Ep 576 - Training Period to Mature Our Hearts and Spirituality Part 1
Training Period to Mature our Heart and Spirituality - May 22, 2022
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Jin-il Fleischman
(Response to Sharing) Now let’s really focus on witnessing because we have everything: God, True Parents, the Divine Principle and the Blessing. How can we establish the substantial Cheonil Guk? What we lack is how to increase more. That is our serious issue now. Let’s really multiply and build the substantial Cheonil Guk on the earth.♦
Are you reading the One-Hour EDP? Even though I have already read it more than 100 times, because of this national condition to ready the One-Hour EDP, I need to initiate this myself first. I would like to encourage all brothers and sisters to take this very seriously (in order) to become the incarnation of God’s word.
Today I’d like to talk about the “Training period to mature our heart and spirituality” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
The 2,000-year Christian history was the providence of searching for God’s only begotten daughter. The only begotten daughter of God needed to be born as God's daughter, separate from the satanic world. I was born based on this standard. Daemonim lived her whole life like a nanny caring after God's only begotten daughter. Heavenly Parent knows this. Daemonim began the CheongPyeong providence for blessed children as they could not understand the providential history on earth, even after it was revealed from the spiritual world. Daemonim fulfilled her responsibility to attend Father as the Returning Messiah and the king of kings and is now even busier in the spiritual world.
Now that CheongPyeong is growing on the basis of having become an established order, individuals can experience Daemonim's works by themselves as long as they offer devotions with Parents here. However no one can carry out Mother's works. No one but I can do so. If you go forward, one in heart, one in body, one in harmony and one in thought with me, you can be victorious. You are blessed people. There are seven billion people in the world, and you can be thankful that from among them, you were able to meet me. Blessed families can be born through me. You must live each day for the future with a heart of gratitude. (2015.12.06, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Mother said, “The 2,000-year Christian history was the providence of searching for God’s only begotten daughter. The only begotten daughter of God needed to be born as God's daughter, separate from the satanic world. I was born based on this standard.”
Let’s look at True Father’s Words on this topic.
<121-0213> True Mother’s mother (Daemonim) walked a historic path of suffering to receive the Returning Lord. During that time Mother, as her daughter, also received such training.
I needed a woman who would, as a wife, follow with all of her heart and mind a husband who was totally committed to the Will. I also needed her to be from a prepared family and lineage. Thinking in this way, I met True Mother.
<539-0060> Daemonim had gone a course in which she attended three persecuted churches. She attended the New Jesus Church, then the Holy Lord Church, and the Inside the Womb Church, before finally coming to the Unification Church. Her history of attending these three churches before meeting me qualified her lineage to be the lineage from which True Mother could come.
Before Daemonim gave birth to True Mother, she based her life on commands she had received from heaven. There were spiritual works like this going on in the background. I could not choose just anyone to be in the position of True Mother.
It says that until True Mother was born, 3 generations centered on True Mother must attend God and the devotion to find the Second Coming must be deep in their hearts more than (for) anyone else.
I really appreciate Daemonim. Because of her, all our ancestors can be liberated and can receive the Blessing. Wow! She is such a dedicated person! She was a model of attending True Parents on the earth. After she went to the spiritual world, she has been helping us to liberate our ancestors and Bless them. She is such a loyal lady.
Mother said Daemonim fulfilled her portion of responsibility completely. Mother really recognized and appreciated Daemonim’s role and her dedication.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 50 - The Indirect Dominion and the Human Portion of Responsibility
• 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
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 completion of God’s purpose of creation cannot be achieved by Himself (alone). God and human beings should jointly complete it together. This is because God’s purpose of creation is for God and human beings to become co-creators. In that sense, in realizing God’s will, God absolutely needs human beings and human beings also absolutely need God.
Then why do God and human beings have a common responsibility? It is because God and human beings must perfect each other’s love. It is because love can never be realized by oneself, it can only be realized through the object partner.
Since the ideal of God’s love is completed through human beings, and the ideal of human beings’ love is completed only through God, both have a common responsibility in realizing God’s Will.
In that sense, think that the great God and I are partners of creation. Think that God’s Will cannot be realized without me. Think that I am an absolutely necessary being to God.
This is each human being’s value. God cannot accomplish his will without me. I also cannot accomplish my will without God. We are co-creators. Even though Heavenly Father’s portion of responsibility is 95%, Each human being’s portion of responsibility is 5%. Even though that is small, without (that) 5% God cannot be complete. Each human being is the one who can realize God’s ideal. Without you, God cannot complete his purpose of creation. I also cannot fulfill my portion of responsibility. I cannot become a perfect man or woman centered on true love without God. We are co-creators. We have a common destiny. That is really incredible!
Do not Expect any Help from God in Your Responsibility
You need your own record saying "I have done this!" There is no other way. It cannot be done with the help of others. You are destined not to receive any help from God. Though God helps you 100%, the remaining 5% is humankind's responsibility. Satan tries to attack humankind with that remaining 5%. So you should not expect any cooperation or help from God in deciding your destiny. You should go independently, by yourself. You should take clear responsibility. Rev. Moon is looking for that kind of person. (February 9, 1970)
(These are) very serious words!
True Father’s attitude of fulfilling one’s portion of responsibility is very clear. According to True Father's words, we must have a mindset that we will not even receive God's cooperation when it comes to sharing our responsibilities.
When I am indebted, it is because the condition that I have completed (my portion of responsibility) is not established. Therefore, go with the resolve that I will fulfill my own portion of responsibility without expecting any help from anyone. Rather than being indebted to the other person, advance with the heart of making them be indebted to me.
That is why you need your own record of saying, “I have done this!” There is no other way. It cannot be done with the help of others. You are destined not to receive any help from God.
That means you have to have that kind of mind set not to rely on anyone. Without God’s help I need to do (it). (We) need that kind of ownership. I cannot just rely on God. I have to fulfill my portion of responsibility plus I want to bear even God’s cross. I want to help with God’s portion of responsibility.
This (attitude) comes from a filial heart. Who is a filial son or daughter? Of course, you need to fulfill your own portion of responsibility without relying on your parents. However, you need to do more, to add more. You need to carry your parents’ cross, your parents’ portion of responsibility plus you need to carry the portion of responsibility of others. That kind of mindset I really admire (in) Father. We (need to) have that kind of full ownership. I have to be responsible for God, for True Mother’s heavy burden, for this nation, for my church, for the world. With this mindset we can say you really resemble God, you have the qualification to become a co-creator like God. This is ownership. That means I need to be responsible for my own job, to be very serious about that. Not only my job, but in order to fulfill my own portion of responsibility (we need to) think about God and his portion of responsibility – “I want to help him.” – then God will cry: “Wow! I have never seen this kind of son or daughter. This guy wants to be responsible for my own heavy burden!”
True Father was like that. Jesus was like that. He fulfilled his portion of responsibility, but he (also) wanted to bear even the Israel people’s mistake. “I want to bear the cross.”
Father had that kind of strong ownership. That is why his wish is what? Not just to fulfill his own responsibility, but how to liberate and console God. In order to console and liberate him, True Father had to be responsible for God. This is incredible guidance from Father. Only Unificationists can learn these kinds of things, right?
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Filial Piety and the Secret of the Universe
1. In order to lead a healthy life of faith, you must always live being touched by the Word. My heart must always live with the feeling of being resurrected through the Word. You should not need knowledge for the sake of knowledge. You should need knowledge for love. In order to enrich love, knowledge must serve as a supplement to love. Otherwise, if knowledge becomes the subject and love becomes the object, we will live a life of loss. Second, in order to lead a healthy life of faith, you must always be sure of your identity. “Who am I?” I must be certain that I am related to God who is the cause. We must live with a clear identity that our relationship with God is that of parent and child.
In order to lead a healthy life of faith, you should always be touched by the Word. Our spiritual body always needs to be touched by the word. Then our spiritual body can grow up and overcome the dominance(?dominion?) of the world with the power of being touched by the word.
That is why God’s word is light. If you really possess God’s word, you can conquer any darkness of the world. When I am touched by the word and jeongseong, the moving Spirit of God comes upon me.
There are two ways for my spirit to be touched. The first is being vertically and directly touched by God’s Word and jeongseong. What is the second way? The second way is horizontally serving and living for the sake of others in interpersonal relationships. If you practice these two ways, our spirits will always become very healthy.
Not only (do we need to be) touched by God’s word, horizontally you really need to serve others and live for the sake of others. What is substantial living for the sake of others? That is saving people’s souls: witnessing. Witnessing is the best way to live for the sake of others because I am saving that person’s eternal life.
If you give (someone) $100, $1,000, $10,000, you just give it and it goes away. However, if you save people’s eternal life, this is really substantial meaning: living for the sake of others.
You (can) use two ways: first you need to be inspired by God’s word and receive God’s guidance directly and also you receive love by living for the sake of others. When you touch someone’s heart, energy and spiritual power come to you from him, a kind of vibration. It touches your spirit and you can grow. There is a vertical way and a horizontal way. Without saving people, we cannot have a substantial experience of real love.
The most important thing is being clear on what the relationship between God and me is. You should always check your identity. Who is God? And who am I? Every morning wake up and ask God, “God, who are you? Who am I?” Because we are fallen men we need to make sure. We always need to check our own identity: “God, are you really my daddy? You are really my loving Father? Am I really your child?”
We must continuously ask this question and live with conviction in our life of faith. Once you have the conviction that “He is my Daddy; I am his child,” then we can have incredible power.
2. You have a parent-child relationship with God. We can say that this parent-child relationship is a relationship of heart. Therefore, I must live by carefully examining whether I always have a heart to attend God. I am a resultant being born through God, who is the cause. In the Bible, the relationship between God and me, that is, the relationship between the cause and me, is expressed as a lamp. That means heart. Therefore, this relationship between God and me must be thorough and considered as important as life. The secret of the universe is that God and I have a parent-child relationship. Confident belief in this becomes a secret that can solve all problems.
What is the secret of the Universe? If you know this secret, it becomes the key to solving the fundamental problems and all problems. Then what is the secret of the universe? The secret of the universe is that “God and I have a parent-child relationship.”
Confidently believing in this becomes a key that can solve all problems. If you know this secret of the universe, you can solve any problem.
Father said (that) so many of the principles – The Principle of Creation, The Fall of Man, The Restoration Course – are based on what? Father said that once he realized that the secret of the universe (is that) the fundamental principle in the universe is the parent-child relationship between God and me, he (had) discovered everything.
Based on this foundation we can discover everything. Using this fundamental principle centering on God’s point of view, parents’ point of view, (it) means that I am the child. How can we deal with this kind of issue? Father asked God and applied this in many ways to find the Principle. (Thus) the secret of the universe is that God and I have a parent-child relationship.
Do you really believe that God is like no other being and the father of love? Do you also believe that you are a child like no other (person) to him? Are you certain that “Without me the omniscient and omnipotent and great God cannot realize his will?” If you have absolute belief that “God and I have a parent-child relationship,” unimaginable miracles will arise. “There is no one who can win over me, no fear. All worries will be eradicated.”
Wow! How much do you believe in God, that he is really my father? He loves me more than himself. How much do you believe that? God is my father so there is nothing I cannot do.
The problem is that fallen human beings know this in their head, but they don’t have absolute faith that “God and I have a parent-child relationship.” That is why nothing happens. Absolute faith brings miracles. Absolute faith that God is my parent and that I am his child – if you have such absolute faith, you can bring miracles all the time. There is nothing you cannot accomplish. Nothing is impossible in the name of God.
Fallen man always doubts. You believe in God to a certain level, but you do not have absolute faith. That is the problem.
3. If we know that we have a parent-child relationship with God in our life of faith, what should we do for our parents as their children? It is filial piety. According to Eastern ethics, marriage between a man and a woman is for children to marry in order to be filial to their parents. However, in Western ethics, marriage is not to be filial to one's parents, but for a man and a woman to meet and love each other. However, our principle puts vertical love first in the parent-child relationship. This is expressed in the Bible as love. However, in the Bible, there is no expression for “filial piety” in the sense that children serve their parents with all their heart.
4. In the Bible, the word “love” is used when children love their parents, when parents love their children and when siblings love each other. A parent's love for their child can be expressed with the word Agape, but there is no proper expression for the child's love for the parent. There are words like Eros and Philia, but there are no proper words like filial piety that is spoken of in the East. There is a word for filial piety (hyo - ) in the oriental language. In the East, the word filial piety is used only to describe a child’s love for their parents. The word filial piety is not used in relationships between husband and wife, brothers and sisters, and friends. Filial piety is the root of a child’s heart toward their parents.
If we know that we have a parent-child relationship with God in our life of faith, what should we do for our parents as their children? It is filial piety. True Mother said that is “hyojeong,” filial heart.
Our principle puts vertical love first in the parent-child relationship. This is expressed in the Bible as love.
However, in the Bible, there is no expression for “filial piety” in the sense that children serve their parents with all their heart. Love is written broadly in the Bible.
In the East, the word filial piety is used only to describe a child’s love for their parents.
The word filial piety is not used in relationships between husband and wife, brothers and sisters, and friends. Filial piety is the root of a child’s heart toward their parents.
This is a beautiful word. If we do not realize the word of the filial heart, then it is not easy to build a relationship of parent and child between God and me.
The Era of Cheon Il Guk is the age in which the children become the owners of Cheon Il Guk. What this age requires most is hyo jeong, a filial heart, towards Heavenly Parent and True Parents. If we have a filial heart towards Heavenly Parent and True Parents, Heaven will give us unimaginable knowledge and wisdom and we can overcome any difficulty in advancing True Parents’ providence.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Jin-il Fleischman, Dallas CARP 7-Day Workshop.)♦
(Response to sharing) It is not easy to convince Lesbians and other (LGBTQ) people with theory. How can we convince them? We need to really show what a true person and an ideal family are. We need to show the beautiful relationship between husband and wife and (between) parent and child. When they see some kind of substance, it can change their life. In this society nobody shows what the ideal family is and what the true man or woman is. That is the problem. Nobody practices it. (One) cannot find any ideal person or any ideal family. That is the issue. But when we show that kind of personality and character and that kind of small Kingdom of Heaven, even among CARP members, then everybody can be influenced. “Wow, this is the Kingdom of Heaven.” We need to make a showing church substantially.♦
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