Ep 594 - The Proclamation of Cheon Il Guk Part 2
The Proclamation of Cheonil Guk - June 11, 2022
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Today I’d like to talk about the “The Proclamation of Cheonil Guk” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
I am going (to UTS) to the graduation ceremony of GPA, so I have made a recording.
On Foundation Day a few days ago, you saw a new heaven and a new earth. You are standing at the center of this great change. You have received this unimaginable grace and blessing. Who brought that about? Who brought you here? It was through True Parents' grace. That is why I told you that you should live for at least three weeks with gratitude in your hearts, gratitude from your bone marrow. For the rest of your lives, until your days on earth are over and you have passed on into the next world, you should have ardent gratitude in your hearts, thinking to yourselves that you are thankful for all that you have been given in spite of the fact that you are unworthy in many ways. This period is one in which it is as if we are creating the universe under our Heavenly Parent. With our grand goal of the establishment of Cheon Il Guk, we are now creating the universe. What kind of beings do you wish to become? Do you wish to become the sun or the moon? Based on your resolve and actions, the creation of the universe is substantially taking place through your own bodies, something that you could not possibly imagine or believe.
When you consider this, you should realize that you are not in a position in which you can just sit still and only think about it. You too should be greatly excited and moved in your hearts to such an extent that you don't know what to do with yourselves and your bodies move of their own accord. In other words, you should translate your feelings into action, begrudging even the hours you sleep. You should do your best to share this excitement, gratitude and blessing with others. This is truly the first and the last opportunity in your lives. You are at the center of this amazing blessing of creating the universe with our Heavenly Parent. What beings will you become? You are in a position where you can be praised by your future descendants for generations and generations to come. Heaven has given you this special opportunity. (2013.02.28, Cheon Jeong Gung)
As True Mother said, Foundation Day is the day when a new heaven and a new earth are created for the first time in 6,000 years of history since the Fall.
True Mother said that we should have a thankful heart and a heart of deep gratitude for the declaration of Foundation Day before we go to the spirit world after our physical life ends.
After the declaration of Foundation Day, our task is to establish Cheon Il Guk at the national level. According to True Mother, now that Foundation Day has been proclaimed, in the present age, the unimaginable creation of Heaven and Earth will be achieved depending on our decisions and actions.
Therefore, at this time, Mother is saying that we should do our best to share this excitement, gratitude and blessings while sacrificing time to sleep.
The time we spend with True Mother is the first and last time in our lives. Each of us must realize that we are living in this golden age now and work harder.
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 Reason the Unification Church Looks Cold
<143-112> The Unification Church talks about the right way of love, but it appears hard-hearted. Why? It is because the Unification Church has its portion of responsibility. This is true. You each have your own portion of responsibility. You do not have enough time. Each of you should complete it, so you cannot take any rest. You cannot complain about your faith. You cannot insist on your own way. Eve insisted on her own way, and she fell, right? You must not insist on your own way. If you complain about this and that, you are on the side of the archangel Satan. You must understand this in order to be able to complete the portion of responsibility.
Established Christian churches do not have clear goals and visions and the compulsory portion of responsibility like Unification Church members because they follow the Lord centered on basic faith (in order to receive) blessings.
If established Christians actually met Jesus and received orders directly from him, how serious would they be to carry out their responsibilities? They, like the Unification Church members, may not have the heart to care for their surroundings and others may see them as cold.
True Parents said that one Unification Church member has a precious value that cannot be exchanged with 1,000 Christian church members. If Jesus (were to) come back to the established Christians, force them to dedicate themselves, and give them a huge portion of responsibility, including the Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission, how many of them would remain?
Humans cannot afford to take care of other people's affairs when their portion of responsibility is large and heavy. Overwhelmed by their heavy portion of responsibility, worries take precedence.
What makes us Unificationists great is that we share a heavy portion of responsibility, and in addition to that, how heavy is it when we must bear the cross of the world, the cross of True Parents, and even the cross of God? The Unification Church members had to overcome a lot of persecution and opposition, and they did their best with absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience to fulfill the portion of responsibility that they could afford.
However, we cannot assert ourselves or complain. This is because we know God's unimaginable sorrowful heart and True Parents' laborious journey better than anyone else.
Personally, I am very proud of each and every member of the American church. You are... surviving. You are all doing your best. I really appreciate all of our American brothers and sisters for keeping absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience.
Let’s all carry a heavy cross and do our best to comfort God and True Parents, thinking that God and True Parents carry the cross and suffer more than we do.
The Bridge of True Love
<148-148> With the perfection of Adam comes the completion of the portion of responsibility for world. As you all know, that is the point where the realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle and the realm of God's direct dominion are all connected. By completing the portion of responsibility, this realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle can be connected to the realm of God's direct dominion.
The way of connecting the realm of God's direct dominion and the realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle begins from love. Love can make a bridge between the realm of God's indirect dominion and the realm of God's direct dominion. A real true bridge of love between God and human beings is possible. Without the completion of the portion of responsibility, there is no connection between God and human beings. With the portion of responsibility, God and human beings can become one, based on true love.
Before Adam and Eve received the Blessing, if they (had) individually completed their portion of responsibility within God's indirect dominion, it would (have) made a bridge to connect the indirect dominion to the direct dominion.
True Father said, “The way of connecting the realm of God's direct dominion and the realm of indirect dominion begins from love. Love can make a bridge between the realm of God's indirect dominion and the realm of God's direct dominion. A real true bridge of love between God and human beings is possible.”
Then what is the bridge of love? That is, as Adam and Eve finally receive the Blessing and spend their first night together, the indirect dominion and direct dominion are connected. The organs of love of men and women become the bridge of love.
That is why the First Night is very important. What is the First Night? God’s indirect dominion and direct dominion can connect together through the love relationship. The man’s love organ enters the woman’s love organ. That is like entering God’s direct dominion from God’s indirect dominion.
That’s why God’s Kingdom of Heaven, God’s direct dominion begins from the First Night. It begins from the Three-Day Ceremony. Wow! Beautiful!
Father explained this very clearly in detail. That is why any blessed child or anyone who receives the Blessing,... especially when second generation does first night, we need to have a big family festival and really bless them because they are entering God’s direct dominion.
So don’t let them start their family simply between husband and wife. Definitely the father and mother or the central figure or Abel (should) bless them: “I bless you. I congratulate you. You are entering God’s direct dominion from God’s indirect dominion.” Wow! What a great blessing!
When my three children started family, our couple blessed them and gave them a benediction. We explained over and over the importance of the First Night.
How did you offer your first night? Did you offer it with your spouse as husband and wife? Or did you offer it with another woman or man? That is a reason to keep absolute purity. The first night is a beautiful offering day. Under God’s indirect dominion (we are told), “Do not eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. What is the great blessing? When you enter God’s direct dominion (we are told), “Please eat. Now it is time to eat and share your love together and share it with God.” How beautiful it is!
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Completion Stage Church
1. Now is the age of showing. Now is not the age of believing. Now is not the age of proclaiming. Now is the age of having to show what kind of person I am. I have to show what kind of standards I have in the family and what a family that attends God looks like. Next, if you are a church leader, you need to reflect on the question “what level of a person am I?” in relationships with church members. You must live while checking if you have truth and what position you are in. This cannot be vague. If we look at reality, there are still many formation stage individuals, formation stage families, and formation stage churches. The formation stage church is a basic church that asks for blessings. It is a church that receives donations from members and asks them to pray. Churches that pass around the offering bag are all formation stage churches.
The era of Cheon Il Guk is an era that shows that God is alive and working. Now, in the season of fruition, all the basic religions that emphasize faith, believe in Heaven, and wish for blessings are all going to disappear now.
You see that... not just Christian churches but all religions are declining. What(?) we must face is that we are now living in a different time.
In the era of Cheon Il Guk, we must deny all past habits and traditions and move forward with a new mind and new tradition. Therefore, the Bible says that new wine should be put into new wineskins.
So, what will you show first? It is an era where you must show who you are first. You must show that God is really with you. You need to testify that God is really a living God.
Next, our family must show whether we are a family in which God lives and works. And we must show whether our church is really a church where God comes and works.
For example, we must look at the way we make donations at church. If there are still some churches that circulate donation baskets like established churches, then that church is a formation stage church. You must prepare a donation box in advance in front and in the back (of the church). Then our members can donate.
The donation prepared in advance should be offered with much sincerity. When a donation basket is circulated and the money is offered to God, True Father worried that God was being treated like a beggar. God is not a beggar. If you prepare your heart and mind before coming to the Sunday Service even a few days (in advance), then you (should) put your donation money in an envelop and keep it inside your Bible or the Divine Principle. Invest your jeongseong (in your offering) and come to the Sunday Service and offer it. If you do not prepare and just take a few dollars or ten dollars or twenty dollars (out of your pocket), God is not a beggar. Completion church is not like that.
We need to offer our heart, our mind, our hyojeong. We call such a church a completion-stage church.
2. If you know the Principle, even when making donations, you will do so voluntarily and automatically. You do not give donation depending on whether the offering bag is coming towards you or not. This is not something the Principle demands. That is why whenever True Parents led Sunday service, there has never been a time when they passed around the offering bag. However, in our church, there are still churches that pass around the offering bag. When those who know the Principle give donations, they should not only offer donation, but also their heart and body and repent for only being able to give these. When offering donation, you must offer while saying “myself and everything I own belong to the Father, so I am so sorry that I can only offer this.” Originally, we were not meant to offer tithe. We must offer it with the heart of offering my whole self.
3.Formation stage churches offer tithe. Growth stage churches go beyond tithes and devote their heart and body. Moreover, when you say that God and I have a parent-child relationship, what kind of tithe is there, and what kind of tax is there? When the Israelites asked Jesus about whether to pay taxes or not, Jesus told him to give Caesar the things that were Caesar's, and to God the things that were God's. Jesus, who said such words, did not keep the Sabbath and did not make an offering. This is asking what kind of child gives offering? Someday, the donations and tithing system will also disappear in our church as well. It is a principle not to pass around the offering bag. But it does not mean not to offer tithe. It means to offer your whole self.
If you know the Principle, even when making donations, you will do so voluntarily and automatically. You do not give a donation depending on whether the offering bag is coming towards you or not.
When those who know the Principle give donations, they should not only offer a donation, but also their heart and body and repent for only being able to give these.
When offering a donation, you must offer while saying, “(I,) myself, and everything I own belong to the Father, so I am so sorry that I can only offer this much.” Originally, tithing is to offer your heart and HyoJeong to Heaven.
A person who does not pay tithes worries and suffers a lot from financial problems for the rest of his life.
We are now living in the era of the Cheon Il Guk. God requires us to offer our hyojeong, our heart, our whole body – not just 10%. We need to have that kind of mindset. Hyojeong means that I (offer) everything – my mind, my body, my spouse, my entire family, including my life. That is the spirit of tithing in the Cheon Il Guk era.
I will talk more about the Completion Stage church tomorrow.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
Today we will hear a beautiful testimony from our Kenyan missionaries. Let’s welcome them.
(Testimony of Cheon Il Guk GPA Missionaries to Kenya.)♦
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