Ep 590 - Foundation Day is The Day God's Dream is Realized Part 3
Our Attitude as we Reach Foundation Day - June 7, 2022
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Miilhan shared a beautiful experience. I am also very excited to hear the Cheonil Guk missionaries report. Let’s see how they will report.
On Sunday night we had the Graduation Celebration for the very first Accelerate Leadership Certification Course.
Accelerate is a Leadership Training Program for the entire leadership of North America to train them in the core practical skills necessary to be a leader. Over 180 leader’s registered for this course in February this year, and Sunday night we celebrated the graduation of those who completed it.
Over the span of 16 weeks, we had 13 incredible presentations by expert teachers from around the country to teach our current and future leaders relevant education to grow themselves, and be effective in their ministry.
Here are the 10 Instructors of the Accelerate Leadership Course. It was a great mix of 1st and 2nd Generation leadership.
Naokimi made beautiful opening remarks.
Then we heard really inspiring testimonies from representatives from each subregion and Canada.
I gave congratulatory remarks.
Each subregional director, including Canadian Leader Dr. Franco Famularo, shared brief acknowledgments for their members.
We had 130 people graduate this time and many more who are still finishing their work so they can graduate. Accelerate will happen every year, so I encourage everyone to register for this incredible program.
Once again congratulations to the Accelerate Graduation Class of 2022.
Today I’d like to talk about”Our Attitude as we Reach Foundation Day” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Foundation Day is the Day God’s Dream is Realized
I have opened all the doors through Foundation Day. I have opened the doors wide for anyone who resolves to be filial, loyal and faithful, and to put his or her beliefs into action. We must practice absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience until our last moment on earth, centered on True Parents. If we make such a resolution and carry it out, we will not need to pay indemnity in the future. We need to prepare for the era of Cheon Il Guk that is free from indemnity. That will come when we fulfill our responsibility. No one else can do it for us. It is up to us to fulfill it. That is why, as I have said, it is important for us to fulfill our responsibilities now. Then, when the ideal world comes, we will not have to deal with finishing up our unfinished tasks. Thank you. I hope and pray that your devotions will bring glory to Heaven and joy to earth and that in the eternal era of Cheon Il Guk you will all become beloved and acknowledged citizens of Cheon Il Guk.
Let us once again resolve to do our best to accelerate the work of guiding all seven billion people of the world to become citizens of Cheon Il Guk under our Heavenly Parent. Only if you have achieved this will you be free when you pass on into the next world, and will you live in a world that is free from accusation. If you are unable to fulfill your responsibility on earth, accusation will follow you to the eternal world. In that event, you will have trouble breathing in the spirit world, where breathing takes place through your heart of love. It does not matter if you are no longer young. You need to fulfill your responsibility while you still have your physical body on the earth, so that you can stand free before True Parents in the eternal world and be authentically proud of yourself. (2013.01.20,CheongShim Peace World Center)
True Mother said: “We need to prepare for the era of Cheon Il Guk that is free from indemnity. That will come when we fulfill our responsibility. No one else can do it for us. It is up to us to fulfill it.” True Mother said that if we follow the victorious True Parents with absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience to our responsibility of Heavenly Tribal Messiah(ship), we will enter the era of Cheon Il Guk where there is no indemnity.
Now is the time to emphasize the word responsibility, rather than indemnity. Before True Parents declared Foundation Day, we really emphasized the importance of indemnity. But after True Mother established the era of Cheonil Guk, now is the time to emphasize the word responsibility, rather than indemnity. This means that we have entered the original era and are now able to do our responsibility.
True Mother continued, “I hope and pray that your devotions will bring glory to Heaven and joy to earth and that in the eternal era of Cheon Il Guk you will all become beloved and acknowledged citizens of Cheon Il Guk. If you are unable to fulfill your portion of responsibility on earth, accusation will follow you to the eternal world.”
So, let's all start by establishing three spiritual children, and do our best so that everyone can fulfill the Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission.
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 Position to Complete the Portion of Responsibility
<124-94> If you inherit the right as holy creators through completing the portion of responsibility, you will receive true love. You should understand that you have the right to inherit a true love that is stronger than anything else. With this true love, you can do anything, you can even love your enemy. You should be aware of this. The power of true love is not in fighting or in force, but in natural surrender, which means that nothing is stronger than this, there is no ideal standard that goes beyond this, no standard of peace that surpasses this.
What is the purpose of the human portion of responsibility? It is to become the true owner of all things. What must we do to become a true owner? To become a true owner, we must inherit true love from God and True Parents.
Then, in what kind of position can you inherit true love? It is a position where enemies can be digested and loved. If you possess true love that can love even your enemies, everything becomes possible and there is nothing you cannot do.
This is really beautiful guidance.
Jesus and True Parents were able to become the parents of all people because they possessed true love that could forgive even Satan. The quality of the true love of Jesus, who loved even his enemies, was such that all humankind could receive the benefits of spiritual salvation.
Ultimately, our task is how to love our enemies. If I do not love my enemies, I must pay indemnity.
This is one of the great trials under God’s direct dominion. Our task is how to overcome our enemies. Abel needs to love Cain. You need to overcome your enemies, your opponents. If you do not love your enemy, you cannot fulfill your portion of responsibility under God’s indirect dominion. That is why our main portion of responsibility is how to overcome our fallen nature. In order to overcome my fallen nature. I need to love my enemies. Without loving my enemy, I need to pay indemnity. Difficulties and many trials will come as I continue on the path of faith. True love is to love even the unlovable.
If I love my enemies, not only can I be freed from my sins, but I can overcome all my indemnity. Even if you go to the spiritual world, you can freely enter and leave any realm of the spirit world. You can even witness (to) those in the world of hell.
Therefore, we must love not only those we like, but also those we dislike. I must make the determination to love every single person.
The purpose of enemies existing on my path of faith is God’s strategy to train me to be a true person with true love. Never avoid enemies.
God gives me enemies and asks me to overcome them. That means I can get rid of my fallen nature. That is why enemies are a wonderful gift from God.
If you overcome your enemies, wow! You can become a champion of true love. Whatever happens, you have to digest it and overcome it. Heaven is a world where the word “enemy” does not exist.
How can we become perfect beings? If there are no enemies, I can love anything and anyone. Then guaranteed, you have already become a perfect being. Already you have become a man of true love. That is why (we should not) avoid enemies. If I have enemies, I need to get rid of my fallen nature. I need to become a round character, a better person. I need to overcome my arrogance.
Why do enemies exist? (They) ask you to overcome your fallen nature, your self-centeredness. Wow! (They are) an incredible gift.
Therefore, our greatest and most important responsibility is what? To love even our enemies. So we should think that I was born to love my enemies. If you love your enemies, your personality will be very smooth and round. Be a person (who) can give and receive with anyone and be welcomed.
Inheriting True Love
<124-96> The portion of responsibility is needed absolutely in order to inherit true love. Do you understand?.You need to know that action of love follows the portion of responsibility. You have to be responsible for it. When you love someone, you have to be responsible with eternity, unique and unchanging. Otherwise how can we trust God who has such ideal? Unlike us, God never changes.
With an act of love comes eternal responsibility. We must know that true love comes with eternal, unchanging, absolute, and unique responsibility.
The great thing about God is that he is absolutely, eternally, and unchangingly responsible for his object partner under all circumstances. Not only that, (he) provides absolute and unchanging protection and education for the object partner under any circumstances.
The fall is the shifting of responsibility to others, but the Principle is to be responsible for and protect and nurture others.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: What Position are we in When we Receive the Blessing?
In order to graduate from (the) indirect dominion and enter (the) direct dominion, all human beings must pass through the gate of (the) Blessing.
This is very important. How do we go to God’s direct dominion? We need to pass through the gate of the Blessing.
Then what position are we in when we receive the Blessing?
1. It is the position where you can remove your original sin and be born anew through True Parents.
We completely remove our original sin.
> It is the position where God’s direct dominion and indirect dominion meet.
It is a kind of meeting point.
> Your wedding night: it should be your biggest festival.
(That is) because you are entering God’s direct dominion from the indirect dominion. That is the first night. Through the love relationship, through the sexual relationship you are now entering God’s direct dominion from God’s indirect dominion. Wow! Amazing!
2. With whom did you spend your wedding night?
With whom? That other person. That is why you need to keep purity. You need to offer your first night to your eternal spouse.
3. It is the position where you can start your four great realms of heart and three great kingships.
4. It is the position where the Kingdom of Heaven on earth begins.
Until the top of the growth stage you can grow up individually. Adam has his course as the Tree of Life. Eve (has her course) as the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. They grow individually until the top of the growth stage. From the top of the growth stage after receiving the Blessing, they enter God’s direct dominion. It means your small kingdom centering on your family begins.
This is very important. Individually you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Based on pairs, on couples (you can enter).
5. It is the position where you can inherit from God the great work of creation and true love.
6. It is the position where you can start to have dominion over all things of creation.
Anyone who graduates (from) the top of the growth stage and receives the Blessing enters direct dominion. That means that God acknowledges you as the owner of all things. Lastly:
7. It is the position where God’s eternal blessings, happiness, freedom, peace and unity begin.
We have recently talked about God’s indirect dominion and his direct dominion. What is the difference between God’s indirect dominion and his direct dominion? In God’s indirect dominion the most important things is keeping purity:”Do not eat!” If you eat, you will surely die. Keep absolute purity. That is God’s most important commandment under God’s indirect dominion. right? Until the fruit becomes mature, you cannot eat it. You have to wait. God has to wait. Adam has to wait. You have to wait until the fruit becomes mature. Immature fruit cannot bear fruit, cannot multiply. That is why you need to wait. God cannot do anything until it becomes mature.
Then once you enter the direct dominion through the Blessing marriage ceremony, then what is God’s commandment? “Please eat. Please have a love relationship with your spouse.”
Under God’s indirect dominion what is his commandment? “Do not eat.” Under his direct dominion (he commands), “Please eat and enjoy (it). You are free. You are the owner of all things, the owner of true love.” This is different.
Today we learned very important things. What is the difference between God’s direct dominion and his indirect dominion? What position are we in when we receive the Blessing? The Blessing is so precious! Very important!
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
When I heard their testimonies, I had such an incredible, touching experience.
(Testimony of Cheonil Guk missionary team to Elbasan, Albania)
How proud Heavenly Parent and True Parents are of you! You had such an incredible experience overseas. You said,”We came here not to be served but to serve the people.” This kind of service for all humankind, for God and True Parents is so beautiful! I love you all! I was so excited to hear your beautiful testimony! Thank you very much.♦
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