Ep 404 - True Mother's Message: Cheon Il Guk Celebration Commemorating the Events of the Holy Ascension of Sun Myung Moon, the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind
Cheon Il Guk Victory Celebration Commemorating the Events Marking the 9th Anniversary of the Holy Ascension of Sun Myung Moon #39
Every day we are so grateful and thankful. As long as we keep that kind of gratitude, our life is very, very meaningful and powerful. We can overcome any difficult circumstances and situations. That is the power of gratitude. This is God’s will; in any circumstance we can overcome with our appreciation and gratitude.
Today I’d like to introduce True Mother’s Message, “Cheon Il Guk Victory Celebration Commemorating the Events Marking the 9th Anniversary of the Holy Ascension of Sun Myung Moon, the True Parent of Heaven, Earth and Humankind.”
Today we will finish True Mother’s messages like (about?) Cheonbo and True Father’s ascension time. Tomorrow I would like to start True Mother’s book again.
True Mother’s Message : “Cheon Il Guk Victory Celebration Commemorating the Events Marking the 9th Anniversary of the Holy Ascension of Sun Myung Moon, the True Parent of Heaven, Earth and Humankind” - 9.19 by the Heavenly Calendar in the 9th Year of Cheon Il Guk (October 24, 2021) - Cheongshim Peace World Center and Online
Heaven Blessed the Korean Peninsula to Become the Birthplace of True Parents, and for This We Are Thankful
My dear leaders and blessed families around the world sharing this day together! This is a happy day. We know how much Heavenly Parent has waited for this first step toward living in the kingdom of heaven on earth where Heavenly Parent’s dream has been realized—the dream of all people living together with True Parents, attending Heavenly Parent’s embodiment on earth. To bring about that day when our Heavenly Parent can begin living on the earth plane, Heaven blessed the Korean Peninsula to become the birthplace of True Parents, and for this we are thankful.
Consider the indemnity that the nation of Israel had to pay because Jesus was born in Israel but was not welcomed and died on the cross.
Even though Dr. Yong is a Korean, (though) I am a Korean, God blessed the Korean Peninsula and sent True Parents, but if you do not fully accept True Parents, think about the suffering of the Korean people in the future.
Therefore, Korea truly realizes the importance of (its?) responsibilities for the remainder of her life as long as True Mother is alive, centering on the blessed families of Korea.
The Korean People Still Have to Awaken to Their Calling
In light of today’s reality, however, we can see that the Korean people still have to awaken to their calling. True Parents have desired that Korea, a nation that Heaven has blessed, become a unified nation that attends Heaven. We desired that Korea and its people can confidently speak of, and demonstrate to the world, the way of life of attending Heaven. With that hope in mind, True Parents held onto Heaven to this day in an unthinkable environment. In the situation in which Christianity has not been able to fulfill its responsibility, we have invested all our devotion and effort as the True Parents, ensuring that the United States and Japan would surely come together as one. Words cannot describe how God toiled to create this environment in which we can contemplate tomorrow with hope.
Even in such an environment that Korea, Japan, and the United States do not welcome, it is truly surprising that True Parents are paying Indemnity on a cosmic level and laying the groundwork for today. We should really be thankful for True Parents' hard work and devotion.
We should be really thankful for True Parents for laying the tangible foundation for the future providence with hope as the foundation for their indemnity and victory.
Together with True Mother, we are now on the original course of creation after the declaration of Cheon Il Guk, which no one has been to in history. We are going along with True Mother on a path that True Father has not been able to experience. How amazing is that?
And inheriting the foundation of True Parents' victory, from now on, we must take responsibility for the providence of Cheon Il Guk's expansion with the spirit of ownership.
We Realize That Heaven Surely Has Been Preparing for This One Day
Based on the course of True Parents’ hard work that has deeply touched both heaven and earth, and with the beginning of the age of the Asia-Pacific Civilization, many countries around the world are, together with True Parents, jointly seeking out and taking the path to a truly peaceful world. Based on our feelings upon listening to Director-General Yun’s report about his visit to Cambodia, we realize that Heaven surely has been preparing for this one day.
From now on, True Mother says that the end of all providences will come to fruition in Korea, centering on the Asia-Pacific Civilization era.
God’s Difficult Work to Bring Forth True Leaders and righteous People Who Can Stand at the Vanguard of This Effort
National-level leaders from various faiths have resolved to uphold True Parents’ teachings and work together to forge the path to a world of peace. They are pooling their expertise and wisdom for the purpose of creating a world wherein all people live together as one peaceful family, which is our Heavenly Parent’s dream. We know that no words can describe God’s difficult work to bring forth true leaders and righteous people who can stand at the vanguard of this effort.
We already heard from Dr. Yun’s report how he dealt with the Cambodian government and how he met the Prime Minister of Cambodia, how he negotiated about the North and South Korean providence. Why did such a righteous person and nation appear in front of True Mother? I am always reminded of True Father’s words and an important principle:
“A perfect plus creates a perfect minus.”
The objects corresponding to True Mother's determination and earnest desire are bound to appear. This is the truth of this universe.
The reason why our dreams don't come true is because we don't have the earnest and desperate heart to make our dreams come true. Second, because they (we?) didn't pay the price to make that dream come true.
I have told you this many times. Water only boils at 100 degrees. If the degree of our devotion does not reach 100 degrees like the temperature of water, our dreams will not come true and God and the spirit world will never move.
The reason we offer our prayers and devotion is so that our earnestness and desperation may reach the throne of God. With our utmost devotion and jeongseong, we must be so desperate that the throne on which God sits must move.
Because True Mother's determination and wish for the reunification of Korea are great, so desperate and so earnest, countries like Cambodia and righteous people will surely appear.
A perfect plus can create a perfect minus. To the extent that I love God, my object partner will definitely appear. Why doesn’t my object partner appear? Because my earnestness and my desperation are not that strong and do not reach heaven. Definitely according to the amount and degree of my jeongseong, my object partner will appear. That is a universal principle.
Heaven Cannot Wait Any Longer
Yes, Heaven cannot wait any longer. The blessed families of the Unification Community, especially the blessed families of Korea, have a big responsibility. To take the first step in transforming Korea into a nation that attends Heaven, you need to trust in God, become one with True Mother, the only begotten Daughter, and fulfill your responsibility during the six months remaining [from the Seonghwa anniversary to the end of the lunar year]. On the day you accomplish this, Heaven will be together with us. That will be the day on which we realize our dream and our Heavenly Parent’s dream. I ask you to please keep this in your heart and to do your very best.
True Mother again and again stresses that heaven cannot wait any longer. In that sense, True Mother says that the blessed families of the Unification Family have a great responsibility. And she says that the (most important) responsibility among those responsibilities is the providence of Cheonbowon.
Even though it takes time, if you have desperation, if you have an earnest heart with utmost sincerity, God will surely show (you) the way to achieve your goal. Do not say because of finances or other things, this and that… If we are really determined with desperation, God always shows the way. God mobilizes the spiritual world according to your determination, according to your jeongseong. Surely God is alive! God is a living God! He will surely show (you) the way to accomplish the goal.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 4 - God’s character - Absolute Sex
Today is the last in the series about Absolute Sex.
God is:
• The subject and harmonious union of original internal nature and original external form.
• The harmonious union of original masculinity and original femininity.
• The subject partner having qualities of internal nature and masculinity towards the universe.
Based upon this EDP content, let’s study Father’s word centering on Absolute Sex.
The Reason We Must Be Respectful Before Our Partner
If men and women understand that their sexual organs belong to their partners, they must receive love with their heads bowed in respect. Love comes from our partners. If we have no partner, there is no love. Because we realize that love comes from our partners, we must be respectful before our partners. In a place where people do not work for the benefit of others, there can be no love. You must understand that only by absolutely living for the sake of your spouse will you be able to receive absolute love. (August 1, 1996, In Search of the Origin of the Universe)
Wow! True Parents made a surprising and revolutionary declaration. That is, the male and female sexual organs belong to their spouses. How many people know this truth?
Many people say, “My sexual organ belongs to me. What are you talking about?” They do not know Heavenly Father’s wisdom(?).
Another surprising proclamation is that men are born for women, and women are born for men. Therefore, the owner of a man is the woman, and the owner of the woman is the man. This proclamation was made based on the truth for the sake of the universe.
According to this logic, from the point of view of true love, the owner of man is God, and the owner of God is man in the position of His children. That is, parents are owned by their children. That is, the subject partner belongs to the object partner and the object partner belongs to the subject partner.
This is an amazing principle. We can say that this is dual characteristics. I am me; you are me. This (is an) inseparable relationship in which there is a subject partner and an object partner. The subject partner belongs to the object partner; the object partner belongs to God; and God belongs to human beings. Human beings belong to God. That is why ownership belongs to God. Do not say, “I am the owner.” We belong to God. We need to understand this concept very, very clearly.
Therefore, my sexual organ is not mine, so it must be kept holy until the master appears. It is a thief to use one's own sexual organ without the owner's permission, or to abuse and play with it.
And True Parents explained why people should be humble. Because love cannot create itself, it must come from the object partner. You cannot create love. You cannot create joy and happiness by yourself. (Say) you are just living alone - one month, two months, three months, a year. Are you lonely? Or still happy? If you can create love and joy by yourself, then we have no need for God, no need for an object partner, no need of anyone because I can create joy and happiness by myself. However, if you are alone, maybe a few days is ok? One month, two months, three months, what do you feel? You are very lonely. It means love only comes from the object partner. As long as love comes from the object partner... Therefore, in order to receive love from an object partner, I must be humble with a heart to serve the object partner. From this point of view, the principle of the universe is the logic of living for the sake of others from one to ten.(?)
God Is the Owner of the Sexual Organs
Today we are witnessing a world that is in a culture of hell. How can we change this world? It is only possible centering on God's love. What kind of love is it? It is absolute, unique, unchanging, eternal love. This begins from the sexual organs. Up until now, the sexual organs have been used as a weapon by Satan. Therefore, up until now God has hated the sexual organs.
So, how can we liberate the sexual organs? God will come looking for the liberated sexual organs. God is the owner of the sexual organs. Isn't that right? So how can you deny it? Now you understand this clearly. Let's all participate in this great achievement. (August 1, 1996, In Search of the Origin of the Universe)
Then who owns our sexual organ? What we need to know clearly is that the owner of my sexual organ is not me, but the one who created me.
Sometimes Father says my sexual organ belongs to my spouse. Sometimes Father says it belongs to Heavenly Parent, and sometimes he says it belongs to our own parents. We need to clarify this.
In that sense, the first owner of my sexual organ is God because he is the one who created human beings. The second is that my sexual organ belongs to my parents because I came from my parents. Third, my sexual organ belongs to my spouse. Fourth, my sexual organ belongs to my children and my descendants.
I emphasize this last one over and over. What does faith mean? Faith is treating myself as God’s belonging.
Again, faith is treating myself as God’s belonging. My eyes, my nose, my mouth, my sexual organ, my hands and my feet are all God’s belonging. The fall is thinking of everything as my own. My children, my husband, my parents, my property, everything: me - me - me - me - me - me - me - me - me. That kind of concept of “me,” if the concept of “I” is included, it is Satan.
So how do we eradicate free sex? It is nothing but education about absolute sex.
It is very clear. How can we be liberated from Free Sex? We need to know the value of Absolute Sex. What does Absolute Sex mean? This is very important. We need to educate even young children how important it is. If we use free sex, immature love, then you are destroying yourself because our sexual organ is very, very precious. We have to be free from free sex. We need to have absolute sex. Fallen man’s love is immature love, not related to God’s love. That’s why until we become mature, until we possess God’s true love, we need to have a lot of training. If you go to the ocean... Parents say “Don’t go to the ocean if you do not know how to swim. If you do not know how to swim and go to the ocean and try to swim, you will surely die.” However, if you know how to swim, then you are free. You can go everywhere.
That’s why God said, “If you eat the fruit of the (tree of the) knowledge of Good and Evil, you will surely die because you do not know how to handle true love. Immature love. However, if you know how to handle true love centering on God, you are totally free.
The Road That the Family Federation for World Peace Must Follow
How can we make absolute, unique, unchanging, eternal love? We do this with our sexual organs. How can we protect those sexual organs? That is the road that the Family Federation for World Peace must go. Without this kind of concept, it will be impossible to create a free world that is eternally free from Satan. Everybody who supports this idea, raise your hands (everybody raises their hands). You have all made a promise! When you go home, say to each other.
"This Absolute sexual organ, this unique sexual organ, this eternal sexual organ, this unchanging sexual organ is not mine, but yours, and I will protect it for you very well," and as you say it, be thankful toward each other. And you must say to each other, "If you give such precious love to me, I will serve you in love eternally.” Starting from families who can do that, a world organized with families where our absolute, eternal, unique and unchanging God can directly enter will be established. (August 1, 1996, In Search of the Origin of the Universe)
Father asked, “Do you know why I created the Family Federation for World Peace? In order to declare Absolute Sex.”
From now on, the road that the Family Federation for World Peace should take is clearly defined. It is to educate all mankind about absolute sex.
There are some problems with the translation of the text in the Cheon Seong Gyeong here today. They do not directly translate here. So I want to directly translate it. If we translate the words of True Parents directly, he said that the wife and husband should hold onto each other's sexual organ and make an oath. “First, my sexual organ is yours, and your sexual organ is mine. Secondly, our sexual organ is the absolute sexual organ, the only sexual organ, the eternal sexual organ, the unchanging sexual organ. So I will keep it for you forever.”
True Parents say that families who know and practice the value of this absolute sexual organ go directly to the kingdom of Heaven.
Today’s Youth Ministry: Jacob’s Course - Leah Who Forgot Her Position
I think we will talk for a few more days about Jacob’s course. We can learn so many things through (providential) central figures.
Genesis 29:16-32 (Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel ) Laban had two daughters. Leah was older than Rachel, but her eyes didn't sparkle, while Rachel was beautiful and had a good figure. Since Jacob was in love with Rachel, he answered, "If you will let me marry Rachel, I'll work seven years for you.“ Laban replied, "It's better for me to let you marry Rachel than for someone else to have her. So stay and work for me.“ Jacob worked seven years for Laban, but the time seemed like only a few days, because he loved Rachel so much. Jacob said to Laban, "The time is up, and I want to marry Rachel now!“ So Laban gave a big feast and invited all their neighbors. But that evening he brought Leah to Jacob, who married her and spent the night with her. Laban also gave Zilpah to Leah as her servant woman.
The next morning Jacob found out that he had married Leah, and he asked Laban, "Why did you do this to me? Didn't I work to get Rachel? Why did you trick me?“ Laban replied, "In our country the older daughter must get married first. After you spend this week with Leah, you may also marry Rachel. But you will have to work for me another seven years.“ At the end of the week of celebration, Laban let Jacob marry Rachel, and he gave her his servant woman Bilhah. Jacob loved Rachel more than he did Leah, but he had to work another seven years for Laban. The LORD knew that Jacob loved Rachel more than he did Leah, and so he gave children to Leah, but not to Rachel. Leah gave birth to a son and named him Reuben, because she said, "The LORD has taken away my sorrow. Now my husband will love me more than he does Rachel."
1. Leah was deeply saddened by Jacob's love for her sister Rachel more than herself. But she rejoiced in having sons. She was overjoyed, as her husband also rejoiced to see her sons and felt that God had granted her wish as well.
2. However, Leah’s satisfaction was not the satisfaction shared with the people around her, but more of a self-centered satisfaction. When you are joyful, but people around you are disappointed, that is not complete joy. Having feelings of disappointment centered on yourself then feeling joyful when your wish comes true is nothing but self-centered joy to the end.
3. Therefore, in our life of faith, most of the things that are “disappointing” or “joyful” are self-centered. It is not like expressing those feelings in a public position where you are concerned about the whole. It would have been good if Leah had a good-natured heart and said about her relationship with her younger sister Rachel, “It is only natural that my husband and younger sister are close. I am just grateful to be in the shadow of them.”
4. For Jacob's first wife should have been Rachel. It was not at all in Jacob's plan that Leah became Jacob's wife. Leah must think from Rachel's point of view. From Rachel's point of view overnight, it would be that the man she loved had been taken away by another woman.
5. If Leah had had such a mind, her level of heart would have risen. If Leah had become very, very humble and had felt so sorry for Rachel, even if Leah saw that Jacob and Rachel had such a loving relationship and naturally accepted it, her heartistic level would have elevated.
6. What we can learn from the relationship between Leah and Rachel is that there is limitation when fallen human beings go beyond self-centeredness. Humans express “joy” and “disappointment” according to the background they’re born in and depending on their environment. Most people find it difficult to escape the level of heart in the background they were born in.
7. Leah lived, always comparing to Rachel. Comparing herself to her made her envious and jealous. Most people look around themselves and are subjugated by the environment. There is no need to think that somebody is receiving more love than me. Think that I am receiving the most love I can receive. There is no need to compare how much love others receive.
8. We can always live in gratitude for the environment we are given, but we always compare ourselves to others and forget our original position. We should live with gratitude and do the best as much as our intellectual ability, love ability, and what we currently have, but the reality is that we are unable to do so. If you always forget your position, you will feel disappointment and your mood will go up and down.
9. How did Leah become Jacob’s wife? Originally, Jacob was supposed to marry Rachel, but Laban tricked him into letting Leah into Rachel’s newlywed’s room. Then, knowing this background, what kind of attitude should Leah have had? Leah should have had a really sorry heart towards her sister, Rachel, and think “My sister Rachel and Jacob should really be affectionate with each other, but what if Rachel is at odds with Jacob because of me?”
10. Leah should have realized what motivated her to be loved by Jacob. Leah was to cherish her sister Rachel just like her husband Jacob did. This is because she is the younger sister that her husband loves.
11. Even in our life of faith, we forget our position, cover it horizontally, compare it, feel disappointed about it, complain, and feel joy. I always need to know who my center is. I must feel joy and sorrow centered on them. If you live centered on yourself, disappointment comes very easily, there will be more comparisons, and complaint and dissatisfaction will arise. Your emotions should always be chosen through the center.
I would like to share my fallen nature. When I was involved in the South American providence, Father mobilized the 33 (Korean?) national messiahs in Central and South America. My mission was to the commonwealth of Dominica as a national messiah. Father invited all national messiahs to come to Brazil. I went there for 40 days. Father always talked to the senior blessed couples, those who sat down in front of Father. He talked to them a long time. We were just in the middle part of the audience. My fallen nature came out. “Oh, Father only loves the 36 couples, 72 couples, only senior blessed couples. Maybe Father does not love me.” I was a little disappointed. That was my fallen nature.
That night True Father came to my room(?). I lay down with Father sleeping together (?), then I see a giant guy sleeping together with me. Then I woke up and sat down, and then this giant man woke up and sat down beside me. I recognized that he was the fau? (Father?) Father showed me his smile. Then Father was eating a Korean cookie. It looked so delicious. He ate the cookie by himself and did not give it to me. Then Father looked at me, “Do you want to eat this Korean cookie?” “Yes, Father.” Do you know how he gave it to me? This small cookie, he put this small cookie in his mouth with his saliva and put saliva on it many times. (Dr. Yong makes a spitting sound.) Then he asked me to open my mouth and put that Korean cookie into my mouth!
When a mother raises her baby, she wants to give rice to the baby and makes it soft. She chews it many times in her mouth. Other women cannot do this; only her mother or his mother can do this. That means what? True Father, how much he loves me! Why do you compare yourself with the 36 couples? You have already received so much love from Father! You need to know your position! Wow! I discovered my fallen nature, and I repented. Since that time I have never compared. How amazing it is!
12. When God created Adam and Eve and loved them more than the archangel in the position of a servant, the archangel was greatly disappointed and saddened. However, the archangel had to know well what Adam and Eve's position was. Adam’s position was the child’s position; the archangel’s position was the servant’s position. The archangel compared: “Why does God love Adam and Eve more than me?” The archangel knows that his position is that of a servant. How can he compare? He needs to know his original position. The mistakes made by the archangel are still being repeated today again and again and again.
13. To overcome this, don't compare yourself to those around you, and just appreciate the reality and position you've been given. If we always compare ourselves, we will leave our original position and Satan will come to us. If I am lacking, I am grateful for what I am lacking. If I love and thank myself for the position I am in, God will move me and fill the missing part with blessings.
We learn very important things from Leah and Rachel’s relationship. Do not compare. What God gave me, I really appreciate. Everybody has a different destination. Everybody has a different background from their ancestors. What is my job? Do not compare. Just appreciate: “I am so grateful, I am so thankful.” Someone who is very rich has a very different ancestral background. Am I very poor? I need to pay something on behalf of my ancestors. There is some reason (for my situation). Through that kind of poor situation, maybe God wants to raise me more than other people. We do not know.
That is why: do not easily compare. I have my own course. I have my own destination. I love my ancestors. I have to be responsible, no matter what, for my ancestral background. That is why: do not compare, just appreciate, be grateful, thankful. This is the point of our life of faith.♦