Ep 574 - CheongPyeong Is The Original Homeland Part 1
CheongPyeong is the Original Homeland - May 22, 2022 - ACLC Established 2000
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Today is a very beautiful Sunday.
Yesterday we had a Peace King Cup Fishing Tournament Award Ceremony at the Clifton Church. Thank you to Minorobo Joo(?), Director of the Ocean Tribe in Sub-Region 1 for arranging that tournament. I also would like express my gratitude to President Naokimi and Sujan, the Branchi(?) and Nania(?) couple, Terry Hatagawa(?) and all the captains who helped with the fishing tournament.
I shared with them my fishing experience with True Parents after attending a 40-day fishing tournament in Paraguay, South America. I shared my conclusion at the time. I received the number one result out of all the national messiahs. My conclusion was that fish bite jeongseong. I was the poorest fisherman but I did fasting every morning until I broke through. Then I realized that fish bite jeongseong.
(We took) a beautiful group photo.
Then we had a meeting at the Clifton Church. About 70 members who had registered in the New Life campaign. Many brothers and sisters in the Clifton Church had a strong commitment to break through in witnessing. I shared with them about the importance of Morning Devotion, reading Divine Principle and having 3 spiritual children as well. Takayo Holmes is my hero! She shared with them how to prepare for and practice witnessing based on the witnessing system she has been doing. All participants were determined to read 1 hour DP content 100 times and to have 3 spiritual children.
I am going to have a launching ceremony for reading the one-hour reading DP content 100 times today. If you do not attend the Clifton Church, please watch today’s sermon (online).
Today I’d like to talk about “True Parents' Museum” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Would you like to live in the original homeland with True Parents? We cannot find hope in the external world. Many people are dying at this moment all over the world due to starvation, natural disasters, religious conflicts and ideologically-based warfare. You must shout to let people know. You must let the world know of True Parents’ advent. You need to save the lives of those pitiable people who are dying forlornly. If they live and die without knowing True Parents, they will have difficulties even in the next world, and they will leave indemnity to their descendants. Hence, those who know need to invest everything they have. If you look at the location of CheongPyeong on a map and compare it to the human body, its position is similar to that of the womb. The womb is where the conception of new life takes place. CheongPyeong is a place that can make fallen people, wild olive trees, into true olive trees. All the people of the world should rush to come here. Therefore, we need to save lives, and renew them through True Parents. We must let people know that providential history unfolds based on the True Parents. (2015.10.24, CheongPyeong Training Center)
CheongPyeong is the homeland of our faith, the original homeland. I must create a new culture. However, your cooperation is essential. Within ten years, I plan to make CheongPyeong into a holy ground for all people around the world. I hope you can all participate in this great endeavor. Please keep fit and in good health and let us work on accomplishing these great tasks. By 2020, I will create an eternal holy ground in CheongPyeong where all people from around the world can experience True Parents' love. (2015.12.12, International Peace Education Center, Las Vegas)
Daemonim was truly a great mother. She embraced fallen humanity and was in a position to give them the grace and favor to stand in front of True Parents. Based on this, actual spiritual and physical words could begin, centered on CheongPyeong. This was possible because she was completely one with True Parents. You need this place to raise the standard of your hearts and that of your life of faith. Now, centered on the CheongPyeong Training Center, you can experience amazing growth and development by yourself, depending on how grateful you are and how loyal you are in front of Heaven. This is a place where you can actually experience God working with you. (2016.05.07, CheongPyeong Training Center)
The reason Daemonim was able to contribute greatly to God’s providence and do many great works centered on Cheongpyeong until now was because Daemonim was completely one with True Parents’ will.
Therefore, while we live in the same age as True Parents, the only path to make great contributions and leave behind accomplishments for God is the path of becoming one with True Parents. Also, with those actual accomplishments of becoming one in love with True Parents, we must bring the people around us to attend and serve True Parents, just like a Daemonim.
When you become one with true parents, a history of miracles will arise and there will be blessings from Heaven.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 50 - The Indirect Dominion and the Human Portion of Responsibility
• During the growing period, all created beings grow by virtue of the autonomy and governance given by God’s Principle.
• God, the Author of the Principle, has regard only for the fruits of their growth which are based on the Principle. In this way, He governs all things indirectly. We call this growing period the realm of God’s indirect dominion or the realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle.
• All things reach perfection after passing through the growing period by virtue of the autonomy and governance given by God’s Principle.
• Human Beings, however, pass through the growing period and reach perfection by fulfilling their own portion of responsibility, in addition to the guidance provided by the Principle.
• We can deduce from God’s commandment to Adam and Eve in Gen. 2:17 that the first human ancestors were responsible to believe in the Word of God and not eat of the fruit. Whether or not they disobeyed God and fell depended not on God, but on themselves.
• God endowed human beings with a portion of responsibility for the following reason:
• By fulfilling their given portion of responsibility, with which even God does not interfere, human beings are meant to inherit the creative nature of God and participate in God’s great work of creation.
• God intends human beings to earn ownership and become worthy to rule over the creation as creators in their own right, just as God governs over them as their Creator.
• This is the principal difference between human beings and the rest of creation.
The Position to Complete the Portion of Responsibility
What kind of people stand in the position to complete the portion of responsibility? People who have reached completion, just like God. God created 95%, but the position of having cooperated and having created something 100% is the position where human beings can be entitled as masters of all creation. So it becomes the completion of a human being as well as a completion of God's creative work. The completion of God's Will. The completion of God.
Why is there a time period for the portion of responsibility? There is one common goal in the completion of the process of creation that God and human beings should complete together. This is because of the problem of love. In order to feel love, people must reach adolescence, the age of maturity. People don't know about love before this period. When something gains maturity spiritually and physically and blooms, that is adolescence. This period of adolescence comes to all people without fail. The flower that will bloom at this time is what God longs for and also what human beings long for. However, because their portion of responsibility is not complete, human beings are fallen.
The Portion of Responsibility and the Relational Ideal
If they had not been fallen, Adam and Eve would have naturally become one during their adolescence. They would have simply become one with the root of love based on God. Everything would have been accepted if their love had been completely grounded on the relational ideal between God and human beings. This is the source of heavenly life. That fact that people are fallen means that the standard of the completion of ideal love the God expected from human beings has been lost. The reason human beings must keep the standard of the portion of responsibility is that it is necessary in order to complete ideal love. The reason God needs humankind's 5% portion of responsibility in the course of creation is because He needs an object partner. Love cannot be made alone. It is not even possible for the all-knowing and all-powerful God to have love without an object partner.
The place where human beings fulfill their portion of responsibility is the place where God is completed and the Will is also completed. Ultimately, when human beings complete their portion of responsibility, human beings are in the position of completing God as well.
Therefore, as long as human beings do not fulfill their portion of responsibility, the completion of God’s love can never come about. This is because the completion of love can only be done through the object partner. Therefor, know that the completion of man is the completion of God. Human beings have the responsibility of completing God through love.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: One Person’s Duty
1. Looking at the providence of restoration, the central figures of the providence showed the example in denying themselves. Many lessons can be learned from the course where all the central figures of the providence had to deny themselves and follow the path of absolute obedience before Heaven. Look at Jesus’ course. Jesus spent his whole life in utter denial of himself, and lived for the sake of heaven and the Will without even 1% of himself. Jesus loved the Jewish people and
, but they betrayed him. Not only that, even God did not intervene when Jesus went to the cross and left him in the position of not knowing Jesus. On the crossroads of life and death on the cross to the moment of his last prayer, God, in a position of denying that He did not know Jesus, left him.
2. Even though Jesus came as God's only begotten Son and Messiah, who should he trust and where is his path in the desperate situation of being crucified and dying? Just think for a moment how dark Jesus' heart must have been until the last moment as he walked the way of the cross. Jesus was abandoned from his family from birth, walked a sad path, and lived 30 years suffering adversity, ridicule, misunderstanding, persecution and gave his life because of the Will. For a certain period of time, God had a deep relationship with Jesus who even gave the gift of miracles and power to Jesus, who labored for His will. How dumbfounded must Jesus' heart have been when God denied him at the last moment? When Jesus died on the cross, even though God said He did not know him and denied Jesus, Jesus did not think that Heaven denied him, but thought that the way of the cross was God’s Will. Looking at this, we can know how amazing Jesus is.
Our course of faith is, in a word, a course of self-denial. The human fall happened because Adam and Eve did not see themselves as belonging to God but to themselves, so they made a mistake.
When you look at the providence of Restoration, the providential central figures showed an example of denying themselves.Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and Jesus were all people who completely went on the path of self denial.
The one who went on the most exemplary path of self denial was none other than Jesus. Even though the Israelites and his disciples disbelieve him, and even in the position where God could not intervene, he walked the path of self denial to the end.
In our movement, we often sing the song Tan Shim Ga. Whenever I sing this song my tears come down.
Tan Shim Ga
I mo mi ju go do ju go, Il bek pon go jo ju go
Beg gol ri jin to de yo, Nok shi ra do i ko ob ko
Im hyung han il pyun tan shim Ka sil chul li issu rya
Im hyung han il pyun tan shim Ka sil chul li issu rya
“Although my body perishes and yet one hundred times dies, my bones becomes ashes. Even my soul vanishes. Still all my love and all my heart, unchanging remain with you. My everlasting loyalty, unchanging remains with you.”
What is the lesson in this song? It is saying that despite being in a circumstance where I have to die numerous times, I will not betray even once, and even if I go on a path where I am denied a hundred times, can I really go on the course of self denial?
Anyone can deny themselves once or twice. But when the Abel figure whom I love denies me once, twice, ten times or one hundred times, how many people can really remain until the end?
The path of faith is the path of self denial. The course of self-denial means I will completely give up on myself(?) and go without betraying you even if the other person tries to kill me and drives me out. Everyone hates(?) People who give up or change along the way. God also hates(?) such a person.
When I think about Jesus’ life, wow! He met God every day. When he cured so many people, God really helped Jesus. However, when he was crucified on the cross, even though he called out “Heavenly God, why did you abandon me?” until the end he absolutely denied (himself). “This is God’s will. \hf, I am willingly nailed to that cross.” Wow! In such a moment he even forgave his enemies. What kind of person was he? Jesus was really our lord and our messiah. I really admire Jesus’ self -denial. He was absolutely united with God’s will. At the same time he had a great quality of true love, even forgiving his enemies. He did not accuse or blame anyone. He prayed for the future of Israel. He worried about God. “If I die, who will console you, comfort you and liberate you?” He was really a filial son!
3. In our life of faith too, what if I did my best for Abel or for the other person, but they denied it? It is the most difficult to get over this hardship. How I act when I am denied by Abel even though I have done well will reveal what kind of person I am and my essence. When Abel ignores me, I have to check myself to see if I rebel or not. When we see that one man, Adam, thwarted the whole purpose, we can see that the standard of hope that God had for one man was great. Also, can't we predict what kind of nature and what qualifications Adam had? Could someone who is controlled by their environment and grumbles be established as one person? Who is the one person who has become the owner of the family? It refers to a couple who is united in heart. It is not an individual just because there is one person.
If we want to know whether a person has faith or not, you can tell by denying that person. When a person is being denied by another person, do they resist and complain? Or do they really deny themselves and repent and are thankful themselves? How I act when I am denied by Abel even though I have done well will reveal what kind of person I am and my essence. When I was denied by an opponent, I quickly realized how much fallen nature I had removed.
4. One person is the driving force of the heart, and it refers to the point of the heart where the subject and the object give and receive and become one. From the couple's point of view, it means a couple where each person is indispensable, and a couple who should not have a gap between them. No matter who disrespects or ignores them, the couple is one because they are united in love. Married couples are well aware of each other's point of view and read each other well while living together. After the wife prepares food, she sees if her husband complains that it tastes bad or not. In this way, a couple is said to be one in a state where they set their hearts for each other and became one in heart with no gaps. A person who plays the role of an indispensable person in their position becomes God’s. In other words, they will be held by God. Moses tried not to go before Pharaoh, but he was held by God, so he went before Pharaoh.
5. Those who are needed by God will be held by Him and be used as His tools. Today, our True Parents also suffered a lot as they were held by God. True Father, who cried endlessly at the misery and suffering of fallen humans, was held by God. The central figures remembered by God were all those who were held by Him. Those who were held by God were those who were able to fulfill their responsibilities as one person. From this point of view, I want you to think about whether you are truly a being held by God. Am I really a being that God regards as absolutely necessary? Or am I useless? However, a useless person is not even taken away by Satan. In that sense, do you understand the saying that through one man, Adam, all became sinners, but through one man, Jesus, all can become sons of God?
Please think about whether you are truly a being held by God.
Those who are needed by God will be held by Him and be used as His tools.
The central figures remembered by God were all people that were held onto by God.
Am I really a being that God needs and regards as absolute? Or am I useless?
As God created human beings as His children, He wishes that they all fulfill their portion of responsibility and become absolutely necessary beings to Him.
Therefore, we must first become absolutely necessary beings to the people around us. Those who are necessary to people also become necessary to God. God’s will and human beings original will cannot be different.
As for me, this year marks 47 years since I entered the way of the Will and it has already been 31 years since I became a missionary. More than thinking about how long it has been since I joined the church and became a missionary, I reflect on how much of a necessary being I am to the people around me and to God and true Parents.
One clear thing is the fact that all of us joining the Unification church means that I am already a being that God holds onto. We need to know that.
6. We must be able to realistically understand and feel the value and importance of one person. In that sense, in human relationships, I must regard my relationship with Abel as life and also regard my relationship with Cain as life. If you want to fulfill the duty of one in your relationship with people, you need to have heartistic relationships, not just relationships in your day-to-day tasks or work. You must always experience a heartistic resurrection by giving and receiving well. If the level of your spirit is raised through a relationship with one person, it connects with the whole purpose, and you become an absolute necessity in front of the whole. You must become an Abel of heart whom Cain truly respects and follows, someone who is absolutely needed, and a person who is indispensable to Abel. That is doing the duty of one person.
In order for me to become an absolute necessary being to those around me, I must regard my relationship with Abel as life and also regard my relationship with Cain as life. If you want to fulfill the duty of one in your relationship with people, you need to have heartistic relationships, not just relationships in your day-to-day tasks or work.
In our lives of faith, the being called “I” must become a being that always grows though heartistic resurrection with Abel and helps Cain grow through heartistic resurrection as well.
If the level of your spirit is raised through a relationship with one person, it connects with the whole purpose, and you become an absolute necessity in front of the whole. So in order for me to raise the level of my spirit, I must make effort to give and receive with someone with higher level of heart.
Successful people always have give and take with successful people. Unsuccessful people always have give and receive with unsuccessful people. In my life of faith with whom I have give and receive is very important.
By meeting Rev Yo Han Lee, I cannot tell you how helpful it was in the end in raising the level of my life, my spirit, and my heart.
In your lives of faith, the lucky person meets their physical parents with a high level of heart. In school, it is a meeting a teacher with a high level of heart. At work, it is meeting a superior with a high level of heart. At church, it is meeting an Abel figure with high level of heart.
In a life of faith, the most pitiful people are those who have no one whom they respect and long for deeply. If there are no people around me who I love, respect, and long for, there is no doubt that I am a person who is living my life of faith in vain.
Some say “I respect no one, but only God and True Parents”. Such a person is very dangerous. In the end, I have to keep in mind that I must find people around me that I can respect and that I will fulfill the role of a person who should be respected and longed for by Cain, and I will become a person whom God absolutely needs.
I must become a person who is indispensable to Abel, a person who is absolutely needed, and become an Abel of heart that Cain really respects and follows. This is one person’s duty and responsibility and role.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Rev. Mark Tengan, ACLC coordinator for Los Angeles.)
The one thing I would like to suggest to all our brothers and sisters: the American movement, especially ACLC, is breaking through with the 43-day condition. More and more people are doing the 43-day condition. That is fine. But yesterday I mentioned that the best way to follow up with ACLC ministers and those who have completed studying the DP course, is to let them read the 8 text books, one, three, 12 hour DP and autobiography. Yesterday I said clearly that everybody needs to break through with this.
Today I will have a second launching ceremony at the Clifton church. The whole American movement should do it.
I am grateful to Mark Tengan. You are really doing well. At the same time with YCLC Joshua Holmes is really responsible. More and more people are joining. They have a commitment ceremony to do the 40-day (sexual) fasting condition.
Our content should be deeper and deeper. Finally they need to connect to the Hoondok tradition. We need to guide them properly to follow that tradition.
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