Ep 744 - The Twenty-first Century and the Mission of Women Part 5
The Twenty-First Century and the Mission of Women - November 8, 2022
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Key Points
In the 21st century women should make the True Love Movement part of daily life and live together as one world family, overcoming extreme individualism and selfishness with true love.
They should establish ideal families by raising their children in the heavenly way with love and build up their husbands through mother-child cooperation.
They should inherit the true love, true life, and true lineage from True Parents, model the ideal family and build an ideal society, country and world.
Along with his warning, the purpose of creation was the dream and ideal that God gave to Adam and Eve.
Because Adam and Eve did not have a vision to fulfill God's dream, they just settled for reality.
Like God with Adam and Eve, we need to warn our children to keep their purity but also instill in them a beautiful vision and dream of the Three Great Blessings, the Four Great Realms of Heart and the Three Great Kingships.
Blessed families need to sow a vision for Heavenly Tribal messiahship and a vision for national restoration. Vision always makes reality.
The fall comes when we look only at reality without a vision.
If you truly love God, he will provide vision.
The fact that you are still alive means you still need to do something for the sake of God’s vision and will.
God’s grace and mercy are bestowed on a person of jeongseong with a public, unselfish heart in any difficult environment who, while suffering, maintains the first motive and first determination to the end without changing his mind.
Most people who grow well have good interpersonal relationships. They grow to a stage in which they can regard other people's circumstances as their own and can move others. They come to be viewed as righteous.
To have good relationships, you must always move those around you.
In whatever we do, we should live with the mindset of, “I was born for this,” “It is the will of God to do this,” and “It is my wish and my destiny to do this.”
The center of a person who does not put all his heart and devotion into something or who spends free time selfishly may collapse. He may leave mistakes behind.
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 I am going to have a meeting with International Headquarters, so my speech needs to be recorded. Please understand.
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.> Now that the age of women has come together with heavenly fortune, centering on True Parents, the women of the world can create a movement of magnanimous true love as part of their lives and make new families and new societies. The trend of internationalization and globalization leads toward the twenty-first century, wherein we need to live together as one global family. Extreme individualism and egoism are major deterrents to achieving this goal. Only true love can affect the hearts of the people who are inclined in that direction. Women, united with True Mother, need to raise their children to create the heavenly way, through their influence of love, and perfect their husband's maturation through mother-child cooperation, thus forming ideal families. This is the movement to inherit the True Parents' true love, true life and true lineage. Through ideal families thus established, we are to construct ideal societies, ideal nations and an ideal world. I hope you women leaders will become central figures in this movement.
To achieve this goal requires the cooperation and international activities of enlightened women from various nations. A time will come when the leaders of nations will realize keenly their international relations and the conditions of this planet's environment. On this basis they will have no choice except to prioritize the common good of the world above their national interests and to translate this realization into action. I hope that this meeting and exchange of Korean and Chinese women leaders will set an example of women's international cooperation for constructing an ideal world. I encourage cooperation of women leaders from both nations that will serve as a turning point in achieving peace in Asia and the whole world, marking the progress of history toward one world of peace transcending the walls of nationality, race and religious belief. Thank you so much for listening, and may God's blessings be with you and your families.
Let’s summarize what Mother is talking about.
What Responsibilities Should Women Fulfill in the Women’s era That Has Arrived With Heavenly Fortune?
1. Women should make a new family and a new society by making the True Love Movement a part of daily life.
2. In the 21st century, when women have to live together as one worldwide family, women must overcome the obstacles of extreme individualism and selfishness with true love.
3. In the family, women should raise their children in line with the heavenly way through the influence of love.
4. Women must establish an ideal family by building up their husbands through mother-and-child cooperation.
5. Women must inherit the true love, true life, and true lineage of True Parents.
6. Women should model the ideal family and build an ideal society, an ideal country, and an ideal world.
Wow! Incredible guidance given by True Mother!
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 7
The Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil(1)
• The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil signifies the love of Eve.
• As a tree multiplies by its fruit, Eve should have borne good children through her godly love. Instead, she bore evil children through her satanic love.
• Eve was to reach full maturity only after going through a period of growth, in which it was possible for her to bear either good fruit or evil fruit through her love.
• This is why Eve's love is symbolized by the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and why Eve is symbolized by the tree.
• Eve was to have eaten the fruit of goodness by consummating her God-centered love. Then she would have received the essence of God's divinity and multiplied a good lineage.
• However, she ate of the fruit of evil by consummating her evil love centered on Satan. Hence, she received the essence of his evil nature and multiplied an evil lineage from which our sinful society descended.
• Accordingly, Eve's eating the fruit denotes that she consummated a satanic love relationship with the angel which bound her in blood ties to him.
Let’s study Father’s word.
Adam and Eve did not have a Yearning Feeling for What Would Come after Keeping the Commandment
<5-265> Adam and Eve didn’t understand what the purpose of creation was. They didn’t long for what would come after obeying the commandment. If they had not forgotten their lives and life feelings, and if the feeling of yearning for what would come after obeying the commandment had ruled over their lives, Adam and Eve would not have eaten the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve who didn’t have a yearning heart for the ideal, cherished the words of the archangel infiltrating from the side more than God’s words.There the sadness of humankind began. It was the very origin of the dark sleep of humankind.
The Way for Adam and Eve To Overcome the Archangel’s Temptation
<5-265> If Adam and Eve at such a moment could have recognized God’s words not to eat with open eyes; if they could have reminded themselves that much bigger things than the archangel’s promises would be theirs after God blessed them to dominate all things, there would have been no Human Fall. This made up all the details of human history. We ourselves must start a movement to seek for our true selves and to try to find our own responsibility, and find out who we can become after that. If Adam could have reached the completion stage and owned the heart to dominate all things then what would have been established? The love of Adam, Eve, and all things and the love of God would have been bound and perfected; their bond of heart would have been unbreakable and inseparable.
One of the causes of Adam and Eve's fall was that they did not properly understand the purpose of creation, which is God's will. The purpose of creation was the dream and ideal that God gave to Adam and Eve.
Adam and Eve needed passion and yearning to know God's will, ideal, and dream, and to realize that vision. If Adam and Eve had kept the commandments God gave them, there would have been no dream or longing that would unfold before them.
Because Adam and Eve did not have a vision to fulfill God's dream – this is the point – they just settled in reality. If you do not have yearning and passion for your vision to achieve your dreams, you are bound to be overtaken by reality. In addition, we will flow away to physical pleasures and live centered on physical desires.
Because Adam and Eve had no yearning for the vision to make their dreams come true, they were horizontally guided by the voice of the archangel. From there, the origin of darkness began. These words of True Father are very important in our lives.
Why is Father talking about this point? This is incredible guidance.
If we want to prevent ourselves as well as our youth from falling, we need to sow in the mind more deeply the beautiful vision that will come after the command not to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. However, if you only emphasize not to eat the fruit, most teenagers will object.
We need to instill in them longing for the dream so that they can realize the beauty of the vision and dream that will be realized if they do not eat the fruit and keep their purity.
Therefore, we must instill in our children and young people how beautiful the visions and dreams of the three great blessings are. We must instill in them how beautiful the vision of the Four Great Realms of heart and the Three Great kingships are and the dream and longing to realize them.
That is why we need to really show – not just externally teach about the Three Blessings, the Four Great Realms of Heart – but as the first generation we need to show how beautiful they are. Then everybody can have a longing, yearning heart: “I want to (become like) my father and my mother. I want to be such a true couple. I want to really realize the beautiful ideal family and ideal world.” They need to have that kind of beautiful vision (so they can) overcome the reality and horizontal temptation.
And blessed families need to sow a vision for Heavenly Tribal messiahship and a vision for national restoration as well. The fall comes when we look only at reality without a vision. The Bible says, “Without vision, the people perish.” What kind of vision do we have.
People are becoming older, becoming 60 and 70 and 80, and then the vision is disappearing. Do not say, “I am getting old.” You need to have a clear vision. Vision makes you much younger. With vision you have no time to get old. You need to have a vision. The Bible tells you that.
Who is a miserable guy? (One with) no vision. Vision comes from God. As long as we love God, he gives us a beautiful vision to achieve.
No vision means you do not believe in God. If your vision is gradually disappearing; that means what? Your relationship is not great with God.
If you truly love God, he will provide vision.
(The fact that) you are still alive means what? It means you still need to do something for the sake of God’s vision and will. That is why God is extending your life. You (should) ask God, “What should I do? What should I do for my community? For my nation? For the sake of the world?”
Vision always makes reality. This is very important. Of course, we need to restore one nation, one sovereignty and one people. But I am talking about your own family vision. Until you die, what are you going to do?
One of the more famous (members), Dr. Choi, completed (reading the) more than 600 of Father’s speeches.
“Heavenly Father, I don’t want to die until I have completed reading True Parents’ Eight Great Textbooks 100 times.” If you have a clear goal and vision, wow! I am telling you, your life will be very meaningful. If you have vision, your life has strength and power.
We need to show this kind of beautiful vision to our children. If they have vision, why (would) they become involved in drug issues, immoral sexual issues and pornography? Those who become involved seriously in these things lack the vision to overcome the reality.
Vision is very powerful. (With it) you can overcome reality, you can overcome drug issues. Vision can even overcome sexual issues.
Vision needs to come from God. We need to show and instill that kind of strong vision for the future in young people, especially (in) our second generation and third generation. Do you agree with me?
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: When Does Our Center Collapse?
When do we Receive God’s Grace and Mercy?
1) If you go to more than 300 houses to fundraise, even if you do not sell a single fundraising product, if one did their best with an unchanging heart, they will have strength to mightily run forward for tomorrow rising quickly. Why? Since they worked hard with a public heart and without an evil mind, they have a righteous life. This is so because although they do not have substantial results of fundraising, they have kept their first heart and determination until the end. That is a righteous life. Only then can you develop. God gives grace to such people. “Let’s support that person. Even though they do not have substantial results, since they go out with persistence and hope, who else would we support besides them?” This is how God gives mercy. Although fundraising results are not good, when God sees you making effort with persistence, He is struck with admiration and helps you. In those times, since we have blessings from God, we call that God’s grace and mercy.
To whom is God's grace and mercy extended? God's grace and mercy are bestowed when a person in any difficult environment, maintains the first motive and first determination to the end, creating conditions in which God cannot help but sympathize.
God was able to conduct the flood judgement to unbelievers through Noah because he had faith in God for 120 years and maintained his first motivation with an unchanging heart.
God was able to show mercy when Abraham decided to make a sacrifice by killing his son whom he had at 100-years-old. God was able to show mercy and grace to Jacob when he left Laban's household after being his servant for 21 years without changing his first heart.
When Joseph lived a righteous life with an unchanging heart, believing in the dream God had given him, even in prison, God showed mercy and grace to him and eventually made him rise to the position of prime minister of Egypt.
God was able to resurrect Jesus three days after he was crucified on the cross, when He saw that when Jesus was dying on the cross, he set his will on God and did not change, truly cared for the people of Israel, forgave even his enemies, and prayed to bless them. God could not but conduct the works of mercy and resurrection.
From such a standpoint, I have to reflect on what conditions I have made on which God can only sympathize with me and show mercy and grace.
If you do not change your mind and maintain your first motivation while going through suffering with a public heart without a selfish mind, Heaven will sympathize with you. If one's life is always a righteous life regardless of results, God will give that person grace.
Therefore, we must stand in the place of compassion where God cannot help but show compassion. In order to do that, we need to offer jeongseong that God cannot help but be moved by.
We Must Live a Life of Being Considered Righteous Wherever We Go
2) “The results are very good. Since they poured so much devotion, the results were good. They are worthy of boasting about.” These may be proud results gained through some efforts, but when you invest until the end with the first heart and determination even without results, we call the grace that God gives “mercy.” At first, many people go out mightily with good motivations and passion, but when results don’t show, they become disappointed, their fallen nature comes out, and they give up on the way. However, on the other hand, despite not having substantial results, people who keep their first heart and determination have a future and will surely grow. If you take a look at people who grow well, most people have good interpersonal relationships. As they grow to a level of thinking of others’ circumstances as their own, their emotions mature. That is why such a person’s life will be considered righteous in the end. We must live a life of being considered righteous wherever we go. True Father was victorious by touching and inspiring others wherever he went. Father was always cursed at and persecuted by those around him, but through his life, he practiced the heart of not losing to anyone.
Many people go out vigorously with good motives and enthusiasm at first, but when achievements do not appear along the way, or when they encounter obstacles in the middle of persecution and opposition, they become disappointed, their fallen nature comes out, and (they) give up on the way.
On the other hand, those who keep their first heart and determination despite having no track record have a future and will surely grow. If you look at people who grow well, most of them are people who have good interpersonal relationships.
People with good relationships develop their hearts as they grow to a stage where they can regard other people's circumstances as their own. So, the life of such a person is ultimately a life of being considered right.
A life that is considered righteous by others is a life that always moves and touches others. True Father was always insulted and persecuted by those around him, but through his life, he did not lose to anyone and moved them all.
Everybody completely surrendered to True Father. When they saw True Parents’ life, even though they insulted and persecuted True Father, when they saw their actual life, they were all speechless: “Such a great man! Such a great woman!”
True Father Lived a Life of Being Considered Right Wherever He Went
3) Because True Father proclaimed the Principle which Christians could not understand, he was cursed at, persecuted, and misunderstood. However, if you look from the life aspect, there was no one who falsely accused Father. Since he moved and conquered the hearts of others through his life of practice, in the eyes of prisoners, they felt that True Father was like an owner, father, and a truly responsible person. No matter which field Father was in, he lived as if he was born for that task. For example, when he did labor work in prison, he put in his whole heart and effort as if he were born to do labor work. Father thought that the place where he stood was his purpose of being born. That is why wherever he went, the thought that there were no such thing as temporary or breaks. In order to be considered righteous in life, “temporary” and “breaks” cannot exist. The heart cannot be scattered for even a moment. Wherever you go, you must practice a heart of consistency.
No matter where we go in our lives, our human relationships must be good in order to have a victorious life. To have good relationships, you must always move those around you.
You must move others and naturally subjugate them so that no one accuses you in life. True Father moved everyone around him in Heungnam Prison by leading a life of example and serving others.
That's why True Father was nicknamed a saint in prison in Heungnam Prison. Wherever True Father went, no matter which field he was in, he lived as if he was born for that work.
For example, when he did labor work in prison, he put in his whole heart and effort as if he were born to do labor work. He received a prize as the number one laborer in Heungnam Prison. In whatever True Father did, he lived with the mindset of, “I was born for this,” “It is the will of God to do this,” and “It is my wish and my destiny to do this.”
Wow! That kind of super positive attitude! (With this) mindset he never had any negative concept. We need to learn from True Parents.
When Does Our Center Collapse?
4) People think of their time in the military due to national duty as a time to play around and are not enthusiastic. That is why the period in the military feels very long and they easily hate it. There are hardly any people who think of their time in the military as a time to truly love the nation and take on the spirit of an owner with affection to love the nation. Then they all lead an idle life. Some people think that the time between submitting a resume to a company and getting the job is just a time to play around, so they pass time aimlessly. When people have break periods, school vacation, and national and public holidays, there are many times when we spend time meaninglessly. In these times, people’s centers collapse and leave behind mistakes. In other words, when anxiety is alleviated and there are blanks, there are many cases when we enter trials and our centers collapse.
Koreans, who have to go to the military due to national duty, think of their time as a time to play around and are not enthusiastic. That is why the period in the military feels very long, they easily hate it and many accidents happen.
When I was in the army in Korea, my friends and many in the navy committed suicide. I saw such a situation.
There are hardly any people who think of their time in the military as a time to truly love the nation and take on the spirit of an owner with affection to love the nation. As a result, everyone spends their time in vain.
Anyone who joined the Korean army should have thought, “Thank God. I am so grateful. God gave me an opportunity to love this nation.” If they had had that kind of ownership and volunteer heart, why were there so many accidents? They did not have a volunteer heart because they joined the Korean army unwillingly. That was a problem.
If Father had gone to Heungnam Prison and Danbury Prison with an unwilling mindset, he could not have paid the indemnity. That is why whatever we do, if we really dislike and even hate a mission, we need to change that mindset: “I like it. This is my destiny to overcome. I was born for this.” (That would be) like True Father.
A person who does not put all his heart and devotion into something or thinks that it is temporary or a momentary period when dealing with anything, is not faithful no matter what he does.
When people have break periods, school vacation, and national and public holidays, there are many times when we spend time centered on ourselves. In these times, people’s centers collapse and leave behind worrisome mistakes.
That is why during school vacations, breaks and national and public holidays, many accidents happen. People relax, become very horizontal and lose (their) center.
In other words, when anxiety is alleviated and there are blanks, there are many cases when we enter trials and our centers collapse.
That is why we always need to keep our vertical alignment. We need to keep our center no matter what. When you have break periods, school vacations or national holidays, (in) this kind of time you really have to be careful. Satan can immediately invade and can create Chapter Two problems. That is why you always need to be tense. If we lose our tenseness, Satan immediately invades. This is the reality, right?
Every morning God teaches us beautiful things, right?
Today I talked about “When Does Our Center Collapse?”
(Testimony John Davis, GPA, fundraising experience)♦
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