Ep 645 - Responsibilities Of The Blessed Families For The Firm Settlement Of Cheon Il Guk Part 1
Responsibilities of Blessed Families for the Firm Settlement of Cheon Il Guk - August 1, 2022
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Key Points
We cannot receive the title of filial child and loyal patriot from True Parents until we find and establish Cheon Il Guk.
In order to receive answers to our prayers, we must pray desperately, and we must miss True Parents and love them more earnestly than anyone else.
Utmost sincere prayer with desperation is the key to communicate with the spiritual world.
The three major relationships that humans must always give and receive in are first, the relationship with God, second, human relationships, and third, the relationship with all things.
Since all things are symbolic objects of God who resemble Him, we must have a heart of reverence toward them.
Knowing that each and every thing was created by God's hand, we need to think about God’s sincere devotion and jeongseong to all things.
In order to meaningfully celebrate Day of All Things, we should plant and take care of even one tree or plant that represents all things.
A person with the essence of love lives a life of (being) intoxicated by something.
Those who live by their original nature will live intoxicated no matter what they do.
True Father lives as if he were born for whatever task he is doing.
True Father is very competitive because he always lives with a heart to fight against Satan.
Today, while looking at nature and all things, we must truly realize the lessons that these things give us.
All things are Abel.
If we learn from all things, we can inherit their purity.
Today I’d like to talk about “Responsibilities of Blessed Families for the Firm Settlement of Cheon Il Guk” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
You all know that this is indeed the Last Days, don't you? In the Last Days, where can we find trust? The world has become a place where people do not trust one another. Parents cannot trust their children and vice versa Do you now stand in the position of loyal patriots or filial sons and daughters to True Parents? It is only in a crisis that one can truly be said to be a filial child or a loyal patriot. Who is truly a child of filial piety in this era? If you are a true filial child or a true loyal patriot, you will know what our Heavenly Father wishes. If you know what His wish is, you need to translate it into action. This happens once in all of history, this unprecedented and astonishing overturning of heaven and earth. As we usher in these times, we need to ask ourselves who the filial children and the loyal patriots really are.
Heaven has already given you an opportunity, and explained what you need to do. You need to practice absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. You should never think about yourselves. You need to be humble. You should not think that you have been victorious alone. There is always more to be learned from the people around you. No one is a success in front of God and heaven. There are no sons or daughters who have been successful in the eyes of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. All of you are still in the process of growing. True Father said that Korea is God's homeland. If you work with me with absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, I hope that we will be able to dedicate this country to God in the year we celebrate Father's 100th birthday.
In order to do so, you need to follow directions, regardless of how high or low your position is. Come down from the high position you are in and start working from the lowest position again. Can you do that? That requires absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. You are not doing it for yourself; you are doing it for God, for humankind, to accomplish God's Will. You are doing it to complete True Father's will. Father said that Korea is God's homeland, but in truth that is yet to be realized. You lived in the same era as True Father, and you breathed the same air as he did. Thus, you should be the ones who bear the fruit as well. You cannot leave this work undone for your descendants to finish. (2012.12.25, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Mother asked us, “Do you now stand in the position of loyal patriots or filial sons and daughters to True Parents?”
There is a Korean proverb that a filial child appears when the family is very poor, and patriots appear when the country is in a difficult situation of whether it will prosper or fail. This is the era of the Opening of Heaven and Earth, which happens only once in history, and it is the age of the last days of the last days. So, who is the filial child in this age? Who is the true patriot in this age?
True Mother said that it is about knowing True Parents' wishes and becoming one with them to find the kingdom of God. Therefore, we must all become filial children and patriots in this age and bear fruit. We cannot postpone the construction of Cheon Il Guk to future generations.
We cannot receive the title of filial child and loyal patriot from True Parents until we find and establish Cheon Il Guk, the Kingdom of God. Therefore, no matter what happens, we must find the Kingdom of God centered on the Republic of Korea and dedicate it to our True Parents. This is our True Parents’ cherished hope and wishes. That’s why as the elder son nation how can we help Father’s nation, True Parents’ nation. This is our important portion of responsibility. Without establishing Cheon Il Guk substantially we cannot get the title of patriot, even filial sons and daughters. Filial sons and daughters always focus on parents’ wishes and hope.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 60 - The Development, Perfection, and Features of the Spirit Self
• 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 word.
The World Will be Able to Become One With the Unification Movement
<91-174> Our Unification Church members must receive spiritual guidance from me directly during their prayer or in their dreams. Already many members can receive my spiritual guidance directly, no matter where they go.
Many wonderful things will occur that are more real than those at the time of Jesus. That is why Unification members are in a position to attend me directly. In the church you will from time to time experience something greater than that which the people had in Jesus’ time. That is why the world will be able to become one with the Unification Movement.
In Order to Pass Through the Realm of Death
<31-331> In order to pass through the realm of death today, we need to offer our prayers with the resolve to die. It is not enough for you to pray for only an instant. Pray for twenty-four hours. People who are unable to have such experiences or live without being able to attend me personally in such an era of freedom are pitiful.
By having such standards and experiences Blessed Couples originally should be connected to such content. You are supposed to be entitled to be Blessing candidates only after being spiritually engrafted to and united with me.
Where Does God’s Heart Exist?
<91-177> You all entered the Unification Church and saw these kinds of spiritual works within a few days, but these spiritual works are the sacrifice of hundreds of years of history, the blood of numerous saints, and the altars of martyrs. We must understand the price that was paid for us to be able to experience this. You must understand that the value of the heart is something that you cannot buy, even with billions of dollars worth of gold. You must know that it is a treasure. Do you understand? [Yes.]
<76-152> We talk about God’s heart. Where does it exist? In your prayer, you will hear a voice saying, “Listen to Rev. Moon. Do not make him sad. Make him happy.” That is the only way. God will speak to you like that. People say that when they sacrificed their sleep pining to see me, the spirit world would open up to them. This is the fastest way. The spirit world will open up.
How can we Unification Church members receive direct guidance from True Parents through prayers or dreams? True Father said that it is necessary to pray desperately. And he said that we should be able to pray 24 hours a day, not just for a moment.
He said that the reason we do not receive answers through prayer and True Father does not appear in person is because our prayers are not earnest and desperate.
It is very difficult to experience the existence of God these days and in the free age. That is why True Father tells us that in order to receive answers to our prayers, we must pray desperately. And he said that we must miss True Parents and love them more earnestly than anyone else.
True Father asked, “Where is the heart of God?” If anyone asks a question, God answers our prayers, and when we hear His voice, He is saying “Listen to True Father. You must not make True Father sad. Make him happy.” That is the only way.
If you miss True Father so much and long for him that you can't sleep, the spirit world will surely open. Because you miss him so much – you have a longing heart for True Father, “I miss him, I love him, I have a longing heart for him,” – you cannot even sleep. You cannot concentrate on anything because you are full of a longing heart for him. You shed tears and tears and become crazy. True Father said, “Then the spiritual world will surely open.”
True Father says that this is the fastest way to meet True Parents. How can we meet God and True Parents? How can we have spiritual experiences? One of the most important things is prayer. What kind of prayer? Utmost sincere prayer with desperation. This is the key to communicate with the spiritual world. You can communicate with True Father in the spiritual world. True Father gave us a very clear answer. Why can’t we receive any answer? Lack of prayer and sincerity and desperation. That is the reason.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Our Attitude Toward all Things
Recently I have been talking about trees and all things, how to deal with all things. Let’s study more about our attitude toward all things.
Feel the Sorrow of all Things and Liberate Them
1. We celebrate the Day of All Things every year. As we celebrate the Day of All Things, we need to become people who can feel the sorrow of all things and liberate them. Before True Parents restored human beings, they established Holy Grounds around the world to love all things, take responsibility for them and restore them on behalf of God. Today, like True Parents, we too need to establish Holy Grounds and sanctify all things corrupted by the Fall, one by one, with the determination to restore all things created by God to the original world of creation in our respective regions. True Father liberates even the fish of the sea and recognizes their value. Therefore, as children of God, we must have a heart that reveres Him, and all things He has created.
The three major relationships that humans must always give and receive in are first, the relationship with God, second, human relationships, and third, the relationship with all things. How much do we feel the sorrow of all things and how much love do we have for them? And how much do we know the sorrows of all things and how we can liberate them?
Whenever I go to a picnic in nature, when I enter a forest, I feel such an incredible healing experience. Really nature gives us incredible healing. All stress just goes away. Nature always gives us that kind of comfort, that kind of peaceful heart and mind.
We human beings, how much do we appreciate nature and all things? Since Adam and Eve fell, all things have been mistreated by human beings and were conquered by Satan. That is why each item of all things is really crying and crying. They pray, “When can my true owner really appear and appreciate me?” (There is) this kind of feeling. Can you feel that?
(When) True Parents came to this earth and restored human beings, they selected Holy Grounds in all parts of the world to love and liberate all things and prayed a lot. Today, like True Parents, we too need to establish Holy Grounds and sanctify all things corrupted by the Fall.
Why do you need to see nature? Not only do you want to have a healing experience, whenever we see all things, we need to comfort them. We need to appreciate God’s incredible creation.
Since all things are symbolic objects of God who resemble Him, we must have a heart of reverence toward them just as we always have a heart of reverence toward God.
Love With Affection for all Things
2. We must have attachment and love for all things God created. When we have attachment for all things, we feel their value and we can love them. Up until now, we have only kept the celebration of the Day of All Things as a formality every year. If we are to really celebrate this Day of All Things, we must either buy and grow one houseplant every year or put even a single plant in a pot and achieve loving all things. Just because others say it is the Day of All Things, does not mean you should spend it formally. We must also know to love animals. Those who do not know how to love animals cannot love people. Some people have a hobby of collecting, and some raise animals. Such people have sincere hearts. Some people collect stamps, and some people collect old coins. There are many kinds of hobbies. Enjoying hobbies like this make our minds very healthy.
What must we do to be attached to and love all things God created? Knowing that each and every thing was created by God's hand, we need to think about God’s sincere devotion and jeongseong to all things. There is nothing that has not gone through the hand of God.
That’s why whenever I see trees and plants and all of beautiful nature, I can feel that each item of all things has been touched by God’s hand one by one. God has already touched each item of all things. I then touch each thing. Wow! When we touch something that has been touched by Jesus, what do you think? How precious is it? If True Father directly planted one tree or some other (plant), how valuable it would be. Why don’t you feel that God’s value is (greater than) that of Jesus and True Parents?
When we see any item, think it was touched by and created by God. Whenever I see each item of all things, even a small plant or a tree, I really feel God’s hard work. How much effort Heavenly Father put into creating all things.
Then he takes care of each thing one by one. He needs to send sunlight, energy, air, everything to each item. Wow! God takes care of each item of all things one by one. How much Heavenly Father invests his heart, emotion and jeongseong (into each thing). When I think God has touched all things, I feel how precious they are: even water and trees and ocean and plants. Each item is so beautiful. I really appreciate God’s creation.
If we are to really celebrate this Day of All Things, we must either buy and grow one houseplant every year or put even a single plant in a pot and achieve loving all things. As we celebrate the Day of All Things from next year, we should plant and take care of even one tree that represents all things.
Sometimes I really appreciate our Inose-san who sometimes buys a single flower in a pot. Every morning I touch that flower and kiss it and say, “Thank you. Good morning. How are you?” Emotional touching, emotional give-and-take with all things – even though my office is very small, I can see that small plant there as a small representative of all things. I really appreciate it. Even though I cannot love all things everywhere, but “You represent all things in my office. Thank you so much.” And I touch it and smell it, and I really appreciate it.
Or, we should raise even one animal and think that it is a representative of all things.
Naokimi takes care of his cat, Tora. He is always (participating) together with Naokimi. It is not just a hobby: “I love a cats, I love a dogs. That is why I take care (of them).” Even though I cannot love all things, I chose a cat or dog as a representative of all things and take care of it and appreciate God. This mindset is beautiful, right?
Our True Father has taught us such things. If we do not do that, there is no meaning in celebrating the Day of All Things. That’s why next year on the Day of All Things, Parents Day, we need to celebrate more meaningfully – not just read Father’s word. Let’s really practice how to love all things, even small items. (We should) put (an item) in my room and take care (of it), and appreciate God’s creation every day.
People With the Essence of Love Have Hobbies and get Carried Away With Whatever They do
3. People with the essence of love have hobbies. People are made to get carried away by something. True Father always lived intoxicated. He lived being intoxicated with people when he met them and intoxicated with all things when he dealt with them. Once caught by him, there is no day or night. He doesn't even go to the bathroom and sits motionless to communicate with us. There is no training beyond that. One of the most difficult things to bear during training with True Father is not sleeping and giving and receiving with him. It seems that True Father competes in everything he does. He is very serious. If you watch him from the side, he is very competitive. This is because he lives with a heart to fight against Satan every day. He is also always intoxicated by whatever he does. That is how True Father lived his life.
A person with the essence of love lives a life of (being) intoxicated by something. True Father always lived intoxicated. He lived being intoxicated with people when he met them and intoxicated by the mountains when he climbed them. When he went to the sea, he was intoxicated by the ocean. And when he took on a task, he got carried away by that task. He lived as if he were born for that task.
True Father is very serious in how he treats all things, humans and God. If you watch True Father from the side, he is very competitive. This is because True Father always lives with a heart to fight against Satan. And he is always intoxicated by whatever he does. Those who live by their original nature like this will live intoxicated no matter what they do.
My Attitude and Responsibility Towards all Things
4. True Father started the way of the Will with tears in the early days. He was a substance of love that took a serious course while shedding blood, sweat and tears. If so, we should think about what kind of heart we should have today. Today we must realize this more by looking at nature and all things. When we see a tree, we must think about what kind of tree we should be. Will our roots be shallow or deep? Will we be a tree of life or a tree of death? Will we be a tree of love or a tree of evil? Today, we must become people who truly know ourselves and faithfully carry out our responsibilities while looking at all things.
We must learn True Father's attitude toward God, toward humans, and toward all things. True Father met God through tears to learn about the world of God's heart. And in human relationships, he found human beings with the heart of a parent and the body of a servant. He was more attached to all things and loved them more than anyone else.
Today, while looking at nature and all things, we must truly realize the lessons that these things give us. When we see a tree, we must think about what kind of tree we should be. Will our roots be shallow or deep? Will we be a tree of life or a tree of death? Will we be a tree of love or a tree of evil?
We can learn many things from all things.
I would like to appreciate Dr. Jenkins. He sent some beautiful small trinity(?) trees. Every morning I see the beautiful trees and am reminded of Dr. Jenkins. When I see the three branches, I think of three spiritual children. Once again, thank you so much, Dr. Jenkins. You sent a beautiful small tree to me.
Today, we must become people who truly know ourselves and faithfully carry out our responsibilities while looking at all things.
Actually all things are really a textbook for each human beings. We can learn a lot from all things. Father said that according to the Divine Principle all things are Abel, more Abel than fallen human beings. We really need to learn from all things, and then we can inherit their purity.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Pastor Eric White, Oklahoma, distant members)♦
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