Ep 648 - Responsibilities Of The Blessed Families For The Firm Settlement Of Cheon Il Guk Part 4
Responsibilities of Blessed Families for the Firm Settlement of Cheon Il Guk - August 4, 2022
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Key Points
Your age does not matter. As long as you still have life, you should always keep trying to tell one more person about True Parents.
Saving peoples' lives is more important than making a lot of money.
Witnessing is our life. Witnessing not only saves others but also saves our soul.
It is the path for our soul to grow the fastest.
While living and wearing our physical body, we must cross the line of death on the frontline.
The way to heaven is through the gates of hell.
The reasons families break up is that they do not know true love, the reality of the spiritual world and the existence of God and their own eternal life.
True Mother encourages us to invite the second generation and third generation to attend the CheonBo workshop to know that the spiritual world does exist.
Human beings born from the substance of God’s love were all originally born with an abundant innate nature of love.
In order to go on the course of love of our original nature, we have to clearly distinguish fallen nature and original nature by listening carefully to our original mind and knowing how to distinguish good and evil through God’s Word.
When people try to live centered on their original mind, since we always think of others first, think of parents first, and think of God first, we can always live a full life with joy.
If your life of faith is full of gratitude and joy, there is no trial you cannot overcome.
Are you seriously writing a gratitude diary?
Teach your children when they receive something (to say), “Thank you” with a grateful heart.
To say that Jacob succeeded in establishing the Foundation of Substance means that he succeeded in human relationships. He did not have conflicts, and people trusted him.
Today I am going to spend important time with my family, so I am recording Morning Devotion, and I have an important meeting before going to Korea. So I need to record 2 or 3 Morning Devotions. I appreciate your understanding.
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.
As blessed couples you must reflect on how responsible a life you are living. You must know how much hardship Heaven and True Parents went through until now to create even one blessed family. To go further, until spirit world was unified and hundreds of millions of blessed families had appeared, you should know the course of blood and tears that True Parents walked and you should reflect on it. While reciting the Family Pledge every day, what are you thinking as you live your lives? Each day for even one minute, one second, you must have a time when you look back at yourself, repent that you should not be that way, and take time for self-reflection.
Like God or True Parents, have you tried living a struggling life with a desperate heart moment by moment when thinking with of the people who are dying in heartbreaking situations? If you are living in this blessed age, and there are people who are dying without knowing the Word, when you go to the spirit world how will you relate to those tribes? Because True Parents paid the indemnity and established the entire foundation, you must invest all your power to convey the Word. (2002.08.19, Fukuoka, Japan)
You have to awaken from your slumber. You have to move. You should set a direction, make a plan, and reach your goals. As long as you still have life, you should always keep trying to tell one more person about True Parents. The reason we are alive is to tell people about the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. You should not forget this. Without this reason, you have no life. When I think about that, a day seems like 1,000 years for me. Now, we must not waste a single moment. You don't know how important time is. The fact that you are alive, the time and life that you have, who is this for? Depending on how and for whom you use it, you can end up becoming a hero who is remembered in history or a filial child or a divine son or daughter.
Heaven has given you so much unconditionally. You have to become empty vessels to receive what Heaven is giving you. Instead of just sitting here and listening to me speak, you should now take action. You usually eat three times a day but you should know that depending on how much effort you make to find new lives, without regard to eating, determines the historic, eternal life that is given to you. You have to create an environment so that your descendants will say how great you were living in this age, so that you do not bring shame to your own ancestors. If you can do that, your second generation will naturally grow up within God's Will. In that sense, you have to change and be a different person from today. You should remember that meeting a lot of people and saving peoples' lives is more important that making a lot of money. (2013.04.15, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Mother said that True Parents have lived a struggling life with a desperate heart moment by moment when thinking of the people who are dying in heartbreaking situations. If we are living in this blessed age, and there are people who are dying without knowing the Word, what would they think?
True Mother continues, “You have to awaken from your slumber. You have to move. You should set a direction, make a plan, and reach your goals. As long as you still have life, you should always keep trying to tell one more person about True Parents. The reason we are alive is to tell people about the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. You should not forget this. Without this reason, you have no life. When I think about that, a day seems like 1,000 years for me. Now, we must not waste a single moment. You should remember that meeting a lot of people and saving peoples' lives is more important than making a lot of money.”
True Mother said that as Blessed families, if you do not have the attachment and interest in saving peoples’ lives, that is a dead life. That is why we should know that when Blessed families have an attachment to witnessing and make a lot of effort, God, the Spirit World, and True Parents have the greatest interest and will cooperate with us. God and True Parents’ greatest interest is in what? Saving lives, which is witnessing.
Mother keeps on talking about saving people. Witnessing is our life. Witnessing not only saves others but also saves my soul. A person who is not interested in witnessing, the spiritual world and ancestors lose interest in and love for that person. The living soul always has a constant interest in the dead(?) soul. Again, witnessing is the thing that pleases God, True Parents, the spiritual world and ancestors the most, and it is the path for my soul to grow the fastest.
You and I, what is our most important issue? What is our most important mission and responsibility? To save people’s souls. That is everything. Why did Heavenly Father and True Parents choose me to become a Unificationist and a blessed family? They ask us to multiply another Blessing. They ask us to save more people. That is why God chose you and me as chosen guys earlier than anyone else.
That’s why we need to carry out our most important responsibility. Our most important responsibility is to convey the Blessing and to witness to people, to let them know God. God is our parent. The Bible talks about faith, hope and love. When those who do not believe in God find out that God is alive and that he is our parent and believe in that, then they can feel hope. God and True Parents are the solution.
That is why faith comes first. Believing in God and believing that he is my parent – “God does exist. spiritual world does exist” – you can feel hope. Our life of faith begins from faith: believing that God exists, that he is my father, that I am his child, “Wow! I can see hope. I can solve any problems because God is my daddy. I am his child. I did not know that. How much God loves me! Then I have to love God. Wow!”
Faith creates hope. Where there is hope, everybody wants to invest everything and there is love. Faith and hope and love: when you believe in God and treat yourself as God’s belonging, you can see hope, solve problems and overcome any issues, any difficult circumstances.
That is why we need to introduce who God is and introduce who True Parents are who have come as the savior, the messiah, the returning lord. That is our mission. Therefore, witnessing is life. Witnessing not only saves others but also saves my soul. When we focus on witnessing, the spiritual world really loves that and totally invest in that and helps you. Finally we can get incredible heavenly blessing.
What is our most important mission? That is witnessing. Try to witness to even one person as the representative of the nation, of the entire world. If you pay attention to saving people, God will always guide you and you will get incredible heavenly blessing.
No matter what, let’s break through first with three spiritual children. Your age does not matter. Even 80 or 90 years old. As long as you are breathing, “I want to witness to even one guy and introduce them to who Heavenly Father is, who True Parents are.” That is the most important mission for me and for you.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 60 - The Development, Perfection, and Features of the Spirit Self
• 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.
Let’s study Father’s word.
Heaven is the Place Beyond Death
<205-258> The Bible states “he who seeks to die will live, and he who seeks to live will die.” What does this mean? You must go beyond death; if you do not go beyond death you cannot live. If you simply exist without moving, you are the same as dead. Therefore, if you cannot cross that line, and when you go to the spirit world, you will end up in Hell. There are three levels in Hell. I said that there are three levels. Heaven is the same. It can’t be helped. You end up there. Am I right, or am I wrong? If you do not believe me, you can die now. But do not tell me to die. (Laugh) It is absolutely like that.
Father is talking to us about spiritual reality. Maybe when some people hear this kind of word, it is a little scary (to hear) about what (one should) do. Father is really a great teacher. He tells the reality of the spiritual world.
The Bible states, “He who seeks to die will live, and he who seeks to live will die.” This means that the environment we are in is an environment where (one) has no choice but to die. As the environment in which we have to overcome the Satanic world, the reality we are faced with is a serious live-or-die situation.
It is not easy to survive spiritually in this terrible secular world. That is why Jesus says we need to prepare to die; otherwise we cannot live.
If you try to live without God, you surely will die. The outside environment is like that. Even our blessed couples first generation, second generation, third generation – how many of them have really gained life? How many are really alive? The (situation of the) outside world is really serious. It is a live-or-die situation.
The way to overcome such a position is to really have the determination to die for the sake of the Will. True Father said that if you cannot do that, you will end up in hell. Therefore, he said that if you do not prepare for death and cross the line of death while you are alive, you cannot go in front of God.
Therefore, while living and wearing our physical body, we must cross the line of death, and in order to cross that line of the dead, we must go to the frontline. True Father is telling us that the way to heaven is that everyone must pass through the gates of hell while in the course of going through it.
In order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven there is definitely a process to break through the gate. What kind of gate? The gate of hell. When you break through the gate of hell, there is the Kingdom of Heaven. Without going through the gates of hell, you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. That is why while you are on earth, you need to break through. The front line is like life and death.
In other words, the world that is experienced only by those who passed through hell while living is the Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore, the way to Heaven is the path that goes through Hell, the path of suffering of all sufferings, the path of sacrifice of all sacrifices. These are not just words, it is the reality of the spirit world that Father is talking about. What can we do about it?
We always like to receive good news, but Father often tells us about the reality of the spiritual world. When you enter the spiritual world, you will know that “Wow! This is the reality of the spiritual world. While I was on the earth, if I had known this reality, I could not have led this lifestyle.” That is why Father is talking about the reality of the spiritual world.
The Reason Families Break up
<205-261> Why are families breaking up all over the world? The father, mother, and children all become enemies. Why is this? It is because they lack true love. The most important thing is eternal life. But they do not even know whether or not there is a spirit world. Without a doubt, if they only knew there was such a thing as eternal life, even if someone else told them to commit a crime, they would not do it. Even if someone told them to live selfishly, they would not do it. If you don’t know about eternal life, no matter which established church or religion you believe in, you absolutely cannot go to Heaven. You cannot go to God’s ideal world. You must not live without true love and true life.
True Father said that the first reason families are breaking up all over the world and the parents and children are becoming enemies today is because they lack true love. They don’t know what true love is. The parents do not know how to love their children, and their children cannot feel true love from their parents.
Next, it is because they do not know the spirit world. Once again, it is because they really do not understand the existence and reality of the spirit world.
Wow! How can we teach our young generation? second generation and third generation? ACLC ministers need to teach their own congregations, their own young people, the reality of the spiritual world, the reality of God’s existence. These two things are really important.
True Father said without a doubt, if everyone knew there was such a thing as a spirit world and that they would have eternal life there, even if someone else told them to commit a crime, they would not do it. Even if someone told them to live selfishly, they would not do it.
Because they know the reality of the spiritual world, they definitely understand that God really does exist.
The reason people still fall and commit sins even while claiming to know the spirit world is because they have not had any clear spiritual experience yet. That is the issue.
How can we let our young people, even our own children, know the reality of the spiritual world? That is why True Mother (tells us), “Please invite the second generation and third generation to attend the CheonBo workshop to know that the spiritual world does exist.”
Through the Divine Principle and their own experience, we really need to teach two things. If now the Christian world, ACLC ministers and even our church do not show God is alive and secondly do not show very clearly that heaven and hell do exist, that the spiritual world does exist, then how can we save this corrupted world? This is very important.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Our Faith Course Which Must be Victorious Through Love
Human Beings who are Born With the Innate Nature of Love
1. We were created by the virtue of God’s love. As the original substance, God cannot help but create His object partner. Therefore, the original nature of human beings born from the substance of love is love, and all human beings are the substance of love born with abundant innate nature of love. A life lived with love is always filled with joy. That is why we must respect our subject partner of love and live overflowing with joy. Whether we are participating in Sunday service or some ceremony, we should live a joyful and inspiring life. Otherwise, we would simply be pulled and controlled by the external atmosphere, and our spirits will suffer. If we practice our life of faith reluctantly, our spirits will always become dry and lose the innate nature of love. As for the substance of love, I should have abundant love, but I lose the original standard of value.
We were created by the virtue of God’s love, right? Human beings born from the substance of God’s love were all originally born with an abundant innate nature of love. Originally, human beings were born as beings that could not help but love and be loved.
However, due to the human fall, the fallen nature of thinking about oneself first emerged. Therefore, in order to go on the course of love of our original nature, we have to clearly distinguish fallen nature and original nature. First, we have to listen carefully to our original mind. We should always hear the voice of our original mind. And we must know how to distinguish good and evil through God’s Word.
After distinguishing good and evil, we need constant efforts and determination to live by virtue of our original mind. This is something no one can intervene in.
This is our own portion of responsibility to distinguish good and evil. Nobody can help us (with this.) If you chose evil, Satan can claim it. If we chose the right way centered on the original mind, then God chooses it. Fallen man is in the midway position. Which way are we going to chose? Therefore, we need to listen carefully to Gods’ word, and we need to listen all the time to our original mind about where to go, what our direction is, which way we should choose.
You must do it on your own. This is our portion of responsibility. When people try to live centered on their original mind, since we always think of others first, think of parents first, and think of God first, we can always live a full life with joy.
To deny fallen nature and live with your original nature, whatever you do, you have to make an effort for it to come from the heart. That is why when you see your subject partner, you have to make an effort to respect him, and when you see people, see them as precious and try to serve them.
When we have that kind of heart, always trying to respect others, to see from God’s point of view, seeing them as precious and try to serve them all the time, if we have that mindset and attitude, God will surely guide us.
Whether we are participating in Sunday service or some ceremony, we should make an effort to evoke the heart and be joyful. How (can we inspire) our heart to well up very well. This is the point. This is our portion of responsibility.
If we leave our fallen nature as it is and do not try to improve it, we will simply be pulled and controlled by the external atmosphere, and our spirits will suffer.
If we practice our life of faith reluctantly, our spirits will always become dry and lose the innate nature of love. As for the substance of love, I should have abundant love, but I lose the original standard of value.
Original Human Nature is a Life Full of Joy
2. It is our original nature to be active and full of joy. Activities must also be activities to increase joy and become activities and work for restoring love. Based on joy, strength and hope overflow. A life that loses joy has neither hope nor a future. It is because a person who has lost joy is always controlled and struck by reality. A person who is full of joy is not affected by persecution or neglect. Even when you see other people's mistakes or shortcomings, your perspective changes because you do not look at those themselves, but rather relate them to God. For a person who lives full of joy, no matter how rainy or snowy, the environment does not become a problem. Rather, by virtue of that environment, they deal with the Word even more and have an enthusiastic heart.
If we live a life of our original mind, we will live a life that is always full of gratitude and joy. If your life of faith is full of gratitude and joy, there is no trial you cannot overcome. Even in persecution and opposition, joy and hope are overflowing. This is what human beings’ original nature looks like.
Therefore, the content of everything we are active in should become content that increases joy. Based on joy, our life of faith should overflow with strength and hope. A life that loses joy has neither hope nor a future. It is because a person who has lost joy is always controlled and struck by reality.
I am really grateful to True Parents. They always ask us to have a life of gratitude. I just wake up. “I am so grateful. I open my eyes. Wow! I am alive. I can breathe. Thank you, Heavenly Father. I have ears; I can hear. I have a mouth; I can talk. My wife is beside me; my wife is there. Then when I go to the hoondokhae room, my grandchildren are there. I am so grateful for everything. I am full of gratitude.”
When you are full of gratitude and always feel joy and incredible happiness, everything becomes very positive. I believe and trust. Wow! The life of gratitude is really amazing. You can overcome anything – any bad mood or circumstances. That is why a life of gratitude is really important.
Are you seriously writing a gratitude diary? We call it a hyojeong diary. You need to write 5 to 10 (items of) gratitude.
Some Christians talk about the 1-5-3 strategy.
1: Read one Bible content.
5: Appreciate 5 points and write (them) down in your diary, and
3: Express gratitude to your neighbor 3 times. “Thank you, my wife. Thank you, my grandchildren. Thank you, my Abel.” You need to substantially express (your gratitude). I really love that.
In our case:
1: At least one time you need to do hoondokhae.
5: You need to write down 5 to 10 gratitude (points) every day.
Then your life will become very positive. You overcome everything with joy and happiness. It becomes a habit. For this to become a habit, you need to do (this for) 21 days or a minimum of six months. At least you need to practice for six months. Then it (will) become a good habit.
3: Then express (it). Even though you have only received a little bit from someone, “Thank you so much.” Not only words, but from your heart: “Thank you!”
You need to teach your children when they receive something (to say), “Thank you” with a grateful heart. This is important.
A person who is full of joy is not affected by persecution or neglect. Even when you see other people's mistakes or shortcomings, your perspective changes because you do not look at those themselves, but rather relate them to God.
The Reason Jacob was able to Gain Victory
3. No matter what kind of situation he was in, Jacob was a surprisingly active person for the Will. The path he had to go on was difficult, but he walked only toward the Will and purpose. He did not even have conflicts in relationships with people. He was trusted by his maternal uncle Laban and respected by his servants. It was through the power of love and the power of original nature through many difficult twists and turns. God pushed Jacob into the predicament of death that even God could not help but doubt. However, Jacob built a stone pillar at Bethel and lived up to the standard he swore with God, and he overcame it well. So God gave him the name “Israel” as a sign of his victory over God. The name Israel means victory through love in all relationships, including human relationships, relationships with God, and all other relationships in the course of faith.
In God’s Providence of Restoration, after Adam and Eve fell, the first person to successfully establish the Foundation of Substance was Jacob. To say that he succeeded in establishing the Foundation of Substance means that he succeeded in human relationships. He brought his uncle Laban to submission, and brough his brother Esau to voluntary surrender.
No matter what kind of situation he was in, Jacob was a surprisingly active person for the Will. He especially did not even have conflicts in relationships with people. He was trusted by his maternal uncle Laban and respected by his servants. That is why Jacob’s course became our model course for bringing Satan to surrender.
Just as Jacob received the victor’s title “Israel,” we must also be like Jacob and be victorious in our relationship with God and be victorious in relationships with others. The name Israel means victory through love in all relationships, including human relationships, relationships with God, and all other relationships in the course of faith.
In conclusion, our course of faith must be victorious through love. Wow! This is beautiful guidance from heaven. Again, appreciation is really important.
I really miss all of you. I will watch morning devotion later on. God bless you!
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Anne Marie Morgan, Pastor in Texas)♦
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