Ep 638 - The Role Of Women Part 1
The Role of Women - July 25, 2022
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Key Points
True Mother emphasized that the Unification church mothers should take the lead in educating their children and continuing the tradition of True Parents.
Behind great people, their mothers always played a big role.
The fall of man severed all relationships.
Sincerity saves everything.
Whenever I relate with something in nature, with God, with any human beings, with my mission, I need to always (invest) my utmost sincerity.
True Father teaches that a believer must always have a heart of seeking something.
Seek, find, and knock on the door to the God you want to see, the person Heaven has prepared, and the path that leads to your original nature. Then God will surely answer you.
Asking and seeking and knocking is with desperation
The important things are desperation and jeongseong and an always-searching heart, asking heart, knocking heart.
The law of the universe and God’s blessing come to those who spend money in a valuable way and use things preciously without defiling them and treat everyone with utmost sincerity.
It is the common destiny of human beings to grow, bear fruit, and multiply.
As we look back on our faith course up to now, we should feel sorrow and han over the fact that we missed the moment because we did not properly understand True Parents’ words.
Whatever you do, focus on it -- even though you do not like it -- and think, “This is God’s will. God provided this job.”
I should put all my heart into the work given to me and treat the people I meet preciously as someone sent by God, not with a preconceived notion.
How do you overcome preconceptions? You need to treat each one (person or thing) as so precious!
Anyone who really finds their original mind, finds God, finds the purpose of their life, really can sacrifice and are willing to die.
In the spirit world, everything you do with sincerity and heart, works.
Whenever we approach people, we need to appeal to their original minds.
In order not to lose the moment and feel regret, I must be sincere and faithful in every moment with my given reality.
How was the CheonBo Event? Was it good? I had a strong inspiration through the CheonBo event. What I did in Asia, I really tried to do in America as well. Of course, we can just do liberation and Blessing ceremonies, but the wish paper ceremony is the best opportunity to witness to people. We can use it as a witnessing tool. When we have this kind of wish ceremony, we can educate many young people and new people. I think this can be a very powerful tool for witnessing. If we work together with the spiritual world centering on the CheonBo event, we can break through with our witnessing goal.
Yesterday was the second day of the Hyojeong CheonBo special event. We had ancestor liberation and Blessing ceremonies at Belvedere. It was a very beautiful event. Thanks to True Mother’s love and grace, we were able to bless our ancestors up to 430 generations in the CheonBo USA branch.
In the afternoon we had special education about the spiritual world for second generation and third generation. About 400 people participated. After the lecture we had a question-and-answer session. Thank you, True Mother, for your love and care for our second generation and third generation.
Today I’d like to talk about “The Role of Women” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
When it comes to educating and raising children, the mother has to be stronger than the father. That is why I told my daughters-in-law, “You have to follow the traditions and become stronger than your husbands.” The mother's role was crucial during Israel's course of paying indemnity while living in a difficult environment. It is the same with the Unification Church. Women have the responsibility to march at the front line, organize and handle everything, and help the men. Representing the entire world, you should offer repentance by praying sincerely, “For the past forty years, we have continued to be indebted to You, causing only trouble, without being able to repay anything.
Please look at us, your inadequate children, with compassion. We will do our best. We beseech that you trust and stay with us one more time!” I sincerely pray that you become blessed families, Unification Church members who live a life of practice and action. This is the last time God is trusting us again. This is our last chance. Hence, I hope you become blessed children who, at the end of your lives, go to the spiritual world and hear the following from Father, “Ah! You have come! Happy to see you at last.” (2012.11.05, Manhattan Center, New York)
True Mother emphasized that the Unification church mothers should take the lead in educating their children and continuing the tradition of True Parents.
Even if we look at history, we know well that behind the great people, their mothers always played a big role. There were Isaac's mother, Jacob's mother, Joseph's mother, Moses' mother, True Mother's mother, and True Father's mother.
All women, all mother-figures were behind the central figures. They were really great.
The present era has passed the era of male-dominated archangels, and the female-centered era has arrived as Eve is restored as the original mother. Husbands need to cooperate well so that the mother can fulfill her mother's role well at home and at church.
True Mother also said, women have the responsibility to march at the front line, organize and handle everything, and help the men.
True Mother said that this is the last chance for her to give us instructions while she is (still) alive. That's why she said that we must become blessed families True Father can see and welcome happily when we go to the spirit world after the end of our lives.
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:
The Attitude of a Person of Faith
Our body has something similar to the sense of touch that makes contact with everything. Your mind emits something like invisible electronic waves to look for its own object. Therefore, believers must think that everything is in a reciprocal relationship with them.
This is why we must think that the attitude of a person of faith is to come out and relate with everything. Why must we do this? This because the Fall was the loss of all relationships. The relationship with nature, the relationship with the true nature of human beings, and the relationship with God’s true nature were all severed. In order to restore the world of severed relationships, we must always take action that will help us connect to these relationships. As long as we take these kinds of steps, we will be able to develop these relationships. If we don’t have an attitude to restore this, then we will not be able to restore the environment. This is the most theoretical approach.
The fall of man severed all relationships. It is the byproduct of the Fall that the relationship with God, the relationship with true all things, the relationship with the spirit world, and the original human relationship were all cut off.
To overcome all of this, you need to restore all your relationships. Therefore, the attitude of the believer is to think that everything has to do with yourself. It is always a problem that fallen man is indifferent to what he should be most concerned with.
Therefore, you need to be sincere in your relationships with everything. When done formally, it just flows away. What I don't do with all my sincerity and heart doesn't do anything for my spirit's development.
We must treat nature with love, treat humans with sincerity, and have a heart that truly misses God.
In fact, sincerity saves everything. The more I study Father’s word and relate to Rev. Yo Han Lee’s guidance, I realize how important sincerity is. In fact, sincerity saves everything. We need to treat God with the utmost sincerity. Even in dealing with each person, they are so precious! We (need to) treat each other with sincerity. In dealing with all things one by one, whenever you touch any item of all things, (treat it with sincerity). We (need to) treat each other with utmost sincerity.
“Wow! God touched each item of all things. I am touching it. How precious it is!”
When we do that, any person is bound to grow and develop. That is why utmost sincerity and jeongseong are most important.
Fallen man is not like that.... He ignores (people) and has no concern (about them). Then he cannot restore his relationships. He needs to restore them.
We need to restore all our relationships. Whenever I relate with something in nature, with God, with any human beings, with my mission, I need to always (invest) my utmost sincerity. There is no more gap. That is the best way I can grow and develop and relate to God. Finally I can become a true man or true woman, God’s filial sons and daughters.
The Path to Bringing Life to You
<76-125> This is why you must all have a heart of seeking everything. After you pray in the morning, you may think, “Ah something good will happen today.” However, you must not think, “Oh something good will just randomly happen today.” What I’m saying is that you have to go actively find it. This kind of daily attitude must become part of your life of faith. Therefore, experience and practice are what will help bring life to you. These kinds of truths will be revealed when you are half asleep.
True Father teaches that a believer must always have a heart of seeking something. If the spirit world showed you (something) through dreams, it means that you should keep looking for it until you feel it as a reality.
Last night I had a dream. I prayed for Japan. God showed me what will happen in Japan. Wow! When I am concerned and pray, immediately the current reality appears and shows (me) what will happen. This is amazing.
It means (we should) truly seek God, truly seek the people God has prepared, and truly seek the work that God desires. It's not about focusing on your own benefit.
In the Bible Matthew 7:7-11 says, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!”
This bible verse inspires me so much!
Asking, seeking, and knocking at the door that the Bible speaks of here is not to satisfy one's own physical desires. The message is to seek, find, and knock on the door to the God you want to see, the person Heaven has prepared, and the path that leads to your original nature. Then God will surely answer you.
Ask, seek and knock. “ Heavenly Father, how can I find the really prepared one? Where is he? Where is she?’ This means with sincerity you are trying to save someone’s soul. “Where is he? Where is she? Where are they?. You are sincerely seeking and asking and knocking – not centered on your own physical desires. “Heavenly Father, how can I become a true self? How can I become your true, filial son?”
Asking, seeking and knocking.
“Heavenly Father, how can I solve my children’s issues? I have no idea, but you have an idea. If there is a way, I really want to find a way.”
With this kind of searching heart, asking heart and knocking heart, very sincerely – not centered on yourself, if you really ask God with your utmost sincerity, God will surely give an answer.
Why can’t God give (you) an answer? Because your heart is not so desperate. Asking and seeking and knocking is with desperation when you have lost your child all of a sudden. The mother becomes crazy looking for, searching for her child. “Where is my child?” and crying, (going) here and there.
Do you have that kind of desperation? If you do, asking, seeking and knocking, God will surely give you an answer. (If he doesn’t,) it is because of a lack of sincerity, a lack of desperation, a lack of tears and jeongseong, No appreciation. Satan accuses you.
The reason why we can't find or seek it when we ask for it is because all (our) motives are centered on the self. Also, even if you seek and find with a sincere motive, you cannot have it unless your sincere heart reaches God.
That’s why your sincerity needs to reach heaven. How serious are you for witnessing? “I really want to witness to this soul, this guy. This is your son, your daughter, Heavenly Father. How much you waited for him or her to come back to your bosom!”
How serious are you? The important thing is desperation and jeongseong and an always searching heart, asking heart, knocking heart.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Become a Pastor of the Heart
The Law of Love in the Universe
1. Who will God bless? God's heart gives blessings to those who spend money in a valuable way and use things preciously without defiling them, no matter what it is. Even if a person does not know that God exists, if they value people and treat all things with value, He wants to bless them according to the law of universal love. Let's imagine that when someone makes a donation, they want the donation to be used preciously, and when they donate a precious item, they want it to be preserved well. Then, God's heart also wants to give more to those who cherish it and take away from those who do not realize what is precious. This is a parent’s heart.
The law of love in the universe and the law of God's blessing are the same. The law of the universe and God’s blessing come to those who spend money in a valuable way and use things preciously without defiling them, no matter what it is, and treat everyone with utmost sincerity.
God’s heart and the parental heart also follow the same rules of this kind of heart and mindset.
Comparison of the World of the Heart and Talent
2. If you do not regard a precious thing as precious and do not know its value, the giver is sorrowful. If you look at those who receive greater blessings, they value precious things. That is why parents want to give more to those who have more. When we look at the Bible without knowing the world of the heart, sometimes the Bible stories seem like curses. This is the story of the talent in the Bible in Matthew 25:28-29: “So take the talent from him and give it to him who has ten talents. ‘For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.” The servant ignored the one talent he had did not make any profit with it, so the master took even the one talent he had and gave it to the servant who had ten talents. In a way, it is incomprehensible. The world of the heart is the world that brings the benefits of love.
In the world of the heart, if there is something valuable, it is considered more precious than the other person.(?) And if you value what you have given and make a profit, you want to add more to it. This is the world of the heart, the heart of parents.
When I was visiting members and visited a state, the state leader’s physical condition was not good, but he gave me a (large) donation. I checked with the subregional leader about his background. He was a very poor guy, and he gave everything he had to me. I worried how he survived and talked to John Jackson, “Hey, John Jackson, we need to give back this money plus I want to donate more for him.” I added more money and gave it to him to take care of his life. My goodness, his mindset, his sincerity! He wanted to offer everything that he had. What a precious heart! God works through that kind of precious heart!
If you do not regard a precious thing as precious and do not know its value, the giver is sorrowful. If we do not look heartistically at the many stories in the Bible, God may seem like a merciless God. Such is the parable of the talent in the Bible.
It seems a bit merciless to say that everyone who has will receive more and have abundance, and for those who do not have, even what they have will be taken from them. It makes God seem to have no love.
But what we need to know is that the world of the heart is a world that brings the benefits of love.
Therefore, human beings are destined to be born, grow with love, bear fruit, – our destiny is to bear fruit – reproduce and go to the spirit world. There is no multiplication without growth. It is certainly the common destiny of human beings to grow, bear fruit, and multiply. No one can escape from this world of heart.
That is why without bearing fruit, without growing, without multiplication we cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. We have to wait in the waiting room. That is why our destiny... – it does not matter if you are disabled or you are a good guy, it does not matter -- no matter what your spirit needs to grow and bear fruit and multiply.
Don't Miss the Moment and be Faithful to the Given Reality
3. As we look back on our faith course up to now, we should feel sorrow and han over the fact that we missed the moment because we did not properly understand True Parents’ words. Therefore, growing young people should not miss the moment by learning the lessons their predecessors learned from missing the moment and thinking about their hardships. When I see my seniors exhausted on the way, I must have compassion for them, and make a resolution with tears thinking that I will not miss the moment. If a person is not sincere about their given reality and responsibility, it is easy to just pretend and look good externally. Just because the signboard of the church is large and nicely hung, is the church good? What matters is content and quality. Even if the signboard of the church is poor, if the pastor is sincere and the members are sincere, the church will develop. The church does not develop by spreading information. However, even if one or two new members come to church, you must serve them well and give them an unforgettable impression.
We should not miss the moment by learning from the lives of our seniors. As we look back on our faith course up to now, we should feel sorrow and han over the fact that we missed the moment because we did not properly understand True Parents’ words.
Some American brothers and sisters ask, “Dr. Yong, why didn’t you come to America earlier. Then my life of faith would have become better.” Oh my goodness!
However, you should not criticize your seniors for failing. Rather, we should be merciful to them and make a promise with tears, thinking that we will not miss the moment as they did.
Why do so many people look back on their lives and regret having missed the moment? It is the result of not being faithfully responsible for each moment in their given reality. If anyone runs forward only externally, they will only pursue results, so it is easy to just pretend and look good externally.
Therefore, the most important thing is my jeongseong and sincerity no matter what I do. Think that heaven has given the responsibility entrusted to me and that it is the will of heaven, and that I must experience meeting God there.
“Oh, I am taking care of this temporarily.... I need to find another job.”...
Even if you are uncomfortable with some job, you need to think this is God’s will. (Think that) “God gave this to me,” and (invest) your utmost sincerity. Then God will provide a better job. Whatever you do, focus on it even though you do not like it. You need to focus (on it) and think, “This is God’s will. God provided this job.” You need to love your job, your current mission. If you complain (about) this and that, then this kind of person is hopeless.
Where do I meet God apart from my responsibility? If you think of your current position as a temporary one, and if you only think externally in order to find a better place, your mind will float in the air. Then you lose time.
Therefore, I must put all my heart into the work given to me and treat the people I meet preciously as someone sent by God, not with a preconceived notion.
Do not have preconceived notions. This is really a problem. How do I overcome preconceptions? You need to treat each one (person or thing) as so precious! “God sent him to me.” If you think like that, then your preconceptions go away. If you really attend each one of them preciously – “God sent him to me. I need to welcome him well,” – then your enemy preconception disappears.
Wow! How important our mindset is. That is why you need to love your job, your current mission, without complaining. Even though you dislike it, you (invest) your sincerity. If any one comes to you, you need to think that God sent him to you and treat him preciously. With this kind of mindset and attitude of the preciousness (of others), I think your spiritual life can surely develop.
Become a Pastor who Inspires Others
4. A pastor must be a person who moves each life, one-by-one. That is why we must not allow the person who returned after being moved to keep their mouths shut. When some people hear this story, they can ignore it as a story of Abraham's time. Everyone may question it, saying that the reality is not so. But what you need to know is that even though the world has become secularized, its inner world is returning to the true world. It is turning back to the original world. You should know that everyone is longing for love. The reality is that anyone who finds the true truth is willing to sacrifice even their own life. God is behind the scenes driving us to return us to the original world, the world of the original mind. That's why people who miss the moment become sad and bear han. But you can't just get frustrated and sit around. Even now, you must live the rest of your life with the sincere determination not to miss the moment.
A pastor must be a person who moves each life, one-by-one. That is why we must not allow the person who returned after being moved to keep their mouths shut.
Pastors must be good at personal touch ministry.
One of my important ministries is what? Personal touch. God’s ministry is what? Personal touch. He touches each item of all things one by one. He touches each human beings one by one. Parents want to touch their children one by one. God’s ministry is what? Personal touch ministry.
We need to move each and every person in an unforgettable way with the heart of a parent who will love every single one of them.
One thing we need to know is that all human beings want to return to the original world and long for love. And the reality is that anyone who finds the true truth is willing to sacrifice even their own life.
That is why anyone who really finds their original mind, finds God, finds the purpose of their life, they really can sacrifice and are willing to die. That is human nature.
We need to know this human reality and save people. Then the spirit world will surely work. This is because in the spirit world, everything you do with sincerity and heart, works.
We have a mission to help people find the truth that they will give their lives freely. God is behind the scenes driving us to return us to the original world, the world of the original mind.
Whenever we approach people, we need to appeal to their original mind. Everybody is searching for God. Everybody tries to follow their original mind.
Discover God’s Sorrow
5. Young people should be sincere and faithful in every moment without missing any moment by taking the experiences of their seniors as an example. We need to find a heart that pursues goodness and sincerity in our original mind and discover God's sorrow in our relationship with Him. If we cannot find the tears of Heavenly Parent and True Parents on the path of faith, we just look good externally again. And the rest of your life will be miserable. Don't blame Heaven after you miss a moment. In the end, it all comes down to your own fault. It's easy to lose ourselves when we say we believe. You say you love others, but you don't practice love yourself, just making others do it. Therefore, I hope that you will be victorious in your responsibilities and relationships with all your heart, all your devotion, and all your will.
In order not to lose the moment and feel regret, I must be sincere and faithful in every moment with my given reality. We need to find a heart that pursues goodness and sincerity in our original mind. We must live a life that discovers God’s sorrow in our relationship with God.
If we cannot find the tears of Heavenly Parent and True Parents on the path of faith, we just look good externally again. And the rest of your life will be miserable. A person who has God’s han and decides to liberate it cannot miss the moment or waste time.
That was the strong motivation for Father to go forward after he discovered God’s sorrowful heart and han.
Therefore, I hope that you will be victorious in your responsibilities and relationships with all your heart, all your devotion, and all your will.
Let’s really think about what is our sincerity, how to relate to heaven and all things every day.
Have a nice Monday.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
( Testimony of Nathan Bratcher, Sub-Region 3, about visiting congress people.)♦
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