Ep 445 - Let's Return to the Early Times Part 2
Let's Return to the Early Times 80-5-12-40 - January 13, 2022
Today is a beautiful morning.
Today I’d like to talk again about “Let's return to the early times” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
In the early years of the church Father raised the members through his words, his love and with strong bonds of heart. From now on, the church in Korea and throughout the world must become like that. Overall I will lead the Korean church in that direction. The same goes for the rest of the world. Even without explaining it in words, we all can feel the bonds of heart we have with each other, forged with God at the center. When we unite, we can be totally interconnected. You are blessed families who are connected to one another with a strong bond of heart, and based upon this, you need to cooperate fully with one another. To build a church based on heart, whether you have a public mission or not, gear your every action, word and attitude first for other people and the environment. You must be considerate of those around you. (2012.09.03, Cheon Jeong Gung)
This speech was just right after Father’s Seonghwa ceremony. Can you imagine how serious True Mother’s heart was after Father passed away. She had to be responsible for everything.
Today's message is what True Mother gave us after the Seonghwa ceremony of True Father in 2012. Here, True Mother's strong determination for how she will guide blessed families around the world is revealed.
What we can learn from this is that it contains a strong Will to tie all the family members together through the bond of heart -- I like this term -- just like when True Father pastored in his early days.
Most pressingly, the question is how we can return to the spirit of the early days in our church. How can we unite with the Word in spirit and truth, so we can become a vibrant living church? Our task is to share the words of the Principle unceasingly every day with new people, and inspire them to attend seven-day, 21-day and 40-day workshops and then receive the marriage Blessing. We need to find many new members and make our Unification Church vibrant and full of life and spirit. What should we do to transform the current church so that it can become a church vibrant with life? Can we become a church that can give birth to new members without overly focusing on numbers? I have thought deep and hard about this. The projects that True Father initiated are so vast and numerous. How can we adequately preserve and develop this and take it with us? I have contemplated deeply about this. The sight of Rev. Eu Hyo-won in the early days of our church, lecturing all day long without eating properly despite his disabilities, and laboring so hard to find one new life, remains deeply impressed on my mind.
The fruits of his efforts at that time are the 36 couples and 72 couples, right? They became the roots of the Unification Church. Among them there are those who didn't receive this grace in the end. However, I saw how most of them remained in the position of the elder brothers and sisters of all the blessed families as the roots of this movement. There are now only a few of you remaining but you are indebted to Heaven in many ways. I think I have to help you repay those debts before you go to the spirit world. Internally I am doing these things, and externally, I want to push all of you into a position where you can make great effort, like Rev. Eu did in his time, in offering all of your soul and might in finding even one new life. The church should be overflowing unceasingly with God's Words. You cannot call it a church just because worship is held there on Sunday. You should create a church that can be breathing and moving with life twenty-four hours a day. (2012.09.30, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Mother's greatest concern is how to get our church back to the early days as quickly as possible.
In the early days, the members of the family were completely united with True Parents as the center through the bond of heart.
So today, let's study True Father's words about the bond of heart that True Mother speaks of.
The World Lives Through the Bonds of Heart
<33-14> Anyone can have a spiritual experience if they pray. Even among the district leaders here, there is one person who God loves, that is, there is one person who stands at the forefront of his heart.. To you, he may look like nothing, but he could be number one heartistically. As such, in the world of the Tao, the heart is always the problem. The world lives through the bond of heart. The world does not live through the bond of truth, but the world lives through the bond of the heart. The world lives through the bond of heart, and only when we live through the bond of original nature that binds us together, that is, the bond of heart, can we be unified into one. It is the bond of nature that has bound us together. From there, a bond of original nature that can give and receive is formed, and you can give and receive forever.
<33-14> The world lives through the bonds of heart. It is impossible to live only with the truth without the bond of heart. Then you like intelligent people or heartistic people? 「We like heartistic people」Knowledge acts as a dispersing agent, whereas heart builds unity. Knowledge is like opening a wrapping cloth, and heart is like wrapping something with the wrapping cloth. If you open a wrapping cloth, it is impossible to carry everything all at once, but if you wrap it up, you can carry it all at once. When unfolded, there are innumerable, but when combined, it becomes one. Where you become one in heart, there can be no dispute.
According to True Father, the person God loves is number one heartistically.
True Father said that in the world of Tao, the heart is ultimately the most important issue.
This is because the most important thing in the parent-child relationship between God and human beings is not knowledge, not money, not honor, and not power.
The most important thing is the heart of parents loving their children and the heart of children being filial to their parents. That is everything. Heart is everything.
In the end the most important thing in sibling and conjugal relationships is the heart.
Therefore, Father said that the whole world should not live based on relationships of truth, but on relationships of heart.
Then, how will fallen humans establish relationships of heart? They cannot heartistically connect with God and True Parents from the beginning.
First, you need to make a relationship with the Words and know who God and True Parents are. Next, you have to experience a change in your personality as you hear the Words and practice them. Then they penetrate more internally. Next, as you experience that God and True Parents are truly your eternal parents, you form a parent-child relationship with them.
Finally it leads to a relationship of heart. Through this process, everyone realizes that we are all brothers and sisters and one family under God.
Therefore, True Father said that the world will be unified only when we live with relationships of heart, not by knowledge, not by power.
All Unification Church members in the early days remained because they formed such heartistic relationships with True Parents.
When we form human relationships based on money, honor, material, or power, they are temporary.
When we establish a relationship with someone, we must see each other as sons and daughters of God, serve each other, and have a loving relationship of heart.
Then, how much do I have relationships of heart with the people around me? Do you have a relationship of heart with God? Do you have an inseparable relationship of heart with True Parents?
I still remember what Rev. Yo Han Lee said: What is the purpose of going to Sunday Service? Because this is a very important duty as a blessed family? Many people could not give a proper answer. Rev. Yo Han Lee said he goes to church because he longs for someone. That is a true answer. If we go to church and attend Sunday Service out of (a sense of) duty, that cannot last.
However, I go to church because I miss someone, I long for someone, I want to see my Abel, I want to see my dear brothers and sisters. One week is already too long. I want to see them. I want to talk with them. I want to share something with them. If each of you has that longing relationship centered on heart, that is everything.
That is why Father says the kingdom of heaven is the realm of the longing heart. Longing heart is beyond duty and responsibility, beyond any external law. That is finally we need to have relationships with anyone centering on bonds of heart. That is everything.
Do you have relationships of heart with your Cain and Abel? Do you have relationships of heart between your couple, siblings, and parents and children in your family?
Heaven is a world where people who have established relationships of heart go. Going to church, work, and school is ultimately to build relationships of heart.
How did Father discover this kind of incredible guidance? Father said the world lives through bonds of heart, not by truth. Truth is external.
In order to keep the word, we need a container. The container is knowledge. What is the purpose of the container? To contain water. The water is heart. That is why wherever I go, whatever I do, how can I have relationships with people centering on bonds of heart?
When True Father led our movement in the early church, he focused on heart, bonds of heart, heartistic relationships. He truly loved people. He was crazy. He was the champion of longing heart, like a magnet. A magnet can pull something. It is beautiful. Mother says (we need) to go back to the earlier church. We need to have strong relationships centered on bonds of heart.
When Father passed away she realized more deeply what her mission was. She needed to carry on Father’s mission. She had to be responsible for all humankind as God’s only begotten daughter. How serious she was! She thought about where our church should go. What is the most important content. Mother realized we need to go back to the early church when Father directly led the church centered on bonds of heart. Everyone had beautiful relationships of heart with Father centered on heart.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 9 - Life of Give and Take Action
I would like to share about this for a few more days because this is really important content. If we truly understand this content and how to apply it to our daily lives, this is everything. Even though it is simple, it is very powerful.
• 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 about give-and-take action, let’s study Father’s word.
Ideal of Creation Seen Through God’s Give and Take Action
<60-233> God’s ideal of creation was for everything to completely give and then completely receive in return. When receiving in return, they are not two but become one. The time you give completely and then receive completely in return is the time you become one. Ultimately, plus and minus become one. Then the subjective God can become the objective God on the earth. To reiterate, standing as the unified subject of vertical and horizontal begins in the love where two become one. That is a couple. Humankind’s first ancestor has to stand in such a position. God is already at that point. You must see it like this. That is the essence of creation.
True Father said that God’s ideal of creation was for everything to completely give and then completely receive in return. When receiving in return, they are not two, but one. The day you give completely and then receive completely in return is the time you are not two, but become one. Then, why does that happen?
If I give completely for the other person first, the other person will be touched and moved by me and become completely one with me. And when he gives back, it comes back as one. When I give first to someone, then the subject partner and object partner completely become one. He follows me, and I also follow him. We completely become one as the subject partner and the object partner through giving first, through touching and through loving.
When I give first, it is alone; when you give first, it is alone. But when you return (respond?), it comes back as “two become one.” It becomes bigger. This is what a couple’s relationship is. Therefore, the conclusion is that if I don’t give first, then two cannot become one. This is the ideal of God’s creation.
How we become one in conjugal relationships, sibling relationships, Cain-and-Abel relationships and parents-and-child relationships is simple. It is to give first. It is to give to the other person until they are touched and naturally surrender. Then we become one. It is the principle of the universe that we become one by giving first.
How can we become one? Give first. Give with a sincere heart, without any selfish thinking, without any expectation to receive, really purely and sincerely give with your entire jeongseong. Then that person will really be moved. Moved means “I belong to you.” You and I become completely one. How to become one? How to make unity? How to initiate? Give first and forget. Give purely. Then two people become one; they become greater through returning(?).
This is an amazing principle! How do a husband and wife become one? There is a subject partner and an object partner. How can they become one? How to initiate. Who gives first? Give first, then the object partner is moved by me. Moved means “You win over me. I belong to you.
The Reason We Must Give and Forget
<60-239> We must give and forget. Forget the things or sympathy you have given to others. Just as the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, give and forget! Do not claim yourself as you give. Claiming oneself when giving means I am in the position of subject and thus I will take back what I have given. That is a person who is unable to receive completely because of not giving completely. It is the sphere of incompleteness. Then a person who can give completely is one who has a heart of giving and wanting to give more. When we do this, it continues on forever. That world of heart is the parental heart in the original world of creation. Do you understand?
This is beautiful content.
You must give and forget. When you give and remember, the consciousness of yourself remains. It means you’re asking to be remembered and known because you gave.
When I give and remember, I still have a self-centered mind that wants something back. This is not complete giving. To give completely is to give and forget and want to give more, shedding tears and feeling ashamed for not giving more.
Giving and remembering means that I have become the subject. The fact that I became the subject means I want the object to acknowledge and follow me. Then this is not completely given for the object partner. This is not completely emptying myself. Complete giving does not ask for a price.
Rather, if I am ashamed of not being able to give more after giving, and think to give something better next time, I keep wanting to give. Then, the desire to give lasts forever because whenever you give, there is no expectation, but one feels it is not enough. “I want to give more.” When we have that kind of shameful heart -- “I want to give more.” -- then we completely forget. Whenever you have this kind of mindset and attitude, this is the way we can continually give and give and give, give forever.
This is the original world of creation of parents.
God has no limitation. Even though he gives and gives, he never feels it is enough. God thinks like that: “I can give a better, greater one next time.” God always has this kind of heart; he never feels he gives enough. If he feels he has given enough -- “Enough is enough” -- then he stops on the way.
If we always feel ashamed because we did not give enough -- “I need to give more, a better one, until I die, forever.” -- if we have that kind of heart to give continuously, this is the way to have give and take forever and eternally.
A parents’ heart feels it has not given enough even if the parents give indefinitely. So they give again to fill that lacking feeling. As a result, they continue to give and it continues on forever.
“Enough is enough. I already gave everything. Now it is your portion of responsibility.” As long as we have that mindset and attitude, our relationships cannot improve any more. They stop on the way.
Giving first. What kind of attitude should I have?This is really incredible.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: A Life of Living by the Word, A Life of Sharing Longing (Jeong)
We call it jeong, shim jeong.
1. In order to sustain the authority and value of the Word and my way of thinking of the Word, I must not be strict and picky about ways of faith. Everything must be done by faith.
If you start to argue as husband and wife, who is right, who is wrong, in this case, in that case, who is principled, who is right, who is good, who is bad -- you will never settle any issues.
Arguing between Cain and Abel, between brothers and sisters, deciding on right or wrong, cannot settle issues.
You need to have faith that it will work if you do it by God’s Word. If you keep arguing why you did it this or that way, the Word will run away. You cannot find God’s word. While living a life of faith, we must have a life centered on the Word, an attitude centered on the Word, and a view of life centered on the Word. I have to live my life while always checking whether I am a person who lives centered on the Word or I am living without the Word.
One who lives centered on the word, even though the person may be wrong, we don’t want to argue. Try to adjust(?) it by God’s word, try to adjust(?) it by faith. This is the lifestyle of those who have faith and God’s word.
2. If my way of thinking (is) always speaking based on the Word when I talk and I speak centered on the Will, my individual gradually takes on a faithful attitude. Furthermore, in the church, you and I must have a relationship centered on the Will. If there is an Abel I long for and a Cain who longs for me in my church, my faith is firmly established.
If there is an Abel I long for, this is already a foundation of faith. If (there is) a Cain who longs for me in church, that is the foundation of substance. I will have a place in the church. If there is an Abel of heart whom I long for and I become the object of longing from my Cain, then I am a person who already has a foundation for spiritual registration in the church.
3. Just because you signed the Membership registration form externally, you should not think that you are a member. The same goes for resurrection. Just because you joined the Unification Church, heard the Word, and received the Blessing, it does not mean that everything was resurrected. In order for me to be resurrected, I need a spiritual foundation upon which I can be resurrected. It can be seen that only when there is a foothold for God to work through me can the foundation of the resurrection be established the heart can be grafted on. For us to graft on means that I have an Abel that I love and have an inseparable heartistic relationship, and under that, I become a magnet of love and a subject partner of heart that can attract my Cain.
4. If I cannot graft myself onto heaven with heart, our spirits will wither and eventually die. If there is no place where God can come to find me, I will die. To say that God cannot come to me means I already violated God's law. I need to stand as an object partner under God’s dominion, but not having such a foundation means that I am spiritually dead. The breath of our spirits is heart and love.
5. If I become the subject of longing, it means that I am already a person who knows how to breathe heartistically. If I become the subject of longing, because I become one with the other person, I will definitely have the authority to multiply.
Where there is a longing heart, there is always multiplication. “I have tried to witness to so many people. Why can’t I bear fruit?” The main reason is that I do not have enough of a longing heart. If I have a fully longing heart -- “I miss that guy, I long for that guy, I cry and cry and even cannot sleep.” -- if I have a longing heart, according to the universal principle, there is multiplication all the time. That is why, when we witness, what is the key? How much of a longing heart I have.
Are you breathing well spiritually? Is your spirit healthy? If I have an Abel of longing, as the center of longing, and have an object partner of longing that follows under me, my spiritual body is very healthy.
The key is a vertical and horizontal relationship centered on a longing heart. If you do not have a longing heart toward your Abel, your heart is unstable. Even though you have an Abel, but you do not have spiritual children who long for you, then something is lacking.
6. However, True Father worried that many of those who were in the church for a long time died spiritually. Who do you long for and who comes to see you? If you answer “No one longs for me, nor do I long for anyone,” it means your soul is dead. A person who possesses a heart always has longing. There are people I long for, and there are people who long for me. So I am not lonely.
I need to have spiritual children, but not by duty. In order to live in the world of the kingdom of heaven on earth, I need to build an inseparable, heartistic and longing relationship, not because of duty and responsibility. The essence of the kingdom of heaven is something like that.
7. Some people who have been in the church for a long time say “I will go on this path, looking at only True Father.” These people are people without an address of the heart. Let each of you trace the place of your heart. Instead of looking at True Parents who are far away, I need to become someone who longs for somebody and is longed for by somebody in the current life I’m in. If you don't, your mind cannot have a place to settle in and you will just become a wanderer. You just become a person who flows according to the environment.
When Father led the early church, he had that kind of relationship with bonds of heart. Heartistic. Of course, the Divine Principle is great. Of course, True Parents are the messiah and the Second Coming. Even though he has that kind of position as savior or messiah or True Parents, if he does not show this kind of lifestyle of longing heart and true love, who will follow him? I am not following only because Father is the messiah; I am melted by his quality of love.
Do you know why I respect Jesus? It is not because he is God’s son or the messiah or savior. Of course, those are important. But (it is because) I am totally melted by Jesus’ quality of love. He forgives his enemies. When he died on the cross, even though his life was very short, his quality of love, even forgiving his enemy on the cross, is really true love. No one can deny this.
This year is 2022. Let’s build up this kind of heartistic relationship with Heavenly Parent, True Parents and True Mother at the same time as with my brothers and sisters around me. Also, let’s raise up new people who really can long for me. I am thinking this should be our eternal goal this year, 2022.♦
NOTE: This lightly edited transcription may contain errors and omissions. Indecipherable or uncertain words and guesses are tagged with a “(?)” and indecipherable phrases, with an ellipsis “ ...”. First, second and third person pronouns have been left as spoken if the meaning is clear, and other apparently Korean English expressions have been preserved. Some repeated phrases have been eliminated. This text and the powerpoint slides from this speech are available as pdf files at the top of this text and at text.morndev.com & yong.hoondok.com. Audio only is available at anchor.morndev.com, spotify.morndev.com & audio.morndev.com.♦