Ep 510 - The Movement for the Unification for North and South Korea Part 1
The Movement for the Unification of North and South Korea 145-30-13-40 - March 19, 2022
I am really happy every morning I can see my beloved brothers and sisters through Zoom. I have received many responses not just from America and Canada (but) from all over the world. Whenever I receive (these) messages, I am so inspired. I really appreciate these kinds of modern techniques. We can really use these techniques to spread True Parents’ good news and we can share our Divine Principle everywhere.
(Showing photos) Yesterday I had a breakfast meeting with Dallas members. I gave guidance to them to have a clear vision centered on God’s will. I talked to them one by one, hearing their reports. It was a good time to have a personal touching experience. One of my ministries is personal touch. It is very important. Parents want to touch each child’s heart through personal touching.
Whenever we do any ministry, we need to have that kind of personal touch. We need to hear (people) one by one. Even though you don’t have time, recognize them and express your heart (to them). I feel that each one of them is True Parents’ child and my child as well. It was a very beautiful time. Thank you so much to our … arrangement and to John Jackson and Joshua supporting so much.
In the evening I attended an ACLC/YCLC program. It was a very hopeful and successful event. Many young leaders and YCLC and CARP members supported (the event). This event was very good. Joshua shared the YCLC and Dallas CARP offered beautiful songs. Wow! God is raising our Joshua as a youth leader. He has a lot of potential to do something for our American providence in the future.
I also gave a speech to Christian ministers and young people.
Today I’d like to talk about “The Movement for the Unification of North and South Korea” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
God searches for you patiently. He uses the tactic of first taking the blow, then later taking back what is rightfully His. When the evil world persecutes and attacks you face on, heavenly fortune will help you overcome everything and propel you forward. God gave my husband and me many opportunities to experience this. Receiving prosecution is another secret method to inheriting ownership over the enemy. Heavenly fortune will always protect those who love God. Even when there is an enemy that God wants to kill, why can't He punish him? It is because He knows that that person has parents, a wife, and children that still love him. God has also shed a valley of tears and therefore is incapable of striking the whip when He feels the hearts of His enemy's parents, wife and children, who love his enemy more than anyone.
When you feel this heart of God, would you be able to take revenge on your enemy? On the contrary, after becoming aware of this, you must help your enemy. Then you, who strive to embrace everyone with love, will stand close to the way of heavenly law, and there heaven and earth will tremble and even God will shed tears. He will be overjoyed that you resemble Him. Now, because we know God's heart, you can understand why we should love our enemies. The strength to love your enemy does not come from knowledge, money or power.
Only true love has that kind of strength. Therefore, you need to overcome the obstacle of regarding North Korea and South Korea as enemies for the sake of your sons, daughters, and parents whom you love, and have hope for unification through sacrificial true love. The reunification we long for is only possible with a mindset of sacrificial true love and living for the sake of even our enemies. Just as parents care for their child, or brothers care for one another, you should have deep empathy for the North Korean people's pain and meet them within God's unchanging true love. (1992.05.11, Incheon Gymnasium, Korea)
True Mother said that Satan’s tactic is to hit first and take away, and God’s tactic is to be hit first and then take away.
Today, we will learn about the tactics of God and Satan through True Father's words.
God’s Strategy is to be Struck First and Claim Damages Later
<303-009> “Although the Unification Church was persecuted, it has developed while being persecuted. How could it have developed? It is because God protected it. If a guiltless person is persecuted, he or she comes to automatically stand on God’s side and be in the realm of God’s protection. God is automatically supposed to protect him or her. He needs to protect him or her while he or she is growing. This is a law of nature. This is why the Unification Church has developed even though it was persecuted. Therefore, God’s strategy is to be struck first and later to reclaim what was lost; Satan always strikes first but comes to ruin later. God is always struck first and takes back what is His with all the interest that has accrued. He reclaims the principal plus interest. Do you understand?
<303-009> Everyone in the world has opposed me. They opposed me, not only on the earth but also in the spirit world. Satan connected the whole world in order to oppose me. However, even though Satan struck first, he had to return the principal plus interest. Satan always strikes first and takes what he wants, but eventually he falls into ruin. On the other hand, people who are persecuted come to claim what was under Satan’s dominion. God and Satan have walked opposite paths. God has followed the strategy of being struck first and then taking back what was His. On the other hand, Satan has struck first, but later he had to return what he took. In the end, Satan is falling into a bottomless pit, hell; he is falling into ruin. Is it true? (Yes.)
<303-009> “The strategy of Heaven is to be struck first and later to claim what was lost; Satan strikes first but has to return what he took. God is struck first, but later can claim back what was lost with the compensation of several hundred times what accrued during all the years that Satan held it. I have suffered for 40 years in order to change history---to reverse 4,000 years of history and to straighten out the history of tens of thousands of years. If someone strikes first, he or she should be the one who apologizes. A person who strikes first always comes to stand on the side of evil. On the other hand, a person who is struck stands on Heaven’s side.”
Heaven’s tactic is to be struck first and claim back. Satan strikes and perishes. Heaven’s strategy is to always be struck and claim interest as well.
Although the Unification Church suffered persecution, it has developed through persecution. The side that gets struck first always receives sympathy from Heaven. Therefore, the persecuted church has always received protection from God.
Even Christianity, how it developed. How many people persecuted Christianity. How many people persecuted the Unification Church. Major religions have already received that kind of persecution. Just now Father said that God’s strategy is to be struck first and then to claim damages later. We need to understand this strategy very well.
You should know that big blessings come in proportion to the degree of persecution and opposition you receive.
To be persecuted means to inherit the foundation and ownership laid down by the enemy.
Therefore, persecution and opposition are blessings. If you deal with it properly without challenging (it), there will be no obstacles or persecution from Satan in your life path.
Therefore, when you face persecution and go down the path of suffering, do not try to avoid it, but confront it head-on.
True Father says, “This path of suffering is a gift that Heavenly Father gave to love me, and I need to know how to receive it with gratitude.”
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 26 - Family Perfection is the Completion of the 4 Great Realms of Heart
Based on Dr. Sang Hun Lee’s explanation.
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.
(6) Conjugal Love as a Representative Love
1. Out of the 4 loves, children’s love, siblings love, conjugal love, and parents love, it is the conjugal love which is the representative of all.
2. This is because as stated earlier, the husband represents all men in a family, and the wife represents all women in the family, and each represents one of God’s sexuality.
3. Man is in the position representing half of all humankind (all men), and women is in the position representing the other half (all women). Furthermore husbands represent the positive aspect of the universe’s individual embodiment of truth and wives represent the negative aspect of the universe.
Conjugal love is representative all (family love). Man is in the position representing half of humankind, all men. And woman is in the position representing half of all humankind, all women. Therefore I need to love my husband in the position representing half of humankind, all men. And I need to love my wife in the position representing half of all humankind, all women. To love my wife is to love half of the universe. To love my husband is to love half of the universe as well. Therefore when husband and wife become one, the universe becomes one. If I lose my husband, I lose half of the universe. If I lose my wife, I lose half of the universe. How beautiful it is! With this kind of concept when we love each other as husband and wife, how beautiful it is!
4. Conjugal love in a family represents love on the man’s side and woman’s side, God’s yang and yin, humankind’s masculine love and feminine love, and the positive and negative aspects which each make up half of the universe. Therefore conjugal love becomes the representative love.
5. That is to say, not only God’s love but the love of all creation including human beings is contained inside of conjugal love. Thus conjugal love is the representative of family love.
Conjugal love is the love that represents all love, as we just learned. However, parental love is the love that represents the depth of love. Do you understand? This is very important.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Three Kinds of Crosses (Series 4)
I will talk about the three types of crosses maybe today and tomorrow. I think we need to learn many things from this. Dr. Ward just spoke about this. (There is) the theory connecting left and right wing and communism and democracy centering on Jesus and headwing knowledge. Many things we need to learn based on these three kinds of crosses.
1. A woman named Mary Magdalene anointed Jesus' feet and wept when she learned that the Lord was leaving. Then, Jesus praised the woman, saying “Wherever my words speak, her name will be remembered forever.” When she anointed perfume on Jesus' feet, she was registered in the eternal kingdom of heaven. How was Mary Magdalene remembered in the kingdom of heaven? She was registered with her tears. Tears are external results, but actually, they are forever remembered in the heart of Jesus and God. This means that the faith of the thief on the right-side cross was able to receive salvation thanks to him holding onto the Lord heartistically while carrying his own cross.
How was a woman named Mary Magdalene forever recorded in the heart of Jesus?
According to Luke 8:2, Mary Magdalene was possessed by seven demons but found favor with Jesus. She received the grace of Jesus and never forgot it.
Everyone ran away after being cured of their sickness by Jesus.
Mary Magdalene was the only one among those who were healed by Jesus who, in a way, followed Jesus to the end, longed for him, and knew his heart.
Because she knew how Jesus felt, she had a foreboding that Jesus would be crucified and die. In this way, when hearts are connected and become one, you will know what will happen to the other person.
If you love the Lord, you will definitely keep His Word. You can surely live a life that follows the Lord’s Word. Love and obedience are inseparable.
When you love someone, you absolutely obey them, right? You love True Parents, so you absolutely obey them, right? If you love your spouse, no matter what he says, you will follow him, right? That’s why where there is love, there is obedience. Inseparable. (It is) not obedience by force. Naturally, voluntarily. That is why we speak of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. When we truly love God, we can obey him absolutely. That is why Father said that the level of absolute obedience is higher than that of absolute faith and absolute love. Because obedience means without loving how can you obey? Without trusting someone how can you obey? Obedience is the greatest one. Sometimes Father touched on this.
If you love, you obey. If you love God, you obey God. If you truly love True Parents, you will absolutely obey them. Mary Magdalene truly loved Jesus, and she obeyed him to the end.
Mary Magdalene was registered with her tears in the heart of Jesus. If we practice faith that only looks good on the outside, we cannot understand each other’s hearts even if we live together. A couple (who have lived together a long time may) not know about each other. Even after living together for a long time, they still do not know each other.
This is a problem of heart. There is really a heartistic distance. How come Mary Magdalene understood Jesus very well? Because of heartistic closeness. That is everything. That is why Father said, even though you are my children, … there is no heartistic oneness. You are my neighbor. Mary Magdalene completely united with Jesus and became one heart (with him). The right-hand thief did the same (with Jesus). We are talking about the world of heart.
In Luke 23:26, Mary Magdalene was one of the people who followed Jesus when he was condemned to be crucified, beating her chest and weeping for him.
In Matthew 27:56 (Mark 15:40), when Jesus died on the cross, Mary Magdalene watched with some women without leaving until the end.
After Jesus died, all of them went home, and Mary Magdalene was the last woman left. As she wept, she continued to look for the body of Jesus. (John 20:10)
In John 10:4-5, Jesus' sheep hear his voice. Mary was the first to hear the voice of the resurrected Jesus. When you become one heartistically like this, all the pain of the other person comes to you as your own. When we truly become one with God's heart, we can feel God's pain and God’s sorrow.
When Jesus resurrected, whom did Jesus meet first? He met Mary Magdalene first. She was the one who discovered the resurrected Jesus first. Jesus came to whom? Those who really understood Jesus’ heart. That is why the world of the kingdom (of heaven) is what? The world of heart.
The thief carrying the cross on the right was able to be saved thanks to holding on to the Lord in his heart while carrying his cross. What we need to know is that if we hold on to the suffering of Jesus, our suffering will disappear.
As Unification Church members, if we hold on to True Parents' pain when we are in pain, our suffering will disappear quickly. This is the secret to overcoming hardship.
When True Parents were faced with countless hardships, persecutions and tortures, they were able to overcome by holding on to the hardship and suffering of God and comforting Him.
We can learn from Jesus, from the right-hand thief and from our beloved True Parents.
2. How is our church today? There are many believers on the left cross, but aren’t right cross believers rare? We talk about the right side thief in technical Principle terms, but we can see them as someone who went beyond the Foundation of Faith and obtained the Foundation of Substance. Even in our church today, it is difficult to find a believer in the cross on the right. There are many left cross believers, but believers of the right-side cross are rare. Believers who are like the right-side cross can be seen as those who have come to the stage before receiving the Blessing. It can be said that those who have been blessed by joining the Unification Church today must at least have faith in the cross on the right-side.
The faith of the thief on the left is the level of servant in the formation stage. They know God’s Will, but they still cannot overcome their own fallen nature. They change easily depending on the situation, and have much dissatisfaction and complaint.
The faith of the thief on the right is the level of an adopted son in the growth stage. Knowing God’s Will, he can distinguish between good and evil, righteousness and unrighteousness. He takes his own cross. He wants to know the Lord's circumstances and participate. He does his best to live his life according to God’s Will. However, he has not yet fully experienced the heart of God and True Parents.
The cross in the middle that Jesus carried is the level of filial son. (It is) a cross he carried for God and humankind. He comforts God and True Parents in any situation and lives a life of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience.
3. Those who carry the right cross have a different level of faith. The heart of the believer of that right cross is really wonderful. Seeing that the Lord was so pitiful that He was carrying the cross without any wrongdoing and having sympathy for Jesus, it is like Mary Magdalene, who knew the Lord was going to die on the cross, and cherished the Lord's sorrow and anointed His feet with perfume. It's amazing. It is not an ordinary person when you see that he was concerned about the Lord by saying that he himself took up the cross, bled and felt pain right before his death, criticizing the thief on the left who accuses Jesus, and that Jesus carried the cross to Jesus without any wrongdoing.
4. Today we cannot afford to worry that others will suffer if we suffer. When I'm hungry, I can't afford to know how hungry others are. When my circumstances are unfortunate, I can’t afford to be concerned about how others are more unfortunate than I. But this thief on the right side, who was shedding blood himself, was able to be concerned for Jesus. In this way, he was someone heartistically close to Jesus. Jesus also came to this earth with the will of God, and he carried the disbelief of the world on his cross. Jesus had pain and worries for His will and to embrace all people. But how amazing is that heart that the thief on the right could be concerned about Jesus even while carrying his cross? Of course, he talked about his circumstances, but it is praise-worthy that he was concerned about a good man.
When I am in pain, if I hold onto the Lord’s pain and comfort the Lord while crying, my pain will soon disappear and peace will come to my heart. However, many people do not know this secret of love.
If I carry a cross that is bigger than the one I carry, I experience God comforting me. It feels difficult to carry a bigger cross, but in fact, you can gain greater spiritual strength.
When the thief on the right bore his own cross and testified that the cross of Jesus was unjust, he was able to overcome all physical pain.
That is why when I meet God’s pain through my pain, this is the only way of healing my pain and suffering. That is why when you feel pain without feeling God’s pain, you cannot have the experience of healing. When you have pain and suffering, you need to encounter God’s suffering and pain. This is the way we can be healed.
5. When a poor family shares food that is not enough for everyone to eat, if there is a child who wants to eat more, but he does not eat and tells his parents to eat first, then he is a filial son. When you see a family in harmony with each other, I should always yield to others first. Give it to someone else first. Even among the church members, there are members who think about the difficulties of the person in charge of their church when they themselves are in difficulty. There are immature church members who focus on their own thoughts, but there are also filial members who are more concerned about their Abel than their own worries.
Who is a filial son? Who is a filial daughter? A filial son or filial daughter is one who bears his parents’ cross.
A harmonious family tries to bear the cross of each other.
In a church that is harmonious and developing all the time, members try to bear the cross of the church.
As I try to carry a bigger cross, my own cross becomes lighter; it brings unimaginable peace of mind, and spiritual power comes pouring in. This is True Parents’ and Jesus’ secret in overcoming the cross.♦
(Response to sharing) When I remember True Father’s life in Heung Nam Prison, his suffering, his torture, his difficulties, this kind of experience of Father’s experience in life really (has an) impact on me. Then my (suffering) is really nothing (by comparison). I really appreciate Jesus’ model life. Why could he forgive his enemy (while) on the cross? He was suffering so much pain and shedding blood from his head, hands, legs and chest. How did he have that kind of heart. Everybody (in that situation would normally) concentrate (on their own situation) because it is so painful. There is (normally) no time to concentrate on others. Jesus’ quality of love is really amazing, really true love! Automatically we can confess he is our lord; he is really the son of God. When we look at our True Father in Heung Nam Prison and (at True Parents’) life, we can learn so many things.♦
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.♦