Ep 815 - The Providential History Of Salvation From The Viewpoint Of The Principle Part 2
The Providential History of Salvation from the Viewpoint of the Principle - January 18, 2023
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Originally, true love was to have been gained through life experience on earth and understood through internal realization. It cannot be learned through words, a written text, or schooling. It is experienced completely only in the context of living our lives.
Only in the family can we experience God’s heart and love, and learn and perfect the four kinds of love culminating in parenthood.
Those spirits who have not learned and perfected true love on earth can only perfect themselves through spiritual cooperation with someone on earth.
Knowledge can be acquired in an instant in the spiritual world, but not true love.
In order to experience the heart of true brothers and sisters, it is good to have many siblings in the family.
We can separate good from evil in what we do by assuring that the center of our activity is not ourself, but rather our parents, our country, the world or ultimately God.
In the fallen world the standard of good and evil is relative and depends on the current environment, thought, personality, culture, religion, doctrines and tradition. It changes with each era.
The absolute, universal and unchanging standard will come from the Divine Principle and the words of True Parents.
A person with hyojeong cannot hate others because he treats all people with the filial piety with which he attends his parents, shedding tears for them and considering their faults his own, even if they persecute him.
Rebirth is not by faith but by hyojeong, resolving the han of God, True Parents, one’s parents, spouse, children and other people through ongoing service, sacrifice and tears.
There is not even 1% of self-centeredness in filial piety.
As we connect with hyojeong to the heart of God and True Parents, we cannot help but shed tears.
Children who shed tears over their parents’ tears are real children.
TF: Shedding tears over True Parents’ circumstances is how we come to know them.
TF: “When you shed tears of lamentation, the stains on your conscience ... are washed away.”
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) When we pray for Adam’s family, our heart becomes deeper and deeper and surely we will shed tears. We can meet God through Adam’s family. (It was) God’s first family. God (was) hurt so much by the first family. We need to go back to the origin all the time (and look at) what went wrong in Adam’s family, the first family. That is the key point.
You mentioned grandchildren. We have been speaking about a longing heart. Sometimes our heart is very dry and cold. “Where is my longing heart?”
Then we need to think: “Whom do I love the most?” (We should) think about our grandchildren one by one, then about our father and mother. Then gradually we can think about True Father, True Mother and Heavenly God. We should start from our grandchildren. Whom do we love the most? Start there and gradually (we can) raise our longing heart.
Today I had a meeting with the president of a very beautiful religion that I mentioned in the past. I brought all our UPF staff and families, husband and wife, and we met his wife as well. We discussed many things: how to take care of the island nations. He completely accepted my ideas. He has already determined to build a training center for us. Now we need to search for land and which place.
I feel there are many righteous people. We need to find them. Without witnessing, there is no way (to find such people).♦
I am so excited to see each of you every morning. This is really a global community. Through the Internet we can see each other. Every day I can see Dr. Ward’s face and many leaders. I really appreciate this kind of modern technology. We can communicate, and everybody can come together.
Today I’d like to talk about “The Providential History of Salvation from the Viewpoint of the Principle” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given by Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon between July 20 and October 29 on a speaking tour for Koreans residing in the United States.> Originally, true love was to be gained through life experience and understood through internal realization. True love is not something that can be learned through words, a written text, or schooling. It is experienced completely only in the context of living our lives. Created as newborn infants, Adam and Eve were to grow and perfect themselves gradually through experiences of the heart of true children, true brother and sister, true husband and wife and true parents, encompassing their whole lives. Only after experiencing the true love of God in its entirety can one fulfill the purpose of creation and become an ideal human being.
All people desire their object partner of love to be many times more valuable, even infinitely more valuable, than themselves. In the same way, God desires that humankind, His object partner of love, become infinitely valuable.
When human beings perfect themselves, then those persons come to possess godlike value by participating in God's divinity and perfection. God is absolute; however, He cannot realize the ideal of true love alone. That is because love always requires an object partner, a beloved. At this point, we need to understand the relationship between God's true love and humankind’s true love, and how they begin and are brought to fruition. What would have happened if God had not chosen human beings as His absolute object partners of true love, and instead had sought to realize true love in some other way? In that case, God and human beings would have pursued the ideal of true love with different motivations, directions and purposes. God would have had to achieve the ideal of love through an object partner higher than humankind and, by the same token, humankind's ideal of love would have had no direct relationship with God.
Originally, true love was to (have) been gained through life experience and understood through internal realization. True love is not something that can be learned through words, a written text, or schooling. It is experienced completely only in the context of living our lives.
Since true love can only be experienced through events while living, it is a world that cannot be experienced without using the physical body. Therefore, souls who die without experiencing true love can never reach perfection unless they come down to earth again, enter a living person's body, and cooperate and grow together.
Knowledge can be acquired at any moment, either on e arth or in the spirit world. Even if we have not acquired knowledge in any field on earth, we can learn it in an instant in the spirit world.
Created as newborn infants, Adam and Eve were to (have) grown and perfected themselves gradually through experiences of the heart of true children, true brother and sister, true husband and wife and true parents, encompassing their whole lives.
In order to become true children, they (should have) grown up receiving much love from their parents. An orphan who (has) grown up without parents, lacks love. Such a child's relationship (with) his or her siblings becomes obscure and when he has grown up, he has difficulty building an amicable relationship with his spouse.
Children can share as much love as they have received from their parents with their siblings, and when they grow up, they can return filial piety to their parents. In order to experience the heart of true brothers and sisters, it is good to have many siblings in the family.
When we grow while exchanging the hearts of our brothers and sisters, that experience expands our heart horizontally so that we can love all peoples of the world as our brothers and sisters. In this way, after going through the process of true children's heart and true brothers and sisters' heart, when we become husband and wife, we serve and give and receive with each other like parents and siblings.
True couples become true parents by giving birth and raising a child, reaching the stage of perfecting God's ideal love. Therefore, parents are the final stage of perfecting love.
From this point of view how important the family is! There is no other place to experience the heart and love of God. Therefore, if the education of the family goes wrong, there is no place to experience God’s heart forever. Therefore, family is our final destination. We can complete our love centered on the family.
Many people do not know this. They think only of individual perfection, and (they) only reach a certain level.
(But this) does not work in the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is basically centering on the family. How can we have an experience of God’s four kinds of love? Only in the family. Without the family we cannot meet God and experience his heart and love. The family is the fundamental place where we can experience God’s heart and love. Which place does God love most? The family. How important it is! If the family is broken, everything has a problem – in the society, the nation, the world, everywhere.
Wow! Father discovered the importance of the family. It is really incredible! That is why every morning we recite the Family Pledge. It is that important.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 18: Good and Evil from the Viewpoint of the Purpose
• Had Adam and Eve loved each other as God intended and formed a four position foundation centered on God, they would have established a good world.
• But when they loved each other with a purpose contrary to God's intentions and established a four position foundation centered on Satan, they ended up forming an evil world.
The Separation of Good and Evil
The separation and judgment of good and evil ultimately depends on where the center is placed. (Are we) centered on Satan or ourself, or are we centered on others for their sake?
• When you determine the center, good and evil can be separated.
• Whatever you do, you have to check who is at the center. Are you at the center, or is Heaven?
If we put everything centered on ourself, we connect to evil very easily. However, whatever we do centered on heaven, then everything is connected to goodness.
• When you place yourself at the center, you incline toward Satan. You have to thoroughly destroy things that position yourself at the center. Anything centering on yourself is of Satan.
• A filial son puts his parents as their center, and a loyal subject puts his country as their center. A saint puts the world as their center, and a divine child puts God as their center.
Centering on what? God or myself? Then immediately we can know how to separate good and evil.
• This demonstrates that although good and evil elements or actions may take the same form, their true nature may be discerned through the fruits they yield in accordance with the divergent purposes they pursue.
What matters is where we put the center. Things centered on God are all good. Things centered on ourself are all bad. How the results (appear) is important. Things centered on goodness will result in goodness, and things centered on evil will produce the result of evil.
The motivation is very important. Different results will come about depending on whether the motivation is centered on God or on ourself. The motivation must be for the sake of the whole and be very pure.
• Being part of our God-given nature, desires are good when they bear fruit for the purpose of God's Will,
• Or are evil when they bear fruit for the purpose of Satan's will.
• Accordingly, the providence of restoration may be interpreted as the process of changing the direction of this fallen world from its current satanic purpose to the purpose of building the Kingdom of Heaven, God's ideal of creation.
• Any standard of goodness set during the course of the providence is relative.
• In any particular period of history, obedient compliance with the doctrines expounded by the prevailing authorities is considered good, while actions in opposition to them are considered evil. But the change of an era ushers in new authorities and new standards.
• For the adherents of any religious tradition or school of thought, complying with the precepts of its doctrine or philosophy is good, while opposing them is evil. But whenever a doctrine or philosophy undergoes a change or if an adherent converts to a different religion or school of thought, their standard of good and evil will also change.
• Throughout the endless cycles of conflict and revolution in human history, people have been seeking the absolute goodness which their original mind desires.
• Once the sovereignty of Satan is expelled from the earth, then God, the eternal and absolute Being transcendent of time and space, will establish His sovereignty and His truth. In that day, God's truth will be absolute, and hence the purpose which it serves and the standard of goodness which it sets will both be absolute.
• This cosmic, all-encompassing truth will be firmly established by Christ at his Second Advent.
Good and Evil Seen from the Viewpoint of Purpose
(1) Any standard of goodness set during the course of the providence of restoration is not absolute but relative.
- Each of you has a different standard of good and evil. The standard of good and evil depends on the environment, the thought, the personality, the culture, and the tradition.
(2) In any particular period of history, obedient compliance with the doctrines expounded by the prevailing authorities is considered good, while actions in opposition to them are considered evil. But the change of an era ushers in new authorities and doctrines, with new goals and new standards of good and evil. ( EDP-70)
For the adherents of any religious tradition or school of thought, complying with the precepts of its doctrine or philosophy is good, while opposing them is evil. But whenever a doctrine or philosophy undergoes a change, its standards of good and evil will also change according to its new goals. Similarly, if an adherent converts to a different religion or school of thought, then naturally his goals and standards of good and evil will change accordingly. (EDP-70)
The universal ideology of the Principle, Unification Thought and the words of True Parents should be the standard. Therefore, we must study the Divine Principle and do hoondokhae a lot (in order) to establish the standard of good and evil.
We need to have an absolute principle (around which) everybody can unite. (It is a) common principle and common thought which is the Divine Principle, the universal ideology of the Principle, and Unification Thought. I think that is why we need to really proclaim and teach the Divine Principle so that everybody has a common viewpoint. Then we can have the same judgment and standard of how to distinguish and separate good and evil.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: God’s Han Will Be Resolved and I will be Reborn Through Filial Piety of the Realm of 3 Generations
1. A person with a filial heart cries because of their parents and the people that persecute them. A person with a filial heart cannot hate others. Until now, there have been many people with faith who mistakenly thought of rebirth with the belief that “we believers who have faith in Jesus will go to Heaven and you who do not believe will go to Hell,” all the while hating others and having conflicts. However, the rebirth that Unificationists talk about means resolving God and True Parents’ han in the family, resolving my physical parents’ han, resolving my spouse’s han, raising children well and making them filial sons and daughters and resolve God’s han. There can be no such thing as self-centeredness in practicing filial piety centering on the realm of 3 generations. There is not even 1% of self-centeredness in filial piety. Therefore, filial piety is absolute and true.
A person with hyojeong cannot hate others.
If we truly respect God and True Parents, when we truly love our own father and mother, if we build up that kind of heart and hyojeong, we cannot hate anyone. ... Hyojeong is really key. How can we raise filial sons and daughters in the family? One who truly loves God can love anyone.
This is because he treats all people with the filial piety he carries to attend his parents. A person with filial piety considers the faults of others as his own and the sins of others as his own.
A person with filial piety cries because he feels that he has not attended his parents well and weeps for the people (who) persecute him, thinking that the persecutor has brought about such a result because of the person's own fault.
We (should) always treat(?) ourself first rather than persecute the other guy. This is filial heart
That is why in the family when we raise our sons and daughters as filial sons and daughters better than ourself and they really respect us and they inherit everything and we become true father and true mother, true parents, (to them), then the job is over.
I realized what is the purpose of creation? The purpose of creation is to raise our sons and daughters as filial sons and daughters and become true parents; then everything is over. Wow! It is very simple actually. From childhood brothers and sisters (grow and) become couples and give birth to babies and raise them as filial sons and daughters, then what is the final goal? To become true father and true mother, true parents. How do we do that?
(Can we) show proof that we are true parents? Our children. (If) our children have absolute obedience, faith and love toward their parents and their standard is better than ours, then the job is over. The purpose of the creation is what? To become true parents.
What is the fall? Not becoming true parents. What is restoration? How can Heavenly Father send True Parents. True Parents are everything. When we become true parents, we have gone through everything: the heart of children, the heart of brothers and sisters and the heart of the couple. That is why becoming true parents is everything. (So, the purpose of) God’s creation is to become true parents. Losing true parents is the fall. That is why we need to restore true parents. How do we become true parents? (By) raising our sons and daughters as filial sons and daughters. Wow! Actually the Divine Principle is very simple. Of course, practicing this is not easy.
Until now, there have been many people with faith who mistakenly thought of rebirth with the belief that “We believers who have faith in Jesus will go to Heaven and (others) who do not believe will go to Hell,” all the while hating others and having conflicts.
However, the rebirth that Unificationists talk about is different. Rebirth, as the Unification Church members say, is to be born again by experiencing the heart of God and True Parents, growing up, and resolving their han. By resolving the han of one's physical parents and one's spouse, the person is born again.
How to be reborn? Through filial piety. When we have filial piety, we can console and comfort God’s heart, understand God’s suffering as our suffering. When we truly have a heart of filial piety, a filial heart, then we can have an experience of rebirth.
Filial sons and daughters are always shedding tears whenever they thinks about their parents. That is why our True Father is really a filial son. He sheds tears whenever he thinks about Heavenly God, sorrowful God. When he recognized that God had such a sorrowful heart, he was ready to die 100, even 1,000 times (for God’s sake). This is the way to resolve God’s han. “I can do anything.” (He was?) the messiah. His filial heart liberated God’s heart.
How can we have the experience of rebirth? Through filial piety.
And in the process of raising our children well and making them filial sons and daughters, we are born again by resolving God's han through countless efforts, sacrifices, blood, sweat, and tears. This is true rebirth. We cannot be born again without filial piety.
There can be no such thing as self-centeredness in practicing filial piety centering on the realm of 3 generations. There is not even 1% of self-centeredness in filial piety. Therefore, filial piety is absolute and true.
Filial piety cannot allow even 1% of self-centeredness. We cannot do anything by ourself. We cannot survive without God. What can we do? If God does not provide air for three minutes, who can survive? Without God’s help, everybody will die. Even physically like that. Internally it is the same thing. Without God there is no one to solve ... We cannot insist on our own self, even 1%. We are resultant beings. We are not causal beings. We came from God. We were built(?) according to his blueprint, and we need to adjust to it. How can we gain happiness? We need to adjust to his blueprint.
“OK, I am an independent being. I can go my own way!”
If we ignore God’s blueprint, we will never find happiness because we do not follow his blueprint. (He does) not allow even 1% of self-centeredness. Our self(?) belongs to God. We are a child of God. We absolutely 100% belong to God. ... We are not a causal being. We are resultant beings. We need to know that. We are the object partner; we are not the subject partner. ... We need to absolutely unite centered on our creator, our Heavenly Parent. Many people do not know this top secret.
Always Ask Myself Again If I Am A True Person
2. Try living while asking yourself “am I sincere?” and “am I really a true person with a filial heart?” “The more I really know True Father’s course, does a heart that wants to filial with tears really spring up? When I hear about True Father and True Mother’s course of shedding blood, sweat, and tears, are there really tears from weeping?” We need to think about these things. True Father said, “If you do not have tears, you have nothing to do with me.” He also said, “If you want to know me, you have to weep over True Father’s sorrowful circumstances to know me.” He said, “When you shed tears of lamentation, the stains (filth) on your conscience is also washed away.” True Father said that as we live in the fallen world, our conscience has many stains (filth).
During our course of faith, (we should) live while asking ourself, “Am I true?” and “Am I really a true person with hyojeong?” Also (we should) ask ourself, “The more I really know True Father’s course, do I also want to be filial with my own blood sweat and tears?"
When I hear about True Father and True Mother’s course of shedding blood, sweat, and tears, are there really tears from weeping? In the course of hyojeong, tears cannot help but come out when we think of the heavenly parents and true parents.
True Father said, “If you do not have tears, you have nothing to do with me.”
If God has tears and we don’t, we are not dealing with God any more. Many people (emphasize) positive thinking. Of course, we need to have positive thinking. But do we know God’s and True Parents’ reality, do we know the current situation now?
This means that filial sons and daughters should be able connect with the heart of their parents. Parents shed tears but if the children do not shed tears, they are only children by name and not their real children.
Parent and child need to have heartistic communication, heartistic conversations. (Then) they come to know each other very well. How about our relationships? Do we have that kind of heartistic relationship with God? How much do we shed tears with God? How much do we feel our True Parents’ tears?
That is why True Father also said, “If you want to know me, you have to weep over True Father’s sorrowful circumstances to know me.” He said, “When you shed tears of lamentation, the stains (filth) on your conscience is also washed away.” The tears of a filial son towards his parents will resolve their han.
True Father said that as we live in the fallen world, our conscience has many stains (filth). Therefore, how many tears do we have to shed to get this filthy stain off?
Wow! Today is a little bit deeper content, but we need to need to know this. How many people really know God’s reality and his sorrowful heart?
Every morning when I wake up and look at the sky, (I ask), “Where am I now? This world is not an ideal world. In reality it is a fallen world. I need to really understand God’s and True Parents’ heart more. There are still a lot of people who are still miserable. How can we save them? How can we take care of them? How can we take care of America?” When I came to know the reality, I realized I need to know God’s heart more.
Today I have spoken about "God’s Han Will Be Resolved and I will Be Reborn Through Filial Piety of the Realm of 3 Generations."
(Testimony Craig Smith, “You are always witnessing” SR3, Columbus Family Church)♦
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