Ep 836 - True Family and True Universe Centered on True Love Part 5
True Family and True Universe Centered on True Love - February 8, 2023
Key Points
Human beings need to live in relationships like those between parents and children, husband and wife, and elder and younger siblings, all three of which meet at a single central point, thus forming seven positions.
Seven represents the unity of all components, with God and perfect true love at the center. When these seven positions are in complete harmony, they form the structure of an ideal family.
Though God was driven out of the family in the fall, he must be returned to the center for the true family ideal to be realized.
God is a “jealous God” because he is absolute goodness and cannot compromise with evil and cannot allow even 1% of evil.
In the Bible sin affects 3 or 4 generations, and because of Abraham’s mistake, his family suffered for 430 years in Egypt.
For those who obey him, however, God’s grace can pass down to “thousands of generations.”
The realization of the four great realms of heart and the three great kingships can only come to fruition in the family.
Because the couple represents the yin and yang of the intangible God, his love is manifest through them who are the subject and object of true love. So, they must attend each other as God, and we must attend them as God.
True Parents, who came wearing the body of the invisible God, model such a couple.
The couple in love represent their children, parents and all pairs in the universe.
During the New Testament Age priests and nuns were allowed to live celibate lives, but now in the Completed Testament Era God wants them to marry.
Because the age of Cain, an age of individualism, in which people are celibate and live for themselves is over, everyone must be blessed by True Parents and create families of true love.
The core of true love is filial piety, not just for God, True Parents and our own parents, but for our spouse, children and everyone.
The purpose of establishing vertical relationships is to further multiply love through horizontal relationships.
If a couple practices filial piety towards their children, raising the children to be filial sons and daughters, they become a completion-stage couple.
Filial piety begins with the wife and mother because in Adam’s family, Adam was unfilial because of Eve. In order to restore through indemnity this path of corruption, mothers must set an example of filial piety.
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Today is my last recording. Tomorrow I will give Morning Devotion live.
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.>
Thus, the core concept of the universe is the concept of the family. Heaven represents parents and earth represents children. In the case of east and west, east symbolizes man and west symbolizes woman. When a woman gets married, she usually follows wherever her husband goes; however they have equal value. When the west reflects the sunlight coming from the east, both have the same value. The relationship between siblings is similar. When the older sibling works, the younger ones naturally help him or her. Therefore, people need to live in relationships like those between parents and children, husband and wife, and elder and `nger siblings. Moreover, these three types of relationship must meet at a single central point. Above and below, right and left, and front and back must not have different central points. Otherwise the balance between these three types of relationship will be broken.
Taken together, there are seven positions: above, below, right, left, front, back and the central point. Thus the number seven represents the unity of all components, with God and perfect true love at the center. Together, these seven components are the basis of a complete sphere and eventually a family structure of harmony and unity. So, as you can see, seven is truly a lucky number. When this sphere becomes complete and rotates, it becomes a new entity based on the number eight. As long as love remains true and does not change, the central position can rotate without change. However, because of the Fall, God was expelled from the central position. Since God's true love was expelled, the true family ideal collapsed.
The core concept of the universe is the concept of the family. Human beings need to live in relationships like those between parents and children, husband and wife, and elder and younger siblings. Moreover, these three types of relationship must meet at a single central point. Above and below, right and left, and front and back must not have different central points.
If the central point is different, the balance between these three types of relationship will be broken. So above, below, right, left, front, back and one central point must form the number 7.
Thus the number seven represents the unity of all components, with God and perfect true love at the center. Together, these seven components are the basis of a complete sphere and eventually a family structure of harmony and unity. However, through the Fall, God was driven out from the center.
Since God's true love was expelled, the true family ideal collapsed. Therefore, in order to achieve the ideal of true family, Satan must be driven out and God must be attended at the center of the above, below, right, left, front, and back.
Therefore, we must know that the key to realizing the ideal of a true family is God. God must be at the center of the individual, the center of the family, and the center of the nation and the world.
In other words, it must be a God-centered mind and body, a God-centered couple, a God-centered nation, and a God-centered world and cosmos.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 21: Original Sin
• First is the original sin. This sin originated with the spiritual and physical fall of our first human ancestors. It is ingrained in our lineage and is the root of all sins.
• Second is hereditary sin. This is sin which one inherits from one’s ancestors on account of their connection through lineage.
• Third is collective sin. This is sin for which a person is responsible as a member of a group. For example, as a consequence of sending Jesus to the cross, the Jewish people were cast into the position to undergo grievous suffering.
• Fourth is individual sin, which an individual himself commits.
• 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.
• However, no man is able to unearth this root of sin. Only Christ, who comes as the root and True Parent of humanity can grasp it and uproot it.
Based on this EDP content, let’s study more.
Hereditary sin (Sin of ancestors)
• Deuteronomy 5:9-10 “ You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.”
• It is sin which one inherits from one's ancestors on account of their connection through lineage. It is written in the Ten Commandments that the sins of parents will be visited upon their descendants. In other words, it’s called sins from ancestors. This hereditary sin influences descendants.
• Noah rebuked Canaan for Ham’s covering his father’s body with a garment. “Cursed be Canaan! The slave of slaves will he be to his brothers.” ‘The slave of slaves’ means the lowest of slaves. Noah rebuked him, “May Canaan be the slave of Shem, and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.” (Genesis 9:26-27)
• Abraham to offer a dove and a pigeon, a ram and a goat, and a heifer to God, he did not cut the dove and pigeon in two as he should have. As a result of his mistake, the Lord said to Abram, "Know of a surety that your descendants will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and will be slaves there, and they will be oppressed for four hundred years." (Genesis 15:13)
We are talking about hereditary sin, right?
Why do we call God a jealous God? It tells us that God can never sit idly by while human beings, the children of God, are giving and receiving evil.
He is a God who cannot allow even 1% of evil. In that sense, God is an absolute master centered on goodness.
God can never compromise or accept any evil element or disposition. So God is absolute good. God is 100%, 120% absolute goodness.
According to the words of the Bible from above, when a human commits a sin once, the sin affects the 3-4 generations of his descendants. Because of Abraham's mistake in his offering, Jacob, the 3rd generation, and Joseph, the 4th generation, and Jacob's descendants paid indemnity in Egypt for 430 years.
In this way, we must know that the sins committed by the first generation will be passed on to the third and fourth generations by lineage and genetics. On the other hand, God said that if we absolutely obey God's Word and commandments, God will show His grace to thousands of generations. In that sense, shouldn't I be a good ancestor? Or should I be an evil ancestor?
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Heart of Filial Piety and Fruits of the Age of Love
How Can We Bear Fruits of Love?
1. Now is the age of fruition of love. Then how can we bear fruits? First of all, you must clearly know who you are. Who am I really? It is that I am unmistakably God’s son or daughter.
Next, you must clearly know through whom you have to form a relationship with God. You must know through whom you can experience the love of God by having heartistic give and take action. Then who substantially represents the invisible God’s yin and yang? That is the husband and wife. Therefore, you must have give and take through the couple. You cannot just look for the invisible God ambiguously. You should clearly understand that in your own environment, the couple is the entity who substantially represents God, so we have to live attending them.
Now is the age of (the) fruition of love. The fruit of love can only be created within the family. The realization of the four great realms of heart and the three great kingships cannot come to fruition unless it is in the family.
Then, who should be the center who bears (the) fruit of true love? Because true love can only be achieved through a subject and object partner, true couples must be the center of true love in order to realize it.
The couple substantially represent the yin and yang of the intangible God. Therefore, we must have give and take through the couple. We cannot just look for the invisible God ambiguously.
We should clearly understand that in our own environment, the couple is the entity who substantially represents God, so we have to live attending them. Our principle teaches this very specifically.
We cannot simply serve the invisible God. Adam and Eve are like the visible, substantial God. They should love each other as substantial God. How powerful that is!
God is telling us through our principle so that we can attend True Parents who came wearing the body of the invisible God. And in the family, the couple is taught to represent the dual characteristics (yin and yang) of God and serve each other in the stead of God, parents, and siblings.
The Way to Inherit God’s Heart
2. The Blessing is ultimately experiencing God’s heart through the family. However, there is no way to inherit God’s heart unless it is through the couple who represents God. The couple represents the son and daughter, brothers and sisters, parents, and pairs of the entire universe.
In this physical world today, everyone must receive the Blessing. In the future, God will not allow celibacy. True Parents came to this earth to get rid of celibacy and Cain-type views of life. Views of life centered on self-assertion are all Cain-type views of life. In the mind of Cain, there are no parents, no children, and no wife. Selfish individualism is only about oneself. That is why we are trying to get rid of all this individualism and celibacy. Then what is the only thing God is trying to leave behind? He is trying to leave behind on this earth only families centered on true love. All of these must be resolved in the age of fruition.
The Blessing is ultimately experiencing God’s heart through the family. However, there is no way to inherit God’s heart unless it is through the couple who represents God's dual characteristics (yin and yang).
The couple represents the son and daughter, brothers and sisters, parents, and pairs of the entire universe. Therefore, the couple must live attending each other like God.
Now, beyond the age of indemnity, we have entered the age of love. The age of love will bear fruit only when the couple becomes the center through marriage.
In this physical world today, everyone must receive the Blessing. Just as things exist in pairs, human beings, the center of all things, must exist centered on the pair system. Therefore, in the era of love where True Parents come and preside over blessings, celibacy is not permitted. And they no longer permit the Cain-like lifestyle.
Father said Catholic priests and nuns need to marry. Now is a different time. (Celibacy) was allowed under Jesus’ age, the New Testament. Now is the Completed Testament which is centered on blessed couples. God does not allow people to keep celibacy or live alone. It is a different time. We need to understand this point.
Views of life centered on self-assertion are all Cain-type views of life. In the mind of Cain, there are no parents, no children, and no wife. Selfish individualism is only about oneself. That is why we are trying to get rid of all this individualism and celibacy.
Then what is the only thing God is trying to leave behind? He is trying to leave behind on this earth only families centered on true love. All of these must be resolved in the age of fruition.
Heart of Filial Piety and Fruition of the Age of Love
3. Now, what kind of mind must we, who are living in the age of fruition of true love, have to bear fruits? Needless to say, we must have a heart of filial piety. We can welcome the age of love and bear fruits when we have filial hearts. This is because in bearing fruits of love, that filial piety is the core. Then who are we to be filial to? Of course, vertically, we must be filial to God and True Parents. But the important thing is that in our lives, the heart of vertical filial piety must bring fruits horizontally. Then, the question is: who do we need to be filial to in our own living sphere? That is to practice filial piety in my family, centered on the three generations. We must practice filial piety with our own parents, spouse, and even our children with the same heart that was filial to God and True Parents. Originally, the word “filial piety” refers to the love and devotion that children can put into practice only for their parents, but the term “the filial piety centered on three generations” here is used to emphasize that whoever the counterpart is, the mind and attitude of vertical filial piety must be without change. This is the way to practice filial piety centered on three generations, which God desires.
For us living in the age of fruition, the most important thing is the heart of filial piety. Only when we have a heart of filial piety can true love bear fruit.
This is because in bearing fruits of love, that filial piety is the core. Then who are we to be filial to? Of course, vertically, we must be filial to God and True Parents.
However, in order to bring vertical filial piety toward heaven into a fruit of horizontal joy, we must practice filial piety centering on our three generations at home. The purpose of establishing vertical relationships is to further multiply love through horizontal relationships.
We must practice filial piety with our own parents, spouse, and even our children with the same heart that was filial to God and True Parents. In particular, in a conjugal relationship, if we treat our spouse horizontally without a vertical value, we and our spouse will flow in a humanistic way and become a couple like Adam and Eve.
Originally, the word “filial piety” refers to the love and devotion that children can put into practice only for their parents, but the term “the filial piety centered on three generations” here is used to emphasize that whoever the counterpart is, the mind and attitude of vertical filial piety must be without change
We Must Raise Filial Sons and Daughters to Become Completion Stage Couples
4. We must all become wives or husbands of filial piety. Filial piety is not something that we just practice alone. It is a virtue in which the husband and wife must become one and practice together. In this way, completion stage couples of the age of fruition must be filial to each other with the same heart of filial piety towards God. Next, the couple must be filial to their own children with the same mind of having been filial to their own parents. If a couple practices filial piety towards their children, raising the children to be filial sons and daughters makes them a completion stage couple. Then where does filial piety begin? It begins from the woman, who is in the position of the mother. This is because in Adam’s family, Adam, the man, was unfilial because of Eve, the woman. In order to restore through indemnity this path of corruption, mothers must set an example of filial piety.
In the age of love, the most important virtue is filial piety. We must all become wives or husbands of filial piety within our family. Filial piety is not something that we just practice alone. It is a virtue in which the husband and wife must become one and practice together.
Husband and wife are in a horizontally equal relationship, but if they treat each other without having vertical values centered on God, that standard will quickly fall.
Therefore, couples of the age of fruition must be filial to each other with the same heart of filial piety towards God. Next, the couple must be filial to their own children with the same mind of having been filial to their own parents.
If a couple practices filial piety towards their children, raising the children to be filial sons and daughters makes them a completion stage couple.
Then where does filial piety begin? It begins from the woman, who is in the position of the mother. This is because in Adam’s family, Adam, the man, was unfilial because of Eve, the woman. In order to restore through indemnity this path of corruption, mothers must set an example of filial piety.
Today we have talked about "Heart of Filial Piety and Fruits of the Age of Love."
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