Ep 605 - Life As Owners Of Cheon ll Guk Part 3
Life as Owners of Cheon Il Guk - June 22, 2022
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Shinya Masuyama
Today I’d like to talk about the “Life as Owners of Cheon Il Guk” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
I told the leaders, “From now on, all blessed families in the Unification Church should put down strong and healthy roots with one heart and one will, centering on True Parents.” I then gave an olive tree as an example. People who have been to Israel may know that the land there is not fertile. It is said that it takes an olive tree 15 years to put down its roots in the barren desert, not one or three years, but 15. How, then, can it survive in the meanwhile oppressed by the heat of the desert? There are many stories about olive trees in the Bible. When a cloud of grasshoppers pass through a place, all the trees there die. Olive trees, however, cause a chemical reaction that drives the grasshoppers away from their leaves. They also warn other trees nearby to be aware, so they can all survive. Such laws of nature are so profound and beautiful. There are trees that are over 2.000 years old. We should learn from them. The question is how we, the blessed families centered on True Parents, can put down our roots. (2015.03.07, Cheon Jeong Gung)
Many years pass for the olive tree growing in the desert land to take root, and in order to survive over a thousand years, many circumstances must be overcome.
Like an olive tree, the key to our blessed family is how to plant strong roots, True Mother said. Two thousand years have passed for Christianity to settle after Jesus died on the cross.
Likewise, it may take many years for the unification movement to take root and settle firmly after True Father's death.
Our movement now has several problems to overcome, including the problem of factions, all kinds of issues. Therefore, the most important thing is the basics. If the foundation is not strong, it is like building a house on a sandy beach.
That is why our American movement must have a well-established foundation in order to take root. It is to return to the Word through the foundation of devotion and prayer. All of our American family members must return to the Word of Divine Principle and be armed with the Divine Principle. If at least 3,000 members of the American family read the one-hour DP chart more than 100 times, and everyone reads True Parents' eight major textbooks, they will take root as strong as an olive tree.
That is why the important thing is: what are the basics? If our basics are very strong centered on God’s word and our jeongseong, nobody can take out our root. That is why again and again I emphasize how we (need to) have a firm foundation through God’s word. Why did we join our church? Why do we follow True Parents? Because of God’s word.
That is why if we neglect studying the Divine Principle, our root becomes very shallow. Because of the national jeongseong condition, we need to settle down our family, our tribal and our national root.
We need to go back to the basics, which is God’s word, the Divine Principle.
For the Heavenly Parent and True Parents to carry out their providence as the king of kings of Cheon Il Guk, they need to have subjects. There cannot be a king without subjects. We blessed families need to fulfill that responsibility. Until now, we thought of the marriage Blessing as only belonging to my family and me, and did not consider the future. That is a truth of which we should be ashamed. Now we cannot put it off any longer. The Incas built cities on high mountains, and they had to find ways to supply food and other necessities at that high elevation. Those cities were located more than 2,000 meters high. It may be possible now, but at that time it was impossible to draw water up to such a high place by human effort alone. That is why they had to depend on God. What we should observe in them is that even so, they adapted to such a life, and shared the water equally, starting with those at the top. There is a Korean proverb that says, “Only when clean water flows from the top can the water at the bottom also be clean.” Leaders should newly reflect upon themselves from this perspective, and set an example by following the traditions of True Parents. You must steadfastly advance to the position where you can proclaim to the world that you have fulfilled your responsibility as blessed families who lived in the same age as True Parents. (2015.03.07, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Mother said, “For the Heavenly Parent and True Parents to carry out their providence as the king of kings of Cheon Il Guk, they need to have citizens. There cannot be a king without citizens. We blessed families need to fulfill that responsibility. Until now, we thought of the marriage Blessing as only belonging to my family and me, and did not consider the future.”
The Blessing is public. Therefore, it means that you should not think of it as a blessing only for yourself or for your family. Because the public Blessing belongs to all people, we must share the Blessing with those around us.
The more we share, the greater the blessing. So, True Mother asked each blessed family to multiply the blessings they received by 430. That is the Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission to bless 430 families. The purpose of doing Heavenly Tribal Messiahship is to increase the number of Cheon Il Guk citizens as a condition for restoring the country.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 53 - The Realm of God’s Direct Dominion
• What is the realm of God's direct dominion?
• Human beings a bide in the realm of direct dominion when, as subject partners and object partners, they unite in the love of God to form a four position foundation and become one in heart with God. In this realm they freely and fully share love and beauty according to the will of the subject partner, thus realizing the purpose of goodness.
• The realm of direct dominion is the realm of perfection.
• What will the world be like when the natural world abides under the direct dominion of human beings?
• When a fully mature person relates with the diverse things in nature as his object partners, they come together to form a four position foundation. People who are in total resonance with God's Heart will lead the natural world in the free-flowing sharing of love and beauty, and the entire universe will realize goodness. In such a manner, human beings will exercise direct dominion over all things.
The Difference Between the Unification Church and the Family Federation
<271-11> What is the difference between the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) and the Holy Spirit Association for World Christianity (HSA-UWC)? You do not know this. Due to the Fall, the realms of God's direct dominion and indirect dominion have been separated. The realm of God's indirect dominion is the realm of the Archangel, the realm of the fallen Archangel. The realm of God's direct dominion is the realm of Adam. This is the way that should be followed by the perfected Adam. HSA-UWC is the realm of the Archangel and FFWPU is the realm of God's direct dominion. Because I declared FFWPU it is in the realm of God's direct dominion beyond the realm of the Archangel.
This is a very important declalration (about) why Father had to establish FFWPU.
Father said, “What is the difference between the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification and the Holy Spirit Association for World Christianity?... The realm of God's indirect dominion is the realm of the archangel, the realm of the fallen archangel. The realm of God's direct dominion is the realm of Adam. This is the original way that should be followed by the perfected Adam. HSA-UWC is the realm of the archangel, and FFWPU is the realm of God's direct dominion.”
True Father declaring FFWPU means that it is in the realm of God's direct dominion beyond the realm of the archangel.
All religions are in the realm of the archangel, and they are below the completion level of the growth stage and in the realm of the indirect dominion. However, the fact that married life, blessed life, has been allowed through the Blessing centering in the Family Federation means it has already entered God’s direct dominion.
Therefore, in order to liberate all existing religions from the realm of indirect dominion, everyone must be blessed and enter God’s direct dominion.
Wow! Family means “not single,” right? (The) family is based on the couple. It means already entering God’s direct dominion centering on the Blessing. (For) anyone who goes their own way without receiving the Blessing, everything is under God’s indirect dominion, which is the realm of the archangel.
Therefore, the responsibility of the ACLC and the Religious Association is to bless all religions and bring them into God’s direct dominion. Don't just bless them. You must fulfill your responsibility for their rebirth through the three-day ceremony.
Let them understand clearly the meaning of the Blessing, the meaning of the three-day ceremony, and also let them join our CheonBo members. That is the role of ACLC.
The Unification Church is under God’s indirect dominion. You need to know that. It is completely different. Why did God need to establish HSA-UWC? Because Christianity could not fulfill its responsibility to accept the Messiah.
That is why Father in the place of Christianity needed to build HSA-UWC and lay the foundation.
Finally Father established the Family Federation, now on the worldwide level. Now centering on FFWPU you can enter God’s direct dominion.
(The two organizations? Names?) are very different. That is why Father said: do not use the name “Unification Church.” Of course, sometimes we are using that name.
The name of the Unification Church and that of FFWPU are (on) a completely different level. The Family Federation for the Unification and World Peace has already entered God’s direct dominion. Wow! This is powerful guidance. That is why the role of ACLC is very important.
The Realm of God's Direct Dominion is Worldwide
<271-11> Human beings are fallen, which means until now on the earth they have been within the realm of God's indirect dominion, where they can be dominated by Satan. However, this is a standard at the national level. However the realm of God's direct dominion is worldwide. This means that God can dominate. These realms were divided by false parents, so True Parents must come and connect the realms of God's indirect dominion and God's direct dominion. It is the central core of the providential view that the realm of the Archangel must be absorbed by the realm of Adam.
So far, Satan has been able to dominate the realm of the indirect dominion. Satan can invade at any time during the period in which the foundation of faith and the foundation of substance are being established, which is the period of the human portion of responsibility. And the maximum area Satan can control is the nation.
However, God’s direct dominion is global and He can control it. True Parents came and connected the indirect and direct dominions through the gate of the Blessing. So, we need to extend the dominion of this blessing to the world.
The era of Cheon Il Guk refers to the era of God's direct dominion, which means that True Parents completed paying indemnity from a global standpoint.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Let's be More Spontaneous Before the Will
1. This is a story from the 1970s. True Father created the Tongil Industries in the Guri area of Gyeonggi Province and often came to inspect it, and one time, he woke up earlier than anyone else. From the early morning that day, he saw people working diligently with handcarts and was very amazed and even envious of them. At that time, True Father said, “Just as these people work diligently with attachment, pulling handcarts and selling vegetables for the livelihood of their family, if our members work hard for the providence of restoration in the same way, God’s providence would be realized quickly.” With these words, True Father hoped that our members who followed the will would become more spontaneous with attachment to the will.
True Father wants the members of the Unification Church who follow the will to become more voluntary people with attachment to the will.
Because our members think that the will is public, there are many cases where they have less attachment and are less serious about the will than (about) their personal life.
Therefore, we need to have an attachment that considers God's will as our will. Because of the thought that public money belongs to the whole, people find it easier to use it rather than use their own money.
Rather than thinking that I am just one member following True Parents, I need to think about what I would do for this world if I were truly born as the Messiah of humankind.
I get serious when I think about what I would do if I were the savior who was responsible for saving God and liberating humankind. What this means is to really take ownership and work voluntarily.
The faith of a servant who merely follows without the mind of an owner does not develop. If you work with a servant's attitude, you will fall behind a more public person at some point.
2. In a way, since our members’ faith in the will is so strong, the sorrowful heart and attachment for the will have disappeared. If you think that you are making your own family’s financial problems, you become serious, but if you work publicly, you think that heaven provides everything, so there is nothing serious about your responsibilities. Since Communists do not allow private property and all land is publicly owned and state-owned, even if they farmed, there was no attachment to it. That is why the Communists came to allow private farms and private property later on. There are times when we say that we are doing public work, but we do not know the limits of heaven's responsibility and ours. In fact, when we are in charge of public work, we should have more attachment and be more serious than personal jobs, but that is not so in most cases. In other words, there is no ownership.
Having absolute faith in God and relying on Him is good, but more importantly, a sense of ownership that takes responsibility for everything is more important than anything else.
I should consider myself responsible for my family, my tribe, and my country. Furthermore, you must have the heart of filial piety that thinks that neither humankind's liberation nor God's liberation will be done unless you do it yourself. Since the owner always has a sense of responsibility, he is always serious about (what he owns).
Think that you will not be indebted to anyone while going the way of the will. If possible, I should take responsibility for my financial problems and contribute publicly. Think of never passing your responsibilities on to someone else.
Since the Communists do not allow private property, all land is publicly owned, and all land is state land, so there is no attachment even to farming.
When we are doing public work, there are times we do not know the limits of our responsibilities and Heaven’s responsibilities. In fact, when we take on a public job, we should be more attached to it and more serious about it than our personal things, but I often see cases where this is not so.
That is really a problem. We may run businesses in our church or public companies. Sometimes I feel that we really are not serious about our responsibility. We really don’t have ownership. “Oh, OK. The company belongs to God, to the public, to the church.” Sometimes this sounds good, but you are not so serious.
That is why you need to think that this property and this company, this hotel is my own. Then everybody (will be) very serious. That is why God’s belonging is really my own belonging. We need to take responsibility, take ownership. Otherwise, sometimes “This belongs to God, to True Parents, to the church, to everybody.” (Then) your sense of responsibility is not so serious.
That is why this is one of the main reasons everywhere (there are) problems: property, hotel, many problems. Because (there is) no (sense of) ownership.
How important taking ownership is!
3. A person who thinks that we do it by faith alone and does not have attachment and seriousness for their responsibilities becomes an incompetent person. Peter, John, and James met up on thee Mount of Transfiguration and spiritually met Moses and Elias. They were very surprised. They were surprised to see Moses and Elijah descending from heaven to worship Jesus. So their faith in Jesus grew stronger. Then, when Jesus came down to the sacrament meeting and said to his disciples, “I was caught,” the disciples thought it was absurd. I believed in the omnipotence of the Lord, while thinking who dared to touch the Lord Jesus. But Jesus was preparing to die on the cross and seriously asked his disciples to pray together, they just slept. If the three disciples had thought of getting caught themselves and taken to the place of the cross, no one would have slept. Who wouldn't be intimidated by the thought of being captured by Roman soldiers?
4. The disciples of Jesus may have had absolute faith that the Lord would never be caught. They may have believed that no one could touch Jesus, who is greater and almightier than anyone else. In doing so, they made a mistake. When the Lord was captured by the Roman soldiers, Jesus showed no power, so they were all afraid and ran away. In this way, they all became incompetent because they did not know Jesus’ internal circumstances and followed only by external faith. Today, it is easy for us to become incompetent as well. The Bible says we are like clouds without water and a tree without fruit. These words mean incompetence. The outward appearance is very good, but they are not influential people. Just as it rains if there is a cloud, if you are responsible for the church and are the central members, you should be people who spread love like the cloud pours rain.
We become incompetent if we think that we can do it only by faith, and if we do not have attachment and seriousness for our responsibilities.
All of Jesus' disciples, who did not know about his inner circumstances and followed his faith only externally, became incompetent.
Even today, it is easy to become incompetent if we just think that we are absolutely obedient to the will. Then how can we have a sense of ownership with responsibility?
How could True Parents become the owners responsible for humankind and God? Because True Parents always lived with Hyojeong for the sake of Heavenly Parent, they had a stronger heart of HyoJeong toward Heaven than anyone else.
Therefore, we too must become children with HyoJeong for God and True Parents. Children who have HyoJeong know the bitter pain of God and True Parents because they always experience God's sorrowful heart.
A person who does not know his parents' sorrows, bitter pain, wishes and heart cannot become children with HyoJeong. Those with HyoJeong live with their parents' sorrows and wishes, so they work day and night to liberate their parents’ bitter pain and sorrows.
The mind of ownership comes from HyoJeong and from the heart to take responsibility for parents.
When we have hyojeong, then we can take ownership. We become more serious than our own parents.
Let’s take ownership. Now is the era of Cheon Il Guk. As the owner of Cheon Il Guk we really have to be responsible! We really have to be serious about our portion of responsibility!
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Shinya Masuyama, Chicago CARP.)♦
(Response to sharing) Before witnessing first you need self-denial. Self-denial means that I cannot witness (with) my own power. Let God do (it). You (should be) determined to get out. Then, “Heavenly Father, my portion of responsibility is get out from my home, and I am determined to approach people.” After that (is) God’s portion of responsibility. “You need to talk through my mouth, Heavenly Father.” That concept of self-denial is very important.
Secondly, when you introduce Divine Principle, many people (may) reject it and won’t want to hear what you are talking about. Then what should you do? At that time you need to think that they want to hear your personal testimony. Since you joined the Unification Church or since you know the Divine Principle, how much did it change your life. You need to give your personal testimony. They want to hear how much your personal life changed, how did you come to know God, how much your spiritual life was raised up. You need to proudly and confidently proclaim how much it changed your life. That is really powerful.
That is why witnessing is giving your personal testimony: how much it changed your life – rather than only talking about the Divine Principle as the truth. When you share your personal testimony, then gradually introduce the Divine Principle.♦
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