Ep 588 - Foundation Day is The Day God's Dream is Realized Part 2 (Copy)
Foundation Day is the Day God's Dream is Realized - June 5, 2022
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Key Points
Fish bite jeongseong.
Everyone can give up on me, but God never gives up on me.
(The course of) meeting the messiah at the top of the growth stage, receiving the blessing, and beginning a family is not just (the course of) restoration through indemnity, but (also) the course of fulfilling the responsibility of the origin of creation.
The completion stage only welcomes couples.
If fallen human beings deny themselves, God will take responsibility.
God, as the parent of love, wishes for human beings to become children who are better than He is.
We, His object partners, are the ones who make God holy.
How was yesterday? Did you have a beautiful Saturday? I had an incredible and beautiful experience with our brothers. Yesterday, I went fishing with President Naokimi, Miilhan, Joshua, Resfred, and Rev. Seo. It was a beautiful time. Since I came to America, I have seldom gone out. This was my first fishing trip. It was really beautiful. The weather was prepared by God.
We all prayed together before departing for fishing. When True Parents went fishing, I thought of what they did for America and the world. Yesterday the whole day I missed True Father so much! I want to inherit True Parents’ spirit of fishing.
We caught many fish; Naokimi also. Joshua and Miilhan said that they caught fish for the first time in their lives. Yesterday Joshua caught the biggest fish. Joshua was the champion! Miilhan caught a very nice one. Also, Rev. Seo and Naokimi (caught fish). Resfred caught a fish while reading the one-hour EDP lecture manual. He was doing his jeongseong, and a fish came, and he caught it. Wow! Fish recognize jeongseong!
Yesterday we all caught a fish without missing a single one (of us). It was a day that True Parents blessed. We released some small ones and other kinds of fish (other than Striped Bass?). Yesterday was really an exciting and beautiful time!
When it comes to (whom) the fish recognize, first, the people who gave jeongseong are recognized. Second, fish recognize people with a longing heart. Finally, the fish recognize those who persevere to the end. Anyone who knows these three secrets can become a fishing champion.
Fish bite jeongseong. The fish bites (the bait of) the person who has given a lot of jeongseong. That is why before fishing, you need to do a lot of jeongseong conditions. A fish immediately recognizes how much jeongseong you do.
Secondly, a fish bites (the bait of) a person with a longing heart. “I really want to see True Father. I miss True Father.”
Father treated each fish like a child of God, a representative of all humankind. He had a longing heart to save each human being. Fish bite (the bait of) a person with a longing heart.
And the fish bites (the line of) those who are patient. You need to be patient until the end – and wait and wait without losing your first motivation.
This is what I learned from True Parents. This (is true) not just (for) fishing, but everything is like that. Jeongseong, a longing heart and patience.
Let’s study Mother’s word from her memoir.
There are many parables and symbols in the Bible. For example, the periods of time in the creation story were not actually one day long. The Bible says that since God is omnipotent He initiated the creation with His word, saying “Let there be light. Let there be the moon. Let there be rocks.” But actually, the creation did not come about solely as a result of God's Word, but through His investment of all His spirit and energy. This means God invested everything He had in th e creation. It was not one literal day for each stage of the creation. We should consider the “days” as periods of time required for each stage. God started with microorganisms and moved on to larger animals, investing all of His spirit and energy in each stage. All of you have received the Blessing and have walked the path of a mother, so I believe you understand the ten month process involved in the birth of a baby. What happens when a baby is born? Does the baby decide to end the life that he knows and be born, thinking, “I can't stand it anymore. I want to die. The sky looks yellow.” It is not easy for a baby to be born.
Likewise, if we think about the process of pain and struggle that was involved in every part of God's creation of the world, His dream about the 13th day was a huge dream. What I am saying is that the creation was not 6 days but 12 days. The 13th day was the day when God's dream would be completed. God's desire was the completion of the four-position foundation, becoming the Parent of humankind. Father proclaimed that Foundation Day, on the 13th day of the first month is the most important day, and he completed many providential works in order to prepare for Foundation Day. It was a 12-year period of preparation from the Enthronement Ceremony for God's Kingship to Foundation Day. This is correct from a numerical viewpoint. It was not a date that was chosen easily or by chance. (2013.01.14, Cheon Jeong Gung)
True mother said, “Since God is omnipotent He initiated the creation with His word, saying, ‘Let there be light. Let there be the moon. Let there be rocks.” But actually, the creation did not come about solely as a result of God's Word, but through His investment of all His spirit and energy. This means God invested everything He had in the creation.”
God started with micro-organisms and moved on to larger animals, investing all of His spirit and energy in each stage. All of you have received the Blessing and have walked the path of a mother, so I believe you understand the process involved in the birth of a baby.
Just as a mother commits and invests 100% and 120% of her life when she gives birth to a baby, God put all of his energy into creating humans and all things. It would be a big mistake to say that God created everything easily just because God is all-powerful. If God created humans with only 30% of his energy when he created them, then God does not have the right and qualification to become a parent even if he is the creator of humans. Parents are people who invest 100% and 120% for their children.
It is the same (for God). God invested 100%, 120% for each item of the creation. That is why he has the qualification to be our eternal Heavenly Parent.
True Love is Seeking to Invest Totally
Last time I shared that true love always seeks to invest totally. Father said:
(1) To what extent do I need to invest?
- With all your heart, all your soul, all your mind and all your power, 120%
“If you invest ‘adequately,’ that isn’t True Love. True love doesn’t mean investing, say, 70 or 80%. If one invests ‘adequately’ and there is something left over, one tends to calculate the amount. But God created investing completely, 100%, even 120%. A perfect plus creates a perfect minus.”
To what extent does God invest for me? 50%? 70%? Because God is my parent, he invests 100% for me and loves me. Why? Because God is my eternal parent.
Even though I was born of a fallen descendant, God treats me as His own unique child. Everyone can give up on me, but God never gives up on me.
God is always patient and waiting for me to the end. Even if I go to hell, God is devoted to my salvation. And God sheds tears for me, loves me and waits for me without giving up. That is the nature of love, and that is the heart of parents.
This is really incredible. Many people misunderstand God. (They think) he is so powerful, omnipotent and omniscient; whatever he wants, he can create. But you need to know that God is the God of parents. When a parent delivers his own child, how much he invests for him to grow up. Similarly, God invests so much jeongseong, so much heart to raise you and me. That is why we are eternally grateful to our Heavenly Parent.
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 Portion of Responsibility and Restoration Through Indemnity
<63-329>What is an individual like after restoration through indemnity? The portion of responsibility is right there. From the standpoint of Adam before the fall, the mission of the 5% must be completed. Restoration through indemnity means going back, back to the position of Adam and Eve before the Fall.
Then, what about after restoration through indemnity? That means that there is a portion of responsibility where you should show your filial piety and loyalty as an incomplete Adam by achieving perfection and standing before God. In this realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle, the portion of responsibility remains all the way through the formation, growth and completion stages.
Due to the fall of Adam and Eve, human beings must go through the course of separating from Satan and go back to the top of the growth stage before the Fall through restoration through indemnity.
(Going to) the place of meeting the messiah at the top of the growth stage, receiving the blessing, and beginning a family with the couple, is going on the original course that even Adam and Eve were unable to go on. This course is not just restoration through indemnity but the course of fulfilling the responsibility of the origin of creation.
The portion of responsibility you must fulfill in the completion stage is completing the Four Great Realms of Heart, the Three Great Kingships and the Realm of the Royal Family.
When you enter the completion stage, you cannot fulfill your portion of responsibility by yourself. Always you need to do it with your spouse. The completion stage means to start as a couple. That is why completion you cannot do without your spouse. You can grow to the top of the growth stage as Adam or Eve individually. However, when you enter the completion stage, you need to do it as couples. How can we complete our final stage? It is centering on the couple, on husband and wife, centering on the family. This is our portion of responsibility. Adam and Eve never went through that final stage. We already know that.
Today, even Unification Church members are unclear about this idea, becoming easily tired and frustrated. More and more people feel this way. In your life, you must go this way. You must go this way at any cost. You should make a clear sacrifice and go the path of restoration through indemnity.
It is not over yet, simply because you complete the individual course of restoration through indemnity. You should gain the value of going back to the original position of Adam.
The reason Unificationists today are unclear about this idea and become easily tired and frustrated, is because we do not have a clear sense of our portion of responsibility.
There remains the path of restoration through indemnity, which humans must go through until they reach the top of the growth stage, and the path of the portion of responsibility to receive the Blessing and go the original path. This is the inevitable path of life. Even if you die a hundred times, you have to go back to life again.
In order to enter the completion stage, you have to know that without your spouse, your children, your parents, your siblings, you cannot fulfill your portion of responsibility. What shall we do? If you are just alone without your spouse, without receiving the Blessing, you will never, ever enter the completion stage. You are still under the top of the growth stage. The completion stage only welcomes couples.
That is why, no matter what, I need to love my spouse, to properly raise my children, to love my brothers and sisters. No matter what, I need to have a filial heart to my parents. Otherwise I cannot complete your mission centering on the completion stage.
Nobody has gone this way. Since Adam and Eve fell, no one has gone through this process of completion. We are pioneers. How important it is! That is why Father emphasizes again and again that you need to receive the blessing. Without receiving the blessing, without your partner you cannot enter the completion stage.
Some say, “Oh, after I enter the spiritual world I will do something.” Actually the time period on the earthly world is really crucial and very important. Once you die, it is very difficult to grow up. That is why no matter what, I need to fix the problem while I am on the earth.
Who is your savior? Your spouse is your savior.
Someone says, “I cannot love my spouse, my husband, my wife, my parents.” I am telling you, if you have an enemy, that means you have to pay indemnity. As long as you cannot love someone, you need to pay the price, you need to pay indemnity. If you don’t like someone, you need to pay the price until you overcome because God’s Kingdom of Heaven is the perfect world of true love. You need to love everything (and everybody). There is no hatred, no enemy, no fallen nature. If you don’t love someone, you will remain to pay indemntiy. If you cannot love someone, it means you still have a lot of fallen nature. You have to pay more until you completely remove your fallen nature.
That is why our first goal is to love our enemy. Otherwise an indemntiy course is waiting for you. Wow! What shall we do?
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Human Portion of Responsibility and the Attributes of True Love
1. It is fallen human beings’ portion of responsibility to deny themselves. If humans just deny themselves, God tries to directly work the Providence of Restoration. He would not have to look at the people on this earth and tell them to do things. Fallen human beings have limitations. Therefore, if fallen human beings just deny themselves, God will take responsibility. However, because they do not deny themselves and insist that they do everything, God and True Parents cannot do anything and cannot intervene. Doesn’t God doing 95% of the responsibility mean He is doing almost everything? Human beings’ 5% portion of responsibility is denying themselves. Of course, depending on human beings’ maturity, God’s responsibility becomes less and human responsibility increases as we move toward formation, growth, and completion stage in the growing period.
It is fallen human beings’ portion of responsibility to deny themselves. Very simple. Deny yourself. Empty your mind. If humans just deny themselves, God tries to directly work the Providence of Restoration. As long as humans empty their hearts, God will come in and work on them. God does everything.
You can feel God’s almighty power. You can feel God’s presence as long as you deny yourself. Then my body becomes God’s instrument.
Therefore, to the extent that man has emptied his heart, God enters and works.
Why can’t God work? Why can’t he show his almighty power? Because I don’t deny myself. As long as we deny ourselves, everyone will feel that “Wow! God is so powerful. He is love.” Everybody will feel that.”
Why can’t I feel that? Because I don’t have an empty mind. You need to empty your heart, then God has the space to enter you. But fallen man is very stubborn. He always insists on his own opinion. He always wants to do something by himself. “I don’t care about God. I don’t care about others.” Because you are really fixed on your old concepts, old habits, old thinking and your own ideas, God cannot find any space to intervene with you.
If fallen human beings just deny themselves, God will take responsibility. Then how should I deny myself? It is saying that I am not my own, but God’s. However, that’s easy to say, but self-denial is the most difficult task.
Depending on human beings’ maturity, God’s responsibility becomes less and human responsibility increases as we move toward formation, growth, and completion stage in the growing period.
However, according to True Father, fallen humans cannot share their own responsibility for 5%, so God takes responsibility (for) up to 97%.
Otherwise it is impossible for fallen man to fulfill his portion of responsibility .
We already learned this the day before yesterday. So I am repeating it.
2. When we attend elementary school, we owe a lot to our parents, but as we attend middle and high school, our area of responsibility gradually becomes bigger, and after starting family, the children must become better than the parents. Therefore, even in our life of faith, as we grow, we must go with the desire of becoming children who are better than True Parents. True Parents said this often. When you look at how True Parents say, “You all must become better than me,” you will feel that our responsibilities must change as we grow. According to how the child gradually grows, you can see that the amount of responsibility in the relationship between parent and child changes. If the parent does 95% and the child does 5% when they are first growing, when they mature a little more, the parents’ responsibility decreases and the child’s responsibility increases.
3.Even in the financial responsibilities between parent and child, parents take full responsibility at first, but later on, the children take on financial responsibility and even look after their parents. When the child takes financial responsibility for the sake of the family, parents enjoy rest and glory, and the children become better people than their parents. Looking at the course of life, that should be like this, the relationship between God and us is no different. True Parents tell us, “You are all the messiah. You are the 2nd Rev. Moon.” If God is the parent of love, He wishes for human beings to become children who are better than Him.
In our life of faith, the formation stage is a period of being indebted to parents and Abel, the growth stage is a period of taking care of my own responsibility as well as (that of) others, and the completion stage is a period of trying to take care of even True Parents’ and God’s responsibility.
That is why True Parents often said, “You all must become better than me.” When you look at how True Parents said this, it means that as our responsibility grows, it must gradually change.
When the child takes financial responsibility for the sake of the family, parents enjoy rest and glory, and the children become better people than their parents. Looking at the course of life that should be like this, the relationship between God and us is no different.
True Parents tell us, “You are all the messiah. You are the 2nd Rev. Moon.” If God is the parent of love, He wishes for human beings to become children who are better than God.
Wow! This is an amazing discovery by True Father. Even though God is almighty, omniscient, so powerful, after creating his children, human beings, his wish is that his children should be better than he is.
We human beings have inherited (this) from Heavenly Parent. That is why we have the same nature. When we wake up our children, what do we feel? Our children should be better than us, right?
4.True Parents’ names must be sanctified through us Blessed Families. When the value of the object partner increases, the value of the subject partner also increases. If the children turn out bad, then the parents also turn out bad. If the children become holy, the parents’ values also increase. In that sense, True Parents also have no object partner to sanctify True Parents' names except through Blessed Families. It is the same with the parent-child relationship. The attribute of true love is so great. Although God is omnipotent and the great Creator of mankind and the universe, He wants humans to become better people than Him.
The subject partners value is realized through completion of the object partner. When the value of the object partner increases, the value of the subject partner also increases. If the children turn out bad, then the parents also turn out bad. If the children become holy, the parents’ values also increase.
Who makes God holy? Do you think God himself does? No. His object partner. We are the ones who make God holy. Even though parents are great, if children are not so great, what do people say? That is why the object’s value is very important.
True Parents also have no object partner to sanctify True Parents' names except through Blessed Families.
“Holy True Parents! Holy True Parents!”
If the blessed families are not holy, many people laugh. Can you imagine that?
Although God is omnipotent and the great Creator of humankind and the universe, He wants humans to become better people than He is. If God had created His objects so they would not become better than Him, He would just be one creator. He could not become the parent of humankind, the parent of humankind must wish for his children to become ten times, one hundred times better than Himself.
God is amazing. The attributes of true love are amazing. “You should be better than I am. My spouse, my children, my brothers and sisters, you should be better than I am.”
Wow! God created that kind of world centered on true love. I really admire our Heavenly Father’s love.
How did Father discover this beautiful principle of love?
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Nelson Ngoma and Yoshi Arakawa, Two teenagers from Washington, DC.)
Oh my God! I am so happy! You can be better than I am in the future. I can see a promising future for America!♦
(Response to sharing) Today we heard a testimony from small children. Actually children are influenced very much by their mother, almost 100%, 120%. That is why in the restoration course we talk about the mother-son cooperation. This is really important. How the mother raises her children is a key point. If in our movement mothers raise their children very well, I think we can have a really incredible and promising future.♦
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