Ep 823 - The Providential History Of Salvation From The Viewpoint Of The Principle Part 10
The Providential History of Salvation from the Viewpoint of the Principle - January 26 , 2023
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Key Points
The cooperation between mother and son in the providence of res to ra tion is the preparation and condition for the Son of Heaven to escape Satan's accusation and be born with the seed of new life.
The purpose of mother-son cooperation is for the separation from Satan, for the restoration of Adam’s family, for uniting the son with the father, for raising the son as central figure and for him to inherit his father’s foundation.
As mother-son cooperation in our daily life, we should report to three mother figures and receive education from them. They need to stay near us and protect us from immoral sin, prevent any Chapter Two mistakes, support us with their prayers, and confirm any important issues from the spiritual world.
Before we act, we should inquire and receive confirmation from Abel.
What we like most can become Satan’s bait and the focus in the fight between God and Satan and between good and evil spirits.
We must be especially wary of the four major desires of the body, name ly, sleeping, eating, material things including money, and sex.
Rather we must love the Word, prayer, sincerity, service and sacrifice.
Because this fallen world is ruled by evil spirits, good people have suffered historically.
Evil spirits are motivated by self-centered love while good spirits live for others, even at their own expense.
While evil spirits lead us the wrong way, good spirits lead us on the way of justice.
Children who inherit well from their parents and become better than they are, are a source of pride for their parents.
Parents invest in and sacrifice for their children because the children bear the hopes of the family.
While parents want children to be successful and while a good education, maintaining their purity and receiving the Blessing are important, the main reason parents bear children is to love them and to rear them as filial sons and daughters before God.
If parents love their children with all their heart and jeongsong, and if children realize from childhood that they are responsible for their family and heaven’s hope for it and obey their parents, they will become the hope of their family.
If parents wishes that their children mature and study well, develop good relationships with others, become filial children, receive the Blessing and become exemplary couples, if these wishes are motivated by love, all problems will be solved.
Love is everything. We were born for love, live for the sake of love and can die for the sake of love.
Children need to know Heavenly Parent’s and their parents’ wishes well.
To avoid causing worry to their parents, they need to obey well.
They need to have continual heartistic communication with their parents and develop a strong emotional bond with them.
They must avoid judging their parents because of horizontal knowledge or bad friendships they acquire at school.
Of emotion, intellect and will, emotion should become the deepest com po nent of the parent-child relationship. This allows our heart to grow.
The purpose of intellect and will is to support emotion.
To raise our children well, we need to focus on emotion or heart.
Transcripts from November 3, 2021 to the present, personal notes from November 11, 2020 until November 2, 2021 and slides from August 29, 2021 to the present are available at MD.Hoondok.com as PDF files.♦
Thanks to your prayer and jeongseong I have returned well to America. In Korean time we will soon celebrate the 103rd anniversary of True Father’s birth and the 80th anniversary of True Mother’s birth. I sincerely congratulate our True Parents on their birth.
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 lost Adam who had the seed of true love and true life. So God needed to find a son with the new seed, free from satanic accusation. Just as God created Adam first at the time of the creation, God must prepare a son first who has no relationship to the Fall, according to the providence of restoration which is the providence of re-creation. This is the basis for the idea of the coming of the Messiah. The Messiah rejects the sinful lives of those with a fallen lineage under the dominion of Satan. He comes as a true person who engrafts fallen people into the seed of new life. The Messiah has his roots in God and comes as the second Adam, who wipes away all that was committed by the first Adam. This is the reason God cannot send a superman Messiah who will work only through miracles.
For a son to be born on earth with this seed of God's love and life, there first must exist a mother. Such a mother cannot give birth to this child in a conventional way, conception must happen in accordance with the formula of restoration. All the cooperation between mothers and sons in the providence of restoration is a preparation and a condition for the son of God to be born with the seed of new life, free from satanic accusation. By making conditions to avoid Satan's attacks, and by subordinating the firstborn son who represents evil, mother and son restore the love, life and lineage that were taken over by Satan. The Bible, which records the providential work of God, contains many stories that are difficult to understand. For example, Rebekah deceived her husband Isaac and her first son Esau, and helped her second son Jacob receive the blessing. God took the side of that mother and son, and although they used methods that at first glance seem unjust, God still blessed them for their actions.
The cooperation between mother and son in the providence of restoration is the preparation and condition for the Son of Heaven to escape Satan's accusation and be born with the seed of a new life. We will now look into what is the purpose of mother-child cooperation and how mother-child cooperation is applied in the realm of living.
The Purpose of Mother-Son Cooperation
1. For separation from Satan by mother-son cooperation.
2. For restoration of Adam’s family by mother-son cooperation.
3. For uniting (of the son with the) father by mother-son cooperation.
4. For raising (the) son as central figure and (for him to) inherit (his) Father’s foundation
Applying the Life of Mother-Son Cooperation in Daily Life
According to Father’s guidance:
1. We should report to 3 mother figures and receive education from them in daily life.
Before True Father’s Holy Wedding three mother figures of faith always prayed for True Father ... in Pusan a long time ago when he started his mission. There were always three mother figures around Father.
2. Three spiritual mother figures need to stay near us and protect us from immoral sin and prevent any Chapter Two mistakes.
In particular leaders who have taken on public responsibility should always have three mothers-of-faith praying and offering jeongseong. In the case of single people who have not been blessed, such an expectation(?) of faith must be created. A leader who has this motherly expectation(?) of faith can be protected from Satan’s horizontal environment and Chapter Two.
When I started my pioneer mission, Rev. Yo Han Lee gave me very important guidance. He told me to find three mother figures who pray for me, offering jeongseong for me and protect me.
If we do not have that kind of foundation, we are just alone. There are all kinds of temptations, horizontal temptations, especially Chapter Two. When we try to witness to many brothers and sisters, Satan will surely invade us horizontally. That is why we have to be careful. That is why we need to have a very strong spiritual foundation centering on three mother figures.
I did this. Wow! It really protected me so much in many ways because I was alone, I had not yet received the Blessing. That was really great protection. That is why we need to follow the formula course.
I really appreciate Rev. Yo Han Lee because he gave me right commands, right directions. He really wanted to protect me. That is why he told me the formula course. I witnessed to so many high school students, boys and girls. We had meals together, and I was always teaching the Divine Principle. That is why they loved me.
I also had some temptation as well. How did I overcome? I followed the formula course.
3. We need to get support (from) their prayers and confirm any important issues from spiritual world with their help.
When Father did something, he always asked God first before taking action. Even though he was completely united with God and could have taken action any time, he always wanted to get some kind of permission from God. When True Father asked God (something), the mothers of faith around True Father received spiritual revelations or had dreams. In this way Father confirmed that this was a command from heaven and put it into practice. Wow! Even though he was the messiah, he needed to get confirmation again and again through his prayer and through three mother figures who supported him. It was incredible.
When Father prayed to God, then three women figures received inspirations and revelations. Then Father said, “Wow! That is really God’s answer as well,” and he tried to take action.
Therefore it is very important before ... we act, we must at least inquire and act upon the Abel of our faith.
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 this let’s study Father’s word.
What You Want the Most can Become Satan’s Bait
<172-304> You have to know the center of the fight between God and Satan and the fight between good spirits and evil spirits. What we like the most can become Satan’s bait. At the same time, we have to refuse this bait because it belongs to Satan. If what you like the most is Satan’s bait, God cannot touch it. You have to refuse it. That is the problem. If God likes what we like the most, that would be great. But, God cannot touch it because God cannot like what Satan likes. From this point, the complicated history remains.
We have to know the center of the fight between God and Satan and the fight between good spirits and evil spirits. What we like the most can become Satan’s bait.
If what we like the most is Satan’s bait, God cannot touch it. He cannot do anything with evil. We have to refuse it. We must always keep in mind that what the body likes can be the devil's bait.
Because Satan operates centered on desires of the physical body, what the physical body likes can become Satan's bait, so we must train to be in charge. We must take good control of the four major desires of the body, namely, sleeping, eating, material things (money), and sexual desires.
Therefore, rather than these four desires enjoyed by the physical body, we must live a life centered on the spirit self that God likes. We must love the Word, prayer and sincerity, and service and sacrifice.
The Way of Good Spirits and the Way of Evil Spirits
<241-18>Who had taken the initiative in dominating this fallen world first? Evil spirits had done it. That is why good people have been beaten in history. Based on the body and mind, the human body was under Satan’s dominion due to the Fall. Why? It is because of love. The body and mind was originally supposed to be united while centered on love. However, the fall occurred because of false love, or fallen love. The work of evil spirits leads to the wrong way, while going the way of justice is the work of good spirits.
This fallen world has not been ruled by good spirits, but by evil spirits. That is why good people have been beaten and sacrificed in history.
This can be easily seen from the fact that the body has dominated the mind until now. Due to the fall of man, the body was under the control of evil spirits.
The battle between good and evil spirits began centering on love. Evil spirits are motivated by self-centered love, and good spirits are motivated by living for the sake of others even at the expense of themselves.
Therefore, the work of evil spirits leads to the wrong way, while going the way of justice is the work of good spirits.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Parents’ Hope for Their Children
1. In the family, while children can improve the atmosphere of the home, they can also cause worries. Children are people who take responsibility over that household’s wishes. If children realize from a young age that they are responsible for their family with the hope of Heaven and hope of their parents, and they obey their parents, they will become infinite hope for their family. But there are many families that were unable to do that. Although parents went through all kinds of pain, ordeals, and indemnity courses, as much as their children are theirs, their wish is for their children to grow up to be truly proud and precious and become respected children at home, in relationships with relatives, at school, and at work. Isn’t that the wish of all parents?
2.Parents want to raise their children to be children who not wander about and waste time like themselves but become children without failures. Parents wish for their children to go to school and study well, grow up proudly, become filial children before their parents, models to relatives and tribes, and get married and become very exemplary couples. It is also the wish of parents for their children to get married and as husband and wife, become a couple without conflicts, who respect and love each other, thereby becoming a family more precious than their own parents.
The key to the future prosperity of the family lies with the children. No matter how great the achievements the parents have left on the path of their will, if the children of the family do not inherit their parents' things and are not better than their parents, the family is not proud.
What is our achievement? Our mission is missionary, or national messiah or continental director; this kind of external position or achievement is nothing. What is important? Should our children be better than us or not? Are they closer to Heavenly God and True Parents than us or not? This is the point.
Parents are willing to invest and sacrifice everything for their children. This is because children are the ones who are responsible for the hopes of the family.
Raising them to grow up well and become successful people should not be the main purpose of why we give birth to children. Why do blessed families have children? It is also important that children are well educated, maintain their purity, and receive the blessing.
However, before education, purity education, and the blessing, we must clearly know the reason for giving birth to children. It is none other than to love our children. It is to love our children and make them filial sons and daughters before God. If parents truly love their children, the children will in turn follow the parents' wishes.
I (will share with) you a real example (of this).
A mother had a son who specialized in child education. However, he had no children even after ten years of marriage. One day, he called his mother and said, “Mom, I am fully prepared to become an expert in child education and raise a child well, but why doesn’t God give me a child?”
To this his mother responded with a voice mingled with love. She said, “My beloved son, the purpose of having a child is not just raising a child well. For me the purpose of giving birth to a child is to love that child. You can experience God’s love while loving that child. Professional, technical and intellectual education are not everything.”
Upon hearing this, her son said that he deeply reflected on his academic knowledge that he had to raise his children only intellectually, professionally and intellectually.
Love is not something that can be obtained through skill and knowledge. Love can only be obtained through jeongseong and heart and the mother’s incredible sacrifice – not through an intellectual, professional and technical way.
The secular world just focuses on the external way. “Oh, send (the child) to the piano institution or whatever. He needs to learn this area or that area.” That is centered on the intellectual, professional or technical way, not centered on heart. That is the issue.
If the parents love their children with all of their heart and jeongsong, and if children realize from a young age that they are responsible for their family with the hope of Heaven and hope of their parents, and they obey their parents, they will become infinite hope for their family.
Although parents went through all kinds of pain, ordeals, and indemnity courses, as much as their children are theirs, their wish is for their children to grow up to be truly proud and precious and become respected children at home, in relationships with relatives, at school, and at work.
Parents want to raise their children to be children who do not wander about and waste time like themselves but become children without failures. Parents wish for their children to go to school and study well, grow up proudly, become filial children before their parents, models to relatives and tribes, and get married and become very exemplary couples. If all of these wishes and hopes are moved by love, the rest of the problems will be solved incidentally.
Love is everything. I was born for love. I live for the sake of love. I can die for the sake of love. Wow! This is really incredible guidance!
Children Need to Know Their Parents’ Wishes Well
3. Children need to know Heavenly Parent and their parents’ wishes well. First of all, children need to keep in mind that they cannot become children who cause their parents to worry. Secondly, they must always live discussing with their parents. They must not live however they want but always have heartistic communication while discussing together with parents and become children who have close parent-child relationships. Also, they must strictly adhere to time and rules, as well as basic greeting etiquette to parents. However, if you go to school and become tainted by bad friends and ignore parents, recklessly criticize parents with the knowledge from school, and stand in the position of knowing everything better than the parents, then it will make parents very sad.
4. That is why children should not do as they please. They must always live discussing with parents and become closer in heart. Among emotion, intellect, and will, emotion is most precious. This emotion becomes the deepest in the parent-child relationship. We need intellect and will because the purpose of their existence is to support the purpose of emotion. However, when the means of intellect become the subject and the center, that person’s heart cannot grow. Then they become someone far away from God. Children need to keep in mind that when they cause worry to their parents, that is not only the parents’ sorrow, but it also becomes the sorrow of the nation, world, and God.
Children need to know Heavenly Parent and their parents’ wishes well. First of all, children need to keep in mind that they cannot become children who cause their parents to worry. In order not to become a worrisome child in front of our parents, we must distinguish between the “do’s” and “don’ts” that our parents tell us to do and obey them.
Secondly, we must always live discussing with our parents. The reason we discuss with our parents is to become one through heartistic communication. If heartistic communication goes well, there is no emotional distance between parents and children.
Among emotion, intellect, and will, emotion is most precious. However, if we go to school and become tainted by bad friends and ignore our parents, recklessly criticize parents with the knowledge from school, and stand in the position of knowing everything better than our parents instead of creating an emotional bond with them, then it will make our parents very sad.
This emotion becomes the deepest (component of) the parent-child relationship. We need intellect and will because the purpose of their existence is to support the purpose of emotion. However, when the intellect becomes the subject and the center, (our) heart cannot grow. Nowadays, education of our children is always a problem because we put intellect and information first.
Children need to keep in mind that when they cause worry to their parents, that is not only the parents’ sorrow, but it is also becomes the sorrow of the nation, world, and God.
Today I spoke about the very important parents’ hope for their children. We need to focus more on the emotional area which is the area of the heart – more than on intellect, more than any other thing. Then we can raise our children well.
Today I talked about parents hope for their children.
(Testimony Yuka Shimada, YCLC Leadership Program, Dallas, Texas)♦
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