Ep 517 - Peace Road Part 1
Peace Road 152-37-13-40 - March 26, 2022
(Showing photos) I started the Sub-Region 3 tour yesterday. I had lunch with President Naokimi and SR3 leaders at the Akaihana Japanese restaurant in Chicago. The food was so delicious. I really appreciate the owner and all the staff for their hard work.
After that, I visited Harper college, which is a new chapter of CARP Chicago.
CARP Chicago members and Heavenly USA came as well. We made a holy ground on campus and prayed to have thriving campus witnessing and also to establish PWPA (Professor World Peace Academy) in the future.
In the evening, I attended the YCLC introductory program at the Chicago Family Church.
Joshua, a really powerful guy, shared the vision of YCLC powerfully and Heavenly USA and the Soul children performed inspiring songs.
At the program, I delivered a speech on how to revive young people in America.
We need to repent and go back to the founding spirit of this country and know that God is alive.
Here are group photos.
Today I’d like to talk about “Peace Road ” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
True Father made a lot of preparations out of his concern for the future of the billions of people who inhabit the Earth and that of the Earth itself. The providential history of salvation would have been difficult even if it had received the cooperation of the 2,000-year Christian foundation and a national level foundation. At the ICUS conference in 1981, he advocated the construction of a world peace highway for the realization of world peace. Father later re-emphasized this project in 2006 during his speaking tour of four major cities in the United States. I also did the same later on in my speaking tour of 120 nations.
This World Peace Highway will begin at the Cape of Hope in Africa, traverse Europe and Asia, and continue all the way to the Korean peninsula, and then from Santiago, Chile, in South America all the way to New York.
True Father talked about the Bering Strait tunnel. He also proposed the Korea-Japan tunnel, which will connect Korean and Japan, making it possible to travel by highway from Korea to anywhere region of the world begin from Japan, cross through Korea and then connect to the world. The Peace Road project was started to call attention to the World Peace Highway, and to encourage international cooperation in building world peace. In each participating country, people gathered to bicycle, walk and run together, traveling across portions of their country, encouraging those that they met to think about world peace and cooperation. A total of 121 nations participated in the Peace Road project in 2015, which was safely concluded just ahead of the third anniversary of True Father's Seonghwa (Ascension). The people of the world's nations are self-centered. They think of their national interests first. True Parents, however, are opening the way to communication that can bring all people together. (2015.08.30, CheongShim Peace World Center)
Today, in more detail, we will study True Father's proposal for the construction of the International Peace Expressway.
<Chambumo Gyeong, P. 958> I proposed the construction of the International Peace Highway in 1981. It is a well-known fact in the academic world, because I declared it to planners, educators, and administrative officials of many countries decades ago. I was the first to propose building a global highway, starting with the Korea–Japan Undersea Tunnel. I can say that I exerted an influence on the Channel Tunnel in the Strait of Dover, too.
God’s Will is to achieve one world and one cultural sphere. If a world under God’s sovereignty is to be established, the construction of an international highway is inevitable. That day will surely come. National barriers must be abolished for the sake of world peace. If every country cooperates, peace will lead to equilibrium. We can move the world by upholding the vertical ideal.
<Cheon Seong Gyeong, P. 1132> The achievement of peace has been the hope of my entire life. In 1981, the Tenth International Conference for the Unity of the Sciences was held in Seoul. It was a conference where renowned scholars and scientists from more than one hundred nations assembled. At the conference, I announced my plan to build the international Peace Highway.
Once this colossal plan is realized, we will be able to travel from Tokyo to London by car. I believe the international Peace Highway will bind all humankind as one global family. Modern technology will make it possible for humankind to live as one family.
<Cheon Seong Gyeong, P. 1132> Now I am promoting the construction of the International Peace Highway. In the future we will move every religion. We will move Confucianism, Buddhism and Zen in the Far East, Hinduism in India, Islam in the Middle East, and the Christian cultural realm of Europe. We will move religious leaders and young core members alike. We can mobilize anyone from any region.
The plan to construct the International Peace Highway is truly a stroke of genius. Religious bodies can work together for this program. For instance, in the Far East the organizations of Confucianists, Buddhists and Zen Buddhists will have no problem mobilizing their believers to participate. The religious bodies of Korea and Japan need to participate as well, to be able to make a contribution for Asia. Next, the Hindu temples of India should be brought together. When they collaborate for such a cause, any number of people can be mobilized.
True Parents came as the savior of humankind. The most earnest wish of True Parents is to establish a world of peace.
That is why True Parents always said that we have to form one great family of society under God.
According to True Father's words, "God’s Will is to achieve one world and one cultural sphere. If a world under God’s sovereignty is to be established, the construction of an international highway is inevitable.”
In order to achieve such a peaceful world, he emphasized that borders have to be abolished for world peace, not just for the International Peace Highway project.
True Father said that if the International Peace Highway is realized, there will be a way for each country to give and receive so that a balance can be achieved centered on peace, and from there, a vertical ideal can be established to move the world.
True Father has the conviction that the International Peace Highway will unite people as one human family.
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)
I would like to share based on Father’s word.
Position of a Couple
<259－45> The position of a couple is the uniting place of God and children, the siblings, couples, and parents in God’s family. When looking at the position of a couple centered on the 4 great realms of heart, they are the absolute object which complete each other.
Therefore the position of the husband is making the wife receive God’s idealistic son, heaven’s older brother, heaven’s husband, and heaven’s father. The wife comes to stand in the same position as the husband.
Such a couple is one which has experienced God, and by giving birth to children, and substantially experiencing all of their growth through their children, they come to feel happiness.
The couple’s position represents the love of parents, the love of siblings, and the love of children. Therefore, husband and wife should love each other as substitutes for parents, as substitutes for siblings, and as substitutes for children.
Therefore, through the love of husband and wife, the husband sometimes discovers through his wife the love of a mother, the love of his wife, the love of a younger sister (love of an older sister) and the love of a daughter.
And, through her husband, the wife sometimes discovers the love of a father, the love of her husband, the love of an older brother (love of a younger brother), and the love of a son.
Sometimes a man tries to be like a son of his wife. She may misunderstand: “Why are you like a child and a boy?” Human nature is like this sometimes. The husband (is) sometimes in the role of the husband, sometimes in the role of the older or younger brother. Love is very interesting. We can adjust according to the situation.
Vertical 4 Great Realms of Heart
<235-30> You must complete the vertical 4 great realms of heart in order to liberate God’s misery.
Within the family, the grandfather is in the position of having created the heavenly kingdom. You did not know that your grandfather and grandmother are the king and queen of your family, did you? In future, you should clearly remember that the family is the foundation for inheriting the heavenly kingdom. Also, you should clearly understand by now how much you need to live a life of love within your own family, because your family is the foundation for realizing and actualizing the vertical four great realms of heart.
Heavenly Parent did not experience the Four Great Realms of Heart until True Parents appeared. Therefore, the place where we can receive the Blessing through True Parents and form a family completing God's four great realms of heart is the way to relieve God's sorrow.
The position of grandparents in the home is like that of God. Therefore, if you live without attending grandparents in the family, it is as if God does not exist in the family.
According to True Father, if we do not have the environment to attend our own grandparents, we should bring people from the street who can replace our grandparents and be able to serve them.
Realistically, even if it is not possible to live with grandparents, you should often take your children to their grandparents or adults who can take the place of grandparents so that they can experience the love of grandparents like God.
Completion of the 4 Great Realms of Heart is the Process of Experiencing God’s Love
<263－148> Parents are to nurture their children as God’s own children, on behalf of God, standing in the position of substantial parents. In doing this, I can substantially feel God’s experience in nurturing His own children. God Himself has been growing in this way. God has grown and passed through an age of childhood, an age of brotherhood and sisterhood, an age of the conjugal husband and wife, and the age of parents
Parents raise children of God as their substantial parents in place of God. Therefore, when raising one's own children, one must experience God’s heart of raising Adam and Eve as His children.
The important thing here is not to think of your children as your own, but to think of them as children of God and raise them well from the position of a nanny.
As God raised Adam and Eve, God’s heart also wanted to grow with them.
God also developed through Adam and Eve through the age of children, the age of siblings, the age of the married couple, and the age of parents.
As all human beings reach the age of children, the age of siblings, the age of husband and wife, and finally the age of parents, true love is perfected, and thus reaches the position of true parents, that is, the position of God.
Therefore, the love of True Parents is the place where all love is perfected and the place where we can reach the position of God.
<263－148> As we give birth to children and raise them, we experience God’s past history centering on ourselves. We come to see the character and shape of the invisible Creator, the invisible first Creator in his infancy. When, in the position of the second Creator, the visible Creator, we raise those children, and help them grow as brothers and sisters, and eventually help them to marry and become someone’s spouse, the goal is to see substantially, on the horizontal plane, all the concrete content that exists internally and invisibly, just as God did when he raised Adam and Eve as His children, and as a brother and sister. This is what it means to have your own children.
All human beings eventually become like God and reach the position of the second Creator through these four great realms of heart. And through my grandchildren, my children reach the position of the third Creator.
These are the amazing words of True Parents that, in order to become the second and third creators, you have to achieve true love through these four great realms of heart.
These four great realms of heart are the position of inheriting everything God has. In other words, it is the place to inherit the true love that God possesses.
Therefore, if you do not inherit these four great realms of heart, you can never become the second or third Creator. Today we have learned the secrets of being a Creator here.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Do Not Have a Rich Heart
What does “Rich Heart” mean?
To the Church in Smyrna
Revelation 2:8 “To the angel of the church in Smyrna write:
These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again.
9 I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
10 Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown.
11 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death.
Based on this Bible verse, I would like to talk about “Do not have a rich heart.”
1. The Lord, who appeared to the church in Smyrna, commended their tribulation and poverty. However, he rebuked them for having a rich heart. In Matthew 19:24 of the Bible, he said, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” Many believers always try to live according to the Word, so they easily ignore the rich based on the Word. Also, they easily ignore people who live with knowledge. This is the rich mind. But you should not think that way. They should know that they put more effort than others in order to obtain wealth of their own. From that perspective, you should respect and cherish them.
Until yesterday, we mainly talked about the church in Ephesus. Today, we are going to talk about the church in Smyrna.
The Lord praised the church in Smyrna for enduring tribulation and poverty well. However, He rebuked them for having a rich heart.
A rich heart means that one’s heart is filled with contentment that they have always done what is right.
A person with a rich heart can easily criticize and judge others based on the standard they have overcome with respect to a certain difficult task or challenge.
For example, it is easy for those who do not have something to criticize those who have it.
Those who do not have knowledge tend to criticize those who have knowledge. Those who offer prayer and jeongseong easily criticize those who do not offer prayer and jeongseong.
People who are good at Divine Principle lectures easily criticize people who are not good at Divine Principle lectures. All these things come from having a rich heart.
In the Bible, Matthew 19:24 says, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” It is easy for many believers to ignore the rich based on these words of the Bible.
It is easy to become arrogant when you have a rich heart. It is easy to judge easily by using the Word of God as a standard. They don't try to understand the other person's point of view.
A person with a rich heart is not sincere because they treat others with a preconceived idea.
But you shouldn't think that way. No one should criticize carelessly, easily ignore, or judge.
2. Among worldly people, those who work hard in their own way and gain a foundation of wealth are great people. They must have some great efforts and hard work behind them. But when such people do something wrong, people of faith easily point fingers and say, “you rotten thing! You're doing such a thing after being careless with money.” Also, when a person who claims to have good faith sees a person who is overly proud in front of the world with only knowledge, it is easy to ignore the person who has knowledge, saying that all they have is knowledge. The church in Smyrna today has the joy of living with the Truth in the midst of tribulation, so they have a heart that ignores others. So they were rebuked by the Lord. Those who have faith do not understand the Will well, but we must not be materially poor either. Actually, those who live diligently for God must receive material blessings and become rich.
So, what must you do when you have a rich heart?
When you look at the rich, you have to think about how much effort that person put in to get more wealth than others.
If you look at a person who has a lot of knowledge, you should see how much effort was put into acquiring specialized knowledge without others knowing in order to accumulate that knowledge.
When seeing people in high positions in politics, you have to think about how much devotion they have secretly devoted to their community to get to that position.
You should know that socially successful people must have exerted some hidden effort and hard work of their own.
As the Smyrna church had the joy of living with the truth in the midst of tribulation, when they saw people who could not do so, they ignored them.
We must not be materially poor either because those who have faith do not understand the Will well. The fact is that if a person lives hard for God, he should be blessed with material things so that he can become rich and take care of many poor people.
The reason the rich are criticized is that they do not share the blessings of heaven with those around them.
3. In fact, if we understand the Principle, we learn that a good person should also have money. To dominate the world, we must have more good people than the secular world. It is not that God hates what secular people like. The problem is that Satan takes what God likes and controls it as he pleases. However, if we, who say that we have found the Principle and God, misunderstand and see someone who has money, we criticize them as “things that don’t know God and only like money’” Such a mind is a rich mind. That is why the Smyrna church was rebuked. If we have found God, we should like those who have money, even though they have not found God. This does not mean that we are to be higher than God. Although they do not know God, they must acknowledge their hard work and sacrifice to become rich.
If we understand the principle, then we learn that a good person should also have money. To dominate the world, good people must have more material blessings than secular people.
How did Jacob subjugate Esau? Of course, Jacob had absolute faith in Heaven. However, it was not only Jacob's faith that forced Esau to surrender.
Jacob's love for Esau, along with the material and wealth he had prepared and brought with him, moved his brother Esau. We must not forget the law that where love goes, material will follow as well.
How did Joseph in Egypt subjugate his brothers? Of course, Joseph had a heart to love his brothers who were like enemies, but his power and material things also played a big part in subjugating them.
The problem is that when material blessings come to those who cannot properly manage them, the blessings may become misfortune because they cannot manage them. How do you deal with material? When dealing with material things, if you treat them publicly without self-interest and give to others, Heaven will surely give you material blessings.
4. The Smyrna Church made a good distinction between those who call themselves Jews. They were praised for their ability to discern false Jews. However, they were told to repent of their rich heart. A believer should not always have a rich heart. When a believer receives grace from God, they say that they are grateful. Likewise, a person who is always improving should try to profit more and more from what has already been achieved. So, the desire to run forward with more enthusiasm must be strengthened. I need to have a mindset about how I can create a plus to God to please Him. If you are satisfied with what you currently have, your direction with God can change.
Believers should not end up in a state of satisfaction just because they are told to practice faith with gratitude.
If a believer just has a grateful heart and a rich heart, they will not progress. Faith with God must develop and multiply.
A person who is always improving should try to profit more and more from what has already been achieved. So, the desire to run forward with more enthusiasm must be strengthened.
Just as businessmen always strive to make a profit for the company, believers must always challenge themselves to make a bigger benefit.
Then we can appreciate more.
I need to have a heart that thinks how I can add a plus to God to make God happy.
If you are satisfied with what you currently have, there will be no further development.
There is a parable of the talents in the Bible as well. The unprofitable servant was cursed by the Lord, and what he had was taken away and given to the profiting servant.
5. The Lord did not consider these rich-hearted Smyrna church members to be worthy of God. After realizing the Truth and knowing the circumstances of God, they should have become more hungry and thirsty for the sake of God's wishes. A person who develops infinitely cannot be satisfied with what has already been obtained. Do you understand? Just because you're good at it, you can't be satisfied with it. You have a responsibility to do better. We also have a responsibility to do good for others.
If you realize the truth and know God's circumstances, you have to become more hungry and thirsty for God's wishes.
A person who develops infinitely cannot be satisfied with what has already been obtained.
A person who develops infinitely is not rich, and wants to take on bigger responsibilities after completing their responsibilities well.
Just as the person who runs a company must make a profit for the company to survive and develop, in order to have faith that develops, you have to constantly multiply blessings with those around you.
We should produce spiritual children and leave a profit of love. Just as a company that cannot make a profit goes bankrupt, if the life of faith fails to develop and does not generate profits of love, it will inevitably retreat.
Therefore, as long as I live and as long as I breathe, I must progress. I have to grow. I need to multiply. I have to save many souls.
That is God’s wish. Wow! We really learned important things from the Bible. We need to know how we can utilize that kind of beautiful Bible verse in our daily life.
(Video) Yesterday I attended a very beautiful YCLC meeting. I saw a video they created that is very beautiful.
Today I am going to show you a special video. We, Heavenly USA, are making and promoting a beautiful video. We hope that many of you will also participate. It's very inspiring what our heavenly USA team is doing. Then (I will) ask our media team to play this beautiful video. Then let’s pray about the situation in Ukraine. Thank you very much.
(Shows video)
Our heavenly message! They are really doing a great job! (It is) really touching so many people’s hearts. I really want to show this video to our beloved True Mother. I think she will be very inspired to see this program.
Let’s pray for Ukraine’s situation. We cannot have such a war any more. We really need to pray and all nations unite together. No more war! Stop war! We need to really create world peace. We are the ones who need to be involved and to practice that way.
Thank you once again. Give a big hand to our Heavenly USA team.♦
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