Ep 609 - Why We Should Witness Part 2
Why We Should Witness - June 26, 2022
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(Response to sharing) When you associate with any organization, ACLC or whatever, you as a state leader – it is very important that you focus on multiplication. I think you need to start from how you get 3 spiritual children,, 3 John the Baptist figures. No matter what, if you do any activities, finally you need to produce results. In the end you need to follow Jesus’ model course and True Parents’ model course. You need to break through with 3 John the Baptist figures, then 12, then 36 – like that. Without creating even 3 John the Baptist figures who can become your spiritual children, it does not make any sense. You really need to focus on that – through one-on-one education, through teaching Divine Principle.
Teaching is the best way to learn. It is the best way to grow up. Through teaching you can become a better person and a better learner(?). Without teaching the Divine Principle you cannot grow. You may do meditation and pray and develop yourself; that is fine. But teaching Cain is the best way to change your own character and grow up. Without the object partner of Cain, there is no way to grow.
Day and night you need to think how to teach. Teaching is teaching my own spiritual self as well.
Now in the Clifton Church when we have the welcoming celebration for new guests, many of them come from a Spanish background. Also, I am relating to many ethnic communities like the Asian, Japanese, Korean (and) Spanish communities. Can you imagine? More than 20% are(?) Spanish people.
Spanish people have a very heartistic connection. That is why I really receive incredible inspiration that we really need to focus on the Spanish community. Through the Spanish community there is great potential to increase our membership.... I really want to invest in the Spanish community. This way we can increase our membership and relate to the South American providence as well.♦
O my goodness! It is already Sunday. Time flies so fast! Today I am so excited to see our dear brothers and sisters in the Clifton Church. I have a longing heart to see each of our Clifton Church members.
Yesterday, we went fishing with Takayoshi, Shogo, Keisetsu and Yasuhiro. They are CARP members. I really want to raise 12 or 13 young leaders under Naokimi, (people) who can really support our national leaders.
I love to follow True Parents’ model course. That is why (I) think second generation as public leaders (can) support our national leader. I want to raise up 12 disciples of Jesus, of True Parents, then 36, who can really support our national leader.
Sub-regional leaders really need to follow our True Parents’ formula course. Nobody shows up(?). We can inherit True Parents’ formula course. That is why I am doing a special condition to raise them – fishing together, having a meal together, talking together while we fish together. We did not catch big fish, but everybody caught small fish. (We) read EDP and (had a) jeongseong condition. It was very beautiful. Manuel and Banue(?) helped us. Thank you so much....
Today I’d like to talk about “Why we should witness” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
I blessed Japanese members, that they may become rich. Korea is not an exception. Please become rich, too. The way for you to become rich not only on earth but also in the eternal world is by saving many lives through the True Parents. Compared to our lives before, the time remaining ahead of us is short. No matter how long we live, we will not live for more than 100 years. Please bear in mind that only when we honor True Parents' will and practice it in our lives can we stand in a blessed position, in a position filled with love and in the position of central figures as leaders in the eternal world. However, that does not mean that because you are a first-generation member that you may divide all your responsibilities among the second-and third-generation members. You must also fulfill your own responsibilities.
That is why we are hopeful and happy people. Your actions and the practice of your faith will decide the number of people that find salvation through you. When the people that gain life through you grow in number, True Parents, who embrace Asia and the world, will achieve everything. No worldly laws will work in the new peaceful world, a world overflowing with peace, freedom, unification and happiness. It will be a world without need of lawyers, attorneys or judges. You should introduce True Parents to the seven billion people on earth and educate them so that they can all partake of this joyful world. This is the only way we can become proud blessed families and leaders of the Unification community in this era. (2013.10.27, CheongShim Peace World Center)
True Mother has blessed us that we may become rich. The meaning of rich that True Mother is talking about does not mean having a lot of assets and wealth, but it means to become people that are spiritually rich by saving many lives.
In the spirit world, the rich are not rich in material wealth but rich in love. To become rich in love, you must become someone who saves many, many souls.
True Mother said that when the people that gain life through us grow in number, True Parents, who embrace Asia and the world, will achieve everything.
That is why whatever we do – (if) you are related to an organization or you work outside – our main job is what? Multiplication. That is one of the great attributes of the Blessing. That is why your concern, vision and goal should be centered on multiplication. Then it can happen substantially.
If there is no goal, no clear concept, no vision, no idea about multiplication, then nothing happens. If there is no concern, then nothing happens. You need to know that. That’s why if you work very hard for outreach, you need a very clear vision.
Vision means... what? Numbers. Our vision is to restore the Cheon Il Guk. How (can we) restore (it)? We need to increase numbers. God created human beings and all things centered on numbers. That is why you need to have a clear vision centering on numbers. Vision means numbers. You need to start with 3 substantially. Don’t just study Divine Principle and be inspired. What is the outcome? You need to focus on the substantial outcome. (If) your mindset is “No matter what, I want to break through with 3 spiritual children, 3 John the Baptists. (You need to) center on numbers in detail. Then you can work (it) out. You will surely bring an outcome.
But if you are not much concerned about numbers, nothing will happen. You become very vague and time just passes away.
That is why when I see vision, it is always centered on numbers. How do we restore America? What is the population? What is 10% of the population? (I) always think about numbers in detail.
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 abide 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 Responsibility of the Tribal Messiah
<271-16>All people should register for the nation centered on the 430 couples by completing the responsibility of the tribal messiah. If all the people in the Christian realm become connected in this way, the tribal messiahs can reach millions of people. When every village does this, all nations will automatically become part of the Kingdom of Heaven. By connecting the realm of God's direct dominion with the realm of God's indirect dominion, Satan, who has been dominating all the countries in the world will automatically retreat. This is how it will happen.
The Blessing and the Realm of God's Direct Dominion
After you are blessed, you enter the realm of God's direct dominion. In the realm of the Unification Church, you still have the responsibility to offer your nation, and by completing that responsibility, you can become one with True Parents and connect to them directly. When God and human beings move through eight stages, the Satan world will disappear because the family messiah, the tribal messiah and the national messiah can all be free from Satan through the True Parents.
True Father emphasizes that everyone must fulfill their own tribal messiah mission and enlist in the nation centering on the 430 couples.
True Father said that if all Christians become like this, there would be hundreds of tribal messiahs. This is telling Christian ministers to give the Blessing centering on their own congregation.
We did not receive this letter(?).(?) I really want to initiate centered on the Clifton Church. Those who are related to our movement as Christian ministers, I really want to educate them through one-on-one (education and) let them become CheonBo members. Then let them teach the Divine Principle to their own congregations. There is no need for them (the members of their congregations?) (to) come to our church. Let them learn the Divine Principle centered on their own church and become blessed families and follow True Parents’ tradition.
Without a breakthrough in the Blessing and education in the Divine Principle, there is no way to increase to hundreds of Tribal Messiahs based on Christian people. I really want to break through. Now everybody is aware of the 43-day condition. Since I came to America, I emphasized so much (that) the 43-day condition is so important.
Now we are emphasizing the one-on-one education with each minister. Let them become CheonBo members.
Third, let the ACLC ministers become lecturers through one-on-one or whatever and teach their own congregations. Let each of them become Tribal Messiahs.
In this way we can reach 144,000 people who can become members. Actually Christians still (have) great potential. The Spanish has great potential. Our second generation have great potential. These 3 areas have great potential. Whenever I think of these 3 areas, I am always inspired.
Then, by the Christian realm, which was in the realm of indirect dominion, becoming connected to the realm of direct dominion through True Parents, the national foundation is made and Satan will automatically disappear.
Anyone can enter the realm of direct dominion after receiving the Blessing. After receiving the Blessing, Blessed families are left with the responsibility to complete their Heavenly Tribal Messiah missions and offer your nation.
True Mother speaks about everybody completing their Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission. Our vision is what? How to fulfill the Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission. In detail what? 430 couples. Always our vision in detail is numbers. We need to know about that.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: A True Parent-Child Relationship
1. When we are young, most people like being centered on themselves. I like it when others remember me or buy something for me. However, as we gradually grow, a true parent-child relationship develops into a heartistic relationship. It is not a relationship that exists because of some event or situation. A true parent-child relationship is when my father wants to see me, and there will be some heartistic merit in which my father cannot forget me. A real parent-child relationship is an inseparable relationship that does not need the word “father” or “child.” In the early days of our church, when True Father was teaching us, he bought off-the-rack suits or old clothes for early members to wear, and had new members wear new, custom-made clothes. He saved money on people who had to live together with him and spent a lot of money on newcomers.
A true parent-child relationship is when my father truly wants to see me and longs for me and cannot forget about me. This is the ideal relationship between parent and child.
A real parent-child relationship is an inseparable relationship that does not need the word “father” or “child.”
Longing always accompanies where there is true love. If I love someone, but there is no longing, then that is not love. Where there is love, it will definitely be overflowing with a longing heart.
Do you love True Father? How can I know I love True Father? Not just lip service. Do you have a longing heart for True Father and shed tears for him?
Where there is a longing heart, there are always tears. Do you really miss your grandchildren or your children or your lover (spouse?)? You always have a longing heart.
(If we say) “I love someone,” but there is no longing heart, that is not love.
How do we create a church centered on longing? As a leader I really miss each of my members. And each of our members think, “I really miss my central figure, my Abel, my church leader.”
If we don’t miss each other like that, that is not love.
How about your relationship with your children? Even though they make mistakes, have problems and have heartistic distance (from you), do you really love them even though they (cause) problems? If you really love them, automatically you have a longing heart for them.
If you have a longing heart for your children, a longing heart is like a magnet. They will come back finally to their parents’ bosom. This is the power of the longing heart.
Why do children not care for their parents?
Even though parents (may) say, “I love you,” it is only external, only a concept. If parents have a full longing heart for their children, the children cannot betray their parents. They cannot go their own way. This is an important point.
Takayoshi, Tomomi and... sisters(?) are helping me.... Do I have a longing relationship for them? Do I miss them? Love them? If I don’t (miss them), that means I do not truly love them.
When I think about Jack Howard(?), I really miss him. That means my heart is there. Every morning I pray for each of the state leaders. I am always thinking, “I miss this guy, this girl.” If I don’t know someone, I need to think, “I need to call (him).” I always need to think, “Do I really love each state leader? Each sub-regional leader?” I need to check my heart. “Do I have a longing heart for them or not?”
This is the most important point in raising our own children and spiritual children. Do I have an inseparable relationship centering on a longing heart or not?
Just as there is so much longing between lovers that they miss each other so much that they can't stand not seeing each other, the real parent-child relationship is a world where longing and longing meet.
2. We must see that True Parents have an intention when they do not give any help to our ministers working hard on the front line but invest a lot in external activities, such as UPF rallies, scientists' rallies, supra-denominational movements, and Victory Over Communism. Even though we became members who listened to the Principle and received the Blessing, looking heartistically, we experienced many cases where we do not fit with True Father. We are called members, but in a heartistic perspective, it is different. In other words, if we enter a world of heart, we were not able to have content to share joy and sorrow. If it really becomes a heartistic relationship with the same values, you understand each other even if you do not live together, and you have mutual understanding even in the first meeting. When there is a heartistic distance, even if you live together, you do not understand each other and have differences.
When there is heartistic difference even when you live together and you do not understand each other, then you are just my neighbor. You have nothing to do with me.
The world of heart is a world where you share not only joy and love but share pain and sorrow as well. In the world of heart, the subject and object have the same values and share everything together.
If it really becomes a heartistic relationship with the same values, you understand each other even if you do not live together, and you have mutual understanding even in the first meeting. When there is a heartistic distance, even if you live together, you do not understand each other and have differences. “You are just my external neighbor. You have nothing to do with me(?).” There is no longing heart for somebody.
That is why we need to have a heartistic relationship, heartistic closeness.
3.The era of Cheon Il Guk is the age of children. We need to reflect on how much of a heartistic distance I actually have with the Father. We need to reflect on whether we are really in a genuinely and sincerely harmonious relationship based on where we are in the lives we are in. I should not set the standard too high just because True Parents told me to raise the standard of heart, but I need to take a look at my position of existence, whether I am in harmony with the Father with the attitude of giving a cup of cold water to the little ones. In view of the external providence, True Parents have overcome many hardships and, through the foundation of UPF, they now have the standard of being welcomed by many leaders and many religious groups. Now, we need to become members of a heartistic relationship with True Parents and brothers and sisters around us, who we can give and receive with all our heart, mind, and character wherever we are.
4. Since we have heard the Principle, do not conceptually think that God and I have a parent-child relationship, members have a brother-and-sister relationship, and that True Parents are people who have done great things around the world, but let’s become children who really have a heartistic parent-child relationship. This is not to say that we follow True Parents because of the great merits that they have made externally, but we want to become children who follow the Word with the life and love of the heart. We have to become the ones who are determined to become children of heart, not the relationship between True Parents and me because of work, responsibility, or any profession.
There is no concept of becoming exhausted in the world of heart. Since it is a world of living for the sake of each other, no matter what problem arises, it becomes digested by heart.
If the relationship between parent and child and between brothers and sisters and between neighbor and neighbor did not have heart, then that world has nothing to do with world of Heaven. Therefore, we need to reflect on whether we are really in a genuinely and sincerely harmonious relationship in our hearts based on where we are in the lives we are in.
In the relationship between God, True Parents, and me, we must become children who follow the Word with the life and love of the heart.
We have to truly become children of heart, not (simply have a) relationship between True Parents and me because of work, responsibility, or any profession or because they are the messiah, the savior, because of their external position, because they are God’s only begotten son and daughter. That is (only their) external position. In the Kingdom of Heaven (it is not), “Oh, I am the begotten daughter! I am the begotten son!” (There is) nothing (like that) in the Kingdom of Heaven. Just, “You are my father! You are my mother! You are my children!” That’s it. That is everything.
Of course, the external position is very important. True Parents are God’s only begotten son and only begotten daughter; that is very important. But the most important (thing) is heartistic relationship. Just parent and child. Not more than this. There is a longing heart. That’s it. Then you can overcome any other issues and problems.
Have a beautiful and nice Sunday. I love you all, my brothers and sisters! I love you!
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Juan Acosta, SR3 in Kansas, City
I am so inspired! Now you focus on so many things. Please, (don’t just do) the Blessing. In order to increase the Blessing, you need to educate (people) one-on-one. Without education (your activity) is always limited. That’s why your key ministers or outreach people, let them know the Divine Principle very clearly one by one. You need to (tell) them, “Father Moon, our founder, suggests that the best way to learn his philosophy is through one-on-one (study). Let’s try his method.” If you break through with 3 or 4 or 5, I think your multiplication will be more prosperous.
I am really inspired by your beautiful report today.♦
(Response to sharing) When we read one-hour EDP, we know immediately whether we are a conceptual or a heartistic being. When you read, all kinds of fallen nature comes out. Sometimes, “I need to read the same content again! Why do I need to read it 100 times?” That means you do not know the Divine Principle. When you read the Divine Principle and you feel every time, “Wow! These words are God’s love and his heart” and you are really heartistically connected and unite with God’s word and you are full of appreciation and gratitude, then you have already reached a certain level.
But when you read (and it) still (seems) dry and just conceptual and conditional, that means your life of faith is still very conditional and conceptual, very external. There is no heart.
That is why you need to break through. When the physically healthy man eats breakfast and lunch, it is so delicious. Even though Koreans eat the same kimchee, the same rice and the same bread, it is always delicious. That means you are physically very healthy. However, you are spiritually not healthy when you read the Divine Principle (and feel), “Oh, no! The same thing. It is very boring. Why do I need to do it?” That means spiritually something is wrong. Spiritually you are really sick. Patients (?people?) who have no desire to eat (spiritual?) food are spiritually(?) sick.
If you are spiritually health, even when you read the same content again and again, “Oh, num num num! So delicious!”
Also, when you read one-hour content, how much self control (do you have)? How much can you concentrate: 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 60 minutes, 70 minutes? Then you control yourself. But if you read 5 minutes and think (about) all kinds of things, then there is no sense of control. Through the one-hour reading you know how much control you have. It is great training! Is that right?♦
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