Ep 733 - God, Women and World Peace Part 17
God, Women and World Peace - October 28, 2022
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Key Points
The Divine Principle is a true gift from God, providing the solutions to the problems facing our society today.
Divine Principle focuses on family and total salvation and teaches the principled path that everyone must follow.
As messiahs, True Parents show all humankind the way, truth, life, love, and lineage.
The Unification Church contains the underlying principles that can resolve all complicated affairs and bitter feelings between God and the human world.
The Divine Principle is not a dogma. Dogmas and religions focused on individual – not family – salvation in the era of the restoration and liberation of the archangelic realm.
The eternal truth focuses on family and total salvation to establish one family under God and to liberate God and humankind.
Only through the Messiah, who has God’s lineage, can the eternal, unchanging, unique and absolute truth come out - never from the fallen human brain.
Satan denies, criticizes and blames the center, and tempts us to deny True Parents.
That guy is not doing this himself; he is influenced and misused by invisible Satan. You need to deal with invisible Satan, not him.
The person who has a true center is the one who protects, takes responsibility for, attends and is able to die for the center.
If I don't feel upset by anyone and treat everyone the same way, miracles will happen to those who discriminate against me, and they will apologize.
The way to love your enemies is to consistently tolerate and accept them, even comfort them, and not harbor any bad preconceptions about them.
An evil spirit appear through that person because I need to correct something. God wants to teach me through my enemy, through the evil spirit.
In order to live a life without regrets, first, you must cherish people and form heartistic relationships, value your relationship with God and Abel as life, live every moment as if it were eternity with sincerity and faithfulness, and learn from the consistency of all things. In this way you will grow substantially.
A person’s face resembles his heart.
You will perceive a person to the extent that you love him.
With love, all things can be seen and communicated spiritually on every level from the individual to the family, nation, world and even God.
For those who love God more than anyone else, God's worries and sorrows become his and God’s heart become visible to him.
If you have a public mindset like God, he will show you everything. If you love God, you will be spiritually sensitive, be able to discern good and evil, and have foresight because you treat everything with a heart of love.
When I look at a person with the heart of loving God, that person's heart comes into me clearly.
People who have a clear sense of purpose and place importance in relationships can predict future events.
If you love God and have a thorough relationship with Him, you will be able to distinguish between good and evil and have a premonition about everything.
Transcripts from November 3, 2021 to the present, personal notes from November 11, 2020 until November 2, 2021 and slides from August 29, 2021 to the present are available at MD.Hoondok.com as PDF files.♦
(Response to sharing) God’s word is medicine. Divine Principle is medicine. It can cure. You need to believe in that. You can cure spiritual and even physical problems. You need to strongly believe in that because God’s word is God’s love. Everything can be cured by God’s love.♦
Today I’d like to talk about “God, Women and World Peace” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This was an invitational address delivered on September 7, 1993 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York> For the first twenty years, my husband walked the road of indemnity for the Old Testament Age, focusing on the Korean nation and the Unification Church, representing the positions of the nation of Israel and Judaism, respectively. On the foundation of this work in 1960, we held the Holy Wedding of True Parents on the national level. Then, in 1971, my husband and I came to America. During the next twenty years in the United States, we walked the path of indemnity to fulfill the New Testament Age and begin the Completed Testament Age. Thus, we established the True Parents' family, the origin of true love, true life and true lineage, with God as its center.
The truth that God revealed to my husband is contained in the Divine Principle. Interpreting the history of humankind and the stories of the Bible from the providential viewpoint, the Divine Principle unlocks the answers to questions unsolved for thousands of years. Those who have sincerely studied its contents have found it to be a true gift from God, providing the solutions to the problems facing our society today. Even in the former communist Soviet Union, government leaders and thousands of young people have found their lives renewed through their studies of our teaching, known as Godism or head-wing thought. Finally free from the oppression of communist ideology, they are seeking spiritual truth to guide their nations.
Those who have sincerely studied Divine Principle contents have found it to be a true gift from God, providing the solutions to the problems facing our society today.
Let’s study what Father says about the Divine Principle.
Divine Principle is Not a Doctrine
<1997.8.9> “What is taught in the Unification Church is called the Divine Principle. It teaches the principled path that everyone must follow, whether believers or non-believers, whether a thousand years ago or ten thousand years from now. On that basis, the truth as taught in the Unification Church contains the underlying principles that can resolve all complicated affairs and bitter feelings between God and the human world. It is not a dogma. Dogmas were for the era of the restoration and liberation of the archangelic realm; they cannot establish or restore families.”
Divine Principle teaches the principled path that everyone must follow, whether believers or non-believers, whether a thousand years ago or ten thousand years from now.
(In) John 14:6 Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” But when he died on the cross, he promised that he would come again.
Only the Messiah must come back to this earth and show all humankind the way, truth, life, love, and lineage. Therefore, at the end of the day, it is concluded that we must find a new word of truth. The new truth that saves humankind cannot come out of the human brain.
This is possible only through True Parents, who are the Messiah who come from God's direct lineage. Until now, human history has found the true path, but since there has not been a solution to that point, the world was becoming increasingly chaotic.
If any existing religion or ideology had suggested a way to solve the human problem, the ideal world (would have) already arrived. However, the conclusion (of the fact) that such an ideal world did not come true is that we must seek the truth that comes from God, not fallen human thoughts or philosophy.
So, when I was a child, I thought that I had to find a new truth because it was an existing idea and no religious doctrine could solve all the problems of my life and all the problems of the world.
The Unification Church contains the underlying principles that can resolve all complicated affairs and bitter feelings between God and the human world. It is not a dogma.
The Divine Principle is not a dogma. Dogmas were for the era of the restoration and liberation of the archangelic realm; they cannot establish or restore families.
All doctrines so far have focused on individual salvation. Religions that focus on individual salvation are all archangel-level religions. All religions could not focus on family salvation. The Divine Principle focuses on family salvation.
The eternal truth must come out with family salvation and total salvation. And they are supposed to come out under the slogan of establishing one family under God. Furthermore, God's liberation and the liberation of humankind as a whole must be brought forth.
Divine Principle Will Never Change Forever
<1975.7.13> “The Principle is the truth that does not change with the passage of history. It cannot be modified by the influence of any great person or the power of any state, or the world or even God Himself. If it can be said to be the truth that has remained unchanged from the past through the present to the future, it must surely have the value of the ideal desired by humankind from the very beginning.”
“The Principle is the truth that does not change with the passage of history. It cannot be modified by the influence of any great person or the power of any state, or the world or even God Himself because God is a God of the Principle.
Because God has eternal, unchanging, absolute and unique attributes, the truth that can save fallen humans can never come from the fallen human brain. Only through the Messiah who has God’s lineage can the eternal, unchanging, unique and absolute truth come out.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Fall - 5.
The Identity of the Serpent
• In the Bible we read that a serpent tempted Eve to commit sin (Gen. 3:4-5)
1.This serpent was able to converse with people.
2. It caused the Fall of humans, who are spiritual beings.
3. Furthermore, the serpent knew the Will of God, which strictly forbade human beings to eat the fruit.
4. As it is written in Revelation 12:9, "The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world, he was thrown down to the earth," the serpent had lived in heaven.
5. Also, it is able to transcend time and space to dominate the human soul.
• This is compelling evidence that the being which the serpent symbolizes was a spiritual being.
• This spiritual being was originally created with a good purpose, but later fell and became Satan.
• There are no beings endowed with such characteristics other than angels. Therefore, the serpent which tempted human beings and sinned is an angel.
• Also, in Il Pet. 2:4, it is written "God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of nether gloom."
Let’s study Father’s word.
Satan Starts Where the Center Is Being Denied
<53-178> What was the motivation when the Serpent seduced Eve and made her fall? Satan denied God who had been an absolute center of the world of creation and Father position to all humankind, and he seduced Eve. Satan pulled God from the central point in order for him to assert his own will. Therefore, when the center is denied, evil came to exist. This is where evil started. Then next, the evil represents itself denying the center and it takes over the position. Those two matters were the very motives.
That’s why evil always denies the center, then evil makes itself the representative and stands at the center. The evil person is like this. He or she insists that there is no need to have a nation or the constitution. Evil begins here. It moves all the things in the center away and makes itself represent saying that ‘I am the best.’ This is evil. However the good stands on the opposite side of the evil. It has absolute faith upon the center. It advocates to solidify the center even though it may die. When the moment that a good person emphasizing ‘I can not abandon the central being of Heaven even though Satan is going to cut my head off’ comes, evil will be destroyed.
Satan always denies the center. Someone tries to deny True Father or True Mother is Satan. Satan always tries to deny the center.
Therefore, you must carefully check the motives of where the other person’s words come from.
Satan always criticizes the center... criticizes Abel, the church, headquarters, the national leader and the continental director. He goes even further and even criticizes the main people, True Parents. You need to know this. Satan always tries to deny the center, tries to criticize the center.
He always complains – his major is complaint – and places all the blame on others. This is Satan.
That’s why you need to check any spiritual group, any denomination, any true children, yourself or myself... you need to check. Is this person really a Godly person or closer to Satan? Anyone who denies the center is Satan.
Satan always asserts himself. Satan can never stand as a central figure.
Satan is always horizontal and very humanistic.
The final trial that comes to us is that Satan creates an environment in which we have no choice but to deny True Parents.
This is the final temptation that comes to us. Satan asks us to deny True Parents. This is the final issue. Let’s study more in detail.
Father says:
Who has a True Center?
1. One who protects the Center all the time
2. One who is responsible for the Center
3. One who attends the Center all the time
4. One who is able to die for his Center
5. Even if there is something wrong with the Center, he or she tries to take responsibility rather than criticize.
Are you a true center or not? Based on this principle and on Father’s word, you can judge. Are you a true or a false center? The Divine Principle teaches (about this) very clearly, right?
Even if there is something wrong – of course, everyone has good and bad points – do you want to be responsible? Do you want to protect (the center)? Wow! True Father’s guidance is really very clear and amazing.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: How to Truly Love Your Enemies
1. Regarding people who discriminate against me, if I do not feel upset but rather take it in as God trying to train me, surprising things will happen to that person. When the time passes, the people that discriminated against me will say that they misunderstood me and ask for forgiveness. When that happens, what if I look at them and say, “I have nothing to be upset about. Do not think that you did wrong. In fact, thanks to you, I realized many things. I am truly thankful.” What would happen if I rather comfort them and have give and take with them like this? This is truly loving your enemies. As a result, although that person discriminated and hated me, if I do not form a reciprocal relationship with them but say that I rather reflected a lot, if that isn’t how to love enemies, then what is? The way to love your enemies is for me to tolerate and accept them and not have any bad preconceptions of them in my heart but look at them with consistency.
Like the sun, true people do not discriminate, and shine equally on both good and evil people. Therefore, you must be determined to be a person who shines light on anyone, like the sun, without discrimination against anyone. Also, like rain, we must be a person who rains equally on everyone without discriminating anyone.
True people treat their enemies and those close to them with the same love. In this way, if I don't feel upset by anyone, treat everyone the same way and solve any problem, surprising things like miracles will happen to the other person. When the time passes, the people who discriminated against me will say that they misunderstood me and ask for forgiveness.
I have had so many experiences with this. Whenever you deal with your enemy, you need to be careful. An enemy may try to attack you, try to kill you, to persecute you. But you still love him.
That guy is not doing this himself; he is influenced by invisible Satan. You need to deal with invisible Satan, not that guy. He is just misused by invisible Satan. It has nothing to do with him. He is possessed by an evil spirit; that is why I need to deal with that evil spirit behind him.
When that happens, what if I look at them and say, “I have nothing to be upset about. Do not think that you did wrong. In fact, thanks to you, I realized many things. I am truly thankful.” What would happen if I rather comfort them and have give and take with them like this? This is truly loving your enemies.
In conclusion, the way to love your enemies is for you to tolerate and accept them and not have any bad preconceptions (about) them in your heart but look at them with consistency.
Whenever you deal with your enemy, (think that) that guy is a son or daughter of God. The problem is that he is just misused by evil, invisible Satan. All fallen men are influenced by evil spirits, evil ancestors, evil angels.
Why does the evil spirit appear through that person? (Because) I need to correct something. God wants to teach me through my enemy, through the evil spirit. Whenever something happens through someone – he persecutes me, insults me, misunderstands me – there is a reason. I need to grow. I need to reflect about that. That’s why you need to appreciate (him) rather than have an enemy feeling toward your enemy. Then Satan will totally surrender.
We need to know how to deal with our enemy. We fallen men tend to (confront) that guy: “I hate you. I don’t like you. Someday I will (get) revenge (on) you.” That is the problem.
Do you know who controls that guy behind him? Invisible Satan. He has just become a tool of Satan. Many people do not know about how to deal with the enemy.
Do Not Live a Life of Regret
2. If it has been 20 or 40 years since we joined the church, how much have we really changed? In the life course we are walking on, it means to not live a life full of regret and have lingering attachments. If there is somewhere we fell as we followed the path of faith in the course of restoration, we will give advice to our juniors. We will say, “There is a puddle here, so you will fall in this place. Do not fall. Some time ago, I entered this valley and fell, and then I suffered for several months after recovering. Go on carefully.” Senior members with many regrets and failures will advise following juniors to not slip up. In our life, if there aren’t many regrets and failures in the past and you really lived a wholesome life, you should have developed so much that you cannot even compare the past to the present.
If it has been 20 or 40 years since we joined the church, how much have we really changed? Most of us have a lot of regrets and lingering attachments in the past.
Even I, when I think back on my life when I realized that point, how much my life has changed now.
In order to live a life without regrets, first, you must cherish the people you have a relationship with and form a good heartistic relationship.
Most regrets or lingering attachments comes from relationships. That’s why you need to build good relationships with those who are closest to you – I’m not talking about far away, from England or Germany or Africa – those (with whom you have a) close relationship. You need to form good heartistic relationships (with them).
In particular, you must value your relationship with God and Abel as life. Next, in your own work and responsibility, you have to live every moment as if it were eternity with sincerity and faithfulness.
Every moment, every second, you need to think this moment is connected to eternity. That is why you need to value each moment, each (period of) time, each hour. Then you don’t have to have any regrets.
And we must always learn from all things. All things live centered on the sun and do their best in every moment. There is no such thing as a leap in the growth of all things.
All things always focus on the sun and breathe, do our best in the moment, and are sincere.
In our life, if there aren’t many regrets and failures in the past and you really lived a wholesome life, you should have developed so much that you cannot even compare the past to the present.
That Person’s Past Life is Seen in Their Faces
3. If you meet someone with many experiences and suffering in the past, you will able to tell what kind of person they are. You will feel, “That person has a lot of bad habits! That person is branded as a bad person!” If you’ve lived for a long time, you become a face reader who immediately knows as soon as they see a person’s face. That is why people misunderstand when they see people who know well by reading faces like this and call them spiritual mediators or people possessed by spirits. People will ask how that person can see through others like that. When you look at people, there are those who are very unclear because they have a weak sense of purpose. Then there are some people who are driven down by fate, and some people are too wholesome in appearance that they are thoroughly meticulous.
True Father Knows a Person Well By Reading Their Face
4. If True Father reads our faces, he might say “that person has more than 20 regretful things stuck on them! That person did such thing at some point in the past.” True Father knows people very well. When Father sees people who did not do much wrong in the past but lived a righteous life, he is very pleased and cherishes them. True Father will read their faces and know clearly. In some cases, when there are a lot of worries in their household, he often comforts them. There was one person who held a high social status, so had worries they could not speak about. That person was around 60 years old, and he has two children. That person had a situation which he could not tell others about. But when we say situations that one cannot speak about to others, what is there besides the husband and wife relationship? Knowing this, when Father said one thing to this man, it is said that this person immediately broke down wailing.
How does True Father know people so well when he sees them? Of course, there is the aspect of looking at people’s faces. It is because a person’s face resembles that person's heart. (That is) dual characteristics.
But above all else, when True Father sees people, he immediately knows them because he possesses true love. If you truly love someone, you will see that person. You will see him to the extent that you love him.
Just as light illuminates darkness, when I have light, I can see the other person. That is why Jesus called himself the true light. Just as darkness cannot conquer light, as much as I have light, I will illuminate the other person. If I live in darkness without light, no one can see me. What is spiritual mediation (that all things can be seen and communicated spiritually)? Seeing everything by seeing with love is spiritual mediation.
Why can't I see the other person? Why can’t I see my husband? Even though we have lived together for 40, 50 or 60 years, why can’t I see my spouse’s heart?
Why do we not see each other even after 10 or 30 years and have conflicts with each other? This is because the capacity of the light of love is not yet bright enough to see the whole person. I see the other person as much as I love them.
When parents truly love their children, the children’s hearts can be seen. If you love your family more than anyone else, you will see your family. If you are a patriot who loves your country more than anyone else, you can see the future of your country.
If you are someone who cares for and loves the world more than anyone else, you can see the way for humankind to go. For those who love God more than anyone else, God's worries become my worries, His sorrows become my sorrows, and God's heart becomes visible to me.
Wow! That is the power of love, the capacity of the light of my love. It is incredible? How can I upgrade the quality of love? Why can’t I read my wife’s, my husband’s, my children’s, my Abel’s minds? Why can’t I feel God’s mind? (Because) the capacity of my light of love is not yet bright enough. We need to upgrade the level and quality of our love.
If Your Relationship with God is Thorough, You Have a Foreboding
5. Father knows all about the heavy burdens in people’s hearts. Even if he deals with a certain person for the first time, there are people who become upset. We do not know such things, but Father already knows immediately after seeing them for the first time. If people’s relationship with God is thorough, their hearts become sensitive. That is a strange thing. If we have a relationship with God and have strong interests, we will have a foreboding. This is something anyone can do. People who have a clear sense of purpose and place importance in relationships can predict future events. When Japan captured and ruled over Korea, people who had concerns over the nation were told beforehand that Korea would be liberated someday. Also, one pastor was worried about the corruption of Korean churches, so God told him about the path that lay ahead. If you have a relationship with God and worry about the church, God will tell you things about the church, and if you worry for the nation, He will tell you things about the nation.
That is why if you have a public mindset like God, he will show you everything.
True Father knows all the burdens of people's hearts. He already knows from the first glance. When we have a thorough relationship with God, our hearts become sensitive. If you love God, you will be spiritually sensitive, be able to discern good and evil, and have foresight because you treat everything with a heart of love.
When I look at a person with the heart of loving God, that person's heart comes into me clearly. That is truly mysterious and wonderful.
If we have a relationship with God and have strong interests, we will have a foreboding. This is something anyone can do. It doesn’t happen only to certain people. People who have a clear sense of purpose and place importance in relationships can predict future events.
If you have a clear vertical relationship with God and care about the church, God will tell you things about the church, and if you worry for the nation, He will tell you things about the nation.
The bottom line is that if you love God and have a thorough relationship with Him, you will be able to distinguish between good and evil and have a foreboding in everything.
This is beautiful guidance, right?
(Testimony UPA Missionaries in New Jersey, Reika Watanabe)♦
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