Ep 849 - The Blessing And Eternal Life Part 4
The Blessing and Eternal Life - February 21, 2023
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Celina Ojeda, YeonSun Tariq, Toshiaki Mizuguchi
Key Points
As long as we continue to witness with jaksarang, God will prepare better object partners for us.
When we witness, we must focus on the issues of the spirit world and eternal life.
We humans live forever – for a limited time on earth, and then after our physical death, for an unlimited time in the spiritual world.
Because a theoretical eternal life and spiritual world are not satisfying, we need to show their existence convincingly and undeniably.
The Principle of Creation in the Divine Principle can lead people to accept the existence of eternal life and the spiritual world principally, theoretically and undeniably. We must lead them to experience the existence of eternal life and the spiritual world through a life of faith.
Because our individual sins are part of the flow of hereditary sin down the generations, we need to treat them “publicly and historically,” not just individually.
Because of God’s han and sorrow about the evil desires and fallen nature that flows in our bodies, we need to have “enmity” and “public indignation” against our sin and against Satan, and to comfort God’s sorrowful heart.
Spiritually healthy people are also physically healthy. When the spirit has dominion over the flesh, over anger, complaints and stress, there is always joy and gratitude.
We should “rejoice and give thanks” that God is our parent, that we have met True Parents and received their blessings and guidance.
Even when we comfort God’s sorrowful heart, our own spirit receives unimaginable comfort and rejoices.
We have to create joy in the family where the three great blessings are fulfilled by longing for family members even more than for good friends.
To become a harmonious family, our own parents must become our best friends.
Parents exist 100% for their children. No one else does.
Our children should cherish their own parents’ words more than that of their school friends or teachers and report to and discuss with parents about everything.
Children find joy when they attend their mother.
Grandparents find joy being close to their grandchildren.
The family is the place to create joy.
God has been the most pitiable person because he has not had an object partner of true love.
To become the object partners of God’s joy, we must be someone who knows God’s will, wishes, vision, situation, and heart more than anyone else.
God can feel joy and have hope through blessed families’ filial hearts.
We must go to the spirit world with a track record of the joy of having realized true love.
The greatest track record of love would be for us to realize a true family in which God can be present for eternity.
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 sharing) I am thinking about my own siblings. I witnessed to my younger brother, Rev. Yong. He is the one who is teaching about True Parents’ life course. My younger sister married a Japanese guy. My younger brother almost every day we call each other and share. I feel I am so grateful. If he had not joined our church, how would I have been able to share heartistically? Sometimes he feels like my best friend and my best Abel. We always can share. He also treats me like God! My younger sister bows down to me always. I have such a wonderful brother and sister, a heartistic relationship because they joined the church and know God and True Parents. Anyone among our siblings who knows God’s will, we can have a more heartistic relationship (him or her), right?
(Response to second sharing) The purpose of witnessing is not for the guest but for us. God wants to raise our heart and mind. The object partner is always changeable. However, a perfect plus can create a perfect minus. As long as we keep going with Jaksarang, God will send a better one. So we never lose what we invested. We need to believe that. As long as we have that kind of stable, unchanging heart, that kind of unchanging object partner will appear to us. God is training our heart so that we become stable and not easily affected or influenced. “Please, my son, keep going. I am preparing a better blessing for you.♦
Today I’d like to talk about “The Blessing and Eternal Life” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given by Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon between February 23 and April 16 at True Family Values Movement hoondok rallies for the study of True Parents' words in Japan and the United States.>
The purpose of a life of faith is to seek the world of eternal life and God's eternal love. Our life of faith is to seek God's eternal love. The way of a life of faith is to discover and rejoice in God's joy as our own. By living this way, we become one with God's eternal love and eternal life. Accordingly, it is most important for people of faith to invest our energy unceasingly for God. Based on the information we receive through our five senses, our value as human beings is connected to how we live our lives based on true love. This is why we need to think once again about whether the relationships we have with others are based on true love. You must understand that if you cannot take that position, you will be stopping and retreating, and will be doing something you will come to regret. Human beings live forever, beyond their earthly life. The reason the world’s religions have expanded throughout history, against the backdrop of every culture, is because our human destiny is to live an eternal life.
We are to live in our own era, and in harmony with the entire universe. Once we reach the limit of life on earth, we continue life in an eternal unlimited world. Such a world exists in reality. Even those who do not believe it exists, or who do not fully comprehend it, have postulated eternal life. They did this in order to help and comfort humanity through its suffering and pain. How can we be satisfied if we know that religions teach this kind of destiny? I assure you that it exists. I am not the one who has decided that it exists. This was decided an eternity ago. It is something that could be proclaimed with certainty at the beginning of the universe. This means that the issue of your eternal life, the issue of religion, and the issue of God will all be resolved at the same time. They are all connected.
Human beings live forever, beyond their earthly life. This is reality. The reason the world’s religions have expanded throughout history, against the backdrop of every culture, is to teach people about the issue of eternal life.
Therefore, any religious organization, church, individual, or family that does not deal with or neglects the issue of eternal life will become secularized and eventually depart from God. Therefore, when we witness, we must focus on the issues of the spirit world and eternal life.
Let them realize the reality of the spiritual world. Let them understand who God is. We need to focus on the issues of the spiritual world, eternal life and God.
We are to live in our own era, and in harmony with the entire universe. Once we reach the limit of life on earth, we continue life in an eternal unlimited world. Human beings live for eternity.
Why is the theory of eternal life important? Of course, the spirit world exists in reality, but even if there were no such world, in order to help and comfort humanity who has been groaning in its suffering and pain until now, we (would have to) insist on a hypothetical theory of eternal life and reason the form of an ideal nation centered on a hypothetical God.
But if human beings only knew that the ideal nation centered on the spirit world and God was just a hypothetically reasoned religious ideal, who would be satisfied?
That is why we must be able to conclude that God and the sprit world undoubtedly exist. This was decided an eternity ago. It is something that could be proclaimed with certainty at the beginning of the universe. This means that the issue of our eternal life, the issue of religion, and the issue of God will all be resolved at the same time.
In that sense, the principal of creation revealed in the Divine Principle is an unmistakably amazing truth. Therefore, we have to make humankind accept the existence of God and real existence of the spirit world both principally and theoretically in a way that no one can deny. And next, make them experience it through a life of faith. However, the reality of religions is that they are failing to fulfill their roles in these two areas.
When we raise our second generation and offer a workshop to second and third generation, we need to clearly teach the reality of the spiritual world and God.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 23:Collective and Individual Sin
Categories of Sins and How to Uproot Them
3. Collective sin (Sin committed by a group) : The sin that can be removed by taking the responsibility as a member of a group through the mission of tribal messiah. It can be removed by saving 430 families.
4. Individual sin (Sin that the individual commits himself): It can be removed by offering sincere devotion, such as repentance, prayer, indemnity condition, fasting, etc.
Individual Sin
It is the sin that an individual oneself commits. When you commit the individual sin, the sin has to be liquidated as soon as possible. If you don’t liquidate your own individual sin, the sin will be inherited by your descendants and become hereditary sin. A lot of saints believe that their sins will be forgiven clearly only by believing in Jesus. But, you have to know clearly that it may cause a horrible crime if it is habitualized.
Even Peter who was a ardent disciple of Jesus denied three times before Jesus was nailed to the cross. Resurrected Jesus promised three times to Peter, didn’t He? Even an ardent disciple of Jesus, Peter, tried to fulfill the indemnity condition for his individual sin. Likewise, we also have to establish the indemnity condition for our individual sin.
We are talking about individual sin and the quality of our blood lineage. Before we start family, we need to clarify and upgrade the quality of our blood lineage. We have inherited hereditary sin from our ancestors. Everyone is bearing hereditary sin plus our individual sins. That is why without changing our blood lineage before starting family and having a relationship with our wife or husband, we pass this on to our second and third generation and descendants.
Why do we need our life of faith? To purify our blood lineage and upgrade its quality and become very pure with no complaints. We (become) grateful for everything, always loving God and people. How can we change our blood lineage, the quality of our blood lineage? This is very important.
If you Don’t Liquidate Your Own Individual Sin, the Sin will be Bequeathed to Your descendants and Become Hereditary Sin
We have to pay the price for all kinds of sins that we committed. If we don’t do it, it will become the condition that your descendants inevitably go the path of indemnity. From that reason, today we can understand how important our life is. God is, therefore, shedding tears thinking the miserable future of sinners.
Due to the disbelief of the Israel people, Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me.” Jesus couldn’t help shedding tears thinking the horrible path of indemnity that Israel people have to go along in the future to indemnify the sin. Moreover, Jesus couldn’t help shedding tears thinking the path of indemnity that disciples were not able to attend the Lord in their daily life. From that reason, all causes that drove humanity into great misery was the sin. Therefore, if you are committing sins, the judgment and the collapse will be waiting in their future.
The way to liquidate our own individual sins is first to not treat the sins we have committed as individual. We need to deal with them publicly and historically. In fact, even individual sins all are connected to hereditary sins passed down by ancestors.
We need to know that there is God’s han and sorrow about the evil desires and fallen nature that flows in our bodies. Therefore, we need to know that God has han and sorrow against us for our individual sins, and we need to have enmity against sin and Satan with God’s han and sorrowful heart.
It is not a problem that can be resolved simply by repenting because we feel pain from the consciousness of sin about our own individual sins. We need to have a heart of public indignation and lamentation and be resolved to banish Satan with God’s han and sorrowful heart.
How can we remove our own individual sin? Whenever we commit sin, how can we remove it completely? According to my experience, the only way we can remove our original sin is with God’s han and God’s sorrowful heart. If we think when we commit (sin) how sorrowful God’s heart is (about it). When we commit individual sin, we need to think about God’s han and sorrow. We need to (redeem?) our sin with God’s han and sorrowful heart. When we commit sin and create problems, we should think how sorrowful God is and how much han he has. This kind of issue is not only us but our father and mother and grandparents were like that. Our central figure was like that. Our ancestors were like that. Therefore, we need to treat this problem not only as our own individual sin and issue. We need to treat our own individual sin publicly and historically. We should not just treat our sin as shameful: “What should I do?” and feel so much (personal) pain, but we need to have enmity against my sin and against Satan with God’s han and sorrowful heart. We need to think about God. Whenever we have that kind of issue, “Oh my goodness! This issue is not only about me, but my father, mother, ancestors, how much they struggled about this issue! I want to really liquidate it in my generation. Heavenly Father, I need your help. Without your help, it is impossible, Heavenly God. I don’t want to make you so sad and sorrowful.”
If we pray like this, if we treat our own sin publicly and historically and we are determined to solve our own issue, then our ancestors can be liberated and central figures can be liberated. But we should not treat it as our own issue. We need to have the heart of public indignation and lamentation and enmity. We should not treat our sin as our own problem.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Where Do You Create Joy?
The Reason People Easily Become Ill
1. People who are spiritually healthy are also physically healthy. Do you know what kind of people are most likely to become ill? People who assert themselves and cannot deny themselves are more likely to become ill. People who easily get angry, often complain, and easily get stressed easily become ill. Of course, there are many other causes to why people become ill. There are genetic factors, environmental factors, there are cases due to accidents, and there are illnesses caused by other things. However, if our spirits are always joyful, we are healthy. When our spirit always rejoices, it cannot help but be healthy. The way to be healthy is simple. It is to “always rejoice.” It is to “always give thanks.” Of course, when we think about God’s sorrowful heart, there are more times when we should comfort God’s heart than for me to rejoice. But something very interesting is that when I think about God’s sorrowful heart and enter God’s position and share His sorrow, my own spirit receives unimaginable comfort and rejoices. Therefore, when you participate together in God’s sorrow, pain and hardships, you will experience true comfort and joy.
This is a top secret.
People who are spiritually healthy are also physically healthy. When the spirit has dominion over the flesh, there is always joy and gratitude.
When we overcome physical desires – we want to eat more, sleep more, rest more – our spirit body is so happy and joyful and grateful.
Most people who easily become ill are people who cannot control themselves. People who assert themselves and cannot deny themselves are also more likely to become ill. Since people who cannot control themselves easily get angry, complain, and get stressed out, they easily become ill.
Of course, there are many other causes for why people become ill. There are genetic and environmental factors; there are cases due to accidents, and there are illnesses caused by other things. However, if our spirits are always joyful, we are healthy.
The Bible shows us the way for our spirits to become happy. And that is to “always rejoice” and “always give thanks.” So what does it mean to rejoice and give thanks?
First, it means to rejoice and give thanks that God is our Parent. Then, we must rejoice and give thanks over the fact that we are God’s child no matter what.
God is omhnipotent, omniscient, but “That powerful God is my daddy. I am a child of God. As long as I am a child of God, I can overcome anything, any issue, any problem. I discovered that you are my daddy. I am your son, your daughter. Wow! I am so joyful! I give thanks to you.
I rejoice and give thanks that I have met True Parents. And I need to rejoice and give thanks that I have received the eternal Blessing, which is eternal salvation, from True Parents. I met the messiah. I know God does exist. I studied the Divine Principle. What a great blessing from God and True Parents!”
We should rejoice and give thanks.
Of course, when we think about God’s sorrowful heart, there are more times when we should comfort God’s heart rather than for us to rejoice.
But something very interesting is that when we think about God’s sorrowful heart and enter God’s position and share His sorrow, our own spirit receives unimaginable comfort and rejoices. Therefore, when we participate together in God’s sorrow, pain and hardships, we will experience true comfort and joy.
After we comfort and console him, we will get incredible joy and happiness. No one knew that. “I am the one who comforted and consoled him and participated in his sorrow, pain and hardship.” After that, our spiritual body is so happy, incredible joy. We cannot imagine that. Why? We are the one who really noticed God’s sorrowful heart. No one else did.
When we think about God’s sorrowful heart, there are more times that we should comfort God’s heart rather than for us to rejoice. However, what is true rejoicing and happiness? To understand God’s sorrowful heart.
This is a top secret. When Father met God and comforted and consoled him, he was relieved of all kinds of burdens. True Father said, “I want to be responsible for your suffering and han.” Then he could feel as a son, “I want to be responsible for God’s han and sorrow and difficulties as a son of God.” He received a lot of encouragement and incredible joy.
We need to know that kind of top secret from our True Parents’ life.
Where Do You Create Joy?
2. Now, then, the question is “where do we have to create joy?” It is in the family. And I must do so in the position I am in. You will realize that life of faith is simple. Where must my life of faith begin? That is the family. We live a life for the sake of others in the family. You must first long for each other, yearn for each other, and be affectionate to each other in the family. Most of all, you must long for your family members. You just need to long for your parents, long for your hus band/ wife, long for your siblings, and long for your children.
If children are close to their friends, they disregard their parents and spend more time with their friends. They are more influenced by their friends than by their parents. When that happens, they cause their parents to worry. To become a harmonious family, one’s own parents must become one’s best friends. Parents must become the best Abel figures. Parents must become the best subjects of longing. If you have a friend closer than your parents, you are false child.
So where do we have to create joy? It is in the family. The family is the place we complete God’s purpose of creation. God’s three great blessings arises from the family. Therefore, we must first create joy in the family.
We must first long for each other, yearn for each other, be affectionate to each other, and create joy in the fa mi ly. Most of all, we must long for our family members.
Do we have a longing heart for our family members? Who can create that kind of longing heart more than anyone (else)?
Every morning I look at my grandchildren’s pictures and sometimes videos. I have an incredible longing heart.
Starting family is the best way to create a longing heart, right?
We just need to long for our parents, long for our husband/wife, long for our siblings, and long for our children. If we cannot create joy in the family, where else can we create it?
Children today are more influenced by their friends and easily disregard their parents. This is a serious issue. When that happens, they cause their parents to worry. To become a harmonious family, one’s own parents must become one’s best friends.
Our parents must become the best Abel figures and the best subjects of longing. If we have a friend closer than our parents, we are a false child. Why?
The cause of Adam and Eve's fall was the fact that they loved their friend, the archangel, more than God, their parent, and were governed by it. Therefore, we must clearly know that if there is something we like more than our parents, there is a high possibility that we will forsake our faith, forsake God, and fall. Therefore, parents should be the closest friends, closest Abel, and closest lovers.
If we do not have this kind of tradition in our family, we will be easily influenced by our friends, professors, somebody else. Then our environment will have sub juga ted us. But the most important is our family mem bers. Our father and mother can die any time (for us). That is why they should be the closest friend, closest Abel, closest lover. Who can die for us and sacrifice for us at any time at the risk of their lives? Our friends? Our pro fessors? Our senior brothers and sisters? No one (else)!
That is why Adam and Eve needed to love God more than their friend, the archangel. We call that filial piety.
Mom and Dad Have to Become Their Child’s Best Friend
3. Since Adam and Eve had give-and-take with the archangel horizontally, the archangel was closer to them than God. Such phenomenon is happening in our families and surroundings today. From that perspective, there can be no greater friend than mom and dad. Why is that so? It is because my mom and dad are people who exist for me 100%. No matter how close of a friend someone is, can they sacrifice for me 100%? There cannot be a student who does not listen to their parents, right? Everyone must report to and discuss with their parents. We must always discuss both happy and sad things with our parents. So, we have to make the heartistic relationship between parents and child closer.
Where do children find joy? They find joy when they attend their mother. They find joy from living for her sake. Where does the father find joy? He finds joy in loving his children. Parents enjoy pleasure through their children. Where does the grandfather find joy? Become close to your grandchildren. Anyone should know very well that if you do not have an object of longing, they become a pitiful being.
The reason Adam and Eve fell was because they had closer give-and-take with the archangel horizontally rather than with God. What this means is that no matter how close our children are to secular friends today, they cannot be closer than they are with their parents.
We must know our own parents as the best. From that perspective, there can be no greater friend than mom and dad. Why is that so? It is because our mom and dad are people who exist for us 100%. No matter how close of a friend someone is, they cannot sacrifice for us 100%.
Just as Adam and Eve had to be absolutely faithful, absolutely loving, and be absolutely obedient to God, in the family, our children also cherish their own parents’ words more than that of their school friends or teachers and report to and discuss with parents about everything.
Whatever happy and sad things always need to be discussed with parents. That is why we have to make the heartistic relationship between parents and child closer.
“My mom and my daddy are my best friends. They are my best Abel.” Parents and child (should have) such an inseparable relationship.
Where do children find joy? They find joy when they attend their mother. They find joy from living for her sake. Where does the father find joy? He finds joy in loving his children.
Where does the grandfather find joy? Becoming close to his grandchildren. I have such beautiful experience in this way. Anyone should know very well that if we do not have an object of longing, we become a pitiful being. People who cannot create joy in the family cannot even create joy in the workplace or school.
The Reason God Has Han (Bitter Sorrow)
4. What does mean God’s han was formed, which True Father often mentions in the Peace Messages? It means that God does not have an object partner of love. Although God is the Absolute Being and omniscient and omnipotent, He does not have an object partner of love. So how can God rejoice? We blessed families should become God’s object partners of love, but haven’t we rather become objects of His worries and difficulties? Rather, God has a lot of injustices because of us. If we blessed families know God’s han and sorrow but do not liberate Him from them, then who will? In the Old Testament Age, God gave human beings hope through rituals and institutions. In the New Testament Age, through Jesus, He taught us that we must live a life of heart well us to grow our spirits. The Completed Testament Age is time when God feels joy and has hope through blessed families’ filial hearts.
Who is the most pitiable person in this world? It is someone who wants to love but does not have an object partner whom they can love. From that perspective, the most pitiable being is God because God does not have an object partner of true love.
When we feel lonely, that means we do not have an object partner who really understands us, comforts us and consoles us. If we do not have that kind of object partner, we feel so sad and lonely.
No matter how much God is the absolute Being and omniscient and omnipotent, if God does not have an object partner of love, just as it says in 1 Corinthians chapter 13 of the Bible, he is “only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal”
Then how can we comfort and bring joy to such a pitiable God? To become the object partners of God’s joy, we must be someone who knows God’s will, wishes, vision, situation, and heart more than anyone else.
Such a person does not exist anywhere in this world or in the spirit world. There are only the blessed families who know God’s will and were blessed. But have we truly become object partners of God’s joy? Haven’t we rather become objects of His worries and difficulties?
If we blessed families know God’s han and sorrow but do not liberate Him from them, then who will? The Completed Testament Age is a time when God feels joy and has hope through blessed families’ filial hearts.
Leave Behind a Sign of Love
5.When does rebirth happen? It happens when we do not live by the body but by the mind. What is resurrection? It is growing our spirit self from the form spirit to the life spirit, and from the life spirit to the divine spirit through the life of the mind. And how will eternal life be completed? Eternal life will be completed when you have good give and take with your spouse, sons and daughters, and parents while you are in the physical world. This completion of eternal life is taken with you even when you go to the spirit world.
Instead of leaving something else on the headstone of my grave, I must leave a sign of love. We must go, leaving behind a sign of love that says, “He was born for love, and while living for love, he died, leaving behind a track record of love.” So, even after that person dies, they have to leave behind a track record that will let people long for and praise his love on earth.
How will eternal life be completed? Eternal life will be completed when we have good give and take with our spouse, sons and daughters, and parents while we are in the physical world.
For this completion of eternal life, each blessed family must become a family that realizes true love. We must go to the spirit world with a track record of joy of having realized true love.
What will we leave behind on the headstone of our grave? We need to go, leaving behind a sign of a track record of true love. We must go, leaving behind a sign of love that says, “He was born for love, and while living for love, he died, leaving behind achievements of love.”
The greatest track record of love among all track records is realizing a true family. It is creating a family in which God can be present in for eternity.
Today I talked about “Where Do You Create Joy?” It is centering on the family.
(Testimony Celina Ojeda, YeonSun Tariq, Toshiaki Mizuguchi, Holy Land Pilgrimage, Heavenly USA)♦
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