Ep 637- Noble Families of Cheon Ill Guk Part 9
Noble Families of Cheon Il Guk - July 24, 2022
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Tomiko Duggan
Key Points
Where there is unity, there are no longer walls of Jericho.
Let all people know about True Parents.
Show people how much we (have) changed by meeting God and True Parents.
Think a lot about the heartistic perspective of God and True Parents.
Have the heart of someone who is always hungry and searching for something.
The heart that seeks something is the heart of prayer.
The more I love someone, the more I think about that person.
Thoughts are prayers.
Love starts from thinking.
A leader thinks more than anyone else, studies with the heart of hunger, and moves while putting things into practice.
Rather than hoping for signs and wonders, we need to educate new members about the providence and heart of God and True Parents.
Help people realize the heart and wishes of the sorrowful Jesus, True Parents, and God through the Principle and Words.
Educate people about the Divine Principle more internally and directly.
“Our founder, Father and Mother Moon, recommend that the best way to learn the Divine Principle is through one-on-one education.”
Always think about what our original selves are like and focus on that and ask, “What should I do to become a true person?”
Think about how much we have become people who voluntarily participate in the Will from the heart.
My voice is better, right? Thank you for your prayer and concern. I love you all!
Yesterday was the first day of the Hyojeong CheonBo Special Event at Belvedere. More than 1,200 people gather together and we had an incredible time.
True Mother blessed America by allowing us to have a CheonBo Branch in the USA. Especially, the USA is the only nation that has the Cheon Shim Won outside of Korea.
Thank you, Dr, Ki Hoon Kim, President of the USA CheonBo Branch, and Rev. JinHwa Chung, Vice President of the USA CheonBo Branch for your hard work.
We had a beautiful Chan Yang Session.
I could see many of our brothers and sisters. I really want to touch each member’s body on behalf of God and True Parents. For me it was really a good time. Whenever I touch each member’s body, I feel how much God loves them.
We also had a Hyojeong Offering Paper Ceremony. And today, we will have an Ancestor Liberation Ceremony and a Blessing Ceremony. After that we will also have special education for 2nd and 3rd Generations.
Today I’d like to talk about “Noble Families of Cheon Il Guk” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Autumn is the season of harvest, the season of fruition. Isn't that what they say? In our Unification movement, the Family Federation is the entity that must become the center of this nation as a noble family, the eldest son's family! When a family celebrates Chuseok, what do the butler, who takes care of many things, and other staff members of a distinguished family do during this time of harvest? It is the busiest time. In this age of Cheon Il Guk, all of you who are working here at the Korean Headquarters represent the eldest son's family. What kind of grain, what kind of harvest will you reap? We are doing many things. Centered on the church, we are doing tribal messiah activities, while centered on each institution we are educating and fostering ambassadors for peace and other leaders. WFWP, UPF, YFWP and CARP are all training the second- and third-generation members that will lead our future movement.
We are doing many things. During this season, how do we harvest people of talent who will influence the future? Grains that have been harvested are saved for the next year in order to multiply the result. We need to care for these people in that way. All the institutions and the church, united towards one goal, must become one. No one can stand against a united front. There are no walls of Jericho in front of us anymore. I told you, we must reveal the truth, and the way to do that is to let people know about the True Parents. Do you realize that? Neither the president of this nation nor politicians of the world can solve the problems we are facing here in Korea and in the world. This nation must attend True Parents. Only through that will the problems be solved. In order to do that, you must harvest well. One for 100! Each person must reap and bring 100 people, 1,000 people. We must have that kind of harvest.
I heard that you all work at the headquarters. You must all mobilize everything you have including your wisdom, and ponder how we can pursue our goal and multiply our result by 10, by 100. In this age your work done with True Parents, your result, will pass down for eternity as you work hard and you will become proud. What shall we call you? “Proud soldiers!” “Proud eldest sons or daughters of noble families.” I ask that you bring in as much result as you can. (2016.09.09, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Mother asks how all of our Unification movement institutions can adjust to the season of harvest and reap results by tens, by hundreds.
True Mother answered that, first, all the institutions and the church unite towards one goal; (they) must become one. No one can stand against a united front. She also said that where there is unity, there are no longer walls of Jericho.
Secondly, True Mother said that there is nothing left but for everyone to become one and let all people know about True Parents. She said that all the problems we are facing now, not only in Korea but also around the world, cannot be resolved politically or religiously.
Third, there is something important in bringing proud results. What is that? In some ways, you can see it as more important than proclaiming that True Parents as the parents of humankind.
It is that we must become people who show. We have to show how much we (have) changed as an individual, family and church by meeting God and True Parents. Through our own lives, we have to show that God is alive and True Parents are really amazing parents.
The reason Christianity is going downhill today is that, although they proclaim Jesus as the Savior of humankind, they fail to show how God and Jesus are living and working through their lives.
Now, he is God who only shows, sets an example, and works in individuals, families, and churches who live a life aligned with what He has proclaimed. If you do not show a life of practice, it is just (like) being as noisy as a gong. Just a noisy gong.
That is why True Mother said that members who show our lives are “proud soldiers” and “Proud eldest sons or daughters of noble families.”
Now (it is) not only Christians, but if members of our movement do not show who True Parents are, do not show that God is alive, do not show that God and spiritual world exist, then even our movement cannot feel hope. That is why even though God is great, True Parents are great, the Divine Principle is great, people want to see how much (these) have changed your life. How is your relationship with your spouse? What is your relationship between parents and children? How can I find God? Not showing makes no sense. Now we need to focus more on how much I have changed, how much I have become a true self day by day. That is the important thing. Do you agree with me?
(We may feel that) everything is great – except for me. If I do not change, there is no meaning (to what I am doing).
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 60 - The Development, Perfection, and Features of the Spirit Self
• All the sensibilities of a spirit are cultivated through the reciprocal relationship with the physical self during earthly life.
• Therefore, only when a person reaches perfection and is totally immersed in the love of God while on earth can he fully delight in the love of God as a spirit after his death.
• All the qualities of the spirit self are developed while it abides in the physical self: Sinful conduct during earthly life aggravates evil and ugliness in the spirit of a fallen person, while the redemption of sins granted during earthly life opens the way for his spirit to become good.
• This was the reason Jesus had to come to the earth in the flesh to save sinful humanity, We must lead a good life while we are on the earth.
• In Matthew 16:19, Jesus gave the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven to Peter, who remained on the earth, and in Matthew 18:18, he said, "Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven," because the primary objective of the providence of restoration must be carried out on earth.
Father’s word:
Have the Heart of Someone Who is Always Hungry
<76-125> When the level becomes higher and you start to have more delicate prayers, you will be able to speak with your heart. A phenomenon of sympathy will occur. This is something of a higher level, but when that happens you will be able to hear what is spoken in your heart. You will develop and grow towards that kind of stage. From the very first step, you will experience hints and other truths in your lives.
Therefore, a man of faith must gather this kind of enormous data. Never act carelessly towards someone. What will this person bring me? Have the heart of someone who is always hungry. What will this person bring me? You need to have this kind of seeking heart. In the end, what is that in itself? I am always either the subject or the object. I am always in a definite position as a subject or an object. This is the truth that I am constantly searching for.
The World of the Wavelength of Heart
<76-125>That is why you will immediately know when someone who can be the subject appears. You will also immediately know when someone who can be the object appears. I will immediately know if there is someone I can witness to. This is because the heart is nothing but good. We call these “thought waves,” don’t we? The heart has a wavelength. Isn’t this so? When you look at people who deal with meat, don’t they smell like a meat market? Don’t they? People who deal in fabric smell like fabric. They smell like fabric. Just like your body gives off a smell, so too does your heart. You are smelling what is given off by the heart. This kind of thing will occur.
We should always think a lot from the standpoint of God and True Parents. What would God do? What would True Parents do? What would my Abel think? You must have the heart of someone who is always hungry and searching for something.
Just as True Father lived that way, the heart that seeks something is the heart of prayer. So do not live without thinking. If you just worry, it builds up stress.
Always I think that thinking is love. Do you know why I say that? The more I love someone, the more I think about that person, right? When I think about my children and my grandchildren, I already feel their love. The more I love my grandchildren, the more I think about them. That is why I am saying that thinking is love....
True Father was the champion of thinking. Thoughts are prayers. The solution to problems starts with thinking. Even love starts from thinking. Even in situations where stress builds up, always think of them from God’s standpoint.
Telling us to think is not just to think rationally in our head, but to think from God’s heartistic perspective.
What kind of a person is a leader? It is a person who thinks differently from the average person. The heart is also different. They are someone who thinks more than anyone else, studies with the heart of someone who is hungry more than anyone, prepares more than anyone else, and moves more than anyone else while putting things into practice.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Do Not Lose Yourself
Influence of Jesus’ Signs and Miracles on his Disciples
1. As the only begotten Son of God, Jesus had the conviction that he came as the Messiah with the bond of a parent-child relationship with God. Jesus shed more tears and showed more compassion than anyone else for the Israelites and their leaders, and especially for those who were afflicted with incurable diseases. However, because of the excessive spiritual work, signs and miracles, people at that time could not accept and bear it, so Jesus was branded as “a person possessed by a demon” and a “person who touched Beelzebub.” So, True Father felt sorry for Jesus' position and said that he had to focus on educating his disciples rather than showing signs and miracles to tell them about God's providence and Jesus' inner heart. The disciples who followed Jesus should have listened to his words and been trained to carry the mission of salt and give out its saltiness. However, True Father said that while witnessing so many signs and miracles, the disciples left their internal growth as it was and were only looking forward to the day when Jesus would ascend to the throne.
Even though Jesus came to this earth as God’s son and had the first mission of spreading God’s Will, Jesus shed more tears and showed more compassion than anyone else for Israelites with unprepared hearts and those who were afflicted with incurable diseases and suffering.
However, the problem was that because of the excessive spiritual work, signs and miracles, people at that time could not accept and bear it, so Jesus was branded as “a person possessed by a demon” and a “person who touched Beelzebub.”
True Father was well aware of Jesus' position, so stayed up all night, concentrating on teaching the Divine principle to members and leaders who followed him. True Father did not perform a single sign or miracle.
This was because he was well aware that anyone who borrows power from the spirit world and performs signs and miracles would surely pay a price. If you are indebted to the Spirit World, you are bound to pay the price. If you look anywhere some group had spiritual works, they always had to pay a price in the end.
Thankfully, since we have CheonBo works that True Parents have permitted, we are able to safely liberate and bless our ancestors. The purpose of CheonBo works does not end only in CheonBo works itself but it must definitely bring substantial results of saving many people. Even if we liberate and bless our ancestors, if we do not witness to people, it would be meaningless.
That is why yesterday I emphasized very much that the next time we do CheonBo events, we need to bring a lot of new guests to participate in the event.
By learning a lesson from Jesus’ time, rather than hoping for signs and wonders, we need to educate the new members who connected to and joined through the Word and Divine Principle to let them know about the providence and heart of God and True Parents.
Do Not Lose Your Original Self
2. As Jesus’ disciples looked only at his external signs and miracles, the taste of love and salt did not enter their hearts. As a result, the disciples who followed Jesus only after seeing the signs and miracles ran away when Jesus was taken away and crucified. True Father said that in the end, Jesus’ parental heart was not able to properly educate the disciples. Although Jesus came and went on such a pitiable course to save mankind, none of those who followed Jesus fully realized the heart and wishes of the pitiable Jesus. How is our faith course today? Today, even though we are also doing fundraising, witnessing, GPA activities, or CARP activities, if we make a mistake, we will lose our original self and focus only on external results like Jesus’ disciples, then we will not be able to grow our own spirit. Know that you may be wasting your time just being dragged around by the external atmosphere.
As Jesus’ disciples looked only at his external signs and miracles, the taste of love and salt did not enter their hearts.
We today must educate and raise people properly by letting them know through True Parents’ words and make them realize the heart and wishes of the sorrowful Jesus, True Parents, and God through the Principle and Words. The most important thing is instilling original value.
Recently, I have been meeting with a lot of ACLC ministers. One thing I feel very deeply when dealing with them is that I should educate them about the Divine Principle more internally and directly. So I advised all the ACLC ministers that I met to read the 12-Hour Divine Principle Lecture Manual. However, until now, no one has refused to study the Divine Principle. This is really amazing.
I suggest to them that our founder, Father and Mother Moon, recommended that the best way to learn Divine Principle is through one-on-one (education). That is True Parents recommendation for you to study the Divine Principle.
Sometimes, we spend the whole day from morning to evening, reading and teaching the Exposition of the Divine Principle together for more than 8 hours, and truly amazing works are happening.
Now Dr. Agulan and Joshua Holmes are really working very hard. I am really grateful to them. Whenever I approach people and talk to them about studying the Exposition of the Divine Principle (together one-on-one), so far no one has rejected (it). What if we had applied this kind educational study a long time ago? Wow!
If ACLC ministers know the value of the Divine Principle, they will take more ownership than (we do). Sometimes we are using them, and letting them attend one event after the other and do not teach them (any) internal content. Then they can become like Jesus’ disciples. They just enjoyed seeing Jesus’ miracles. Right? They did not understand the internal Jesus, what his wishes were, how sorrowful his heart was. Jesus’ disciples did not know (him deeply). That is why Father said (we should) really educate deeply through the Divine Principle.
How is our faith course today? Today, even though we are also doing fundraising, witnessing, GPA activities, or CARP activities, if we make a mistake, we will lose our original self and focus only on external results like Jesus’ disciples; then we will not be able to grow our own spirit. Therefore, we always need more internal education of heart.
Internal transformation is really important. In order to have internal transformation without knowing the Divine Principle directly, it is impossible. Just one or two days of lectures with PowerPoint is not enough. Let them learn the Exposition of the Divine Principle directly through one-on-one style Divine Principle education.
3. Just like the disciples who followed Jesus, even though we claim to follow True Parents, we can also become people who have no harmony in relationships, be indifferent to people, have no tears for True Parents who are walking on a pitiable course, and just eat and work like the rest of the world. We easily go up and down, depending on the environment, such as being excited when the results are good and disappointed when the results are bad. At times, we easily lose our original self and live in the act of only doing things externally because we’re carried away by the organization. This is like a pastor who preaches on Sundays but does not believe in the Bible. These kinds of pastors are just people who teach the knowledge of the Bible, not people who believe in the Bible. Such pastors preach only as life measures to eat and survive. That is why in Korea, these pastors are called “food pastors.” In the early days of our church in Korea, while doing interdenominational activities, we invited pastors of established churches to teach them the Principle. However, they say that there was not a single person who shed tears while listening to the painful path of Jesus' crucifixion, lamenting that the cross of the Lord was unjust.
We should always think about what our original selves are like and focus on that. What should I do to become a true person? We have to focus on how to become true brothers and sisters, true children, true couples, and true parents.
I really deeply appreciate my spiritual father, Rev. Yo Han Lee. Do you know why? Since I joined the UTS program – first year, second year, even after I came back from three years of duty with the Korean army, he kept telling us one thing:
What is your ultimate fundamental goal? How to become a true self, a true man or true woman. Your goal is not to become a teacher or professor or politician or minister or missionary. That is not your job. This kind of external job does not matter. When you go to the spiritual world, only God can recognize in you how much you became a true self or a true person, a true man or true woman.
I was brainwashed by Rev. Yo Han Lee. That is why when I became a missionary, my original job was not (that of a) missionary. My position did not matter to my original self. It did not matter whether I became a continental director or national messiah. It did not matter. Where ever I went, whatever mission I had, what was my (most) important mission and job? How can I become a true self, a true person, a true brother or sister, True Parents? What guidance! Many people spend time just focusing on the external job and external goals. That is why they like to have a (good) position, they like to have money. But that just goes away some day.
If we just follow externally like Jesus’ disciples, it is easy to get tired on the way. Faith that only believes in True Parents as the Messiah and follows them will become exhausted on the way. We have to focus on how to raise ourselves as true, original selves.
As we deepen our life of faith, and as we get older, we need more introspection of our spirit. In any case, you should not lose your true self.
Always Live According to the Heart of the Lord
4. If pastors of established churches sincerely love Jesus and followed him to this day, after hearing about Jesus’ sorrowful course, wouldn’t they actually beat their chest and lament? If you truly loved the Lord, how could there be no tears even after hearing about the Lord's injustice? This is not just about pastors of established churches, but we must also reflect on how we are today. What kind of people are you? While saying that we are following True Parents’ way of the will, how many of our members are motivated to participate in the will? How many people do you see who donate and dedicate themselves from the heart? True Parents showed and taught us to live a life where we always lose ourselves and always put others first. Shouldn't our inner person become more and more genuine when we have true hearts and form reciprocal relationships with others while making profound impressions? Prayers without heart, words without love, sermons without tears easily make us become people like Jesus’ disciples if we mess up.
Actually, we cannot just talk about pastors of established churches. The important thing is that we have to reflect on who we (ourselves) are today.
While saying that we are following True Parents’ way of the will, we have to think about how much we have become people who voluntarily participate in the Will from the heart.
How many people do you see who truly want to donate from their hearts and dedicate themselves from their hearts?
If you do things reluctantly and not voluntarily, you are just wasting time. We should know for sure that our inner person becomes more and more genuine when we have true hearts and form reciprocal relationships with others while making profound impressions.
Prayers without heart, words without love, sermons without tears easily make us hypocritical people if we mess up.
In conclusion, how can we become a true self under any circumstances? You should always think about how to become a true couple, true people. Never lose your true self under any circumstances.
This is very important guidance. Whatever you do, do not lose your original motivation. Your external job will go away some day. If Jesus’ disciples knew this, they would have really wanted to become true disciples of Jesus. They would have known Jesus’ internal heart. Nobody would have betrayed Jesus.
That is why when we are always centered on an external way, we can betray God and True Parents any time. But when we go more (into our) inner situation – “How can I become a true self?” – then our life of faith will always grow and develop. Then someday we can become God’s sons and daughters.
Today I will go to the CheonBo event a little bit and then I will need to come back.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Tomiko Duggan, UPF.)♦
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