Ep 809 - The True Family and I Part 11
The True Family and I - January 12, 2023
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Key Points
Human salvation begins with the unification of the mind and body, not simply with faith.
God’s ideal and purpose of creation, the perfection of love, can only be accomplished jointly with human beings, his object partners, through a give-and-receive relationship.
Human perfection is impossible without God as subject partner.
Satan perpetuates his evil activity through evil spirits, and the spirit and physical selves of people on earth.
Evil spirits appear as the god of sexual immorality, and frequently dominate the physical self with their sexual parts(?).
In order to restore evil spirits, we should pray always, live by the word and meditate on it, follow our Abel, and discern the spiritual status of our thoughts and environment.
In order to be restored to the person of the ideal of creation, we must bring Satan to voluntary submission, subjugate our physical body with our own free Will – nurtured and controlled by God’s words – and fulfill our responsibility.
The secret to separating from Satan and evil spirits is sympathizing with God's sorrowful heart, comforting him and controlling the body by uniting the body and mind.
Good spirits cannot come to us as long as our body is fighting Satan. Good and evil must be completely separated.
Blessed families have the mission and responsibility to relieve God's han by taking responsibility for erroneous families and history.
Blessed families should lead the youth and educate secular unmarried people so that they can be blessed.
If blessed families fulfill their mission and responsibility, God's han will be relieved.
Because we have to think of our spouse as God-given, we must be “fearful and difficult” when dealing with each other in order to maintain our vertical standard.
True Father said that married couples are really scary because they make the decision to go to heaven or hell.
When a husband and wife become one and live in harmony centered on vertical values, the fortune of true love will surely come to their family.
God's blessings always come through human relationships, the human channel.
If we love and care for our subordinates, especially the young and even our enemies, the spirit world will be moved and bring heavenly fortune.
Heavenly fortune comes disguised as a human who may be a beggar, a child, an evil person or an enemy. We should treat everyone with love, humility and compassion, and without discrimination.
Because the course of our life is the course of love, we must digest everything with love and overcome it with love.
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. > Faith in religion alone will not save us. In reality, religion exists as a foundation to discipline the body. When our conscience is liberated, its ambition can ascend to God. Does this idea make you want to try to find out more? Who will know first what someone is doing, the conscience or God? The conscience will know first. A human being is a person distinct from God because he or she has to occupy the object partner position in a meaningful way. In the same sense, husband and wife are different. The characteristics of each are clearly different. If we were to conclude that God knows everything prior to it happening, we would be saying that we are indistinct from God, as if we were a single body. An ideal cannot be perfected when it is self-contained. After Adam and Eve sinned, God asked, “Adam, where are you?”
Humankind comes from God's love and returns to God. God is waiting for our return. Ladies and gentlemen, when parents reach the age of one hundred years and their children reach the age of eighty, the relationship of parents and children also becomes a relationship of companions, of friends.
We cannot compare the physical strength of the average woman with that of the average man. She can never defeat him, although through love, wife and husband are attracted to one another and follow each other. If Adam and Eve had been the object partners of God's love, would that not have been pleasing to God? God created the universe before Adam and Eve were to have matured as His object partners of love. God had the ambitious hope that in the future they would be His ideal object partners. If, after having perfected themselves as the object partners of God's love, they had asked God to create something greater than what already had been created, do you not think God could have done so?
Faith in religion alone will not save us. In reality, religion exists as a foundation to discipline the body. Existing religions did not know that human salvation begins with the unification of the mind and body. If salvation were to be simply in the name of believing, God's providence would not have taken such a long time.
And God's ideal of creation can (only) be accomplished through the object partner, not by God alone.
I think many religious leaders did not know this point. They think God is almighty, omniscient, omnipotent; whatever he wants he can do it. He can create anything, everything – except love. Love needs to have an object partner.
Therefore, God's purpose of creation is to be completed jointly with human beings.
In conclusion, no matter how great God is, he cannot complete his purpose of creation without our existence. And, human perfection is impossible without God as subject partner.
With out God we cannot complete (our purpose). If God ignores us, he cannot complete his purpose of creation.
This is because God's ideal of creation is the perfection of love. Love can never be completed and experienced without a partner. Therefore, God and human beings each have responsibilities, and God's ideal of creation cannot be completed without a give and receive relationship.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 17: Activities of Satan in the Human World
• Satan cannot perpetrate his evil activity unless he first finds an object partner with whom he can form a common base and engage in give and take action.
• Satan's object partners are evil spirits in the spirit world. The object partners to these evil spirits are the spirit selves of evil people on earth, and the vehicles through which these evil spirit selves act are their physical selves.
• Accordingly, the power of Satan is conveyed through evil spirits and is manifested in the activities of earthly people.
1. Satan can perpetuate his evil activity through evil spirits, and the spirit and physical selves of people on earth.
2. Evil spirits appeared as the god of sexual immorality, and frequently dominate the physical self. Once the condition is fulfilled, the evil spirits appear. Once they form a common base, they will always appear.
3. They are under the dominion of the sexual part of evil spirits.
Therefore, in order to restore evil spirits,
The Bible says very clearly in
1) We have to pray without rest. (1 Thes: 5:17)
We are the descendants of the archangel that always brings the spirit of sexual immorality. Without jeongseong, without prayer conditions, Satan can invade any time. Why are we like that. Some second generation say that every 15 seconds, every 30 seconds, every minute (they are tempted). “This kind of thinking comes to me continuously. What should I do?”
Not just second generation. Many young people, even older people (have it). (Age) does not matter. This is as a result of Satan. We come from sexual Satan. That is why in order to restore evil spirits, we cannot overcome it with our own power. That is why the Bible says we need to pray without resting. Once we rest, Satan immediately invades. This is reality. That’s why we know that Adam and Eve fell by sexual immorality. We are the descendants of sexual immorality.
2) We have to live by the words of God. The words have to become flesh.
Our weapon is what? God’s word. As long as we study God’s word, we can connect to God vertically. God’s word is his love and power. As long as we study God’s word, it (will) always give us strength and power. God’s word is so powerful that we can chase out Satan’s spirit.
3) We have to live by meditating while centering on the word.
We always need to meditate on God’s word. If there is no key word, if there is no agenda of God’s word throughout our daily life, I am telling you, we cannot win over Satan. He will invade us at any time. We have to always keep going, meditating (about) God’s word. This is very important. Meditating is one of the important conditions of prayer and jeongseong.
4) We have to live under the dominion of our Abel all the time.
Satan decides everything by himself. No Abel. That is Satan. Satan always is centered on himself. He never cares for others. But in order to restore evil spirits, we need to always have Abel. We need heartistic Abel. If we don’t have a heartistic Abel...
When we are going and coming, we need to report. We need to have heartistic communication. Where there is no Abel and we have a habit of deciding everything by ourself, it is very dangerous. Then we cannot relate to Heavenly Father. That is why in our life of faith, our Abel figure is very important.
If someone already has the habit of not reporting, “I go to Los Angeles, to Washington, D.C., whatever...” We need to report. “I come to Australia. I report(?) to True Mother that I am going to Australia. When am I going back? I need to report to True Mother. We always need to report.
If we do not have an Abel figure and do everything on our own, we are a very dangerous guy. We already have our own habits. We can betray any time. We make our own decision and don’t relate to Heavenly Parent and True Parents. This is a problem.
5) We have to live distinguishing the environment.
You need to know what is a good environment and (what is) an evil environment. Where there is an evil environment, we need to quickly run away. If we are involved in an evil environment and do not have much spiritual power, we will surely be dominated by Satan. If we cannot overcome, then we immediately need to run away from the evil environment. We need to distinguish a good from an evil environment. Do we need to go? Or we don’t need to go? We need to make a clear decision.
6) We have to live distinguishing our thoughts.
We need to separate Satan, good and evil, from our thoughts. If you already are acting, it is already too late. We need to distinguish whether this is evil thinking or good thinking. If we have evil thinking, we need to immediately separate from that. If we just let evil spirit come and do not do anything, then we just become the embodiment of Satan.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18: Always be joyful and never stop praying. Whatever happens, keep thanking God because of Jesus Christ. This is what God wants you to do.
• For example, Satan entered Judas Iscariot(Luke 22:3), and Jesus once called Peter "Satan" (Matt. 16:23)
• In the Bible, the spirits of evil men on earth are called "angels" of the devil. (Matt. 25:41)
• The Kingdom of Heaven on earth is a restored world in which Satan can no longer instigate any activity. To realize this world it is necessary for all humanity to eliminate their common base with Satan, restore their common base with God, and engage in give and take action with Him.
• However, God granted human beings and angels freedom, therefore, He cannot restore them by force. Human beings must uphold the Word of God on their own free will and by fulfilling their responsibility, which would then bring Satan to voluntary submission. We can only be restored to the original ideal purposed by God at the creation through this process.
To be Restored to the Person of the Ideal of Creation
1. We must bring Satan to voluntary submission with our own free Will and by fulfilling our responsibility. It means, God’s words are to nurture our own free will.
2. We must lead a life inseparably one with God’s words so that we can control ourself with the words.
3. We must subjugate our physical body, through which Satan works, with our free will.
Based on this content, let’s study Father’s word.
The Reason that the Spirits in the Spirit World Cannot Come to this Earth
<1958.3.2 > What is the reason that the spirits in the spirit world cannot come to this earth? It is because this earth is made up of barriers of lamentation. If the environment we dwell in is free of the conditions of lamentation, if through our bodies we can become free from the conditions of sorrow, and if we have entered the realm of peaceful rest in which we do not feel any fear when we are threatened by Satan, then God will help us. To cling to the people who mourn, worry and shed tears for the sake of the Father, Satan must stand in the same position. The forces of Satan will then be fundamentally dismantled.
For this reason, you must experience the sorrow of God, who has been guiding the providence for several thousand years. Taking responsibility for all of heaven and earth, you should be able to say, "Please take us as the sacrifice and make us into the bombs that can explode Satan! Please uproot the sorrow of God." Jesus came with this kind of heart.
What is the reason that good spirits in the spirit world cannot come to this earth?
When we have some miserable situation, an unfair situation, “Oh, What is God doing? What is True Father doing? Why doesn’t he do anything to such evil people. Many people ask (this question.)
It is because this land has become an environment of evil ruled by Satan and is made up of barriers of lamentation.
In the realm of an evil environment, good spirits cannot do anything. This is because God and the good spirit world can have a reciprocal relationship only in a good environment. The good spirit world is supposed to come only under the condition that good and evil are completely separated.
If we reject the environment of lamentation in which we are now and have absolute faith that does not feel fear in the face of Satan's threats, God will definitely help us. Therefore, no matter what kind of hardship, persecution, and unfair position we are in, if we have a heart that sympathizes with God's sorrow, Satan will never be able to invade us.
The best secret to separating from Satan is that we can immediately be separated from him once we stand in a position that sympathize with God's sorrowful heart. If we face Satan with God's sorrowful heart, he will never be able to invade us.
This means that if a human being is in a position to control the body by uniting the body and mind in any environment, God will be able to come to us. If human beings make bad conditions, Satan takes them, and if humans make good conditions, God is supposed to come and work with us. We must know that good spirits cannot come as long as our body is fighting Satan. Therefore, good and evil must be completely separated.
The best secret to separating Satan is to stand in the position of experiencing God's sorrowful heart. Then Satan cannot come. Satan will never be able to accuse us if we stand on the position comforting God under any circumstance.
I would like to reemphasize this point. When immorality and wrong thoughts come to us, how can we separate from them? We need to lament (about) them with the sorrowful heart of God. If we rebuke Satan with the sorrowful (heart) of God, he will immediately back down. If we rebuke him with the sorrowful heart of God, he will never be able to invade.
How can we sanctify our immoral, Chapter Two thinking? We need to cry, “Heavenly Father, look at this kind of satanic Chapter Two thinking! How sorrowful you are.” When we think about God’s sorrowful heart when he looks at our body that has become Satan’s instrument, we shed tears. Then Satan will immediately run away.
How can we sanctify our physical body when we have strange Chapter Two thinking, all kinds of evil thinking? How can we separate from it? We need to sanctify (ourself) by God’s sorrow. Because of this kind of Satanic blood lineage, immoral Chapter Two evil thinking,... how much human beings make God suffer!
“Heavenly Father, I do not want to do this, but I cannot overcome this by myself. Please help me. You are so sorrowful!” We need to lament whenever we have that kind of thinking, and we need to sanctify (ourself) with God’s sorrowful heart. When we do this, Satan immediately runs away.
When I was at the Korean UTS, my friend asked and challenged Yo Han Lee: “Hey, Rev. Yo Han Lee!”
“Yes,”
“I have a question.”
“What?”
“I have so much Chapter Two thinking. What should I do? I really hate that, but I could not overcome it.”
Rev. Yo Han Lee answered, “You need to lament (about) yourself and shed tears. “Our body should be the body of God; our mind should be the temple of God. How can we have this kind of thinking?” Then you (should) cry and wail (about?) God’s sorrowful heart.”
Wow! Since I received that kind of guidance and answer, it helped me so much.
When that kind of thinking invades us and we do not say anything... And then our children and second generation have all kinds of evil thinking and masturbate, and cannot control their thinking... What is the best way to separate from Satan?... We need to experience God’s sorrowful heart(?).
Father reported, “In Heungnam Prison, how could I overcome a difficult life(?)? I received so much torture. Many times I had an experience of death. Do you know how I overcame? Since I came to know that God is a God of sorrow, when I met God after Jesus introduced me to him, when I saw God directly, I had not known that God was so miserable and sorrowful. That kind of situation gave me strength and power. I cannot give up. I cannot rest.
Why can’t we separate from Satan? Why do we continuously commit sin again and again? One of the main reasons is that we did not have an experience of God’s sorrowful heart. We need a lot of tears.
Satan can never work in a person who says, “God make me a sacrifice! If there is a way for me to comfort you through this hardship, I will go any way!”
This is our challenge. Father is again talking about God’s sorrowful heart, how we can kick Satan out with God’s sorrowful heart.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Blessed Couples Must Serve and Think Fearfully of Each Other
The Mission and Responsibility of Blessed Couples
1. If you look at countries like Korea and Japan today, there are a lot of unmarried and virgin men and women. If everyone follows the trend of not getting married, they will eventually perish. Families in the world are now really at the end of the world (the last days). Secular families and young people can no longer find hope. They really have nowhere to go.
On the contrary, the providence of true families began centering on True Parents' blessing. Therefore, we blessed families must take responsibility for the fallen families and history since Adam and Eve's fall and relieve God's han. There is no one in this world who can relieve God of sorrow and han. We blessed couples must take responsibility, lead the youth, and educate the secular unmarried people so that they can be blessed. In this respect, in fact, we blessed families have a great responsibility.
On the other hand, the name blessed family is a very frightening name. This is because if blessed families fulfill their mission and responsibility, God's han will be relieved, but if they do not, they may have God carry a heavier cross.
In many developed countries today, there is a growing trend towards never marrying. It is proof that Satan is now flowing into a state of self-destruction. Facing this era of the end, our blessed families have the mission and responsibility to give hope to the world and all people through the providence of true families.
Until now, God has never had the family He desired. There was no one in this world who could relieve God of sorrow and han. Therefore, we blessed families have the mission and responsibility to relieve God's han by taking responsibility for the erroneous families and history since the fall of Adam and Eve.
Since the fall of Adam and Eve went wrong in the family, God's han can be resolved only through the family beyond the individual level. Therefore, blessed families should lead the youth and educate the secular unmarried people so that they can be blessed.
The name “blessed families,” which appeared as the fruit of God’s 6,000-year providence of restoration, is a very frightening name. This is because if blessed families fulfill their mission and responsibility, God's han will be relieved, but if they do not, they may have God carry a heavier cross.
Blessed Couples Must Serve and Think Fearfully of Each Other
2. The very name of a blessed family is a fearful name. So blessed couples must fearfully serve each other. If the blessed couple simply loves each other horizontally, their vertical relationship will collapse. The couple should be close and difficult. We must never treat each other easily. The husband must be a difficult person and the wife must be a difficult person. Why should we be hard on each other? It is scary because if a couple is in conflict, they will go to ruin.
Therefore, husband and wife should serve each other with reverence and fear. Only when husband and wife serve each other with reverence and fear will the fallen nature of self-centeredness disappear. If you treat each other too easily or treat (each other) horizontally, you will create an environment where conflicts can arise because it flows in a humanistic way. Therefore, husband and wife should always treat each other vertically, even if they have a horizontal relationship. We must serve one another with fear. That's why True Father said that married couples are really scary. Why are couples in a scary relationship? This is because the decision to go to heaven or hell is made there.
Since the name of blessed family began with God and True Parents, blessed couples must fearfully serve each other as if they were (serving) God and True Parents.
When the couple who have received the Blessing does not have a vertical standard for their relationship with God, but simply and blindly like each other horizontally, their vertical attitude collapses. Then, it becomes the same standard as secular married couples.
The couple should be close and difficult. We must never treat each other easily because the other person is from heaven. Because we have to think of the other person as God-given, we must be fearful and difficult when dealing with them.
The husband is a difficult person for the wife, and the wife should serve the husband as a difficult person. So why should you consider the other person as a difficult partner? It is scary because if the couple treats each other horizontally and fights, it will lead to ruin.
The husband and wife should serve each other with reverence and fear. Only when husband and wife serve each other with reverence and fear will the fallen nature of self-centeredness disappear. If you treat each other too easily or treat (each other) horizontally, you will create an environment where conflicts can arise because it flows in a humanistic way.
Human history began with misfortune because the conjugal relationship between Adam and Eve went wrong, and the whole world turned into hell on earth. Therefore, husband and wife should always treat each other vertically, even if they have a horizontal relationship. True Father said that married couples are really scary. This is because the decision to go to heaven or hell is made there.
Heavenly Fortune Comes to a Harmonious Family
3. Look at Adam and Eve's family. Look at Noah's couple. Look at the relationship between Mary and Joseph, the parents of Jesus. The couple's conflict has made today's history like this. This is for certain. So, wives should fear their husbands, and husbands should fear their wives. Just because we are afraid of conjugal relationships does not mean that we should be afraid of evil people. It means to be afraid of falling on a horizontal basis. Satan keeps trying to reduce the conjugal relationship to a horizontal one.
Do you know that when husband and wife become one and live in harmony, the fortune of true love will surely come to our families? Therefore, in order to bring such a heavenly fortune, the couple must respect and attend each other. When a couple of true love becomes a couple, heavenly fortune will come to that family. Secular people do not know this fortune called heavenly fortune. While fighting and conflicting between husband and wife, they think that there is some good fortune that will come to their home. They resent, envy, covet, and complain about others, but they mistakenly think that they have a future.
Why should we be afraid of the conjugal relationship? This is because if the conjugal relationship is treated horizontally without vertical values, Satan will invade immediately. In a conjugal relationship, if we do not attend and serve each other centered on vertical values, we will flow horizontally and become a humanistic couple. Therefore, we should always fear each other.
I am talking about a good(?) way, not a negative way. I do not know if this is a right expression or not.
When a couple is in conflict, misfortune arises. Satan keeps trying to reduce the conjugal relationship to a horizontal one. Conversely, when a husband and wife become one and live in harmony, the fortune of true love will surely come to their family.
Because unity and harmony belong to God, when a husband and wife become one, heavenly fortune and physical fortune will surely come to that couple. Even material things want to go where there is love. Therefore, when a husband and wife unite through love, heavenly fortune will drive their economic fortune.
Therefore, in order to bring such a heavenly fortune, the couple must respect and attend each other. When a couple of true love becomes a couple, heavenly fortune will surely come to that family. Secular people do not know this fortune called heavenly fortune. While fighting and conflicting between husband and wife, they think that there is some good fortune that will come to their home. They resent, envy, covet, and complain about others, but they mistakenly think that they have a future.
Heavenly Fortune Comes Through Channels Called People
4. Even though you hate a certain person and say that you will no longer deal with that person, you are mistaken if you think there is another way. According to the law of love, heavenly luck leaves such a person. Even if fortune seems to stay temporarily for a while, it will eventually fail. If you have a relationship with that kind of person, that person has no future.
Since life is a journey of love, there is no way for me to go if I am blocking a relationship with someone. God's blessings do not suddenly fall from the sky. Heavenly fortune always comes through the channel of people. Therefore, if you do not have good human relationships, it is the same as blocking the path of heavenly fortune. So, when human relations are not going smoothly, serve with a humble heart with tears in your eyes, and feel forlorn for the other person.
Looking at True Father's life, he did not regard his adversaries as his enemies, and did not hate them, but forgave them and had mercy on them. Rather, He loved and served them by his shedding blood, sweat, and tears. True Father called his life the 'life of a phoenix'. He loved his enemies even to the point of death.
Another important thing is that God's blessings always come through human relationships, the human channel. Heavenly fortune and blessings do not just fall from the sky. Heaven's blessings must come through people, so you must value people and build good relationships with them.
A person who hates people will have bad luck and chase away the heavenly fortune that comes. If we love and care for even our enemies, the spirit world will be moved and bring heavenly fortune to that place. Therefore, those who do not love people can never receive heavenly fortune.
We must love our subordinates in particular. We must especially love the young. Hypocrites tend to look good only to their superiors and ignore their subordinates. What we need to remember is that if we hate people, our heavenly fortune will go away.
Heavenly fortune comes disguised as a human. Sometimes they come to us in the form of beggars, sometimes in the form of children, sometimes in the form of poor people, sometimes in the form of evil people, and sometimes in the form of enemies.
That’s why we do not know how heavenly fortune will come, so we need to even love our enemy. When we love our enemy, surely blessings will come to us.
At that time, anyone who does not discriminate against people and treats them well will carry the blessing called heavenly fortune. In the end, if a relationship is established with a person who discriminates, that person has no future.
If human relations are not smooth, we have to shed a lot of tears over our angular character. And it means serving with a more humble heart and having pity for others.
Looking at True Father's life, he did not regard his adversaries as his enemies, and did not hate them, but forgave them and had mercy on them. Rather, He loved and served them by his shedding blood, sweat, and tears.
True Father loved his enemies even when he was about to die. Jesus also loved his enemies, prayed for blessings for his enemies, and prayed for blessings for Israel even at the point of death. Because the course of our life is the course of love, we must digest everything with love and overcome it with love.
Today I spoke about “Blessed Couples Must Serve and Think Fearfully of Each Other.”
(Testimony Riki Menning, SR3 Yayam Coordinator, Winter Kogape)♦
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