Ep 575 - CheongPyeong Is The Original Homeland Part 2
CheongPyeong is the Original Homeland - May 23, 2022
PDF Printable Text and Slides + Testimony Minobu Joo
(Response to sharing) Whenever I deliver Father’s message based upon his experience with Jesus, many ministers from Asia, Africa and here in America say, “Wow! Dr. Yong, you love Jesus more than we do. How much you know(?) Jesus’ heart.” Many ministers confess this to me because we have learned from True Parents how much they love Jesus.♦
Every day I am excited to see each one of you. I really appreciate this modern technical system. We can connect to all our brothers and sisters through zoom. This is incredible. God provided it for us to share our heart with each other. This is really great.
Yesterday, we had a farewell service for Pastor Crescentia DeGoede. She has served as a pastor and district pastor for 2 and half years.
I really admire her. Many people, including pastors from Christian churches, came up and appreciated her dedication and devotion and how much she loved each of the brothers and sisters.
We sincerely thank her and her husband, Leighton, for their dedication for God’s providence. I was moved by Leighton’s testimony about how he supports his wife. Whenever there is a great woman, there is a great many (behind her) as well.
Then, I gave a sermon with title of “Be a model church of God’s word (EDP).” I emphasized the importance of reading God’s words which is God’s love and God’s heart.
I shared with them three important things for us to do in order to be a model church that shows others:
1. Attending the Morning Devotion
2. Reading Divine Principle. (Starting with reading 1 hour DP 100 times)
3. Having three spiritual children
(We had a) cake cutting.
Today I’d like to talk about “True Parents' Museum” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Daemonim played the role of a door that enabled your liberated ancestors and other good spirits to go in front of True Parents. This is also why you must learn about Daemonim's life. You must study it. She lived her entire life with a public mind. Since I was born as God's daughter based on a revelation from Heaven, Daemonim was in the position of a nanny; she never wavered from her position. That is why God remembers her. She did what no one else could achieve for True Parents. Hence, you who are on earth, must fulfill your responsibility. Together, we must conclude everything well. We must put everything in order. You and I must achieve this great dream. (2016.05.07, CheongPyeong Training Center)
Through Daemonim, God opened the door for our ancestors to be liberated and blessed.
While on earth, Daemonim raised True Mother as the only begotten daughter of God from the position of a nanny, and in the spiritual world she (has) played an amazing role in liberating and blessing our ancestors who went first by becoming one with Heungjinnim. We must truly thank Daemonim forever.
We, too, should be like Daemonim and become one with True Parents while on earth, helping the realization of Cheon Il Guk, and connecting blessings to our ancestors and descendants when we go to the spiritual world.
Just as Daemonim went to the spirit world and is doing greater work than when she was on earth, we should become like Daemonim who can contribute to the providence of God and True Parents.
Today I am skipping the Living Divine Principle because I would like to share very important content (with you).
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Three Jeongseong Conditions of the American Continental Movement
Yesterday, I announced the 3 jeongseong and prayer conditions of the American Continental Movement (to be fulfilled) by 2027, centering on the Clifton Church in the United States. I hope that all family members from all over the United States will also join in this condition of Jeongseong devotion and prayer.
Up to now, all members of the American family participated in Morning Devotion jeongseong together and created one model. So, today, I would like to emphasize once again the three conditions for the jeongseong devotion of the American Continental Movement to all the family members.
That is why today I would like to spend some time on this content for all of you.
Three Jeongseong Conditions of the American Continental Movement
1. Everyone attends the morning devotion jeongseong.
2. Everyone reads True Parents' eight great Hoondok textbooks.
3. Everyone restores three spiritual children.
First of all, everyone attends the morning devotion jeongseong. This is a continental condition. Today is the 575th day since we started Morning Devotion. It has already been over 1 year and 7 months. A sincere thank you to all the family members who have participated so far. Now, the United States has established a new dawn hoondok culture through morning devotion. We have succeeded in establishing the tradition of morning devotion that True Parents have been keeping. In the meantime, we have been watching this morning jeongseong devotion without missing a single day.
Secondly, everyone reads True Parents' eight great Hoondok textbooks. I am going to explain this in more detail from now on.
Thirdly, everyone restores three spiritual children. We are continuing the movement to restore these three spiritual children. Witnessing is the path through which our unification movement can develop and find and establish Cheon Il Guk substantially. Now, all churches across America are already very eagerly participating in this New Life Campaign movement. Wherever you go, your passion for witnessing is great. For example, at the Manhattan Church led by our Pastor Miilhan, the entire family goes out for witnessing after the Sunday service. This is a huge event that has never been seen before. Without exception, everyone goes out after the Sunday Service.
This cannot be done by force. Everybody has a volunteer and joyful heart. They really want to break through(?) in witnessing. I really appreciate our pastor Miilhan and our Joshua couple. They are really doing a great job.
Then, from now on, I will once again tell you about the jeongseong devotion of Hoondokhae in True Parents' 8 textbooks that I preached yesterday at the Clifton Church.
The Teaching of True Parents of the Unification Church is the Truth for the Salvation of the World
<201-339> “People of the entire world must pay attention now. The teaching of Father Moon of the Unification Church is the truth for the salvation of the world. They are words of true love and true life, which are needed eternally for humanity . If the Savior is coming to save the world, he should not judge humanity with a rod of iron. You cannot make even one person give in by hitting him or her.”
The Unification Church teachings of the Principle are words of true love and true life, which are needed eternally for humanity.
The way the Second Advent saves the world is not through a weapon, nor any coercion, nor any instrument. No one human being can be subdued by nature if it is forced. True love has the attributes of true freedom, peace, and happiness that are not bound by anyone. True love begins and bears fruit with voluntary motivation by giving thanks for all things with joy.
So, how will the Second Advent save humankind? The first level is the Word, the second level is the Blessing, and the third level is love and heart.
That is why anything we do begins from God’s word. This is the formation stage. How can we revive our American movement? We have to return to the original point. Why did we join the church and try to serve God’s and True Parents’ providence? Because of the word. That is why if we neglect to study God’s word, everything will decline. That is why I would like to emphasize again and again the importance of God’s word.
God is the Word
1. God’s word is his love.
2. God’s word is his heart.
3. God’s word is his life.
4. God‘s word is his light.
-God's love is surely expressed through His words.<3-323>-
The contents of True Parents' Hoondok sermons are summarized as follows.
1. God’s word is his love. I asked Masaaki (Chaen), a hoondok champion who read each of the eight textbooks of True Parents 100 times, “Masaaki, in one word, what is the conclusion you have reached as a result of investing 7 hours every evening for 7 years to read Hoondok?” It was then that he realized that every word True Parents said was the love of God. That is why he said that whenever he read True Parents' words, he thought that True Parents' words were the love of God, so he did not get tired at all. He said that the more he ate the Word of God, the more he could feel his spiritual body grow.
Why do we get tired when we read Hoondokhae? Because we are reading with our head in an intellectual way. That is a problem. You need to read with your heart. You need to think that each word is God’s love, God’s living word. Then our attitude is completely different.
2. God’s word is his heart. The heart is a world deeper than love. Therefore, the more you read True Parents' words, the more you will know and experience God's sorrowful heart.
Why don’t we understand God’s sorrowful heart? Because we did not properly study God’s word.
3. God’s word is his life. When the Word enters our hearts, it becomes life. So, when the Word enters into everyone, the dead come back to life. Isn't it because of True Parents' words that we have gained this new life today? The Word always creates new life. God created Adam and Eve with the word and breathed life into them.
That is why God’s word is God’s life. For anyone who listens very well, God’s word creates new life. It is so powerful. Anyone who has died spiritually can come back to life again. This is incredible. His word is our life.
4. God‘s word is his light. Light conquers darkness. Darkness can never conquer light. Therefore, the only way for us to take over this dark world is through the words of True Parents because True Parents' words are light. The only way to illuminate this dark world is through the words of True Parents. And True Parents said the following:
I am very inspired by these words of Father.
(3-323) God's love is surely expressed through His words. True Father said that God's love must be revealed through the Word. How do we know that God exists? How do I know how much God loves me? How can I know God's dreams and visions for me? How can we know God's heart toward mankind? And how can we know what God's desires for mankind are? He said that all of these things are expressed through God's words.
That is why without studying God’s word, without doing Hoondokhae we will never know that God’s word is his love, heart, life and his light. Surely God’s word is very important.
How did Heavenly Father create Adam and Eve and all things? Not just through external power, but by his word because his word is his love, heart, life and light.
If you set up the Hoondokhae Study Tradition in Your Family….
1. Satan will find no room to move.
2. It is possible to eradicate the satanic lineage.
3. Your family is aligned with God at high noon, where no shadow is cast
4. Your family can create a world where people in the spirit world and the earthly world can both attend True Parents at the same time.
5. Your family will receive God’s blessings
6. The world will automatically become the heavenly kingdom on earth and in the eternal spirit world, fulfilling the vision of “one family under God”.
A summary of True Parents' conclusions on hoondokhae is as follows. This is indeed a tremendous blessing:
1. If you set up the Hoondokhae Study Tradition in your family, Satan will find no room to move. Because the Word is the love of God, there is no room for Satan to enter where the Word of God is. Right?
2. It is possible to eradicate the satanic lineage. According to Chaen Masaaki, the champion of Hoondokhae, he did not feel that his fallen nature was being removed through prayer and devotion. But the more he read (Hoondokhae), the more he felt that his fallen nature was being removed every day.
This is the power of Hoondokhae.
3. Your family is aligned with God at high noon, where no shadow is cast. When your body is at a 90-degree angle to the sun, there is no shadow there. If anyone conducts Hoondokhoe like this, God and I stand at a 90-degree angle spiritually and heartistically, so we stand in direct contact with God. In that case, God will stand in the place of direct intervention in me.
Wow! No shadow. A 90-degree angle. Clear alignment. Then God will directly intevene in my family. This is the power of Hoondokhae.
4. Your family can create a world where people in the spirit world and the earthly world can both attend True Parents at the same time. This means that if we establish the tradition of Hoondokhoe in our homes, all our ancestors can join in and create a world in which the spirit world and the earth world can serve True Parents at the same time.
5. Your family will receive God’s blessings. As a result of having 4 generations of my family – this is my own explanation of my family’s sitaution – gathered together for a Hoondokhoe without missing a single day, I came to feel that God is protecting our family. All three of my children were blessed and all of them became a family of Cheonbo. If we establish the tradition of hoondok in our home, the relationship between the couple will improve. Children who have been away from church are returning. In addition, unimaginable economic blessings are also given.
I have that kind of experience. That is why Father said, “If you set up the Hoondokhae study tradition in your family, you can get incredible heavenly blessing spiritually and even physically – and even economically.”
6. The world will automatically become the heavenly kingdom on earth and in the eternal spirit world, fulfilling the vision of “one family under God.” How can(?) you say that the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth and in Heaven could come true? It was said that it would be possible when the families of Hoondok fill the earth. In other words, when everyone becomes the champion of Hoondok and becomes the family of Hoondok, the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth will automatically be established.
However, if you look at the providence of God, you can see that he always shows the model first and spreads it to the whole through that model.
Concerning the Hoondokhae tradition, how can we break through? How can we read the eight great textbooks throughout our lives? You need to find someone who has (already) broken through because Heavenly Father always establishes a model and then breaks through to the whole. That is God’s strategy. Even the Bible speaks of this very clearly.
Then how can we establish the tradition of hoondok? It is not enough to read every morning or every evening, and to live more devotion in the life of the church. That's why we need to find the Abel who has succeeded in Hoondokhoe. You need to find and learn from people who have gone on the model course.
Let's look at the bible verse about this.
Amos 3:7 “Surely the lord God does nothing, without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.”
God always shows a model first.
He shows some kind of model, formula course, first to his children, the prophets. Let’s apply this Bible verse to connect to our True Parents.
“Surely the True Parents and God does nothing, without revealing his Hoondok secret to his children the Blessed families.
As for us who live in the era of Cheon Il Guk today, we can walk the Formula course of subjugating Satan by establishing the tradition of hoondok through the eight great textbooks (True Parents' wills) passed down to us by True Parents.
Hoondok is not a tradition established in 10-20 minutes, it should be continued until the word becomes reality and substance.
However, God always sets someone around us as a model and shows the secret.
I already introduced you to this guy before, but I would like to emphasize this again.
Today I’d like to introduce the Hoondok Champion, Mr Chaen Masaaki. He is one of our Japanese missionaries to the Comoros and Dominica. He read all eight textbooks of True Parents' Words 100 times. He is now a man who can really be called a saint. That is how great he is. I know how much he changed his entire life through Hoondokhae. He was a very stubborn guy. After he studied Hoondokhae, how much his life changed! His wife (now) admires him so much. She thought her husband would never change. Because of Hoondokhae his wife now really tries to resemble him because his character 100% changed absolutely. Even his children, his members, his spiritual children – it is incredible what happened to his family. He read the old Cheon Seong Gyeong 100 times that was 2,539 pages (English version). Can you imagine that? He has gone through this kind of path: One-Hour EDP 100 times, Three-Hour EDP 100 times, 12-Hour EDP 100 times, Original EDP 100 times, True Father’s Autobiography, (this was before True Mother’s Memoir came out), Peace Messages 100 times, Cheon Seong Gyeong 100 times, and he is reading other books. Now he has gone through True Mother’s Memoir 100 times. It is amazing. It took seven years. Every day he invested 7 hours after coming back from his job. He is an amazing guy!
What was the Effect of his HDH?
1. Redemption and liberation from sin. Even though he did not receive atonement through prayer and devotion, he felt that he was cleansed of atonement(?) through Hoondok.
2. He had a fast growth of his spiritual self.
3. Freedom after breaking down all kinds of barriers. He experienced the collapse of national walls and the collapse of all races in his heart through Hoondok. So he said that everyone really felt like his own brothers and sisters.
He doesn’t have any barriers, any walls.
4. Experiencing God’s love and settling down Hoon Dok Family Church in his home.
Most Dominican missionary families were influenced by him. Many people became champions. I brought him to Asia and went (with him) to every nation: The Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Nepal. He gave everywhere giving his testimony. Even ambassadors for peace, even Christian ministers try to resemble him and to follow him. This is the power of God’s word.
Mr Chaen’s Testimony
Daily basis of offering Hoon Dok Cheongseong
1. Stopping means death.
If we stop breathing, we will die. That is why he does Hoondokhae without missing a single day, no matter how much he has done, because stopping means death. Jeongseong means that we need to do it every single day no matter what.
2. Everyday Hoondok is everyday resurrection
He is so inspired by God’s word. He feels he is resurrecting every day.
3. Everyday Hoondok is everyday growth
He can feel his spiritual body growing.
4. Hoon Dok time is the time when God’s love is infused into me, pouring eternal breath into my spirit body
Do you want to be resurrected every day? Everyone, do you want to grow every day? Do you want to receive God's love every day? Do you want to make atonement every day?
Then, first of all, you must first break through (reading) the one-hour EDP only 100 times, then anyone will become a hoondok champion and get the hoondok virus.
You don’t need to think about the eight great textbooks. When you read the One-Hour EDP 100 times, I am telling you guaranteed, you can become a champion of Hoondokhae. You don’t need to rely on anybody. You can learn by yourself. You can get spiritual food by yourself.
That is why everybody needs to break through. How can I read this One-Hour EDP content 100 times? In order to become a champion of Hoondokhae, let’s study the One-Hour EDP first. It only takes 45 minutes (to read). If you read it fast, you can read it in 30 minutes.
When you read, you have to be careful. Why? People reading Hoondokhae stop on the way because they do not read out loud. (You do) not (need to read) loudly. (Just loud enough for you to) hear (it) by yourself.
Three functions are very important. Your two eyes need to see the content. Your two ears (need to) hear your Hoondokhae voice. You also use your mouth. It is a trinity: your two ears, two eyes and mouth. You need that kind of function based on the trinity.
You need to read aloud. Just using your eyes, that is only one function. Using all three functions is important.
(Reads the chart below)
If we read each book 100 times, that really takes a long time. We cannot do that. That is why I will make it very clear. Everybody can achieve this goal.
(Reads chart below)
When you read (1-Hour) EDP 100 times, it means you did your best. Based on that there is no need to ready 3-Hours EDP 100 times. Try 30 times. When you read 3 hours EDP 30 times, it will take almost the same amount of time as the 1-Hour EDP. Then 12-Hours EDP 21 times and (the rest of the books) 10 times (each).
When you finish and have time, go back and reread the Original EDP, not the 1-Hour, 3-Hour and 12-Hour EDP.
If you complete this condition, it is already great.
From now until 2027 when the Cheonil Guk Seven-years course ends, we, the American Unification Movement, have set the goal to become hoondok models in this way. If we read each of the eight great textbooks 100 times, we will need to read them for the rest of our lives. However, if we set our goal according to this slide, I think we can finish them all during the second seven years course.
The reading time for each text book will be approximately the same amount of time. If you put in 45 minutes a day, I think you can read all eight textbooks by 2027.
We intend to do this condition of jeongseong devotion, prayer, and pray not just for our church but for the entire American family to read(?) (for) the second Cheonil Guk Seven-Year Course.
Let’s make our church a model church where God’s word lives and moves. It will be a Church that shows. If we all establish the tradition of reading the eight major textbooks, the Hoondokhae textbooks, our church will develop forever.
Not only that. This tradition will become an eternal follow up to those who are new to our church. If this Hoondokhae tradition is established, we won’t have to worry about follow up with newly joined family members from now on. Anyone who joins our church as a member of our family through one-on-one education can be introduced to this tradition of Hoondokhae ultimately. The way (that) we live and (that) our church develops is to return to the word. This is eternal follow up. You become an example. You know how to introduce your spiritual children.
The past few days I knelt down and prayed how to revive America. God told me, “You need to go back to the original point. Why did you join the church? How much are you seriously studying the Divine Principle and God’s word? That is why first we really pray and do Morning Devotion, (then) set up Hoondokhae and everybody goes out of their homes to bring 3 spiritual children.
I invited Mr. Masaaki to go everywhere. Most of the second generation in Asia completed (reading) the 1-Hour EDP 100 times.
Three Jeongseong Conditions of the American Continental Movement
1. Everyone attends the morning devotion jeongseong.
This is a continental condition
2. Everyone reads True Parents' eight great Hoondok textbooks.
We need to start from 1-Hour EDP.
3. Everyone restores three spiritual children.
Let’s do it. Let’s make a model family, a model church and a model continent. Then I think God will come down and pour out his Holy Spirit. Whatever we do, incredible heavenly fortune will come to us.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Minobu Joo.)
Jeongseong is very impotant. The one who caught the biggest one did so because of his jeongseong. Fish bite jeongsoeng. Jeongseong can do everything.♦
(Resonse to sharing) If you overcome by yourself and have confidence, spiritual world will help you (and will give you) wisdom how to talk to them and guide them. If you have confidence and overcome, spiritual world will give you wisdom in talking to them. This comes from confidence.
When you read (Hoondokhae) aloud, just read to yourself, don’t read loudly, just to yourself. A low(?) Voice is OK. Also, in doing Hoondokhae don’t just choose some content randomly. You need to do it systematically step by step. Then you can finish all the textbooks within the seven-year course.♦
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. Notes or transcripts of Dr. Yong’s Morning Devotion speeches from November 11, 2020 through January 2, 2022 are available as five paperback books at cost at Lulu.com/Shop -- search for Dr. Chung Sik Yong -- and as PDF downloads free of charge at MDBooks.Hoondok.com.♦