Ep 501 - Cheon Seong Gyeong, Pyeong Hwa Gyeong and Chambumo Gyeong Part 2
Cheon Seong Gyeong, Pyeong Hwa Gyeong and Chambumo Gyeong 136-21-13-40 - March 10, 2022
Yesterday was the presidential election in Korea. Candidate Seok-Yeol Yoon was elected in this election. I hope that the new president will become one with True Mother so that the Republic of Korea can achieve Heavenly Unified Korea.
Today I’d like to talk about “Cheon Seong Gyeong, Pyeong Hwa Gyeong and Chambumo Gyeong” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
True Father's words are our foundation. In terms of the human body, they are the backbone. When the backbone is out of alignment, all the organs get twisted, don't they? And then the body becomes ill. In short, it is very important. Through the publication of these words, we can live together with Father. The first thing I said after True Father's Seonghwa was that we must recover our faith of the beginning times through spirit and the truth. When spirit and truth become one, the Word comes to life and starts to breathe. That being the case, these words are the Word of life for you, aren't they? For your health and your future generations, these words must live and breathe within you. It should not stop there, with only you enjoying them. I have already said that we need to create the environment for witnessing. (2013.08.24, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Parents are what Heaven and humankind have desired and hoped for to this day. Of course, that Pyeong Hwa Gyeong and Cheon Seong Gyeong were prepared centered on the Word is important. However, their source is True Parents. God has endeavored throughout the years to restore fallen humankind. God carried out the providence of restoration through indemnity, working with the Israelites for 4,000 years and restored a lineage untainted by the Fall. The birth of Jesus Christ, God's only begotten son, was the culmination of that. Would God have only created His only begotten son? God also created His only begotten daughter. With the birth of God's only begotten son, providential history should have been fulfilled with God's only begotten daughter. However, this was not fulfilled. That is why, before his death, Jesus Christ promised to return. The 2,000-year history of Christianity was for the purpose of restoring the Bride. Through Jesus Christ, 2,000 years ago, Heaven's providence led to the emergence of the True Parents and the formation of a national foundation. Through Rome, God cleared the path for this national foundation to expand to the world.
Heavenly Parent's hope and humankind's hope, the True Parents, did not pop up one day out of nowhere. You have to understand your history. You have to be aware of providential history, understand it theologically and be able to explain it. Chambumo Gyeong is a holy scripture that is perfect and faultless for humankind today. You cannot go to the spirit world without studying and reading Chambumo Gyeong. Among the three holy scriptures, Chambumo Gyeong is the most important. It is the source. I will take some time in contemplating how I will arrange, compile and put the finishing touches on this scripture. I will make it into a complete and perfect gem. I intend to make this scripture one that will transform those who encounter and read it, so that they revere Heaven, love True Parents and love humankind, and so that they receive strength to accelerate the manifestation of God's ideal for creation. (2014.06.14, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Mother is now very much emphasizing the three scriptures: Cheon Seong Gyeong, Pyeong Hwa Gyeong and Chambumo Gyeong. The words of God, the words of our True Parents are really incredibly important. Today I would like to introduce True Father’s word about the importance of God’s word.
Unification Church Members Live if They Become one With the Word
<297-304> The people of the Unification Church can now live as one with the Word. Do you understand? (Yes.) We must become one with the thoughts hidden in the Word. You have to study the Word by staying up all night in a room by yourself. The word is the material that can find the place where True Parents cried, wept, and struggled. Do you understand? (Yes.) If you leave it behind for others, you will definitely go to heaven. Teacher(True Father) is constantly progressing. You don't have a relative standard to keep pace with Teacher. When I look back at you, I have settled down, but you are on a path that diverges from me. When you become one with the Word, you can follow Teacher wherever you go. This Hoondokhoe exists because Teacher has to take the path that can be developed without any delay.
True Father said, “The people of the Unification Church can now live as one with the Word.”
This is because God’s Word is God’s love and heart. The Word is also God's eternal food and life elements.
When you are depressed, having a difficult time, or faced with trials, the first way you can live is to return to the Word.
True Father said, “You have to study the Word by staying up all night in a room by yourself. The word is the material that can find the place where True Parents cried, wept, and struggled.”
True Father said that the more you do HoonDokHae, and the more you listen to the Word, the more you develop.
Therefore, in order for America to live and for the American church to live, we must first return to the Word. If you read HDH a lot, and if all the American and Canadian members attend Morning Devotion and offer jeongseong at the national level and continental level, the United States and the American church are bound to develop. No one can beat the morning HoonDok jeongseong.
I will make a declaration to you all. As long as Morning Devotion exists in the American church, the American church will never retreat. There is only moving forward.
That is why I would like to encourage my brothers and sisters, God’s word is so powerful. Therefore we really need to do with utmost sincerity our jeongseong centered on morning devotion. (But we cannot) just rely on Morning Devotion. Also, we need to study God’s word thoroughly. When we revive God’s word, our development can begin from there. When we have lost something, how can we find it? We need to go back to the original point. We need to start reading God’s word, study his word first. This is the way to go back to God’s bosom.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principles of Creation 25 - The Perfection of the Individual is the Completion of Mind-Body Unity
This is a new chapter. Father really shared top secrets about how to unite mind and body. According to his experience, according to the principled way, he teaches us very clearly how to unite mind and body. We can understand a top secret about how to conquer our physical body.
Let’s study EDP content again. Then I will introduce Father’s word.
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.
Based on this EDP content, let's study Father’s word.
The Way to Unite the Mind and Body
<18-328> There are only two ways to unite a person’s mind and body. The first way is to beat up the body and occupy it; the second way is to unite without striking the body. However, the method of dominating the body through force is not good.
Then what must be done? The mind until now was like a bag of wind, losing each time to the body without ever putting up a fight as its equal. This was because the power of the mind is weak. But what do you think would happen if you administered an injection to the heart doubling or tripling its power? Leading the body would not be a problem. The mind can diligently grab and lead the body.
<18-328> When you forcefully blow air into the tube of a car, it greatly inflates. In the same way, if you forcefully inject strength into the mind what would happen? Wouldn’t it gain strength? After that, if the mind and body were to fight, who would win? In this way, there are two ways: One is to occupy the body by ruthlessly striking it, another is to enhance strength to the mind.
The Source of the Mind’s Strength is Love
<18-328> The source of the mind’s strength is love. That is why, if the explosive strength that is generated through the interaction of the mind is connected to God, a force that is many times greater, a hundred and even a thousands times greater, will be produced that can bring unity, that can fulfill humankind’s long-awaited hope, that can allow us to live with God for eternity and at the same time make the Kingdom of God ours. The secret to this is love. Love is an elevator that rises toward unification. It is the absolute secret key that can achieve unity.
How (can we) control our physical body? True Father said that the first way is to beat up the body and occupy it; But Father suggested that (this) is not a good way. The second way is to unite without striking the body.
Since the fallen human being’s power of the mind is weak compared to the power of the body, whenever the body and mind fight, the body always wins over the mind.
How about you? Does your body always win? Or your mind? Normally, our body always wins over our mind.
Then how can the strength of the mind win over the strength of the body? True Father says the only way is to double or triple its power by administering an injection into the mind.
So what does it mean to inject strength into the mind? It means borrowing the power of God's love.
Then how does the power of God's love come? It comes from the Word. The Word is God's love.
Therefore, when stimulated by the Word, since you receive unimaginable stimulation and grace, you are able to overcome your own body.
Another way our minds can gain strength is through the power of prayer and jeongseong. When we give and receive spiritually with God through prayer and jeongseong, amazing power comes that we are not even aware of.
When you experience God's love and heart through God’s Word, you become more humble. However, if you do not study the Word, you will become more and more arrogant.
Fallen human beings will inevitably become arrogant and self-centered unless they experience God's love through the Word. It becomes an increasingly flesh-centered life, living centered on instinctual desires, just like animals.
Now you know how to conquer our physical body. There are two ways.
One, you need to get stimulation from God’s word and God’s grace. Without studying God’s word, it is impossible to conquer our body. Because God’s word is God’s love, when you experience God’s love through the word, it is so powerful. You can overcome anything. That is the power of God’s word. That is why we joined our church, right? We believe in True Parents, right? The power of the word changes our entire life.
How can I get that kind of stimulation constantly? This is the issue. First, I need to be inspired by God’s word. Secondly, Father said, (we are stimulated) through jeongseong and prayer, utmost sincere jeongseong. You need to pray often. Prayer is communicating with God. It is a direct channel to have give and take with God.
Therefore, without prayer and without God’s word, there is no way to get power from heaven. If we only beat our physical body, maybe just for the time being -- that is why you do fasting -- but you come back again, right? What is the best way to conquer our physical body? Really study God’s word thoroughly and you really (come to) feel it is not only God’s word. God’s word is really God’s love. You need to feel God’s love through his word. It is stimulating.
Secondly, you need to have substantial experiences through prayer. While you have such power through prayer, you have the confidence that everything will come true. Everything I declare will come true. Wow! (With) that much conviction, that much powerful faith, you can overcome it. That is why Jesus said to never stop praying. If you stop praying, you cannot get any strength from heaven.
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TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Relationship Between God and Human Beings Centered on Responsibility
1. When God entrusts us with a responsibility, it shows that He entrusts us with a task we can accomplish. God has expectations and gives us a task we are capable of doing. He is not a God that gives us something we cannot do. Doing something that is impossible cannot be called a responsibility. Our parent, God, does not even think about things we cannot take responsibility over. People ignore extremely small tasks and tasks without difficulties. Even in Adam’s family, Eve made a mistake in a very small task. It was a task that she could have easily done. Eve should have known how to give and take with God and ask Him. She was not meant to act as she pleased.
God will not give me a responsibility I cannot bear, so I have to go out with the conviction and belief that I can do it.
This gives you strong power and strength. Parents never give me an impossible goal or responsibility. If God gives me an impossible goal, then God is not God, God is not a parent. A teacher never gives impossible homework to a student. That is why you need to believe.
“Oh, I cannot do that. Maybe (that is) very difficult for me.” Do not think that way. You need to believe that God will not give me a responsibility I cannot bear. That is why you need to have that kind of concept and conviction and belief that I can do it. Before you try something, (if you feel that) it is impossible and difficult and (you have) all kinds of complaints and excuses, this and that, this is not the right attitude. You need to believe in God. God will never give us a trial we cannot overcome. If God gives us an impossible goal and task, then he is not a parent.
No matter how great a responsibility you feel it is, you must start with the smallest of the tasks you have been given and do it diligently. A person who puts all his heart and sincerity into a very small task can fulfill his responsibilities even if he is entrusted with a big task.
However, if you ignore and neglect the very little things, you will inevitably make a mistake even in the big things.
2. But when Eve was tempted by the archangel, she was in a fantasy. As she grew bigger and older, she was curious about everything. She became curious about the heart that was constantly being drawn horizontally. Eve should have lived while maintaining a stable relationship with the Father and discussing even the smallest things. Had she been close to her Father, there would have been no room for fantasizing. Eve had to stay close to God and should not keep a distance, but when they did, a space was created between them, so she couldn't avoid fantasizing. It was inevitable. Just as the wind blows in when the door is left open, it is inevitable that fantasies will occur if the distance is far.
Eve's fall occurred from a heartistic distance from God.
Have you heard of this term? “Heartistic distance.”
When the subject and the object become one, there is no heartistic distance there.
Eve had to live asking God about even the smallest thing.
From Eve’s infancy if she was curious and wanted to know something, (she should have) asked God, “What is this? What is that?” She needed to have that kind of habit: asking and receiving an answer. Even in small things. But she did not ask. She decided everything by herself. When she became a teenager, she still had the same habit of deciding by herself.
When True Father started knowing God's will, one of his inner slogans was that he should always ask God and without receiving an answer, he never acted. Wow! Even though he knew very clearly what (he should) do, he always asked God and until he got confirmation, he never acted. That is the way True Father could fulfill his portion of responsibility.
You always need to get confirmation from God, even though you feel very sure, (your thought and mind are the) same as God’s thought and God’s mind.
But (Father) always asked God, “Is it sure or not?” God would say “Yes,” and then he would take action. That was the messiah’s habit and action.
How about fallen man? (If) we decide everything by ourself (and) never ask Abel, then we will never change our life. This is important.
This is because the Fall happened when (Adam and Eve) judged and decided centered on the self without asking God.
Even in our life of faith, if there is a heartistic distance in our relationship with Abel, Satan will always come in horizontally. Therefore, the life of faith is a way to value the vertical relationship.
Had Adam and Eve made the habit of asking God for very little things from an early age, they would never have fallen as teenagers.
That is why this kind of lifestyle is very important. When you raise your children, you need to have very good give-and-take action with your children. There (must be) no heartistic distance. Children (should) always ask and parents (should) give answers.
From a young age between parents and children if there is heartistic distance, not much conversation, not much communicating with each other, then when they become teenagers and 20s and 30s, they become more distant.
Even at home, the problem is heartistic distance. If there is a heartistic distance between parents and children, husband and wife, brothers and sisters, Cain and Abel, Satan will surely come in.
Where there is heartistic distance, Satan can invade, can attack. You need to know that the purpose of your reporting life is not just to report. The purpose of your reporting is to become one with the heart. You need heartistic communication, not only for (the sake of) reporting. Through reporting and communicating, you become one heartistically.
Many people say you need to report to your Abel. “Even though I don’t like (him), what I learned is that I need to report.” You need to know the purpose of reporting. (It is) in order to make a heartistic relationship, heartistic unity. If there is a heartistic relationship between husband and wife, then no problems occur. Why do husband and wife and Cain and Abel fight each other? It begins from a heartistic distance.
3. We who live a life of faith must know that we belong to God. I am a temple where God dwells in. That is why the Bible says “Do you not know that you are a temple of God?” When we say that God is God and I am myself, a distance is created. Therefore, we must know that we are God’s belonging and live a God-centered life. The life of faith is knowing that each person belongs to God. In other words, it is to know that God and I are parent and child. Therefore, I am a being that is to be in close contact with Heaven. If we say, “My circumstances are my circumstances, and God’s circumstances are God’s circumstances,” we cannot establish the victorious conditions for restoration through indemnity. Therefore, when I am in close contact with Heaven, I can be victorious in the course of restoration through indemnity.
Self-denial, in another sense, is treating oneself as belonging to Heaven.
If I do not regard myself as God('s?), my circumstances and God's circumstances are divided.
If you think of yourself as God’s, you automatically realize heartistic harmony with Abel. There is no longer a gap in heart.
4. When I am suffering, I have to think of my suffering as the suffering of the Lord. When Jesus was carrying the cross, all his disciples should have voluntarily said, “I will take up your cross”. When a relationship becomes close in heart like this, through such a relationship, you become Heaven’s and when you see what the Lord has suffered, you will feel that you are also suffering. When we become one in heart like this, we try to bear the cross. Then Satan cannot accuse us. There is no room for Satan to enter. Through the alignment of heart that I am Heaven, we can block Satan. We are the ones who tend to have bad relationships without realizing it. So, first of all, you have to be people who can take good responsibility for yourself.
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Three Actions:
1. Deny Yourself.
2. Take up Your Cross.
3. Follow Jesus
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If I regard myself as God's, I think of my suffering as the Lord's suffering, my cross as the Lord's cross, and my joy as the Lord's joy.
By considering myself as God's, I can achieve heartistic unity and build a parent-child relationship. (Then) they try to carry each other's crosses. There is no accusation of Satan there.
5. The human mind is made up of intellect, emotion, and will. Given the original nature of intellect-emotion-will, we have a responsibility. First, there is the responsibility of thinking, the second is the heart responsibility, and finally, there is the responsibility of the action. We must take responsibility of how to do what God says to do or not to do. When you do not know, ask questions and pray. Even fallen parents do not give stones to their children when they ask for bread. How could Heavenly Father not give something better? We must know of and ask God as a better person than human parents. We have to think that God is better than our parents. In this way, if God truly loves us and I also truly love God, there is nothing we cannot ask. There are no secrets. When you say that you love Him, but you have a secret you can't tell, you are not actually close. If you cannot tell secrets while saying that you like God, then Satan will have to enter.
Humans have three major responsibilities. The first is thinking. You have to think well. You have to distinguish whether your thoughts are of the spirit or of the flesh. The thoughts of the spirit are eternal life, but the thoughts of the flesh are death.
That is why everything starts with thinking. If you do not know how to distinguish good and evil from (through?) thinking, that is a problem. You need to prevent yourself from thinking (?evil?): “Is this Satanic thinking or God’s thinking? Is this thinking of the spirit or of the flesh.” You need to start from there. Thinking is really the beginning point. When evil thinking comes, you need to know how to get rid of that. And when you start thinking something, (ask,) “Is this a good thing or a bad thing?” Everything begins from thinking.
Here we say the human mind is made of intellect. The intellect is the representative of thinking. You need to know how to distinguish (between good and evil).
However, when your thoughts are confused and you cannot discern good and evil, you must ask a subject partner. Being self-centered and judging without asking is the fall.
The second is responsibility of the heart. In any situation, you should look at the heart of your parents. In a nutshell, the responsibility of the heart is that I take the attitude of filial piety, centering on my parents. You should live with the heart of filial piety that always serves your parents.
The third is responsibility for your actions. You have responsibility for your actions. You have to do things you can take responsibility for. Actions that do not go through the center or actions that are not permitted are likely to eventually lead to self-indulgence.
That’s why whatever you do, when you act, you have to be responsible for your actions.
6. Whenever Eve had a change of heart, she should have asked God, but any time she felt something new or had any questions, she left it alone. If Eve had been really close to God, when the archangel asked if she wanted to eat the fruit, she would have asked, “Why is that?” and “for what purpose?” The archangel, who was in the position of a servant, was in a position to help Eve, not to interfere with Eve's thoughts. It is like how it would be disrespectful for a person in a lower position asking a person in a higher position about their situation. You must not bring it down to your position. The archangel, who was in the position of a servant, was not in a position where he could command Eve to do this or that. However, if you look at the archangel's temptation to Eve, you can see that there was a distance between Eve and God.
If you look at the archangel tempting Eve, you can see that there was a distance between Eve and God already.
If there is a heartistic distance between you and the subject partner, Satan will surely enter.
Therefore, the external unity between the subject and the object is not important, but they should be very close in heart. Then Satan will never be able to overcome it.
If there are heartistic relationships between parents and children, then children never run away. (If there is) a heartistic relationship between husband and wife, the husband or wife will never run away from you. Everything begins from heartistic distance. That is why you need to have a heartistic relationship all the time.
If there is oneness between husband and wife centering on heart, we can resolve any problems. Adam and Eve’s fall began from heartistic distance.
7. Eve had a lot of her own curiosities. But when those curiosities came about, she should have asked God about them. She should have asked God why the archangel was so interested in her when her Father told her not to eat the fruit. If she had done so, she shouldn’t have eaten it until the time He said “eat the fruit.” Here is what you need to know. They must have heard God say that when He created them, there are things He cannot intervene in. Here, Eve would understand her Father’s situation of not being able to say something. From human beings’ standpoint, since the fulfillment of responsibility resembles God’s creativity, it is our responsibility to manage it well and become God.
The basis and responsibility of our life of faith is to first, report, second, contact, and third, ask questions and receive counseling whenever there is confusion.
Then why do we have to live a life of reporting to Abel like this? In the end, it is to become one in heart. So it shouldn't be done conditionally. If you do it conditionally, you will be heartistically separated from Abel.
That is why we need to do it willingly and happily. Through reporting and consulting (counseling?) and contacting, you need to know that (you will) become closer and closer, finally creating heartistic unity.
This is beautiful guidance from Father. Today we have learned how to unify the mind and body. And we have learned many things from youth ministry.♦
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