Ep 803 - The True Family and I Part 6
The True Family and I - January 6, 2023
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Resfred Arthur, Susie Mizuguchi, Jaya Alvarez
Key Points
When we enter the spirit world, we will immediately be known by our name, and since our entire life is recorded, everyone, including all our ancestors, will know about everything we did. Nothing will remain hidden.
• We must not bring anything into the spiritual world that stains the conscience.
• Our conscience fulfills the same role that a compass fulfills for a ship's captain on a voyage.
• True Father discovered that the omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent God wishes for human beings to be better than He.
• Once the four-position foundation is formed, the center – whether God or Satan – is established because either evil or goodness is multiplied through children. That is why the four-position foundation is a fearful thing.
• Because humans fell below the level of servant, they could only be restored through the eight stages of restoration.
• The Blessing is a ceremony to eradicate Satan’s lineage and to inherit God’s direct lineage.
• Sin is highly contagious, incurable, cumulative and fatal. Like a high interest debt it imposes an ever increasing burden on the sinner and makes us slaves to Satan. It is like an incurable, fatal disease. The only solution is the Blessing.
• God is most pleased with those who overcome themselves. Such a person is a filial child.
• When our children remain absolutely pure until the Blessing, God re joi ces and even sheds tears, saying they are better than Adam and Eve.
• In our life course we pass through three stages. During the formation stage, we are recognized by Abel and value rituals and systems. In the growth stage, Cain believes in us as Abel. In the completion stage after receiving the Blessing, the husband and wife become God’s substantial object partners and attend each other as the visible, tangible God.
• The age of attendance is the age of the family.
• The blessed couple is to become the incorporeal God manifesting on earth as substantial dual characteristics in human bodies.
• Our physical body exists for our spirit self to bear fruit.
• After receiving the Blessing, the couple should become the substantial temple in which God is present.
• The church is God’s place of training, but the couple is the place of practice.
• The life of a couple is more important than church worship services.
• The position of our blessed couples is as the substantial object partner of God's dual characteristics. God's man and God's woman must meet and resurrect each other by clearing each other’s original sin and serving each other with true love.
• Original sin was committed by a couple as a husband and wife. Therefore it can only be removed by a couple.
• The blessed couple must internally clear each other’s original sin, cause each other to be reborn and resurrect their lineage so that it is completely transformed into God’s lineage.
• Drinking holy wine and the three-day ceremony are only external conditions to remove the original sin.
• After starting family we really begin to remove original sin by ser v ing each other. When it is completely removed, our Blessing is no long er conditional and becomes a perfect Blessing free of conditions.
• While we prepare for the Blessing by becoming trustworthy through faith, we need to become a couple who are filial to our spouse with a heart of hyojeong and who raise our children to be filial sons and daughters.
• The family is the final destination where true love must bear fruit. It is the holy of holies where we can meet God.
• When we lecture the Divine Principle, we need to share the heart of God and of central figures and shed tears so that participants can be deeply moved.
Transcripts from November 3, 2021 to the present, personal notes from November 11, 2020 until November 2, 2021 and slides from August 29, 2021 to the present are available at MD.Hoondok.com as PDF files.♦
Today I’d like to talk about “The 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. > Is there anyone here who is convinced that he or she will never die? We will all go to the spirit world someday. When you enter the spirit world, you will immediately be known by your name. Your entire life will be known, as well as that of your ancestors, because the spirit world transcends time and space. We must not bring anything into that world that stains our conscience. For that reason, you need to understand that the conscience is above all other teachers. Today we have gathered distinguished personalities. Among them are some professors. Honestly, there has never been a professor who possessed a teaching ability superior to that of the conscience. It fulfills the same role that a compass fulfills for a ship's captain.
To the many distinguished people gathered here this evening, I would like to ask, “When you married, did you want to have a spouse inferior to you?” The answer is no. And if I asked you whether you wanted a spouse ten times better than you or one hundred times better than you, no doubt you would reply that, if it were possible, you would prefer that he or she be one thousand, ten thousand, one million times better than you. This is because the ambition of the conscience is to experience the maximum amount of love. It wishes to possess the absolute being. The same was true for our ancestors and the same will be true for our descendants. Even God would respond in the same way.
Is there anyone here who is convinced that he or she will never die? We will all go to the spirit world someday. When we enter the spirit world, we will immediately be known by our name, and since our entire life is recorded, everyone will know about everything.
The spirit world cannot hide anything. Not only that, since it is a world that transcends time and space where thousands of ancestors will also know in an instant, we must not bring anything into that world that stains the conscience. In the physical world, I can hide many of my mistakes in my physical body and deceive others, but once I shed my physical body and go to the spirit world, I cannot hide anything.
Then, for people who have committed many sins and have lived a shameful life, what must they do from now on? Father said that if the results of their contributions and results of love for their neighbors, their nations, and God’s will are greater than the sins they committed, they can hide everything, even the sins they committed.
So, we need to live a life that is not shameful before the conscience. There are no parents or teachers who can teach about the truth better than the conscience. Our conscience fulfills the same role that a compass fulfills for a ship's captain on a voyage.
And if I asked you whether you wanted a spouse ten times better than you or one hundred times better than you, you would reply without hesitation that they be one hundred times better. If it were possible, you would prefer that he or she be one thousand, ten thousand, one million times better than you.
This is because the ambition of the conscience is to experience the maximum amount of love. It wishes to possess the absolute being. The same was true for our ancestors and the same will be true for our de scend ants. Even God would respond in the same way.
True Parents said that True Father had a showdown prayer with God regarding the question if the fact that God wished for human beings to be hundreds of times, thousands of times, or millions of times better than Him was true. The result was that God said it was true. If we look at this, we cannot deny that God is the parent of all parents.
Although God is an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent God, we cannot help but think that the fact that He has a desire for each person to be better than Himself is an amazing discovery and great thing. In short, it is a shocking truth. In that sense, we can never know how much God loves us human beings.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 16: The Consequences of the Human Fall
Section 4: The Consequences of the Human Fall
• What were the consequences of the spiritual and physical fall of Adam and Eve for the entire universe, including humankind and the angels?
• Satan is the name given to the Archangel Lucifer after he fell.
• When the first human ancestors fell, they bound themselves in blood ties with Lucifer. They formed a four position foundation yoked to Satan, and thus all humanity became the children of Satan.
• Adam and Eve fell while they were still immature and they formed a four position foundation centering on Satan. Consequently, this world has come under Satan's sovereignty.
• Hence, the Bible calls Satan "the ruler of this world" (John 12:31) and "the god of this world" (II Cor. 4:4).
We need to know the reality. God also knows the reality.
The subject ruling the entire world today is Satan. Satan became “ruler of this world” and “god of this world.” Therefore, in order to overthrow the world under Satan’s sovereignty, we need to restore the sovereignty centered on God.
That is why Father says no matter what we need to restore the heavenly sovereignty.
• Furthermore, it is written in Rom. 8:19-22, "The creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God..." These verses describe the agony of the creation as it longs for the appearance of unfallen people who have perfected their original nature and who will vanquish Satan and rule it with love.
The Human Fall and Cheon Il Guk
1. No matter what kind of center, whether it is God or Satan, once the four-position foundation is formed, the center is established.
... centering on God or centering on Satan.
> If there were no children in Adam’s family, it would have ended in one generation and could not have been settled in the end
... because there was no Four Position Foundation.
That is why the four-position foundation is a fearful thing. Sins are multiplied through children. Both multiplication of evil and multiplication of goodness happens and is established through the four-position foundation.
Once (the situation is) “settled down” centering on the Four Position Foundation, it is not easy to change. That is (either) really good or really bad. No matter what kind of center, whether God or Satan, once the Four Position Foundation is formed, the center is established.
2. Since human beings fell due to the archangel, who was the servant, they fell to the position of servant of servants, which is inferior to the archangel. That is why True Parents said that in order to restore such fallen people, we must pass through the 8 stages of the course of restoration of indemnity from the position of servant of servants, servant, adopted child, stepchild, child of direct lineage, mother, father, all the way up to God.
3. We need to clearly understand that the truth is that we are the children of the devil and the children of vipers. We need to know that the Blessing is a ceremony to eradicate Satan’s lineage and become part of God’s direct lineage by changing to God’s lineage.
The Name of Satan, the Devil
<8-316> There are names of Satan in this world. The devil is called Satan and Satan is called evil. There are some attributes in evil such as jealousy and feeling of envy etc. We should clearly understand that these attributes represent Satan.
Five Characteristics of Sin
● Mark 7:21-23 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
● Five Characteristics of Sin
1. Sin is highly contagious. The sin of one person, Adam, was passed on to all humankind, and sin easily infects surrounding people.
Sin multiplies through the blood lineage. How to cut off the blood lineage is the issue.
2. Sin is like an incurable disease, a disease that causes death. Therefore, without the course of True Parents’ blessing, it is a disease that is difficult to fully recover forever, and you can never be forgiven.
We may say, “I forgive you. You forgive me,” but who has the qualification to forgive original sin? Only the messiah can completely cut off Satan’s blood lineage. Therefore the messiah needs to come.
3. Sin is like a high interest debt. Like a debt, a sin is unbearable if it is not paid back and like an increasing high interest rate on a loan, if sins are not forgiven, it brings other sins.
4. It is like shackles. Just as you need to be punished if you break a law, if you commit a sin, you must pay the price accordingly, and you cannot escape judgment.
5. Sin makes you a slave to Satan. All human beings who have sinned have no choice but to live as slaves of Satan.
Once we commit sin, we become slaves to Satan. How do we get out (from under) Satan? Without the messiah it is impossible. That is why all of humankind needs the messiah and needs to receive the Blessing. The Blessing is not just a marriage ceremony. It is the ceremony of removing our original sin.
God is Longing to See His Children Subjugate Satan
<8-184> What is the purpose for God to keep fighting against Satan despite all the circumstances? It is to seek for the lost sons and daughters and make them be proud of before Satan. He let the archangel naturally subjugated by human beings and run errands for them. However now the human beings are in the position that they are rather violated by the archangel. That’s why God has wanted to see the moment that the archangel, the head of the devil would bow down his head to such people raising his arms and saying that “You are the princes and princesses of eternal victory.” when the people get to be connected to the love of God.
What is the purpose for God to keep fighting against Satan despite all the circumstances? It is to seek for the lost sons and daughters and make them be proud before Satan.
God has wanted to see the moment that the archangel, the head of the devil, would bow down his head to such people, raising his arms and saying that “You are the princes and princesses of eternal victory.”
Although we are fallen human beings, God’s wish is to see His children defeat Satan. Since the Messiah is someone who came as a perfected human being, he is someone who can fight with Satan and be victorious, but since the fall of Adam and Eve, no one among fallen human beings has fought Satan and won.
But if there were a child among fallen people who came out after (his parents) defeated Satan, God would be joyful and shed tears as He rejoices more than when the Messiah was victorious. Don’t you want to try fighting Satan and be victorious?
If there were someone who kept his purity during his youth and up until the Blessing, he becomes a person greater than Adam and Eve. God is most pleased with those who overcome themselves. Such a person is a filial child. Do you know how much God longs to see His children subjugate Satan? God waited for 6,000 years.
That is why when we take care of our children well and they remain absolutely pure, God says they are better than Adam and Eve.
Even though we have fallen nature, because of the Blessing and True Parents’ guidance, we start family and overcome our fallen nature and serve each other as husband and wife and finally establish the ideal family, experience the Four Great Realms of Heart and Three Great Kingships, three generations ... and then go to seven generations and continue that heavenly lineage. Wow! Then we are better than Adam and Eve.
Heavenly Father has never seen anyone among fallen descendants who has overcome all the fallen issues, has kept his purity, and after receiving the blessing kept fidelity between husband and wife and established an ideal family. I think God is very happy, more than for the messiah. Why? Heavenly Father has never seen anyone (like this): a fallen man ... (who) has broken through, (who) has overcome sexual desires, material desires, eating desires, sleeping desires and has reached (the level of) divine spirit. Even though after the Blessing husband and wife (may have) struggled so much, they overcame and (now) respect each other – after (they were) 40, 50, 60, even 70 years old. When (a couple) reaches that level, God sheds tears.
Heavenly father’s wish and True Parents’ wish for us is (that we) become such filial sons and daughters and (such) an ideal family.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Difference Between the Age of Faith and Age of Attendance
1. Even though we are living in the age of attendance, we are still unable to distinguish between it and the age of faith. The age of attendance is the age of family. The age of faith is the age before the arrival of the age of blessing through True Parents, the age until the top of the growth stage, and is the age in which the spirit world takes the lead and guides us. This is the era in which God is trying to fulfill His wish through our blessed families.
And in the age of attendance, the position of the blessed couple is the same as that of the incorporeal God manifesting on earth as a substantial dual characteristics in a human body. Therefore, you should no longer seek and rely on God. A married couple centered on True Parents is in the position of the substantial God. Since husband and wife serving each other is like serving God, they must serve each other as if they were God.
Regarding our life course, we need to go through the courses of three ages. During the formation stage, we need to go through a course of being recognized by Abel by valuing rituals and systems as life as in the Old Testament Age. During the growth stage, we need to go through the course of being recognized by the Cain-type world like in the New Testament Age and then Cain recognizes and believes in us as Abel.
And after receiving the Blessing, the husband and wife becoming God’s substantial object partner so we must live in the age of attending each other, the visible, tangible God. As the age until the top of the growth stage, the age of faith was the age before the arrival of the age of blessing through True Parents when the spirit world became the subject partner and guided us.
But the age of attendance is the age of the family. Now is the time when God is trying to fulfill and be relieved from His wishes through our blessed families. In the age of attendance, the position of the blessed couple is the same as that of the incorporeal God manifesting on earth as substantial dual characteristics in a human body.
Therefore, you should no longer seek and rely on God. A married couple centered on True Parents is the position of the substantial God. Since husband and wife serving each other is like serving God, they must serve each other as if they were God.
Blessed Families Exist to Bear the Fruit of True Love
2. The next thing to know is that when we compare our bodies and minds with trees and fruits, our bodies, like trees, must nurture the spirit body from the form spirit stage until the life bodies and spirit bodies bear fruit.
What is the purpose of a grape vine? It is to bear fruit, and the vine only wishes to bear good fruit. In the same way, God wants each blessed family to bear the fruit of true love in each family through the blessed tree.
You must be the one to manage your own tree yourself, no one else can manage it for you. You have to bear the fruit of yourself, and the fruit of your family must bear fruit centered on the husband and wife. No one can help. This is the responsibility of blessed families. The fruit of a true family does not come from going to church and holding services well.
Our bodies, like trees, must nurture the spirit body from the form spirit stage until the life bodies and spirit bodies bear fruit. In the Bible, it says to clear out the fig tree that has not born any fruit. The reason our physical bodies exist is to make our spirit self bear fruit.
The tree of our physical body is wishing for our spirit body to bear fruit well. True Parents blessed (us) as blessed trees and are wishing for each blessed family to bear the fruit of true love in each family through the blessed tree.
Just as we need to manage ourselves well as blessed trees, the husband and wife must become the center and bear the fruit of each blessed family. No one can help.
When you receive the blessing, the couple must become the church. A church is a place where God is directly present. So, after receiving the Blessing, the couple should become the substantial temple in which God is present.
Once you receive the Blessing and start the Blessing as husband and wife, then who is your church? Husband and wife, you are the very center, the church, because “church” means God’s dwelling place. Where is God’s substantial dwelling place? Between husband and wife. That’s why when husband and wife really unite together, that is substantial church.
Therefore, just like holding service divinely in church on Sundays, the life of a blessed couple should be a life of attending holy worship to each other. The church is God’s place of training, but the couple is the place of practice. Therefore, the life of a couple is more important than church worship services.
Wow! Very powerful!
The Family is the Final Destination to Realize True Love
3. Again, the position of our blessed couples are the substantial object partner of God's dual characteristics. And what is the role of the blessed couple? God's man and God's woman must meet and resurrect each other with true love. Therefore, it is not by faith that the blessed couple bears fruit. Never by faith.
The stage of faith is for each individual to manage themselves well before receiving the blessing and become a trustworthy person whom Heaven can trust. However, once they receive the blessing, they must become a couple who are filial to their spouse with a heart of hyojeong, just as each of them were filial to God. And they must become parents of filial piety and raise their children to be filial sons and daughters.
Therefore, it is to create a family centered on the three generations, where each of the four-position foundations in the family will be reborn and resurrected centering on hyojeong with a voluntary heart. In this way, the family is the final destination where true love must bear fruit.
The position of our blessed couples is as the substantial object partner of God's dual characteristics. God's man and God's woman must meet and resurrect each other with true love. A blessed couple--God's man and God's woman--must meet and clear original sin and resurrect each other by serving each other with true love.
Original sin was not committed alone but by a couple as a husband and wife. Therefore original sin can only be removed by a couple, not alone. Never by oneself.
Woman must take care of men’s original sin, and men must take care of women’s original sin. Therefore, when seeing the husband’s sins, the wife should think that it is a portion that she has to take charge of, and when seeing the wife’s sins, the husband should think that it is a portion that he has to take charge of.
This is because the original sin was not committed by one individual alone but committed by a couple together, so there is no way to clear sin unless it is through the couple. We cannot pass on our own sin to our partner like Adam and Eve did. Like so, when married life begins, the couple must go through the courses of internally clearing original sin and making each other be reborn and resurrected for their lineage be completely transformed to God’s lineage.
When we receive the Blessing, it is conditional. Drinking holy wine and the three-day ceremony are external conditions to remove the original sin. After starting family we really begin to remove original sin by serving each other. When we completely remove our original sin by serving each other as husband and wife, the Blessing (is no longer conditional and) becomes a perfect Blessing. Then there is no need of conditions any more.
But if a couple has not yet removed their original sin, then their Blessing is still conditional. We need to be liberated from the conditional Blessing. This is an important point.
Therefore, it is not by faith that the blessed couple bears fruit. Never by faith.
“I believe in Jesus, so I will go to the Kingdom of Heaven.” No! In order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, we need to remove our original sin. Without removing it we cannot enter. Even Jesus said we need rebirth; otherwise we cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. What does rebirth mean? It means to remove the original sin.
We cannot remove original sin alone – not just the husband (by himself), not just the wife (by herself). The husband and wife together (need to do it). That is why the husband has to be responsible for his wife’s sin, and she, for his sin. They have to help each other, love each other. (This is the only) ... way to remove original sin. Even our blessed couples do not know (this). “I will go my own way. Why does my husband go his own way?” If we do this, how can we remove our original sin? We cannot.
The stage of faith is for each individual to manage themselves well before receiving the blessing and become a trustworthy person whom Heaven can trust.
However, once they receive the blessing, they must become a couple who are filial to their spouse with a heart of hyojeong, just as each of them were filial to God. And they must become parents of filial piety and raise their children to be filial sons and daughters. Therefore, it is to create a family centered on the three generations, where each of the four-position foundations in the family will be reborn and resurrected centering on hyojeong with a voluntary heart. In this way, the family is the final destination where true love must bear fruit.
The family is the final destination. It is everything. That is why Father said the family is the holy of holies. Where can we meet God? In the family. Where can we remove the original sin? In the family. Where can we grow up? In the family. Where can we experience God’s heart centering on the Four Great Realms of Heart? In the family. Where can we achieve the Three Great Kingships? In the family. Even though so many saints and sages came to the earth, no one discovered this point. How can we deny that Father and Mother are the messiah. We cannot deny this. It is very clear. Incredible!
The more I read and study the Divine Principle and read Father’s word, I cannot deny who Rev. and Mrs. Moon are the messiahs. We need to know the Divine Principle very clearly; then no matter what the situation we are not shaky. We need to know this point very clearly.
Today we the family is the filial destination to realize true love.
(Testimonies SR1 Next Generation Winter Workshop, Resfred Arthur, Susie Mizuguchi, Jaya Alvarez)
(Response to the testimonies) When we deliver the Divine Principle, it is very important not simply to teach the Divine Principle itself. When we talk about the Principle of Creation, we are talking about God’s heart, his joyful heart. When we talk about the Fall of Man, we need to focus on God’s heart (of pain). Since Adam and Eve fell, how incredible God’s pain has been! The lecturer needs to shed tears. In the Principle of Creation we talk about how beautiful God’s vision is; when we talk about the Fall, we can’t just teach the Divine Principle in a dry way, but with tears.
When we talk about the Restoration Course and Adam’s family, we need to share about Adam’s heart after the fall. Noah. Everything is focused on the heart. The Principle of Creation, Fall of Man, the Restoration Course. Then surely participants will be moved. When we appeal to their heart, centering on God’s heart, they have incredible experiences. Our lecturers need to know about this point from now on.♦
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