Ep 515 - The Movement for the Unification for North and South Korea Part 6
The Movement for the Unification of North and South Korea 150-35-13-40 - March 24, 2022
Just now I saw our John Kirkley’s face from Kenya. I am so inspired whenever I see him. He carries on the spirit of the missionary. It is incredible!
Today I’d like to talk about “The Movement for the Unification of North and South Korea” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
It is clear that this nation is blessed by God. However, you must understand that blessings are always accompanied by responsibilities. As a people governed by God, please remember that this nation or people must attend True Parents as the center for it to run properly. You must confidently let people know of this. You must take pride in the fact that this nation has been chosen by God. Korea became a chosen nation because True Parents were born here. Hence, you must let people know about True Parents. There is hope for the unification of the two Koreas only when people attend True Parents. When the Parents become the center, conflicting siblings can be reconciled and brought together. I am thinking of mobilizing all our organizations to re-educate this entire nation.
From the point of view that this country should be a country directly controlled by God, all religions must be unified. What is the purpose of religion? They speak of happiness; yet, that happiness is only possible when they attend God. You, who are engaged in different fields must take pride in what you do, and enthusiastically provide your cooperation from your respective positions to ensure that this nation stands tall in front of the world. Spreading the Word and proudly speaking of True Parents is the only way for Korea to stand in front of the world. Only through this can the unification of the two Koreas that we have longed for be realized. You must passionately take the lead in witnessing to True Parents in order that the two Koreas and the world can be unified. (2016.12.16, CheongShim International Youth Center)
According to True Mother’s words, just as an ideal human being should have mind and body united, in order to realize an ideal nation centered on God, religion, which corresponds to the mind, and politics, which corresponds to the body, should first become one.
In the words of True Mother, which we read today, she said that in order to become a country directly controlled by God, we have to first unify all religions.
In that sense, let's look at True Father's words about the unification of religions.
How do You Unify Religions?
[April 30, 1975 <77-333>] In Christianity, there are many people who pray "Oh, my God, I hope Moon is dead." But I am not going to die. When the people who tell me to die die, it is they that died, not me. Why don't I die? Because it follows the path of the Heavenly law. “If you hit someone who follows the Law of Heaven, you will be struck.” They would say something like, "Can you, the founder of the Unification Church, unify religion and Christianity?" It has been 950 years since Catholicism and Protestantism, Roman Catholicism and Greek Orthodox Christianity, have been separated. Protestantism alone has become one of more than 400 denominations, saying, "If it is not my denomination, there is no God." There can be no unity with that.
True Father told us today the secret of being able to live and not die despite many persecutions and opposition for the sake of religious unification.
If you strike someone who follows the principles of the Heavenly Law, the person who hits you will be hit and will be destroyed.
Therefore, on the way to being righteous for the sake of the will and for the sake of the whole, if you are persecuted internally or externally, never become discouraged. push forward with strength and courage.
Because God is just and good, and heaven protects us all the time.
That is why if you think this is really God’s will and it is righteous, never worry if someone persecutes you and misunderstands you. Just go ahead because God is just and good. He is the one who always protects you and supports you as long as you are righteous and follow God’s will. That is the way True Father unified all the religions even though he received so much persecution and misunderstanding; (that is) how he overcame.
As for how to unite, you just have to follow the teachings of Unification Church Rev. Moon. It is possible if you apply the principle of living for the sake of others. As long as the Catholics are for God, this is what I will do for God. ‘‘As long as the Catholic Church is for the Lord, I will love them, and as long as the Catholic priests and nuns are for the members of the church, I will love them." This is it. So what do you think? (Applause) People try to go on a path that leads to more love and more devotion, even if the branches are broken. This is the desire of our original nature. It is said that when I love the members of an established church more than a pastor of an established church, we can become one.
What is the conclusion? (Those) who are living for the sake of others more than anyone else…
The way to unify religion is to have more true love than anyone else, to love some people as long as they love that denomination(?), and to love the world and God.
For example, if you want to lead America, you have to love America more than any president who has come down in history. It is to go beyond the standards that someone has set and to live more for the sake of others.
For example, love America more than Abraham Lincoln or than George Washington. Then it means that unification by absorption is possible automatically through true love.
What is the fundamental principle? Living for the sake of others, more than anyone (else). This is the key to unifying all religion.
The Principle of Unity of Religions
[June 7, 1975, Yeouido Plaza (Seoul), 78-255] In order to do this it is absolutely impossible without the true thought and ideology. This is the intention of the Unification Church. It is the Divine Principle which Korea gave birth to in order to unify all religions. Victory Over Communism and Unification Thought is the ideology.
All the religions which take God as their Father should unite and face the Communists who deny God, but we should defeat them with truth and love. Let them recognize their errors. And finally we should embrace them as our brothers and sisters. The ideology for victory over Communism based on this principle analyses all philosophies and isms, and enables us to unite into one centering on God. This principle, ideology, and thought was brought about in Korea. This is Godism.
For religious unification, a certain ideology and truth for religious unification is necessary.
And that would be Victory Over Communism and Unification Thought. In other words, it is Godism.
First, we must subjugate our opponents with the Principles and ideologies, and then we must embrace even our enemies with true love.
We need to have a clear principle in order to convince them. Secondly, not only convince them -- we need to love and embrace them more than anyone else. This is the key to unifying all different religions.
Principle on Unity of Religion· Ideology
[February 26, 1986, 141-234] the Way for Students -- Firstly, how can you unite religions? By teaching about God more clearly than others. "If we do this, as a religion of experience, this can be achieved. Experiences can be caused by a theoretical system and scientific data. Otherwise, you cannot unite religions" This kind of principle is the principle on religions. What is the second point? It is the principle of ideology. What is that ideology? It is the answers to the questions of life, the questions of the individual. What the hell happened to humans? What is a human being? A human being is a manifestation of result, not the ultimate cause.
True Father gave the following specific comments on (the) unification of religions.
The first is to teach them more specifically about God. In other words, it is necessary to experience clearly what kind of being God is.
If it becomes a religion that experiences the heart of God, all religions can be united.
That is why we must clearly teach God's wishes, circumstances, dreams, and the world of God's heart, transcending all religions. This is the only way to unite all religions.
That is why I am continuously talking about God’s heart. We need to understand God’s heart. (If) everyone understands God’s heart, that he is the parent of all humankind and understands his philosophy, his principles, his wishes, his dream and his heart, this is the only way to unite all religions.
No one insists that human beings are the first cause. When we consider the question of what a human being is, we should know there is surely a being who exists as the first cause and who made human beings to be born as the result. Therefore, we should say clearly that the answer is God. It is possible to set our direction only in that way. How should we establish an ideology for our life, how should our family live, how about society, the nation and the world? And how will the world be in the final days? Therefore, we need to know the question of humans and the question of whether or not there is a causal being, God.
No matter how good a human being is, it is said humans are resultant beings, not causal beings. Therefore, it is necessary to give a clear answer that the causal being is God. When we teach very clearly that God is the causal being and we are the resultant beings and what the relationship between God and us is and let them experience God’s heart, this is the way we can make unity among the different religions.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 27 - Family Perfection is the Completion of the 4 Great Realms of Heart (Centered on True Father’s Words)
God's dream and ideal is the heavenly world centered on the family.
The external structure of Heaven is the 4 position foundation. And the internal structure is the Four Great Realms of heart and the Three Great Kingships.
Therefore, if anyone does not experience the Four Great Realms of heart in their home and the Three Great Kingships living together, then God's ideal cannot be completed.
We need to know that Father discovered these four great realms of heart. This is really incredible! When people talk about God’s heart and love, it is really vague. We do not really know God’s heart and love. But Father clearly spoke about it based on the four great realms of heart. Everyone who understands these four great realms of heart are those who understand God’s desires and heart and wishes and dreams.
The 4 Great Realms of Heart is the Original World
<259-44>The 4 great realms of heart talks about the original world. It’s returning to the original world. It is a baby growing up to become a siblings, later on marry, and finding the position of a couple, finding the position of a parent. It is the path to finding the place to become one body with God. The completion of the 4 great realms of heart is my path to becoming a perfect human being.
As the incorporeal child-sibling-couple-parent within God’s heart, it desires the completion of the substance of true love and thus created Adam and Eve.
In order to complete the Four Great Realms of Heart, you should absolutely go through the growing period. The first stage is going through the children’s course. To go through the children’s course, you have to grow (while) receiving enough love from your parents. This is because you give as much love as you have received.
Next, you must walk through the siblings’ course. If you are alone in your family without any brothers or sisters, you cannot love your neighbors as brothers and sisters. That is why the more siblings you have, the better. People who grew up without siblings do not know how to share their love with those around them.
Next is the couple’s course. If you do not meet your own partner, or in other words, marry and have a partner, you can never realize God’s ideal. The purpose of marriage is not for “my own happiness,” but for realizing God’s ideal. Only through marriage can you completely occupy God’s true love.
Lastly, it is the parents’ course. The course of the parents is the course of the perfection of true love. To go through the course of the parents, you have to absolutely have children. Children ultimately complete the parents. There is no completion of parents without children.
In the spirit world, one of the most miserable (kinds of) people are those who (have) died without marrying. Second, it is people who married but did not have children.
That is why in order to form the four position foundation you need to have your parents, spouse, siblings and children. These are (the) absolute elements in order to complete the four position foundation. This is the key. This is everything in the family. Father’s guidance is really amazing!
The Ideal of Spherical Love
<259－44>True love of parent-child relationship is vertical, conjugal true love is horizontal, sibling’s true love is front and back. God desired the ideal of spherical love.
In other words unity is achieved at the center of all connecting points from vertically up and down, horizontally left and right, and longitudinally front and back. That point becomes the central point of the sphere
In the family, only when the Four Great Realms of Heart move longitudinally and horizontally, left and right, and forward and backward, the circular motion is converted into a spherical motion and becomes a three-dimensional motion.
The central motion of the universe is the center of all spherical motions in the Four Great Realms of Heart. And the center of these four realms of heart is God's love, that is, true love.
Only when the love between vertical (parents and children) and horizontal (couples), and front and back (brothers and sisters), centered on true love, fully performs a spherical movement, can you embody (experience) God’s heart and complete God’s ideals and dreams.
Let us take a closer look at how the family exemplifies this universal order. The family can be represented by a sphere with three axes. These three axes -- parent/child, elder/younger and husband/wife -- form a sphere.
We are meant to live for the sake of the people linked to us by these axes. The center of a family is not a person but the junction of these three axes. It is true love. Equality in the family means that each person gives and receives the optimal love corresponding to his or her role in the family.
The center is true love. God is also centered on true love. Younger siblings, elder siblings, husband and wife and children and grandchildren are centered on true love. This is the central point.
The Completion of Love
<259-44> When does children-siblings-couples-parents of the 4 great realms of heart become one? The place where humans marry centered on God and make their first love is the fruit of all completion and the center. Therefore marriage is the unity of heaven, earth, humankind and the completion of longitude and latitude, left and right, front and back. Marriage is the place where the ideal of child-sibling-couple-parent’s true love is completed
The place where the heart of children, the heart of brothers and sisters, the heart of a couple, and the heart of parents are completed is the place where marriage and first love are formed.
The first night when a couple makes their first love is a place where the seed of a baby also participates, so it is a place where the Four Great Realms of Heart are completed.
Therefore, the place where a couple marries and celebrates their first night is where Adam and Eve go through the children's love and siblings' love, become one body as a couple, and the seed of their children is born, so it is the place where all the Four Great Loves are gathered together.
This is amazing! That is why Father speaks about the completion of love based on the couple's love.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Keep the First Love
I reflect a lot about this. You may often read the Bible. I also often read this Bible verse and reflect on it. Today I’d like to talk about keeping our first love.
Revelation 2:1 – 17 To the Church in Ephesus
1 “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write:
These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands.
2 I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false.
3 You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.
4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.
5 Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.
6 But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
7 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
Church in Ephesus Rebuked for Losing First Love
1. The church in Ephesus mentioned in the Bible just now was praised by God but also worried. The praise was the hard work of the Ephesians to keep the word of God. He praised the amazing fact that they held on to the Word and tried not to tolerate evil people, and that they persevered and have endured even when evil people opposed and harassed them. Next, many false apostles and false leaders appeared, but He praised them for being very diligent and holding onto the heart of Jesus. So, the Ephesian church was a church with the utmost devotion to hold on to the word of God, to live according to it, and to persevere in spite of difficulties. So, it was a church that God remembers.
What praise did the Ephesian church receive from the Lord?
First, it is that the members of the church kept God's Word as life.
They really loved God’s word and treated it as their life.
They were good at distinguishing between good and evil according to the Word. So it was possible to distinguish false apostles and drive them out.
If we strictly discern between good and evil, much persecution and opposition will follow.
However, they kept the word until the end and received praise from the Lord.
2. But God rebuked the church in Ephesus for forsaking the love they had at first. That is why he urged us to rediscover the first acts. These were people who tried to keep the Word and did not act apart from the Word, but they were rebuked because they had lost their first love. The church in Ephesus was good in the passion to live according to the Word and the effort to distinguish between truth and lies. There was a lot of love at first, but later, it appears that there was a rift between the brothers who were rebuked. For example, speaking of family relationships, it is like the eldest son who is well aware of his father's will and purpose and is well aware of his father's circumstances, yet there is disharmony between brothers. But what they were rebuked for was that they had no love in their heart. What does no love mean? It's like saying there was a quarrel between brothers. The church in Ephesus was rebuked for lack of love. That is why He told them do the things they did at first.
But what was the church in Ephesus rebuked for by the Lord?
It was that they had lost their first love. So, when do you lose your first love?
After hearing the Word of principle at first, we, too, accept True Parents as the Messiah, and make a good start. However, if they face the trials of Cain and Abel along the way, they cannot endure it and leave the church or flow horizontally.
Most of the cases of losing first love are lost in relationships with people.
The church in Ephesus also made good efforts to keep the Word, but they judged brothers and sisters easily and could not embrace them with love. There was judgment, but no love. As a result, the church was becoming colder, and one or two members stopped coming to the church.
That is the issue.
Brothers and sisters, doesn't the church in Ephesus speak of our present church? I’m thinking a lot (about this).
As for the shortcomings of our church, everyone hears the Divine Principle and confesses True Parents as the messiah and second coming and has absolute faith, but there is no brotherly and sisterly love.
The vertical alignment is good all the time. How much we emphasize vertical alignment! That is fine. But there is no horizontal alignment. There is no love between siblings. We call this kind of love hypocritical.
If we really love God and True Parents, we should love our brothers and sisters. How do we know if someone truly loves God? He automatically loves his brothers and sisters. But one who truly loves God but cannot love brothers and sisters, then something is wrong. That is not really loving God.
How can we know we truly love God? We can see how much we truly love our brothers and sisters. One who truly loves God naturally loves his brothers and sisters. If someone says, “I truly love God and True Parents,” then how can we know? What is your evidence that you really love your own brothers and sisters? It is the same thing. However much we love God, we can surely love our brothers and sisters.
This is one of our movement’s weak points. Even though we emphasize vertical alignment so much, we do not have horizontal alignment. We truly have to love our own brothers and sisters.
A church that is vertically well aligned with True Parents is a church that is at the formation stage. The foundation of faith has been achieved, but it is in a state of not being able to develop further.
The formation stage is clear vertical alignment: your relationship between Abel and yourself. Obey and listen to Abel. That kind of vertical alignment is fine.
What is the next (stage)? Growth stage. The growth stage is based on horizontal alignment. You need to love your Abel and your Cain. Without loving Cain and Abel, we cannot establish a foundation of substance. That is why our church is still under the top of the growth stage in the formation stage. We try to listen to God’s word. That is good. Through God’s word we can distinguish what is good and evil, (who is a) good guy and evil guy. That’s fine.
However, based on that foundation, we need to practice how we can love our brothers and sisters. This is the foundation of substance. This is the issue. The same as this church of Ephesus.
3. Let’s think about the meaning of “first.” Everyone is good at first. When you first come to church, you come as a good person. In the beginning, we come here with the desire to long for goodness and live a good life. However, if you go to church for a long time, it is easy to lower the level of goodness you set up at the beginning. A person who comes to church for the first time can be relatively humble and good. When you come to church for the first time, the first thing you say to all the members of the church is “Hello? I don't know anything. Please guide me a lot.” I am very humble when I say this. When you meet for the first time like this, you have a very high and respectful heart. Everyone is good at the beginning, whether it's when someone first meets someone, when they're born, when they get married for the first time, or when they go to church for the first time. However, as time goes by, the first standard starts to drop and starts to change.
4. All human’s original mind is good. They also know the path they must each take. However, problems change due to various trials, circumstances, and environments in the course of life. Everyone knows what is good and that having a good heart brings peace of mind. I know how to please others and I know that I have to do good things, but many people think that because of some circumstance or difficult situation or because some person treated them badly, they have no choice but to do this or that. Everything in reality called the environment takes my first heart away. It's a problem because my first heart is dominated by the reality and cannot continue. The church in Ephesus fought well with its first heart, but how did it lose love? While fighting the struggle between good and evil, they tried to hold onto the truth and live as it is, but they lost their first love when they were at odds with their brothers.
5. So, what should we do so as not to lose compassion and love? All you have to do is hold on to the Word firmly, distinguish between falsehood and truth, and be active. A person who sheds tears because it is so sad to see the wrongdoing of the other person does not lose their first love. You can keep your first love if you always have a heart of repentance, that is, if you feel that you are guilty when you see others have sinned.
6. When you see the people who have wronged, if you have the heart to regard their faults as your own, you won't lose your first love. The church in Ephesus pointed out the other's faults well, and they were good at distinguishing them, but they saw their mistakes and hated them. After realizing that a person is good, when they see other people making mistakes, they hate them. Isn’t that true? You may say that believing is the best, and ignore those who do not believe.
So, what can we do to not lose compassion and love?
First, you just have to hold on to the Word firmly, distinguish the truth from falsehood, and be active. You must always keep the Word alive.
Second, if you see someone else's mistakes, if you are someone who cries because it is so pitiable, you will not lose your first love.
If you know the principles and the Word well, it is easy to judge others based on the contents.
Therefore, when you see other people's sins, you must have a heart of regret as if you were the one that committed the sin. In other words, if there is no sympathy and compassion for the other person, only the heart of judgment remains, and my heart becomes cold.
When you see the mistakes of people, you lose your first love if you don't have the heart to regard their faults as your own.
“Your problem is my problem. Your fault is my fault. Your situation is my situation.”
When you see someone’s mistakes, (you) cry together, “Your problem is my problem. Your fallen nature is my fallen nature.” When parents see (their) children’s weak points, (they) cry and cry, “All your faults come from me, from my fallen nature. Heavenly God, I did not repent enough. I did not pay enough indemnity. My children have inherited from me.” When parents see (from) their children’s viewpoint and take it as their own and repent, that is why parents never lose their first love toward their children. Why don’t you apply the same principle to our own brothers and sisters?
The church in Ephesus pointed out the other's faults well, and they were good at distinguishing them, but they saw their mistakes and hated them.
After people realize goodness, when they see other people making mistakes, they come to hate them.
Believers ignore non-believers. The knowledgeable ignores the ignorant. Those who have studied the principles easily judge those who do not know them.
Our hearts become cold when we judge others in any circumstance. And then you lose your first love.
Therefore, if you see someone else's fault, you should consider it your fault. And you should embrace them with the heart of a parent. As a parent, you must take responsibility and have a heart to protect them.
When you see someone’s mistake, then you need to think, “I need to be responsible. No matter what I need to guide him and raise him and protect him. We need to have that kind of parental heart. Otherwise, we will just see our brothers and sisters’ weak points and point out their faults. (Then), I am telling you, we lose our first love.
What does our current Unification Movement look like? Aren't we also easily criticizing our brothers and sisters? Don't we always have negative thoughts about our Abel? Do we not ignore Christianity because they do not know the principle?
This Bible verse about the church at Ephesus (can lead us to) think about many things, right?
A church that cannot embrace the other person, a church that cannot forgive the other person's mistakes or weaknesses, and a church that sees the other's weaknesses before strengths will lose their heart before the other person is wiped out.(?)
God leaves the church that has lost its first love. And even when new members come, there are no people that remain because there is no environment for them to settle down (in).
Every day I am talking about how to raise spiritual children. But if we don’t create this kind of wonderful environment of love, then nobody can remain in our church. Let’s really love our own brothers and sisters. Whenever we see someone’s weak point, we need to treat it as our weak point.
What shall we do? There is no other way. We really need to grow up spiritually very well. Wow! This Bible verse (makes) me reflect a lot. I am not criticizing you. I am merely criticizing myself. How do we raise up our members? Of course, I respect True Parents and love them and confess they are my messiah. As much as I love God and True Parents, how much do I practice loving our own brothers and sisters? This is a really great teaching! Do not lose your first love.
(Let’s) embrace brothers and sisters and accept their own faults as “my own faults.”♦
(Response to sharing) The first love is jok sarang, and one sided love is jak sarang. Jok sarang and jak sarang are different.♦
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