Ep 811 - The True Family and I Part 13
The True Family and I - January 14, 2023
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Juliana Talabi
Key Points
Because God’s han is our han, we are responsible to liberate his han through our own han.
For God to bless and live in our nation our minds and bodies must be united, husbands and wives must be absolutely united centering on God's true love, and families in which children can absolutely unite must increase.
The mission of the Unification Church is, first, to become a place where God's true love is present, where God wants to live because his beloved sons and daughters are present, where minds and bodies and husbands and wives are united, and second, to become a model for the world of brothers and sisters inseparably united in true love.
Our second and third generation do not understand True Parents very well. They only can learn about them through their own parents’ love and example.
How to subdue Satan: Fast, sacrifice, do service works, live for the sake of another, and pray without ceasing.
To defeat Satan we need to set a higher standard than he has and be vigilant 24-hours-a-day because he is.
Because Satan rules the entire world outside of heaven, he accuses human beings in both the physical and spiritual worlds.
Because Satan invades us through our four main physical desires, when we unite mind and body, Satan is destined to retreat.
The three great subject-partners principle of the conscience has the mission of representing the True Parent, True Teacher, and True Owner. So we must attend the conscience as we attend them.
TF: “If you absolutely follow and attend the conscience well, eternal life will be guaranteed."
There is no difference between God's standard of conscience and that of True Parents and ideally that of blessed couples.
The husband and wife’s conscience must be one. We should always check whether our thoughts and actions are the same as those of our spouse. When they are, we have one heart.
After his seonghwa, True Mother attended True Father for three years. Then she said that her thoughts are his thoughts and his thoughts are hers.
A couple should train themselves to unite centered on their conscience. They should always heartistically converse.
In order to set (form?) our conscience vertically centered on God and True Parents, we need a subject or Abel. He can guide us to become more sensitive to the voice of our conscience.
We always need to establish the relationship between the subject and the object – children and parents, students and teachers, workers and boss, and congregants and pastor – centered on God’s will in order to develop.
Wherever we are – home, school, workplace or church – and whatever we do, we should think we are acting for God’s will and care for others and invest in relationships with a sincere and bright 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.♦
(Response to sharing) We are responsible to liberate God’s han. Our han is very much connected to God’s han and his, to ours. We need treat our han as God’s han, and then we are responsible to liberate God’s han through our own han because we have the same han.♦
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. > The providence of salvation is the providence of restoration, led by God. It restores the lost sons and daughters, the unity of mind and body, the absolute unity of husband and wife, and the absolute unity of parents and children in the true love of God. This true family, which is qualified to live eternally with God, ought to be connected to Christianity, which is in the position of bride to the Lord. By establishing such a blood relationship with God, we can realize united families, tribes, races, nations and a unity of nations that would form a united world. This would culminate the providence of salvation for all religions. Distinguished leaders, for your nation to receive God's blessing, you need to become a people whose minds and bodies are united in God's true love. You also need to unite as absolute husbands and wives.
When the number of families in any nation that can unite as absolute children of God grows, then God will come to live in that nation. If this happens, that nation will automatically become the central nation in service to the world. Human beings possess this innate nature. If a beloved one lives in the countryside in poverty, his or her partner wants to live there too. No matter where it is, we want to go and live in the place where our beloved is. In the same way, if there is a place where God's beloved sons and daughters dwell, that place, for richer or poorer, will be the kingdom of heaven. Today I am speaking to you as the wife of the founder of the Unification Church. If you ask me what the mission of the Unification Church is, I will say it is to be a place where God's true love is present. It is to be the place where we want our mind and body to unite in true love and where we want to form ideal marriages with absolute unity between husband and wife. By means of a teaching that can make all people into inseparable brothers and sisters, we are carrying out the mission that God has given us.
Let’s summarize what True Mother is talking about.
What Must You do for God to Bless your Country?
1. First, centering on God's true love, we must become a people whose body and mind are united.
2. A husband and wife must be absolutely united centering on God's true love.
3. Centering on God's true love, the number of families where their children can absolutely unite must increase.
4. Then God will come to live in that nation. If this happens, that nation will automatically become the central nation in service to the world.
What is the Mission of the Unification Church?
According to True Mother,
1. We must be a place where God's true love is present.
2. Just as we want to go and live wherever our loved ones are, God also wants to be where His beloved sons and daughters are. That place is heaven.
3. We must be the place where we want our mind and body to unite in true love and where we want to form ideal marriages with absolute unity between husband and wife.
4. We must create a model that can turn all people into inseparable brothers and sisters through true love.
Our mission is very clear. The mission of the Unification Church is to be a place where God’s true love is present. Where is the main place? Our family. If anyone comes to our house, they should feel, “Wow! God is really present here. I can find his true love here. While I see your family, I can feel what God’s ideal family is.” This is the most important mission as Unification Church members. We need to show that God is really... (present?) in our family.
Christian churches are declining because they could not show where God’s true love is present. This is the issue.
What is the best way to witness to outside people? (For) anyone who is not connected to the church or to God, we need to show God, what kind of God is living in our family.
Since I came to my home, I have (invested) my heart into more heartistic communication with my wife, with my three children and grandchildren and daughters-in-law. I have needed to really make an effort.
Just now I invited my brother-in-law’s daughter. I am the one who matched them. They came to our family, and we had a very nice dinner. Even our grandchildren and my niece and children (joined us), seven or eight of them. Wow! It was a beautiful meal, and we were sharing this and that. Then my younger brother’s daughter said in Korean, “Kunna pan(?)! Uncle,... whenever I come here, I really feel that I don’t want to go back home. I really feel God’s harmony is here.”
I did not do much, but...(they responsded?) like that. Even though my job is that of continental director, how can I show who True Parents really are? True Father has already gone; True Mother is in Korea. Our second generation and third generation do not understand True Parents real life(?). They only can learn (about them) through their own parents. That is not a simple mission, as you know.
So please understand that the most important (aspect) of the mission of the Unification Church is that we must be a place where God’s true love is present. This is really important.
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.
Let’s study Father’s word.
The Declaration of a Unified Blessing Ceremony of the Physical and Spiritual World on July 1
These bodies are the ballrooms of the devil. That is why you have been told to fast, do service works sacrificing yourselves and live for the sake of others. After that you have been told to pray without seizing. The devil can work through you for 24 hours a day and you are to lose upon the activities of the Satan for he may be working all over. <1990.4.30. USA>
How to subdue Satan: Fast, sacrifice, do service work, live for the sake of another, and pray without ceasing.
Since the devil is active 24 hours a day, unless fallen human beings set a higher standard, they will not be able to defeat Satan.
Satan is working very hard 24 hours (a day) without stopping. He is working so hard! How about us? If we do not work harder than Satan, how can we win over Satan?
Therefore, we have to move 24 hours a day for the will. Know that Satan will surely attack if we are off guard for even a moment.
The Coverage of the Satan’s Activities
and how to Subjugate Satan
After the fall, earth and heaven, has become the sphere of Satan's activities, covering all the way up to the feet of God's royal throne. Consequently, Satan has been accusing the human beings of the spiritual and the physical worlds. The men of faith today do not understand clearly that Satan has been in action with such great power. The history of God has been that of fighting against Satan. Although God has been fighting against Satan so badly for 6,000 years, the fight has not been settled yet. Do you know what the hill is that we must climb over now? It is to subjugate Satan. To do that, you have to know what the shield was that Satan used in the fight and what condition Satan set up to infiltrate. If we know about these, we can get Satan’s voluntary submission <1956.12.16>
After the fall, earth and heaven have become the sphere of Satan's activities, covering all the way up to the feet of God's royal throne. Consequently, Satan has been accusing human beings (in both) the spiritual and the physical worlds. We must know that because of Satan's dominion over Adam and Eve, the entire world of all things, even the heavenly world, was ruled by Satan (and was under) his own authority.
God's history was the history of fighting Satan. So, everyone, without exception, has to go through the course of subduing Satan. To do that, we have to know what the shield was that Satan used in the fight and what condition Satan set up to infiltrate.
We must know what Satan uses to accuse us, and we must not fall under the conditions of accusation before Satan. Satan always rules over our four major desires by invading through our flesh. When the body and mind become one through the dominion of the four great desires, Satan is destined to retreat.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Three Great Subject-Partners Principle Centered on the Conscience
The Three Great Subject-Partners Principle Centered on the Conscience
1. Do you all know the three great subject partners principle centered on the conscience? The conscience is a representative of God and True Parents, and it also represents the true teacher and true owner. This three great subject partners principle of the conscience has the mission of representing the true parent, true teacher, and true owner. This is the three subject partners principle centered on the conscience. Therefore, I must attend my conscience like the true parent, true teacher, and true owner and always discuss with them and bring joy to them. If that happens, I will know how to distinguish good and evil well and my conscience will never lead me in the wrong direction.
That is why True Father said, “If you absolutely follow and attend the conscience well, eternal life will be guaranteed. We should not think that the couple’s conscience is divided into two where the husband’s conscience is his own and the wife’s conscience is her own. The husband and wife’s conscience must be one. Therefore, you must always live checking with each other. I must always check if my thoughts are my wife’s thoughts and if my wife’s thoughts, are my thoughts and have the same thoughts and actions. Only then can the husband and wife have one heart.
First we must know the three great subject partners principle centered on the conscience. This three great subject partners principle of the conscience has the mission of representing the true parent, true teacher, and true owner. Therefore, we must attend our conscience like the true parent, true teacher, and true owner and always discuss with them and bring joy to them.
True Father said, “If you absolutely follow and attend the conscience well, eternal life will be guaranteed." All standards of conscience that God desires must set the same standard of conscience as God. There is no difference between God's standard of conscience and True Parents' standard of conscience, and there is no difference between True Parents' standard of conscience and that of our blessed couple.
We should not think that the couple’s conscience is divided into two where the husband’s conscience is his own and the wife’s conscience is her own. The husband and wife’s conscience must be one.
Therefore, we must always live checking with each other. “I must always check if my thoughts are my wife’s thoughts and if my wife’s thoughts are my thoughts, and have the same thoughts and actions.” Only then can the husband and wife have one heart.
Do you remember what True Mother said after True Father went to the spiritual world? She paid a lot of attention to attend True Father for two or three years. Later on Mother (said), “Father’s thought is my thought. My thought is Father’s thought.”
If each of us have a different conscience, a different standard of conscience, there will be a lot of chaos. Because of the fall, each person has a different standard of conscience – that of political leaders, communists, democratic leaders, dictators. They all have different standards of conscience. That is the issue.
According to universal principles we have to all have the same standard of conscience. Heavenly Father’s standard of conscience should be True Parents’ standard. True Parents’ conscience should be our conscience. Our conscience should be our children’s conscience. If there is a difference, we cannot make a unified world.
That is why we really need to attend and serve our conscience as a true teacher, a true parent and a true owner. That’s why I am talking about the three great subjects partners principle centered on conscience.
What Must We Do To Set the Conscience on the Perpendicular Line?
2. In order for the couple to become one body, they must train to unite centered on the conscience. To do that, you must always ask and discuss. You need to know that the couple’s conscience must become one. Through such training, God’s conscience must become True Parents’ conscience, True Parents’ conscience must become our couple’s conscience, and our couple’s conscience must become our children’s conscience.
That is why Father said, “In order for each other to set their conscience on a vertical line, the subject and object must become one.” There is no way to set my conscience without a subject partner. There is no way to set my conscience’s standard horizontally. If there is no Abel, there is no way to set my conscience vertically. It must be a conscience arising from God, True Parents, and Abel. I must always be one arising from Abel. In other words, I must be one arising from a subject partner. When I start family, I need to think of my spouse as my Abel. In order for kids to live centered on their conscience, they always need to ask their parents. If they do as they please, they become rascals.
In order for the couple to become one body, they must train to unite centered on the conscience. To do that, we must always ask and discuss because it is often difficult to read each other’s heart and mind.
We need to know that the couple’s conscience must become one.
Through such training, God’s conscience must become True Parents’ conscience, True Parents’ conscience must become our couple’s conscience, and our couple’s conscience must become our children’s conscience.
That is why Father said, “In order for each other to set their conscience on a vertical line, the subject (God) and object (human) must become one.” There is no way to set our conscience without a subject partner. There is no way to set our conscience’s standard horizontally.
At an early level of faith, we don't know what it is to set our conscience on a vertical line.
Anyone who doesn’t know the Divine Principle and is just getting to know it, who has just come to the church, does not know the role of the conscience, and even though they have a conscience, they do not know how to distinguish good from evil. We need to teach and guide them properly about how to put their conscience on a vertical line.
So, centering on Abel, we must establish the standard of consciousness (conscience?). If there is no Abel, there is no way to set (up) our conscience vertically. It must be a conscience arising from God, True Parents, and Abel.
That is why we need to have Abel in the beginning. Abel teaches us what is good and what is bad and the role of the conscience. Then we become more sensitive, and we can hear the voice of our conscience. Abel really helps us set up our conscience vertically.
Wherever You Go, Think of Your Life As Existing for the Will
3. When we go to school, we must become a student who is centered on your teachers. You cannot deal with our teachers with ourself as the subject partner. Even the workplace is not a place we go to make money. We must go for God’s Will. Wherever we go, think that we are going for the Will. There cannot be a life that has nothing to do with the Will.
Whatever kind of workplace you have, wherever you go and whatever you do, you must think that you are doing so for the Will. Therefore, you must live a social life where you give for the sake of the people of the place you are at, take responsibility over those people’s circumstances, and invest your sincere and honest heart. Therefore, if you think apart from the Will, whatever you do, your conscience becomes terrible, and your heart becomes pitch-black. And you will have greed for material things and a heart that judges others. Furthermore, as human relationships worsen, your heart will begin to darken.
For the heart to brighten, relationships must become very close heartistically. When heart and heart give and receive, there is light. we must be connected with God’s heart, centered on true human relationships. The couple does not end as a couple of human emotion, but they must become a couple of heavenly emotion centered on God.
No matter where we go and what we do, we need to establish the relationship between the subject and the object in order to develop. If we go out centering on ourself, we will surely be harassed and eventually be driven out. At home, we should be a child centered on our parents; at school, we should be a student centered on teachers; at work, we should be centered on the president; and at church, we should be centered on the pastor. We are supposed to develop only when we always set the center and move forward.
Whatever kind of workplace we have, wherever we go and whatever we do, we must think that we are doing so for the Will. Therefore, we must live a social life where we give for the sake of the people of the place we are at, take responsibility over those people’s circumstances, and invest our sincere and honest heart.
If we think apart from the Will, whatever we do, our conscience becomes terrible, and our heart becomes pitch-black. And we will have greed for material things and a heart that judges others. Furthermore, as human relationships worsen, our heart will begin to darken. We must think of the job as something God has entrusted to us.
For the heart to brighten, relationships must become very close heartistically. When heart and heart give and receive, there is light. We must be connected with God’s heart, centered on true human relationships.
Today we learned the Three Great Subject Partners Principle centered on our conscience. Our conscience tends to be very sensitive.
Because of the fall there are a lot of dirty things covering our conscience. We need to remove (them) to clear up (our conscience). Then it (will) become very sensitive and able to distinguish good and evil. In the formation stage in order to make our conscience (more) sensitive, we need Abel. Our Abel will teach us what is the correct and good way and what is the evil way, which direction is good. We always need to report and learn thoroughly from our Abel.
Then when we grow up, we can decide by ourself which way we need to go, which direction is good and which is bad, which direction is really centered on God’s will. That is why in order to set up the standard of our conscience vertically, we need to have Abel. We need to (converse) with our spouse, with our Abel, with our parents, with our children and create unity. Then everyone feels this is really centered on God’s standard of conscience.
We need a lot of discussion. Even though we (may be) better than our children or our spouse, we should (nonetheless) converse. Through that discussion and give-and-take we become heartistically closer and create unity.
We don’t just report for reporting’s (sake); the purpose is to connect to our object partner heartistically, become closer and (finally) become one. Then we (will) have an inseparable relationship.
Then we can feel if we go this way, God will be very (happy?), True Father and True Mother will be very happy. That is why centered on God’s concept, and that of True Parents, that of Abel, that of our spouse, and that of our conscience, everyone will have the same mindset. That is why when we build the Kingdom of Heaven and (everybody?) goes the same direction and has the same mindset, same standard of conscience, this is an ideal family, ideal person and an ideal world. That is really Heavenly Parent’s wishes.
Today I spoke about “The Three Great Subject-Partners Principle Centered on the Conscience.”
(Testimony Juliana Talabi, YCLC Director, DMV, True Mother’s Memoir)♦
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