Ep 514 - The Movement for the Unification for North and South Korea Part 5
The Movement for the Unification of North and South Korea 149-34-13-40 - March 23, 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 again.
Korea celebrated the 70th anniversary of its liberation in 2015. At about that time, I also had the opportunity to speak at the UN Office in Vienna, Austria, during my speaking tour in Europe. How great must have Heaven's hidden efforts been to enable Korea to emerge freely in front of the world by the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation? However, what is the result? We still cannot enjoy freedom in front of Heaven because people have failed to fulfill their responsibilities.
The two Koreas are divided and are pointing guns and swords at each other while the surrounding four great powers are intertwined with one another based on their political and military interests. We must attend Heavenly Parent and True Parents. This is the sole way for this nation and world to survive. Hence, we must not keep this truth to ourselves alone. We must let the people of the world know of it and educate them. Heaven will not wait for eternity. Your devotion and victories will shine even more brightly when they are aligned with the works of Heavenly Parent and the True Parents. (2015.04.24, Cheon Jeong Gung)
The Unification movement is the only movement that can achieve God's dream and that of humanity. The world can become one through us. This is also the case with regard to the confrontation between the two Koreas. This cannot be resolved by political power, economic power or military power. It is only possible through True Parents' teachings. I have great expectations of the active role that will be played by the parliamentarians from 50 nations who participated in the 2016 International Leadership Conference. I sincerely hope they enthusiastically contribute with great aspirations to their nation and the world.
There is a poem by Tagore, a great poet of India. Back then, Korea was not well known in the world. He visited Japan and looking toward Korea, he predicted the following, “Korea was one of its lamp-bearers and that lamp is waiting to be lit once again for the illumination in the East.” What does light mean? It brightens the darkness. In one word, light symbolizes the true word – the truth. Without True Parents' teachings, this nation has nothing to be proud of in front of the world. Likewise, you will also experience tremendous development when you become one with True Parents' thought. (2016.02.13, Cheon Jeong Gung)
More than anyone else, True Parents like the prophecies about Korea by the Indian poet Tagore. Today, I will introduce the contents of Tagore's poem about Korea's prophecies.
Lamp of the East
True Father’s words (Pyeong Hwa Gyeong P. 1144) Joy comes after pain, and the new way comes by way of difficulties. When the time comes, let us display the full potential of the Korean people who believe in God. The famous Indian poet Tagore sang about Korea as follows:
In the golden age of Asia Korea was one of its lamp-bearers.
That lamp is waiting to be lighted once again for the illumination of the East.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high,
Where knowledge is free,
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls,
Where words spring up from the depth of truth,
Where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection,
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way in the dreary desert sand of dead habit,
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action,
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
My beloved brethren! Korea will be a bright light in the Orient illuminating the whole world in the near future. The day will surely come when God governs Korea, and all the people of the world will view Korea as their homeland, just as the poet Tagore predicted. That time is at hand.
Whenever I read this poem by Tagore, I really reflect on the Korean situation. Our fatherland Korea needs to wake up. It really needs to unite with True Mother. There is no hope without uniting with True Mother. She is preparing day and night how to influence North Korea. She is preparing many things. Let’s really seriously focus on the re-unification of North and South Korea. Also, let’s pray for a heavenly unified Korea centered on our True Mother. Our earnest wish with True Parents is the unification of the two Koreas, how they can become one nation. That is God’s serious focal point. You do not know how serious True Father is every time he sings the song, “Our wish is unification.” Father’s face (is so serious) when we talk about “our wish is unification.” You know that song:
Our cherished hopes are for unity
Even our dreams are for unity,
We’d give our lives for unity,
Come along unity.
Unity saving the people,
Unity saving all nations
Come here quickly unity
Come along unity.
How long we have sung this unity song! I think True Father in the spiritual world is so serious about the unity of North and South Korea.
Without unity between North Korea and South Korea, how can we substantialize God’s substantial cheon il guk in Korea? So let’s really support our True Mother and Korea from the elder son nation. Many things are happening centering on Korea here and there. Even the war between Russia and Ukraine (is related). We need to really pray for Heavenly Unified Korea.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 26 - Family Perfection is the Completion of the 4 Great Realms of Heart
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 in achieving the four great realms of heart again.
(8) Worldwide Realm of Heart as an Expansion of the 4 Great Realms of Heart
3) Worldwide 4 great realms of heart
a. The worldwide 4 great realm of heart sees all humankind as the subject of the 4 great loves. The children’s realm of heart in the family talks about the children’s realm of love, where the subject of children’s love is the parent. Therefore the subject of a child’s realm of heart (love) in a family is the parent. Then from the worldwide 4 great realms of heart, what is the parent’s realm of heart? It is the elders who are at the same age group as the parent. Thus, from the children’s point of view, they must serve and attend all elder people from the worldwide level as their parent.
The four great realms of heart in the family is a training place to love humankind of the world. All social and national problems today have their origins in the family.
Anyone can experience the Four Great Realms of Heart in the family and love all people around the world as if they were their own family.
A true filial son goes out into society and serves people of his parents' age as his own parents.
Therefore, when families are alive, society is alive; when society is alive, the nation is alive; and when the nation is alive, the world is alive.
Everything begins from the family. Any social or national problems, all problems, begin from the family. Therefore we really need to go back to the family. When our families become very healthy and strong and stable, then our society, nation and world become very stable.
True Father discovered the importance of the family. The structure of the kingdom of heaven is the structure of the family centered on the four great realms of heart and the three great kingships.
b. It is the same for the sibling’s realm of heart. The siblings realm of heart in the family are the siblings in the family, but on the worldwide level the siblings realm of heart (its subject) are all the boys and girls in the world who are at a similar age group. Thus, the people with the same age group are all included in the realm of love. Consequently, wherever you go, when meeting people from the same age group, you come to love them as your own brother and sister.
The sibling’s realm of heart in the family is directly connected with the sibling’s realm of heart around the world.
If you serve your siblings in your family as your own parents, then even when you go out into the world, you will love all brothers and sisters as your own siblings.
Some may find it difficult to love brothers and sisters in society and in the world. That means you do not have proper and good relationships in your family centering on your own brothers and sisters. All problems come from the family. That is why the family is the best place to train how to love my own brothers and sisters, my parents, my spouse and my children. If we have such ideal and great relationships in the family, (then) wherever you work in society or in any place, you can build beautiful relationships with anyone because you can treat them as one of your family members.
c. Next is the realm of heart of a couple. A couple’s realm of heart is a bit different. Wherever you go in the world, when meeting a man or woman in a similar age group as your husband or wife, you do not give them the same love as you would give to your husband or wife. This is because a couple is a sexual relationship established under monogamy. Therefore, because conjugal love is accompanied with sex life, it is absolutely not allowed to share conjugal love with anyone other than the couple.
A couple cannot share their love with other brothers and sisters in the world because the couple’s realm of heart is in a relationship with the opposite sex that is established as a monogamous relationship. Instead, people of the same age as the husband or wife should be treated with sibling’s love.
What we need to know is that the couple’s realm of heart is centered on the heart of the One-Man-and-One-Woman System. This is the reason why God created Adam and Eve as one man and one woman.
If the One-Man-and-One-Woman System, which is God's ideal of creation, is broken, God's ideal of absolute love cannot be realized.
If it is God's ideal for a man to have sex with several women and for a woman to have sex with several men, it is absolutely impossible to build the ideal world of happiness, freedom, and peace that God desires.
If a man had sexual relations with several women, how could one man make them 100% happy without envy, jealousy or any conflict? God's sorrow arose when Eve served two masters.
One was the archangel and the other one was God. What is fornication? Fornication means you are serving two masters. God’s ideal system is only one man and one woman as husband and wife. This is a very clear system. God did not create one man with several women and one woman with several men. No. God created a one-man-and-one-woman system. This should be very clear. If this heavenly order is not clear, God cannot establish his ideal system.
Last time I shared about Daemonim’s role. She came to Bangkok. The next morning I greeted her: “Anyonghaseyo. How was last night?
She said, “I could not sleep at all.”
“Why couldn’t you sleep?” I asked.
She said, “In order to hold a liberation and blessing ceremony for ancestors, Oh my goodness, Dr. Yong, one man has several wives, and one woman has a few husbands. I needed to resolve (this situation) because the structure of the kingdom of heaven only accepts one man and one woman. That’s why (I needed to work out) which person had to be his spouse or her spouse. I needed to arrange this. For me this takes a long time. I needed to pray about it because this is an eternal liberation and blessing.”
What is God’s ideal system? We are talking about a marriage system centering on one man, one woman. If one man has several wives or one wife has several men, do you think you can satisfy each of them? It is impossible. Parental love: it is ok (for parents to) share their love with their children. But centering on sex, God does not allow (sharing). God’s ideal system is what? A one man-one-and-woman-system which is absolute coupleism. It does not allow a spare spouse. God’s ideal is, no matter what, absolute couplism. We need to know this.
When we talk about parental love, siblings love and children’s love, we can share. We can love as brothers and sisters. However, (with) a man and woman, especially couplism, conjugal love is different. We need to know this point. Why did God create one Adam and one Eve? (He wanted to) let Adam and Eve become a true couple and true ancestors. The origin is one man (with) one woman, not one man with several wives and not one woman with several men. God’s system is not like that. God starts from one Adam and one Eve, one man and one woman.
That is the reason God sent only one messiah. He wanted to create one true-parent system and then multiply it everywhere. If God had sent several messiahs, several of God’s begotten daughters … God’s system is not like that. It starts from the origin. What is the origin? One man and one woman have to become a true couple, true parents and true ancestors and multiply everywhere. That is God’s ideal system.
d. Instead of that, when meeting people in a similar age group, love them as if they were your own brother or sister. This is the difference between other worldwide realms of heart.
e. Parent’s realm of heart is the same as children and sibling’s realm of heart. Wherever you go in the world, when meeting people in the same age group as your sons or daughters, treat them with a parental heart, parental love in the same way you would love your own children.
That is why anyone who destroys the one-man-one-woman system centering on marriage (commits) a terrible sin. We cannot serve two owners. Only one owner! Only one wife! Only one husband! You need to know this very clearly.
Many religions have different ideas, different concepts (about this). That is why the world becomes confused. Father asked, “Is my theory correct or not? He said, “If you go to the spiritual world, you will know.” I am talking about reality, the structure of the kingdom of heaven. “Someone may struggle with what I am talking about,” Father said. … “You can go to the spiritual world and you will discover the reality, God’s blueprint. What are you talking about?”
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Now is the Completion Age
1. Historically looking, now is the Completion Age. It is the time for God’s dreams and wishes to be realized centered on human beings on the earth. In other words, it is the era of Cheon Il Guk in which the ideal that God has spoken of will come true. This is the age in which God's wishes come true through His children. God's responsibility is to send the Messiah to this earth. And when True Parents came to this earth, they completed all indemnity and were victorious. This is an era in which children who follow True Parents will actually find and establish Cheon Il Guk. This is the age when the kingdom of heaven will be established through children. From this standpoint, we must not forget for a moment how heavy our responsibility is.
The present era is the era of showing. The Old Testament Age was the age when we went before God through conditions.
They conditionally offered some animals -- through all things.
The New Testament Age was the age of going before God by faith.
However, now is the age of serving and attending God as a parent, not just believing in God, in Jesus.
“I believe in God and trust God. I believe in Jesus.” This era is over. When you wake up and see your father and mother, “Father and Mother, I believe in you. You are my father and mother.” Something like that. Of course, fallen man needs to discover who his father and mother are.
But now is a new era. Every morning you need to greet your father and mother. “Anyonghaseyo. Good morning.” You need to attend and serve (them). Now is the age of serving and attending God as a parent, not just believing in God.
Not only that, it is an era that shows that God is alive and works in our realm of life.
Look at the established churches and many religions today. The established churches that emphasize believing in God are gradually going downhill.
Everywhere. On my 50-state tour in America, and even in Korea, people (churches?) are going down.
The reason young people today do not go to church is that they cannot see God living and working even if they go to church.
That is why young people are no longer interested (in church). They cannot feel God’s existence (there). They cannot feel there that God is alive. It means we are focused on different things. The current church doesn't focus on God as the top priority -- more than anything else. You are focused on what to eat, what to wear, what to drink. Same as outside people. The church has become material-focused, more horizontal and follows the secular world. We cannot lead the secular world any more. That is why God is not present. Young people cannot feel God.
The present era is different. The present age is an age in which we must show that God is alive and works through our lives, even though He is intangible.
If our church fails to show that God is alive and working, even in our Unification Church, it will follow the same path as the established churches.
The present age is not the age of asking to go to heaven, but the age of constructing and showing the kingdom of heaven, substantial cheon il guk.
Now is the age to show people saying, “Look at my family—here is heaven. Look at my church—here is heaven. Look at my people—here is heaven.”
Since this is the age of showing, our life should really be a model life. Love and peace should overflow in my family and in my church.
Since this is the age of showing, the spirit world and ancestors will never work if we cannot show anything.
In the past, amazing things have happened even with believing. Because at that time, there was no model that could be shown, so when one believed in the risen Jesus as the Lord, works happened.
Now, since True Parents have come and have shown the model, it is a different time. They have shown and taught everything as a practical model. … It is no longer an era of believing. It is a different time. Now is really the completion age.
2. What we have always thought and believed until now was ‘My individual must become my Father’s belonging.” How do I become Father’s belonging? It is obeying God's will, rituals, systems and laws, and denying oneself well. Until now, we have been taught that the first duty we have to do is to find and obey God’s Word or Abel-like subject partner. Second, I have dealt with the issue of harmony a lot. First, my individual must obey the Word, then between the brothers and sisters that go with me, just as we face the Word and obey with each other, we must work together to direct ourselves into the same purpose and have a heart of obedience and create harmony with each other.
Formation stage faith requires you to think thoroughly of yourself as Father's, as heaven’s. This is the life of self-denial. In order to have a good formation stage faith, you must have an Abel to whom you can always ask questions, counsel, and report. And you must have a good heartistic relationship with Abel.
I am telling you (that) in your life of faith, if you do not have your own heartistic Abel, your life will be unstable forever. You need to have Abel. This is very important. If you do not have your own heartistic Abel, that means you have not graduated from the formation stage.
In growth stage faith, there should be a good relationship between brothers and sisters. Through a life of raising and serving Cain, I can broaden the breadth of my relationship with humanity. By serving Cain well, my relationships should always be overflowing with harmony. And many Cains must be found and established.
In completion stage faith, a married couple should show a life of oneness. As a married couple, we must realize God's ideal through our family. Being a married couple is the way to realize God's dream.
3. We can say that there are three kinds of sorrows along the way. The sorrow that must dominate me, the sorrow that must harmonize, and then God’s sorrow. But now, we have entered the age of liberating God's sorrows. God is a sad God without ever being able to relieve the suffering or sorrow that He has suffered because of His children on earth for a long time. We must not forget that he is saddened that his lost sons and daughters cannot be found again on earth. In other words, we need to know that more than anyone, the Creator is sorrowful because of me.
At the formation stage, there is the sorrow of having to subjugate my body. To win the battle with our body involves unimaginable pain and requires jeongseong.
Everyone wants to subjugate the body, but we feel regretful sorrow that the body does not listen.
Everyone wants to be freed from the body, but there is always the sorrow of living under the rule of the body. No one can help (us in) this fight between the mind and body.
The next sorrow is the path to overcome the conflict between siblings. Wherever we go on the path of faith, there is a conflict between Cain and Abel.
Most of the mistakes people make are failures in relationships. Not being able to overcome this relationship, there are many cases where people get sick or take their own lives.
It is difficult to subjugate one's body, but it is even more difficult to succeed in relationships.
Although all the central figures in the Age of the Providence of Restoration succeeded in laying the foundation of faith, many people failed in the relationship between Cain and Abel, which is the foundation of substance. To love Cain is to love your enemies.
Lastly, we must bear the cross in place of God's sorrow. Now is the time to relieve God's sorrow.
Jesus and True Parents carried the cross of God and lived a life struggling to relieve God's sorrow.
Therefore, in our course of faith, we must put the highest priority on empathizing with (experiencing) the heart of God, and go the way to relieve God's sorrow.
I need to know well that God has a lot of sorrow for me. God is saddened by the fact that I myself have not yet become a child of God and cannot break free from the yoke of Satan.
I need to grow up properly, but God sees that I repeat Satan's habitual actions again and again, so God is so sorrowful because of me.
That is why we can say there are 3 kinds of sorrow along the way: the sorrow that must dominate me, the sorrow that must harmonize, and God’s sorrow. This is our current situation. We have to know that we have entered the age of liberating God’s sorrow. Now everything comes together. Our final goal, our final destination, in the age of completion is to liberate God’s sorrow.
4. God was sorrowful by the loss of Adam, He was sorrowful again because of the loss of Jesus, and in the end, He sees that even after sending the Lord of the Second Advent, he still must go on the course of the cross on this earth. We must not forget that God is the God who is still looking forward to finding his sons and daughters who are prepared in this land, dressed in white and carrying lanterns. If you are a child, you must know the circumstances of the home well and be able to understand the feelings of the parents. A filial child is one that cannot forget about their parents for even a moment. Parents also cannot forget their children. Just as our relationship is so in such a family, God is the same.
When True Father was 16 years old, he experienced meeting Jesus and realized that he was the Messiah. Then he had a deep heartistic exchange with God.
True Father said that he lived through years of mourning after he realized that God is not a God of glory, but a sorrowful God who suffers because of the fall of humankind.
After meeting that sorrowful God, he said that he had never forgotten that sorrowful God for a single moment in his entire life.
Now, we too must follow the life of True Parents and go the path of HyoJeong.
Dr. Hendricks now is teaching about the meaning of Hyojeong. Wow! We really need to do hyojeong for our True Parents and go the path of hyojeong.
The way to practically relieve God's sorrow is to find and build God's dream of Cheon Il Guk.
I want to speak about how to practically liberate God. God has such a sorrowful heart whenever he sees his children still under Satan’s realm. That’s why God’s great(est) happiness is what? When he can see his children coming back to his bosom one by one. So what is the practical way to relieve God’s sorrowful heart? We need to restore people. This is great news for God. This is breaking news for him. This is the happiest thing for him.
Therefore, without focusing on witnessing, without the restoration of each human being’s sorrow, there is no way to relieve God’s strong han and his sorrowful heart. So, let’s first start with the path of finding and establishing three spiritual children, then go on the path of HyoJeong for God. The beginning of our filial piety is to find the lost children and bring them back to God’s arms. Hyojeong starts with the salvation of one soul.
Saving each person is the only way to relieve God's sorrow. Therefore, the person who witnesses (offers) the best filial piety.
Recently I have been talking about focusing on 3 spiritual children, right? Today I would like to show something. Miilhan sent me a message last night:
“Good morning Dr. Yong and President Naokimi, Regarding the commitment to have three spiritual children by TF's Seonghwa in August: Right now we have 5, but the list will grow: Rev. Miilhan Stephens, Rev. Desmond and Beryl Green, Ayako and Jorge Heller, Jonella Lumnagbas, Wilson Ferreira.
“These people have a strong determination to witness.
“In an effort to reach 12 new members in March I invited all members to participate in the membership class in order to gain confidence in inviting their own guests. We had 15 participants: 1 guest, 2 new members, 12 members. (See images)
”Since then, Rev. Green and Yumikosan have been witnessing everyday. We're opening up 43rd street to be more available for DP Education.”
I can see now a great witnessing spirit in the Manhattan Church. Let’s revive America by breaking through to three spiritual children.
Last night I prayed for each state leader, subregional leader, district leader and major affiliated organization leader. I resolved that I need to gradually pray for them (all).
From today I really pledge to break through (with) new spiritual children on a national level.
Since we started the second seven-year cheon il guk course, who has become a member? I want to get 3 national level disciples. I want to have their names and pray for them starting today. Then 12. \When we reach 36 and 72 and 124 until 360, I want to really focus on praying for them.
Without witnessing, there is no promising future in America. Anything that is alive, how can you say you are alive? First, always growing. Second, always multiplying. When you are alive, there is always growth and multiplication. Since we joined the church, how many people have you restored? Last year how many people did you restore? This year how many potential guests do you have? If you are really alive, you are alway growing and multiplying. This is very important.
When we reach 360 new guests in our movement in America, I am telling you, our entire American movement can have a great turning point. From now on, anyone who has a new guest, I want to have a zoom call one-by-one with those who become our member. I really want to focus on the national level 3 guests, then 12, then 36, then 72, 124 until 360. At least we can lay that kind of foundation with everyone making an effort. Then our American movement can have a big impact on the entire world. Once we break through 360, (there is) no need to worry about 3,600 and 36,000. Then our whole movement will have a promising future. From now on let’s focus on saving new life. That is the way to relieve God’s han and sorrowful heart.♦
(Response to sharing) Witnessing is not (out of a sense of) responsibility. Witnessing is a very joyful thing. For me, witnessing is my hobby. To save people is my hobby. You need to think that way and happily introduce True Parents. We cannot go to heaven and to Korea to see True Mother with empty hands. We need to bring gifts. What is the best gift? Saving people. Then True Mother (will be) very happy about that.♦
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