Ep 628 - A Life of Jeongseong Part 2
A Life of Jeongseong - July 15, 2022
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Rev. Bismarck Bamfo
Today I’d like to talk about “A Life of Jeongseong” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
As blessed families, you must offer devotion for fulfilling your mission. Until God welcomed Cheon Il Guk how many difficulties did He go through? In spite of True Father going to prison six times without having done anything wrong in his 80 years of life, he still carried out God's Providence to the end. That was for God and for you. The blessed couples have a great debt to God and True Parents. The original mind of humankind is such that if a person receives 100 of something, when returning it, he does not want to take away ten percent and return only 90. The original mind wants to return more than 100 percent, more than 120 percent. When you live matching your focus with True Parents, then God, of course, and your good ancestors in the spirit world will help you, and you will encounter an age where you can feel and see miraculous, amazing works happening.
You cannot enter heaven alone, you can enter as families. Heaven is not a place that you can enter just as a blessed family; rather it is a place you can enter only if you bring all your tribes and your people with you. You must not think complacently saying, “Someone will help me; a miracle will happen.” You must first establish your position as an object to Heaven by first demonstrating your standard of faith and commitment so that Heaven can come and touch you. Change the attitude of life you have held until now; after morning bows, offer special devotion, or if you set a special time and offer devotion for your tribe, nation, world and God's Will to be realized, then, a new path will open. (2006.06.20, Dushanbe, Tajikistan)
Based on our True Mother’s guidance let’s study True Father’s word.
<109-272> Why do we need love? We need it in order to live eternally, to live eternally. God invested everything into creating the heavens and the earth. He invested 100 percent. Established churches today believe that God has so much power that if He says anything, it is all accomplished, but that's not the case. He invests all His energy. You need to know that. You must have that notion. From all the vegetation and tiny insects that have unfolded from all creation, everything is the investment of God’s whole-hearted life. It was to stimulate the bond of love through those that were given life. That is why all beings miss love.
It is easy for many believers to think that God has so much power that He created the whole universe and human beings very easily, very simply. But this is not true. It’s because God is the subject of love.
If God is the subject of love, then investing 100%, 120% is required for the object partner. It’s because (of) the nature of true love (the subject partner) always wants the object (partner) to be better than he is. Therefore, when the subject of love creates his object partner, he invests 100%, 120% beyond his own life. That’s because that is the attribute of true love.
From that point of view, when God created the universe and human beings, he invested everything with 100%, 120% devotion and jeongseong. If God invested a normal amount in creating human beings and all things, God could be the Creator, but he could never be the parent of human beings as the subject of love.
From all the vegetation and tiny insects that have unfolded from all creation, you must see everything as the investment of God’s whole-hearted life. Each and every created being must be viewed as being made with God's devotion.
Because all beings are created with the investment of God's infinite love, they unconditionally love and miss their Creator because God invested so much.
One of the attributes of true love is that (the subject partner wants) the object partner (to) be better than (he is). If God really created human beings as his the object partner of his love, then his desire, his wish, is that human beings should be better than himself. In order to create an object partner better than himself, what should he do? He needs to invest everything 100%, 120%. (Then he has) no more power left. That is the attribute of true love. It is amazing!
Even though God is almighty and so powerful, in order to create an object of love he invested everything 100% 120%. (He had) no more power left. That’s why after creating human beings and the universe, he was fully focused on his object partner. Even though human beings fell and went to hell, his heart remains there (with them). He still wants to invest for the sake of human beings and all things. That is God’s heart.
Because God’s heart is like that, whatever we do we always need to invest incredible jeongseong. How much? Not just 70% or 80%. We need to invest 100% or 120%. That is the way to create something. We need to inherit (this) from our Heavenly Parent and True Parents.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 59 - The Structure and Functions of the Spirit Self
• Our spirit self, or spirit, is a substantial yet incorporeal reality which can be apprehended only through the spiritual senses. It is the subject partner to our physical self. Our spirit can communicate directly with God and is meant to govern the incorporeal world, including the angels.
• In appearance our spirit self matches our physical self. After we shed the physical self, we enter the spirit world and live there for eternity
• The reason we desire an eternal life is because our innermost self is the spirit self which has an eternal nature.
We are talking about the structure and function of the spirit self.
1. The spirit self is the subject partner of the physical self.
Animals have only a physical body and no spirit body. Therefore, animals are driven only by the physical mind. However, humans have both a physical mind centered on the body and a spirit mind centered on the spirit body.
> Therefore, we must think and act centering on the spirit mind, which is the core of the spirit self.
> Are we living centering on our physical mind? Or are we living centering on our spirit mind?
The important thing is that the human spirit is the subject, and the physical body is the object. However, due to the Fall, humans are more governed by the flesh than by the spirit. So, you must check your life all the time.
You have to check whether you are governed by the physical mind or the spirit mind. A person who lives with their spirit mind always lives centered on the Word and listens to the voice of his original mind.
If human beings live only centered on the physical mind with eating desire, sexual desire, material desire, and sleeping desire centered on the basics, then they are no different from animals.
Animals do not have a spirit self. Only human beings have a spirit self. That is why the spirit self should be the subject partner and the physical self, the object partner. We need to know what the subject is. What does the fall mean? Completely the opposite. The physical self becomes the subject, and the spirit self becomes the object. That is the problem.
2. The spirit self can only be perceived through the spiritual senses..
> Therefore, we must develop our spiritual senses. We must live a daily life of prayer and devotion and reading God’s word. We must always have our spiritual antennas out and think from heaven’s perspective.
Therefore, in our life of faith, we must cultivate inspiration centered on the spirit mind. It takes much prayer and devotion to nourish our inspiration, which has been dulled by the Fall. And by using the Word as a mirror, you should always check and reflect on your life.
An animal does not know God’s word or philosophy or the Principle. It only focuses on what to eat, what to drink. That’s it, right? The human being is different. It has a spirit self. We need to focus on our spirit self and always follow our spirit mind, not our physical mind.
3. The Spirit self can communicate directly with God.
It was originally like that. Originally God directly (connected) to the human beings spirit self.
This is the time of God’s direct sovereignty. We must have an everlasting heart connection with God. In that sense, we must experience God’s heart and think from God’s viewpoint. We must also understand God’s deep Han and sorrow, and invest wholeheartedly towards His liberation.
4. The Spirit Self can govern the angels and the incorporeal world.
Human beings are really amazing because they are the owner of the physical world and, at the same time, the spiritual world. Human beings are originally meant to govern the spirit world. We do not need the help of spiritual mediums or the spirit world they communicate with. This is because being under the control of the spirit world means that our spiritual level is very low.
We are the owner of the spiritual world. Why do we need to be controlled by some evil spirit or even by good ancestors. ... We are the owner of the physical world and spiritual world. We need to dominate everything with true love. That’s why someone who is subjugated by a spirit, that is not so good. That means his spiritual level is quite low. We need to understand very clearly what our position is.
5. The spirit self is a substantial, yet incorporeal reality.
The spirit self absolutely exists. That is why Father says, “Die and you will know what I am talking about.” The spirit self definitely exists.
6. The spirit self matches the physical self in appearance.
According to the Principle of Creation, the earthly world resembles the invisible spirit world. The physical self resembles the spirit self in the same way the body resembles the mind.
7. After we shed the physical self, we enter the spirit world and live there for eternity.
Therefore, our life on earth is very important.
While we are on the earth, we need to complete everything. Without our physical life, our spiritual body cannot be completed. That is why the day before yesterday I emphasized the importance of the physical life.
8. The reason we desire an eternal life is because our innermost self is the spirit self, which has an internal nature.
Do you think animals live a long life and want to live forever? They don’t have a spirit body. That is why they never think about that. Only human beings do. Why do we think about eternity, about living a long life? Why? Because our spirit self wants to be last. God created us that way. If he had not, no one would search for eternal life.
When the spirit self achieves perfection and goes to the spirit world, it does not hold any lingering attachment.
That is why if your spiritual body becomes very mature and is already completed, has already experience the Four Great Realms of Heart and the Three Great Kingships, then you do not have any lingering attachment. You are ready to go to the spiritual world any time. However, if your spirit self is not yet complete, you really want to live more on earth because your spirit self knows very well that you are not yet mature and perfected. That is why your spirit wants to live a long life in order to complete (itself).
Human beings only try to take care of their physical self in order to live a long life. But what is the main reason we want to survive on earth longer? In order to complete our spirit self.
If you have already achieved perfection, then you no longer have any lingering attachment. “I am ready to go to the spiritual world any time,” according to Father’s guidance.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Faith is Completed in the Family
Where are we Completed?
1. Where do we reach completion? It is in the family. We enter the family on the basis of finding the restored original nature by establishing the foundations of faith and substance through the law of the Word and the formula course of faith. However, the most difficult path is the family. If you look at the providential history of the central figures of the providence of restoration to this day, there has never been an example of any family that has found the family-centered family of original nature. Even if we look at the life of faith of those around us, if there are, for example, 100 people who have started the formation stage faith course, there are very few people who reach the growth stage among them. Even if they advance to the growth stage, most fail in the Cain and Abel relationship. This is how God's 6,000-year history progressed until now.
This is our reality.
Our position of completion is not the standard of personal completion. The final completion of human beings is the completion of the family.
The position of the family is the path to enter the completion stage after receiving the Blessing upon establishing the foundations of faith and substance. Therefore, this foundation is called the foundation of love or the foundation of the heart.
However, the problem of the position of family completion is that since it is a position no one has reached since the fall of Adam and Eve, the most difficult course is the course to complete the family.
Even looking at the providential history of the central figures of the providence of restoration, they all failed in the family. Such was the case with Adam's family, Noah's family, John The Baptist’s family, Zachariah’s family and Jesus’ family and so on.
This is the biggest issue.
It is difficult for us to go through even the most basic formation stage after entering the Will. It is very rare to find people who have gone further and passed the growth level course.
Even if they advance to the growth stage, most fail in the Cain and Abel relationship. This is how God's 6,000-year history progressed until now.
There is fighting between Abel and Cain. They can not graduate from the growth stage. “I don’t like Korean or American or Japanese leaders.” There is always quarreling and fighting and conflict between Cain and Abel.
The Foundation of Substance is overcoming the relationship between Cain and Abel. That is why the human relationship between brothers and sisters, between Cain and Abel, is very important. If you really overcome with anyone and color, nationality and position don’t matter, if you really create harmony and beautiful unity between Cain and Abel, wherever you go you can be a champion of harmony between brothers and sisters. Then you (will have) already laid the Foundation of Substance. However, most fail in the Foundation of Substance.
Uniting as a Couple is the Most Difficult Journey
2. Looking at Israel’s history, 600,000 people left for the promised land of Canaan, but most of the first generation died in the wilderness. In the end, didn’t only Joshua and Caleb and a few people enter? Like this, it's hard to reach the growth stage. The established church members, who did not know the Principle until now, simply believe in Jesus, are reborn as the Holy Ghost and go to heaven, so they have no fear in life on earth. And because their purpose is to go to heaven in the spirit world rather than on earth, they all focus on individual salvation. As a result, most religions are driven to individualism in the end. Not only that, if you look at the actual conditions of established churches today, the churches fight each other. Is harmony between religious people really possible? Cain and Abel are still being divided to the extent that achieving harmony seems doubtful. Harmony between Cain and Abel is difficult, but it is almost impossible for a married couple to maintain good faith. It is very difficult for a couple who has never known each other to meet and unite through faith.
Our Ultimate Goal
3. Until now, having an ideal family centered on the family in any religion has never been dreamed of. However, True Parents’ teachings are that, in the formula course of the foundations of faith and substance, we should receive the Blessing on the foundation of victory through the Cain and Abel relationship and start the course of love as a married couple. Thus, our ultimate goal is to go through the couple’s position to the parent’s position to achieve the Four Great Realms of Heart and the Three Great Kingships and create an ideal family where God can reside forever. This is our faith course. In order to do that, we must become True Parents by establishing a family on the basis of establishing a perfect individual standard of the spirit mind, not a life centered on the physical body. Therefore, the first step is to truly live with the truth while living a life of faith, through which our spirit body receives power and we become people with self-domination.
Until now, we have never dreamed of having an ideal family centered on the family in any religion, but we must go through the formula course of the foundations of faith and substance, receive the Blessing and start the course of love as a married blessed couple.
Until we receive the blessing, we go through the path of filial sons and daughters as the children’s path, and then the path of Cain and Abel as the sibling’s path. And men and women must receive the Blessing and go on the road to marriage and parenthood.
Our ultimate goal is to create an ideal family where God can reside forever through achieving the Four Great Realms of Heart and the Three Great Kingships.
In other words, it is a journey of faith, hope, and love. The formation stage is the course of faith that absolutely believes and follows God and True Parents and the Word of God. The growth stage is a course of hope because it is a course in which Cain and Abel unite and face the Blessing.
We can meet the messiah. There is great hope. In the Foundation of Substance in the growth stage one really has great hope because if I complete this course, I can meet the messiah and receive the Blessing. That is why the growth stage is the hope stage.
And the journey of receiving the Blessing, forming a couple, and going to the position of True Parents is the final course of love.
That is why Jesus and even St. Paul speak of faith, hope and love, formation stage, growth stage and completion stage. In the beginning in the formation stage you need to believe in God absolutely. “God is my father. I am a son or daughter of God.” (It is) absolute alignment.
Finally you enter the growth stage and try to build up the Foundation of Substance and overcome Cain and Abel relationships between brothers and sisters and siblings. You try to overcome. After you establish the Foundation of Substance, you have great hope. “I can meet the messiah. I can meet the messiah and receive the Blessing.” That is why the growth stage is what? The stage of hope....
The final stage is what? After receiving the Blessing a man and woman enter the stage of love, the foundation of love.
... Our course is a course of faith, hope and love.
Dear brothers and sisters, once again, our blessed families are on a pioneering path to a stage of perfection that even Adam and Eve have never been through. We are now at our final destination. There are also many families that are left behind. Some families are exhausted or hurt.
However, we must not forget that we have a pioneering mission to create an ideal family (after) 6,000 years of history. No matter how difficult it is, we must overcome it and win.
Again, our first front line is what? Our body, and our second front line is what? Our home. Before the husband, the wife is the first front line. And before the wife, the husband is the first front line. In front of the parent, the child is the first front line, and in front of the child, the parent is the first front line.
So, you should do well at home. In the home, husband and wife should serve each other as God. Parents should also serve their children like God. You have to be nervous knowing that the home, the family, is the front line more than the workplace, the church, the witnessing place. If you fail at home, everything is a failure.
Therefore, as the first step, we must live a life of faith while living with the truth and become a person who can control oneself with the power of the spirit body. Only when you succeed in the first stage where the body and mind become one, can you move on to the next stage, the family stage.
Beautiful guidance, right? It is really challenging to establish an ideal family. No one has broken through. But we are now in a pioneering stage. There is all kinds of transformation. Do not be disappointed.
Sometimes it is very difficult to keep the relationship between husband and wife. “Even though I am blessed, I want to divorce.” Don’t do that. No matter what, I’m telling you, even by force we need to keep a couple as a blessed family without giving up. Really try your best because we are entering and completing a pioneering stage. Nobody has gone through this (until now). We are pioneering....
God really encourages us, “No matter what, don’t give up. I know your difficulty. I know how difficult it is to love your spouse, your husband or wife, and your children. You don’t know how to serve your children, I know.”
True Father encourages us: “Do not die. Do not leave the church, no matter what. Please do your very best. I am encouraging you, loving you.” That is our True Parents’ encouragement. God encourages us. Even our ancestors really beg us to fulfill our own portion of responsibility as a blessed family.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Rev. Bismarck Bamfo)♦
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