Ep 646 - Responsibilities Of The Blessed Families For The Firm Settlement Of Cheon Il Guk Part 2
Responsibilities of Blessed Families for the Firm Settlement of Cheon Il Guk - August 2, 2022
Key Points
In order to solve the sectarian problem of the Unification Family, we must first become one with True Parents, no matter what happens. Second, we must have capabilities and actual achievements that no one can deny. We must show that God is alive and working for us. Then everyone is bound to surrender naturally.
True Parents are the perfected beings who came to this earth in the flesh of God.
Hyojeong is the way to the realization of the kingdom of heaven.
If we attend our physical parents like God, we will go to heaven.
Parents should devote everything to raising their children as children of filial piety.
Our life of faith must be victorious every day.
What's the standard of victory? How many people did I move in a day? Did I really joyfully fulfill my responsibilities? Did I have gratitude towards Heaven and True Parents today?
True Father instructed us to mark “O” on our calendar if we set a standard for winning every day. And if we didn't win, he told us to make an “X.” 2/3 of our life in a month or a year or in my entire life should have a mark of “O.”
The purpose of our faith is to ultimately become trees of true life or goodness (as a perfect individual), trees of true love (as couples) and trees of true blood lineage (as parents) realizing the true parents and an ideal family.
When we follow the Principle and live a life according to our original nature, we can naturally distinguish good and evil and put down our roots, be resurrected and become an indispensable being.
To live a life of original nature, we must first live centered on the Word and be stimulated by it. Second, we must listen to the voice of our original mind. Third, our hearts should always be voluntary and grateful. Fourth, we must live a life of serving everyone as Abel.
We must always check ourselves with gratitude or repentance.
In addition to a gratitude diary, you should also write a repentance diary.
Have a personal touch ministry that moves others’ hearts.
When people live ambitiously for the will, they impact people’s lives and people feel sad when they leave.
If True Parents’ standard seems insurmountable, find a role model you can follow. Successful people emulate successful people.
In his youth Father’s vision and goal was to have more faith than Peter and Paul, more wisdom than Solomon and more love than Jesus.
True Parents always set a very clear goal. We should, too.
Today we are going to have a conference with world headquarters, so this is recorded. Thank you for your understanding.
Today I’d like to talk about “The Responsibilities of Blessed Families for the Firm Settlement of Cheon Il Guk” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Don't worry, neither you blessed members nor the True Children are perfect yet. They need a growth period. During that growth period, through absolute faith and absolute obedience, you have to be one with the Heavenly Parent and True Parents. True Parents are the True Parents of all humankind, not only the True Parents of the True Family. I am following the rule of the Principle. The way we must go is long and far. You should be in the mainstream centered on True Parents. If your beloved children are in a tributary, you should support them so that they can enter the mainstream. I am saying that you should not just keep on observing; I am asking you to not be mere onlookers. This is a situation in which we put our lives on the line. We know how life in heaven will be. If you go to the spirit world without being able to fulfill your responsibilities on earth, life in the heavenly world will not seem much like heaven. No parent could be comfortable in heaven knowing their children were in hell. A parent always keeps the same heart toward their children. (2015.02.21, Cheon Jeong Gung)
You know the providential history of Israel through the Bible and the Divine Principle. Indemnity does not just pass you by. You need to fulfill your responsibility. Even though you say you were blessed by True Parents, if you cannot fulfill your responsibility, you will be caught by Satan's accusation. You have to know how your life will be seen from the spirit world. No matter how much True Parents pull you up, those around you will accuse you. You won't be able to be comfortable in that place. This life on earth is but a moment, but the original homeland we go to is forever. You blessed families have lived close to the True Parents up until now. Yet I'm warning you that it depends on how hard you try to protect that great position. This will determine whether you become a noble family or be ashamed of having received the Blessing. We do not have much time left. (2015.02.21, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Mother (spoke) about the factional activities centered on True Children, saying, “I am following the rule of the Principle. The way we must go is long and far. You should be in the mainstream centered on True Parents. If your beloved children are in a tributary, you should support them so that they can enter the mainstream. I am saying that you should not just keep on observing; I am asking you to not be mere onlookers.”
In order to solve the sectarian problem of the Unification Family, we must first become one with True Parents, no matter what happens. Second, you must have capabilities and actual achievements that no one can deny. If we have a track record of restoring our country, that is, finding Cheon Il Guk, everyone is bound to surrender naturally.
Therefore, if we are alive in front of the world, we must show the results of the growth of our church, the restoration of the tribe, and the restoration of the nation. We must show that God is alive and working for us very clearly.
Individuals, families, churches and communities with God are bound to develop. Therefore, the best way to block and overcome sectarianism is to show that God is alive and God is working through our work. This is to subdue the enemy naturally. There is no need to fight one by one and (try to) show that that group is wrong and who is right. There is no end to this.
We need to really focus on what we are doing now centering on True Parents. First of all, unite with True Parents. Secondly, bring substantial results and show how our community, church, our individual (members) and families are growing very well. We need to show that God is really working and is alive with our activities. Then everybody will surrender. This is the only way we can overcome our enemy naturally.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 62 - Heaven and Hell (1)
• It is not God who decides whether a person's spirit enters heaven or hell upon his death; it is decided by the spirit himself.
• Humans are created so that once they reach perfection they will fully breathe the love of God. Those who committed sinful deeds while on earth become crippled spirits who are incapable of fully breathing in the love of God. They find it agonizing to stand before God, the center of true love, and choose to dwell in hell of their own will.
• Since the human spirit can grow only in the soil of the physical self, the multiplication of human spirits takes place at the same time that the multiplication of physical selves occurs: during earthly life.
Based on this EDP content, let’s study Father’s word.
Filial Piety and Heaven
<119- 109> If Adam and Eve had not fallen, they would have gone to the Kingdom of Heaven and eternally become Heavenly Parents, but this could not be realized because of the fall. If they had not fallen, anyone could have gone to Heaven by attending his own parents.
If man had not fallen, God would have used and perfected the bodies of Adam and Eve. The perfected Adam and Eve are the same as the actual position of God who used the flesh.
True Parents are the perfected beings who came to this earth in the flesh of God. Therefore, fallen human beings should know that filial individuals, filial families, filial tribe, filial nation, and filial world are the way to the realization of the kingdom of heaven and God's desire with True Parents on this earth.
True Father said that unless man has fallen, he does not need to separate the intangible God from his physical parents. However, True Father said that if we attend our physical parents like God, we will go to heaven.
In that sense, Adam and Eve were visible Gods. The position of our physical parents are the visible God. So what is the most important thing between parents and children? It is hyojeong. If you are filial to your parents at home, that is the shortcut to heaven. Therefore, parents should devote everything to raising their children as children of filial piety. Only filial piety makes other filial piety.
As parents what is the most important mission? How to raise our children as filial sons and daughters. That’s it. Because the physical parents position is the position of God, so when you attend your physical parents as God, that is already a (sufficient) condition. You can become filial sons and daughters, filial couples, filial brothers and sisters and filial parents. It (would have been) very simple if Adam and Eve had not fallen.
That’s why what is important in the family is how to raise our children as filial sons and daughters centering on filial piety. As parents you need to plan the culture of hyojeong toward your children. Then your children will automatically multiply the culture of hyojeong.
Heaven and the Standard of Daily Victory
<Father’s word “Spirit World and Earthly Lifestyle 20”> While focusing our whole lifetimes on going down the path of faith, we sometimes think that if we can’t go this year, we’ll go next year. If we can’t go next year, we’ll go the year after that. If we can’t go in our teens, we’ll go in our twenties. If we can’t go in our twenties, we’ll go in our thirties. If we can’t go in our thirties, we’ll go in our forties, and if we can’t go in our forties, we’ll go in our fifties…if you live your life like this, you will die without ever becoming one day with the will in your lifetime. If you live like that, you cannot go to Heaven. It does not matter how good of a country you live in, if you cannot bring victory on a daily basis, you cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven. How can a person who is unable to bring daily victory go into the eternal world?
Wow! What precious guidance!
If we do not follow the path of faith we are going on now, we must not delay thinking that we will be able to do well in the future.(?) If you live your life like this, you will die without ever becoming (experiencing) one day with the will in your lifetime.
If you lived like that, you would never go to heaven. No one who does not have the standard of victory for one day can have the standard of victory for one year, and no one who does not have the standard of victory for one year can enter the eternal kingdom of heaven.
Look at this calendar. Our life of faith must be victorious every day. True Father instructed us to mark “O” on the calendar if we set a standard for winning every day. And if we didn't win, he told us to make an “X.”
So what's the standard of victory? My personal standard for victory is: How many people did I move in a day? How many people have I given to or helped? Did I really joyfully fulfill my responsibilities today? What content did I have gratitude for towards Heaven and True Parents today?
You need to check your daily life and mark “0" or “X” (on your calendar).
I personally practice Morning Devotion every day, and I try to do my best. Anyone can attend just one morning devotion. For some, personal problems and wounds are resolved (through Morning Devotion). For some, husband and wife problems are resolved. And for others, problems between parents and children are resolved. I do prepare for morning devotion with prayer and devotion every day very seriously, thinking about how much God will be pleased if the problems of Cain and Abel or any other problems can be resolved.
That’s why through Morning Devotion if at least I can touch somebody’s heart and solve his problems, healing his problems, that is already great. Then I can mark an “O” on my calendar that day: I lived for the sake of others.
You need to make really good conditions so you can mark “O” (on your calendar) and gain victory in your life. You should also mark on your daily calendar the standard of victory in your daily life. True Father said that if (you mark) an “O” mark more than two-thirds (of the time), then you must be a good person and have lived a life that will surely (allow you to) go to heaven.
Wow! 2/3 of our life in a month or a year or in my entire life should have a mark of “O.”
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Become Trees of True Love
1. The reason we today hear the Principle, receive heart education, and are walking in the path of restoration is ultimately to become trees of love. Secular people do not think about what kind of trees to become. In the secular world, most people say, “Let’s become people who make a lot of money,” “Let’s become people with capabilities,” “Let’s have qualifications that are necessary.” Among such people, people who cherish relationships live a life that they want in their own way. However, people who have discord come to have unhappy lives. There are more unhappy people than happy people in the world. It is hard to find happy people. However, for those of us who know the Principle, when we make a resolve to do something centered on the Will in a certain field, we can take root there. When anyone hears the words of the Divine Principle, if they adjust it well to their individual and apply it to their life with a sincere heart, they can take their place as their own selves in the original creation.
The purpose of our faith is to ultimately become trees of true life, trees of true love and trees of true blood lineage. Until the top of the growth stage, Adam and Eve had the goal of becoming the tree of life, that is, the tree of a true person, individually as with Adam as a man and Eve as a woman.
On the next stage, the goal was Adam and Eve to realize the couple through the marriage Blessing and become trees of true love. The tree of love can never be completed alone. It is because in love, two people must become one as a man and woman. If a husband and wife become one through true love in this way, the blood lineage centered on God will emerge there and produce the tree of true lineage.
In this way, our life course is becoming trees of true life, trees of true love, and trees of true lineage, and in the end, go until the stage of realizing the true parents and realizing an ideal family. But the goals of secular people are “Let’s become people who make a lot of money,” “Let’s become people with capabilities,” “Let’s have qualifications that are necessary.”
Own(?Only?) this kind of external goal.
We learn from all things. The Bible teaches us using examples of all things and trees. How can I become a tree of true life, a tree of true love and a tree of true blood lineage. We need to go through the process (of becoming) three trees, right? Until the top of the growth stage, I need to become a tree of true life. I have to become a true man or a true woman. A man has to (become) a tree of life; woman has to become a tree of goodness, not a tree of good and evil. She has to become a tree of good. And (they need to) grow to the top of the growth stage.
Then you can meet your spouse centering on the True Parents and the Blessing. When you become husband and wife, you become a tree of true love. Then you can make a beautiful relationship spiritually and physically and produce a true blood lineage. That is our life course.
First you have to be a tree of true life, secondly a tree of true love, and finally a tree of true blood lineage.
The Maturation of Original Nature and our Responsibility
2. When we follow the Principle and live a life of original nature, if we are grape vines, we take root as grape vines, and if we are apple trees, we take root as apple trees. Each tree has a different look, but it does its job in its own way. Similarly, if my being as an individual embodiment of truth of God applies the Word to my life and is resurrected, I become an indispensable being in my given place. The more one grows, the more their love grows bigger and bigger, and they continue to receive love from Heaven just as love goes where there is love. We should all develop our own original nature so that we can become a tree that can take delight in our responsibilities through a truly heartfelt life. True Father said that those with tears for the Will are alive.
In our life of faith, when we follow the Principle and live a life according to our original nature, we can naturally distinguish good and evil and put down our roots. When we live a life centered on original nature, we are always resurrected and become an indispensable being in our given place. And the more we grow, the more our love grows bigger and bigger, and we continue to receive love from Heaven just as love goes where there is love.
In order to live a life of original nature well, we must first live centered on the Word and always live being stimulated by the Word. Second, we must listen very carefully to the voice of our original mind with the Word as the basis. Third, our hearts should always be voluntary and grateful so that the heart of joy can always arise. Fourth, we must live a life of serving everyone as Abel in our relationships. To do that, you must completely deny yourself.
However, since fallen man cannot live like this all the time, we must always check ourselves. If my life does not come from my heart voluntarily, if I do not take responsibility joyfully, and if I live a consistent and habitual life with constant worry, I must repent with tears. And I must sincerely repent before God and appeal to my true heart to live a good and true life.
Therefore, our life of faith is either gratitude or repentance. If gratitude does not come from the heart, deeply repent. In addition to a gratitude diary, you should also write a repentance diary about yourself being unable to practice good deeds.
Of course, I really promote the culture of gratitude. Sometimes we cannot feel gratitude. Then the other way: we should really repent with true repentance. Then you can again recover the heart of gratitude. Then when you write your daily report in your diary, you need to think: 1. My gratitude, 2. My gratitude... Sometimes you make a mistake and need to write down your repentance diary. Our life of faith is like that: gratitude or repentance.
If your daily life is fully covered by gratitude, then repentance becomes less and less. But if I do not feel a grateful heart, I need to kneel down and repent. Without repentance we easily become horizontal, right? We cannot go (the way of) heaven’s will well.
People Who Have the Potential to Grow as Trees of Love
3.If there is a person who sheds tears over the way someone leaves when moved from one’s place to another in a change of personnel, that person played the role of a living person in that place. But if no one shed tears even though they go somewhere else, that means that person was just making a pretense and leaning towards formality. He is a conceptual person who lives reluctantly. There are many people who live ambitiously more than others for the Will, and when they go to another place, and people feel very sad and upset. When someone with a sense of ownership over the Will and strong drive appears, you will experience the environment changing immediately. Even if that person goes as a guest, he doesn't look like a guest. They are like the owner. When a person with such a sense of ownership leaves the place, the atmosphere quickly becomes empty and disappointing. Now, such a person is a person who has the potential to grow into a tree of love and is a living person.
In our faith course, we must do our best, thinking that the work given to us in the position we are in is God's will and work. Next, I have to live a life that instills an unforgettable impression on those around me who are involved in my responsibility.
When someone moves to another place, if there is not a single person who is moved and sheds tears because of them, it is proof that that person's life was not a true life but a false life. If our lives are just hypocrisy, mere formality, reluctant or conceptual, no one has sympathy for us.
There are many people who live ambitiously more than others for the Will, and when they go to another place, people feel very sad and upset. An ambitious person with a sense of ownership of the will can immediately experience changing the environment. When a person with this sense of ownership leaves the place, the atmosphere quickly becomes empty and it feels like something is missing. Such a person is a person who has the potential to grow into a tree of love and is a living person.
How about you? Did you have that experience of your mission changing and of going to another place and having someone hold your hand and cry, shedding tears, and saying, “Thank you so much. I am so indebted to you. I am eternally grateful to you.”
You need to have a few people like that. That is proof that your life was really amazing. What is our job? To touch someone’s heart and (give them an) unforgettable memory. That is our mission: how we can touch each person’s heart.
That is why I emphasize the personal touch ministry. Parents always touch each child’s heart. If you are a minister or community leader, a leader in some workplace, you need to have that kind of heart to always touch another person’s heart. Then you have a great potential to grow into a tree of love and (become?) a living person.
The Person Who has the Secret of Gaining Victory
4. If we are to follow the path of living people, we must not resemble those who have failed. Even if the seniors around us fail, we gain strength when we go out looking at the victorious True Parents. You must not have give and receive with your failed seniors and fall from there. We need to properly apply whether the education provided in our church is truly an education that helps us grow into our true original self. And whether this Principle education really has the potential to resurrect me as a tree of love and a tree of life, each of us should try to apply and put it into practice. Each must go out with the hope of resurrecting himself. You should test this yourself. If you experience the possibility through this Principle, you have the secret of victory. We should always have a feeling of reverence for the heavens in our hearts, and we should have attachment to become a tree of true love within our life. We must become the ones who are determined to become true to ourselves like all things.
When we look at successful people, they always look at successful people as models. And when we look at people who have failed, we see cases where they are always giving and receiving with people who have no choice but to fail. In order for our life's journey to be successful, we must always have a role model that we want to resemble and respect.
Who is your role model? Who do you want to be like? True Father said that as he set out on the God’s-will road when he was young, he had a wish before heaven. He said that he spent his youth with the following goal and vision: “In the world of faith, ‘God, give me more faith than Peter and Saint Paul.’ In the world of wisdom, ‘Give me wisdom greater than Solomon.’ And in the world of love, ‘Give me more love than Jesus.’”
It is very important to establish a role model in our faith course. Set up a role model, try to resemble them, respect them, and try to inherit everything from them. Then one day you will realize that you have reached that position.
As I personally started my faith course, in terms of faith, Rev Yohan Lee, my spiritual father, was my role model. In power conveying the Word, it was to become someone like Dr. Bo-hi Pak. In bringing substantial achievement in witnessing, it was to become someone like Pastor Yonggi Cho, the pastor of an established church with the largest single church in the world and the (highest) number of members.
Of course, True Parents are the model for our faith course, but sometimes they are so different from our standards that we do not dare to challenge them. Then, use as a role model a person you can challenge among the historical central figures of the providence.
If we are to follow the path of the living, we must not resemble those who have failed. Even if the seniors around us fail, we gain strength when we go out looking at the victorious True Parents, seniors, and central figures. If I always communicate with my failed seniors, my thoughts become dwarfed; dissatisfaction and complaints increase, and I quickly flow horizontally. So I end up getting struck and I fall.
Therefore, you must go out with the hope of resurrecting yourself. And you have to test this yourself. If you experience the possibility through this Principle, you have the secret of victory.
Set up a role model. When you set up a role model, someday you (will be able to) realize it. That is why vision and goals are very important. Vision makes reality. When you set up the goal, “I want to be like that,” “I want to be such a person,” and set up a vision and goal, (then) someday definitely you will become like that. It comes true according to your faith, according to your thinking and vision. Without a goal, without setting up a basic vision and just living day to day without meaning, then ten or 20 years later your life will become so miserable....
True Parents always set a very clear goal. True Mother set a first seven year course, then a second and a third. She set up very clear goals.
We, also, need to set up our very clear goal. Then the vision will surely come true.
(No living testimony.)♦
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