Ep 500 - Cheon Seong Gyeong, Pyeong Hwa Gyeong and Chambumo Gyeong Part 1
Cheon Seong Gyeong, Pyeong Hwa Gyeong and Chambumo Gyeong 135-29-13-40 - March 9, 2022 - 500th Morning Devotion
My dear brothers and sisters! Today marks the 500th day since we started Morning Devotion. In the meantime, I sincerely thank you for your unsparing love, jeongseong and devotion.
In the end, people, organizations and churches who give utmost jeongseong become the center of the country, the center of the providence, and the center of the world.
Through your jeongseong, prayers, and morning Devotion, I hope that our North American Continental Unification Movement will be really new and make amazing progress.
Today I’d like to talk about “Cheon Seong Gyeong, Pyeong Hwa Gyeong and Chambumo Gyeong” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
I want to reorganize True Father's words in Cheon Seong Gyeong, so that you can always carry it about with you. Christians always keep the Bible close to them; similarly, I wanted to compile True Father's words into Cheon Seong Gyeong, Pyeong Hwa Gyeong and Chambumo Gyeong, making them into books that you will always keep close to your heart. We can save many lives through these books. They are our weapon. You have no idea what precious weapons they are. They are weapons that save people. The words that can save humanity have emerged from Korea, God's homeland. (2013.04.15, Cheon Hwa Gung)
I am indescribably happy to be a part of the publication ceremony of Cheon Seong Gyeong and Pyeong Hwa Gyeong. I am truly grateful to the Heavenly Parent and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind for permitting me to dedicate the Cheon Il Guk Scriptures. I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude and congratulations to the elders, including the chairperson and deputy chairperson of the compilation committee, and also my appreciation for the hard work of the committee members. Of all that True Father achieved in the 60 or so years of his providential work, the most precious of all is the Words of truth, which are like jewels that he has left behind for fallen humankind. I am truly grateful and delighted to think that his words are no longer scattered about, but instead have been polished into beautiful gemstones and threaded together.
These teachings will indeed become the essential center of Cheon Il Guk. How pleased God will be if you unite with these teachings and fulfill your given responsibility and mission in your respective places! There still remain responsibilities for us to fulfill for the Will desired by Heaven. We have the responsibility to lead all seven billion people in the world to become citizens of Cheon Il Guk as quickly as possible. You are in the position of the owners, who can then go on to assume the positions of filial children and loyal subjects of Cheon Il Guk. However, if you are indolent in carrying out your mission, Heaven will not wait for you. On this day, we should all ponder once again how we should fulfill our mission and resolve to carry it out, and devote all our energy to saving all of humankind centering on these gem-like words that Heaven has given to us. (2013.06.10, CheongPyeong TrainingCenter)
Today we will learn about the importance of the Word which True Father emphasized.
These Words Cannot Be Changed Even by Giving the World
<11-232> Until now, this earth has not had the words of heaven that can reach you and your heart, but you have it. These words should not be limited to me, but must belong to all people, and be eternal. We must unify the heavens and the earth until the whole purpose is accomplished. (omitted) These words cannot be changed even by giving the world. You should feel grateful for receiving these words, even if you fall (down) ten million times. After all, you die once. To what extent have you received these words preciously? You have to take responsibility for people in more than seven countries even if alone. Furthermore, the whole must jointly take responsibility for the world. When the Word, substance, and heart become one, Heaven, earth, and Father are all ours.
True Father said these words cannot be changed even by giving the world.
It is True Parents' words that can reach the hope and heart of heaven. Therefore, these words are eternal and must be passed on to all people.
These words cannot be changed by giving the world. They are that precious! Take the Word and spread the word that you will be responsible for people in more than 7 countries by yourself.
Now we are living in such a wonderful technical era now, Morning Devotion can connect with all our North American brothers and sisters. But not just North America, but the entire world. What a great opportunity to share God’s word. It is really powerful. It is a great time to really spread God’s word as well through the online holy community and through the Internet. Whatever you want, you can do everything now. This is an amazing time!
We need to do our online holy community very well.
Every Monday I take care of second generation who understand and speak the Korean language. I am giving a Divine Principle lecture once a week every without missing (a week). My online holy community is doing very well. We have heartistic communication. Many of our second generation after learning the Divine Principle are crying and shedding tears and sharing beautifully their emotion and their heart and experience. God’s word is so powerful! We connect together.
I don’t want to just talk about and emphasize the online holy community. I really want to show the model. Sooner or later we will reach 43 who understand Korean. They are learning Divine Principle. Also,
I am very free when I can deliver (my talk) in the Korean Language.
Please do (your online holy community). Even if you have a small number, 3 people, 4 people, 10 people, it is ok. Why don’t you initiate an online holy community? But we need to do it continually, constantly. Fallen man is stuck on the way. He is not consistent. That is a problem. It is not easy for me to do morning devotion, preparing 6 or 7 hours a day and need to pray one or two hours. It is not simple. But what I learned from God and True Parents is that the truth is unchanging. Once you make a decision, it (should be) unchanging. No matter what, you need to do it continuously. Stopping along the way is connected to death. You need to have consistency. That is a commitment. That is why I really appreciate this 500th day of Morning Devotion. You are so dedicated and have supported (this) and prayed together. As long as our jeongseong is there, and we have an unchanging heart and mind and commitment, surely the American movement will never decline.
Today Father emphasizes the importance of God’s word. He says when we become one with the Words and reality (True Parents) given by True Parents and heart (God and True Parents’ heart), the kingdom of heaven and God become ours.
I really appreciate that Father shared such precious words. Now Mother is trying to arrange it based on three books: Cheon Seong Gyeong, Pyeong Hwa Gyeong and Chambumo Gyeong. But actually there is so much great content based on our 3 scriptures. We need to study True Parents’ words more.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 23 - Individual Perfection is the Perfection of Filial Piety
This is the last (in the) series about filial piety.
God's First Blessing: Individual Perfection
• The key to God's first blessing is the perfection of individual character.
• An individual's mind and body are discrete projections and object partners of God's dual characteristics. In order for an individual to perfect his character, he must form a four position foundation within himself whereby his mind and body become one through give and take action with God as their center.
• Such individuals become the temples of God (1 Cor. 3:16), achieve complete oneness with Him (John 14:20), and acquire a divine nature. They experience the Heart of God as if it were their own. Hence, they understand His Will and live fully attuned to it.
• When a person abides in the state of individual perfection, he lives as the substantial object partner to his mind. Because the center of his mind is God, he also lives as the substantial object partner to God.
• Both the mind and God feel joy as they experience their internal nature and external form through the stimulation which their object partners give them.
• Accordingly, when a person realizes God's first blessing, he becomes God's good object partner to inspire Him with joy. Sharing all the feelings of God as his own, he would never commit any sinful acts that would cause God grief. This means he would never fall.
I want to summarize filial piety. So far I have shared about filial piety for six or seven days.
Campaign for Practicing Filial Piety
1. “A person who loves his parents cannot hate, a person who reveres his parents cannot be arrogant in front of people.” <Analects of Confucius>
2. The campaign for filial piety should become a national and further global campaign.
3. The campaign for filial piety will expand from the filial child in the family, tribal messiah in the tribe, patriot in the nation, saint in the world and divine sons and daughters in the cosmos, and become the cornerstone for creating the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven.
That is why you and I and all our brothers and sisters need to focus on filial heart, Mother’s selected word, filial heart, which is hyojeong.
This is the essence of Divine Principle. We need to really have that kind of campaign in the family, in the tribe, in the nation and in the world. As long as we really do this campaign for young people, for our family and nation, I am telling you, everything we do will be prosperous. I strongly feel that True Mother has chosen the right words, which are filial heart -- not just filial piety. Filial piety feels like duty, but filial heart comes from heart. Filial heart. Very powerful!
What is Filial Piety?
I would like to summarize.
1. Filial piety is serving God.
The Bible says clearly that we need to make God our top priority. God is everything.
2. Filial piety respects his/her parents.
Filial piety begins from respect. Where there is no respect, you cannot inherit anything. But when we really respect, we can inherit everything they have.
We need to respect Heavenly Parent, respect True Parents, respect our senior brothers and sisters, respect our Abel. Through respect we can inherit everything. Where there is filial piety, definitely there is respect.
3. Filial piety loves his/her family.
Because the father and mother love each of the family members. That is why family members can love each other.
4. Filial piety is loyal to one’s nation.
Patriotism is the extension (of filial piety) to the nation.
5. Filial piety preserves nature.
Nature is God’s substantial art. We can grow up through give-and-take action with nature. That is why when we really serve nature and take care of it, this is based on our filial piety.
6. Filial piety serves all humankind.
Because all humankind are children of God. When we truly love God, we need to love all humankind.
7. Filial piety will never dry his tears for his parents.
Filial heart is only concerned about the parents’ heart and wishes and circumstances and situation. How can we console them and comfort them? It is always centered on parents.
8. We can experience God’s heart only with filial piety, and is only possible by shedding tears towards the parents.
9. Filial piety is living according to the parents’ wishes without going against their heart.
Say something is wrong, not correct. Still we never oppose our parents. Still we try to serve them and love them, even though we can see our parents’ faults, some problems. Filial child means, “I want to be responsible for parents’ problems. This is a responsible attitude, not separate from one’s parents and create another good(?). According to the Korean concept of filial piety, one cannot even think about that. One cannot. The filial heart is, “Ok, my father or my mother has something wrong.” Then with tears and strong resolve, “I really want to become a filial son or daughter. Someday I want to show whose standard? I want to correct my father and mother. I want them to become better through my serving, through showing a filial heart. This kind of attitude (is filial heart). That is why Father said Adam and Eve fell because of lack of filial piety.
10. Filial piety is the root of heart. In filial piety, the concept of self cannot exist in front of the parents.
I was born for my parents, I live for my parents, I can die for them and I can do anything for them. This is the concept of filial piety.
11. Filial piety is the foremost way that must be practiced if a human being wishes to live as a person.
12. Filial piety, filial heart is the source of all virtues (which is the base upon which human beings form their character).
We can talk about morality, everything is ok(?), but (if) there is no concept of filial piety, it does not make any sense. That is why we need to understand very clearly:
Filial piety is the source of all virtues which is the base upon which human beings form their character.
13. Filial piety leads to the establishment of ethical value systems, and properly establishes the social order.
14. Filial piety may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
God will bless you. If you have that kind of filial heart and filial piety, God will surely bless you.
The heart of those who are filial sons and daughters is so beautiful, so dedicated. They have very clear alignment and do not have much stress. That is why they can live a long life. Do you want to live a long life? Then you need to love God, you need to love your own parents well, You need to respect seniors. If you have that kind of vertical alignment and filial heart, you do nothave much stress. That is why you can live a long life.
15. Where there is filial piety, the family will come alive.
If there is no more filial piety in the family, that family has no more hope. If the children do not respect their parents and go their own way, there is no hope in the family.
16. Where there is filial piety, the church will come alive.
Because everybody is loving God, their own parents and True Parents. This kind of people gather together in the church, wow! That church will surely come alive.
17. Where there is filial piety, education will come alive.
Because filial piety means raising up filial piety(?). That is why when there is filial piety, education will come alive. What is the main content of education? How to raise filial piety: love God, love parents, love senior brothers and sisters. As long as we have that kind of vertical standard, we can love anyone horizontally very well; we can relate in any horizontal relationship like our vertical standard: loving God is like loving my own brothers and sisters.
18. Where there is filial piety, the country will come alive.
Because patriotism is the extension of filial piety.
19. Filial piety will expand from the filial child in the family, tribal messiah in the tribe, patriot in the nation, saint in the world and divine sons and daughters in the cosmos, and become the cornerstone for creating the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven.
20. Therefore Individual perfection can be completed through filial heart and love.
This is very powerful. Filial vertical alignment (is) centered on filial heart. That is why True Mother always speaks of hyojeong, HJ, HJ. She put these initials in front of company names. HJ something. It is a key word for her. Hyojeong, HJ.
(Shows photo) When Father and Mother traveled here and there in order to establish UPF and came to New Zealand. At one moment Father needed something and someone needed to help. I helped Father a little bit, and someone took this photo. Every time I look at this picture, I reflect on how much filial piety I really have for True Parents.
I long for him. When I think about him, tears come down. He is my eternal father. He is my father of fathers. He is a great teacher. He is my king. I cannot describe who True Parents are.
Newspaper people asked me when I was Asia. Many Korean reporters came to me (and asked), “What do you think? Who are Rev. and Mrs. Moon? Who are they? Can you explain very simply?” I said, “Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han Moon are my true parents. They are parents of parents to me. Secondly, they are the teachers of teachres: They are always guiding (me) with their words. They are my eternal teachers.
Thirdly, they are my owners, my masters, my kings. They guide us how to rule and love the nation, how to love the world, what is responsibility and ownership.
Wow! So I told the reporters that Rev. and Mrs. Moon are my true parents, true teachers and true owners and king and queen. This is my own real testimony.
How about you, my brothers and sisters?
When I look at this photo, (I ask myself) how I can become a filial son? Now True Mother is (still) alive: how can I support her and release her burden and her cross and establish God’s substantial kingdom of heaven on the earth.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Reconciliation and Righteousness (2)
1. If you deny yourself in front of God’s public Will, you will become good. If you put yourself first, you will become evil. Eve ignored God’s warning of “do not” and put her own desires first. Self-denial is when one acts according to God’s word, not according to what He has told us not to do. Human beings need to live by denying themselves. The reason is because human beings have to live according to the wish of God, who is their Owner. Even in the secular world, those who succeed financially or socially are those who denied themselves and built strong relationships with their superiors. This is the same for relationships between husband and wife, brother and sister, and parent and child. It is also the same in our church life.
The reason I have to deny myself is that God is my designer and I am the resultant being built according to His design.
I can achieve my purpose in life by living according to the designer's design. What we need to know clearly is the thorough belief that God is my subject. God is my designer. I am not the designer. I am the object partner of the designer. This is a very important concept and attitude. God is my designer, and I am the object partner of his design.
You are born as a resultant being. You are not a causal being, Who created you? He has the purpose of the creation, he has your purpose. You need to know his design, his blueprint. I need to adjust to his blueprint.
If you live as you please and as you assert, you are bound to have trouble wherever you go. Until people realize this point, they will experience many failures and suffer a lot.
It will take a long time. In the end they will realize, “Ah, I need to deny (myself). I am not the designer. I need to really understand the designer’s blueprint.”
Fallen human beings are like clay placed in a potter’s hand. Clay cannot claim to be made into a certain vessel. It should be made as the potter combs it. The mud must completely entrust itself to the potter.
Fallen man wants to be a potter, even though he is the mud. Your position is that of mud! But you want to be a potter! That is a problem. Everyone struggles and struggles and goes their own way. In the end what happens? After suffering and all kinds of problems and troubles, they give up. They come to realize that, “I need to deny (myself). I am not the potter; I am the mud.
Therefore, human beings must thoroughly live according to God’s will and God’s vision according to God’s blueprint. If you assert yourself and try to live according to your will, everything is broken in the end.
That is why you need to understand very quickly. I have to find out what God’s will is for me, where the blueprint is. “Heavenly God, what is your blueprint for me?” “God, what is your vision for me?” “God, what is your will for me?”
2. Among those who become connected to our church through outreach, many have suffered hardship or grief. Jesus said, “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden.” Here, Jesus is asking the people to connect with him and become true individuals. There are no righteous people in the satanic realm because there is no standard of righteousness. This is why Jesus also said, “None is righteous, no, not one”. However, Jesus brought with him an absolute relationship with God in all of heaven and on earth. Therefore, no one could achieve righteousness but through him. The True Parents who are the returning Lords also bring with them such a relationship. Yet, not only have the people on earth failed to build the right relationship with Heaven, but they also persecute and despise those who have achieved it.
Jesus said that the only way for fallen human beings to become righteous is to have a relationship with Jesus, who came as the only begotten Son of God, and graft on to him to become righteous and a true human.
Therefore, no one in the world, no matter how famous, can become the standard of righteousness. There is no one righteous among them. They are all descendants of sinners.
That is why the Bible says in Romans 3:10-12, “As the Scriptures say, ‘No one is righteous—not even one. No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God. All have turned away; all have become useless. No one does good, not a single one.’”
Therefore, even if we enter into a righteous relationship with True Parents and Jesus and go out into the world and face many persecutions and contempt, we must embrace them and become a sacrifice of reconciliation before them to save them.
Jesus came as a reconciler. He really reconciled with fallen man and appealed to God. “I will be responsible. I want to take up the cross on behalf of all sinners.” That is why when we really unite with God and True Parents and (are) engrafted to True Parents, We are the ones who have to become sacrifices of reconciliation before men, those who do not know God’s will.
3. In Luke 17:26 it is recorded, “As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of man.” The verse, “Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together (Matt.24:28)”, also reveals changes toward a new time. When many righteous people begin to gather and are persecuted, we should recognize that God is starting a new providence and pray for it. People need to learn to move according to their original mind rather than judge with their eyes and ears alone. Modern people may listen to words of truth, but they may dislike building relationships with the right people. It is not so different from those who warily followed Jesus two thousand years ago then ran away as soon as it became hard.
In the end, the standard for judging people and the true truth should not be judged by the ears and eyes of the secular world. We must always be awake and listen to the voice of our original mind through prayer and jeongseong.
Sometimes in our movement there are spiritual groups, this group and that group. If you listen to the voice of your sincere heart and your original mind really comes down, Heaven will surely show you the way to go.
Therefore, at the end of the day, do not make decisions based on the environment, do not make decisions according to the traditions or customs of established churches, do not make decisions according to popular rumors, but always listen to the voice of your original nature and mind.
If you really empty your heart and deny your heart and really come down and try to listen to the voice of your original mind and nature, surely God will tell you the right direction because God is our parent. But if you have an angry heart and are emotional, always listening to popular rumors and this and that, when some speaks about that person’s fault, this problem in leadership, oh my God; it becomes very confused. That’s why you need to listen to your original mind. As long as you have anger and jealousy and your own emotions, you cannot receive an answer.
4. Jesus said, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. (Matt. 16:24)” What this means is that even if we are saved, Satan will still attack our bodies. Our hearts may be filled with hope from the Truth, but our bodies will be our enemies. Therefore, we must take responsibility for the problem of our bodies. We too, today, must first understand the Word and the Principle and then conquer our physical bodies.
What does it mean that I must take up my cross and follow the Lord? The cross of my body means that I must carry it.
It means that I must overcome my physical desires and follow the Lord. No one can help with this problem.
Therefore, my primary responsibility is to always receive stimulation and grace through God’s Word. Second, we must overcome our physical desires with the stimulation of the Word and the spiritual power we received grace from.
Taking up your own cross means what? You need to overcome your physical desires, your fallen nature. No one can help you. Without denying yourself, without overcoming these kinds of desires, how can we follow Jesus? That is our portion of responsibility to overcome our physical desires and limitations. That is our portion of responsibility. No one can help us (with that). That is why Jesus says we must take up our own cross and follow him.
Through this process, like Jesus and True Parents, I become a righteous person who does not compromise with any environment or evil.
5. It is not easy to move and inspire the enemy with love. Yet we must accomplish this in order to receive the title of “God’s child” in the last days. With this standard, let us become those who can be recognized in each of our churches, schools, and families for how we embrace Jesus’ philosophy. Let us overcome everything in our lives of faith from top to bottom, front to back, and left to right, then build a strong relationship with Jesus centering on the Truth. May we become children of the Lord that God can lead and take responsibility for.
If you want to become a righteous person like Jesus, you must practice your righteousness even toward your enemies. No matter how much the enemy persecutes me, hates me, and even tries to kill me, I have to set the standard of righteousness by loving them without changing my heart.
So, in the end, you must move and influence your enemies in order to receive the title of “God’s child.”
When you overcome your enemies, Jesus said, you can be called a son or daughter of God. The greatest love is to love even your enemies. Through loving enemies, we can remove our fallen nature. Why did God give us enemies? He asks me to remove my fallen nature. If there are no enemies, it means already your spiritual level has reached a certain level. We need to thank God for giving us enemies. He asks us to grow and overcome our fallen nature and remove it, to become a more perfect being, and to reach the heavenly standard.♦
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