Ep 886 - God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful Ideal World 1 Part 5
God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful Ideal World I - March 30, 2023
Key Points
In the fall God lost his children and lineage and humankind lost God and inherited the putrid servant’s lineage. God is miserable and fallen people, who are also miserable, are unaware of God’s misery.
God rejoices over people receiving the Blessing and returning to his true lineage.
While there is a turning point in history when the evil world is restored to the good world, there are also turning points in our own life when we abandon our former life by accepting True Parents and joining the church and when we separate from Satan in the Blessing..
There are also turning points on the individual, family, societal, national, global and cosmic levels, and on the day when God is finally liberated from Satan’s dominion.
Father overcame eight levels of indemnity and created eight turning points. We need to follow this way of the eight steps.
In the Last Days the internal and external truth will converge, many will follow True Parents, and Jesus’ unrevealed truth will be disclosed.
When we read the Divine Principle and experience the Holy Spirit, we will be reborn.
For us to worship in spirit and in truth, “the jeongseong of all members ... must reach heaven” so we can invite the Holy Spirit.
In order to thoroughly maintain our first motivation and be able to face any circumstance of death we need to know clearly and continually that God is our parent and subject and we need to live as he desires.
The relationship between God and us is an inseparable relationship of dual characteristics.
We must know that God has wishes for us and that we are the substantial reality of God’s wishes.
The purpose of our life is to discover and accomplish God’s wishes for us.
The first “step of faith” is being clear that we belong to God and that he is our parent and we are his child.
Then we need to be clear that in order to exist and thrive we and God exist in the individual mind-body Four Position Foundation, the family parent-child-sibling Four Position Foundation and the creation-level Four Position Foundation.
If we ignore that we are a being of these Four Position Foundations, we commit a “crime” and our position becomes vague outside the Principle.
Wherever we go, we must live within the four position foundation, forming good relationships with superiors in God’s position, with colleagues and peers horizontally, and with young people in the children’s position.
In this way we can preserve ourself well as three-dimensional beings and central beings without becoming ambiguous or shaken in the central position.
Only when we have a good four position foundation relationship can we establish the foundation of faith and overcome any trials.
In this way, the principle of creation clearly teaches us the meaning of 'my' existence.
If we create a happy four position foundation and stand at the center of harmony, we can live a victorious life.
Transcripts from November 3, 2021 to the present, personal notes from November 11, 2020 until November 2, 2021 and slides from August 29, 2021 to the present are available at MD.Hoondok.com as PDF files.♦
Last night we had a very special ceremony. I really appreciate that our True Mother has given us an incredible opportunity to drink the special grace holy wine. Let’s prepare our heart and mind and pray seriously for forty days and cleanse what we have gained(?) so far. I think this is really True Mother’s unconditional love in this forgiveness condition.
Last Friday I had breakfast with three families of the New Jersey Church. They are Miwako Maruyama, Asami Maruyama, and Sae Maruyama. Also, Etsuko Kaneko and Akemi Hirose. She always plays the piano at the Clifton Church.
Yesterday, I had breakfast with one couple of the New Jersey church. They are Shinichi & Keiko Kamiya. It was a very beautiful meeting.
Today I’d like to talk about “God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful Ideal World I” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given by Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon between October 3 and October 14, 2005 during a speaking tour in Japan to mark the launch of the Universal Peace Federation.>
Yet when Adam and Eve fell, this lineage, more precious than life, was lost. The fruits of true life and true love never matured. They became the fruits of Satan, lacking any relationship with Heaven. From them descended the six billion people now inhabiting the earth. God intended for the seeds He planted to grow into a bountiful crop to be harvested in the autumn in the garden of Eden. The ideal of God's creation was that He would raise Adam and Eve, His son and daughter, to the point where they would blossom in true love, give bloom to true life, and bear fruit in a true lineage.
God's desire was to harvest owners, families and nations of eternal life, eternal love and eternal lineage. False love, false life and false lineage infested the earth. God's love, life and lineage fell into the hands of the adulterer Satan, the enemy of love. Heaven and earth were suffocated and transformed into hell. The world became a wretched place, far from God's presence. Yet humanity to this day lives in ignorance of this. People are deluded into believing that the lineage of the enemy is the lifeline upon which the world depends. This is the wretched truth about humanity descended from the Fall. That is why we refer to this world as hell on earth. God sees humanity's tragic situation with a heart full of pain.
After creating Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, God intended to bless them in marriage and bequeath to them Heaven's right of ownership. God wanted Adam and Eve to inherit from Him the ownership of the entire universe. Because of the Fall, however, all this fell under Satan's control. God is like a father who worked and sweated his entire life to accumulate assets for his children, only to have a thief steal everything in one night. Who can comprehend the sorrowful, painful heart of God? God lost His lineage, lost His children, and was forced to hand over ownership of the nations and world to Satan. There was only one way to recover this lineage and ownership.
What is the human fall? It is losing one’s own life, love, and lineage and becoming Satan’s child and falling from the position of princes and princesses to the position of the servant. The Fall is the event of falling from the bloodline of the royal family to the bloodline of the servant overnight.
In this way, once we form ties with a lineage, since it is inherited through descendants, we cannot change it again. The way Satan multiplied his tribe was through the blood lineage. That is why God hates sexual immorality the most. It is because sexual immorality is passed down through the blood lineage.
Due to the Fall of Adam and Eve, God's love, life and lineage fell into the hands of the adulterer Satan, the enemy of love. Heaven and earth were suffocated and transformed into hell. The world became a wretched place, far from God's presence. Yet humanity to this day lives in ignorance of this.
People are deluded into believing that the lineage of the enemy is the lifeline upon which the world depends. This is the wretched truth about humanity descended from the Fall. That is why we refer to this world as hell on earth. God sees humanity's tragic situation with a heart full of pain.
God lost His lineage, lost His children, and was forced to hand over ownership of the nations and world to Satan. And there was no one who knew God’s sorrowful and bitter heart.
That is really han!
Therefore, God rejoices most over fallen people receiving the Blessing and changing their lineage through the Messiah who came as the true olive tree, and then becoming God’s children. Therefore, for fallen people, the greatest blessing is THE Blessing. This is because the Blessing is the ceremony to change the lineage, which makes us be reborn from the false life, false love, and false lineage to true love, true life, and true lineage.
There was only one way to recover the lineage and ownership: through the Blessing. The Blessing is very important. The messiah needed to come to change the blood lineage. This was his most important mission as the messiah. That is how fallen people change their blood lineage. The Blessing is the greatest gift to human beings. The Blessing means the change of blood lineage which is salvation. The Blessing is everything! How important the Blessing is! It changes the blood lineage.
Let’s really prepare very well and sincerely during this forty days for True Mother’s special grace. Of course, we have committed sins – small sins and sometimes adulterous sins, all kinds of sins. True Mother has given us an incredible opportunity to drink this holy wine, a special grace from our True Mother. Then we can have a new beginning centered on our True Mother’s leadership.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Chapter 3 Eschatology and Human History 1 - Introduction
• We dwell in ignorance of history, uncertain about its origin, the direction in which it is heading, and its final destination.
• Concerning eschatology, or the doctrine of the Last Days, many Christians believe literally what is written in the Bible: “The heavens and the elements will melt with fire” (II Pet. 3:12); “The sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light and the stars will fall from heaven” (Matt. 24:29); and “The dead in Christ will rise…to meet the Lord in the air” (I Thess. 4:16-17).
• However, we must ask whether these events will take place literally or whether the verses are symbolic.
• To address this issue, we should first under stand such fundamental matters as the purpose of God’s creation, the meaning of the Human Fall, and the goal of the providence of restoration.
Let’s study Father’s word.
The End of Human History When the Historical Turning Point Appears
<1-333> The world we are living in today is not the world of the Kingdom of Heaven. This is not the world centered on God, but Satan. And this is the world that opposes the Kingdom of Heaven. However, the historical turning point when the evil world is restored to the good world will appear at the end of human history.
The historical turning point when the evil world is restored to the good world will appear at the end of human history.
Then I ask you: in our own life, when was the most historical day (that) became the eternal turning point? That day should be the day when we completely separated from Satan, whom we served as the master until now, and accepted True Parents as our new masters.
The day we accepted True Parents was the day we joined the church, announcing the end of human history centered on Satan and starting anew centered on God’s Will. The day we accept True Parents is the day that becomes our eternal turning point. Our life before and after meeting True Parents can be divided as our life before and after the end of human history.
Furthermore, our internal turning point was the day we received the Blessing through True Parents. The day we receive the Blessing is the day we completely rooted out Satan’s blood lineage and officially divorced Satan. And it is the day we accepted True Parents as the new masters and were restored to God’s blood lineage.
According to Father, fallen people must welcome eight turning points in their own life course. The individual ending day of history, the family ending day of history, the tribal ending day of history, the people’s ending day of history, the national ending day of history, the global ending day of history, the cosmic ending day of history, and finally, the day of completely liberating God from Satan’s realm of dominion.
We still have a long way to go. Father broke through and overcame eight levels of indemnity conditions and created eight turning points. We need to go this way of the eight steps.
This is the Time When the Internal Truth and External Truth Must Converge
<2-125> At the end of human history, the holy spirit and truth which has sought internal truth and external truth will converge. Many people will become true believers in Jesus, and all the truth which Jesus has concealed in his mind will be revealed. Then how about you who are searching for Heaven? Which way are you going? So far, the internal truth and the external truth have taken divergent paths. But this is the time when two truths can converge based on one focal point. In this way God’s providence based on truth has kept up with the development of human history.
When it becomes the end of human history, what kind of phenomena will happen?
> the holy spirit and truth which has sought internal truth and external truth will converge;
> many people will become true believers in True Parents;
> all the truth which Jesus has concealed in his mind will be revealed.
So far, the internal truth and the external truth have taken divergent paths. But this is the time when the two truths can converge based on one focal point.
Have we experienced spirit and truth converging? We cannot just hear the Principle and not experience the spirit. Only when we hear the Principle AND experience the holy spirit can we really experience being reborn.
Recently True Mother spoke a lot about this. When I met her in Kona, Hawaii, she spoke about the Holy Spirit and the truth. She said one of our most important roles is to raise our brothers and sisters. All of them need to have the Holy Spirit experience, not just (learn the) truth. They need to experience the Holy Spirit (as well as) study the Divine Principle. That is why Mother said after Father passed away her first declaration to the Unification Church members was, “Our Unification Movement needs to go (forward) with the Holy Spirit and the truth together.”
John 4: 24 “God is Spirit, and those who worship God must be led by the Spirit to worship him according to the truth.”
Yesterday I heart that True Mother also emphasized that our church needs to return to the faith of holding Sunday service with the Holy spirit and the truth like in our church’s early days.
What is true worship? The Bible says that it is worshiping the Father in spirit and truth. We need to reflect on whether or not our church is really worshiping in spirit and truth these days.
Our church has God’s eternal Truth called the Divine Principle. Now, the problem is how to create a church that invites the Holy Spirit.
Since God is the Holy Spirit, if we do not worship in spirit, it will not become worship that God is present in. For it to become worship of the Holy Spirit, the jeongseong of all members, including the central figure, must reach Heaven.
In order to invite the Holy Spirit, according to my experience, we need to have incredible jeongseong and devotion. (Then) even God and the spiritual world will have no choice but to come down and help us.
What degree of jeongseong do we have every day? (If it is a high degree,) then God has no choice but to sympathize with us and to come down and help us. What is the best way to invite the Holy Spirit (to come)? It is jeongseong. It is really utmost sincerity. Utmost sincerity moves heaven. If we really move heaven and the spiritual world, then the Holy Spirit will surely come down.
Even if we give wonderful lectures or sermons, we cannot move heaven only with the word itself. Our jeongseong is definitely needed to touch God’s and our ancestors’ hearts.
Just now Dr. Ward said that we are not just talking about True Parents and Jesus. We are also talking about other holy saints. In order to witness to Islamic people, we need to love Mohammed more than any muslim, right? We need to love all saints and all our ancestors through our jeongseong.
I think one of the most important attitudes as a believer is how much we understand the importance of jeongseong. It really works! Those who are intellectuals do not really understand the meaning of jeongseong. We need to understand it – how we can invite the Holy Spirit through our jeongseong.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Clearly Understand Your Position
1. In order for my motive to be thorough, I must always check who I am. Who am I? Even if death comes right in front of me, in order to overcome it, I need to know who I am in order to be victorious. So, I must establish my position on what kind of being I am. The position of God and me is the relationship of above and below between parent and child. Therefore, I am someone who must live as God wants. That is why we must clearly understand our position of existence and relationship. If you are clear on your identity and vertical relationship in any kind of environment, you will gain strength and there will surely be a way to resolve problems. Therefore, do not forget or lose sight of your own identity.
In order for our motive to be thorough, we must always check who we are. If our identity, who we are, becomes clear, no matter what kind of circumstances of death come right in front of us, we can overcome them and be victorious.
We must never forget that we come from God. We must live, never forgetting that God is our Parent and our subject partner. And no matter what situation we are in, we must never forget that we are God’s object partners and His children. If we are clear on this vertical relationship, we can survive any situation.
Let’s go back to the fundamental points. In our life of faith we need to go back to the fundamental points, the fundamental truth. What is the fundamental truth? “God is my parent. I am a child of God. He is the subject partner; I am the object partner.” This is a dual characteristic relationship.
A dual characteristic relationship means an inseparable relationship. We cannot divide the mind and body. They always (are connected).
The same is true of the relationship between God and us. It is inseparable. It is a relationship of dual characteristics that cannot be separated. That is why we have that kind of firm faith that “God is my parent; I am his child. I cannot separate from him.” If we have that kind of firm relationship wherever we go, we don’t have to worry about anything. (That is) because God is our God; he is our subject partner, always helping us, caring for us, loving us. “I am a child of God.” If we have that kind of firm relationship, that kind of vertical relationship, then Satan cannot invade at all.
But if we do not have that kind of firm relationship with God and are not clear about it, Satan can invade any time.
So, we must establish our position on what kind of being we are. The position of God and us is the relationship of above and below between parent and child. First, we need to establish our position of existence, and the next important thing is that we are someone who must live as God desires.
God has a wish for us. We must know that we are the substantial reality of God’s wishes. When God created us, he had desires and wishes for us. That is why we must know that we are the substantial reality of God’s wishes.
That is why the purpose of our life is how we can accomplish God’s wishes for us. We need to discover, “Heavenly Father, what do you want for me?” We need to know his wishes and desires(?) about me. When we clearly understand his vision and wishes for me, we will have no wandering(?wondering?) at all. We cannot decide(?) the purpose of our life by ourself. God has a wish for us. That is why he created us. (Do we think) without value, vision and purpose he created us all? He had a clear purpose, wish and dream for us. That is why we are the substantial reality of God’s wish and dream. That is why we need to fulfill his dream.
If we are clear on our identity and vertical relationship in any kind of environment, we will gain strength and there will surely be a way to resolve problems. Therefore, we should not forget or lose sight of our own identity, who we are.
Humans are Beings of a Four Position Foundation
2. In the Principle of Creation, it is revealed that humans are beings of a Four Position Foundation. It explains that based on the parent-child relationship between me and God, "I" am a being that has an up, down, front and back relationship of four position foundation in my family with the parents-child relationship and sibling relationship. Therefore, wherever I go, I have a relationship in all directions, so I cannot be indifferent to these relationships even for a moment. If one ignores that they are a being of the four position foundation, that person is committing a crime, their existence cannot exist outside of this principle. Therefore, we are the ones who have to live with the awareness that we are the fundamental beings of the four position foundation.
We can really learn from the Principle of Creation.
The first step of faith is being clear on the vertical relationship between God and us, and then know that we are God’s object partner and child. We need to treat ourself as belonging to God. This is a fundamental issue.
Secondly, based on the parent-child relationship between us and God, it must be made clear that "I" am a being that has an up, down, front and back relationship of four position foundation in our family with the parents-child relationship, husband and wife relationship, and sibling relationship.
We need to know that we are a being of the Four Position Foundation. We cannot ignore the relationship with our parents, with our spouse, with our own brothers and sisters, with our own children. This is the Four Position Foundation.
We cannot survive without this kind of Four Position Foundation. This is our eternal and absolute destiny. We cannot survive at all when we ignore this Four Position Foundation. It is absolutely our destiny no matter what.
If there is a problem, we need to fix it. We need to build a relationship with our parents very well. Otherwise the Four Position Foundation function will not work. No matter what we need to fix the problem with our parents.
No matter what, we need to fix the problem. How can we solve the problem with our spouse? And our own brothers and sisters, we cannot throw them away. No matter what we cannot throw away our children.
We are living centering on the Four Position Foundation. This is an eternal, absolute structure. No matter what, we need to maintain this kind of destiny together centering on the Four Position Foundation. This is (our) absolute destiny.
We have to know that we are beings that cannot exist apart from this four position foundation. It is a fact that the foundation on which God can exist and move and be present must be centered on the four position foundation.
God is present through the individual four position foundation centered on the mind and body, the family four position centered on the parent, couple, and children, and the four position foundation centered on God, human beings, and all things. Therefore, if we deviate from this formula, our existence will become vague and we will lose our position of existence.
Therefore, wherever we go, we have a relationship in all directions, so we cannot be indifferent to these relationships even for a moment. If one ignores that they are a being of the four position foundation, that person will be committing a crime.
It is a fact that God can never move when we are in a position of ignoring parents, who are in God’s position, or of ignoring our spouse or children.
From that perspective, the being called “I” cannot exist outside the Principle. Therefore, we must always live being aware that we are an entity of this four position foundation.
I, Who Must Exist Centering On the Four Position Foundation
3. In terms of top and bottom, when I serve the subject partner, I am the object partner, and if I am in a central position where I protect my object partner, I stand in the position of the subject partner. In this way, humans are three-dimensional beings and central beings centering on the four position foundation. When this relationship based on the four position foundation is smooth, you can preserve yourself well without becoming ambiguous or shaken in the central position. Only when we have a good four position foundation relationship can we establish the foundation of faith and overcome any trials that may come our way. In this way, the principle of creation clearly teaches us the meaning of 'my' existence. My existence should always create a happy four position foundation, and if I stand at the center of harmony, I can live a victorious life without any difficulties in living my life.
Wherever I go, I must live within this organization of the four position foundation. So, I must form good relationships with superiors who correspond to God’s position and give and receive well with colleagues and peers as horizontal relationships. And I need to love young people who are in the children’s position.
In this way, humans are three-dimensional beings and central beings centering on the four position foundation. When this relationship based on the four position foundation is smooth, we can preserve ourself well without becoming ambiguous or shaken in the central position.
Only when we have a good four position foundation relationship can we establish the foundation of faith and overcome any trials that may come our way. In this way, the principle of creation clearly teaches us the meaning of 'my' existence.
My existence should always create a happy four position foundation, and if I stand at the center of harmony, I can live a victorious life without any difficulties in living my life.
The life(?) of the Four Position Foundation is incredible. It is a fundamental issue. That is why in our family no matter what, we need to build a good relationship with our parents. Even though they do not believe in God, even though they hate us, we are the ones who (must) fix the problem.
No matter what we need to have a good relationship with our spouse. Without our spouse how can we create a Four Position Foundation?
Some (of our) brothers and sisters may be very far from the church. We need to love them and restore them because this is a Four Position Foundation.
Some of our children (may) understand the meaning of the Blessing and have received it, but some others (may) marry outside. No matter what, we need to fix, to solve the problem because we cannot run away from the system of the Four Position Foundation.
In our church, in our society, in our workplace the life of the Four Position Foundation is very important – (relationships with) superiors, horizontally with our colleagues, and with our younger (colleagues).
This is important training to enter the Kingdom of Heaven centering on the Four Position Foundation. Our Divine Principle is really clear. I really appreciate that our True Parents discovered the life of the Four Position Foundation. If we all understand the life of the Four Position Foundation, we can overcome any issues and problems.
Today I spoke about “Clearly understand your position.”
(Testimony Akifumi Takami, Chicago CARP President, CARP Workshop)♦
(Response to sharing) How can we begin(?) (with) the Holy Spirit? Of course, jeongseong is important. But my personal experience is (that I need) complete self-denial. Self-denial means, “Let God work through me.” I (need to) completely deny myself, almost as if I do not exist. (I need to) let God completely control me and come to me and (to) let him handle (everything) because I am not mine. I (need to) treat myself as God’s belonging. When I talk about something, “Heavenly Father, I do not know how to answer. You need to give the answer.” Then I let God share and talk and handle everything.
(We need to) completely deny (ourself) and really become the substantial body of God. Then, I can tell you, at every moment we can feel the Holy Spirit.♦
NOTE: This text and the PowerPoint slides from this speech are available as a link at the top of this text. Transcripts from November 3, 2021 to the present, personal notes from November 11, 2020 until November 2, 2021 and slides from August 29, 2021 to the present are available at MD.Hoondok.com as PDF files. Books of the transcripts and notes are available as PDFs at MDBooks.Hoondok.com.
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