Ep 839 - The Providential History Of Salvation From The Viewpoint of The Principle Part 3
True Family and True Universe Centered on True Love - February 11, 2023
Key Points
Sacrifice is the price of true love.
True love is to sacrifice for the greater whole.
The person who sacrifices more becomes the center and eventually the owner.
Sacrifice and living for the other are the characteristics of a true parent, a true teacher and a true president.
Sin is passed down through the lineage to the descendants generation after generation.
To stop this flow of sin down our lineage, we must receive the Blessing, and hereditary sin must be cut through the Ancestor Liberation and Blessing ceremonies.
Our indemnity burden corresponds to the amount of sin passed down from our ancestors plus the level of our responsibility.
The more public responsibility we have, the greater our indemnity burden.
Our individual indemnity course can interfere with our public responsibility.
We may not be able to have a direct relationship with God, nor experience his heart because we have not completed our individual course of indemnity.
God never gives us an impossible portion of responsibility. We should just do it with the utmost sincerity and heart.
The best ways to pay indemnity are to confess our sins and be responsible for our indemnity willingly and joyfully, not trying to evade it. We should embrace public, front-line or missionary work and false accusations and accept the sins of others as our own.
Becoming a missionary is one of the fastest ways to pay indemnity.
We should feel that our children’s fallen nature is our own, then repent, shed more tears and feel more pain than our children.
Because we were not able to remove our fallen nature before starting family, our fallen nature passed down to our children and our descendants.
Our responsibility is to move our spouse with love so that he naturally surrenders and even to re-witness to him if need be.
As the center of the family, the wife should love, serve and respect her husband so that his heart “settles down” and he longs for her.
We should enter our home, not with the concept that “This is my house,” but with the purpose of practicing filial piety.
Life in a family of hyojeong in which spouses, parents, children and in-laws all practice filial piety and all members use hyojeong language is truly worth living. God visits such a family.
Hyojeong language is respectful, encouraging, praising, tender and loving; it is free of any judgment, anger and negativity.
The couple’s responsibility is to be servants of love to each other and to be parents with the body of a servant to their children.
“I, who exist because of love, must become a servant of love.”
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.♦
I came to Washington, D.C., last night. I am going to participate in the inaugural ceremony of the change of leadership of Women’s Federation for World Peace.
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 truth, based on true love, continues eternally in one direction. We did not know this, and that is why we could not become true parents, true citizens, true saints, and holy sons and daughters. When Jesus came to this world there were no true parents in the family, no true leaders in the nation and the world, and ultimately there was no true king in all of heaven and earth. People did not know how to follow the true way. Now that the truth has been revealed, however, we have no more excuses. True parents do not tell their children, “Once you become children of true filial piety, do not become loyal citizens.”
True parents teach children of filial piety to sacrifice their family by following the way of a loyal citizen in service to the nation, and to sacrifice the nation by following the way of saints in service to the world. True parents would also teach their children to sacrifice the world in service to heaven and earth, and to sacrifice heaven and earth to substantiate the true love of God.
To start achieving these goals, individuals need to sacrifice themselves for the sake of their family. This is the way to become a child of filial piety. To become a patriot, you need to serve the nation even at the expense of your family. To be a saint, you need to give of yourself in service to the world, even at the expense of your nation. To be a holy son or daughter, you have to work to establish the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven, even at the expense of the world. Likewise, among all parents, those who make sacrifices and live for the sake of their children are true parents. Teachers who make sacrifices for the sake of their students are true teachers, and the president who makes sacrifices for the nation is a true president. We were unaware of this concept of investing and sacrificing. Without it, however, we will never have one eternally peaceful and united world.
One of the greatest attributes of true love is sacrifice. In order to gain true love, a price must be paid. That price is sacrifice. However, false love ends up being lost on the way because it is hoped to be gained without paying a price.
True love is love sacrificing for something greater. True love is to sacrifice the individual for the family, the family for the nation, the nation for the world, and the world for God.
Until now, many people did not know that there is such a concept of sacrifice in true love. It is the principle of the universe that the person who sacrifices more becomes the center and eventually becomes the owner.
Therefore, among all parents, those who make sacrifices and live for the sake of their children are true parents. Teachers who make sacrifices for the sake of their students are true teachers, and the president who makes sacrifices for the nation is a true president.
Everyone must know that without investing and sacrificing, we will never have a peaceful and united world.
When I as young, one day I heard about Father’s sermon about true love. He said that true love requires sacrifice. One of the great attributes of true love is sacrifice.
This content really impacted me. These words changed my life. Wow! I needed to sacrifice. True love requires sacrifice all the time.
Father Moon’s word
Sacrifice accompanies love.
“What is Heaven’s core? None other than love. What is the core of love? Sacrifice. Without sacrifice, love is not love.
Based on this fundamental law, we can understand how HP so loved the world that he has continuously sacrificed himself for all humanity, even up until the present day. You have to understand this point. So why is it necessary to sacrifice? Because without sacrificing, you cannot exist solely for your object. Sacrifice is the process by which I can become a true person.”
The more we sacrifice, the more we become a true person.
What we must know for sure is that true love always requires sacrifice.
How can we know we are a good or bad guy? How much are we ready to sacrifice?
Do we really love our wife? Our husband? How much are we willing to sacrifice willingly, happily, joyfully? Do we love our children? How much are we willing to sacrifice for them? Do we really love the world? How much are we ready to sacrifice for the sake of the world? We need to pay the price. Then (our love) really becomes true love. We cannot gain without paying the price.
Many fallen men do not want to sacrifice; they ask others to sacrifice for them. That is the fallen world.
We need to remember that true love always requires sacrifice.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 22: Hereditary 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.
Let’s study Father’s word about hereditary sin.
Hereditary Sin Lasts Forever
<23-167> It is said that the parents’ eating of the fruit was the sin, but what is that fruit through which the descendants of thousands of generations have become sinners? This has to do with the blood relationship. If the root of sin is planted through lineage, it lasts forever by virtue of the law of heredity. The only thing that can make this happen is the wrongful use of love. The wrongful use of love is the cause of the Fall.
Why is sin so terrifying? This is because sin is passed down through the lineage and passed down to the descendants. If you commit a sin, you inherit it according to the laws of heredity and it goes on forever through your lineage.
You must know that all of your sins and your fallen nature will be inherited forever, not only by your children, but also by your descendants. Then, the problem is how to cut this lineage of evil.
This hereditary sin and the satanic lineage must be completely cut off by receiving the Blessing through the True Parents who come as the Messiah, and even the hereditary sin of the ancestors must be cleared through the ancestors' liberation ceremony and blessing ceremony.
The Worse the Lives of Ancestors are, the More the Indemnity Their Descendants Have to Pay
<31-151> Today, you, who walk the way of God’s will, still have to go through the individual course of indemnity before the way that you have to go personally. Only after you have gone through the individual course of indemnity and reached the end of it, the foundation that you can form a relationship with God would be established. Then, centering on the foundation, you can bear the public responsibility. In other words, you cannot bear the public responsibility without the process that you can indemnify yourself. In order to bear the responsibility of the public course of indemnity, you have to go through the individual course of indemnity. If we analyze the individual course of indemnity, it is a historical fact and heredity inherited from ancestors in the past. If plenty of your ancestors are good, there is no problem; however, the indemnity we have to pay will be bigger in proportion to how much worse the lives of ancestors are.
When walking the path of the will, there is always an individual indemnity course that remains in the path of the individual. Those whose individual course of indemnity still remain cannot go forward with public responsibility.
The problem is that the individual course of indemnity is linked to hereditary sins inherited from our ancestors. Here, you may not know if your numerous ancestors were good, but the less good your ancestors were, the greater the indemnity condition that is added to you in bigger proportion.
You cannot have a direct relationship with God until the individual course of indemnity is completed. The reason why each of us cannot establish a relationship with God and experience God's heart is because there is still an individual course of indemnity that we must walk.
The amount of indemnity is proportionate to the number of sins committed by the ancestors. You also need to know that the amount of indemnity needed to be paid differs according to the position and level of responsibility. You must know that the amount of indemnity of the church leader in charge of a church, the national leader in charge of a nation, and the regional president in charge of a region and the International President in charge of the world are all different.
I was so surprised to hear Father’s word. I thought the 5% portion of responsibility we all have was the same (for each of us), but later on when I studied and heard Father’s word, (I realized that) each human being’s 5% portion of responsibility is different.
I am continental director. (Compared to a) normal member) we have a different 5% portion of responsibility. This is an incredible discovery. Our portion of responsibility depends on our position.
God never gives us an impossible portion of responsibility. (We should) just do it with utmost sincerity and heart. Then we can fulfill our 5% portion of responsibility. If someone has a higher position, he has more responsibility. If we (invest) our utmost sincerity, we can fulfill our portion of responsibility. God is really amazing!
What is the Best Way to Pay Indemnity?
1. You need to confess your sins and be responsible for your indemnity.
Confessing sins is very important. We need to realize we are a sinner before God and True Parents. When we make a mistake, we always need to confess, “Heavenly God, I am a sinner among sinners.” We need to confess really sincerely. The more we confess in front of God, we become more humble. No more arrogance. When we trully confess before God, even for small mistakes. We hurt somebody; we were not very filial to our father and mother. Any mistake. We steel money or something, or a Chapter Two problem, any issues. We should frankly and sincerely confess before God, “Heavenly God, I am a sinner among sinners.”
Those who truly confess with tears, their heart becomes more humble, more obedient, no more arrogant. Those who are arrogant don’t like to confess. Even though they may confess, it is just a little or some part (of their mistake). They don’t honestly confess.
That is why this kind of attitude is very important. What is the best way to pay indemnity? We need to confess our sins very sincerely and honestly with tears.
Then, we need to be responsible for our indemnity – (even though) we inherited it through hereditary sin.
“Heavenly Father, this is my destiny. I don’t know what my ancestral background is, what kind of sin they committed. Heavenly Father, I am the resultant being of God’s 6,000 years of providence. I am the one who needs to finish all the indemnity course. My ancestors created so many problems. I am the one who needs to be responsible for their indemnity and my own.”
(Do we) blame our ancestors? Blame our father and mother? Blame Adam and Eve? Who will be responsible?
Why did Heavenly Father invite us to join the Unification Church? He asked us to pay indemnity, not just for us, but for our ancestors as well.
> Do not run away from your indemnity.
If we run away, someday greater indemnity will come to us. Any suffering, any problems, any issues, it is our destiny to be responsible for them and pay indemnity (for them) happily. “Ok, I will do that. I’m a sinner. God, you know I am a sinner. Maybe my ancestors had that kind of issue. I will be responsible. I don’t want to run away.”
This kind of mindset is very important. Someone may have a Chapter Two problem. “OK, I have a sexual problem. OK, I have this kind of problem. I stole something. I misused public money.” (We should) honestly confess! “I am the sinner of sinners.” Start from there. Our sin connects to our ancestors as well. (We should) not run away from our indemnity.
This is the beginning point to paying indemnity. People try to avoid paying indemnity. Confess! God’s salvation is total salvation. Everybody needs to be saved – even though we are sinners of sinners. Everybody needs to go back to God’s bosom. What is the fastest way? We need to confess first. We need to realize that we are a sinner of sinners and have hurt God’s and True Parents’ heart so much!
2. You need to have mindset that “I will pay my indemnity willingly, happily, joyfully on behalf of my ancestor and Heaven.”
3. Go to the frontline all the time.
This is a shortcut. Suffer more. Offer more sacrifice, more hard work.
4. Become a missionary beyond my hometown and nation.
Father said, “Become a missionary and serve the world, serve all humankind.”
One time Father told Japanese members, “Japan as a country has so much sin! How can you liberate your country, your ancestors’ sin? Become a missionary serving the world.”
If we just stay at home, we cannot pay much indemnity, but when we become a missionary, this is the fastest ways.
5. Go to a public mission
This is also one of the best ways to pay indemnity.
6. You need to be falsely charged on behalf of God and True Parents.
Someone may persecute us and insult us, do all kinds of evil things to us. Yes, we should just accept it. This is one of the ways to pay indemnity on behalf of God and True Parents, on behalf of our ancestors. “Yes, I will do it.”
7. You need to think that any kind of sin is my sin and that I am the one who should pay the indemnity
Do not blame anyone else. “How come my father was like that? My ancestors? Why were Adam and Eve like that? Why was our central figure like that? We should not blame (others). If we blame (others), we cannot pay indemnity and pass it to our descendants. That is a problem. That’s why, “Your sin is my sin. My wife’s sin is my sin. My ancestors sin is my sin. Adam and Eve’s sin is my sin.” This kind of attitude is the best way to pay indemnity.
8. You need to liberate your ancestors
There are all kinds of ancestors who have committed sin. Some are in hell. When we liberate them, it is much easier to carry on God’s mission.
9. Think that indemnity is a blessing.
When we pay indemnity, (in the end) incredible blessing will come to us. Without paying indemnity, we cannot receive the blessing. That is why we need to know how to graduate (from) indemnity.
You graduate when you are joyful
... and grateful. Whenever we face any indemnity, we are ready to pay. Then we can graduate from that indemnity.
Wow! I (just) summarized Father’s 600 books about how to pay indemnity!
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Couple’s Responsibility is to Play the Role of a Servant of Love to Each Other
What Kind of Family Is a Family That Thrives?
1. When parents see their children make mistakes, they must first have the heart to ask their children for forgiveness while shedding tears. Where did children’s fallen nature come from? When parents see their children’s faults, even if it is the children that did wrong, if the parents first seek forgiveness from the children while reflecting with regret, would that family thrive or perish? Such a family will surely thrive, and God will give blessings. Among our members, there are people who still do not know what their own portion of responsibility is. Not knowing their portion of responsibility means not knowing my own responsibility regarding people I relate to. People who decide things self-centeredly and act thoughtlessly are people who do not know what their responsibility is. The next case is where you know a little bit about your responsibility as people who received the Blessing, but you are still lacking a lot. Among blessed families of the Unification Church, there are people who dislike or hate their husbands who stay away from the church and neglect the Will. But you cannot do that. Women have the responsibility to stand in the Abel position and make her husband long for his wife. Then, can she dislike and criticize her husband?
As a parent, how should you treat your child's fallen nature? When parents see their children make mistakes, they must first have the heart to ask their children for forgiveness while shedding tears.
We just now studied inherited sin, right? Our children inherited from us. That is why we need to be responsible.
The way to repent of unfilial children is for parents to think that their children's fallen nature is their own and to feel more pain and shed more tears than their children before they blame their children for their mistakes.
This is an important attitude as a parent. (We should) not judge them and blame them. “I never did this when I was young.” We should not say that.
Where does their fallen nature come from? We need to really repent in front of God and in front of our children. “This is my mistake. I could not remove my fallen nature before starting family.” That is why all our problems have passed down to our children and our descendants.
Next, our basic portion of responsibility is how to make the other person long for us. Our basic portion of responsibility is to move others with love. You have to move your opponent so that they naturally surrender.
However, among blessed families of the Unification Church, there are people who dislike or hate their husbands who stay away from the church and neglect the Will.
The most important responsibility as a wife and mother in the family is not to say that the husband has no faith – “That is why he doesn’t come to church. He has no faith. This guy has no faith! He does not believe in True Parents” – but to take responsibility and witness to the husband heartistically first to move him.
Enter the Family With the Mind to Be Filial
2. Between the husband and wife, who is in a more pitiable position? However we look at it, the husband is more pitiable than the wife. If a man cannot receive confidence from his wife, he will have a heart that does not want to go home. Even if it is his own home, he will not have the heart that wants to enter. If a husband hurts his wife's heart, he will feel that way even more. A husband feels that conscientiously. From that perspective, the husband is in a pitiable position first. Not only that, it is the same with the wife’s position. If she serves and respects her husband well but fails to become a respected wife, she will also be embarrassed before Heaven. The thing we must realize here is that when husbands enter the house, they must get rid of the concept “This is my house, ” ”I have entered my house.” When you enter your house, there should be no concept of saying to yourself, “this is my house” or “I have entered my house.” You must think that you entered to practice filial piety in this family. If you have such a filial heart, you will be welcomed by your wife and children, but if not, you become pitiful.
If a man does not receive and respect from his wife, he does not want to come home and his heart is like a wilderness, he cannot settle down. A wife's role is very important for a man's heart to settle down. A woman should be the subject of longing in front of a man.
The center of the family is the woman and the mother. If she serves and respects her husband well but fails to become a respected wife, she will also be embarrassed before Heaven. The same goes for men.
The thing we must realize here is that when husbands enter the house, they must get rid of the concept “This is my house, ” ”I have entered my house.”
You must think that you entered to practice filial piety in this family. If you have such a filial heart, you will be welcomed by your wife and children, but if not, you become pitiful.
Why go home? Not just for sex. Not just to have a meal. Why do we go back home? In order to practice filial piety. “No matter what, I need to serve my wife and my children. In order to practice filial piety, I am now entering my home.” We need to have this kind of concept. How beautiful it is.
The Couple’s Responsibility is to Play the Role of a Servant of Love to Each Other
3. Men must serve their wives well with a heart of filial piety. Then, the if the wife is moved by her husband and she has a heart of filial piety towards her husband, wouldn’t it be worth living? When we have a filial wife, filial daughter-in-law, and filial children in the family, isn’t that family worth living in? However, if the husband is ignored by the wife, and the children don’t listen, isn’t it a failed life? That is why we blessed couples must absolutely use respectful language to each other in the family. Using respectful language means respecting the other person. It means not thinking of your partner as your own possession. The couple’s responsibility is to play the role of a servant of love to each other. We must become servants of love. I, who exist because of love, must become a servant of love. True Parents have first walked the path of having the heart of a parent in the body of a servant while showing us that model.
Men must serve their wives well with a heart of filial piety. Then, if the wife is moved by her husband and she has a heart of filial piety towards her husband, wouldn’t it be worth living?
Therefore, we must create a family of Hyojeong. When there is a filial wife, a filial husband, a filial daughter-in-law, and filial children in a family, it becomes a family where life is truly worth living for and a family that God visits. The ultimate goal of the Age of Love is to create a family of filial piety.
I am really grateful when I go back home. My two daughters-in-law serve me so sincerely. They are very obedient. They also really serve their husband as well and take care of our grandchildren well. Wow! It does not matter how much money they have or how externally beautiful they are. These (things) do not matter. Filial heart really creates joy and happiness. Filial heart! That’s it! How we can become a filial husband, a filial wife, a filial daughter-in-law, filial children – that is it! That really creates a very happy family!
In order to become a family of filial piety, we blessed families must use respectful language to each other in the family. You must use the language of Hyojeong. Always use the language of praise, the language of encouragement, the language of tenderness, and the language of love. Direct language, commanding language, judgmental language, and negative language should be avoided.
What kind of language are you using? Why are there conflict and problems between husband and wife and parents and children? Because of using wrong language – direct, commanding, judgmental, negative language.
How can we use hyojeong language in our family?
The couple’s responsibility is to play the role of a servant of love to each other. We must become servants of love.
“I have to be a servant of love before my wife and children.”
“I, who exist because of love, must become a servant of love.” True Parents have first walked the path of having the heart of a parent in the body of a servant while showing us that model.
Today I talked about “The Couple’s Responsibility is to Play the Role of a Servant of Love to Each Other.”
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