Ep 797 - The True Family and I Part 2
The True Family and I - December 31, 2022
Key Points
God’s han is that Satan’s blood of immoral love is flowing in the bodies of human beings.
All internal and external conflicts originate in immoral love.
We need to have han over the fact that we are descendants of a lineage of sexual immorality and also harbor enmity against Satan.
We absolutely need tearful repentance and resolve to eradicate the lineage of sexual immorality and be reborn into God’s divine blood lineage.
We need the Messiah’s Word and guidance, and God’s love and spiritual support.
All human beings in their immature state should necessarily keep the commandment as on object of faith and be educated to the point that this commandment “Do not eat” makes our ears tingle.
Keeping the commandment should become more important than eating three meals a day.
We should learn the reasons why we cannot eat and what kind of benefits that offers us, namely, that we can enjoy dominion over the natural world by inheriting God’s creative nature.
Also, God blesses us by allowing us to perfect ourself through faith in the word as our own portion of responsibility.
True Parents’ merits are so great that our own sufferings disappear when we think about their sufferings.
True Parents have even taken responsibility for our ascended ancestors, cleared Satan from them, chased away his power of death, and liberated humankind.
As we face all kinds of difficulties, we realize how great True Parents are.
When we face hardships, difficulties, and suffering, if we think about True Parents’ hard work, troubles, and sacrifices, we will gain amazing spiritual strength that can overcome everything.
Then our dissatisfaction turns to gratitude, and we are resurrected.
In this way we set up indemnity conditions, are grafted to True Parents’ heart and form an eternal parent-child bond with True Parents.
We need to educate ministers centered on God’s heart, on Jesus’ heart, and on True Parents’ heart. Then they will be able to have a deeper experience with Jesus, True Parents and Heavenly God.
We need to really respect our origin: God, True Parents and our physical father and mother.
We need to liberate our parents and visit their grave sites.
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 is the last day of the year 2022. I was doing a general cleaning of our house with my whole family. It took all day. I felt our house was dancing with gratitude for the cleaning. Tomorrow is January 1, 2023. It is the year of the rabbit. Have you made your plans for the new year? I wish you a fruitful year by making good personal plans, family plans and plans at work. It will be a new year here in two hours Australian time. That is why a lot of fireworks are being set off to welcome the new year... Please understand if it is a little noisy!
Today I’d like to talk about “The True Family and I” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given by Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon between September 14 and October 26, 1995 during speaking tours to Japanese cities and Korean universities. > The love of Adam and Eve was not a love accompanied by true happiness. Quite to the contrary, it was conflict-ridden love. Because the roots of our life are in this love, we can conclude that this is where the conflicts plaguing the inner self of human beings originate. The Bible teaches us that because of having sinned, Adam and Eve were expelled from the garden of Eden. Once they had been driven out of the garden, they began to multiply children. God could not follow and bless them in marriage. Thus we need to ask, under whom did they marry? We can conclude that, because of having fallen into sin, they married under the auspices of Satan.
The Fall consisted of Eve being tempted by Satan and her later temptation of Adam. Therefore, when our ancestors Adam and Eve established a relationship of conjugal love, that relationship was unhappy and conflict-ridden. Today humanity still has its roots in that relationship. We cannot separate from the origin of that struggle between mind and body. The Fall began with immoral love. Due to a love relationship that God did not desire, Adam and Eve united with Satan. They did not become the ancestors of goodness; they became the ancestors of evil, thus creating the roots of fallen love, fallen life and a fallen lineage. If this is true, what began as one fallen family grew into tribes, nations and a world. It is a world whose more than five billion people, present-day humanity, are descendants of Satan. It is undeniable that we inherited the lineage of evil parents. No one knew Satan's blood was present within our bodies and that this was so displeasing to God. This is the essential problem.
The Fall began with immoral love. Due to a love relationship that God did not desire, Adam and Eve united with Satan. They did not become the ancestors of goodness; they became the ancestors of evil, thus creating the roots of fallen love, fallen life and a fallen lineage.
If this is true, what began as one fallen family grew into tribes, nations and a world. It is a world whose more than five, (now eight,) billion people, present-day humanity, are descendants of Satan. It is undeniable that we inherited the lineage of evil parents.
No one knew Satan's blood was present within our bodies and that this was so displeasing to God. When God looks upon human beings, the thing He grieves about most is the truth that Satan’s blood of immoral love is flowing in the bodies of human beings.
As we go on the course of life, the most sorrowful thing is the truth that Satan’s blood of immoral love is flowing in our bodies. It is the truth the fight between mind and body, husband and wife, brothers and sisters, and conflicts between parents and children all have their origins in immoral love.
We need to grieve over the fact that our bodies are flowing with Satan’s dirty blood of immoral love when it should be flowing with God’s divine blood. We need to have han over the fact that we are descendants of a lineage of sexual immorality and also harbor enmity against Satan.
No matter what happens, we absolutely need tearful repentance and resolve to eradicate the lineage of sexual immorality and be reborn into God’s divine blood lineage. Anyone will become a divine person if they overcome this sexual immorality. A filial child is someone who overcomes this sexual immorality.
However, it is impossible to overcome sexual immorality with human power. Therefore, we need the Messiah, we absolutely need the Messiah’s Word, we need the Messiah’s guidance, and we absolutely need God’s love and spiritual support.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 15 - Why God set up the Commandment as an Object of Faith
• God's second blessing was to be fulfilled when Adam and Eve entered God's direct dominion of love, by joining as true husband and wife and bearing and raising children in God's love.
• Indeed, the Principle mandates that human beings eat of the fruit once they reach full maturity of character.
• Accordingly, God's commandment, “Do not eat of the fruit," was binding upon Adam and Eve only while they were immature.
• Why did God nurture the faith of Adam and Eve by giving them the commandment, "Do not eat of the fruit"?
• In their immature state, Adam and Eve could not be directly governed by God through love. Because the power of love is stronger than the power of the Principle, God foresaw that if they ever formed a common base with the Archangel, there was a possibility that they could succumb to the power of deviant, unprincipled love and fall.
• It was not only to prevent their fall that God gave immature human beings the commandment. God also wanted them to enjoy dominion over the natural world by inheriting His creative nature. In order to inherit this creatorship, human beings should perfect themselves through their faith in the Word as their own portion of responsibility.
• Furthermore, God gave the commandment not to the Archangel but only to the human beings. God wished to exalt the dignity of human beings as bestowed by the Principle of Creation, which entitled them to stand as God's children and govern even the angels.
Let’s study more in detail.
All Human Beings in Their Immature State Necessarily Should Keep the Commandment as on Object of Faith
• All human beings in their immature state should necessarily keep the commandment as on object of faith. Therefore all the people need to be educated through Chapter 2, the human fall, so that they can absolutely abide by the commandment as an object of faith.
• Teenagers nowadays, are being exposed to the world that seduces them with the unprincipled love same as in the garden of Eden. Therefore the growing teenagers must be educated with the chapter 2, the human fall, so that they can cherish the commandment as an object of faith from God like their lives and not to form a common base to engage in give and take when even being seduced by the sweetest unprincipled love.
All human beings in their immature state need the commandment “Do not eat” during their life. We need continuous education both before (the Blessing), and after the Blessing excepting his or her spouse.
. Just as Satan enters the mind of human beings if there is even a small crack, we need to be educated to the point that this commandment “Do not eat” makes our ears tingle.
Even if we educate Satan’s descendants like that, since they immediately become self-centered and easily fall into horizontal temptations, they need to be educated more than eating three meals a day, according to Father’s word. That is why we need to educate all people so that they can absolutely possess the commandment for faith.
Why God Set up the Commandment as an Object of Faith
• It was not only to prevent their fall that God gave immature human beings the commandment. God also wanted them to enjoy dominion over the natural world by inheriting His creative nature. In order to inherit this creatorship, human beings should perfect themselves through their faith in the word as their own portion of responsibility. The reason God gave the commandment was not to lay human beings by the heels but to give them blessing to be perfected.
• Hence the children in their growing period absolutely need the education of “Dos and Don’ts.” Those who had undergone their childhood and achieved success studying hard, not committing crimes even with a teacher’s corporal punishment can be grateful for the punishment afterwards regarding it as the punishment of love. Just letting them be is not an education but nonintervention. There must be proper education teaching virtue and how to be responsible for that according to each child’s growing levels.
We need to clearly understand that the reason God gave immature human beings the commandment not to eat was not to shackle and restrain them. In fact, rather than the education “do not eat,” we need to educate about why we cannot eat and what kind of benefits we have when we do not eat.
The reason God told human beings not to eat was to let them enjoy dominion over the natural world by inheriting His creative nature. In order to inherit this creatorship, human beings should perfect themselves through their faith in the word as their own portion of responsibility. We need to know the truth that the reason God gave the commandment not to eat was to give them blessing to be perfected.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: True Parents’ Great Merits
1. True Parents first carried the cross for us. That is why True Parents said, “Through our sufferings and blood, we have paid indemnity and bought you all back.” Since my own sufferings disappear when I think about True Parents’ sufferings, True Parents’ merits were that great. Just as my own situations are nothing due to True Parents’ merits, I can easily overcome, so whose benefits are these? This is all because of True Parents’ merits. Don’t you shed tears when you think about these things? You cannot not shed tears. My hard work and sufferings are on the family level, but True Parents’ hard work and sufferings are cosmic. True Parents have even taken responsibility over our ancestors who have left this world, cleared Satan, chased away his power of death, and liberated humankind. And then they came to this earth as victors with the power of love. As we face all kinds of difficulties, we realize how great True Parents are.
Why is the merit of Jesus’ cross so great? It is because just as Jesus carried the cross of all humankind and left this world, when we think of our own cross as Jesus’ cross and overcome it and console Jesus, we are liberated from our suffering and cross.
True Parents first carried the cross for us. That is why True Parents said, “Through our sufferings and blood, we have paid indemnity and bought you all back.” Since my own sufferings disappear when I think about True Parents’ sufferings, True Parents’ merits were that great.
Since I can overcome any circumstances, difficulties and suffering because of True Parents’ merits, hard work, and cost of indemnity, whose benefits are they? This is all because of True Parents’ merits.
When you think about these things, don’t you shed tears because of True Parents who shed blood, sweat, and tears for us all and even myself? You cannot not shed tears.
My hard work and sufferings are on the family level, but True Parents have gone and shouldered cosmic hard work and suffering.
Furthermore, True Parents have even taken responsibility over our ancestors who have left this world, cleared Satan, chased away his power of death, and liberated humankind.
That is why True Parents’ merit is so great! When we have some kind of issue and suffering, we should think about True Parents’ suffering and sacrifice. Then (our suffering) immediately goes away. When we have experienced some heavy cross and think about Jesus’ cross, we can be liberated from our own cross. That is why we need to relate to Jesus and to our True Parents. Then (through) our suffering and difficulties, all our issues, we can have a great opportunity to have a more heartistic relationship with God and True Parents and our Jesus.
How great was the influence of Jesus’ 3-year public course during his short life on the whole of humankind and history? But True Father lived more than three times longer than Jesus and set accomplishments of victory on the worldwide and cosmic levels. Let’s think about what kind of influence True Parents’ merits will have on humankind in the future.
In this way, True Parents came to this earth as victors with the power of love. As we face all kinds of difficulties, we realize how great True Parents are.
The Benefits of Resurrection We Gain Through True Parents
2. Even if we compare our own circumstances and suffering to True Parents’ in our own ways, it is incomparable. So how great are True Parents’ merits? That is something we cannot comprehend with our mind. We go from thinking about our own troubles and difficulties to thinking about True Parents’ hard work, troubles, and difficulties and think with gratitude rather than dissatisfaction, and then we are resurrected. We are resurrected through True Parents’ benefits of resurrection. Therefore, when we fall into our own suffering and difficult circumstances, we are not dominated or defeated by them. How great is that? What is the thing we can pleasantly be victorious in? It is indemnity conditions. What is the advantage I can gain through this indemnity? It is that I can graft onto True Parents’ heart. However, if I treat my circumstances and suffering as my own, there is a risk of my relationship with True Parents becoming more distant and even cut off.
No matter how difficult and hard our course of faith is, what is the secret to gaining victory? It is that my own difficulties are nothing compared to the suffering, hardships, sacrifice, and indemnity that True Parents faced.
So, when I face hardships, difficulties, and suffering, if I think about True Parents’ hard work, troubles, and sacrifices, I will gain amazing spiritual strength that can overcome everything. So how great are True Parents’ good merits? That is something we cannot comprehend with our mind.
Do you know how True Father could overcome his difficulties and suffering? Since True Father met God ... According to his experience, he had thought God was really an almighty, omnipotent, omniscient God. He could do whatever he wanted. He felt that way when he was young.
But because Jesus introduced Father to God directly – Father prayed and prayed and finally met God – he came to realize that God is a sorrowful, miserable God. That is why whenever Father faced some problem – in Heungnam Prison, in Danbury Prison, any persecution – whenever he thought about God’s suffering and sorrowful heart, he said his suffering could not be compared with God’s suffering and difficulties. “My suffering is ... (nothing?).” As a result of meeting God, he had that kind of unforgettable experience. Whenever he thought of God’s suffering, sorrow and difficulties, he said, “I can gain energy. My suffering is nothing. Even though I (may) live a maximum of 100 or 120 years, can you imagine how much God suffered, not just in 100 years, not 1,000 years, according to the Bible 6,000 years, more than 6,000 years, more than 10,000 years since he lost his sons and daughters. That is why Father can overcome any problem since he experienced God’s sorrow.
We have already met True Parents, right? We already have incredible experience (with them). We have confirmation through our own eyes. That’s why when we face some problem or issue, (we should) think about True Father.
Even good Christians overcome their difficulties by thinking about Jesus’ cross. Compared to Jesus cross, (their suffering) was nothing. Jesus was the model (for them).
How about us? Our model is whom? Our True Parents are our model. Whenever we face any kind of problem, ... True Parents have shown us. That is incredible merit! This is really amazing! Jesus’ just showed three years of public life. It cannot be compared to (that of) True Father and True Mother. How fortunate we are!
We go from thinking about our own troubles and difficulties to thinking about True Parents’ hard work, troubles, and difficulties and think with gratitude rather than dissatisfaction, and then we are resurrected. We are resurrected through True Parents’ benefits of resurrection.
When we have difficulties and think of True Parents’ difficulties, that is an opportunity to have an experience of parent and child. Wow! True Parents’ guidance is incredible!
Therefore, when we fall into our own suffering and difficult circumstances, we are not dominated or defeated by them. How great is that? This is the secret to being pleasantly victorious. Therefore, through the troubles I encounter, comparing them to the difficulties True Parents faced and gaining the strength to gain victory is setting indemnity conditions.
What is the advantage I can gain through this indemnity? It is that I can graft onto True Parents’ heart. It is also forming an eternal parent-child bond with True Parents. However, if I treat my circumstances and suffering as my own, there is a risk of my relationship with True Parents becoming more distant and even cut off.
I am so grateful to True Father and True Mother. It does not matter whether they are the messiah or not because personally Father Moon and Mother Moon are my real parents. So much my parents! They have taught me, guided me, and given me the Blessing. They have given me everything. They taught me what a life of faith (is), the purpose of our life, who God is, what the fall of man is, wow! How many hours and hours he has taught me! That is why he is my real father, my teacher, more than a father. He taught me how to become an owner. It is incredible. I cannot forget them. I can never betray them because I have received so much benefit (from them). How much my life has changed (because of) meeting them!
If I had not met God, True Parents and the Divine Principle, I do not know what kind of person I would have become. Maybe a teacher or professor or something, but I would not have known anything. I am extremely grateful. Many people (argue whether) he is the messiah or not. For me he is my true father, real father. He loves me more than my own physical father, more than my mother. He spent more time with me, more than my own father and mother did. He taught me more than my own Father or any of my teachers. I am so grateful! Father and Mother Moon are my eternal teachers, my eternal role (models).
We have that kind of incredible merit, right?
Today I have spoken about “True Parents’ great merit.”♦
(Response to sharing) We need to educate (ministers) centered on God’s heart, on Jesus’ heart, on True Parents’ heart. Heart is the common point beyond any theory, any knowledge. This is important. When we appeal to(?) their heart and talk about Jesus’ heart, (and) talk about God’s and True Parents’ heart, that is our main point from now on. We need to focus on that. Then they will be able to have a deeper experience with Jesus, True Parents and Heavenly God.
(Response to second sharing) We need to really respect our origin. Origin education is very important. Who is our origin? God is our origin. True Parents are our origin. Our physical father and mother are our origin.
Whenever I go to Korea, I seldom miss a visit to the Paju Wonjon, the original palace. I greet Daemonim, Heungjin nim and Hyojin nim. We need to respect and connect to the origin.
You live in America. How often do you go to Japan and connect to your father and mother?
This time my son moved me. I never expected this. I asked him what his plan for the new year is. He said, “Daddy, I already have three children. One of my most important plans is that I want to go to Korea.”
“For what?” I asked him.
“I want to show my children to my grandma, your mother.” My mother is 94 years old. I was so moved. He said, “If I don’t go to Korea with my three children, when will I be able to see my grandmother?”
I was really touched by that. We need to respect our origin, our physical origin, our father and mother. Whether they are good or bad guys does not matter. Because of them we are here, right? If they are bad guys, we need to restore them and make them become good guys. Even though they have passed away, through prayer and jeongseong let them become good spirits. Our job is the mission of the messiah, the savior. We need to save them, to liberate them. We need to have that kind of mindset.
When I became a pioneer and visited each home without missing even one house, I stayed at a very small and poor house. Every Sunday I saw one guy visit somewhere. The place I stayed was in the countryside with a lot of mountains. He went somewhere all the time. One day I asked him, “Every Sunday you go somewhere with your entire family? (Where do you go?)”
He said, “I bring my children to my mother’s tomb every Sunday.”
Wow! I was so surprised! His children, his wife and children go there every Sunday, bow and come back home. I think it is better than attending Sunday service because (they are) respecting (their) origin. (That is) filial piety.
Our Japanese members, how often do you visit Japan to greet your relatives, greet your parents? This is very important. When you go to Korea, how often do you visit the Paju Wonjon? How often do you visit the Ponyangwon to see True Father?
One day – this is a real story that I am telling you – Father scolded one of the 36 couple wives. I don’t want to mention the name.
“Hey, your husband passed away a long time ago. How often did you visit your husbands tomb?”
“Once a year, Father.”
Father scolded her. “How come you do this? (Whether) he went to the spiritual world or is still on earth does not matter. You need to have the same attendance, the same attitude toward your husband.”
Wow! True love is unchanging. It does not matter whether (a person) is in the spiritual world or the earthly world. This is the filial heart. If our husband or wife have left, we respect them and our love is still the same. True love always remains the same. (It is) eternal, unchanging and absolute.
Why betray True Father or True Mother? How can we betray our parents? We cannot do that. We have to respect our origin. We come from our origin, from God and from True Parents. And from our physical father and mother, no matter what. Even though we do not have a good memory of them, but still we need to respect them. This is the important point.
I would like to mention one thing. I was supposed to go to Korea after my Australia visit. But today I received a memo from the International Headquarters. There is no need for me to come (to Korea), according to True Mother’s direction. Mother really wants to focus on the inaugural ceremony of the Cheon Won Gung May 5. We are going to have a big event. So, I will go back to America; maybe I will transit through Korea. True Mother is really paying attention to the inaugural ceremony May 5. Let’s pray for that. She said we celebrate True Parents’ Birthday on a national or regional level. So, maybe I can join you in America for True Parents’ Birthday.♦
NOTE: This text and the PowerPoint slides from this speech are available as a link at the top of this text. 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. Books of the transcripts and notes are available as PDFs at MDBooks.Hoondok.com.
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