Ep 825 - The Providential History Of Salvation From The Viewpoint Of The Principle Part 12
The Providential History of Salvation from the Viewpoint of the Principle - January 28, 2023
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Key Points
Mary respected and loved God’s will more than her life. This allowed Jesus’ to be born.
If we risk our life for God’s Will and absolutely obey, there is always God’s protection.
The one who carries his initial motivation and determination to the end is a righteous person like Noah, Jesus and True Parents.
To maintain that faith and resolve until the end, our determination needs to be stronger for life – each day and year without stopping.
We must be determined to save even one person until the moment we die.
To maintain our first motivation and first love, we need to create a plus every day, constantly to give and be thankful, to witness to make a “profit of love,” and to avail ourself every day of Morning Devotion full of God’s word and guidance.
Sin began when human beings abandoned God’s word.
With God’s word we can distinguish good from evil and know God’s will and where we need to go. It is the way, the truth, life, salvation, and God’s love. It is our way to grow.
Not longing for nor living with the word is sin.
In order to clear all our sins and achieve liberation, we need to repent not only for our individual sins but for all the sins committed by our ancestors and providential central figures, and take responsibility for them as our own.
Then we need to repent and shed tears not only for our individual sins but for our ancestral and collective sins as well.
Rather than to judge them, we have the mission and responsibility to think of our ancestors’ sins and those of historic central figures as our own, to ask for God’s forgiveness on their behalf, and even to liberate them.
In this way their han and sins and ours are cleared. It is the way to stop the passing of sin from generation to generation.
Sins are cleared when we think of others’ sins as our own and repent for them.
If we are reborn and resurrected, we take ownership of the faults of others, especially when they persecute us. We do not judge them, but have compassion and shed tears for them.
We need to recognize that those who persecute us are themselves the victims of their ancestors’ wrongdoings.
The way to absorb all conflicts is with compassion and tears.
When we always serve others with the heart of a parent and in the body of a servant, self-centeredness disappears.
All human beings have the original mind of living for the sake of others.
There are always tears when walking the true path of faith.
Tears between a couple in conflict can inspire compassion and allow heartistic communication to restart.
We can stop judgment and criticism with tears and compassion.
Transcripts from November 3, 2021 to the present, personal notes from November 11, 2020 until November 2, 2021 and slides from August 29, 2021 to the present are available at MD.Hoondok.com as PDF files.♦
Today I’d like to talk about “The Providential History of Salvation from the Viewpoint of the Principle” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given by Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon between July 20 and October 29 on a speaking tour for Koreans residing in the United States.> The reversal of position that resulted from Tamar's first and second sons fighting within the womb was the condition that separated them from Satan.
This became the condition for the restoration of the womb, which made it possible for the Messiah to be conceived in the lineage of the chosen people. Thus the foundation was prepared for the nation of Israel to stand up to the Roman Empire 2,000 years later. The victorious foundation on the national level could then be formed in the womb of a mother free from satanic accusation, prepared for the seed of the son of God. On this foundation, the Holy Mother Mary emerged in the mainstream of God's providence.
Mary, when she was engaged to Joseph, received from the archangel Gabriel the surprising message that the Messiah would be born through her. (Luke 1:31) In those days, if an unmarried woman became pregnant, she was killed. However, Mary accepted the Will of God with absolute faith, saying, “Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” (Luke 1:38) Mary consulted with the priest Zechariah, who was her relative and was highly respected. Zechariah's wife Elizabeth, with the help of God, was pregnant with John the Baptist. Elizabeth said to Mary, “…Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! Why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me?” (Luke 1:42-43) With these words, she testified to the coming birth of Jesus.
Today we will study True Father’s word about Mary.
Mary’s Absolute Faith and the Birth of Jesus
<35-222> Mary, at her time, was a woman who pursued the will of God with more fervor than anyone, risking her own life. That position was one in which she could not go without being prepared for death. According to the Five Books of Moses, it was a time when a virgin was stoned to death if she had a baby. God allowed Jesus to be conceived through Mary, who respected God’s will more than her own life, dignity, and honor.
That is why Jesus was the first Son of God born in history through Mary by God’s will.
Satan could not accuse Jesus who was in Mary's womb. Because Jesus was not born by Mary’s will but centered on God’s will and by His command, the motive for his birth was God. Even in the process leading up to his birth, there could be no conditions of accusations from Satan against Jesus in the womb of Mary, who had a victorious foundation of the womb. Therefore, in the historical era, the ground for all the fights after Adam and Eve, which originated from the womb, was finally separated from the womb.
According to the Five Books of Moses, it was a time when a virgin was stoned to death if she had a baby. God allowed Jesus to be conceived through Mary, who respected God’s will more than her own life, dignity, and honor.
That is why Jesus was the first Son of God born in history through Mary by God’s will. Satan could not accuse Jesus who was in Mary's womb.
Because Jesus was not born by Mary’s will but centered on God’s will and by His command, His birth was possible.
The motive of Jesus’ birth was God, and even the process leading up to his birth and (the establishment of) a victorious foundation of the womb were all God’s will, and everything was possible because there was God’s protection.
The issue is that the accomplishment of God’s will is determined depending on how human beings absolutely obey such (a) will of God.
What is the lesson we learn through Mary’s course? It is to respect and love God’s will more than one’s own life. Then, we will surely receive God’s protection.
Therefore, when we carry out a certain task, when it is finally confirmed that this is God’s will and command, we must risk our lives to absolutely obey it.
The position (in which) we risk our life in front of the Will and absolutely obey it means that there is always God’s protection. If we look at the people whom God chose and set up, they were all like this.
The problem is that everyone makes such a resolution when receiving God's revelation, receiving grace, and experiencing the Holy Spirit. Many members have joined our church, but how many remain?
And among the rest of the family, how many people can go on without changing until the moment they die? We call those who carry their initial motive and determination to the end righteous people.
If we want to keep our initial motivation and resolution to the end, today's resolution must be stronger than yesterday's, and this year's resolution must be stronger than 10 years ago or 20 years ago.
Now, if we say that we will take a break and go slowly, our vertical standard will quickly fall horizontally. So, we must go with the determination to save even one person until the moment we die.
In that respect, Noah built the ark by keeping God's command for 120 years. Jesus did not die for himself until the moment he died. True Parents also remain unchanged throughout their lifetime. We too must have unchanging faith with such a standard of righteousness.
We should not betray parents under any circumstances. In order to have unchanging faith, we must live a life that becomes a plus every day, every month, every year. Just trying to keep the faith is exhausting. (With)... love(?), we will definitely be able to maintain our first motivation and first love.
To do so, always give to others, give something, help with something, live for the sake of others. Then our spirit will always be inspired, and we can keep our first motivation. Always give. As long as we are alive, we always need to give.
Then always keep the faith of being thankful. We should always be grateful. When we wake up, at midday and before sleeping we always should share our thankful heart and appreciation.
And witness and make a profit of love. Just as a company that does not make a profit has to close down, if we do not make a profit in our life of faith, we are easily exhausted. In that respect witnessing is the savior that saves our souls and keeps our first motivation and first love. We need to remind ourself that witnessing is really our savior. We keep moving on, and God inspires us.
God’s number one wish is to save his children. That’s why when we focus on God’s number one wish, we always gain strength and we can find the meaning of our life.
Our life should make a plus every day, every month, every moment, every year. This year will be better than last year. In ten years it will be better than our current situation. We need to always make a profit and gain interest. Our life has to be a giving life, be grateful, witness and make a profit of love. That is the way to keep our first motivation and first love.
Most people who receive God’s revelation and holy spirit cannot maintain it. They are so changeable on the way.
That’s why we need to remind ourself through God’s word. That is why Morning Devotion really motivates us so much! It motivates us every day offering some of God’s guidance and God’s word to us. How powerful it is!
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 20: Sin
• Sin is a violation of heavenly law which is committed when a person forms a common base with Satan, thus setting a condition for give and take action with him.
The Beginning of Sin
<3-267> Where did sin begin from? It began from the point when human beings couldn’t accept God’s word. The responsibility of human beings was to accept all encompassing God’s word. However, they couldn’t fulfill the responsibility. The resting place where you welcome God’s word should be your mind. Then, you have to establish the substance centered on God’s words.
Where did sin begin from? Sin began from the starting point when human beings couldn’t accept God’s word. If we don’t know God’s Word, we cannot distinguish what is good and what is evil. We also do not know where God’s Will is and where we have to go.
Therefore, the first way for fallen human beings to go out and find God is finding where God’s word, which He gave to us, is. This is because God’s Word is the way, the truth, life, salvation, and love for fallen human beings.
Fallen human beings must find the Word to find our place to take our eternal Sabbath rest. Therefore, people who do not long or yearn for the Word will never have the possibility to become true people.
Those who do not relate much to God’s word and seldom listen to God’s word, have already given up their life of faith. God’s word is very powerful. It can resurrect our spirit.
Since God expresses His love to human beings and makes them grow through His Word, we must begin by accepting His word.
What is sin? Not longing for the Word is sin. Keeping away from the Word and living without any relation to the Word is sin.
The Meaning of a Real Sinner
<8-321> Those who believe in Jesus see themselves as sinners. “I’m a criminal. Father, please forgive me for my sin.” What kind of crimes? You have to feel that from Adam’s sin, Cain’s sin, Ham’s sin, the sin of Abraham’s mistake, the sin of Moses’ mistake, the sin of (the) Israelites’ mistake, the sin that nailed Jesus to the cross and all other sins the numerous people who betrayed Jesus rests upon your whole body. Throughout the course of history, a lot of believers have confessed that they called themselves sinners. But, there has been nobody who confessed himself to be a sinner who represents the whole of history.
This content is very important and powerful! It is top secret! How can we remove our sin. I have read this content many times. Many religious leaders could not understand what Father’s is talking about.
Those who believe in Jesus see themselves as sinners. That’s fine. However, everyone confesses themselves as sinners, but that is all confessions of sin on an individual level.
Because fallen people do not know where sin originated and how it was passed on to themselves, they could not rise to the position of taking responsibility for their sins and representing the whole of history.
Throughout history, there has not been a single person who repented with tears, confessing sins and vowing to take responsibility as a representative, starting with Adam and Eve’s sin, Cain and Abel’s sin, Ham’s sin, the sin of Abraham’s mistake, the sin of Moses’ mistake, the sin of Israelites’ mistake, the sin that nailed Jesus to the cross and all other sins the numerous people who betrayed Jesus, all the way until sin was passed on to themselves.
Despite ceaselessly confessing our own sins and repenting until now, what is the reason we have not been able to clear our sins? It is because we think of our sins merely as the sins of one individual. Within the content of our sins, beginning with original sin, it includes numerous sins of hereditary sin, collective sin, and individual sin.
So, in order to clear all these ties of sins, we need to go beyond the level of individual sins and take responsibility for all the sins committed by all our ancestors and providential central figures of the past as historic ones, repent, and shed tears. And we must have the mindset that we will clear off all those sins as public ones on behalf of the whole. This is the point.
Therefore, Adam’s sin is our sin. We have to think that Noah’s mistake is our mistake. Killing Jesus is our sin, and all the sins committed by our ancestors are our sins in order to clear their sins and achieve liberation.
The important lesson here is that sins are cleared when we think of others’ sins as our own. This is such an amazing secret. When we think of the sins our ancestors committed as our own sins, confess, and shed tears, it means that not only our sins but also their sins will be cleared and their han will be liberated.
I am amazed by Father’s guidance! How can we remove historical sin? Our (historical) central figures committed a lot of sin this and that, some wrong doing. We should not blame them (for the sins). We should take them as our own sin. Adam’s sin is our sin. Our ancestors’ sins are our own sins. When we take them as our own sins and take responsibility for them, we can liberate our ancestors and at the same time, we can remove our sins.
For example, many young people come to me and tell me about their Chapter Two thinking, this and that. We should not just think these are individual (sins). Our father and mother and ancestors and historical central figures were (all) like that. We need to shed tears. All humankind goes through this kind of process. When Heavenly Father looks at this situation, how painful his heart is!
When we treat our sin as individual sin, then we don’t connect to God. We don’t know how to remove it. We just pray and keep coming and finally give up. We need to treat any sin not simply as our own. (We need to be) the representative of our ancestors and represent all (historical) central figures: “I will be responsible.”
If we overcome this kind of sin and remove it, this is the way to liberate all our providential central figures and all our ancestors. At the same time, we can liberate God’s heart and receive God’s forgiveness. This is a top secret. Many people do not know about this.
Whenever we are struggling with our own sin, what we committed, what we did wrong, we (should) think that this kind of reality is not only us. Our father and mother and ancestors were (all) like this. “Heavenly Father, how an I finish (with this sin) in my generation?” (We should) shed tears and lament about ourself. “Wow! Heavenly Father, I understand that these kinds of things come from Adam’s family. If I do not stop this, then this kind of sin will be passed on to my next generation and future generations.”
Tears and tears and tears. We need to repent.
In that sense, the ancestor liberation we conduct in our movement is very important. Anyone can easily judge their ancestors’ sins. But we have the mission and responsibility to think of their sins as ours and ask for God’s forgiveness on their behalf and even liberate them.
The liberation of ancestors in Cheongpyeong is amazing. Only True Parents can give this kind of direction, asking us to liberate our ancestors’ sin.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: There are Always Tears on the Path of True Faith
A Reborn Couple Always Has Compassion and Tears
1. Our path of faith is not something that can be taken just as a concept. It can only be taken when your heart is reborn. A couple who have not been reborn often fall into conflict and you can see that they easily grow upset with one another. Some wives feel upset towards their husband when he wrongs her. If the husband does something wrong, the wife should shed tears rather than be upset at him. Also, if the wife does something wrong, the husband should shed tears so that the conflicts between them disappear. Why should they do this? It is because they have to stand in God's position.
The way to absorb all conflicts is with compassion and tears. People who do not have tears always have conflicts in human relationships, and the unpleasant, self-centered heart comes out first. A wife with no tears will only have her unpleasant heart come out when she is abused by her husband. This is the same for the husband. When people who do not have compassion and tears feel displeasure because of the other person, they lose their love for the other person and just hate the other person. Know that real love always brings tears when you see someone's fault.
In walking the path of faith, how can we tell if we were resurrected? First, when we see the other person’s wrongdoings or when they persecute us, rather than judging them, tears will first come out. The mark of a resurrected person is that he always sheds tears first, thinking that the other person's sins are his own, rather than judging him. The wrongdoings of others always turn into their (our?) own fault.
But a person or couple who have not been resurrected always think centered on themselves. The mark of a person who is not resurrected is that he is always conceptual, habitual, and perfunctory. And he always falls into conflict with the other and easily grows upset with the other.
Therefore, our path of faith is not something that can be taken just as a concept. It can only be taken when our heart is reborn. People who often fight among their couple (do) so because they are not resurrected.
If we look at couples who have not been reborn yet, they easily become upset with one another. How about our couple? Do we understand each other well? Or do we easily get upset?
The way to absorb all conflicts is with compassion and tears. People who do not have tears always have conflicts in human relationships, and the unpleasant, self-centered heart comes out first. A wife with no tears will first have an unpleasant heart come out when she is abused by her husband.
When people who do not have compassion and tears feel displeasure because of the other person, they lose their love for the other person and just hate the other person. Know that real love always brings tears when we see someone‘s fault.
If our tears come out and we are an emotional guy and we are getting old, shedding tears in front of people and these very shameful things(?)... I am not talking about this kind of humanistic way.
Look at Father and at Mother. They shed tears all the time. Look at Jesus. How often he cried and went to the mountain. (In Gethsemane) he came back (after praying in tears) to see his disciples still sleeping, and returned again to pray...
(We should) read the Bible. All the central figures (cried). Especially when I read about David’s life, how much he cried!
In order to go the proper way of our life of faith, we always need to shed tears. I am not talking about an emotional way. How can I become a true guy, a true self? How can we as husband and wife become a true couple? The current situation, the current reality, the current circumstances are not like that. We need to appeal God.
In this terrible secular world, in order to follow God’s will is not simple. We may struggle and be frustrated. That is why we need to appeal to God with our heart. We need to accept the sins (of others) as our sin, their problems as our problems. We are not just dealing with some guy. Why does he act (the way he does)? Why is he doing wrong? It is always connected to his ancestors issues and problems. That is why we need to have pity on him. This is not only his situation; he inherited this kind of DNA from his ancestors. We should not treat him as an individual. Everything is connected to his ancestors’ problems. If we do not understand that and we do not embrace him and shed tears, there is no way to overcome.
That is why compassion and tears are very important. When we have compassion and tears centering on God, our heart will always resurrect. We become a different person and will be getting closer to our Heavenly God.
There Are Always Tears on the Path of True Faith
2. When parents raise their young children, are there any mothers who do so without any tears? A real mother would feel sympathy and cry for her child when they are suffering and going through a hard time. This is a real mother. Conversely, if she feels upset towards her children and hates them, it is because there is no love in the mother. There must always be tears when walking the true path of faith.
When a true married couple sees each other's faults, they shed tears for one another. If there are no tears, their hearts cannot communicate. Couples with tears think about and feel sorry for the other person when they are in conflict. When you and your spouse are in conflict, if there are tears, you will feel pity, forgiveness, and sympathy for the other person. You should know this well. No matter how much a married couple is in conflict with each other, if there are tears, fortunately, they can reconnect their hearts.
Do you know what welding is? Welding means that both sides must melt before joining. How can something join if it doesn't melt? So, those who have fallen nature must be melted and grafted from a wild olive tree to a true olive tree through tears.
When parents raise their young children, just as they raise them with all their heart, we must live our lives of faith with such a heart of a parent and body of a servant and live for the sake of others. When we always serve others with the heart of a parent and in the body of a servant, self-centeredness disappears. So we should try to embrace the other person whenever possible. And when things go wrong, we have to shed tears.
All human beings have the original mind of living for the sake of others. So if anyone makes an effort and tries their best, they can live a true life centered on the original mind.
There is no love in the heart of fallen human beings. Since there is no love, the heart becomes dry, so the mind that always sees everything negatively and judges the other will come out first.
There are always tears when walking the true path of faith. When a true married couple sees each other's faults, they shed tears for one another. If there are no tears, their hearts cannot communicate. When spouses are in conflict, if there are tears, they will feel pity for each other.
No matter how much a married couple is in conflict with each other, if there are tears, fortunately, they can reconnect their hearts. Do you know what welding is? Welding means that both sides must melt before joining.
When I see our True Parents’ lifestyle, they really know God’s situation, his sorrow. Everything relates to God’s heart.
Any issue or problem between husband and wife, we cannot (resolve it) only in a horizontal way. We need to think about God’s heart, how sad he is if we are in conflict. Heavenly Father looks at this situation all the way (all the time?). We need to realize that, “If I conflict with my spouse, how sad God is,” and embrace the other person with tears and compassion. This is the way we can stop judgment and criticism.
We are talking a lot about tears. I really appreciate True Parents’ guidance (about) how we can really repent and become a true self. It is beautiful guidance!
Today I talked about “There are Always Tear on the Path of True Faith.”
(Testimony Dr. Raymond and Annie Kelalu, Congo missionaries)♦
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