Ep 579 - ChinHwaGwan B Educational Center and ChinHwa Park
ChinHwaGwan B Educational Center and ChinHwa Park - May 27, 2022
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Are you reading the Diagramed EDP lecture manual for 1 hour lectures everyday? I received a report yesterday that more than 70 of the members of Clifton Church have already read the EDP lecture manual for one hour. I hope that at least 3,000 people from all over the United States will participate in this devotional jeongseong condition and set that standard.
Let’s become champions of hoondokhae. When we become the substance of God’s word, automatically our desire (is) to save people’s soul. I think this is our motivation: to multiply and witness to many brothers and sisters through the substance of Hoondokhae.
Today I’d like to talk about “ChinHwaGwan B Educational Center and ChinHwa Park” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Today, December 30, 2014, as we say farewell for a last time to the eventful year of the horse and usher in a future filled with hope through the new year of the sheep (Eulmi), I would like to express my gratitude to You for enabling us to dedicate the sacred ChinHwaGwan B building to You. Beloved Heavenly Parent and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, how hard you have worked! You have worked so hard to find your true children. Today is a day through which your sons and daughters, who have gathered here, make the determination to fulfill their responsibility and calling as blessed families and to do their best to bring back not only this nation but also all humanity back into our Heavenly Parent's bosom through the grace True Parents have achieved on earth.
Our Heavenly Parent, please enable the many people that come here to realize the truth about the providence and, in accordance with the direction of their original minds, to align themselves with True Parents' teachings and thereby become proud people who spread True Parents' true love movement to the society, nation and world. Father, please embrace all those people that come here and guide them to open their hearts and move in the direction of advancing the day when the free, peaceful and unified world, one world under God, is realized—a world that You have pursued and hoped for, and one that humanity has yearned for until now. (2015.02.18, CheongPyeong Training Center ChinHwaGwan B)
October is a month of blessing, a month of liberty, and a sacred month of hope for the Unification movement. We, together with all your children who have devoted their utmost effort, offer our gratitude for Your allowing us this precious moment to dedicate in front of Heaven the Chinhwa Park of this CheongPyeong holy ground. True Father prepared this holy ground for 40 years with blood, sweat and tears for the sake of the future generations. Please bless this beautiful park to be a place where the heart of every member and every person who sets foot here can become one with Heavenly Parent and True Parents and offer gratitude and praise to Heaven. Please remember all those gathered here today and raise them into capable leaders who become true filial and loyal sons and daughters of Heaven. Beloved Father, we long for You endlessly in this beautiful season. Please guide us to become filial and loyal sons and daughters who can fulfill the responsibility of offering this nation and the world to You as proud children by completing our portion of responsibility. (2015.10.24, Cheong- Pyeong Training Center, Chinhwa Park)
I will add a little more about the ChinHwaGwan B building and park.
On October 30, 2020 during the Victory Celebration, True Mother approved the appointment ceremony of Rev. Gi-Seong Lee as the Cheonshimwon director and Yeong-hwan Gil as the CheonBo Education Center director. She already changed the name of Jeongshimwon to Cheonshimwon. True Mother gave the task of making Cheonshimwon known to their ancestors, with the role of Cheonshimwon being centered on HTM members who completed 430 couples. And True Mother emphasized the need to change the name of Chinhwa Education Building B to Cheonbo Education Center and to provide education that makes 43 Cheonbo couples a reality. And CheonBo Training Center hopes that Cheonshimwon and CheonBo Education Center would become one centered on the Cheon Shim Church to revive the Cheonwon Complex and become a model for the world to follow.
Director Lee Gee Song and Director Gil Yeon Hwan, Prof. Gil, took a commemorative photo with True Mother at the time.
This is the ChinHwaGwan Park beside the ChinHwaGwan B. Many of you have already seen this place, right?
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 50 - The Indirect Dominion and the Human Portion of Responsibility
The Reason for Human 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 Reason for the Warning Not to Eat the Fruit
<August 16, 1970> The portion of responsibility that was facing Adam and Eve had the possibility to become a lethal poison to human beings for a long time in case of a mistake. Since Adam and Eve were in the important position of taking full responsibility, God anticipated that there would be a severe attack from Satan, and that is why He warned that they must not eat the fruit. What do you think God's heart would be like, seeing that in the end they ate the fruit.
When we know (about) the human portion of responsibility, we (may not) know how terrifying it is. The ultimate goal of our portion of responsibility is to become the master of true love. When we fulfill our portion of responsibility, we become the second creator together with God and become the master of eternal true love.
However, if we do not fulfill our portion of responsibility, we become subjects of false love, false life, and false blood. In other words, if we fail to do our portion of responsibility, we become Satan, the enemy of God.
Therefore, God warned us not to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because the issue of our responsibility determines whether we become the lineage of eternal God's true love or the false lineage of eternal Satan.
After all, since our responsibility is a matter of life, love, and lineage, if we fulfill our responsibility, we become the master of eternal love, true love; otherwise we will die forever and become Satan. Adam and Eve did not realize how important their responsibilities were.
The human portion of responsibility is that serious, really terrifying! How important it is! If we know the importance of our own portion of responsibility, no one (will) fail.
Many people do not know the importance of our responsibility. Our absolute destiny is what? How we can become the true owner centered on true love. This is God’s wish. This is our portion of responsibility. This relates to my life, my love, my blood lineage. This is very serious. If we know and understand the importance of responsibility, then no matter what, we can educate our descendants, our children, very well.
Why couldn’t we educate our children well? Because we could not understand the importance of the human portion of responsibility. It is like life and death. We can become the owner of true love or like Satan, God’s enemy. It is this serious! How can we know?
Adam and Eve could have become the owner of true love and co-creator with God. When they failed their portion of responsibility, what was the outcome?
Same for us. If we fulfill our portion of responsibility, we can receive incredible and eternal glorious award... However, If we cannot fulfill ... again, then everything needs to go to our descendants. This (also) becomes God’s cross.
The Responsibility to Inquire and Report
How is it that Adam and Eve fell? If they had asked God before they fell, they would not have fallen. Inquiring is up to you, it is your will. Adam and Eve should have asked God about their relationship with the archangel. Then God would have answered them. (August 16, 1970)
This is very simple but very important.
One of True Father’s most important slogans in course of the providence to fulfill God’s will was “Ask God and take action.”
Before doing anything, Father said that even he does not take any action without first getting permission from God.
True Father’s life of faith was a life of thoroughly asking God, receiving an answer and then moving into action. Even though True Father is a completed man and the Messiah, the savior – he need not ask God because he already knows everything – but even though he knows everything, he always gets permission from God. He showed (us that he) first asks God and then takes action. This is a great lesson.
That is why Father ‘s word is so powerful, (and has) so much divinity(?). (Even though) he is the savior, the messiah, True Parents, he always get’s permission.
Because Adam and Eve did not ask, that means they did not deny themselves. No self denial means the fall. Father knows this matter very well.
Our movement is emphasizing the Lifestyle of RCC (Report, Contact and Counsel). When Adam and Eve were tempted by the archangel, they should have asked God first in order to overcome it.
Their portion of responsibility was to ask God: “What happened?(?) What can I do, Heavenly Father? In this situation what shall I do?” They needed to ask God. That is free: to ask.
Although Adam and Eve had the freedom to ask God, they made all decisions based on their own thoughts, regardless of God. The origin of the fall was not asking.
The fact that they did not ask God shows that they already had a heartistic distance from God in their daily lives. If you are close in heart with your father or mother or your Abel, you are supposed to discuss everything. Then there is no more gap.
Because Adam and Eve decided and moved centered on themselves without asking God, they created a reciprocal relationship with Satan and they fell.
To live, always asking Abel and getting permission means to deny yourself completely.
That is why I tell Tomomi, “Wherever you go, ask. You need to report. Going out you need to report. Coming back you need to report.”
Even myself: I often go out to exercise. I give a memo to Tomomi, “I am going out for exercise.” When I come back, I report to her, “I have come back.” This kind of report is very important. If you never ask anyone, you do not have a subject partner to report to, you are in danger at any time.
For example, when Heung Jin Nim passed away, Father was at a serious rally in Korea. When Father heard the report of Heung Jin Nim’s accident, do you know what Father’s first question was? “Did he report or not before going out?”
Father is a very principled man. “Did he report or not?”
It should become a good habit to always decide and move in accordance with God's command in our life of faith. The second thing is that you must contact Abel when you go, come and take action. It means to always receive Abel’s permission and take action.
If you always ask God and listen to his answer, then you can have a beautiful and inseparable relationship with God.
The third is to always consult Abel about your problems and your situation. In that sense, we do not know how important it is to have a heartistic relationship with Abel in our life of faith.
Why report and contact and consult?
It means to have a heartfelt and heartistic relationship with Abel. This is not a report for report’s (sake). The purpose is to establish an inseparable relationship with your Abel, your father and your mother, with God, with the Messiah, with your own brothers and sisters. If you don’t report, the distance will increase and it will be dangerous to have give and take more horizontally.
All problems come from heartistic distance. (Develop) a habit of reporting, contacting and consulting.
Why don’t your children report to you? Why don’t they contact you? Why don’t they consult with you? Because as a parent you do not report to your children. There is no heartistic communication between parents and children. That is why children become horizontal.
In our family the most important thing is heartistic communication between husband and wife. If there is no heartistic communication between husband and wife and they have a heartistic distance, this becomes a problem. If there is no heartistic communication between parents and children, then the children go their own way.
Therefore, from (their infancy) how can we have an intimate, heartistic, inseparable relationship (with our children). If there is heartistic distance, you are in danger. You can fall any time. You can be influenced by the secular world any time.
Even though he is the messiah, Father always did training. He asked first, then took action. This is really important guidance.
One of the most important responsibilities of the human being in order to fulfill our portion of responsibility is to ask God. This is our portion of responsibility, to ask God and get permission. Without permission from God, Abel, your life of faith will not develop. How can you develop? No report!
I ask Naokimi, “Whatever you do, you always need to report.” Don’t report just for report’s (sake).
Through reporting and discussing together, we build up a more internal and heartistic relationship.
In Japanese it is “Horenzo.” ...
Many people do it conditionally. They do not know what the purpose of reporting, contacting and consulting is. It is to build up heartistic relationships. If there is no heartistic relationship and there is heartistic distance, then there is a problem. Am I correct? This is important.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: What Must I do to be Filial to my Parents? (1)
1.What must I do to be filial to my parents? You must be endowed both internally and externally. Without being endowed internally and externally, you cannot become a proud son and daughter before your parents. Since we are human beings with a spirit and body, we must do well internally and externally within our spirit and body. Externally, you should also have economic power. You should not become a child who is indebted to and cause their parents to worry because you are lacking financially. And internally, you should have heartistic capabilities. You should not be incompetent. You should also not become a poor man. Can you become filial sons and daughters like this? We must fulfill our responsibilities wherever we go. And we should become people with moral influence in relationships with people.
What must I do to be filial to my parents? Even to heaven. Just as the human structure is made up of mind and body, you must be endowed both internally and externally. Internally, you have to evoke your filial heart for your parents; (you) should always serve them.
Externally, it is necessary to lay an economic foundation so that you can afford to take care of your parents by becoming self-reliant without being indebted to your parents. Financially, if a child is indebted to his or her parents, it cannot be said to be a complete filial piety.
The third is to be a person with moral influence in human relationships, and to be a person who is praised by those around you, so that you should glorify your own parents. Those who show filial piety to their parents will surely be blessed with great material blessings from heaven. Because where there is Hyojeong, there is always emotion and touching hearts.
When you move God’s heart centering on your hyeojeong, God will surely bless you materially.
Heaven is touched by the jeongseong of a filial son or daughter and grants him or her material blessings as well.
2. To this day, our True Parents have lived by giving moral influence on others. They have given moral influence on others in surprising ways. Since True Parents always live giving moral influence, people around the world are starting to show an increased interest in True Parents. Isn’t this filial piety towards God? Internally, you must have the virtuous power that can embrace any object partner, and externally, you must have skills that are second to none in the world, so that you are not behind in any way. Parents of the past generation only tried to rule their children by putting their parental authority ahead of them. They did not give moral influence on their children but just told them to be filial. In this way, parents are unable to provide moral influence to their children in the family, so we see people who go out into the world and live in society, but only assert their external authority.
To this day, our True Parents have lived by giving moral influence to others. They left countless unforgettable experiences for people that remain forever. Unforgettable, heart-touching experiences remembered by a person are the same as being remembered by God.
You have to accumulate many achievements of hidden love that will surprise even God. In that case, you should always live by giving moral influence to the people around you.
Since True Parents always live giving moral influence, people around the world are starting to show an increased interest in True Parents. This is true filial piety to God.
Have you ever given someone a touching experience that they will never forget? One of the experiences that will be eternally unforgettable and touching is to do witnessing and leave an eternal mark of love of the spiritual parent in the hearts of the spiritual children.
That’s why to save people is the most unforgettable memory. Even God cannot forget it. That is why we need to break through in our witnessing. We can create unforgettable memories, unforgettable experiences for our own spiritual children.
3. People who could not learn what moral influence is from their parents in their family easily just assert their own position and authority. Subordinates simply greet superiors because they cannot do anything in front of them. Some subordinates cannot even drink water in front of superiors. If the superior is respected in heart by the subordinate, a vertical order is automatically established. However, the world was ordered centered on the relationship between seniors and juniors and by age and position. As a result, some young people protest. Our principle teaches a life of attending in the body of a servant with the heart of a parent. In other words, parents are to be servants to their children.
In the family, people who have not learned what life is to be given by their parents become orphans and seek only love, and when given a position, it is easy to assert only their position and authority.
Those who do not receive love from their parents in the family will not be able to practice filial piety. These children feel a lack of love, and when they go out into society, they simply assert themselves, and if they get into a higher position, they impose on their subordinates what they learned from their parents.
If the superior is respected in heart by the subordinate, a vertical order is automatically established. However, the world was ordered centered on the relationship between seniors and juniors and by age and position.
The most important thing is to practice the life of serving in the body of a servant with the heart of a parent as the principle teaches. In other words, parents are to be servants to their children. It is to be a servant to subordinates first.
True Parents have showed a great example to us.
4. In the Eastern world, parents serving their children is usually called love, and children serving their parents with all their heart is called filial pity. However, when we use the word filial piety, it is only used when children serve and live for the sake of their parents. In fact, when parents raise their children, they must treat their children with the same heart that the parents did towards their own parents. In other words, it means that parents should be filial to their children with the same heart that they were filial to their parents. People who have traditionally held this word in the past will not know what it means. When we say filial piety, we mean the heart of children serving their parents, so may you ask, “how can you say that parents are filial to their children?” It makes no sense with the words and traditions that have been used up to this day.
This is a very important key point today. I am going to talk about filial piety.
In the Eastern world, parents serving their children is usually called love,
I love my father. That is my love. I love my mother; that is my love. I love my brothers and sisters, my Abel and Cain, then we call that love.
And children serving their parents with all their heart is called filial pity. That is why parents serving children is never called filial piety. Filial piety is only used when children serve parents.
However, if you understand the principle, the attribute of true love is that the subject partner wants the object partner to become a better person than himself. This means that regardless of age, seniors or juniors, regardless of parent and child order, I think of others as more valuable than myself, it is to have filial piety towards any object partner as if they were children serving their parents.
People who have traditionally held this word in the past will not know what it means. When we say filial piety, we mean the heart of children serving their parents, so may you ask, how can you say that parents are filial to their children?
However, since the attribute of true love is from God, even (for) God, though human beings are His children, the human being God sees is higher and more precious than God Himself, and He serves them.
In other words, God also has the attribute of a heart that is filial to humans. An example of this was when Moses’ mother said that Moses was her son, but she was filial to Moses. True Mother was physically Daemonim’s daughter, but she was filial to true mother.
The same is true for Mary. Mary was physically the mother of Jesus, but she should have been filial to Jesus.
If we had educated our children with this kind of filial heart when raising our children today, our 2nd and 3rd generation children would all remain in the will.
“Oh, my children are younger than I am; there is no need to use respectful language. ...”
Your children are more precious than you. You need to think they are higher than you. Then I need to have the filial heart to serve them.
In the same way children serve their parents based on filial piety, but as parents we have the same kind of filial heart towards our own children. If we have this attitude, how much our family, our nation and the entire world can change. It does not matter if someone is older than I am or has a higher position than I have. The concept of filial piety is very powerful and very important.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony that Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Joshua Holmes, the assistant pastor in Manhattan).
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