Ep 804 - The True Family and I Part 7
The True Family and I - January 7, 2023
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Yasuhiro Ishiyama
Key Points
What God and humans want is true love.
God gives love unconditionally, but at the same time, He longs to re ceive love and recognition from human beings, his objects of love.
True happiness must include both giving and receiving. It is infinite giving and infinite receiving.
The first thing we need to know is the existence of God and that God is our parent. The second thing is Satan’s absolute existence.
To address reality’s problems, we must first fight and win over the invisible Satan who controls everything behind the scenes.
We must know the invisible Satan's strategy so that we can win.
The only way to bring Satan to natural surrender is by true love.
Rather than one of simply believing, this is the age when each blessed family member attends God, True Parents, their parents, spouse, and children bearing the fruit of love.
This is an age not of giving and listening to sermons but of testifying to and showing each other in Sunday service how God has worked in our own families.
The most important truth is to inherit the course of victory that True Parents have walked and to experience their heart.
The four laws of inheritance are respect, participation, exceeding the person’s sacrifice and further developing his achievements.
In hoondokhae we must be able to wail, knowing God and True Parents’ heart behind those words.
Family pledge is the final constitution and standard that summarizes what True Parents have said and the life course that they have been practicing.
We ourselves need to inherit and practice what is intensely stated in our Family Pledge.
In order to inherit God and True Parents’ heart, we need a lot of tears.
A life of vibrant faith, utmost sincerity, true love and inheritance of heaven’s heart becomes a life of tears.
The best way to introduce young people to True Parents, God and the Divine Principle is through their own parents’ exemplary life.
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 it possible for all of our desires to be fulfilled? A senator will want to be president of his or her country, and later an important person on the world level. He or she will want to be an important person in world affairs. Ultimately, he or she will want to achieve the highest position in the world. That is the measure of ambition of the conscience. From the beginning of history until now, people’s general thinking is that the ambition of the conscience cannot be completely satisfied. However, my husband, the the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, arrived at the conclusion that it is possible to satisfy it.
(How big is the conscience? How can the conscience be measured? Do you think that the day will come when the conscience will possess God? Do you think that if something bigger than God exists that the conscience would desire to possess it? If something exists that is larger than God, then the conscience wants to occupy that larger thing. Then what is it that the conscience's ambition is seeking? If there existed something that had the maximum value in the cosmos, the conscience would desire to possess that as well.)
Now, if we compare the human conscience with God's conscience, which would be larger? If God's conscience were larger than a human being's, what would God do with it? The conclusion is that what God wants to possess is the same as that desired by the immense ambition of each person, and that is true love. We know that God is absolute, yet do you think God is happy? Might He be lonely? Ladies and gentlemen, even if a person becomes president of the nation, if he or she lives alone without a spouse, that person can not be happy. If we do not have an object partner of love, we cannot be happy. Does God need someone the same way? How do you feel about this? Even if God is God, He feels very lonely. The human being feels empty when he or she lacks money, or knowledge or authority. How ever, God does not need money, knowledge or power.
What is it that the conscience's ambition is seeking? If there existed something that had the maximum value in the cosmos, the conscience would desire to possess that as well.
If God's conscience were larger than a human being's, what would God do with it? The conclusion is that what God wants to possess is the same as that desired by the immense ambition of each person, and that is true love.
We know that God is absolute, yet do you think God is happy? Might He be lonely? If any being did not have an object partner of love, he cannot be happy.
Even if God is God, He feels very lonely. The human being feels empty when he or she lacks money, or knowledge or authority. However, God does not need money, knowledge or power.
God has only one (thing that he needs). He can create everything he needs. He has no need for money, power, knowledge or authority. He only needs one (thing that) he cannot create by himself. That is love. Love only comes from the object partner. Without the object partner, one cannot feel love. That is why if God cannot (have) give-and-take with any human being, he feels lonely. That is the reason he created an object partner of true love.
God experiences loneliness because He has no love object partner. God gives love unconditionally, but at the same time, He longs to receive love and wishes to receive recognition from human beings, His object partners of love.
Do you think God does not need love? He needs love. I think God needs something from us. What? Love. Not just for one second. Not just for 24 hours. He wants to stay with us every minute, every second forever. That is God’s desire. He wants to dwell with me. That is why as sons and daughters of God, how can we live with God forever?
True happiness does not come from only giving alone but it must include giving and receiving. True Love is able to give without limit when it desires to and is able to receive without limits whenever it desires so.
Of course, true love is giving and giving and forgetting, but at the same time, (one) desires to receive. To give infinitely and to receive infinitely is true happiness. The important thing is to give first. If we give infinitely, we will receive infinitely. That is why God gives and gives and completely forgets what he has given and still wants to give (more). Of course, God has unconditional giving, unconditional sacrifice, unconditional investment. But according to the universal principle, in give-and-take action if one really gives that much, he will (receive) more than he has given. That is why to give infinitely and to receive infinitely is true happiness. That is why we are talking about giving and receiving.
God wants to be recognized by human beings. Even though God does not say it – maybe he can say it – he really wants to be recognized by each human being. He wants to receive love (from each). He wants to be comforted by human beings. Can you imagine. Who has comforted God since Adam and Eve fell? Who has comforted God? Who understands his suffering, his tears, his sweat and blood? He wants to be recognized by his filial sons and daughters.
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.
• This is why Jesus said to the people, "you are of your father the devil," (John 8:44) and called them a "brood of vipers" (Matt. 12:34; Matt. 23:33).
• Also in Rom 8:23, St. Paul wrote, "not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons." This indicates that no one belongs to the lineage of God, instead human beings are of the lineage 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).
• 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.
Let’s study Father’s word.
Who is a Deadly Enemy?
<10-88> Now, we must know who the deadly enemy is. Who is that? The individual enemy whom you think you have to revenge grinding your teeth with vexation is nothing. Who is the deadly enemy? That is the very Satan, the devil and the evil who had destroyed this world where God was supposed to establish his great will of creation. He is our deadly enemy. He is the enemy of all the creature and humankind as well. On the path of the revenge, humankind has been used as the contents of the fights. The fights have already started. The God of good is always fighting against the enemy even when you are comfortably sleeping at night. The fights are on-going even day and night.
Who is this deadly enemy? That is the very Satan, the devil and the evil (one) who had destroyed this world where God was supposed to establish his great will of creation. He is our deadly enemy. He is the enemy of all the creature and humankind as well.
The very first thing we have to certainly learn from the Divine Principle is the existence of God and that God is the parent of all human beings. The second is the fact of Satan’s absolute existence. We should understand that Satan exists spiritually without our being able to see him.
Everyone, many religions, talk about God, but no one knows the identity of Satan. (However,) the Divine Principle clearly (says) who substantial Satan is. We are talking about the identity of Satan. That is why our Divine Principle is really great. In order to win over Satan we need to know, first, God’s existence, and secondly we need to know the existence of Satan. He definitely exists.
This invisible Satan has evil spirits from the spirit world who are his object partners, and the object partners of these evil spirits are the physical bodies of human beings living on the earth. Therefore, in order for us to be restored as God’s sons and daughters, we have to first of all fight to be victorious over the invisible Satan before the visible and real world.
When you sometimes deal directly with the guy who has committed sin or is doing evil things, that is not our fundamental way to “settle down.” We need to know who is behind (him).
Because Satan uses human beings as his tools, we have to make sure to not make bad conditions in front this invisible Satan rather (before trying to solve) problems that spring up in front of us
Nevertheless, in human relationships, fallen human beings are not able to solve fundamental problems that arise if they only address these problems externally. To address reality’s problems, we must first fight and win the invisible Satan, knowing that Satan is controlling everything behind the scenes.
That is why we need to see behind the scenes. If someone persecutes us, (if) someone hates us, we need to see who is behind him, who is behind the scenes. We need to deal with (the being) behind the scenes. Then we will win over (him). If we directly deal with the guy, we will surely fail; we will surely hate him. Actually, you need to know who is behind the scenes.
There is a Korean proverb that says, “If you know your enemy and know yourself, you will fight a hundred times and win a hundred times.” Therefore, we must know well the invisible Satan's strategy so that we can win in reality and know the relationship behind the people related to us and give and receive.
How can we love our enemy? It is very simple in some way. The one who hates us the most, this is not that guy’s problem. Someone is behind the scenes. Do we know who that is? That is Satan, (our) evil ancestor. That is why we need to deal with invisible Satan. He is using that guy. We need to know who the main cause is; then we can forgive our enemy. Without seeing invisible Satan, (if we) deal directly with that guy, then we will hate him. He becomes our enemy. We cannot solve the problem. That is why we should not make any mistake. Satan can invade us. Do you understand?
Since I know this principle, if any hates me and does not like me, (it is?) a problem. Ancestor problem. I need to forgive him. I need to still love him. That guy is not a problem. Who has a problem? Someone behind the scenes. Wow! Father’s guidance is really amazing!
Lucifer, Satan, corrupted our first human ancestors and made us his servants. Therefore, we must always resist Satan with hostility.
The Most Dreadful One in the Whole World
<10-189>There is nothing more dreadful than Satan in this whole world. Even though how dreadful this time of era might be, anyway the time passes by. However, there is one enemy who has never left humankind since the day of the human fall. That is the very Satan, the devil, and evil. When we live on earth and have an enemy, the enemy can be revenged during that era or even throughout the next generations. However the Satan who had taken over God’s position for 6,000 years could not be exalted by human kind neither revenged even at once. The greatest resentment of God is that he has not revenged to Satan. What is a big judgment? It’s not to wipe out the people on earth but to perish the deadly enemy, Satan. That is the big judgment. The big judgment is that we exterminate the Satan, who is the enemy of history and this era and who would be the enemy of our future.
There is nothing more dreadful than Satan in this whole world. Even though how dreadful this time of era might be, anyway the time passes by. However, there is one enemy who has never left humankind since the day of the human fall. That is the very Satan, the devil, and evil.
What is the big judgment? It’s not to wipe out the people on earth but to perish the deadly enemy, Satan. This is the big judgement. The big judgment is that we exterminate Satan, who is the enemy of the history and this era and who would be the enemy of our future.
Then how do we exterminate Satan? There is only one way. Bringing the enemy to surrender is only possible through true love, natural surrender. If God were able to bring Satan to surrender by force, He would already have brought Satan to surrender if God were to have used his own power, own force. There is only one way to bring Satan to surrender. It is to bring him to natural surrender through true love.
That is why God’s providence is always prolonged. Why? He needed to use the strategy of natural surrender.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Truth We Must Realize
It is the Age When Each Must Take Responsibility Over his Family
1. The age of attendance is each being of the four position foundation in the family voluntarily saying “centered on three generations, let’s create a family that is reborn and resurrected centered on Hyojeong.” In this way, the family is the final destination that must bear the fruits of true love. However, our blessed families do not put this into practice. Even though we have been educated on this numerous times through True Parents’ words, we do not conclude this in our families. The age of believing in True Parents has passed, so it is now the age when each family bears fruit as True Parents’ children. As True Parents have said, the responsibility of parents as True Parents is now over. They said that from now on, you must take responsibility for your own families. And they have taught us how to realize true families and showed us everything. Therefore, from now on, each family must bear fruit in their own family. Therefore, now, it has passed the age of giving a sermon to someone and listening sermons from someone. We must each bear fruit in our family centering on the hoon dok textbooks with True Parents’ words.
Today’s age is the age when each (member of a) blessed family attends God, True Parents, their own parents, their own spouse, and their own children.
Not just attending God and True Parents. You need to attend your own parents, your own husband or wife, and your own children.
The age of attendance is each being of the four position foundation in the family voluntarily saying “centered on three generations, let’s create a family that is reborn and resurrected centered on Hyojeong.” In this way, the family is the final destination that must bear the fruit of true love.
The age of believing in God and True Parents has now passed. Now is the age when each family comes to attend worship with substantial results of having attended God, True Parents, and family members.
Therefore, from now on, each family (member) must bear fruit in their own family. Therefore, now (we) have passed the age of giving a sermon to someone and listening to sermons from someone. We must each bear fruit in our family centering on the hoondok textbooks with True Parents’ words.
So it is the age where Sunday worship is a time (in which) we come to church and testify to and show each other how God has worked in our own families. The age of believing in True Parents has passed, and it is now the age of attendance. That is why you need to know that it is now the age when each family (member) bears fruit as True Parents’ children.
It is an amazing time now. That is why True Father (says that) when we are doing Sunday service, we need to (offer) more testimonies, not just deliver sermons. How we (have) met God in our family, through our spouse, through our husband or wife, through our parents and children. That is why (the) Sunday service time should be a time for giving testimonies: God is really a living God.
These kinds of testimonies (when we are) gathered together become a very powerful Sunday, powerful heavenly temple. Everyone does not know what the right time is. (It is) this kind of era. How beautiful (it is) now!
Before we come to join Sunday service, we need to have (prepared) an incredible testimony of how we lived with God within our family or our workplace. Then give that testimony. It is beautiful.
We need to know that our family is the final destination.
The Truth We Must Realize
2. As we go on the course of the Era of Cheon Il Guk, do you know what the truth we must realize is? It is to inherit True Parents’ course which they walked on while shedding blood, sweat, and tears. True Parents said that even though we cannot shed blood, when we shed sweat and tears for God’s Will, we can be engrafted onto True Parents heartistically.
True Father also said that for us to engraft onto True Parents’ heart, as we read or listen to hoondok words, we must be able to wail, knowing God and True Parents’ heart behind those words.
Every day, we wake up in the morning and recite the Family Pledge. We need to know that this Family Pledge is the final constitution and standard that summarizes what True Parents have said and the course of life that they have been practicing.
As we go on the course of the Era of Cheon Il Guk, the most important truth we must realize is to inherit the course of victory that True Parents have walked centering on God’s Will until now and to realize and experience True Parents’ heart.
In order to inherit True Parents’ heart, we must walk on the path of blood, sweat, and tears, which True Parents walked on. The first law of inheritance is to respect the other person. The second is to participate with that person. The third law is to go on the path of even greater sacrifice that the other person. The fourth is to further grow and develop the achievements left by that person.
I would like to remind you (of this) and repeat (it) again. In order to inherit True Parents’ heart, we must walk on the path of blood, sweat, and tears, which True Parents walked on. Again here: The first law of inheritance is to respect the other person.
Without respecting God and True Parents, we cannot inherit from them. The first law is that we need to respect our True Parents.
The second (law) is to participate with that person. Through Heavenly Tribal Messiahship we are participating and fulfilling our Heavenly Tribal mission. This is the way to inherit. That is why participation is very important as a co-creator. Without participating – “OK, you go your own way, and I will go my own way” – you cannot inherit. Participation is very important in order to inherit.
The first is what? Respect. The second is what? Participation.
The third law is to go on the path of even greater sacrifice than that of the other person. We should sacrifice more than True Parents – of course, we cannot do that – but at least our mindset should be like that. If we want to be greater than our own physical father and mother, then we need to put (in) more effort, more sacrifice than they; then we will become better than our own parents, right?
The last one is what? The fourth (law) is to further grow and develop the achievements left by that person. If our result is smaller than (that of) our own father and mother, then we will surely fail. That is why the result of those who are to inherit should be better than what we have been given. You need to develop, grow and multiply more.
You need to remember. What are the laws of inheritance? Respect, participation, greater sacrifice, and further grow and development the achievements left by that person.
True Father also said that for us to engraft onto True Parents’ heart, as we read or listen to hoondok words, we must be able to wail, knowing God and True Parents’ heart behind those words.
The Reason We Do Not Have Tears
3. As said in the Family Pledge, we must become true families that communicate with Heaven and become absolute couples and absolute parents centered on absolute love. The “absolute” here means the standard to becoming the incarnation of true love only centering on God’s heart and completely denying the being “me” and only centering on God’s heart.
As we go on the course of faith, why do we not have any tears? It is because we are still false. It is also because we are still practicing formal, conditional, external, and habitual faith. If I were really someone who possessed true love, there would not be a day without any tears. True Father knew the Will and cried so much for God and humankind, but even as he aged, he was someone who always lived with tears, even just before he went to the spirit world. Father often said that he could not sleep because of the families he blessed.
Oh my God! Then what kind of True Parents’ content do we have to inherit and put into practice? That is intensely stated in our Family Pledge. We need to know that this Family pledge is the final constitution and standard that summarizes what True Parents have said and the life course that they have been practicing.
We must become true families that communicate with Heaven and become absolute couples and absolute parents centered on absolute love and realize the true family ideals.
As we go on the course of faith, the biggest problem is that in order to inherit God and True Parents’ heart, we need a lot of tears, but the truth is we do not have any tears.
Then why do we not have any tears? It is because we are still false and do not have sincere hearts. It is also because we are still practicing formal, conditional, external, and habitual faith. Father said that if we were really someone who possessed true love, there would not be a day without any tears.
I really want to inherit Father’s tears. He always cried, shedding tears for all humankind, for the sake the blessed families. He is the one who truly understood God’s suffering, God’s worry about humankind. Father knows the reality of anyone who passes away.(?) That’s why as the parent and messiah of all humankind, he knows God and the Principle, he knows the situation of all humankind. That is why he always sheds tears.
I don’t have such tears. This is my lacking point. How about you?... read Father’s words and cry and cry. But not often tears like (those of) True Father or True Mother. That means I am still far away from God’s heart, True Parents’ standard.
True Father knew the Will and cried so much for God and humankind, but even as he aged, he was someone who always lived with tears, even just before he went to the spirit world. One who possesses God and True Parents’ heart must also possess tears.
Someone may say, “Why tears? We need to be joyful.” Yes, of course, we need to be joyful, but at the same time we have to know God’s reality. Someone (may) say, “(We need to have a) positive concept, (to be) joyful and thankful.” Yes, we need to (be this way), but at the same time, we need to go back to the fundamental points: Who is God? What is his reality? We need to understand his reality. He is the parent of all humankind. He worries about me and about you. He worries about so many other people who don’t know him yet. How many people die miserably, from accidents and this and that. (He is) the parent of all (of this) humanity. Can you imagine that? Wow! Oh my God! Our miserable God! Sorrowful God! When can we liberate... God?
The more our spirit grows and the more we experience God’s heart, the more tears always accompany it.
Please remember the reason we do not have tears is that we need to really be sincere and understand God’s sorrowful heart. Our final goal is to understand God’s heart and experience it. Once we experience God’s heart (as) True Father and True Mother (have), we will never go back to Satan; we will never commit sin because we will really understand the reality of God. We... will experience God’s sorrowful heart. This is our final goal: experiencing God’s heart.
Today I talked about “The Truth We Must Realize.”
(Testimony Yasuhiro Ishiyama, Seattle Winter Workshop)
(Response to testimony) It is not easy for our second generation and third generation, our blessed children, to understand God and True Parents, even the Divine Principle. What is the best way to introduce (them to) True Parents and God? Through their own parents’ exemplary life. “Wow! Through seeing my father and mother I can feel God exists and that Rev. and Mrs. Moon are the messiah.” Without parents exemplary life... they never have dealt with True Parents directly face to face. It is not easy. That’s why becoming a model family is so important. It is not easy to explain invisible God and True Parents’ messiahship. Now is the era of attendance. When one’s father and mother attend True Parents, (and show) how much (their parents’) life has changed, they can (provide) a good example to their children. That is why the family is crucial, very important. If the family does not show (this) and they go to church a lot, I am telling you, (it is) impossible. Let them go to workshops; (but) it is only temporary excitement. We are living with our children continuously. That is why our family’s exemplary life is really crucial. This is really important.♦
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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