Ep 585 - HyoJeong Cultural Center, HyoJeong Cheonll SunHwa Won, And CheonBoWon Part 3
HyoJeong Cultural Center, HyoJeong CheonIl SungHwa Won, and CheonBoWon - June 2 , 2022
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(Response to sharing) You need to create your own small kingdom of heaven centering on your place. It begins (with) three spiritual children. Your small Kingdom of Heaven begins from there. Jesus started with three disciples and expanded to twelve and then 70 and 120. Always we need to follow our True Parents’ pattern. When two or three people get together and communicate heartistically, that is already a small Kingdom of Heaven.
Also, through hearing Morning Devotion you think (correctly) that everything needs to deal with the heart. This is one of the main points.♦
I am really excited because today I will meet our GPA brothers and sisters. My heart is really jumping! Whenever I think about our young people, second generation, third generation, any blessed children, this has a great impact on me – to relate with them. Our hope is our second generation, our third generation and our blessed families. Please encourage our young generation to be more dedicated for the sake of God’s will.
Today I’d like to talk about the”HyoJeong Cultural Center, HyoJeong CheonIl SungHwa Won, and CheonBoWon” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Without a doubt, you are in a position that will be recorded in history. You all are soldiers of this new age, the age of Cheon Il Guk. That is why I instructed the International Headquarters to create the genealogy of all blessed families worldwide. Standing at the center of the providence, you must achieve Heavenly Parent and True Parents' hope and dream of one human family under God. Hence, your results and achievements in doing so will be recorded as is and passed down in that form. Please invest your utmost effort and devotion so that you are praised for eternity by Heavenly Parent and are a source of great pride to True Parents. (October 6, 2016, YongPyong Resort)
I will erect the Cheon Il Guk Genealogy Center within CheongPyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center. I sincerely hope you will become proud people whose works are recorded there. I want to create a place your descendants can visit and say,”I am proud of my ancestor so-and-so. I am truly thankful, grateful and honored,” a place where your records are preserved and remain for eternity both on earth and in heaven. (2017.03.29, CheongPyeong Training Center)
Just as Jesus’ followers’ achievements and records left behind eternal legacies in history, True Parents’ disciples’ activities and substantial achievements will remain in history forever for good.
True Mother wants Blessed families’ proud achievements to remain for eternity in the Hyo Jeong Cultural Center. Therefore, all Blessed families without exception must be registered in the CheonBoWon.
Also, all Blessed families should leave behind achievements and records of attending and following True Parents as the acts of the Apostles of the Completed Testament Age and Era of Cheon Il Guk just like Paul.
True Parents only come to this earth once. True parents are humankind’s eternal parents.
That is why True Mother instructed the International Headquarters to create the genealogy of all blessed families worldwide. We Blessed families should all accumulate achievements so that our results and achievements will be passed down to our descendants for eternity.
Blessed families who have not yet registered with Cheonbowon, set a goal and make a decision. Then, Heaven will surely open the way for you.
I really encourage all American blessed families who are not registered in CheonBoWon, this is one of our True Parents’ greatest wishes. If you have not yet achieved that goal, let’s set up that goal. When you set up a goal, you are half done already. If you set up the goal and are determined (to accomplish it), then God will really help you. I really want to help and encourage each of the blessed couples who are not yet registered in the CheonBo Won to fulfill your portion of responsibility. (There should be) nobody left over. This is truly my heart.
(You can) go to Christian churches or (reach out) on the street. First of all, give the blessing to everybody. Then select 43 people and continuously follow up with them for them to become real members. And also vertically you need to liberate your ancestors, right? They need to receive the Blessing. (You need to accomplish the) vertical and horizontal HTM mission. Once you are determined, then God will really help you. The problem is that your determination is not so strong. Your faith is not so strong. Once you set up the goal, the spiritual world will prepare for you.
The time has come. Do not hesitate. Do not think that “This has nothing to do with me.” This is one of True Parents’ greatest wishes. Anyone who is determined to do that, I really want to help you.
Now I am working with Clifton Church. I don’t want anybody left over. Everybody needs to fulfill this responsibility. The Clifton Church has great momentum. More than 70, nearly 80, people are committed to do witnessing. Now I can see that every day brothers and sisters go out for witnessing. It is not easy to find that kind of beautiful environment. Manhattan Church members centered on Miilhan all go out after Sunday service.
How can we create this kind of heavenly environment? We are doing a continental level jeongseong condition. This is incredible. This Morning Devotion is not only (about) listening to God’s word. All brothers and sisters are really working, uniting together offering our jeongseong to heaven. That is why continental-level blessings are now coming down. National blessing is now coming down.
Jeongseong is really incredible! It always makes miracles. It always moves God’s heart, moves people’s heart. It is the key. The entire atmosphere will be changed through jeongseong power.
I appreciate all of my brothers and sisters. I’d like to ask Tal and the main staff to (provide) the name list of all those who participate live. I really want to remember and pray for them, to recognize and appreciate them. This is not a simple matter – attending every morning, not just listening to God’s word, but (also) having eager hearts to reach our True Mother’s expectation and unite with her. This kind of determination and attitude is so beautiful!
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.
Father and Our Portion of Responsibility
<33-239> Some gangs say of me that I should also have a 5% portion of responsibility. Do I have a 5% portion of responsibility? I have to do 100%. There is no comparison between my responsibility and your portion of responsibility. Is the 5% portion of responsibility the same for every one of a thousand or ten thousand people? It’s different. How can it be dealt with? There is a formula for that. But the 5% portion of responsibility for each person is not the same. No one knows what their portion of responsibility is. That is why humankind needs me.
This is very important guidance.
I think many people don’t know what Father is talking about (here).
The Principle says that the realization of God’s purpose of Creation is achieved through God’s 95% portion of responsibility and my 5% portion of responsibility.
However, the 5% portion of responsibility is different for each person. It is completely different in terms of quantity and quality. The amount and quality of True Parents’ 5% portion of responsibility is different from each of our own 5% portion of responsibility. Human beings should not think that everyone has the same amount and quality of (their) portion of responsibility
The more a person carries big responsibilities, the larger the amount of responsibility. For example, the amount of the district leader’s 5% responsibility and the national president’s 5% responsibility are different.
But God never gives me a responsibility I cannot bear. In order for me to fulfill my responsibilities, I must always have gratitude in the position I am in and show the power of love to many people.
Also, it is important to know that even if the amount of each person's responsibilities are different, God grants the same blessings if each person completes their 5% portion of responsibility.
Wow! That is amazing! When we achieve our 5% portion of responsibility, God gives the same blessing to everybody.... The elder son needs to have a bigger responsibility... But centering on one’s own portion of responsibility, that is everything. That’s why God grants the same blessing to everyone who completes his 5% portion of responsibility. God is really amazing!
Therefore, I should not compare my portion of responsibilities with (that of) others and (should) fulfill the responsibilities given to me very diligently.
Just appreciate your 5% portion of responsibility. Do not compare (it) to anyone (else). “Why is he rich and I am poor?” Don’t compare. Just focus on your own portion of responsibility with gratitude. That is already enough. In any situation do not complain: “Why were my ancestors like that? Why are my descendants or my children are like that? Why is my daddy(?) so terrible?” Do not compare.
This is my destiny. My ancestors committed sin, and I am influenced by ancestors. That is fine. But this is my responsibility. I am responsible for my ancestors. This is my beautiful destiny. I have to be responsible for it no matter what. Who can be responsible for my destiny. No one can replace me. Just take it with a happy and grateful heart.”I will be responsible. I love my destiny. I can fulfill my responsibility wtih gratitude. Thank you, Heavenly Father.”
Do not compare (yourself) with anyone. God wants to bless you. Just fulfill your 5% portion of responsibility centering on God’s point of view. Whether it is small or big does not matter. Why do you compare? Do not compare. Just take it happily. Do it voluntarily with a grateful heart. That’s it.
(We receive) the same award, the same blessing because each one of us a child of God.
When you look at a building, small things accumulate together to make a beautiful building. Each has a role. The roles of the pillars and of the door are different but both necessary.
This is incredible guidance.
The Way to Complete the Human Portion of Responsibility
Where is the 5% needed? (Father explains using a chart.) The fall happened at the completion level of the growth stage so we have to find the way back up from where we fell and climb. In order to distinguish this path that we must go, we need our 5% portion of responsibility. The Coming Lord must take responsibility to make sure that you can distinguish between the path on Satan’s side and the path on God’s side. Therefore, all you need to do is to absolutely believe and follow the Coming Lord. What use is there to believe if you will not? If you make a mistake and put up a signpost of the enemy, then not only you but all your ancestors will be in trouble. The reason I say that President Eu is great is because of this point. He follows whatever order I give to the letter.
True Parents showed the exemplary course of True Parents' subjugation of Satan. Therefore, if we absolutely believe in and follow the victorious True Parents, we will all be victorious. That is our 5% portion of responsibility.
In other words, our 5% share of responsibility following True Parents is to follow True Parents with absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience.
The portion of responsibility of fallen humans is absolute self-denial under any circumstances. As long as fallen human beings absolutely deny the conditions, God and the spirit world directly intervene and make all things happen. This is the human 5% portion of responsibility.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Seed of Filial Piety
Matthew 13: 1-9 the Four Soils - 3 And he(Jesus) told them many things in parables, saying:”A sower went out to sow.
4 And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.
5 Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil,
6 but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away.
7 Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.
8 Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
9 He who has ears, let him hear.”
Matthew 13: 18-24 the Four Soils - 18"Hear then the parable of the sower:
19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the roadside.
20 As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,
21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.
22 As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
23 As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”
24 He put another parable before them, saying,”The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field
If you look here in Matthew chapter 13, you will find the contents of a heart like a roadside, a heart like a rocky ground, a heart like thorny soil, and a heart like good, fruitful soil. The only soil (where one can) sow seeds in the heart and which bears fruit is a heart like fruitful soil.
1.What is the seed? Here, the seed is the heart that affirms the parent-child relationship. In other words, the seed is thought of as the filial heart that thinks and embraces the thought”I am God’s son.” Those who live knowing that they are God’s son is one who has the seed of filial piety. In the parable in the Bible, the roadside represents stubbornness. It is the attitude of not thinking of themselves in the father’s position but asserting themselves. Next, the rocky ground signifies people who are touched and make a determination but due to horizontal affairs that distract their lives, they become dominated, and because there is no root to sustain them, they wither. It means that they could not bear fruit because they became angry and threw a fit. Next is the heart like thorny soil, a person who is melancholy, worried, and anxious. These are the people who do not think from the father’s perspective and are constantly being choked by the environment.
The seed of filial piety is about the filial heart that thinks that “I am the son of God” and serves Heaven. Those who live knowing themselves as the Son of God are those who have the seed of filial piety that always wants to serve their parents.
The heart that is like the roadside in the Bible refers to one's own stubbornness. (That person) is so self-assured that it is difficult to accept the opinions of others, and even if he listens to the Word, it does not enter his heart. Eventually, all the words will flow away. It refers to a person who has difficulty communicating heartistically with other people or with God because his heart is not open at all. The field of this heart cannot deny itself, so it is very difficult for heaven to work in a very heartistic way. Such a person only realizes after a major hardship or a serious accident in life. Then it is already too late. However, when a person with a hard heart plows the ground and accepts the will, he is more loyal to the will than anyone else.
A heart like a rocky ground means that you are easily moved and make a determination but you are taken over by an event that comes in horizontally and you fail to take root and dry up. A person with a heart like rocky ground is easily touched, but when the environment changes, the touched heart easily disappears. He changes his mind so often that it is hard to believe. Such a person must always be under Abel's control and control his emotions well. He needs Abel. Without Abel he cannot control his emotions. And he should always think of the grace he received when he first received it and try hard to keep it.
You always need to remind yourself often of your first motivation, of the grace you received from God. Otherwise it will easily go away.
A heart like thorny soil is a person who is always melancholy and worried about a lot of things: what to eat, what to wear, how to fulfill his responsibility, everything. These are the people who do not think from the father’s perspective and are constantly being choked by the environment. A person with a heart like thorny soil always has negative thoughts, abuses himself easily, and lacks self-confidence. In the life of faith, people who are always depressed and worried are people who do not have faith in God in a word. No faith. That is why you worry, worry, worry. No faith!
Such a person must have really strong and courageous faith and overcome everything with faith. A life of faith is overcoming. Believe in God. If you believe in God, then God will help you. Why do you worry, worry, worry?
People who worry a lot about themselves should entrust everything to heaven. You cannot do anything by yourself. Treat yourself as God’s belonging. Entrust everything to heaven. You need to deny yourself. Then your worry just goes away. If you worry, you do not believe in God. If you believe in God, there is no worry. You need to entrust everything to heaven thinking that heaven does everything as long as you deny myself. “If I deny myself, God does everything.”
2.Just as the Bible says, we can reflect on the fact that we are beings who live with these four types of hearts. Since it says four types of soil, we can easily think of them as four types of people. If we ask if we today have a fruitful heart and regard the parent-child relationship as important, some hearts are not so. At times, we may have filial hearts that seek to live for the parents’ joy and circumstances, but there are often times when they are like thorny soil or rocky ground or roadside. Therefore, I have the responsibility to transform such a heart to fruitful soil. If my heart is like a roadside, I have to plow it down. If there are many rocks, I have to pick out the rocks. And if it is crowded with thorns, I have to uproot them. This is the responsibility of the owner of the field. This speaks about what kind of heart the sower farms with.
3. We have the responsibility like a farmer to make our hearts clean like fruitful soil on our own. If we call ourselves our father’s son, we must carry the father’s circumstances and wishes and become trees of love and trees of filial children that bring joy to our father. As a person with such responsibility, I have to take good care of my heart. At the same time, I also have a responsibility not to lose seeds. Just as a field nurtures seeds and allows the seeds to take root and grow, today we must cherish filial piety in our hearts and let it take root and grow. We have those responsibilities. However, after realizing our responsibility, we often feel ruthless towards others because our own responsibility is heavy. There are also times when it becomes cold and callous.
4. If you have a heavy heart to fulfill your responsibilities, you cannot afford to love someone else. As a result, sometimes my heart becomes very hard like the roadside. Since we know the Principle and know the law of indemnity, there is a possibility that we can set up the law and make our minds like a roadside. The next problem is that while we receive influence through the Word, we are controlled by horizontal circumstances and environment, so it is difficult to preserve the seeds we cherish. I need to preserve the seeds in a land struck with a drought, but there is no moisture. In other words, our state of mind is like a field of rocks. A person whose feelings are emotional and hasty in this way can be seen as having no love. A person with love is always deeply silent and is not affected by all kinds of difficult events that come to him. This is a person with a heart like good, fruitful soil.
One of the differences between the Unificationists and those of existing religions is the content of responsibility. Other believers do not know that each human being has a responsibility, so they leave everything to God.
However, in the Unification Church, everything begins with responsibility and ends with responsibility. Unification Church members cannot afford to take care of anyone because they are always burdened with their responsibilities, (with) the thought that they must restore through indemnity the past 6,000 years of history and bear the sins of all ancestors and even the cross of God and True Parents.
Our religion and other religions are completely different.
Because of my heavy responsibility, I sometimes become cold and callous to those around me. If my cross is large, I cannot afford to worry about the cross of those around me. The way to get out of this situation is to first have filial piety to heaven.
Next, if I deny myself and have a heart of filial piety, I think that heaven does everything. Do not think that I am doing the mission God gave me alone, but think that what I do when I deny myself is what Heaven does.
Also, I should think that the greater the responsibility and the greater the cross, the more God will be with me and greater blessings will come. And if you think that True Parents and God are carrying a cross that is bigger than yours, that will be comforting and you will receive greater strength from heaven.
It is a person with the same heart as the soil to have the heart of filial piety (who) carries God's cross and goes comforting God in any circumstance. Hyojeong's heart is the same as that of the soil.
Let’s have the seed of filial piety. Hyojeong’s heart is the same as the fruitful soil. Fertilizer. This is beautiful guidance.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Connor Redmond, DMV CARP)♦
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