Ep 884 - God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful Ideal World 1 Part 3
God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful Ideal World I - March 28, 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.♦
I returned to New York from Los Angeles yesterday afternoon. Thank you to all of you who have offered prayers and jeongseong for the LA seminar.
Last Saturday, we had a Unified Leadership Seminar at the Pasadena House in LA. About 100 people attended from UPF, WFWP, ACLC, YCLC and etc.
I gave a speech on the title of “The Great Attributes of true love;” Dr. Jenkins introduced Divine Principle and UPF history very powerfully. In just 30 minutes he shared everything plus UPF history. President Kaeleigh Moffitt introduced WFWP. Her presence was so beautiful!
We also had an Ambassador for Peace Appointment Ceremony.
We took a group photo.
I realized there are a lot of potential people. Until now I have focused on ACLC, but I can see great potential from our affiliated organizations: UPF and Women’s Federation for World Peace and other NGO groups. Even though Dr. Jenkins has a very busy schedule, he came from Washington, D.C. all the way. It was very beautiful.
Thank you, Naceur, for your incredible organizing, and for support from Joshua and the leadership. Thank you everybody.
The next day, we had a Sunday Service at the Los Angeles Family Church. Since our Joshua couple took over the church leadership position, oh my goodness! It was such a beautiful atmosphere! I was so happy to see each of the members in person.
I gave a speech regarding how to create a model church.
Then, in the afternoon we visited Camp Mozumdar and prayed together. It is a beautiful place. We need to invest a lot there. It has a lot of potential. Thank you very much.
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, Volume 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.>
Though God is the Absolute Being, He cannot be happy alone. Adjectives such as “good” and “happy” cannot apply to any being that lives in isolation. They apply only where there is a robust reciprocal relationship. Imagine a professional singer who finds herself exiled to an uninhabited island. She may sing at the top of her voice, yet with no one to listen, will it bring her happiness? In the same way, even the self-existent God absolutely needs a reciprocal partner of love in order to experience joy and be happy. Then how shall we live to become God's reciprocal partner and return joy to Him?
In other words, how shall we live to become children of God, people whom God delights to call “My son,” or “My daughter,” people who embody a divinity equal to His own? How can we become God's partners in completing the work of creation, partners who will inherit the entire creation? I answer: We must emulate the ideal beginning point of God's creative process. In the beginning of creation, God set up the principle of living for the sake of others. He set the practice of true love as the nucleus, and from that point He began to create. Therefore, to become God's children, our first responsibility is to resemble God. We need to embody true love. The way to embody true love begins by living as a filial child, then a patriot, a saint, and finally a divine son or daughter of God.
At that stage we can experience the innermost emotions of God's heart and resolve the grief that He has experienced for tens of thousands of years ever since the Fall of Adam and Eve. God is almighty. It is not due to His shortcoming or lack of ability that He has been imprisoned in great pain and has endured immense suffering behind the scenes of history. This tragedy was the result of provisions in the Principle of Restoration, which God was not free to disclose, that required Him to wait with forbearance until Adam and Eve's positions, lost at the Fall, could be restored thanks to the appearance of the perfected second Adam. Although God is all-powerful, He will not set aside the eternal laws and principles that He established.
Though God is the Absolute Being, He cannot be happy alone. Adjectives such as “good” and “happy” cannot apply to any being that lives in isolation. They apply only where there is a robust reciprocal relationship.
Even the self-existent God absolutely needs a reciprocal partner of love in order to experience joy and be happy. Do we know where God placed the ideal starting point of creation? In the beginning of creation, God set up the principle of living for the sake of others.
In a word, God’s principle of creation is that “all entities exist for the sake of the other.” Therefore, if even the omniscient, omnipotent God deviates from this Principle, He cannot taste joy, happiness and love.
Therefore, the fundamental reason why people are not joyful and (do not) see happiness and true love is because they all escape from this principle of living for the sake of others and instead live for the sake of themselves.
According to the principle of creation, if we live for the sake of others, we cannot help but be happy. Because joy and happiness must come from an object partner, without living for the sake of that object partner, we can never have a taste of joy and happiness.
However, knowing that God has bitter sorrow from living in pain for tens of thousands of years ever since the Fall of Adam and Eve, we must resolve that grief.
There are 8 billion people living in this world. Then, out of that 8 billion, how many people really recognize God’s existence and know God’s heart that is sorrowful due to the fall of man?
This is just a very, very small number. Then who should comfort and liberate this pitiable God? Out of countless people, why did God find “me”?
In this world, there are many people who are externally better off than we are, but among them, how many know God’s heart, circumstances, and han and comfort and return joy to God? If even we turn away from God's lonely heart, who will comfort God's heart?
We today need to know that we received the calling to realize God’s wish and liberate His sorrow.
There are 8 billion people living in this world. Only a limited number know God’s will, his sorrow and heart. That is why we are the only ones who recognize God’s han and sorrowful heart and the only ones who can comfort and support his will. This is a really sad situation because the number is so small.
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 under stand such fundamental matters as the purpose of God’s creation, the meaning of the Human Fall, and the goal of the providence of restoration.
Let’s study Father’s word.
An Ideology Which can Unite the World
<154-44> In these Last Days, God certainly wants to make one world. What kind of ideal contents does God want to use to make one world? Will it center on the ideology of Christianity, or Buddhism, or an ideology from another religion? God can not use these kinds of ideologies. God can not unite with the ideology of Confucianism, Christianity, Buddhism, or any other religion. If He could do so, He would have done so already. It can not be done. This is the time when we need a higher level ideology.
This is an incredible declaration by Father.
In these Last Days, God certainly wants to make one world. What kind of ideal contents does God want to use to make one world?
The ideology of Christianity? The ideology of Buddhism? The ideology of Islam? Or the ideology of Confucianism?
So far, Christianity has attempted world unification for 2,000 years; Buddhism has tried for 2,600 years; Islam for 1,400 years; and Confucianism for 2,500 years, but how is the world today? Numerous religions have existed, yet why is the world gradually becoming confused and falling and becoming worse?
We come to the conclusion that we cannot unite the world with existing religions. This is very clear. We (must) conclude that world peace and God’s ideal world are impossible to realize with any existing religion today. That is why we come to the conclusion that we must find a new ideology.
According to Father, whatever the ideology, if it passes three centuries, we can know what kind of role that ideology played and what kind of influence it had on the world.
What about the Unification Church ideology? If True Father began God’s providence in earnest in 1945, it has passed 78 years so far.
If we say that the Unification Church ideology began in 1945, the end of the period of three centuries will be 2245. When three centuries have ended, our descendants can judge whether or not True Parents’ ideology really is the truth and the ideology to save the world.
However, one thing is certain: none of the sages who have come so far have been treated as sages while they were still alive. However, the achievements our True Parents made for the world while they were alive are unimaginable. Just looking at the number of people whom True Parents have blessed all over the world, how great is the number?
From now on, our task is to secure a majority in order to build a substantial national Cheon Il Guk. If only the majority is secured, a substantial Cheon Il Guk can be achieved. So how do we get the majority? That's just witnessing.
That is why we really need to find a John the Baptist. He is the key. If we only witness one-on-one, of course, this is very important, but what is God’s strategy? To find John the Baptist. If we restore John the Baptist, then his foundation belongs to God. Why did Jesus have to go through such suffering? Because he lost the foundation of John the Baptist.
This time when I went to LA, I felt strongly again that through the ambassadors for peace we need to find real John the Baptists who can contribute and support True Parents. In order to establish substantial Cheon Il Guk, we really need to find and raise John the Baptists. I really want to raise many John the Baptists, not just ACLC ministers. I really want to show a model.
When I was in Asia we invited many political, NGO leaders, ambassadors for peace and women leaders to Bangkok to educate them.
I focused on Cambodia. I think more than 70% or 80% of Cambodian government, NGO, tribal and local leaders completed three-day Divine Principle education. I really wanted to have that kind of consistency of education to raise ambassadors for peace. I told Dr. Jenkins that we want a minimum of 30,000 ambassadors for peace. We don’t want to simply appoint them as ambassadors for peace but let them take full ownership. That is our goal.
Where should this ideology come from? This ideology should stem from heaven. And also this should be the ideology which conscientious people are able to digest and make their own. It should be the ideology which conscientious people are able to uphold at the risk of their life.
Where Must the New Ideology that Can Unite the World Come From?
What Father said is very important.
1. The new ideology must come from Heaven.
> Ideologies that come from fallen people will someday disappear.
Therefore, the new ideology must come from the messiah who comes as the son of God(?). That is why everybody is waiting for the second coming. Only the son of God, the messiah, can bring the new ideology, the new doctrine.
2. When we come across a new ideology, we should be able to support it, thinking of it as our own ideology.
3. The new ideology should be an ideology that we can defend by risking our life.
4. The new ideology must be eternal, unchanging, and absolute.
I just summarized what Father said.
The Phenomenon of the Last Days
<2-137> In the last days, the number of arrogant and self-centered people will increase. Falsehood must surface before truth emerges. It is a historical truth that falsehood must be revealed. Furthermore, the various falsehoods that are causing chaos in the world today must be exposed before the truth centered on the universal unification ideology emerges. Before the movement of true-life can arise, several false-life movements will arise. The false love movements must emerge before the true love movement can come forward.
Let’s summarize this.
1. The number of arrogant will increase.
One of the main natures of Satan is what? Arrogance, self-centeredness.
2. The number of self-centered people will in crease.
3. Falsehood must surface before truth emerges.
4. The various falsehoods that are causing chaos in the world today must be exposed before the truth centered on the universal unification ideology emerges.
5. Before the movement of true-life can arise, several false-life movements will arise.
True Father already predicted this exactly.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Listen to the Voice of My Mind’s Wish
The Reason God’s Providence is Prolonged and Why Religions Fail to Take Responsibility for That
1. What is the reason God’s providence is prolonged today and all religions fail to fulfill their roles properly? That is because they always become subjected to their traditions and rituals then become dominated by them and live habitually, compromising with the world. If you look at the cases of people who betrayed Heaven while walking the way of God’s Will, all of them were dominated by the environment and compromised with the world. When that happens, you deviate from the vertical relationship with God and all heartistic ties with surrounding people also fall to pieces. That is why people who fell away from vertical relationships and precious relationships with surrounding people have betrayed Heaven many times. Your ancestors’ blood of betrayal is flowing in your own blood. You carry blood of betrayal, disbelief, conflict, and indifference towards others. You have blood that treats people coldly and cannot have attachment even when you look at precious things.
What is the reason all religions today have become secularized? The first reason is that they become subjected to their traditions and rituals, then become dominated by and habituated to them. When a religion becomes habituated and just follows traditions and rituals, it becomes a religion that loses life. The Jewish people were bound by the laws of the Old Testament and had Jesus die on the cross.
The second reason is that they compromise with the world, become secularized and lose their life force. This is like salt losing its saltiness and light losing its brilliance. There is a life force when the truth changes the world through true love.
Many religious people and churches were dominated by the environment; then they deviated from the vertical relationship with God and all heartistic ties with surrounding people also fell to pieces. Anyone whose vertical relationship is cut will betray Heaven and become indifferent to others.
Therefore the vertical relationship with God is the lifeline. We should not miss this vertical alignment in any circumstance.
Human Beings’ Refinement Like a Hard Path
2. The Bible has a parable about the hearts of people with such fallen nature and compares them to the hard ground. The field of hard ground has no refinement of the mind which the seed can accept. Since it was not a field in which the seed could take root in even if it did fall on it, the birds came and devoured them. Like this, most fallen people possess blood like a hard path. Even if they hear precious and very good Words, they do not have the sensitivity to accept them. We call such type of blood “blood of betrayal” and “blood of disbelief.” We fallen people need to be sorrowful and lament over the fact that we have such blood. When others are deeply moved, if I do not have such deep impression, I must be sorrowful over being unable to be moved. When others hear the truth and shed tears of gratitude, if I do not have such tears or heart of gratitude coming out, I must be sorrowful.
Just like the parable of the Four Soils in the Bible, human beings with fallen nature are like the hardened path. No seed can sprout in a field like a hard path. This is the nature of the heart of people with fallen nature.
Even if the seed of the Word does fall (on it), it is not a field that the Word can take root in; (so) birds come and devour all the fallen seeds. Similarly, even if the Word enters us, if it cannot take root, Satan will carry it away.
Even if we hear precious and very good Words, our fallen nature does not have the sensitivity or heart to accept them. Most people are descendants with this kind of fallen nature. The blood of people with fallen nature has the blood of betrayal and disbelief.
Therefore, we need to be sorrowful and lament over the fact that we have such blood. When others are deeply moved, if we do not have such a deep impression, we must be sorrowful over being unable to be moved.
When others hear the truth and shed tears of gratitude, if we do not have such tears or heart of gratitude coming out, we must be sorrowful and lament.
Why is our blood like that? Some people are really sensitive, have gratitude and comfort God. “Why is my heart not like that? Why is my heart like a hard path? Why, Heavenly God, what is wrong with me?” We really need to shed a lot of tears and repent because we are the ones who inherited the blood of betrayal. “Heavenly Father, I don’t want to repeat the same kind of issue again and again. I really want to be your filial son or daughter.” We need to have that kind of determination all the time.
If I Do Not Think of Myself as a Problem When I Should Consider Myself as Problem ….
3. If I just leave myself, who has to wake up to these problems and consider myself as a problem, as I am, I will go on the path of death. If I just leave my problematic self as I am and turn a blind eye, I have no chance of developing. When I sing the Holy Song “Tan Shim Ga,” how do I sing it? ‘Although my body perishes and yet one thousand times dies, still all my love and all my heart unchanging remain with you.’ As I sing this Holy Song, do I really accept that I will become an unchanging self only in my head? Or do I accept it in my heart? We cannot just accept this in our minds intellectually. God and I, and True Parents and I, are bonded through loyalty, and we can never betray them heartistically. It is not a Holy Song that I just memorize in my head and sing, it is about the bond of heart between parent and child, so I can never forget or betray them. However, since we cannot become like that, we are struggling every day.
If I am someone who is like the hard path and unable to be heartistic and accept the Word well, I really need to be concerned and appeal to Heaven with tears. If I just leave my problematic self as I am and throw myself away, I will undoubtedly go on the path of death and have no chance of developing.
When we sing the Holy Song “Tan Shim Ga,” how do we sing it? When we try singing Tan Shim Ga, we can check whether our heart is fickle or not. ‘Although my body perishes and yet one thousand times dies, still all my love and all my heart unchanging remain with you.’ As we sing this Holy Song, do we really sing it from the heart with the determination to become unchanging? Or do we just accept that in our head?
Don’t we need to have loyalty that God and I, and True Parents and I, are parent and child connected by the bond of heart? How can a child abandon their parents? We are connected to God and True Parents with the bond of heart. Therefore, we can never betray this bond of heart.
It cannot become a Holy Song that we just memorize in our head and sing. It is about the bond of heart between parent and child, so we can never forget or betray them. Since fallen people easily forget the bond of heart, we must always live, struggling every day to not forget that bond.
Listen to the Voice of My Mind’s Wish
4. Even if senior members who joined the church first are walking on the way of the will with many problems, you must not leave yourself as you are. Since you cannot go on the wrong paths that your seniors took, you must study the Divine Principle well from now on. Whether they’re members who joined the church decades ago or people who newly joined today, True Parents teach the same exact Principle unchangingly. Why is that? This is because the level of realization of the content of the same Principle is different with each passing year. While hearing the Principle over and over again, we must each discover our own value. The path of faith is not about looking at others and resembling them. It is to listen to the voice of my mind’s wish as I listen to the words of the Principle. The sound and wish that resounds from the depth of my mind is the voice and wish of the Creator, God. Quietly listen to the voice of my mind’s wish. Someone who listens to the voice of their mind and can overcome any difficulties is truly a righteous person. Therefore, we must listen to the voice of the mind that flows through our original nature.
The Principle is the eternal truth. Whether members joined the church decades ago or are people who newly joined today, True Parents teach the same exact Principle unchangingly.
Even if we listen to the same Divine Principle, the level of heart that realizes it is different with each passing year.
We have already experienced this through our hoondokhae, right? Ten years ago, five years ago, recently, when you do hoondokhae, we have different realizations even though the Divine Principle content is the same, right?
Even if it is the same content of the Divine Principle, we must keep studying it repeatedly and discover our own value.
The path of faith is not about looking at others and resembling them. It is to listen to the voice of our mind’s wish as we listen to the words of the Divine Principle. We are people who were born with God’s wish. Our purpose of life is to become people who realize God’s wish.
That is why we need to know we are the substantial body of God centering on his wish. We are the ones who realize his wish.
The sound and wish that resounds from the depth of our mind is the voice and wish of the Creator, God. (We should) quietly listen to the voice of our mind’s wish.
Someone who listens to the voice of his mind and can overcome any difficulties is truly a righteous person.
We need to really kneel down and listen to the voice of our mind. When we listen to that voice, we can hear God’s voice. He will tell us what to do, where to go. God can talk through our mind. Someone who listens to the voice of his mind and can overcome any difficulties is truly a righteous person.
Therefore, we must listen to the voice of the mind that flows through our original nature.
Today I spoke about “Listen to the voice of the mind’s wish.”
(Testimony Joshua Buergi, first year GPA)♦
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