Ep 633 - Noble Families of Cheon Ill Guk Part 5
Noble Families of Cheon Il Guk - July 20, 2022
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Elena Bahian
My voice is a little strange, right? I don’t have any (other) symptoms, but today I will need to test. I am sorry I am not serving you with a beautiful voice!
38 years ago today, True Father entered Danbury Prison. Yesterday, there was a special Tribe call with the title of “Never Defeated: Father Moon in Danbury.” And we heard a special testimony from Dr. Peter Kim as we remember True Father’s imprisonment at Danbury Prison.
Dr. Thomas Walsh interviewed Dr. Peter Kim and as the personal assistant of True Parent for over a decade. Dr. Peter Kim shared a very precious testimony.
I felt our media department needs to record his beautiful testimony. We need to arrange this very quickly while Dr. Kim is here. I think his testimony is really beautiful. Later on our descendants need to hear his beautiful testimony.
More than 500 people (participated in) the Tribe call and had a very meaningful time as we all remembered True Father’s sacrifice for America and God’s providence. Dr. Ward and Dr. Compton helped with this beautiful arrangement. I really appreciated this arrangement.
Today I’d like to talk about “Noble Families of Cheon Il Guk” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
All religions can unite through True Parents. Christianity must learn from us. Only by listening to Divine Principle teachings and True Parents' teachings can you become a citizen of Cheon Il Guk and realize the kingdom of God on earth and in heaven. If people are still adamant about calling us heretics, then it is their loss. We stand in a position where we possess heaven and earth and as True Parents' sons and daughters, we have nothing to fear. We must give the marriage Blessing to many people. Once we expand the realm of the Blessing, then the tribe, people and nation can unite. True Parents have clearly showed you the way and lived their entire lives practicing it. You do not know how glorious a position you stand in as people who can participate in the realization of Heavenly Parent and True Parents' hope, being born in the same age as True Parents. You stand in a blessed position. If you think about this, you will not be able to sit still. You are younger than I am. Yet, I cannot help but worry about our future generations.
It will not work with just you. You, yourselves, must prepare for your future descendants. You must raise the second and third generation members. Until now, the first-generation members had to work hard with True Parents to create a good environment from scratch and as a result could not invest much in future generations. This is not the case any longer. You must win over all of the 7.5 billion people alive today so that they will become Cheon Il Guk citizens. In order to do this, we must have a safety net. You should raise successors and inheritors. That is why I told you to become noble families. Noble families must raise successors. You should be able to raise sons and daughters greater than Father. You must raise devoted children who are greater, more trustworthy and more loyal than you. (2014.07.27, King Garden, Hawaii)
Great leaders look into the distant future and think about a 100-year plan, a 1000-year plan, and the spirit world. The more evil a person is, the more he can think only of himself. Ordinary people can’t see tomorrow or the future. They just run forward looking at the given reality each day.
People who look to the future always think of future generations. That is why True Mother continues to say that we must think of the future generations of the Unification Church and raise the Blessed Second and Third Generation.
What kind of family is a noble family? True Mother says that it is nurturing successors and passing down the will of God to the third generation. Just as parents invest everything they can for the future of their children, we should invest everything for our blessed children for God’s Will.
How does inheritance work? Inheritance occurs when the other person is better than you. When the other person is not better than you, it is not inherited, but destroyed. When children are better than parents, juniors better than seniors, and spiritual children better than spiritual parents, inheritance and development occur.
Our responsibility is to make others better than we are. How about you? Are your children more attached to the will and love God and True Parents more than you do? If so, you are already successful.
So what do I do to make the other person better than me? You must invest 100%, 120% for the other person. You keep investing and forgetting, investing and forgetting until they are better than you are. To do this, endless and unimaginable sacrifice, devotion, tears, and love are required.
True Father showed us that example until he died. True Mother also. Now she is near 80 years old and is continuously investing and investing. She still prays for all humankind and (prays) to raise us up. We are so grateful to our True Parents.
Can my own children devote and dedicate themselves more than I do, or not? This is my struggling point. I pray that all my three children become missionaries someday after certain experiences. They need to go to the front line. They need to become missionaries. I am really praying for that. Even though they have their own jobs, I think through some spiritual experiences they can become more dedicated for the sake of God’s will and go to the front line. So many people are crying and miserable. So many people are waiting for our True Parents. Our second generation and third generation should be better than us, right? This is our mission. Then our Unification Church can develop.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 60 - The Development, Perfection, and Features of the Spirit Self
• A spirit in the formation stage of life is called a form spirit; in the growth stage, a life spirit; and in the completion stage, a divine spirit
• A spirit fully matures as a divine spirit when the person's spirit self and physical self unite through perfect give and take action centered on God and form the four position foundation. A divine spirit can accurately feel and perceive every reality in the spirit world.
• As these spiritual realities resonate through the physical self and manifest themselves as physiological phenomena, they can be recognized through the five senses.
• People of divine spirit, who thus resonate with the spirit world, build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. When they shed their physical bodies, they will make a smooth transition into the Kingdom of Heaven in the spirit world. For this reason, the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven will be realized only after the Kingdom of Heaven on earth has been established.
• All the sensibilities of a spirit are cultivated through the reciprocal relationship with the physical self during earthly life.
• Therefore, only when a person reaches perfection and is totally immersed in the love of God while on earth can he fully delight in the love of God as a spirit after his death.
• All the qualities of the spirit self are developed while it abides in the physical self: Sinful conduct during earthly life aggravates evil and ugliness in the spirit of a fallen person, while the redemption of sins granted during earthly life opens the way for his spirit to become good.
• This was the reason Jesus had to come to the earth in the flesh to save sinful humanity, We must lead a good life while we are on the earth.
• In Matthew 16:19, Jesus gave the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven to Peter, who remained on the earth, and in Matthew 18:18, he said, "Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven," because the primary objective of the providence of restoration must be carried out on earth.
You have the key to heaven’s gate. True Parents gave it to us. Who will send your tribe to enter the Kingdom of Heaven? You have the key to heaven’s gate. That is why we need to save our tribe, our neighbor. We must run with the consciousness that we are responsible for the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth and in heaven. This is a true sense of ownership of true love. Let’s study our True Father’s word based on this content.
The Arrival of the Age of Transcendental Psychic Phenomenon
<60-194> When the time comes you will enter the Age of transcendental psychic phenomenon. This will be the Age of transcendental psychic phenomenon. We will enter an age where no one will be able to say that they don’t know spirit world and that God doesn’t exist. This is how we will look at it. You might think, “When would that happen?” but take a look right now. Look at how much the world has changed from 1960 until now. America was once very high but now America has fallen below the sole of a shoe. Isn’t that right? [That is right.]
Since True Parents have overcome all indemnities up to the cosmic level and won, the world of evil is gradually falling apart. Because Adam and Eve fell at the top of the growth stage, Satan can expand his reach and occupy and destroy up to two-thirds of the world. Beyond that, he cannot go any further and eventually surrenders before God.
Even today’s family problems will result in the destruction of more than two-thirds of the world’s families. The present age is facing the end of the last days in every way, not only in the family, but also in society, the country, and the world.
But beyond this last age that comes once, True Father said that human beings will enter the Age of transcendental psychic phenomenon. Everyone will face an age in which they cannot deny God and the spirit world. Such an era will come suddenly and definitely. Father has great conviction.
That's why True Father said, “Don't think that the providence of restoration will take as long as the Old Testament and New Testament ages of the past. Now, the more the Abel realm becomes one, the faster the world of Satan will be destroyed.”
We must be fully prepared to take full advantage of the conveniences of civilization in the Age of transcendental psychic phenomenon. In the future, media will become a tool for educating all humankind. An age is coming where church development, witnessing, tribal restoration, national restoration, and world restoration all can be (accomplished) through education through the media. Therefore, we have to make a huge investment in the world of media from now on. Father already predicted this.
Now, as we enter the one-second era, it is said that the era is coming soon when thousands of people (will) flock to know True Parents and the Will. An unimaginable time is coming.
In such an era, the world demands to see model individuals, families and tribes who know and practice the principle. The problem is that although we possess the eternal truth and True Parents, the challenge is how much we can show them. That’s why we need to become divine spirits and establish ideal families.
It is time to show. Someday they will know everything: God’ exists, True Parents are the messiah, the spiritual world exists. No one (will be able to) deny it.
But their greatest wish (will be), “OK, God does exist. Divine Principle is the truth. True Parents are the messiah. Then I really want to see who has already reached the divine spirit (level). Which family has already established an ideal family?” If they are really looking for that kind of divine spirit and ideal family, we are the ones who need to show (this). Sooner or later this kind of unimaginable time will come – very soon.
The Process of Spiritual Experiences
<76-125> You will know this if you pray. The feeling is different depending on when you pray. Praying at 1 AM and praying at 3 AM will result in different feelings. If you try this you will know. I’m saying that if you enter a mysterious, deep state and pray, it will be different depending on what time you pray. The feeling is different. Isn’t that true for all of you as well? What you feel in the morning, what you feel in the afternoon, what you feel in the evening and what you feel at night are all different.
The Course of Spiritual Experiences
<76-125> Similarly, when it comes to the state of our hearts, just as our relative sensitivity changes depending on the standard of what we feel with our physical emotions and the change of the seasons, so too does the world of heart. This is why even when you pray, you must know when is a good time. What I mean by this is that there are times when our sensitivity to God is high. If you find that place and enter it bit by bit, you will reach the gate.
Is this not true? When the door of God’s heart and the door of human beings’ hearts come together and you enter together with the same standard, a path where you can experience what God feels will appear before you. This is how we must view it.
We really need to perfect our spirit body and become a divine spirit. Human beings whose spirit bodies have grown and become a divine spirit are very sensitive spiritually and live feeling the invisible spirit world as sensibilities and inspiration.
Therefore, we must become divine spirits, become very spiritually enlightened and receive direct revelation and guidance from God. Therefore, you should always put in a lot of effort to develop your spirituality and heart.
What is the level of your prayers? Are yours really prayers that receive an answer from God? How can we always live with God and feel spiritually?
That is why we must always think about and love God. It is love to think a lot about the other person. Just as parents always think of their children, filial children always think of their parents. In this way, we must always think of God and always judge from His point of view.
Just as the human heart wants to live in a place that cares for and loves them more, so God is the same. God wants to go to the place where people think about and live for Him more.
“Someone really loves me, thinks about me so much. Someone is longing for me. My heart really wants to be there and stay there longer.”
If we really think about and love God all the time, God wants to be there. “Someone thinks about me, loves me, is concerned about me, cares for me; my heart wants to be there.”
Then how can we invite God (to be with us)? We think about him, love him, are concerned about him and worry about his will, try to console him, comfort him. God is looking for that kind of object partner. (Then) surely he will come down and stay with us. It is up to us. How can we invite God? How can we live together (with him)? Where there is love and concern, God wants to be there.
Our heart is the same. When I take care of my grandchildren, my heart is there. I think about them. What should I buy for them? I am going home soon and think about my grandchildren.
When somebody really loves me, is concerned about me and takes care of me, I want to be there. It is the same thing.
How often do I think about and recognize God? If I think about God all the time and am concerned about him, he really will want to stay with me. He will want to dwell in my heart.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Couple's Love Journey and the Han of God and History
The Couple is a United Entity That Realizes the Four Great Loves
1. In the course of faith, we must overcome the challenges of Cain and Abel several times and win. Also, you must lay the foundation of substance by raising Cain, who is in the position of a subordinate under you. In this way, through the achievement of moving Cain in the foundation of substance, the couple should receive the Blessing, establish marital relations, and enter a life of substantially serving each other well. Based on the experiences of the Cain-Abel relationship up to this day, the couple should have a heart of gratitude and service to each other before Heaven, establish a family, and finally enter the world of true love. The words and true love that each has practiced so far must be shown between the couple. A couple should have a heart to treat each other like their father or mother, a heart to serve each other as brother and sister, and a heart to treat each other like precious lovers. As a united entity that practices the Four Great Loves, a couple can become a couple of heart only when they create a family where God can reside.
On our faith course, we establish the foundations of faith and substance, meet the Messiah, receive the Blessing, form a couple, and enter the foundation of love.
Therefore, before we receive the Blessing, we must go through the formula course of subjugating Satan by finding and establishing the foundations of faith and substance. Once the journey of the foundation of love begins, there is no longer a practice course, and the journey of loving, supporting and respecting each other begins.
In the course of faith, we must overcome the challenges of Cain and Abel several times and win. In this way, through the achievement of moving Cain, really touch Cain’s heart, in the foundation of substance, the couple should receive the Blessing, establish marital relations, and enter a life of substantially serving each other well.
The words and true love that each partner has practiced so far must be shown between the couple. A couple should realize the Four Great Loves through having a heart to treat each other like their father or mother, a heart to serve each other as brother and sister, and a heart to treat each other like precious lovers.
As a united entity that practices the Four Great Loves, the couple should become a couple who can build a family where God resides.
When I learned these things earlier (in my life of faith and) how they work, (I realized the importance of) establishing the Foundation of Faith and Foundation of Substance (and thus) entering the foundation of love based on the couple. That is why you need to practice very well when you establish the Foundation of Faith and Foundation of Substance. If you do not do well, all (kinds of ) problems can occur in the family, especially centered on the couple....
Why do we need the Foundation of Faith and Foundation of Substance? In order to build the important relationship between husband and wife.
God's Love and Marital Relationship
2. If the marital relationship is not well established, the couple may treat other church members as brothers and sisters, while the husband-wife relationship rather becomes estranged. The couple's relationship grows closer by heart, while on the other hand, they may gradually become distant and become enemies. Couples tend to ignore each other while being close to each other. It is easy to treat each other carelessly without knowing the value of each other. If this happens, there is a greater risk of the relationship breaking down rather than being close to each other. Many people fail in the married couple’s position. Externally, people think they have succeeded when they overcome the difficult relationship between Cain and Abel, but when they reach the married couple’s position, most people fail. This is the biggest problem. Even in Adam and Eve's family, all problems arose between the couple. In the end, God’s han originated in the relationship between husband and wife.
That’s true.
In the course of receiving the Blessing and building the foundation of love, the couple can grow closer to each other in heart, but on the contrary, they may gradually become distant and become enemies.
Married couples are close to each other but easily ignore each other. It is easy to treat each other carelessly without knowing the value of each other. Looking at the history of the providence of restoration, all the providences eventually failed because in all the families the couple did not unite.
Look at Adam and Eve’s couple, Noah’s couple, Jesus’ family, Joseph and Maria. Everybody failed in the family centering on the couple.
So, we must always keep in mind that personally, your body is the front line, and in the family, your couple is the front line. Externally, people think they have succeeded when they overcome the difficult relationship between Cain and Abel, but when they reach the married couple’s position, they slip and fail.
In the end, you should know that God’s han originated in the relationship between husband and wife that should have been the closest relationship without any heartistic gap. How is your couple’s relationship?
I really came to understand more and more the importance of the relationships between husband and wife. You can grow individually and reach a certain level. But the important thing is can you make a really successful relationship between husband and wife? Our final stage is the relationship between husband and wife.
The Couple's Love Journey and the Han of God and History
3. The final course of love depends on whether you win or fail in your marital relationship. Here exists God’s han, the han of history, and the han of ancestors. A big problem arises between a couple when they do not know each other's worth, cannot feel, and do not know the precious individuality of each other. A married couple claims that they both deny themselves and completely crucify their fallen nature, but they still have a nature that is aware of themselves. You should know yourself well. Before starting a family, you need to train yourself to deny yourself thoroughly and to completely crucify your fallen nature. You must overcome yourself. In other words, you must win over yourself. If you fail in the foundation of faith and the foundation of substance, you will surely fail if you start a family and enter family life. Therefore, you must succeed in the relationship between Cain and Abel in your present position.
The final course to be passed in the faith course depends on whether you win or fail in your marital relationship. In view of the history of the providence of restoration, know that God’s han, the han of history, and the han of ancestors were formed between husband and wife.
A married couple claims that they both deny themselves and completely crucify their fallen nature, but they still have a fallen nature that is aware of themselves. Therefore, before starting a family, you need to thoroughly go through the course to subjugate Satan on the foundations of faith and substance to train yourself to deny yourself and to completely crucify your fallen nature.
If you fail in the foundation of faith and the foundation of substance, you will surely fail if you start a family and enter family life. There is no process of practice in the love journey that couples start together. Therefore, if you succeed in the Cain-Abel relationship in the position that is currently given to you, it is possible to win in the path of love.
Wow! If someone had taught me about this when I was young, how much better a relationship I would have had with my wife and my family. What do you think? Really True Father gave us such detailed, proper education. I did not know the importance of the Foundation of Faith and Foundation of Substance. They are so important; they relate so much to our couple, to our own children. I did not know they were so important.
The Power of Relationships and Love
4. If there is a person whom you cannot love, the result will show up as a limitation in your marital relationship. If you cultivate the ability to love anyone, you can have a smooth marital relationship no matter what difficulties you may have in your relationship. Therefore, human relationships are very important in your given reality. If you clash with someone in your given reality, the problem will also exist in your marital relationship. Therefore, be victors in your daily relationships. All living beings are loyal in every moment. In every moment, they absorb air well, absorb sunlight well, and absorb nutrients from the ground well, which in the end yields good fruits. In the same way, we must also be faithful to the law of the Word every day and every moment in our life of faith, win in the Cain-Abel relationship, and finally reach the completed married couple’s position so that we can bear fruit.
In the end, who will be the ultimate winner? It is the person who is victorious in marriage. When a couple unites, the children automatically follow their parents. All children's problems are the result of couples not uniting.
Therefore, if there is an enemy whom I cannot love in my normal relationships or a task that I cannot overcome, it will eventually lead to the result that I cannot unite with my spouse in the marital relationship. However, if you can love anyone and develop the ability to overcome any difficulty, it will become a factor that can eventually bring victory in your marital relationship.
Therefore, in my given reality, the fulfillment of human relationships and the responsibilities directly given to me become the factor in winning in the marital relationship.
If you clash with someone in your given reality, the problem will also exist in your marital relationship. The problem also affects our children. Therefore, we must become victorious in our daily relationships and fulfill our responsibilities.
All living beings are loyal in every moment. In every moment, they absorb air well, absorb sunlight well, and absorb nutrients from the ground well, which in the end yields good fruits.
In the same way, we must also be faithful to the law of the Word every day and every moment in our life of faith, win in the Cain-Abel relationship, and finally reach the completed married couple’s position so that we can bear fruit.
This is really meaningful guidance, right? From now on we need to educate our children in such a way. We need to raise our spiritual children in such a way.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Elena Bahian)♦
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