Ep 742 - The Twenty-first Century and the Mission of Women Part 3
The Twenty-First Century and the Mission of Women - November 6, 2022
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ACLC ministers need more than prayer breakfasts and conferences to deeply understand True Parents’ position and to teach the Divine Principle in their churches. They need to study the Principle one-on-one.
As the image of God, women complement men as their independent, ideal and equal object partners of love, completing, not competing, with each other and not imitating each other’s temperament or role. When united in true love, women obtain the right of equal position, right to participate together in any place, and the right of inheritance of jointly owning each other’s things – and even owning each other – as second selves.
In these last days teenagers’ illicit sexual relationships are becoming rampant.
God’s number one enemy is adulterous sin, adulterous love.
We should go to the schools and teach our teenagers the preciousness of our love organ and help them with their sexual issues.
God yearns for total salvation. He wants to save everybody.
Because of the fall, women needed to go through a history of indemnity unimaginably more difficult than that of men, but because True Father established WFWP, he could restore Eve’s position and proclaim the complete liberation of women and the equality of True Father and True Mother.
The kingdom of heaven is a one-man-one-woman system.
All people without exception are made to exist in a system of the four position foundation.
One person cannot put himself first and always needs to talk and consult with the people around him, prioritize public circumstances, and connect his circumstances publicly knowing that we are all public people who cannot act privately. He needs to become one with others centered on the three object purpose.
The four position foundation does not allow self-centered actions. We are considered righteous if we always value the relationships within the Four Position Foundation and take responsibility for them. Failing to do so prolongs the providence.
Absolute obedience has the attributes of spontaneity and joy, so with any command or task we should have a voluntary heart and think that God gave us orders for the tasks we ardently wished for.
Among absolute faith, love and obedience, absolute obedience is the greatest because it comes on the foundation of absolute faith and love.
You should think that orders and directions that come from above are commands or education that are meant to make you realize something new or make you better.
With True Parents’ guidance we can solve any problems.
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.♦
Today is a beautiful Sunday.
Yesterday, we had ACLC Prayer Breakfast meeting at the Memorial Baptist Church in Harlem, New York. Around 150 people gathered together.
ArchBishop Sulanch Lewis was an MC and Dr. Rene Washington, Senior Pastor of the Memorial Baptist church gave a speech. Our Heavenly USA team sang a very inspiring song and performed a beautiful dance.
Dr. Jenkins couple came here all the way (from Washington, D.C.?). I am grateful to your couple for coming here to support our ACLC conference.
Dr. Rouse introduced me and I gave a keynote speech regarding the importance of ACLC mission and encouraged them to study Divine Principle. Then, Joshua Holmes (shared) about a 21 Day special prayer condition for Harlem.
One of ACLC's members, Bishop Dr. Cecil and Riley were so moved by yesterday's event that he invited me to his worship service today. The name of his church is Church of God. Bishop Dr. Cecil Riley is a founding member of ACLC.
I hope you all pray a lot. God gave me a revelation, saying that it is time to go directly to the established churches and testify (about) True Parents. I think that that time has already come in earnest from now on.
As you know, I am trying to raise ACLC ministers to become true disciples of Jesus and True Parents through learning EDP. Now Dr. Agulan, Joshua Holmes and other leaders are studying together with ACLC ministers through one-on-one EDP. They are very inspired. I think sooner or later 12 ACLC ministers will finish the EDP content. Then (we will) let them understand True Parents’ position. If they truly accept True Parents’ position, then what kind of phenomena will appear? They will definitely teach True Parents’ identity and position in their churches. They will surely deliver this great message to their own congregation. I did not hear that any ACLC minister so far has directly delivered the Divine Principle to their own congregation. Then I think we can change the entire environment of the Christian movement. This is important because if they only attend the breakfast prayer meetings and come to our conferences and have a nice meal and conference and go back, nobody will preach about True Parents’ position in their church. That would mean they do not accept True Parents’ position and they do not know the Divine Principle very clearly. That’s why I am the one who needs to initiate. Without my initiating who can follow? That’s why I have a strong determination to make that kind of model. That is why I need your support, brothers and sisters.
That is why today is a great opportunity for me to deliver God’s and True Parents’ message directly to a Christian church. I feel that the time has come. I will try to raise up many ACLC ministers through the EDP content.
Let’s study True Mother’s word.
Today I’d like to talk about “The Twenty-First Century and the Mission of Women” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given at a seminar for women leaders held on October 12, 1994 at the Little Angels Performing Arts Center (now the Universal Arts Center) in Seoul.> My esteemed women leaders! Women are the individual embodiments of truth representing one of the two natures of the incorporeal God, who possesses yin and yang in both external form and internal nature. Therefore, women are not in a competitive relationship with men, who represent the other side of God. Women are not the assistants of men; they are interdependent partners who make the world whole. When God created men and women, God established them as ideal counterparts for each other and made it so that they can become one through true love. From the perspective of true love, women are the perfect object partners of the love of men, and in regard to their value, men and women are absolutely equal. The fact that the natures of men and women are different does not pose a problem. Those differences are factors that bring on the stimulation of love. In the original ideal, a man and a woman united in true love have the right of equal position and equal status.
Moreover, a man and a woman united in true love have the right to participate as equals, and through their love they can always be together. A man and a woman united in true love have the right of inheritance through which each shares what belongs to the other as the second owner. As you can see, a man and a woman united through God's ideal of true love are created as completely equal beings in terms of value. They have the right of identical standing, mutual ownership and participation as equals. Therefore, men and women are not in an antagonistic relationship, in which they need to imitate, covet or somehow acquire the other's nature and role. Instead, they are in a relationship in which they share with one another, by giving what is theirs to the other through true love. Thus each perfects the other and becomes one with the other.
I would like to summarize what Mother is talking about.
Equality of Men and Women from a Principled Perspective
1. Because women are individual embodiments of truth that represent the intangible God’s oneness of internal nature and external form and yang and yin, and they have a (complementary?) relationship with men.
2. Women are not supporters of men but independent object partners that perfect men.
3. When God created men and women, He made them to be ideal object beings to each other and to become one through love.
4. When looking centering on the ideal of love, women are men’s perfect object partners of love, and in terms of value, men and women are equal beings.
5. A man and woman united in love will obtain the right of equal position, right to participate together in any place, and the right of inheritance of jointly owning each other’s things as second selves, and then they become completely equal beings.
6. Men and women are not in an opposing relationship that requires imitating each other’s temperament and role or wanting to acquire them.
7. By giving their own things to each other with true love, men and women giving are in a relationship of completing each other and as they become one and own each other jointly.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 6 - About Adultery
• We have explained that both the angel and the human beings fell due to illicit sexual love.
• Human beings and angels are the only spiritual beings in the universe who are capable of having love relationships.
• We can deduce that the illicit sexual relationship must have involved the angel and human beings.
• Jesus said in John 8:44, "You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires." Since the Devil is identified as Satan in Rev. 12:9, we can assert that human beings are descendants of Satan, the "ancient serpent" who tempted human beings.
Teenagers are Becoming the Victims of a Sexual Corruption
<201-206>However the archangel seduced Eve and committed adultery when Adam and Eve were teenagers before they reached their completion stage and received the blessing from God. So the archangel became the Satan and Adam who had an illicit relationship with Eve also fell like Eve. The human history arose from the seed of immorality like this and as a result of it, the adulterous relationships are found all over nowadays. Especially, the teenagers are becoming the victims of sexual corruption. The scenes from the city of Sodom and Gomorrah are not far from the ones in the developed countries. God does hate this adulterous love. We should fear the rage of God. God’s punishment is at hand.
When Adam and Eve were teenagers, the archangel seduced Eve and (they) committed adultery and fell.
Just like the law “You reap what you sow,” in the end, the Last Days will come today and especially, the teenagers’ illicit sexual relationships are becoming rampant.
While teenagers are becoming the victims of sexual corruption in this way, the key is how to save these people.
The scenes from the city of Sodom and Gomorrah are not far from the ones in the developed countries. God does hate this adulterous love. He hates Chapter Two the most. We should fear the rage of God. God is angry with this(?). His number one enemy is adulterous sin, adulterous love. Whenever we have this problem, God is really angry with us. We need to know that. God’s punishment is at hand.
So while teenagers are becoming the victims of sexual corruption in this way, how do we save them? We must fight against Satan’s free sex to protect our youth.
For this, universities and YSP and youth activities should develop the purity-before-marriage movement, not only on a national movement but also as a global movement. The only thing against free sex is the Pure Love Movement, which is about purity before marriage centered on absolute sex.
That’s why, I am telling you again, God’s concept is the concept of total salvation. Now we are living in the last Days. How can we save our teenagers first?
Actually I have so much regret, I feel so sorry. We are the ones who (should) go to the schools and teach our teenagers the preciousness of our love organ. Satan has misused this sexual organ. That is why we must first settle our own issues and become very strong. Then finally we need to guide today’s teenagers (and help them with their) problems and issues.
The Heartburning (Intense Resentment) and Sin of Women
<233-85> Women have heartburning for they could not make the day when they would greet and attend God in the Garden of Eden with their originally unfallen husband embracing their sons and daughters in a motherly position according to an original standard. As women committed sin, they have to undergo the history of indemnity until the day has come. They always must bow down, don’t they? How can a woman who committed adultery raise her head before her husband? Likewise, the woman can only go back under the circumstance with her husband who changed his mind saying ‘Do not cry, now I understand and I forgive you’ even though she was taken for granted, being badly insulted and being beaten thousands of times, and endlessly sheds tears of repentance. Isn’t that true? The rule applies in the human society like this, how can the sin of Eve which destroyed the great principle of the natural law be restored?
Eve faced two husbands in the Garden of Eden. Likewise, Eve faced the Satan and Adam, you must know that all women have been through such a history of sigh which arises from their husband’s keeping a concubine. It’s happening in Korea. Do you trust your husband? Those who achieved big success in their lives are not faithful in their love. It is usual for them to have some other woman in their lives.
Since Eve first committed sin due to the Fall, to this day, the position of women is like that of an adulterous woman who cannot raise her head before her husband. That is why women needed to go through a history of indemnity unimaginably more difficult than (that of) men.
What is the bitter heart of women who walked through such an indemnity course? It is welcoming the day when this Eve, who becomes a mother, can embrace her sons and daughters and enter the Garden of Eden and greet her original, unfallen husband and God, centering on the original standard of creation.
Because of Eve’s fall, women need to go through incredible sacrifice and indemnity. We can see over the last 6,000 years how much women go through unimaginable hardship and incredible difficulties.
I thank God and True Parents because they established WFWP. How did they do it? Father established WFWP based on indemnity conditions. In establishing WFWP, True Parents proclaimed the era of women’s liberation. This is incredible! The entire level, global level, reached the top of the growth stage. Father declared, “Now women will appear more than men.” Women can be completely liberated since WFWP was established. Now True Father and True Mother stand in an equal position. That’s why True Father has to go through the process of restoring the Eve position. We need to know what is behind the WFWP actually.
Even if women are beaten a thousand times, badly insulted, and pay indemnity on behalf of Eve who committed sin, they must accept it with gratitude, repent, and shed endless tears.
Looking at Eve who repented like that, the man’s heart will show sympathy to the woman, and (he will say) “Do not cry, now I understand and I forgive you.”
Just as Eve faced Satan and Adam and served two husbands, in order to indemnify this, all must know that all women have been through such a history of sighs which arise from their husband’s keeping a concubine.
Due to the history to indemnify Eve serving two masters, men have gone through a history of dealing with two women.
Now this era has disappeared. What is God’s ideal system? A one-man-and-one-woman system. Under the era of indemnity, one man was allowed to have two or three wives, and one woman could have two or three husbands. This kind of era is completely gone. Since True Parents proclaimed the WFWP, the time has come to liberate women. Now God wants to educate all humankind (that) the system of the Kingdom of Heaven is the pair system. Only a one-man-and-one-woman system will be allowed. That’s it. That’s why based on this pair system, the one-man-one-woman system we need to adjust everything. True Parents have already showed this kind of model.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: I Must Be Considered Righteous “Today”
I Must Become a Public Person Within Human Relationships
1) A being called “I” always has mutual relationships with people around me. I am a being of the four position foundation of top, bottom, front, back, left, and right. This is unmistakable. Then what must I do to be considered righteous in those relationships? I cannot assert or affirm myself. Therefore, we always need to talk and consult with the people around us, prioritize public circumstances, and even if I have my own circumstances, I should connect them publicly. Things that start with me are private, but when it goes through the opinions of two or three people, it becomes public. In that sense, “I” can be both private and public at the same time. I must become a public person within human relationships. We must know that within our relationships with our parents, brothers and sisters, family, workplace, and school, we are public people who cannot act privately.
By the system of the original world of creation, all people without exception are made to exist in a system of the four position foundation of top, bottom, front, back, left, and right.
We already learned this (in studying about) the Four Position Foundation, right?
Therefore, in order to exist in a four position foundation system, I must be considered righteous within the four position foundation system. Then what must I do? First of all, I cannot assert myself. In the relationships of north, south, east, and west, and top, bottom, front, back, left, and right, I cannot affirm myself, and I cannot make myself stand first.
Therefore, we always need to talk and consult with the people around us, prioritize public circumstances, and even if I have my own circumstances, I should connect them publicly. That is, we need to have good circular and spherical movements with each other.
We must know that within our relationships with our parents, brothers and sisters, family, workplace, and school, we are public people who cannot act privately.
In order to be successful in this four position foundation system, I first need to become one centered on the three object purpose. Adam and Eve have to become one with their children and grandchildren.
Adam has realize the three object purpose by becoming one with God, his wife, and children, and children need to do so by becoming one with their parents, Adam and Eve and God.
Our Divine Principle is very clear. Nobody can run away from the Four Position Foundation. The system of the Kingdom of Heaven is based on the Four Position Foundation. How can we ignore it? We are living in the Four Position Foundation. I need to relate to my parents, to relate to right and left and to my children and front and back. How can I relate well centered on the Four Position Foundation? Our Divine Principle is very clear about the relationship with the top, bottom, front and back, left and right. You cannot run away. If you do not run properly centered on the Four Position Foundation system, you cannot exist. This is the system of the Kingdom of Heaven.
I Must Be Considered Righteous “Today”
2) If everyone is doing fundraising publicly together but one member does not return in the middle of it due to personal situations, then that person is fallen. If someone falls due to personal circumstances while doing public things, then the rest of their life will be very miserable.
Successful people are already considered righteous ‘today’ and seek for tomorrow. If I deal with this current time of ‘today’ wrongly and I am not considered righteous, there can be no ‘tomorrow.’ There is no guarantee that people who cause worries in life ‘today’ will spend ‘tomorrow’ well. In order for people who failed to take responsibility today to face tomorrow, since they have to take responsibility over the things that already passed, the providence is prolonged to that extent.
In order to be successful in your own life, you need to absolutely value the four position foundation and form relationships well. This four position foundation does not allow self-centered actions. Therefore, in our lives, we should always value the relationships as if they are our own lives.
If you ignore these relationships, you become a fallen person. If you fall due to personal circumstances, the rest of your life will be very miserable.
To become successful people, the second important thing is that only when we are considered righteous in this time called ‘today’ and in this environment can there be hope for tomorrow.
If I deal with this current time of ‘today’ wrongly and I am not considered righteous, there can be no ‘tomorrow.’ There is no guarantee that people who cause worries in life ‘today’ will spend ‘tomorrow’ well.
In order for people who failed to take responsibility today to face tomorrow, since they have to take responsibility over the things that already passed, the providence is prolonged to that extent.
Absolute Obedience Has the Attributes of Spontaneity and “Joy”
3) When we receive some order from True Parents or some orders or mandatory goals come from headquarters or the church, even if those circumstances are ones I cannot adapt to right away, since I have a responsibility to be considered righteous, I must assume a voluntary heart. I need to think that God gave me orders for the tasks that I wished for. There is no spontaneity in thinking that one has to unconditionally obey because it is an order. Absolute obedience has the attributes of ‘spontaneity’ and ‘joy.’ Without the existence of spontaneity and joy, you can never be absolutely obedient. You will come to realize that absolute obedience does not mean following orders unconditionally but having a voluntary heart because you feel so joyful and grateful that you cannot help but obey them. You must not think that orders that come from above are order or education that have nothing to do with you or try to ruin you. You must think that orders and directions are commands or education that are meant to make you realize something new or make you better.
This concept and attitude are very important. We believers need to move according to the commands of God’s will, True Parents’ vision, and headquarter or Abel’s orders. In these times, our mindset is extremely important.
Whenever we receive some order from God or True Parents or some orders or mandatory goals come from headquarters or the church or Abel, sometimes we attend unwillingly. That is a problem. Even if those circumstances are ones we cannot adapt to right away – there are many situations like that -- since we have a responsibility to be considered righteous, we have to assume a voluntary heart. Then what must we do to assume a voluntary heart with any command or task? I am asking you.
It is by thinking that God gave us orders for the tasks we wished for. How beautiful this mindset is! Even though headquarters asked us to do something or True Parents gave (us) a big goal... tribal messiahship or any mission, we need to think that before such an order or command comes from True Parents or from heaven or from anyone, we need to think that this is the one we have wished for for a long time.
There is no spontaneity in thinking that one has to unconditionally obey just because it is an order from above. Absolute obedience has the attributes of spontaneity and joy. This is very important.
Without the existence of spontaneity and joy, you can never be absolutely obedient. You may say, “I will unconditionally obey” but there is no joy, no spontaneity. How can you obey unconditionally? “I don’t agree with that, but because it is from True Parents I have no choice. I need to unconditionally obey” but there is no joy, no spontaneity. That means then that you cannot obey unconditionally.
Absolute obedience means what? What is the concept of absolute obedience? Absolute obedience (that is) completely unconditional means what? Spontaneity and joy (are present). If there is spontaneity and joy, you can absolutely obey. Without the existence of spontaneity and joy, you cannot be absolutely obedient.
How can you be absolutely obedient without spontaneity and joy? You will come to realize that absolute obedience does not mean following orders unconditionally but having a voluntary heart because you feel so joyful and grateful – “I have been waiting for that a long time” – that you cannot help but obey them.
That’s why Father said (among) absolute faith, love and obedience, absolute obedience is the greatest. Why? Without absolute love and faith, how can you obey? Absolute obedience is already beyond absolute love and faith. This is amazing. This is what Father said. Absolute obedience is higher than absolute love and faith because without absolute faith and love, we cannot obey.
That is why if someone asks us to do something, we should not do it unwillingly. (Do it) happily, joyfully, gratefully, voluntarily. Then we can become the subject and the owner.
(But) if someone asks us to do (something, but we do it) unwillingly with no volunteer heart, then we become subjugated by that. We become the slave to that job. We have to become the owner, take ownership.
You must think that orders and directions that come from above are commands or education that are meant to make you realize something new or make you better, and from there, spontaneity should spring up and take on a heart of joy.
Today you learned new things, right? Wow! I love True Parents’ guidance so much! (With it) we can solve any problems.
(Testimony Joshua Holmes, NY Divine Principle Retreat)♦
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