and bled as he was being beaten. When Peter saw that the Lord did not show his ability even though he was beaten, Peter felt deceived and abandoned him.
When Father went to prison, he said some of them (his disciples) left him. “Wow! I respected Rev. Moon as the messiah. How come he has gone to jail?” That is why when you just see external miracles and external results and respect somebody, that kind of standard of faith cannot last.
17. A person's mind is cunning. He acts subserviently when he thinks he will benefit, and when he is sad because he failed, he thinks, "Oh, I was fooled."
Fallen man’s heart is not easy to trust. It always changes like the weather.
18. Given the incident in which Noah lay bare, some people question why Noah had to show what made him ugly. However, it should be seen that there was a reason why the father had to show his children his drunken naked body. Ham and his brothers should think that it was God's work and not change their respect for their father.
That is the reason God gave a test through Noah’s naked body. There was a reason. In God’s providence there is a reason all the time. That is why whenever we decide something, judge something, do not decide in an external way.
Then How to Inherit?
1. To inherit, first respect him, take him as my Abel, and make him my role model.
If you do not have a role model, if you do not have a respectful Abel, your life of faith is in a lot of danger. You need to find him. If you cannot find him, you need to become that kind of model. Respect is very important. When I respect Noah, I can inherit his good points. When I respect Isaac, I can inherit his absolute obedience. When I respect Jesus, I inherit his true love. He could forgive his enemy. When you treat Jesus as your Abel, as your role model, then someday you will become exactly like that. That is why respect is very important. Respect. I love George Washington. I love Abraham Lincoln. As long as I respect them, I can inherit (from them). Respect is very important. Respect. Just a horizontal, horizontal, horizontal way, you cannot inherit at all. You need to respect our father and mother even though they have some weak points. You need to respect your Abel.
2. Second, you must thoroughly resemble him by setting standards of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience to him.
If there is no absolute faith, you cannot inherit. If there is no absolute love, you cannot inherit. All central figures had this element of faith, absolute faith and love and obedience. Look at Isaac, how much he obeyed! Look at Abraham, how much he obeyed! You look at Noah, how much he obeyed! You look at Jesus, how much he obeyed and completely gave his life to God and all mankind! Obedience! How to inherit? Obedience! And love God more than anyone. And believe in God like Noah and Abraham more than any other one. This is the way to inherit.
3. Third, you must participate in what he does. In other words, you have to live and die together with him.
Participation is important. Adam and Eve did not participate together with God. Noah’s sons did not participate together with him in his suffering. They did not work together. Why did Isaac inherit from Abraham? He worked together with him, slept with him and respected him. That is why he (Isaac) was the one to inherit.
4. Fourth, you have to work harder and put more in.
You need to work harder than your Abel, harder than your father and mother, harder than God and True Parents. You need to have that kind of content. That is the way to inherit.
5. Fifth, you must love God's will more than that person and have a sense of ownership.
There is no need to change your character and mind according to the environment. You need to have ownership.
6. Sixth, if the person has flaws, never criticize him. Rather, take responsibility for him. I will protect him under any circumstances. And I will help put him in the position where he has succeeded.
Wow! This is a top secret about how to inherit! If you have ten children, six children, including our True Children, including our blessed families, even though there are so many True Children and all blessed families, (they should?) apply this principle of how to inherit. This is very important guidance.
Thank you very much.