Ep 639 - The Role Of Women Part 2
The Role of Women - July 26, 2022
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Key Points
True Mother said that women must become leaders in raising and giving birth to the people of Cheon Il Guk.
Directions and revelations from the spiritual world are different. Directions are given directly to you by someone without symbolism and metaphors. But revelations have many symbols and metaphors. You must always interpret them correctly.
The revelation “You are the Lord” is proof that the spirit world will be qualified to be the owner of all things when a certain level of spirituality is met.
A person who is genuine, sincere and always longing for God is bound to have good spiritual experiences, not bad ones.
When you miss God and you long for True Father and True Mother, that means that now you are going the right way because you can feel the original mind and original heart.
My own life of faith should focus on finding my true self. We have to go further and go to the stage of inheriting True Parents' tears, han, and sorrow.
If we experience God’s heart and that becomes our unchanging motivation, it becomes the driving force of life in saving the world.
True Parents are eagerly waiting for people who have experienced God and True Parents’ hearts to come and realize Cheon Il Guk with unchanging motives and determination.
(Report about CARP Momentum gathering at UTS, President Naokimi Ushiroda)
Today we have a conference call with International Headquarters, so this morning I made a recording for Morning Devotion.
Today I’d like to talk about “The Role of Women” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
As Father proclaimed the coming of the era of women, he emphasized the importance of women. You probably remember that Father spoke of how a child born of a woman inherits 99.999 percent from the mother and only 0.001 percent from the father. However, do you think women have been treated properly by their children and husbands? There are many women who will say that they have not been treated well. From now on, I want to raise women leaders who will fulfill the mother's mission, so that all women can live free of prejudice. I said I will offer this nation to Heaven in 2020 when we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Father's birthday.
You must join the line of filial, loyal and virtuous women while I am still on earth. When I am no longer here, who will praise you for being filial, loyal, and virtuous women? There must be an owner. In addition, there cannot be a king without a people. Hence, women must become leaders in raising and giving birth to the people of Cheon Il Guk. This does not apply only to this nation. You must invest everything at the risk of your lives until all people around the world can be reborn. So awake or asleep, you must move as if 24 hours were not enough. Whether you are sitting or standing up, you must think of only registering Cheon Il Guk citizens. You must become warriors who can shorten the global providence by offering this nation to Heaven, not in words but in substance. (2013.01.09, Cheon Jeong Gung)
As Father proclaimed the coming of the era of women, he emphasized the importance of women. And True Mother said that women must become leaders in raising and giving birth to the people of Cheon Il Guk. She said that women who are the mothers, should become the center and take on the role of letting all people around the world be reborn.
The era of Cheon Il Guk is a time when mothers become the center and find and establish Cheon Il Guk. That is why True Mother says whether awake or asleep, women must move as if 24 hours were not enough and invest everything at the risk of their lives.
Now is the era of the mother, of women. We need to cooperate with the mother’s position. (Then) I think God’s providence can rapidly go on very well.
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.
Let’s study Father’s words:
The Work of Prayer and Spiritual Power
<76-125> While our members are praying, spiritual phenomena are taking place. Such things called spiritual phenomena do exist. The spiritual forces enter our bodies like electric power. You would know if you had these experiences; you will experience a force stronger than your normal awareness entering your body, as if you were in contact with high pressure. When you experience supernatural and superhuman emotions, your body will certainly reject them, since your body carries the fallen nature. Your body will surely come to repel this divine nature from God.
Spiritual Experiences: Stage of Revelations
<76-125> If your spiritual level goes higher, what will happen? You will start receiving revelations and directions. You have to analyze revelations. Directions are given directly to you by someone, but it is different with revelations – which is why they lead to problems. You must always interpret revelations. Some revelations come verbally and others visually. You could have a vision of a couple of deer drinking water from a spring and then glancing at a mountain in the distance on a nice spring day. Such a vision symbolizes boundless hope and happiness. All such phenomena will take place.
True Father said that directions and revelations are different. He said that directions are given directly to you by someone without symbolism and metaphors. But revelations have many symbols and metaphors. That is why when you receive revelations, you must always interpret them.
Before meeting True Father, Rev. Yohan Lee said that he received a revelation from the spiritual realm that “You are the Lord.” When receiving such a revelation, many people are prone to mistaking themselves for being the Second Coming of Jesus and becoming very arrogant.
The revelation “You are the Lord” is proof that the spirit world will be qualified to be the owner of all things when a certain level of spirituality is met. Just as Adam and Eve fell at the top of the growth stage, know that if anyone receives a revelation from the spirit world at this stage and misinterprets it, there is the danger of going on a fallen path. That is why many people fail their mission at the top of the growth stage.
When Adam and Eve reached the top of the growth stage, they had to overcome temptations from angels. That’s why when we are working hard and our life of faith (becomes) stronger and deeper and we finally reach a certain level at the top of the growth stage, these kinds of revelations or temptations come (to us). When you interpret God’s revelations very well, you can go the right way. However, if you have a wrong interpretation, then Satan can claim that. That is why we need to be careful, (un)like Adam and Eve. We need to know about this. It is the final trial and test.
Spiritual Experiences: Stage of Revelations
<76-125> After the stage of revelations, you enter the stage where you have experiences such as those found in the Book of Revelation. In this stage you enter the spirit world and have various experiences all day long; you get connected to a far-off world. You can reach the limits of a state where you feel God in your daily life. Unless your faith is based on such experiences, you cannot apply the resultant realm of God’s great Will to the field or sphere of your daily life. Therefore, believers without such experiences cannot be trusted. Faith based on such experiences is important. For this reason, you must make an effort to enlighten yourselves.
You must experience the world of faith. True Father said that faith without experience cannot be trusted.
After the stage of revelations, you enter the stage in which you have experiences, such as entering the spirit world and having various experiences all day long like Emanuel Swedenborg.
I have personally experienced so many of these spiritual phenomena centering on my family. I saw my mother, my father and had all kinds of experience with my family.
Even when looking at those experiences in my life of faith, I cannot deny the existence of the spirit world and God. Everybody says God does not exist and the spiritual world (has nothing to do) with me. For me (however,) I cannot deny the existence of the spiritual world. I experienced it. I also have received so much guidance from dreams. I cannot deny (spiritual world).
Therefore, since faith is experience, you need to understand how precious experiences are. A person who is genuine, sincere and always longing for God is bound to have good spiritual experiences, not bad ones. Bad spiritual experiences may be being possessed by a spirit. You can have good spiritual experiences actually. There are good and bad spiritual experiences. You need to distinguish very well. You need to handle it very well. Otherwise Satan will misuse it.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Do I Really Live with God’s Sorrowful Heart?
Our Life Course That Ultimately Left Behind God’s Han
1. Throughout its long history, the human mind has always been oriented towards goodness. Whenever our original mind pursues goodness, we want to call God our Parent and go out with a determination in our hearts that we must become God's children. But when we enter reality, we realize that we become secularized by the world and become false selves. Even the chosen people of Israel rejoiced and boasted that they became the chosen ones, but when they entered reality, they all ended up being hypocritical and stumbled. As God's chosen people, they could not become one with God and eventually left a sad path in front of heaven. We also know that Jesus also came to this earth and shed blood, sweat, and tears, but no one knew the wishes, circumstances, and heart of Jesus, and there was no one to inherit them, so he left han in this world and died on the cross.
Even though human beings are living in an evil environment, all people, without exception, ceaselessly pursue goodness that the original mind is oriented towards. So, if anyone finds his original mind and enters its path, he wants to call God “my parent” and longs and yearns for God. He also makes a great determination to become God’s child.
That is why when you are on the right track and you hear the original voice and everybody is in the same situation(?), you come to understand that he is my parent; I am a child of God. “Heavenly God, I miss you! I long for you! I truly want to be your son or daughter.”
If you go on the right track and go the right way, your original mind will always tell you that the relationship between God and you is a parent and child relationship. That’s why when you miss God and you long for True Father and True Mother, that means that now you are going the right way because you can feel the original mind and original heart.
The problem is that when fallen people enter reality, they become controlled and secularized by the given reality (and) become false selves. Even if the words and heart become the motivation at first, when they are troubled with the environment of reality, they cannot free themselves and have endless regrets in the end.
Faith should overcome reality, but reality always becomes the subject partner and we finally lose faith. This is fallen man’s life course, isn’t it? The Israelites were the chosen people, yet they also went on that path, and even Christians today came with the slogan of pioneering the world, but look at the reality of Christians today. And what about our church?
Although we today know God’s will and follow Him, how many of us are victorious in reality and victorious in the family?
Do I Really Live with God’s Sorrowful Heart?
2. True Parents also came to this earth to Bless many families and send many people across the world. However, in the end, we are unable to secularize(?) the world with true love, rather, we often lose our original selves. We come to realize that we cannot find our original selves and could not inherit True Parents’ tears, han, and sorrowful heart. From this perspective, we need to seriously consider what kind of existence I really am. Am I really the one with the tears and bitter sorrow of God? As a child of God, how do I live with God's sorrowful heart? When we reflect on this reality, we need to reflect on how precious each day we are given today is, and how we relate to the eternal world and fulfill our responsibilities. We must do our best to find our true, original selves during our life of faith. When we think about it in that way, we have no choice but to take our responsibilities seriously.
True Parents also came to this earth to Bless many families and send many people across the world, but how is our reality today? There are many who have succeeded, but aren’t there many cases (in which) people were unable to secularize(?) the world with true love and rather end up losing their original selves?
Then how do we solve these problems? How can we overcome reality? For that, we need a more internal transformation of heart. My own life of faith should focus on finding my true self. We have to go further and go to the stage of inheriting True Parents' tears, han, and sorrow.
Am I really the one with the tears and bitter sorrow of God? As a child of God, how do I live with God's sorrowful heart? If a more internal transformation of heart does not happen, everyone just flows away and become dominated by the environment.
Therefore, we must do our best to find our true, original selves during our life of faith.
That’s why recently I have continually said that whatever we do, wherever we go, we always need to think about “Who am I?” You need to find your original self, your true self. “How much do I consult (with) God? How much do I understand God’s sorrowful heart? How much do I understand brothers and sisters’ heart? How much do I understand the heart of all humankind?”
You always need to go a deeper way which is the way of heart which is internal heartistic transformation. Without a concept of internal heartistic transformation, fallen men easily become influenced by the external environment and become external and horizontal and lose (their) life of faith. That is why we always need to focus on and reflect about “Who am I? Am I really a true self or not?”
Live With Driving Force of Life That Goes up Against the Current of the World
3. We need to know how much God, as our Parent, loves us and wants to embrace us just as a mother hen who gathers her chicks under her wings. We live without realizing such a love of God. In our life of faith, we must always reflect on ourselves, know ourselves well, and also know how to see the world with our eyes. We cannot become people who waste time by simply listening with our physical ears, seeing with our physical eyes, and speaking with our mouths. In today’s passing history, we must have the power of the heart to go up against the current with the driving force of life. We must not become unfaithful people who deceive the world and deceive ourselves by claiming that we follow True Parents. We should know that if we cause God’s providence of restoration to be prolonged because of me and us, we will also become pitiful.
We need to know how much God, as our Parent, loves us and wants to embrace us even though human beings fell.
In the end, if fallen man cannot experience God’s han, heart, and sorrowful heart, anyone can easily be secularized by reality. That is why it is important to experience God’s heart in our life of faith.
We have to know that as much as we experience God’s heart, our character changes and we can change the world.
We need to realize that if we experience God’s heart and that becomes our unchanging motivation, it becomes the driving force of life in saving the world and we can go up against the current.
True Parents are Eagerly Waiting for the Sons and Daughters to Appear, Who Will Realize the Kingdom of Heaven
4. We need to know that even though they are going through indescribable hardships and sufferings to this day, True Parents are pitiable parents who are eagerly waiting for the sons and daughters to appear, who one day will bring heavenly fortune and realize the Kingdom of Heaven. We must not forget for a moment that True Parents still have such a plea today.
Know the truth that even in this moment, our beloved True Parents are eagerly waiting for people who have experienced God and True Parents’ hearts to come and realize Cheon Il Guk with unchanging motives and determination.
God and True Parents are waiting for such children. Now we have already entered the era of Cheon Il Guk. You and I have already followed our True Parents a long way. Let’s really become our True Parents’ unchanging person. We need to have that kind of unchanging motivation and determination. Then through us True Parents see, “Wow! You are the ones who will establish God’s Cheon Il Guk on the earth.” True Parents are waiting for such children all the time.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of David Kasbow, Michigan)♦
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