Ep 613 - Why We Should Witness Part 6
Why We Should Witness - June 30, 2022
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Time flies so fast. Today is the last day of June, right?
Today I’d like to talk about “Why we should witness” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Heavenly Parent, God, is the parent of all human beings. True Parents are the ones who make it possible for us to come into God's presence. Without them, none of you is able to approach God. Due to True Parents, we can stand before Almighty God, the Creator, as His children. Particularly in the Orient, filial piety toward parents is taught. This means loving and respecting your parents. Parents love and take care of their children, and they offer devotions in the hopes that their children will surpass them. In many countries today, however, people are unaware of the philosophy of filial piety. We are trying to fulfill our responsibility so that we can become the filial children of God, the Absolute Being.
Receiving the marriage Blessing is not for your benefit alone. The desire of Heavenly Parent is to be able to embrace all of the 7.3 billion people of the world as His children. Those of you who received the Blessing earlier have to guide the rest of the world to participate in the Blessing. In plain language, the more happiness is shared the more it will spread. The more blessings you give to others, the more happiness you will receive in return. That is the desire of your original mind. You must follow the road to becoming a filial child and a loyal subject. (2016.05.08, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Mother said, “Receiving the marriage Blessing is not for your benefit alone. The desire of Heavenly Parent is to be able to embrace all of the 7.9 billion people of the world as His children. Those of you who received the Blessing earlier have to guide the rest of the world to participate in the Blessing.”
You need to know that the salvation that God desires is not selective salvation for the predestined people, but it is total salvation for each and every person. Since many Christians do not know that God is the parent, they believe that according to God’s absolute predestination, only those who believe in God and Jesus will go to heaven. If that were so, then God would have no qualifications to be the parent of humankind.
God's true absolute predestination is that every single person will return to God. However, what we have to think about is when we receive salvation is it proud salvation or shameful salvation?
In the end everybody will go back to God’s bosom because God’s concept is the concept of total salvation. Father always asks us, “When you receive salvation, do you receive proud or shameful salvation?”
If we give many blessings to others, we can receive proud salvation, but if we cannot multiply the blessing, then it becomes shameful salvation.
That is our portion of responsibility. When we understand that God is the parent of all humankind, then we need to know that God’s true absolute predestination is that every single person will be saved. This is an important point. That is why God’s salvation is not selective salvation. It is total salvation. Why? Because God is the parent of all humankind.
That’s why when Father discovered the fundamental truth that the relationship between God and humans is parent and child, this is really important. If you really understand that God is really a parent, then he needs to love everybody, he needs to save everybody. Nobody can live in hell. Can you understand that? If we really understand that God is a parent, when we think about God’s absolute predestination, it is not selective salvation. Without missing anyone, it is total salvation. How grateful we are. No matter what, God needs to save us. No matter what, we need to go back to God’s bosom. That is our final destination.
Don’t simply be happy that you have already received the Blessing and you are already a blessed couple, but the life of someone who does not receive the Blessing is miserable.(?) We cannot think like that. We (all) have a common destiny. When we receive the Blessing, we can go back to bless(?) other people.(?)
Because you are my brothers and sisters, you are children of God and we have the same destiny. Those who are in hell are also God’s children and my brothers and sisters. No matter what, we need to liberate hell. This Unification principle is so beautiful. God and you and I have a common destiny – without exception. Because of this concept we need to realize that we are truly one family under God.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 55 - Section 6: The Incorporeal World and the Corporeal World Whose Center is Human Beings
The substantial world exists substantially and definitely. This is very important. The spiritual world is not just a vague world and not just a world of vague concepts; it is a substantial world.
It is real that the sun exists. The moon is real. The ocean is real. The universe is real. I am real. My children are real. My heart, love, lineage and life are invisible, but they are real.
Likewise, although God and the spirit world are invisible, they are so real. God is so real and substantial, whether you believe in God or not. It does not matter. Heaven and Hell are so real, whether you are in denial or not. Whether you are in denial or not, God is truly your parent and my parent. And you are eternal children of God. This is real.
If you (were to) believe that God and the spirit world are not real and (to) live your life centered on yourself, there (would be) no problem. However, however, however, if God and the spirit world really exist and are really real, what would you do? And even if God and the spirit world do not exist, what will you lose if you believe in them and live a good life? If you believe in God and the spirit world and live a good life, you have nothing to lose.
There is nothing to lose by believing. You can live a happier, more joyful, more valuable and good life by living with faith than living without faith. Which one would you choose? However, regardless of whether you believe it or not, God and the spirit world always exist.
Even if your children and all humankind believe that Father Moon and Mother Moon are not True Parents, Messiah, and Savior, what would you do if they were really True Parents? If they are really the messiah? What would you do? Of course, they are unmistakable True Parents, Messiahs, and Saviors, but even if they are not, what have you lost by believing in them?
I don't know what you guys are like, but I've been blessed personally beyond imagining. If you believe in them and have a better life, I don't think you've ever lost anything.
Since I follow True Parents, I have never lost anything. Let’s say they are not the messiah... Of course, I absolutely believe they are the messiah. I am so grateful. Even if God says they are not the messiah, I absolutely believe they are my messiah and eternal teachers. I absolutely believe that. Even if God says not to believe in them, to me they are really my messiah, my savior. They really saved my life. If I had not known God and True Parents, how could I have understood God and that he is a sorrowful God? How could I have known the purpose of my life? I cannot deny True Parents. That is why you need to appreciate what you have gained from True Parents before you talk about whether they are the messiah or not. We need to be grateful to our Heavenly Parent and True Parents.
• 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.
• 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, we will continue our study under the same title as yesterday: “God’s Homeland and the Peace Kingdom Are Built on the Foundation of the Realm of His Liberation and Release.”
I have toured the world hundreds of times to declare Heaven’s truth and educate people. No matter where I go in the world or what kind of audience I face, I always ask one question. I issue a challenge, saying, “If there is anyone here whose mind and body are not in conflict, please raise your hand.” So far no one anywhere has dared to raise a hand.
What does this tell us? It means that human beings are still slaves to the fallen nature that we inherited from our first ancestors, Adam and Eve. We have not yet escaped that yoke.
Human beings are still slaves to the fallen nature that we inherited from our first ancestors, Adam and Eve. We have not yet escaped that yoke. That is why human beings’ greatest task is to figure out how to realize mind and body unity, husband and wife unity, and Cain and Abel unity.
Where is God? He is where unity is realized. As much as mind and body are united, every human being without exception will feel God's presence. When you unite your mind and body 70%, you can feel God 70%.
The reason you cannot feel God's presence heartistically is because fallen nature centered on the flesh is still dominating my mind.
Why can't you feel God's presence between husband and wife? As much as a couple is united, you will feel God’s presence. Why can't you feel God's presence between Cain and Abel? As much as Cain and Abel are united, you will feel God’s presence.
This is 100% sure.
Therefore fallen men needs to receive strength from the spiritual world through endless prayer and jeongseong. It is completely impossible with my strength alone. The next step is to own the word and make efforts to become the substance of the Word. You should always be stimulated by the word and dominate your body.
Above all, you must think about how to experience God's world of heart. True Father said that anybody who has experienced God's world of heart receives strong stimulation and the driving force to dominate their physical body.
Then how can you experience God's world of heart? It is to go out to the front line and stand in the position of sacrificing as much as you can, more than anyone else and living for the sake of others from a position that God cannot help but sympathize with. And you have to always live with the HyoJeong mindset to become one with God.
What I learned from Father. This is the only way we can experience God’s heart.
This is evidenced by the confessions of saints and sages who spent their lives in fasting and abstinence and consistently pursued paths of incredible suffering. Their confessions that they could not root out the desires of the flesh before they had to leave this world remain as pitiful cries to their disciples who still insist on following in their footsteps. Those who are counted among the saints and sages are now declaring with one voice that I, Sun Myung Moon, have brought for the first time from Heaven the truth of true love that they could not grasp, and that their followers and descendants on Earth should follow my teachings absolutely and practice them.
What kind of being is the Messiah? In a word the Messiah means God's son or daughter whose mind and body are united. What kind of being is true parents? True Father and True Mother are a couple that are united centered on God's will.
Only the True Parents have shown us the course of subjugating the body and subjugating Satan through the individual, family, nation, world and cosmos. Therefore, all mankind, every person without exception, must go through the model course that true parents walked on.
People in spirit world who regret that they could not meet Rev. Moon while they were on earth and attend him as Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord, and True Parent during their lives here are sending a flood of messages. The resolutions that these people adopted in the spirit world now echo around the world. In the near future, all religious people will begin to receive revelations directly from the founders of their own religion, and there will be a great migration of people being guided to attend Rev. Moon as the True Parent. They will gather as the clouds to learn from Rev. Moon the truth of true love that enables them to unite their mind and body.
They will learn the way of the true family, leading to their singing together the praises of eternal happiness as parents and children on Earth and in Heaven.
Communists of the world who insisted there is no God and passed away as sacrifices to materialism, intellectuals of the world who as journalists commanded an entire generation, and even dictators and emperors who brandished the sword of absolute power and sacrificed countless lives, have shed tears of repentance before me and begged for forgiveness through their messages and resolutions from spirit world.
Any among you who still cannot believe with certainty the reality of the spirit world may still not be sure whether to believe these messages. To you my advice is this: “You will see for yourself when you pass on to spirit world!” But once you go down that path you can never return, no matter how much you may strike the ground in lamentation. Once in the spirit world, a person cannot do anything on his own about the sins he committed while on earth. So your ancestors now are observing your life in tears, waiting for an opportunity to help you in a way that indemnifies their sins.
In the future, what content should we focus on (in) educating fallen humankind and what should be proclaimed without change? Divine Principle is proclaimed because it is eternal truth. There is never any compromise. What, then, are we to proclaim when we lecture or teach a principle? When you teach the Divine Principle, you need to have a very clear mindset from now on. As a lecturer what do you want to focus on for your guests? The mindset of the lecturer is very important.
1. God definitely exists.
God is really real. Don’t just talk about God’s existence as dual characteristics – yang and yin, sung sang and hyung sang. Do not teach them just theoretically. You need to testify that God definitely exists by the principle, by your heart, by your experience; this is the most important thing.
2. God is man’s eternal parent, and humans are His eternal children.
This point is very important as a lecturer.
3. The spiritual world definitely exists and humans are destined to live eternally in the spirit world.
Let them realize and understand very clearly that the spiritual world is so real through theory, practice and testimony.
4. Satan definitely exists.
We need to clarify Satan’s identity. Who is Satan? This is an important point. Don’t just talk about the fall of man and the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. What is Satan’s identity, how much does Satan work with us and invade us every moment, every second. You need to teach them the truth that Satan definitely does exist.
5. The Divine Principle is eternal truth. Also, human beings can only be perfected through (fulfilling their) portion of responsibility.
6. True Parents are the eternal Savior and Messiah.
You need to declare this no matter what, whether they accept it or not. Truth it truth. As a lecturer you need to prepare very well and declare this with confidence. Then the Holy Spirit will come down.
7. Eternal salvation and the cleansing of original sin are possible only through the Blessing.
These points you need to teach no matter what. You cannot compromise. If you do not convey these 7 points, you have not clearly conveyed God’s message. The Divine Principle needs to be proclaimed. You cannot negotiate or compromise because it is the truth.
I am telling you clearly that thousands, even tens of thousands, of your ancestors’ eyes are watching your every step and every action, sometimes with tears of heartbreak and other times with joy. Is there still anyone who cannot believe the reality of spirit world?
The World we are Living in is like the Shadow of the Incorporeal World
> The incorporeal world, or spirit world, is in the position of subject partner, and the corporeal world, or physical world, is in the position of object partner. The latter is like a shadow of the former (Heb 8:5).
> You can see your shadow when you go for a walk on a clear day. If the corporeal world is like the shadow then how beautiful must the incorporeal world be? According to people who have had spiritual experiences, they say that the beauty of the spiritual world cannot be expressed through words. Human beings were created to be born in the corporeal world, shed their physical bodies, and go directly to the incorporeal world where they will permanently reside.
The spirit world is the final destination for humans to go. Therefore, everything must be lived according to the standards desired by the spirit world. If true love is the highest standard desired by the spirit world, then we must live on this earth centered on true love.
True Father says that the spiritual world is a beautiful world that we cannot imagine. Fallen men cannot imagine it. The method of witnessing in the spiritual realm is to show and witness, just (as) on earth. For example, the most effective way for a high-class spirit living in heaven to witness to spirits living in Hell is to let him travel to heaven just once. When a spirit who was living in hell experiences heaven once, he realizes how miserable the world he is living in is and repents.
Why is the world we live in called hell on earth? This is because it cannot be compared to how beautiful the spiritual world originally created by God is. A person who has experienced the Kingdom of Heaven once knows how enchanting and beautiful the world God has prepared for humans is.
True Father often said this world is the hell of hells. Wow! (We may think) it is not so bad. We can eat. We can play golf and enjoy our hobbies. Many people can say this. But you do not know because you have no standard to compare (this world to heaven). Once you experience the real kingdom of heaven in heaven, wow! Then (you will see that) this world is really terrible, that it is really the hell of hells).
The Kingdom of Heaven is so beautiful, so fantastic, so unimaginably beautiful. It is such a beautiful world. Do you understand what I am talking about? Once you go to the spiritual world, you cannot come back; so we need to understand this point.
We need to create that kind of beautiful Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Father said when anyone goes to the spiritual world, (he will see that it is) much, much better than the earthly world. It cannot be compared.
Scriptures About the Existence of the Spirit World
Genesis 2:7 “Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”
Ecclesiastes 12:7 “and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.”
1 Corinthians 15:44 “it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.”
1 Corinthians 12:12 “Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.”
Spiritual world is not a vague concept. It is really real. So real.
God is not just a concept. God is really real substantially.
No one can deny (that) our mind and heart and love and lineage exist.
We cannot deny the spiritual world. We cannot deny the invisible God. That is why anyone who truly understands that the spiritual world and God exist cannot commit sin. That is why we need to teach very clearly God’s and the spiritual world’s existence.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Yumi Suina from Dallas CARP)♦
(Response to sharing) One who has a physical body on the earth is in subject position. The ones who have left their physical body and have not completed yet the perfection of their spiritual self need to come down and borrow a physical body.
That is why those (of you) who are living in the earthly world need to be subjective (in order) to invite all your ancestors spirits who can help you. That is why you need to declare: “I am going to do this. I am going to do that.” Then your ancestors really can help you. If you do not order and declare (your intentions, then) they cannot help you because you are the one with a physical body. Who are the ones with substantial life.(?) That is why you need to really become strong and confident to work together with spirits.♦
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