Ep 816 - The Providential History Of Salvation From The Viewpoint Of The Principle Part 3
The Providential History of Salvation from the Viewpoint of the Principle - January 19, 2023
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Jeong-sook Lalonde
Key Points
Human beings are born as the visible bodies of the invisible God with the potential to embody His full nature and to grow into His perfect temples in which He can freely and peacefully dwell.
The incorporeal God was to have inhabited Adam and Eve’s bodies and become tangible, corporeal God.
If Adam and Eve had matured and married, uniting God’s mas culinity and femininity, they would have become perfected God.
God's ideal is fulfilled when husband and wife attend each other as God's representatives and become his temple and eternal dwelling place – the holy of holies where true love, true life, and true lineage resembling God are multiplied.
By studying True Parents’ eight textbooks, their last will and testament, we can fight and defeat Satan, separating good and evil completely.
If our spouse “only knows himself” like Satan, acts selfishly like a dictator thinking only of himself, we should not descend to his level by feeling sorry for ourself and thus becoming like him.
Rather, we should have compassion for him and think that God must be worried and have so much han because of him.
If we view the faults of others with compassion, our heart becomes deeper and we can forgive them.
Compassion is one of the expressions of love.
After being scolded children return to their parents’ bosom because of their parents’ compassion.
We should think that our spouse's sins and problems are God's way of offering us a way to clear up our own sins. They are our homework from God for our growth. So, on behalf of God, we must carry our spouse’s cross.
We should clean up our lineage for the sake of our future children.
We remove our fallen nature and become holy by loving an unlovable enemy.
TF: the family is the holiest of holy places where God's dream comes true and where all of his han will be completely resolved.
True love is parental, conjugal, sibling and children’s love combined (and perfected) in the family.
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 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.>
God, as the subject partner of true love, did establish humankind as the object partner of true love. Accordingly, God can fulfill the ideal of true love only through humankind. The fulfillment of God's purpose of creation is the ideal world where God and humankind are united through absolute love. Human beings were created as the greatest object partners of God's love. They alone in all creation have the potential to embody the full nature of God and they are born as the visible bodies of the invisible God. When people mature, they become perfect temples of God—visible, substantial bodies in which God can freely and peacefully dwell. God's overall ideal of absolute true love is realized and perfected through humankind in a vertical parent-child relationship. God created Adam first; he was to be the son of God and, at the same time, the substantial body of God.
Later, God created Eve as the object partner of Adam so that Adam and Eve could fulfill the ideal of horizontal love in conjugal love. Eve was to be the daughter of God and as a bride she was to realize substantially the ideal of the horizontal love of God. The place where Adam and Eve are harmonized perfectly, consummating their first love by marrying under the blessing of God, is precisely the place where God meets His substantial Bride. This is because God's ideal of absolute love descends vertically and joins where the ideal of conjugal love between Adam and Eve is realized horizontally. In this way, the true love of God and the true love of humankind join in perfect communion at a single point, although they come from different directions, one vertical and the other horizontal.
Human beings were created as the greatest object partners of God's love. They alone in all creation have the potential to embody the full nature of God, and they are born as the visible bodies of the invisible God. When people mature, they become perfect temples of God—visible, substantial bodies in which God can freely and peacefully dwell.
In other words, the incorporeal God was to inhabit Adam and Eve's body and become a tangible being through them. If God is incorporeal, then Adam and Eve are the corporeal God who inhabit the body.
Man is the male God and woman is the female God. Therefore, when the two get married they become the perfected God. Therefore, the meeting of a married couple is the place where God's ideal is realized.
Therefore, God's ideal is fulfilled only when husband and wife serve each other as God's representatives. Additionally, just as a man was born for a woman and a woman was born for a man, when they absolutely live for their partner, the couple becomes the temple where God dwells forever.
The place where a husband and wife unite centering on absoluteness is the place where God is most pleased and is the holiest among the most holy places. There, true love, true life, and true lineage resembling God are multiplied. However, the Fall means that this Holy of Holies became a place where Satan resided and became a place where evil love, evil life, and evil lineage multiplied.
This is the core content of the Principle of Creation. True Father is talking about the dual characteristics.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 18: Good and Evil from the Viewpoint of 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Conflicts and revolutions constantly plague human society, mainly because of the continual changes in standards of good and evil as people seek to fulfill divergent purposes. Yet throughout the endless cycles of conflict and revolution in human history, people have been seeking the absolute goodness which their original mind desires.
• Conflicts and revolutions in fallen human society will inevitably continue as people pursue this absolute goal, until the final achievement of the world of goodness. The standard of goodness will remain relative only as long as the course of restoration continues.
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. (EDP-71)
This ideal for heaven and earth is the eight textbooks that True Parents prepared. It is the last will and testament of True Parents.
Therefore, in order to separate good and evil, we have to study the eight textbooks. By studying the eight textbooks, we can fight and defeat Satan, separating good and evil completely.
Recently Mother (directed) members of the History Committee to select essential content from the more than 620 volumes of Father’s speeches and remove repetitive content to (condense it into) 21 books. (These members) are all Sun Moon University and Cheongsim University professors working very hard together. They will (publish these) very soon and will translate them into English.
I am so glad. For us to read 620 volumes is not easy, but they have very carefully selected essential important content. We are (looking forward) to their completing these books....
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Our Family is the Sanctuary
Satan is a Being That only knows Himself
1. True Father said that Satan is the being who only knows himself. If there is a man who only thinks about himself, he is Satan. Conversely, if there is a woman who only thinks about herself, she is Satan. A husband who only knows himself acts like a dictator in front of his wife. We may wonder why God does not punish such men. However, the problem is that if you feel sorry for the wives who have such husbands, you will stand in the same position as their husbands. When another person upsets you, you should know that if you feel sorry for yourself, you are on the same level as the other person. If your husband is self-centered and only knows himself, you should think that God must have so much han because of such a personality. And you have to reflect that you have that kind of personality too. Fallen human beings are a matter of degree, but everyone possesses such a character.
True Father said that Satan is the being who only knows himself. It's a problem for everyone to a degree, but there are always times when one only knows oneself. In that sense, all human beings often play the role of Satan.
Sometimes we become Satan because we are focused on ourself. We easily become Satan.
There are times when men play the role of Satan in front of women, and there are times when women play the role of Satan in front of men. There are also husbands who do not even know the Principle, receive the blessing or international blessing, and then treat their wives with self-centeredness, and act as dictators, thinking only about themselves.
However, if a wife feels upset to have a husband who only knows himself and acts like a dictator in front of his wife, the wife will stand in the same position as her husband.
When the other person upsets us, we should know that if we feel sorry for ourself, we are on the same level as the other person.
If our husband is self-centered and only knows himself, we should take pity on him and think that God must be worried and have so much han because of such a personality. And we also have to reflect on ourself on having that same personality even if we do not show it.
(For) fallen human beings (it is) a matter of degree, but everyone possesses such a character.
A Person Who Shows No Compassion
2. Fallen human beings do not have compassion for others when they see that others have done wrong. People with strong personalities blame others for everything and have no compassion for them. Those who show no compassion to others prove that they have that kind of character. So, if the other person is stubborn and has no compassion for people who only know themselves, that person must realize that he also has that kind of personality within himself. Isn't my husband's sin God's way of telling me to clear my own sins? Isn't that so? What children do wrong is that their mother's blood has not been purified; in other words, they are born with their mother's lineage unchanged, and thus rot their mother's stomach. The world does not know about the change of lineage, so if one's children eat badly and rot inside, they will only blame the child. (Translation issues)
When fallen human beings see the wrongdoing of the person (with whom) they are giving and receiving close to them, they (may) hate or curse them before having any compassion for them. The more arrogant and self-centered people are, the more they blame others rather than themselves. And the heart of compassion for the other person doesn't come out at all.
Those who show no compassion to others prove that they also have such a fallen nature. Therefore, we should think that our husband's sins are God's way of showing us to clear up for our sins. So, on behalf of God, we must carry his cross.
And if the children rot inside, do not listen, and rebel, it is because the mother's blood has not been purified. In other words, we have to think that it will cause our future children worry if we give birth to them without changing the lineage.
The outside secular world does not know about the change of lineage, so if one's children eat badly and rot inside, one will only blame the child.
I am talking about compassion. When we see a person’s faults and wrongdoings, if we have no compassion for him, our heart easily becomes dry. When we see someone’s faults and problems, before we judge them, do we have any compassion for them or not? If we only judge without compassion, we (have) the same standard as (the one we judge). We have to know this. That is why (we should) upgrade our heart to reach a certain different level before judging. We should always have compassion. Compassion is very important. It is one of the expressions of love.
That is why when we scold our children with compassion, when we view someone’s faults and problems with compassion, our heart becomes deeper and we can forgive people. But (if we only) judge and criticize and blame without any compassion, that means our spiritual standard is very low.
The more we upgrade our level of love and heart, (the more) compassion is always (present).
Of course, sometimes I am very upset for this and that (reason), but (I ask myself), “Do I have some compassion for them or not?” Even though parents scold their children, why do children come back to their parents’ bosom again? Because their parents have compassion for them.
Compassion is important. Judging without compassion is judging oneself.
Jesus had that kind of compassion. When he saw sick people, he had compassion for them. When his enemy hated him and killed him, (Jesus) had compassion for him.
In our life of faith, compassion is very important. When we see our own enemy or (encounter) a very difficult situation, if we do not have compassion, we really need to reflect on ourself: what level of love do we have?
Father forgave again and again. This kind of forgiving heart comes from where? Compassion. Father’s compassion is really great. Sometimes he was very upset and angry with blessed families: “How come you have Chapter Two problem after receiving the Blessing and starting family? I cannot forgive you! Get away!” But the next day he (would give them) another opportunity and create holy wine. He was a champion of compassion. God is a champion of compassion.
In order to become a true man, one of the important elements is what? We need to have compassion. If we only judge people without compassion, that guy will also judge us. God (also) will judge us.
Our Family is the Sanctuary
3. In the Unification Church today, many wives are frustrated by their husbands, but how is it only the husband's problem? The reason why a husband is rotting inside is because the wife also has that kind of personality. If the heart of resentment and conflict with the other person is the only thing that comes out, and if you do not have a heart of compassion for the other person, you are just as bad as the other person. If you do not love your enemies, you will never conquer them.
My family is not my home. My family is where God's dreams and wishes must be fulfilled. That is why True Father called the family the most holy place. Our family is the most holy place where God must fulfill our wishes and dreams. True Parents blessed the couples in order to have such a wish and dream come to fruition. Therefore, our family is a family centered on the Family Pledge. Therefore, within the family, you must live your life sincerely to serve God and True Parents. Everything comes to fruition from the family.
In the Unification Church today, many wives are frustrated by their husbands. But how is it only the husband's problem? The reason why a husband is rotting inside is because the wife also has that kind of personality.
If the heart of resentment and conflict with the other person is the only thing that comes out, and if we do not have a heart of compassion for the other person, it proves that we are on the same spiritual level as the other person. If the level of love is higher than that of the other person, it is normal to have compassion for the other person when they do something wrong.
Therefore, when our husband or wife has many problems, we should think of all of them as homework given by God to make us a holy woman (or man). There is no way for us to become holy without loving an unlovable enemy.
When we overcome our husband’s problem or wife’s problem, through this kind of overcoming, we can become a holy woman or a holy man. Heavenly(?) training.
We need to learn to love someone we cannot love so that our fallen nature is removed. To love our enemies, we need to upgrade the quality of our love to conquer them.
When I was young... it was not easy to (have) give-and-take with (certain people). (I would) purposely challenge (myself): “I really want to (be) close to that person until I love him.” I purposely approached him and purposely talked with him. When I heard (that) someone really does not like me,... I pray for him until I overcome. I need to pray and call him. If the way is to apologize, then I need to apologize.
Without loving our enemy, there is no way to upgrade our level of love. What is the best way to upgrade our love? We need to love our enemy. We need to love the person we cannot love. The best way to change our character is to love our enemy. We need to love the one we cannot love. This is the best way to upgrade our level of love.
That is why I really love Jesus, how he loved his enemies. I love True Father and True Mother, how they overcame all sorts of persecution and trails. There were so many enemies, (but) he embraced them. That is why finally our Father became True Father and our Mother became True Mother.
To become true parents is our goal. Not like Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han Moon became True Parents.(?) We also have to become true parents, right?
Many blessed families live with many problems in each family. But what we need to know is that our family is not our family. Our family is the family where God's dreams and wishes must be fulfilled.
God can fulfill his dream through our family. Why?...
Many people speak about true love, but they cannot explain it clearly. They say, “God is love. Jesus’ love is great,” but they do not understand and explain what God’s love is. True Father, (however,) explained it very clearly: God’s love appears through the four kinds of love: parental, conjugal, siblings and children’s love. All these four kinds of love combined together are God’s love. Wow! So detailed! Where are the four kinds of love experienced? Only in the family. The family is Heavenly Father dwelling place, the most holy place. God’s wish is there; our wish is there. Everything is there.
That's why True Father said that the family is the holiest of holy places where God's dream comes true and where all of his han will be completely resolved. Our family is the most holy place where God will fulfill our wishes and dreams.
True Parents blessed the couples in order to have such a wish and dream come to fruition. Therefore, our family is a family centered on the Family Pledge. Within each family, we must live our life sincerely to serve God and True Parents so that our families will bear fruit.
Today I spoke about “Our family is the santuary.”
(Testimony Jeong-sook Lalonde, Cheon Il Guk Missionary in Romania)♦
NOTE: This text and the PowerPoint slides from this speech are available as a link at the top of this text. 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. Books of the transcripts and notes are available as PDFs at MDBooks.Hoondok.com.
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