Ep 631 - Noble Families of Cheon Ill Guk Part 3

Noble Families of Cheon Il Guk - July 18, 2022

PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony of Hiro Kamata, DMV CARP

How was yesterday?

Yesterday, we had a special Sunday Service for welcoming new members at the Clifton Church. 

It was so beautiful!

Before welcoming the new members, we had a July birthday celebration. The members whose birthday is July received flowers and cards signed by me and President Naokimi. Naokimi and I really invested our heart to celebrate their birthdays. And we cut the cake together, and I gave a benediction for them. 

 Then, we introduced 12 new members and took pictures with their spiritual parents. Now at the Clifton Church we have more than 21 new members, and they participated in a new membership ceremony. It was very beautiful. Now everyone has a strong desire to witness. I can see that; I really appreciate our ethnic groups, the Chinese ethnic group, and Filipino and Spanish and many other ethnic groups are really investing their heart to bring new guests. Most guests come from ethnic groups. I already know that they can do very well.

We welcomed all new members to our Clifton church. Then, I gave a sermon with title of “How to overcome your stress.” It was very practical guidance. Then, I gave a benediction to the new members. 

 After the service, we invited all new members and their spiritual parents to lunch and (they) shared their testimonies one by one. They were beautiful testimonies, some in tears. It was incredible. I can see everywhere in America such a beautiful atmosphere. Now our members have the heart and desire to bring new people to our church.

Today I’d like to talk about “Noble Families of Cheon Il Guk” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.

Because of True Parents, you are the first generation of blessed families in history. Thanks to True Parents, you welcomed Foundation Day and have all gathered in a position where you can register as citizens of Cheon Il Guk. Even though there are seven billion people in the world, you are the only ones who know of this amazing universal and cosmic secret. You are able to be in the happy position of being the ancestors to a new noble family. You are in the position of the first and last ancestor. You can become a representative of the royal family and form a noble family; your efforts will decide this. What will you choose to do? It is said that that happiness increases if it is shared with others. You should share the things that you know with others. You must inform the world's people. You should reveal the True Parents to them. 

If you take your responsibilities lightly, spending day after day in the same way, you cannot stand in the position of the first ancestor of a noble family. Even though you may be the first now, those in the last position may come and take your place. If you do not take part in the providence I am conducting now, you will have nowhere to stand. If you fail to make a good environment for yourself, you cannot become free. Now you can see me up close and you can talk to me; however, what do you think will happen if you die without fulfilling your responsibilities? You all know how your conscience works. You come to understand where you are by assessing yourselves. The longest we can live with our physical bodies is 100 years, but the place we must go to is eternal. If you are wise and not foolish people, what kind of decision should you make and how should you act? (2014.03.31, King Garden, Hawaii) 

We are the first and last ancestors to bear fruit after meeting True Parents. Therefore, as the first ancestors, depending on our efforts, we may become noble families representing the royal family, or we may just become followers. 

We Blessed Families are the first to be in the ancestors’ position, but we should know that we may fall to the last position. Therefore, if we do not participate in the final providence together with True Parents during their lifetime, we cannot remain as the first ancestors. 

That is why Mother is seriously talking about this issue.

You yourself evaluate what kind of a person you are by the action of your conscience. The length of our life spent in the physical body is one hundred years at the most. So how should I live the rest of my life? 

In the Bible, in Matthew 20:16, Jesus said, “So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last.” How can the first remain first and not become last? 

Those who come first should serve those who come last. 

This is a top secret. You need to serve those who come last.

So, if the later (ones) respects me, I can always take the lead as the first. Second, in order for those who are first to become first, they must have achievements that can be shown in front of those who are last. 

Third, those who are first should have more filial piety toward Heavenly Parent and True Parents than those who are last. In this way, if the Hyojeong that loves Heavenly Parent and True Parents takes precedence, has more achievements than their juniors, and serves them and loves and attends them, (the first) will remain first forever. 

If you only talk about your past, what you have done, but you do not participate centering on the current situation, this doesn’t make any sense. You can become the last. In order to remain the first, you must serve your juniors. Then your juniors will respect you and love you and will want to inherit something from you. Then you can keep your first position as an ancestor forever. That is the point.

If you don’t have someone who really respects you, that is a problem. At the same time, we (need to) show the model that we really love True Parents, especially True Mother who is leading God’s providence at the front line. If we really participate with True Mother... We can see her age now. She is almost 80 years old. How much are we supporting and participating in True Mother’s providence?

LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 60 - The Development, Perfection, and Features of the Spirit Self 

Perfection and Growth of the Spirit Self 

• The spirit self can attain perfection only during a person's earthly life. 

• The spirit mind guides the spirit self as it grows in the soil of the physical self. The growth of the spirit self towards perfection progresses through the three orderly stages ordained by the Principle of Creation.

The Development and Perfection of the Spirit Self

1. The spirit self can only grow while abiding in the flesh. 

I mentioned this many times, right? This is very important. We need to really realize the importance of the physical body. Once we leave our physical body, to come back to the earth again takes a long time, Father said. That is why you need to keep your physical body strong. It needs to be really healthy. Otherwise, how can you do something for the sake of God’s will? How can you complete your spirit self? I think your physical body’s condition is very important.

> While on earth, we must complete individual perfection and perfect the Three Great Kingships, the Four Great Realms of Heart and the Realm of the Royal Family. 

This we need to achieve in the family. What is the first goal in the family? You need to have experience of the Four Great Realms of Heart and the Three Great Kingships. The final mission is the realm of the royal family. 

> In order to perfect the Realm of the Royal Family, we must complete our “tribal messiah missions.” Centered on the 430 Couples, we must create the Realm of the Royal Family. 

Anyone who achieves the realm of the royal family is qualified to become a CheonBo Won member. The CheonBo Won member is a citizen of the Cheon Il Guk. 

2. The spirit self grows to perfection by passing through three orderly stages based on the Principle of Creation. 

Our True Parents’ guidance is very clear. It is not vague at all. When I read the Bible, sometimes it is really unclear, but our Father’s guidance is very clear. According to the Principle of Creation, there are three orderly stages: formation stage, growth stage and completion stage. 

> Formation-level Faith : This is the faith of a servant and is formal and mostly self-centered. At this level, life of faith must follow rites (ceremonies) and systems absolutely. We must have a lifestyle of thoroughly reporting to our Abel-figure. (especially about Sunday Service, reading Hoondok, tithing, and a life of devotion). 

These are really basic things in our life of faith. That is why your formation level faith is very important. If you don’t have a strong foundation based on formation-level faith, how can we reach the growth and completion stages?

> Growth-level Faith : This is the faith of an owner: a voluntary faith, a serving faith and having spiritual children, etc.

If there is a lot of conflict between Cain and Abel, you need to overcome it. You need to produce a minimum of 3 spiritual children. If you don’t have 3 spiritual children, we have not reached growth-level faith. Yesterday I was so excited to hear Hiroko-san’s beautiful testimony from the Boston Church. For the past 22 years they did not have any new members. Recently they broke through with 2 or 3 new members. Spiritual children are not a simple matter. However, now is a different time and a different age. If you really have a clear goal and have life-and-death desperation, surely we can produce many spiritual children. In order to graduate from and surpass the growth stage, you need to have a lot of spiritual children. Through spiritual children you can have an experience of rebirth. You can grow up very quickly by raising 3 spiritual children.

> Completion-level Faith : This is the faith of knowing God’s desires, situation, and heart. It is the kind of faith that wants to release, liberate, and comfort God. It is the faith of an individual who lives with God’s Word always in his heart, sheds many tears and has a strong affection for the Word. He knows how to mobilize spirit world. He receives God’s guidance through dreams and revelations. When he prays, God answers. 

The completion stage is the most important. He is completely (connected to?) True Parents’ heart and participates in Gods providence and really becomes God’s son or daughter. 

And finally you need to liberate and comfort God in the last stage. You need to substantially participate in True Mother’s providence. What is True Mother’s wish? How to substantialize God’s Cheon Il Guk.

TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Meaning of Preparing for Times of Great Tribulation (2)

Yesterday we spoke about this. Today we will study the meaning of preparing for the time of great tribulations. Let’s repeat what we learned yesterday, and then I will continue to share again True Father’s guidance.

There is a 7-Year Course of Great Tribulation for Humankind

<February 12, 1961 Father’s word> God foretold that when the last days come, there will be 7 years of great tribulation for mankind. This tribulation period is a time when the sad twists and turns of heaven from 6,000 years of history hit the saints. It is a time when all human bonds are broken and we are faced with an environment where we cannot have faith. This is a time when you cannot claim that you have lived your life well with your conscience, no matter how conscientious you are. It is a time when the more you think about the Will, the more pain is felt everywhere you look. Such a time is the last days, the 7 years of great tribulation. This is a time when hope is shaken, the core of our faith is shaken, and leaders who we believe in, and follow are shaken. It is a time when not only thought, but also religion, conscience, and even parental hearts are shaken. 

Why God Gives Humanity Great Tribulation

It is a time when not only thought, but also religion, conscience, and even parental hearts are shaken. Then why does God have to create such a world? This is to give the value of participating with the true God, a God who suffered historically. God has seen many misfortunes and suffered many twists and turns over the past 6,000 years, so in the last days, we will face an environment in which we cannot center on our conscience, thought, or faith. This time will come to find a true son or daughter who can say “I live with God” even in such a difficult situation and say “I love God” in the midst of such tribulation. 

Therefore, do not grieve to see the church shaken, do not grieve when a thought is shaken, do not grieve when a sovereign falls, do not grieve that your parents have changed, and do not grieve that your siblings have changed. Even if everything in the world you depended on and believed in shakes, your heart should stay calm. You must know that God is unshaken and that He will visit you even at this time. We need to know that God giving us pain is a great promise that He made to give us a precious day with Him and the relationship of suffering that He went through. In such a place, let's embrace Heaven and go together. Let's fight together. We need such a world to find someone to cry out “Let's act together” and stand together.

What we have read so far is the message given to mornig devotion yesterday, and then we will study True Father's words again.

The Mindset to Overcome the Global Great Tribulation

Therefore, everyone, don't be discouraged if your way is blocked. Don't be discouraged when this country suffers. God is not dead. No matter how chaotic this world is, don't be discouraged. God is not dead. God will surely come. Even if everything shakes, don’t let your single-minded devotion toward heaven shake. Don't change your hopeful heart that relies on and looks up to heaven. In order to change your heart, you must have the heart to call on the Father no matter what kind of pain God makes you have. No matter where you fall, you must hold onto the string of Heaven’s heart on that spot and try to climb up. 

(What is) the mindset to overcome the great tribulation – not just in the 1960s when Father was going through the 7-year course, but the great global tribulation now? It has already come. (There were) individual-level cases, family-level cases, national-level cases, and worldwide cases. Now the worldwide-level case of global tribulation has come. How can we deal with that? How can we overcome such a great global tribulation? I want to repeat again what Father was talking about.

1. Do not be discouraged by the fact that the way to go is blocked in the face of the global tribulation. 

I am not just talking only externally about Russia and the Ukraine. I am talking about internal issues, even within our movement.

2. No matter how messy this world is, don't be discouraged. 

3. God is not dead. God will surely come. 

I love such guidance from Father. When your feel confused by the chaos and don’t know what to do, you need to have unchanging heart and faith that God is alive. He is a living God. He is not dead at all. If you have such absolute faith without doubting, God surely will guide you. Some are struggling, perhaps with the leadership of Mother here and there. Then you need to calm down your yeart, and you really need to believe that God is my father, that I am a son or daughter of God. 

If you have that kind of conviction in Heavenly Father’s existence, God will tell you if your mindset is correct or not. When you struggle with Mother’s or Father’s leadership or whatever, as long as you keep absolute faith and obedience towards God, he will tell you what to do. This is very important. If you just struggle horizontally, that means you do not believe in God. You do not believe that God is alive, that he is a living God. 

4. Even if everything shakes, don’t let your single-minded devotion toward heaven shake. 

God is absolute, forever unchanging, eternal, unique. Do you believe that God is an unchanging and absolute God? If you have that kind of absolute conviction and faith, you can settle any issue. With that kind of faith, ask who True Father is, who True Mother is. God will tell very clearly, no matter how chaotic the situation is.

5. Don't change your hopeful heart that relies on and looks up to heaven. 

6. Absolutely believe that God lives and works, no matter what kind of pain and tribulation He puts you through to transform your heart. 

7. No matter what bad circumstances you fall into, try to climb up by holding onto the rope of Heaven’s heart. 

Serve God who Struggles to Find his Sons and Daughters in the Waves of Death

 Even if you feel the pain of falling into hell, you will not perish if you stand in the position of participating with the Father, consider his pain, know that he will understand your pain, and feel the responsibility and duty to go to such a position. There are many Christians today, but how many of such believers are there? We attend the Father, who does not sit on a throne in Heaven, but struggles to find His true sons and daughters in the waves of death. 

Serve God who struggles to find his sons and daughters in waves of death.

1. Even if you feel the pain of falling into hell, stand in the position of participating with the Father and consider his pain.

How can we feel that his pain is my pain? How can I feel his sorrowful heart? How can his han become my han. Always we need to think about that.

2. Know that Heavenly Father will understand your pain. 

God is my Daddy. He is the one who knows my situation, my pain and my sorrow – everything. That is why you need to know that Heavenly Father will understand your pain. Don’t think that he does not know me. He knows everything because he is yours and my father.

3. Also, feel the responsibility and duty to take part in God's suffering and go anywhere to relieve his suffering and han. Then you will never perish.

As long as you have a clear goal, “Heavenly Father, my goal is to liberate and comfort you. I can die any time for your liberation.” If we have that kind of mindset of filial piety: “I want to participate in your suffering. I want to relieve your han, Heavenly Father,” what did Father say? You will never perish. God will protect you. When you are confused and killed, God will surely show you what to do. 

 This is the heart of Hyojeong that can face the age of great tribulation. 

4. We must attend the Father who struggles to find His true sons and daughters in the waves of death, not the God of glory who sits on a throne in Heaven. 

Where is God? He is not in the Kingdom of Heaven, not in paradise, not in the formation stage. Where is he? He is where his children are suffierng the most. Most of his children live in hell. As a parent where does Heavenly Father stay? He stays in the bottom of hell. 

Many people say when you go to hell, many people are suffering and shouting because their pain is so great. They shout and kill each other. 

However, if the situation of hell is so incredibly painful, how about God? (The situation of) his heart is worse than hell. Many people are afraid to go to hell, right? But you need to think about God’s heart. His han is more painful, more sorrowful. He has more hardship.

When we think about Heavenly Father’s situation and heart... we can overcome any tribulation, any problems.... That is why I really deeply appreciate our True Father. He is the one who guided us (about) what God’s identity is, what his reality is, his real situation. No one knows. There are so many religions, so many people of faith. How many Christians and religious people understand God’s han, his sorrow, his tears, his pain and his wishes? 

That is why as a son or daughter, no matter what, what I learned from True Parents is that “God, you are a suffering, sorrowful God. Whatever the situation, I am determined release you from your han, to liberate you. If there is a way to console and comfort you, I will go anywhere.”

What did Father say? “Then you will never perish.” This is the way we can overcome any tribulation that comes to us. This is the way we can overcome anything.

How to Have the Qualification of Sons and Daughters who can Attend Heavenly Father

You should know the suffering Heavenly Father as your father, consider the Father’s circumstances as your circumstances, the Father’s heart as your heart, and His wishes as your wishes. Stand proudly before Him and confidently say, “I know that it is your wish to find your Son, that you had to find him through the twists and turns of history, and that your heart wants to hug and love your lost Son. No matter what kind of suffering, tribulation, and hardship I am in, I am the substance of your wishes, circumstances, and your heart.” You must know that such a person is the Father's son and is able to attend Him. 

How can we have the qualification as sons and daughter to attend Heavenly Father? Father said, you need to:

1. Know the suffering Heavenly Father as your father. 

2. Know the suffering God’s circumstances as your circumstances. 

3. Know the suffering God’s heart as your heart. 

4. Know the suffering God’s wishes as your wishes. 

5. And finally you need to have absolute conviction and faith and cry out to God with the belief that “God is alive.”

“He is my eternal daddy,” “I am the son of God.”

 God is my parent no matter what, and “the spiritual world is alive.” 

I want to add more here about my own faith, my own place(?). No matter what, Father Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja han are the True Parents, the savior, the second coming. When we have this kind of conviction and faith, we can overcome any great tribulations, no matter what happens. But I am telling you, from now on I think this kind of chaos and trials and tribulations will substantially appear in front of you, in front of nations, in front of the world. That is why when we have this kind of conviction,... we can overcome any trials and tests.

God bless you! I love you all!

LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible

(Testimony of Hiro Kamata, DMV CARP)♦

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