Ep 800 - The True Family and I Part 5
The True Family and I - January 3, 2023
Key Points
God established a strategy through religion to weaken the body-centered force that dominates our conscience by training the mind to dominate the body.
God will come to the churches that accomplish this and the work of the Holy Spirit will take place. This is because God is meant to be present where the mind and body unite.
Do not conform to the pattern of this world.” (Rom. 12:2)
In the last days when disunity at many levels is rampant, when on the other hand, our body and mind become one and there is unity in our couple’s relationship, we will definitely feel God and know that he is present.
A blessed couple should not just feel close to each other and treat each other well, but they should also attend each other as God’s son and daughter. There must be values in the life of attendance.
When children who learned filial piety from their parents and put it into practice start family life, they will serve their partner just as they were filial to their parents.
Husband and wife should not be indebted in love to each other. If either is indebted, he or she should strive to repay the debt with jeongseong and love.
In true conjugal love, partners not only love each other but love and serve their partner like God, and God and True Parents are present in their relationship.
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, there was a New Year's greeting and Kyungbae ceremony for True Parents in Korea. I was so happy to see True Mother after a long time. I think she is quite OK, still strong and healthy. I am so happy to see her so healthy. Finally, the new year of 2023 has started in earnest with True Mother.
And today is exactly the 800th day since we (launched) morning devotion. Thank you very much to all of you who have supported this morning devotion with a lot of sincerity and love. And thank you to all the interpreters and translators and all the staff and media team. Thank you very much for your hard work.
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. > We can conclude that a simple example such as that of the eye resolves the great debates over whether thought precedes existence, spirit precedes matter, and concept precedes reality. We can resolve the debates of spirit versus matter, of creationism versus evolutionary theory. Given this, we cannot deny that the universe came into being through the work of God, the Creator. We therefore would do well to strive to return to the original world of creation, by coming to know the kind of individual, the kind of family, and the kind of world that God desires to see. The body became the base of operations for hell and the conscience the base of operation for heaven. We did not know that the division of two worlds is contained within ourselves.
From this perspective, each of us has to ask if our body leads our mind or our mind leads our body. In reality, throughout history the body has been completely unrestricted as it leads the mind. If the conscience were stronger we would have automatically returned to God; long ago the world would have been with God. The fact that the physical body leads the conscience shows us that the problem stems from the moment of the Fall, when the force of false love, which tied the first ancestors to Satan, was stronger than the force of the conscience. God, who knows very well our situation, cannot abandon fallen humanity. So God surely established a strategy to weaken the body-centered force that dominates our conscience.
The body became the base of operations for hell and the conscience the base of operations for heaven. We did not know that the division of two worlds is contained within ourselves. From this perspective, each of us has to ask if our body leads our mind or our mind leads our body.
Therefore, God surely established a strategy to weaken the body-centered force that dominates our conscience. In this way, it is religion that had established a redemptive system in which Heaven moves historically.
God’s purpose in establishing religion was for training for the mind to dominate the body. However, if a religion fails to fulfill its mission and rather becomes a hotbed of communism and free sex, that religion will become incompetent and ultimately fall to ruin.
This is the very reason religions are declining today. Religions that should be leading the world are actually being dominated by the world.
That is why St. Paul warned us “do not conform to the pattern of this world.” (Rom. 12:2) If the training for the mind to dominate the body properly happened in church, God will surely come to that church and religion and work of the Holy Spirit will take place. This is because God is meant to be present where the mind and body unite.
In conclusion any individuals or leaders who cannot control their bodies will disappear and perish someday. Any church or religion that fails to properly train the body will surely perish and disappear. Look at all religions today including Christianity. Why are all religions dying? This is because religion cannot fulfill its original mission.
If we do not take control of our body, we will eventually fall to Satan’s side and perish. We must know for sure that if we do not take control of our body, we will eventually become Satan, Satan’s instrument. Therefore, we must strengthen the power of our con science to take control of our body. This is a really fun da mental thing. How can we control our body? This is not a simple issue. Eating desire, sleeping desire, ma te ri al desire, sexual desire, (there are) many kinds of de si res. Also, overcoming fallen nature. Actually it is not easy.
However, if our body controls our mind, then we become exhausted. Surely we will decline because Satan works on our body based on our body and our physical desires. So, no matter what, we need to control our physical body.
When we control our physical body, completely control it, and (establish) unity between mind and body, I can tell you, everybody without exception (will be able) to feel God. Why can’t we feel God? Because we have not yet fully controlled our body. If we control our body fully, (to the extent that) we control our body, we can feel God and remove our fallen nature. This(?) is really an issue. How can we dominate our body? In order to meet God, our first task is to control our body. (To the extent) we control our body, I am telling you guaranteed, we can feel God’s presence any time.
Why can’t we feel God? Many people say, “I go to church and attend Sunday service, but I cannot feel God.” That is the main point. (It means) we still do not handle our body well. If there is unity between mind and body, definitely God is there. If there is unity between husband and wife, definitely God is there. If there is unity between Cain and Abel, definitely God is there. Why can’t we feel God? Because there is no unity and the body controls our mind. Why can’t we find God any more in Christian churches? ... Why are they declining? ... Churches are following the secular world. The secular world dominates our religion.
If religions do not train us to control our body, then they will surely decline.
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 Father’s word.
The Reason Adam and Eve Could not Keep the Commandment
<4-32> The reason Adam and Eve fell was: Eve could not become one with Adam and Adam could not become one with God either. Therefore each of them was split into pieces and acted at one’s will in the surrounding of arbitrariness and perfect freedom, eventually had ruined the garden of the ideal of creation. In the last days, if the free world only insists on liberalism without having been making resolutions centering on God, it is to perish. That is the law of heaven and earth. If Adam who had to be the representative of God could have made a resolution that he would keep the commandment, whoever comes to seduce him, he could have dominated Eve and the archangel, thereby he would not have fallen.
<4-32> First of all, if Adam did not listen to the seducing words, he would have been alive no matter how hard the fallen Eve tried to caress him. If Adam did not fall, Eve could be created again. Adam, Eve and the archangel were individually split up for they had betrayed Heaven (and) thereby went against the natural law and had not set up the given words and the will of God as their central motto in their heart. As we had become such people, we had to be surrounded by an environment that we can not believe tomorrow what was believed yesterday, we can not believe in the next era what is being believed this era and we can not believe in the last days what may be believed in the next era.
The reason Adam and Eve fell was because Eve could not become one with Adam and Adam could not become one with God either. Therefore each of them was split into pieces.
If one always does whatever one wants and fails to become one, they are to perish. That is the law of heaven and earth. Adam, Eve and the archangel were individually split up for they had not set up the given words and the will of God as their central motto in their heart.
God said, “Do not eat.” Heavenly Father’s commandment should have been their central motto in their heart. God gave them a most important commandment. Then Adam and Eve needed to put God’s word as the central motto in their heart. Then (they would) never have fallen. They forgot the main point.
The fallen world that becomes split up because they could not become one has to be surrounded by an environment that we can not believe tomorrow what was believed yesterday, we can not believe in the next era what is being believed this era and we can not believe in the last days what may be believed in the next era.
God keeps trying to unite them whereas Satan keeps trying to separate them. In the Last Days, all religions, including denominations of Christianity, will gradually split up. Just as the individual’s mind and body split, the family’s husband and wife will split, parents and child will split, and nations will split from each other. Since Satan’s nature is to always fight, so failure occurs and, in the end, they perish.
Where is God? He is where there is unity. When your body and mind become one, you will definitely feel God and know that God is present. Similarly, if there is unity in the couple’s relationship, God will surely be with them.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Conjugal Love and Vertical Values
Let’s study.
There is a Value in a Life of Attendance
1. Do the husbands here truly and heartistically think of their wives as the daughters of Heaven? When the husband meets his wife then horizontally and blindly says that he likes her or she is nice, it is because she is good to him. In such a case, the husband likes his wife as his possession without any principled values. "Thank you for doing this for me," Does such a husband really know the world of serving in principle? And on the contrary, if the husband treats his wife well, the wife may think of her husband as a possession and like him horizontally. If the husband loves his wife blindly without any objection, this becomes a couple where both live without the view of the Principle. Horizontally, they like each other, but they do not serve and value each other centered on principled values. They do not have the value of serving each other as sons and daughters of God. It is not good to just blindly love and serve. There must be values in the life of attendance. We must distinguish whether the other person likes me by simply treating me well without any value of attendance, or whether they see, serve and love me as the child of God.
Some say an outside couple is really great. They create beautiful unity between husband and wife, but we need to judge properly. Even though they may have good harmony between husband and wife, we need to check. Is there any value of attendance in their couple? Can we really find God in their couple? There are values in a life of attendance.
In the secular world as well as among our blessed couples, if a husband treats his wife well or if the wife blindly likes her husband, there are things we need to check. First, we need to check whether God is present in that couple’s relationship or not.
Or did they only create harmony and unity horizontally?
If a husband and wife treat each other too well, they can think of each other with a concept of their own possession and like them horizontally.
In the husband and wife relationship, if they just liked each other horizontally, they do not serve and value each other centered on principled values. This is because they do not have the value of serving each other as sons and daughters of God.
What you need to clearly understand is that there must be values in the life of attendance. What kind of values? It is to serve the other as God’s son or daughter and connect to Heavenly Father with vertical alignment.
If we are just treating the other well without any value of attendance, just being kind and welcoming (people), just giving good hospitality, and people like us, but there is no value of attendance, it does not make any sense. Since it has nothing to do with the Will, we just flow horizontally.
We need to know very clearly about that.
The Life of a Married Couple Practicing Filial Piety
2. Why do children love their mother? It is because the children owe their mother a debt of love. The baby does’t know it, but when they are in their mother's arms, they feel the most comfortable. What does that mean? It means that the children owe their mother love.
Children like it when they blindly go into their mother's arms. At first, children receive unconditional love from their parents, and as they grow older, they live to repay the love given to them. As the children grow and go through middle school and high school, and repay their love to their parents, they become trustworthy children. If a couple receives the blessing and the husband does not bother the wife, does not get mad at her, and lives for her while going to church, it means he is someone who learned filial piety while growing up under his parents. So, just as the husband was filial to his parents, he did the same to his wife. The wife must love that husband more with all of her heart.
The wife should put her heart into loving her husband more than he loves her to the point it shocks him. Then the husband who liked her with self-centered reasons will become indebted to her in love and see her in a new light. Then the husband will naturally surrender to his wife completely.
During the children’s growth process, they must grow up with a great debt of love to their parents. So children should think that their parents are the best.
“My parents are number one.”
Children who grow up being loved by their parents like this gradually mature as they live a life of repaying their debt of love to their parents. When children who learned filial piety from their parents and put it into practice start family life, they will serve their partner just as they were filial to their parents.
Even in the husband and wife relationship, we should not be indebted to each other. If I am indebted, I should try to pay back more than that in order for our couple’s life to develop smoothly. If we just become indebted in love and take it for granted, later on, the couple’s relationship will eventually become estranged.
If the wife owes a debt of love to her husband, she should invest greater jeongseong more than he loves her and move his heart to the point it shocks him. Then the husband will naturally surrender to his wife completely.
Life of Attendance and Vertical Values
3. There are cases the husband does not have much faith and is always in conflict with his wife. But if he is influenced and changed by his wife's sincere devotion and service, this is because the wife's sacrifices and sincere devotion have naturally subdued the other person. The husband's natural submission through his wife's love means that his wife's love gives him the taste of salt, and he becomes humble like cabbage being pickled. However, if there is no investment of efforts and sincere devotion put into their relationship, they are like any other couple in the secular world. Normal secular couples do not fight each other, do not stimulate each other, and just live a normal life that is neither hot nor cold. There is no vertical-linked value of attendance. How can such love be called vertical love connected with God? From a certain point of view, vertical love is really serious.
There are some cases where the husband didn’t have much faith and always caused his wife pain, but imagine if his wife makes a strong determination before Heaven and says “I will take responsibility this husband on behalf of God, and absolutely make him into a filial son and offer him to You.” Then, if the husband is moved by her jeongseong and contributions and changes, how touched would God be?
The husband's natural submission through his wife's love means that his wife's love gives him the taste of salt, and he becomes humble like cabbage being pickled.
However, if they just have an easy relationship without any investment of efforts and sincere devotion put into their relationship, it can just end as a horizontal relationship. Normal secular couples do not fight each other, do not stimulate each other, and just live a normal life that is neither hot nor cold. There is no vertical-linked value of attendance.
Conjugal Love and Vertical Values
4. Is it love to live without fighting horizontally? We need to know clearly. Conjugal love shouldn't just end with horizontal love. Conjugal love should be connected to vertical love and have vertical values. Only when you have the value to love and serve your partner like God can you truly love as a couple. A couple must have a love that treats each other like God to have a sense of value in love. Conjugal love is not something that is horizontal and normal without any conflict. There is no God between the couples who simply love each other horizontally. True Parents are not there. In other words, it is not a love that God and True Parents acknowledge. A couple should love, but they should also love centered on God and True Parents.
You cannot call a couple a couple of true love just because they live peacefully without fighting horizontally. Conjugal love should be connected to vertical love and have vertical values. True conjugal love is when they have the values of loving and serving their partner like God.
Between a husband and wife, there must be love that serves each other like God for it to be a love that has values. Conjugal love is not something that is horizontal and normal without any conflict. There is no God between the couples who simply love each other horizontally.
Therefore, true conjugal love must have values connected vertically. There must be a vertical value that serves the other person like God. Conjugal love without God's presence is not true conjugal love.
Outside people may be a very peaceful couple, with no fighting, serving each other, loving each other. You need to see it from God’s point of view. Is God in their couple or not? If there is no God, it is just a horizontal relationship.
Therefore, true conjugal love must be love where God and True Parents are present.
Then they are really a true couple.
Today I spoke about conjugal love and vertical values.
(Testimony Celina Ojeda, Heavenly USA, Florida, 4th year GPA, Experience as Staff)♦
(Response to 800th Day of Morning Devotion celebration) I feel that when we reach 1,000 days, I do not know what will happen. Incredible heavenly blessing will come to America! It is not just I. Everybody has come together to offer jeongseong to heaven. Only utmost jeongseong moves heaven. Surely now our American movement can have a great turning point from now on.
Also, not just jeongseong. We need to get out of our home and focus on witnessing. Let’s break through with spiritual children. We need to do both: (to offer) jeongseong and (to) bring substantial results of true love.♦
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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