Ep 925 - God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II Part 15
God’s Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II - May 8 2023
Key Points
· The Holy Wine Ceremony is the special gift bestowed by True Mother that has the wonderful meaning of us being forgiven of any sin.
· Now, all the duty that True Parents had for us has been fulfilled.
· Therefore, from now on, all responsibility that comes after participating in the Holy Wine Ceremony for the special gifts rests with us.
· Going forward, our spirit selves must continue to grow.
· The sin among sins is when our spirit fails to grow. When we grow up, we don’t commit sin at all.
· If we have constant spiritual growth, sin cannot stay among us and rule over us.
· Our spirits grow when we live for the sake of others.
· Our spirits become very bright and always go forward. We don’t have time to commit sin.
· Therefore, as long as we are alive, we must struggle to save even one life.
· When we focus on saving people’s lives, that is the best way to growth. And this is the way to protect yourself from sin.
· The history of the Fall started when the evil side hit the good side.
· The strategy of Satan is to hit first and take away.
· The strategy of God is to get hit and claim what was taken afterwards, plus compensation.
· Thus the more we get hit, the more we can take back. In addition to which, we obtain compensation equal to or more than what was taken.
· Whenever there is an attack from Satan, consider all of this as Satan's encouragement for you to perfect yourself.
· God hates self-centered actions the most.
· God's han was Adam and Eve acting on their own accord, regardless of God's wishes.
· In our families, the relationship between parents and children should center on the wishes of the parents.
· Parents should teach their children in their family how to please God and their parents from an early age, living in joy and happiness.
· We need to make sure that what children want to do is really God's wish and parents' wish.
· If we do not get involved with the children and let them do what they like, they will eventually flow horizontally to a position that has nothing to do with their parents' wishes.
· If ‘do's’ and ‘don’ts’ are not properly taught from a young age and left alone, parents will later surrender to their children.
· When the children make a mistake we should ask Heaven, "In this case, what should we do?" We must consult God.
· The best we as parents can hope for is for our children to grow up to be children of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience.
· Then our children can, in turn, become respectable parents and raise their own children to become God’s obedient children.
· Thus we become happy Grandparents, as well!
· Then our goal in life has been achieved.
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, the path is now open wide for you to change your lineage through the holy wine ceremony that is part of the marriage Blessing the True Parents have instituted. The Blessing is yours, either as new couples or as already married couples, that you may establish true families. Indeed, I am speaking to the world, advocating that all humanity complete the change of lineage through participating in this cross-cultural marriage Blessing. These marriages also restore the original family order by enabling those who are Abel, relatively closer to Heaven's side, to take up the leading role and the position of the elder brother.
The cross-cultural marriage Blessing is by far the best way to restore humanity to become the children of God. It is the greatest of moral acts, because establishing people in God's lineage raises them to a whole new level. It is a rite that severs all bonds of enmity. It is the most sacred of rites, converting our lineage to God's lineage and re-creating us through the True Parents, the King and Queen of Peace and the substantial manifestations of God who enable Him to carry out His providence in the present world. My husband and I have dedicated our lives to teaching the path of living for the sake of others. This is the practice of true love. As a basic principle, it applies not only to individuals but to all levels—from the family to the society and to the nation.
Have you all participated in the Holy Wine Ceremony for the special gifts that True Parents permitted? The Holy Wine Ceremony is not only a condition for the conversion of lineage, but also includes a ceremony to clear up and forgive all our past sins.
In particular, the Holy Wine Ceremony of the special gift bestowed by True Mother this time has a wonderful meaning of being forgiven of any sin. Now, all the duty that True Parents had for us has been fulfilled. Therefore, from here on, all responsibility that comes after participating in the Holy Wine Ceremony for the special gifts rests with us.
In order for us not to sin, our spirit selves must continue to grow. Another great sin among sins is when my spirit fails to grow. A spirit self that does not grow is committing a sin. How worried would God be if He saw that my spirit has stopped growing? Can you imagine seeing Adam and Eve, his descendants, spiritually never growing. That is really God’s han. Anyone who grows well spiritually seldom commits sin. That’s why we need to focus on spiritual growth and multiply God’s word. This is the way we grow. Your spirit will become very bright and always go forward. You don’t have time to commit sin. When you grow up, you don’t commit sin at all.
It is a sin to cause concern to parents. If we have constant spiritual growth, sin cannot stay among us and rule over us.
Just as water rots when it stagnates, our spirits rot if we are inactive. Therefore, as long as we are alive, we must struggle to save even one life. When we focus on saving people’s lives, this is the best way to growth. And this is the way to protect yourself from sin.
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 Strategy of God and the Strategy of Satan
<56-276> The history of the Fall started when the evil side hit the good side. Therefore, in order for the good side to win, the good side must deny itself and recover from the place where it was hit. It is the way of goodness to get hit and recover. Thus, the strategy of God is to get hit and claim what was taken afterwards. Then, what is the strategy of Satan? It is to hit and take away. That is the difference. What is the strategy of God? It is to get hit and then claim compensation afterwards. Once again, what is the strategy of Satan? It is to hit and take away first, but then to be claimed back by the good side afterward. What is the strategy of God? It is to get hit first and claim back afterward. The strategy of Satan is to hit and take away first and then return even with extra compensation afterward. Do you understand? There is no trade off like that trade off in the world. The more you get hit, the more you can take back, and besides, you obtain compensation as much as you got hit.
What is the strategy of God? It is to get hit and then claim compensation afterwards. What is the strategy of Satan? Satan's strategy is to hit and take away first and then return even with extra compensation afterward.
Therefore, we need reasonable conditions to claim damages when we are beaten by Satan. The first is to be righteously beaten. It means never retaliating, but showing mercy and forgiveness for the other person. The bigger the hit, the bigger the compensation for damages corresponding to the extent of being hit.
There is a saying in Korean 'If you know your enemy well and know yourself well, you will fight a hundred times and win a hundred times.' Therefore, if you want to defeat Satan, you need to know God and Satan's strategy well to be victorious.
Because God's strategy is to be hit and take afterwards, it involves tremendous sacrifice. In order to walk God's path, we must accept countless sacrifices. Hence, it is said that the more one sacrifices for the sake of others, the greater the work and grace God will return to them.
Do not be sad because you get hit hard by Satan. The bigger the hit, the better the reward claimed afterwards. So do not be sad because you are persecuted and opposed. Whenever there is an attack from Satan, consider all of this as Satan's encouragement for you to perfect yourself.
Satan is always the first to quarrel, complain, lie, justify himself, and make excuses. But in the end, Satan loses everything.
<56-276>, cont. And the same is true of the world we live in, right? If you inflict injury on an innocent person you must compensate for the injury, right? It’s the same story. Therefore, Satan always hits and takes away first, but he has to return everything even with extra compensation eventually. He always hits. But the more he hits, the more God’s Will progresses because there are formal principles. Do you understand?
God’s Will progresses whenever it gets hit by individuals, families, peoples, nations, and the world. Therefore, there needs to be Cain and Abel on the individual level, on the family level, on the tribal level, on the ethnic level, on the national level, and on the world level. If the evil side hits the good side, the evil side must necessarily return everything with extra compensation upon the foundation which the good side revived recovered. It’s only natural that the good side demands compensation. Do you understand? This is none other than the history of conflict between good and evil.
There are formal principles that Satan always strikes first, but the more he strikes, the more he perishes. Therefore, we can conclude that the more he hits, the more God’s Will progresses.
Therefore, when Satan attacks you, you can know what level you are at spiritually by looking at the range of the attack. If Satan strikes at you individually, your spiritual range and standard are at the individual level.
Have you ever experienced persecution at the family level? Or have you ever been persecuted on a tribal, national, continental, or even global level?
Compared to the level of being persecuted, the blessings are also great. Since True Parents came to the center of the world, they were persecuted and opposed on a global level. Now, since True Parents have won the struggle between good and evil to the cosmic level, the path we are taking is smooth.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY:
Teach Your Children “What to Do” and “What Not to Do”
1. Parents must know God's han whenever they see their own children being self-centered and acting in their own way. What is God's han? It is God's han that He said "Do not do it". What was unfair to God? It was unfair and sorrow inducing to God that Adam and Eve, who should have been happy centering on God, did things as they pleased. So there is nothing as or even more unfair as parents saying 'Don't do it' than a child asserting doing whatever they want. To do something one was told 'not to do' is the same thing as to perish. God's creation is not meant to be self-centered. So, even in the family, you should teach your children 'what to do' and 'what not to do' from a young age. Parents must first repent after realizing that what their parents failed to do when they were young, or else it will eventually repeat itself to their own children.
What is God's han? It was Adam and Eve acting on their own accord, regardless of God's wishes. Therefore, if you do as you please regardless of the wishes of the parents, you will create han with your parents. You must know clearly that by extension you are also making God upset.
So we must always ask God for permission and act accordingly. Hence, even in the relationship between parents and children, children should live by discussing even the smallest things centering on the wishes of their parents.
God hates self-centered actions the most. It was unfair and sorrow inducing to God that Adam and Eve, who should have been happy centering on God, did things as they pleased.
So there is nothing as or even more unfair as parents saying 'Don't do it' than a child asserting doing whatever they want. The act of repeating what your parents tell you not to do, over and over again, is proof that you will go down the road to ruin.
Looking at God's creation, human beings are not meant to be self-centered. So, even in the family, you should teach your children 'what to do' and 'what not to do' from a young age. It is filial piety to be able to carefully distinguish between and obey the ‘do's’ and ‘don'ts.'
Parents must first repent after realizing that what their parents failed to do when they were young, or else it will eventually repeat itself to their own children.
Parents Should Always Educated Their Children with Love
2. Parents should be able to teach something to their children every day. This is not meddling, and it is not nagging. This is because they are teaching children how to live a joy-centered life. This must be taught to children. When children play a game, they should know whose wish the game is centered on. If it is a game centered on one's wishes, one should know that it can also be the cause of pain to one's parents. Can you live centered on yourself just because you want to? We must know that we were born to fulfill God's wishes. You must know that the actions you take apart from God's wishes and parents' wishes will bring pain to your parents and create han.
It is not nagging that parents teach their children every day with a loving heart. And it is not meddling. Because it teaches children how to live centered on joy.
Parents should teach their children in their family how to please God and their parents from an early age. It is the principle that you can never live a self-centered life in order to please your parents.
If children love games so much that they don't listen to their parents, we need to tell them whose wishes they are centering around. Not only games, but whatever you do, children should know that anything they do centering on their own wishes can cause pain back to their parents.
Can you live centered on yourself just because you want to? From the moment we were born, we were born with God's wish. We must know that we came into this world to fulfill God's wishes.
All of us are the manifestation of God's wish. The fulfillment of God's wish is realized by pleasing one's parents. You must know that the actions you take apart from God's wishes and parents' wishes return pain to your parents and create han, which is bitter sorrow.
A Parent’s Wish for Their Children
3. Parents should let their children know who wishes for them to study. Children should be able to ask themselves these things; “Do you know who wishes for you to study?” “It is the parents' desire to cooperate with your own wish.” “Parents do not want to make you do what you don't like. They send you to school to make you better than your parents in this era”. Parents need to let them know about this relationship so that children can realize it.
Let Children Know Their Parents’ Wishes
4. When students go to school, they don't know whose wish it is at first. They don't know if it's their own wish or the parents' wish. Ask any elementary or middle school student. If they are asked “Do you like to study?", most children will answer “No”. Then we need to be able to reflect on whether we are being forced to study? Are our parents making us do something harmful? Or are you trying to make yourself a very special person in the future? When the children make a mistake Mothers should ask Heaven, "In this case, what should I do?" They must consult God.
Parents should let their children know who wishes for them to study. Children should be able to ask themselves these things; We need to make sure that what children want to do is really God's wish and parents' wish.
When students go to school, they don't know whose wish it is at first. They don't know if it's their own wish or the parents' wish. Ask any elementary or middle school student. If they are asked “Do you like to study?", most children will answer “No”.
When the children make a mistake Mothers should ask Heaven, "In this case, what should I do?" They must consult God. Don't try to solve your child's problems by yourself. If you sincerely ask God for even the smallest thing, you get a feeling from your heart.
Educating Children is the Most Difficult Task
5. If the mother does not get involved with the children because they do what they like, and if the mothers just leave them alone because the mothers cannot force them to do anything, the children will not listen to their parents from the age of 10 and onwards. Then parents become discouraged when they see such a child. That's why parents eventually surrender to their children and say, 'I can't help it if you don't listen. So just do as you please.’ If you leave children alone like this, you will lose your children completely. If you leave your children alone in that way, when they reach the age to be blessed and ask them to receive the Blessing, they will say, "Dad, Mom, don't get involved." When they get married, their parents tell them not to get involved with them. This is the sorrow of most blessed families with children today. So, the most difficult thing to do is to educate our children.
If the mother does not get involved with the children because they do what they like, they will eventually flow horizontally to a position that has nothing to do with their parents' wishes. Therefore, parents should pay attention to what their children do. And they must pray so that their children can meet God through that field.
If you leave your children's education alone and do not get involved from a young age, the children will gradually live their own way. If that happens, they won't listen to their parents later. This leaves parents disappointed and discouraged later in life. That’s why we need to have hoondok hae, it is very important. When you children are free, during summer vacation or winter vacation, whenever, let them join the workshops.
If ‘do's’ and ‘don’ts’ are not properly taught from a young age and left alone, parents will later surrender to their children and say. ‘I don’t want to be a father and a mother who makes you do what you hate. So do as you please.’ If you leave your children alone like this, you will lose them completely.
If they are raised like this, then later when they are at the age to be blessed and you ask to receive the blessing, they will say “Dad, mom, please don’t get involved in my marriage, this is my marriage, do not keep telling me”. When they get married, they will insist that their parents not interfere.
This is the sorrow of most blessed families with children today. So, the most difficult thing is to educate our children. God had a hard time educating Adam and Eve, and True Parents also had a hard time educating their true children. We still have a far way to go.
Our final task is how to educate our children well. The ultimate goal of children's education is to raise their own children as filial sons and daughters.
If children grow up to be children of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience to their parents, the parents' goal in life has already been achieved. Parents are the happiest people when their children become respectable parents and their children become obedient children in front of their parents, respecting and completely uniting with them.
Today I talked about “Teach Your Children "What to Do" and "What not to Do".
Thank you very much.
(Living Testimony, Mokogi Kebaso, GPA )
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