Ep 840 - The Providential History Of Salvation From The Viewpoint of The Principle Part 4
True Family and True Universe Centered on True Love - February 12, 2023
Key Points
Faith starts from completely denying ourself and recognizing that we come from God.
Because we come entirely from our parents, there is no basis for self-centered individualism.
Individualism’s assertion of the self as the autonomous, isolated and self-centered owner comes from Satan.
Immorality is a sin of lineage passed on from generation to generation.
Satan’s identity is immorality through the culture of which he seeks to expand his dominion. His goal is to enslave people by causing them to fall.
In order to clear sin, escape from Satan’s possession and return to God, we must pay the price of indemnity.
Not only because of our merit or will did we join the Unification Church but because of our good ancestors through whom God is working.
For the sake of our descendants we should add to the merit from our ancestors.
We should liberate our ancestors and strive ourself to be a good ancestor whose merit will bring blessings to our descendants.
Because the world today is filled with disbelief, immorality, and self-centeredness and even churches are secularized and declining, going on a path of faith and protecting ourself requires desperately clinging to the word, ceaselessly offering jeongseong in tears while appealing to heaven, and continually loving and serving others.
To survive in this rough world we need to have vertical emotions cen tering on God’s heart, that is, on his word, and to embrace those who hurt us with compassion and tears, forgiving them and taking on their sin as our own sin.
To digest hell we need compassion and tears.
To overcome our false life we need to correct our habit of deciding and acting as we please and to receive Abel’s guidance and God’s word.
Then we need to meditate ceaselessly on the word, overcome ourself and practice true love.
Our faith and life cannot be separate.
Our religious faith tends to isolate us. To overcome this we need to practice true love in our family and to model that unity and harmony in the church.
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.♦
(Response to prayer) Let’s pray for all those affected by the earthquake. This is a really miserable situation. I think more than 30,000 people have died, and people estimate that maybe 100,000 (have died). This is such a sad situation.♦
Today is a very beautiful Sunday, isn’t it?
Yesterday, I had a breakfast meeting with young leaders in the DC area at the Upshur House: CARP Members, YSP. They are very promising.
Then, President Naokimi and I had a lunch meeting with UPF and WFWP leaders at the Founders Room at the Washington Times building.
Then, we had a WFWP USA Presidential Transition Ceremony and Celebration at the Washington Times Building. More than 200 people participated, including on zoom.
Mrs. Angelika Selle has been the president of WFWP USA for the past 13 years. I really thank her for her hard work. And Mrs. Kaeleigh Moffit (has been) appointed as the president of WFWP USA. Congratulations on her new appointment.
Mrs. Angelika Selle gave a farewell message and Mrs. Kaeleigh Moffit gave an inauguration speech.
Dr. Julia Moon, WFWP International President and Dr. Sun Jin Moon, WFWP International Senior Vice President, sent congratulatory video messages. And Dr. Ki Hoon Kim, Chair of Cheon Eui Won for North America, gave a congratulatory message.
I gave congratulatory remarks and Dr. Michael Jenkins and President Naokimi also gave congratulatory remarks.
Once again, thank you, Mrs. Angelika Selle for your hard work for the past 13 years and congratulations, Mrs. Kaeleigh Moffit, on your new appointment.
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.>
What is the basis for individualism? No one can claim anything as “mine alone.” When a child is conceived through the love of its parents, grows from a fertilized egg in the mother's womb, and is born, 99.999 percent of its body comes from the mother's bone, blood and flesh, and the remaining 0.001 percent comes from the father's sperm. There is no concept of “myself alone” in nature.
No one has such a concept at the time of birth. Those who regard themselves as the best in their field cannot claim to have achieved that status by themselves. This applies to us from birth. We receive our bones, blood and flesh in our mother's womb. We have to recognize that the important parts of our bodies are extensions of our parents' bodies. Without exception, all the essential instructions and mechanisms for the development of our bodies were included in the egg and sperm.
Therefore, there is no basis for self-centered individualism.
When we say that something is “above,” it automatically implies the existence of something “below.” Can one individual stand alone, with only the concept of above? There is no way for someone to live as an isolated individual. Mentioning the right side presupposes the existence of the left side. Likewise, mentioning a front presupposes that there is a back. Similarly, when we talk about a man, we presuppose the existence of a woman. This is a universal truth, not just a claim by a random individual.
Why did God create man? Some men may say that they can live perfectly well alone, and they don't care why they were created. However, each man was born for the sake of a woman. Without a woman, there is absolutely no need for a man. Actually, man can create nothing by himself. Nothing was created solely by man or solely by woman.
What is the basis for individualism? No one can claim anything as “mine alone.” When a child is conceived through the love of its parents, grows from a fertilized egg in the mother's womb, and is born, 99.999 percent of its body comes from the mother's bone, blood and flesh.
“I myself completely belong to my parents. I completely belong to God. I came from God and from my own parents. I cannot exist without them. I cannot insist on myself.”
We receive our bones, blood and flesh in our mother's womb. We have to recognize that the important parts of our bodies are extensions of our parents' bodies. Therefore, there is no basis for self-centered individualism.
True Father said that the self-centered individualism’s basis of asserting oneself comes from Satan. That is why faith starts from completely denying ourself.
We (do not belong to) ourself. We belong to God. We came from God. That is why as a fallen man we should completely deny ourself because “I came from God. I do not belong to myself. I belong to God and my parents.”
A life of faith starts from recognizing oneself as a being that comes from God.
Any individualism is centering on the self. That is why we need to understand who is “myself.” We have to understand our own identity: “I belong to God. I belong to my father and mother.”
This is a (key point): our life of faith begins from self denial. “I am not mine. I belong to God. I come from God.” That is an important point in our life of faith.
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.
God Hates Immorality
<41-292> When people are under the dominion of love, nobody can be dragged away. There would be no way to argue that it is mine. Once you get trapped in love, you would be under the dominion of love. Am I right or not? You cannot deny this logically. Can a sin be inherited by something to eat? No. It is hereditable only through the blood relationship. So, what does God hate? God hates immorality. Why? It is because human beings turned heaven and earth upside down through illicit love. We cannot do anything with this evil blood, which is why in asceticism, celibacy is emphasized. When a man enters into a trance of spiritual prayer, a woman will always appear to test him. Something like this will inevitably occur that blocks the way of asceticism.
The inheritance of sin is not something inherited by eating. Adam and Eve ate the fruit of Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
How can just eating a fruit be passed from descendant to descendant?
We need to know that sin is inherited only through the blood lineage.
Why is immoral love scary? It is because it is passed on to descendants through the blood lineage. That is why God hates immorality which is fornication. Because the sin of immorality is inherited (by) each generation of descendants as a sin of lineage.
Satan possesses sin. So, when anyone commits a sin, centering on that condition, Satan always claims him as his belonging. Therefore, in order to clear sin, escape from Satan’s possession and return to God’s possession, we must pay the price of indemnity.
Therefore, since we become slaves of Satan once we commit sin, we must not make conditions for Satan to accuse us.
Satan’s identity is what? Immorality. Fornication. We need to know the truth that centering on his own lineage of immorality, Satan is ceaselessly making efforts day and night to expand his power across all domains through the culture of immorality.
Satan’s ultimate goal is to make any person fall due to immorality and make them his slaves.
That is Satan’s final goal, to make everyone fall. Satan will achieve his goal by any means necessary. Many people, without exception, become victims of Satan. No one has ever overcome Satan. This is today's reality. Satan's ultimate goal is to make everyone commit the sin of fornication.
That is why Satan works 24/7 to conquer humans through fornication. Satan never stops and never gives up. Satan makes men have adulterous dreams even while they are asleep. But how can we survive if we are not armed with the Word of God?
Therefore, it is impossible for man to overcome fornication unless he is armed with the Word of God, and without prayer and devotion, jeongseong, it is impossible to overcome. That is why God’s word is very important. We need to be armed with the word of God. Without God’s word, without prayer, without jeongseong, it is impossible to overcome. That is why the Bible says, “You need to pray ceaselessly.” We need to continuously pray and listen to God’s word. His word has to become our weapon to fight with Satan. Without God’s word, without prayer, without jeonseong, no one can overcome Satan.
The lineage of Satan is so frightening! Satan never gives up. If we simply live without God’s word and without prayer, we cannot survive. We just become very horizontal. At any time we can become Satan’s instrument and (even) Satan himself. We need to know about this.
We were Able to Meet Father Through the Merits of Our Ancestors
<46-151> What do you signify? You are the fruit of past history; however, it is the fruit centered on historical tribes. Do you understand? There are good ancestors among your ancestors, and that is why you were able to meet Father through their merits. The reason why you were able to meet Father was not because you wanted to meet Father, nor because you were great. No matter who you were born through, the ancestors are related with one part of the history of merits in Korea. In an evil nation, there are two kinds of people: more evil people and less evil people. Therefore, even though it is a extremely evil nation, there is the side of the less evil in the background. God has led the providence through the side of the less evil people.
In public life, you have character traits from your ancestors in accordance with the principle of hereditary and with the bond with the merits of your ancestors, centering on goodness. Therefore, you were able to meet Father. Don’t think that you were able to meet me because you were great. Even one of your eyes doesn’t belong to you. All of you resemble your mother, your father, your grand-father, or even just one part of them. If we were to analyze it, we would find that the lineage of our ancestors of thousands of generations was entwined. The same is true for all the cells of the human body. If our ancestors removed all of them, we would disappear.
I heard this kind of message from Father many times. I would like to explain it more.
We are the fruit of the 6,000-year history of the providence of restoration. We need to know that the reason we joined the Unification Church was not because we were great or voluntarily chose to join. Not at all.
The reason we all joined the Unification church was because there are merits of our good ancestors behind us. Of course, there are evil ancestors as well as good ancestors. Why did we join the church? Because we have more good than evil ancestors. God is working through the descendants of good ancestors.
It is not because of your efforts and faith that you have followed God and True Parents and remained without betraying them. All of this is because of the merits of our ancestors and the record of living for the sake of the whole. Therefore, we have nothing to boast about.
If our ancestors were not righteous, even if we had joined the church at first, we would all have left the church in the middle. It is because there is such an ancestor behind him.
Why are we still remaining? Sometimes we can misunderstand. (We may feel that) we make an effort and try to keep our life of faith. We can say this and that. But actually because of our ancestors’ merit, of their contribution, we still remain here.
Someone may have betrayed True Parents along the way and left the church. Father said their ancestors’ background is something like that.
That is why those who are still keeping their life of faith and absolutely believe in and follow True Parents (regardless) of the situation, have such a good ancestral background. Of course, there are some evil ancestors, but they have a good ancestral background. It is not because of their effort or contribution or because they are clever or understand the Divine Principle very well. Of course, they need to have their own portion of responsibility, but the main portion is what? Their ancestors are very good. Otherwise they could not remain. So, we need to appreciate our ancestors.
So, think about what kind of influence our merits today will have on our descendants. As the fruits of the 6,000-year history of God’s providence, we today have the responsibility to take responsibility over even all the sins of our ancestors and liberate them.
Based on our ancestors contribution and merit, we need to make more effort and create more results of true love and create more contributions for God’s providence, then we can influence our descendants, even more than our ancestors.
Let’s appreciate our ancestors.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Faith and Life Cannot Be Separated
To Pull Through the Environment of Disbelief, There Must Be Tears
1. To this day, due to the human fall, God has been undergoing suffering that no one could even imagine. Then, who should know about and relieve God’s han and sorrow? Also, who should relieve the resentment of True Parents, who lived their entire lives for God’s han and wishes? If we blessed families, who already knew about the Will first, do not do it, then who can? First, we must not cause Heavenly Parent and True Parents to worry. To put that into practice, we first need to control our minds well. We need to have very clean minds.
However, our surroundings and the rest of the world are all covered by disbelief. In such environment of disbelief, going on the path of faith while protecting ourselves is by no means easy. If anyone becomes even a bit careless, it is easy to fall. Therefore, you cannot protect yourselves unless you hang onto God’s Word and cling onto God while shedding tears. This is because endless horizontal temptations and trials will come challenge us. Since it is impossible to overcome all of this with one’s power alone, as we have to appeal to Heaven, there must be tears.
Our surroundings and the rest of the world are all covered by disbelief. In such an environment of disbelief, going on the path of faith while protecting ourselves is by no means easy. Just look at all religious groups and churches today.
Why is the church declining?
Even though they claim to practice faith in the name of God, aren’t churches gradually declining?
That is because religions that should be reforming the world are rather being secularized by the world. It is because religions that should become the salt and light of the world are failing in that responsibility.
That is why the Bible says in Roman 12:2 “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing on your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will.”
Since the secular environment is completely covered by disbelief, immorality, and a self-centered world, if anyone becomes even a bit careless, it is easy to fall.
Therefore, to overcome this secular environment, first, we need to strive to become people of the Word while hanging onto God’s Word and fighting with our falsehood while shedding tears.
Secondly, we need ceaseless prayer and (offer) jeongseong. Third, we need to live lives of creating benefits of love by conveying love and blessing to our community through putting the Word into practice.
The outside environment is so terrible. It is not easy to keep a life of faith because of the secular world environment. Therefore, without God’s word, it is impossible. We need to study God’s word. We need to be stimulated by God’s word all the time. It has to become our weapon all the time. Otherwise, fallen man easily spaces out, easily becomes horizontal. He cannot keep God’s word all the time. He easily forgets. It is easy to complain.
In order to protect ourself from Satan, we need to meditate on God’s word all the time. It is not simple. We need ceaseless prayer and jeongseong.
Because endless horizontal temptations and trials will come challenge us, our reality is that it is impossible to overcome everything with one’s power alone. So, since we need to appeal to heaven, we cannot help but shed tears.
We need to kneel down and pray, “Heavenly Father, I need to survive in this kind of satanic environment. What shall I do? My physical desires are stronger than my spiritual desires. What shall I do, Heavenly Father?”
We hold onto God’s will and to his word and appeal to him, “I need your help.” Otherwise, how can we keep our life of faith? We need to have faith in order to appeal our heart (?) and reality (?) to heaven. We need to have tears.
Always Digest with Vertical Emotions Centered on God
2. In pulling through this rough world, if you do not have any tears, you will immediately be dominated by the physical body and surrounding environment. And you feel severe conflict because of some distance between faith and reality. In such environment, if we do not digest things with vertical emotions centered on God, it’s easy to blame others and have resentment towards the world. The more we do that, the tougher our hearts becomes. That is why the way to protect your own heart is to not blame others but know everything as my own sins, realize God’s heart that sheds tears to restore fallen people, and embrace the people I suffer from and forgive them with tears. In this environment of disbelief that we live in, without any tears, how do we forgive those we have conflicts with? There are too many people around us who assert themselves. And there are too many people who try to use us. We try our best to hear the Word at church, receive grace, and put it into practice, but when fallen people go back to reality, they immediately forget the grace they received and become dominated horizontally. This is how people are weak beings in the environment.
To pull through this rough world, what’s more important than anything else is to have vertical emotions centering on God’s heart. Here, the heart centered on God means the heart centered on the Word.
If we do not digest all approaching challenges with the heart centered on the Word, fallen people easily flow horizontally immediately. When human beings flow horizontally, since we turn the blame on others and hate the world, our hearts gradually become tougher.
That is why the way to protect our own heart in this rough world is to not blame others but know everything as our own sins no matter what circumstances.
When we criticize someone and blame him, what is the outcome? Our heart becomes very cold and severe. In order to protect our heart, we need to have compassion with someone and treat his own sin as our own sin and shed tears. Compassion.
And regarding the people we suffer from, we need to have a heart of compassion to embrace them and forgive them with tears. In this environment of disbelief that we live in, without any tears, how do we forgive those we have conflicts with?
How did Jesus protect himself? He forgave his enemies; (with) his tears, blood and sweat, (he) embraced his enemies. That is the way to protect ourself.
If we blame and criticize and judge people, what is the outcome? It is not so good for ourself. That is why the Bible says not to criticize; if we criticize, we will be criticized by someone. We need to protect ourself. ... We need to have tears. “Heavenly Father, I need your power and strength.” We need to appeal to God. In order to appeal to God, we need to have tears. We need to beg because we cannot do it by ourself.
We must know that Heaven and Hell are not separate places, but are decided by us. Who can create Heaven or Hell? If we can love everything, it is the Kingdom of Heaven; if we can’t love everything, it is hell. Therefore, to digest Hell, we need compassion and tears because we ourselves have a limit in the abilities of love.
Faith and Life Cannot Be Separated
3. Today, although we try hard to live according to the original mind, in reality, we keep repeating false lives. Then how can we clear this false life? First, we must enter the rituals and systems of the church. Then, we need to live a life of completely receiving Abel’s guidance. Next, if we are touched by the Word, to put them into practice in our lives, we need to medicate ceaselessly and make a very strong resolve. In other words, faith and life must be the same. The Word and life must be directly connected.
You cannot think of faith and life separately. You also cannot separate private and public life. All of our lives, whether personal or public, should be centered on the Word and connected to true love. We must clearly understand these things and do our best to practice a life of true love. This is our portion of responsibility. From now on, do not expect someone to teach you, and do not think that you are learning from anyone. All that remains is for each of us to practice as the owner of the era of Cheon Il Guk.
Today, although we try hard to live according to the original mind, in reality, we keep repeating false lives. Then how can we clear this false life?
In the first stage, we need to try to completely receive the guidance of Abel because Abel, whom we love, is better than I am and teaches me what is good and what is evil.
We need to have the habit of discussing and deciding everything with Abel. Fallen man decides everything by himself. No discussion. No report. We need to correct our habit of deciding and acting as we please.
Next stage: if we are touched by the Word, to put it into practice in our lives, we need to meditate ceaselessly and overcome the world and overcome ourselves with the power of the Word.
Just as mind and body cannot be separated, we cannot think of faith and life separately. We also cannot separate private and public life.
All of our lives, whether personal or public, should become lives that are centered on the Word and for the sake of practicing true love.
It Must Be Resolved from All Problems
4. It is rather difficult for people who say they have faith to relate to others. Established church members are bound by the doctrines they believe in, making it difficult for them to form human relationships, and Unificationists find it even more difficult because they met the Principle, it’s ideologies, and True Parents. Even though we claim to be one family under one God, when the rest of the world looks at us, do they see it as an environment in which they can really become one with Unificationists? Our church even has a sign saying that we are an interdenominational movement, but how many people come to us? If you look at the hearts of our members these days, they are very cold. We really need to reflect on these things. Our original nature does not want to attach itself as belonging to any denomination or religious order. It just wants to see everything as a God-centered relationship. True Parents proclaimed the global family ideal that all human beings are brothers and sisters under one God, but actually, we are living unrelated to True Parents’ proclamation. Then from where should we start resolving this? It has to be resolved from the family. Nothing can be solved apart from family. We must show that we truly become one and live in harmony in our families. And this should be felt naturally in our community called the church.
Rather than people who do not practice faith, people who do practice faith are unable to have a wide network of relationships because of the doctrine they believe in. Some thinkers and philosophers have difficulties exchanging with others because of their own ideas and philosophies.
Also, it could be even more difficult for Unificationists to give and take with other people because they met the Principle, it’s ideologies, and True Parents. Then how can we go beyond all people, knowledge, our own doctrines and love and form harmonious relationships?
All human beings have a original nature and heart. That is why we need to focus on our original nature and heart. This is the common base. Our original nature does not want to attach itself to any denomination or religious order.
Even though we claim to be one family under one God, when the rest of the world looks at us, do they see it as an environment in which they can really become one with Unificationists?
Then from where should we start resolving this? It has to be resolved from the family centering on heart. We need to show lives of practicing true love in the family.
We must show that we truly become one and live in harmony in our families. The family has to be a model. And this should be felt naturally in our community called the church. If we create that kind of beautiful harmony and really communicate very well heartistically heart to heart, then automatically, naturally we can create that kind of environment in our church, in our community, (and) in our nation.
Today I spoke about “Faith and Life cannot be Separated.”
(Memoir John Kung, Escape from China)♦
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