Ep 795 - The Ideal Home and World Peace Part 8
The Ideal Home and World Peace - December 29, 2022
Key Points
Women should not compete with men in the existing culture but emulate True Parents with a life of love and service to create an ideal true family and home and help to establish a new world of heart-centered culture and true peace without discrimination.
Nurture True Children with the heart of a true parent.
Satan fell because of love, nothing else.
God can create anything he needs, except love. For that he needs an object partner.
God needs and wants to love and be loved by an object partner, as did Eve and the archangel. As do we all.
The archangel as a plus and Eve as a minus were both at the top of the growth stage, were interested in and attracted to each other and, distracted and “fuddled” by love, fell into the temptation of love.
A person with hyojeong cannot be derailed by any temptation because hyojeong puts the parents' words and the relationship with them first. If we have hyojeong, we will never fall.
Because the power of love is stronger than that of the Principle, the secret to overcoming horizontal, unprincipled love is not only to learn the Principle, but also to experience God's love and become filial sons and daughters.
If we live our daily lives from God's standpoint with gratitude, we can avoid falling into the pit of self-centered thoughts “buried in personal and family circumstances.”
If we treat our pain, circumstances, and difficulties and those of our family and of others as God's, we will have an inseparable bond of heart with God.
“I came to my family with the mission of the Savior on behalf of True Parents.”
Indemnity thought means that we take responsibility for that suffering from God's point of view.
When we do this, we come to understand True parent's suffering and experience the sorrow and han of God.
Then despite our own great pain, we can comfort God and True Parents’ han.
In this way our burden becomes lighter.
This kind of indemnity thought is the way to become a filial child.
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.♦
I am so excited to see beautiful members joining Morning Devotion. Whenever I see you, I gain a lot of energy and power from each of you.
Today I’d like to talk about “The Ideal Home and World Peace” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given at the 2nd International Convention of the Women's Federation for World Peace, held on August 23, 1995, at Hotel Lotte World, Seoul, Korea > In particular, the international marriage Blessing is a historic event. Who on earth can imitate this? A total of 360,000 couples of different races and cultures from six continents and one hundred sixty countries will receive God's blessing and will embark on creating ideal families. The holy march is beginning, with the goal of creating the ideal families that will become the foundation of a peaceful world. This is a holy event, in which the leading players for the true love culture and true heart culture that God has been longing for are being born, the event where the good descendants are being promised. I have expounded since the founding of the Women's Federation that God and history are asking us to live a life of love and service, and build world peace through realizing the ideal home. All the misuse of love and the fallen reality that has been controlling humanity must be boldly cleaned up. Immorality, hatred and all self-centered perversions must be eradicated. It is the proper role of women to de mand an end to and put in order these wrongful practices.
The goal of the Women's Federation for World Peace must not be for women to imitate men, trying to raise the position of women within the existing culture and social custom. By following the heavenly way, women can attend the True Parents and become leaders in creating the world of heart-centered culture. Please discard all the attributes of the Fall and establish the original culture, the peaceful culture of love and goodness that humanity has been longing for and seeking. Women now need to be engrafted into the True Parents and give birth to the worldwide true family of all races and cultures. In order to fulfill this, all women must emulate True Mother and become true mothers themselves. With the introduction of this new women's age, all women need to become new pioneers, who guide with true love. At home, a woman has the responsibility to embrace her husband as a personification of true love and to nurture her children with the heart of a true parent.
Who will establish the home where God's blessing of love dwells and where the original order of love is in place? This is the responsibility of women who are connected to the True Parents. We must be the vanguard for this movement. I would like to ask all of you to become leaders for the true liberation of women based on genuine love, and to establish a world of true peace. May God's blessing be upon you and your family and upon your work!
Thank you very much.
Let’s summarize what Mother is talking about.
What True Parents ask the Women's Federation
1. Create a peaceful world through a life of love and service and an ideal family as required by heavenly fortune and history.
2. Boldly clear up the wrong order of love and fallen reality that men have led so far, and clean up the wrong practices made by men.
3. Do not aim to imitate men in the existing order of culture and customs, and to elevate women's status within it.
4. Follow the Heavenly Way, attend True Parents, and play a leading role in establishing a new world of heart-centered culture.
5. You must give birth to true families and create true societies and world.
6. Become someone who emulates True Mother. Embrace her husband as a personification of true love and to nurture her children with the heart of a true parent.
7. Establish the home where God's blessing of love dwells and where the original order of love is in place.
8. Become leaders for the true liberation of women based on genuine love, and to establish a world of true peace.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 14 - The Power of Love, the Power of the Principle and God’s Commandment
• Without God’s love, there is no way to establish the true four position foundation, which is the purpose for which we were created; hence, love is truly the source and wellspring of our life and happiness.
• Although God created human beings based on the Principle, He governs us through love. Accordingly, in order for love to fulfill its proper role, its power must be stronger than the power of the Principle.
• If the power of love were weaker than the power of the Principle, human beings would pursue the Principle more than the love of God. For this reason, Jesus tried to raise his disciples with the truth, but it was his love that saved them.
The Power of Love is Greater than the Power of the Principle
Let’s study Father’s word based on this.
Satan Fell Due to Love
<149-149> Did the archangel-Satan standing in unfallen position need money? What he needed was God at that time. He did need an owner not money nor authority. Then what made him fall? It was love; love caused the problem. When the archangel seeing Eve, he realized there would be hope for the future establishing God’s ideal scenery through love between Adam and Eve. Through the love, the kingdom of heaven on earth could be connected and established. In this context, when the archangel standing on a man’s position sees Eve, it seemed it’s a little bit of issue because Eve was a woman. Thus the archangel distracted and shocked himself in a fuddled state then pulled Eve into his way. It must have been a theory that the fall was committed by this shocking stimulus. The reason why the archangel fell was not because of money nor authority like some belongings but because of love.
Satan, who was still in an unfallen state, did not fall because of money or power. The reason Satan fell was because of love, not anything else.
God does not need money, fame, or power because he can create everything. There are things that God cannot be satisfied with alone.
Whatever he wants, he can create: money, fame, power. These do not matter (to him). He only needs one thing.
That is love. Because love always comes from an object partner, God cannot create love by himself. If he could, why would he have needed human beings? Why would he have needed an object partner? Because of money? Power? Fame? Why did he create human beings? Without an object partner, he could not gain love. ... God also needed an object. Why do you need spouses and parents and siblings and children? It's because of love.
What we need to know is what God desires most. It is true that God needs love, and God also wants to be loved by his object partner.
We believe in God, almighty God, omniscient God, omnipotent God. He already has everything. ...(inaudible)
Without an object partner, you cannot feel love. If you are alone, how long can you survive? One month, two months, how would you feel? Without an object partner, it is very lonely. Maybe you would commit suicide because there is no object partner.
But if there is an object partner (with whom) to have give-and-take, you can feel love.
When I came to know and realize this point, wow!
God needed what? Love. He wanted ... to receive love from human beings. ... Human beings wanted to receive love from God. (Inaudible) ... He wanted to be recognized and loved. Not just give love.
Christianity did not explain it this way.
Why did (God) create human beings? Not because of power, fame, money, position. Only one reason: love. He wanted to be loved, not just give love. That is why when we give love to God, he is so satisfied!
The archangel was male, and at the time of the fall of the archangel, his spiritual level was at the top of the growth stage. In the process of Eve reaching puberty and growing up, she had to pass the top of the growth stage in a moment . It was an environment where the archangel and Eve, who had similar standards of spiritual level, could take an interest in each other as a plus and a minus and fall into the temptation of love.
At this time, the archangel distracted and shocked himself in a fuddled state, then pulled Eve into his way, causing her to deviate. The fall of man was ultimately caused by love.
The secret to winning against this temptation of love is to have a hyojeong that loves parents more than anyone else while growing up. A person with hyojeong cannot deviate (because of) any temptation. This is because hyojeong puts the parents' words and the relationship with them first.
If we have hyojeong, we will never fall because Hyojeong means to put God first, put my parents first, before any temptation, before Satan, before material, money, fame ... (inaudible)
In order to prevent the fall, hyojeong is the key.
I really appreciate this guidance from True Father. ... Any temptation that comes, we cannot have give-and-take with Satan because we love God more. We cannot betray (him). Hyojeong means we cannot betray our parents. (Inaudible)
The Power of Love is Stronger than the Power of Principle
<149-149> Likewise it is the same in the relationship between men and women on earth. Isn’t it? It cannot be controlled once fire on the relationship is ignited. This is why it’s said that the power of love is stronger than the power of the principle. No one can deny this. Then what ruined the kingdom of heaven on earth? Satan fell with human beings centering on love, the unprincipled love.
With what did God try to establish the kingdom of heaven on earth? It was not with money, knowledge nor authority. Through which way did God try to establish the kingdom of heaven? It is also through the way of love. God tried to establish it through the original way of love.
Likewise it is the same in the relationship between men and women on earth. It cannot be controlled once the fire in the relationship is ignited. This is why it’s said that the power of love is stronger than the power of the principle. No one can deny this.
Even God wanted to achieve the kingdom of heaven on earth not with money, knowledge, or power, but with love.
Then, how can we overcome unprincipled love? You must experience the principle, which is the word of God, and the love of God. The secret to overcoming horizontal love is to experience God's love and become filial sons and daughters.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: What is Indemnity Thought?
This content is very precious and important.
The Reason Why We Fall into the Pit and Can't Get Out
1. You must not fall into a pit and be unable to escape due to your own circumstances. What is a pit? It is the thought that you are the only one experiencing pain, difficulties, and trials. The problem is the private thoughts that think that everything is only for yourself. When you think like this, you are trapped in a pit of darkness. You are the one burying yourself. You are buried in your personal and family circumstances and fall into a pit. Then you have no joy. You are never proud of your life. True Parents always told us to live our daily lives from God's standpoint. “You are not you. Live in God's shoes.” This is what True Parents asked us to do.
Fallen human beings cannot escape their circumstances, worries, and troubles. Also, many fallen people are pessimistic about the destiny or fate given to them, thinking that they are the only ones who are experiencing the pain, difficulties, and trials.
“No one knows my trials. No one knows my hardship, pain, difficulties. No one understands me.” Fallen humans cannot escape their own circumstances, worries, troubles and difficulties. This is a big problem.
If all of your thoughts are self-centered like this, you get stuck in a pit of darkness and can't get out. You can't see the other person there, and you will not even see God. You can't get out of there because it is tightly blocked in all directions.
If you are buried in your personal and family circumstances, you will fall into a pit, and there will be no pleasure, no joy, no happiness, and no gratitude in the course of your life. That's why True Parents always told us to live our daily lives from God's standpoint.
Life of Indemnity and How to Overcome it
2. What is the life of indemnity? It means to assume all situations, circumstances, difficulties, and sufferings from God's standpoint. The Bible tells us to take up the cross. What does that mean? What is it saying to take up? It means taking responsibility for the other person's pain. It means to take on the pain of the husband, the pain of the wife, the pain of the children, and the pain of the parents. This is God's wish. It means do not run away from the cross that comes to you and do not deny it. It means not to hate the concern of my family. Since True Parents entrusted that pain to me, I should think of it as a responsibility that I must take in and move forward. From that point of view, the elimination of my pain means that God's Han is resolved. Do you guys think of it that way? If I take care of my family's concern, I take responsibility for my 5%.
The indemnity thought means that you do not treat all circumstances, situations, difficulties, and suffering as your own, but take responsibility from God's point of view. It is to go further and to take responsibility for the pain of the other person. If you know and treat your pain, circumstances, and difficulties as God's, you will have an inseparable bond of heart with God.
Do not treat your pain and suffering as your own but as God’s. When you are dealing with these kinds of difficulties, circumstances and pain in this way, you can have an inseparable bond of heart with God.
When you are suffering so much, have pain and difficulties and think about God, about what Heavenly Father is going through – “This is your pain, Heavenly Father. This is your pain; these difficulties are your difficulties; this persecution is your persecution.” – that is the moment you can have a deeper(?) parent-child relationship.
Therefore, even in the family, bear the pain of the husband, the wife, the children, and the parents' pain on behalf of God.
When you see the husband’s pain, you need to bear it as your own pain. When you see your wife’s pain, you need to bear it. You need to bear the pain of your children, your parents. If you do this, you are in a different situation because you can feel God’s pain.
It is to think that I came to my family with the mission of the Savior on behalf of True Parents.
You need to think that God sent you to your family as a savior, as a second coming, as a messiah. You need to think you are the savior in your family. As a husband or wife “I am the savior of my family.”
It means to not run away from the cross that comes to you and not deny it. If the Messiah comes to this earth and turns a blind eye to the suffering of humankind, who will take responsibility?
Everybody and every family has difficulties. You need to take it as God’s pain, sorrow, difficulties and responsibility. (In) your own family situation – many people have children problem, husband and wife problems, all kinds of problems – do not treat them as your own problems. You need to treat them as God’s problems and God’s situation. This concept and paradigm are very important.
So don't hate the concern of your family. Since True Parents entrusted that pain to me, I should think of it as a responsibility that I must take in and move forward. If I take care of my family's concern, I take responsibility for my 5%.
What is Indemnity Thought?
3. True Parents took on the world's pain in God's stead. How great must the pain be? As you take charge of the pain around you and your family, you realize the heart of God and True Parents and comfort them. Even though the cross is too much for you to bear, you are comforting them by saying how great the pain of God and True Parents is. You have to provide comfort like this to become the condition for indemnity. However, regardless of God and True Parents, if you think, “My family's situation is my situation,” then you are displeased with the cross that comes to you. And you will come to hate your pain. However, the fact that you will take responsibility for the situation means that you will relieve at least a part of Father's han and pain through it. The indemnity thought is to think that you want to comfort God by treating even the circumstances of your family as Father's han. Then who should your heart be more concerned about? In this case you should not forget about God and comfort him. This is indemnity thought.
While taking responsibility for the pain of my family, I come to understand True parent's suffering for the world and I go further and experience the sorrow of God, who works hard and takes responsibility for the fall of humankind. I then comfort them who are being responsible saying, "God, True Parents, how great must have your pain been?"
For example, we have our own children, second generation and third generation and fourth generation, right? Sometimes they bring a very serious issue and all kinds of problems. Then, we should not just worry about our children, but think about God. When Heavenly God took care of Adam and Eve, how much he worried about them when Eve became close to the archangel and (they) had give-and-take with each other. “Heavenly Father, seeing my children’s situation, I can feel how much you worried about Adam and Eve.” Think about God. Whenever we face our own issue, then God is going through that same kind of process and issue. That is why (when we have) our own problems, we need to think about God’s situation as well. Then we (will) understand God’s heart, pain and suffering and how much he worries about his children. Then through our own children we can have a more heartistic and internal relationship and get to know each other.
But “My problem is my problem, God. Your problem is your own problem. It has nothing to do with me.” This is a problem.
Whenever we have any issues and problems, we need to invite God and let him be involved. Then think about God’s suffering and pain more than our own. Then our problem is nothing compared to that of God. Then we can be liberated from our own pain, suffering and difficulties.
Make it an opportunity to realize the heart of God and True Parents and comfort them while taking on the pain around you and your family. Even though the cross is too much for you to bear, you are comforting them by saying how great the pain of God and True Parents is.
“For me taking care of my own children, this is not a difficulty and worry, Heavenly God. How about you? Through my children’s difficulties, I understand when you created Adam and Eve and they were growing and had become 16 or 17 or 18, how much you worried about them. Now I understand, Heavenly Father.”
For example, if your children fall or have all kinds of issues, “Heavenly God, since you lost your children because of Chapter Two, how much you cried.” I have these kinds of problems. Of course, I could not fulfill my portion of responsibility, but I feel and understand your heart, Heavenly Father.”
Then you come closer to Heavenly Father than before. This is the way to inherit(?) God’s heart.
When we carry the heavy cross on behalf of God and True Parents and offer comfort, it will be indemnified at last. When we experience some pain and difficulties, then we understand God’s heart and offer our comfort and console him, then ... we will be indemnified at last. This is the shortcut to indemnity.
However, regardless of God and True Parents, if we think, “My family's situation is my situation,” then we are displeased with the cross that comes to us. We will come to hate our pain and will want to run away.
That is why True Father said, “Do not run away from your pain, your trials and difficulties. Think about God’s situation.” Then we will have an inseparable relationship. Why do we run away? When we have difficulties and think about God’s difficulties, that is the way to pay indemnity. It is a great opportunity to have an inseparable relationship with God.
However, the fact that we will take responsibility for the situation means that we will relieve at least a part of Father's han and pain through it. The indemnity thought is to think that we want to comfort God by treating even the circumstances of our family as Heavenly Father's han, True Parents’ han. The way to have this kind of indemnity thought is the way to become a filial son and daughter.
Even though the era of indemnity is over, this kind of thinking is very important. We have not yet completed God’s Kingdom of Heaven. Some may have reached the completion level; some may be under the formation stage, some are at the growth stage. They need(?) to go this way. This kind of mindset ... what is the real meaning of indemnity thought? When do we really pay indemnity? Today you learned important things about Father’s guidance. Such a beautiful way!
Today I talked about “What is Indemnity Thought?”♦
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