Ep 635 - Noble Families of Cheon Ill Guk Part 7
Noble Families of Cheon Il Guk - July 22, 2022
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Key Points
To become a noble family you must fulfill the mission of the Heavenly Tribal Messiah.
When you have faith, determination and conviction, God and all of your ancestors and the spiritual world will surely help you and show you the way to do heavenly tribal messiahship.
We have inherited the keys to the kingdom of heaven from True Parents through the Blessing.
The spiritual world gives us so many hints and revelations. In order to cultivate spiritual sensibility, we must always prepare thoroughly with prayer and jeongseong.
Listen carefully and patiently to others without preconceptions; God may speak to you through them.
God and the spiritual world educate and grow fallen humans through dreams. If you have a dream, you should always ask your Abel about it. You may go astray by misinterpreting the dreams that heaven has shown you.
We need to cultivate our heart and mind and become spiritually very sensitive. Then we will know what will happen.
The saddest thing about Jesus coming to this earth as the Savior was that there was no one to convey God's will, heart, and wishes to. Jesus could not proudly reveal that he was the only begotten Son of God and the Messiah.
When the object partner does not know the circumstances, feelings and wishes of the subject partner, the subject partner must use the body of a servant and serve others from the lowest position with the heart of a parent.
When parents deal with their immature children, they have no choice but to hide their pain, wishes, and heart. The heart that Jesus had was that of such parents.
If we do not want to fall into human attachments, we have no choice but to shed tears focusing on God's heart and our Parents (heart).
When the child resents and rebels against the parent, it is evidence that the parent has not been able to live a life of a servant with the heart of a parent.
Children can only become mature through their parents' endless tears.
We need to raise each of our children as filial sons and daughters. Then they will really understand the heart of their parents.
Today we will have an international meeting, so I am recording this Morning Devotion in advance.
Today I’d like again to talk about “Noble Families of Cheon Il Guk” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
You do not know how precious and important it is to be living in the same time as True Parents, as True Mother, in the present moment right now. You have to fulfill your responsibility as heavenly tribal messiahs. The Blessing is not for you alone. You have received the Blessing so that you can advance together with all your brothers and sisters around the world. The people in the nations of this world are your brothers and sisters. They are True Parents' children. You need to tell them about the path to life. Even at this moment, providential history is advancing in this way. Yet when we think about the many people who are still living according to the traditions and teachings of the past as they did in the Old Testament and New Testament ages thousands of years ago, we cannot help but be concerned. You can save them with just one word, one action. What are you afraid of? The truth must be revealed. True Parents provide the only way to digest all the problems that are currently afflicting the globe in this age today.
If the people of this world recognized True Parents and lived according to their teachings, war would no longer be necessary. National borders would no longer be necessary. Religion would no longer be necessary. We are aware of that path, yet how much more do we have to wait? I told you that I will place you in the ranks of filial children and loyal servants. A filial child cannot emerge from a place of comfort. If a person were to claim that he was a filial child while sitting in a comfortable place even though his own parents were going through hardships, who would recognize him as a filial son? You are in the best position and circumstance of your life. You are in the position of owner. From there you can become a noble family. Once you are a noble family, your future generations will see your personal history. Whether you fulfill your responsibilities depends on you. It also affects your tribe. When people who should stand at the center fail their responsibility, they go away. You should not become people who have to go away! (2014.11.30, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Mother said, “A filial child cannot emerge from a place of comfort.” You are in the best position and circumstance of your life. You are in the position of owner. From there you can become a noble family. Whether you fulfill your responsibilities as a noble family depends on whether you can fulfill the mission of Heavenly Tribal Messiah. If you don’t fulfill your mission, you just becomes a person who drifts away.
She emphasizes that in order to become a noble family you must fulfill the mission of Heavenly Tribal Messiah. One of the missions of the North American Continental Director is to help all the families in the United States to complete the mission of Heavenly Tribal Messiah. I want to really help each one of you so no one misses (out on) becoming a CheonBo Won member.
Let’s help each other. If you have already fulfilled (it)... then why don’t you support your neighbor and other brothers and sisters who have not yet fulfilled their mission of Tribal Messiahship? If you believe in God and True Parents and go out with the belief and absolute conviction that the Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission is not what you do on your own but what heaven wants to do through you, God will surely show you the way if you go out with that kind of confidence and faith that no matter what happens you will surely do Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission. Then amazing works of cooperation from your ancestors will unfold.
When you are concerned about money... (and) about your age, then you cannot do anything. If you are determined and make up your mind within your self, when you are determined, then all of your ancestors will surely help you and show you the way to do it.
(I have had?) such beautiful experiences in Korea, Asia, Oceania, everywhere. I heard someone’s testimony; he started with no money and could not do (tribal messiahship); however, when he had serious determination, then he came to understand that many good spirits and ancestors helped him.
That is why fulfilling you tribal messiah mission is up to your determination. Your job is to be determined to fulfill the Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission and actually take action. Then all blessed families can become CheonBo Won members.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 60 - The Development, Perfection, and Features of the Spirit Self
• 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.
Who has the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven? Who? Not God. If he had the key to the Kingdom of Heaven, we would have already accomplished God’s Cheon Il Guk on the earth. How about the spiritual world? The spiritual world cannot do anything. Who has the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven? (How about the) True Parents? True Parents gave us the key to the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth because we are the messiahs and saviors of all our tribe. We have the key. Wow! True Parents blessed us and gave the blessing to everybody. That is why you are the ones who have the keys. I am the one who has the key to the Kingdom of Heaven. We need to know this clearly. Christianity, other religions, no one knows who has the key to the Kingdom of Heaven. Once Jesus went to the spiritual world, he (was unable to) do anything. Of course, he can help and cooperate. But who can substantially build the Kingdom of Heaven? He passed the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven to Peter, his first disciple. This is a clear principle. We are the ones who inherited from Jesus. How blessed we are!
Based on this content, let’s study Father’s word.
Spiritual Experiences: Stage of Hints
<76-125>What kind of phenomenon will occur once you enter that stage? Aren’t you all generally like that? In our language, we have the word, “hint.” Doesn’t this word exist? Hint! You might ask what this word means. Imagine this: you are walking carelessly down a path and see a bird sitting on the wall of a house. The bird then flaps away and when you see that, something occurs at the door of your heart and you are taught a secret.
When it comes to real life, these kinds of experiences will start to unfold before you. The amount of suggestive conditions will increase. When a person randomly says, “Ah!”, this means that he has realized something. Experiences like this will happen more and more often.
True Father says we should always have our spiritual antenna out for a long time in real life... In other words (we should develop) our spiritual sensibility, we must be very sensitive. Then we will receive many things from God and the spiritual world.
Personally when I believe(?) someone is (reporting?) carefully True Parents’ point of view,... I fully concentrate (on) anyone who (comes?) to me because they are the representative of God’s children. I am the representative of True Parents, (so) I need to listen very well.
I have experienced that the spiritual world gives us so many hints and revelations.... The spiritual world will surely teach us clearly where to go and what to do.
Therefore in order to cultivate spiritual sensibility, we must always prepare thoroughly with prayer and jeongseong and offering and work we must do.
Next: in real life you must listen to the other person very carefully. God talks to you through somebody, sometimes through your wife or children or Cain or Abel. That is why you need to always open your mind. Through which channel is God talking to me... (We should) treat each (person well); they can become God’s channel. If you ignore... a junior – “He doesn’t have much experience. What is he talking about?” you should not have such preconceptions. That is a big problem. God will never help you. God will never give you any secret.
That is why in our real life have good give-and-take with your object partner wherever you go because God can talk to you through anyone – through which channel we do not know. The important thing here is not to have any preconceived notions about God or the other person. Whenever you hear someone’s story, you should think that there is a message God wants to convey to you through him. Then we listen to anyone’s story and see them with respect.
God will give you answers about how to talk with that person, how to reply. First, you need to listen very well and be very patient. That is a jeongseong condition: when you talk with somebody, you are ready to listen willingly. That is the point.
Spiritual Experiences: Stage of Prophetic Dreams
<76-125>Once past that stage, what kinds of phenomena take place? You will start receiving revelations in your dreams, but I am not referring to the ones during deep sleep. It happens when you are in between being asleep and awake... Saint Paul experienced the third heaven while half awake. It feels like a dream, but at the same time, it doesn’t feel like a dream. You can’t tell whether it is real or whether you are in a dream....You can catch two-thirds of what someone next to you is saying, but you can’t tell whether it is just the phenomenon of being half asleep or whether it is in fact someone’s voice. This is the kind of sensation that you will start to come to your five senses.
God and spiritual world educate and grow fallen humans through dreams. Father always talks about this. However, even if I have a dream, if I remember it vaguely or cannot remember it, it means that my daily thoughts are not organized. My thinking is not clear, very blurred....
The dream that God and the spiritual world use to teach me for my growth is always very clear. However, the interpretation of dreams is also very important. You may go astray by misinterpreting the dreams that heaven has shown you.
Therefore, if you have a dream, you should ask your Abel all the time. And there are many symbolic things in dreams, so you need to collect and analyze data about them. For example, when I had a dream, something happened, or when I had a dream, an accident happened to people around me after I had a certain dream.
Another important thing is that in my dreams the spiritual world mostly shows things about me, not about other people's affairs. My dreams are almost always related to me. If I dream about someone, I have to think that it is a problem that will happen to me, not a problem that will happen to that person.
Many people misunderstand. “Last night I had a dream about you this and that.” Actually God wanted to teach me (something). If someone appeared (it was about?) yourself. That person could (need) help and have some problem. Of course it may (have to do with) that person, but this is a higher-level dream.
When we pray for our spiritual children centered on a public purpose, then maybe you can have some special(?) dream, but according to my own experience and when I greet young people, in most dreams someone appeared to me and talked to me about this and that, it relates to me, not to that person. If you understand this point, that (your dream) doesn’t relate to that person but to you, that is very helpful.
I have so much experience with this.(?)
Many people who seldom dream are very realistic. Such a person must be trained to become spiritually sensitive. Therefore, we must become people who always receive instructions from God and the spirit world through dreams.
We need to cultivate our heart and mind and become spiritually very sensitive. Then you will know what will happen tomorrow and (the day after) tomorrow. Then when you wake up every morning, you know what will happen the whole day.... Through that way you will raise up your spirit body very well.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: A Life of a Servant with the Heart of a Parent
Jesus’ Pitiable Heart and Reality
1. If Jesus came to this earth as the savior and had things he was concerned and pitied about the physical world, what were they? Jesus lived with the absolute vertical relationship in which God is the Father and he was God’s only begotten Son that He sent to the earth. However, since he entered reality to save the world, there was pity that he was unable to find someone among the people who was worthy of forming a reciprocal relationship with God’s will to give and receive with. That is why he could not boldly reveal that he was the son of God. Rather than putting his own position first, Jesus had a heart of pity and sorrow that he had to go down to the position of fallen human beings and form a common base with them. There were tears of pity that even if he wanted to, Jesus could not convey God's circumstances, heart, and wishes. Although Jesus himself came as the savior and carried God’s sorrow and wishes in his heart, when he entered reality, since no one was in a position where they could accept God's will only with their own circumstances, he could not reveal it.
What was the saddest thing about Jesus coming to this earth as the Savior? It was that there was no one to convey God's will, heart, and wishes to. That was Jesus’ agony, his han. He could not properly convey God's will to people who were all full of their own circumstances... (and) their thinking. Jesus could not find any space to share God’s wishes. So Jesus was sorrowful and shed a lot of tears.
When the object partner does not know the circumstances, feelings and wishes of the subject, there is no other method. What should be done? There is nothing other than using the body of a servant and serving others from the lowest position with the heart of a parent. You must continue to serve until you’re the other person realizes. You cannot do it by force, by pushing.
To the people who were not heartistically prepared, it was too difficult to reveal his identity. So, Jesus could not proudly reveal that he was the only begotten Son of God and the Messiah.
He could not find any object partner with whom to share his revelation and his identity.
How could he do this? He had to go to the bottom and serve.
Father met the Christian leaders, John the Baptists prepared by God. He went through Heungnam Prison, Danbury Prison. He started from the servant of servants position with the heart of a parent.
Jesus’ Tears and Compassion
2.Jesus could not talk about his own circumstances and wishes, but first, there were tears of pity to understand and sympathize with the people’s circumstances and positions. Usually, with those who needed Jesus' help with only their circumstances and wishes, Jesus had no choice but to put his position and wishes behind and keep it a secret. That is why Jesus was filled with pitiable tears unknown to anyone. It can be said that Jesus, who stood in this position, lived a life of a servant with the heart of a parent. When parents deal with their immature children, they have no choice but to hide their pain, wishes, and heart. The heart that Jesus had was that of a parent. Although Jesus came with the heart, circumstances, and wishes of God, he was in a position to devote himself to the poor and the sick first. These were the tears and compassion of Jesus. However, if people make a mistake in such an environment, there is a risk that they will be dominated by the environment and fall into the environment of leaving God's position and heart.
When parents deal with their immature children, they have no choice but to hide their pain, wishes, and heart. The heart that Jesus had was that of such parents.
Therefore, Jesus could not reveal his position and circumstances, and he performed miracles and wonders in order to solve their circumstances and wishes first. In this situation, if you make a mistake, there is a possibility that you will be disappointed and just collapse (under the) reality.
But Jesus served them with the heart of a parent and the body of a servant with tears and tears. This is the secret that Jesus was able to keep his first motivation and resolution without abandoning them.
If Jesus had not had a parental heart and just helped them, then when he could not fulfill God’s will, (he would have?) had so much disappointment...
Not many Christians know this inner situation of Jesus and his sorrowful heart. How fortunate we are that True Parents teach us about Jesus’ inner and miserable and sorrowful heart and situation. I really admire how True Father (acquired) this kind of principle, how he met Jesus and all the central figures and (then) taught us very clearly.
The Heart of a Parent and the Body of a Servant
3. When we make mistakes, it is easy to feel pity for the people around us and lose the circumstances and heart of Heaven and then flow away with affection centered on human beings. At first, we begin to show compassion for others with the heart of God, but then we become subject to their position and circumstances, and it is easy to become a wage worker. Therefore, to prevent this from falling over to human affection, there is no choice but to mix it with tears centered on the Will. For this reason, tears are bound to accompany you when you live a life of a servant to your parents. What parents hope and expect from their children while raising their children is because they love their children, but children do as they please centered on themselves and only wish for the help of their parents. Immature children are usually self-centered, like spending money, and try to take advantage of their parents. When a child is young like this, as a parent, you worry for and rebuke your child. As a child, if you appreciate and reflect on the rebuke of your parents, you will easily mature, but if the child is displeased with the parents and resists, it is proof that the parents did not live a life of servant with the heart of a parent.
Sometimes, when we set out on the way of the will with God's circumstances and wishes, it is easy to see reality and be subject to human-centered circumstances and desires and han. There are cases in which people give up the will because of human-centered attachments.
Therefore, if we do not want to fall into human attachments, we have no choice but to shed tears focusing on God's heart and our Parents (heart). Therefore, tears are bound to accompany you when you live a life of the servant with the heart of parents.
When we raise our children, it is easy for them to resent their parents and become dissatisfied. You can't even scold the immature children. If you scold them and they still follow you, you're lucky, but on the other hand, when the child begins to resent and rebel against the parent, it is evidence that the parent has not been able to live a life of a servant with the heart of a parents.
When the Heart of a Parent Cannot Be Revealed to Children
4. If the parents' claims and wishes are too imposed on the child, the child will become conflicted. When children are conflicted, parents cannot reveal their heart and wishes. If a child accepts the parents' rebuke well, has an apologetic heart, and repents, it becomes a good medicine and a good education. However, when a parent rebukes a child, if the child rebels against the parent and snaps at them, they fall to the same level as the child. Parents and children are exactly the same. In such a case, parents should keep their hearts and wishes to themselves and just shed endless tears. But in the midst of such a situation, if parents snap at and scold their child with hostility, saying, “This child! If you want to do things your way, get out of the house this instance,” then you are not qualified as a parent.
If the parents' claims and wishes are imposed too (much) on the child, the child will become conflicted. When children have conflicts, parents cannot express their heart and wishes. So you have to have the heart of a parent and serve them as a servant until they realize it. There is no other way.
When I (met with) each of the Blessed families in the Clifton Church, I could understand how much the first generation is suffering and worried because of their children’s situation.
When a parent rebukes a child, if the child rebels against the parent and becomes nervous, he falls to the same level as the child. In such a case, parents should leave their han and wishes inside and just shed endless tears. Children can only become mature through (their) parents endless tears. It is a simple matter.
Jesus went through that kind of suffering. So did our True Parents. How much they became God’s filial son and daughter! They were always concerned with a parental heart. That is why the key is hyojeong, filial piety. We need to raise each of our children as a filial son or daughter. Then they will really understand the heart of their parents.
True Parents have shed many tears for all humankind, wearing the body of a servant with the heart of parents. We, too, must inherit True Parents' course and become a people who can establish relative standards with them and fulfill their wishes.
When I talk about the servants body and parental heart, this is very deep. The Bible does not mention the servants body and the parental heart. It is difficult to find anywhere if you research philosophy, (namely,) the parents’ heart with a servant’s body. This philosophy is really incredible! So beautiful! This is internal truth.
If we have such a mindset and attitude in practice, surely we can raise our children as filial sons and daughters. Then we can truly understand God’s sorrowful heart and True Parents’ han and suffering.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Tsurue Matsuba, CARP DMV)♦
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