Ep 808 - The True Family and I Part 10
The True Family and I - January 11, 2023
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Key Points
In order to liberate the conscience, we need to remove our fallen nature and make our body absolutely obey our conscience and become one with it.
To win God’s love we need to experience the Four Great Realms of Heart and the Three Great Kingships in the family and realize true love.
God is surely present where there is unity.
If mind and body unite, everyone without exception will feel God in heart, experience his presence and meet Him. The extent to which we feel God is the measure of our mind-body unity.
We need to inherit the love, life and true lineage of God to open the door to salvation.
Satan is God’s greatest enemy of love who caused the fall, violated humanity and the creation, killed Jesus and imprisoned True Father six times.
God can never compromise with evil which must be eliminated for any forgiveness and reconciliation to occur.
The evil committed by the archangel cannot be forgiven and must be eliminated, but Lucifer must ultimately be forgiven on the basis of absolute conditions by the messiah.
True Parents were able to forgive and liberate even the archangel through many indemnity conditions.
We have to set our own indemnity conditions to remove our own individual fallen nature.
Through true love even for our enemy, we need to bring Satan to complete natural surrender so that he can no longer do evil. That is what Jesus’ did on the cross by loving his enemies.
God’s sorrow is that neither he nor human beings can become perfect as long as there are accusations from Satan.
Satan wants to receive God’s perfect love and human beings’ perfect love.
We must overcome Satan's accusation, thinking that it is Satan's whip to perfect ourself.
The condition of Jesus loving his enemies made it possible for God to resurrect him.
The best prayer of all prayers is the Family Pledge. It is our vision and goals, and God’s purpose of creation. It contains all of God’s and True Parents’ wishes and all our responsibilities. It is our creed and way of life.
The Lord’s prayer makes no mention of the family because Jesus died without creating one, but the Family Pledge is all about creating the heavenly family.
To realize the Family Pledge is to resolve God and True Parents’ han.
Now that the era of indemnity is past, material and heavenly fortune will follow love. If blessed couples become one and serve each other, God will take responsibility for that family’s finances. Families of true love will never live in poverty.
Ga hwa man saseong means that if the family is harmonious, everything goes well.
Our job is to become harmonious; giving blessings is God’s responsibility.
If the couple is harmonious, God will take responsibility for their children’s growth and education.
A champion of harmony will lose the element of self in human relationships.
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.♦
(Response to sharing) The way you are talking about your mother, I am thinking of my mother as well. It is almost the same as my mother.
My mother is 94 years old. She has become younger and her voice has become louder. My goodness! My brother says she can live more than 100 years. Her health is better than (that of) my brother’s health. I am so happy to hear that my mother has become very healthy.♦
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. > If you unburden and liberate your mind completely, your conscience will automatically connect with the true love of God. Let us compare the position of the conscience to the position of love. You will see that love precedes the conscience. This is because the conscience begins from love.
The kingdom of heaven is the place where we go to live in unity with God’s true love and a free conscience. It is the place we go after having lived centered on love and after engrafting ourselves into the lineage of God's love. Without winning this love, we can never enter the kingdom of God. We will have to wait thousands of years until that day comes. Due to the Fall there will not be a connection with the kingdom of heaven as long as humanity is not illuminated by God's true thought and sustained by God's true love.
The person who lives in unity with a true conscience and true love will automatically enter the kingdom of heaven. No matter how much faith a person has in Jesus, if he or she is not linked to the love of God, and if that person's mind and body are struggling, that person cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. The person who inherited Satan's lineage cannot enter the kingdom. Religions with the mission of opening the way are struggling among themselves. This will lead to a sad state of affairs in the Last Days. God cannot be found where there is conflict. Religion is a movement to subjugate the body and liberate the conscience. Religion itself is not the key that unlocks the door to salvation. We have to know that the love, life and true lineage of God are the key that opens the door to salvation. That is what we need to inherit.
Due to the human fall, the conscience of us human beings accumulated a lot of filth and became dirty. That is why in order to liberate the conscience, we need to remove our fallen nature and make our bodies absolutely obey our consciences.
Therefore, the first responsibility of fallen people is for our mind and body to become one centered on the conscience. And to become one blood kin, we need to change our blood lineage. Furthermore, we need to create a family and experience the Four Great Realms of Heart and the Three Great Kingships and realize true love. This course is the way to conquer God’s love.
Without winning this love, we can never enter the kingdom of God. We will have to wait thousands of years until that day comes. A family where mind and body fight and husband and wife fight cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. It is proof that we are still divided because we have not been able to liquidate the lineage of Satan within us.
God cannot be found where there is conflict. Satan surely exists where there is conflict. Conflict belongs to Satan. Unity belongs to God.
But God is surely present where there is unity. If mind and body unite, everyone, without exception, will feel God in heart and meet Him. They can surely feel the presence of God to the extent that they unite.
We have to know that the love, life and true lineage of God are the keys that open the door to salvation. That is what we need to inherit.
Unity is very important. How do we know how united our mind and body are? Immediately we know. In our life of faith, how much do you feel God? If you really feel God, you have reached some kind of level and you have created unity between mind and body.
But even though you (may) believe in God through the Divine Principle, if you cannot feel (God), that means you still have homework (to do) to improve unity between mind and body.
Father is really a perfect man creating unity between mind and body. He can see God. He can talk to him. He can relate to anyone. He can see everybody visible or invisible. That is the standard of unity between mind and body. Our True Parents show that standard of unity. Can you imagine the power of that unity?
If we really create unity between mind and body, that is really incredible power. (Then) nothing is impossible. It is the same as Father’s standard. How far our standard is from that of True Parents!
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.
The Enemy of Love can not be Loved
<42-279> God should have substantially played the role as a Father of us, human beings who can communicate with blood lineage and feelings but He could not do so. Then who violated the position? Satan, the devil did. Therefore, Satan has become an enemy of love before God. Then as he has become the enemy, he can not be forgiven without any condition. If God has to unconditionally forgive the enemy of love, then what would happen? The heaven and earth would be upside down. God would rather kill his own sons and daughters, squander his fortune and even perish everything than forgive the enemy of love. Forgiving the enemy of love is against the heavenly law.
Satan is God’s greatest enemy of love. Satan made Adam fall, violated God’s children, Adam and Eve, and violated all creation of heaven and earth which God made with all His sincere devotion. And he is violating all descendants, driving all of them into the hell of hells.
And Satan also killed God’s one and only begotten Son, Jesus, whom He sent after 4,000 years. Satan killed numerous saints and sages, and sent True Father to prison six times. How can you love such an enemy? Think of God's lamentation over Satan.
God is absolute goodness and absolute love. So, He can never compromise with evil. Good and evil are like water and oil. Evil must be eliminated; otherwise you cannot reconcile. That's why you should know that good and evil can never be compromised.
True love does not forgive unconditionally, but to forgive, it needs absolute conditions that can be forgiven. God sent the Messiah as a being who could mediate between God and humankind. That is why the Bible calls the Messiah a mediator.
Who is the malefactor Satan? He is the archangel, Lucifer. The evil committed by the archangel Lucifer cannot be forgiven. That evil must be eliminated. But the archangel himself is a being that must be forgiven like all fallen human beings.
That is why True Parents were able to forgive and liberate even the archangel Lucifer, the malefactor Satan, through the many indemnity conditions that they set. However, we have to set our own indemnity conditions to remove our own individual fallen nature left by the archangel.
If we unconditionally forgive Satan, then what would happen? Then Satan would commit sins again. Therefore, we need to bring Satan to natural surrender so that he can no longer do evil. Natural surrender is complete surrender through true love.
Supposedly the archangel was standing in the position of a slave whom God had to love, he would accuse God if God did not love him saying “ If you are the absolute God, the love, the promise and the Principle also must have been absolute. Then have you ever loved me in the perfected position?” The archangel would accuse God of His not being responsible to perfectly love him, saying that “ You would not beat me if You fail to love me in the perfected position. Even God can only judge the wrong deeds of Satan after He loves Satan in the perfected position. Satan can say that “ If God could not have practiced the principles after setting them up, even God, Himself would not accomplish the perfected position.” And the Satan would also say to God that “Even though Your loving son could become a central being who has inherited Your legacy of all and represents You thereby moves the universe, he has never loved me in the perfected position before.”
The Divine Principle does not mention this, but Father explained very clearly here.
Satan accuses God: “God, when have You perfectly loved me? Have you ever loved me on the standards of perfected creation and perfected human beings? Even though I am a betrayer to You, don’t You have to love me no matter what?”
The archangel fell at the top of the growth stage, right? Actually God was supposed to (have) loved (him) (if) Adam and Eve (had) become perfect beings. God would have needed to love the archangel at the position of completion. (However,) the archangel did not receive that level of love from God.
Next, Satan accuses human beings: “Although I tempted Adam and Eve, don’t you become my masters when you overcome that, become perfected, and perfectly love me?
Satan continuously accuses human beings: “To this day, I still have not received the love of perfected human beings. Even though I violated human beings, don’t you have to fulfill your duty of love to me?"
The reason there are still accusations means that we still have not fulfilled our portion of responsibility. Therefore, in our course of faith, we must overcome Satan's accusation, thinking that it is Satan's whip to perfect ourself.
In the end, as long as there are accusations from Satan, even God cannot stand in the perfected position and human beings cannot stand in the perfected position either. This is God’s sorrow.
Let’s say everyone is liberated and has entered the Kingdom of Heaven, but one person still accuses God. Then God’s mission is not yet completely finished.
A perfect world means there is no accusation, (not) even 0.1%. If there is accusation, it means we still need to accomplish our portion of responsibility. If our wife or husband or child or Abel accuses us, even though we are doing right, we could still not fulfill our portion of responsibility. We need to have natural surrender. This kind of situation is God’s sorrow.
We need to know that God can judge Satan on the standard of first perfecting human beings and perfecting all things.
We also need to know that Satan wants to receive God’s perfect love and human beings’ perfect love. By Jesus loving the very enemies that killed him even while dying on the cross, he brought Satan to natural surrender.
Why did Satan completely surrender to Jesus? Since any human being came to the earth, no one has won over Satan. But when Jesus was crucified on the cross, he forgave his enemies. His enemies represented Satan, Lucifer. Even Satan was really moved. “No one in that situation has ever loved me!” According to Father Satan was really moved. That was the first time he had received perfect love. Jesus’ quality of love was amazing. Satan naturally surrendered. His enemy killed him, but Jesus said he did not know what he was doing. That is why Jesus was a perfect man. His quality of love made Satan surrender.
That is why that condition of loving the enemies made it possible for God to resurrect Jesus.
No one can deny that Jesus is God’s only begotten son. I really love Jesus. His quality of love was (such that) he could even forgive his enemy.
This was the first time Satan had received perfect love from a human being. That is why Satan had no choice (but to say), “God, now you can handle him. You can resurrect him.” If Satan (had) still accused him, then God could not have resurrected Jesus. This is according to Father’s explanation.
We should study The Washington Times’ 20th anniversary. (In that speech) Father talked about this.
That is why (Jesus’) loving the enemy made it possible for God to resurrect Jesus. The quality of Jesus love had a big impact on the 2,000 years of history before True Parents came.
How about True Father? His quality of love will influence all of human history from now on eternally because of his quality of love, his quality of jeongseong. Amazing!
That is why if anyone accuses you, even though you (may) be right, you need to reflect: “I need to love him until he completely surrenders to me.” Even though we (may) have gone a principled way, if someone persecutes, accuses and insults us, we need to reflect and not judge him. “Why does that guy accuse me? God is asking me to grow up, separate from Satan, and become a better person.” We need to reflect in this way. That is the attitude of a true person.
When an evil guy comes to accuse us and we respond, “How come you do this?”...
You see Jesus’ attitude. We can love so many things with Jesus attitude. What does humble mean? We learn through Jesus.
I don’t like Christian church denominations, but I really love Jesus’ quality of love. He is my messiah, my father, my lord. When I know the real meaning of Jesus, I cry often. He is an amazing guy.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Family Pledge and “Family Harmony Makes All Go Well”
The Best Prayer of All Prayers is the Family Pledge
1. The best prayer of all prayers is the Family Pledge. Can there be some other prayer greater than the Family Pledge? This Family Pledge is something that God and True Parents bestowed on us, wishing that all humankind, including blessed families, will take responsibility and put it into practice. The Family Pledge are contents that God desperately wishes for us to live according to the Family Pledge and practice it. In regard to God and True Parents achieving the Will, this Family Pledge is the most important content. God and True Parents do not have a wish greater than this. Therefore, the Family Pledge is our vision, goals, and prayer. There is nothing greater than this.
But what is your desired wish? Only God’s wish must become our wish. When that happens, we can become the filial family that God wishes for. An immature child lives centered on their own wish. However, a mature child of filial piety lives centered on their parents’ wish.
I spoke about the importance of the Family Pledge yesterday, too, but actually, the best prayer of all prayers is the Family Pledge. And the Family Pledge is our vision, goals, and God’s purpose of creation. There is no greater prayer than repeating the Family Pledge and praying. All of God and True Parents’ wishes are in this Family Pledge and it contains everything we need to take responsibility over.
Christians confess their faith through the Lord’s prayer. “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen.”
Christian people often say this prayer. But the Lord’s prayer makes no mention of the family at all. That is because Jesus died without being able to form a family and set an example. We cannot compare the Lord’s Prayer to Family Pledge. The Family Pledge is the final (prayer). There will be no pledge beyond this one.
A mature child of filial piety lives centered on their parents’ wish. Therefore, since the Family Pledge is the wish of God and True Parents, we must live with a way of living and creed centered on the Family Pledge.
Who Will Fulfill God’s Wish?
2. In this world, even though a son or daughter grows up, becomes financially independent, and reaches a marriageable age, if they age without living properly and do not even help their parents or get married, in the end, that family’s blood lineage will be cut off and become miserable. God’s original purpose of creation is exactly like this.
If we blessed families know God’s Will but do not fulfill God’s wish, then who will? Even if a child is born into a difficult family, if that child grows up well and has the gratitude of their parents for raising them but does not take responsibility for the sorrow of their parents' poverty, then who will? God’s circumstance is just like this. Had Adam and Eve absolutely obeyed God and married under God's supervision, they would have received God's blessing and become a family of eternal life living together with God.
Heavenly Fortune and Material Fortune Will Come Where There is Love
3. True Father said that if couples of blessed families today became one and served each other well like God, God will take responsibility over that family’s financial matters. The financial situation of a family of true love are to be blessed by God. Just try to become a family overflowing with love. You will never live in poverty. Heavenly fortune coming to that family is determined by love. Why have you still been unable to escape from poverty? Father said because the couple still has not become one and they still have conflicts, they are still poor. Now, as we usher in the age of love, material fortune and heavenly fortune want to go to places with love. Please keep in mind that when a couple is in conflict, poverty and suffering will come endlessly.
Oh my goodness! For our blessed families to realize the Family Pledge is resolving God and True Parents’ han. Now, it is the age of the family. The age of the family is the age of love.
The age of resolving all problems through indemnity as in the past is over. Now, it is the age of resolving everything through love. We have ushered in an amazing era in which everything will prosper as long as there is love in the family.
True Father said that if couples of blessed families today became one and served each other well like God, God will take responsibility over that family’s financial matters.
If God does not give materialistic fortune to families of love, then where else would He give it? It is a principle that material wealth always follows love.
If there is love, there is material fortune as well.
Material wealth tries to follow love.
That kind of thing is impossible in the age of indemnity. But now, indemnity had ended and it is the age of love. So, if the husband and wife unite and parents and child unite, it is a principle that God will give materialistic fortune.
If you just create a family overflowing with love,
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even if you tell God not to come, He will come. This is because even God wants to find a place where there is love and stay there. Keep in mind that love is always accompanied by material blessings.
Families of true love will never live in poverty. Heavenly fortune coming to that house is not determined by power, material things, or money, but by love.
Why have you still been unable to escape from poverty? Father said because the couple still has not yet become one and they still have conflicts, they are still poor. Now, as we usher in the age of love, material fortune and heavenly fortune want to go to places with love. Please keep in mind that when a couple is in conflict, poverty and suffering will come endlessly.
That is why we should not worry about money from now on. Just worry about creating unity between husband and wife and parents and children. Just create beautiful unity, serve each other, love each other centered on God; then don’t worry at all about material things and money because material things and money follow where love is.
That is true. God wants to give blessing where? Where there is love and unity. God wants to poor out his holy spirit and love and blessing to that area. This is absolutely true.
Family Harmony Makes All Go Well
4. In Korea, there is the expression Ga hwa man saseong. This means that if the family is harmonious, everything goes well. Being harmonious is our responsibility. Once we are harmonious, Heaven will take responsibility afterwards. That is why our biggest question is how much the couple serves each other while being harmonious. If we are harmonious, the concept of “me” disappears. The concept of husband and the concept of life will also disappear. There is no self-centeredness in true love. If you just become a harmonious family like that, God will take responsibility over your family. And that family will become a family of eternal life, which God works with.
However, if the couple fights, that becomes God’s han (bitter pain). Because of Adam and Eve, han was formed, but if blessed families have conflicts again, it will become a sorrow to God. If husband and wife do not become one and just fight, that couple’s entire life will become pitiable. We know all about this truth. Know clearly that tribulation and storms of life arise when families are in conflict. Not only that, but all children become delinquents. When you fight, the money of a wealthy family will run away. Why are developed countries becoming more and more ruined? It is because families are not harmonious but are in conflict.
True Father really liked the expression Ga hwa man saseong, He often wrote this calligraphy and put it on the wall and often watched for it. It means that if the family is harmonious, everything goes well. Much fortune comes. Being harmonious is our responsibility. Once we are harmonious, giving blessings is God’s responsibility.
Therefore, now, in line with the age of love, we really need to create harmonious families. Then how do we create harmonious families? Anyone can create harmony by serving first before speaking.
To be harmonious, the first thing is for the couple to be harmonious. If the couple is harmonious, there is no need to worry about children’s education. If the couple is harmonious, God will take responsibility over the children’s growth. And to be harmonious, there cannot be any self-centered actions and thoughts of yourself.
Just as salt dissolves when it is in water and gives it a salty taste, a champion of harmony will lose the element of self in human relationships and will only give a salty taste no matter where he go. If you just look at harmonious families, you will see that God will stay in that family and they will become a family of eternal life. However, when a couple is in conflict, it becomes God’s han.
Because of Adam and Eve, han was formed, but if blessed families have conflicts again, it will become a sorrow to God. If husband and wife do not become one and just fight, that couple’s entire life will become pitiable.
We know all about this truth through the Divine Principle and Father’s guidance. Know clearly that tribulation and storms of life arise when families are in conflict. Not only that, but all children become delinquents. When we fight, the money of a wealthy family will run away. Why are developed countries becoming more and more ruined? It is because families are not harmonious but are in conflict.
Wow! Today’s guidance is really incredible! What is our portion of responsibility? Creating unity. Creating harmony. Then based on that condition, God’s portion of responsibility is to poor out his Holy Spirit, blessing, money fortune, material fortune, everything. That is why unity and harmony are the key.
Today I spoke about “The Family Pledge and “Family Harmony Makes All Go Well.”
(Testimony Ruth Naggawa, Leading a Winter Workshop, District 5)♦
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