Ep 438 - Tell People About True Parents Part 4
Tell people about True Parents #73 - January 6, 2022
Today I’d like to talk again about “Tell people about True Parents” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
To think that just because you are suffering fatigue you want to have comfortable physical lives, a span that is quite short and not longer than 100 years, is not correct. You must strive to become one with Europe, so that you can liberate those in the Christian cultural sphere even one day sooner. Think of how unfortunate they are. For 2,000 years, though Christians went through many hardships in their own way, they only became empty kernels of grain. You must let others know the truth. You must guide them to realize that only this truth— the True Parents' truth—is their hope and the way for them to attain a glorious and blessed position in the future. (2015.05.24, Manhattan Center, New York)
Father's last request was for us to fulfill our responsibility as tribal messiahs. How seriously have you carried this out? Today we are gathered in this place together with members from all over the world to celebrate the members of these two nations who have lived according to True Father's words and completed gathering 430 families as tribal messiahs. We should celebrate and encourage them and we should each make a determination to fulfill this responsibility as well. The marriage Blessing gives fallen people new life through True Parents. The fallen world is a polluted and murky place, and blessed families are like clear water, the water of life. But even the clearest water will turn bad if it stagnates. It needs to flow toward the great sea. In the place where living water flows, living creatures revive. Tribal messiahs are responsible to clean this polluted world with pure living water.
But even the clearest water will turn bad if it stagnates.
Therefore, as long as we are alive, and as long as we are breathing, we must move forward. We must go out and preach and work. To say that I am still alive today means that I have a mission. I am responsible for completing my spiritual body, completing my family, and loving the country and the world within the time given to me.
It is very important how we can live gratefully day by day.
Now the tribal messiah movement has become a giant wave sweeping across Thailand and the Philippines and through other nations in Asia as well. After having passed through the continents of Europe, North and South America, Africa and Oceania, it is moving across the ocean. And wherever this wave passes, countless people are born anew. We can expect nothing from the world as it is. The only way is for us to tell the world about True Parents. When our families, tribes, nations and the world become one with True Parents, bound together in the providential Will, and sweep across the five oceans and six continents, we will realize one world under God—the kingdom of heaven on earth longed for by our Heavenly Parent and long awaited by all people. For this day to come, all blessed families in the world should achieve oneness in heart, oneness in body, oneness in thought and oneness in harmony, not only with the Heavenly Parent but also with True Parents.
Can you stand still knowing that our brothers and sisters are still out there, miserable and struggling like orphans? You must stand up. Will you do that? We must confidently testify to the world that True Parents have come. You must help people outside our movement become aware of True Parents' achievements and of how great they are. Do not be afraid. I say that wherever you act and reach out in the name of True Parents, the support of the spiritual and earthly worlds will be with you. What is there to be afraid of then? Confidently cry out. Confidently show the world that you are true blessed families, children of True Parents. Remember that this is the only way you can stand as an ancestor of a victorious true family that has guided the seven billion people in becoming citizens of Cheon Il Guk, the status we so longed for. (2014.10.26, CheongShim Peace World Center)
In 2014 to commemorate True Father’s Sunghwa, I brought two Heavenly Tribal Messiahship model families from Thailand and the Philippines to Cheongpyeong at the order of True Mother. At that time, True Mother emphasized the importance of Heavenly Tribal Messiahship a lot. From then on, the Heavenly Tribal Messiahship movement began to spread around the world.
Let's look at True Father's words about the tribal Messiah.
You Must Fulfill Your 5% Portion of Responsibility
“I’ve done everything that I could do. Now you must fulfill your 5% portion of responsibility. For an individual, a family, a tribe and a nation, this 5% portion of responsibility is the very area of your own. As of now, I am the center of the nations and the world, you as a tribal messiah are to be aligned vertically to the center of the nations and the world so that you can completely become one. That is all.” <217-292>
Tribal Messiahship and Completion of the Portion of Responsibility of Humankind
<220-90> “This is why Tribal Messiahship is not a matter of choice. If you don’t do it, your whole tribe will be accused. When a person who doesn’t complete it goes to another world, he/she will be cursed by his/her descendants, hundreds of times more than ancestors accused the fallen Adam and Eve.
I am not responsible for this. I cannot tell them not to accuse you because you did not do it. You do have your 5% portion of responsibility as a Tribal Messiah. There is no perfection without fulfilling it.”
We must know how seriously True Parents spoke about the Heavenly Tribal Messiahship mission, and everyone should fulfill this 5% responsibility.
Our parents said very clearly what the human 5% portion of responsibility is. It is the heavenly tribal messiahship mission. Anyone who fulfills heavenly tribal messiahship well, (makes) True Parents really happy. True Parents will recognize that you have fulfilled your 5% portion of responsibility as a human being. This is an incredible blessing! I would like to encourage my dear brothers and sisters without exception to fulfill this 5% portion of responsibility as a tribal messiah, and then to register in Cheonbo Won.
In our family, our couple, our daughter's family, and our second son's family have already become CheonBo families. Our eldest son's family has not yet finished their ancestor blessing ceremonies but will also (complete the Cheonbo Won) this year. Then our couple and all (our) second generation families will be able to register in the Cheonbo Won.
True Mother recently strongly encouraged, not just first generation, but second and third generation (as well) to fulfill the tribal messiah mission.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 9 - Life of Give and Take Action
This is some of the most power content in the Divine Principle. So let’s study how to apply give-and-take action in our daily life. Let’s study again the EDP content.
• Through the agency of universal prime energy, the subject and object elements of every entity form a common base and enter into interaction. This interaction, in turn, generates all the forces the entity needs for existence, multiplication, and action.
• The interaction generating these forces through this process is called give and take action.
Based on this EDP content, let’s study Father’s word in detail.
God Wants to Give Infinitely
<36-77> Then what kind of person is God? When God gives us love, how much would He want to give? God’s love does not have a set limit. He wants to give infinite love. Even after giving everything, God still says, “Because of you, I want to live in you.” What is the essential element that makes this possible? It is love. God would be happy to live as a servant if that life were lived inside love. A father could feel joy even if he sees his beloved son defecate on his dining table. Love transcends law.
When God gives us love, how much would He want to give? True Father said that God’s love does not have a set limit. God is a God of infinite heart, so He wants to give to me indefinitely.
God says that even after giving you everything He has, He still wants to live in you.
Then, what is the essence that makes this possible? It is love. If God lived inside true love, he would even be happy to live as a servant forever. A father could feel joy even if he sees his beloved son crawl up on his dining table and defecate. Love transcends all laws.
Therefore, what we need to know is that there is no limit to giving. However, fallen humans always have a set limit according to their own standards when trying to give to others. We should also reflect on how to become an infinite giver resembling the attributes of God's true love.
<36-77> God has been continuously extending His love to people, but that doesn’t mean He will complain, saying, “I have given you everything without reserve. Why do you not give back?” Can God be like this? The God of absolute love is still frustrated that He has not been able to give all the love He wants to. God cannot assert Himself. If God’s purpose in creating man was to give perfect love, would He not stand in a position of shame even after pouring out His love, because He has been unable to give perfect love? He is a God who wants to give us better things. Therefore, the more we think of God, the better we feel. If God were someone who says, “I have given everything, so now you give back,” we would not need Him.
Just because God has given love to this world until now, He is not a God who says, "I gave everything already, but why do you not give back?“
If God is the eternal parent of humankind and has absolute love, He still feels sorry and ashamed because He can’t give all the love he wants to give.
He is not a God who can assert that He has given everything to humans.
If the principle was to give infinite and complete love when God created humans, then God has not been able to give love completely so far.
God wants to give to his children, human beings, forever and indefinitely according to His attributes. God feels ashamed when giving and wants to give something better because He has the concept of love that gives indefinitely.
Therefore, the more you think of such a God, the better you feel. Christians often say God is good all the time.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a fallen or a perfect man. His portion of responsibility is giving and giving and giving and still wanting to give more. Since his nature’s attributes are eternal, he wants to give eternally, universally.
How can we resemble God’s nature? When we give something to our subject or object partner, how can we resemble this aspect of God’s nature? How can we give universally(?) without any regret and still feel ashamed that “I did not give enough”? If each fallen man returns to God’s bosom after restoration, “I can give more than before. I have never experienced giving something after becoming a perfect (being). I still have many things to give to my children.” That is the nature of God.
I am so grateful that I have that kind of God. I have an eternal parent who is already giving to me, serving me, sacrificing for me and investing in me. Thank God. “God is good all the time.”
If God is a God who says, "I have given everything, so now you give back," it would result in breaking His principle of giving forever and indefinitely. In that respect, true love is amazing and great the more you think about it.
I really think about God’s creation and God’s love. I cannot imagine any fallen man … Our True Parents practice the nature of God’s heart. Thank God for our True Parents.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: How to Relieve God’s Deep Bitter Heart and Sorrow - Creating God’s Place of Rest
How can we relieve God’s deep bitter heart and sorrow?
First, how to relieve God’s deep bitter heart and sorrow and return joy is solved by resurrecting my heart through the Word. Most people said that because they were bound by form, tradition, and custom, God's word did not become our life, so God could not dwell in us, and we did not recognize the people whom God sent.
That is a problem. God has strong resentment. He tried to approach each human being, but all of them, most of them were possessed by tradition, by formality, by custom and by habit. They were hypocrites. God can only deal with those who have heart and sincerity. Among fallen men it is difficult to find sincerity and heart. That’s why God’s providence has been delayed and delayed, even though he sent central figures. People could not recognize those people. Even though God sent the messiah, Jesus, they could not recognize who he was because they were possessed by that kind of external tradition, external form, external habit and customs, their own concepts. That’s why God has resentment.
How can we solve that problem? We need to have a sincere heart beyond tradition and formality and customs. Otherwise there is no way to relieve God’s heart.
Secondly, In the place where Cain and Abel become one and reconcile, God’s Han is relieved. In the age of the providence of restoration, most of the central figures failed in the relationship between Cain and Abel, who established the Foundation of Faith.
Most of the central figures established the foundation of faith, but most of them failed (to establish) the foundation of substance. That is the problem. That’s why anyone who (achieves) conciliation very well between parents and children, between husband and wife, there is a recording(?) centering on God’s history. God really recognizes (this?). This is the way we can relieve God’s sorrowful heart.
Today I’d like to talk about, “What is the 3rd Way to Relieve God’s Bitter Heart?” That is Creating God’s Place of Rest.
1. In order for us to make God happy, we must first know as many stories as God has formed historically. In addition, we must know and grant God's earnest desire for human beings on our own. God’s bitter heart was that there was no place for Him to reside as He worked through the families of the chosen central figures.
2. Jesus wanted to come and form a garden of love, God’s Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, but it did not go as he wished. Through the words of Matthew 8:20, we can see Jesus’ Han and sorrow: "Jesus replied, ‘Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.’" Seeing that Jesus, who came as the Messiah, envied foxes with dens and birds flying in the air, one can see how sad and lonely Jesus was heartistically.
Who is Jesus? He is God’s begotten son. He came to earth 4,000 years after incredible sacrifice and suffering. When he came to the earth, Zachariah’s family could not accept him. Joseph and Mary could not protect Jesus. Even John the Baptist could not accept Jesus and doubted him. Jesus final problem was dealing with his disciples, letting them understand who he was. No one understood Jesus. That is why he said, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” Oh my God! Can you imagine this. He envied foxes! He envied birds in the air. How lonely he was! He could not unite with anyone heartistically. There was no heartistic communication. Even his mother could not recognize him and become his friend. Even Joseph was like that. Even John the Baptist could not communicate heartistically with Jesus. Even the three disciples and 12 disciples and 72 disciples -- so many people followed him, but no one could understand the heart of Jesus. That is why Jesus could not stay anywhere. That is the reason Jesus had to go to the cross. He had no place to stay.
3. Just as Jesus had nowhere to live, we can see that our God has led the providence of restoration with that heart.
Jesus’ lonely heart was God’s lonely heart. Jesus’ sorrowful heart was God’s sorrowful heart. Even though God led(?) his providence for 4,000, 5,000, 6,000 years, there was no place for him to reside. How many people understood this?
God’s bitter heart and sorrow is that even though there are so many families and people living on this earth, there is no place for Him to reside.
Most of Jesus’ disciples tried to take off their own yoke of pain, but no one tried to know what Jesus' suffering was, and no one tried to share Jesus’ pain. This was the bitter heart and sorrow of Jesus.
That was Jesus’ han. Jesus’ han! He couldn’t have even one (person with whom) to communicate heartistically. Look at this photo. Wow! Do you think Jesus was such a glorious Jesus … ? He was such a lonely guy! So sorrowful! Jesus saw God’s sorrowful situation. He really wanted to settle down. But now all the prepared people had rejected him, persecuted him, accused him. His mother, Mary, had run away from Zachariah’s family. Joseph and Mary’s family could not protect Jesus; he need to leave home. He tried to meet John the Baptist and ask him to recognize who he was. But John could not recognize him and later on doubted. Jesus’ last (remaining option) was to work with his disciples, but they, (too,) could not recognize who he was. They only followed him because they saw his miracles. Wow! This is really a painful story!
4. Looking at the entire Bible, there were two women who had a connection heartistically with Jesus’ situation. When Jesus talked about one of the women, Jesus said that her name would be forever celebrated wherever God's words reached. That woman was Mary, who poured an expensive oil costing 300 Denarius on Jesus’ feet for his funeral.
Mary knew that Jesus was going to die. So she poured expensive oil on his feet. She knew Jesus’ heart. That is why Jesus said, “Her name would be forever celebrated wherever God’s word reached.”
The other woman was a Samaritan whom Jesus met while passing through Samaria. When Jesus talked to the woman, he revealed himself for the first time as the Messiah who is coming. He did not use a metaphor for the Messiah. This really happened once in Jesus' entire life.
5. When Jesus said, "The Messiah you are waiting for is me," the Samaritan woman immediately abandoned her water jar and followed Jesus, indicating her high level of heart. She was not Jewish. She realized the words of Jesus from a really high level. She did not follow Jesus after seeing his wonders and miracles.
They did not matter (to her). She immediately recognized who Jesus was. When Jesus met this woman for the first time, he confessed (to her). He showed his own identity to her: “I am the messiah” because she already had the kind of heart that would accept him.
As soon as she heard Jesus’ words, she quickly realized who he was. This woman had a base of faith on which God could work just through Jesus' words.
6. When Jesus conducted wonders and miracles, he told his disciples and those who followed him not to say that he did them. But when he saw this stranger, the Samaritan woman, he directly revealed that he was the Messiah. However, the Jews and disciples who were supposed to follow Jesus distrusted and persecuted him, so Jesus lost his foundation and had to face the cross and died lamenting. Many groups say they follow the Lord, but no one knew the Lord’s situation. Then, why was there no one who could share the same situation as the Lord in this way, or die along with the Lord at the time of death? This is because Jesus' disciples focused only on their problems disregarding Jesus’ world of heart.
7. Today, it can be said that after we listened to the Principle, we took off all our heavy burdens through True Parents. Unification Church members became people who all spirits in spirit world envied when they looked at the members. Although we have been liberated from the realm of death through the Principle and the Blessing, the important thing, however, is whether we have become individuals and families where God can reside going beyond our own circumstances and positions. It is whether we have become an altar of families and churches that can grant God's wishes. There may be people who are grateful for being saved through the Principle and the Blessing saying, "Oh, I am saved. I am saved in the name of my True Parents. I am guaranteed to enter the kingdom of heaven. My job of the CheonboWon is complete. I am saved in the name of my True Parents. Thank you, Father!" But, how many children are there who say they will liberate God? This is a problem that each of us should seriously reflect on today.
8. How many people are there who are alive by God's Word and convey God's blessings to the community? How many individuals can be established by God and work on His behalf? How many people can God really call His child? How many people can share and sympathize with God’s bitter heart and sorrow? We really feel in our lives and in the course of the providence of restoration with its repeated failures that it is extremely difficult for us to feel God’s bitter heart and sorrow as something substantial. God comes to this earth with His Han. He is searching for sons and daughters who can relieve His bitter heart and sorrow. How many people will inherit such bitter heart and sorrows of our poor God and go out to the front line and struggle on behalf of God?
9. To this day, we can see that we have faced numerous difficulties and trials due to various conflicts and struggles over our individual and family problems. But what we need to know is that we are in a period of bearing fruit. However, whenever I look at myself who have still not been revived by the Words, I need to think whether or not I give more obstruction or crosses to God and True Parents on their path. Therefore, we should know God’s bitter heart and sorrow, let that become the strength for our life of faith and become reliable sons and daughters who move closer to our True Parents. What is the Way to Relieve God’s Bitter Heart?” That is Creating God’s Place of Rest.
(What is the way to relieve God's sorrow?) It is whether or not I have become a body and mind where God can dwell. It is how the home becomes (a place where) God can dwell. It is whether God becomes a church that (he) can dwell (in).
Jesus could not find any place where he could rest. God cannot find any place where he can rest.
We really need to grow up. We need to really understand God’s heart and sorrow and suffering and difficulties. We can cry out and say, “God, please rest. I will be responsible for you. I really want to liberate and comfort you. Until now how much you sacrificed and suffered for all humankind, for me, for my family. Now it is time for me to do (that) for you, my Heavenly Father.” We need to have that kind of determination. We need to be those kinds of filial sons and daughters. Then God can release his resentment, his han.
Let God be my body, my family, and my church where God can dwell forever in my heart. That is the way to relieve God's sorrow and God’s han.
(Response to sharing) I just came back from an international conference call. … When I delivered (recorded) this message to you this morning, afterwards I could not control my tears. The whole day I felt as if Jesus had come to me, True Father had come to me. I do not really know how to comfort them, how to release their han. Today I had an incredible spiritual experience with Jesus. I understand his inner heart more and more, how miserable he was.
We -- even our eldest members -- need to understand his inner heart and suffering as “my own suffering.” As children of Jesus, we really need to comfort him. We need to fulfill what he could not fulfill. His job is our job to do. From the beginning we have not understood his heart and his inner situation.♦
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