Ep 826 - The Providential History Of Salvation From The Viewpoint Of The Principle Part 13
The Providential History of Salvation from the Viewpoint of the Principle - January 29, 2023
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Justin and Yuriko Harden
Key Points
Just as Mary, Zachariah and Elizabeth should have maintained the revelations they had received from heaven by praying ceaselessly in order to fulfill God’s will, so should we maintain in our heart for life the truth we have received through continual jeongseong, studying and practicing God’s word, and through giving and serving others.
We should cling to the revelations we have received, value them with our lives and always practice them for our relationship with God to prosper.
Although we human beings have caused God inestimable grief by falling and continually sinning, as our parent he needs to forgive us.
That is why he takes responsibility for our failures by implementing the providence of restoration in order to save us.
We need to repent not only to liberate ourselves from sin but to liberate God.
He suffers more from our sin than we do.
Sin is treating ourself, our possessions, all things and even our heart and family as private rather than as God’s belongings.
Nothing is private in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Anything deviating from God’s heart is a sin.
Dealing with people or things without heart is a sin.
We need to cherish people and all things as belonging to God.
The change of blood lineage happens in the family when we take responsibility for each others’ sins and mistakes with forgiveness, compassion, service and tears.
Forgiveness and compassion with tears are resurrection.
Forgiveness is love.
We need to replace judgment with tears of compassion.
Our spouse’s mistakes are resurrection opportunities for us.
Forgiveness, resurrection and rebirth only happen in the presence of tears.
Because, like us, our spouse is the heir of 6,000 years of sin, instead of judgment, we need forgiveness, compassion and tears for him or her.
We need to take responsibility for his or her sins, aware of the pain they cause God, and bear his or her cross on behalf of God.
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 is a holy Sunday. Each of the five subregions and each church in the United States has a service to celebrate the birth of True Parents. I hope all family members have a very meaningful day today.
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.> In this way, God let Mary, Zechariah and Elizabeth know about the birth of the Messiah before anybody else. All of them had the absolutely crucial mission of following the Will of God and serving Jesus. Zechariah's family let Mary stay in their house. Jesus was conceived in the house of Zechariah. Elizabeth and Mary were cousins on their mothers' side. According to God’s providence, they were considered sisters, with Elizabeth as the elder (Cain) and Mary as the younger (Abel). Mary received Elizabeth's help in the presence of Zechariah. Through this cooperation, Zechariah's family, on the national level, indemnified the lack of unity between Leah and Rachel in Jacob's family, and their failure in mother-son cooperation. This allowed Jesus to be conceived. For the first time in history, there could be generated on earth, free of satanic accusation and through a prepared womb, the seed of the son of God, the seed of the True Father. In this way, the only begotten son of God, the owner of the first love of God, was born for the first time in history.
Mary had to achieve something that could not be understood by common sense, nor easily tolerated under the law of those times. Mary, Elizabeth and Zechariah had been spiritually moved. They followed the revelation that came from God, and unconditionally believed that it was the will and desire of God.
Although it was possible for the son of God to be born on earth, he needed a wall of protection to grow up safely in Satan's world and fulfill the Will of God.
God had hoped that these three people in the family of Zechariah would establish that protective foundation. There are many points to consider with regard to how seriously the three had to dedicate themselves to protecting and serving the son of God, and how long they were to have been united with each other.
God let Mary, Zechariah and Elizabeth know about the birth of the Messiah before anybody else. All of them had the absolutely crucial mission of following the Will of God and serving Jesus.
Mary had to achieve something that could not be understood by common sense, nor easily tolerated under the law of those times. Mary, Elizabeth and Zechariah had been spiritually moved. They followed the revelation that came from God, and unconditionally believed that it was the will and desire of God.
Although it was possible for the son of God to be born on earth, he needed a wall of protection to grow up safely in Satan's world and fulfill the Will of God.
God had hoped that these three people in the family of Zechariah would establish that protective foundation. There are many points to consider with regard to how seriously the three had to dedicate themselves to protecting and serving the son of God, and how long they were to have been united with each other.
The important thing here is that when providential central figures receive revelations from God, anyone can be moved by the Holy Spirit and be serious in following that command, but the truth is, after some time passes, everyone flows in humanistic ways and forgets the revelation from God.
So, the key point is how we can maintain the vertical emotions with God until the end. When we also receive grace through the Word, prayer, and jeongseong, we may be filled with the Holy Spirit, but that does not last for a long time.
How about us? When we are inspired by God’s word, how long can we maintain our first spirit and motivation? Fallen men easily forget and easily become horizontal. Can you imagine?
Then what do we have to do? To value revelations from God (as) we value our own lives and maintain (those revelations), we need to offer prayer and jeongseong ceaselessly. That is why the Bible says to pray without ceasing. And we must always live longing for the Word and being stimulated by the Word.
Both Zechariah and Elizabeth were unable to maintain the first revelation they received from Heaven. And we also come to realize that even Mary and Joseph, whom she was engaged to, were unable to maintain the revelations from Heaven and ended up flowing horizontally.
We today also have to keep in mind the fact that if we deviate from prayer and jeongseong and the Word, we cannot maintain a relationship with God and immediately turn into horizontal people.
We are descendants of fallen ancestors. We always need to know our own reality. If we do not study God’s word and are not stimulated by it, we immediately turn into horizontal people. This is the reality of fallen people.
How can we keep our first motivation and first love? Without jeongseong it is impossible. Without ceaseless prayer it is impossible. So how can we keep that kind of vertical alignment all the time? Jeongseong is very important as is reading the Divine Principle and reading, listening to and practicing God’s word all the time. (We should) always try to make a benefit and always give to others. Without this way... I am the one who (must) practice this. If I don’t, I easily become horizontal – the same as outside people. All central figures were like that. That is the reality of fallen man.
That is why we should continue to do jeongseong all the time. Once we attend Morning Devotion we should keep going no matter what – listening and reading and ceaseless praying. Also, (we should) always try to serve others. Only in this way can we maintain our spirit all the time.
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.
Let’s study Father’s word.
Who Commits Sins and Who Forgives it?
<11-88>Due to the Fall, human beings caused sadness to God, which is impossible to express with words. They offered anguish, persecution and death to God as a gift. They left to God everything that they despise the most. God has never received a gift of goodness, happiness, satisfaction, joy and pleasure from human beings until now. Even though human beings sinned, God is the one who has to forgive it. It must be a tragic fact. Although it is a rule that a sinner has to ask for forgiveness, God has to forgive the sin that human beings committed. How could it be possible? It is because of the parent-child relationship.
Due to the Fall, human beings caused sadness to God, which is impossible to express with words. They offered anguish, persecution and death to God as a gift. They left to God everything that they despised the most.
God has never received a gift of goodness, happiness, satisfaction, joy and pleasure from human beings until now. Even though human beings sinned, God is the one who has to forgive it. It must be a tragic fact.
Although the Fall happened due to human beings’ mistake, because God had the bond as a parent who created human beings, He worked the providence of taking responsibility for everything and saving human beings.
We need to know that the reason fallen people repent for their sins is not only to be forgiven for their own mistakes. Then what is the reason human beings have to repent for the sins they committed?
We need to know how much God’s heart was hurt and (how much he) suffered because of our sins. Therefore, the reason we must repent is not just to be liberated from the suffering we committed. We need to repent to liberate God who is suffering because of us, because of our sins. We need to know that when we commit a sin, it is God who is in more pain than we are.
Father’s explanation and guidance about this are amazing! Outside believers, Christian leaders guide their own congregation to repent, but nobody talks about this issue. They repent because of their own sin, issues and problems.
But whenever we commit sin, who suffers most? God suffers more than we do. We are the ones who really hurt God’s heart. We are the ones who make God suffer. That is why we need to really console and comfort God. Then we can completely and fundamentally erase(?) our sins.
We want to repent because we want to run away from our own pangs of conscience. But we cannot run away because our sin is connected to God’s heart. We need to really relate to our father, Heavenly God, and repent because our sins, mistakes and wrongdoings (cause him to suffer). “How much you suffered, Heavenly God!” Then we need to reconcile with God.
Trampling Public Matters is a Sin
<12-290> You have to think that your houses, fields and everything you possess belong to Father from now.
Public matters belong to God. Trampling public matters is a sin. You have to establish a family and a race with public matters. Then, you have to advance toward the world. In this process, small things must be absorbed. Treating it without the heart is a sin. You have to treat even materials with God’s heart. Since the heart is public, nobody can rule it. You have to treat it with your heart valuably.
Father is really the messiah talking about sin, how to really (resolve) it.
What is sin? It is not thinking of ourself as belonging to God. God is a public Being. That is why thinking of ourself as a private thing or treating the things we own as private things is a sin.
Therefore, we have to think that our houses, fields and everything we possess belong to Father from now. We need to know that they are public things. Trampling public matters is a sin.
So, we have to establish our families as public families and advance toward establishing our people, nation, and world publicly. Most importantly, anything deviating from God’s heart is a sin.
The heart is public. Therefore, we have to treat even materials with God’s heart. Since the heart is public, we cannot rule anything with an individualistic heart.
Therefore, we have to treat everything with our heart valuably. In conclusion, everything treated without heart and love becomes sin. Once again, “No heart! No love” is sin.
Whenever we deal with people or things without heart, without love is a sin.
The Kingdom of Heaven is the world of heart. Whenever we deal with any material – money, property, anything – when we see nature and when we have a relationship with people, (if) there is no heart, then we are a sinner. Sinner is (a person with) no heart, no love.
Father has explained what a sinner is.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: If There Are No Tears, Rebirth and Resurrection Do Not Happen
Recently I have talked continually about rebirth, resurrection and tears. We will examine this theme for a few more days.
When We Forgive and Show Compassion to Each Other, We Are Resurrected
1. What kind of place do we think a family is? The family is place where we engraft onto the true olive tree from wild olive trees or the place where change of blood lineage takes place. If this does not happen in the family, it is not a cross-cultural marriage Blessing. What are we crossing and exchanging? It means for our family to cross and exchange our lineage from Satan’s lineage to God’s lineage. If we do not forgive each other in the family, the exchange does not happen. Forgiveness is ultimately tears. When we clash with each other, there must be tears of compassion rather than judgment.
When one sheds tears for their enemy (husband or wife), that person has already overcome feelings of seeing their partner as an enemy and now sees them as a pitiable partner. However, when you feel that you hate your enemy (spouse), tears disappear, and judgement or hatred come out first. Then, rebirth does not happen well. When my husband makes me a bit sad or when my wife makes me a bit sad, think that it is a position for me to be resurrected. When I am suffering from my partner, think that it is a time for me to be resurrected in my heart.
Our family is a place where a wild olive tree couple is grafted into a true olive tree couple with True Parents as a model. In other words, the family is a place where we are transformed from the false lineage into the true lineage centered on the couple.
So, in order to be engrafted with True Parents, the wild olive tree has to be completely cut off and be engrafted into the true olive tree. Otherwise, the false lineage cannot be crossed and exchanged with the true lineage.
So, the process to cross and exchange our lineage from Satan’s lineage to God’s lineage needs to happen in our families. We need to take responsibility over the other person’s sins and mistakes and serve them. For that to happen, there must be forgiveness and compassion. The most important thing in the process of changing the lineage is forgiving and having compassion for one another. Forgiveness is ultimately tears.
Actually forgiveness is love. As long as we have love, we have the heart of forgiveness according to my experience. How much heart do we have? How much love? Then we can immediately know how much heart of forgiveness we have.
When we clash with each other, there must be tears of compassion rather than judgment.
When one sheds tears for their enemy (husband or wife), that person is someone who is already resurrected and reborn. We have to overcome the feelings of seeing our partner as an enemy and see them as a pitiable partner. However, when we feel that we hate our enemy (spouse), tears disappear, and judgement or hatred come out first.
When our husband or wife makes us a bit sad, think that it is a position for us to be resurrected. Therefore, there cannot be any forgiveness without tears or resurrection without tears.
Rebirth and Resurrection Do Not Happen If There Are No Tears
2. When wives clash with their husbands, most of them become upset, turn away and try not to talk with them, and become very cold-hearted. Even when the husband returns, they do not happily welcome them. They think “That husband is coming home because he is hungry” and become hostile on the inside.
However, when wives feel pity for their husband, the conflicted heart disappears, and she sheds tears as God’s sorrowful heart enters her heart. If there is a heart of pity for others, you will shed tears. Without tears, rebirth does not happen. Without tears, resurrection does not happen, and growth does not happen. Only those who have been born again can feel this. That is why Father told us to seek tears. The Bible says that those who do not have any tears should bring back tears, even if they have to go to a mourner’s house. If I have tears, a heart of compassion will come out from within. If my pain comes to me from my husband, I must pity my husband at that very moment. Then, tears will come out of me. I must have tears for my heart to be reborn.
When we clash with our husband or wife, does a heart of compassion come out first? Or do we feel sad and upset first? Which one? Does a heart that wants to judge come out first? Or does a heart that wants to forgive come out first?
The husband is someone who was born inheriting the sinful lineage of all men in the past 6,000 years of history. And on the other hand, the wife is someone who was born inheriting the sinful lineage of all women.
Therefore, we cannot think of our partner as just one individual husband or wife. The husband and wife were born with the mission to liquidate all sins of the past as representatives of all ancestors.
So, if we think of our partner’s sins as his or her own, we easily become sad and upset, a heart of hatred comes in, and a heart of judgement comes first.
But when we handle all sins and mistakes as historic matters and take responsibility (for) those sins and bear the cross on behalf of God and have a public mind to liquidate them, we will have a heart of compassion for our partner and tears will come out.
Whenever we have conflicts between our couple and clash with each other, we need to think about God’s sorrowful heart with which God has dealt with such individuals and couples and forgives them over and over again and loves them. When we deal with our partner with such a sorrowful heart of God, a heart of compassion for them comes out, we forgive them, and shed tears.
Tears do not come out without thinking about God’s sorrowful heart regarding the sins of man. If we do not think about God, who suffered over the sins of human beings and shed tears, we have neither sympathy nor compassion for our partner.
Therefore, as long as we do not forgive our partner’s sins with God’s sorrowful heart, tears will disappear from us and only judgement will remain. When that happens, resurrection does not happen, and growth does not happen for us. Only those who have been born again can feel this. That is why Father told us to seek tears.
The Bible says that those who do not have any tears should bring back tears, even if they have to go to a mourner’s house. If we have tears, a heart of compassion will come out from within.
How can we deal with our spouse in an emotional way when we have some problems? Today’s guidance is critical and important (for this).
Today, I talked about “If There Are No Tears, Rebirth and Resurrection Do Not Happen.”
(Testimony Justin and Yuriko Harden, Semper Fi Tribe, Tribal Messiahship with Marine Corp Veterans)♦
NOTE: This text and the PowerPoint slides from this speech are available as a link at the top of this text. 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. Books of the transcripts and notes are available as PDFs at MDBooks.Hoondok.com.
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Audio only is available at anchor.morndev.com, spotify.morndev.com & audio.morndev.com. Notes or transcripts of Dr. Yong’s Morning Devotion speeches from November 11, 2020 through March 29, 2022 are available as six paperback books at cost at Lulu.com/Shop -- search for Dr. Chung Sik Yong -- and as PDF downloads free of charge at MDBooks.Hoondok.com.♦