Ep 615 - Why We Should Witness Part 8
Why We Should Witness - July 2, 2022
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Today I’d like to talk about “Why we should witness” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Do you know the story of the white-naped cranes who go over the Himalaya Mountains? In places like Siberia or Mongolia, about six months after they have their chicks, the white-naped cranes fly over the Himalayas and go as far as India. In order to pass over the Himalayas like that, they go as far as Tibet and then they have to wait for the right air current to get over the mountains. If the air current ascends, they must go over within 30 minutes. It's truly an amazing thing. How can they know about that air current? When they go over the mountains, because of various kinds of air pressure and air currents, they cannot ascend in a straight line. They ascend while circling around. Isn't that amazing? At that time if they hesitate or stop what would happen? Your portion of responsibility is the indemnity you have to bear.
If you cannot fulfill that, your descendants will have to fulfill it. Could there ever be parents who want to bequeath that kind of thing? From now on we should not say that we are distressed or things are difficult. God and True Parents have prepared the spirit and the body, and in addition, the surrounding environment. In the future whether you will be able to go into the ideal world, the kingdom of heaven, depends on your carrying out your responsibility. You must think about how this providential time can be shortened. You must go the way of filial children in your family, patriots in your nation, saints in the world, and divine sons and daughters in heaven and earth. (2002.08.18, Fukuoka, Japan)
True Mother said, “The white-naped cranes fly over the Himalayas and go as far as India. In order to pass over the Himalayas like that, they go as far as Tibet and then they have to wait for the right air current to get over the mountains. If the air current ascends, they must go over within 30 minutes. When they go over the mountains, because of various kinds of air pressure and air currents, they cannot ascend in a straight line. They ascend while circling around. At that time if they hesitate or stop what would happen?
The main point that True Mother talks about is that in the environment prepared by God and True Parents, we must be like white-naped cranes and ride the air current of heavenly fortune that was found after 6,000 years and fulfill our responsibilities without hesitating for even a moment. Everything has right timing. She said that our portion of responsibility is now – whether or not we ride the air current of heavenly fortune prepared by Heavenly Parent and True Parents and fulfill our responsibilities.
We are now welcoming the Golden Age, a time of incredible heavenly fortune that will never happen again in the eternal history of God's 6,000-year Providence of Restoration. These are the words of True Mother, telling us not to miss this time and to fulfill our responsibilities with all our heart and soul.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 56 - The Position of Human Beings in the Cosmos (Owners of Creation)
• First, God created human beings to be the rulers of the universe.
• The universe does not of itself have internal sensibility toward God. Hence, God does not govern the universe directly. Rather, God endowed human beings with sensibilities to all things in the universe and gave them the mandate to rule over the universe directly.
• Human beings, composed of flesh, which can dominate the corporeal world, and spirit, which can dominate the incorporeal world, likewise have the potential to rule both worlds.
The Hope of Creation
<11-119> If you asked one of the diverse things of creation what its hope is, it will respond, “My hope is to find God the Creator.” As the Creator, God Himself knows that He is what all of creation is searching for, but He is standing in a position where He is unable to have direct dominion over all things in the universe. You must understand that this is Heaven’s sorrow. So then what is the hope of today’s human beings, who are part of the creation that lost God the Creator? It is the same hope of the entire creation—for God to once again have direct dominion over all of creation.
We Must Restore Dominion
<11-119> We have the mission of accomplishing this hope and desire and are being summoned to complete this task. Therefore, we must restore God’s dominion along with His ownership over creation. In addition, we must offer gratitude and praise for God’s governing grace. We must understand that this responsibility is not assigned to the things of creation nor to the heavenly forces; this responsibility lies with us.
Due to the fall of man, God lost His children, lost all things, and the position of the ruler of man and creation.
The Bible says that due to the fall of man, creation is still groaning because it has lost its ruler who should be ruling over them.
Therefore, creation hopes for the emergence of true human beings to rule over them, and furthermore, looks for God, the true ruler.
However, the fact is that it is only up to the human portion of responsibility to resolve creation’s bitter sorrow and wish and to put God in the position of the ruler of creation. The conclusion is that both the liberation of the creation and the liberation of God must ultimately be completed by human beings fulfilling their portion of responsibility.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Human Beings’ Han — No Intellect Han, No Emotion Han, Fickleness Han
1. We must immediately find our own moment. Then how do we immediately find our moment? First, we must resolve the han of no intellect. If you are a student, you must make effort to do all you can in order to be enlightened and not miss the moment of the studies given to you. Then, through that knowledge, you should find the world of your heart and enter it. However, we not only have han of no intellect, we also have han of no emotion and han of fickleness that stops will from persisting. We can divide them into these 3 types. When looking centered on original nature, we are people who are so barren that we try to receive but cannot and try to give but cannot.
The human mind is composed of emotion, intellect, and will. However, due to man’s fall into ignorance, the Fall was falling into a state of ignorance that did not know anything about emotion, intellect, and will.
This is “No emotion, No intellect, No will.” And this remained as human beings’ 3 great (kinds of) han, bitter sorrows.
The first is the han of no intellect. It is the han of not being able to know God, no matter how much you struggle to know Him. The second is han of no emotion. Due to the Fall, man’s heart became so barren that they became unable to know God’s world of heart.
Fallen man has strived to know God while making countless efforts and paying indemnity in his own ways, but in the end, we have come to bear the han of not knowing God’s heart.
Thirdly, fallen men bears the han of fickleness where once we make a decision, we cannot continue to the end and become unpredictable. Fallen man makes determinations tens of times, hundreds of times, but it is human to give up on the way and always become fickle.
Therefore, human beings always carry the han of fickleness when it comes to actions and putting things into practice.
2. Also, when we look at our goals, we are very fickle, so once we think it’s right, we can’t go out persistently, and our values get messed up. The word “fickle” means easily losing the standard of values that you have kept. In other words, it means easily losing your first motivation or forgetting a certain standard. It is our fickle life to easily lose our relationship with our father and the standards of receiving his love. That is why we have no choice but to admit that we are human beings with han of no intellect, han of no emotion, and han of fickleness. Once you have made up your mind, you should not be disappointed or despair in any adversity, and you should not complain and have dissatisfaction no matter what difficulties you face, but we are unable to do so. When I am invaded by a certain environment, I become someone in pain because I am fickle.
The more fallen men learn, the more they should enter a deeper world and discover God, but most people just become dominated by the world of intellect and are either unable to discover God or end up denying God’s existence. That is why many people end up being slaves of the intellect.
When looking at history, most people who met God were not intellectual; rather, it was the people who were more faithful and conscientious and closer in heart that met God.
When we look at our goals, we are very fickle, so once we think it’s right, we can’t go out persistently, and our values get messed up. In other words, it means easily losing your first motivation.
Some people are touched after listening to the Principle for the first time and join the church and are very excited, but in their life of faith, many have Cain and Abel problems or become dominated by the horizontal environment (so) that they lose their first love and leave the church.
That is why we have no choice but to admit that fallen human beings are people with han of no intellect, han of no emotion, and han of fickleness. Once you have made up your mind, you should not be disappointed or despair in any adversity, and you should not complain and have dissatisfaction, no matter what difficulties you face, but we are unable to do so.
Any person who is unable to keep his first motivation or first love will face unimaginable indemnity and difficulties. And he will feel the great pangs of conscience.
3. We are people who cannot keep the first love. Then, after we miss our moment, we say, “I knew it was going to be like this. I had the motive right away, but I missed the moment and it turned out like this!” We are people who lament over losing our first heart, that is, the standard by which God loves us. If this sort of han meets with God’s han, that person's determination becomes the driving force of a life that can be carried on with perseverance, but if you simply reciprocate with the emerging results without any relation to God, you become a self-motivated person. By feeling your own limitations and complaining to yourself with bitter sorrow, your direction changes and you will come to the brink of destruction. Jesus also made strenuous effort to realize God’s will, but because the prepared people doubted him, he carried han deep in his heart.
Since we are people who cannot keep our first love, after missing the moment, we have deep regrets all the time. We lament over the bygone days.
In this way, fallen men always have the han of lamenting over losing their first love and first motivation. Then what should we do? What should we do to keep the first motivation and first determination and first love? What is the best way to keep our first motivation and first determination and first love?
Many (people) change their heart and mind on the way. Many give up on the way. That is why I think and study a lot about what the best way is to keep our first motivation, determination and love.
True Father gave us a very clear answer. There is only one way. That sort of han must meet with God’s han. If we meet with the han of God who had bitter sorrow due to the fall of man, our determination becomes the driving force of a life that can be carried on with perseverance.
If you live with han centered on yourself, by feeling your own limitations and complaining to yourself with bitter sorrow, your direction changes and you will come to the brink of destruction.
Jesus also made a strenuous effort to realize God’s will, but because the prepared people doubted him, he carried han deep in his heart.
4. Jesus remembered the han of the many sick people who came to seek relief from their sufferings, regarded them compassionately, and healed them. The sick people who came to Jesus were able to receive sympathy from Jesus because they were sick with physical pain. The han of Jesus and their han met together. Those sick people had met Jesus and had truly miraculous experiences. Whether it’s physical or spiritual, han goes hand in hand with each other. A person with han can communicate with God. Whether it is the sorrows of an orphan or the sorrows of a widow, the sorrows are shared.
Jesus remembered the han of the many sick people who came to seek relief from their sufferings, regarded them compassionately and healed them from the position of God, our parent. When the sick people’s han met with Jesus’ han and God’s han, they were healed.
In some ways, the physical pain of the sick who came to Jesus had content that could communicate with God’s han and sorrow. However, they just didn’t know God.
The sick people who came to seek Jesus had bitter sorrow their entire lives in order to have their diseases healed. Their lifelong bitter sorrows were eventually healed by Jesus' sympathy.
Our life of faith today is the same. Our han and sorrow has to meet with God’s han and sorrow. So, when we know how great God’s han and sorrow are, and how much blood, sweat and tears were shed in order to find fallen human beings as the (Heavenly) Parent, we can communicate with each other and resolve it.
Whether it’s physical or spiritual, han goes hand in hand with each other.(?) If a person with han meets with God, he can ultimately communicate with God. Whether it is the sorrows of an orphan or the sorrows of a widow, the sorrows are shared. An orphan understands the orphan’s heart, and a widow understands the widow’s heart.
As a conclusion, the fact is that fallen man’s han must meet God’s han, and God’s han can be resolved when human beings’ (with) han reunite with each other.
True Father was able to advance tirelessly for God's will and providence during his lifetime because he experienced God's sorrow and Han. Therefore, if we, too, truly experience God's Han and True Parents' Han, we will become the driving force to overcome any difficulties in any situation. So, Father said, don't waste your Han. I must sublimate my Han by meeting God's Han.
That is why I really respect Father so much. When he was 16 years old and met Jesus, he finally prayed deeply, “I need to meet God.” Finally Father met God and communicated with him. He came to understand God’s (sorrowful) reality, even though externally he is an omnipotent and omniscient God. Father came to understand (that) since Adam and Eve fell, how much incredible suffering and indemnity and han our Heavenly Father had gone through. True Father had not known that reality of God.
How many people really understand God’s reality? This is the problem. Even though we have joined our church, even though we know and believe in True Parents as the messiah, even though we believe God is my parent and I am his child, how many of us really understand God’s real reality? His reality is that he is a sorrowful God who is always shedding tears. He has so much han!
When Father dealt with God’s reality, he (resolved) that “God’s han has to be my han. His sorrowful heart has to be my sorrowful heart. I want to be responsible for God’s liberation.” What an incredible impact meeting God had on True Father!
Also in meeting Jesus (he realized) how sorrowful Jesus was. Father could not go back to a human position. That is why he (became so) determined.
True Father was so shocked when he saw God’s reality and that of Jesus, how sorrowful they are. Father realized God’s han (and) Jesus’ han. When he thought about Jesus’ and God’s han, this became his driving force to go forward no matter what without any tiredness. Even though he was exhausted, when he thought about God’s han and Jesus han and the central figure’s han, he could not give up.
That is why we need to meet God’s han and Jesus sorrow and han that he could not fulfill his will. Can you imagine that?
When Jesus passed away, he had to come back in three days because he could not fulfill his will. No matter what, he needed to educate his disciples. He resurrected and appeared (to) and called all his scattered disciples: “Who am I?”
Jesus had such han that even though he had died, he could not close his eyes. He had to come back in three days and stayed for 40 days with his disciples. He appealed (to) them: “How much I love you. You need to carry on my mission.” That is why any disciples who met Jesus understood his wishes, his han, his sorrow. That is why they had strong determination and repented and repented. “We did not know that Jesus is the messiah, Jesus is our lord.” All of them really repented, and based on that foundation, the Holy Spirit came down to each of the disciples’ hearts. That was the beginning of Christianity when they met Jesus and recognized his reality.
When True Father met God and came to understand God’s han and reality, his entire concept completely changed. “I am the one who needs to liberate God. His han has to be my han.”
Fallen man is searching for God. “Where is my God? Where are you?” Each (of us as) humans, even small or large ones, has our own han. But our own han without meeting God’s han is just wasted. Without meeting God’s han we just complain and (express) dissatisfaction. Fallen nature is like that.
Despite your han, you could not fulfill so far and could not release your han. But when you meet God’s han and sorrow, it becomes incredible power. It becomes the driving power to go forward no matter what without giving up. Why do we give up? Because we waste our han, our energy.
That is why whenever we experience some sorrowful or difficult situations and so many trials and (challenges), we need to meet God’s han. God is going through more than we do. He is more sorrowful than we are. That is why when my sorrow meets God’s sorrow, this is the only way (we) can (be) healed. This is really important.
How can I meet God’s han and Jesus’ han and our central figure’s han? Do not misuse this kind of han....
My han needs to become God’s han, Jesus’ han, and become powerful. “Without giving up, no matter what, I can go forward until the last moment, until I die.”
If you lose your han centered on yourself, it is a big problem. That is why there is only one way. How can I go forward without losing my first motivation? My first determination? My first love? We need to meet God’s han. His sorrow and suffering and han are much greater than mine. In this way when God’s han meets my han, that is the way we can heal the han of both sides. Even God can be healed. My han can also be healed. That is Father’s way to show us how to go forward, how to keep our first motivation and first determination and first love.
The word “han” is so important! It is difficult to explain in English. That is why I use (the word) “han” itself. It is not just resentment. It is unfulfilled wishes; that is why our heart remains in pain and sorrow We are still trying to overcome and reach (our goal), but there are a lot of obstacles. That is why we have a lot of han. How can we accomplish (our goals)? (Han) is more positive (than bitter heart or resentment).
As children, we need to know (our) parents’ han. Then our life will become more meaningful. We will have more time to (have) give-and-take and communicate with our Heavenly Parent.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Shinji Kato, Dallas CARP )♦
(Response to sharing) We have the han of fickleness. We always change like the weather. That is why I really respect Noah and his righteousness. Righteousness means not changing, no matter what the situation. How could he keep his first motivation and keep (going) for 120 years? Why do we call him righteous? Once he met God and received his order, he kept going for 120 years. What an impact on his heart meeting God (must have had)! Wow! This is really amazing!♦
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