Ep 660 - The Mission Of Eve Part 2
The Mission of Eve - August 16, 2022
PDF Printable Text and Slides + Testimony Joshua Holmes
Key Points
It is time for women to take responsibility for tribal restoration on the basis of which they will restore the right of the eldest son, the right of the parents and the right of the king, and recover God’s nation.
The woman appears in the original Eve’s position as the mother and daughter.
Heaven is a place where people dwell who lived a life of attendance with Hyojeong.
The center of Hyojeong is always the parents, more than one's wife or husband, more than one's children, more than one's material.
We need to attend people as God.
We should attend our parents with heart, love, jeongseong, hyojeong, sacrifice, tears and repentance.
We need to treat our mind as God’s mind and our body as God’s temple.
If I live according to the blueprint that God had when creating me, I will not stumble.
Where exactly should I focus my life? First, it is for me to complete individual perfection, which is the first Blessing, and become a true person and a true brother or sister. Secondly, it is to become a true couple, have children and become true parents. We must take responsibility for the Three Great Blessings.
God entrusted us with certain external duties and tasks in order to bear the fruits of love through them.
Our original duty and mission is not to do a job, business, politics or pastoring but to perfect our spiritual self and become true people, a true couple, true parents and a true family. In order to accomplish this, true parents focused on self-control, uniting mind and body.
All people have the original nature of emotion, intellect, and will. We should become heartistic people, grow our hearts and experience God’s heart. Next, We should know who God is and who I am. Finally, we must be resolved to multiply true love.
What is the purpose of life? Achieve the three great blessings.
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Today I am going to attend our True Father’s Seonghwa anniversary. I am so excited to see our True Mother and our dear brothers and sisters. Yesterday we had a very beautiful meeting with Mother centered on our ACLC ministers. They were so happy to see True Mother.
Today I’d like to talk about “The Mission of Eve” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given at rallies held in Japan between September 18 and 24, 1991> We held the founding rally for the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia on September 17, 1991. From now on, Asia's peace and prosperity depend on women. We have gathered together here today for the sake of God's providence. We are making a new start in the position of Eve who has historically indemnified Eve's betrayal of God's love. We have gathered here to elevate the providence of restoration to a new level by establishing a women's organization associated with the Unification Church to work for world peace and unification. Through his historic meetings and conferences in Moscow in 1990, True Father completed the restoration of the first son on the worldwide level and proclaimed this through Chil Il Jeol. That is why, from now on, the Cain realms on the family, race, nation and worldwide levels will slowly collapse. True Father is now emphasizing returning to our hometowns in order to connect the restoration of the right of the eldest son to the restoration of the right of parents. The right of the eldest son and the right of the parents were lost in the first family, so in order to recover them, you must return to your hometowns where your families reside and establish the foundation for restoration centering on your tribe.
What remains for us to do is to build the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven by restoring the right of the king. Standing on the foundation of the Federation for World Peace and the Religious Federation for World Peace, our mission is to complete the restoration of the right of the king. My heart is torn because as a mother, I know your situation better than anyone else and I would like to tell you all to take a rest. However, I cannot do that, because I know God’s Will and I see True Father working so hard. I hope I was able to convey my heart to you today. I wish I could visit your homes and listen to your stories and situations and meet your children. The children of blessed families are God's hope. Please do not lose courage. Let us go forward strongly and boldly. True Father and I will continuously pray for you and your descendants.
Upon founding Women’s Federation for World Peace, True Parents have proclaimed the era of women ... and emphasized that women will become the center of the Providence of Restoration and advance forwards. Due to the Fall of Eve, for the past 6,000 years women have been dominated by men, who represent the archangel.
However, as True Parents indemnified everything and were victorious, women were able to begin a new level of the providence from the original position of creation.
Therefore, from now on, it is time for women to take responsibility for the tribal restoration on the basis of which they have restored the right of the eldest son and the right of the parents, and furthermore, they should restore the right of the king and recover God’s nation.
This is incredible as a foundation when our True Parents proclaimed and founded the Women’s Federation for World Peace.
Now based on that, the woman appears in the original Eve’s position, as the mother’s position and the position of daughter.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 63 - Heaven and Hell (2)
• 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 that let’s study Father’s word.
What is Heaven Like?
<8-304> What is Heaven like? It is a place where you can boast of the things you have prepared. It is a place where you can be proud of the life you attended for God and True Parents. So then, what kind of people can go to Heaven? Is it a place for people who only believed in God and sought foremost to receive blessings? No, it is not. It is a place for people who lived a sincere life preparing to attend Heaven. It is a place for people who happily lived a life of attendance even in the face of death. That is where resurrection lies. Ladies and gentlemen, look around you. You cannot see the inside story of life. We need to think seriously about how we can live a life of attendance.
True Father said that Heaven is a place where people (dwell) who lived a life of attendance. The Old Testament Age was an age of receiving salvation through sacrifices, the New Testament Age was an age of receiving salvation by believing, and the Completed Testament Age and Era of Cheon Il Guk are the ages of receiving salvation through attendance.
Then in attending God and True Parents, with what should we attend them? We should attend them with hyojeong, a filial heart. The center of Hyojeong is always the parents, more than one's wife or husband, more than one's children, more than one's material.
In that sense, the filial heart should bear the pain of the parents, shed tears for the parents, and pay indemnity for the parents. And they should not attend the parents conceptually but in daily life. Therefore, we must always spiritually serve God 24 hours a day, and in life, we must live together with our physical parents and serve Abel as well as God.
Of course, we need to attend God. God is invisible. We always need to think about God even though he is invisible. When you look at people, at your father and mother, your Abel, your senior people, we need to attend them as God. That is substantial attendance, right? Not just the invisible. Also, visibly attend all things and people as God. That is the real and substantial attendance...
Attendance and Heaven
<8-290> You need to prepare a heart of attendance. After the process of preparation, you need to have a life of attendance. Only after completing the process of preparation and the life of attendance can you go to Heaven. The person who had a heart of attendance is the person who can enter Heaven. Heaven is the world that glorifies and uplifts a life of preparation and attendance. You absolutely need to understand this. The process we must go through in order to get to Heaven is spread out before us.
Then in attending our parents, how should we attend them? We should attend them with our heart. We should attend them with love. We should attend them with jeongseong (utmost sincerity and heart). We must attend them with hyojeong (filial heart). We must attend our parents with our own sacrifice.
We must attend them with tears while giving thanks for the grace of God and True Parents that we have received so far. Sometimes, you have to realize that you are too lacking and attend them with repentance.
Recently I have been continuously thinking about our Heavenly Parent. We already know that the relationship between Heavenly Parent and me is a parent-child relationship. I always remind myself of what I should be grateful to Heavenly Parent for. What kind of content? When I think about True Father, what should I appreciate. When I think about True Mother, what kinds of things am I thankful for? You need to think about that. This kind of mindset and attitude really touches my heart.
When I think of our Heavenly Parent, I am really extremely grateful because he is my parent. I am an eternal child of God. He is the one who gave me life and love and his own blood lineage. We need to attend God 24 hours (a day). This means we need to treat our mind as God’s mind and our body as God’s temple. With this kind of a mindset, how much God loves me! He loves me more than himself. Can you imagine that this is really reality, this is really true? Then this is amazing! Why does God love such an unworthy person like me? I need to really appreciate him. I should be grateful for our Heavenly Parent .
When I think about True Father, he taught me who God is and his reality, that God is a sorrowful God. We need to work harder than God and True Parents. True Father and True Mother taught me this. That is why Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han Moon are my eternal parents, teacher and owner.
When you look at others surrounding you, sometimes you need to deal with your Abel, with your brothers and sisters, your seniors and outside people. How can I treat them as representatives of God? That is substantial and real attendance, right?
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Where Should we Focus our Lives?
1. In our life of faith, where we should focus our lives and take action is important. If you do not know this, there are many times you become ambiguous. The question is where should I focus on and grow myself. Who is taking responsibility for your life? You yourself are taking responsibility for your life. I must grow myself; somebody else cannot perfect me. In order to do that, I must control myself well and I must preserve myself. This is my responsibility. But as we grow up, we often lose who we are. We should grow our original self, but we often lose our original self and make mistakes. If you take on a certain responsibility, you come to think that being dominated and losing yourself are completely ordinary.
In our life of faith, where we focus our lives and take action is important. If you do not know this, there are many times you become ambiguous.
What should we do to know where and what we put our focus on and live? For that, we should know where God’s purpose was for creating me. If I live according to the blueprint that God had when creating me, I will not stumble.
Then where exactly should I focus my life on? First, it is for me to complete individual perfection, which is the first Blessing, and become a true person. And it is to grow as a true brother or sister. Secondly, it is to realize a true couple and have children and become true parents. This is the course my original self must go through.
I must take responsibility over the Three Great Blessings that God has given me and realize them. Someone else cannot be responsible for it. Therefore, you must minister well to yourself as your original self. Somebody else cannot complete me.
However, we often forget this kind of original purpose, forget who we are, and forget where we should focus our lives.
Fallen Human Beings who Easily Lose Their Original Selves
2. When we take on a certain responsibility or task, we lose ourselves by being controlled by that responsibility and task itself. When you do not take on a certain responsibility, even when you look back on yourself and it seems like there is a possibility to find your original self, but when you take on a certain responsibility, you just become controlled by that task and lose yourself. We hear a lot of stories about people who have the duty of a pastor who are not believers. Some people seem to have the duty of a teacher, but they are not actually educators. Someone might be in the Abel position, but actually, they are not Abel. While repeating mistakes like this, we easily lose our original self. Having the heart of a parent in the body of a servant means to not lose yourself. Externally, they appear as a servant, but they do not lose the heart of a parent toward their children no matter what situation. Usually, when people become the subject, they have such a firm consciousness that “I am the subject” that they lose themselves.
When we take on a certain responsibility or task, we lose ourselves by being dominated by that responsibility and task itself. That is why the thing we should never forget is that wherever I am, whatever I do, whatever responsibilities I take, do not lose myself and my original duty.
In other words, do not forget the blueprint that God created me for. Our original duty is not a pastor. It is not politics. It is also not a teacher that teaches children at school. It is also not a businessman that must make a lot of money.
We should know what our original duty is that can pass the earthly world and pass the eternal spiritual world. Our original duty is to perfect our spiritual self and become true people. The fact that God entrusted us with certain external duties and tasks is not in the work itself but in order to bear fruits of love through it.
But if I do not know this, because of some work and responsibility I have, I lose my original self and waste time and have regrets my entire life.
That’s why we have to be careful whatever we do. You may be involved in the political or religious world. You (may) have a job. These are external things. We need to know what God’s original blueprint is. God asks us to become a true self, a true man or woman, a true couple, true husband and wife, and true parents. That is our original mission. We need to focus on God’s original blueprint. Don’t forget that.
When Can I Know my Original Self Well?
3.‘I am a father.’, ‘I am a teacher.’ ‘I am a pastor’ ‘I am the boss.’ This is how we are controlled by the duties we are entrusted to and lose ourselves. Even history has been repeated in this way. That's why we keep breaking away from our original selves. Then when can I know my original self right away? True Father has been leading a life of faith with the highest priority on self-control. Therefore, we must also be like Father and spend our whole lives knowing where we are in life and who we really are, and we need to take good care of our physical bodies and preserve them. People with lives must preserve their own lives well their entire lives. And people with love must preserve their original love their entire lives. All people have the original nature of emotion, intellect, and will.
Although True Father came to this earth with the duties of the Messiah and Savior, what True Father focused on was self-control. First of all he had to become a perfect man, a true man. And True Father and True Mother have to be a true couple and true parents. Even though they came as the messiah and savior, if they cannot control themselves, then they cannot become a true self, a true couple and true parents. They cannot handle anything and cannot deal with all humankind. That is why True Father focused on uniting his mind and body for the sake of self-control.
Therefore, we must also be like Father and spend our whole lives controlling our physical bodies and become true people, and going further, we must realize true families.
All people have the original nature of emotion, intellect, and will. In the intellect aspect, we should clearly know who God is. And I should know who I am in a Principled way. Next, we must become heartistic people. In the family and interpersonal relationships, we must grow our hearts well.
And we must go to the level of experiencing God’s heart. Next, you should bring substantial results of true love through putting into practice what you know intellectually and feel heartistially. In other words, you must multiply true love.
What Is our Original Goal?
4.While practicing a life of faith, we must become people who raise our intellect, raise our spirituality, and bear fruits of true love. This is easy to say, but as the Bible says, we appear to believe, but actually, we are not believers. That is how we often lose ourselves. We can see this as the problem of history today and as an individual problem. Whatever we do, and whatever duties we have, we should clearly know where we put our focus. I emphasize once again: our final original duty is to become true people. Even if we have the duties of a pastor, teacher, or worker, we should not forget our original goal of becoming true people. Becoming true selves, true children, true siblings, true couples, and true parents is our original goal. If I live focusing on this, I will not lose my original self.
... I really appreciate my spiritual father, Rev. Yo Han Lee. Of course, Father often mentioned that, but when I was at the Korean UTS, he kept on telling me what my original duty and responsibility are. Your external position does not matter. You may be a politician, a businessman, as student or a pastor. Spiritual world does not care (about these) when you go to the spiritual world. It only cares how much we become a true person, true couple, true husband and wife. This is really important guidance.
Whatever we do, and whatever duties we have, we should clearly know where we put our focus. What is God’s purpose for creating me? What does the spirit world, the eternal, original world, wish of me?
I emphasize once again: our final original duty is completing the Three Great Blessings from God. We always need to remind ourselves of the three great blessings. What is the purpose of life? Achieve the three great blessings. The first blessing is what? I have to become a true man or true woman. Secondly I need to establish the ideal family centered on the true couple, true brothers and sisters, centering on true parents and centering on true children, right? Then we need to dominate all things with true love. That begins with me. Becoming true selves, true children, true siblings, true couples, and true parents is our original goal. If I live focusing on this, I will not lose my original self.
If someone really wants to become a politician and kill the other guy at the risk of his life, or someone tries to make money and makes that a top priority, this has nothing to do with our original world, our original duty and mission. We need to know that. We must not forget what our original mission is, what our original goal is, what we should focus on. Please do not lose your original self, okay?
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Joshua Holmes, ACLC)♦
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