Ep 761 - Opening, Inheriting, and Fulfilling the Era of the Victory, Liberation and Completion of the True Parents Part 3
Opening, Inheriting and Fulfilling the Era of the Victory, Liberation and Completion of the True Parents - November 25, 2022
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Key Points
We need to create a culture of Thanksgiving.
True Parents said that God will give you even greater blessings in the following year if you spend a Thanksgiving Day giving thanks to Heavenly Parent and True Parents.
Four organizations in a Four Position Foundation on a global level are needed to solve global problems: FFWPU as the origin or God or parent UN, UPF as subject or father or father UN, WFWP as the object or mother or mother UN, and YSP as the union or child or child UN.
The Blessing Ceremony is conditionally received at the top of the growth stage, but it becomes a complete blessing when we receive the blessing and embody it. This is physical salvation.
If we find and establish God’s nation – Cheon Il Guk governing with God’s constitution – we can live without original sin in a completely sinless world without the Blessing or the 3-day ceremony in the eternal kingdom of God.
The purpose of faith is to create a relationship of longing for or heart with each other, of hearing God’s Word to become attached to Him, and of witnessing to create unforgettable and affectionate relationships with people.
No one can escape the formula of the providence of restoration.
In order to restore the family, mother-son cooperation is absolutely necessary.
The mother should be a model of filial piety to God and of motherly love for her children, and should raise her children to have a heart of filial love to God and to their parents.
Through mother-son cooperation, women can indemnify all of Eve's sins and the incident between Cain and Abel.
The father must serve and love the mother so that she can fulfill her role as a mother.
The church is a community of heart, a miniature heaven, and a training ground to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
The growth stage worship service is attended from the heart and with longing because we miss Abel, miss the Word, miss our brothers and sisters, and miss our spiritual children.
If a new member is greeted with a heart of love and warm hugs when they visit for the first time, they are sure to be moved.
To go to service with longing, you must always witness.
Love must be multiplied though the spiritual children in order for the longing in our spirit to grow.
CIG worship in a community of Shimjeong should be like a wedding banquet enjoyed with dear friends and filled with longing, anticipation, gratitude and a desire to give more and serve.
Joy is always accompanied by longing.
A person of original nature misses going to church and is happy attending the service and meeting people.
When you sing holy songs, you must emphasize the lyrics, shed tears and feel joy and gratitude, yearning for God and harmony in your family.
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.♦
Yesterday was Thanksgiving. Did you all have a good time with your family or at the church? I also had a really beautiful Thanksgiving family service yesterday with second generation families. It was really beautiful and incredible. I directly guided them about how to celebrate Thanksgiving Day (with) Family Pledge and kyungbei to True Parents, (between) husband and wife, and children to their parents. Then I passed (out) some food; True Parents received some food from me, and (parents) put food in each child’s mouth. We prepared a very beautiful offering table and chose the best food. Then (we) cooked a turkey and (shared a) meal. (Each person) shared his or her appreciation. It was very beautiful. I think we need to create this kind of culture (of Thanksgiving).
Father said when you celebrate Thanksgiving every year, (offering) first to heaven first and to True Parents, God will surely bless you. Then the next year you will get more blessing, 5 times, 10 times, 20 times (more). I really love this culture of Thanksgiving. I heard that True Mother, based on the Thanksgiving Day in Korea, celebrated together with all the Korean leadership.
True Parents said that God will give you even greater blessings in the following year if you spend a Thanksgiving day giving thanks to Heavenly Parent and True Parents as you go through the year. I hope and pray that the blessings of God and True Parents will be with you and your families.
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> The Middle East Women Leaders Peace Council, which has been hosted every year since 1997 under my guidance, has attracted interest and participation from women leaders of the nations in the Middle East. Now it has expanded and developed into a more concrete, wide ranging WFWP campaign. Moreover, bringing women leaders of the Middle East to the center of activities carried out for human rights and peace, going beyond religious barriers, is a truly remarkable achievement. Each year from the year 2000, we have hosted the World Women Leaders Workshop at beautiful meeting places in different continents. Here, participants share their firsthand experience from all corners of the global village, their wisdom, and their vision for the future, including ways to proceed in healthy cooperation.
Taking it a step further, the different continents and countries including Korea, the WFWP International Headquarters, Japan, the United States, the UN Secretariat, Asia, Europe, Canada, Central and South America, Africa and Oceania are developing and carrying out various projects adapted to the needs of their locale. I am proud of and grateful to them all. Furthermore, we are actively conducting relief aid work to resolve the problems of natural calamities and poverty in various parts of the globe. In particular, under the slogan, “Let us share a little of what we have,” we have brought good results with the 1% Love Share Project to help the children and women in North Korea. Moreover, through several effective enterprises, including specialized local businesses to support WFWP in their communities, we are keenly realizing that the power of women is changing societies and achieving amazing results in the creation of a peaceful world. Above all, the Peace Leaders Invitational Divine Principle Seminar, held more than thirty times, helps women leaders realize their divinity. It presents them with vital insights regarding the proper direction for their lives. The program has deeply moved many leaders and helped them fulfill their potential.
True Parents have created numerous organizations and associations, but the most important thing is that they can all be categorized into four types of associations. It is an organization like the four-position foundation in our family.
The first is the Family Federation for World Peace, which is in the position of God. The second is the Universal Peace Federation, which plays the role of a father in the family. The third is the Women's Federation for World Peace, which plays the role of a mother.
The fourth is YSP (Youth and Students for Peace) corresponding to the child's position. True Father said that UPF should play the role of the male Abel UN, and WFWP should play the role of the female UN.
From that point of view, I think that YSP should play the role of child UN. Also, True Parents once said that the Family Federation is in the role of the parent UN.
Just as families consist of four position foundations, four organizations on a global level are needed to solve global problems: the Family Federation for World Peace, the Universal Peace Federation, the Women's Federation for World Peace, and YSP (Youth and Students for Peace).
Of course, there are many organizations, but I think these four are the most important. We need to understand this point. WFWP is incredibly important. Can you imagine the family without the mother, the wife, the woman, how could it survive? (Without her) how could you solve family problems?
It is the same in the world. In order to solve the problems, the role of the woman is like the role of the mother in the family. We sometimes do not understand the meaning of WFWP. When I study Father’s word again and again, the role of WFWP is like the role of the mother in the family. It is very important. That is why I really promote the value of the woman and the value of the WFWP.
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 read Father’s word.
What is Perfect Restoration?
<53-195> We assume that there must be many Christians who believe in Jesus and that they have received perfect restoration owing to the blood of Jesus. Then I want to ask you a question. If there are some clergymen, reverends or regional leaders saying that they are perfectly restored after living a sincere life of faith, what about their children? Can they go to heaven without believing in Jesus? No, they cannot. Even the children of John who had deep faith in Jesus must believe in Jesus to be restored. In this context, you should understand that the root of sin has not been totally eradicated from humankind. It cannot be denied that the Human Fall, which planted the roots of sin, stained our blood lineage. That’s why we can conclude that Satan, the devil committed adultery.
Is the full salvation that Christians talk about really possible? If a Christian really believes in Jesus and is saved completely, can his children receive complete salvation without believing in Jesus? No, not at all. They cannot.
Then why is complete salvation not accomplished? This does not mean that faith in Jesus is invalid. However, by believing in Jesus, we can only obtain spiritual salvation. That is why he promised to come again. We are not at the stage where we can also receive physical salvation from him at the same time.
Our physical body is still continuously invaded by Satan, and we commit sins without even realizing it. Why? This is because sin is constantly inherited through our physical blood lineage.
Then, how can we completely eradicate sin? Since Satan's genes pass down through our physical lineage, Satan's lineage must be eradicated.
In our church, the ceremony to eradicate this satanic lineage and graft onto God's lineage is called the Blessing Ceremony. Of course, the Blessing Ceremony is conditionally received at the top of the growth stage, but it becomes a complete blessing when we receive the blessing and embody it.
In that sense, our blessed second generation do not need the 3-day ceremony. The problem is that although we have set the condition that the satanic lineage is eradicated through True Parents’ blessing, we still have many problems because we are still living in a secular environment under Satan.
Therefore, the important thing is to find and establish God’s substantial nation. If we find and establish Cheon Il Guk, which governs with God's Constitution centering on the Divine Principle, by finding and establishing God’s substantial sovereignty, people, and land, the problem will change.
When everything is governed by the heavenly constitution and heavenly law, no one can commit sin. God’s, True Parents’ and Jesus’ cherished hope is what? To establish God’s substantial nation and people and sovereignty. Satan (will) not (be able to) invade anymore (because) everything (will be) governed by God’s constitution centered on the Divine Principle and True Father’s word. No one (will be able to) commit sin because everyone is trying to live for each other, serving each other centered on a heart community. The entire environment (will be) an environment of the heart.
That is why we need to have sovereignty. We need to have one nation. Everything needs to be governed by God’s law and constitution.
If we find and establish God’s nation, we can live without original sin in a completely sinless world without the Blessing or the 3-day ceremony in the eternal kingdom of God.
And as this kingdom of God gradually multiplies, an ideal world will come in which all mankind will be liberated from sin and Satan. We call such a world the kingdom of heaven on earth.
Wow! That is why our cherished hope is to substantialize God’s Kingdom of Heaven on the earth.
The Root of Sin Lies in the Mother
<53-341> When Jacob was blessed by his father Isaac, who did what? Since the root of sin lies within the mother, the mother has to cooperate with her son and be united according to the Principle of indemnity in order to return to God. Rebekah could become one with her second son after her cooperation with him. That’s why the switching of the first-born son occurred. It’s not fiction but a fact. Jacob deceived Isaac, his father. Eve deceived God, her father when she fell. And Cain stood beside his deceiving mother. In order to indemnify that, both the mother and the son united together and deceived the father Isaac who was in the position of God just like Satan and Eve deceived God, Our Father.
No one can escape the formula of the providence of restoration. In order to restore the family, mother-son cooperation is absolutely necessary.
Not just Adam’s, Noah’s, Abraham’s, Moses’ or Jesus’ families, (but) without exception everyone needs to follow the formula of the providence cooperation. I am especially talking about mother-son cooperation.
If this mother-son cooperation is to be achieved, the mother should be a model for her children, and she should completely move them, touch them, with her motherly love. In other words, the mother should make her children into filial children. Therefore, she must make her children absolutely filial to their parents. This is like Isaac's absolute obedience to his parents.
Why did Isaac absolutely obey Abraham and Heaven? What do you think? Because Isaac’s relationship with his mother is incredible! I really appreciate that Isaac’s mother raised him as a filial son. Abraham’s wife Sarah took care of Isaac very well. That is why they had (such a) filial son. He completely obeyed his father and mother.
As we can learn from Isaac's family and Moses' family, we must establish conditions for mother-son cooperation centering on our mother in our own family. Just as a mother is filial to God, she must raise her children with a heart of filial piety to God.
Through this process of mother-son cooperation, women can indemnify all of Eve's sins and the incident between Cain and Abel.
And in the family, the father must serve and love the mother more than anyone else so that she can fulfill her role as a mother.
This is very important guidance. The mother position is the position of love. The mother is the center of love in the family.
That is why as a man in the archangel position, how can you support the mother and wife position? To (help her) really love each child? Of course, as a man and father, you need to love each child as well. But the children spend more time with the mother from infancy through school, whatever. Most children spend more time with the mother than with the father. That’s why the relationship between the mother and child is really important. Why do children sometimes rebel and go their own way? Father said (it is because) there is a problem in the relationship between mother and child.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: With What Heart Did I Attend Sunday Service?
1. I must always ask myself questions whenever I attend Sunday service; when I attend, did I do it from my heart? And who did you feel affection for while attending the service?
A longing heart is like longing for water when you are thirsty. Joy is always accompanied by longing. When you come to Sunday service, what are you longing for? Or did you come just to watch? Are you coming conditionally and out of habit because it's Sunday?
There are many cases where people who have been attending service for a long time do not long for the service. They do not come because they want to, but because they made a routine out of it. This is a problem.
Do you all come to church with the heart of longing? Or do you attend it as if it's your duty or responsibility? Those who attend Sunday service compulsorily, conditionally or habitually offer worship at the formation level.
And those who frequently miss or even ignore Sunday Service cannot receive the grace and blessings from Heavenly Parent at all. Those who ignore the Lord's Day are people who do not have a foundation of faith.
That’s why anyone who ignores or seldom attends Sunday service has no way to get the Blessing from heaven. Sunday service not your day, but God’s day, a holy day. You need to learn from the Old Testament Era and the New Testament Era how serious they were about attending Sunday Service. (That day does) not belong to you.
Ignoring the Lord's Day, which is Sunday service, is the same as ignoring Heavenly Parent. Those who do not attend Sunday service are people who do not love Heavenly Parent.
How can people who value their families and their work more say they love Heavenly Parent? The church is a community of heart; a training ground to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Among those who ignore the Lord's Day, which is the Sunday service, only a few can be trusted.
The growth stage worship service is attended from the heart and attended with longing. We attend because we miss Abel – “I really want to see my pastor, my Abel – (we) miss the Word, miss our brothers and sisters, and long for our spiritual children. We need to have this kind of longing heart.
The Bible talks about ten virgins (of whom) five are foolish and five are wise. The foolish virgins don’t have oil, which means a longing heart. That is why they could not meet the second (first?) coming.
We don’t have oil. Without oil when you attend Sunday service, you are just an external guy. No oil has no meaning! You need to prepare your oil. What does oil mean? A longing heart.
Attending Sunday service without longing is like (being) a spectator. (It is) a service where onlookers gather (who) are only interested in external things, such as what news the church has.
(It) is easy (for a) service attended without a heart of longing to become just a formal service. So even when members meet one another, there is no warmth nor happiness. They leave right after service because there is nothing more to see.
Even when a new member joins the service where there are just onlookers, the members do not greet the guest just because they are not their own spiritual child. However, if the new member is greeted first with a heart of love and hugs when they visit for the first time, they are sure to be moved.
We need to create that kind of culture of heart. Any new member who comes, if each of the, say, 200 or 300 members goes to the new guest and greet him, “Hello,” and hug him and embrace him, he will never forget (this).
“Oh, he is not my spiritual child. He has nothing to do with me. Someone will take care of him; maybe the church minister will take care of him. That is not my job.” You are just a neighbor, only a stranger.
We are one family under God. Anyone who comes back from Satan’s bosom to God’s bosom, we (need to have) a really grateful, happy heart and each go to the new member, embrace him, hug him and say “Hello! How are you? I am very happy to see you!” If we create that kind of culture of heart, our church can automatically grow. The Kingdom of Heaven needs to grow up in our heart, our family and our church. Without this kind of environment, how can we speak of a Kingdom of Heaven for the sake of the nation? It does not make any sense. We need to really cultivate our heart and create that kind of environment everywhere.
Does our church currently have such a culture of heart? Longing is like longing for water when you are thirsty, right? When you are thirsty, you really look for water. We need to have that kind of longing heart. Worship must be attended with longing. This is because heaven is a world of longing.
The church is a miniature heaven. Joy is always accompanied by longing. When you come to attend church, what do you long for? Or did you come just to watch? Or do you just come out of habit because it's Sunday?
If you want to go to service with longing, you must always witness. So, spiritual children must grow up in the church. Those who have no attachment to witnessing or have any spiritual children, can never feel the longing.
Love must be multiplied though the spiritual children in order for the longing in our spirit to grow.
“Oh, Dr. Yong, I am an old man. I have no power to witness. I don’t have spiritual children.”
Ok. That’s fine. Do you have at least three or four people you can long for? “Even though I don’t have spiritual children, I love this boy, I love that girl, I love that family, I love my pastor, my Abel.” You need to have that kind of longing, to be a longing person. Otherwise, your heart will become very dry spiritually.
People Who Come to Service Habitually
2. I come to church because there is someone I miss and feel happy when I see them. However, people who do not feel this longing and come to attend because it's Sunday are people who attend because of habit. Habitual people become anxious if they do not keep up their routine.
You become that way because your heart is a little uncomfortable if you don't follow the habit you kept. If you habitually lead a life of faith, you will receive comfort for yourself because of the condition that you have kept that habit.
Of course, if you don't come to church, there are other questions. Those who attend service out of habit, despite not having a grateful heart, feel more comforted than those who did not come at all. As a result, they take it for granted. The problem is that if you go to church as a habit, your heart will never be resurrected.
That is why we should not expect that someone will welcome me or is longing for me.” Do not have hat kind of expectation. (Think, rather,) I am the one who needs to initiate. I need to have that kind of longing. Even though someone did not welcome me and does not look for me, I am the one who needs to initiate because I am the owner of Cheon Il Guk.” When you give first, embrace first, hug first, your heart comes out from the bottom of your heart. (You should) initiate first.
True Father said that worship in the era of Cheon il Guk should be like a wedding banquet. When you have to go to church, have many spiritual children so that you will have people you are longing to see. Or create a close relationship with your brothers and sisters there.
Ultimately, the purpose of faith is to create a relationship of longing for each other, that is, a relationship of heart. The purpose of listening to Heavenly Parent’s Words is to become attached to Him, and the purpose of witnessing is to create unforgettable and affectionate relationships with people.
ShimJeong is a deeper world than love. So our church must show all of the world what is the community of Shimjeong or heart.
Attending worship is a good habit, but you have to attend with heart.
Where there is longing when attending service, there is also anticipation. And there is always a grateful heart with the desire to give more and serve others.
The problem is that if you go to church as a habit, your heart will never be resurrected.
Those Who Have Longing are People of Original Nature
3. You become a person of original nature when you miss going to church. Attending service should be a pleasure. When you sing holy songs, you must resonate with the lyrics and shed tears. Holy songs without tears are conceptual and habitual.
For example, let’s say we sing the holy song, "Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me; Still all my song shall be, Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer, my God to Thee, Nearer, my God to Thee." (Holy Song 364) When I sing this holy song while trying to get closer to the Lord, the question is whether I have a heart of sadness over how much I miss and long to be harmonious with my family.
You are a person of original nature when you miss going to church and are happy when going to church. An original person is happy to meet people.
When you sing holy songs, you must emphasize the lyrics and shed tears.
“Wow! This song touches me exactly (in line with) my heart and mind.”
Father said, “You have that kind of original nature; you already feel something like that.
Holy songs without joy, gratitude or tears are conceptual and habitual. How close do I try to be to the Lord every time I sing a holy song?
I have to sing while reflecting on whether I have a heart of sadness over how much I miss and long to be harmonious with my family.
I really appreciate True Father’s guidance about our attitude while attending Sunday service. If we create that kind of beautiful culture, a culture of heart, love each other, long for and serve each other (beyond) any kind of expectation, then our church can show the world, “God is great. True Parents are great, Divine Principle is great, policy(?) is great. Now is the time to practice the Principle, the world of the heart. That is yours and my job, to create that kind of beautiful culture of heart, right?
Today, I spoke of the topic about "With what heart did I attend Sunday service?" Thank you very much.
(Testimony Madoka Tsuchihara, CARP Youth Summit, Los Angeles)
I realize more and more the important role of ACLC. When I visited Washington, D.C., we had a beautiful session of ACLC, I keep on emphasizing that we should let them study EDP one-on-one. I think now everywhere we are creating that kind of culture. Let’s educate all our Christian ministers through reading EDP directly one-on-one (with them). ACLC should become amazing through (the clergy) learning the Divine Principle.♦
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