Ep 512 - The Movement for the Unification for North and South Korea Part 3
The Movement for the Unification of North and South Korea 147-32-13-40 - March 21, 2022
Today I’d like to talk about “The Movement for the Unification of North and South Korea” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Women need to become the flag bearers of the Unification movement. I have also given a clear vision to WFWP to carry out various activities for Korean reunification. Women should play a leading role in unification to show an example through teaching ideological values and practicing true love. War and conflicts break out when people with a selfish motive try to steal another's land or wealth. On the other hand, peace occurs when people sacrifice themselves for the sake of others and give true love. Until now, WFWP members have devoted their hearts and souls as they perform volunteer activities for their communities and societies. These activities will become valuable cornerstones of the movement for peace. I believe that the "1 % Love Share Project for North Korea" campaign to support North Koreans, especially children and women, upholds the founding spirit of WFWP. (2002.04.10, Little Angels Performing Arts Center, Seoul)
Father offered devotions for the unification of Korea. Back in the 1990s, the state of affairs relating to the unification of Korea was quite serious. Hence, as a person conducting an anti-communist movement and a unification movement, True Father was risking his life meeting North Korea's Kim II-sung or the USSR’s Mikhail Gorbachev. He was the central figure in all respects and the central person had to resolve those circumstances. (2013.06.23, Hawaii)
True Father said that The Purpose of establishing WFWP is for the unification of the Korea. Let's see what True Father has to say about this.
The Purpose of Establishing WFWP
<Pyeong Hwa Gyeong, P. 883> During that time, I came to the realization that the key to world peace and world unity lies in the unification of the Korean Peninsula, which has been divided between communism and democracy. It is for this reason that I have traveled throughout the world and devoted all my energy to the accomplishment of this goal. This is also the reason I went to North Korea last November and negotiated directly with Kim Il Sung. It will not be long now before we see the unity of all the world’s major religions. Neither will it be long before the unification of the Korean Peninsula is accomplished. In fact, these two goals represent the reason that women from seventy countries around the world have gathered today to attend the Seoul Rally of the Women’s Federation for Peace in Asia, which is being held under the presidency of Mrs. Moon. I expect you will eventually be forming WFWP.
In God’s salvation providence, Korea is the home country of the providence. The 150,000 Korean women who are attending today should be leaders who can educate women from all over the world who come armed with Godism and the head-wing thought, the basic ideology of the Women's Federation for World Peace, under the leadership of President Hak Ja Han.
We live in the age when the Messiah returns as the True Parents of humankind, when North and South Korea are uniting through love and truth, and when all religions are to become one. This is the age in which all people of the world will rise above differences of race and philosophy to join in the building of a new world of peace. I am certain that God will give boundless blessings to all the world’s women called for these great purposes.
True Father died while doing his best for the unification of the Korean Peninsula, the homeland of God, until the last moment of his life.
Now, it remains the last task that we should accomplish, centering on True Mother. Our wish is unity. Even in our dreams, our wish is the Heavenly unified Korea. Therefore, whether we are sleeping or awake, wherever we go, we should pray for the Heavenly unified Korea.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 26 - Family Perfection is the Completion of the 4 Great Realms of Heart
I would also like to speak about conjugal love.
Let’s study EDP content first.
• In order to fulfill God's second blessing, individually-perfected Adam and Eve, by joining in loving oneness as husband and wife and raising children, should have constructed a God-centered four position foundation in their family.
• A family or society that has formed the four position foundation in line with God's ideal is patterned after the image of a perfect individual. It thus becomes the substantial object partner to the individual who lives in oneness with God, and consequently, it also becomes the substantial object partner to God.
• The individual feels joy, and likewise God feels joy, when each perceives in this family or community the manifestation of his own internal nature and external form.
• Thus, when God's second blessing is fulfilled, this family or community also becomes a good object partner giving joy to God.
Today we are going to learn about the love of a couple achieving the four great realms of heart.
(7) Center of the Universe and the Fruit of Love
1. Man is the substitute of half of all humankind, and woman is the other half. Consequently, the union of man and woman shows the unity of humankind, and conjugal love is humankind’s love as well.
2. Also man represents the positive aspect of the whole universe and spirit world, and woman represents the negative aspect. Therefore, the unity of a couple represents and is the center of the whole universe.
3. When seen like this, conjugal love represents all tangible loves in the creation. Such a love is the divergence of God’s love. Therefore, conjugal love as representative love or unified love, is God’s love.
4. Therefore the position of the couple which indicates unified love is the center of the universe, the position of 2nd creator, and the completion of the ideal of creation.
The world of heaven consists of a pair system centered on the couple representing God's love.
Therefore, the blessed couple becomes one body 24 hours a day and is always attached to each other. Couples who are always blessed are forever attached to each other in the kingdom of heaven.
Grandparents are always together in pairs, father and mother in pairs, children in pairs, grandchildren in pairs, and great grandchildren in pairs.
Everything is centered on pairs because the structure of the kingdom of heaven is based on the pair system.
That is why once you go to the spiritual world, enter the kingdom of heaven, your spouse will be with you all the time. Maybe some people are very happy to hear that, but some (others) would dislike hearing that, right? (They are) struggling and struggling: “Oh my goodness, (will I have to be) in the kingdom of heaven with this guy or this girl all the time together?” Many people have all kinds of feelings.
The kingdom of heaven is centered on the pair system. That is why the couple really represents God’s love. God’s representative love is not parental love. It is based (rather) on the couple. We need to understand that.
5. In the original world conjugal love is endlessly broad and deep. Therefore the children born through conjugal love are the fruits of such a holy unified love.
6. Because conjugal love is the union of God’s love and the love of creation, the children born through such love, in other words, the new living entities, are God’s children, and the manifestation of the combination of the universe, and thus contain the value of a small universe.
7. One thing we must add here is that the phenomenon happening on the earthly world are actually secondary phenomenon, where the primary phenomenon occurs first in the heavenly world (spirit world).
8. In the physical world, children are born, grow to become couples, then parents, but this same phenomenon, in other words, human beings (Adam and Eve) were born and as children and siblings grew by feeling love, and this phenomenon occurred first in the spirit world (to be more exact, in God’s heart).
9. That is to say, the growth of children, siblings, couples, and parents happened in God’s heart as an idealistic form before it happened on the earth.
10. To say it in other words, before God created Adam and Eve, He designed all of these contents idealistically in His mind. Thus, later on Adam and Eve were created based on that design, and they were supposed to grow as children and siblings, and become couples and parents according to that design.
… Adam and Eve were created based on that design, and they were supposed to grow and (have) children and siblings and become couples and parents according to that design. That is why God in order to substantialize his love … is growing and growing according to the situation of human beings. That’s why God is also supposed to grow with human beings as children and siblings, and (they) become couples and parents, according to their design.
In the beginning I could not understand that God’s heart is growing and growing. I understood through the four position foundation and through the four great realms of heart.
God has not yet completed (this). That is why when we grow well based on this concept of the four great realms of heart, this is the way even God can complete his love.
Couple's love is so important in achieving the completion of a family.
We can study clearly with what kind of blueprint God thought of the couple's ideal.
Therefore, we must live up to God's blueprint ideals.
Again, the love and heart of a couple is the love that represents all of the four great loves and hearts.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Three Kinds of Crosses (Series 6) - What Kind of Cross did Jesus Carry?
Today is series 6; tomorrow is series 7, the final series. Today is the second to the last.
Today I would like to talk about, “What is the content of the 3 kinds of crosses from a principled point of view?” Today is a conclusion of the 3 kinds of crosses.
1. What kind of cross did Jesus carry? The cross of Jesus was not taken for your sins. It wasn’t even taken up for personal reasons. In fact, there is no reason for Jesus to bear the cross. Jesus was to be glorified as soon as he came. The cross of Jesus was the cross that was borne because of the disbelief of the Jews, and it is the cross of God’s Han (bitter heart). The fact that Jesus had a crown of thorns on his head and was pierced by a spear in his side means that he carried the cross with the sorrow of God who shed blood and sweat for 6,000 years after He lost Adam.
This is an important point.
What kind of cross did Jesus carry?
1. Jesus did not carry the cross for his sins.
2. Jesus did not carry the cross for personal reasons.
3. Jesus carried the cross because of the disbelief of the Jews.
4. The cross of Jesus was the cross that bore God's sorrow and Han.
5. Jesus’ cross was a cross with the sorrow of God who lost Adam and Eve and shed blood and sweat and tears for 6,000 years.
We need to understand the content of Jesus’ cross. His cross was the cross that bore God’s sorrow and han. Also, he needed to pay indemnity because the Jewish people could not believe in Jesus. So he needed to pay all the indemnity, not just for Israelis but for the sake of all humankind. Because of his incredible indemnity condition, without exception we have the opportunity to obtain spiritual salvation.
2. The cross of Jesus is completely different from the cross of the thief on the right. The content of the cross seen in existing religions until today is different from the cross viewed from the Principle. For those of us who want to become God’s children through the Principle, it is not appropriate for us to take up our cross and follow God. The words “you must take up your cross and follow me” was said by Jesus 2,000 years ago. The Principle today teaches us to become children who take up God's cross and relieve God’s Han (bitter heart). So, up to this day, the cross of Jesus was a cross of redemption and reconciliation that carried other people's burdens, but the cross taught in the Principle is a cross that needs to solve God’s Han and make His wish come true on earth.
What is the content of the cross from a principled point of view? This is the main content today.
1. It's not about carrying the cross of the thief on the left.
2. It is completely different from the cross of the thief on the right as well.
3. It is a completely different view from the cross seen in existing religions, especially Christianity, to this day.
4. It is not about taking up your cross and following God's will as Jesus said.
Father speaks very clearly about this point. This is not about taking up your cross. Jesus (did) say to take up your cross. But (from) the Divine Principle point of view it is not about taking up your cross and following God’s will as Jesus said.
5. The cross viewed from a principled point of view is that one should bear the cross of God and become children of filial heart who relieve God’s Han (bitter heart).
This is incredible guidance from True Parents. The view of the cross is that one should bear the cross of God, his really heavy cross, the cross of han, the cross of the sorrowful heart. We need to become children of filial heart who relieve God’s han. How can we liberate his han and sorrow? We need to bear God’s cross. This is the cross of hyojeong.
6. The cross of Jesus was the cross of redemption and reconciliation that carried the burdens of others.
Our principled concept of the cross is beyond this level.
7. However, the cross taught in the principle is a cross that needs to solve God’s Han and make wishes come true on earth.
3. We are carrying a cross like this. Today’s church members are in the position of living sacrifices to make God's wishes come true on this earth as believers who have the power of God's resurrection through this cross. In the present age, holy saints in the spirit world can come and cooperate with the earthly saints who have taken up the cross of God, but they cannot appear to those who have taken up their own cross. Low-level spirits may cooperate with those who struggle to eat and dress for themselves, bear the cross of their own circumstances, and make Heaven worry, but the spirits of martyrs who were martyred for the sake of the Will cannot resurrect through them. The martyrs who were martyred on this earth and did not carry their own crosses. They carried the cross of Jesus.
Through whom are the spirits of the martyrs … relieved(?redeemed?)?
1. They (the spirits of martyrs) cannot appear at all to those who carry their own cross.
Because their level is very high, higher than normal people. That is why those (of us?) who are working hard, more than the martyrs, they will surely come down and help us.
2. They cannot appear to those who struggle to eat and dress for themselves, and who carry the cross of their own circumstances and make Heaven worry.
Any high level spirit living in the spiritual world who sees those who work harder (than they do?) and who try to release God’s han and Jesus’ han, Jesus sorrowful heart, (those spirits) will surely come down to the earthly world to help us. That is why we need to work harder than any martyr spirit. If our spirit is higher than any ancestor, any martyr living in the spiritual world, they will surely come down to help us, and they surely admire us.
3. They appear to those who at least want to bear the cross like Jesus.
4. They cooperate with the saints who promise to take up God's cross and relieve God's sorrow and Han in the present age.
That is why I really appreciate Father. He is the one who first spoke out about God’s sorrow and han. His final task is to liberate God’s resentment, God’s han, God’s sorrow all the time.
When I was young I listened to many sermons from famous Christian ministers, but nobody talked about releasing God’s han and sorrow. No one talks about God’s wishes and circumstances. Only True Parents spoke about God’s wishes, God’s han and God’s sorrowful mind.
5. As the saints with the power of God's resurrection, they appear to children of Hyojeong who are in the position of living sacrifices to make God's wishes come true on this earth.
6. Why do we not receive and feel the help of the Holy Spirit? This is because we cannot sincerely take up God's cross to comfort God and release God's han.
Why don’t we receive any help, the help of the Holy Spirit? When they look at us, we are still struggling to eat and dress for our own self. We are still worried about our own cross. We seldom think about the cross of others, about the national cross, the cross of the world, the cross of all humankind. We seldom think about God’s liberation and sorrow. That is why they cannot help us. They cannot come down.
But when we raise our spirit and truly and sincerely focus on God’s will at the risk of our life, with that much dedication, jeongseong and effort and heart, they will surely come down and help us.
We need to make a kind sympathy condition. When the spiritual world looks at me, wow! I have no choice but to help this guy; he works harder than I do. Our presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln see that “These guys love America more than I did, they work harder than I did. I don’t have any choice but to come down.”
That is why we need to make a kind of sympathy condition. Then the spirit world will have no choice but to come down and help us. Even God has no choice but to come down. Even Jesus and True Father need to come down and help us because we are working harder than anyone else and investing more jeongseong than anyone else, more than any spirit of the martyrs. That is our job.
Why can’t we feel the Holy Spirit and gain any help from the spiritual world? Because our work is less than theirs. Our concern and wish is without much passion. Mobilizing the spiritual world is very simple: work harder than any spirit of the martyrs and saints, even than Jesus -- even though we cannot take up the level(?). Our mindset should be like that -- to shed more blood, sweat and tears than Jesus, to work harder than Father. We need to have that kind of concept and attitude day and night and invest our effort, hard work and jeongseong with tears. We need to love this nation more than anyone else.
Then they have no choice but to come down and help us. There (will be) no need to say “Why does God not help me? Why doesn't the spirit world help me?” Then God and the spiritual world will ask you how much you invested your effort and jeongseong and shed tears. How much are you investing (now)? They will surely ask us.
4. That is why, in the last days, the martyrs who have gone to the spirit world want to return through children who are filial to God and bear His Han(bitter heart) and circumstances. Today we all suffer together, but there are sufferings that God cannot acknowledge. We go out to witness and suffer the same way, go to the Unification Church while getting cursed at in the same way, hold on to the Principle and carry the cross the same way, but we must know for sure that there are crosses that Heaven cannot approve of in content. In other words, it cannot be conditional. It is good to set a standard of jeongseong to fast and witness for 40 days, but you cannot receive approval only through such conditional suffering.
There are sufferings that God can acknowledge and sufferings that God cannot acknowledge.
Suffering that God cannot acknowledge is to conditionally take up the cross.
No matter how much you fast and offer jeongseong, God cannot approve of suffering as a condition.
The suffering that God acknowledges is suffering in accordance with the heart of God.
When I am suffering, I experience the heart of God and comfort God.
The era of conditions is already over. We need to invest our utmost sincerity and heart because the kingdom of heaven is what? The world of heart, not of conditions.
5. The problem is that I have to be different in terms of circumstances, content, and heart. There is a fundamental difference between a person who fasts while worrying about Heaven, and a person who fasts while longing for food. Today, we must reflect on whether we are living a life of faith with the heart of the Word, or whether we are still practicing conditional faith.
Heaven is not a world where you go conditionally. You only bring the heart to Heaven. The world of heaven is the world of the heart.
The reason we set conditions is that we want to be freed from those conditions and become people of the heart, regardless of conditions.
We do conditions in order to be free of conditions.
In the formation stage, the purpose is to establish conditions and connect more internally and heartistically.
Conditional faith is based on formation stage. Then we grow and grow, reach the growth stage and finally completion stage. In the completion stage we graduate from conditional faith. Of course, in the beginning in the formation stage we need conditions. Why do we set up conditions? To be free of conditions. Then we go around here and there centered on heart because the kingdom of heaven is the world of the heart. Therefore, we must reflect. Am I still a conditional person? Or am I a heartistic person?
Let’s build up that kind of heartistic relationship with God, with our beloved Jesus, with our True parents, with our own brothers and sisters, with my own siblings, with my spouse. Our final goal is to enter the world of heart.♦
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