Ep 921 - God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II Part 11
God’s Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II - May 4 2023
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Key Points
· The family sets the pattern for living together in harmony.
· A true family is where the stem of true love emerges from the root of true love and bears the fruit of true love.
· God created human beings because He wanted to experience the tangible stimulation of true love in the tangible world rather than the stimulation felt in the intangible world.
· Until now, we have served the invisible God, but now the era of attendance has arrived, where we can worship the visible God through our grandparents, parents, siblings, and children in our families.
· The Cheon Il Guk era is the time when God's ideal is fulfilled.
· Therefore, attending grandparents in the family, as the family’s ancestors, its historical root, is serving God.
· Living by being filial to one’s parents is also living by serving God.
· To serve, respect, and love each other as husband and wife is to live while serving God.
· And to live by educating your children well and serving and raising them to be filial sons and daughters is the way to serve God.
· On the worldwide level, there needs to be a base to be connected to God’s heart.
· The ideology which loved people more than individuals moved the people, the ideology which loved the nation more than the people moved the nation, and the ideology which loved the world more than the nation moved the world.
· What still needs to emerge is the ideology that is able to love heaven and earth as well as the world.
· We must not forget that the blood of historical prophets and sages who struggled for the sake of Heaven also flows in our veins.
· Therefore, we must repay the contributions of our ancestors who sacrificed and worked hard, shedding blood, sweat, and tears for the will of Heaven.
· In the family realm, difficulties in assimilating into a husband’s family have plagued women throughout history. Particularly, in Unification church families, women have had a rough course.
· When a woman got married into her husband's family, she went in to make that family's hell into heaven. Yet she faced much persecution. How can happiness be in that family from the beginning?
· Husbands can serve, help, and love their wives like heaven so that they can overcome all hardships well no matter what. Then the wives can quickly overcome the difficult environment.
· Blessed wives must clearly know that when a woman enters her husband’s family, she goes to multiply God's blessing and lineage. Therefore, first of all, a woman, as a mother, has to completely overturn the environment and restore it through sincere devotion and prayers with tears for her parents-in-law and her husband's brothers and sisters.
· True Parents began their mission in Heungnam Prison, a prison of prisons. Jesus went out into the wilderness and started from the humblest position.
· The same goes for our blessed families. Everyone starts from hell at first.
· Therefore, a husband must understand his wife's position well and love her more than anyone else and actively cooperate with her so that she can take her place as a mother of 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 “God’s Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II, from True Mother’s Anthology 2”.
<This speech was given by Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon between September 1 and October 14 during a 40-nation Victory and Complete Freedom Rally to Bring Universal Peace to the Fatherland and Hometown speaking tour.>139, 140
God’s Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II
When seeking after the lost ideal of the original family, there should be someone in the position of perfected Adam, someone in the position of Jesus, and someone in the position of the Lord at his Second Coming. From that starting-point we can establish the family in which God will dwell. In that family, three generations—grandparents, parents and children—would live in harmony.
Parents and children would serve and attend the grandparents, because they represent the family's ancestors, its historical root. Ladies and gentlemen, the family sets the pattern for living together in harmony. It is the model for living together as one. There we have love and respect between parents and children, mutual fidelity and love between husband and wife, and trust and mutual reliance among siblings. This means that you need to establish a true family wherein the stem of true love emerges from the root of true love and bears the fruit of true love.
We are now living in the age of attendance. Until now, we have served the invisible God, but now the era has arrived where we can worship the visible God through our grandparents, parents, siblings, and children in our families.
The reason God wore the human body was that He wanted to wear their physical human body in a tangible way in the physical, substantial world, and share joys, sorrows and pleasures with them.
God created human beings because He wanted to experience the tangible stimulation of true love in the tangible world rather than the stimulation felt in the intangible world.
From that point of view, God has grown along with the growth of Adam and Eve, and when Adam and Eve married, it also had to be God’s marriage. Through Adam and Eve, God also wanted to go through the infancy period of a baby, go through adolescence, get married, give birth to sons and daughters, and become true parents.
For human beings to wear physical bodies has the same meaning as God wearing a physical body. Through Adam and Eve, God wanted to become true parents through three generations, be served and honored by His children, and experience joy and happiness.
The Cheon Il Guk era is the time when God's ideal is fulfilled. God in the flesh wants to live together in the family and realize His ideal through human beings.
Therefore, living attending grandparents in the family, as the family’s ancestors, its historical root, is serving God. Living by being filial to one’s parents is also living by serving God.
To serve, respect, and love each other as husband and wife is to live while serving God, and to live by educating your children well and serving and raising them to be filial sons and daughters is the way to serve God.
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.
There Needs to be a Base to be Connected to God’s Heart
<8-16> Humanity seems to be alive, but is groaning with pain in the realm of death. It took a great number of ideologies to lead humanity to the worldwide level by any means possible. As we can see, the ideology which loved people more than individuals moved the people, the ideology which loved the nation more than the people moved the nation, and the ideology which loved the world more than the nation moved the world. What still needs to emerge is the ideology that is able to love heaven and earth as well as the world. Such an ideology can conquer heaven and earth. In this manner, God has formed this world through a long history of conflict in order to lead pitiful human beings. However, even if the world today reaches such a worldwide level, has it truly achieved the world which resembles God’s heart? The physical form or external aspect already reached perfection, but the problem is whether there is a base to ultimately be connected to God’s Heart.
The ideology which loved people more than individuals moved the people, the ideology which loved the nation more than the people moved the nation, and the ideology which loved the world more than the nation moved the world. What still needs to emerge is the ideology that is able to love heaven and earth as well as the world.
What standard is our level of love right now? Do we truly love our family more than the individual? Then we are the owner of love in our family.
And do we truly love our people and country more than our family? Then we can move our country, furthermore, do we sincerely love the world more than our country?
Then we can move the world. What is our level of love? Now, both externally and internally, the world is moving towards unity by God's providence of restoration.
The problem is that a thought and true belief that does not only have an outward form, but can rectify everything internally is necessary, that is Godism.
Now, in the Last Days, the question is whether there is a foundation of one heart that can communicate with God's heart with Godism. In other words, we need a religion of heart that can communicate with God heartistically. We need a religion in which God's heart, circumstances, and Will can be communicated.
The Blood of Historical Prophets and Sages who Struggled for the Sake of Heaven Flows in Our Veins
<8-58> After the sorrowful human Fall, the lamentable history of conflict has continued throughout the ages. In this historical course, what was the ultimate desire of our ancestors who longed for the world of motivation and purpose, calling out to and proclaiming heaven’s way to the people with their dying breath? It was to realize the world of motivation and purpose. Likewise, since there have been many ancestors who died while hoping for the day of liberation, the blood of historical prophets and sages who struggled for the sake of Heaven flow in our veins. We must realize that that blood has soaked into our mind and heart, and must reward them for their sacrifice. Furthermore, we must repay God for His effort as well.
After the sorrowful human Fall, the lamentable history of conflict has continued throughout the ages. In this historical course, who will fulfill the grievances of our ancestors who longed for the world of motivation and purpose, calling out to and proclaiming heaven’s way to the people with their dying breath?
The blood of betrayal against the will of Heaven is flowing in our veins, but on the other hand, we must not forget that the blood of historical prophets and sages who struggled for the sake of Heaven also flows in our veins. Therefore, we must repay the contributions of our ancestors who sacrificed and worked hard, shedding blood, sweat, and tears for the will of Heaven.
Therefore, when we are in an environment that we cannot overcome in the fight between good and evil, if we think of the hard work and sacrifice of the great prophets and sages who worked hard before us and stand in a position where we can receive sympathy from them, they will work with us a lot. That’s why I think we need to work harder than yesterday. Otherwise, how can our ancestors sympathize with us. When ancestors can sympathize with American brothers’ and sisters’ Jeongseong, then heaven does everything. This is the power of Jeongseong. Of course there are many evil ancestors, but there are good ancestors as well. That’s why when we work harder, and create a good sympathetic condition for heaven, then spirit world and our good ancestors will come down and help us.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY:
Where Is Heaven?
Why Women Get Married
1. What kind of environment do most Unification Church women experience when they receive the Blessing and marry into their husband's family? Were they welcome from the start? Or were there more difficulties? First, according to the experience of older women who were blessed, most of them say that the environment was like hell. They confess that the environment around them was an environment that was driving them out. In particular, if they entered into a faithless family, they would receive much persecution from their parents-in-law and from their husband’s brothers and sisters. Even if it was that way, they would also not be treated well by their husband. In addition, even the children she gave birth to would ignore her, and not appreciate her or practice filial piety towards her. Any way you look at it, it is an environment that makes the mother sad.
Then, how can a mother completely overturn this environment and restore it through sincere devotion and prayers with tears? This is the mission and responsibility that women who have received the Marriage Blessing must pass through and overcome. In order to indemnify and restore all of these things, she married into her husband’s family. This is called married life in Korea.
This world we live in is not the heaven God wants, but the world of hell ruled by Satan. Therefore, people of faith must always fight and win over this hellish world. Therefore, we cannot be victorious without arming ourselves with the Word of God.
It is not an ordinary challenge for us to know God's will and to pioneer, go on missions, or to receive the Blessing and enter the husband's family. This is because the environment around us is an environment that can oppose and persecute us.
That's why Jesus said the following when he sent out his disciples in Matthew 10:16, “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.”
The heart of God who blesses us and sends us out into the world is like sending sheep amongst wolves. What kind of environment do most Unification Church women experience when they receive the Blessing and marry into their husband's family?
First, according to the experience of older women who were blessed, most of them say that the environment around them was an environment that was driving them out. In particular, if they entered into a faithless family, they would receive much persecution from their parents-in-law and from their husband’s brothers and sisters. Even if it was that way, they would also not be treated well by their husband.
In addition, even the children she gave birth to would ignore her, and not appreciate her or practice filial piety towards her. Any way we look at it, it is an environment that makes the mother sad. Then, in this environment, what is Heaven's wish for us blessed couples?
Blessed wives must clearly know that when a woman enters her husband’s family, she goes to multiply God's blessing and God’s blood lineage. Therefore, first of all, a woman, as a mother, has to completely overturn the environment and restore it through sincere devotion and prayers with tears for her parents-in-law and her husband's brothers and sisters in such an environment.
When we are thrown into the world, one of two things can happen. We either rule the world or are dominated by the world. It's like being thrown into the sea with the possibility of one of two results.
If we fall into the sea, we must swim to live, and if we cannot swim, we will die. Therefore, if we want to conquer the environment of the world, we must overcome and rule with the Word and true love. There is no other choice. If we do not have a clear sense of mission for God’s Word and Will, we will surely be dominated and die.
Therefore, a husband must understand his wife's position well and love her more than anyone else and actively cooperate with her so that she can take her place as a mother of love.
If you fall into the sea and cannot swim, you will die. If you do not dominate the secular world, you will surely die. Your life of faith cannot survive. What is the conclusion? You must arm yourself with God’s Word. You always need to be possessed by God’s word. Without studying God’s word, without Hoon Dok Hae, without attending Sunday service, without relating with your Abel, without a life of faith, how can we control the secular world? The most important thing is how to receive God’s word over time. That’s why Hood Dok Hae is the best way to prepare yourself. That is the only way to get strength and power from Heaven. Secular world is so terrible. Look at our 2nd and 3rd generation, they were born with pure blood lineage. However, they are dominated by the secular world, which has such strong power. Without arming ourselves with God’s Word, it is impossible to dominate the physical body, the secular environment.
Where Is Heaven?
2. In Korea, when a woman gets married, she is told to first spend three years as a mute who cannot speak, three years as a blind person, and three years as a deaf person who cannot hear. In this way, if she pays indemnity, suffers, and serves her husband’s family for 7 to 10 years, her husband's entire family will naturally surrender. In this way, the woman entered the family of her in-laws to reverse their family and tribe and restore them.
If you think that you entered that family from the beginning to be happy, you are greatly mistaken. This world is a hell that rejects God. Where is heaven around you? The husband's family is no exception to this hellish environment. When you got married into your husband's family, you went in to make that family's hell into heaven. Therefore, how can happiness be in that family from the beginning?
This world and the environment around us is a hell where we reject God and live centered on ourselves. Look around you. Where is heaven around you? How is your husband's family environment? How is your work environment?
The way to overcome this difficult environment is, firstly, to always arm yourself with the Word, and secondly, to have a clear sense of your mission and responsibility. Otherwise you will be dominated by the secular world. Losing vision of your mission even for a moment is like a sailing ship losing its compass.
When you got married into your husband's family, you went in to make that family's hell into heaven. Don’t have any expectations on your environment from the start. How can happiness be in that family from the beginning? We have to make a firm determination that we have to make the happiness and environment of heaven. That’s why before entering your husband or wife’s family, your working environment, you must prepare your heart.
In Korea, when a woman gets married, she is told to first spend three years as a mute who cannot speak, three years as a blind person, and three years as a deaf person who cannot hear. In this way, if she pays indemnity, suffers, and serves her husband’s family for 7 to 10 years, her husband's entire family will naturally surrender. This is very important guidance from the old times. In Korea, parents teach their daughter this. Korean tradition is really amazing. It teaches how to pay indemnity, how to make the husband’s family naturally surrender.
In this way, the woman entered the family of her in-laws to reverse their family and tribe and restore them. If you think that you entered that family from the beginning to be happy, you are greatly mistaken. You need to take ownership and have a clear sense of your mission and responsibility. You come to your husband’s family to multiply God’s blood lineage. Your sense of responsibility and mission have to be very clear as blessed wives. Like a compass. You have to be careful.
Serve Your Wife Like Heaven
3. Everyone starts from hell at first. When you look at the environment around you, where is heaven? It's all hell. In order to create heaven in hell, we entered as ambassadors of love and peace on behalf of God and True Parents. However, men should not just watch their wives suffer. Husbands must serve, help, and love their wives like heaven so that they can overcome all hardships well no matter what. Then the wives can quickly overcome the difficult environment.
True Parents began their mission in Hungnam Prison, a prison of prisons, when the Christian foundation that was prepared did not fulfill their responsibility. When Jesus’ family and John the Baptist failed to take responsibility, Jesus went out into the wilderness and started from the most humble position.
The same goes for our blessed families. Everyone starts from hell at first. Looking at the environment around you, where is heaven? Everywhere is a hellish environment.
In order to create heaven in hell, we enter as ambassadors of love and peace on behalf of God and True Parents. If we think that we live to provide food, clothing, and shelter for our children in our family, and go back and forth to earn money at work, then we are completely secularized and dominated by the world.
You need to know why you went to your husband’s family. Why Heavenly Father and True Parents sent you to your parents-in-law’s house. You are an ambassador of love, an ambassador of peace in your family. Do not lose your vision, your goal and your responsibility and mission.
However, men should not just watch their wives suffer. Husbands must serve, help, and love their wives like heaven so that they can overcome all hardships well no matter what. Then the wives can quickly overcome the difficult environment.
Thank you very much.
(Living Testimony, Christopher Fox, UPF, Ohio Family Church, Columbus, Ohio)¨
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