Ep 584 - HyoJeong Cultural Center, HyoJeong Cheonll SunHwa Won, And CheonBoWon Part 2
HyoJeong Cultural Center, HyoJeong CheonIl SungHwa Won, and CheonBoWon - June 1 , 2022 - True Father’s Yankee Stadium Speech 1975
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Today is already June 1. I joined the church in 1975, June 1. Already the 47th anniversary. My God, time flies so fast!
Today I’d like to talk about the “HyoJeong Cultural Center, HyoJeong CheonIl SungHwa Won, and CheonBoWon” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
I am going to make HyoJeong CheonIl Seonghwa Won. People spend ten months in the womb, and then 100 years living on the earth. After that they have to go to the kingdom of heaven in the spirit world. That is the way that God created the world. Up to this day, due to the mistakes of our first ancestors, we have been living in a false history. Through True Parents' victory over the 6,000 years of dark history, through the providence of restoration through indemnity, the foundation was established to liberate Heavenly Parent and to achieve His original dream, which He has cherished since the time of the Creation. When we think about the situation of the people of the world, we cannot stop and rest for even a moment. Not even for a second. You have been chosen to receive the marriage Blessing from True Parents’ during your life on earth. What kind of results should you carry with you as blessed families, when you go to the next world, the eternal world? In the future, Seonghwa culture will become the most sought-after dream for humankind.
As they lived on Earth, humankind was meant to make it a place of greater prosperity and well-being. But instead, people have brought the planet to a point of crisis. If we think of the Earth as a physical body, it is covered with wounds in many places. In the future, through Seonghwa culture, I will preserve the Earth’s beauty and record how well each person fulfilled his or her responsibility. In short, the genealogy of each person will be recorded. We will make a special center and a garden where those records will be kept. After it is completed, all the members of the Unification movement around the world will dream of visiting the center, saying, “There is one more place I need to be sure to go,” It will serve as the foundation for an astounding blessing for all humankind. (2017.02.10, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True Mother said that through building the HyoJeong CheonIl Seonghwa Won, she will preserve the Earth’s beauty and make a beautiful record of how well each person fulfilled his or her responsibility.
True Mother is trying to create the HyoJeong CheonIl Seonghwa Won where all people can automatically believe and follow True Parents by creating models of the beautiful records of those who have made accomplishments of love.
The era of Cheon Il Guk is not an era of just believing. This is not an era where only the Word is proclaimed. The era of Cheon Il Guk is such an era that shows how God is with us in our lives.
When we go to the spirit world, let's build up a track record of love that God, True Parents, our ancestors, and even our descendants can thank us (for).
When you pass away and go to the spiritual world, what will God’s expression to you be? “Thank you so much for your hard work!” Can we get that kind of comfort from God. When you pass away, what will God’s expression to you be? I always think about that. As a fallen man we met True Parents. We received the Blessing. We received salvation. Since knowing God’s will, we worked very hard until the last moment and finally passed away and went to the spiritual world. What will God’s first greeting to me be? What will True Father say to you and to me? Can you imagine? What kind of expression (will we receive) from God, from True Father or True Mother ?
We are such fortunate people. We are living together with True Mother. We are on the way of the second seven-year course. It is such a precious (time). It is the golden time period. Let’s really focus and do our best for God’s providence. This time living with our True Mother will never come again. We can do something for our True Mother and True Parents. It is an incredible opportunity for us to fulfill our portion of responsibility.
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 Four Great Things Left Behind by Father
<February 21, 1988 at the Han-nam-dong residence in Korea> Therefore, you must be sure to study these four things and put them into practice. This is absolutely necessary at all times. You must have the absolute conviction that God is your father and that you are Adam. God is your father, so you have to inherit what is your father’s as God’s child, and you must put into practice what your father knows. You must follow. It’s simple. You must pay indemnity so that Satan cannot be with you.
You must become a true Adam. Then you must understand the Cain-Abel relationship and work to restore the first son. Unless you become the first son, you cannot go to Adam’s position. Until you remove your fallen nature, you cannot go to the position of the first son. You cannot leave out even one of the four above points.
Completion of the Portion of Responsibility and the Bond of Love
If the portion of responsibility had been completed, the bond of love would have been made in the realm of indirect dominion and the realm of direct dominion. There, the vertical love and horizontal love are connected. Through the vertical and horizontal loves, God’s blood ties are formed. The lineage is formed. That lineage, which is born from a bond between the vertical and horizontal loves which are united centering on God’s love, is beyond Satan’s interference. It has no bond with Satan.
The Four Great Things Left Behind by Father
“There are four great things that I have left behind in the world of faith through my time on the earth..”
1. I clarified the relationship between God and human beings.
It is the greatest achievement in human history that True Father revealed the relationship between God and human beings. He revealed that the origin of the universe is the relationship between God and human beings. The most important thing in your life of faith is to have the absolute conviction that God is your parent and that you are God’s irreplaceable child. If you have absolute faith and confidence in your parent-child relationship with God, the next stage is to experience and inherit God’s heart and love.
2. I clearly revealed the portion of responsibility and indemnity. None in history understood this. No one knew why human beings live this way. Conscientious people did not live well but evil people lived well. I have revealed the reason. It is the law of indemnity.
True Father‘s next discovery was human portion of responsibility. No one in history had known this. They did not know that God’s purpose of creation was a task that humans and God had to accomplish as co-creators with a shared responsibility. Therefore, no one knew that God could not interfere with man’s portion of responsibility. No one knew that in the course of restoration we had to go through the course of responsibility for indemnity. We had to restore everything first because our ancestors failed to fulfill their responsibility and fell.
3. I have clearly revealed the issue of Cain and Abel.
True Father clarified the issue of Cain and Abel. The fall of man caused God to lose the birthright to Satan. Therefore, God had to conduct the providence to restore the birthright from the standpoint of the second son. That is the providence of Cain and Abel.
4. I fundamentally clarified and solved the issue of lineage. The dirty blood of Satan—the issue of lineage—was fundamentally unknown so it could not be paid off. All the problems of the world are caught up in this.
Fourth, he fundamentally clarified and solved the issue of lineage. The fall of man is the conversion of God's lineage into Satan's lineage. Therefore, human beings cannot become children of God unless they change their lineage again. As a countermeasure, True Parents came with the gift of the Blessing as a condition to change the lineage based on the foundation of victory over Satan. Therefore, no one can change the lineage without receiving the Blessing.
Wow! Father discovered these four things. We really need to appreciate our Father’s great effort and his jeongseong in order to discover these incredible principles for us.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Always Live Checking Yourself
1. We must essentially always live checking ourselves. Am I really practicing a faith of filial piety which evokes my heart or am I practicing a conceptual faith of just knowing in my head? A conceptual life of faith is just wasting time. Also, if I am a person who has the real truth, I must live while checking whether I am a person of real truth. If a student does not study properly while saying that it is for the will of God, they are not a sincere person. A student's duty is to first put all their energy into all their studies. In this case, the student is to live by checking whether they are truly filial in the vertical parent-child relationship with God. This is the attitude of filial piety.
The origin of the universe is that the relationship between God and me is that of parent and child. Then, what is the most important thing in my relationship with God? It is none other than a relationship of heart. The essence of heart is Hyojeong.
Therefore, no matter what we do, we should always live checking ourselves. We have to ask if we ourselves have a faith of filial piety that comes from the heart, or if we have an idealistic faith, a conceptual faith, that only exists in our head.
That is why every morning we (should) wake up (and ask): “Heavenly God, am I full of filial heart? Heavenly Parent, I long for you. I miss you so much. Thank you so much for your hard work, Heavenly Father. How can I help you? How can I bear your cross? As a child I really appreciate that True Parents taught us about your sorrowful heart, your difficult situation, your hard work. Since I (came to) know your difficult situation, your hard work, so much han, Heavenly Father, how can I reduce your burden? How can I take responsibility for your heavy cross?”
We need to check: “Do I have that kind of filial heart or not?”
Early in the morning when we pray, does our heart well up like that? “Do I have that kind of filial heart to love him, and support him, and reduce his burden?” Always we need to check.
The most important thing is the heartistic relationship between God and me. That is the fundamental issue. (When) we enter the Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of Heaven is the world of the heart. How much do I have that kind of filial heart, filial piety toward God? As long as I have that kind of filial heart, filial mind, filial attitude, this attitude(?) automatically connects me to my physical father and mother, automatically can connect me to my own brothers and sisters, to my own portion of responsibility.
That is why the vertical alignment with God is essential. That is why we always need to check: Do I have a filial heart or not?
A person who leads an ideological life of faith is a person who has not yet been filial to God. In other words, he does not have a relationship of heart with God. He has an ideological faith because he knows only with his head. If anything is not connected with the heart, it is just wasting time.
When you study something and when you relate to people, when you are working very hard, but there is no heartistic relationship with God, you are just wasting your time.
For example, a student is to live by checking whether or not he is studying with filial piety in his vertical parent-child relationship with God. You are studying for what? Studying for God. Through studying I can understand God’s heart more. “I study hard and become your champion of study. I want to restore so many people who do not know (you,) God.”
Do I have that kind of filial heart when I focus on studying? Do I study for my own job, my own future? What is the purpose of your study. As a student you need to think about it. If it has nothing to do with God’s heart, then you are wasting your time. This is the attitude of the filial heart.
2. You must live while reflecting on your life and asking whether your actions and thoughts really come from a filial heart. In our life of faith, the thing we should always check is whether I really have a filial heart towards God and True Parents. You must check this about yourself on your own and try not to waste time. To not leave God’s position means to always keep the heart of longing for God. If I do not check the relationship between God and me like this, it is easy to become a person who just works. We were not born to eat.
What should I center on when I reflect on my life? The relationship between God and me is the most fundamental, so I should reflect on whether filial piety arises in everything I do in my life.
To never leave God's position means to always keep a vertical longing for God and keep a filial heart to God.
How much do you miss God? Even though he is invisible how much do you miss him? How much do you feel God? Even though he is an invisible being, how do you feel he is really closest to us? Because you miss him so much, tears come down.
Have you ever had that kind of experience because you miss him?
“Even though he is invisible who has come down, he is so close! He is really my daddy. He tries to be responsible for me eternally. He always tries to protect me eternally. No matter what mistake I made, he always feels responsible for me. When I trip(?), he say, “Stand up again. Do it again.” He continually encourages me. “ You can do it. When you make a mistake, please repent, my son. I love you forever.”
Can you feel God’s voice all the time?
If you don't check your relationship with God, it's easy to become a workaholic who just works. Conversely, we should not become a workaholic, but a heartaholic and a hyojeongaholic.
We cannot be a workaholic, but we need to be a heartaholic or a hyojeongaholic. We have to be great to love God.
3. Since the world of faith is ultimately the heartistic vertical relationship between God and me, the filial heart must always arise. People who work to earn a salary or work to eat are all servants. Servants only work to earn money and to eat. Such a servant's faith wears out over time. If we have heard the Principle, each of us must do our responsibility well. The faith of attending service and listening to the sermon to receive grace is the beginner’s faith. Each of us must receive grace through our encounter with God in our own lives. Only with that kind of faith will that person's faith last. Attending Sunday service and giving tithe well are not our entire responsibilities. Our faith grows by always checking the vertical relationship between God and me and earnestly doing our own responsibilities.
Since the world of faith is ultimately a heartistic and vertical relationship between God and me, filial piety must always arise. People who work to get a paycheck or to eat are all servants.
The reason people in the formation stage attend Sunday service is to uphold rituals. Because it is Sunday service, “I need to keep that condition.” It is very much ritual.
Those in the growth stage attend to receive grace through the Word.
However, believers in the completion stage come because they want to see church members, witnessing guests. “I love them. I long for my Abel.”
In addition, before attending church service, the members in the completion stage have the experience of meeting God through daily life. They always create grace on their own. They don’t just receive grace in the Sunday Service. They create grace in their daily life. They are the real people of Cheonil Guk. They create grace through their daily life in every moment, every second. They live a life full of joy.
With these kinds of results of joy and grace, they come to Sunday service to share the joy and grace from their life.
For such people, their life itself is a life of worship. When they come to Sunday service, they share the joy of testifying to the people around them about how God works in their daily life.
In other words, in the era of Cheon Il Guk, life itself every moment, every second, every hour should be worship – not only Sunday. For those who live with filial piety, attending Heaven every moment and every day is worship. Not only on Sunday.
In the era of Cheonil Guk we speak about Ahn Shi-il. Every second, every day should be Ahn Shi-il. Every day should be Sunday. We need that mindset. It is not just to rest my body.
How can we create grace through our daily life? Not just receiving grace at Sunday service, from my Abel. You yourself need to create grace; then you will become the owner of grace. That is why I keep emphasizing reading hoondokhae 1-hour, 3-hour or 12-hour (EDP), Cheon Syeong Gyeong, or Mother’s Memoir. This beautiful habit creates your own grace. How grateful we are! You don’t need to rely on Abel or someone guiding me and teaching me. You need to know how to create God’s grace by yourself. Heavenly Father requires this of us because we are living in the era of Cheonil Guk.
4. What does it say in the Principle of Creation? It says that a person grows their spirit body based on the physical body. This means that you will grow when you have filial piety in your life and put all your energy into passing on the power of virtue to others. In other words, my spirit body grows through filial piety. When my heart grows, it grows when I inspire others. It grows when I serve others. If we are indebted to others, our spirit body will never grow. In a way, the time to come to church and attend worship is the time to be indebted to God. Because I do not create grace but receive the grace of the Word, it is a time to be indebted to God.
The Principle says that a person grows his spirit body based on the physical body. There are two ways in which the spirit body grows. Vertically, it is to receive life elements directly from God through the Word. When you are moved by God's Word, you eat God's life elements, and your spirit body grows.
Second, your spirit body grows through horizontal relationships. My spirit body grows when I have filial piety in my life and invest all my energy into passing on the power of virtue to others.
In other words, my spirit body grows through filial piety. My heart grows, when I inspire and move others. My spirit body grows when I serve others. If we are indebted to others, our spirit body will never grow.
When I move or inspire someone, the feeling of gratitude he sends to me comes to me as a vibration and touches my spirit body. At that time, my spirit body grows. In other words, my spirit body grows with kamdong, moving (touching). My spirit body grows with kamdong – moving and touching -- the fastest when I really touch (people’s) heart and move others.
Then a vibration comes to me from the object partner. My spirit body grows the fastest when I move others. This is the best way. When you touch someone’s heart, that is the moment your spirit body grows so fast. (It is) not only about living for the sake of others. (It is) not just conditional. Really touching and moving someone’s heart. That is the best moment (during which) our spirit body is so excited and grows up.
In a day how much do you touch someone, move his heart? We are people of Kamdong. My spirit body can really grow through Kamdong. Not only just living for the sake of others. Living for the sake of others means that I need to touch someone’s heart. Then he can say, “I am really grateful to you. (You) really moved my heart.” Sometimes (he) sheds tears and appreciates (you).
“Wow! You moved me” means, “You already won me over.”
How can we create Kamdong? Even God will be moved by me: “Wow! Your jeongseong is incredible! Your passion for witnessing is incredible.” Even God is moved by you. That kind of heart comes from filial piety.
5. If you are happy when you hear good words and disappointed when they are not, you are a believer with very elementary faith. A person who likes words which they receive grace but are disappointed when the atmosphere is bad is still like a child. If you come to church for worship and receive grace through the words but do not put it into practice, that person is just someone who becomes indebted. When I come to church, I should think about what responsibilities I have and what I want to add to the church. If you just attend the worship service and leave, you are a spectator. You must take on any responsibility in the Church. If you just take care of yourself, disaster will follow. In our life of faith, we must have filial hearts and put all our efforts into becoming filial sons and daughters that God and True Parents can look forward to.
The church's worship time is a time to receive one-sided grace from God, so I become indebted to God. Therefore, if I do not put into practice the words of inspiration that I received, my life of faith tends to flow into concept.
If you do not practice the grace you have received, indemnity will surely follow.
As a member of the church, if you just attend worship service, you are a spectator. You should assume any responsibility at the church. You should take responsibility for Sunday school, cleaning, or choir, youth ministry, witnessing, etc.
So always think about what you add to the church. Of course, tithing is important, but you must directly participate and engage in God's providence. The best thing to do is to witness. Witnessing is to save spirits. Witnessing is the way to become filial sons and daughters that God and True Parents can depend on.
Therefore, whatever we do, we must always check whether we are doing it with filial piety toward God or not.
This is the main topic.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
Today our beautifully dedicated lady all the time; I am so inspired by this couple always! Let’s invite her.
(Testimony of Reiko Jenkins.)♦
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