Ep 507 - Ending The Cold War Part 3
Ending the Cold War 142-27-13-40 - March 16, 2022
(Response to sharing) Every moment is important, yes. That is an important realization. Every moment is actually eternity. We need to focus on every second, every moment as eternity. Do not waste even one second or one minute. If we have that mindset and attitude, wow! In every moment we can be very faithful.
(Concerning) CheonBo. “I don’t know how to achieve CheonBo and become a CheonBo family.” I am telling you, it looks as if it is not easy, but when you are determined to do it and you have vision, God will surely help you (with) how to break through. Even though you don’t have anything (and) there is no possibility, but you believe in God -- where there is God’s will, there is a way -- when you are resolved, “I will do it,” then God will show the way. God will provide everything. He is our sponsor.♦
Mani bogo shippoyo means I miss you so much!
I moved from Anchorage Alaska to Los Angeles, California. President Naokimi also came to Los Angeles.
We met CARP LA and Kodan mothers there.
I heard CARP LA activities reports and campus witnessing testimonies from the CARP LA members.
CARP LA students have been working together with Kodan mothers for many years to break through in witnessing on campus.
There are a lot of substantial results regarding campus witnessing through parent and child unity centering on CARP.
I visited Pasadena City College (PCC) campus and prayed with CARP LA students for the establishment of the PWPA (Professors World Peace Academy) launch in Los Angeles.
I met Professor Apiafi and Professor Innocent who are CARP LA advisers in the PCC campus.
Both of them have already finished DP and TP life course education.
After we shared an idea about the PWPA, they expressed their intention to launch and establish the PWPA in LA.
In the evening, we had dinner with YCLC Pastor Nehemiah Chigoji who is Pastor of Upland Peace church.
We had a great discussion and I encouraged him to study True Parent’s philosophy in order to bring substantial peace.
He also joined our members’ gathering. I think he has had some kind of spiritual experience. I feel he is really a chosen guy. I was so happy to see him.
After I heard testimonies about outreach activities from CARP and ACLC members, President Naokimi shared the intention and goal of (the) 2nd 50 states tour centering on our youth movement.
Finally I gave guidance about the importance of a spiritual breakthrough raising 3 spiritual children.
At the conclusion, I offered a benediction prayer for Los Angeles Family church to become a thriving youth center in the community.
Today I’d like to talk about “Ending the Cold War” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
In 1985, while the Soviet Union was at its height, Father, who was in Danbury Prison told a famous American political scientist to declare in Geneva, Switzerland, the fall of the Soviet Empire. He and many church leaders tried to dissuade Father, asking Father to reconsider and allow them to use a less definite expression, and announce that the Soviet Empire "might'' collapse. Yet Father did not allow them to change it. In the end, it happened as Father predicted. Right after Father's visit to the Soviet Union, he brought more than 3,000 Russians to America to educate them. Then a period of crisis came due to a coup, and these 3,000 young people became a strong pillar for the protection of their country. (2006.07.05, Bratislava, Slovakia)
True Father's influence led to the dismantling of statues of Lenin. True Father also cooperated with the policy of openness that Gorbachev implemented. At that time, Father brought 3,000 English-speaking Russian students to workshops in America and educated them. He said, "Communism -- as you know it -- is limited. Look at democracy. If you change the way you think and live a life of true love by living for the sake of others, the world of freedom and peace that you hope for will come.” He educated them and then sent them back to Russia. Those students were an immense help in supporting the policy of openness. The 3,000 students, who were taught in the United States, were among the students who protested against the tanks in Moscow and protected their nation from a coup d'état. (2017.03.12, Training Center)
I would like to add something more about the education of the Soviet Union students from Father’s word. Let’s study his word.
<Chambumo Gyeong, P. 893> Fifteen minutes before taking off from Moscow, I met the Minister of Culture sent by Gorbachev. He asked me, “You have a record of leading the fight to bring about the collapse of communism. As a religious person, you must be happy to see its collapse. What is the path for communists to find life?” In response, I emphatically told him that they need to worship God. To assist in this endeavor, over a period of several months I brought 3,500 to 4,000 Soviet leaders to the United States, where they received guidance using my teachings.
In this world, propitious times do not linger. The CIA was very concerned when I brought communists to the United States to be trained and then go back; but eventually, they trusted me.
Because I dealt with the Soviet leaders wisely and took the lead in guiding them, I had a foundation and they had no basis to oppose me. Even a deputy chairman of the KGB came, heard our presentations and went back. Some members of the opposition party also came.
While Gorbachev was in power, there was a coup d'état attempt that lasted three days. However, 3,000 university students laid down in front of the tanks and stopped the coup. After that, the Soviet Minister of Culture sent me a letter of gratitude. These were my experiences of history as it was in the making. Yet you have no idea how many difficulties and hardships I endured so that these events could take place.
Thank you, Father, for your incredible investment for the Soviet Union students!
The Minister of Culture, sent by Gorbachev, asked True Father a question. “If True Father is a true religious leader, wouldn't he want to see communism just perish? What is the path for communists to find life?”
True Father's answer was very fundamental and certain. He said that they must worship God.
The sin of sins is not knowing that God exists and that God is our parent.
The greatest ignorance among all ignorance is not knowing God. Communism denies the existence of God. All sins come from not knowing God and denying God. Satan denies God all the time.
True Father brought over 3,000 Soviet youths to the United States and educated them. This was a revolutionary event that was truly unimaginable at the time.
Even when True Father went to North Korea, he strongly and boldly told the North Korean communist leaders that you should not have communism and you need to accept God.
Father does not compromise with any environment. He tells them directly. That was our Father.
The most important thing in educating young Americans today is to teach them the existence of God first.
When they accept God into their outlook on life, their lives begin to change. There is a 180 degree change in their life.
Just now I mentioned what the greatest ignorance was. Originally the human mind was supposed to have functions: intellect, emotion and will. However, due to the fall of man, the three functions of the human mind have been completely paralyzed. No emotion, no intellect and no will. I would like to explain again what the greatest ignorance is.
What is the Greatest Ignorance? (No Emotion, No Intellect and No Will)
1. It is ignorance of God.
> Ignorance of God’s heart
> Ignorance that God is a Parent.
We do not know how sorrowful a God God is. We do not know his pain, his han. We do not know anything.
> Ignorance about God’s sorrow, pain, circumstances and wishes
2. It is ignorance of Satan’s identity
Who is Satan. I think many people do not know who is behind (evil).
> Ignorance of Satan’s identity
May people do not know his identity
> Ignorance of Satan’s evil deed (false life, false lineage and false love)
That is Satan.
3. It is ignorance of life
Even though we were born as human beings, we do not know the purpose of life, the world after death, good and evil …
> The purpose of life, the world after death, good and evil, etc.
Because of the fall human beings became completely ignorant. The greatest ignorance was what? We do not know God. We do not know he is our parent. The most important thing is to let people know about God’s existence and that he is our eternal parent.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 26 - Family Perfection is the Completion of the 4 Great Realms of Heart
This is another new chapter: family perfection is the completion of the four great realms of heart. This is important content. Until now we have spoken about unity between mind and body, how to achieve the First Blessing. Today I would (like to) speak about how to achieve the Second Blessing, which is Family Perfection. It is based on the completion of the four great realms of heart.
Let’s study EDP content first.
• In order to fulfill God's second blessing, individually-perfected Adam and Eve, by joining in loving oneness as husband and wife and raising children, should have constructed a God-centered four position foundation in their family.
• A family or society that has formed the four position foundation in line with God's ideal is patterned after the image of a perfect individual. It thus becomes the substantial object partner to the individual who lives in oneness with God, and consequently, it also becomes the substantial object partner to God.
• The individual feels joy, and likewise God feels joy, when each perceives in this family or community the manifestation of his own internal nature and external form.
• Thus, when God's second blessing is fulfilled, this family or community also becomes a good object partner giving joy to God.
Today I would like to introduce the four great realms of heart. When Father proclaimed the four great realms of heart, he asked (Dr.) Sang Hun Lee to arrange a proper lecture on the meaning of the four great realms of heart. I directly participated when he delivered this speech. I was a student in Korea at the time. Let’s study what he shared based on Father’s direction. It is a very clear explanation based on the point of view of Unification Thought.
The Completion of the 2nd Blessing is the Completion of the 4 Great Realms of Heart
“This text is the preaching about the 4 great realms of heart and 3 great kingships given by the writer of the Unification Thought Director Lee Sang Hun on January 17th, 1993, at dawn in the rally of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity.”
The Background for the Emergence of the 4 Great Realms of Heart and 3 Great Kingships
On Aug. 25th, 1992, there were the affirmation of vows in the 30 thousand couple International Joint Wedding Ceremony, where out of the 4 affirmation of vows, the last one asked the question, “Do you promise to realize an ideal family and establish the 4 great realms of heart and 3 great kingships?” in which all 30 thousand couples answered “Yes.” This means that to realize an ideal family, the establishment of the 4 great realms of heart and 3 Great Kingships is the most important.
An ideal family is the basic unit in realizing an ideal society. Therefore in order to realize an ideal family it is necessary to clearly understand the 4 great realms of heart and 3 Great Kingships. This applies not only to the 30 thousand couples but to all blessed families.
Let’s study what the concept of Shimjeong means.
(1) Concept of Shimjeong
In order to understand the meaning of the 4 great realms of heart, you have to know the meaning of shimjeong first. Shimjeong is the nature or emotional impulse to gain happiness through love. In other words it is the unbearable emotional desire of wanting to love. Because of God’s emotional impulse, due to the unbearable desire of wanting to love He created human beings as his object, and for human being’s object partner of joy, He created all things.
God created man not out of necessity, but out of an unbearable desire to love the object.
When parents wish to have children, they create out of an unbearable desire to possess the object partner rather than out of necessity.
I would like to explain in more detail:
God is a God of Heart [Shimjeong]
“The emotional impulse that cannot help but live for the sake of others, that cannot help but love others, that cannot help but sacrifice for the sake of others. In other words, the emotional impulse that has to love no matter what.”
What is heart [shimjeong]?
I would like to explain more in detail.
1. God has the emotional impulse that cannot help but live for the sake of others.
2. God has the emotional impulse that cannot help but love for the sake of others.
3. God has the emotional impulse that cannot help but sacrifice for the sake of others.
4. God has the emotional impulse that has to love no matter what.” (he almost cannot control it…)
5. Heart [shimjeong] is much deeper than love. Love is thus external, while shimjeong is internal.
(2) Realm of Shimjeong
1. Definition of Realm of Shimjeong: Scope of Shimjeong’s object is the scope of love’s object.
2. Because Shimjeong is the emotional impulse of wanting to love, it definitely appears as an action, and that action is love.
3. Shimjeong and love are closely related. Therefore the scope of Shimjeong’s object becomes the scope of love’s object.
4. The 4 great realms of heart are parental heart, conjugal heart, sibling’s heart, and children’s heart.
5. Because Shimjeong and love are closely related, the 4 great realms of heart are the 4 great loves. In other words, parental love, conjugal love, sibling’s love, and children’s love.
I really appreciate Father’s clear declaration and explanation about God’s heart. Many cannot explain about God’s Heart in detail, but Father clearly explains what God’s heart means?
It means parental heart plus conjugal heart plus siblings’ heart plus children’s heart.
These four kinds of heart all combined together are God’s heart. God’s heart appears sometimes through parental heart and sometimes it appears through conjugal heart, sometimes through siblings’ heart and sometimes children’s heart. That is why in order to experience God’s heart, you need to experience the family. without establishing a family how can you experience parental heart, conjugal heart, siblings’ heart and children’s heart. Without the experience of the family, you will never understand God’s heart.
God’s structure of the kingdom of heaven is based on the family. What can we learn from the family? We can inherit and learn what God’s heart means. In order to understand God’s heart you need to experience children’s and siblings’ heart. You need to marry and then experience conjugal heart. And then finally you become parents and give birth to babies and you can experience the parental heart. This is really clear.
Why do we need to establish the family? WIthout establishing the family we do not know God’s heart.
If you do not marry and are a single man, how can you know the parental heart? Wow! Why do we need to marry and establish a family? In order to experience God’s heart. God has a parental heart. Even fallen human beings almost cannot control (themselves) when they love their own children.
Recently with my family then(?), my grandchildren follow(?) very often. Wow! Whenever I see my grandchildren, my heart is really stimulated. Very much. No need to explain. I don’t know how to explain it.
If fallen human beings are like that, how about God who has not experienced the fall? If human beings had not fallen and (had) inherited God’s will directly, God’s heart directly and had experienced God’s heart, how amazing and beautiful the world of the heart (would have been).
Father discovered (that) the structure of the kingdom of heaven is based on the family because of these four great realms of heart. Do you understand? Heart is much deeper than love. When we talk about centering on the four kinds of love, we can speak of parental love, conjugal love, siblings’ love and children’s love.
(3) Vertical Love, Horizontal Love, and Family Love
1. Vertical Love: Elder’s love for the young, a love that flows from up to down, God’s love for humankind, and the love of a parent to children.
This vertical love between God and human beings is vertical love that flows from above to below. That is why parental love is vertical love, the same as God’s love. How much God loves human beings as a parent! That is why the parents’ position is the position of God because parental love represents vertical love.
2. Horizontal Love: Horizontal love is towards the sides; the love between siblings and couples.
3. Siblings Love: The love between brothers and sisters, between siblings.
4. Parental love, conjugal love, siblings love, and children’s love are all practiced in the family and thus are called family love.
I am really a lucky guy. I received the blessing and now I have all kinds of experience, not just parental love but grandparental love. Wow! Without knowing this taste, if I (were to) go to the spiritual world, what an unfortunate guy (I would be). This is the fundamental structure of the kingdom of heaven based on the four great realms of heart. It is vertical and horizontal and family love.
Parental love, conjugal love, and children’s love, these three loves are called 3 object love in the Principle. When looking at God as the subject, because parents, couples, and children are all God’s objects, in other words because parents, couples, children are God’s 3 objects, they are called the 3 object loves in the principle. Consequently, the 4 great loves based on the 4 great realms of heart is sibling’s love added to the 3 great loves.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Three Kinds of Crosses (Series 1)
I would like to talk centering on the topic of three crosses. We can learn many things from this title. I would like to share dividing (it into) five(?) times. Let’s study the Bible first.
Luke 23:32-43: 26 As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.
32 Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with him to be executed.
33 When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left.
34 Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.
35 The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, “He saved others; let him save himself if he is God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.”
36 The soldiers also came up and mocked him. They offered him wine vinegar
37 and said, “If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.”
38 There was a written notice above him, which read: this is the king of the jews.
39 One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”
40 But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence?
41 We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”
42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
43 Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
Based on these three kinds of crosses, what can we learn from this sermon title?
1. When Jesus was going out to Golgotha, there was a person who carried the cross for Him out of nowhere. In Luke 23:26, it says, “As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.” In the Bible, there is a man named Simon who came to see Jerusalem from the countryside, was arrested without reason, and carried the cross in place of Jesus. It was not his cross, but he carried the cross of Jesus. It is said that God and Jesus felt grateful to him and would specially call his descendants to save them in the future.
2. When Jesus was nailed to the cross, there were two people who were crucified on the right side and the left side centering on Jesus. First of all, the person crucified on the cross on the left side of Jesus physically took up the cross, but we can see that he did not bear the cross in heart when he told Jesus, “You saved many people by performing signs and wonders. Save yourself and us!” What we need to think about here is on whose behalf the thief on the left carried the cross for, and what kind of person this type of person represents. From the standpoint of our faith, we can compare this type of person to the kind of person who goes to church well physically but complains in heart.
3. This is because the thief on the left is someone who believes outwardly and goes to church, but has not been resurrected in his heart. Even though they go to church, this kind of person wants to live a good life centered on the body and wants their body to be saved. In other words, when the thief on the left said to the Lord, “Please save us,” he only wished that his body would be freed from suffering. Among those who believe today, there are people who ask for physical pain and sickness to be removed and healed, but such people can be seen as people who have not been resurrected in their hearts. There may be many members of the church similar to the thief on the left who complain to their siblings with their hearts and cannot get along with them. Also, it is easy for anyone to think that way.
4. Let's think of the word “cross” as simply “pain” or “suffering.” In the text, Simon of Cyrene, a bystander, also carried the cross, which means that everyone living on this earth today suffers from carrying the cross. Currently, each of us is suffering in our own way. It is true that everyone is carrying the cross of suffering and pain, but the most important question is what kind of cross we carry and what kind of suffering we are experiencing. As shown in the text, we will try to discuss it by broadly classifying it into three types. However, the problem is that there are many believers who believe with their bodies, but have not been resurrected in their hearts.
Every human being carries a cross without exception. What kind of cross do you carry?
Centering on Jesus, there were three types of crosses, including a left cross and a right cross.
Like the thief on the left, there are people who carry a cross with complaints when their self-centered wishes do not come true. And like the thief on the right, there are people who know the value of the Lord and bear testimony to the Lord while on the cross, even as they die. Also, like the Lord, there are people who bear the cross for God and all of humankind.
(There are) three types of cross. What kind of cross are you carrying now? This is an important question. There are three types of crosses, right? The left-hand (thief) really complained and criticized Jesus. The right-hand thief, what kind of cross did he bear? Even in that kind of situation, (he) testified to the lord. Who is bearing the central cross? Jesus was bearing the cross for God, for all humankind, for you, for me, for the sinner. Wow!
Everybody was bearing a cross. What kind of cross am I carrying now?
Based on this concept and thinking, let’s study more.
5. A member of the church who is not resurrected even though he goes to church is like the thief on the left. The word thief refers to a person who lives for himself. The words “thief,” “archangel,” or “robber” in the Bible represent either a self-centered person or a believer who is indebted to others. A servant is a person who works to receive a reward for doing something. He does not work for the master’s sake, but works to receive something for himself. The Bible describes such a person as a thief. Even on the way to heaven, people who go only for their salvation and for their own sake are expressed as thieves. Also, this expression “thief” is compatible with the word “unfilial piety.” A child who lives for their parents is a filial child, but a child who lives for their own circumstances is not a filial child, but a thief as expressed in the Bible.
6. In the Bible, the thief on the left can be seen as those who do not repent in their heart and believe only outwardly. Such a type of person can be said to be the thief on the left. There are many people like this in our life of faith. When a person of that kind enters the church, first of all, he seeks external benefits centered on his body. People are drawn to church because they believe that if they go, they will get a job and be cured from their diseases. There are people who have gained faith in this way. Going to church is not easy. It’s suffering. We all suffer, but we must not suffer or bear the cross like the thief on the left. Through these words, let's analyze which side you belong to. Which side of the cross do you belong to?
Great question!
Who are people with the faith of the cross on the left?
Because of limited time, today I will only speak about the cross on the left.
The person with the faith of the cross on the left goes to church but practices the faith of hypocrisy. They have never experienced a passionate resurrection spiritually or heartistically.
The person with the faith of the cross on the left focuses on their own desires and (personal) salvation.
They want to avoid their physical pain and to be healed of their physical illnesses. If their wish does not come true in their life of faith, they surely complain.
They have been connected with the church for many years, but have no experience of being resurrected. They have never met God.
Logically, they understand the True Parents as the Messiah, but their faith is often shaken depending on circumstances because they do not have certainty through spiritual experience.
While living a life of faith, they always live centered on their body, only concerned about what to eat, what to wear, what to drink. They try to satisfy worldly needs through the church.
The faith of the cross (of the person) on the left is like a servant who works to receive something for himself, not for his master.
If a child living for their parents is a filial child, then the faith of the cross on the left is a servant’s faith who does not know his parents’ circumstances.
A servant always changes his master according to circumstances whenever there is a master who benefits him.
Wow! Today I spoke about 3 crosses. What kind of cross are you bearing? We need to really reflect on that.
Tomorrow I will talk about the faith of the right-(hand thief). I would like to speak in more detail, not just about the left-(hand) and right-(hand) thieves and Jesus, but these 3 crosses teach us many things. The left side is like communism, and the right side is like democracy. Then our Jesus is the representative of Godism. These 3 crosses teach us so many things actually. We can learn more tomorrow in Youth Ministry.♦
(Response to sharing) Sometimes we are the left-hand thief; sometimes we are the right-hand thief. Our heart and mind is always a champion of here and there(?). Based on this we know that we need to bear Jesus’ cross, God’s cross, and we always need to comfort God, comfort Jesus and comfort our True Parents as filial sons and daughters. We need to bear the cross of our parents.♦
NOTE: This lightly edited transcription may contain errors and omissions. Indecipherable or uncertain words and guesses are tagged with a “(?)” and indecipherable phrases, with an ellipsis “ ...”. First, second and third person pronouns have been left as spoken if the meaning is clear, and other apparently Korean English expressions have been preserved. Some repeated phrases have been eliminated. This text and the powerpoint slides from this speech are available as pdf files at the top of this text and at text.morndev.com & yong.hoondok.com. Audio only is available at anchor.morndev.com, spotify.morndev.com & audio.morndev.com.♦