Ep 798 - The True Family and I Part 3
The True Family and I - January 1, 2023
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Key Points
China and Russia must surrender before Heaven economically and militarily to the extent that they can no longer interfere in North Korea's domestic affairs and hinder heaven’s effort to unify the Koreas.
Japan, the mother nation, and the United States, the elder son nation, must work together as mother and son to help reunite the Korean peninsula.
America, as the elder son nation, has the responsibility to unite the 200 countries of the world with South Korea, the father nation.
This is the children's era in which the elder son should become the center and lead God's providence.
God’s strategy is to expand the territory of goodness while always paying the price of sacrifice.
It seems as if we lose everything after being struck by Satan, but the truth is that Heaven has occupied the forces of evil while claiming damages.
God’s side will never be destroyed because God is living and working.
God gave the commandment to the human beings, his children, who were to have dominion over the creation, but not to the archangel because he was in the servant position with no portion of responsibility.
Because fallen human beings were dominated by the archangel, we have all come to be stuck at a level inferior to the love of the archangel.
Only with the Blessing can our love surpass the top of the growth stage and become completion-level love.
Just as Adam and Eve were not aware how desperately God was waiting for them to be blessed, so today blessed children are unaware of how much God and their parents yearn for them to be blessed and pass on their pure lineage.
It takes a long time for human beings to understand the heart of the parent and become filial sons and daughters.
After we join, we need to find an Abel we trust and can confide in. Then we need a trinity of three spiritual children as the indemnity condition for us to remove our fallen nature, our Foundation of Substance.
Without it, there will be many conflicts between the husband and wife and our faith will be easily shaken.
We should witness to our own physical parents, bring them to natural submission, and only then receive the Blessing. Then our marriage will be more harmonious and our faith, strong.
After the Blessing we should witness to our spouse’s parents and family. When we find a trinity of such relatives, our spouse will naturally surrender.
Through this course of love, our blood can be sanctified and our blood lineage changed.
When we listen well and respect a friend who has grown distant from the church, God will give us wisdom about how to witness to him.
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.♦
Everyone, Happy New Year. We have welcomed a new year. I hope that in the New Year, you will return much joy, glory, and Hyojeong to God and True Parents.
What is God and True Parents greatest wish? I think, especially for our True Mother, there are two things: the first is to complete Cheon Won Gung this year. She has paid a lot of attention to establishing it by May 5.
What is the next one? It is our final goal: to establish the heavenly unified Korea centering on the substantial Cheon Il Guk in Korea. These two things.
In order for the Republic of Korea to become unified and establish Cheon Il Guk, God must first deal with the surrounding powerful countries. As long as China, the Eve nation of the Cain realm, and Russia, the archangel nation of the Cain realm, intervene and control North Korea, it is impossible for North and South Korea to achieve reunification on their own.
Therefore, in order to ensure that China and Russia can no longer interfere with North Korea, God is conducting the providence by providing them with a difficult path both economically and militarily. Those two countries must enter the position of surrendering before Heaven economically and militarily, even spiritually, to the extent that they can no longer interfere in North Korea's domestic affairs.
If these two strong nations control internally and interfere all the time in North Korea, even though we put so much effort into (this effort), we cannot do anything. In the war between Russia and the Ukraine and China’s situation, God is working behind (the scenes). God needs to settle the external environment first.
Centering on South Korea, Japan, the mother nation, and the United States, the elder son nation, must work together as mother and son to help reunite the Korean peninsula. And America, as the elder son nation, has the responsibility to help unite the Koreas, the father country, by taking care of the 200 countries of the world, unite them all as younger brothers. This is the children's era. In particular, it is a time when the elder son should become the center and lead God's providence.
Our portion of responsibility, our mission in America, is very important. As the elder son nation, it is how to take care of the 200 younger brother nations and how to cooperate with the mother nation (of Japan) and help the father nation of Korea and create the substantial Cheon Il Guk. The role of America is crucial. The more I pray, the more serious about that I become.
We need to help our True Mother. She is paying a lot of attention to the inauguration ceremony for the Cheon Won Gung, and day and night she invests her heart and jeongseong for the heavenly unified Korea (in order to) finally establish the substantial Cheon Il Guk centering on Korea.
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.> How will we eliminate those roots within us? Satan dug his roots into our physical bodies through the fallen lineage. You have to understand that if humankind had not fallen into sin, our minds and bodies would have naturally become one. It is because of the Fall that there is a conflict between the conscience, which has a positive charge, and the body, which also has a positive charge, making it inevitable that they resist each other. This is the starting point of all the struggles in history. God works to separate good from evil in order to reverse this situation. God is public-minded and continues on the path of living for the whole and going toward the goal of love and peace. On the other hand, Satan is selfish and individualistic. Satan is always trying to destroy the good side through hatred, evil and war. His intent is to prevent the earth from ever returning to God's side.
God cannot severely punish humanity for having gone with Satan. God’s strategy for returning humanity to His side is to allow evil to attack. Later, God can claim reparations for the undeserved damage and abuse. Satan's strategy is to strike first, yet in the end he loses everything. Throughout history Satan has tried to ruin God's plan with hatred, evil and war, while on the other hand, God has been working to re-create love and peace. In the Last Days, humankind will return to God's side, and evil will lose support and respect. To prevent that from happening, Satan introduced atheistic materialism, humanism and communism. That was the essential cause of the Cold War that took place following the Second World War, when the victory of the Christian world could have led to a transition toward a world of peace.
True Mother spoke about God’s strategy and Satan’s strategy. Let’s study True Father’s words about this in more detail.
God’s Strategy and Satan’s Strategy
<161-239> The difference between God's strategy and Satan's strategy is that Satan follows the strategy of striking and losing while God follows the strategy of being struck first and then coming to find what was lost. In fighting between the good side and evil side, you must understand how God’s strategy and Satan’s strategy differ. The world does not know that. The evil side loses while trying to strike and occupy, and the good side ends up occupying even while being struck. It’s just the opposite. They come out reclaiming while being struck and sacrificed innocently. After indemnifying and claiming damages, they expand. These two strategies are taking place.
Isn’t that the case with siblings in front of their parents? If you ask what kind of child a bad child is, it is the child who strikes first. This is one formula. God’s strategy and Satan’s strategy are different. Heaven’s strategy is to be struck first and then to reclaim what was lost, and Satan’s strategy is to strike first and then lose.
We come to know the truth that God’s strategy is to expand the territory of goodness while always paying the price of sacrifice. It seems as if we lose everything after being struck by Satan, but the truth is that Heaven has occupied the forces of evil while claiming damages.
Even if you look at World War 1 and World War 2, the side that struck first collapsed. Even though Japan is continuously being persecuted on a national level even now, this means that the day is coming when our Unification movement will someday destroy the evil dominion on a national level. God’s side will never be destroyed. This is because God is living and working.
This is why we are seriously praying for the Japanese providence. Even True Mother said, “I cannot sleep.” She is investing her heart and praying for the Japanese providence. I think surely if they attack on a national level, we can also claim that as a national-level foundation. Let’s pray for the Japan providence.
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.
Why did God Give the Commandment: “Do Not Eat of the Fruit.” 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 was entitled to them as God’s children and govern even the angels
• Those who have taken the commandment in the garden of Eden : “Do not eat of the fruit.” as today’s commandment and our own one’s these days through learning lessons from Chapter 2 are standing at the same position of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden.
• Thus, the archangel (Satan) did not even receive the commandment from God. Therefore, it is the human portion of responsibility to overcome and win over the power of temptation, risking life only to violate love.
Why did God give the commandment: “Do not eat of the fruit” to the human beings but not to the archangel?
If the archangel had a portion of responsibility, he would have the same qualification to have dominion over creation like human beings and become a being equal to human beings. What we need to clearly understand is the fact that the archangel was created as God’s servant. Human beings are God’s children.
Until When is the Commandment as an Object of Faith Necessary?
• In order for Adam and Eve to accomplish God’s second blessing, they must become a married couple centering on God’s love.
• After that, they must give birth to their children then be directly governed by God’s love by making the children fruitful.
• Therefore human beings are allowed to eat of the fruit in terms of principle once they are perfected. As the power of love is much stronger than the power of the principle, once Adam and Eve are perfected and establish a family centering on God and become directly governed by such absolute power of love of God, they will never fall, for there is neither anyone nor anything to win such absolute love of this couple.
• If Adam and Eve could have become such couple who are one with each other by the power of the absolute love upon the foundation of absoluteness, they would be advised not to keep the commandment anymore. Besides, the inferior love of the archangel would never cut off the love of the couple centering on God once they accomplished true love.
Because fallen human beings were dominated by the archangel, we have all come to be stuck in the level inferior to the love of the archangel. The fact that our body is still being dominated is proof that our spiritual level is stuck in the love below the top of the growth stage.
No matter how high our level of love is in the fallen world, there has been no one who surpassed the top of the growth stage and reached the level of love of the completion stage. We need to know the truth that love of the completion stage level must absolutely start with a couple who (has) received the Blessing.
God’s Wish who Gave the Commandment:“Do not Eat the Fruit.”
<9-49> Adam and Eve, whom God had created to be joyous so much that he can sing all the values of heart, were not aware of how God’s wish had been so desperate seeing that he had set up the strict commandment: “Do not eat of the fruit,” and been patiently waiting for the right time. They were not able to understand God’s wish to long for and caress them. However, God had to set up the condition: “Do not eat of the fruit,” with a certain time period until a standard of a rule set by himself is accomplished although God desperately wanted to cherish, caress and hug them seeing them moving around.
Adam and Eve were not aware of just how desperately God’s heart was waiting and wishing for them not to fall but wait until God permitted the Blessing.
We need to know that that God is desperately wishing for our blessed children today with the same heart and desire He had for Adam and Eve.
Today, children do not know how desperately our blessed 1st generation or their children wish for them to receive the Blessing like their parents and pass on the pure lineage of Heaven’s blessing.
In that sense, we learn that it takes a long time for human beings to understand the heart of the parent and become filial sons and daughters. Adam and Eve never knew how joyful and happy God’s heart was when He created them.
Even at this time, we need to know that God and True Parents set up the commandment “Do not eat the fruit” and are patiently waiting and waiting, hoping for our blessed children.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Everyone Must Go Though the Formula Course of Restoration of Love
Even though this may take more time, everyone please listen carefully.
Things to Prepare Before Receiving the Blessing
1. Before I receive the Blessing, I need a trinity (3 spiritual children) whom I can heartistically give and take with. If I spend time with my trinity affectionately, I will always gain spiritual strength. That is why True Parents told us to receive the Blessing after having this foundation of heart of a trinity. However, if you receive the Blessing without this trinity, your own faith will easily be shaken. The principle is to witness to one’s own physical parents, bring them to natural submission, and then receive the Blessing.
In the case of women, if they have substantial results of witnessing to their own parents, when they receive the Blessing, their relationship with their husband can become harmonious.
However, those who do not witness to their own parents and receive the Blessing without their parents knowing must go through a lot of trouble and indemnity. In the case of receiving the Blessing and becoming international couples without spiritual children and without having brought the parents to natural submission, there will be more difficulties in that couples’ faith course. That is why True Parents said to prepare more conditions to receive the Blessing before receive the Blessing. But because we could not go through such a preparatory course, we have many difficulties today.
In the end, our faith course is a course of love to perfect love. But in order to successfully go on (this) course of love, we need to know that there is a formula course there.
The first is that before we receive the Blessing, we need a trinity (3 spiritual children) whom we can heartistically (have) give and take with. These three spiritual children become the foundation of our heart and indemnity condition for us to remove our fallen nature.
However, if we receive the Blessing without even a trinity, because we could not establish an indemnity condition to remove our fallen nature, if we start family life, there will be many conflicts between the husband and wife. And our faith will be easily shaken.
In principle, after we join the church, we are to witness to our own physical parents first, bring them to natural submission, and then receive the Blessing. In the case of women, if they have substantial results of witnessing to their own parents, when they receive the Blessing, their relationship with their husband can become harmonious.
However, those who do not witness to their own parents and receive the Blessing without their parents knowing must go through a lot of trouble and indemnity. In the case of receiving the Blessing and becoming international couples without having spiritual children and without bringing the parents to natural submission, there will be more difficulties in that couples’ faith course.
That is why we need to know the course of love, the course of our faith. Many people do not know this even though True Father has taught this through the course of restoration: what is the Foundation of Faith and Foundation of Substance. They still don’t know. Many people are wondering what the main problem is. They still do not know about that.
The Course of Love that Women Must Go Through
2. Even if you attend church, you cannot just come and go like spectators. First, I must do the task I need to fulfill. That is to meet an Abel figure whom I can attend and respect as a mother, father, and God and discuss with them about my family situation. Such a person can grow several times faster than falling on one’s knees and praying in the prayer room. If someone can empty all their truths and entrust them to the person who always cares for them, raises them, and has concern for them, such person can receive Heaven’s protection.
Next, you must create 3 spiritual children, create a trinity centering on them, and reach Heaven. This is not something one can achieve by praying alone. After women get married, if you first pass through the mother-in-law and bring at least 3 people to natural surrender—whether they your husband’s sisters or relatives—even if you do not offer special jeongseong for your husband, he will voluntarily surrender. This is the course of restoration of love. You cannot complain about this and that about your husband without even going through such a course. When women get married and move to their husband’s place, they must first go through a course as the wife of love and mother of love in her husband’s family.
The most important thing I must do after joining the church is to meet an Abel figure whom I can attend and respect as a mother, father, and God and discuss with them about my family situation, my own situation. Whoever finds such an Abel figure will definitely be protected by Heaven.
I am really a lucky guy. I met Yo Han Lee. He was my Abel figure. Wow! Who is lucky in their life of faith? The one who meets a good Abel. Without a good Abel, one is limited in growing up.
The second stage is to create 3 spiritual children, create a trinity centering on them, and establish indemnity conditions to remove my fallen nature. I need to bring 3 Cain figures to voluntary submission so they can respect me.
Third, after receiving the Blessing and starting family, I have to be victorious in the course of love. To be victorious in this course of love, after women get married, if you first pass through the mother-in-law and bring at least 3 people to natural surrender—whether they are your husband’s sisters or relatives—even if you do not offer special jeongseong for your husband, he will voluntarily surrender.
This is a really important course of love, course of restoration. This is the Formula Course of Restoration of Love.
Everyone Must Go Through the Formula Course of Restoration of Love
3. To summarize, before receiving the Blessing, I must first meet an Abel figure whom I can discuss with and attend. Next, create 3 spiritual children and create a trinity, and then receive the Blessing. After receiving the Blessing, women are to bring their husband’s parents to natural submission. Next, among the husband’s siblings and relatives, she is to witness to three people and bring them to natural submission. Then, her husband, who is in the position of the archangel, will completely naturally surrender and be restored to the position of the true Adam. If I do not go through this indemnity course and course of love, my fallen lineage will remain as it is, and there will be no change of lineage.
In other words, my fallen lineage will not be sanctified. So, in the end, my unsanctified blood lineage will be passed on to my children just as it is. Women must go through the course of the mother of love, and men must go through the course of the father of love. Such a course is a course which the blood lineage can be changed and a course in which my blood can be sanctified and become holy. The children of a couple that goes through such course of love are sure to be born as greater children than the parents and become filial sons and daughters. Many blessed families today are walking on a difficult course of faith because they did not go through this kind of indemnity course and course of love.
The Formula Course of Love That Everyone Must Go Through
1. After joining the church, meet an Abel figure whom I can attend and respect as a mother, father, and God and discuss with them about my family situation. Then I can receive Heaven’s protection.
2. Next, witness to my own physical parents and bring them to natural submission. If I start family without this foundation, much suffering and indemnity will follow.
3. Create a trinity (3 spiritual children) whom I can heartistically give and take with. These spiritual children become the foundation of my heart and indemnity condition for me to remove my fallen nature. If I start family without this foundation, much conflicts between the couple will follow.
4. After women get married, first pass through the mother-in-law and bring at least 3 people to natural surrender—whether they are the sisters or relatives of my husband, who is in the archangel position. Then, my husband will voluntarily surrender and be restored to Adam’s position.
5. If I do not go through this indemnity course and course of love, my fallen lineage will remain as it is, and there will be no change of lineage.
This course, the formula course of love, is changing our blood lineage. This is a formula course. I am telling you, if you could not break through in this formula course, you need to start again. It does not matter what your age is – 70+ or 80+ – we need to witness to three spiritual children. If we did not restore our husbands side, our mother-in-law or father-in-law’s side, how can we witness to them? How can we win their heart? This is an important point.
6. In other words, my fallen lineage will not be sanctified. So, in the end, my unsanctified blood lineage will be passed on to my children just as it is. Women must go through the course of the mother of love, and men must go through the course of the father of love.
7. Such course is a course which the blood lineage can be changed and a course in which my blood can be sanctified and become holy. The children of a couple that goes through such course of love are sure to be born as greater children than the parents and become filial sons and daughters.
8. Many blessed families today are walking on a difficult course of faith because they did not go through this kind of indemnity course and course of love.
I think this is the formula course of love.
Today is the first of day of January in 2023. Let’s go on the formula course of love. Let’s really break through. Not just as a condition, but let’s break through with three spiritual children. When we can change our blood lineage through serving and loving and attending and through the restoration of three spiritual children, everybody should gain a victory of love this year.
Our second generation’s case is a little different.
When you are married to someone, you need to be recognized by your own father and mother. They need to say, “You are truly my filial son or daughter.” Without that kind of recognition if we receive the Blessing and start family, we will struggle with our spouse. Filial piety is very important. As second generation you need to be recognized no matter what by your father and mother. Then after you are married, y ou need to conquer your spouse’s family. For the husband it is the wife’s family. For the wife it is the husband’s family. Then the result of our victory is that everything goes to our children. Our children’s quality is much better.
(Testimony, LaLonde family, Witnessing Family and Business plus Christmas)♦
(Response to sharing) In the beginning just listen (to a second generation friend who is distant from the church). (Through) listening we can already become very good friends. There is no need to think how to teach him. There is no need to think how to bring him back into the church. Throw away that kind of concept. Just think how to make a very good friend by listening. Then when we listen, God will give us wisdom about how to talk with him. It is incredible. Listening and respecting very important. Then God will give you wisdom. Through respect and serving God always gives a beautiful answer.
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