Ep 834 - True Family and True Universe Centered on True Love Part 3
True Family and True Universe Centered on True Love - February 6, 2023
Key Points
While there is a lack of trust in the family, in school and in society today, True Mother asks us to implement the concept of “three subject partners” to become a true parent, teacher and owner like God and True Parents.
True parents want to give infinitely to their children, to live for the sake of their children, and to sacrifice and invest infinitely. They always have the heart of parents, wear the body of a servant, and serve their children forever.
With the heart of a true parent, the true teacher imparts truth to his students, becomes their conscience and nurtures them to become better than he is.
A true owner teaches us to love our country more than self and family with the consciousness of a patriot.
Sin is to violate the tenets of the Principle and heavenly law and manifest conditions Satan can accuse us for.
Where there is sin, there is Satan's accusation, remorse of conscience and loss of freedom.
To escape Satan’s accusation we must sacrifice and pay indemnity.
To enter heaven, the first generation must establish the conditions for era dicating original sin and converting their lineage through the Bles sing so that their second generation can be born without original sin.
The conditions for the second generation to enter heaven are not to Fall, to maintain their purity and to receive the blessing under the supervision of their physical parents.
So, the savior and messiah of the second generation is their parents.
While we are under the dominion of Satan, we need the savior and messiah, but after the Blessing all we and our descendants need are eternal True Parents, our eternal ancestors. We no longer need the savior and messiah.
Compassion is the best way to preserve our faith.
A heart of compassion regards the faults of others as our own. It comes from love and allows us to embrace and forgive them and have mercy.
The more compassionate our heart, the purer it becomes.
Faith is the conviction that we belong to God, that he is our parent and we are his sons and daughters.
Through heartistic exchanges with God as our subject, we gradually develop a parent-child relationship with him.
The three things True Father armed himself with were faith, love, and forgiveness.
In the fallen world when people persecute and insult us, we need to be patient the way God is and embrace, love and forgive them with compassion.
True Father always shed tears in order to forgive all humankind and to console and comfort our Heavenly Parent.
If our heart is pure, we can feel and see the invisible world with our heart, experience God’s presence and perceive others as they are spiritually.
The purer our heart, the more compassion, tears and forgiveness we have for others. We feel their pain as our own.
True Father knew the sorrow of all creation, so he held onto rocks and trees and cried even while being rained on.
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 “True Family and True Universe Centered on True Love” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given by Reverend Sun Myung Moon at the Federation to Save the New Nation Leaders’ Banquet on May 19, 1997 in Montevideo, Uruguay, and then by Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon between July 22 and August 8, 1997 at leadership conferences and women leaders conferences for the Practice of True Family Life to Advance World Peace held throughout Korea.>
This evening, I would like to share a new speech titled, True Family and True Universe Centered on True Love. Everyone here has parents and teachers, and you also have leaders in your nations. Am I right? Everyone undeniably needs people in these positions. However, compared to the true standard, there are many different types of parents. What do you think? To what extent have you, yourself, become a true parent? In the same way, if a person is a professor at an Ivy League university such as Harvard, Yale or Columbia in the United States, or at Oxford or Cambridge in England, does it mean that he or she can be called a true teacher? Similarly, there are different types of leaders in a nation, not all of whom measure up to the true standard of leadership. Does the bare fact that someone is president of a superpower such as the United States mean that he or she is a true president?
In fact, in today's families, many children do not trust their parents, spouses do not completely trust each other, and brothers and sisters do not trust each other fully. Furthermore, students do not trust the teachers in their schools, and people do not trust the leaders of their nation. So the question is, how can we attain the true standard of even one of these three most important roles of parents, teachers and leaders? When I say that you need to become a true parent, true teacher or true owner, who do you think has the highest standard or is the central model for those three positions? God does. And God is the True Parent among parents, True Teacher among teachers, and True King among kings. God is the eternal True Parent, eternal True Teacher, and eternal True Owner and King. If we are children of God, we need to become true parents first, just like God. In addition, we have to follow the way of the true teacher and the way of the true owner, just like God. This is the concept of the “three subject partners.” The ultimate model is God.
In fact, in today's families, many children do not trust their parents, spouses do not completely trust each other, and brothers and sisters do not trust each other fully. Furthermore, students do not trust the teachers in their schools, and people do not trust the leaders of their nation.
When True Mother says that we need to become a true parent, true teacher or true owner, who do we think has the highest standard or is the central model for those three positions? God does (and is). And God is the True Parent among parents, True Teacher among teachers, and True King among kings.
God is the eternal True Parent, eternal True Teacher, and eternal True Owner and King. If we are children of God, we need to become true parents first, just like God. In addition, we have to follow the way of the true teacher and the way of the true owner, just like God. This is the concept of the “three subject partners” or “Three Subject Thought.” The ultimate model is God.
True parents have the same attribute as God of wanting to give infinitely for their children, wanting to be (present) for the sake of their children, wanting to sacrifice infinitely, and wanting to invest infinitely. Tue parents always have the heart of parents, wear the body of a servant, and serve their children forever.
A true teacher has the heart of a true parent and tries to teach the true truth to (other people). A true teacher becomes the conscience of all students and invests everything he has in order to nurture true people. So, (his students are) taught with the goal of becoming better people than he or she is. But the teachers of the secular world only impart (or) convey and sell knowledge.
A true owner teaches us how to become the owner of a country. A true owner teaches the consciousness of an owner who loves his country more than anyone else. He teaches us to love our country more than ourself and our family. People like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the ones who truly taught how to love our country.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 21: Original Sin
• The original sin may be thought of as the root of all sins, hereditary sin as the trunk, collective sin as the branches, and individual sin as the leaves.
• All sins sprout from the original sin, which is their root; hence, without extirpating the original sin, there is no way to completely eradicate other sins.
Based on this EDP content, let’s study Father’s word.
Showing any Condition that the Enemy can Grip you Firmly in his Teeth is a Sin
<22-256> What is a sin? Violating God’s words is a sin, but showing any condition that Satan can accuse is a real sin. Did you say that if you don’t believe in God’s words, it is a sin? Showing any condition that the enemy can grip you firmly in his teeth is a sin. However, if you break the tenets of the Principle and the heavenly law, even God cannot do anything. You will be under Satan’s command. Because Jesus has no original sin, he was born in a position free from Satan’s accusation. Making a relationship with Satan is the original sin, but Jesus was born in a position free from not only Satan’s accusation but any accusations. For this reason, he was in a position unrelated to the original sin.
What is a sin? In a nutshell, sin is to present a condition for Satan to accuse. If anyone presents conditions for Satan to accuse, God cannot help them. This is because God can't do anything if people go against the tenets of the Principle and heavenly law.
Why is Jesus the Messiah? It is because Jesus was born in the position free from Satan's accusation. In other words, it was because Jesus had no original sin, Satan could not accuse Jesus' lineage.
Our conscience knows best whether we are a sinner or not. When we commit a sin, our conscience always feels remorse because we (have) presented conditions that Satan can accuse.
Sin belongs to Satan. Where there is sin, there is Satan's accusation, and where there is accusation, there is bound to be remorse of conscience. Therefore, if we commit a sin, we become a slave to sin and completely lose our freedom.
Therefore, if we commit a sin, we belong to Satan, so we must pay indemnity to get out of his grasp. Otherwise, we cannot be released from Satan.
In order to escape Satan's accusation, we must go lower than the position where Satan accuses us and find a position where we sacrifice more.
We Cannot Enter Heaven Unless we Give Birth to Children who are Free from Original Sin
<22-304> To attend God as your father and enter heaven without any religion or salvation, you have to establish the condition of having given birth to such children. If not, then you cannot enter heaven. That is why you have to give birth to children who can enter heaven even without believing in Jesus. Only then can they go beyond the standard before Adam and Eve fell. So, how can we give birth to those children? You have to learn it from Rev. Moon of the Unification Church. For this reason, a lot of spirits in the spirit world are desperately screaming to testify to Parents.
How can I enter the Kingdom of Heaven without being accused by Satan? It is important to know that the standards for the 1st Generation and 2nd Generation are different.
The 1st Generation must set the conditions for eradicating the original sin and converting their lineage through the Blessing. Next, the 2nd Generation is born with the condition of not having original sin, so there is no need for them to do the drinking of the Holy Wine, doing the 40-day separation, and completing the 3-day ceremony.
In order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, we must establish a condition where all three generations enter together. To attend God as our father and enter heaven without any religion or salvation, we have to establish the condition of having given birth to such children. If not, then we cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.
True Parents said, "You must give birth to sons and daughters who can enter the Kingdom of Heaven without believing in Jesus." Without believing in True Parents. This means there is no need to have a savior.
This means that our children must grow up to be the second generation who can enter the kingdom of heaven without being blessed by the true parents.
This means that if the 2nd Generation do not Fall, maintain their purity and receive the blessing under the supervision of their physical parents, they will go directly to heaven. In that sense, we must know that the savior of the 2nd Generation are their physical parents. Also, we must know that the 1st Generation is the savior of the 2nd Generation.
Therefore, the 1st Generation are the representative of True Parents and the savior for their children. They are in the position of the Messiah.
We need to know the value of the Blessing. The first generation definitely needs to have a savior and messiah, but the second generation can be born without original sin. The savior and messiah means we are still under the dominion of Satan. That is why we need to be saved by the messiah and savior.
But once we are saved by the messiah and savior, then we have nothing to do with the messiah or savior. Then what do we need? We need to have eternal True Parents. The concept of True Parents is different from (that of the) savior and messiah. After we receive the Blessing, the first and second generations and all our descendants need the eternal True Parents. They are our eternal ancestors. Then there is no need to use the terminology of savior or messiah. We only need to have True Parents.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: A Heart of Compassion
Let’s study the bible verses first.
Beatitudes: Matt. 5:3-12
3.“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
5. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
6. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
7. Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.
8. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
9. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
10. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11. “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
12. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
A Heart of Compassion
The next stage is compassion and mercy. ” Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy” This compassion is the best way to preserve our faith. This compassion is the heart that says, “forgive them, pity them.” What is forgiveness? It is the heart to regard others’ sins like my own sins. Compassion is when my heart actually feels pity when I see the wrongdoings of those around me. If those around me are in pain and suffering, if I ignored them, I cannot be said to be “righteous.” Compassion is love. A heart of compassion comes from love. Compassion is the heart that allows one’s heart to embrace others and is willing to give one’s heart to them and forgive them. The more you have a compassionate heart, the purer your heart becomes. The hearts of those who are unable to forgive others become clouded. The hearts of those who hate others become darker and colder. That is why we always need to have a compassionate heart.
Matthew 5:7 "Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy." This compassion is the best way to preserve our faith.
Because if we criticize and condemn the other person, we lose our faith. Conversely, even if we see the other person's faults, if we regard (those faults) as our own, compassion will come out and we will be able to protect our heart and faith.
This compassion is the heart that says, “Forgive them, pity them.” What is forgiveness? It is the heart to regard others’ sins as our own sins. People are very tolerant of themselves and try to forgive and understand their own sins easily.
But the problem is, people do not have that kind of mindset towards others. Therefore, when we see the faults of the people around us, it is compassion to regard (those faults) as our own and feel more pity in our heart.
Compassion is love. A heart of compassion comes from love. Therefore, if the level of love is not upgraded, the heart of compassion will never come out.
The important task is how to upgrade one's love, sincere devotion, and heart. We can embrace our opponent, show mercy, and forgive to the extent that we have upgraded our love.
The more we have a compassionate heart, the purer our heart becomes. The hearts of those who are unable to forgive others become clouded. The hearts of those who hate others become darker and colder.
Faith, Love and Forgiveness
2. In the early days, True Father regarded a life of faith as very important and emphasized it often. What is faith? It is the mind that sets one’s identity straight. Treating myself as God’s belonging is faith. As I treat myself as God’s, it is then I form a relationship with God for the first time. This is faith. However, if you cherish yourself more than the relationship with God, you become someone who ends your relationship with God.
Next, True Father placed importance on compassion. That is why he said that he cried a lot. True Father said that he lived his life shedding tears. True Father, who came to this earth as the returning Lord, felt with each person he related to that the world was full of people who asserted only themselves. When he tried to listen to their circumstances, they were all just their own circumstances. There is no space for Heaven’s circumstances and heart to enter the minds of such people.
True Father said that when he looks at all creation, which lost its owner due to the Fall, he cried a lot because he was full of sorrow. And even when he met many people who deceived, used, ignored, and persecuted him, he completely forgave them and gave them love. Since Father was very young, the three things he armed in his mind were faith, love, and forgiveness.
Humankind's fall was their disbelief in God. So what is faith? Faith is the conviction that we belong to God. The beginning of a life of faith is to firmly believe and be convinced that God is our parent and that we are God's son or daughter. When we believe in God as our Father, we gain infinite strength, incredible power.
By treating ourself as God's we begin our life of faith. In this way we start with faith at first, but gradually build a father-son relationship through heartistic exchanges with God. In the early days, True Father emphasized the relationship between the subject and the object, that is, between God and human beings.
Next, True Father placed importance on compassion. True Father always lived his life shedding tears. True Father said that when he looks at all creation, which lost its owner due to the Fall, he cried a lot because he was full of sorrow. And even when he met many people who deceived, used, ignored, and persecuted him, he completely forgave them and gave them love.
Since Father was very young, the three things he armed (himself with) in his mind were faith, love, and forgiveness.
In order to forgive someone, we need to have compassion. If the messiah does not have compassion, how can he forgive the sins of all humankind? Forgiveness comes from love. Compassion is love. So, parents always have compassion. When children make mistakes, the parents forgive again and again because parental heart has compassion.
We are living in a sinful world where there are all kinds of issues. Many people persecute and insult us (and do) all kinds of things (to us). If we only have horizontal give-and-take with them, then every day in every moment we are upset with them. We are so disappointed in them that we lose our faith.
However, we need to be patient like God and embrace, love and forgive them. Father emphasized the importance of compassion. He always shed tears in order to forgive all humankind and to console and comfort our Heavenly Parent.
The Blessings Received By Those Whose Hearts Are Pure
3. When we look at True Father’s poem “Crown of Glory,” we can understand what kind of person he was. Through such thing, we can tell how clean True Father’s heart was. What about you? Through what can you directly and immediately tell that your hearts are not clean and pure? It is the fact that we cannot easily forgive others. If my heart is not filled with forgiveness, I cannot feel other’s pain as my pain as real.
The Bible says, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God” True Father said that he knew the sorrow of all creation, so he held onto rocks and cried, held onto trees and cried, and cried even while being rained on. This is something that cannot be understood as fallen human beings. Who would understand what Father felt as he cried when he saw the invisible world beyond the visible world?
Matthew 5:8: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God." Because True Father always lived a pure life, he always saw through others, the future, and God.
If our heart is pure, we can feel and see the invisible world with our heart. However, because our minds are clouded by our fallen nature, we cannot see the other person, cannot see the people around us, cannot foresee tomorrow, and furthermore cannot feel the existence of God.
What about us? Through what can we directly and immediately tell that our hearts are not clean and pure? It is the fact that we cannot easily forgive others. The purer the heart, the more compassion and tears we have for the other person.
Why can we not forgive others easily? (Because) our heart is so clouded and still very complicated, (because) we still have lots of fallen nature. It is not easy to forgive someone. If our heart is really pure and deeper, then we can treat other people’s sin as our own sin and we can automatically have compassion.
If our heart is not filled with forgiveness, I cannot feel other’s pain as our pain as real. True Father said that he knew the sorrow of all creation, so he held onto rocks and cried, held onto trees and cried, and cried even while being rained on.
Who would understand (what) Father felt as he cried when he saw the invisible world beyond the visible world?
Today we mainly talked about a heart of compassion. As much as we have love, we can have compassion. If we have a heart of compassion, we can forgive people. Then we can treat the sin of others as our own sin.
Today I talked about “A Heart of Compassion.“♦
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