Ep 920 - God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II Part 10
God’s Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II - May 3 2023
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Key Points
· Heaven is a world overflowing with God's true love and true love is its axis.
· Heaven is a natural world where all people live for the sake of one another.
· Heaven is a world where the success of every person represents the success of the whole, the likes of every person represent the likes of the whole, and the joy of every person represents the joy of the whole.
· You should perfect a true family, consisting of three generations of grandparents, parents and children living together in true love. Do this on earth, and you will be eligible to enter heaven.
· No one throughout history has been able to express this the way True Father has. No saint, sage, or holy person. True Father has been to the Heavenly Kingdom and can explain it to us.
· True Parent’s words are so powerful; they are not just theory.
· Examining the history of Restoration, we have entered the 3rd World War.
· According to Father’s words, World War 1 was the history of conflict based on material (economy), and World War 2 was the history of conflict based on ideology. He has said that World War 3 will be the start of a history of conflict of love based on true love and false love.
· The time has come when the Purity Movement, centered on true love, must be established.
· First, a religion of heart with an ideology centered on God’s heart must emerge.
· Secondly, a religion of love for humanity to love people, who are the substantial embodiments of God, must also emerge.
· Thirdly, a religion of unification thought that can represent all ideologies and principles must inevitably emerge.
· Such a view of life is the view of life of people of the Era of Cheon Il Guk.
· The Fall of man started from disregarding relationships.
· Joy will be produced when we cherish relationships. Then love will increase.
· Relationships are precious not just for the vertical relationship between God and human beings. Also, in our daily lives, the relationship with breathing, the relationship with food, the relationship with digestion, and so on—we must also have good give and take with these relationships for life to be sustained
· People who do not cherish relationships will have more complaints and dissatisfactions.
· If you do not do things voluntarily but with an unwilling heart, you become stressed, and that stress brings illnesses.
· If you complain, love will run away.
· When relating with all things, the view of life of the era of Cheon Il Guk has the attitude of offering sincere devotion for others, serving others, and bringing them joy
· If we forget about relationships and only assert ourselves, it is death. But if we cherish relationships, anyone will experience being reborn.
· That is why the place where we unite by love is heaven.
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 “God’s Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II, from True Mother’s Anthology 2”.
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God’s Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II
Ladies and gentlemen, what kind of place is heaven? In brief, heaven is a world overflowing with God's true love. True love is its axis. True love is everywhere, in the outward expression as well as in the inward thought. Everyone's life is filled with true love from beginning to end. The people of heaven are born through true love, live in the embrace of true love, and follow the track of true love all the way to the day they pass on into the next world, the spirit world.
Heaven is a natural world where all people live for the sake of one another. Consequently, antagonism and jealousy cannot be found anywhere in that world. It is not a world governed by money, position or power. In heaven, the success of every person represents the success of the whole, the likes of every person represent the likes of the whole, and the joy of every person represents the joy of the whole. Heaven is a world filled with the air of true love, where all breathe true love. Its life throbs with love, everywhere and all the time. The citizens of heaven are all linked together through their common membership in God's lineage.
There, the whole world and all its people are linked together in an inseparable relationship, like the cells in our bodies. True love, the love that is God's essence, is Heaven's only governing power. Accordingly, God also exists for true love. Ladies and gentlemen, you should now devote yourselves to a life of practicing true love. Can you love God more than Adam or Eve did? Can you love God more than Jesus did? By thoroughly actualizing true love, you should perfectly unite your mind and body. You should establish relationships of true love with everyone around you. To put it another way, you should perfect a true family, consisting of three generations of grandparents, parents and children living together in true love. Do this on earth, and you will be eligible to enter heaven.
What Kind of Place is Heaven?
1. Heaven is a world overflowing with God's true love and true love is its axis.
2. Heaven is a world where true love is everywhere, in the outward expression as well as in the inward thought.
3. Heaven is a world where life is filled with true love from beginning to end.
4. The people of heaven are born through true love, live in the embrace of true love, and follow the track of true love all the way to the day they pass on into the next world, the spirit world.
5. Heaven is a natural world where all people live for the sake of one another, and antagonism and jealousy cannot be found anywhere in that world.
6. Heaven is not a world governed by money, position or power.
7. Heaven is a world where the success of every person represents the success of the whole, the likes of every person represent the likes of the whole, and the joy of every person represents the joy of the whole.
8. Heaven is a world filled with the air of true love, where all breathe true love.
9. Heaven is a world where life throbs with love, everywhere and all the time.
10. Heaven is a world where its citizens are all linked together through their common membership in God's lineage.
11. Heaven is a place where the whole world and all its people are linked together in an inseparable relationship, like the cells in our bodies.
12. Heaven is a world where true love, the love that is God's essence, is the only governing power.
13. Heaven is a place you are eligible to enter after perfecting a true family, consisting of three generations of grandparents, parents and children on earth and living together in true love.
Which saints and sages or holy persons or scripture have managed to explain it this way? Father is the only one who has proclaimed this. No one has explained so clearly what kind of place Heaven is. Father and Mother Moon are really the Messiah. Our Divine Principle is so powerful, True Parent’s words are so powerful, and are not just only theory. True Father entered the Kingdom of Heaven and already experienced it. That’s why he can express this so clearly.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Eschatology 7 Human History is the History of the Providence of Restoration 3 – Trends in the History of Conflict
· Third, examining trends in the history of conflict.
· Battles over people, territory and property have continued without interruption, expanding their scope in step with the progress of human society.
· The scale of these struggles has broadened from the family level to the levels of tribe, society, nation and world until today, when the democratic world and the communist world confront each other in a final conflict.
· This final war will primarily be a war of ideologies. Hence, the new truth which can reconcile religion and science will emerge and bring about the unification of the communist and democratic worlds.
The History of Conflict Around World War II
<5-41>When we look at human beings, we haven’t restored our body yet. Thus, the history before World War II was the history of conflict to restore our body. Actually, the history of conflict before World War II was based on material, that is, economy. So, before World War II, economy held sway over the sovereignty of nations and the whole world. Only after the material-centered age, that is, World War II ended, could an ideological age arrive. This was an inevitable trend in the progress of history. Finally, the age of ideology and principle based on spirit has arrived. Then, which ideology will be victorious? Naturally, that will be the ideology which is able to control material. Since the mind must dominate the body, ideology and principle must dominate material as well. However, even today, all sovereign nations still stand on the foundation of economy. Therefore, in order for the ideology to be spread to the world, it must be able to transcend material.
Since it is necessary to establish the integrated world centered on one purpose or one ideology on the earth, what is required of the democratic camp in this age? Of course, a religion with a God-centered ideology must inevitably emerge to love people who are the substantial embodiments of God as well as to represent all ideologies and principles. However, people today don’t realize the fact that the Last Days when such a religion emerges have arrived, and that they should welcome this time when the religion with Unification Thought which can overpower the Arab camp, that is Islam, has emerged.
According to Father’s words, World War 1 was the history of conflict based on material (economy), and World War 2 was the history of conflict based on ideology. Then, what kind of final history of conflict will come? He has said that World War 3 will be the start of a history of conflict of love based on true love and false love.
In other words, the conflict between free sex based on selfish individualism and absolute sex based on true love is the conflict of the 3rd World War. Therefore, the time has come when the Purity Movement, centered on true love, must be established.
In this age, what is required of the democratic camp in this age? First, a religion of heart with an ideology centered on God’s heart must emerge. Secondly, a religion of love for humanity to love people, who are the substantial embodiments of God, must also emerge. Thirdly, a religion of unification thought that can represent all ideologies and principles must inevitably emerge.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY:
Our Mindset and Attitude in Forming Relationships
People Who Cherish Relationships Receive a Lot of Love
1. What is life? Life is having good relationships. Not only human relationships, but also the relationship with breathing, the relationship with food, the relationship with digestion, etc. We must have good give and take with these relationships for life to be sustained. What is health? Health is having good relationships. What is love? Love is relationships becoming one heartistically. That is why it is painful when you deviate from relationships and become a loner.
God’s purpose for creating us, human beings, is that we have a parent-child relationship with God. That is why the relationship between God and people is most important. In the family, the children should value their relationship with their parents most. That is hyojeong. In interpersonal relationships, it is to serve each other with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. Then, love increases. Therefore, people who cherish relationships receive a lot of love. But people who do not cherish relationships but live self-centeredly and as they please will lose love and become a poor man.
The Fall of man started from disregarding relationships. Adam and Eve disregarded their relationship with God. Then, God’s ideal was completely shattered due to Eve forming a horizontal relationship with Adam.
Adam and Eve disregarded their vertical relationship and that relationship fell horizontally, and in the end, they lost God’s most precious love, life, and lineage. From that perspective, what is life? It is cherishing relationships the most.
Saying that relationships are precious does not just go for the relationship between God and human beings, which is the vertical relationship. In our life, the relationship with breathing, the relationship with food, the relationship with digestion, and so on—we must also have good give and take with these relationships for life to be sustained.
If you cherish relationships, your health will also improve. What is health? Health is having good relationships. What is love? Love is relationships becoming one heartistically and giving and receiving well.
Pain and suffering will come instantly when you deviate from relationships and become a loner. What will happen if people ignore the most important relationship between God and human beings? You will experience a dark world as if there is no electricity in the middle of the night.
In the family, the children should value their relationship with their parents most. That is hyojeong. In interpersonal relationships, it is to serve each other with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
If you cherish relationships and form sincere human relationships, love will undoubtedly increase. Therefore, people who cherish relationships receive a lot of love. But people who do not cherish relationships but live self-centeredly and as they please will lose love and become a poor man.
This is really my experience. I am telling you, your world will increase. This is a guarantee. If you cherish relationships and form sincere human relationships, your love will increase and become deeper and you will receive incredible heavenly fortune. Wherever you are, spiritual world will come down. It doesn’t matter who you cherish, a baby, a beggar, black people, white people, anyone. If you cherish each person because they are a child of God, with that kind of mindset you will receive heavenly fortune all the time. With fallen human beings, discrimination is a problem. If you treat each human being as a child of God, cherish their relationship, you will receive heavenly fortune. This relationship will never perish. Even though they may persecute you, sooner or later you will win over any person’s heart, be able to unite with their heart and know how to deal with this kind of person, to really comfort their heart.
The View of Life of People of the Era of Cheon Il Guk
2. Even when we prepare meals, we should not think that we are doing so for us to eat. Even when we do laundry, we should not think that we are doing laundry because there are many things to wash. Why should we not think like that? It is in order to think of relationships as precious. We must not think of everything externally and centered on the flesh. Then, it would have nothing to do with our spirits.
Why do we prepare meals? Try thinking that it is to invest your whole heart to serve the other person. Why do we do laundry? It is not just to clean dirty clothes but think that we do laundry to clean our dirtied spirits and do so with a joyful heart. We must make everything have the purpose of bringing joy to our spirits. Such view of life is the view of life of people of the Era of Cheon Il Guk.
What is the view of life of people in the era of Cheon Il Guk? It is making everything have the purpose of bringing joy to our spirits. For example, when we prepare meals, we should not think that we are doing so for us to eat.
Even when we do laundry, we should not think that we are doing laundry because there are many things to wash. The reason we should not think like that is because it is to cherish spiritual relationships more than fleshly relationships.
So, we must not think of everything externally and centered on the flesh. Then, it would have nothing to do with our spirits. Even when preparing meals, try thinking that it is to invest your whole heart to serve the other person.
Everything is done for the sake of cherishing relationships. Joy will be produced when we cherish relationships. Then love will increase.
Even when we do laundry, if we think that we do laundry to clean our dirtied spirits, our relationship with our spirits will become better. Such a view of life is the view of life of people of the Era of Cheon Il Guk.
Our Mindset and Attitude in Forming Relationships
3. When relating with all things, we need to have the view of life of wanting to offer sincere devotion for others, serve others, and bring them joy. When having a meal, you deepen the relationship by eating and being grateful towards the person who prepared it with their whole heart. If you ignore the relationship with the person who prepared the meal and just eat, you become a fleshly person.
In this way, we need to focus on cherishing relationships and putting it into practice. Yet people dislike doing that. We do all things reluctantly without a voluntary heart and not coming from the heart. Since we have that kind of heart, we go to work reluctantly, only form relationships with people perfunctorily, and even do laundry without a choice just because laundry has piled up. Such people’s fortunes gradually get worse, and in the end, they become ill. If you do not do things voluntarily but with an unwilling heart, you become stressed, and that stress brings illnesses. When that happens, you gradually become dry and barren and lose love.
When relating with all things, the view of life of the era of Cheon Il Guk has the attitude of offering sincere devotion for others, serving others, and bringing them joy. When having a meal, you should eat while being grateful towards the person who prepared it with their whole heart and being grateful before Heaven’s hard work. Then, that relationship will deepen.
For me, whenever I have a meal, I always think of Father’s life in prison. When he was in Hunan prison, how much he could enjoy and wanting to share. And Mother going down from North Korea to South Korea during the Korean war. After having no food to eat. How much she enjoyed and appreciated the food. Then when I eat any kind of food I always think of True Father and Mother, in Hunan prison and in Korea during the war. I want to share it with True Mother and Father. No matter what I eat, it is always with a grateful heart. Even if the food preparation is not so great or whatever, I always have a grateful heart.
If you ignore the relationship with the person who prepared the meal and eat or don’t have any gratitude towards Heaven, you are a fleshly person. In this way, we need to focus on cherishing relationships and putting it into practice.
People with fallen nature do not cherish relationships. That is why they do not have any gratitude towards others and just form relationships for form’s sake and centering on personal needs. Then they do all things reluctantly without a voluntary heart and not coming from the heart.
If someone lives neglecting relationships, their fortune gradually gets worse, and in the end, they become ill. If you do not do things voluntarily but with an unwilling heart, you become stressed, and that stress brings illnesses. When that happens, you gradually become dry and barren and lose love.
Where is the Kingdom of Heaven?
4. People who do not cherish relationships will have more complaints and dissatisfactions. They even complain about their parents, complain between husband and wife, and even speak recklessly to their children. Then, love and heavenly fortune will escape from that family. Heaven does not protect such family. But Heaven will always protect families with lots of love. That is why we always have to be in harmony with and love each other in the family. The more you love each other, the more that love grows. Is there love in complaining? This is very clear.
We all possess love. Doesn’t a child long for his or her mother and father the most? When we are young, isn’t being embraced in our mother’s bosom like being embraced in the bosom of heaven? Where is such heaven on this earth or in heaven? That is why the place where we unite by love is heaven. Therefore, we human beings have the responsibility to live our entire life by love.
You will find that it is simple. What is so difficult about it? It’s not difficult if you just do this well. The problem is that we do not put it into practice. If we forget about relationships and only assert ourselves, it is death. But if we cherish relationships, anyone will experience being reborn.
What kind of results do people who do not cherish relationships bring? Since such people’s relationships are not smooth, they have a lot of complaints and dissatisfactions. They even complain about their parents, complain between husband and wife, and even speak recklessly to their children. Then, love and heavenly fortune will escape from that family.
Families that cherish relationships will be protected by Heaven. And love increases there. That is why we always have to be in harmony with and love each other in the family. The more you love each other, the more that love grows and increases.
If you complain, love will run away. All fortunes will be gone. However, if you cherish relationships, the relationship of missing and longing for each other will be developed. All of our original nature actually possess love.
Where is such heaven on this earth or in heaven? Heaven is the place where we cherish our relationships with one another and miss one another and we are united in love. Therefore, we have the responsibility to live our entire life with love.
If we forget about relationships and only assert ourselves, it is death. But if we cherish relationships, anyone will experience being reborn and resurrected.
Today I talked about “Our Mindset and Attitude in Forming Relationships”.
(Living Testimony, Peter Hayes, Louisville Kentucky Family Church)¨
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