Ep 415 - True Mother and the Spirit-led Churches
True Mother and the Spirit-Led Churches #50 - December 14, 2021
Recently I have a strong heart and mind, wow, if I had a lot of time, I would like to visit each of our blessed families in person. I miss all of you. Recently I visited a few families. I had an incredible and beautiful experience. I feel that we are really one family under God and True Parents.
Today I’d like to talk about “True Mother and the spirit-led churches” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
In Israel, 2,000 years ago, God made many preparations before the birth of Jesus. He prepared the people of Israel ahead of time to welcome Jesus. He prepared so that Jesus could have his heavenly family, unite the nation and then bring salva-tion to the world. However, the central figures of the providence at that time cared more about their daily lives than about God's circumstances or His profound Will. As a result of their not recognizing and attending Jesus properly, Je-sus was sent to the cross.
During the 2,000 years since Jesus' resurrection, God has been working through Christian culture to awaken and prepare people as Brides to attend the Returning Lord. He called Korea to be His chosen nation. Although Korea has but a short history of Christianity, God led the people of Korea to establish churches to make internal preparations to welcome the Returning Lord both before and after the country's liberation.
If it is said that the 4,000-year history of God's providence of restoration laid the foundation for preparing (for) the only begotten Son; the 2,000-year period after Jesus was such a history to welcome the only begotten daughter, that is, to receive the bride of the Messiah. Then, Christianity was the religion of the bride.
If the only-begotten Son is in a holy marriage with his bride, the only-begotten daughter, the Messiah will not have to come again forever. Only time is an issue. This is because if God's only begotten son and only begotten daughter meet and become a holy marriage, the kingdom of heaven on this earth will surely be established over time. Then, True Parents' Holy Marriage in 1960 was the greatest feast and greatest day in human history!
Actually True Parents’ wedding ceremony is more important than anything else: the birth of True Father, the birth of True Mother are also important, God’s Day and True Parents Day are also important, but the greatest feast and greatest day in human history was True Parents’ Holy wedding. Because of True Parents’ Holy Wedding, God’s kingdom of heaven on earth began.
In Cheolsan, North Pyeongan Province, there was a spirit-led church, the Holy Lord Church, with an elderly lady pastor named Kim Seong-do, which had indemnified the mission of Eve. After the death of Rev. Kim Seong-do, God di-rectly guided Rev. Heo Ho-bin and her husband, who established the Inside the Womb Church, to make internal preparations to attend the Returning Lord.
In North Korea, as the power of the communist authorities grew stronger, the persecution of religion became severe. In August 1946, Rev. Heo Ho-bin was taken to the Daedong Detention Center in Pyongyang. While in jail she received a revelation that she would meet the Returning Lord. Around the same time True Father was arrested while evangelizing in Pyongyang and was taken to the same jail. While in the jail, True Father managed to send a note to Rev. Heo through her chief disciple. However, the note was discovered by a prison guard and True Father was tortured so severely that his teeth were broken.
It was during that time, before I came down to South Korea, that Rev. Heo's mother called me to go see her after receiving a revelation about me. I was then six years old. Rev. Heo's church was fulfilling the mission of the Bride of the Lord at the Second Advent, and Rev. Heo's mother gave me a benediction that I would take the position of that Bride. She said in her prayer that I was supposed to fulfill a great mission. I still vividly recall it: an elderly lady in a white Korean dress said that she had received a revelation about me from Heaven and she called me to come into her room alone in order to give me that blessing. (1999.10.21, Punta del Este, Uruguay)
God doesn't know how much labor, sacrifice, and indemnity he put into sending his only begotten daughter to this earth.
Look at the indemnity that Christianity paid after Jesus. Look at how much indemnity True Father paid for his only begotten daughter in Korea.
Then we need to know how precious the existence of True Mother is.
We are so grateful. We are now working together, uniting together with True Mother. We are really trying to achieve God’s will. Now we are working centered on God’s second seven-year course. Please do all your best to focus on the December 18 event, the Blessing festival. Let’s really make True Mother happy.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Who Is God?
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.
11. God is the God of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience.
12. God is the subject of true love, true life, and true lineage.
13. God is the subject of conscience.
14. God is a God of bitter pain.
15. God is a God of mercy.
16. God is a God of sorrow.
17. God is a being who needs to be liberated.
Today, in the series of lectures on Who God Is, I would like to share a message with the subject of “God is the subject of conscience.”
Last time I shared about this, but I would like to repeat again this one important topic: “Who is God?” When you share this series of lectures on who God is, we can understand very clearly God’s character, God’s nature, and how to relate (this understanding) to my life of faith.
13. God Is the Subject of Conscience.
<PHG 98> There is nothing I do that my conscience does not know. It knows everything. Any time the body thinks about doing something bad, the conscience always objects, but the body can manage to pull the mind where it wants to because, since the fall, the power of fallen love is stronger than the power of the conscience. However, when the conscience reaches perfection, and connects in a relationship with God and True Love, there will be no problem.
We should be really grateful that we have a conscience. If human beings do not have a conscience, human restoration is impossible.
God believes in the power of conscience that every human being has. That is why God is constantly appealing to the human conscience. Satan is well aware that as long as all human beings have a conscience, they will return to God, so they will eventually perish.
Conscience is my eternal teacher. I should be grateful because my conscience always teaches me to live righteously. Conscience always appeals to God to return. Conscience never tires and is constantly advising me.
We should be so grateful to our conscience. It is continuously guiding us, teaching us. How really great it is!
The conscience is always righteous. Right GPS. Conscience tells me to do the right thing without compromise under any circumstances. The conscience clearly states what is evil and what is good, no matter how evil the circumstances.
However, no fallen man has ever (fully?) obeyed his conscience and freed his conscience from evil. Fallen humans do not know how much they hurt their conscience, how much they deceived and how much pain they caused. Therefore, the liberation of conscience is the liberation of God.
Then man is a sinner among sinners before his conscience. You don't know how much you have denied and disobeyed God's commands and God's voice through your conscience!
That is why we must know that our conscience is weeping for me with a very sorrowful heart. My conscience is weeping every moment because of me.
Can you imagine? How much we hurt our conscience! Our conscience without tiring is constantly giving us advice: “You need to go that way; you need to go this way. How come you went the wrong way?” Without stopping it continuously guides me, teaches me, advises me until I have life, until I am free. It continuously non-stop teaches me and guides me.
However, how much we hurt our conscience! How much we cheated, how much we deceived, how much we ignored our conscience! That’s why our conscience has strong resentment. “When can you follow your conscience? When can you follow my advice? Why do you go your own way?” Behind our conscience God strongly guides us.
The problem is that the power of fallen human conscience is much, much weaker than the power of love, so when horizontal temptation or love comes, my conscience cannot control the power of desire in the flesh.
Therefore, in order to overcome the love that comes from a horizontal position, you must add the power of love from God to the power of your conscience. Therefore, if we give our jeongseong devotion and receive the love and spiritual strength from God, we will be able to overcome horizontal love.
Why did Adam and Eve fall? What is the reason they fell? Because the power of love was much, much stronger than their own conscience. The conscience knows that. Adam and Eve went the wrong way. Their conscience knew this very well.
Then how can we overcome physical temptations, especially Chapter Two? The Chapter 2 power of love is very, very strong -- stronger than our conscience. So in order to overcome, in order to follow our conscience, there is only one way. The power of conscience is much weaker than the power of love. Therefore, in order to control our physical limitations, our physical desires centering on physical love, we need to borrow power. You need to borrow power! How can you borrow power? As long as you are aligned to Heavenly Father and put (invest) your jeongseong and utmost sincerity, you can feel God’s power. You can feel God’s strength. When you borrow power from the spiritual world plus the power of conscience, you surely will overcome any kind of horizontal environment, horizontal temptation. This is a really, really important point I am sharing with you.
Thus True Father said when the conscience reaches perfection, and connects in a relationship with God and True Love, there will be no problem.
Even though each human being has a conscience, why isn’t it powerful? Because of no connection to God. Without vertical alignment, without connecting to God centering on our utmost sincerity, jeongseong and devotion, always you are defeated by the power of physical love. It does not work because the power of conscience(?) is much, much weaker than horizontal love. The power of love is much, much stronger than anything else. If the power of conscience were stronger than love, then what would the problem be?
God wants to dominate, God wants to control everything by true love, not by anything else. That is why the power of love is the greatest, even though it is a horizontal power. That’s why we need to have vertical power: our conscience plus God’s love, God’s love! As long as we connect to God centering on our conscience, nobody wins(?). The power of conscience with God’s love is stronger than anything else. That is why without connecting to God, without relating to God centering on our jeongseong and devotion, there is no way to overcome physical love, physical temptation.
That is the reason outside people cannot overcome, even though they hear God’s voice through their conscience. Why can they not overcome? Because they do not believe in God, they do not know how to borrow power from the spiritual world and our Heavenly True Parent. Wow! True Father teaches us very, very clearly.
<PHG 98> We can only find the original self where there is absolute obedience. God is our parent among parents, our teacher among teachers, and our lord among lords. This becomes the Three Great Subjects Principle, centering on heaven and earth. We must unite completely from the position where our conscience gains the position of object to the subject principle. If our conscience is not in a more important position than our parents, or our teachers or the king of a country, we cannot become the object of love for God's love. The conscience must not be educated. We must attend the conscience in the place of God.
True Father said that you can find your true self only in absolute obedience to the commands of my conscience.
Therefore, True Father is telling us that we must serve our conscience as the parent of our parents, the teacher among the teachers, and the master among the masters, just like God.
True Father said, “If our conscience is not in a more important position than our parents, or our teachers or the king of a country, we cannot become the object of love for God's love.”
Father said that the conscience needs no education. Therefore, we must serve our conscience absolutely in God's place.
Not just follow the conscience; following the conscience is OK. What I mean is that it (needs to be) centering on God. We should treat our conscience like God, like God himself. Why do outside people not have power even though they have a conscience? They do not treat their conscience as God’s voice. They need to serve their conscience as (if it was) God.
Of course, the conscience is not equal to God; it is not the same. But Father tells us that we should treat our conscience as (if it were) God, vertically connected. Whenever you hear the voice of your conscience, you need to think that this voice comes from God. This is the point.
<258-63> The conscience precedes God. It means that you know what you will do before God knows. Do you understand? God is supposed to know it after you act. Why is it like that? Your being is another personality. In Unification Church terms, you are an individual embodiment of truth. If God knows simultaneously with you what you will do, it means that you are one of the attributes of His body; you become one body with Him. It means that there is no concept of reciprocity which wants one’s partner to be thousands of times better than oneself.
The Three Great Teachers Are in Our Conscience
Just now Father was talking about this.
1. The conscience comes before parents.
2. The conscience comes before teachers.
3. The conscience comes before God.
Father sometimes challenges us; when you do something, do you think God knows (about it) first or your conscience knows first? Many people say, “God is the one who knows first.” Father said, “You are wrong. If God knows what I am going to do, if God knows more than my conscience, if he knows earlier than I do, then Adam and Eve, human beings, never would have fallen, never, ever would have fallen. Why?
If God knows what I am going to do earlier than I, how can human beings fall? If God knows earlier than I, then my body is only an extension of God’s body, like one part of the hand and one part of the legs, one part of God’s body. Then how can he fall? He cannot fall. You need to know that each human being is an individual truth body, completely independent. As long as each human being has independence from God, when I am going to do something, I have decided something, I am going somewhere, I have already decided -- God does not know yet. My conscience comes before God. You need to know about that. If human beings are only an extension of God’s body, how can God himself fall? He cannot fall.
God respects each human being as an individual embodiment of truth, individual independence. I had never heard this from anyone (else). True Father taught us (this). That’s why my conscience comes before parents; my conscience comes before teachers; my conscience comes before God. That is why it is completely independent. However, my conscience is the root of God. My root is Heavenly Father. My conscience comes from God.
> Even if God is the root of conscience, it doesn’t mean that God and conscience are the same being. Just now I mentioned that; (they are) not the same. (Each human being is an individual embodiment of truth). I really love True Father’s explanation.
> Absolute obedience to the conscience can subjugate the body.
That is why I treat my conscience…
Even though I am an independent person from God, I need to treat my conscience as God.
Even though it is not the same (as God), I need to treat, I need to serve my conscience as God because God is the root of conscience.
> God is the root of conscience, but, it doesn’t mean that God and the conscience are the same being.
We need to know this very, very clearly.
God really respects each human being. You are an independent truth body separate from God.
You are completely independent. That is why you need to take ownership of yourself. As long as you are an independent being from God, you need to take ownership. You need to become a co-creator like God. Co-creator.
If God knows what I am going to do, if God knows earlier than I do, then human beings are not independent. Then there is no need to say “co-creator.” Each human being is a co-creator. We need to know that we are a completely independent being from God. However, we need to know that God is the root of conscience. This is really amazing guidance.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Joseph’s Course - Joseph’s Faith and Dreams
1. Joseph had great faith in his dream. He believed that the dreams he had had were something God was revealing to him, so he absolutely believed in them. He had absolute faith in God who works through dreams. Because of such faith, he believed that God had expectations and a will for him no matter the circumstances, so he did not change in any kind of environment. God often guided Joseph in his dreams and showed him the direction he should go.
Joseph was a man of dreams. He really absolutely believed in his dreams. He really believed that God was always guiding him, instructing him, through his dreams. That’s why once he had a dream, he absolutely believed in it. “This came from God. This is God’s revelation. This is God’s direction. It will surely happen someday.” Can you imagine when he was young, his brothers called him a man of dreams.
2. Many people have frequent dreams when their environment changes. You often dream when you sleep at a different house. This shows that the spirit world cooperates with us. When times change or when you’re traveling somewhere, whenever the destination changes, there are cases when the spirit world is concerned and foretells the future. When you look at this, you can see that the spirit world is always trying to protect us and take responsibility for us.
Do not misunderstand me. This is my own case; maybe not everybody is the same. I have a public mission. Wherever I go, I may sleep one night (in a place). I know exactly that church, that house, that area’s members’ situation. God teaches me through my dreams. What is the current situation in this area, this church and this house? I have been so amazed by God’s guidance through my dreams everywhere! I (may) just sleep (there) one night. I know the next day what will happen, what kind of environment it is here, a great environment, a sorrowful environment, a bad environment. Wow! Really I can feel that the spiritual world is guiding me and teaching me. Recently I have become more and more sensitive to that.
We are spiritual beings. We need to receive that kind of guidance from heaven. Look at Joseph. Throughout (history?) the central figures -- always God guides us through dreams. Especially this Joseph, how God guided him through dreams. He had dreams many, many times -- in prison and before he came to Egypt. His brothers sold him. Why did his brothers struggle with him and even Jacob struggled with him? “Will I bow down to you? Eleven stars and sun and moon bow down to you?” Joseph was a chosen guy. His quality of blood lineage was really different.
Do not ignore your dreams.
3. Our frequent dreams are evidence that the spirit world and our ancestors are cooperating with us. Since we humans have to use our bodies on earth and become the substance of love while we live, the spirit world takes interest in me and informs us through dreams in advance. The wish of the spirit world and ancestors is to guide their descendants on earth in hopes that they will become the people needed in the Providence of Restoration and become the true people God desires.
Spiritual world is already guiding us through dreams. Sometimes when I wonder where to go, what to do -- kind of struggling, but centered on a public purpose -- always True Father appears, sometimes True Mother appears, sometimes my ancestors appear and come to me and give me very clear guidance. In the beginning it was very symbolic; that is why I needed to interpret it well. I needed to have data. When I … this company (?country?) and what happened yesterday … and through my experience I know that this company (?country?) shows something.
Whenever I receive persecution, always I can see in my dreams a flood, a lot of flood flowing down, and I am swimming in the middle of the flood, then I know that persecution is coming, definitely coming. Then I prepare my heart. I have to be stronger. Then God always tells me … you need to prepare your heart. You will have this kind of happening, that kind of happening.
Really spiritual world wants to protect us, God wants to protect us. That’s why do not simply ignore your dreams. God will teach us through dreams. Look at Joseph and how Heavenly Father guided him. Jesus’ mother and Jesus’ stepfather, Joseph, (received) everything through dreams.
4. Joseph lived an unjust prison life, but he did not get frustrated there. Rather, he gained respect from his peers and came to a position of guiding them. Everything came together as Joseph had prophesied to them. Some prisoners went out with hope under Joseph's guidance when they went out, while others were punished as Joseph had said.
5. One day, a chief baker and chief cupbearer from the Pharaoh's Palace entered the prison. Joseph interpreted their dreams and prophesized. Joseph prophesied to them that the baker would be put to death, but the cupbearer would be reinstated. At that time, Joseph asked not to forget himself, who interpreted their dreams.
6. Everything happened according to Joseph's interpretation. But the cupbearer, who was restored to his position, forgot what Joseph had asked for. This was very unfortunate. Fallen man always forgets what is indebted to others but always remembers helping others. Because of these thoughts and habits, interpersonal relationships are cut off and no further development is possible. Rather, it should be our life of faith to not forget what we are indebted to and forget that others owe us, but we are unable to do that.
7. The Bible also tells us not to let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. when we show kindness to others. We must reflect on whether we are really doing it according to the words of Jesus.
8. You should forget what you owe to others (?others owe you?), but never forget what you owe to others.
9. Looking at the history of God's providence, God gave many instructions to the central figures through dreams. Therefore, the deeper our faith, the more spiritual communication with God.
10. Through dreams, God does many works. Dreams are channels through which God comes to us. And the dream is never a dream that is shown only for a moment. Know that most of the dreams taught by Heaven are concerned about my eternal life and growth.
Many people say, “Once I had this dream, but time has passed, so it is over.” Do not think this. Any dream (can) connect to your spiritual life, to your eternal growth. That’s why, do not forget it.
“Why does this kind of dream come to me?” Very often there is a meaning. In the beginning God shows us in a very symbolic way, then later on in more detail, then later on God teaches us and True Father appears to us directly and talks to us through sharing his words. It is like direct dominion.
11. People without dreams are often very realistic or intelligent people.
Those who are very, very realistic are not looking for God; (they are) just only very busy (concerned with) what to eat, what to wear, what to drink, very focused on “my job.” This kind of person seldom has a dream. Such (overly) intelligent people have no need for God because they believe in their own intellect. They are not much connected to the spiritual side; they don’t have dreams. And in many cases, they are very dull people in a spiritual way.
However, in the other case, there are those who do not have any dreams before God, and those who do their job well day by day do not have any dreams. (It is just as) if your own children are doing very well, they are doing their own job very well, they study very well, then (their) parents don’t need to say anything. That’s why when you are really doing very well according to God’s will, according to God’s concern, then you seldom have a dream -- because you absolutely follow and practice God’s will.
However, those who are spiritually sensitive and who are always in heartistic communication with God receive many, many instructions from God through dreams.
I think dreams are very important. We learn through Joseph’s faith and dreams. If you are really desperate, very seriously praying about (something), then God teaches us because God is our parent. Why doesn't God intervene (with) me? Why doesn’t God appear to me? Why no dreams? You do not have desperation. If you have really have desperation, really serious, like life and death, God surely will teach you. Whenever you have problems with your spouse or children, however, if you are very serious, spiritual world will guide you and teach you how to talk to your children, how to talk with your spouse, how to solve your own problems.
Wow! Our determination, our seriousness, our desperation are very important. Our life of faith should be like that. Desperation! In order to accomplish God’s will, we should be like that. In order to save people’s lives, we should be like that. Desperation and jeongseong. Then God will surely guide us.
We learned very important things from Joseph’s faith and dreams.
(Response to sharing) In my life of faith I really appreciate that kind of dream. I receive clear direction about where I should go. That’s why I realize that God is love. He really wants to protect me. He wants to send me in the right direction. How can I deny (him)? Through dreams I cannot deny the spiritual world, I cannot deny God, I cannot deny God’s love.♦
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