Ep 810 - The True Family and I Part 12
The True Family and I - January 13, 2023
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Key Points
• In this fallen hopeless world humankind has fruitlessly sought many ways – including communism and democracy – to attain happiness, but the world is falling into further and further into chaos.
• Each religion has been waiting for their version of the messiah from heaven to bring a solution to this global misery and fulfill the ideal that all religions hope for.
• The messiah comes to earth as a true parent to establish an ideal family of true love, true life and true lineage to save humankind.
• Unificationists are the most blessed people because we have come to know God, meet True Parents, learn the Principle and receive the Blessing.
• We have the great mission of creating the Kingdom of Heaven on earth by “conveying heaven’s blessing to the community.”
• Just as God and Satan shed blood, sweat and tears to win the final battle, we, too, should fight at the risk of our life.
• Satan will never voluntarily surrender, so the restoration of the Kingdom of God will demand our blood, sweat and tears.
• Correspondingly, China, Russia and North Korea will not blindly surrender but will “go to the edge of the cliff.”
• While China and Russia are still aiding North Korea, God’s strategy is that they will gradually lose power and be unable to intervene in North Korea. Abel’s side, America and Japan, need to unite to support the unification of North and South Korea.
• The Japanese government has recently passed a law that makes it easier to prosecute our movement.
• For us to win this final battle, we should give up our own will, live for heaven’s will and thus form a parent-child relationship with God.
• We study OSDP to understand clearly that True Parents are the original substance of the Divine Principle and that we should resemble True Parents by becoming the original substance of the Divine Principle ourselves.
• It is important to assess how much we have changed through learning and knowing the Divine Principle.
• Learning what True Parents have said at public events is important but we should read the Divine Principle in its various forms hundreds of times to become its original substance.
• The original homeland is the place where parents and children share filial love and have the consciousness of ownership of Cheon Il Guk and a voluntary, resurrected heart.
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. > As infinite as the ambition of our conscience is, we have to know that God can create everything that we desire. God created us with the value of true love object partners. The restoration of this value, lost at the Fall, is the purpose of human life and history. God established religions and the founder of each of them promised that some day he would return. Christianity teaches us that Jesus will return. In Buddhism they speak of the return of Buddha. Confucianism alludes to a new Confucius. Likewise in Islam, we find the return of the Mahdi, the divinely guided one. Let us consider the reason that God established the different religions. We have to understand that the Will of God is accomplished centered on God's beloved children, children who are like God's flesh and blood. With those beloved sons and daughters, God wants to form families, tribes, races and nations.
This tells us what kind of person the Messiah is. At the time of the Second Coming, the Lord is the person who perfects the ideal for which all religions have longed. He will come to the earth with the original and eternal love of God. The Messiah will become a True Parent, and centered on that lost true love, will work to establish a completed family on earth on the foundation of true life and true lineage. That is the purpose of the providence of salvation. Due to the Fall, God lost the True Mother as well as the children of Adam's family. This means that God could not have true children. There was no family connected to the Heavenly lineage, the source of God's love. Due to the Fall of the parents, we became connected to false life, false love and false lineage, which have caused our minds and bodies to be in conflict with each other. Adam and Eve became enemies, which caused their two sons to fight with each other.
If we look at any part of this world, which began due to the fall of man, there is no hope. Over a long history and until now, humankind has been seeking human happiness by using all kinds of means. However, there has been no solution, and the world is becoming increasingly chaotic. Both communism and democracy, which appeared in the end, are also revealing their limits.
Therefore, it follows that the solution must come from Heaven, not from humans. Then, when they come from heaven, who will bring with them the authority, will, wishes, and ideals of Heaven? Each religious denomination has been waiting for such a person until now.
The Messiah is the one (for whom) all religions and mankind have been waiting for. Then who is the Messiah? You need to know that the Second Coming of the Messiah is the one who, rooted in God's true love, will come to earth and fulfill the ideal that all religions hope for.
Thus, the goal of God's providence of salvation is for the Messiah to become a true parent and find true life and true lineage as an ideal family on earth, centering on lost true love. The Messiah is the one who comes to this earth in the name of True Parents to save humankind.
Unificationists are the most blessed people in the history of God's providence of restoration. This is because Unificationists came to know God, met True Parents, came to possess the Word of the Principle, the eternal truth, and received the blessing of eternal salvation.
Blessings multiply into greater blessings when we multiply them. One of the great attributes of a blessing is its attribute of certainly multiplying. So, as stated in the Family Pledge, we have a great mission to make this earth into the Kingdom of Heaven by conveying Heaven's blessing to our community.
Whenever we convey our blessing to our community, our tribe and our nation, that is the way to establish God’s Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. Our main mission is to multiply the Blessing. The Blessing doesn’t only mean a marriage ceremony, but changing our blood lineage, our life and our love. As a blessed couple if we do not (fulfill our mission), our blessing becomes stagnant. That is a problem. The more we multiply, the (better) we maintain (our Blessing) and gain happiness as well.
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.
• 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.
Based on this content let’s study Father’s word.
In Order for us to be Victorious in the Battle with Satan…
<1957.6.30 Let Us Be a Victor for God.>
Since Satan knows that this last battle will begin, he will attack with his utmost force. Therefore, in order for us to be victorious in the battle, not only God will do His best, but also you who are sons and daughters of God should pour (out) all of your spirit and heart.
In this battle, Satan will not blindly surrender to you, but along with the people who are controlled under his domain, he will resist you with his maximum power. You should know this.
As we shed tears for heaven, Satan also sheds tears for the fulfillment of his will. As we sweat for God, he also sweats for himself. As we fight at the risk of our life, he also fights the same way we do for himself. You should know this.
Now, in the age of the last days, know that Satan is also doing his best in this final battle. Look at North Korea's Kim Jong-un. Is he not an instrument of Satan, doing his best to maintain his power?
Even God is pouring all of His spirit and heart more than anyone else in the final battle. Therefore, in order for us to be victorious, we must do everything with all our might, just as God does with all His spirit and heart.
Even Satan does not blindly surrender to us until the last moment. Rather, we should know that he will do his best to resist us along with the people who are controlled under his domain.
As we shed tears for heaven, Satan also sheds tears for the fulfillment of his will. As we sweat for God, he also sweats for himself. As we fight at the risk of our life, he also fights the same way we do for himself. You should know this.
Brothers and sisters, have you ever heard that Satan sheds blood, sweat, and tears for Satan's will? Look at the evil regimes waging war in this land these days. Aren't they shedding their own blood, sweat and tears as Satan's tools?
Satan makes a last resort. Satan's strategy is to go as far as he can. He never voluntarily surrenders so easily. Therefore, the restoration of the kingdom of God cannot be attained automatically without paying the price of blood, sweat, and tears more than Satan.
Look at Russia, China and North Korea. They will not just blindly surrender. They will go to the edge of the cliff. It is not a simple surrender because this is the final (game?). In order to restore (the relationship) between North and South Korea, as long as the archangel nation on the Cain side, Russia, and the Eve nation, China, intervene in North Korea, we cannot make unity between North and South Korea.
That is why God has a strategy. (These nations) are doing their best to keep their own power, but we can see they are losing power more and more day by day. Centering on North and South Korea, the Cain side realm centering China and Russia, and the Abel side realm centering on Japan and America...
This is really between God and Satan. God is preparing the environment. They will go to the edge of the cliff and then later on they will not be able to do anything. Then they will have no more power to handle North Korea. That is the right time centering on True Mother (that) we really (will) unite together and create one nation, one sovereignty and one people.
Now the issue is about the Abel side. America is really supporting Korea. How about Japan? True Mother is quite concerned about the Japanese providence. Japan has changed their law in order to attack our church. Very serious things are going on. I think by the end of this month or end of next month they will announce something. I am really concerned about that.
Now is the right time centering on Abel’s realm, Father mentioned Korea, the mother nation Japan, and the archangel nation, America, totally need to unite together. Then they need to oppose the Cain-side realm. America is (fulfilling) a great role to handle China and Russia as well. We need to pray that Heavenly Father’s providence can go well.
In Order for us to be Victorious in the Battle with Satan
When these two powers confront each other, in order for us to win the battle, we should not live for ourselves. We should live absolutely for the sake of the Father. Oblivious to our own will, we should offer everything we have. By so doing, we should only try to uplift the value of Father. This is the way we can win a victory in the battle against Satan. It is the way for us to be related to God as a parent and child are related to each other. <1957.6.30 Let Us Be a Victor for God.>
In this final confrontation between God and Satan, what must we do to be victorious? That is to never live for ourselves. It means that we should live absolutely for the sake of the Father’s Will.
We must know that when we completely give up our own will and give up our lives only for the Father's will, a parent-child relationship is established between us and God, and, (as a result, we will) win a victory in the battle against Satan.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: We Must Become the Original Substance of the Divine Principle
1. We studied Original Substance of the Divine Principle (OSDP). Now is the time when we ourselves should become the original substances of the Divine Principle, not just study it. What is the original substance of the Divine Principle? Even those who have been educated on the OSDP do not know what it is. They think it's the same as the existing Principle we’ve heard until today, and they don't know the specifics of the OSDP. The reason why we studied the OSDP is to let us know once again that True Parents are the original substances of the Divine Principle. If the relationship with True Parents, who are the original substances of the Principle, is ambiguous, then everything goes wrong. And through the OSDP, I have to confirm what kind of existence my being is. Even if we are educated on the OSDP, the OSDP which is not related to ourselves has no meaning.
The Conclusion of the Original Substance of the Divine Principle
2. True Parents put a lot of emphasis on the OSDP. Clearly knowing the ODSP is more important that what to eat, what to drink, and what to wear. The conclusion of the OSDP is that I should bear fruit as the original substance of the Divine Principle. The Blessed couple should bear fruit as the original substance of the Divine Principle. What should we be like in the end? We must go through the process of restoration and become the original substance of the Divine Principle. If we had not fallen, we would not need to be educated on the OSDP. This is because if we had not fallen, we would have become the substance of the Principle and the substance of the Word. However, since we are the descendants of the fallen, we need the Principle. If we have not fallen, we would be the substance of the truth and the substance of the Principle.
Now is the time to go beyond the age of studying the original substance of the Divine Principle and become the original substance of the Divine Principle ourselves. The reason why we studied the OSDP is to let us know once again that True Parents are the original substance of the Divine Principle.
It also means that we should resemble True Parents, who are the original substance of the Divine Principle, and we should also become the original substance of the Divine Principle. The reason why we become ambiguous is that our relationship with True Parents, the original substance of the Divine Principle, is ambiguous.
Before Father went to the spiritual world, before his Seonghwa, he knew that our movement must go through a period of chaos and difficult situations. That is why he educated us about OSDP. (It is) not just (about) listening and listening to the same Divine Principle. You need to know what the identity of Original Substance of the Divine Principle is. True Father and True Mother are the Original Substance of the Divine Principle. As long as we are very clear about this, our life of faith will never be shaky. But if we are not clear about the meaning of the Original Substance of the Divine Principle, our life of faith will be changeable. That is why Father already prepared earlier by emphasizing not just studying and listening to the Divine Principle, but we have to become the Original Substance of the Divine Principle as well. It also means that we should resemble (those) who are the Original Substance of the Divine Principle and we should also become the original substance of the Divine Principle.
The reason why we become ambiguous is because our relationship with True Parents, the original substance of the Divine Principle, is ambiguous. If this is not clear, our church will have many kinds of spiritual groups. The spirit divides (us) here and there because we are not clear about the Original Substance of the Divine Principle.
Therefore, it means that through the OSDP, we should once again check what the relationship between True Parents, the original substance of the Divine Principle, and “I” is, and that we, as the original substance of the Divine Principle, also bear fruit. Now we need to focus on how much we have changed after knowing the Principle. If we don't change, everything will end as a useless talk.
It is important to study what True Parents said at public events, but above all, we must read through the Divine Principle, which is the framework, over and over again, dozens of times, and hundreds of times so that we can become the original substance of the Divine Principle.
Doing the reading 100 times or 30 times, whatever, that is not the main purpose. (It is that) we come to realize the reality of God, who True Parents are, who Satan is, and our identity. We have to know the relationship between God and ourself, and True Parents and ourself. We try to get confirmation. It is not about reading 100 times. What is the purpose of reading (the Divine Principle) 100 times? We (come to) realize who God is, who True Parents are, who Satan is, what is the spiritual world and what is our identity. We call that Original Substance of the Divine Principle. We have to become substantial Original Substance of the Divine Principle. Then we need to know that the invisible Original Substance of the Divine Principle is God and the visible Original Substance of the Divine Principle is True Parents.
The Original Homeland of True Love
3. If you look at young children, they are the original substance of the heart that is not stained anywhere. That is why we are happy to even see the little ones. We do not have to preach anything special to those little children. When you look at young children, you cannot take your eyes off their faces. We want to see them again and again. Why? Isn't that because young children are the substance of the truth? The baby's mother tries to protect, care for, and love her baby, who is the substance of the truth, even at the cost of her life. The mother thinks. “Even if I die, I will protect and save this child no matter what.” Doesn't the original homeland of true love begin there? Where is the original homeland today? True Father said that a mother's love for her children and her children's filial piety toward their parents are the original homeland. You must not mistake the original homeland, which is indicated in the Family Pledge, as the hometown where you were born. Since it tells us to seek our original homeland, do not mistake it as the hometown where you were born.
The Meaning of the Original Homeland and Rebirth
4. The content of the first verse of the Family Pledge is this “original homeland.” It means to seek the original homeland through a life of living for the sake of others as the owner of Cheon Il Guk. However, we do not have a sense of ownership of Cheon Il Guk and just go back and forth as spectators, so we cannot stand in the position of Abel yet, but instead stand in the position of Cain. Cain pursues the physical body and tries to follow what the body wants. Cain has no sense of ownership. They just follow the environment. They do not go because the Word motivates them, but they just say that they will go their own way. Cain has no sense of ownership. And the heart does not spring up voluntarily. What is rebirth? It is called rebirth when the heart springs up in one's heart. Only through the process of being born again, in which the heart is evoked, can we go to the original homeland.
Just as a baby longs for his mother and finds happiness and peace in her bosom, our original homeland is such a place. Where is the original homeland today? True Father said that the world where the heart of a mother who treats her children purely and nurses her baby, and her children purely show filial piety to their parents, is the original homeland.
The content of the first verse of the Family Pledge is this “original hometown.” As the owners of Cheon Il Guk, we want to seek the original homeland through a life of purely abandoning ourselves and live for the sake of others. However, we do not have a sense of ownership of Cheon Il Guk that we talk about every morning – are we really owners of Cheon Il Guk? Or just onlookers? We just go back and forth as spectators, so we cannot stand in the position of Abel yet, but instead stand in the position of Cain.
Cain pursues the physical body and tries to follow what the body wants. Are we really living with Abel's consciousness as owners in the era of Cheon Il Guk? Or are we still a spectator like Cain? Cain has no sense of ownership.
Cain just follows the environment. He does not go because the Word motivates him, but he just says that he will go his own way. Cain’s heart does not arise voluntarily.
The true owners of Cheon Il Guk are those who move everything voluntarily and with the heart. If we want to go to our original homeland, we must first have the consciousness of the owner. Second, you must be reborn with your heart welling up voluntarily. If the heart wells up voluntarily, you are bound to be reborn and resurrected.
I am talking here about the era of the owner of Cheon Il Guk. We need to fully take ownership and no more be the Cain figure.
Today I spoke about our needing to really become the Original Substance of the Divine Principle and about the meaning of the original homeland and rebirth.
(Testimony Ryusei Taguchi, DMV Winter Workshop, SR2 D4)♦
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