Ep 490 - Establish Heaven's Tradition Part 1
Establish Heaven’s Tradition 125-10-13-40 - February 27, 2022
I would like to encourage each of you to pray for the situation in Ukraine. It is a very difficult situation. Let’s pray for our members’ safety, that our True Parents will protect them. (We pray that) they can resolve the situation.
Today I’d like to talk about “Establish Heaven’s Tradition” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Heavenly Honey is in(?) the Dominican Republic working with GPA.
I made a promise to Father. At the time I met Father I was 17, and I understood God's providence. So I made a determination. I said, “No matter how difficult it is to fulfill the Will, I will bring it to a conclusion in my lifetime.” I told him that I would accomplish God's purpose of creation and the ideal world of creation. I said that I would accomplish this by all means. To do that, I am determined not to change. I want to accomplish the Will that he left for us to fulfill, together with all of you. I hope that as we go along the path, none of you will be sons and daughters who fall away. That is my wish, and it is also Father's hope. (2012.09.03, Cheon Jeong Gung)
This speech was right after True Father’s seung hwa ceremony.
True Mother said that she made a promise and a determination to God and True Father that no matter how difficult it became, she would fulfill the Will and bring it to a conclusion in her lifetime. She also promised True Father that she would “accomplish God’s purpose of creation and the ideal world of creation.” She said, “She would accomplish this by all means.” And that she had never wavered in her determination.
As True Mother promised, what have you determined and promised to God and True Father? For the remainder of our lives, we need clear goals and vision and promises toward the fulfillment of God’s Will. I made a promise to restore at least three nations as Cheon Il Guk nations for God and True Parents. I want to achieve this result by truly uniting with you, all our North American brothers and sisters, so that North America can become the center of this effort and help the rest of the world.
My second promise is to build an educational model for teaching the Divine Principle and the Word to all humankind through Morning Devotion. My third promise is to dispatch more than thirty thousand missionaries to become the center of the American providence and lead human salvation.
I hope that from now on, you, too, will think about what you can do for the sake of God’s Will and make a promise to Heaven just like True Mother with a clear vision and goal.
That is why need to remind yourself all the time what your vision and goal are, what your promise to God and True Parents is. Always you need to remind yourself again and again -- the same as True Mother. True Mother is so strong. She has great determination to fulfill God’s will.
Vision makes a person.
Whenever you create your vision, as long as this vision comes from God -- I am telling you; this is my real experience -- vision makes a person. It always makes a person.
Visions are definitely accomplished as long as you do not give up. As long as that vision comes from God, I am telling you, visions are definitely accomplished. Those with a vision have no time to get sick. Those with a vision have no time to get old. A person with a vision has no time to quarrel with anyone. A person with a vision is always busy with the road to go to accomplish the goal.
That is why Mother has a clear vision and goal and a purpose. Every moment, every day she just goes forward.
Let’s inherit that kind of spirit from our True Mother.
We must be grateful to True Parents. Through the Word, we came to know the principle of indemnity and we came to know that we cannot move forward without going through a course of restoration. You have to stand in the same realm of heart as your parents and furthermore, you must live in the same realm of heart as they do. In this sense, from True Parents' perspective, the children of the True Family are just like you. From now on, for as long as I live, I will establish the tradition so that you and the True Family can stand in the same realm of heart as the True Parents. (2013.04.20, Cheon Hwa Gung)
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 22 - A Lifestyle Based on Dual Purposes
Dual Purposes
• All entities have dual purposes.
• Every entity has dual centers of movement, one of internal nature and another of external form. These centers pursue corresponding purposes-for the sake of the whole and for the sake of the individual-whose relationship is the same as that between internal nature and external form.
• These dual purposes relate to each other as cause and result, internal and external, and subject partner and object partner.
• Hence, there cannot be any individual purpose which does not support the whole purpose, nor can there be any whole purpose that does not guarantee the interests of the individual.
Dual Purposes of All Entities
“In God's ideal, there cannot be any individual purpose which does not support the whole purpose, nor can there be any whole purpose that does not guarantee the interests of the individual.”
1. There cannot be any individual purpose which does not support the whole purpose.
a. Therefore, we must always live centering on the whole purpose.
> Just like how the cells in our body moves according to the command of our mind…
b. Order between the subject partner and object partner must be properly established.
> The whole purpose should be the subject, and the individual purpose should be the object.
Do you know what the fall means? The fall means the individual purpose becomes the subject, and the whole purpose becomes the object. That is the fall. That’s why we need to have the right order according to Principle of Dual Purposes of All Entities. The whole purpose should be the subject. If this is not clear and if we put our own self first, our own individual goal first, our own family first above the tribe and God’s will, that is a problem. That is disorder. That is why we need to apply this principle of dual purposes of all entities. I need to put the whole purpose as a top priority over my individual purpose.
c. God’s will must be the top priority. We exist because of God’s will.
“There cannot be any whole purpose that does not guarantee the interests of the individual.”
When we live for the sake of God’s will, it is easy for us to be concerned that our individual purpose is not secure.
However, we must first reflect upon whether we have invested our whole heart and soul in living for the sake of God’s will.
How much are we investing for the sake of the whole purpose? Normally those who do not invest much for the sake of whole purpose have all kinds of complaints and dissatisfaction.
If we can truly live 100% for the sake of God’s will, I am 100% sure, Heaven shall surely provide for our individual purpose.
We need believe absolutely in this principle.
We must do our utmost best to secure the individual purposes of those who live for the sake of the whole.
Of course our top priority is the whole purpose first, rather than my individual purpose. But at the same time those who carry the whole purpose need to take care of your individual purpose. You need to take care of your members very well. You need to have a great combination. Sometimes we put the purpose of the whole first and do not take care of our individual purpose; this is a problem. We need to have a great combination. Our mind is the representative of the purpose of the whole; our body represents our individual purpose. That means our body needs to eat, drink and wear (clothes). Without eating and drinking, what can we do, right? But our mindset, our mind really needs to focus on the whole purpose. Our mind is first. We need to put our mind as the top priority. Our body as the object needs to follow the whole purpose. If this is in disorder, this is a big problem.
The Bible clearly speaks about this.
Luke 12: 29-31: And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it. For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them. But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.
Our sole responsibility is to save God’s nation. If we do this, God will fulfill all our needs. Definitely. This is my own personal experience. When I focus on God’s will rather than on my own situation -- what to eat, what to wear, what to drink -- then always God gives me incredible strength and power.
Therefore, do not worry about what you should eat, drink, or wear. That is God’s responsibility. That is God’s job. You do not need to be concerned about God’s job, which is God’s portion of responsibility.
Our responsibility is to establish God’s nation. Thus, there is no need to worry about God’s job, God’s business.
The reason God cannot help you is because you do not lay everything down and devote yourself completely to restoring His nation.
Therefore, live first with the whole purpose in mind. Think of my individual purpose as God's business. True Parents bought(?) it that way. The central figures, patriots, and saints of all generations lived faithfully to this principle.
Of course, we need our individual purpose. We need to survive. However, we need to be clear: which is the subject, and which is the object? If the object becomes the subject and the object becomes the subject, that is the fall; that is disorder. That is a problem.
As long as we put God’s will first … What is God’s will? We need to establish Cheon il guk. We need to find God’s nation, which is cheon il guk. That is the main (thing). That is why we need to focus on the vision of God’s nation, God’s cheon il guk. Based on that we need to move forward. Then God’s will needs to be subject. Then what to eat, what to wear, what to drink, if we are entirely focused on God’s will, God will surely provide what we will need. That is what Jesus is talking about.
A Leader Should Shoulder Dual Purposes
<70-259> Let us take a governor as an example. He should make his state as one and further become one with the nation. This is the governor’s mission. It is from here that we say that a leader should shoulder dual purposes. Therefore, as a person responsible for that state, he should not just think about the state. He must think about the greater purpose. Therefore, you must not think just about yourself. You must advance to a position that is beyond the self.
What is America’s dual purpose? The individual purpose is to be responsible for the American state. The whole purpose is for America to live, not for itself, but for the sake of the entire world.
Your individual responsibility is to both achieve individual perfection and to live for the sake of your whole family. Your family’s dual purpose is to care for itself while also carrying out the whole purpose, the mission, as tribal messiahs to save your tribe. Your tribe then also has the responsibility to unite as one tribe while also seeking to establish a nation.
That is why Father said, the purpose of the (governor?) is to find one nation, one sovereignty, one people.
Many people do not know the meaning of dual purposes. We need to understand clearly about the purpose of dual purposes.
<70-259> When you look at it from this position, as a leader should you place greater importance on the family, on the church or on that city? You should live for the sake of the church and the city even if it means sacrificing the family. Only then can it gradually progress. You must fulfill your dual responsibility.
When we begin our responsibilities, it is important to consider what comes first. The whole purpose must always be at the center.
The secular world is the opposite. They do not pay any attention to the whole purpose. They only think about themselves and their own families.
We are different. We know the Divine Principle clearly. We know God’s will clearly. That is why we always need to put the whole purpose first, above our individual purpose.
Of course, the individual purpose is very important. However, we need to sure about the clear order, what is the vertical order. As long as we have such a clear concept, we will no longer be confused. Then everything can go on very well.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Characteristic Capable of Raising Great Descendants
1. Just as we can know from Noah’s family, God saw Noah’s high standard of faith and gave him great blessings. Also, through Abraham and Sarah, who surrendered their lives in absolute obedience to Heaven, we can understand that God wanted them to give birth to a child with a high spiritual level like Isaac. It was Jehovah's heart that He wanted Abraham and Sarah, who were absolutely obedient, to be the ancestors of all people. And it was God's wish to have many children through Rachel, who had a higher level of heart than Leah.
Recently I have been speaking about blood lineage, how to really improve our blood lineage and (acquire) God’s blood lineage.
God’s wish is to raise the level of human lineage which has been reduced to that of servants due to the Human Fall.
As God carried out the providence of restoration, the types of central figures He called upon were always those who had a good lineage spiritually and heartistically.
Central figures called to God’s providence met common conditions: the first condition was absolute faith and absolute obedience in front of God’s Will. All the central figures were loyal to Heaven.
Look at how dedicated Noah was and how much he absolutely obeyed God’s will. Look at Abraham and Jacob and Isaac, Joseph and Moses. All the central figures called to God’s providence met common conditions. The first condition was what? Absolute faith and absolute obedience before God’s will. We need to resemble all central figures throughout human history.
The second condition was making God’s Will their top priority. They put their family before themselves, and God’s Will before their family. The third condition was that their family was at the center of their path. The whole family participated together in the providence.
Originally, Noah’s entire family should have helped him. In the providence of Abraham, all three generations united and participated in God’s providence. Moses’ brothers and his wife helped him with his providence. Even Jesus’ family should have helped in the background.
2. Therefore, women of the Unification Church, who know God’s Will and joined, must completely bring at least three Cain-type women with many conflicts and problems to surrender before marrying. You must remove your fallen nature through this kind of training course. Great descendants can be born on the foundation of the restoration of the blood lineage in this way. Otherwise, there is a possibility that an offspring will be born who inherited their fallen nature. The way to remove your own fallen nature with many corners is to have many spiritual children and serve Cain. Therefore, it is important to have an easygoing personality that can get along well with people of any character.
In order to raise the quality of your lineage, you must go the course of indemnity through subjugating Cain which we learned from the Divine Principle. If you cannot subjugate Cain, there is no way to cleanse your fallen nature and your lineage will not change.
The first step in raising the quality of your lineage is to find and subjugate three Cain figures which are three spiritual children.
Before you have your own children, it is necessary to train yourself in subjugating at least three Cain figures. If you do, you will be able to give birth to children of exemplary lineage.
3. We should think that the reason we clash with people in our lives of faith is because we have a lot characteristics with corners. Judas, who sold Jesus, thought he was doing something good in his own way, but he had a compulsion with Jesus. Judas Iscariot seems to have thought about Jesus, “What I am doing is good, but Jesus has a problem.” Likewise, when we encounter a conflict with someone while living our life of faith, it is easy to think “I am being ignored by that person” or “I am having a conflict because of that person.”
As you practice your life of faith, you should consider that all problems arising from feelings of conflict with others originate from your own fallen nature.
If we try to blame someone because of you, because of somebody, because of my father, because of my leader…
Sometimes the problem is actually the other person’s fault. However, if you do not consider it your own problem, you will find yourself with the fallen nature of blaming others very often.
If there is someone whom you have strained relations with, you should consider it an opportunity to rid yourself of your fallen nature through him and choose to attend him very well.
4. However, when a wise person does not get along well with others, they think “I want to develop myself by being stimulated by that person.” Reflecting on their own life, they pray, “Please let me discover the preciousness of that person.” Rather than blaming that person for their shortcomings first, you should think, “I'm really grateful that my own flaws were discovered through that person.” However, Rachel did not know her own flaws and looked only at the flaws of others, and it seems that she always thought that she could not have children because of Leah. So it seems that such preconceived notions overshadowed Rachel's nature.
You may have all felt this while practicing your life of faith, but never once has your spirit gained anything by thinking of another’s shortcomings.
This is my true confession. When I reminded someone (about their) fault or weak point this did not help my spiritual life at all. Definitely people have their own weak points. But when I remember someone’s weak point more than their good points, it is not great for my spiritual life. That is why one day I decided: “I don’t want to remember someone ‘s weak point. What shall I do?” I prayed and prayed. Because (people are) fallen men, it is easy to see their weak points, right? Me, too. When I was young, I needed to compare, I felt jealousy, I needed to see someone’s weak points more than (their) good points. I struggled and struggled. I was growing and growing and reached 30 and 40. Still (I had) that kind of fallen nature: I needed to see someone’s weak points; I needed to criticize others. But after having had (physical) children and taking more care of my spiritual children and of our brothers and sisters, my heart was developing and I had a more parental heart. As long as we have a parental heart, whenever we see someone’s weak point, we need to really think that “I need to be responsible for that person’s weak point. I need to raise him very well.” This kind of responsible mindset really helped me. Whenever I see someone’s weak point, I try to embrace (it). That’s why whenever you see someone’’s weak point, it cannot offer anything to your spiritual life at all. That is why always we need to see someone’s good points all the time. Of course, it is not easy, but we need to have the heart of parents. We have to be responsible for their weak points.
Therefore, you must build the habit of seeing the good side in people no matter what the situation (is). You need to see their strengths. You should learn to see their original nature. If you only see their shortcomings, you must realize that you have an even greater fallen nature than they do.
Your fallen nature may not show on the outside, but you should consider yourself a worse person than he is.
I had an unforgettable experience. I needed(?) to share about it in front of everybody. The black Heungjin nim guy came. Everybody confessed their faults and Chapter Two problems, all kinds of problems. Many people saw “Wow! This senior blessed couple had Chapter Two problems.” They confessed in front of Black Heungjin nim. It was easy to blame them: “How come they have that kind of sin?”
Rev. Yo Han Lee guided us not to blame the leaders. “Actually you have even greater sin inside you, but it has not appeared yet. You have more potential to commit sin, more than that guy. Why just see that person’s faults and problems? Why don’t you reflect on your own fallen nature? Even though it does not show up, you have more potential than any other guy.”
Your fallen nature may not show on the outside, but we should consider ourself a worse person than he is.
5. When Rachel thought about Jacob, the disappointment that “My husband Jacob goes to Leah’s house more than mine,” started to alienate her heart. Her own fallen nature was revealed through Leah. As we walk the path of faith, there are times when our hearts are in a good state and times when they are not. When my heart is not good, it is part of life to have a good heart and maintain my own faith. A person who tries to have a good heart from the position of a bad heart and obtain better values internally is a wise person. When you are in an unfavorable environment or your fallen nature is revealed and get angry easily, if you cannot control your own emotions, you immediately become vulgarized and tainted. It is like losing the standard of your own original nature.
6. In order for Rachel to overcome such a difficult environment as she struggled with Leah, she had to love Leah's children more than Jacob loved Leah's children. When Jacob went to Leah’s house, if Rachel had first gone into Leah’s house and prepared dinner and taken care of her children, Jacob would have treated Rachel differently. In this way, there were many ways to receive Jacob's love. As such, she had two options. Either live a lonely life or gather courage and enthusiastically serve.
The only way to overcome your fallen nature is to live a life of attendance, serving. You can subjugate anyone if you attend them with a parental heart and the body of a servant.
In the end, the victor is he who attends first, serves first. Therefore, wherever you go, do not attempt to stand in the position of the subject, but always attend and serve others from beginning to end in the position of a servant.
7. It was the same in Noah's family. When Ham saw his father, who was very solemn and whom he greatly admired, lying naked, Ham was at the crossroads between whether he would stand in the position of Heaven with the same feelings he had for his father before, or look at the results that were revealed and judge with his own thoughts and feel ashamed. The same goes for Rachel. There were only two options: stand in the position of the younger sister and actively rejoice together with Jacob or complain and grumble. In our faith course, there are only two paths: the path of death and the path of life. It is our mission and responsibility to discern it.
The life of faith is a choice between two paths. Will you walk the path of gratitude, or will you walk the path of discontent? The path of gratitude is a path toward life, and the path of discontent, dissatisfaction, is a path toward death.
Thus, the path of faith is the path of constant attendance and service and appreciation no matter what happens. If you practice this one thing, you can rid yourself of your fallen nature and change your lineage.
If you can change your lineage in this way, you will be able to produce exemplary descendants who live according to hyojeong.♦
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