Ep 670 - The Unity of the World and Humankind Responsibility Part 8
The Unity of the World and Humankind's Responsibility - August 26, 2022
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Luke Hi-Guchi
Key Points
Korea, Japan, the United States, and Germany have been established by God as indemnity nations for the restoration of the world.
You cannot open the gates of heaven without opening the gates of hell and liberating it. Therefore, you must first pass through the gates of hell while you are alive. You must go to the most difficult place where people are suffering and dying and try to save people.
Overcoming hell means overcoming your enemy.
True Parents have the responsibility to enter the kingdom of heaven first and create an environment in(to) which blessed families can enter.
in order for us to enter the kingdom of heaven, we must achieve the four great realms of heart and the three great kingships on earth and leave behind the seeds of true love.
The Kingdom of Heaven that does not end with my first generation. I have to leave the seeds of true love that can multiply heaven centering three generations of my family.
In order to establish human beings as true masters over all things and as co-creators with God, God requires that we fulfill our responsibility voluntarily in a place where even God cannot interfere.
You have to manage your faith on your own and preserve your own heart well.
God wants to reside in the family where parental, conjugal and children’s love thrive. A wife and husband should regard each other as the subject of longing and the subject of heart.
God will reside in the family only where family members treat each other as God’s, not their own.
We tithe, not because God needs money, but in order to place our attachment to God as the most precious thing in our life, to aim the antenna of my heart first at God.
Do kyung-bei every morning with family pledge with all your respect and with a loving heart, not because God and True Parents need your homage, but in order to treat your family and neighbors with that same respect and love.
Whatever we do, we need always to stimulate and use our heart.
Heart means not by force or condition but voluntarily, happily, willingly. This is the world of completion.
We sing praises and pray for the purpose of lifting our hearts.
We need to act wholeheartedly, not with formality, not conditionally.
In order to always evoke our hearts, we must regard ourselves as Father’s, as Heavenly Parent’s by asking, “What is the point of view of God, True Parents or my Abel?” We always need to think centered on the other’s point of view.
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.♦
I am so excited to join every Morning Devotion! (It gives me the opportunity) to deliver God’s message and inspiration. Also, I can have give-and-take with each of you. I am so grateful to each one of you!
Today I’d like to talk about “The Unity of the World and Humankind's Responsibility” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given at a national convention for the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia held on November 20, 1991 at the Seoul Olympic Fencing Arena> God's fervent hope for the postwar world was that God and the True Parent, the Adam who brings true love, could form a central point around which humankind could receive the True Parents. God has carried out His historical providence of indemnification centering on triads of countries. In the context of the worldwide dispensation of the True Parents, Korea has been placed in the position of the Adam country, Japan in the position of the Eve country, the United States in the position of the Abel country and Germany in the position of the Cain country. Japan was once an enemy country of the True Parents; the United States and Japan were once enemies, and Germany was once an enemy of the United States.
The True Parents, in order to fulfill what Christianity and the United States did not accomplish after the Second World War, have fostered cooperation among these four countries at the center of the providence and walked a twenty-one year course of re-indemnification. Through their success, they have established the realm of victory. The Unification Church, which has victoriously crossed over the hill of Calvary on the individual, family, national, world and cosmic levels, has given the United States a new sense of direction. It has given new hope to Christianity, as well as to the communist and Islamic worlds.
After the Second World War, God's earnest hope for the world was that all humankind could meet the True Parents whom He sent for the first time in 6,000 years. However, as the United States, which was the center of Christianity, could not fulfill its responsibility, True Father had to take the course of restoration through re-indemnification to succeed.
In order for God to restore the world through indemnity centering on True Parents, Korea has been placed in the position of the Adam country, Japan in the position of the Eve country, the United States in the position of the Abel country and Germany in the position of the Cain country.
Korea, Japan, the United States, and Germany have been established by God as indemnity nations for the restoration of the world, and God's providence is being carried out. Therefore, everything that takes place centering on these four major nations must be indemnified and restored centering on God's providence.
That’s why I am so grateful that True Parents chose(?) me for the sake of the providence in American, as the Abel and elder son nation. This is an amazing grace and responsibility! That’s why you and I (need to) work together as the elder son nation to help the world and unified Heavenly Korea.
True Parents established the Unification Church in place of Christianity and gave the United States a new sense of direction. They gave new hope to Christianity, as well as to the communist and Islamic worlds.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 63 - Heaven and Hell (2)
• It is not God who decides whether a person's spirit enters heaven or hell upon his death; it is decided by the spirit himself.
• Humans are created so that once they reach perfection they will fully breathe the love of God. Those who committed sinful deeds while on earth become crippled spirits who are incapable of fully breathing in the love of God. They find it agonizing to stand before God, the center of true love, and choose to dwell in hell of their own will.
• Since the human spirit can grow only in the soil of the physical self, the multiplication of human spirits takes place at the same time that the multiplication of physical selves occurs: during earthly life.
Based on this EDP guidance let’s study Father’s word.
Only Those who have Conquered Hell can Enter Heaven
<140-43> The most critical spiritual dilemma of our age centers on opening the blocked gates of hell and heaven. It is impossible to enter heaven without opening the gates of hell on earth and in the spirit world. Only those who can overcome hell can enter heaven. You must overcome hell, not through prayer, but through God’s love. Otherwise, you cannot enter heaven. This is why I paved the way from earth to heaven by opening the gates of hell on earth and in the spirit world, centering on God’s love. The name of the International Peace Highway originated from this. This is to break down the wall, which has been blocking us.
The most critical spiritual dilemma of our age centers on opening the blocked gates of hell and heaven. After all, the kingdom of heaven is entered through the gates of hell. You cannot open the gates of heaven without opening the gates of hell and liberating it.
How many people know this reality? Do Christians know this? Do other religious people know this reality? This is amazing guidance from True Father. You cannot open the gates of the Kingdom of Heaven without opening the gates of hell and liberating it. When you liberate hell, that is the Kingdom of Heaven. Without going to and liberating hell how can you establish God’s Kingdom of Heaven on Earth and in heaven? It is impossible. The Kingdom of Heaven means that we need to liberate hell. That is the way to build the Kingdom of Heaven – through liberating hell.
Therefore, you must first pass through the gates of hell while you are alive. Hell cannot be liberated without passing through the most difficult place, the most painful place, the place of the most persecution and suffering.
During his lifetime, True Father went to prison, that could be called hell on earth, six times. True Father set the standard for loving people and loving God as he went in and out of prison, which is the hell of hells.
That is why Father is really an amazing guy! While he lived on earth, he went through prison life six times. He went to the hell of hells on earth -- can you imagine? – in order to liberate all humankind and hell. True Father showed a great example. That is why we are the ones who need to follow such a pattern, the formula course.
The criterion that can pass through the prison of prisons is not determined by merely knowledge, nor power, nor prayer alone. This is possible only with true love centered on God.
True Father paved a way like the International Peace Highway, centering on God's love, from the earth (through) the gates of hell (to) the Kingdom of Heaven.
Therefore, we too must go through hell while alive.
Hell means what? You must go to the most difficult place where people are suffering and dying and try to save people. That kind of mindset is like God’s heart, True Parents’ heart.
In order to pass through hell on earth, I have to overcome the thing I hate the most, and the enemy I hate the most.
You need to overcome. You don’t like to love your enemy, right? You need to overcome. Overcoming hell means overcoming your enemy. If your spouse is your enemy, that is hell.
Many brothers and sisters talked to me after they started family. They realized what hell is. If you cannot communicate with your spouse, this is like the hell of hells.
What is hell? Which area can you not overcome? Which person can you really not overcome? Hell is like that. You need to really overcome a difficult area. You need to overcome your enemy. This is the point. Without overcoming hell, how can you talk about the Kingdom of Heaven? Many people misunderstand what the substantial Kingdom of Heaven is.
Who Must be the First to Enter Heaven?
<140-45> The people to enter heaven first must be the True Parents. If I were to say that heaven is empty, people would think I am demented; yet even Jesus could not enter heaven. One cannot go there alone. Our original ancestors should have grown through adolescence, established the ideal of love centered on God, become parents and bequeathed the seeds of true love. Then, they would have become the first people to enter heaven. As yet, there have been no parents, centered on God’s love, who were able to bequeath the seeds of true love; and thus, no foundation of leaving behind such descendants. Heaven, therefore, is empty
True Father said, “The people to enter heaven first must be the True Parents.”
These words mean that True Parents have the responsibility to enter the kingdom of heaven first and create an environment in(to) which blessed families can enter.
He also said that in order for us to enter the kingdom of heaven, we must achieve the four great realms of heart and the three great kingships on earth and leave behind the seeds of true love.
First, we must build the kingdom of heaven on earth and leave seeds of love on this earth.
The Kingdom of Heaven does not end with me entering alone, but I must leave the seeds of Kingdom of Heaven on this earth. It means leaving the seed of the lineage of true love that can achieve the kingdom of heaven.
It's not the Kingdom of Heaven that ends with my first generation. I have to leave the seeds of true love that can multiply heaven centering three generations of my family.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Where does God Want to Reside?
You Have to Manage Your Faith on Your Own
1. The Principle teaches us to grow with a voluntary mind. Everything is taught centered on the parent-child relationship with God. However, those of us who have received Principle education are still in a position where we can be dominated by the environment or subject to fickleness. Relative standards with the Word are well established in us when we receive education, but they are not well applied in real life. When each individual returns to their own life and lives alone, they lose all the standards they were taught through the Word. If you cannot overcome the environment and your standards are shaken, you get into a very difficult position. You have to manage your faith on your own. No one can do it for you. You must preserve your own heart. We should not assume that all blessed families are blessed families. If I think of myself as a blessed family and do not actually live life as a blessed family, it is hypocrisy.
In order to establish human beings as true masters over all things and as co-creators with God, God requires that we fulfill our responsibility voluntarily in a place where even God cannot interfere.
Volunteer heart is important. However, the problem is that fallen human beings fell under the influence of the environment and therefore must overcome the environment well in order to restore it. It is my responsibility whether I am dominated by the environment or not.
No one else can do this. You have to manage your faith on your own. No one can do it for you. Therefore, you must preserve your own heart well.
Where does God Want to Reside?
2. A blessed family must be a family where God always resides. A wife should not regard her husband horizontally as merely a husband, but as the subject of her longing. And a husband should not regard his wife as his own, but give and receive harmoniously with her as the subject of heart. Then God will want to come into that family. Where does God want to reside? He wants to be with you centering on the three great loves (parental love, conjugal love, and children's love). God showed that standard through Abraham. Like Abraham, who did not regard his wife as just a wife, but as a God-given wife, we should not regard our children as only our own but take care of and raise them as given by God. This is where God is.
Where does God want to reside? According to the Principle, He wants to reside where the three great loves exist (parental love, conjugal love, and children's love). Therefore, the most important place is the family. The family is where God's love resides. But we neglect the family the most.
Therefore, a blessed family must be a family in which God always resides. A wife and husband should regard each other as the subject of longing and the subject of heart.
My wife came to America. (Now) when I wake up, I am so surprised. Someone is beside me! It is my wife! Now I can live with my wife. I am so happy. I have a wife! I am really grateful! I have a wife, the object partner of my longing heart. I have three children and three grandchildren with two more coming sooner or later.
Father said not to treat your wife just as a wife. You should treat your spouse as an object of longing. That is not easy, right? Sometimes we quarrel with each other and do not agree with each other. But we need to know what the standard is.
You should consider your husband or wife as God-given and serve them. God will reside in the family only when we do not think of our children as our own but have the heart to take care of and raise the children God has given us in His place.
Wow! True Parents teach us such details: How to deal with your spouse, children, father and mother. Who can teach this much in detail? How much do we appreciate True Parents? Such detail!
Purpose of Tithing and Worship
3. Why do we tithe? Tithing means to place your attachment to God in your life. The spirit of tithing is to aim the antenna of my heart first at God above my wife, my children, and my wealth. God has shown this from the Old Testament Age. However, our attachment does not show itself as such in life. What is the purpose of bowing to God? It is to live our lives from the heart. We live a life of worship because children do not have a heart of respect for their parents or because couples do not have a heart for each other even though they are living together. When we hold memorial services, we do not offer them to our ancestors because it is time to do so, but to feel our heart for our ancestors through holding such services.
Why do we tithe? Why does God train humans to tithe? It's not because He needs money. God does not need money. It is to place my attachment to God as the most precious thing in my life.
All fallen human beings value money the most. But, tithing means to have more affection for God. The spirit of tithing is to aim the antenna of my heart first at God over my wife, my children and my wealth.
What then is the purpose of bowing to God? It is to live our lives from the heart. When we bow, we are to serve our parents; husbands and wives and our children just as we serve heaven with a heart of respect and service.
Every morning we do family pledge and kyung-bei. It should not only be conditional. (We should not do it) lightly. When you do kyung-bei every morning with family pledge, do it with all your respect and with a loving heart. This kind of respect and loving heart with which I bow to heaven, I need to apply to my spouse, parents, children and neighbor. That is the main purpose. God has no need to receive my bow, my kyung-bei.
Then why do the Old Testament and New Testament, even the Completed Testament, teach bowing? What is the purpose of bowing to God and True Parents? God and True Parents don’t need that kind of bowing from you. Why does God give us that kind of training? You need to learn how to serve people.
Fallen man easily ignores his object partner. As a husband, it is easy to ignore one’s wife; as parents it is easy to ignore one’s children; it is easy for children to ignore their parents. That is why from early morning when I bow down to True Parents with all my respect, my sincere respect and serve heart, (I pray), “Heavenly Father, let me keep this kind of attitude and motivation and respect and apply it to our neighbors.” How beautiful! I really love True Parents! How can he educate (us) in this way?
All forms of worship, memorial services, etc., are to voluntarily evoke my heart internally. How can my heart well up? This is the key – internally. (It is) not just because of the Day of All Things or because of God’s Day or True Father’s Seonghwa tenth anniversary, not just because of external conditions. Whatever we do, we need to always use our heart. How can we “evoke” our heart and let it well up? This is the issue. There is formation and growth stage, but when we enter the completion stage, it means the foundation of heart. Heart means not by force or condition but voluntarily, happily, willingly. This is the world of completion.
How can we Treat Ourselves as God's?
4. Why do we sing praises and pray? What is their purpose? It is to lift my heart. God likes us to sing and pray from the heart rather than just do so formally. God is angry if we hold all ceremonies and events as formalities without heart. As a parent, God always takes care of us as His children. Therefore, we must regard ourselves as our Father's. In order to treat myself as Heavenly Father's, I must always think, “What would Jesus or True Parents have thought in this kind of environment?” Through these thoughts, we come to know God's position. In other words, our own position is to know our position of existence as that of God’s position.
We sing praises and pray for the purpose of lifting our hearts. What you do not do heartistically through moving your heart is easy to just be mere formalities. It is a sin to do things externally, formally, and conditionally without wholeheartedness.
In order to always evoke our hearts, we must regard ourselves as Father’s, as Heavenly Parent’s. Then how can we treat ourselves as God's? In order to treat myself as Heavenly Father's, I must always think, “What would Jesus or True Parents and Heavenly Parent have thought in this kind of environment?”
We always need to think centering on God’s point of view, centering on True Parents’ point of view. If you cannot deal with Heavenly Parent because he is an invisible God, and sometimes you don’t have much experience with True Father and True Mother or Jesus, then you need to love up(?) your Abel and you need to think of that guy first. “If my Abel were here, what would he think?”
Before I related much with True Parents, I had just entered Korean UTS and related more to Rev. Yo Han Lee. Sometimes I was struggling how to overcome something or how to solve an issue; when I thought of True Parents and God, I had no idea about them. But when I thought of Rev. Yo Han Lee – “If Rev. Yo Han Lee were here, what would he think and how would he solve the problem?” – then I was able to get an answer immediately.
How can you treat (others) as Heavenly Father’s? You need to think centering on God’s point of view, True Parents’ point of view. If that is difficult, you need to think centered on Abel’s point of view. If you cannot do this, you need to think, “If my father or mother were here, what would they recommend to me?
We always need to think centered on the other’s point of view, centering on the central figure’s point of view. Then God will give you very clear guidance and wisdom about how to overcome.
I talked about how we can treat ourself as God’s.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Luke Hi-Guchi)
Our entire movement needs to pray for Japan’s providence. Of course, there are many issues. No matter what, we need to unite together about how to overcome this situation in Japan. Mother is seriously praying for that. This is national-level persecution.
We have learned from True Parents about the meaning of persecution. I think God never loses. Through this persecution God is tell us how to overcome. Then a national level blessing will come to Japan. We need to believe that God is alive. All religions grow through persecution. This is not just a small level; it is the entire nation level. I think there is incredible meaning. Let’s pray for Japan, Japanese members and the Japanese providence. I think they can really overcome. I really encourage the Japanese church and members. As the elder son nation we will really try to support Japan and Korea. Now the Washington Times is helping Japan so much. We need to offer incredible support for the Japanese providence.♦
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.
This lightly edited transcript may contain errors and omissions. Indecipherable, inaudible or uncertain words and guesses are tagged with a “(?)” and indecipherable phrases, with an ellipsis “...”. First, second and third person pronouns have been left as spoken if the meaning is clear, and other apparently Korean English expressions have been preserved if understandable. Some repeated phrases have been eliminated.
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