Ep 536 - Education of the Third Generation Members in Hawaii Part 1
Education of the Third Generation Members in Hawaii 171-16-14-40-536 - April 14, 2022 - Holy Thursday
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Today I’d like to talk about “Education of the third generation members in Hawaii” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Now I am recording this speech because maybe I am on my way to Korea. Maybe I will often make a recording of my speech for you. Please understand.
We all need to go together as precious children of the providence centered on true love. What I mean is that all of you born through the Blessing of True Parents should move forward together, without anyone falling behind. Education centered on true love is important. Once a year, I am going to choose primary, middle and high school students from Korea, Japan, America and the rest of the world who wish to become church leaders in the future, and bring them to Kona in Hawaii, since it is the center of the Pacific Rim providence and geographically well situated, so that they can attend a workshop together with the True Children and True Grandchildren for two or three weeks. We should become proud people as citizens of Cheon Il Guk. We should treat other members with the heart of a parent, the heart of living for their sake. (2013.07.05, Hawaii)
True Parents should not only be your True Parents, but also the True Parents of all of humankind. Even the people living in the fallen world feel in their innermost heart that they wish to be happy, to be peaceful and to live well. Human beings today, however, have never yet known a day of comfort. Though they think that they would be happy if they could eat well and live in affluence, things do not work out that way. They become discontented. Why is that? It is because this world did not grow and receive the Blessing as it should have done in accordance with the original Word of the Heavenly Parent. The Fall of our first ancestors Adam and Eve has caused human history to be miserable in our present time. God should have become the King and Owner of Peace, but instead this world came to be under the dominion of Satan, so it cannot be peaceful. Problems related to national borders, race and religion are breaking out, and the conveniences of civilization are also causing the destruction of nature. The only people who can resolve all such problems are True Parents. However, only a handful of people know about them.
Your parents, the first and second generation members who received the Blessing before you, failed to fulfill their responsibility. Though they should have expanded the environment for True Parents, they failed to adequately support True Parents. Now, I wish to place high hopes on you. In the world, you alone are the pure water. You are the pure water that is neither tainted nor polluted. The world today is very polluted. In particular, severe droughts caused by the destruction of nature are brought about through human wrongdoing. True Parents are in a position where they cannot just sit still and watch. We need to step forward and educate others. We need to restore the environment from its current state back to that originally created by God, to return to a clean, unpolluted world. That is our responsibility.
We need to step forward and educate others. We need to restore the environment from its current state back to that originally created by God, to return to a clean, unpolluted world. That is our responsibility.
Hawaii has some of the least polluted islands in the world. There are seven islands in Hawaii, and this island we are on is called the Big Island. It is also the least polluted island. As you gaze upon this wonderful natural environment, you should offer earnest gratitude and glory to our Heavenly Parent. You all need to make efforts to restore your own countries back to their original, beautiful state as created by the Heavenly Parent. (2014.07.22, Queen Garden, Hawaii)
True Mother said that the most important thing in nurturing the second generation is education centered on true love. All problems come from a lack of education.
So, if we do not thoroughly give our children education about the chosen people, education about lineage, heart education, and principle education from an early age, they will be easily polluted in the secular world.
True Mother says that blessed children are unpolluted pure water. She said that in order to preserve pure water, externally, the environment must return to the world that God created, the world that is not fallen or polluted. Internally, they need constant education.
Next, in order to protect the second generation, it is necessary to create an environment where the second generation can thrive and be educated. That is, we need to create an environment where young people from the secular world can be restored.
We are currently carrying out the New Life movement of establishing three spiritual children to create an environment that can protect our blessed children.
If we create an environment of true love where Cain-type people can join our church, our blessed second generation will surely return. Therefore, we need to create an environmental realm that can subjugate Cain-type people first.
I know our blessed families have worked so hard since you met our True Parents. Each family has their own problems. Especially (there is) the issue of our second generation. Some are connected; some are quite far from our movement. There are all kinds of situations. That is why you are struggling. You know the Divine Principle. You know God. You know the True Parents. You know the eternal value of the Blessing. I understand your struggle and (your) worry about your children.
However, we cannot solve the problems by focusing on one individual and one family. Our entire Unification Movement (needs to) really change our environment. If we only focus directly on our second generation or third generation to let them come into the church, it is impossible.
That is why we need to go back to our origin. Before we received the Blessing, we were supposed to restore the foundation of faith and foundation of substance. Then we (would have had) the qualification to receive the blessing. In order to restore the foundation of substance, you need to restore a minimum of 3 Cain figures, 3 spiritual children. Father said when you restore 3 spiritual children, this is protection for your own physical children. If you don’t restore 3 spiritual children, which is the environment of Cain, then after you start family, this will directly influence your own children. Father emphasizes when starting family we need to create the environment. We need to have a minimum of 3 spiritual children and let them care for our own children. Cain’s children need to unite with our children. Our children’s position is (that of) Abel children.
All our second generation and third generation, all our blessed children have some problems, right? In order to solve that problem we need to go back to the origin. What is wrong? We could not restore the environment of Cain’s realm. If we restore the environment of Cain’s realm, this is the best way to protect our own internal environment. To restore our own blessed children, all (members of the) first generation need to commit again to fulfill our minimum goal of restoring 3 spiritual children. Then many outside children from Cain’s realm will come to our church, and the church atmosphere will completely change, (becoming) an environment of true love. Then there is no need to worry about those who have left or are distant. Everybody will come back to the church one by one.
This is the Principle. We should (not) just worry, worry, worry about our blessed children. We need to go back. That is why I am seriously initiating going back to our origin. We need to follow the Principled way. When we follow the Principled way, then God needs to help us. I have confidence that if we restore 300 spiritual children from outside and this becomes 700, then 1000, I am telling you, the entire environment of our movement will change.
So, I really encourage you, my brothers and sisters, in order to revive America, we need to revive ourselves first, our families first, our church first. There is no need to talk about reviving all of America. (First) we need to revive ourselves. We need to revive our families and our church first. Otherwise how can we lead the secular world? That is true.
True Mother says: “Hawaii has some of the least polluted islands in the world.” One of the reasons True Mother is concentrating on the providence of Hawaii is that it is an unpolluted island, so she has selected this area as a model area to protect the natural environment and is offering jeongseong.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 30 - God’s Third Blessing: Perfection of Dominion - Completion of Dominion and Life
Let’s study Father’s word.
Three Great Threats in Life
<41-86> What are the difficulties? When facing an economic threat, a threat on your life, or a threat on love; these are the 3 great threats for human beings. Do you understand? The threat on money, threat on life, and threat of love are the greatest threats on human society. Then, for God’s will, can you conquer this materialistic threat? For God’s will, can you conquer this threat on life? For God’s will, can you conquer this threat on love? Of course, for us Unificationist members, because we know His Will, this is not a problem. Eating and living is not a problem for us.
What are the three major threats that make it difficult for human beings in the course of life? They are economic threats (threats to money), threats to life, and threats to love.
When you receive an economic threat (threat to money), how do you overcome it? Before worrying about financial problems, it is important to focus on becoming a true person and a true couple centered on true love. If you become a true person and a true married couple, material blessings will automatically follow you.
That is why Father always says before trying to gain material blessings, we need to focus on the first and second blessings. What is the first blessing? Before we worry about what to eat, what to wear, what to drink, we always need to think about the fundamental point: how I can become a true person, a true man or woman, a real filial son and daughter. Filial piety is the main content of the first blessing. Secondly, how can we create unity between husband and wife and become a beautiful couple? A really united couple?
If we create that kind of environment, really becoming a true personality, secondly creating unity between husband and wife, Father said, according to universal principle surely you will get material blessing because you will have the qualification (for this). You will have the qualification to handle all things.
The secular world is always the opposite way. Father is really concerned about that.
The second (threat) is the threat to life. In the early days of Christianity, believing and following Jesus was a life-threatening risk. No matter what persecution or opposition comes, even if your life is threatened, will you choose the Will of God? Or will you compromise with the secular world?
If you have that kind of threat to your life and can still carry on God’s will without giving up … Our early church faced life-threatening situations like that.
The third is the threat to love. As people go the path of the Will, the temptation between man and woman comes to anyone. How will you overcome the temptation that comes horizontally? (Or) will you eat the forbidden fruit? Will you obey God's Word? There are many people who cannot overcome this temptation, and retreat so much from the path of God’s Will.
We always need to remind ourselves of the three great threats in our lives and how we can overcome them. Father reminds us (about this). One of the best ways to overcome these 3 threats is to always deny ourself. That is the best way to overcome these 3 threats in our lives.
A Person who Treats Objects Well and a Person Who Doesn’t
<41-89> When someone uses money as they use water, I don’t look into it, try to reveal it, or question it closely. I believe and give it to them. Because it belongs to heaven, those who use it well are blessed, and those who don’t will be punished. They will be punished at once. Do not think of it as your own property. When I give money to the members, I do not hold back. Along with my heart of jeongseong, I wish to give even more than that. Material has to be given even more than the heart. You Unification Church members have to have such a heartistic standard.
Those who spend money publicly always have spiritual authority. It is even more righteous for those who use the money they collect privately for public use.
Mishandling of public objects or money will inevitably result in indemnity. If I do not pay indemnity, my descendants will receive all the indemnity.
One thing is certain: where there is sin, there is indemnity.
Nobody can avoid it. When I have sin, I need to prepare, “OK, I will willingly pay any kind of indemnity before I go to the spiritual world. Any punishment, any heavy indemnity, any kind of trial, any kind of hardship, I will take it. We need to have such a humble heart because we hurt God’s heart.
When you commit sin, how can God sympathize with you? Do you want to run away from your sin because you feel so much pain and pangs of conscience? It does not work.
What is the fundamental way to remove my sin and pay the indemnity? What is the best way to pray? We need to kneel down: “Of course, I committed sin. I am sorry about that. Because of my sin, I hurt God’s heart, I hurt True Parents’ heart.” Then you repent centering on God’s heart. “You are my beloved Father and parent. I am the one who hurt you. How much you loved and cared for and really sacrificed for me. I could not notice, Heavenly Father. I am sorry about that. I don’t want to repeat the same problem. I don’t want to hurt your heart any more.”
If anyone can pray with that kind of repentance centered on that kind of mindset and attitude, this is the best way to pay indemnity. When you commit sin, do not run away. Willingly, happily, you need to pay indemnity. Then your indemnity course will be shortened. True Parents will definitely give you an opportunity; they can forgive your sin.
Therefore, you must truly repent. Not just repentance (but) total repentance. I hurt my wife; I hurt my husband; I hurt my children; I hurt my brothers and sisters; I hurt my parents; fundamentally I hurt God. If we repentant with this kind of mindset and attitude, we can quickly recover from your sins.
However, because you always feel pangs of conscience and want to run away from my own suffering and difficulties and pain, then you cannot “settle down.” That is why you and I need to have total repentance and go the way of hard work and sacrifice at the forefront more than anyone else.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: One-on-One DP Education
Read the Principle Aloud
To make a breakthrough in the district, the method of education you should use is to gather everyone and, if your lecturing abilities are not adequate, educate with the Divine Principle book. If you are going to gather them together and divide one topic into three different sections, then you can go through every part of one section, third of the whole, and then deciding upon the things that you are going to emphasize, read it in the manner of giving a speech. Is there much to lecturing?
If you do this once, twice, and three times, you will then come to know what to pick out of that. You should be able to pick out the main summary that you can present briefly. If you repeat this just ten times, then centering on the Principle of Creation you can lecture in five hours the ten hour content, and then further shorten the five hour content and lecture in three hours. You will gradually make progress. If you do it in 20, 30 minutes, then within one hour, you can squeeze in all the core messages. This is how you should do it.
You have to lecture a lot. If you cannot lecture, then you should read out loud a lot. In this way you are to continue to give sermons. What concerns would you have, when you all have the book. You all have the book, right? (166-196)
The teaching method that True Father recommends and emphasizes is to educate with the Divine Principle book without saying that you do not have the ability to teach the Divine Principle.
One's own witnessing guest must be educated one person at a time with the Divine Principle material, with the mind of an owner.
True Father said, “If you cannot lecture, then you should read out loud a lot. In this way you are to continue to give sermons. What concerns would you have, when you all have the book. You all have the book, right?”
Father asks us to use the Divine Principle book when we do not have the confidence to give a lecture. Now that we have the Internet, we can share all (kinds of) content, even Dr. Tyler Hendricks lectures, many famous lectures. We already (have) put everything (on the Internet). That is why when you are determined to educate your guest, you can find all kinds of material.
When the Internet does not work, when you go to campus or certain other areas to witness, then use the Divine Principle book to teach directly one on one.
Method to Apply One-on-One DP Education
1. How much time is spent studying the EDP 12-hour diagram manual? Usually the first part (Part 1) takes a day and a half, and the second part (Part 2) takes two and a half days so it takes 3 days. This is the case if you study 8 hours a day. When giving Divine Principle education according to the other person’s time, there are many times when their reaction is negative rather than positive. This is because Satan will interrupt if the guest only partially listens to the Principle and conveys the content of receiving grace to those around them. Therefore, it is good to study intensively for three days at the center, eating, sleeping, and living together.
2. When teaching the Divine Principle one-on-one, intensive education is very effective. In the case of office workers or students, it is often more effective to teach on the weekends twice than to teach a little every day, as there are many cases where they do not have time for three consecutive days.
3. It is very important that the Divine Principle lecturer persuades the guest to study the Principle with motivation. First, invite someone who wants to learn the Principle to study for three days first. Many people take a vacation from work or attend while being absent from classes. When a pastor teaches, it can be a double burden because it overlaps with Sunday service, but it is good to put focus on one-on-one education. Saving one life is true service.
That is why we really need to focus on breaking through in witnessing. If our movement without exception focuses on witnessing, which is salvation, then as long as you focus on salvation, which is witnessing, your spiritual life can really grow. You can have an experience of revival. Through loving Cain you can get rid of your fallen nature. Liberating (people) one by one through witnessing is the way to liberate God’s heart. Actually witnessing is everything.
Your personal problems, unity (of your) mind and body, the problem between husband and wife -- if everyone focuses on salvation, which is God’s greatest wish, God will surely bless you and your couple and family.
Some people say this witnessing is only for young people (who) can do that. “I am too old.” If our mindset is like that and if we do not focus on salvation, God’s concern becomes far from you.
A top secret to receive God’s love is that you need to focus on God’s greatest wish; that is salvation. When his children come back to his bosom, that is the greatest news to Heavenly Father because he loves each human being so much! How eagerly he is waiting for his children. He loves each human being; how eagerly he is waiting for them to come back!
Do you want to comfort and console God? It begins from the restoration of each soul. There is no other way. Loving Cain and witnessing are the best way to remove my fallen nature.
Without loving, without sacrificing, without investment, it is impossible to restore even one person.
4. If the guest cannot attend the intensive education, it is good to teach two hours a week or as time permits. If you teach 2 hours a week, you need 16 weeks.
It takes a long time. That is why you need to negotiate with the guest to come spend a few days at the center. Or you can go somewhere and teach them the Divine Principle.
5. Most of those who attend a three-day workshop feel unimpressed and bored on the first day. Even the lecturers who teach may feel bored if they invest more than 8-10 hours a day. However, from the second day on, the situation is slightly different. In the afternoon of the second day, as the second part is taught, the listener becomes very serious. This is because they study while discovering the existence of the living God in history.
6. Through Moses’ course, Jesus’ course, and the providence of the parallel providential periods, they discover the living and breathing God in history. When they realize that history, which they thought only as a coincidence, is not a coincidence but a providence operated by God, they now have an understanding of history and the providence centered on how they should live.
7. They may think of the Principle as a catechism until the end of the first part, but this is not the case in the second part. If they have had time to study properly and finish Moses’ course, most of them will be moved and tense. If they are not interested or tense even after you finished teaching Moses’ course and the parallel providential periods, it means that there was a problem during the lecture, or you did not have proper give and take action with your guest.
8. In most workshops, the complex parts or the entirety of the parallel providential periods may be omitted due to time, but this should not be the case. The parallel providential periods is a very important part, so it should be explained well even if it takes time. That way, when you teach about the Second Advent, you can move them the most. When they hear about the Second Advent, they naturally think that True Parents are the Messiah, and they ask a lot of such questions and ponder about it. The lecturer should not conclude the lecture too hastily. The learner should be allowed to think naturally.
9. If we overemphasize that True Parents are the Messiah, our lectures until now may go to waste. You have to give and receive well with wisdom according to the guest.
10. After the workshop is over, they should be warmly welcomed and warmly greeted by the central church members. It is good to give a warm welcome at the workshop completion ceremony. On the day of graduation, congratulate them with a good cake, take a commemorative photo, and have them make a determination by sharing the moments they were moved by as testimonies in front of church members. It is not easy for people of religions other than Christianity to accept True Parents as the Messiah. Therefore, since the nurturing process is important after a workshop is over, it is good to set a 40-day hoondok period for them centered on True Parents' autobiography or other hoondok textbooks.
11. After completing Divine Principle education, have new church members study the intermediate course. The next level of study is the life and thought of True Parents, and the basic life of faith. There should be a program for the intermediate level that explains the life of attendance, the Cain and Abel relationship, and things that can appear in the life of faith from a principled perspective.
Recently I have felt more and more that if the American movement returns to our founding spirit and focuses on salvation, I think our American movement will have a great, promising future!
Now is the time to invite Takayo, who is (engaged in) exemplary CARP activity at Columbia University in New York. Let’s take time to study together about campus witnessing and the One-on-One Divine Principle witnessing method.♦
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