Ep 759 - Opening, Inheriting, and Fulfilling the Era of the Victory, Liberation and Completion of the True Parents Part 1
Opening, Inheriting and Fulfilling the Era of the Victory, Liberation and Completion of the True Parents - November 23, 2022
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Key Points
WFWP does not aim to be an external, political, advocative, combative or secular women's rights movement, but a providential educational organization centering on the three blessings and guided by maternal love to establish exemplary families of true love that elevate women’s value.
The “Mother's Heart Network” centered on maternal love should embrace and educate humanity and provide family examples of true love.
True maternal love is love that is unconditionally for the sake of others, unconditionally giving, unconditionally sacrificing, and unconditionally investing. It embraces all the children, the husband, the youth; it educates and nurtures them.
Because we are arrogant and self-centered, we do not realize that we are a sinner of sinners because we have badly hurt God’s heart and that of (True Parents,) our spouse, children, and and brothers and sisters. So, we cannot shed tears of repentance.
We are also sinners as the fruit of the failures of the past. We need to repent for the failures of providential figures on their behalf.
The way for fallen people to eradicate sin and return to God is to go through a thorough course of repentance without pride and arrogance and with tearful sincerity realizing that we are a sinner among sinners.
Then we can be born again and will be able to see others compassionately, to weep and pray for them, to comfort poor God and to avoid committing more sin.
Knowing that all unity comes from the unity of one’s mind and body, we should sing the Song of Unity with tears – deeply yearning above all for that internal unity, and then desperately for the challenging and elusive unity between husband and wife, and ultimately for unity among siblings and between parents and children, Cain and Abel, and North and South Korea.
Mind-body unity is only possible centered on Heavenly Parent.
Of all the kinds of unity, that between husband and wife is more difficult than mind and body unity and all the others. In history conjugal unity has only been successfully and truly modeled by True Parents.
The most critical and essential attribute of unity is true love.
In order to unite the mind and body, we must love God more than anyone else with a heart of hyojeong. That unity is possible only to the extent that we love God with a heart of filial piety.
The unity of parents and children is only possible with the love of parents for children and children for parents at the center.
Conflict can only be resolved through unity centered on love.
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’d like to talk about “Opening, Inheriting and Fulfilling the Era of the Victory, Liberation and Completion of the True Parents” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given at the Assembly for Inheritance and Accomplishment in the Age of Liberation Opened by the Victory of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind held on March 4, 2012 at the Daejeon Convention Center in Daejeon, Korea> My beloved Women's Federation for World Peace members and most honorable women leaders for peace: First of all, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to God and my husband, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon for the great success of this Convention to Open, Inherit and Fulfill the Era of the Victory, Liberation and Completion of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, held today in commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Women's Federation for World Peace. At the same time, I would like to convey my grateful heart to all of you. The Women's Federation for World Peace was founded in April of 1992 as a central organization of the women's peace movement, in accordance with the Will of Heaven, by Reverend Sun Myung Moon and me at the Seoul Olympic Stadium in Jamsil.
It accompanied the declaration of the Advent of the Global Era of Women, attended by representative women from more than 70 nations and 150,000 Korean women leaders. We did not intend this federation to be a women's organization typical of this world. It does not aim to be an external, political and combative women's rights movement mainly targeting men, advocating expansion of women's rights, gender equality, and workplace rights. Rather, it is oriented by providence and designed to realize God's ideal of creation. During the past twenty years, the Women's Federation for World Peace, founded with such providential significance and guided by maternal love, has carried out various services and educational programs in all parts of the global village. These are to firmly establish families of true love that elevate women’s value. Consequently we have achieved amazing growth and development in the world.
Women’s Federation for World Peace accompanied the declaration of the Advent of the Global Era of Women. True Parents did not intend this federation to be a women's organization typical of this world.
It does not aim to be an external, political, combative, and secular women's rights movement mainly targeting men, advocating expansion of women's rights, gender equality, and workplace rights.
Rather, it was established oriented by providence and designed to realize God's ideal of creation centering on the three blessings.
During the past twenty years, the Women's Federation for World Peace, guided by maternal love, has carried out various services and educational programs in all parts of the global village to firmly establish families of true love that elevate women’s value. Consequently, we have achieved amazing growth and development in the world.
I talked about it yesterday, but in my personal opinion, I think the Women's Federation should embrace and educate humanity with the “Mother's Heart Network” centered on maternal love, and unfold a movement that shows that example of true love.
What is true maternal love? It is love that is unconditionally for the sake of others, unconditionally giving, unconditionally sacrificing, and unconditionally investing. That is true maternal love.
This kind of maternal love embraces all the children, the husband, the youth; it educates and nurtures them. That’s why the role of Women’s Federation is very important.
We need to have that kind of network, the Mothers’ Heart Network, centering on true maternal true love. True Parents have already shown (this to) us. We need to utilize this kind of maternal love to embrace all humankind. That is why I say (that) now is the era of WFWP. We need to really promote WFWP. I will tell you more details tomorrow because there is not enough time today.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 9 - The Root of Sin
• The root of sin is that the first human ancestors had an illicit sexual relationship with an angel symbolized by a serpent.
• They could not multiply God's good lineage, but instead multiplied Satan's evil lineage.
• We know that the original sin has been perpetuated through lineal descent from one generation to the next. This is because the root of sin was solidified by a sexual relationship that binds one in ties of blood.
• Furthermore, those religions which emphasize the need to purge sin regard fornication as a cardinal sin, and they have taught the virtues of chastity and restraint in order to curb it.
• This is an indication that the root of sin is found in lustful desires.
• Therefore, the hope of an ideal world is an empty dream as long as this root of all evils has not been eradicated at its source.
• Christ at his Second Advent must be able to solve this problem once and for all.
Let’s study True Father’s word. These words are really profound. If we understand these words today, then everybody can experience rebirth. What is the true meaning of repentance and rebirth? Let’s study.
How can we Eradicate the Root of Sin?
<51-230> Religious people and Christians are told to ‘Repent! Repent!’ Then through what can they express their repentance? With a pledge paper? That’s not possible. Have you ever heard of writing a pledge or repentance paper? Are Christians told to pray a repentance prayer? Then while doing it, they laugh, ‘He-he-he’? You must shed tears of repentance with a runny nose and saliva dripping down with a desperate heart throwing your dignity and honor away, even not knowing whether you may die. You should bow your head to the ground and throw yourself down while repenting. Those who have not shed tears in this way cannot eradicate the root of sin in themselves.
Just like the prodigal son who left home and first repented after returning to his father, the way for fallen people to return to God is to go through a thorough course of repentance.
I am telling you, we do not realize we are a sinner of sinners, how much we have hurt God’s heart, True Parents’ heart, our father and mother, our wife, our husband, our children, our brothers and sisters; we do not realize the reality that “I am a sinner of sinners.” A life of faith begins from repentance. If we do not realize we are a sinner of sinners, we are still very self-centered and arrogant. Those who are arrogant have no tears, no repentance at all.
Then how and what will you repent for? Repentance must be accompanied by tears of sincerity, heartfelt tears. When there are no tears, there is no heartfelt repentance. Where there is true repentance, there are heartfelt tears as well.
As True Father said, “You must shed tears of repentance with a runny nose and saliva dripping down with a desperate heart throwing your dignity and honor away, even not knowing whether you may die or not.”
Why can't we pull out the root of sin? It's because we didn't realize that we were truly sinners.
Someone (may say), “I did not commit Chapter Two sin ...” (Such a person) does not know God’s providence. You need to repent on behalf of Adam, Eve and all providential figures who could not fulfill, no behalf of the Israeli people who crucified Jesus. We need to repent on their behalf. This is the reason we cannot pull out the root of sin. It is because we did not realize that we are truly sinners.
The second reason is that we have not experienced wailing and repenting after realizing that we are a sinner among sinners. “How much I have hurt God’s heart!”
The reason why we have not been born again in our course of faith is that we have not realized that we are truly sinners and have not experienced true repentance. This Bible verse is important content; I meditate a lot about this. Jesus said in John 3:3, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
How can we be born again? Through repentance. Of course, externally we need to receive the Blessing, but internally we need to be born again through repentance.
Because we do not have the experience of being born again that Jesus spoke of, we cannot yet see God, the other person’s heart, the spirit world, and the kingdom of God, we cannot understand my wife’s, husband’s, children’s heart, I cannot read their mind and heart. Why? (Because) we do not have the real experience of rebirth. In order to experience rebirth, we need to go through thorough repentance with tears. This is also my task.
When you think about the sorrowful God, no tears come out. Why? When you think about True Parents’ suffering, why can’t you think of it as your own suffering? Why is there a heartistic gap between God and you, True Parents and you? Because you did not go through the process of real repentance, real rebirth.
Those who still remain self-centered do not feel repentance. The reason why one can't repent, and tears don't come out even if they do is because they’re arrogant. No tears means you are very self-centered, very arrogant! True repentance is always accompanied by tears. Those who do not feel repentance must realize that pride still possesses them in their hearts.
Tears come out according to how sincerely you repent, you experience rebirth according to how many tears you shed, your sins are cleared to the extent of the rebirth you experience, and as a result you do not commit sins.
If you truly have an experience of repentance, you do not commit any more sins. Why do you commit sin again and again? Because you did not go through a proper and thorough experience of repentance. That is why you commit sin again and again and still cannot control your anger and all four kinds of fallen nature. You did not go through the process of repentance. When you go through true repentance, (it is a) really life changing experience.
Even though I am saying this to you, I am still far away. How many tears do I have for God? How much do I repent on behalf of Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Noah, Abraham? Their failures are my failures. Their problems are my problems. Their wishes are my wishes. Who crucified Jesus? Not just the Israeli people. My fallen nature killed Jesus. My own pride and arrogance killed Jesus. My pride and arrogance made True Parents suffer so much! That is why I am a sinner of sinners.
Do not expect to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. “I need to go to the hell of hells and really repent. I deserve to go to the hell of hells because I am the one who hurt God’s and True Parents’ heart the most, my wife’s heart, my husband’s heart, my children’s heart. Heavenly Father, what should I do?
Only those who have first repented a lot for their sins and received mercy and forgiveness from God are able to see others compassionately and weep and pray for them. Furthermore, they offer prayers to comfort poor God.
Why are there no tears in your course of faith? It is proof that you still have a lot of arrogance. Then, what should you do to clear up your arrogance? You must repent. We must not just repent, but repent shedding tears.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: From Where Must We Achieve Unity?
This content really touched my heart. This is such important content. Let’s study.
1. "Our cherished hopes are for unity. Even our dreams are for unity. We'd give our lives for unity. Come along unity. Unity saving the people. Unity saving all nations. Come here quickly unity. Come along unity."
Unity does not mean unconditionally proclaiming the unity of the mind and body nor the unity between husband and wife. The motivation for unity must first come from heaven. And we must first know that unity does not come from the outside. Heaven begins with the individual and the family.
'Our cherished hopes are for unity. Even our dreams are for unity" is to first unify one's mind and body and realize our original selves. Those who have realized their original selves are also those who have achieved unity. And within the family, unity is that of between husband and wife, parent and child, and brothers and sisters.
(Sings Tongil in Korean)“Our cherished hopes are for unity. Even our dreams are for unity…”
Until now, we have sung this holy song countless times, wishing for the reunification of North and South Korea. However, what is more important than the unification of the Korean peninsula is mind-body unity, the unity of husband and wife, the unity of parents and children, and the unity of brothers and sisters.
Every moment, we are lamenting over ourselves who cannot unite our minds and bodies. In that sense, how many tears did we shed as we sang this holy song, wishing that our mind and body would be united? “Oh, Heavenly God! You see your poor son! I really sincerely wish that my mind and body become united. Please help me. I cannot do it under my own power.”
We (should) sing a (Holy?) song with this kind of mindset and heart.
Also, how many tears have we shed as we sang this song, wishing for unity between husband and wife? Because unity between husband and wife is so difficult, almost impossible. Some people confessed that they wanted to commit suicide more than once or twice because it is so difficult to make unity.
And how many tears did we shed while singing this song, wishing that Cain and Abel would be unified? We know from daily experience how difficult it is for Cain to love Abel and for Abel to love Cain.
We are fallen people. We are very limited.
Even if the homeland were united and the world became one, what meaning would it have if we do not achieve unity of mind and body, unity of husband and wife, unity of siblings, and unity between parents and children in our family?
Knowing that unification does not come from the outside, but from the unity of one’s mind and body, one should always reflect while singing this song of unity, and sing it with an earnest hope, a desperate hope, for unity between mind and body and unity between husband and wife.
Do you sing this song with this kind of meaning? You just pray and sing for the reunification of North and South Korea. When I hear these words and sing this song of unity, how much I reflect on the unity between mind and body!
Key Elements of Unity
2. The foundation of our life must be unified with the heart as the subject centered on Heavenly Parent. No matter how many secular people who cultivate themselves shout for mind and body unity, and train themselves, unity is impossible when not centered on Heavenly Parent.
Next is the unity of the couple. When a husband and wife become one, unity of the rest will become automatic. The most difficult unity is that of between spouses rather than that of mind and body. And the important thing is what we have at the center when unifying.
Unity cannot be achieved unless it is centered on love. What kind of love? True love. We must understand that among all of the elements of unity, the most important among them is love.
The first thing we need to know is that no matter how much we shout for mind and body unity and train ourselves, unity is impossible when not centered on Heavenly Parent.
We talk about unity, unity, unity. (But) centering on what? You need to know (that) it is centering on God.
The next step is the unity of husband and wife. When a husband and wife become one, unity of the rest is automatic. Many people have shouted for mind-body unity, but there has been no saint or great man in history who shouted for the unity of husband and wife and showed a model example. No one showed an example.
The most difficult unification is the unity between husband and wife rather than the unity of mind and body. Even Buddha, Muhammad, Confucius, and Jesus could not show the model of a true couple. Only True Parents showed that model.
This is really incredible. All saints and sages talked about mind-body unity, but nobody talked about unity between husband and wife, about family unity. Wow! Our True Father and True Parents are really amazing, right?
And another important thing is what we center on when we try to unite. This is important.
Unification cannot be achieved unless it is centered on love. Not just (on) training. Not only controlling the body by force. Unification and unity cannot be achieved unless it is centered on love.
What kind of love? True love. Among the attributes of unity, we must clearly know that the most important one is love.
How can my mind and body unite? Not by force, power, energy, or knowledge. Only true love – giving and giving, unconditionally giving, and sacrificing, sacrificing, unconditional sacrificing for others, investing, investing again and completely forgetting what I have invested 100%, 120%. Then the object partner becomes better than I. Unconditional investing, loving, giving, living for the sake of others, sacrificing. Only in this way can we make unity between mind and body, between God and me, between husband and wife.
This is my conclusion. I studied Father’s 600 volumes a lot. This is the answer. (Of course,) unity by prayer and medication works in part, but finally it is by what? By true love.
Only Through Love is Unity Possible
3. True love only begins with Heavenly Parent. Therefore, unity cannot be achieved though neither human power, money, honor nor ideology. Only through love can unity be possible. Therefore, in order to unite the mind and body, we must love Heavenly Parent more than anyone else. The degree to which you love Heavenly Parent and offer filial piety is the measure by which you can unite your mind and body. Unity between parents and children can never be achieved without the parents’ love for their children and vice versa.
If there is no unity centering on love, there will only be conflict. So, the word 'unity' is based on the premise of true love. Unity between husband and wife cannot be fulfilled unless both spouses love one another like Heavenly Parent.
Unification cannot be achieved through human strength, power, money, honor, or humanistic ideology. Unification is possible only through true love. I just explained this to you.
Therefore, in order to unite the mind and body, what is the key? We must love God more than (anyone or) anything else. We need to put God as the top priority – greater than money, than Adam, than my family, than knowledge, than anything else. That is why Jesus (gave us) the first commandment.
Therefore, you must subjugate your body with a heart of love for God. “(To the extent that) I love God, I can control and subjugate my body. (There is) no other way. The power comes from God. That power is the power of Hyojeong that loves (one’s) parents.
That is why hyojeong is important. How can I control my body? Through the power of Hyojeong. What does hyojeong mean? I love God more than anything else.
The degree and strength to which you love God and offer filial piety eventually becomes the measure by which you can unite your mind and body. You can unite your mind and body as much as you love God.
(To the extent that) you love God, you can control your mind and body, unite with your wife, your spouse, your children, your Cain and your Abel. That is the key.
Unity between parents and children can never be achieved without true love as the center, the heart of parents loving their children and children loving their parents.
If there is no unity centering on love, there will only be conflict. So, the word “unity” is based on the premise of true love.
Unity between husband and wife can never be achieved unless the husband and the wife love each other like God. “When I see my husband or my wife, it is like seeing God.”
I am telling you key points, right? How much donation you need to give me!
This morning I woke up and cried. When we talk about repentance, I confess to you that I am the sinner among sinners. I could not liberate and comfort God enough. I could not do what Heavenly Father wants. I could not yet love our American brothers and sisters very much. Some may be suffering very much, but I could not help them very much. That is why I am a sinner, the sinner of sinners. I feel that.
Today, I spoke about “From Where Must We Achieve Unity?”
(Testimony Shizuka Pehling, 24+ Connect Retreat, Orlando, Florida)♦
NOTE: This text and the PowerPoint slides from this speech are available as a link at the top of this text. 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. Books of the transcripts and notes are available as PDFs at MDBooks.Hoondok.com.
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