Ep 519 - Peace Road Part 3
Peace Road 154-39-13-40 - March 28, 2022
Yesterday I came to Indiana. Today we have some events here.
Yesterday was a beautiful Sunday. I had a breakfast meeting with young adult members at the Chicago family church.
I heard their life passions from each of them. I can see a lot of hope and a promising future through our 2nd generation.
After that, I attended Sunday service there. It was such a heartfelt and overwhelming experience.
I heard beautiful testimonies about pioneering campus witnessing.
I was so moved by their utmost devotion toward heaven to keep on witnessing in order to break through in witnessing.
Also, we officially appointed 3 core leaders to lead CARP Chicago.
They are the ones who gave beautiful testimonies, especially Rosia(?), about breakthroughs in witnessing on campus.
President Naokimi joined us and shared the North America national 2022 goals in 5 key areas. Finally, I delivered guidance to connect God’s wish, which is total salvation, and encouraged each of them to break through for 3 spiritual children.
Everyone had a strong determination to break through with 3 spiritual children.
Today I’d like to talk again about “Peace Road ” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Korea and Japan have become one through the Peace Road Cycling Journey. Starting on August 3, the cycling journey began in Hokkaido, worked its way down the Japanese archipelago with great fervor and continued in Korea from Busan, where the Korean and Japanese teams came together and cycled together all the way to Imjingak. The twenty-two-day Peace Road cycling journey was an actual expression of Father's ardent hope for the unification of North and South Korea—the unification of his fatherland. Our devotion, however, will not end at Imjingak, but will continue past Baekdu Peak, across Asia and on until the free, peaceful, unified and joyful kingdom of heaven on earth that God has hoped for is achieved in the world. (2013.08.23, CheongShim Peace World Center)
This year, more than 140 nations participated in the Peace Road, a movement promoting the establishment of a road to world peace. Together with the founding of the International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace in each nation, politicians and other citizens are participating, warmly welcoming these initiatives. When we look at what is happening, we come to understand that the hearts of people all around the world yearn for a world of peace, but have simply not known how to reach that objective until now. However, they are wholeheartedly participating, supporting, and happily joining the Family Federation for World Peace in this initiative. (2016.08.19, CheongShim Peace World Center)
Today, let's take a closer look at the Bering Strait, one of the great projects of Peace Road in Cheon Seong Gyeong.
<Cheon Seong Gyeong, P. 1136> The Bering Strait is the most difficult border of all. It is a border between lands, and it is also the most difficult border in terms of ideology. When this border is abolished and the two nations are united, hell and the heavenly kingdom can become one. Therefore, all the people in the world, and even the people of the spirit world, need to fulfill the task of abolishing the border at the Bering Strait in the name of that same hometown and homeland.
Nations that possess the tundra are in a position to dominate the world. By possessing its natural resources, they can contribute to the Era after the Coming of Heaven and become its owners. One reason I am placing the greatest importance on the Bering Strait is to prevent these resources from being lost.
<Cheon Seong Gyeong, P. 1136> What developed out of Greek philosophy was a Hellenistic ideology that opposed God. It also opposed Christianity and the new world of Abel culture. This was communism, whose center was the Soviet Union. Communism began to crumble in 1953, when Stalin died. Once we create an environment for the United Nations to unite with me based on the religious foundation of the United States, Satan’s world will fall apart. Now what the United States needs to do is to bring Russia and China together to work on this Bering Strait project. Territorial borders need to be broken down and all nations need to unite. The borderlines in the spirit world have already been removed and its regions are uniting as one, and now the physical borderlines need to be taken down as well. We cannot bring about such unity through military force. It needs to be done through sacrifice and service as desired by God, through the truth that I teach.
Let’s summarize the project of the Bering Strait. This is incredibly important.
Why is the Bering Strait Tunnel Project Important?
1. This is because the Bering Strait is the borderline of the most difficult land as well as the borderline of ideology.
Between communism and democracy, between China and Russia and America, how can we make this successful? This is one of the ways to make world peace.
2. When the border between the Soviet Union and the United States is abolished and the two countries become one, it is like hell and heaven becoming one.
I did not know how seriously Father was thinking about this.
3. Therefore, people from all over the world, including spirit people, must mobilize to accomplish this task of building the Bering Strait Tunnel.
4. If the Bering Strait Tunnel is completed, it will result in more than dominating the world.
How concerned Father was about this Bering Strait Tunnel project!
5. Through the Bering Strait Tunnel Project, the raw material reserve of the era of after coming of Heaven will be obtained. Therefore, because you can become the master of the era of after coming of Heaven, this project should not be abandoned.
6. What the US must do now is to bring Russia and China together. The short-cut to solve this problem is the Bering Strait Project.
So how can the United States as the Abel nation help Russia and China? Centering on this Bering Strait project, if they can really unite in building this project, this is a shortcut to solving all the problems. This is the way to create world peace.
7. The construction of the Bering Strait Tunnel is a way to break the physical boundary on top of True Parents' breaking of the spiritual boundary.
8. The Soviet Union and the United States should not try to unite by military force. We must unite with the sacrificial service that God desires and the ideology taught by True Parents.
Now a war is going on over there (in Europe). If the major 3 powerful nations, China, Russia and the United States, unite together and create the Bering Strait tunnel project, this is the shortcut to making world peace. We really need to pray that someday this project can be accomplished based on our True Parents’ incredible prayer and the strong foundation of their victory.
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)
(This is) based on Father’s word.
When the 4 Great Realms of Heart is Broken…
<249－289> All of you, as husbands and wives, should realize the 4 great realms of heart and fulfill the three great kingships. If you do this, you will be able to freely travel between the spirit world and the earthly world at any time.
The perfection of the 4 great realms of heart can only be obtained through oneness between husband and wife based on love in marriage. If this oneness is broken, the result is the imperfection of the children’s realm of heart, the siblings’ realm of heart, the husband and wife’s realm of heart and the parents’ realm of heart; all of these will be left incomplete. Before going to the spirit world, we have to perfect these 4 great realms of heart, but because of the Fall, these realms of heart have never been completed. That is the reason why we need restoration through indemnity.
Since the completion of the four great realms of heart is the completion of the family, the freedom to go back and forth anywhere in the spiritual realm (is guaranteed).
Such people will not be blocked by anyone. You can go back and forth between the spirit realm and the earth at any time. It's a free pass wherever you go. You can even go down to hell and witness to your ancestors or descendants yourself.
Anyone who enters the realm of God’s kingdom of heaven based on the completion stage, in order to complete yourself based on the family -- husband and wife, brothers and sisters, children and parents -- all come together, we can complete the four great realms of heart. Those who have that standard are totally free. You can go anywhere. No one can stop you because you have already reached the completion stage. You can go to the hell of hells and meet your ancestors and witness to them. You can come down to the earthly world any time. You have a free pass. You can go anywhere. Wow! The level of completion is really amazing, right?
If the four great realms of heart are not completed, this leads to the failure of the children's realm of heart, the sibling’s realm of heart, the couple's realm of heart, and the parents' realm of heart.
Father said completing the four great realms of heart begins with the couple. The completion of the four great realms of heart begins from the conjugal heart. This is very important. If there is unity between husband and wife, you can create that kind of environment: Parents’ realm of heart, children’s realm of heart, siblings’ realm of heart can be completed.
What is the key? The key is unity between husband and wife. Then they can create
everything.
Therefore, no level of the realms of heart should fail. In that sense, in order to achieve the four great realms of heart, we need parents, we need a spouse, we need brothers and sisters, and we need children. There should not be one reason for disqualification.
In order to complete the four great realms of heart, what is the key element? Definitely you need to have your father and mother. Definitely you need to marry and have your spouse. Definitely you need to have your own children. Definitely you need to have your own brothers and sisters. These are the absolute elements (necessary) to create the four great realms of heart.
Because Heaven is a perfect world, unfinished products are never tolerated. You should know that this heavenly law applies equally to everyone without exception.
That is why Father made a major effort to settle Jesus. Jesus should have married. That is why Father blessed the four major saints. He knew that the structure of the kingdom of heaven is so important!
Completion of the 4 Great Realms of Heart and 3 Great Kingships
<270－258> The 4 great realms of heart are completed and bear fruit through the oneness of love between husband and wife, while the 3 great kingships are perfected at the time when Adam and Eve give birth to their sons and daughters. Only after they have given birth to the children can these 3 great kingships be perfected.
God's heavenly law is always settled and completed through the number three. Therefore, there are three stages of growth: formation, growth, and completion.
In the family, the three great kingships centered on three generations must be established.
The Blessing is the Path to Complete the 4 Great Realms of Heart and 3 Great Kingships
<239－76> The Kingdom of Heaven is a homeland where you have to go to carrying the love for the realm of the royal family, after having restored the 4 great realms of heart and the 3 great kingships. Go ahead and die if you don’t believe me. No matter how great a person is, everyone is affected by this reality. Later on don’t end up lamenting, “Oh, I wish I had listened to Rev. Moon!” Therefore, please make up your mind quickly to receive the holy blessing. This is the quickest solution.
The realization of the 4 great realms of heart is the formation level, the realization of the 3 great kingships is the growth level, and the realization of the realm of the royal family -- which is completing heavenly tribal messiahship and registration in the CheonBo Won -- is the completion level.
In order to achieve the realm of the royal family, it is necessary to succeed in Heavenly Tribal Messiahship and be registered in CheonBoWon on the basis of the four great realms of heart and the three great kingships. If you are registered in the CheonBo Won, you become the royal family of Cheon Il Guk and acquire citizenship.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: What is an Idol Sacrifice?(2)
Today, following the title of yesterday, we will have time to study together with the title of What is an Idol Sacrifice?
I would like to speak about the more internal aspect of this.
To the Church in Pergamum (Revelation 2:12-17)
12 “To the angel of the church in Pergamum write:
These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword.
13 I know where you live—where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city—where Satan lives.
14 Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality.
The lord appeared and talked to the church in Pergamum. What did Jesus talk about? “Your church worships of idols. (Also,) your church has committed sexual immorality.” Jesus appeared and rebuked them and scolded them about these issues. First of all, you are worshiping idols. Secondly, you are committing sexual immorality.
15 Likewise, you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
16 Repent therefore! Otherwise, I will soon come to you and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
17 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.
1. So what is an idol? For example, “Please heal my son” or “Please save my son from danger.” To ask for good things based on my wishes without knowing the circumstances of the subject, is to seek idol sacrifices. Faith that asks for blessings while covering it with no knowledge of the circumstances and heart of the person to whom it is to be blessed is idolatry. So many churches today are idolized in the end. Many believers say that they will go to heaven without even trying to find out why Jesus died. They say they will use Jesus to go to heaven. Today's Christians say they will go to heaven, but they do not know the circumstances of God. Many churches are becoming idols because they say they will receive blessings while shouting, “Lord, I believe, I just believe, Lord.”
2. However, our Unification Church must become a responsible religion. Our Unification faith believes that if we take responsibility, God will give us everything, so we do not ask God to do it, do we? The Unification Church is a religion that insists that if I fulfill my responsibilities, God will take care of it, so we fulfill our responsibilities well. However, many established believers do not know responsibility. They do not know their responsibility and want to solve their situation through Jesus. How *** idolatry is it when I give Jesus my difficult and heavy burdens and say that I will take it off myself? This is like a person in a high position who is being treated by others, and not knowing the circumstances of the other person, but only trying to be glorified and splendid.
3. It is said that if a person living extravagantly does not know the circumstances of the one who gives him luxury, it is equivalent to eating an idol feast. A person who wants to be extravagant without paying the price is an idolatrous person. In this way, he rebuked the church at Pergamum for eating food sacrificed to idols.
Pergamum Church was rebuked by the Lord for worshiping idols. Yesterday, I talked about idols.
All fallen human beings live by worshiping idols. Do not think that just worshiping a golden calf or any superstition are the only idols.
What do you think an idol is? In short, if there is anything I love more than God, it is an idol.
Today we are going to talk about idols in a more inward way.
Ignoring the circumstances and wishes of the subject and simply asking for my wish to come true is to request sacrifices for idols.
To say that you will go to heaven by using Jesus without knowing Jesus’ circumstances, wishes, and sorrowful heart is asking for something sacrificed to idols.
Today, church members say that they will use the church to receive only their own blessings. That is why many churches are becoming idolatrous.
This is a real problem. “I don’t care why Jesus was crucified. I don’t care about Jesus’ wishes, heart and will. I don’t care. I just want to receive a blessing. I just want to cure my sickness. I just want my family to live very well and make money and (have) a good job.” That’s it.
Father really scolded (people) about these issues.
This is not just (a problem with) Christianity. Any religion has this kind of level (of faith). I was so surprised when I was living in Asia and visited Thailand, Cambodia and Laos, many nations. I saw that many people believed in Buddhism. But they only believed in Buddha in their own way -- how to get more blessings. Not so many people think about what the theory of the Buddha is: how can I change my character, improve my personality, create good relationships with my family members, how can I love my nation? They are not concerned about (these things). They worship and bow down (thinking) about how to get more blessings.
All religions go this way. That is an issue.
The faith of people who want to receive blessings of material and health through prayer becomes idolatrous.
This is the issue.
The faith of people who do not know their responsibility and ask for something unconditionally is idolatry.
It is idolatry to try to be glorified and enjoy luxury only for yourself without knowing the circumstances of the other person.
Serving without heart is idolatry. Serving God without heart means that I just want to receive blessings from God.
That is why people go an external way. That is why we need to become true Christians. In order to become true Christians, we need to understand the meaning of the cross: Why was Jesus crucified? What is Jesus' will and heart and han? What was he supposed to do? We need to know his inner situation, rather than just worshiping him: “I believe in the cross. I can get more blessing. My family will get a great blessing.” This kind of worshiping is really idolatry. We cannot just blame Christianity. Other religions do the same thing.
Faith in which one sees only the external authority of True Parents without their heart is idolatry. It is the same thing.
We just go to Cheong Pyeong and worship and kyung bae without knowing the heart of True Parents, without knowing their inner situation, their sorrowful heart. We just externally believe they are the messiah. There is no heart. We don’t know True Parents’ wishes. It is the same thing. We cannot (simply) blame other religions. We are repeating the same problems.
That is why I worry about the next generation, the third generation and fourth generation who have no real experience with True Parents, no experience living with True Parents. Maybe many descendants will believe in True Parents in a kind of external way, the way of the idol.
Since I started Morning Devotion, I have continually spoken a lot about heart, heart, heart because the basic structure of the kingdom of heaven is what? Heart.
Serving without heart and love is highly likely to become idolatry. We need to know that.
Where there are idols, God cannot be with them. God always comes to the place where there is heart and true love.
That is why I am continually talking about our final destination. Of course, in the formation stage we need to have conditions. This is the beginning step. I cannot deny this. We need conditions. When you have just joined the church and do not know much (about) the life of faith, you need conditions through prayer and jeongseong. Then in the growth stage one becomes more a volunteer to help others. You build up a good relationship with your Abel figure. Finally we enter the world of the heart.
Our final destination is how to cultivate my heart and truly understand God’s sorrow and difficulty and really miserable situation.
Since True Father met God, his non-stop tears have continually come down. That is why even though our situation is not easy, I continually talk about this because this is our final destination.
Recently I have been emphasizing over and over: let’s create a beautiful environment. Let’s cultivate our heart. Then any new guest who comes to our movement, our church, our family, feels the world of heart. They don't want to leave our church and our community because they feel that heart is here, Heaven is here. There is no need to look for another heaven; it is here. The world of heart is here.
Without cultivating that kind of heart, without creating that kind of environment, even though we may bring many new people, they cannot stay. That is why I emphasize this so much.
Yesterday I attended the Chicago Sunday service. It was beautiful. I appreciated the many brothers and sisters who came from far away to join us for Sunday Service. From the beginning till the end, it was so beautiful. Many second generation were there. We had beautiful songs and prayer and reports. At the end I gave True Parents’ message. Takami couple did an excellent job. (So did) Sagisaka(?), the state leader. I could feel the Chicago church can really become something. They created a beautiful environment based on our heart.
What does idolatry mean? If we do not use our heart and do something without heart, we easily connect to worshiping idols. We need to understand that.
That's why Jesus appeared to that church and scolded them. “You are worshiping idols. You really need to internally connect with brothers and sisters -- loving each other, caring for each other.” That is what Jesus strongly recommended to that church.
Tomorrow I will speak about Jesus appearing and scolding them about sexual immorality. “Your church is very (engaged) in sexual immorality.”
Now I am visiting here and there. I have come to Indiana. Many are concerned about violence. We are dealing with this violence issue here. No matter what, we keep going.
Once again I really encourage all of you to create a beautiful environment. When you come to Sunday Service, do not expect someone to greet you. At least each person should greet ten people. “Good morning, how are you? Good morning.” and hug each other. Even one word … from your heart, not just conditionally. You are the one who needs to create that kind of warm atmosphere in your church.
I really want to build up that kind of beautiful culture in our movement. The Divine Principle is great. True Parents are great. God is great. We have the eternal truth. Now the only remaining thing is how we can practice and take action? That is our issue from now on.
I can feel American brothers and sisters can do that. Through Morning Devotion I can feel that we have that kind of inseparable relationship -- closer and … understanding the meaning of heart, then I can go everywhere. I can feel that the environment is changing. The second generation is connected. All the brothers and sisters try to unite and want to do something. It is already beautiful. I see a really promising future for the North American movement.♦
(Response to sharing) It is very simple. If you truly love your husband, then you can love anyone. (There is) no need to worry about … Christian (churches?). If you truly love (your husband), you can love anyone. Your God is just next to you! If you love him, you can love everyone. The most difficult one is your neighbor, how to love your neighbor.
(Response to second sharing) Even though we are doing many things outside, internally we really need to fulfill the goal of the four great realms of heart. That is why the family structure is very important. If we relate well to each family member, this is the way to love society, to love the nation, to love the world. Everything (becomes) connected. That is why we really have to be successful people in our family. That is a basic thing.♦
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