Ep 819 - The Providential History Of Salvation From The Viewpoint Of The Principle Part 6
The Providential History of Salvation from the Viewpoint of the Principle - January 22, 2023
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Key Points
God gave conjugal freedom and the blessing and infinite joy of love to His human children if they fulfill the responsibility of self-control in love before marriage, of fidelity to and absolute love for their blessed partner, and of unconditional parental love for their children to raise them to maturity both physically and spiritually as filial sons and daughters.
When human beings complete the three great blessings through human responsibility, they can enjoy complete freedom.
In order to bear good fruit through spiritual works we should obey leaders who can control spiritual works.
We should feel that God’s han and pain are ours, and our suffering and pain are God’s. We should also feel that the han and pain of others is God’s han and pain and have compassion for them and value them.
When a couple is in conflict, Abel is the partner who yields to and follows the opinion of the other partner believing that that is God’s opinion. That is the way to relieve God’s han.
Once we obey first, it becomes clear who is right and who is wrong.
Even if they have faults or are at fault, we should carry the cross for our parents, our spouse and our children to relieve God’s han.
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.♦
(Inspiration) I would like to strongly encourage each sub-regional leader and also our national leader and our media team... I received a very important inspiration from heaven. I think we need a beautiful testimony recording of a maximum of ten minutes of all of our church members who are already more than 60 years old without exception. Sometimes we can use it for Morning Devotion. Sometimes we can use it for their Seonghwa ceremony in the future. Their testimony will be really powerful.
I really appreciate the hard work of all of our senior brothers and sisters. This kind of testimony will become a very strong tool for our descendants. I really regret... A few days ago Craig showed a beautiful music presentation with some photos (of members) who have already passed away. It was very beautiful.
Their life is our treasure. I really want to make a recording, not too long, maybe ten minutes. Everybody can watch (the recordings) and learn something from their beautiful life.♦
I am so happy to see your beautiful smile every day. Thank you!
Today is the Chinese New Year. The heavenly calendar starts a new year (today).
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.> However, instead, Adam and Eve covered their lower parts and hid themselves among the trees, trembling in fear. By disobeying heavenly law, they established an immoral relationship as the basis for false love, false life and false lineage. As descendants of Adam and Eve, all human beings are born with original sin. The Fall gave rise to conflict between the mind and body within every person, thereby causing our societies to be filled with tainted love and with people who do things that contradict the desire of their original minds. According to the ideal of love, all love relationships in the animal and plant kingdoms are for reproduction only. Human beings are the sole exception. Humankind enjoys freedom in the conjugal relationship of love, which is humanity’s special privilege as the lord of all creation. God gave the blessing and infinite joy of love to His sons and daughters.
However, the true freedom that God allowed requires human responsibility. When an individual insists upon and practices freedom of love without responsibility, how much confusion and destruction takes place! Achieving the highest ideal of human love is possible only when one takes responsibility for love. We can think of this responsibility in three ways. The first is for one to become the master of true love, truly free and thanking God for the freedom of love, wherein one knows how to cultivate and control oneself. This responsibility for a love relationship is not to be taken merely because of law or social convention. Instead, a person needs to establish responsibility through his own self-control and self-determination within a life-committing, vertical relationship with God.
The second is one's responsibility toward the object partner of love. By nature, people do not want their spouse's love to be shared with others. Horizontal conjugal love, which differs from the vertical love between parents and children, loses its potential for perfection the moment it is divided. This is because the Principle of Creation requires husband and wife to become one in absolute love. Each spouse has the responsibility given by love to live absolutely for the sake of the other. The third responsibility of love is toward children. The love of parents is the basis for children's pride and happiness. Children want to be born through the total and harmonious unity of their parents in true love, and they want to be raised in that kind of love.
Unlike animals and plants, humankind enjoys freedom in the conjugal relationship of love, which is humanity’s special privilege as the lord of all creation. God gave the blessing and infinite joy of love to His sons and daughters.
However, the true freedom that God allowed is possible only by centering on the following three human responsibilities. First, human beings have the responsibility to become the subject of true love through self-discipline and self-control of the freedom of love that God has allowed. Since the freedom of love that cannot control oneself destroys the order of the entire universe, it comes with the responsibility of self-control.
The second is one's responsibility toward the object partner of love. By nature, people do not want their spouse's love to be shared with others. Horizontal conjugal love, which differs from the vertical love between parents and children, loses its potential for perfection the moment it is divided. Each spouse has the responsibility given by love to live absolutely for the sake of the other.
The third responsibility of love is toward children. Children want to be born through the total and harmonious unity of their parents in true love, and they want to be raised in that kind of love. Parents' most precious responsibility for their children is not only to raise them externally, but also to provide them with vital elements of true love that will perfect their spirituality.
Ultimately, when human beings complete the three great blessings through human responsibility, they can enjoy complete freedom. The first blessing is the perfection of individuality through self-dominance. At this time, you can enjoy freedom by absolutely obeying God's commandment not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The second blessing is that the husband and wife must become one in true love and keep fidelity. Conjugal love, unlike parental love, is destroyed when it is shared horizontally with another partner. The third blessing is that parents have the responsibility to perfect their children's spirituality and raise them to become filial sons and daughters.
(They have) three kinds of responsibility. However, our final goal is to become True Parents. When we become True Parents, that means we have already raised our sons and daughters as filial sons and daughters. Without raising our sons and daughters as filial sons and daughters, how can we become True Parents?
What is the purpose of God’s creation? For human beings to become True Parents. In order to become True Parents we need to have experience of children’s love, siblings love and conjugal love. Then finally we become True Parents. When we reach the standard of True Parents, we have all (this) experience. Then we have the qualification to dominate all things as well.
Adam and Eve were supposed to have become True Parents. What was the fall? (Adam and Eve) could not become True Parents. What is restoration? The messiah needs to come as True Parents.
Our main and final responsibility is to become True Parents. Not just Rev. & Mrs. Moon. We are the ones who have to become True Parents. If we don’t, how can we say God is a God of True Parents, and how can we say Rev. & Mrs. Moon became True Parents? We have to reach that level.
Our True Parents’ guidance is really amazing!
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 19: The Works of Good Spirits and Evil Spirits
• We use "good spirits" as a general term for God, spirits on the side of God, and good angels.
• The general term for Satan and spirits on his side is "evil spirits."
• The works of good spirits and evil spirits have a similar appearance at the outset but pursue contrary purposes.
• Over time, the works of good spirits will increase a person's sense of peace and righteousness and even improves his health. On the contrary, the works of evil spirits, will gradually lead to an increase in anxiety, fear and selfishness and cause his health to deteriorate.
Based on that, let’s explore more details.
How can you Distinguish the Works of Evil Spirits?
1. When fallen people carry out spiritual works, they have to be able to distinguish themselves from the Principle perspective while in a serious position, like standing on the edge of a needle. If those central figures in the providence stand in a more principled position, they must have the mindset of absolute obedience. The reason for this is because fallen people are in midway position: a position between God and Satan. This is where they relate with both, which means that the works of good spirits can occur along with the works of evil spirits.
2. The works of evil spirits can often occur along with the works of good spirits after a certain period of time. So, it is quite difficult for those who don’t know the Principle to distinguish between the two spirits. If church leaders today drove the work of good spirits into the works of evil spirits by their ignorance, they would be considered as people who disobey the providence.
3. From the perspective of the Principle, it is too dangerous for those who cannot control their own work of evil spirits to do spiritual works by themselves. If they cannot control it, many tragic events can occur. Therefore, when spiritual works occur, you must believe that you can absolutely obey leaders who can control it, so that you can bear the fruit of goodness through the work of good spirits.
4. The Bible says that a lot of mystical events happen in the Last Days. It says, “In the last days, God says, ‘I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.’”(Act. 2:17).
Know that fallen humans can always go back and forth between good and evil because they are in the midway position. Therefore, we must not unconditionally follow the works of all spirits as works by absolute good spirits.
In order to distinguish between good and evil spirits, one must always have a correct sense of the Principle through the word. Secondly, listen to the voice of the original mind through prayer and sincerity all the time. Thirdly, through Abel’s guidance one must always practice self-denial. Without attending Abel we do not know how to train and deny ourself. That is why attending Abel is very important in order to deny our own self: self-denial. “I belong to God; I belong to True Parents; I belong to goodness.”
We really need to have self-denial. We should not only listen to God’s word, but practically, substantially we need to know how to have give-and-take with our Abel. Without attending Abel, our life is (in a lot of) danger because we have no training. We do not know how to distinguish between good and evil spirits. That is why training is really important. In our family, (we should) obey our father and mother. Through that kind of obedience and (through) listening to our parents, we know what is good and what is evil very clearly.
In the church we need to know how to serve our Abel. Through raising our spiritual children and attending our Abel, we can learn how to deny ourself. Finally we can distinguish good and evil.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Who Will Resolve God's Han?
The Han I Carry is also God's Han
1. The han I carry also belongs to God. In our lives, there are many things that we do not agree with whether it is in the family or any human relationships. Isn't that God's han? Aren't we saddened when we are in conflict? In the end, who's sadness is that? It is God's sadness. Don't you have God within your heart? The conscience is God and the heart is God. And the physical body too belongs to God. Who does my blood and life belong to? My existence itself absolutely belongs to God. When we realize this, we see that not even 1% of ourselves belongs to us. Not only that, but all the people I am related to also belong to God. All of my relationships with them belong to God, and they are precious people. From that point of view, how can you discriminate against others? Can you discriminate? Discrimination is like murder. You must not discriminate. A husband is a husband from heaven, and your wife is a wife from heaven. Even if the other person is lacking, you should feel sorry for them. Let's look at True Father's life. Does True Father have enemies? Even though all of humanity regarded True Father as an enemy, he was the one who valued humanity more than his children.
Until now, most people have treated their sorrow, han, and pain as only their own suffering. Thinking and treating suffering like that, there is no way to (re)solve (it). However, if the relationship between God and us is that of parent and child, God's sorrow, han, and pain must be directly felt as ours. And we must think that our sadness, han and pain are also God’s.
Aren’t our hearts saddened when we are in conflict? In the end, who's sadness is that? It is God's sadness. It means that when we struggle over our pain, han and sorrow, God is also struggling. On the other hand, if we are happy and joyful, God is also happy and joyful. Therefore, we must not separate (in) our relationship with God.
When we are suffering because of some issues, struggling (with) our spouse, or children issues, all kinds of issues, if our issues do not relate to Heavenly Father, that is a problem. It is not the proper parent-child relationship.
When we are struggling to unite our mind and body but we can not overcome our physical limitation, when we are sorrowful, sometimes struggling, sometimes we have a lot of han(?) (about) how to create unity, that is not just our han. That is also God’s han. God’s wish asks us to create unity between mind and body.
When we have some kind of difficulty, when it is not easy to overcome our physical limitation, then (let’s tell) God, “Heavenly Father, because of this kind of situation, how much you suffer, how much sorrow you have, how much han you have from Adam’s family, Noah’s family, each human being! This is your han. When I think this is your han, I need to really settle down. I need to overcome my physical limitations.”
When we treat our own han as God’s han, then tears come down, and we can gain strength. “If I overcome, then God’s han can be released.” That is why if we really create unity between God and ourself, then we (can) treat our own han, our own pain, our own sorrow, our own situation (as) related to Heavenly Parent.
Let’s not think that this is “my own situation unrelated to God.” (If we do,) then we cannot create a heartistic relationship with God.
Aren’t our hearts saddened when we are in conflict? In the end, whose sadness is that? It is God’s sadness. When we struggle with something and God sees us as a parent, even though we (may) not recognize him, that is God’s sorrow. “Oh my, my son or daughter are going through that kind of difficulty and problems.” God worries about that situation more than we do, but we don’t recognize that. That means that when we struggle over our pain and han and sorrow, God is also struggling. When we see our children struggling, (then) as parents, we have the same kind of struggling....
On the other hand, if we are happy and joyful, God is also happy and joyful. Therefore, we must not separate (in) our relationship with God.
We must go further and think that we are not the only one who belongs to God, but everyone whom we are related to is also God's. Therefore, we must think that the hardships, sufferings and han they are experiencing are also God’ suffering. We must not discriminate between the relationship with God and us, and us and other people.
Then, from that point of view, the husband is a husband from heaven. Also, the wife is a wife from heaven. Even if the other person is lacking, we should feel sorry for him or her.
Let's look at True Father's life. Does True Father have enemies? Even though all of humanity regarded True Father as an enemy, he was the one who valued humanity more than his own children.
Wow! True Father showed that kind of model. Even Jesus loved is enemies (and had) no discrimination. “You are a good guy or a bad guy or Jesus’ enemy.” Jesus loved all of them without discrimination. That was Jesus’ quality of true love.
That was (also) our True Parents quality of true love: no discrimination. They not only loved their own children, but they loved anyone who came to their house the same as their children. They loved them even more than their own children.
True Parents love all humankind; they love you and me more than their own child. True Parents show that kind of model.
If True Parents really focused on loving each of their 13 children, I think nobody would (have) gone the wrong way.
True Father wants to show the model. Then his children needed to sacrifice. That is why we should not simply judge True Children. What True Parents could not (give?) their own children, we are the ones who gained the victory and have a victorious foundation (with which) to embrace them in the end. That is our issue. We can easily criticize them, but we can become more mature and bring more results and love True Parents more than anyone. Then finally all of them (can) come back. I do not know how long it will take. We will only win them over by love.
Who Will Resolve God's Han?
2. Even if we cannot go to the world or cosmic level like the standard of True Parents, shouldn't we have a good relationship at least with 'you and me'? Shouldn't you make some concessions when your couple has a disagreement and conflict? You should bow your head a little more. Isn't the husband(wife) the husband (wife) through True Father? You must recognize the faults of your husband (wife) as your own, and treat your husband (wife) as precious and valuable as Heaven. That is the way to resolve God's han. The same can be said for the opposite side. Even if a husband sees his wife's faults, won't God's resentment be resolved if he carries the cross instead of God? Since everything is established in the family, if someone does not carry the cross instead of God, who will relieve God's han?
Testimony of a Japanese Woman
3. This is the testimony of a Japanese woman. It is said that her husband was an executive at a Hitachi company and was not a member of our church. And she was the mother of two children. But after she came back from our workshop, she said that her attitude toward serving her husband changed dramatically. The wife said that she ironed her husband's socks even after washing them, and ironed his undergarments even when he changed them. On the day her husband changes, she put socks, underwear, and undergarments next to the pillow before he gets up.
When the wife's attitude changed 180 degrees like this, one day the husband asked his wife what changed. At that time, the wife replied, “I realized a lot of things while attending the workshop of the Unification Church not too long ago. I felt so bad that I couldn't serve you well until now. “ She said. There is another testimony where the husband who heard his wife's testimony, was so moved that he took a leave from the company to attend a workshop, and he too was moved and became a member of the church. When a wife treats her husband with the utmost sincerity, heaven will work. Isn't the husband the wife's life, and the wife's life is the husband? You must protect your own life. Therefore, you can't save your life if you do what you want.
Even if we cannot go to the world or cosmic level like True Parents' standards, we must establish a good relationship at least (between) 'you and me.'
(With) those who are closest to us, anyone we relate to.
In particular, the couple who is in the closest position becomes the most problematic. When a couple has a disagreement and is in conflict, we must first yield and follow the other person's opinion.
We must believe that the other person's opinion is God's opinion and obey it first with a respectful heart. Once we obey first, it is clear who is right and who is wrong.
So before we judge... “My husband is wrong.” We have the preconception that he is wrong. Or “My wife is wrong” before taking action. In the beginning we need to obey with a respectful heart. Then practice first. Then we will clearly know who is wrong and who is right. This is really amazing.
When we study someone, our Abel or our Cain, if we truly serve them with sincerity, then it will become very clear who is wrong, who is right, who is Abel, who is Cain, who is higher level, who is lower level. Through serving we can know his personality and character. This is amazing! Through serving we can do everything.
The first to yield is Abel. That is the way to relieve God's han.
When someone really has han, do not judge: “That person made a mistake; he has to go through that kind of indemnity course.” We should not think that way. His han is God’s han. We should treat his han as God’s han. We should try to help him.
If through this way we can relieve God’s han, even in our family – husband’s issue, wife’s issue, brothers and sisters’ issue, children’s issue – we need to treat their han, their struggling and their sorrow as God’s han, God’s sorrow. Then when we solve the problem, that is the way to relieve God’s han.
Where can we relieve God’s han? (Should we) just kneel down and pray for 24 hours? (It is) not like that. Whatever we face in any situation we should treat it as God’s issues, God’s han, God’s sorrow and God’s problem. Then when we help (the family member) (re)solve that issue, this is the way to relieve God’s han.
Even if a husband sees his wife's faults, he must carry the cross instead of God to relieve His han. Even if parents make mistakes, when their children carry the cross instead of them, God's han for them is resolved. No matter how wrong a child is, when parents take responsibility for their children's faults, God's han is resolved. This is like God carrying the fall of Adam and Eve to(?) his cross.
Father said we need to bear three kinds of crosses: our parents’ cross, our spouse’s cross and our children’s cross as God’s cross, as God’s han. We need to think that our position is messiah in our family. That is why we need to bear our parents’ cross, not blame them. We need to bear our spouse’s and our children’s cross. We can unite(?) all the time, right? There are difficulties and problems.... Joyfully we need to bear the cross, any kind of cross. That is our destiny.
Since everything is established in the family, if someone does not carry the cross instead of God, who will relieve God's han?
That is why with any problem, we should feel we need to settle (it) with God. Through this kind of situation we can become one with God and have a close, heartistic relationship with God.
“This is my (problem); it has nothing to do with God.” “This is your problem. It has nothing to do with God.” Then where can we relieve God’s han? Where can we have a heartistic relationship with God?
Today I spoke about who will relieve God’s han.
(Testimony Jinil Fleischman, CARP USA President, 7 day New Hope Workshop in Las Vegas)♦
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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