Ep 419 - The Family Foundation to Send the Only Begotten Daughter Part 1
The Family Foundation to Send the Only Begotten Daughter #54 - December 18, 2021
Today is a very special day, our Blessing Festival. Thank you so much for your hard work, investment, devotion and contribution. Let’s focus on our watch parties. We need to connect so many brothers and sisters and then continuously follow up with them (so they can) really become children of God and True Parents.
Today I’d like to talk about “The family foundation to send the only begotten daughter” from True Mother’s Anthology 1.
The grave of Jo Won-mo is at the Paju Wonjon. She is my maternal grandmother. Heaven's providence made preparations for a long time to send the Returning Messiah to the Korean peninsula. The history of Christianity in Korea is short, but different from other Christians, who were expecting Jesus to return on the clouds, were the spirit-led Christian groups in Korea who were preparing and waiting for the Returning Messiah to come in the flesh. According to Father, the mother of the universe must come from a family with only one daughter for three-generations. Grandmother Jo is my maternal grandmother and was the only daughter. Daemonim was also the only daughter, and I was also an only daughter. What is quite profound and intriguing was that when Father first saw me, he asked, “What is your name?” After I gave him my name, he suddenly closed his eyes and said, “I offer my gratitude to Heaven for making a girl like this be born in Korea.” At the time of my Holy Wedding in 1960, Grandmother Jo ascended. However, she passed away knowing whom I would marry. (2013.11.21, YongPyong Resort)
Fallen people desire to meet True Parents. Though Jesus died on the cross 2,000 years ago, the position of the only begotten son remained; however, the only begotten daughter had not emerged. God could not enter the nation of Israel, which had failed in its responsibility, and did not use it again. If He had, it would have created grounds for Satan's accusation. Because of that, Heaven had no choice but to pick another nation of people to establish a foundation for His only begotten daughter. He chose the Han people. Through the Republic of Korea the 2,000 years of Christian history has been to prepare for the only begotten daughter. The Returning Lord must meet the only begotten daughter. The only begotten daughter is True Mother, born in 1943.
The only begotten daughter has to be born on the Christian foundation because providential history unfolded in that direction. Daemonim fulfilled a central role in a religious group that offered immense devotion in order to prepare for the returning Lord. She protected and educated well the only begotten daughter and offered devotion for Mother to take part in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, to establish the True Parents. She also led an exemplary life of serving True Parents in front of blessed members and other church members. Even after she went to the spirit world, she was able to carry out her role in lieu of True Parents. So she was named Daemonim (Great Mother). She is an indispensable person to all fallen people.
From that viewpoint, all of you are fortunate. In Jesus' time, 2,000 years ago, no such environment existed, and there was no protective fence for Jesus. However, if you look at the history of CheongPyeong today, Daemonim displayed absolute faith, love and obedience in the position of being one heart, one body, one mindset and one harmony with True Parents. Though she was in the spirit world, she prepared for True Father's ascension in the real world, which nobody had ever imagined or thought of doing. This was not something that could have been done by just anybody. (2016.05.08, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Mother said that Daemonim has fulfilled her own portion of responsibility.
Wow! She was recognized by True Mother for her role.
Then, let's take the time to learn more about Daemonim.
Hong Soon-ae Daemonim
Hong Soon-ae Daemonim, who was born as the only daughter among the two children of Teacher Hong Yu-il and Mrs. Jo Won-mo, was the person who left the greatest achievements in the history of the providence of restoration and lived a life of sacrifice for True Parents’ providential course. She attended the Presbyterian Church until the age of 19 when she attended a revival meeting by Rev. Lee Yong-do, pastor of the New Jesus Church, and received three-days of grace. Then, she left Anju and would walk 20 or 30 miles each day to witness about the Gospel to villagers all the way to Shineuiju.
Daemonim’s wedding was more than humanistic, for she received a revelation from Heaven: “Rejoice! If your baby is a boy, he will become the king of the universe, and if a girl, she will become the queen of the universe.” Even after this, Grandmother Jo Won-mo and Hong Soon-ae Daemonim pursued the Holy Spirit and truth to meet the Second Coming Messiah, without compromising with the world, serving 24 hours in front of heaven.
After she finally met True Father, the Second Coming Messiah, and the Holy Wedding took place in 1960, she devoted all her heart to True Parents, risking her life to serve True Parents, and continuing a fierce spiritual battle with Satan, devoting all her heart to a life of prayer for the three generations of true family. In order to prevent Satan from taking advantage, she said she lived by these 5 life principles.
These are very, very beautiful.
1. In the first hour you wake up from sleep, look up at Heaven with a pure, thoughtful heart
2. When returning home, leave a seat for our Parent and then sit down
3. Know the direction to hang clothes and leave a space for our Parent to hang their clothes
4. Even when you lie down, lie down on your back, always being careful
5. Say one good thing each day and make the people you live with feel good
Wow! This looks very simple, but (it is) very, very pure. We can feel her incredible attendance. She always thinks about God, always thinks about True Parents, how to attend them, how to take care of them. Such a humble heart and mind! Also, (she was) not only attending God and True Parents, but at the same time (was concerned about) how to make them happy for the sake of others.
Indeed, Hong Daemonim was a cosmic model for serving God and True Parents. Hong Daemonim fulfilled her role of nanny very, very thoroughly in raising True Mother. We too, like Hongdaemonim, have to play the role of a nanny before our children. We must teach our children that “Your parents are God and your parents are True Parents, and we are only your nanny.” Yesterday, Alexa spoke about being a “nanny granny.” We have to go beyond the heart of controlling our children and serve them as princes and princesses.
This is very, very important. We can learn so many things from Daemonim, how she raised True Mother. She really did her job in the nanny position and truly and sincerely attended her daughter, True Mother. She always continued to educate her: “Your father is God. Your father is God. You need to attend him. Your real father is God.” Wow! (She offered such) beautiful education. When True Mother married True Father, Hong Daemonim became the servant of servants and attended our True Parents substantially.
When she passed away, went to the spiritual world and came down again, she worked so seriously centered on Cheong Pyeong. … Can you imagine? I was so inspired later on to hear the news that Hong Daemonim had already known that Father would not live a long life. That is why she hurried to build our Cheongshim Peace World Center very quickly. Hurry! Hurry! When she had just completed it, we knew that we needed to prepare for our True Father’s seong hwa. Wow! There are many beautiful stories, that I cannot reveal now, about how she prepared for Father’s seonghwa and for True Mother’s seonghwa in the future. I can’t tell you now how she prepared so seriously. Hong Daemonim is really incredible. We are very fortunate to have Hong Daemonim! She laid an incredible foundation for us to liberate our ancestors. We need to really appreciate Hong Daemonim!
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Who Is God?
God is:
• The subject and harmonious union of original internal nature and original external form.
• The harmonious union of original masculinity and original femininity.
• The subject partner having qualities of internal nature and masculinity towards the universe.
11. God is the God of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience.
12. God is the subject of true love, true life, and true lineage.
13. God is the subject of conscience.
14. God is a God of bitter pain.
15. God is a God of mercy.
16. God is a God of sorrow.
17. God is a being who needs to be liberated.
Today, in the series of lectures on Who God Is, I will tell you that God is the God of Sorrow.This is the second to the last in the series of lectures: God is a God of sorrow. Based on this content, let’s read:
15. God is a God of Sorrow
<42-241> The people living today are not God's sons and daughters. No matter how much God grieves, we do not care about His pain. The problem is, we were born into Satan's lineage. We are rather more likely to see God's sorrow and commend it. We view the failures with joy and laughter. How much work is it for God to guide such people, to teach them, to reclaim them and head them in the right direction? If God did not have a heart to work for us, did not have a heart to view us with pity, would He have pursued the history of restoration up until now?
The greatest secret among the secrets of God's providence and history is the fact that God is not a God of glory and joy, but a God who weeps over the loss of his children. So far, many saints have come and gone, but no one but True Parents has revealed that God is a God of sorrow.
True Father said that it was only after he realized that God was the most miserable and sad God, that he came to know the will and walked the path that he could not get tired of and that he could not give up on.
That is Father’s shame(?). Since he came to know that God is a God of sorrow, he cannot give up. He cannot be tired, no matter what. He has to keep going.
Wow! Look at Father’s face here. When he led his own ministry in the earlier church in Korea, he was always crying and crying and crying and crying. Those who participated in True Father’s sermons were also crying and crying and crying. That is why many outside people called our church the “Crying Church.” Some people received a revelation about how to meet the messiah -- maybe some day you can hear the nickname of that church, the Crying Church -- “If you find the Crying Church, definitely you will meet the messiah.” Our father is the one who knows God’s inner situation, his sorrowful heart.
A person who has the faith of a servant or an unfilial child has no tears for his parents. This is because they have different levels of heart and they cannot communicate with each other well.
However, when the filial child sees his pitiful parents, there is no way to stop the tears in his eyes.
To know whether you are of God's or Satan's lineage, check whether God's tears are always in your eyes.
If you don’t have God’s tears in your eyes, then there is a lot of gap between yourself and God. You still have far to go.
Satan's lineage has no tears.
Satan's lineage has no idea of other people's circumstances.
Satan's lineage only knows one’s own circumstances.
Satan's lineage curses and resents others easily.
Satan's lineage blames everything on others.
I always reflect: Do I have God’s tears in my eyes? I always ask myself, do I understand that God is a God of sorrow. When I look at Father, he is the one who truly understands God’s reality. Look at True Mother. Whenever she shares her words, tears always come down (her cheeks) because Father and Mother are the ones who truly understand who God is. That’s why Jesus’ top secret … Only True Father revealed the secret about who God is.
<184-192> You must understand that for tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of years, God has been crying out, "My son! My daughter!” Have you tried calling out to God, "Father . . !"until your voice becomes hoarse? Have you tried calling sincerely calling out 'Father' until your tongue is dry, until you are short of breath, until you so exhausted you cannot keep your eyes open? How desperately have you tried to understand the value of the One who gave us our very life? The measure of how desperately you have tried for God is a measure of the standard of your character.
God is a God of Sorrow. Father was just talking about this.
“The measure of how desperately you have cried for God is a measure of the standard of your character.” Father said:
1. How much have you been crying out for God?
Because God is the one who has been crying out for me. When Adam and Eve fell in the Garden of Eden, God was calling out: “Adam! Adam! Where are you now? Adam, please where are you now?” Even now Father is calling to each human being. “You were supposed to go this way. You were supposed to go that way. Adam! Where are you now? … What are you doing? Where are you now?” That much God is crying out for me.
2. As a child how much have you tried calling out to God?
That is a measure of the standard of our character.
How much have you been calling out to God? “What I know is that you are my God. What I know is that you are my father and mother. You are my parents, I truly, truly, truly want to be your son or daughter, Heavenly Father. I am struggling, God, what can I do?” How much have you tried calling out to God?
3. How many times did your voice become hoarse for God?
Since True Father knows who God is, he is calling out and crying out for God. He is shouting and his voice no longer comes out and he becomes hoarse. He can no longer pronounce the words. How much he cries out! This is the reality, my brothers and sisters. This is the reality!
4. How much have you tried calling sincerely calling out 'Father' until your tongue is dry, until you are short of breath, until you so exhausted you cannot keep your eyes open?
Wow!
5. How desperately have you tried to understand the value of the One who gave us our very life?
Who is God? God is your daddy. Your daddy is really like that. What can we do? How many know this reality? How many human beings really know this reality? Even though so many saints and sages have come and gone, nobody talks about God’s sorrow. Maybe Jesus knew this, but he could not express it.
<211-132> How miserable has God's inner heart been, watching humankind as they lost the value of the life that they were endowed with at creation, and began living instead a struggling, worthless life, barely better than the lowest of creatures? How excruciating is it for God to watch us, who were meant to become His direct descendents, through His love, His life and His lineage, and occupy the kingdom of heaven, now become part of such a sorry lineage, wearing the masks of the defeated, moaning and groaning in suffering, sighing in despair, and living lives filled with struggling?
How did the all-powerful God become such a miserable God because of the fall of man? Also, think about how human beings have fallen to the place of hell amongst the unimaginable hell. This is a fact that cannot be denied, no matter how hard you try.
<211-132> We have not realized what a sorrowful God our God has been. Because of this, since I have come to know God's heart, I have lamented and cried every day, every week. You need to understand what kind of deep beginnings the Unification Church came from.
Until now, has there ever been an individual, family, church, or nation crying for God?
No individual is crying for God. No family is crying for God. No church is crying for God. No nation is crying for God. Wow! There is a huge gap between God and ourselves.
Those who have never truly cried for God say that the distance between God's heart and theirs is too far.
That is our challenge. Our True Parents, for the first time in human history, revealed God’s sorrow. We need to understand more about God's inner situation, his reality: God is a God of sorrow.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Moses and His Course of Faith - What We Can Learn from Moses’ Birth
1. It is easy to think of Moses as limited to just an individual while studying Moses’ course.
“Mose is Moses. Abraham is Abraham. Isaac is Isaac. They do not relate to my life of faith.” We cannot think like that.
The Bible's words are all related to the content of the Principle of Creation. It is not just symbolic but it very much relates to the Principle of Creation. Even though the content may be very symbolic, everything relates to the Principle of Creation. Biblical parables, miracles, and all life courses should be thought of as content based on the Principle of Creation.
2. Moses “coming out of the water” can be interpreted as “created by the Word.” If water is symbolic, then the Words are internal (Sungsang). So, if I have a dream where I fell into muddy water or a car sprayed muddy water on me while passing by, (this) suggests in advance that something will happen to me.
3. God often teaches fallen humans in symbols rather than directly. In particular, He educates us through dreams and presents directions for us to go. Being hit by muddy water in a dream teaches me that worry, confusion, and anxiety will come to me.
4. Dreaming of taking a bath in clear water means that my mind has become clean after hearing new words. So, if you listen to the words of the Principle, you can see yourself taking a bath in clear water. It shows that my spirit was happy to hear the words of the Principle.
5. When my mind is disoriented going in two or three directions, and when order is broken or the order of thinking is wrong, we are shown “confusion” or “cloudy water” through our dreams. Cloudy water symbolizes chaos. Clear water appears when the spiritual order of my mind is in order, and cloudy water appears when the mind is frustrated and the way of thinking is somehow wrong and clouded.
6. The great thing about Moses' mother was that her mind was very clean and refined. Her blood was clean because she always loved heaven. In this way, if a woman's blood is clean, her descendants' character is good.
Again, I am talking about a woman’s faith, a woman’s quality of blood. This is very important. The woman is the center of love in the family. Most children live together with their mother. I really respect Moses’ mother. How come she raised Moses so well in that kind of environment? It is really incredible!
7. The ocean usually symbolizes the mother. Water symbolizes both the words and the mother. The words can also be seen as playing the role of a mother because they give life
8. When the words and the Holy Spirit form reciprocity and revive my spirit, the words become the subject and the Holy Spirit becomes the object. The words can be a mother or a father depending on their position. When a man and a woman form a reciprocal relationship and become one in love, the man can stand in the woman’s position and the woman can stand in the man’s position. This phenomenon occurs when they are united with each other.
9. If the subject and object form a circular motion, they can change positions. This is because there is a male characteristic in a woman's personality and a female characteristic in a man’s personality. Adam and Eve, created as one man and one woman, play dual roles because they are the substantial objects of God’s internal nature and external form. Since God is the harmonious union of internal nature and external form, He sometimes plays the role of a father and sometimes of a mother.
This is really important. Let me explain in detail.
10. For example, a mother acts as a father to her daughter and as a mother to her son because she becomes a mediator of love when she gives birth to a child. People should have two sides, internal and external.
Sometimes (one plays) the father’s role, sometimes the mother’s role.
Depending on the other person’s position, I have to play my role well. Therefore, you should be a person who always has two sides, an internal and external (side). However, there are many biased people who stick to their own position, many people who have lost their well-roundedness, and are heartless and harsh. The more people are like this, the less communication is possible.
This is very important as a mediator. Moses’ mother … how to raise Moses. In order to create a beautiful relationship between husband and wife, Father said, one who is an ideal wife to your husband sometimes has to assume the mother’s role to your husband, sometimes the wife’s role, sometimes the elder daughter’s role, sometimes the younger sister’s role -- according to the husband’s mood and situation. Sometimes you need to become the mother; sometimes you need to become the wife; sometimes you need to become the elder daughter -- according to the situation. … “My wife today is like a baby! … stupid…” Do not think like that. You take the baby’s position. (Or you may) embrace him as a mother. Sometimes a man wants to be a small boy in front of his wife. “My husband needs a mother’s love.” Then embrace him as a mother. Do not fix your position. “I am his wife! I am her husband!”
Do not fix your position. Your position needs to sometimes go up, sometimes go down. You need to adjust according to your spouse’s situation and mood. Do not fix your position. Sometimes toward your children you need to play the father’s role or mother’s role, sometimes the grandparents’ role, sometimes you need to become a friend of your children. “Oh no, I am your father! You need to respect me! You need to respect my dignity!” You never come down.
Sometimes you need to become good friends with your children and call(?) each other and share. You can listen to music together, sometimes watch TV together, sometimes (engage in) horizontal talk like friends. But if you fix your position -- especially Korean people: “I am your daddy. I cannot do like this!” and keep only external dignity -- it does not work. Then there is no communication.
That is why your spouse has to become a beautiful girlfriend or boyfriend, become a good mother or a good father, good husband, good wife, sometimes younger sister, sometimes a younger daughter, or elder son’s position. How beautiful this is centered on the four position foundation! Sometimes you go up or down, sometimes horizontal, sometimes vertical according to the situation. Then you develop a very rounded character.
My father, when I deal with my father, he always keeps his external dignity. “You know, I am your daddy!” He never became my friend. However, when I grew up and he became old, we became friends and he talked with me about many, many things.
11. To be a person with smooth human relationships, you have to be harmonious depending on the other person. If I feel bad according to the other person's personality, then only my personality gets worse and there is no benefit. In the end, all the damage comes to me.
That’s why you need to become a mediator between parents and children, between husband and wife, between anyone.
12. Even if the other person acts out badly, the recipient must receive it well and protect themself well so that their spirit does not get hurt. When I stand against the other person, my spirit gets hurt. If you are treated badly by others, you should look at yourself and reflect on why it happened. If you treat someone else's sin as your own, your spirit will be protected and both sides will be protected.
The important thing is how to protect your soul, how to protect your spirit. No matter what the situation, do not go up and do not go down, up and down, up and down, and according to the situation your mood is always changeable here and there, this becomes a problem.
You can see the ocean waves on the surface, sometimes the waves are very high and come down, but on the bottom of the ocean it is always very calm, always calm.
Keep your standard.
13. You should not under any circumstances look badly at (judge?) the other person to protect your soul. Because if you look at the other person badly, the standard of your heart will surely go down.
Therefore, when you see the bad behavior of the other person, you should think that his sin is yours. You have to maintain the level of respect you have for the other person in any situation and even in situations where you can't help but be disappointed. When you look up to your opponent, you have to respect them. That way your heart is protected.
“I usually respect this guy. He is very much Abel. But I have heard someone speak about his bad things, his point of view, in the past he was like that, this and that, all kinds of things,” then your respect immediately disappears. You no longer respect him any more. Then your disappointment causes serious problems.
How can I maintain my respect(?) no matter what? Father said, “Your sin is my sin. Your problem is my problem.” (So I should) treat (his sin) as my sin, his problem as my problem. Then I can still keep my respect toward somebody.
14. If you ignore the other person, it will soon result in ignoring yourself. Also, complaining about your partner hardens and dries out your heart. So, don't ignore or complain about it, even for your own sake. The most important thing is to protect your heart and mind. You must protect yourself in any circumstance. In order to do that, you have to live your life very, very well.
15, Moses' mother raised Moses without a father and played the role of father and mother well. She raised Moses admirably without a father. As her nanny, she educated (Moses) well about both sides of the nature of God's Father and Mother. We, too, must educate our children so that they can grow internally and externally smoothly.
We can learn from Moses’ birth and also from Moses’ mother.♦
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