Ep 883 - God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful Ideal World 1 Part 2
God’s Ideal Family & the Kingdom of the Peaceful Ideal World I - March 27, 2023
Key Points
· God’s ultimate purpose for creating human beings was to experience joy through relating with ideal families filled with true love.
· The relationship between parent and child is the origin of the universe.
· The quickest way to cultivate a character of true love is to secure a parent-child relationship with God.
· It is only after you first seek the kingdom of God that you have your own sons and daughters and your own family.
· This is the inevitable path of destiny that our lives must take.
· Now is the time when the individual age, the family age, and the tribal age have passed and we are heading towards the global age.
· Externally, the world already has all the environments to form one great family under one God on Earth. The problem is that they do not have the ideology to become one. That is why we must take this responsibility.
· We are entering the era which protects all nations in the realm of common destiny.
· The United States must live for the sake of the world. One country’s problems become the world’s problems.
· You can see this from the economic hardships around the world because of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
· To know and embrace God’s wishes and circumstances and internally know and experience God’s heart, we are born again. The spirit world will guide us.
· We are the substantial form of God’s wish.
· We are not here because we wished to be, but because God desired us to be.
· The reason we do not realize God’s desire is because we are easily influenced by the environment and lose the words we have received Grace from.
· Don’t speak carelessly of the Grace you have received.
· We must treat the words that light up our heart as treasures and store them in our heart without showing them to others.
· Satan will try to take them away.
· Once the lamp in our heart goes out, it is difficult for our wishes to come true.
· Meditate on the words that touched your heart over and over again so that they can settle in your heart.
· Another way to raise your heart once it has become dry is to love and serve others.
· Your Heart comes alive when you serve and live for the sake of others.
Transcripts from November 3, 2021 to the present, personal notes from November 11, 2020 until November 2, 2021 and slides from August 29, 2021 to the present are available at MD.Hoondok.com as PDF files. ♦
God morning, Good morning, My dear brothers and sisters, clergy and AFP! Today I’d like to talk about “God’s Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful Ideal World I” from True Mother’s Anthology Vol.2
<This speech was given by Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon between October 3 and October 14, 2005 during a speaking tour in Japan to mark the launch of the Universal Peace Federation.>
God’s Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful Ideal World I
Respected world leaders, what do you think God's ultimate purpose is for creating human beings? Simply put, it is to experience joy through relating with ideal families filled with true love. What does an ideal family look like? First, each person in the family is an owner of true love. When God first created human beings, He made Adam representing all men, and Eve representing all women, with the intention that they become owners of true love. The quickest way for them to cultivate a character of true love was to secure a parent-child relationship with God, whereby they could live in attendance to God as their Parent. They were to have followed the path of living as one family with God. I invite you to enter into a mystical state and prayerfully ask God, “What is the center of the universe?” I am sure that the answer you hear will be the parent-child relationship. Nothing is more important or more precious than the relationship between parent and child. This is because it defines the fundamental relationship between God, the Creator, and human beings.
Then, what defines the parent-child relationship? Three things define this relationship: love, life and lineage. Without our parents' love as a precondition, none of us would be alive today. God created us out of absolute love, to be partners with Him in love. This relationship forms an axis of love, linking God the Parent with human beings as sons and daughters. Is there anything higher or more precious than to be a son or daughter of God? If anything were higher, then surely human desire would aspire to attain it. There is nothing higher. Do you think that when the omniscient and almighty God created Adam and Eve, He secretly reserved the highest position for Himself and made Adam and Eve to be only second best? We cannot imagine that God would do that to His children, partners who were created to share absolute love with Him. As our eternal True Parent, God invested 100 percent into our creation and endowed us with the right to have equal status with Him, to participate in His work as equals, to live with and to inherit from Him. God bestowed upon human beings all of His own attributes.
What do you think God's ultimate purpose is for creating human beings? Simply put, it is to experience joy through relating with ideal families filled with true love. First, each person in the family is an owner of true love.
He made Adam representing all men, and Eve representing all women, with the intention that they become owners of true love. The quickest way for them to cultivate a character of true love was to secure a parent and child relationship with God, whereby they could live in attendance to God as their Parent.
I invite you to enter into a mystical state and prayerfully ask God, “What is the center of the universe?” I am sure that the answer you hear will be the parent and child relationships. Nothing is more important or more precious than the relationship between parent and child.
Then, let's study True Father's words that the relationship between God and human beings is a parent-child relationship.
God is My Eternal Parent
<12-258> What is the origin of the universe? It is parents and children. I realized this through prayer. My parents and me -- the relationship between parent and child is the origin of the universe. So what is the relationship between God and me? God is the father and I am the son. We are the sons and daughters. The ultimate essence is the parent child relationship, and this is also the greatest goal. Therefore, we must go in search of that relationship.
The most important realization in our course of life is to know what the root of the universe is. The root of the universe is that the relationship between God and men is that of parents and children.
By realizing this, our course of life begins. True Father said that it took 5 years to get the answer through discussion and prayer with God in order to know this.
God is my eternal, unchanging, absolute and only Parent. And I am God's eternal, unchanging, absolute and only child. Therefore, the relationship between God and me is an eternal, inseparable relationship of fate.
It is really incredible truth. How many people know the fundamental truth between God and you? It is very, very clear. Father said, after we discover this truth, the rest is nothing.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Chapter 3 Eschatology and Human History 1
Introduction
· We dwell in ignorance of history, uncertain about its origin, the direction in which it is heading, and its final destination.
· Concerning eschatology, or the doctrine of the Last Days, many Christians believe literally what is written in the Bible: “the heavens and the elements will melt with fire” (II Pet. 3:12); “the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light and the stars will fall from heaven” (Matt. 24:29); and “the dead in Christ will rise…to meet the Lord in the air” (I Thess. 4:16-17).
· However, we must ask whether these events will take place literally or whether the verses are symbolic.
· To address this issue, we should first understand such fundamental matters as the purpose of God’s creation, the meaning of the Human Fall, and the goal of the providence of restoration.
Our Inevitable Destined Path
<61-295> The Bible says that those who seek to die will live and those who seek to live will die in the Last Days. This is the paradoxical conclusion. Those who seek to die will live, those who seek to live will die. It says that our enemy is in our home, not other places. That is the main ideology in the Bible. When you pray, you pray for your sons and daughters first before your nation and the world. Not only Christian or other religious members, but also Unification Church members pray like this. We have to restore the world first, then the nation will be restored automatically. This is the inevitable destined path which we have to follow.
In the Last Days, those who want to die will live, and those who want to live will die. If we want to sever satanic habits, traditions, and family-centered blood ties and follow True Parents and the new truth, we cannot separate Satan unless we have the desire to die. It is not easy to really separate from Satan. We need to prepare to die. Otherwise how can we cut off Satan’s blood tie? Will the satanic habits that have been passed down for 6,000 years disappear just overnight?
In order to block my way, Satan uses weapons centering on family blood ties. That is why the Bible says that the enemy is not in another place, but in our own family. In the Last Days, unless we deny everything that has already existed, even our own family, we will not be able to walk the path to heaven.
Matthew 10:36-39 says "a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household. Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it." We need to really cut off the relationship with the family.
In the Bible, it also says so do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”
It is only after we first seek the kingdom of God that we have our own sons and daughters and our own family. This is what we call the inevitable path of destiny that our lives must take.
In the Last Days, we really have to be careful about that. Satan will attack through our family ties. We need to put the New Truth first. That is why I really respect all of our senior Blessed Couples. Through their difficult situations and struggles to leave their homes, deny their own mothers and fathers, following God’s will first. That is no simple matter. Because they really set the foundation, our descendants have a much easier life. They paid so much indemnity. Many people misunderstood them. Many people persecuted them. Can you imagine?
This is the Era of the Realm of Common Destiny
<78-133> We have already passed the era of the individual, family, and tribe. Now we are entering the global era. As history progressed, many nations came into existence. But, this is not the time for nations to protect their boundaries, because we are entering the era which protects all nations in the realm of common destiny.
This is very important guidance given by Father. If we look at the present time, it is the time when the individual age, the family age, and the tribal age have passed and we are heading towards the global age.
It is said that the era of numerous peoples and countries setting up their own borders and protecting only their own country has passed. In other words, we now have entered an era in which a country cannot sustain itself unless all nations are in the realm of common destiny.
If we look at the world now, we will see that one country's problems become the world's problems. We can see this from the economic hardships around the world because of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Now, externally, the world already has all the environments to form one great family under one God on Earth. However, the problem is that they do not have the ideology to become one. That is why we must take this responsibility.
Now, no matter what we do, if we do not think with a vision of the world, we will surely feel limited. Not only in the external economic aspect, but also spiritually and mentally. In that sense, it is said that if the United States does not live for the sake of the world, it will surely be pushed out in the global era. The era of the world. We need to think always of the world, for the sake of all mankind. We need have that kind of global mindset. All mankind belongs to God, his sons and daughters. They are all our brothers and sisters. We need to have the same kind of mindset as God, as True Parents. We need to embrace the entire world, not just think of our own city, our own state, our own nation. One family under God. The Messiah came in order to create one family under God. Beyond nationality, beyond color, beyond any ideologies. The time has come Now it is an internal issue. Who can bring unity? Even environmentally, externally. With unity internally and heartistically we can make one family under God. With Unification thought, Divine Principle.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY:
I Am the Substantial Form of God’s Wish
1. What kind of person am I? I am the substantial form of God's wish. Then, as the substance of God's wish, what notion must I have to fulfill God's wish? It is myself who must clearly know and embrace God's wishes and circumstances, and internally know and experience God's heart. When I realize this, I am born again. The spirit world will guide you all.
In order for the foundation of faith to be established, it is to realize right away that I, as an existence, am the substantial form of God's wish. I must know for sure that I am not who I am because I wished to be. And to achieve that, we must wake ourselves up and resolve to become filial children and filial daughters.
However, the reason why we do not have the foundation of our faith is because of our past habits and fallen nature. And it is because we are easily influenced by the environment and lose all the words that moved us. So eventually the fire in our heart will go out.
The purpose of creating Adam and Eve was for God's earnest desire for them. So what we need to know is that we must know that we are beings who were born because of God's desire.
Then what is God's wish? It is precisely for human beings to fulfill God's purpose of creation, namely the three great blessings. Therefore, we must know right away that all human beings were born and exist in order to fulfill God's three great blessings.
Because I, as an existence, am the substantial form of God's wish, I can never live centering on my own desires. If one lives centered on their desires, it is an act that goes against God's wishes and purpose of creation.
Therefore, in order to achieve God's wish, we must never center on ourselves. In order to achieve God's wish, we must always live with God's wish in our hearts.
God's first wish is for us to become a filial son and daughter, a true person, a perfected person, and a person who resembles God's personality. The second desire of God is for us to become a true husband and wife, form an ideal family, and attend God in our family. God's third wish is for us to expand the ideal family and live by governing all things in nature that have formed the tribe, people, nation, and world with true love.
Then, how can we fulfill God's wish in detail? It is to know God's will, wishes, and circumstances, to embrace them in our heart, and to know and experience God's heart.
If anyone has a heart of filial piety to fulfill their parents' wishes, the spirit world will guide them and help them come true. Because they have a real longing heart to fulfill God’s wishes. As children of God, as long as we have an attitude of filial piety toward heaven, heaven and the spirit world will do the rest.
In order for the foundation of faith to be established, we must realize right away that our existence is the substantial form of God's wish. We must know for sure that we are not who we are because we wished to be. And in order to achieve that, we must awaken and resolve to become filial children and filial daughters.
Don’t Speak Carelessly of the Grace You Have Received
2. What should we do to overcome ourselves who are easily influenced by the environment and easily loses the word? First of all, you shouldn't carelessly say the words you have received grace from. You must be mute. You must treat the words of grace is like gold and silver treasure. If you boast that you have gold and silver treasures, it is easy for people around you to seduce and steal them. Satan is trying to take it away. Therefore, you must be a mute who stores precious words like gold and silver treasures in your heart and silently puts them into practice. Just the fact that you have precious words like gold and silver treasures within yourself is a blessing and reassurance.
However, while having relationships with friends horizontally, if you carelessly talk about the words of grace, you will be attacked. Therefore, for the time being, the word of grace must not be spoken to anyone horizontally. It is because your lamp goes out when you look at it horizontally. Once the light in your heart goes out, no matter what wish you have, it will be difficult for your wish to come true.
The reason why we do not realize God's desire and become self-centered is because of our past habits and fallen nature. And it is because we are easily controlled by the environment and lose all the words we were moved by. So eventually the light in our hearts will go out. If we live self-centeredly, the light in our hearts will surely be extinguished.
Then what should we do to overcome ourselves who are easily influenced by the environment and easily lose the word? First of all, we shouldn't carelessly say the words we have received grace from. We must be mute. We must treat the words of grace like gold and silver treasure.
If we boast that we have gold and silver treasures, it is easy for people around us to seduce and steal them. Satan is trying to take it away. Therefore, we must be mutes who store precious words like gold and silver treasures in our hearts and silently put them into practice.
Just the fact that we have precious words like gold and silver treasures within ourselves is a blessing and reassurance. However, while having relationships with friends horizontally, if we carelessly talk about the words of grace, we will be attacked.
Therefore, for the time being, the word of grace must not be spoken to anyone horizontally. It is because our lamp goes out when we look at it horizontally. Once the light in our heart goes out, no matter what wishes we have, it will be difficult for our wishes to come true.
The Reason Your Wishes Don’t Come True
3. After the light in your heart is extinguished, nothing will go as you wish. No matter how much you know the Principle, it is useless. The principle of knowing and realizing with knowledge is useless. Therefore, you must accept the Principle and the Word with your heart. By digesting the Principle heartistically, the Principle must become your driving force. Once you do that, the spirit world will guide you.
If you have such a foundation of heart, the truth that you have realized rationally will be directly linked to your heart. For people with good backgrounds, what they have learned intellectually is directly connected to their heart and affects their personality. However, it is not possible because of bad self-habits and fallen nature. You shouldn't leave these habits as they are. Fallen nature is a habit.
If the light in our heart is extinguished, nothing will go as we wish. To say that our light has gone out means that our hearts have sunk. Once our heart sinks, we don't know how difficult it is to lift it up again.
That is why we must always manage our hearts well so as not to put out the light. In order to rekindle the once-extinguished light of heart, we must make two to three times as many efforts than we did in the past.
Therefore, we must always accept the Word with our heart. We must meditate on the words that touched our hearts over and over again so that they can settle in our hearts. All the words that are not accepted into the heart will flow away. The Word that we understand only intellectually is not the strength of our hearts, and soon our hearts will only dry.
The second way to raise our hearts is to do a lot of volunteer work for others. If we help or serve others, the hearts that died without knowing will really come back to life. We don't know how happy our original mind is when we serve others. So we have to keep giving to others.
We should always think about what to give to the other person and how to please the other person. Our hearts are always meant to be resurrected when we do something helpful and serve others.
If we want to help and serve others, we must really have a desire to help others from our heart. And we have to be really sincere. Of course, it doesn't work that way at first, so we have to try to do it conditionally in the formation stage.
Even if it is conditional, if we do it with all our heart, it will come out. Please remember everyone. It is a fact that our hearts come alive when we serve others, living for the sake of others.
This is my own personal testimony. How can I raise my heart? How does my heart really come alive? Really serving people. Always giving something to others. Whenever I have a condition to make someone happy, I cannot express how my Original Mind is so happy. Immediately recovers my heart. That’s why our original nature needs to live for the sake of others. We can feel incredible joy and happiness. We live for the sake of serving, giving, sacrificing for the sake of others. We stimulate our original mind. This is the way to keep our Spirit alive, all the time.
Aju, Thank you Very Much!
(Testimony, Serge Brosseau, Cheonshim Won 7 Day Workshop Las Vegas )♦
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