Ep 663 - The Unity of the World and Humankind Responsibility Part 1
The Unity of the World and Humankind's Responsibility - August 19, 2022
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Key Points
True Father received God's call and pioneered the path of His Will, facing the world without compromising with injustice under any circumstances and breaking through. If he had used the indirect way, it would have taken a long time to pay indemnity.
True Mother’s greatness is supporting True Father with absolute faith and love and obedience.
Heaven is where we go after subjugating Satan. It is not where we go just by overcoming the self.
We need to eradicate the satanic environment at the individual, family, societal and national level.
Satan always attacks us through our habitual life when we act out of habit and duty and do not use our heart. He attacks through our body and through the closest person.
Truth, life and love are like one inseparable family or trinity. They cannot be separated. True Father added one more: true blood lineage.
To keep your first love, you must add more to the content you were impressed with, and always serve and give to others with the heart of a parent and the body of a servant.
You must live a life that keeps adding to the standard that impressed you. Gratitude and joy and the will to give should always increase.
Those who live by original nature, live each day as if it were the first time.
If you have the heart of heaven, you are humble before your superiors, and you are always trying to protect and nurture your juniors. Such a person is a peacemaker wherever he goes.
View the other person as better than myself.
Accept the other person's problems and pain as your own. Otherwise, you will pay indemnity for it.
“For the sake of others” means you need to give substantially: serving and giving and helping, even giving a small amount of money.
Transcripts from November 3, 2021 to the present, personal notes from November 11, 2020 until November 2, 2021 and slides from August 29, 2021 to the present are available at MD.Hoondok.com as PDF files.♦
Today I’d like to talk about “The Unity of the World and Humankind's Responsibility” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
Distinguished guests, representatives of the Women's Federation for World Peace from seventy countries, women leaders and members of the Women’s Federation for Peace in Asia: First, let me express my deep gratitude that such a tremendous crowd has gathered today for this grand occasion, to establish the Women's Federation for World Peace and to hold the Seoul rally of the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia. By your presence, you bring blessing to our federation's future, and inspire us to redouble our determination to achieve world peace. This may be the first time that women have taken the initiative by gathering in such a large number in one place. I am certain that from this day forward, women around the world will come to understand their noble role ordained by God and that a road will be opened for us to build an ideal world filled with peace, happiness and freedom. To mark this occasion, I would like to speak to you on the topic of The Unity of the World and Humankind's Responsibility.
On November 30 of last year, I accompanied my husband, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, on a visit to North Korea. During our one-week stay, we met President Kim Il-sung and other leaders and toured a number of sites. Throughout the years I have been at my husband's side, I have been a witness to the countless sleepless nights he has spent praying for the unification of our homeland, and to the great sacrifices he has made to bring the reality of today’s world in line with the direction of God's providence. His recent trip to North Korea was another illustration of his willingness to place his life at risk whenever necessary. Reverend Moon is a well-known religious leader, and this fact alone makes him someone the communists despise. In addition to that, he is also the world's greatest leader working to bring victory over communism. North Korea is well known for its rigid ideological regime. The leaders of that society long ago identified Reverend Moon as their greatest enemy and launched thousands of malicious attacks against him around the world. Yet, Reverend Moon visited North Korea with only the spirit of God to protect him, and preached the commandments of Heaven to its highest echelon of leadership, saying, “Unification cannot be brought about through your Juche ideology. We must unite through Godism.”
On November 30, 1991, True Mother accompanied her husband, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, on a visit to North Korea. True Parents are the founders of a religion that communists hate the most, and the world’s first Victory over Communism leaders. It was not so easy for True Parents to visit the North Korean leaders who had defined Reverend Moon as their number one enemy and had been carrying out (a great deal of) malicious propaganda to the world.
True Parents went in (to North Korea) relying only on God and taught the heavenly commands to the supreme leader there, saying, “Unification cannot be achieved through the Juche ideology. Let’s unify through Godism!”
Wow! This is an incredible declaration in front of the North Korean leaders. You know North Korea. He boldly proclaimed that “Juche ideology was wrong. Your nation needs to accept God. The only way to unify the world is through Godism.” Can you imagine? Communists do not believe in God. Father boldly and strongly proclaimed Godism. Wow! What does Heavenly Father feel? God says, “You are really my son. You are really the messiah.”
True Father received God's call and pioneered the path of His Will so far, facing the world without compromising with injustice under any circumstances and breaking through. As a result, he had to endure countless hardships, persecutions, and injustices while in and out of prison six times. True Father is truly a righteous man among the righteous in that respect.
It is unbelievable that God's 6,000-year providence will be restored through indemnity in True Father's day. Historically, no saint has ever lived to be treated as a saint. However, while Father was alive, he went beyond the path of a saint and went the path of a divine son.
This is really incredible! If Father had tried to use the way of compromise, I think he could not have finished the indemnity course in his lifetime. No way. Father never compromised with the secular world, with Satan. He just went straight. If he had used the indirect way, what would have happened? It would have taken a long time to pay indemnity. That is why Father need to go everywhere (and experience) prison life. Our Father is really amazing.
Can we do that? We try to avoid suffering and prison and many difficulties, right? That is fallen man’s nature. But Father was not like this.
Even Jesus went that kind of direct way to pay the indemnity. If Jesus had been more patient and used the compromising way... However, he never compromised. He just followed God’s will.
That is why I really appreciate the life of Jesus and of True Father especially. Let’s really appreciate the lives of True Father and True Mother.
As a woman can you imagine attending such a husband for 40 or 50 years? This was not a simple matter. That is why True Mother’s greatness is what? Supporting True Father with absolute faith and love and obedience. That is True Mother’s leadership is really incredible.
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.
Let’s study Father’s word.
What is Heaven Like?
<46-74> What is heaven like? Heaven is where we go after subjugating Satan. It is not where we go by overcoming ourselves, or just the self. Heaven cannot come about in the society in which we live, the fallen world, the common life that we are so used to. Satan chronically controls our habits and resides in them. Heaven can come only after we overcome these satanic influences. Heaven will come about in a place totally different from Satan’s world. Isn’t that right? If there was even a trace of Satan left, it would not be heaven. Even if such a place bore the name “heaven,” it would be nothing but a lie.
True Father said, “What is heaven like? Heaven is where we go after subjugating Satan.
This expression of Father’s is very important. Where there is God, there is Satan as well.
“It is not where we go by overcoming ourselves, or just the self.” He is saying that heaven is not realized only by overcoming oneself, that is, the unification of body and mind.
That is a kind of formation stage: you need to unite your mind and body. Of course, you do need to conquer your physical body, but you need to know that you (also) need to overcome Satan.
If you overcome your physical body, then Satan is waiting on another level. This is a real issue. In our life of faith we always need to recognize invisible Satan, Satan’s identity. Where there is God, there is Satan as well. You need to know that God and Satan are invisible. Actually this kind of fighting between God and Satan is really serious. That is why in order to have a stable life of faith, you have to always think what the work of God is and what the work of Satan is.
After overcoming the physical environment, we must go further and expel Satan from the social environment in which we live, the fallen world realm, the habitual environmental realm, and the common position. True Father said without it, Heaven cannot come. It means that we cannot achieve Heaven without eradicating the satanic environment at the individual level, the satanic environment at the family level, the satanic environment at the society level, and the satanic environment at the national level.
Since Satan's environment is always habitual and common, Satan always attacks us through the habitual life. The habitual life and habitual environment means you do not use your heart. Because it is morning, “Oh, morning has come. I need to eat.” But originally it was, “Because of hunger; I need to have food.” (It was) based on my internal situation.
But we are working by the environment. “Oh, it is Sunday. I need to go to Sunday service. I need to give a tithe.” Just by duty, just habitually.
Then when you focus on the habitual environment, habitual life, then you seldom use your heart. That is a problem.
True Father says that if we do not overcome this environment, the kingdom of heaven cannot come.
The ultimate responsibility of us Blessed Families is to first defeat Satan at the individual and family level, and furthermore, we must complete the Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission to drive out Satan in the tribal realm.
That is why when we overcome and become a tribal messiah, it means that we have restored the tribal-level environment. Always you need to remember that Satan attacks through our body. He (also) attacks through the closest person. That is why you need to be careful about your wife, your husband, your children, your parents (as well as) your body. Satan always comes through the closest person. That is why when you overcome and create such a heavenly environment, that is the Kingdom of Heaven. Without overcoming and subjugating Satan, there is no way to enter heaven.
Truth, Love, and Life United
<2-133> Our standard as the citizens of heaven—that is, the life, truth and love of the Kingdom of Heaven—must bear fruit within us. Because truth, life and love are like one family in that they should absolutely follow truth. Life and truth should also absolutely follow love. And likewise, love and truth should follow life. Why are truth, love and life connected to one another in this manner? As you know, in order for something to exist, there needs to be above and below, front and back and right and left, centering on it. No existing object can escape the realm of the number three. This is the fundamental form of existence.
Heaven, where citizens of heaven stay, is where the true truth, true love, and true life exist. True Father says that truth, life, and love are like one inseparable family. Where there is the true truth, true life and true love must follow; and where there is true life, both true truth and true love must exist at the same time. Where there is true love, the true truth and true life must follow.
Thus true truth, true life, and true love are like the Trinity. They cannot be separated even if one tries. For a being to exist, there must be up and down, front and back, and left and right centering on that existence. Anything that exists cannot escape the sphere of these three realms. This is the basic form of existence.
If I preach the Word (truth) and there is no life there, it is not the true truth. If there is no true truth in the shout for true love, that is not true love. Where true life is created, there must be true love and true truth.
This is why truth, love and life need to be united. (This is) very important content. If you are really trying to give new life, you need to have truth. Even if you preach truth, you cannot give life to people. Then that is not real truth. When you talk about true love, in order to produce true love, you need to guide people with the truth. Then when you give truth, you give life, but you should follow true love. Without embracing with true love, it does not make any sense. That is why truth and love and life are like a trinity.
Actually True Father added one more. Do you know what that was? True blood lineage. Truth, love and life, then blood lineage.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Those who Can Preserve Their First Love
How to Make Your First Love Last
1. Our life of faith must be nurtured without losing our first impression and first love when we first set out for the Will. To say that those who come first are last means that they lost their first love and have not been able to properly nurture themselves. This means that the motivation and determination they had when starting on the way of the Will should be well developed and maintained, but that was not the case. God creates relative standards for and raises those who are moved and rejoice after hearing the Word when they first enter the church. In that case, that person will stand at the forefront and go steadily, and he will remain first. If you want your first love to last, you must create benefits from what you first received. When you first heard the Word of the Principle and started the way of the Will, how much did you value it? If you want to live like you did in the beginning, you must live a life that keeps adding to the standard that impressed you.
The Bible says that the first shall be last, and the last shall be first. To say that he who comes first is last means that he has lost his first love and could not nurture himself properly. So, how do we keep our first love and become the first that remains first? This is very important.
You should not stop at the standard of being touched and moved by your first love but make a benefit from it. In order to do that, you must add more to the content you were impressed with, and always give to others. There is no other way. We must live a life of constant service, living for the sake of others, and giving and giving. It is the law of the universe that if you give, you certainly gain strength.
How can you keep your first love? How can you continuously keep that standard? Very important. You need to make a plus. You need to make a benefit based on what you have received from heaven. Based on your first love, first determination, first motivation, you need to add more. You need to make it a plus.
If you just try to preserve and keep it, you will lose. What (should you) do? You need to make a plus. There is no other way. Giving and giving and giving and serving and serving.
If you find a better way, then tell me how to do it.
(We need to) give all the time. You (can) not just maintain your life of faith. You can make a plus, make a benefit. This is incredible. This is why one who lives for the sake of others will never die, never perish. That’s why our life should be a life of giving.
When you first heard the Word of the Principle and started the way of the Will, you should always live as if it were the first time with what you value. So how do you live like it’s the first time? You must live a life that keeps adding to the standard that impressed you. Gratitude and joy should always increase.
“Today my gratitude is more than yesterday. Tomorrow’s is greater than today.” Your gratitude and joy need to (continually) increase. That is the way for you to keep your first motivation and first love. The will to give should increase as well.
People who Can Preserve the First Love
2. You should be the ones who keep the determination that you first made well. If you are a college student, you should not think that you are a 3rd year or a 4th year student but think that today is the first day. In this way, you must always have a heart that treats each day like the first, a heart that is always thrilled and grateful for everything, a burning heart, a longing heart, and a heart of light. With this kind of heart, if you live every day like the first day, you can preserve your first love. A pastor must first become a pastor of their own spirit before pastoring church members. Who do you call a pastor? A pastor is a person who preserves the heavenly self, that is, the original self. People who lead such a life will serve those who should be served and embrace those who should be cherished wherever they go. They shine wherever they go because they harmonize with others well.
Those who live by original nature live each day as if it were the first time. Today is not a day that habitually follows yesterday. It's a new first day. People of faith should think that today is the first day. In this way, you must always have a heart that treats each day like the first, a heart that is always thrilled and grateful for everything, a burning heart, a longing heart, and a heart of light.
With this kind of heart, if you live every day like it’s the first day, you can preserve your first love.
Not just preserve it, but you can multiply it. You can grow it.
Those who live each day as if it were the first day do not live with the habits and traditions of the past. They aren’t dominated by past stresses or worries. They do not connect past regrets, dissatisfaction and complaints, pain and suffering to the new present.
Of course, I shared some yesterday and the day before yesterday. How we can keep our first motivation and first love is really important. Why are you tired and exhausted? It is not easy to keep your first motivation. Always remind yourself, “How much am I giving, multiplying and living for the sake of others?” You need to check your internal situation.
A Body of Harmony or a Body of Heart
3. If you have the heart of heaven, you are respectful to your superiors, and you are always trying to protect and worry about your juniors. Such a person is called a body of harmony or a body of ShimJeong. True Father lived this way considering it as precious as life itself. Therefore, wherever he went, he could live in harmony. True Father is like light and salt wherever he goes. In other words, those who have love are like salt and light. A person like salt refers to those who live a life of a servant, and a person like light refers to those who inspire people through a harmonious lifestyle. People who live like this are people who live a life of original nature.
If you have the heart of heaven, you are humble before your superiors, and you are always trying to protect and nurture your juniors. Such a person is a peacemaker wherever he goes. They live in harmony with the environment. They adapt well to any environment. True Father was a model for this kind of life. Even when he went to prison, faced hardships, and was persecuted, he overcame the circumstances and realized harmony with others quickly. We speak of such people as people like salt and light.
A person like salt refers to those who live a life of a servant, and a person like light refers to those who inspire people through a harmonious lifestyle. Salt seems to disappear in the water, but it does not lose its saltiness. Even if the physical body lives as a slave, the parental heart toward the other person does not change. And since people like light always give to others, they move and inspire others.
Person of Original Nature
4. Even though I am always listening to the Word, if my heart feels displeased or upset by other people, or if I keep clashing with someone, I am still within the realm of death in the past. Even if such a person has heard the Word of Principle, he is still who he was before receiving Principle education. Therefore, our life of faith must be motivated. When I cannot be in harmony with others, I must repent and regret and have a sorry heart before Heaven. And if you are a harmonious person, you should move forward with more enthusiasm. This is proof of a person who has original love. Rather than blaming the other person for not having good relative standards with us, we should think that our hearts are still small and have a heart of regret. If I set good relative standards with others and give and receive well, there will be no obstacles. If you become more and more united and ambitious, your ideal will gradually rise.
Our life of faith should always be thankful, new and motivated. But when I can't become that kind of person, I must repent and regret and have a sorry heart before heaven.
If my spirit is not to lose anything, I must always see the other person as better than myself.
This mindset is important. When you look at anyone else, you need to think that that person is better than I am. When you look at Abel or Cain, think, “He is better than I am. My wife and children are better than I am.” When you look at anyone, you need to think they are better than you are. If you do that, you can respect everyone. Not much pride.
When I think of others as inferior to me, my spirit comes down and suffers. And when something goes wrong, it's easy to blame others. Therefore, you must always accept the other person's problems as your own and the other person's pain as your own. Otherwise, I pay indemnity for it.
When will you pay the indemnity? If you don't care about what you should care about, you need to pay indemnity. If I do not love the person I should love and avoid them, I pay indemnity. If I do not treat the other person's pain as my own, I will pay indemnity by suffering the same pain in the future. If I do not love the enemy I should love, I will definitely pay indemnity someday.
In order to preserve the first love, you must always live as if it’s the first time and live a life of serving others with gratitude and always with the heart of a parent and the body of a servant.
Even though I repeat the same content again and again, what beautiful guidance this is from our True Parents! I really appreciate our True Parents’ guidance about how to maintain our first love – not only maintain but preserve our first love, we always need to make a plus. In order to make a plus, we always need to live for the sake of others. “For the sake of others” means you need to give substantially: serving and giving and helping, even giving a small amount of money. Whatever.
If you always have that kind of serving heart and burning(?) heart and humble heart, then I am telling you, your life of faith (will) become very beautiful. Your first love will increase more and more. Then your life of faith will be very exciting and very much appreciated.
My voice is not so beautiful today. I am so sorry. I caught a cold. Sooner or later I can overcome.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Apostle Glenda Phillips-Lee, ACLC in Korea)♦
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