Ep 538 - Universal Peace Academy (UPA) Part 1
Universal Peace Academy (UPA) 173-18-14-40-538 - April 16, 2022
Today I am so excited to see our beautiful True Mother. We are now prepared to go to Cheonjeong Gung to participate in our True Parents’ 62nd Wedding anniversary (celebration).
Today I’d like to talk about “Universal Peace Academy (UPA)” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Since True Father's Seonghwa, I have continued to emphasize two points in particular. The first is the revival of the Church. How nice would it have been if humanity had known of True Father as the real True Parent during his lifetime? Right now, we have many regrets. There is only one path to follow, that of giving rebirth through the Divine Principle teachings, since the Word is the cure humanity has been waiting for. We can hasten the pace of our work based on our actions. In carrying out his worldwide providence, True Father placed a leader in each nation to take responsibility for it, but they failed to fulfill their responsibility. There is not one nation that we can boast about and show off to others. In particular, we failed to educate the successors, second generations and leaders. That resulted from our failing to witness to everyone. That is why the second point I emphasized was the training of leaders, including the management of the second generation. I said I will concentrate on that.
After True Father’s Seonghwa, the very first thing True Mother emphasized was the revival of the church. True Mother said that the first thing in the revival of the church is the Divine Principle teachings. The Divine Principle is like an eternal prescription to fallen man, and True Parents are doctors who can basically heal fallen human being’s spirits, their fallen natures.
We must return to the origin to revive the church again. First, we must return to the Principle. There are no other ways besides the path of rebirth through the Principle. Just as a patient must take medicine every day, fallen human beings must take the medicine of the Divine Principle every day. And the patient should absolutely obey the doctor’s directions.
The second reason our church failed to revive is because we did not do witnessing. Since our church has mainly been holding rallies, we have neglected witnessing a little.
When we mainly hold rallies without witnessing, the church easily becomes cold-hearted. And those who neglect DP studies have no way of having interest in witnessing. Even during yesterday’s Hoondokhae, I emphasized the importance of witnessing many times. I said that witnessing is the solution to all problems and our savior.
The next thing True Mother emphasized is that our church did not train leaders. That is why True Mother said she made UPA.
In America, we have to make UTS a living educational institution. This is one of my strong desires. UTS has been doing its best with its little budget until now, but if UTS dies, I think that our movement will have no future in North America. In order to raise future leaders, we must make a lot of investment in UTS from now on. That is why I am looking for a righteous person to help UTS.
In Korea those who are really rich and have a lot of money, when they die most of them offer everything, their property or assets, to an academic foundation. We really need to have that kind of offering in order to revive UTS and develop it better.
UTS professors and executives are working hard -- Dr. Ward and all the professors are working very hard -- but we still fall short of Heaven’s expectations. God’s wish is to create a beautiful system in which UTS is made mandatory for all Blessed Children and (which) sends many blessed children and youth all over the world.
I am really praying for UTS. I think God and True Parents and the spiritual world will bless us. When we totally unite together and when we think about our future generations, God will surely bless us. Aju?
To set an example, I established a training academy in Korea. That is why the second point I emphasized was the training of leaders, including the management of the second generation. I said I will concentrate on that. To set an example, I established a training academy in Korea. It is not a military school like West Point; it is an educational institute for training leaders, where they will study for a master’s degree. Students who have graduated from a four-year college will be chosen to attend the academy, where for two years they will study the Divine Principle intensively, cultivate themselves and even receive practical training. They will also have to participate in official outreach activities for three years. They will then be able to decide of their own volition whether they will take on pastoral duties or work in some other organization. They are the elite troops Anyone in the world can apply to attend the academy if they so wish. (2012.10.27, M Hotel, Las Vegas)
Our North American movement should restore many young people through the New Life movement and send them out as missionaries around the world through GPA and UTS. If 20,000 to 30,000 young people from North America are restored and sent as missionaries all over the world, America will truly become the center of hope for the world.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 30 - God’s Third Blessing: Perfection of Dominion - Completion of Dominion and Life
These are really beautiful words from our True Father. There is so much content. Father speaks about the third blessing. Let’s study Father’s word.
The Meaning of Choosing 120 Holy Grounds
<54-295> I established 120 holy grounds centered on 40 countries, which means 120 countries of the world and our providence have harmonized the materialistic relationship. I have established the condition to restore creation. Thus, the Unification Church has found the sons and daughters God was seeking for, the representatives of a clan and race, the representative of the world, and it has found the holy ground which can represent all creation. From this point, centered on our church, heavenly fortune can begin to return to us.
Holy grounds are establishing the condition to restore creation (all things). On that condition, the condition to find people can be established. True Father said that heavenly fortune will come from the place where holy grounds are established.
God’s Providence goes from external to internal and from internal to even more internal. This is like the order of creation. Before creating human beings, He first created creation that would be human beings’ environmental realm. Next, he created the body of human beings and then created man’s spirit under more internal conditions.
In 1965, True Father established 120 Holy Grounds centered on 40 countries, and on the foundation of the condition of restoring creation, in 1975, he sent missionaries all over the world for the restoration of human beings. On that foundation, it was possible to restore the realm of heart of all humankind.
Here we can find an important formula. The condition to establish the Holy Ground is the condition to restore all things first. The next thing is that we can do the providence to restore people. So I'm going to build a Holy Ground on the college campus. The condition to establish a holy ground is a condition for college students to return. We who are active on all university campuses should always first establish the Holy Ground and pray there. (We should) exactly follow True Parents’ formula course. Then, True Father is saying that Heavenly fortune will surely come. Believe this word 100% and put it into practice. Know that if you believe, what you believe will happen.
It will definitely come true according to your belief. If we really follow True Parents’ formula course and footsteps and truly we believe in that based on creating holy grounds, then this is the condition to restore human beings, to (reach) many students on campus.
Secondly, this is the condition to receive financial fortune as well. How important this is. Let’s follow our True Parents’ pattern. This is the way to gain a great victory.
Seek People First, then Seek Creation
<54-295> After choosing the holy ground in1966, I directed you to restore the economy, and before then I told you not to make money. If you made money before that time, you would have been caught in Satan’s condition. It is the principle in God’s providence of restoration that we must first seek people. Because it is the principle to first seek people and then material, we are not allowed to touch material before having sought people. Due to such a principle, you were not allowed to make money before that time. Therefore, even if you sell everything you own and suffer, we went out to seek people instead of making a movement to earn money.
This is very important guidance, especially for GPA leadership and for CARP members and for young leaders. When you talk about how to deal with fundraising and witnessing, True Parents clearly speak about that here.
For restoration of the economy, you first need someone who is qualified to restore the economy. That is why we need to train people with witnessing before fundraising. This is the Principled order.
Although it is important for our GPA teams to do fundraising from now on, they must first be trained to witness to people.
Of course, depending on the circumstance, you may do fundraising training first, but in a principled perspective, if you do fundraising after witnessing training, according to the Principled order of restoration, you can bring more material fortune.
Since witnessing training is more precious than fundraising training, we must put more importance on witnessing training. However, since our church focuses more on fundraising training rather than (on) witnessing training, it becomes easy to lose that center. If witnessing training is set to 60%, then fundraising should be set to 40%. If the order is changed, the number of GPA members also will not increase and we will not be able to witness to new young members. Everythings must be done according to the Principle.
Material and money are needed for the sake of loving people, but people are not needed because of material and money. Trying to earn money first and then restoring people is the wrong way of thinking. You must think that money is needed for the sake of restoring people.
If we focus on the restoration of all things before the restoration of human beings, we will (be engaged in) material-oriented activities and (live) material-oriented lives. Many leaders are unaware of this important fact.
Among those who want to witness after making money with things first, none of them have succeeded in witnessing. You have to love people first. If you love and witness to people, the fortunes of all things will come automatically. When a person is restored, material restoration is automatic, according to Father’s word.
That is why Jesus also told us not to worry about what to eat, what to drink, or what to wear, but that we should first establish the kingdom of God and righteousness. You, too, bring problems because work or your own business comes first and work or business comes before witnessing. Even if you go to work, it is secondary, and (if) we do not think witnessing is primary, that is a problem; so our church does not have the result of love through witnessing.
When we focus on our job first, what will happen? Our witnessing becomes secondary. Whenever we are focused on our own job, our own business, then people say, “We need to eat. We need to survive.” That is right, but that is not the primary issue. The primary issue is what? You need to restore people. You need to love people first. When we focus on our own job first, and wake up and wash our face and eat and go to our workplace, that is not the priority. Because our style and mindset is like that, then we will (engage in) material-oriented activities and (lead) material-oriented lives.
That is the reason why our movement cannot develop. Of course, we need to survive, but that is not the top priority. Even though we are working, in our mind what is our first priority? Our first priority is how to love and restore people. That is the first thing we need to focus on. This is very important guidance.
Our GPA members, Roland, you really need to think about this matter seriously. As long as our GPA members focus on fundraising more than witnessing, I am telling you, you will never increase the GPA membership because this is disorder. Without exception let them focus on loving and restoring people. Where there are people, there is money, financial fortune. That is why we need to (focus) more on how to restore people, how to break through with witnessing.
Then people will already be inspired because I know how to teach and guide them and how to have give and take with them. And based on that foundation, let them do fundraising in order to make some money … for survival. But this is a secondary matter. … Father (has) said clearly what the clear order of the Principle is.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Life of Our Victory Proves True Parents’ Victory
1. We have come to know through the central figures of faith that God has chosen until now that He works the providence to find and establish one nation and one world that only He can have dominion over. First, God wished that the fallen humans could deal with God alone without dealing with the two masters in order to find and establish a country under His dominion. The Old Testament Age, which is the age of formation, has worked the providence of restoration according to the law, and the New Testament Age, which is the age of growth, grew the spirits of people through the words of Jests. We must not forget that God has repeatedly acted in order to deal with those within Jesus’ realm of dominion and eliminated those whom Satan deals with in order to seek one nation and world that only God can deal with.
God works hard to find one nation and one world that only He can have dominion over.
Therefore, God does not allow two worlds, nor does he tolerate any beings that deal with two masters.
God has been looking for humans who only deal with one master. There can be no compromise. There is only absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience. God does not allow evil even 0.1%.
Even in Noah's flood judgment, God judged all, leaving behind God's sovereignty, the world, and people that only God could deal with.
God cannot tolerate any being whom Satan deals with. God never tolerates the two subjects of good and evil.
God is trying to completely destroy anyone whom Satan is dealing with. God forgives those who have sinned, but He cannot accept evil itself.
You forgive the enemy (repeatedly). You can forgive that person, but you cannot deal with that person’s evil action. Evil is evil, but you need to forgive that guy.
Until now, God has thoroughly acted to separate human beings who have dealt with two masters.
Therefore, we need to become beings whom only God can deal with. Therefore, we should not deny ourselves moderately, but deny ourselves absolutely. Therefore, absolute faith does not allow even 1% of any traces or thoughts of the fall. It is the conclusion that absolute faith must be 100% (and that our fallen nature should be) absolutely denied.
God does not want even 0.1% evil, (even) anything related to evil. God is absolute. We have to get rid of all fallen nature, but we may still have 0.1% evil nature. God does not accept that. God is total and absolute goodness. That is why I need to deny absolutely 100% of my fallen nature. God does not allow even 0.1% fallen nature. That is why we are talking about absolute 100%.
Absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience mean to completely deny yourself 100%. Since God requires such absolute faith, it is a huge challenge for fallen humans.
For us it is not easy to become such an absolute being, but that is God’s requirement.
2. In the Age of CIG, True Parents have restored indemnity of all stories of Han (bitter pain) in history and made historical victory. Therefore, we are people who have passed the age of only following laws like in the Old Testament Age and only following Jesus’ words like in the New Testament Age, and have become one with the victorious True Parents and inherited that victory, so we must realize heavenly fortune on this earth. On the basis that True Parents have laid the worldwide foundation, now is the time to substantially seek and establish CIG. Therefore, we must know that God did not call us for our own sake, but for the sake of God’s providence to seek and establish CIG, and as sacrifices and participants of God’s providence, we are people who must be representatives of God and True Parents’ positions.
True Parents showed an example of what absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience are to one master who is God. For the first time in the history of humankind, True Parents became completely one with God and paid all the indemnity and won a victory.
Therefore, we are the ones who have to inherit True Parents’ victorious course and deal with only one master like True Parents and win a victory.
God has called us to save the nation, the world, and humankind through me, not for my own sake at all.
3. Then, the question is, how can God control me and become someone that God can trust? From the Old Testament Age, God has let humans live a life of God through all laws, rituals, and conditions. He has been teaching us from the Old Testament times so that we can live knowing what God wants us to do. This is the age centered on love. Now is not the age of believing in and testifying to True Parents or of proclaiming and propagating who True Parents are simply by words. Now is the time to show what kind of people who follow True Parents are. This is an era that shows how much people who lived by True Parents' words have changed. It is a time when we have to show that we are a blessed family where God is with us in our lives. In other words, it is a time when my character, heart, and actions show the life that God is with me.
The eras of formation and growth were not yet the era of perfection, so they were like an era of living alone.
It was like the age of living as a bachelor and a virgin before marriage. The formation stage and growth stage are the time to go as a bachelor and a virgin. The Old Testament and New Testament times were the same as the positions of bachelors and virgins before marriage.
But now is the era of perfection. The era of perfection is the era of love. Do you understand what I mean? Then what is the era of love? It is the era of the bride and bridegroom forming a family together.
The perfection stage begins from the pair system, begins from the couple, because the era of perfection is the era of love. This is an amazing time! We cannot do anything alone. The area of love means the era of the bridegroom and bride. It is the era of the pair, of the couple.
We are not living in the old testament era and the new testament era, but in the era of the completed testament and of cheon il guk, the era of love.
Therefore, the present era is not an era in which people only believe in and testify to True Parents and proclaim and propagate who True Parents are only by our lips.
This is the time when those who follow True Parents establish a family through True Parents and show the love of true couples.
This is an era that shows how much the lives of a couple who lived according to True Parents' words have changed. The era of showing the model as an individual is over. This is the era of the bride and bridegroom.
Therefore, it is an era when we need to show what a true life of the true couple is -- (those) whom God is with in our daily life.
In other words, it is the era of the couple and the era of the family that shows how God is with us through the life of a couple in our personality, heart, and actions.
Please remember that this is the era of love. Now is the era to show our love, what the standard of a couple’s love is.
4. If we do not have victory in our lives, we will have no choice but to become people who treat True Parents' victory as a lie. Throughout God's long history, God has provided the separation of Satan against fallen humans. There continues to be a fight over Satan who takes those who have been caught in Satan’s conditions and God takes what is His. However, this is not an era of separation alone, but an era of showing. So, you have to show your true self and true couple. You must also show the evidence that God is with you. This is an era when we have to realize and show whether God is with us or not. It is said that True Parents have won, but it is an era in which we must reflect on whether we have truly won. If we do not win, True Parents cannot stand in the position of victory.
If we do not have the victory of couples in our lives, we will have no choice but to become people who treat True Parents' victory as a lie.
In the Old Testament Age and the New Testament Age, which were the ages of formation and growth, God has provided the separation of Satan (from) fallen humans.
There continues to be a fight over Satan who takes those who have been caught in Satan’s conditions and God takes what is His.
However, since this is the era of perfection, it is not the era of separation alone, but the era of showing what the era of love is when couples become one.
You need to show the evidence that God is with you through your life as a couple.
It is said that True Parents have fought with Satan and won as a true couple, but it is an era in which we must reflect on whether we have won through life as a couple.
If our couples do not win, True Parents cannot stand in the position of victory. The victory of the object partner will be recognized as the victory of the true subject partner.
True Father said, “I won (over) Satan. God has already won (over) Satan.” Then how about us? The object partner (and?) subject partner say, “I have already won.” Then his victory would be my victory. Then I have to win. If I don’t win, then was Father only just talking to the air? His declaration has no meaning? The object partner is important. If True Parents are really to win, I have to win as well. Then that is proof that True Parents are really people of victory. Do you understand what I mean? This is a really important point.
5. The present age is the age to confirm God's victory through the victory of children. God exists, but because human beings fell, aren’t we in a position that there is no God? Therefore, the one who has overcome on this earth has come and is trying to prove that God is a “victor” through the victorious crowd. Who would believe if he said he won alone? Jesus said that if you come to this earth and believe in me, you will be set free from Satan, but since you did not believe, it only made Jesus’ words seemed like blasphemy. Jesus overcame Satan, and he said that you, too, can overcome Satan if you are with me, but by not believing, Jesus’ words seemed like blasphemy.
The present age is the age to confirm True Parents’ victory through the victory of couples.
Therefore, it is an age when True Parents have overcome on this earth and are trying to prove that God is a “victor” through the victorious blessed family.
The present age is not the age of victory alone. It is an age when couples win together.
Even if you win alone in the age of formation and growth, a couple must win together in the age of love.
6.Even if we said that True Parents were victorious, if our lives are not proud, we only become people who show that True Parents’ victories were lies. Since the true parents said, "God has won" and "Satan has surrendered," wouldn't it be a confirmation that God has won only when the blessed families, who are the chosen people on this land, act as people who have nothing to do with Satan? The life of believing and showing in this way can be said to be a “life of victory.”
I will summarize that: even if we said that True Parents were victorious, if our lives as a couple are not proud, we only become people who show that True Parents’ victories were lies.
That is why I need to win. I need to overcome and get victory. Then that is proof that True Parents really are victorious people.
Since the true parents said, "God has won" and "Satan has surrendered“ when couples become one, wouldn't it be a confirmation that God has won only when the blessed families, who are the chosen people on this land, become the couples of true love who have nothing to do with Satan?
That is why we cannot simply believe in Jesus, nor (simply) believe in God and True Parents, we need to show proof through the life of a couple, we need to show that True Parents are victorious and have really gained a victory.
The life of believing and showing as a couple in this way can be said to be a “life of victory.”
Today was very deep content. Please remember that now is the era of love. The era of perfection is what? The era of love. You cannot do it alone no matter what. You must do it with your spouse.
I am so sorry. When I look at True Parents, always where there is True Father, there is True Mother, where there is True Mother, there is True Father. They always move together as a couple. True Parents show the model. No saint showed that kind of model. There is no separation at all (between True Parents). Thinking, mindset, action -- there is no separation at all.
“I need to go everywhere together with my wife. Of course, everybody has certain reasons and circumstances (not to be together), but someday I will really work together with my wife. You also need to work together with your spouse because now is the era of love. We cannot separate.
Living Testimony: I’m a Living Testimony That Any thing is Possible
I set up a new area of living testimony. Yesterday we heard beautiful testimony from Takayo (about her method of campus witnessing). Starting today, let's take the time to hear a living testimony of his witnessing through Mr. Jinil (Fleischman), president of CARP of the United States. I hope everybody will have a good time. Thank you.
(Testimony by Jinil Fleischman.)♦
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