Ep 679 - Women Will Play a Leading Role in the Ideal World Part 6
Women Will Play a Leading Role in the Ideal World - September 4, 2022
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Rev. John & Fusae Jackson
Key Points
The mission of ACLC is to revive the spiritual movement in America by revitalizing 7,000 pastors.
When our mind and body achieve oneness with God, we enter a world in which we resonate by heart, and God’s life, lineage and created world become ours.
The life of humankind was conceived through love based on the ideal of love, and so the essence of human life is love.
Love comes into existence starting when you give to the other person and sacrifice for the sake of others.
If you sacrifice for the sake of others, you don’t decrease; rather you become the subject being of love and the owner of everything.
The spirit mind is the heart of our spirit body, the place where God is present, and the heart of attendance to God.
Constantly check if your thoughts are, in fact, your thoughts and whether they come from your physical mind or spirit mind.
In our life of faith, the greatest enemy is arrogance.
In the last days, falsehood such as communism and free sex must surface before truth emerges.
Filial heart must become the basis of all fields of studies.
The way for our inner self to grow is to always live carrying the Word in our heart.
One who carries the seed of the Word in his heart can lay down its roots and cultivate sprouts wherever he goes.
A person who lives with the Word, feels reassured because he believes that God is always with him, can preserve his spiritual life in any situation, is not dominated by the environment and receives God’s absolute dominion.
You need to live with a key word or theme. The Words you were touched by should become your key words.
I need to cling to the Words I received grace from, and I have to always maintain the vertical alignment I have with God. I must absolutely obey God’s commandments: “do” and “do not do.”
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.♦
Finally I have come back to New York. I am so grateful that our Heavenly Father has guided me here and there. I really appreciate our True Parents’ guidance as well.
Yesterday, I gave another presentation at the breakout session at Life Fest 2022 in Kentucky. It was like going to an established church and having a revival meeting. I would like to once again thank Rev. Takami’s couple and Pastor Norm’s couple as well as the Japanese family for their hard work as staff. I appreciate them all.
I hope that in the future I will have an opportunity to go to the mega Christian church and directly preach the words of True Parents. When Elijah complained that the people of his time had no faith, God appeared and said that there were 7,000 people who had not yet surrendered to the god Baal.
No matter how difficult the American Christian church is right now, I think more than the 7,000 righteous pastors are still alive.
When Father was in Danbury Prison, he delivered Divine Principle videotapes to so many Christian ministers. We need to revive at least a minimum of 7,000 righteous pastors. This is one of our goals, and then we can revive America.
I think the mission of ACLC is to revive the spiritual movement in America by revitalizing 7,000 pastors in earnest from now on.
I was so inspired to share Father’s word directly to the Christian group. Of course, many brothers and sisters came and supported me. I really appreciate all of you.
Let’s study Father’s word.
Women Will Play a Leading Role in the Ideal World
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> From the viewpoint of the logic of resonating with true love, when we human beings truly love and enter the realm of mutual oneness, we can say that God's life is our life, God's lineage is our lineage, and the created world in God's possession is our created world. Then we wil``l be registered in the kingdom of heaven with the heart of the father and the mother embracing heaven and earth. Which comes first, love or life? Love comes first. The life of humankind was conceived through love based on the ideal of love, and so it follows that the essence of human life is love. Therefore, we can say that it is nature's law of life, originating from the essence of love, to live for the sake of others, and that in fact, human beings were born for the sake of others from the very moment of their birth. If I were born only for myself, or if everyone else had to exist only for my sake, the concept of love never could become reality.
This is because the essence of love is that it comes into existence only when it is given, and the act of giving requires both a giver and a receiver. The person who sacrifices for the sake of the family can bring about love in the family. You may think that if you sacrifice for the sake of others, you will lose everything. In truth, it is the opposite. If anything, you become the subject being of love and the owner of everything, and you also are elevated to a higher dimension. A person who sacrifices and serves for the sake of the class becomes the class president, and a person who sacrifices for the sake of the village becomes the leader of the village. Furthermore, a person who sacrifices and serves for the sake of the nation becomes the owner of the nation.
When our mind and body achieve oneness with God, we enter a world where we resonate by heart. When that happens, we can say that God's life is our life, God's lineage is our lineage, and the created world in God's possession is our created world. In that respect, we have to realize how great and high the stage of mind and body realizing oneness is.
True Mother said, “Which comes first, love or life? Love comes first. The life of humankind was conceived through love based on the ideal of love, and so it follows that the essence of human life is love.” If life came first, humankind would seek life rather than love. Therefore, we can say that it is heavenly law of life, originating from the essence of love, to live for the sake of others.
Then when does love come into existence? Love comes into existence starting when you give to the other person and sacrifice for the sake of others. Why can’t love be brought about? It is because you try to live for yourself first. If you put yourself first, since it goes against the law of true love, love cannot be brought about.
You may think that if you sacrifice for the sake of others, you will lose everything. In truth, it is the opposite. If anything, you become the subject being of love and the owner of everything, and you also are elevated to a higher dimension.
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.
Based on this EDP content, let’s study Father’s word.
What is the Spirit Mind?
<50-18> If you look from God’s perspective, God comes first and Adam comes second. The heart of Adam, which is able to embrace God, is referred to as the spirit mind. The spirit mind is defined as the heart of attendance to God that is present at the meeting point of the vertical God and horizontal Adam.
What is the spirit mind? It is the heart of our spirit body. It is also the place God is present. The spirit mind is also the heart of attendance to God.
The spirit mind always tries to attend God, have a filial heart towards God, comfort Him and bring Him joy. Therefore, our life of faith cannot be centered on the physical mind, which the physical self pursues, but we must live according to the heart which the spirit mind seeks.
Always examine yourself. We have to live by constantly checking if (your thoughts are, in fact,) your thoughts and whether they come from your physical mind or spirit mind.
We always need to check: am I following the physical mind? Or the spiritual mind? Fallen people just rely on the physical mind. They don’t care about the spirit mind.
The Phenomenon of the Last Days
<2-137> In the last days, the number of arrogant and self-centered people will increase. Falsehood must surface before truth emerges. It is an historical truth that falsehood must be revealed. Furthermore, the various falsehoods that are causing chaos in the world today must be exposed before the truth centered on the universal unification ideology emerges. Before the movement of true-life can arise, several false-life movements will arise. The false love movements must emerge before the true love movement can come forward.
Father said, “In the last days, the number of arrogant and self-centered people will increase.” In our life of faith, the greatest enemy is arrogance. Arrogance emerges when we put ourselves first or when we become the center. That is why we have to know how important humility and obedience are.
In the last days, falsehood must surface before truth emerges. The various falsehoods that are causing chaos in the world today must be exposed before the truth centered on the universal unification ideology emerges. This is none other than communist ideology and the idea of free sex. Also, the false love movements will emerge before the true love movement can come forward.
Look at the current world situation. The communism ideology is still very strong in Japan, Korea, China, Russia. Can you see that. Also, in the democratic world one of the main issues is the idea of free sex. How can we really overcome that? This is really our issue. This is really the last days based on the evil mind. That’s why we need to guide people centering on our spirit mind. Our job is to guide the secular world and guide people.
<2-137> If you look at philosophy from a historical standpoint, the life philosophy arose following the rational philosophy. Henceforth, the philosophy of love must also arise. Then what is the standard of the philosophy of love? Is it truth or is it humankind? From now on, humans must contemplate this point very seriously. Even without this philosophy, if we can be led by our original and spirit minds to understand the circumstances of other people, then we can love anyone unconditionally, and broaden our hearts to harmonize with those people. Therefore, you must become the sort of person who can understand the heart of anyone, regardless of whether they are good or evil.
The spirit mind is like the mind of God. When we keep our spirit mind, we will always focus on our filial heart.
From now on, filial heart must become the basis of all fields of studies.
I have mentioned this many times. For example, philosophy should arise as philosophy of filial heart, science as science of filial heart, and art as art of filial heart.
So, everything (should) center on heart and love. Our spirit mind always pursues our filial heart. We need to understand this point.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Person who Carries the Seed of the Word
1. One who carries the seed of the Word in their heart can lay down roots and cultivate sprouts wherever they go. People who do not carry the seed of the Word and just live according to their circumstances and given schedule of the day are like empty heads of grain, so they blow away in the wind. A person with the seed of the original nature of emotion, intellect, and will do not move because some subject partner commanded them to. Also, they do not want to become patriots because someone showed a model example as a patriot. People who died for their country or were martyred for the world did not die because someone made them do so or was a model. Those who live by their original mind centered on the seed of the Word do not follow because someone does so, but their heart that God dwells in cannot help but live in that way.
The Bible says that the Word is God. It says that all things and human beings were made from the Word. God rules man with the Word. And God expresses all of His love and heart through the Word. Therefore, God’s Word is our life and love.
The Human Fall was losing the Word. In order to restore this, we have to bring the Word to life. God’s Word should always become a seed in my inner self and grow.
Therefore, the way for our inner self to grow is to always live carrying the Word in our heart. If you carry the seed of the Word, it will grow and become our life. The reason Jesus’ disciples betrayed him was because Jesus’ Word could not blossom and grow in their souls.
One who carries the seed of the Word in his heart can lay down its roots and cultivate sprouts wherever he goes. If you do not live carrying the seed of the Word and just become dominated by reality according to your environment, you become a puppet.
Results of Carrying the Seed of the Word
2. No matter how frigid the winter, seeds that preserve life do not freeze to death but sprout when spring comes. Similarly, no matter how difficult the external environment and no matter how many trials come, those who preserve the seed of the Word within themselves will see it become life and sprout someday. A person who has the seed of heart, that is, the seed of the Word, may externally look like a crowd of dead people in one course, but when the time comes, the seed of life will sprout again. Through the lives of martyrs, we were able to know that a person whose seed of the Word has become the seed of heart is not dominated by the environment, and that even if he enters the pit of death, he is not dominated by it. Those who carry the seed of the Word can preserve life even amidst death. If you carry the seed of the Word, you receive God’s absolute dominion and can take root of life.
Just like taking out an insurance (policy), a person who lives with the Word feels reassured because he has the belief that God is always with him.
A person who lives with the Word can preserve his spiritual life in any situation.
A person who lives with the Word is not dominated by the environment, and even if he enters the pit of death, he is not dominated by it.
If you carry the seed of the Word, you receive God’s absolute dominion, you can take the root of life, and be protected.
That’s why the word is very important. The word comes to my spiritual life and becomes life and settles in my heart. Nobody can change me. I am very stable. I can overcome any circumstances, any difficult situation. That is why the word is very powerful. God’s word is God’s love and life. The word is life. It comes to my spirit body and becomes life. Then I can overcome anything. That is the power of God’s word.
The Only Way my Life Can Take Root
3. If I only carry the Word and am not fickle, God will have absolute dominion over me. I will be protected by God wherever I go. Therefore, it is my responsibility to carry the seed of the Word. It is God who governs and preserves it. To carry the seed of the Word, you must have absolute faith centered on God. Only then can you take root. Fickle people cannot take root. If you have an unprincipled environment where roots are pulled out or the seed is not covered by dirt or there is no moisture, the seed cannot grow. Similarly, we, too, can only take root under God’s absolute dominion. Why do our spirits dry out in our course of faith? When the relationship between Cain and Abel is not good, or the relationship easily flows horizontally, or when vertical affection flows horizontally, the seed already begins to rot.
What should I do for God to have direct dominion over me and protect me? It is keeping the Word that I was touched or moved by and not being fickle. I have to keep repeating and cherishing the things I received grace from (in) the Word until it becomes my life.
In your normal life, you need to live with a key word or theme of the Word. When somebody asks you “What kind of Words give you strength these days?” you should be able to answer confidently. The Words you were touched by should become your key words. When Words that you were touched by are repeated, it touches your heart all over again.
Every day in your life of faith, you need to have key words, (key) themes. Otherwise you will just follow your physical mind, not your spiritual mind. “Today what key word do you have?” When someone asks you which words give you power and strength, you need to immediately and confidently give an answer.
What word inspires you the most? (Then) you try to preserve and keep it, (repeat) it again and again, and chew it. The key word is a powerful (way) to maintain your life of faith.
If you live without a key word or theme of the Word, since our spirits fluctuate according to the environment, you become a puppet. You become empty heads of grain.
If I live without the Word, I will make mistakes through the Cain and Abel relationship. Also, my emotions instantly flow horizontally easily, or vertical affection flows horizontally. Then my soul begins to rot.
Regard the Vertical Relationship as Life
4. When a shadow is cast, a tree cannot go on growing. No matter what, you must dominate the surrounding environment and make your vertical alignment form a reciprocal relationship with the sun. Even if the lower branches that do not see the light wither and die, the vertical body can serve as a true tree. Even today, there are times when the environment we encounter casts shadows, there are times when we are emotionally tempted, there are times when we flow horizontally, and there are times when some hate it and some say it is good. When this happens, that person is in danger. When we do not regard vertical relationships as absolute and our emotions are abused in horizontal relationships, our spiritual life will not last long. That is why God’s commandment “do not” is absolute. During the growth period, you must absolutely keep the commandment, “Do not eat.” We must strictly adhere to the “do” and “do not” in the faith course.
Just as all things form a reciprocal relationship with the sun, I need to cling onto the Words I received grace from, and I have to always maintain the vertical alignment I have with God.
The environment we are stuck in today has many parts that cast shadows. So, since we are living in an environment where we are emotionally tempted at times and flow horizontally, if you cannot carry the Word we always encounter danger.
When our emotions are abused in horizontal relationships, our spiritual life will not last long. That is why we must absolutely obey God’s commandment “do” and “do not do.”
Therefore, during the growth period, you must absolutely keep the commandment, 'Do not eat.'
Adam and Eve needed to distinguish: “Eat” or “Don’t eat,” “Do” or “Don’t do.” They absolutely needed to keep this commandment of God.
When you join our movement and your central figure or your Abel is always guiding you, a basic (guidance is) “Do it,” or “Don’t do it.” You need to distinguish what you can do and what you can’t do. We need to teach our children very clearly – not just embrace them and take care of them externally. We need to teach them very clearly like God: “Do it” or “Don’t do it.” “Which one should I do; which should I not do?” We need to teach very clearly what is good and what is evil. Just embracing and not doing anything is a problem. We need to teach clearly like God. God gave a clear commandment to Adam and Eve: “Do it” or “Do not do it,” “Do not eat. If you eat, you will surely die.” It was very clear. We need to guide our young people, our young generation what the should and shouldn’t do. This is a very important point.
Today I spoke about “The person who carries the seed of the Word.”
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Rev. John and Fusae Jackson, time with Mrs. Yong)♦
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