Ep 612 - Why We Should Witness Part 5
Why We Should Witness - June 29, 2022
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(Response to sharing) When you wake up – sometimes it is not easy to wake up because you are so tired or so exhausted because of stress or hard work – at that moment how can you change your attitude? How can you appreciate God and True Parents?
I always feel a lack of sleep. I can fall asleep within 5 minutes any time. Sometimes I feel so tired that I almost collapse. But I always remind myself of Father’s word: “You need to work harder than God, harder than I do.” Wow! When I am reminded of these words, Father’s life was like that: “I need to work harder than God, harder than anyone (else because) I am the messiah.” When I am exhausted and I think about these words, I immediately wake up and appreciate True Father’s hard work. This is incredible! It always gives me strength at any time, and I wake up and become alert. I think our life really needs to resemble (that of) True Father.
(Response to second sharing) My hope and desire (is that) at least 430 people appear through our Morning Devotion live. That is an ideal number. Some people do not show their face, but I want to see each of the members’ faces.
(Response to third sharing) Sometimes our children are very close to the church, (but) some (other) children have some distance from it. As parents we need to think, “Heavenly Parent, let me pay any indemnity, (follow) any course so that my children can come to God’s will closely. If there is a way to pay indemnity so that my children really get to know True Parents and God’s will, I will willingly pay any difficult course of indemnity. Please Heavenly Father, give me any burden as a condition for my children to come back to God’s bosom more closely.”
That is the heart of parents. “I need to be responsible for my children forever. No matter what, I want to protect them forever. I need to raise them forever.” That is the heart of the parent.
Please take care of your son very well. You are his parents. No one (else) can be responsible. You need to take care of him. You need to love him more and serve him more than before. Then he will be melted by your heart and by your love.♦
Today I’d like to talk about “Why we should witness” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
You are all blessed families. You became blessed families because of True Parents. Now you do not share any blood relationship with the people in the satanic world. They may be your brothers and sisters but they are of a different lineage. If you are going to embrace all seven billion people of this world, you need to tell them what you know. You should show them what kind of person you are and tell them you became what you are because of True Parents, and encourage them to join you. This is what True Parents meant by starting a true love movement. If you can help a person to begin a new life, that in itself is a success. You are giving hope to them. The True Parents of humankind are the king of kings. There should be people who can attend the king. The king of kings cannot be the king of just one nation, Korea.
God endured hardships and troubles for 6,000 years to give this special bond and gift to us today. If you think and live the same way today as you did yesterday, you will not be able to fulfill your responsibility. You will end up hanging your head in shame before your descendants. When you go to the other world, how many people will you find who will say “It's good to see you. I am able to lead life here in heaven because of what you did for me during that time. Thank you.” You have been studying God's Word for a long time and profess to know the Divine Principle. However, you have not practiced it. After you close the book, you go off and do your own personal things. You must be public-minded in your daily life. In other words, our Heavenly Parent and True Parents must always come first. (2014.12.18, Cheon Hwa Gung)
God’s Providence of Restoration is ultimately the providence of changing the blood lineage from Satan’s lineage to God’s blood lineage.
People in the world of Satan have no blood relationship with True Parents. They may be your brothers and sisters but they are of a different lineage
For secular people to become one with us, there is only one way. It is to know True Parents and change their blood lineage through the Blessing.
Therefore, our mission is to connect the Blessing to the people around us. If we are selected as the chosen people and do not multiply blessings, we are cursed by the spirit world as evil and lazy servants like the Story about Three Servants in the Bible. The master curses the unprofitable servant, saying, "You are lazy and good-for-nothing!”
Dear brothers and sisters! The more blessings (that) are given to others, the greater blessings (that) come back to my family.
True Mother said, “If you can help a person to begin a new life, that in itself is a success. You are giving hope to them. Our mission begins with saving one life. It is the heart of God and the heart of parents to have a heart that rejoices more when one life is restored than when a nation is restored or when the whole world is restored.”
Through hard work and going through hardships for 6,000 years, Heaven has given us these special bonds and benefits. God has specially chosen us from among the descendants of ancestors with a lot of merit for the salvation of all humankind. Therefore, we are the chosen people. However, the chosen people have responsibilities and missions.
True Mother said, “When you go to the spiritual world, how many people will you find who will say ‘It's good to see you. I am able to lead life here in heaven because of what you did for me during that time. Thank you.’?” We were all born to leave behind the benefits of love.
True Mother continues: “You must be public-minded in your daily life. In other words, our Heavenly Parent and True Parents must always come first.“
These words mean that God and True Parents must be our top priorities.
When I relate to some second generation, (they tell me,) “Dr. Yong, do you know how busy I am? I need to take care of a few children. I need (my) job; I need to survive. I need to work here and there. I have no time to go to church to attend Sunday service. I have no time to attend Morning Devotion. My job is crazy. I am almost crazy.”
I tell them, “Hey boys and girls, what is your top priority? If you do not put God as your top priority, (then you) put your own life as the top priority. This is very important. Which is your top priority? Your life needs to be decided centering on your top priority.
If you put your own life first rather than God, then your life is really upside down, and you will have so many problems. We need to follow heavenly order. Just now True Mother said that. Heavenly Parent and True Parents should always come first. They are (your) top priority.
If you put what to eat, what to drink, what to wear as your top priority, then your life will become very confused. Everything becomes disordered. Many blessed families put their finances and circumstances above God’s will. So they lose faith, finally lose their families, lose their children. As blessed families we need to really reflect on this. Everybody is busy. Everybody needs to survive, I know. But what is (your) top priority? (What is) the most important thing? When you go to the spiritual world, you will realize that. What should be the top priority? Your mindset and attitude is very important. What is your top priority?
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 55 - Section 6: The Incorporeal World and the Corporeal World Whose Center is Human Beings
This is a completely new section.
The substantial (incorporeal) world is an actual and concrete existence. The spiritual world is not just a world of vague ideas; it is a substantial world. We need to know that.
God is really real, even though invisible. (This) is reality. Spiritual world is a very real and substantial world. It does not matter if you believe in the spiritual world or not, it is real. We need to know that.
Later on you (will) come to realize, “Oh! God does exist! He is our parent. It is real.” I am telling you, we are resultant beings. That is reality.
God does exist as my Heavenly Parent. That is really reality. You need to understand: “I am the child of God.” Don’t just believe that. It does not matter if you believe in God or not. He is my parent; I am a child of God. This is reality.
Even though the spiritual world is an invisible, incorporeal world, that is reality. We need to understand this point.
• The universe was created after the pattern of a human being, who is in the image of God's dual characteristics.
• Corresponding to the human mind and body, the universe consists of the incorporeal world (spirit world) and corporeal world (physical world), both of which are real and substantial.
• The incorporeal world is so called because we cannot perceive it through our five physical senses.
• The two worlds together form the cosmos.
• Just as we cannot discern a person's character without fathoming his mind, and we cannot understand the fundamental meaning of human life without understanding God, so we cannot completely understand the corporeal world without understanding the incorporeal world.
To get to know a person, you have to know his personality centering on the person’s mind.
Likewise, to know the fundamental meaning of life, you must know God.
Also, to know the tangible world, you need to know the intangible world as well.
• The incorporeal world is in the position of subject partner, and the corporeal world in that of object partner. The latter is like a shadow of the former.
• When we shed our physical bodies, we enter the incorporeal world as spirits and live there for eternity.
God’s Homeland and the Peace Kingdom Are Built on the Foundation of the Realm of His Liberation and Release
Address on the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the HSA-UWC
Today, I am going to cover the contents of True Father’s speech on the incorporeal world, the spiritual world, and the corporeal world, the earthly world.
These are the words of True Father, given on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the HSA-UWC.
The title of the speech is “God’s Homeland and the Peace Kingdom Are Built on the Foundation of the Realm of His Liberation and Release”
Ladies and gentlemen, let us think for a moment about human life. We spend our first lifetime in the womb of our mother. The ten months that we spend there as a fetus is a period of water-borne life, because we are bathed in the amniotic fluid. We cannot speak or move about freely, but this does not mean that our term in the womb is not life.
During this period, we clearly possess a life given to us by Heaven, and it is a period for us to prepare for life on the earth, which is the next phase. The fact that we don’t breathe through our nose during this period doesn’t mean there is no life. The human being as a fetus in the womb cannot imagine what life will be like in the next phase, on the earth. It cannot imagine a world outside its mother’s womb. It cannot imagine not receiving all nourishment from its mother through the umbilical cord.
Human beings, though, are created so that when the time comes we bring our life in the womb to a close and begin life on the earth. Irrespective of our wishes, this happens in accordance with the laws of the universe. A new, vast world that we could never have imagined appears before us. Our water-borne life ends, and our new life on earth begins. The ten months of life in the womb transition into an earthly life of 100 years. Human beings then live in a wide variety of unique ways and prepare for the final phase of our existence, in the spirit world, that is, the world after death.
A world that is eternal and endless awaits us, but human beings living in a physical body are no more capable of imagining the spirit world than we were of imagining life on Earth while we lived in the womb. Our lives of some 100 years on Earth will transfer into an eternal world that transcends time and space. In the womb, we received nourishment from our mother through the umbilical cord, and during our time on earth we receive the three basic elements, the universe’s water, air and light.
The world of the womb breathes with water, the world on earth breathes with air, and the world in the eternal spirit world breathes with love.
Since the world of Hell in the spirit world is a world that lacks love, it is a world full of complaints and dissatisfaction and there is unimaginable suffering. Therefore, while living on earth, you must practice how to breathe with love with others before going to the spirit world.
The spiritual world is the world in which we must complete our spiritual body while training to love all things, all people, and God in the physical world. Heaven is a world of love, so there is no concept of enmity, hatred, envy, or jealousy. Therefore, the world that cannot exist even for a moment with fallen nature is the world of love in the spirit world.
Because God’s Kingdom of Heaven is a perfect world. It does not allow even a small percentage of any kind of enmity, hatred, envy, jealousy – any kind of fallen nature. As long as you have any kind of enmity, hatred, envy or jealousy, any fallen nature, you are immediately kicked out of heaven because God’s Kingdom of Heaven is perfection. It does not allow even 1% evil things. That is why we need to train (ourselves).
Heavenly Father and True Parents purposely put you in the Kingdom of Heaven, but if you have any enmity, hatred and envy, you are immediately kicked out by the law of God’s Kingdom of Heaven. What shall we do?
The world through which you can pass only by loving everything is the world of heaven. The fact that I cannot love my enemies or that I do not love someone is proof that I am still arrogant and still have much fallen nature in me.
We need to know that God sends enemies to me to remove my fallen nature. This is important. If you do not love your enemy, that means you surely need to pay indemnity until you can love him.
In some sense the enemy is really good for me to remove my fallen nature. When you remove your fallen nature, there is no enemy. Why did God give us enemies? To remove our fallen nature. We need to love our enemy no matter what.
Without a loving heart, we cannot exist in the Kingdom of Heaven. That is why in some sense the enemy is a great contributor to my removing my fallen nature. That is why we need to love our enemy. Without loving my enemy, there is no way to remove my fallen nature.
My job is to love all people, all things (and) God. There is no such thing as not loving my enemy. I need to digest everything. That is our portion of responsibility.
Once we enter the spirit world, however, we will no longer have need of physical nourishment. We instead will breathe love as we live eternally. So human beings, without exception, live through three stages: ten months in the womb, 100 years on earth, and an eternity in the spirit world. This is not something that we do by our own choice. It is a blessing and grace given by Heaven. What could be a blessing and grace greater than this?
It is entirely a blessing from God that a being called ‘I’ was born into this world. I am not born because I wanted to be. Raise your hand if you were born because you wanted to be born. I also have no right to decide whether I die. There is an order in being born, but no one knows when they (will) die.
The conclusion is that if I cannot decide to be born or to die, I cannot determine the purpose of my life on my own.
You cannot decide whether you will be born or die or not. Therefore, you cannot determine the purpose of your life on your own.
Therefore, the purpose of my life is ultimately to live according to the blueprint of the creator who brought me (in)to existence.
However, human misfortune begins with the thought that the life given to me is my life, so I decide everything and act according to my own will. In the end, if we do not live according to the blue print of the creator who made me, we can never taste happiness.
The tools we use have a purpose for which we use them. Any tool has value as a tool when it is used according to the intention of the person who made it. When we live our lives according to the purpose of creation of God who created us, we can find meaning and happiness in life.
What we need to know clearly is that I am a resultant being, not a causal being. I am not the creator. God is my creator. I am a resultant being, not a causal being. That is why I need to follow the causal being’s blueprint. He has a purpose for which he created me. Therefore I have to adjust to his blueprint, not my own blueprint.
Therefore, I have to live according to the will of the one who made me.
So when I say you need to know the spirit world well, it is not enough to live with a vague faith in the existence of the spirit world. On Earth we must know how to prepare for life in the spirit world, where we will live eternally, and then prepare ourselves thoroughly. Just as a child that develops a problem while in the womb may spend his entire life after birth in poor health, so too if we fail to recognize Heaven’s will during our short life on Earth and commit sin or carry out evil deeds, we will eventually pay the price in the spirit world according to the principle of cause and effect.
Ten months in the mother's womb is a preparation period for 100 years of the earthly world, and 100 years of the earthly world is a preparation period for living (in) the eternal world, not just for one or two days. You need to live eternally in the spiritual world.
My goodness! You need to know that. How important the... (those) 100 years are!... 100 years is the preparation period for the eternal world, (for eternity,) not 1,000 years, not 10,000 years, not a million years – the eternal world. (Your life in) the eternal world will be decided according to your 100 years of preparation in the earthly world.
Therefore, for 100 years of life on earth, you must thoroughly prepare yourself on earth by knowing the structure and contents of the spirit world. There are things to prepare as an individual, things to prepare as a family, and things to prepare as a tribe.
To go to heaven in the spirit world, you need to prepare a passport, visa, and ticket. What if receiving a passport is the blessing and 3-day ceremony, receiving a visa is experiencing the 4 great realms of heart and the 3 great kingships, and the ticket is to complete the Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission and register in Cheonbo Won?
What should you do? Do you have a passport? A visa? Not just a permanent residence visa? The visa of citizenship.
Of course, we have received the Blessing and done the 3-day ceremony. Do you have the visa, not just a permanent residence visa? Do you have citizenship? If you have the permanent residence visa, you need to come back again.
If you do not register in Cheonbo Won, you will have to return to Earth. You only need a one-way ticket to go to the spirit world. Those who are not ready to go to heaven need a return ticket.
There is no need to have a return ticket, only a one-way ticket. When you go to the sw, there is no need to come back to the earthly world. You just need a one-way ticket.
If you need a return ticket, that means you have not fulfilled your mission on earth. This is really reality.
If we commit sin or carry out evil deeds, we will eventually pay the price in the spirit world according to the principle of cause and effect. It means that our spirit self will have to suffer indescribable pain and indemnity in spirit world.
Once the physical body has been shed, it will be too late. When the physical body dies, it returns to the earth as a handful of dirt, but do you think that our life, our mind, our heart, and our hopes are also buried? It is absolutely not so. Our 100-year-long life is recorded, photographed and automatically evaluated without fail in our personal computer, built by God, called the spirit self. (OX life)
The laws of the spiritual world can never be compromised. If you commit sin, no matter what, you must pay indemnity. If a spirit person who has committed sin enters the spirit world, it will have to suffer indescribable pain and indemnity.
Therefore, once the physical body has been shed, it will be too late. Indemnity for all sins must be cleared while you are using your body on earth. The Holy Wine of unconditional forgiveness that True Parents sometimes gives is truly unimaginable grace.
That is why you do not want to miss this chance if you have committed sin. Otherwise, once you go to the spiritual world without having had that unconditional forgiveness ceremony by True Parents, this is a big problem. Father said when we die, we will know what he is talking about.
True Father said that when the physical body dies, it returns to the earth as a handful of dirt, but our lives, our hearts, and our hopes are not buried.
Our 100-year-long life is recorded, photographed and automatically evaluated without fail in our personal computer, built by God, called the spirit self. Therefore, it is important for us to forgive sins committed in the past, but it is also important how to clear everything while we are living and live the rest of our lives as precious as a thousand years, leaving behind a track record of love.
True Father said that if the blessed families complete the Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission, original sin, hereditary sin, collective sin, and individual sin will all be liquidated, completely removed. You need to fulfill your Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission.
This is why all of us, during life on earth, will stop and check ourselves again and again, and ask our unsteady mind and heart: “Where are you going?” The saints, sages and spiritual masters are those who spent their entire lives wrestling with such issues. None of them, however, were able to present clear answers.
It is true that their teachings have remained with us, allowing religions to be formed and sacred texts to be published, guiding the mass of people for their lives. It is also true, though, that humanity still lacks even the ability to have dominion over our own mind.
This is why we must always look back on ourselves, and ask ourselves countless times: “Where are you going? What are you doing?”
And God appears to us every moment, every second, asking my name: “Hey, Dr. Yong, Hey, Dr. Kim.” (He is) asking for my name, asking my direction: “Adam and Eve, where are you now? What are you dong now? Where are you going now?”
Therefore, we must always strive to live according to the will of God and always listen to the voice of our original mind.
“Where are you going now? What are you doing now? Is my will and my job connected to God’s will or not?” You always need to have confirmation and reflect about yourself. You need to always hear the voice of your original mind.
I hope all of you will understand what Father is talking about.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Pastor Nadeem Rahman, District 11, Arizona)
Someone just asked about (whether the spiritual world or earth is subject.) Sometimes we say that according to the Divine Principle... the earthly world is the subject.
But according to True Father’s words, the spiritual world is the subject and the earthly world is the object because (in the end) we live in the spiritual world. Our final goal is to go to the spiritual world and settle in the spiritual world.
Why do we sometimes emphasize that the earthly world is the subject? Because we need to realize and achieve God’s substantial Cheon Il Guk... In order to establish God’s Cheon Il Guk and to fulfill our own responsibility centering on the earth, we emphasize that the physical world is important. But the physical world is not the subject. We need to fulfill our portion of responsibility and realize it on the earth. Otherwise there is no meaning to go to the spiritual world.
In that sense when we emphasize the (physical) world, it seems like the subject. But True Parents’ guidance is very clear: the spiritual world is subject, and the physical world is the object. We need to understand this point.♦
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