Ep 678 - Women Will Play a Leading Role in the Ideal World Part 5
Women Will Play a Leading Role in the Ideal World - September 3, 2022
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Key Points
When your body and mind are united based on true love, you become the companion of God's own love—His eternal object partner – and the heir of His eternal love, the right to stay with him eternally, and the right of participation as an equal.
When you become one with God through true love, you will feel everything that He feels, and your body automatically will resonate with those feelings.
When your mind and body are united, you can feel someone’s pain as your pain, someone’s sorrowful situation as your sorrowful situation immediately.
The spirit self grows through give and take action with life elements that come from God which we receive when we pray, offer devotion and absorb the Word. It also grows when we receive vitality elements from the physical self.
We receive God's Life Elements (God’s Love) when we always live a life of prayer and sincere devotion, have a clear vertical relationship with God and judge everything from God's point of view, live a life that is always overflowing with gratitude, always long for the Word, and with a heart of hyojeong always long for and love God, our parent, and our True Parents.
Our mind and body unity begins from gratitude. With gratitude complaint and dissatisfaction disappear automatically.
When God’s word comes into our heart, it becomes the seed of our life. God’s Kingdom of Heaven grows within our heart and becomes an individual kingdom and expands to our family, tribe, nation and world.
Because Jesus was not physically present, he could not establish a model. Now True Parents have been showing us everything and guiding us.
Those who believed in and followed Jesus established a relative standard with the spirit world rather than the physical world. Because they did not know that the life of nurturing one's spirit body on earth is more important than anything else, they focused on believing in Jesus and going to Heaven after death.
Rather than establishing relative standards with the spirit world, the seed of the Word should enter the heart of each believer, become life, and grow in each individual and family, and then expand to the tribe, nation, and world.
Rather than simply going to heaven after death, while on earth we need to build the kingdome of heaven in our heart and family and in the tribe, nation and world. Jesus gave the keys to Peter because the kingdom of heaven is realized during life on earth in human relationships.
Jesus followers should have focused more on the growth of their spirit body in order to create the kingdom of heaven where body and mind unite centered on Jesus’ words. Then they would not have run away and would have taken up the cross with him.
God’s word is his love. He expresses his heart through the word. We can meet God through the word.
If you have confidence in God’s Will, his Word and the Principle without being shaken, no matter what anyone says and regardless of persecution, then this is proof that the Word of God has already entered you and became a seed.
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 still in Kentucky. I will give one more presentation today.
Yesterday, I gave a keynote address at Life Fest 2022 in Kentucky. It was a beautiful event. I really appreciate our Norm Presley. He is a champion of PR. He knows how to take care of people. I feel really great hope. This man is really incredible. All our Japanese staff and members worked together to support this event. Life Fest 2022 was very beautiful.
After that, surprisingly, Bishop Bernie Wade, who is also Chancellor of Life College, gave me an honorary doctorate. He sang a lot and prayed a long time. This is the first time I have received a doctorate degree from America. Of course, I received one from another place (before).
Then, we had a meeting with ACLC pastors, and I shared True Mother’s vision centering on ACLC.
Dr. Rouse guided us very well about the vision of ACLC, what we are going to do. (He shared) clear goals. I am so impressed with his good ACLC guidance, even though some of (the pastors) are very new. Also, Bishop Edwards and Tanya did a wonderful job.
We took a group photo with ACLC ministers.
Today I’d like to talk about “Women Will Play a Leading Role in the Ideal World” 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> When body and mind are united based on true love, you become the companion of God's own love—His eternal object partner. Not only that, you also become the heir of His eternal love. Love brings with it the right of inheritance, the right of cohabitation and the right of participation as an equal. If a loving husband is a president and his wife is not even an elementary school graduate, when they become a loving husband and wife, what belongs to the husband belongs to the wife and they have the right to stay together always, night and day, and also to share in the events of each other's lives.
Since love has these three great properties—the right of inheritance, the right to shared lives and the right to equal participation—when you stand in the position of perfect union with God's absolute and unchanging true love, you can stand with God wherever He may be. You have the right to live together with Him and participate in His work at all times. When you achieve this kind of connection, you will be able to see and communicate with God without even closing your eyes and be moved to tears. Sometimes a person who has encountered the sorrowful heart of God will stop suddenly, even in the middle of going somewhere, and cry their heart out.
Even in the fallen world, there are many cases in which the love of a mother for her child creates the same kind of spiritual connection, and if her child meets with an unexpected accident away from home, the mother knows about it intuitively. She may even be aroused from her sleep when something happens, and cry out her child's name as she wakes up sobbing. When you have prepared yourself to absorb into your body and mind 100 percent of God's essential true love, which will live for the sake of others for tens of thousands of years, the roots of God's love will be anchored in your heart. You will feel everything that He feels, and your body automatically will resonate with those feelings. In fact, the body is designed to be a resonator of the mind's world based on true love. You have to realize that, in order to achieve the united world of body and mind, first God's love must be restored. However this task remains unfulfilled.
When body and mind are united based on true love, you become the companion of God's own love—His eternal object partner. Not only that, you also become the inheritor of His eternal love. In addition, you have the right to stay together with God always, night and day, as well as have the right of participation as an equal.
What will happen if you experience and inherit the three great properties of God's true love? You will be able to see and communicate with God without even closing your eyes and be moved to tears. Sometimes a person who has encountered the sorrowful heart of God will stop suddenly, even in the middle of going somewhere, and cry their heart out.
When you become one with God through true love, you will feel everything that He feels, and your body automatically will resonate with those feelings. In this way, when body and mind become one with God's true love as the center, we reach an unimaginable spiritual state where we become one with God's heart.
If so, how much have our body and mind become one? The fact that I have not yet felt God's sorrowful heart and circumstances is evidence that I have not yet united my mind and body. As much as my body and mind unite, I will feel the heart of God.
How much do you feel the heart of God? If you cannot feel God’s sorrowful heart and his situation, if you do not know his circumstances, that means your mind and body are not yet united. When your mind and body are united, automatically you will resonate with those feelings. This is very important. To the extent they are united, you can feel someone’s pain as your pain, someone’s sorrowful situation as your sorrowful situation immediately. Because of the fall, our spiritual selves have become very dark, very far away centered on God’s point of view. This is incredible! How much do you feel the heart of others as your own heart? One of the main reasons we cannot feel this is that we have not yet made unity between our mind and body. To the extent we have united our mind and body, we can feel God’s situation, True Parents’ situation, our own brothers and sisters’ situation. This is our homework, right?
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 66 - The Human Heart as Viewed through the Spiritual and Physical Minds
• The relationship between the spirit mind and the physical mind is like that between internal nature and external form. When they become one through give and take action with God as their center, they form a united functioning entity which guides the spirit self and physical self to become harmonious and progress toward the purpose of creation. This united entity is the mind of a human being.
• The conscience is that faculty of the human mind which, by virtue of its inborn nature, always directs us toward what we think is good.
• However, as the standard of goodness in fallen human beings varies, the standard of their conscience also fluctuates; this causes frequent contention even among those who advocate a conscientious life.
• The original mind is that faculty of the human mind which pursues absolute goodness. The original mind relates to the conscience as internal nature to external form.
• A person's conscience directs him to pursue goodness according to the standard he has set up in ignorance, even though it may differ from the original standard. However, the original mind repels this faulty standard and works to correct the conscience.
• As long as our spirit mind and physical mind are under the bondage of Satan, the functioning entity they form through their give and take action is called the evil mind. The evil mind continually drives people to do evil.
• Our original mind and conscience direct us to repel the evil mind. They guide us in desperate efforts to reject evil desires and cling to goodness by breaking our ties with Satan and turning to face God.
The Structure of the Spirit Self
1. The spirit self consists of the spirit mind and spirit body.
> The growth of the spirit self refers to the growth of the spirit mind. When the spirit body passes a fixed time period, it takes a certain form in the same way that the physical body becomes perfected.
2. The spirit mind of the spirit self is where God dwells.
> The spirit mind refers to the core of the spirit self.
3. Developing the spirit self
a. The spirit self grows through give and take action with life elements that come from God.
> These life elements are God’s love.
> In order to receive life elements from God, we must pray, offer devotion and absorb the Word.
b. In order to grow our spirit body, we must receive many vitality elements from the physical self.
(It is) not just (from) the spiritual side. We need to receive many vitality elements from the physical self.
> In order to do that, we must live a life of moving and influencing others, through living for the sake of others. We must also live completely for the sake of God’s Will.
> When it comes to accomplishing the Will, we must have filial piety and comfort God, while working tirelessly for heaven with blood, sweat and tears, for His liberation.
When Can we Receive God's Life Elements (God’s Love)?
1. When we always live a life of prayer and sincere devotion.
When we (invest) our incredible jeongseong and utmost sincerity, this is the channel to receive God’s life element which is God’s love. That is why, without prayer and without sincere devotion, there is no channel to receive God’s life element directly from God.
2. When we always have a clear vertical relationship with God and judge everything from God's point of view.
God’s life element comes from God directly vertically. That is why you need to keep a vertical alignment, a vertical relationship all the time. “God is my parent. I am the child of God.” This is the fundamental relationship between God and you as a parent and child. This kind of clear vertical relationship with God is very important. As long as you keep that kind of firm relationship with God, this is the way to receive God’s life elements.
3. When we live a life that is always overflowing with gratitude.
I was very inspired when I attended the workshop in Alaska. In one paragraph I read Father said, “Our mind and body unity begins from gratitude.” When you initiate gratitude toward God, our complaint and dissatisfaction disappear automatically. That’s why in order to calm down our heart, we always need to appreciate and (have) gratitude. When you think about God, “What should I appreciate about God?” When you think about True Father, “What should I appreciate about True Parents?” Also, “What should I appreciate about my wife, my children, my neighbor (and) my Abel?” Then our (God’s?) heart will really come down. That is why (in) our life of faith, our life of gratitude is very important. When we live a life that is always overflowing with gratitude, this is the way to receive God’s life elements.
4. When we always long for the Word.
God’s word is God’s love. That’s why one who always receives God’s life element always longs for God’s word. When God’s word comes into our heart, it becomes the seed of our life. Then it grows and grows. God’s Kingdom of Heaven is growing within our heart and becomes an individual kingdom and it expands to our family. God’s Kingdom of Heaven grows within our family and gradually expands to our tribe and nation. That’s why we always need to long for God’s word because God’s word is God’s love.
5. When we always try to please God with filial heart and filial piety, which is hyojeong, (in line with God's desire, heart, and circumstances).
When we have the right mindset centered on filial heart, filial piety, hyojeong, this directly connects to God’s heart. This (forms) a 90-degree angle directly connected to God’s heart. (This is) noon settlement. This is the way to receive God’s life elements.
6. When we always long for and love God, our parent, and our True Parents.
When I think about Father – I’m sorry, I often talk about Father – an incredible feeling comes out. I really long for him. If I just think about him, tears come down because I miss him so much. Of course, I love True Mother, but I can see True Mother any time if I go to Korea. Still physically I can see her, but Father has already passed away.
However, even though I cannot see him physically, when I think about him, immediately he comes to me, embraces me. So, I feel as if Father is always dwelling in my heart. I feel that. I really appreciate Father’s incredible love. (Since) he died, I have had a more longing heart. Maybe, I think, you are the same.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Seed of the Word Must Become Life
1. Until True Parents came to this earth, the Holy Spirit was the main subject and led the providence centering on Christianity. The problem here was that there was no substantial subject of love that could be shown and followed. So, even after realizing the Word, the seed of the Word could not be formed in believers’ hearts as they established a relative standard with the spirit world rather than creating a substantial foundation centered on human relationships on earth. In fact, rather than establishing relative standards with the spirit world, the seed of the Word should enter the heart of each believer, become life, and grow, but that did not happen. As many believers are dominated by the spirit world, the seed of the Word did not become life in their hearts, and they usually leaned toward spiritual bias.
After Jesus died on the cross, the Holy Spirit took the lead and guided believers. Because Jesus was not physically present, he could not establish a model centered on fallen human beings, so the Holy Spirit became the subject and has been guiding believers.
However, since True Parents appeared, they have been showing us everything and guiding us to follow them. Therefore, the center we can trust and follow is True Parents.
Until True Parents came, those who believed and followed Jesus had established a relative standard with the spirit world rather than the physical world. However, we saw that the seed of the Word could not be formed and take root in their hearts. The life of nurturing one's spirit body on earth is more important than anything else, but because they did not know that, they were more focused on believing in Jesus and going to Heaven after death.
In fact, rather than establishing relative standards with the spirit world, the seed of the Word should enter the heart of each believer, become life, and grow. The word enters into each individual's heart and the kingdom of heaven grows in each individual, and further, it grows in the family and expands to the tribe, nation, and world.
In the traditional faith, as believers were under the control of the spirit world, the seeds of the Word did not become life in each person's heart, and there was a great tendency toward spiritual bias.
Human Relationships on Earth are More Important Than in the Spirit World
2. In fact, up until now, established believers should have grown themselves while practicing the Word while maintaining relationships with people on earth rather than in the spirit world, but they were not able to do so. Someone should have shown the subject of true love as a model, but since it was not possible, the Holy Ghost did the work in its stead and played the role of rebirth. The Holy Ghost’s role of rebirth is to sow the seed in each believer. However, the seed of the Word could not enter and become life, and because they were under the control of the Holy Spirit, they became scarecrows. Those who were spiritually open were often used by the spirit world. They could not resurrect their spirit self, and often let another spirit person borrow their body and use it. In fact, rather than establishing a relative standard with the spirit world, we should respect and serve each other on earth, and the Word should become the seed that lets us grow and bear fruit.
One of the major problems of established Christianity is their belief in going to a heaven that already exists after we die rather than the idea of building heaven. They mention the kingdom of heaven that they go to when they believe in Jesus and die, but did not know the kingdom of heaven that is realized during life on earth and in human relationships.
However, the Unification principle emphasizes that the construction of the individual heaven, the construction of the family heaven, the construction of the tribal heaven, the construction of the national heaven, and the construction of a world heaven must be accomplished on earth.
Those who followed Jesus did not fully understand the true meaning his words, “What you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and what you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
Why did Jesus pass the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven to Peter? Why did he have to do that? We need to build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, not in the spiritual world. We must first build it in our hearts and in our family, in our tribe, nation and world. The Divine Principle (speaks) very clearly about that. If Christianity understood this, they would really focus on the earth, not (on) the spiritual world.
The truth is (that) established believers did not fully realize that the body and mind should unite on earth, the couple should respect and serve each other, and achieve individual and family heaven rather than establish a relative standard with the spirit world.
If the Seed of the Word had Settled in the Hearts of Jesus' Disciples...
3. Even 2,000 years ago, people only respected Jesus when they saw his miracles, but they did not grow their inner spirit body. If the seed of the Word had entered them and become life, they would have realized who Jesus really was. If the seed of Jesus' words had borne fruit within them, they would have taken up the cross with the Lord instead of running away when He went to the cross. Of course, this is not possible, but for example, let’s say the Lord was going and felt discouraged, stating, “Even though I came to this earth to conduct the providence of restoration, there is no possibility of achieving the Will because many people disbelieve and oppose me despite my continuous efforts while shedding blood, sweat and tears.” If his words properly entered someone’s heart and formed a seed, that person would hold on to the Lord, weep, and say, “I must go, too. I can’t give up when I know the Will,” then they would have moved forward.
Those who followed Jesus 2,000 years ago should have focused more on the growth of their spirit body in order to create the kingdom of heaven where body and mind unite centered on Jesus’ words.
However, they only looked at his miracles and admired Jesus, but the seeds of his words did not enter them and become life. If the words of Jesus had really entered their spirit bodies and became seeds and had grown properly, they would have realized who he really was.
If that had been the case, the seeds of Jesus' words would bear fruit within them, and when the Lord went to the cross, they would not have run away and would have taken up the cross with him.
Even if a situation arises where Jesus must die without fulfilling God's will, as long as the disciples know the words of Jesus and his identity as the Lord, they will hold on to the Lord and cry, “I must go, too. I can’t give up when I know the Will.” “As long as I know Jesus’ will, I cannot give up. I can go (on) no matter what, whether Jesus dies early and is crucified (or not). As long as I understand God’s will, I cannot give up, I can go forward.” This kind of attitude (about God’s word) is very important. God’s word needs to become the seed in my heart. That seed (needs) to grow and grow in my heart and become life and substance.
Among Jesus disciples, no one had that kind of standard. Even though Jesus said many words, those words could not (enter into) their spirit body. They could not become their life. That’s why when Jesus was crucified on the cross, everybody ran away.
That’s why God’s word is very important. God expresses his love and heart through the word. Without God’s word we cannot grow up. The word is very powerful because God’s word is his love. God expresses his heart through the word. We can meet God through the word.
Who Has the Seed of the Word Formed Within Them?
4. Among the members who joined the Unification Church today, is there anyone who would give up on the Will when their spiritual parent quits? If a member quits because the person who witnessed to them has quit, that person doesn't know the Principle yet. They are a person who has not yet had the seed of the Word formed in their heart. For example, let's imagine that as True Parents were trying pay global indemnity, they could no longer be active. There will be two kinds of people here. One will be disappointed and leave. The other type of person will say that they will fulfill the Will that True Parents could not achieve and move forward more vigorously to find and establish even one inch of land and establish even one person.
The Cheon Il Guk citizens of this age are people who believe in the Word of the Principle as the eternal truth and follow True Parents. If we hear the Principle that is True Parents’ words, and that Principle enters us and takes root forever, what will be the result?
For example, do you have the confidence that you will never give up on God’s Will forever, even if the person who witnessed (to) you gives up on the will, or if Abel or an older figure whom you trusted gives up on the will? If you have such a certainty, the seeds of God's word and the Principle have entered and taken root in your heart.
True Father once asked us, “What action would you take if the road of indemnity was too difficult for Father and you (he?) wanted to give up on the way?”
Even if True Father gave up on the Will, – of course, this would not happen, but let’s say (he did) – can you determine that you will never give up as long as you know the Principle and the Will and move forward no matter what difficulties there are? Do you have confidence in God’s Will, the Words, and the Principle without being shaken, no matter what anyone says? If so, it is proof that the Word of God has already entered you and became a seed.
This is very important. This is why you need to have firm love, a firm relationship with God centering on the word. How much do we understand (the) Principle? How much do we understand God’s word? Many people have given up and run away because persecution comes. Right now because of the situation in Japan, many people are shaken and second generation are going away. Do not be influenced by the environment. The important thing is (that) God’s Principle, the Divine Principle, God’s word, Father’s word, True Parents’ word, comes to your heart and becomes the seed. (Then) no matter what happens, any difficult situation, you could not give up. That is why I am asking you: Do you really have confidence in God’s will? Do you really have confidence in the Divine Principle? Divine Principle is the eternal truth. We need to understand that point.
Today I shared very important things with you. We need to have firm faith based on God’s word. God bless you.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Rev. Chris Bihari, Ohio)♦
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