Ep 531 - The Second Generation Should Be Trained to Lead the Providence Part 2
The Second Generation Should be Trained to Lead the Providence 166-11-14-40-531 - April 9, 2022
PDF Printable Text and Slides + Takayo’s Campus Witnessing Testimony #1
Yesterday, I had a lunch meeting at the Harlem Center with the active young members and leaders including Kodan members who are supporting campus witnessing.
I listened to their introduction and testimonies, and gave them internal guidance regarding the importance of 3 spiritual children and the importance of prayer and Jeong Seong.
It was such a beautiful gathering! I really appreciate Miilhan. He is doing a great job. He has become the leader of the Manhattan Church; I can see a great environment (there). Everyone is trying to focus on witnessing. Now there is a completely new atmosphere at our Manhattan Church.
We took a group photo.
Then, we went to Columbia University, a very famous university, and sanctified the Holy Ground, and prayed together.
We took a group photo.
Even though people are very busy, they joined us. Even Ayako-san joined us along with some Kodan members.
Then, we went back to the Harlem Center and listened to the reports from the leaders, especially from Takayo regarding campus witnessing.
Even though Naokimi is so busy, he joined us.
And I blessed the Harlem Center as the Harlem Youth Center.
Whenever I see young people, I can see such a promising future in America.
Everywhere whomever I meet, their main topic is how to raise 3 spiritual children. I can feel that everyone is going to invest their sincere effort and heart and jeongseong (in order to) break through with 3 spiritual children.
Today I’d like to talk about “The second generation should be trained to lead the providence” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
It is important to witness to new members, but we have failed to dedicate our own second generation members to God. Whose responsibility is this? As parents, and as those who are in charge during this age, this is something we should be ashamed of. That is why I had to ask True Father for his consent about something. I plan to sell the helicopter he used. If I don't use it, there is no one to use it. Any machine, especially something like an airplane or a helicopter, will quickly deteriorate if left unused. It will become useless even faster than an unused car. That is why I made a report to True Father. I told him that I will sell it and use the money as a scholarship fund for training leaders and second generation members worldwide for the coming age. Then he told me, “Please go ahead if that is what you want to do.” Once that decision had been made, I felt so much lighter in my heart.
True Mother is really putting all her heart into cultivating future leaders, even selling the helicopter to provide scholarships for raising particularly the blessed second and third generations. Let's sincerely thank our True Mother.
Nonetheless, now that I am about to sell it, it hurts me to think that I am unable to preserve it for all eternity. We have all failed to fulfill our responsibility. Still, I wish to let this nation and the entire world know about True Father and show Heaven how quickly the Unification Church can grow. Once I had made this resolution, I felt that there was no need to put it off any longer. What I earnestly ask of you is that, if you truly believe in True Father as the Lord of the Second Advent, the Messiah, the King of Kings, and the True Emperor with Holiness and Virtue, you should testify to him and to his achievements in front of others. The way for you to witness to others is by revealing True Father to them. (2012.09.30, Cheon Jeong Gung)
<Chambumo Gyeong, P. 860> From now on, mothers have to properly educate their children. The Israelite mothers who entered the land of Canaan, as well as their sons and daughters, were influenced by the people who were already there. Unable to preserve their own religious traditions, they failed to establish the kingdom in Israel. In order to restore this through indemnity, mothers have to imbue the traditional ideas of our church into the second generation so that they will establish heaven on earth instead of being influenced by Satan’s world. This will reverse the failures of the past. After mothers and their children become one, how do they establish the kingdom in Israel? That is their mission. The Israelite mothers failed to think about this. They, together with their sons and daughters, followed in the footsteps of the seven tribes of Canaan. That was their grave mistake.
True Mother said, “From now on, mothers have to properly educate their children.” She is saying that the most important thing in the education of our children is that mother-child cooperation should take place.
Families without mother-child cooperation cannot properly raise their children. Look at the background of the central figures in the Age of the Providence of Restoration. God conducted the providence based on the foundation of mother-child cooperation.
Look at examples of mother-child cooperation: Sarah and Isaac, Rebekah and Jacob, Rachel and Joseph, Jochebed and Moses, ChungMoNim and True Father, DaeMoNim and True Mother.
In order to carry on our North American activities, all our first generation and Japanese Kodan members in the position of the mother need to really cooperate with our youth leaders, especially (with) CARP, GPA and YSP members. If there is really mother-child cooperation, always God’s providence will move on very smoothly and quickly.
Purpose of mother-child cooperation: The purpose of mother-child cooperation is for mothers to educate their sons to become one with their fathers and to inherit the father's foundation.
After Moses completed 40 years of palace life while receiving education about the chosen people from his mother, who had been secretly raising him as his nanny, he did not change his integrity and loyalty to the lineage of the chosen people. He was happy to go through hardships together with his people and ran away from the palace.
We should also educate and train our second generation children so that they can transform the world into true love, rather than become secularized themselves.
We must go the opposite way. Mothers, sons, and daughters must unite in establishing the heavenly kingdom. Mothers have to educate their children so that they can have an influence on their university communities. Hence, after women of the world become second selves of True Mother, they must turn their children around 180 degrees, even if they have to hold onto them and not let them go. To achieve that, you have to do the same as True Mother, who went on a speaking tour of 256 venues over the two years following 1992. You have to save your relatives and your nation. This is not some vague notion but a real problem. What is real is that I fought for 40 years searching for a heavenly nation. I gave speeches in the United States in order to pass the baton to Mother, who went on to influence the university communities. Mothers have to rescue the second generation, their offspring.
You can see how much True Mother is concerned about our second generation.
True Mother said, “True Father gave speeches in the United States in order to pass the baton to Mother, who went on to influence the university communities. Mothers have to rescue the second generation, their offspring.”
Today, while thinking about the meaning of True Father's words once again, the CARP movement should be launched in earnest at the university. Japanese Kodan mothers and first-generation Westerners should do their best to help our younger 2nd and 3rd generations from the parents' point of view in witnessing at the university.
We must again create an environment where young people can be witnessed to just as in the early days of the Korean church.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 30 - God’s Third Blessing: Perfection of Dominion - Completion of Dominion and Life
Let’s study EDP content first.
1. The meaning of God’s third blessing is the perfection of a human being’s dominion over the natural world; to fulfill this blessing, human beings and the natural world should become completely one, thereby establishing a God-centered four-position foundation of dominion.
2. Ideal human beings receive stimulation from the natural world. Sensing their own internal nature and external form displayed throughout the creation, they feel immense joy.
3. God also feels joy when He experiences the stimulation of His original internal nature and original external form from the universe that has become his third object partner through the harmonious union of human beings and the natural world.
4. Therefore, when human beings realize God’s third blessing, the entire universe becomes yet another good object partner giving joy to God.
5. Had God’s purpose of creation been realized in this way, an ideal world without even a trace of sin would have been established on earth. We call this world the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
6. When life in the kingdom of heaven on earth comes to a close, people are to enter the spirit world and naturally enjoy eternal life in the kingdom of heaven there.
7. In the kingdom of heaven, God’s direction will be conveyed to all his children through the True Parents of humankind, guiding everyone to live as one.
Based on this EDP content about the third blessing, let’s study more about God’s three blessings from True Father’s word.
Lifestyle of Living Offerings
<23-330> The clothes that you wear and each lifestyle necessity are a part of creation. Thus you should not treat the necessities you use in your daily life as a creation limited to your lifestyle. Treat everything as a downsized direct-object of all creation, and live a life where you evaluate its value on a universal level. Then, your own lifestyle has to become a lifestyle of living offerings. Centered on the environment of having become such an offering, live with the belief that God can always reside within yourself. You must know that creation’s true family-oriented base can be established from such a foundation.
The dominion of all things begins when one considers and treats the necessities of life, including the clothes one uses, as a miniature version of all things and has a heart to serve with love.
One must live with a heart of offering all things and items that one deals with as living offerings to God. One needs to create a foundation on which God can always reside centered on the environmental realm by loving all things given to him and loving those closest to him first.
On top of the foundation of the dominion of all things, the foundation is created to complete love centered on the couple.
Whenever you (experience) touching and dealing with small things, it is an important condition. When you deal with each small item, it is training for dominating all things. That is why the dominion (over) all things is (not) sudden. Every day we are dealing with small things. When you use electricity or water, you need to appreciate them and save water and electricity. Before leaving a room, I always check the electricity and water. I learned from Father. He always uses a small towel, not a big one. He really knows how to handle, how to love small items. This is great practice in dominating all things with true love.
Dominion of Creation and Blessed Children
<23-330> These days all creation is living in the satanic world using the name Satan's children, receiving dominion from Satan. Additionally, you are receiving dominion from satanic countries. This is the reason God and all creation is lamenting. Therefore, we have to indemnify and liberate this back to God’s side. For this, God’s sons and daughters centered on God have to dominate creation. Consequently, families who received the blessing with the standard to dominate creation have to be centered on those children to unite and become connected with God.
The Bible says that all things have been groaning since the fall of man.
All things are waiting for their true master. When we see Satan and fallen humans pollute and destroy nature, we know all things are still groaning endlessly.
In order to restore this, the true master who can dominate all things must appear and protect nature and rule it with love.
Father said that all things are one of (your) four great parents of humans. God is the first parent, True Parents are the second parents, your physical parents are the third parents, and nature, which provides all nutrients such as air, water, and sun, is the fourth parent.
All things are a museum of love in human spiritual growth. For man to be perfect, he has to give and receive with all things, achieve harmony in human relationships, and give and receive with God.
The Time to Dominate Creation
<26-195> You must govern creation from the authority of the position of united heaven, earth, and humankind. Then, when will you govern creation? To govern creation man and woman have to become one centered on the word love. Dominating creation at this time is the principle. When God blessed Adam and Eve, He said, “be fruitful, multiply, and have dominion.” In order to be fruitful, what do you have to do? Can you be fruitful without receiving the blessing? Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. After establishing a family, you have to take dominion over creation. That is how it is written in the Bible.
Wow! Very clear. Even the Bible speaks about being centered on the 3 blessings.
True Father says that the beginning of dominion over all things is achieved when the couple reaches the second blessing and starts a family.
That is why in the beginning before you have dominion over all things, you need to focus on the (first) blessing: how can I become a true man or woman, how can I become a filial son or daughter. Secondly, after receiving the Blessing, you need to start family life. You need to create beautiful unity between husband and wife. So, when you accomplish the first blessing and … the second blessing, True Father said the blessing of dominion is easy and natural. It automatically comes.
However, outside people are completely opposite. They focus first on making money (and on) how to handle material things. That is a problem. But in God’s original world, they don’t worry about dominion over all things. First, they are concerned about how to accomplish the first Blessing, which is the perfection of filial piety and how to make unity between mind and body. Second is how to make unity between husband and wife. Based on this foundation of victory, God will automatically provide material blessings. This is the original way to go.
Father said that the dominion of all things begins after having a family. The Bible says to be fruitful first of all, secondly to multiply. Then what is the third blessing? Fill the earth and subdue it. This is the original way to deal with the dominion over all things.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: One-on-One DP Education
I would like to continue to talk about one-on-one DP education. Let’s look at True Father’s words first.
True Father’s Word on Reading and Teaching the DP
<239-288> You should distribute books to families and know what to do. You should call the people to whom you gave the books once a week. You should ask, “How much have you read? What are your thoughts?” and encourage them to come if they want to find out more about what they read. With thirty books, if you work like this a month, two months, three months, you will cover more than a hundred houses. Call them and tell them that if they want to learn more about what they read, they should bring their book and read together and study more. Then everyone will come. Also, if they don't want to come, then you can go to them and read together one-on-one and study together.
The present time is the era of group witnessing, so the whole group is witnessed to, and we have entered an amazing era in which many tribes join at once. I have had many experiences like this in Asia.
In some nations I could feel the era of group witnessing has come already because our True Parents already have great victories through paying indemnity.
However, where there is no such foundation, foundations must be built up from the bottom again until the fortune of group witnessing comes. When there is no foundation, you should start from one-on-one witnessing.
One-on-one witnessing can be done through educating according to the level of the person by asking and answering questions while studying the Divine Principle textbook together.
I witnessed to several of my guests through the one-on-one Divine Principle education method with the Divine Principle textbook.
<239-288> Communism dominated the world for 73 years not through lectures but through books. Any high-school graduate or above can pick up a book and give lectures. Grade school teachers do it with books, college professors do it with books, everyone does it with books. So you should no longer say that you cannot lecture. Then everyone will become a lecturer. Blessed families must do this and establish their own tribes. Consider the DP book: using the color codes you can cut a three-hour lecture to one and a half hours.
True Father said that communism dominated the world for 73 years through books, not lectures.
In the 1980s and 1990s, when communism was at its peak in Korea and Japan -- I don’t know about America -- university students all propagated communism centered on university districts with their books.
Grade school teachers use books, college professors use books, everyone uses books. So you should no longer say that you cannot lecture.
If you study together with the Divine Principle textbook, everyone becomes a lecturer. Blessed families should witness with this textbook wherever they are, regardless of exceptions. You must make your own people and your tribe into people of heaven with the Divine Principle textbook.
I really appreciate Gil Ja Sa Eu(?). She created really beautiful EDP lecture manuals and 1, 3, 10 and 12 hour content. The twelve-hour content is more than 75% of the Original Divine Principle book summarized. I always use the 12-hour content EDP lecture manual. This is really powerful content. More than 75% of the (original ODP) content is summarized very beautifully with diagrams.
Hoondok Home Church Operation and New Member Education
1. In order for Hoondok Home Church to be successful, it should not be a gathering where only church members gather for fellowship.
2. When the Hoondok Home Church meeting becomes a meeting where members only read the Word, the online Holy Community cannot be run properly.
3. Of course, meetings should be centered on the Word, but that does not mean that we should always read the Word and give lectures whenever we meet.
This is the main point.
4. We study the Word through the Hoondok meeting centering on our online holy community, but the most important thing is to schedule appointments for individual one-on-one Divine Principle education.
(We need to) teach the Divine Principle. Just letting them read True Father’s autobiography and True Mother’s (memoir) and Cheon Syeong Gyeong -- of course, they can learn something -- we need to teach True Parents’ guideline, which is teaching Divine Principle. We joined the church because of the Divine Principle. It is the fundamental truth. That is why need to not only educate them and testify who True Parents are. We need to teach using the Divine Principle, and teach each chapter thoroughly and very clearly from the Principle of Creation to the Fall of Man, and Part II and the Second Coming. Later on, we need to share our True Parents’ life course as well.
5. Therefore, Hoondok Home Church and one-on-one Divine Principle education are inseparable.
6. One-on-one Divine Principle education is not just for Divine Principle education, but for one-on-one education on all essential educational content required by our church.
7. One-on-one new member training Divine Principle education is to qualify people as Cheon Il Guk citizens through systematic education and care through Hoondok Home Church.
8. Through one-on-one Divine Principle education, if the spiritual children inherit what they have been taught by their spiritual parents, the spiritual children will also raise their spiritual children in the same way, and continuous multiplication will increase.
That is why in the beginning it may not be easy using the EDP book and teaching them, but once you have a certain skill and experience and have confidence, then you (can) bring the Divine Principle book everywhere and you can teach (people), sitting down side by side and sharing and having give and take. It is very powerful. We cannot rely all the time on our lecturers and workshop; of course, we need to bring them to workshops. But the best way to follow up is (that) you need to have a heartistic relationship through teaching the Divine Principle one-on-one.
(What) if you do not know how to explain more? Just try your best. Just add a little bit more of what you understand about the Divine Principle. If they are really prepared by God’s word, then the Divine Principle itself will give them great power. When you teach each of your guests once, a second time and a third time, you will know how to handle it. It will become very powerful. Anyone can do that using the book.
9. The trained central members should meet new members one-on-one, share their lives centered on the Word, serve each other, encourage, challenge, and pray to experience God's presence and work.
10. Just as God educated and nurtured us through spiritual parents and ministers, we too must become spiritual parents of people who do not know God well, serve them, and practice God's true love by sharing joy and sorrow together.
Today, I will invite Takayo(?) (to share),
Yesterday I listened to her report. It was really very powerful. She is (engaged in) exemplary CARP activity at Columbia University in New York now, and has time to study together for the next 4-5 days about campus witnessing and one-on-one DP witnessing methods.
Let’s invite Joshua Holmes and his wife Takayo(?).
(Witnessing testimony with slides)♦
NOTE: This lightly edited transcription may contain errors and omissions. Indecipherable or uncertain words and guesses are tagged with a “(?)” and indecipherable phrases, with an ellipsis “...”. First, second and third person pronouns have been left as spoken if the meaning is clear, and other apparently Korean English expressions have been preserved. Some repeated phrases have been eliminated. This text and the powerpoint slides from this speech are available as pdf files at the top of this text and at text.morndev.com & yong.hoondok.com. Audio only is available at anchor.morndev.com, spotify.morndev.com & audio.morndev.com. Notes or transcripts of Dr. Yong’s Morning Devotion speeches from November 11, 2020 through January 2, 2022 are available as five paperback books at cost at Lulu.com/Shop -- search for Dr. Chung Sik Yong -- and as PDF downloads free of charge at MDBooks.Hoondok.com.♦