Ep 813 - The True Family and I Part 15
The True Family and I - January 16, 2023
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Rev. Kazuo Takami
Key Points
Just as True Father has survived serious persecution to continue to guide us because God loves and absolutely protects him, we, too, can receive God’s love and protection – not simply through prayer and jeongseong, but by being a person, family and organization that God can love – because he is our refuge and shield.
Through unity with True Mother we can be protected.
When we become a true man and a true woman and we receive God’s love, this is the best protection.
To be victorious in our life of faith we need to know God as our parent, Satan as our greatest enemy who disturbs us 24/7, True Parents who are victors over Satan and who are our saviors from whom we can inherit that victory, the good and evil spirit world that influences our world, and our identity as children of God who belong to him.
We need to be wary of Satan’s continual harassment as he seeks to make us fall and to prevent us from having a spiritual life by inducing us to focus on physical things.
We need to work harder than Satan does.
Through his influence on spirits in the spiritual world and their influence on our spirit which influences our body, Satan’s ultimate stage of activities becomes our physical body.
While our original mind was supposed to have brought us closer to God, through the fall we have inherited Satan’s blood lineage whose hallmark is sexual immorality that permeates our body and influences us at any time.
To counteract this influence, we need to completely deny our body and pray, fast, repent, sacrifice and serve.
Because in Heungnam Prison True Father deeply moved God, the spiritual world and other prisoners, God confirmed that Father was his beloved son by protecting him.
Father willingly paid indemnity for all of humanity and history by willingly enduring Heungnam with no thought of escape.
The more one tries to avoid indemnity, the greater that indemnity becomes.
A filial prayer is, “Heavenly Father, I will endure any difficulty in order to indemnify my ancestors’ sins, to open a path of salvation for my tribe, ancestors and nation, and to liberate and free You.”
The way to win victory over Satan, to be protected by heaven and to gain heavenly fortune is to serve each other and unite and to “become truth and sincerity,” which are anathema to Satan whose identity is falsehood, hypocrisy, and arrogance.
Because harmony and oneness belong to God, where he finds them he will offer protection.
If we remember that we belong to God and avoid doing the forbidden “Don’ts,” God will take responsibility for the rest.
Our portion of responsibility is to discern the “Don’ts” from the “Dos” and to avoid the “Don’ts.”
If we are absolutely obedient to God, he will grant us what we want and we will inherit everything from him.
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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. > By the hand of Reverend Moon, communism collapsed. It was Reverend Moon who awakened Mikhail Gorbachev and Kim Il-sung. To save the United States, which is careening toward a collapse, he established a foundation for Americans to feel hope. Also he is addressing the difficult political tensions of North and South Korea and the Middle East. You need to know the Republican Party triumphed in the United States thanks to the influence of Reverend Moon. Perhaps you are unaware of these facts. However you need to know that if any nation pre-empts the United States in receiving and absolutely embracing Reverend Moon, that nation will become the leading nation of the world. Everything that Reverend Moon proclaimed has been fulfilled. While it felt as though the entire world did everything it could to put an end to him, he did not die and he is firmly leading the world back to God. My husband is still with us to speak to you and guide you because God loves him.
You need to know that he survived because God absolutely protected him. For that reason, I believe that you must seriously study the Unification Church. We met together today and that makes this a day of deep significance. I have shared a very important message with you and I place my trust in you. I kindly ask that you not forget what was discussed today. I also ask that you make a new determination to follow the proper path. Based on this new awakening, bring God's blessing to your families and your nation. This is the way ideal families will begin to appear on this earth. As you probably know, Reverend Moon and I are known throughout the world as the True Parents. If it is true that we, as True Parents, are connected to God in true love, true life and true lineage, I would like you to remember that the beginning of a realm of freedom, unity and happiness is The True Family and I. This will allow the hope of peace to blossom upon the earth. Thank you very much.
While it felt as though the entire world did everything it could to put an end to him, he did not die and he is firmly leading the world back to God. Reverend Moon is still with us to speak to us and guide us because God loves him. We need to know that he survived because God absolutely protected him. For that reason, I believe that we must seriously study the Unification Church at the risk of our life.
Until now, the entire world did everything it could to put an end to Reverend Moon and the Unification Church, but the reason we have survived to this day was for one reason. That is because Reverend Moon and the Unification Church receive God’s love and protection.
The important thing we need to realize here is what kind of person receives God’s protection?
Not just Rev. Moon and Mother Moon.
Those who receive God’s love will surely and absolutely receive God’s protection as well.
To protect ourself from all dangers, prayer and jeongseong is important, too, but there is no need to be concerned as long as the individual, family, and organization are loved by God. Therefore, the secret to be protected from all dangers, accidents, and death is how much we have become an individual, family, and organization that receives God’s love. Because where there is true love, God is there, and where God is, there is protection.
Therefore, the secret to be protected from all dangers, accidents and death is to become an individual, family and organization that receives God’s love.
Is there any greater protection than receiving God’s protection? Therefore, rather than being concerned about ourself and our family and being careful, praying, and offering jeongseong in order to block all dangers and accidents, first become individuals and families who are protected by God. Those who are loved by God will definitely be protected by God.
Wow! Where there is true love, God is (present). Where God is present, there is protection. The important thing is how much love we receive from God.
(While) in Heungnam and five other prisons and (faced with) persecution everywhere and dangerous situations, how did Father Moon survive? Even though a secular guy can do well, there is a limitation. Satan can invade any time. Who is the best guy to protect Father Moon and Mother Moon? Heavenly God.
Where there is true love, there is heavenly protection. When we become a true man and a true woman and we receive God’s love, this is the best protection. Of course, we need to pray for our family, our organization and mission; this is important. But what is the best way to (receive) protection? To receive love from God.
Our Unification Church is currently facing all kinds of difficulties and persecution, but if becoming one and receiving God’s love are certain, there is no need to be worried about anything. This is because God is our refuge and shield.
Today when I studied Mother’s word, I realized many things. Sometimes I need to pray for our American church and members, but what is more important than that? How much can our American movement can be recognized by God and receive his love. If we reach (his) expectations(?) I think God will surely protect our American movement.
Also, when we fulfill God’s wish on the front line and are recognized by God, that is the way God will protect our family, our organization and our church as well.
That is the reason Father was able to lead our movement so far, and now Mother has inherited True Father’s mission. That is why when there is unity with True Mother, there is protection by our Heavenly Parent.
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 Condition in Which God can Cooperate With
<76-245> Well, now you have learned how God is like and there is Satan for sure. Everybody, you will realize the results of the Satan’s activities. When you go witnessing, you may be experiencing that the person whom you are intend to witness can not make it to come to you due to an unexpected accident. Have you had that kind of experience, haven’t you?-Yes (People laughing). That’s why we, Unification Church members do know this very well. We know that the Satan is working 24-hours a day for sure. Therefore you must have an idea all the time that “ I, myself will work 1 second more than the 24 hours.” That is the very condition in which God can cooperate with you. You can not defeat the Satan without having confidence and conviction that you will work more than the Satan, you can not liquidate.
The secret to being victorious in our life of faith is to know clearly about the five kinds of beings and to have belief in them.
In order to gain a victory, we need to clearly understand and clearly know about these five kinds of beings. Who are they?
The first is to know about the Being of God and have absolute belief that that God is my Parent, we are a child of God. The second is to know that the being called Satan exists and that Satan disturbs us 24 hours a day. We need to know that Satan is our greatest enemy.
The third is to know the beings called True Parents and the point that they are the saviors who were victorious in the fight against Satan. Therefore, if we become one with these saviors, we can inherit everything and be victorious as well. Fourth, we need to know clearly about the spirit world. We need to know that the visible, tangible world is influenced by the invisible world.
All people on this earth are under the control of the good spirits and evil spirits who have come and gone until now. Fifth, I need to clearly know my identity or what kind of being I am. I need absolute belief that I belong to God and that I am His son or daughter.
When we learn the Divine Principle, these five beings must be very clear. The Divine Principle lecturer needs to teach about these beings: God, Satan, True Parents, spiritual world and our own identity. If we teach these five beings very clearly, then everything is very clear, and we can finally get the victory.
(What) fallen people especially need to be careful (about) 24/7 is Satan’s activities. Satan is invisible, but he grabs us all the time, drags us down, accuses us, and is always looking for elements to hinder us. And Satan tries to dominate us physically, make us fall, and frustrate us. Satan invades us every 10 minutes and sometimes, every ten seconds and tries to confirm that human beings belong to him.
We inherit Satan’s sexual immorality. He makes us focus on what to eat, what to drink, what to wear, how to sleep a bit more or rest comfortably, how to eat more delicious food, how to make more money and increase our wealth, and how to have more sex. He tries to hinder us from going on the path of heaven.
Satan does everything he can to prevent us from having a spiritual life for even a moment by making us focus on physical things. If we do not know these strategies of Satan, we will all be used by Satan.
Therefore, we need to know Satan’s schemes and strategies well and handle them so that we are not tricked. And we need to advance forward for the Will with the thought that we are working harder than Satan.
Father said we need to work harder than Satan. He really knows invisible Satan.
(We are) not only dealing with somebody who is our enemy: “He is my enemy. He is really upset with me. I don’t like him. He doesn’t like me.” He is visible. But the (real) cause comes from the invisible world, invisible Satan. You need to know how to deal with invisible Satan. Every second, every minute, every hour he is always attacking us. Where there is (an opportunity?), he immediately invades. That is why we need to know how to deal with invisible Satan.
In order to deal with invisible Satan, we need to know invisible God also. The invisible God absolutely does exist. That is why we need to treat ourself as God’s belonging. Then we can fight with Satan.
If we do not have the confidence and faith that we belong to God, how can we win over Satan? There is no way to win over Satan.
Many people talk about God, Jesus and beliefs, but people seldom talk about invisible Satan. We need to emphasize that Satan really does exist and really disturbs us. We need to teach our children all the time who Satan is, his identity.
The Stage Where Satan’s Activities Take Place: Human Bodies
<143-238> Your body is the very place where the Satan’s activities take place. Our original mind was to be a guard post of heaven that can lead us to God close, but as our body today, after the fall, has inherited the blood lineage of the Satan, the body is filled with the attributes of the Satan. Therefore you must remove them. All of them should be blown away through wind-holes. That’s why people beat their body in the religion. The higher religion would be the harder they beat their body. Like people do penance in Buddhism and Christianity. Is it easy to do fasting and prayer? Is the life of faith easy to follow? All the works that the body likes have been done by Satan. As these (aspects of the) flesh have become the stage of the Satan, we must kill them. We must totally deny them.
We need to know that the first stage where Satan’s activities take place is the evil spirits of the spirit world, the stage where the spirit world’s evil spirits’ activities take place are the evil people on earth, and the stage where the activities of evil people on earth take place is the physical body. Therefore, know that the final stage where Satan’s activities take place is human bodies.
Our original mind was to be a guard post of heaven that could have led us closer to God, but as our body today, after the fall, has inherited the blood lineage of the Satan, Satan is continuously confirming that we are his children. Satan confirms his identity through his blood lineage. The identity of Satan’s blood lineage is sexual immorality. Since every single cell in the human body is filled with sexual immorality, the mind of sexual immorality comes at any time. This is Satan’s identity. And this is what proves that we are of the lineage of sexual immorality and the lineage of Satan.
Therefore, we need to get rid of this sexual immorality. That’s why people beat their body in religions. Since Satan always invades through our physical body, we need to practice beating the body. We need to fast, pray, go on the path of penance, sacrifice, and serving. And we need to completely deny ourselves.
These are Father’s words.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Way to Live While Possessing the Truth is the Way Heaven Protects
We can learn from Father’s course.
The Background of how God Saved True Father from Heungnam Prison
1. On October 14th, 1950, True Father was scheduled to be executed at 9:00 AM at the Heungnam Prison in North Korea. However, at 2:00AM that day, a UN plane bombed the Heungnam Fertilizer Factory. At that time, Jesus appeared and gave the revelation that as long as someone was within 12m of True Father as the center, they will be safe. So, True Father told the nearby prisoners, "Don't be separated from me. Don't try to run away."
Did you know that everyone who gathered around Father lived while those who ran away were killed as if they were being punished by a storm? When I recall that time, I remember Father saying, "I didn't think of leaving Heungnam Prison, nor did I pray to escape this hardship. God couldn't turn away from me, so He had no choice but to use the UN forces to save me." He said, "I didn't ask God for any favors."
When we look at how Father survived in Heungnam, we know that those who are loved by God will surely be protected in any situation. Father completely moved God, the spirit world, and prisoners around him while he was in Heungnam, the prison of all prisons. Through True Father’s life in Heungnam Prison, it was a period in which God once again confirmed that Reverend Moon was His beloved son.
Another thing we must learn through Father’s life in Heungnam Prison was his attitude of paying indemnity for the sake of all humankind and the world and history. Father said, "I didn't think of leaving Heungnam Prison, nor did I pray to escape this hardship. I didn't ask God for any favors.”
When fallen human beings are faced with hardships and pain, anyone would pray to avoid that position and want to escape from that situation. But what we have to understand is the fact that the more one tries to escape from indemnity, the greater that indemnity becomes, and it will follow them.
Then what is the attitude to genuinely pay indemnity? It is to have a heart that says, “Heavenly God, Heavenly Father, Heavenly Parent! Through me, if my ancestors’ sins are indemnified and a path is opened for my tribe, ancestors, and nation, and furthermore, the path to liberate and free You is opened, then I will go on and endure any difficulties!”
What a filial prayer! It was the same as Jesus’ prayer on the cross. Father was supposed to die October 14, 1950, but he never worried....
That is why those who are loved by God are always protected. True Father (had) the confidence that “God loves me. God will protect me.” That is why there was no need (for him) to ask, “Heavenly God, help me to get out of here.” How absolute his conviction and faith in God were!
The Way to Live while Possessing the Truth is the Way Heaven Protects
2. So why did True Father tell us these words? It means, “If you are also true and sincere, God will protect you with heavenly fortune in any situation.” In this way, True Father was victorious with “truth” in everything. If we become true people and live with the truth, the spirit world is bound to protect us. The way to live with truth is the only way to live under God's protection. This is because Satan can never come close to where there is truth. And what True Father asks our blessed families to do is that even though we are not sincere like True Father, we have no tears, and we do not know the circumstances of Heaven, if even just the couple become one and achieve harmony, heavenly fortune will take care of you. Heaven will lead you to the path of eternal life.”
Then how shall we go the way of eternal life? It means that if you do not do the 'don't' as God said, God will take responsibility for the rest of the "do"s'.
In regard to the secret to being victorious in the fight with Satan and receiving Heaven’s protection, Father said, “If you all also become the truth, you become a true man or a true woman,... if you become a true couple, a true husband and wife, and true parents, true brothers and sisters and true children, that truth belongs to God. Where there is truth – a true guy, true people, true... community, true husband and wife, true parents – then surely God will protect (them).
God will protect us through heavenly fortune in any situation.” Satan cannot do anything before truth and sincerity because he is false.
How do we defeat Satan? By the truth, by utmost sincerity. Satan is not sincere.
This is the identity of Satan is falsehood, hypocrisy, and self-arrogance. Satan runs in the face of truth and sincerity.
Where there is a true guy, a true husband and wife, true parents and true children, Satan immediately runs away. Why? Satan can not win over those who are true selves.
Satan himself hides without being able to show his face. That is why truth always defeats falsehood. It is just a matter of time.
If we become true people and live with the truth, the spirit world is bound to protect us. The way to live with truth is the only way to live under God's protection. This is because Satan can never come close to where there is truth.
These are important secrets. The first is that we need to be a true self, true husband and wife,... and then God gives protection.
Secondly, the way for Heaven to protect us and our families is for us to serve each other and become one. That is why we always say to create harmony.
Where there is harmony, where there is oneness, God will surely offer protection. Oneness and harmony belong to God. They are his attribute. That is why God needs to (offer) protection. Where there is oneness, Satan cannot attack. He always tries to separate and divide. However, harmony and oneness belong to God; they are his attribute. That is why had to be responsible and protect.
When that happens, God will definitely take responsibility and protect us and guide us to the path of eternal life.
Then how shall we go the way of eternal life? It is to think that as long as we do not do the “don’t” as God says, God will take responsibility for the rest and just put it into practice.
Why Do You All Worry?
3. We must not only just follow the "don’ts” that True Parents tell us such as "Don't fight," "Don't have conflicts," "Don't complain," etc. we must also never forget that we ourselves belong to God. And if we absolutely believe that our family is the “blessed family” chosen by Heavenly Parents, then God will absolutely protect our family. This is how it is.
What do you all believe in? If you only believe that you belong to God, you have nothing to worry about. But why does everyone worry? What is there to worry about when you have the absolute God as your parent and follow Him well? There can be no worries. Wouldn't you want to help in everything as a parent if you raise a child who listens and not only doesn't do the “don'ts” but also follows you well? If children obey their parents' words well, go to school and study well, parents want to support their studies even if they are in debt. Even if the family situation is economically difficult, if the student's grades are good, don't the state or school try to nurture talented people even by providing scholarships? Even more so in the fallen world, but if we humans obey God's word, wouldn't God want to directly watch over us?
Human beings’ portion of responsibility is to know how to discern what God says to do or not to do and put it into practice. If we just don’t do what God says not to do, then it is God’s responsibility to tell us to do something. If we just don’t do what True Parents tell us not to do, such as "Don't fight," "Don't have conflicts," "Don't complain," God will take responsibility for the rest of what He tells us to do.
What do we all believe in? If we only believe that we belong to God without doubt, we have nothing to worry about. “God belongs to me, so what is there to worry about?”
Why do we worry, worry, worry? That means we do not believe that we belong to God. If we really believe we belong to God, we are a child of God, he is an omniscient, omnipotent and almighty God, he is our father, then why do we worry? Worry means we do not believe in God. We doubt God.
If we just do not do what He tells us not to do, since the absolute God is our parent and He is with us, what is there to worry about? There can be no worries.
Wouldn't we want to help in everything as a parent if we raise a child who listens and not only doesn't do the “don'ts” but also follows us well? If children obey their parents' words well, go to school and study well, parents want to support their studies even if they are in debt.
Therefore, if human beings are absolutely obedient to God, whatever it is that we want, He can give them all. The Bible says that those who obey like this will inherit all inheritance from the owner.
God will provide blessings, provide material, money, whatever we need. There is only one condition: we need to absolutely believe (that) “God belongs to me; I belong to God.” We need to have that kind of absolute faith; then Satan cannot attack.
Today I spoke about “The Way to Live While Possessing the Truth is the Way Heaven Protects.”
(Testimony Rev. Kazuo Takami, Early History of Chicago, Midwest Director, Chicago pastor)♦
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