Ep 591 - Our Attitude as We Reach Foundation Day Part 2

Our Attitude as we Reach Foundation Day - June 8, 2022 

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(Response to sharing) When you really sincerely read the Divine Principle with your heart, I think many times you can have incredible spiritual experiences. That is why you need to invest your heart before you do hoondokhae. You need to pray and invite God, True Parents and your ancestors (to join you). “Let’s read together. Heavenly Father, what do you want to teach me through this reading?” You need to invest your sincerity and heart. Then I think you can control your sleep spirits, and God can give you incredible inspiration!♦

Today I’d like to talk about “Our Attitude as we Reach Foundation Day” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.

In preparation for Foundation Day all Unification Church members should cleanse themselves again. I will give out holy wine to the Continental leaders for all the members; those who will participate in person and those who will not be able to make it because of personal circumstances. This is very special. That is why you must come here after having cleansed your mind and body. (2012.10.25, BonHyang Won) 

Without knowing in detail what kind of work the Messiah will do when he is manifests on earth, for 2,000 years Christianity has been teaching how the Messiah must come, and that if you believe unconditionally you will go to heaven. Now our time has come. True Father has carried out the work of indemnity and has done everything that could be done. Now God can accomplish what He had wanted to accomplish in the Garden of Eden through Adam and Eve's family. It is that kind of time. The establishment of the True Parents is the same as Adam and Eve having been blessed in marriage by God, and above that, God's nation must be established. We must participate and offer devotion to build that nation. God set that goal. True Father clearly said that according to how we act today, that kind of result will come in the year 2013. We must work hard to move it forward. According to your investment, your efforts and devotion, the laborious course of True Parents can be lightened. (2005.10.03 Fukuoka, Japan) 

God and True Parents substantially found and established the Cheon Il Guk that they so longed for. Therefore, True Mother said that our lives have to change. Before Foundation Day and after Foundation Day must be different. We should show the difference between life in the era of restoration through indemnity and life in the era of Cheon Il Guk. 

All the sins we committed before the proclamation of Foundation Day were forgiven, but after Foundation Day and (while) establishing the kingdom of God, we should not commit any sins as blessed families. In the era of Cheon Il Guk which we (have) entered; all things are governed by Heavenly Law. 

After Foundation Day, we can find and dedicate a substantial country depending on what kind of efforts we make centering on True Parents' victorious foundation. Now, we are two years into the 2nd 7-year course of Cheon Il Guk. In the next five years, we must do our utmost to figure out what to do and set a standard by which all citizens of a country can be restored. 

We have already established Foundation Day which is Cheonil Guk. Based on this foundation we need to substantialize (it) centered on one substantial nation, one sovereignty, one people – which is the nation of Korea. This is why Mother focuses on the heavenly unified Korea providence. 

LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 50 - The Indirect Dominion and the Human Portion of Responsibility

This is the final series on 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 Adolescence

 <133-106> Why did God set up the portion of responsibility? It is because He wants to raise you up to the level of adolescence. Without the period of adolescence, you would have to be prepared to be married at the time of your birth. Can you marry at birth? It is impossible. You should wait until you become mature. Men and women should be mature enough to get married. Grasshoppers know how to grow to maturity, so how would it be possible that people cannot grow to maturity, too? You must find the way to grow to maturity. 

When human beings reach puberty, or adolescence, they reach the standard where they can be perfected both physically and mentally. The reason God gave humans a growth period is to make us (able to) mature by the time we reach puberty. 

If the fruit is eaten while it is not yet mature, the seeds of the fruit cannot reproduce. That is why God told human beings not to eat the fruit during the growing period until they are mature. That period is God’s realm of indirect dominion. 

What is the difference between God's realm of indirect dominion and (his) realm of direct dominion? Human beings in God's realm of indirect dominion are still immature, so the fruit should not be eaten. 

However, in God's realm of direct dominion, people have matured, so they can eat the fruit with the owner's permission. Therefore, the position where Adam and Eve receive the Blessing from God is to receive permission, then eat the fruit and multiply. 

That is why I emphasize again and again the difference between direct dominion and indirect dominion. Under God’s indirect dominion you cannot eat: “Do not eat!” In order to eat, the first condition is that you need to be mature physically and spiritually.

Second, you need to get permission from God. Without getting permission from God and your parents and just eating, deciding everything by yourself, that is the fall. God and your parents will definitely allow you to eat after you become mature physically and spiritually. 

Adam and Eve could not wait until they received God’s permission. That was the problem. That is why now everywhere the teenage issue is a very serious issue. You need to become more mature not just physically. Even though you are mature physically, are you ready to receive the Blessing spiritually? This is very important. You need to create balance. The physical and spiritual level should reach the same standard. 

 My Portion of Responsibility is the Position of Loving More than Satan 

 <137-106> Are you above the standard of the nation? In order for you to go over this standard, you should give more love than Satan. With prevents you from carrying out your portion of responsibility is that Satan's love interrupts you. That is why you should love more than Satan. This is why Jesus said, "Whoever loves his father and mother more than me is not worthy of me, whoever loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever does not take up his own cross and follow me is not worthy of me." You must take up the cross and follow me. 

Fallen man is just self centered. He doesn’t know how to live for the sake of others. He does not know how to love his parents, his neighbor. That is why he has to get out of self-centered love. 

Gradually you (come to) care for others and live for the sake of others and gradually grow up. Then you know how to love others, how to love your nation, how to love people.

A position where the portion of responsibility is completed is a position where I love God and True Parents more than my parents, myself, my country, and the world. Satan's love cannot go beyond his own blood relations. 

We need to know this. That is why our love matures and matures and reaches a certain standard. Then automaticially I can love God and True Parents more than anyone else. We can say that your filial piety has already reached a certain standard. That is the completion of our portion of responsibility centered on filial piety. 

TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: What are the Ten Treat Faith Legacies in the Age of CIG?

1. Tradition of a life of Hyojeong and attendance 

> Absolute faith, absolute love, absolute obedience 

The center of love is the heart, and the root of the heart is filial piety. Hyojeong is to serve and attend God and True Parents with a heart of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience. Therefore, I must always check whether my filial heart is always expressed toward Heavenly Parents and True Parents. 

This is very important. Do I have a filial heart? When I wake up, do I miss God? Do I miss True Parents? Do I try to serve God and True Parents? If you have such a filial heart, you can automatically serve your own parents and your brothers and sisters and neighbors. That is why vertical alignment centered on filial heart is very important. One of the most important legacies centered on the age of Cheonil Guk is the tradition of a life of hyojeong and attendance. Hyojeong is the root of the heart.

2. Absolute purity tradition 

If we live with filial heart in our life of faith, we are automatically supposed to keep purity. This is because Hyojeong treats his or her body as that of Heavenly Parents and True Parents. “I belong to God. My mind and spirit belong to God. I must belong to my parents. In a word, most people who lose their purity have lost their filial piety in their hearts. 

Once you lose your filial piety, you become very horizontal. You can fall any time. That is why all Chapter Two problems come from a lack of filial heart, lack of filial piety. That is why anyone who truly loves God, True Parents and their own parents cannot go their own way. How can we raise up the filial heart and hyojeong in our family? As a parent how can we raise our children to be filial sons and daughters? As a parent you (need to be) the first one to practice a life of hyojeong.

3. Hoondok life tradition 

Hoondok is the word of God. It is his life and love. There is no spiritual growth and no family completion without hoondok. 

That is why now I think very deeply about how to revive America. We need to go back to God’s word because it is our root, our life. It is his love. That’s why without really studying and learning God’s word, there is no way to grow up, no way to establish God’s Kingdom of Heaven, no way to establish an ideal family. The fundamental point is what? God’s word.

As long as all of our blessed families love hoondokhae and have a hoondokhae tradition, then our life of faith, our church and our entire movement will definitely prosper all the time.

4. Blessing tradition 

The Blessing is rebirth to remove original sin, eternal salvation, and the gateway to God's direct dominion. Blessing is the beginning of life in heaven centered on the blessed couple. Blessings are the greatest blessings that God has bestowed upon fallen human beings. 

That’s why without receiving (the Blessing) there is no salvation.

5. Ideal family life tradition 

Everyone must inherit True Parents' true love, form an ideal family, and experience the Four Great Realms of Heart and Three Great Kingships. 

Just now in the breakout session I met Eva. She said she recently received a beautiful grand-baby. She is so happy. How do we establish the ideal family tradition? This is really important. Centering on the:

> Four Great Realms of Heart and Three Great Kingships 

When you experience the Four Great Realms of Heart, then substantially you know who God is and you understand God’s heart.

6. 3-position foundation life tradition 

How much True Father emphasized this!

The life of the 3 position foundation, which is the trinity, is the beginning of a small Kingdom of Heaven. If you do not experience the small kingdom of heaven on earth, your life of faith cannot be settled forever as an individual and as a family. Therefore, before the blessing, you must raise three spiritual children. 

You need to experience the small Kingdom of Heaven centering on your 3 spiritual children. This is very important. And after the blessing, you must create a family of a three position foundation, which is a trinity family, centered on you. “I need to create three inseparable families that can serve and follow my family.”

If you create that kind of trinity family centered on your spiritual children’s families, who support you, love you, follow you, that is really a small Kingdom of Heaven. If everybody establishes this kind of beautiful tradition based on the 3-person foundation, which is the trinity of 3 spiritual children, I am telling you, everybody will have already tasted the small Kingdom of Heaven. Then we can expand it to the tribal, people, national and world wide level.

7. Ancestor Liberation Ceremony and Ancestor Blessing Ceremony 

This is really incredible! Without Heungjin nim and Daemonim, I think we would not have had the chance to liberate our ancestors. They would not have been able to receive the Blessing. 

We need to understand that I am the eternal Messiah of my tribe and ancestors in the spiritual and physical worlds. It is my duty to save my ancestors through liberation and the Blessing. 

Because of Heung Jin Nim and Daemo nim, we have a chance to liberate all our ancestors. Then they can receive the Blessing. Anyone who receives the blessing among my ancestors, even those in the hell of hells, in hell, or those at the formation or growth stages, that is complete liberation. Can you imagine? Because of my contribution for them to receive the Blessing, all of a sudden they jump up to the Kingdom of Heaven from hell. Can you imagine the value of the ancestor liberation and Blessing ceremonies?

8. Tradition of registering in CheonBoWon by completing HTM activities 

Registering in the Cheonbowon is obtaining a license to become a citizen of Cheon Il Guk. And I will enter the royal family of the kingdom of heaven. 

9. Cheon Il Guk worship life tradition 

A culture in which the people of Cheon Il Guk gather and return joy and glory to God should be established centered on Sunday and Anshi-il. If we do not cherish Sunday as our life, our relationship with God is estranged. It becomes far away. Sunday is a day when the people of heaven gather to rejoice, give thanks, and celebrate with each other. 

I am sorry to say, I am not judging you or blaming you. When I see American members’ standard, they don’t attend Sunday service very much. (But) Sunday service is really important. It is worshiping God, really offering our heart with our entire community. It is very important. I cannot understand how someone can miss the Sunday (service). Sunday service is really important, offering my life centering on my community. We rejoice and give thanks and celebrate each other.

10. Tithing tradition 

In fact, True Father spoke not only of tithing, but also of three tithes. We must strictly observe at least tithing. Then, I would like to emphasize once again the reason for tithing.

The Blessings Which you can Receive by Offering Tithes (TP’s Word) 

I shared this as a pastor. I would like to re-emphasize why we need to tithe. This is Father’s word 100%.

 If you offer tithes, you will never perish. 

If you offer tithes, your storehouse will increase day by day. 

If you offer tithes, you will never die of hunger. 

If you offer tithes, your descendants will not go through material difficulties. 

If you offer tithes, God will return it to you ten times, even one hundred times. 

Tithing is the way to become a rich person. 

Tithing is the secret to receiving God’s blessings. 

Tithing is the way to be filial to God.

Everyone and everything will revive thanks to your tithing.

When you... tithe, your church comes alive. Your family comes alive. It is an incredible blessing.

Now I really emphasize this to my children. Tithing is protection for your family. Now all my children tithe. I am so happy about that. Since I joined the family and started family, this is a top priority no matter what. I always have given tithes. I think that is the reason God has protected me. All of my children have received the blessing. I think this tithing life is really important. It is one of the best ways to receive incredible heavenly blessings. 

LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible

Today, Let's take the time to hear from overseas missionaries. They served Albania. Let’s welcome them.

(Testimony of GPA Missionaries to Shkodra, Albania)

We are so moved by your report and by your beautiful personal testimonies!

Through the front line experiences you can improve your relationship with God and with your own parents. 

You need to remember after your experience in Albania, you need to determine to serve Albania as your eternal missionary country. You need to make a plan how you can serve Albania more. Once Heavenly Father calls you, then Albania becomes your eternal missionary country. You need to witness to your neighbor and other second generation and third generation and join together to make a plan to regularly go to your mission country and serve them more. That is one of your great motivations to raise your spirit more and more. This is the way to revive our second generation and third generation, our youth generations.♦

(Response to sharing) Many people have already had life-changing experiences through Morning Devotion. You saw just now young people giving such beautiful testimonies. Their numbers are increasing. I can hear from all over the world an incredible response, (people who are having a) life changing experience. (They report that) their relationships between parents and children (are better). Now because of Morning Devotion, everybody is now determined to fulfill 3 spiritual children and are reading one-hour EDP. (There is) already so much outcome. I think if we continue Morning Devotion consistently, I am sure everybody can feel that God is really alive. How great an impact does it have? For me through Morning Devotion if we can save just one person’s soul.... The value of one person’s soul is greater than the value of the cosmos. If I can save just one person’s soul, how happy we already (would be).♦

(Response to second sharing) We need to know that our real identity is that we are missionaries. We need to convey God’s message everywhere, not just in America or Europe. We need to go everywhere. We need to understand clearly that our identity is that of missionaries. We need to convey God’s message. We need to tell the great news to the people: “True Parents have already come.” We are the children of God. We are the ones who need to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. That is our mission.♦

NOTE: This lightly edited transcription may contain errors and omissions. Indecipherable or uncertain words and guesses are tagged with a “(?)” and indecipherable phrases, with an ellipsis “...”. First, second and third person pronouns have been left as spoken if the meaning is clear, and other apparently Korean English expressions have been preserved. Some repeated phrases have been eliminated. This text and the powerpoint slides from this speech are available as pdf files at the top of this text and at text.morndev.com & yong.hoondok.com. Audio only is available at anchor.morndev.com, spotify.morndev.com & audio.morndev.com. Notes or transcripts of Dr. Yong’s Morning Devotion speeches from November 11, 2020 through January 2, 2022 are available as five paperback books at cost at Lulu.com/Shop -- search for Dr. Chung Sik Yong -- and as PDF downloads free of charge at MDBooks.Hoondok.com.♦