Ep 908 - God's Model Ideal Family and Nation, and the Peace Kingdom Part 9
The Model Family: A Family of Three GenerationsApril 21, 2023
Key Points
God's ideal families and nations, and peace kingdom begin from the perfection of the four realms of heart with three generations living together, attending and longing for each other.
The perfection of such a family is salvation. God yearns for such a family and is present in it and the subject of conscience.
Godism is the principle that everyone is able to harmonize with God, the subject partner of humankind. It affirms and absorbs the whole. It is parentism which recognizes God as the parent of humanity who embraces us all.
We can do everything through True Parents who give us strength.
The “driving force” of our heart is the Word on the foundation of a pure, voluntary, sincere and active heart that “hungers and thirsts” for the word and is convinced it will be realized.
We should purely accept the word as it is and not doubt it.
We cannot just believe in God’s word but must be voluntary, active and “thirsty.”
When our original nature and sincere mind form a reciprocal relationship with the Word, the Word will “emit light.”
We should perform every task with the sincere, vertical and even desperate mindset to realize God’s will through that task. This aligns our conscience with God.
If we are starving for the truth, heaven cannot help but help us.
No matter what kind of work we are engaged in, God works with us if we are convinced that we are working for his will.
If we are unsure of this, we should desperately ask heaven for guidance. Then heaven will answer and guide us.
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) The more we grow spiritually, even though (we study) the same content of the Divine Principle, it sometimes hits us in different ways. According to the level of our spirit, we have an (increasingly) deeper understanding – even though it is the same content.
(Dr. Robert and Karen Beebe), if you (are responsible for) maybe 100 or 150 children, we should pray every day for 20 (children). Then within 10 (or 15) days, you can pray for each one of your children. Prayer is very important.
You should take care of each one of them with personal touch as a parental figure. As the principals, you are the father and mother figure in your school. Then God will surely bless your school.♦
“Bogoshipoyo,” that means, “I miss you! I long for you!”
Yesterday, I had breakfast with 4 members. They are Amy Yang, Yisih Roberts and Yiru Sugihara, Chinese ladies. They help so much with Morning Devotion translation.
This is Yasuhiro Ozawa. He is our MC’s younger brother. He is such a good boy, very since. I love him so much!
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, Volume 2.
<This speech was given by Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon between April 28 and August 19, 2006 during a 180-nation Universal Peace Federation Speaking Tour to Return to the Original Fatherland and Hometown. 89-90>
In this manner, the three generations of grandparents, parents, and grandchildren should live together as one family, serving the eternally existent God. You should know that to seek after and establish such a family of Cheon Il Guk, God's kingdom, is the responsibility of tribal messiahs, the mission of the Ambassadors for Peace, and the desire of God. You should form families that God will miss and yearn to return to after He has been away. You should raise families to which God can come freely as a parent visiting His children. This is what it means to live in service to God.
To such a family, God becomes the subject of our conscience, acting vertically. Following that vertical subject, your mind stands in the position of the vertical subject of yourself, and brings your mind and body into unity. That is where parental love, conjugal love, children's love, and siblings' love—in short, the four realms of love or the four realms of heart—are perfected. Only in such a family can the upper and lower, front and rear, left and right be connected as with continuing circular motion. This leads to God's everlasting, model ideal families and nations, and His peace kingdom.
In conclusion, God's everlasting, model ideal families and nations, and His peace kingdom begin from the perfection of the four realms of love or the four realms of heart.
The present era of Cheon Il Guk is a time when the three generations of grandparents, parents, and grandchildren should live together as one family, serving the eternally existent God. To say that we receive salvation through attendance is not vague at all.
We live in a family, but this is the era of attendance. It means that in our family we should really attend our grandparents, attend our father, mother and spouse, attend our children. Attendance is not vague at all.
It means that salvation is achieved by the family serving each other, centering on the grandparents, parents, and grandchildren. We need to know that this is God’s desire. This is what realizes God’s dream.
If three generations gather in one family and live together and create family members that long for one another, God will be eternally present in that family. That is why we should form families that God will miss and yearn to come to. This is what it means to live in service to God.
Gary Abrahams said that he is gong to move to his grandchildren’s area. He has four or five grandchildren. I think his decision is right. He should really take care of his grandchildren very well and let them know what family ... and grandparents’ love is.
To such a family, God becomes the subject of our conscience, acting vertically. Following that vertical subject, our mind stands in the position of the vertical subject of ourself, and brings our mind and body into unity. That is where parental love, conjugal love, children's love, and siblings' love—in short, the four realms of love or the four realms of love or heart—are perfected.
Without the Four Great Realms of Heart and love we cannot experience God’s love and heart.
True Father explained very clearly the Four Great Realms of Heart and Three Great Kingships. That is reality in the Kingdom of Heaven and that is the reality for us to experience God’s heart.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Eschatology 5 - Human History is the History of the Providence of Restoration1 - The History of the Development of Cultural Spheres
• Human history can be seen as the history of the providence through which God has been trying to save fallen people and work through them to restore the original, good world.
• Let us examine in various ways the idea that human history is the history of the providence of restoration.
• First, let us examine the history of the development of cultural spheres.
• Through religion, fallen people mired in ignorance have sought to meet God by ceaselessly striving toward the good. Even though the individuals, peoples and nations which championed a certain religion may have perished, religion itself has survived.
• Religion has endured through history.
• In its history, China has experienced many cycles of the rise and fall of dynasties and numerous transfers of political power, yet the religions of the far east - Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism - have continued to thrive.
• In India, the religion of Hinduism; in the Middle East, Islam; and in the history of Western Europe, Christianity has continued to flourish.
• Many religions have left their mark on history. Among them, the religions with the greatest influence formed cultural spheres. The major cultural spheres which have existed at various times in world history numbered between twenty-one and twenty-six.
• With the flow of history, lesser cultural spheres were absorbed by, or merged into, the more advanced spheres. Through the evolution of cultural spheres, as they were buffeted by the rise and fall of nations, four great cultural spheres have survived to the present day: the East Asian sphere, the Hindu sphere, the Islamic sphere and the Christian sphere.
• The current trend has these four spheres forming one global cultural sphere based on the Christian ethos.
• This demonstrates that the essence of human history has been the restoration of one united world.
Let’s study Father’s word.
God-ism
<21-331> The principle centered on God is the principle that everyone is able to harmonize with the subject partner while affirming and absorbing the whole as well as individuals. However, since such a principle couldn’t emerge due to the human Fall, we have to find it again. This is none other than restored God-ism and the principle of sons and daughters centered on God.
Let’s summarize and explain further what Godism is.
What is Godism?
1. The principle that everyone is able to harmonize with God, the subject partner of humankind.
Godism is the principle that everyone is able to harmonize with the God, the subject partner of humankind. Then can we be in harmony with God? It is to believe that God and I have a parent-child relationship. And it is to treat myself as belonging to God.
If we believe God is our parent and that we are a child of God, if we discover this relationship between God and ourself, I am telling you, we are able to harmonize with God. It is very clear who is the subject partner and who is the object partner and who God is. We are the subject partner of God. We need to discover our own identity and that of God. (Our is) a parent-child relllationship. Godism starts from there.
2. The principle that can affirm the whole.
> If God is the Owner, we must defeat Satan with the affirmative mind that we can do anything. We must have absolute faith and conviction that there is nothing we cannot do.
If God is our father and we are a child of God, if we have that conviction and affirmation, then we have confidence.
> Mark 9:23, “'If you can?’ said Jesus. "Everything is possible for him who believes.“-What does it mean to say “If you can?” Everything is possible for him who believes in True Parents. Do we believe in that?
> Philip 4:13, “I can do everything through him who gives me strength. ”- Then who is the one who gives me the strength? They are the very True Parents of Heaven, earth and humankind, the king of kings, the Second advent of Christ and the messiah. This is why it is said that we can do everything through True Parents who give us strength. Do we believe in that too?
> Isaiah 46:11, “What I have said, that will I bring about; what I have planned, that will I do.” – As the Tribal Messiah mission that True Parents told us was directed by our Messiah who had defeated Satan, “What True Parents have said, that will we bring about; what True Parents have planned, that will we do.” Do we also believe in that?
3. The principle that can absorb the whole as well as individuals. There cannot be any branches.
Godism is the ideology that can absorb the whole and as well as individuals. This means that Godism can absorb all things through true love and dissolve like salt wherever we go and give a salty taste.
4. The principle of sons and daughters centered on God.
Godism is the principle of sons and daughters centered on God. God is the Parent of all humankind. And we are all brothers and sisters and sons and daughters under one God.
5. Godism is Parentism.
Godism is Parentism. Parentism says that parents can take in and embrace all — Cain and Abel, communism and democracy.
If Godism, which is parentism, were not to appear, who could become the mediator to unite communism and democracy? That is why the messiah needs to come. He needs to bring the thought of Godism. Otherwise, there would be no way to create harmony between communism and democracy.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: How Can I Live with the Driving Force of Heart?
1. How can I live with the driving force of my heart? That is for my faith to be voluntary and active. The Bible says, “blessed are those who are poor.” Then why is there woe for those who are well fed and blessings for those who hunger? It is because those who are poor in spirit have the strength to digest the Word. That is why the heart that knows how to digest the Word becomes their driving force. Active and voluntary power comes from the Word. Then how does that power of the Word come out? That will happen when one sets their own conscience vertically on the perpendicular line and the subject partner and object partner are heartistically close. It is the same with electric light. How do electric lights light up? How do positive and negative charges emit light? Within us, there is sincere original nature that can become light. When subject partner and object partner give and receive well, light is lit. Like an unbroken light bulb, when my sincere mind forms a reciprocal relationship with the Word, there will be light. There is sincerity in me. If I accept the Word with a heartistic and sincere mind, those Words will emit light. The light of those Words is being moved and inspired.
How can I live with the driving force of my heart? The first thing I need to think about is where the driving force of my heart comes from. It comes from the Word. That is why the Bible says that faith comes by hearing. I must first hear and read the Word many times.
That is why God’s word is so powerful. God’s word itself is God. God’s word is God’s love. That is why anyone who is inspired by God’s word can have strength. It can become the driving force of his heart.
So in order to (acquire) the driving force of our heart we need to hear God’s word a lot. If someone attends Morning Devotion and is struggling to “settle down,” when he hears God’s word from early in the morning he can find a way, a solution. He can be inspired and gain strength.
As we read hoondokhae again and again, some word or sentence may really inspire us. We need to do hoondokhae all the time – as much as possible – to hear God’s word more.
We need to think where the driving force of our heart comes out? It comes from God’s word. Those who love God’s word can maintain their first motivation. If we do not relate to God’s word, do not hear or study it often and do not do hoondokhae, there is no way to get power.
For us to live on with the driving force of our heart, there must be a foundation for our heart to purely accept the Word as it is. The Fall of Adam and Eve was disbelieving in God’s Word.
While the power of the word is important, our attitude is very important. We should purely accept the word as it is, not doubt it: “Really? Is it like that?” With this kind of doubtful mind, we cannot be inspired by God’s word. That is why we need to purely accept the word as it is.
Therefore, for strength to come from our heart, we must first be pure, accept and believe in the Word. We need to have the pure heart that if we believe in the Word, it will come true just like that.
When I was young and read Matthew, I was so inspired. “Wow! If I believe in Jesus’ words, such miracles can occur!” I was so inspired to read the New Testament. “Wow! God’s word is so powerful!”
If we believe in God’s word purely, we can gain strength and have life changing experiences and miracles because of our faith.
The second important thing is that my faith must be voluntary and active. In regard to the Words we accept and believe in, we must be voluntary and active about those Words with the conviction that they will surely be realized.
We cannot just believe in God’s word but must be voluntary and active.
So, the Bible words “Blessed are those who are poor” mean that those who hunger and thirst for the Word are like those who are thirsty, so they have the ability to digest any Word. The words “Woe to you who are well fed now” means that they are unable to find the Word due to being full of desire of one’s flesh. So in the end, they fall into an embarrassing situation and lose everything.
Blessed are those who are poor. It means we have to be thirsty. “I long for God’s word. I am so thirsty!” When we are thirsty, we try to drink water. If internally we are heartistically thirsty searching for God’s word, if we have that kind of mindset and heart, surely God will bless us.
Those who are poor in spirit have the strength to digest the Word. That is why the heart that knows how to digest the Word becomes their driving force. Active and voluntary power comes from the Word.
That is why we need to set our conscience vertically on the perpendicular line and have a yearning heart for God and longing heart for His Word. Then. God, the subject partner, and the Word will become heartistically closer.
How do positive and negative charges emit light? Within us, there is sincere original nature that can become light. When our original nature meets with God’s Word, they become subject and object partner, give and receive well, and then emit light.
When our sincere mind forms a reciprocal relationship with the Word, there will be light. If we accept the Word with a heartistic and sincere mind, those Words will emit light. The light of those Words is being moved and inspired.
What Is the Meaning of Not Working for Work but Working for the Will?
2. For example, even while doing laundry, it is like doing laundry with the heart of wanting to wash the filth of our mind instead of thinking we are doing it because of laundry itself. This is the will the mind desires. Just like washing clothes clean, I am to do laundry with the will of wanting to remove the dirt of my filthy mind and cleanse it. God will help we if we offer sincere devotion for everything with such mindset. What is God’s wish for me? We are well aware that there are many negative elements inside us and that we are tainted. However, while knowing that we are lacking, the mindset of wanting to make ourselves clean with a desperate heart like when washing clothes will be conveyed to God, and Heaven will help us.
What is the meaning of not working for work but working for the Will? It means that the things we do are not for the sake of the task itself but to have the mindset to realize God’s will through that task. It is like how fruit trees’ purpose is not for the fruit tree itself but its will lies in bearing fruit.
For example, even while doing laundry, it is like doing laundry with the heart of wanting to wash the filth of our mind instead of thinking we are doing it because of laundry itself. This is the will the mind desires. God will help us if we offer sincere devotion for everything with such mindset.
That kind of mindset is very important. The mindset of fallen man and that of true men are different. The mindset of a true man always relates to spirituality, internally and heartistically, but those who only use the physical mind that relates to physical desires are different. That is why God helps us according to our mindset. What kind of mindset do we have? A spiritual mindset? Or a physical mindset? When we ... are centered on a physical mindset, it is like an animal (that is) only concentrated on what to eat, what to drink and what to wear.
When we “set up” our mindset as a spiritual mindset, everything is related to eternity. That is why our mindset is very important.
However, while knowing that we are lacking, the mindset of wanting to make ourselves clean with a desperate heart like when washing clothes will be conveyed to God, and Heaven will help us.
3. That is why God will come down and help anyone who has this kind of vertical mind. This is so because when someone stands vertically, that is a lifeline that connects with God, so God cannot help but support. If someone has the mindset “I am starving for the truth” or “I really long for the truth,” God, the vertical subject partner, has no choice but to help that person. Since the vertical channel is directly connected to God, if we just have a vertical mindset, Heaven will directly intervene. If a child is starving, doesn’t his or her mother try to help? Similarly, it is a principle that if we spiritually long for the truth and are starving to seek the truth, Heaven must help. This is the relationship of parent and child. This principle is true for all the principles of subject partner and object partner.
God will come down and help anyone who has this kind of vertical mindset. To set a vertical mind is to set our conscience right. It means aligning our conscience with God.
When someone stands vertically with the mindset of settling at the position of high noon, that is a lifeline that connects with God, so God cannot help but support (it). If someone has the mindset “I am starving for the truth” or “I really long for the truth,” God, the vertical subject partner, has no choice but to help that person.
So, our mindset is very important. What kind of mindset (do we have?) A vertical or a horizontal mindset? A spiritual or physical mindset? Our physical body responds to our mindset. Animals are only centered on a physical mindset, but human beings are different. They have a spirit and soul. When we “set up” centered on our spiritual mindset, which is the vertical mindset, then our physical body responds to that.
As long as we have the right mindset, Heaven cannot help but intervene.
God works according to our mindset. Do we have the wrong mindset, the physical mindset, a self-centered mindset? Then Satan will work through us.
However, as long as our mindset is very clear, vertical and centered on our conscience, God has no choice but to intervene and help us because the vertical, spiritual mindset belongs to God. When he sees the same element as himself, he has no choice; he needs to help. That is why God works according to our mindset.
Since the vertical channel is directly connected to God, Heaven will directly intervene.
If a child is starving, doesn’t her mother try to help? Similarly, it is a principle that if we spiritually long for the truth and are starving to seek the truth, Heaven must help. No choice! This is the relationship of parent and child.
If You Think That You Are Working with God’s Will, God Will Work With You
4. Therefore, when you do something, if you think that you are doing it with God’s Will, God will work with you. But while working, if you do not fulfill the Will vertically, God cannot help you. If a baby just sleeps without crying, the mother cannot give the baby anything to eat, even if she wants to. Even if the baby is clearly hungry, if they are just sleeping, the mother worries. If the baby is hungry, doesn’t he or she have to give their mother some signal that says they’re hungry? If the baby cries because they are hungry, the mother knows that her baby is hungry and nurses them. But if the baby doesn’t send the mother any signal, she cannot give the baby anything. If the baby doesn’t want to eat, she cannot force them to.
That is why Jesus says in Matthew 7:7 "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." These words do not mean that I should do it for the sake of food, but that if I ask, seek, and knock, thinking that I am living for God’s Will, then Heaven will surely help. God also does not want to force human beings, but He tries to help us when we are voluntary and active.
No matter what kind of work we are engaged in, God works with us if we think that we are working for the Will. So, when we are unsure whether we are doing something for God’s Will or just doing for ourself, we should ask ourself often and beg in front of Heaven.
Is the thing I am doing really for God or for my own interest? If we do not check ourselves like this and fulfill the Will vertically while working, God cannot help us.
When we are unsure, just as a baby cries for milk, we need to seek while appealing to Heaven with tears. Then, Heaven will give a signal. If we ourself do not send a signal, Heaven cannot force us to give it.
That is why Jesus says in Matthew 7:7 "Ask and it will be given to you ...”
“Heavenly Father, what shall I do for the sake of your will? In order (for me) to fulfill the Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission and register for the CheonBo Won, you know my current situation. But what I know is that this is your will. Your will should be my will. I have no idea what to do, but I really want to do it.”
“Ask (with this kind of question and our sincerity) and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."
These words do not mean that I should do it for the sake of food ...
What to eat, what to drink, what to wear. Not like that. But centering on God’s will, we should ask and it will be given to us. Centering on God’s will, seek and we will find. Centering on God’s will, knock and the door will be open for us.
Outside people just use this for external things. When they are hungry or need something, then they “ask” and “knock.” Jesus was not (talking about) that kind of need(?).
If we very sincerely ask centering on God’s will, then heaven will surely help.
God also does not want to force human beings, but He tries to help us when we are voluntary and active.
Today I spoke about how I can live with the driving force of my heart.
The driving force of heart comes from God’s word. That is why God’s word is very important. I try to deliver God’s word every morning. I am very inspired, and I also want to inspire you through God’s word.
(Testimony Eryam Ntamack, 7 and 21 day training course, Youth Training Center of the New Jersey Family Church)♦
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