Ep 892 - God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful Ideal World 1 Part 11
God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful Ideal World I - April 5, 2023
Key Points
All our ancestors need to return to the physical world to be resurrected and to help their living descendants.
The spirit world’s greatest interest is not in the spirit world itself but in the people living in the physical world.
What matters in restoring this physical world is finding prepared John the Baptist figures who can proclaim the values of true love and true family.
True Parents created UPF to find ambassadors for peace prepared by heaven who can be those John the Baptists and help build Cheon Il Guk.
True Mother said if we find 30,000 members, we can change the world centering on America.
In order to attain individual perfection we need to understand God’s will by studying and incarnating his word which nurtures our spirit.
We need to experience God’s heart by meeting him on the front line through hardships in our mission area and by being engaged with our body.
We need to live in accordance with God’s Will and practice the tradition of True Parents in order to inherit their realm of victory.
We need to unite our mind and body and become the substance of filial piety for God.
Through hoondokhae we can attain redemption and liberation from sin, the fast growth of the spiritual self and freedom after breaking down all kinds of barriers. We can experience God’s love and establish Hoon Dok Family Church in our home.
For Maasaki Chaen daily Hoon Dok Jeongseong is essential for life, allows him to make atonement and brings him resurrection and growth.
He said through hoondokhae “God’s love is infused into me, pouring eternal breath into my spirit body.”
From the biblical point of view, in order to attain individual perfection, we need to become God’s temple (Cor. 3:16). We need to eradicate the fallen nature, form a divine-spirit centered on filial piety and experience the Holy spirit.
According to John 14:20 we need to have a parent-child relationship with God, becoming one in heart in harmony with him.
We need to become perfect like God (Matt. 5:48).
The purpose of living with physical bodies is for the perfection of the spirit self. Our ultimate goal is to become true people, true brothers and sisters, true couples, and true parents.
Our purpose for cultivating our spiritual self is to realize true love through living for the sake of others.
We need three spiritual children to have object partners to live for.
It is universal law that we must live for the sake of our counterpart.
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.♦
(Response to sharing) We are very happy to have a Cheon Bo Won in our New Jersey Church, but it is very important to think, “How can I myself become Cheon Bo Won?” and “How can I create Cheon Bo Won in my family?” We have to be a temple of God, a Cheon Bo Won, within ourself, between husband and wife, within our family, within our church. We need to (ask ourself), “How can I become a Cheon Bo Won of myself?”
That is why we need to practice by going to the Cheon Bo Won first, then inherit from that. Our final goal is to become a Cheon Bo Won temple of God.♦
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.>
Respected leaders, you are now living in an age of blessing. God's promises are coming to fruition. The kingdom of heaven on earth, the kingdom of peace that is God's ideal of creation, is being established before your eyes. My life of more than eighty years, this lonely path trod solely for Heaven and stained with blood, sweat and tears, is now bearing victorious fruit for the sake of the world’s six billion people. From the spirit world, the founders of the world's religions, along with tens of thousands of saints and your own good ancestors, are watching your every move.
Whoever strays from the heavenly path will reap the consequences. In more than 180 countries, ambassadors for peace who have inherited Heaven’s Will and tradition are making serious effort, day and night, to proclaim the values of true love and true family. They are moving forward with full force to establish peace on this earth. In the Middle East, one of the world's tinderboxes, Jews, Christians and Muslims have found the resources in my philosophy of peace to engage in a new dimension of dialogue. In past decades, Unification Thought played a decisive role in ending the Cold War.
Now my husband is successfully leading vital efforts to bring about the reunification of my homeland of Korea. However, he is not yet satisfied because he began his life's work at the command of Heaven. He has come as the True Parent of humankind with God’s anointing and he is determined to keep his promise to God. He is determined to obliterate all national divisions and barriers that have poisoned this earth and to establish the world of peace, where all people everywhere can live hand in hand.
We are now living in an age of blessing. God's promises are coming to fruition. From the spirit world, the founders of the world's religions, along with tens of thousands of saints and our own good ancestors, are coming down to this earth. Since no one was perfected among our ancestors who already went to the spirit world, they all need to return to the physical world and be resurrected and help their descendants who are still alive.
According to the principle of creation, a spirit body can never be perfected by itself, just as a fruit cannot grow without its tree; all spirits must come down to earth in the Last Days. The spirit world’s greatest interest is not the spirit world itself but the people living in the physical world.
However, in order to restore this physical world, what’s most important is finding the people prepared by Heaven. They are the John the Baptist figures. Today, there are many people in more than180 countries around the world who were appointed as Ambassadors for Peace.
We must lead the way so that these Ambassadors for Peace can proclaim the values of true love and true family and move forward with full force to establish peace on this earth. To establish a world of peace, True Parents have established UPF and are determined to create the environment.
To establish Cheon Il Guk, we need to establish many Ambassadors for Peace who are like John the Baptist and restore the environment. That is why in the future, I am determined to properly educate Ambassadors for Peace who are prepared by Heaven and support them so that they can fulfill the roles of owners in building Cheon Il Guk.
I (recently) initiated “Unified Leadership” in a summit in Los Angeles. It was quite successful. God really provided me with incredible vision. He asked me to work with all leaders of affiliated (organizations) to work together to raise up our ambassador for peace, educate them properly and let them take full ownership.
Father said the ambassador for peace position is that of the archangel. The position of our members is that of Adam and Eve. We will not only keep them as ambassadors for peace. They will listen to the Divine Principle, understand and accept True Parents and become core members, initially as core ambassadors for peace and later on as real members. Then they will take ownership of Cheon Il Guk.
We have initiated this in Sub-Region 5. Now we are preparing to do it in Sub-Region 1. Later on we will go to Sub-Region 2, 3 and 4. I really want to focus on raising ambassadors for peace, including ACLC.
True Mother said if we (find) 30,000 members, we can change the world centering on America. In order to (find) 30,000 members, we need to restore the environment first through our ambassadors for peace.
I was inspired by Dr. Jenkins’ speech. We can work together with affiliated organizations to raise 30,000 ambassadors for peace very soon because the time has come. It is a different time. They are very inspired.
We will teach them through a one-day seminar, maybe an introductory seminar. Then (we will) let them be determined to (attend) a three-day Divine Principle workshop. After that they need to receive the Blessing. Then they can study Exposition of the Divine Principle one-on-one. Everybody becomes a corp member and they will teach the Divine Principle and give the Blessing to their own congregation or their own people. This is an important project. Please let’s work together (on it).
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Chapter 3 Eschatology 3 - The Completion of God’s Purpose of Creation and the Human Fall
• Human beings are endowed with emotional sensitivity to the Heart of God, intuition and reason to comprehend His Will, and the requisite abilities to practice it. A person who relates with God in this manner will attain perfection of his individual character.
• God abides within the mind of a fully mature person. Such a person becomes a temple of God and leads his life in harmony with His Will while being fully attuned to Him.
• For this reason, it is written in I Cor. 3:16, "Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?"
• And in John 14:20, it is also written, "In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you."
In Order to Attain Individual Perfection
Of course, we have already learned this in the Principle of Creation, but I need to remind you in order to understand eschatology. We need to restore the three Blessings. Here we are talking about individual perfection. What should we do to attain it?
1. We need to understand God’s will, vision and dream.
> In order to understand God’s will, we should become the perfect incarnation of the Word.
> We should always meet God in the front line and through hardships in our mission area.
> God's Word is His love.
In order to attain individual perfection we need to study thoroughly. The more we study God’s word, the more we understand God’s will, God’s heart and God’s vision.
> God expresses His love in words.
When we study God’s word, we know what God’s will is, what his sorrowful heart, problem and issue are, and how we can unite with him. He teaches everything through his word. That is why he expresses his love in words.
> Therefore, human perfection cannot be expected without studying the Word of God.
That is why everyone has to become a champion of hoondokhae.
> The more we study the Word, the more we receive God's love, and our spirit self grows.
> The Word is the food and nutriment of the spirit self.
2. We need to experience God’s heart.
Without experiencing God’s heart, we cannot become individually perfect. This is one of the challenges. It is not simple, right? That is why Father always says –
> We should always meet God in the front line and through hardships in our mission area.
I went to the Dominican Republic as one of the main places to educate our second and third generation. Let them go to the mission field and experience how to meet God, have give-and-take with him and experience his inner situation and vision. That is why I (must) find one nation that really practices our life of faith. That is why I went to the Dominican Republic.
Also, I want to try to help the Dominican Republic because it is one of the nations that has the greatest potential to become (a) Cheon Il Guk (nation).
(Additionally,) it is not so far from New York to Dominica, only 3½ hours. Even though we cannot help 200 nations, we can start to help one nation.
> If we want to experience God's heart, we must practice and participate with our body.
3. We need to live in accordance with God’s Will.
> We should inherit the realms of victory and the tradition of True Parents, and put them into practice.
Thank God True Parents have shown us the model. Before True Parents appeared, we did not know what to do. What is our direction? What is God’s will? What is God’s heart? We did not know anything. But True Parents have already shown us everything and have paid all the indemnity.
4. We need to make unity between mind and body
We have already been learning the Divine Principle and God’s word. We need to really apply it to our life of faith and make unity between mind and body. Our mind should control our body through the stimulation of God’s word. And we need to get more power from heaven.
5. Finally we need to become substance of filial piety for God
If we really understand God’s will and everyone is determined to become filial sons and daughters, if we have that kind of heart of filial piety, we can overcome any obstacle or problem.
God’s word is very powerful. In order to become an individual perfect being, we need to understand the power of God’s word. Without studying God’s word and becoming a champion of hoondokhae, we cannot overcome our physical limitations, we need to do hoondokhae. According to the hoondok champion Mr. (Maasaki) Chaen –
What was the Effect of his HDH?
1. Redemption and liberation from sin.
He testified that he had not been able to atone for his sins even through sincere prayer and jeongseong but felt that his sin was completely atoned (for) through hoondokhae. Even now he is doing several hours of hoondokhae each evening. Not only that, he listens to my Morning Devotion every day without missing (a single day). This man is really a champion of hoondokhae. He has changed so much. He said:
2. Fast growth of the spiritual self.
3. Freedom after breaking down all kinds of barriers.
The more he studies, the fewer enemies and boundaries.
4. Experiencing God’s love and settle down Hoon Dok Family Church in his home.
He testified that through hoondokhae national boundaries were broken down and all races felt like his brothers and sisters.
Mr. (Maasaki) Chaen’s Testimony
1. Daily basis of offering Hoon Dok Jeongseong
Do not stop.
> Stopping means death
> If a plant stops growing for a while, it immediately withers and dies.
2. Everyday Hoondok is everyday resurrection
3. Everyday Hoondok is everyday growth
4. Hoon Dok time is the time when God’s love is infused into me, pouring eternal breath into my spirit body.
5. Hoondok every day makes atonement every day.
We have to become champions of hoondokhae. God’s word (should) stimulate our heart all the time. How can God save human beings? Through his word. His word is his love.
In Order to Attain Individual Perfection
< Bible point of view…>
1. Did we become God’s temple?
> Cor. 3:16, “Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?” (To eradicate the fallen nature, form a divine-spirit centered on filial piety and experience the Holy spirit.)
In order to reach individual perfection, we have to be God’s temple, God’s “staying” place. God is always in our heart. Then our heart becomes God’s temple. That is really absolute attendance. It is the era of attendance. We have to become God’s temple.
2. Were we in complete harmony with God?
> John 14:20 “On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.”(Parent-child relationship: become one in heart and be in harmony with God with one determination)
“I am in my father, you are in me and I in you.” That is what? An inseparable relationship. We cannot divide mind and body. Do we have that kind of complete harmony with God? Or not? In order to attain individual perfection?
3. Did we become perfect like God?
> Matt. 5:48 “You are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
> Always think in terms of a perfect person.
What is the goal of perfection. It is centering on heart.
> If it's a standard for perfection, move with the idea that we have to live like this.
What is the perfect standard? True Parents have already shown us the perfect example. Uniting with True Parents is the way to become perfect like our True Parents.
Beautiful. Without understanding the Three Blessings, we will not understand the meaning of the Last Days. That is why the Divine Principle speaks of the meaning of the Three Blessings.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Why People Are so Precious
How do we treat people? Why are they so precious? If we treat everybody as if they are so precious, we will have reached a different dimension already. Fallen people easily ignore (other) people.
Human Beings’ Ultimate Purpose
1. True Father came to this earth, and as he walked a rougher path than anyone else, such as being imprisoned six times, he became a true person in heaven and on earth and even became True Parents. In the end, our life purpose is not to simply look up only to True Parents. Everyone has the life goal of becoming true children, true siblings, true couples, and true parents. Therefore, human beings’ ultimate purpose is the same for everyone. There isn’t one thing different between True Parents and us.
The reason we practice religious rituals is also for us to become true through those rituals. Then what is this thing called “true?” It means the true spirit self that has no relation to fallen nature whatsoever. The reason we keep religious etiquette, practice rituals, and obey the Word is also to ultimately raise our spirit selves to become true spirit selves. So, the final purpose of living with physical bodies is for the perfection of the spirit self. The purpose of cultivating fruit trees is not just for the fruit trees themselves but for the fruits. The purpose of keeping orchards is not to cultivate only fruit trees well. The reason fruit trees are precious is because of their fruits.
In the end, our life purpose is not to simply look up only to True Parents. Everyone has the life goal of becoming true children, true siblings, true couples, and true parents.
So, whatever we do, we must make becoming true people the goal. Once we achieve our external goals and dreams we are aiming for, it all passes on. The reason we practice religious rituals is also for us to become true people. Then what is this thing called “true?” It means the true spirit self that has no relation to fallen nature whatsoever.
The reason we keep religious etiquette, practice rituals, and obey the Word is also to ultimately raise our spirit selves to become true spirit selves. So, the final purpose of living with physical bodies is for the perfection of the spirit self.
When I entered the Korean UTS, Rev. Yo Han Lee, my spiritual father, who was the headmaster of the Theology school at that time, emphasized that during the time we were there, our ultimate purpose was to become true people. Since then, I’ve realized how important that teaching was. Rev. Yo Han Lee truly taught his students the essence of faith. Day and night he spoke about that.
“Your eternal goal is to become a true man or a true woman. Not a politician. Not the number one church minister. Not number one businessman. This all goes away some day. What is our eternal goal? We have to be a true person, whatever we do. He brainwashed us for more than three years.
Later on I realized that that guidance was incredible. I really appreciated it.
The spirit world does not wish for us to have externally great jobs or become rich. The spirit world wishes for us to become true people. Our ultimate goal is to become true people, true brothers and sisters, true couples, and in the end, true parents.
Do not forget that the purpose of cultivating fruit trees is not just for the fruit trees themselves but for the fruit. We need to know that the reason fruit trees are precious is because of their fruit.
Why People Are Precious
2. Then why are people precious? We are precious because we are the fruits of our spirit bodies. If someone only has a physical body but no spirit body, then they are not a person. A father and mother’s purpose for having children is because they have a desire for their children to grow up and become filial sons and daughters. Do parents give birth to their children just to raise their physical bodies well? If parents were to just raise their children’s physical bodies, what joy and happiness is there in that? Isn’t that so? The reason parents have children is not because of the physical self. In the parent’s eyes, children are lumps of love. That is why when parents look at their children, love automatically goes to the children. Mothers are happy for life because they become mothers of love and raise their children as children of love. As a parent, is there anything as precious as having a child of love? Parents who have a rascal of a child face tribulations and hardships until they die of old age. Isn’t it any parent’s wish to raise them as children of love and for them to become more loveable and greater than themselves? Is there any parent who wants to worry and be anxious when they have children?
Why We Eat and Live
3. What do you eat and live for? What do you live for? Do you live for money? Do you live for food? We live for true love. That is why True Parents always tell us to live for the sake of love. That is why True Parents’ most basic teaching is “Live for the sake of others.” Isn’t this ultimately love? ”Do not live for oneself. Live for others.” Isn’t this love? True Parents say this. “Offer sincere devotion for your husband. Pray for your child with tears.” Isn’t that love?
If a grapevine does not yield grapes, it is a false grapevine. Such grapevine is useless. That is why we human beings must also not just cultivate trees of physical selves.
4. The purpose of cultivating trees of physical selves is to ripen the fruits called the spirit selves into full maturity. The parent’s fruit is their children. While living our lives, creating an object partner of love through a life of love is our lifelong happiness. So, we are to live by love for life. It is to live for the sake of others. However, if you do not have an object partner of love, you must offer sincere devotion with tears until that object partner is found. If you do not have an object partner to live for, you must offer sincere devotion with tears to find an object partner. Without an object partner, you are like a tree without fruits. When I myself also live for my children and my partner, my spirit self becomes the fruit.
Our physical purpose of having jobs and doing external activities is ultimately to bring our spiritual bodies to fruition. If a grape vine does not yield grapes, it is a false grape vine. Such a grapevine is useless.
That is why we must not just cultivate trees of physical selves. The purpose of cultivating trees of physical selves is to ripen the fruits called the spirit body into full maturity. Therefore, we must be clear about what our life purpose is.
Our purpose for bringing our spirit selves to fruition is ultimately to realize true love. There is no other way to realize true love. We must live for the sake of others. It is a truth that our spirit selves become mature and bear fruit only when we genuinely live for the sake of others.
There is no other way.
That is why True Parents’ most basic teaching is “live for the sake of others.” ”Do not live for oneself. Live for others.” These words ultimately mean to live for the sake of others and become wealthy in love.”
Who can avoid the universal law of love that love can be gained only when we give and sacrifice and invest for the sake of others? There is no other way to gain true love. This is a universal law. We need to practice it.
By God’s principle of creation, we are not meant to live for ourselves. Yet everyone is breaking this universal law. Everyone thinks about themselves, achieving their own desires, and their own family. Since the way to gain love only comes through the channel of the counterpart, we need to live for the sake of the counterpart.
There is no other way.
Even God cannot help but have absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience towards this universal law and principle of love.
Even God needs to obey this universal principle. He needs to invest, give, sacrifice for the sake of his object. He needs to follow his own law.
So if we do not have an object partner to live for, we must offer sincere devotion with tears until that object partner is found.
That is why we need to have three spiritual children (and have) give-and-take (with them). If we don’t have an object partner, how can we practice true love? We need to practice and have give-and-take with spiritual children heartistically. Then our heart is growing and growing through our spiritual children, through our object partner.
If we do not have an object partner to live for, we must offer sincere jeongseong devotion with tears to find an object partner. Without an object partner, we are like a tree without fruits. We need to know that when we ourselves also live for our children and partner, our spirit selves becomes the fruit.
Today I talked about “Why People Are so Precious.”
I live together with Taka, Yen, Rev. Seo. I reflect about how I treat them. “Do I really feel they are so precious? Or not?” If I do not practice, what am I talking about? ...
Not just my staff, but anyone I meet is so precious! They are a son or daughter of God. When I think of more than 120 GPA members (who are) going out on the front line, I have no choice; I love them. I need to recognize (them) one by one. Without missing a single day, I need to pray for them, protect them from doubt(?). They are so precious. They really want to have an experience of God.
“Heavenly Father, please protect them. Guide them. Let them experience the Holy Spirit. They are so precious! After they come back, let their life of faith become very stable and strong. Let them influence their own family, their own brothers and sisters and their churches.”
(If this happens) finally our own movement will become very stable. We can see a promising future with our GPA and youth groups, right?
So let’s treat each other as precious beings. We are children of God.
(Testimony Andy Kisile Tshaba (“Andrico”), Zambia, Africa-America Project)
Video of the Africa-American Project: https://youtu.be/uifhKpMnPGo
(Response to sharing) I have been in the Dominican Republic, and today I am going back to New York. Yesterday I met four GPA members to share their testimony. It is incredible how much of a life-changing experience they have had as overseas missionaries. Can you imagine that? If you join GPA, guaranteed you an meet God. You can have an incredible experience! Thank you for your determination.♦
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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