Ep 936 - Let Us Bring God Back to America Part 5
Let us Bring God Back to America - May 19, 2023
Key Points
To remove Jesus’ and Heavenly Parent’s historical pain, True Parents sought to have churches remove their crosses, and are pursuing the perfection of the ideal of a true family.
The 2,000 years of Christian history are the history of seeking the only begotten daughter and holding the Lamb's Supper in which the only begotten daughter and the only begotten son can become true parents and regenerate humankind.
We are indeed blessed to live in the era of Cheon Il Guk with True Mother as we seek to establish the substantial Cheon Il Guk. That is her last great wish.
Hoondokhae is not just a duty and tradition but should become a culture of heart.
When we have trouble in our relationship with a person, we need to remember “total salvation.” God wants to save this person also.
When we love our enemy, our level and quality of love really improves.
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.♦
My heart wants to die for the sake of the American Providence! I don’t want to leave America! Since I came to America, I fell in love with America. My goodness! I have all kinds of intense feelings!
Anyway, I think I need to help Mother. I don’t want my mother to cry. She has asked me to stay in Korea, so I need to stay in Korea. If she asks me to go back to my hometown to do Heavenly Tribal Messiahship, I will go back no matter what. That is my heart.
My mission is not yet clear yet. Mother asked me to come to Korea. We are still waiting. We have already decided to do our official inaugural and farewell ceremony on May 26 at the New Yorker Hotel. Dr. Yang, the UPF International President, is coming. Also, Dr. Yang Chang Song, head of Family Federation International. Demian Dunkley and all major leadership will come.
Let’s have a strong determination to fulfill True Mother’s wish and vision.
For the next four or five days I want to hear your reflections. I will only share a few slides (each day) centering on True Mother’s words.
Today I’d like to talk about “Let Us Bring God Back to America” from True Mother’s Anthology, Volume 2.
<This speech was read by Sun Jin Moon on behalf of Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon at the True Family Values Ministry 20th Anniversary Awards Banquet, held on December 5, 2015 at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Chicago, USA.>
Beloved leaders! My late husband, the Reverend Moon and I clearly understood the suffering and sorrowful situation of Heaven and Jesus, whose death on the cross was not God's original Will. We, therefore, wanted to comfort and uplift Jesus, just as those around him should have done when he was alive. In 2003, we organized a program in Jerusalem to honor and crown Jesus as the king of peace; we wanted to restore his having been misunderstood and rejected 2000 years ago.
Also, since the cross was a sorrowful reminder that he was not received by the people of his time, we also engaged in a global movement to take down crosses in churches. However, these endeavors alone did not completely free the Heavenly Parent and Jesus from their historical pain and sorrow. In fact, we now understand that the 2,000 year history of Christianity has been a providential course to eventually find the only begotten daughter, fulfill the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and establish the long-awaited position of the True Parents.
True Parents clearly understood the suffering and sorrowful situation of Heaven and Jesus, so in order to ease their han, they appointed Jesus as the King of Peace in 2003 and launched a worldwide movement to remove the cross, which was a symbol of sorrow, from the top of the church.
This is not only about the external symbol of the cross. ... True Parents have already launched the worldwide movement to remove the cross.
However, these endeavors alone did not completely free the Heavenly Parent and Jesus from their historical pain and sorrow. In order to fulfill Heavenly Parent's ideal of creation, the ideal of a true family must be perfected.
In this way, the 2,000 years of Christian history after Jesus can be seen as the history of seeking the only begotten daughter. After all, Jesus' subsequent work is to find the only begotten daughter and hold the Lamb's Supper. Through the Supper of the Lamb, the only begotten daughter and the only begotten son can become true parents and regenerate humankind.
From this point of view, it is undeniable that we are living in the most blessed era of Cheon Il Guk together with True Mother, the only begotten daughter.
Every day I hear about TM’s updated news. She is so serious! She almost does not sleep. She is really focused on the Korean providence, how to create the heavenly unified Korea. I think her main concern and last wish is how she can offer the nation of Korea. Now the Korean population of both north and south is nearly 80 million people. It is quite a lot. Mother is very concerned, working here and there, changing the leadership. How many of the leaders really understand Mother’s incredible investment and urgent heart. We need to really understand that.
Now is the time for us to fulfill our responsibilities as owners of Cheon Il Guk. Our remaining responsibility is to find and establish the substantial Cheon Il Guk.
We need to remind ourself: True Mother’s last wish is to establish the substantial Cheon Il Guk.
Today I would like to close True Mother’s word here.
(Testimonies about “How Morning Devotion has affected our life or ministry.” SR1: Hiroko Hiroi, Pastor Bismark & Bibiana Bamfo, Roger & Daniela Wetherall, Dean Steven Boyd)
(Dr. Yong’s reflections) I want to recommend to you that hoondokhae is not just hoondok, not just tradition. It should be culture. We should not just attend (out of a sense of) duty or responsibility. Heartistic connection is an important point.
When I have faced problems dealing with someone, if someone hates me or is jealous or persecutes me, I always think about total salvation. God wants to save everybody. It does not matter what kind of nationality or color they are. I need to have a parental heart – like God’s heart. Total salvation! Then I can overcome any kind of barrier or problem. Of course, there are still many challenges. I really love True Parents’ concept of total salvation.
Especially we need to love our enemy. When we love our enemy, our level and quality of love really improves and upgrades.
Since coming to America I have been doing Morning Devotion. I have learned more than you! Those who teach learn more than anyone else. I so appreciate this from God and True Parents.
(Testimonies Joshua Burgey, GPA in SR5, Experience in Korea, and Young Joo Scharf & Yuuki Tanaka, Blessing in Korea)♦
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.
3. This lightly edited transcript may contain errors and omissions. Indecipherable, inaudible or uncertain words and guesses are tagged with a “(?)” and indecipherable phrases, with an ellipsis “...”. First, second and third person pronouns have been left as spoken if the meaning is clear, and other apparently Korean English expressions have been preserved if understandable. Some repeated phrases have been eliminated.
4. Audio only is available at anchor.morndev.com, spotify.morndev.com & audio.morndev.com. Notes or transcripts of Dr. Yong’s Morning Devotion speeches from November 11, 2020 through March 29, 2022 are available as ten (soon eleven) paperback books at cost at Lulu.com/Shop -- search for Dr. Chung Sik Yong -- and as PDF downloads free of charge at MDBooks.Hoondok.com.♦