Ep 835 - True Family and True Universe Centered on True Love Part 4
True Family and True Universe Centered on True Love - February 7, 2023
Key Points
All people exist inescapably within the three-dimensional relationships of the four position foundation just as they exist in three-dimensional space in such relationships.
Each position and relationship in the Four Position Foundation is absolute.
When these relationships are harmonious, we can have circular and spherical motion, exist and grow, realize true love, ultimately embrace all people and civilizations and create one great model family.
In order to separate from Satan, remove the original sin and meet the messiah, the human portion of responsibility is to establish the Foundation for the Messiah through the Foundation of Faith and Foundation of Substance.
To fulfill this, we need to set standards of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience and to be grateful in any situation.
During 7 or 21 or 40 years after the Blessing we need to fulfill the Four Great Realms of Heart and Three Great Kingships, and then to complete Heavenly Tribal Messiahship as the Realm of the Royal Family by registering in the Cheonbowon.
Before the Blessing we need the messiah and savior, but after the blessing we no longer need them, nor do our second generation children.
Rather they need to keep their purity, receive the Blessing, establish families and along with us attend the eternal True Parents as our eternal ancestors.
People who lead a good life of heart and have good control of their mind are at peace, no matter who sees them. And this gives peace and faith to others.
Our course of faith in a contradictory world cannot be without tears. We are fighting with our body and world to raise our spirit self, struggling with tears.
We need to engage with the Principle not simply conceptually but with a heart of tears.
With tears of shimjeong we need to sow the Principle and the Word as seeds of love in the field of our heart in order to ingrain it in our heart and transform our life.
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.>
Who is the Messiah sent to the people of Israel, as promised in the Old Testament? The Messiah is the one who comes as a true parent, true teacher and true king. However, because Jesus was prevented from establishing a true family and uniting his people, the Messiah needs to come again. In other words, because Jesus did not accomplish the national-level foundation, the Messiah of the Second Advent will come as the third Adam and teach the way of the true parents, true teacher and true king at the world level. This is the messianic concept. Wherever the family, nation, world and heaven exist, we always need to establish the three subject partners of parent, teacher and leader. If a person is situated in the world of space, he needs to orient himself with up and down, right and left and front and rear. That is the only way to ascertain one's current position.
Also, there are many possible variations in a person’s appearance depending on whether he is correctly situated in terms of up and down, right and left and front and rear. The same formula applies to the family, the nation and the world. Just as an individual's position is related to what is above and below, right and left, and front and back, the family consists of parents and children, husband and wife, and brothers and sisters. Similarly, on the national level, with the leader in the central position, families ought to embrace all civilizations of east and west and all civilizations of north and south. Then they can embrace all people of the world as brothers and sisters. Ultimately, every level will form a pattern resembling that of a family, with the individual as the central model. In the same manner, a person's existence expands to the levels of the family, nation, world, heaven and earth, and eventually reaches God. Each person has the desire to live as the center of the cosmos and has the potential to make that a reality.
If a person is situated in the world of space, he needs to orient himself with up and down, right and left and front and rear. That is the only way to ascertain one's current position.
Depending on whether we are correctly situated in terms of up and down, right and left and front and rear, our position of existence will not be shaken but will be settled. Nothing can be excluded here because that is the law of the universe.
The same formula applies to our relationships of above and below, right and left, and front and back, family problems, national problems and world problems.
Just as an individual's position is related to what is above and below, right and left, and front and back, the family consists of parents and children, husband and wife, and brothers and sisters.
The thing we need to understand clearly is that all people exist within the three-dimensional relationships of the four position foundation. Human beings cannot live apart from these kinds of relationships.
Therefore, if (we) deviate from these relationships and laws and try to assert ourself and live alone, it will result in violating the law of the universe and we will eventually be pushed out of the world of existence and perish.
Therefore, the relationships of above and below, right and left, and front and back are the foundation of life for one's own existence. That is why we must think of these relationships like our own life and maintain and develop them.
Only through these kinds of harmonious relationships of above and below, right and left, front and back are circular motion and spherical motion possible, and we can live a life of realizing true love.
In that sense, our parents are absolute in realizing true love. “For me, children are absolute. For me, my wife is absolute. For me, my husband is absolute. For me, brothers and sisters are absolute. Apart from these relationship, I cannot grow or exist.” This is the law of the universe.
Similarly, on the national level, with the leader in the central position, families ought to embrace all civilizations of east and west and all civilizations of north and south. Then they can embrace all people of the world as brothers and sisters, and ultimately, realize one model family.
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.
Let’s study Father’s word.
Ceremony to Uproot Original Sin
<33-241> How can we eliminate the original sin? Father has to give the blessing centering on a certain condition. To drink the holy wine during the Blessing Ceremony is a ceremony to remove Original Sin. You didn’t know that. We can separate from the satanic world in heaven and earth centering on such absolute content. Don’t you think so? That is how it is with the principle. You must go through the foundation of substance centering on the foundation of faith and establish the foundation for the Messiah. So, what is the foundation for the Messiah? The foundation for the Messiah is the foundation that I establish for the Messiah; it’s not the foundation that the Messiah establishes for me. That is why we have to follow it absolutely. We shouldn’t say I like it during the night but don’t like it during the day, or I like this but I don’t like that.
How can we eliminate the original sin? Father has to give the blessing centering on a certain condition. To drink the holy wine during the Blessing Ceremony is a ceremony to remove Original Sin. The holy wine ceremony that removes original sin is a ceremony to completely separate from the Satanic world.
Therefore, in order to receive this blessing, fallen people need to create the foundation for the Messiah through the foundation of faith and foundation of substance, which are human beings’ portion of responsibility.
So, what is the foundation for the Messiah? The foundation for the Messiah is the foundation that we establish for the Messiah; it’s not the foundation that the Messiah establishes for us. That is why we have to follow the Messiah absolutely.
Therefore, if we establish the foundation to meet the Messiah, we need to set standards of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience since he is the Messiah that we need. We also need to know how to be grateful in any situation.
Once we meet the Messiah and as long as we promise to follow him, the only condition is absolute faith, love, and obedience. We are walking on the faith course because of this, but if we have a lot of dissatisfaction and self-assertion, we should reflect on what we are walking on the faith course for.
Uprooting Original Sin and the 7-Year Course
<44-290> The purpose of restoration is not just for a husband or a wife alone. We need to indemnify as a Cain and an Abel couple. This means we need to receive the Messiah after we establish the foundation of faith and the foundation of substance, which would eliminate the original sin. The process of eliminating the original sin is the Holy Wine Ceremony, where you attend the Blessing Ceremony. Afterwards, we would go through a seven-year course.
Your True Parents went through it, so you must do it as well. Do you understand? Then, what do we have to do during this period? We must restore the history of seven thousand years through indemnity. In other words, we must restore the history of seven thousand years, the history of six thousand years, and one thousand years of the Sabbath through indemnity.
The process of eliminating the original sin is the Holy Wine Ceremony, where we attend the Blessing Ceremony. Afterwards, the couple must go through a seven-year course together.
When Father initiated the Unification Movement and gave the Blessing to senior blessed couples, he said that everybody needed to go through a seven-year course with the messiah.
During this seven-year course, we must restore the history of seven thousand years, the history of six thousand years, and one thousand years of the Sabbath through indemnity.
According to Father’s words, he emphasized that the most important thing we have to do during the 7-year course we must go on after receiving the Blessing is to complete the Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission.
When we study about what we should do during that seven-year course, Father emphasized again and again that everybody needs to do Heavenly Tribal Messiahship.
If we cannot complete this within 7 years, we have to complete it within 21 years, and if we still cannot complete it within 21-years, we have to complete it within 40-years.
This is because the course we have to complete after the Blessing is fulfilling the Four Great Realms of Heart, Three Great Kingships, and Realm of the Royal Family.
It is not completed only in the family.
The Realm of the Royal Family is completing the heavenly tribal messiah mission and registering in the royal family of the kingdom of Heaven. This is the ceremony to register in Cheonbowon.
The result of the 7-year course after receiving the Blessing is not just living a public life for 7 years, it is to register in CheonBoWon through the heavenly tribal messiah mission.
Have we completed the seven-year course? Those who have not registered in the CheonBo Won have not completed the seven-year course.
If Adam and Eve had not Fallen
<53-32> What should Jesus have done when he came? He should have established a greater sovereign nation than the sovereign nation of Satan, and simultaneously, removed original sin of all humankind. He should have removed the original sin. The children, whose parents are united with him(Jesus?) in a position free from original sin, can enter heaven without believing in Jesus. If Adam and Eve had not fallen, we would not have needed the Savior. You must understand this clearly. If Adam and Eve had not fallen, we would not have to believe in a religion or pray. We needed the Savior because they had fallen.
(Because) the second-generation – who were born after (their parents) received the blessing through True Parents (thus) eliminating original sin – have already set the condition of having eliminated Satan’s lineage, originally(?), even if they did not believe in the Messiah, could go directly to Heaven if they just kept absolute purity and established families.(?)
The Kingdom of Heaven is a world where the Savior is not needed. The world of Heaven is a world where we live attending the eternal True Parents as a representative of God instead of the Savior.
In the fallen realm before receiving the Blessing, we need the words “the Savior” and “the Messiah,” but once we receive the Blessing (salvation), we no longer need the Savior and Messiah. We just need to live attending True Parents as the eternal ancestors and the eternal parents.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Blessed Are Those Who Are Persecuted for Righteousness’ Sake
The Beatitudes: Matthew 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.
Blessed Are Those who Are Persecuted for Righteousness’ Sake
1. A person who leads a good life of heart is at peace no matter who sees them. And it gives peace and faith to others. That's why when God sees such a person, He trusts them. A believer must lead a good life of heart and move the secular world.
At the end of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, he said, "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Among the Beatitudes, the last one is for those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness.
What kind of heart do you all live with? First, does your heart have tears? Or is it more filled with concern? Our course of faith in a contradictory world cannot be without tears. What is the problem with our church members today? We only have the concept of hearing the Principle, but there are no tears in our hearts.
People who lead a good life of heart and people who have good control of their mind are at peace, no matter who sees them. And (this) gives peace and faith to others.
From that perspective, are we people who cause those around us, our parents, and our Abel figure to worry? Or are we people who give peace to those around us? Are we people who go beyond the level of giving peace and move the world?
Believers must lead a good life of heart and move the secular world. So they have to be peacemakers wherever they go. That is why the Bible says in Matthew 5:9 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
The Bible says that those who bring peace to the world and move the world will receive blessings to become God’s children. How can we bring peace to others when our life of faith is not peaceful and our family is not peaceful?
At the end of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, he said, "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." The path to live for the sake of others is not easy at all. This is because when we try living for the sake of others, we could be misunderstood and persecuted a lot.
What kind of heart do we all live with? Is our heart fighting with the body and world to raise our spirit self and struggling with tears? Or do we fall into our own cares and worries (so) that (the) heart that is concerned about ourself is greater than the heart that lives for the sake of others. Our course of faith in a contradictory world cannot be without tears.
What is the problem with our church members today? We only have the concept of hearing the Principle, but there are no tears in our hearts.
Our Divine Principle is so great and of such a high standard. We know so many things compared to Christians. Our problem is that even though the Divine Principle is great, it is (still) only conceptual (for us), but there are no tears in our heart. When we read about Adam’s family, how much do we feel Adam’s family? When we talk about Abraham’s family, how much do we feel the pain in his family? Jesus’ family? Moses’ family? The families of all central figures?
When we study the Divine Principle without applying it to our daily life centering on heart, it does not make any sense. It is the same as Christians. We may have more knowledge and information compared to other people, (but) we need to have tears in our heart.
We need to have a heart-to-heart connection when we study dual characteristics. Then we can really understand heartistically, “Wow, Heavenly God is my parent. I am a child of God. A dual characteristic relationship is an inseparable relationship. Wow!” We need to really feel so much closer to God. “Give-and-take action and Four Position Foundation, how important they are!”
Everything needs to relate to our heart and mind. Otherwise it just remains as a concept. Even though we may read the Divine Principle again and again, not much enters our heart. That does not make any sense. We need to really understand how to apply the Divine Principle to our daily life centering on our heart connection.
Ingrain the Principle into Your Heart
2. One of the challenges that we Unification Church members face in our course of faith is that we must not only understand the Principle but also know how to instill it in our lives. We must ingrain the Principle into our hearts in order to become true people. The Principle and the Words are seeds of love, and our hearts are like a field in which love is sown. Therefore, we have the responsibility to embrace the seed of the Word in our hearts and nurture our lives and our spirit selves.
Now that we have entered the era of bearing fruit, we must arm the field of our hearts with the Principle and bear fruit. So what should we do specifically? We must sow tears in the field of our hearts. This is absolutely essential in the process of a fallen man becoming a man of originial nature. If we do not accept the Word with tears while listening to it, the Word will all flow away. Listening to the Word and saying that the Word is ‘right’ is a thought and notion. It has not reached the stage of shimjeong yet. That's why we want to have a heart of shimjeong. It is not just to ‘believe’ in the Word, but to go to the level of ‘shimjeong’ by believing in the Word.
One of the challenges that we Unification Church members face in our course of faith is that the Principle should not only remain as a concept, but we need to think about how to adapt the Principle in our own lives and how to ingrain the Principle into our hearts.
The Principle must be ingrained in our bodies and the Principle must become our heart for it to become true love. The Principle and the Words are seeds of love, and our hearts are like a field in which love is sown. Therefore, we have the responsibility to embrace the seed of the Word in our hearts and nurture our lives and our spirit selves.
In order to arm the field of our hearts with the Principle and bear fruit, we must sow many tears in the field of our hearts. This is the course of resurrection for a fallen man to become a man of originial nature. Just as a bud sprouts through rain and grows well, we need many tears like rain to grow our spirit selves.
If we do not accept the Word with tears while listening to it, the Word will all flow away.
Whenever we hear Father’s word or the Divine Principle, whatever, without a heart connection and tears, the word just flows away.
After we hear the Word, we can reach the stage of saying that the Word is “right.” But that has not reached the stage of shimjeong yet. That is why the Word just remains as a thought or notion.
That's why we should strive to live with a heart of shimjeong. Let’s listen to the Word with our heart, let our hearts spring out, and move by practicing the Word. Let us not just know and ‘believe’ in the Word, but let’s go to the level of ‘shimjeong’ by believing in the Word.
Today, I talked about “Blessed are Those who are Persecuted for Righteousness’ Sake.”
(Testimony Kenta Ishikawa, Cheon Il Guk missionary in the Dominican Republic, Third year GPA)♦
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