Ep 652 - Responsibilities Of The Blessed Families For The Firm Settlement Of Cheon Il Guk Part 8
Responsibilities of Blessed Families for the Firm Settlement of Cheon Il Guk - August 8, 2022
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Key Points
Even though we cannot hear his voice, God always confesses to us, “I am always with you, my son, my daughter. Please do it well. Please grow up very well. I always love you all the time.”
Showing that our American churches grow and develop would bring the greatest joy to True Mother.
Mother’s heart always feels urgent.
It is not God but the spirit itself who decides whether he enters heaven or hell upon his death.
In the hell of hells God’s pain is greater than yours. That’s why when you think about God, you cannot go to hell.
If I go to hell, God is more miserable than I am. We cannot make God suffer, so we need to take care of our spirit very well. Then in order to liberate God and make him happy, we need to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Without liberating hell, there is no way to liberate God’s heart.
The best way (to grow your heart) is to raise physical and spiritual children.
Once you have three spiritual children, the next stage is much easier.
People who have practiced love know well that when you bring joy to your object, that joy is returned to you.
When you deny and lower yourself to the other’s position and cherish him, circular movements of love begin.
In order to be successful in your course of faith, you have to carefully examine what kind of person you are. Check what your strengths and weaknesses are.
Strive to cry and offer prayers of repentance together with your ancestors who struggled with the same weaknesses and fallen nature as you have. This way you release your ancestors.
In the parent-child relationship, husband-wife relationship, and siblings relationship, serve the other person with the heart of raising and respecting them.
When I give value to the work I do, I realize how precious my own value is.
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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.
Actually today we finish reading Vol. 1 of True Mother’s Anthology. Starting tomorrow we will start studying Vol. 2. Wow! We have already completed True Mother’s Memoir and book 1 of her Anthology.
Fifty-seven years ago, right after our Holy Wedding, True Father and I sat before our first wedding meal; I vividly remember the royal table being the color of blooming Susuki Grass. Heavenly Parent's profound heart and emotions could be seen in Father's eyes and he was about to burst into tears the size of snowflakes. As we walked the path of True Parents, Father and I have been served countless meals; yet, each time we have sat down to a meal, our purpose has remained the same: fulfill the duties of the filial heart before Heavenly Parent, save all humanity, and realize a world of peace. This is why whether eating boiled barley for three years during desperate times, or touring two nations at a breakneck pace in one day, or even having to endure an entire day with a single gulp of water, Father and I have never worried. To us, everything has been gratitude, everything has been joy. Today, on the occasion of True Parents' birthday, we are so happy and privileged to host this festival where you can share a meal we specially prepared for you.
You are true children born into Heaven's lineage through the profound tears and heart of True Parents. True Father who is in heaven and I will always, always love you all. More than anything else, we shall never forget the heartfelt tears and sweat you have shed as you fight in the midst of great loneliness to realize Heaven's Will. Father and I regret not being able to serve each and every one of you, our beloved children, a full table of warm dishes and steaming rice. Please accept our heartfelt token of love. Beloved blessed families, Father and I earnestly hope that you can become the proud sons and daughters who stand with True Parents until the last moment and work energetically to realize VISION 2020 and national restoration. Please remember that Father in heaven is continuously cheering and supporting us. I pray that until the day you ascend, you may all fulfill the duty of the filial heart before Heavenly Parent, become shining rays of hope around the world and be filled with love and happiness always. (2017.02.02, Letter to Members from True Mother, CheongShim Peace World Center)
True Mother confesses to us the following: “True Father who is in heaven and I will always, always love you all. More than anything else, we shall never forget the heartfelt tears and sweat you have shed as you fight in the midst of great loneliness to realize Heaven's Will.”
Oh my goodness! True Mother confesses her love for us, how much she loves us. She says, “I will never forget you and what you have done for the sake of God’s will, your heartfelt tears and sweat. I will never forget you.” Wow! (This is) True Mother’s beautiful confession to us.
True Father said he has always had the same experience in his relationship with God. He said that when he woke up every morning and would call “Heavenly God,” God would immediately appear and tell him and confess his love for his True Father: “My... son, I am always with you. Please do well. I always love you.” Father said that every morning he got that kind of confession from Heavenly Parent.
Do you think that God only confesses his love to True Parents? God makes such a confession of love to all his children, no matter what happens. Whether you are a good or bad child, it does not matter. How can Heavenly Father give up(?) his children? Even though we do not know and do not notice his love for us, he always confesses (to us) the same (way) as (to) Father. He always responds to us whenever we call him. Even though we cannot hear his voice, he always confesses to us, “I am always with you, my son, my daughter. Please do it well. Please grow up very well. I always love you all the time.”
And then True Mother desperately requests the following: “Beloved blessed families, Father and I earnestly hope that you can become the proud sons and daughters who stand with True Parents until the last moment and work energetically to realize the VISION of national restoration. Please remember that Father in heaven is continuously cheering (for) and supporting us. I pray that until the day you ascend, you may all fulfill the duty of the filial heart before Heavenly Parent, become shining rays of hope around the world and be filled with love and happiness always.”
True Parents are well aware of our hard work for the will. And they love us endlessly. Now, our final task as their children is the creation of Cheon Il Guk centered on South Korea. To do this, America, the elder son nation, has to do our utmost best to help God’s homeland of Korea. And I believe that more than anything, showing that our American churches grow and develop would bring the greatest joy to True Mother.
We are going to soon attend the tenth anniversary of True Father’s Seonghwa. I know that many prominent leaders will come from America to Korea. Let’s pray for them. Dr. Jenkins and Tom McDevitt at The Washington Times and all the leadership are doing very well, trying to support the heavenly Korean providence. Let’s pray for our American delegation.
This is a really great turning point because it is True Father’s tenth Seonghwa anniversary. I think all our brothers and sisters need to unite more than before with Mother and go forward. We have already entered the Second Seven Year Course and two years have almost passed. Now only five years remain. I think Mother’s heart always feels urgent. How can she fulfill her goal before she gets older. I think that is True Mother’s cherished hope: how we can restore one nation and establish Cheon Il Guk.
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.
It is not God but the spirit itself who decides whether he enters heaven or hell upon his death. It is decided by the spirit himself. Let’s say someone committed a lot of sin and went to the hell of hells, and someone (else) did not commit much sin and did things for the sake of others very well. He suffered so much for God’s will and went to the good spiritual world. When I study Father’s word directly and when I understand Father is a parent, I feel if we go to the hell of hells, when we go through all kinds of pain and suffering in the hell of hells – some say (there is) judgment by fire and all kinds of stories – you need to know that God is the parent of all humankind. When you go to hell and feel some kind of incredible pain in the hell of hells, whose pain is greater than yours? God’s pain is greater than yours.
That’s why when you think about God, you cannot go to hell. If you go to hell and feel incredible pain and suffering, incredible judgement, God’s heart is in more pain, more terrible pain. When you think about the spiritual world and about God’s parental heart, you cannot go to hell because if you go to hell, God’s pain is greater than mine.
Many people do not know this. They are just scared to go to hell. They never think that if they go to hell, God’s heart is in more terrible pain. That’s why we need to become filial sons and daughters. We cannot make God suffer. We need to take care of our spirit very well. Then in order to liberate God and make him happy, we need to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Not just I. (Do it) for the sake of God. God prepared everything for me; if I go to hell, who is miserable? God is more miserable than I am.
Some people can easily say if you don’t believe in Jesus, you will go to hell, (but) if you believe in God, you can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. People can easily say this. Whenever I think about God’s pain, we cannot go to hell – not because of my pain and suffering, but because of God. He will suffer more than I do; he will shed more tears than I do. He is such a miserable God. Even in a sense God stays in the Kingdom of Heaven but in terms of his heart, where does he stay? If his children are in hell, his heart is in the hell of hells.
That’s why liberating hell means liberating God’s heart. We need to know that. That is why when you dig(?) hell, God is there. Without liberating hell, there is no way to liberate God’s heart.
• 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.
My Place Is Decided by Heaven
<205-99> How are the Blessed families of the Unification Church? It is very helpful to have a lot of physical children. Physical children have more value than spiritual children, isn’t that right? Spiritual children know nothing about the relationship of the Blessing. Your place in Heaven is decided by the number of your physical children. It is because I know this that I told my wife to bear 14 children. Because she had surgery 4 times, we had no choice but to stop having children.
The More Children you Have, the Bigger your Heart Will Become
<217-130> When people ask me how I could go in 12 directions in 21 years…there are 12 months in a year, right? It is the same as the 12 disciples of Jesus and the 12 tribes of Moses. Ladies and gentlemen, if you have a lot of children, how will you raise them? It’s not an easy thing to do, right? 12 months are different and hearts are different. Raising children, they are all different. That’s why the parent’s heart grows very large. It allows you to have a lot of good experiences. Do you understand?
In the spirit world, your external eternal wealth is how many citizens of CIG you multiplied through spiritual children. Internally, it is how many physical children you had and raised as Cheon Il Guk citizens.
True Father said you cannot compare the values of your spiritual children and physical children. The more children you have, the larger your heart grows. (We are) blessed to have many children.
Why did Father ask us to have many physical and spiritual children? There is only one reason: your heart becomes larger and wider and deeper and higher because the Kingdom of Heaven is the world of the heart.
Through raising your physical and spiritual children, your heart becomes bigger and greater and wider and higher and deeper because the Kingdom of Heaven is the world of the heart. The best way (to grow your heart) is to raise physical and spiritual children.
How many spiritual children do you have? And how many physical children do you have?
First, let’s witness to 3 spiritual children. Once you have 3 spiritual children, the next step is very easy. For me in order to break through with 3 spiritual children took a long time. I brought all my classmates to church, but nobody remained. It is not easy to break through with 3 spiritual children. However, once you do break through, they become 4 and 5 and 6 and 10 and 12 and 30 and 40, no problem. It is a challenge. If you break through with 3 spiritual children, after that it is easier. Already you have the foundation. The number three creates a beautiful foundation. Once you have three spiritual children, the next stage is much easier.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Give Value to the Work Given to You
The Beginning Point of Circular Movement
1.Our True Father never treats us with his own standards but treats us as friends. That is why the other person is joyful and True Father himself is full of joy. It is the same in the family. Do not deal with children with the parents’ standards. If you do not lower yourself to children’s position, you cannot dominate a young child’s heart. Parents should lower themselves and treat young children as the subject partner. The same goes for couples. From the moment you mutually remove yourselves, lower yourselves to the other’s position, and cherish them, circular movements of love begins. Denying yourself and lowering yourself to the other’s position is the start of circular movement.
True Father never treats us with his own standards but treats us as friends. True Father is someone who has the heart of a parent, but his body is lowered like a servant’s and deals with us with our standards.
A true subject partner always first adjusts to the object and tries to serve the object partner first. People who have practiced love know well that when you bring joy to your object, that joy is returned to you.
Even in the family, when parents deal with children, they deal with them with the children’s standards. Therefore, regardless of your position and rank, if you respect and serve others first, you will surely succeed in human relationships. This relationship is also true for couples. When they stand in a position where they dominate each other, the husband and wife relationship begins to break down.
From the moment you mutually remove yourselves, lower yourselves to the other’s position, and cherish them, circular movements of love begins. Denying yourself and lowering yourself to the other’s position is the start of circular movement.
The principle of true love is the same as that of water. Water always flows from high places to low places. Like water we have to go to the lowest place first. To do that you must always be humble. Water fills the lowest point and always wants to be at the same level. Like water we must first take care of those in need first, and like the water we must treat them equally with all (our) love.
We Must Know Ourselves Well
2. We must know ourselves well. While walking on the course of faith, when do I lose joy? Do I not work habitually? Aren’t there more times I work because I have no choice? And when do I lose my own original nature? We must always examine ourselves, make up for our shortcomings, and grow ourselves.
If you do not know yourself, you cannot grow yourself. While realizing your shortcomings and repenting for them, you must improve yourself. If you only realize them but do grow yourself well, it is not true repentance.
In order to be successful in your course of faith, you have to carefully examine what kind of person you are. Check what my strengths and weaknesses are. Of course, we need to develop our strengths more and more, but we can grow well only by analyzing how we can overcome our weaknesses and taking countermeasures.
If you leave your weaknesses and shortcomings as they are, you will have many clashes in relationships and indemnity that you have to pay will be prolonged. Do not think (that) your shortcomings and fallen nature are simply your own. This is important.
I have to strive to cry and offer prayers of repentance together with my ancestors who struggled with the same weaknesses and fallen nature as I do. If you treat your shortcomings and fallen nature as your own, you will fail again.
When I read Father’s word, I am so inspired. When you commit sin and repent and try to overcome your shortcoming and try to remove your past faults and sometimes cry, “Heavenly Father, I really committed sin. I am the sinner of sinners.”
Father said that is not the right way to repent. He said when you commit sin or you have some kind of wrong thinking continuously coming into your heart and mind, then seriously think, “Heavenly Parent, how much did my ancestors in the past struggle with the same shortcomings and fallen nature as mine? Now that I know the Principle and know God and True Parents, I will definitely improve myself. So please give me strength.”
Whenever you struggle with your faults and some kind of fallen nature, really try to overcome, but do not struggle within yourself only. You need pray, “My father and mother were like that. My great grandfather was like that. Jacob, Abraham, Noah and Adam were like that. Heavenly Father, this kind of fallen nature is not just within myself. All my ancestors are struggling and struggling with this kind of situation. Heavenly Father, if I really overcome this one, then all my ancestors can be liberated.”
That’s why whenever you commit sin, whenever you face this kind of issue, you need to pray with your ancestors because they committed the same sin and have the same problems. That is why you should not treat your own sin as only your own sin. This (way) you release your ancestors.
Father said in order to overcome you need to pray together with your ancestors and overcome it with your ancestors. Then you can have more strength and power. I learned from Father how we can overcome.
“Heavenly Father, my father failed because of this point. My mother went through so much struggle and could not overcome. Maybe my grandfather were also like that. Maybe my ancestors were like that. Heavenly Father, I came to know my fallen nature. I really want to overcome with my ancestors. I am the one who knows God and True Parents and the Divine Principle. This is really a common problem. I don’t want to have the same problem as my ancestors. Heavenly Father, give me the wisdom to overcome this.”
Then pray with your ancestors, with your father and mother. You will have more power. God will sympathize with you. Even your ancestors will agree with you. “Please, my descendants, please do well. I committed the same problem.”
If you pray like that and try to overcome, wow! Beautiful! Your ancestors and good spirits can help you to overcome it. That’s why the way to overcome my shortcomings and weaknesses (is to) utilize Father’s advice.
Give Value to the Work Given to You
3. While going on the way of the Will, know yourself well and how to deal with yourself. When I am witnessing or in relationships with people, if I analyze myself well and live a voluntary life based on the love of original nature, I will undoubtedly grow. I should be able to give precious value to the work given to me, raise the level of love in the parent-child relationships, couple relationships, and sibling relationships, and show and testify to those around me. When I give value to the work I do, I will realize how precious my own value is. And I will always be overflowing with gratitude. I have to raise the level of love more and walk on the path full of joy so that everybody is victorious.
In order to not make mistakes in the work given to me, I should first give precious value to the work given to me Have the absolute conviction that the work entrusted to me is work given by God and His Will
What I am doing is God’s will
Second, in the parent-child relationship, husband-wife relationship, and siblings relationship, serve the other person with the heart of raising and respecting them When I give value to the work I do, I will realize how precious my own value is
Therefore, we each have to raise the level of love more and walk on the path full of joy so that everybody is victorious
Beautiful guidance today
Now I am preparing to go to Korea very soon For a few more days I will still attend live When I go to Korea, I will need to record (Morning Devotion) every day. Please understand.
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