Ep 448 - Cheon Jeong Gung and International Headquarters Part 2
Cheon Jeong Gung and the International Headquarters 83-8-12-40 - January 16, 2022
(Response to sharing) We need to challenge God and challenge True Parents. True Father said that God will surely bless visibly and invisibly any blessed couple who keeps the Morning Devotion tradition and heavenly fortune will come (to them). I am sure I am the one who received that kind of benefit from heaven every day. I guarantee 100% that anyone who attends and keeps morning devotion will receive incredible heavenly fortune and blessing. I can see this for your couple.♦
I am really busy here. I bring out each of my children’s couples and listen to them. They are struggling, thinking and planning. We share many things. It is a good conversation and heartistic communication. Also, as a parent there are many things we need to challenge and help them with. I feel family is incredibly important.
I realize more and more Heavenly Father and True Parents gave us such an incredible blessing through our community. It is a minority community. We can share and discuss many things with each other.
I hope all of you can have that kind of beautiful experience.
Today I’d like to talk again about “Cheon Jeong Gung and the International Headquarters” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Spring is the season of hope. It is a precious season during which our dreams can rise higher and spread wider. But despite the beauty of the season, we hear horrific and indescribably painful news from this country and from the world. This situation can be compared to the people of the world being on a ship without sailors, a captain or even a compass. They experience deep anxiety, not knowing how well the ship will contend with strong winds and high waves, or when it might sink by ramming into a rock. As we watch these incidents take place, blessed members of the Unification Church around the world should stand up as heavenly soldiers. We can no longer just look on and wait. We should not keep the Blessing that we have received to ourselves. We must let the people of the world, who are like orphans, know that our Heavenly Parent and True Parents are carrying out great works. Centering on the Cheon Jeong Gung holy ground, we have opened the providential era where Heavenly Parent can directly rule over us. We should not keep this marriage Blessing just to ourselves.
We have to fulfill our mission as heavenly tribal messiahs as true sons and daughters who resemble True Parents. Only then can we stand in the position of ancestors. We must rise up to fulfill that responsibility. We cannot wait anymore. Even at this moment, do you know how many people around the world are dying without receiving True Parents? We need to think of our fellow human beings living in misery, not knowing the providence and not having received the amazing Blessing of Heaven, even though they live in the same age as the True Parents. We need to be aware that this Blessing has been bestowed for the first time, after a wait of 6,000 years. Firmly planting your feet on the ground, you must roll up your sleeves and boldly proclaim True Parents are here on earth. (2014.05.11, CheongShim Peace World Center)
You have to proclaim the True Parents boldly and testify that the nation and the world cannot survive without the True Parents. This is the only path for us to show our gratitude and repay God. Now is the time to take action. I have divided up the world into regions based on language. I am trying to give all humankind an opportunity to participate in the providence. Furthermore, I have appointed special emissaries who can embrace the continents and the world. They will be working with you on the front line of the providence to testify about True Parents to all of humankind. All of you gathered here should also unite as one in spirit and heart. I will be grateful if you can have the heart to feel as if you were going together with them. This is the message of hope for all humankind this spring. (2014.05.11, CheongShim Peace World Center)
True Mother said, “You have to proclaim the True Parents boldly and testify that the nation and the world cannot survive without the True Parents.”
So today, through True Father's words, let's take a look at the meaning of True Parents' proclamation.
I found some very beautiful content. Let’s study together.
The Proclamation of True Parents and the Providence of Salvation
<Chambumo Gyeong P. 96> After the Holy Wedding and the subsequent seven-year course, True Parents formed the True Family and established the four-position foundation on the family level. On that foundation they went through the eight stages to complete their mission, thus creating the foundation to establish and build the kingdom of heaven. As the providence of restoration progressed, they set indemnity conditions appropriate to each period of time and accomplished them.
After each one, they conducted a corresponding proclamation ceremony so that Satan could not invade it. During the World Media conference held in Moscow on April 11, 1990, True Father met President Gorbachev and advised that he give up atheism. After returning to Korea, through “the Welcoming event for True Parents’ Return from the Victorious Moscow Rally” held in 12 places from April 30, they could finally proclaim before the Korean people that they were the True Parents of humankind.
On August 24, 1992, at the celebration banquet of the 1st World Culture and Sports Festival, True Father officially declared in front of the assembled world leaders, “At the Women ’s Federation for World Peace Leaders ’ Assemblies that were held in five major cities of Korea in early July of this year, I proclaimed that my wife, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, and I together are the True Parents of humanity, the Savior, the Lord of the Second Advent and the Messiah.”
By holding marriage Blessings, True Parents have been carrying out the great revolutionary work of changing the lineage of all people to the true lineage of God. These Blessings have been interracial, interreligious and international in scope. True Parents come with the true love, life and lineage of heaven. They alone are aware of the providential timetable for holding these events, and they are completing the providence of human salvation in accordance with that timetable.
When True Father proclaimed his position after meeting Gorbachev, he had already explained that North Korea was the Cain-side’s Adam, China was the Cain’s Eve, and the Soviet Union was in the position of the archangel. Father met Gorbachev. He met(?) the summit of the Cain-side world, and actually Father conquered(?) it. Based on this foundation, he started to officially proclaim True Parents’ position and identity.
Although Jesus came to this earth, he died without being able to officially declare that he was the Messiah because there was no earthly foundation.
However, True Parents won the restoration through indemnity to the cosmic level and proclaimed True Parents to all mankind. This was truly one of the greatest proclamations in human history.
Through this proclamation, the world of Satan cannot progress any further and is destined to go downhill because True Parents have revealed to all mankind that they are the Lord, Messiah, Second Coming Lord, and Savior.
This proclamation proclaims that the ownership of the world and of the universe will be changed from (that of) Satan to (that of) True Parents.
(Father) officially proclaimed, “From now on the whole world belongs to God, to True Parents.
Until now, the world has been ruled by Satan, but this declaration puts Satan in a position where he must officially step down.
Therefore, we too must proclaim that all mankind will be blessed and become the people of the kingdom of heaven. You must inform them that the owner has already changed.
Without this declaration we do not know who is the owner of the world. An official declaration of the messiah, the savior and True Parents is really important. That is why Father said, “I already proclaimed who we are.” So, you need to boldly proclaim who True Parents are. Many people still do not know that the ownership (of this world) has changed.
As soon as Father proclaimed that, there are three things that need to be transformed. First, you need to transform your blood lineage. Secondly, you need to change your ownership. That is why we tried to offer the Total Living Offering. Finally, we need to change our heart. Three things: blood lineage, ownership and heart.
Many people do not know that the ownership has already changed. Why do you still not know who the owner is? You need to change your property from Satan’s to God’s side. Your own blood lineage has been owned by Satan. Now it has a new owner. You need to receive the Blessing and change your blood lineage. You need to become citizens of Cheon il guk.
This declaration has incredible meaning. From that time the world of Satan is definitely decreasing and decreasing. This is one of the greatest declarations in human history. That is why we need to be bold. Who is the owner of this world? Satan was the owner, the king of kings, but now he is no longer the king. He has already stepped down. This is why True Mother says you need to proclaim boldly and strongly who the owner is.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 9 - Life of Give and Take Action
• 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 related to give-and-take action.
Logic of the Universe
<96-22>If you truly give, truly sacrifice, and truly love it will come back to you several times more. If you completely invest your life, love, and lifestyle and establish a vacuum-like state, God’s life, God’s love, and God’s lifestyle environment will approach you like a rainstorm. That is the logic of the universe.
When I give, what kind of attitude must I have? It is to truly give, truly sacrifice, truly love, and truly invest.
Then to what degree must I invest? It is to give, sacrifice, and invest everything until nothing is left and it is as if you are completely in a vacuum-like state.
If you give completely until you are in a vacuum-like state and invest for the sake of others, God’s love and blessings will come down like a rainstorm.
Because you gave everything, your situation is a vacuum-like state. You gave everything. Then according to the universal principle, it will surely come back to you. That’s why in order to give something to other people with(?) a parental heart, giving and giving, truly giving, truly sacrificing, truly loving and truly investing, how beautiful is God’s principle of true love.
True Mother’s Nature is to be a Person who Likes Giving
<175-63> True Mother’s good nature is that she likes giving to others. She doesn’t give the bad things, but chooses the best things to give. That is honorable. Therefore the wedding ring or souvenirs which I gave her are all gone. Not one is left. If I ask her to whom she gave it to, she doesn’t remember. She even forgets the name of the person she gave it to.
True Father always praised True Mother regarding her giving style.
First, he said that she likes giving to others all the time.
I have received that kind of benefit from Mother. Before, when Father was still on the earth whenever we met Father, he always gave something. But since he left, True Mother really gives seriously, sometimes a large amount of money. Those who are poor, … anyone who attends the international leaders meeting, True Mother does not send them back to their own country with empty hands. She is always giving and giving.
That is why True Father said she does not give bad things but the best things. She even gave away her wedding ring. Normally people do not do that; they can give anything other than their wedding ring. But Mother gave her wedding ring, such a precious ring.
Secondly, he said that she does not give the bad things, but gives the best things. She even gave away her wedding ring, that precious ring. When Mother married True Father and received that kind of gift from True Father and gave it to someone, the most precious gift. … When I look at her more closely, she is always giving. One of her main ministries is giving and giving.
Third, after giving, she does not remember. She even forgets the name of the person she gave it to.
That’s why we can say True Mother is really True Mother.
True Mother is truly the champion of giving.
That’s why someone who gives all the time, Father said, will never perish. True Father was like that. True Mother is like that -- always giving -- not just the word, but materially, money, many things. That is why our True Parents are the champion of giving. We need to inherit that spirit from our True Parents.
The Logic of True Love’s Eternity
<201-309> What kind of love is true love? It is a love of giving and forgetting. Giving and remembering it is not true love. True love is giving, giving, and giving again. Consequently it is eternal. It is eternal because of wanting to give eternally. That is why it can remain forever and is eternal. Only in true love can the logic of eternity be established.
What kind of love is true love?
True love is a love of giving and forgetting. It gives and forgets and tries to give again.
As long as you are living and breathing, the heart to give comes out.
Our original mind always tries to give and tries to serve. No one can deny this. It goes on for eternity. The human heart is really beautiful. If we were to follow our original mind and heart, we will always try to give. Why do we continuously try to give? Because the more I give, the happier I am. Very happy. When you give something to others, you can feel incredible stimulation. That is happiness and joy. Our original mind knows that the more we give, the more happiness we receive. That is why we try to give more and more.
Furthermore, even though we can receive such happiness, at the same time (our giving is) not enough. We will give a better one. Then when we feel it is not enough, we try to give more than before. This mindset and attitude of continuous giving is not just for one day, ten days, (it is) forever.
That is why, through giving first, eternal life is possible and eternal existence is possible.
Why do we want to give eternally? It is because when you give, your original nature is infinitely happy and joyous. That is why we always try to give more.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Love Cain More Than You Love Your Family
1. True Father taught us to love the children on the Cain side more than we do our own children, but it is difficult to do so.
To be frank with you, for me it is not easy. It's not just difficult—it seems impossible! What do you think? You love and feel closer to your kin, right?
One witnesser left home and pioneered for seven to eight years -- this is a true story -- but she became weak. So she entered the district headquarters. The district leader, who welcomed the witnesser, just made her eat what he always ate with her and didn’t give her particular attention. She stayed in bed and couldn’t receive treatment for so long that she had no choice but to go back home. She had left seven or eight years before. However, when she returned home sick after being gone seven to eight years, her mother took care of her with utmost devotion, such as killing chickens for her to eat.
Her body recovered very quickly.
2. After being treated like that by her parents, this witnesser changed her mind. She (had) thought her mother was on Satan’s side, but (her mother) took care of her with all her heart, so she felt that her mother was the best. With that thought, she no longer had the will to go out witnessing. The district headquarters sent a person to her house when there was no news from her after she went home to treat her illness. So the person met the witnesser and asked her why she didn't return to church. She replied, "Don’t say anything. Even if my mother is on Satan’s side, she is the best. Even though I was sick, no one in the Unification church took care of me. But when I returned home, my mother took good care of me and healed my illness, so I have decided to serve my mother until I die."
3. We should not take this witnesser’s story lightly. Who do we think of first when we prepare and eat a lot of delicious food on Thanksgiving? Do you think of True Parents first? Or do you think of members in difficult situations first? Or do you think of your own family first? It is not so simple to love Cain figures around me more than I love my family. A heart centered on God’s Will does not mean a heart centered on family. True Parents said that we should love the people around us in the environment we are in, more than we love our lineage and our own children. If we don’t live that kind of life, we can’t move the people around us.
4. Everyone in the world loves their own family more than they love their neighbors. However, it is really difficult for us to know God’s Will and love the people around us more than we love our family.
But True Parents said that if it is really possible, the quality of my lineage will change, if we love our neighbor, our Cain figure, more than our own family. Father said this is the way to change our blood lineage.
Satan’s accusation will not stop unless I love the Cain figures around me more than I love my lineage. True Parents say that we should give Cain a love that Satan cannot help but sympathize with me over. In addition, don’t think of your own children and siblings as of your lineage, but rather think of them as God’s children and serve them. People of faith must train themselves both inside and outside.
Our life of faith is really challenging. As fallen people it is not easy. This is the way we need to go. We need to overcome.
When I have a meal, of course I pray, but after prayer, whenever I look at the food, tears come down easily. Do you know why? Whenever I have a meal -- bread or noodles or rice or meat, whatever -- I think (of) True Father. When True Father was in Heungnam Prison, he was so thirsty, hungry, not enough water, not enough (food?). If I could have shared this food with Father at the time, how much Father could have eaten a delicious serving(?). If I had a chance to offer this food to Father and the other prisoners, then I would feel so ashamed of every (bite of) food.
In the world there are many people who do not have enough food. “Please, Heavenly Father, bless them. They are also your own sons and daughters, but you gave me this wonderful food today. I really offer this food to True Father.”
How hungry True Father was at that time (in Heungnam Prison). At that time if he had looked at this kind of food, how much he would have appreciated it. Only now I have started to realize you were in that situation. Whenever I see any beggar, give me the opportunity to serve them in such a way.
Whenever I pray like that, tears come down. Then the food seems so precious. I cannot complain if the food is good or not good, whatever. Any delicious food, any good things, think about Heavenly Parents and True Parents. It is not a simple matter.
Loving our Cain figures -- our neighbors -- more than our own family is really challenging. That is why when you come back home or leave home, when we see other people, how can we treat them equally (with my family)? When I come home, I feel that even though they are my physical children, I can not treat them as my own physical children. (If I see) outside children, what should I do? I need to be more humble and careful. I need to treat them very well.
Every morning we listen to Morning Devotion. There are a lot of challenges we need to overcome. Through Father’s sharing, cultivating our heart, I am really grateful that True Mother shows that kind of great example and our True Father gave us such beautiful examples, and all our senior blessed couples -- 36, 72, 124 -- sacrificed so much. That is why we are still here. Let’s appreciate all our senior brothers and sisters, those who have had that kind of sacrificial life; that is why we are here. If our second generation, third generation, our blessed children, if they inherit this beautiful spirit, how beautiful our church will become! Even though there is a challenge contained here -- loving our neighbor and outside people more than our own blood lineage is not easy -- let’s try our best.♦
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.♦