Ep 680 - Women Will Play a Leading Role in the Ideal World Part 7
Women Will Play a Leading Role in the Ideal World - September 5, 2022
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Key Points
Just as grace without hard work flows away, true love inevitably demands sacrifice.
True Father had a martyr spirit willing to make any sacrifices, especially in order to open the door to Korea’s reunification.
True love can serve as the basis even for conquering hell.
A mind centered on the spirit mind means a life in which God is present. It has the heart to serve God and be filial to Him.
The spirit mind is a heart whose core is hyojeong that is directly related to God and seeks to serve him.
The reason we stumble in our life of faith is because horizontal relationships become stronger than the vertical relationship. The Principled perspective is that the vertical relationship is the subject and the horizontal relationship is the object.
The only way to overcome horizontal temptations is by regarding the vertical relationship with God, parents and Abel as life and allowing the seed of the Word to enter me and take root.
We need to educate our children very clearly about the importance of the vertical relationship with God and with their parents
Giving grace is done by God, but keeping or losing it is my responsibility. To keep it I have to pay the price and put the grace I received into practice and multiply it.
In the world of love, those who give benefits of love receive more love, and the poor in love who cannot make benefits of love lose even the love they had.
In our life of faith, if we are indebted, we must pay back the debt, and make a profit beyond what we have received.
To say that we have received grace in our life of faith means that we are indebted to God and the spirit world.
What you received does not become yours unless you repay it or give benefits that exceed what you received.
To bring the results of love, you have to give constantly.
Loving people is loving God; serving people is serving God. When you treat them as God’s representatives and truly serve them, you can meet God.
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.♦
Yesterday, we had a special Sunday Service at Clifton Church for giving certificates to those who finished reading the EDP 100 times.
Before that, we welcomed 3 UPA students who came to Clifton Church for missionary work. They will do witnessing activity for 5 months.
These are the members who completed reading the EDP 100 times by last month. They completed the 1 hour, 3 hour and even 12 hour (manuals). (1 hour: 29 members, 3 hour: 9 members, 12 hour: 2 members)
(The number of those who have completed the reading) is continuously increasing. (They are) very involved in reading the EDP. When I had a meal together (with them), I was so inspired to hear each of their beautiful testimonies.
Then, President Naokimi shared about the National Leaders retreat which was held in Kodiak, Alaska. He also shared about (our) national goals and strategy including the goals and strategy of Clifton Church. It was very powerful and good sharing.
Then, I gave a sermon on the national goals and the importance of God’s words and Hoon Dok Hae.
After the service, we had a lunch meeting with the members who completed reading the EDP 100 times and shared their beautiful testimonies. I really wanted to record some of their reports, especially that of Mrs. Beebee. Her testimony was beautiful and powerful.
Let’s study Mother’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> The principle of love is that when love sacrifices for something that is greater, the level of that love is elevated. When you sacrifice for something greater, rather than being absorbed by it, you can stand at its center and face a new dimension. The reason that Christianity became a religion of resurrection is that it teaches to sacrifice for others. Even when he faced dying on the cross as an innocent man, Jesus prayed, “Father … not what I want, but what You want” (Matthew 26:39). Regarding the Roman soldier who stabbed him with his spear, he beseeched God to forgive his sin along with the sin of everyone else who did not know what they were doing. Like God's life, Jesus exemplifies a life lived and sacrificed for the sake of others. This became the origin that created the history of resurrection, and thus became the essential core of Christian thought and tradition. When you go so far as to sacrifice even your life for the sake of others, you gain life of a higher dimension.
My beloved members of the Women's Federation for World Peace, when you think about it, my visiting North Korea with my husband and meeting with President Kim Il-sung and various other party members on November 30, 1991, was an exceptionally high-risk endeavor. As you well know, Reverend Sun Myung Moon is a religious leader and the leader of the Victory Over Communism movement. The North Korean leaders have considered him their archenemy, and they have even carried out all kinds of schemes, both in Korea and abroad, to eliminate my husband. And yet, depending solely on God, we were able to go to North Korea and proclaim, “Unification cannot be brought about through Juche ideology. Unification is possible only through Godism.” We had a heart of love, desiring only to save them and to live for their sake, and we had a martyr's spirit, ready to endure any sacrifice necessary to open the gates to the reunification of the homeland. We actually put into practice the words, “Those who are ready to die will live, and those who seek to live will die,” similar to Jesus' saying in Matthew 16:25. True love can serve as the basis for conquering even hell.
To obtain true love, you must pay the price for it. Just as grace without hard work flows away, true love inevitably demands sacrifice. Free love that is obtained without sacrifice flows away. Therefore, the greater the sacrifice of love, the higher the level of that love.
Many people do not understand the meaning of true love, the significance of true love. Many young people can obtain love any time. The attributes of true love are not like that. One of the most beautiful attributes of true love is that it requires sacrifice. Without paying the price, you cannot obtain true love. If you only obtain love without hard work, it just flows away.
When you sacrifice for something greater, rather than being absorbed by it or lose something, you can stand at its center and face a new dimension. When you sacrifice your life for others, you gain a higher level of love.
That is why most of those who became great men throughout human history showed a life of sacrifice. Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Jesus and other saints are examples of great sacrifice for the sake of others.
True Father truly wanted to save North Korea and had a heart of love for the sake of North Korea, and a martyr spirit willing to make any sacrifices to open the door to Korea’s reunification.
So True Father actually put into practice the words, “Those who are ready to die will live, and those who seek to live will die.” True love can serve as the basis for conquering even hell.
Father always carried this kind of martyr spirit. He was willing to sacrifice and die for others, especially for the reunification of North and South Korea. We need to inherit that martyr spirit, a willingness to sacrifice and die, from our True Parents.
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.
Bassed on this let’s study Father’s word about what the spirit mind is:
Body, Heart and the Spirit Mind
<69-279> If I am one with God, then all of you must become one with me. This is referred to as the Three Stages: Formation, Growth and Completion. They must all become one! That country is standing on the foundation of the Three Stages. Even your face has Three Stages. Your eyes, nose and mouth must all be in focus. Anytime you seek to grab a hold of something, you must also pass through the Three Stages. Everything is arranged in this way. Isn’t that so? (Yes). This is why you must be aware of the fact that heaven and earth were created based on this principle. Our body, heart and the spirit mind are 3 stages. If God is present in your heart, in other words, your spirit mind, this is also an example of the Three Stages.
God created and operates the heavens and the earth centering on the three numbers of formation, growth, and completion. So, the existence of the self stands on the basis of these three levels. Just like in the face there are three levels of mouth (formation stage, nose (growth stage) and eyes (completion stage), everything should be focused and centered on the number three. For example, both eyes are centered and focused on a visible object.
Human life is also composed of three stages centered on body, mind and spirit mind. Your body needs to eat, drink and sleep. The mind, according to the conscience, wants to be good and live for others. The final stage is a life centered on the spirit mind.
A mind centered on the spirit mind means a life in which God is present. The heart to serve God and be filial to Him is the spirit mind. And when this spirit mind leaves the body and goes to the spirit world, it will live attending God forever.
This is beautiful guidance from True Father.
The Definition of the Spirit Mind
<91-142> You may have learned it from studying the Principle, but what is the spirit mind? It is the union of the mind and spirit moving toward its new goal. It is a motivational mind that can make us become our ideal selves by uniting with our conscience centered upon God. Do you understand? Thus, if we did not have a spirit mind, we would be unable to search for its origin which connects us to the spirit world and true love.
What is the spirit mind? The spirit mind is a being that is united with the mind and spirit and moves toward a new purpose.
In order to become an ideal self, you must live your life centered on your spirit mind, not your mind and physical mind. The spirit mind is a heart that is directly related to God, that is, a heart that tries to serve God. Therefore, in the heart to serve God, you can discover everything, find the origin, and find true love. Therefore, the core of the spirit mind is Hyojeong. This is an important point.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: What Must Be Done to Continue the Grace Received?
We Stumble When the Horizontal Relationship is Stronger than the Vertical Relationship
1. People who have greater horizontal relationships rather than vertical relationships can no longer grow their vertical body, so they go out horizontally and collapse. The life of faith of such people cannot go forward any longer. When someone who came to the church, was moved by the Principle, lecture well, and have confidence in front of everyone only become closer to people horizontally, we see them eventually leave that position. At first, it seemed like they were born with really wholesome character and had a hopeful future, but since horizontal relationships with men and women were stronger than the vertical relationships, their fate takes them on a different path. In this way, even people who seemed like prospects will stumble when their horizontal relationships are stronger than vertical relationships. The seed of the Word should have entered that person and taken root, but since they were dominated by the external environment, they become an outcast. Therefore, the Word puts down its roots and a promising character is formed only when you receive God’s absolute dominion.
The reason we stumble in our life of faith is because horizontal relationships become much stronger than the vertical relationship. Adam and Eve stumbled because their horizontal relationship with the archangel was much stronger than the vertical relationship with God. Therefore, we have to have a clear understanding of the Principled perspective that the vertical relationship is the subject and horizontal relationship is the object.
If this (order of relationships) is upside down, this is the fall. That’s why you always need to put the vertical relationship higher than the horizontal relationship. If you don’t have a clear vertical relationship, it immediately goes away horizontally.
Even within our church, how many people have left after being connected by the Principle but (who were) unable to overcome the temptations of horizontal relationships? The only way to overcome horizontal temptations is by regarding the vertical relationship with God as life, and regarding the vertical relationships with parents in the family and Abel in my life of faith as life.
That’s why relationships are very important. If you cannot establish a proper relationship with your father and mother, you can surely become a very horizontal person (who) easily makes Chapter Two relationships with anyone. That is why in your life of faith, your relationship with God must be very strong as (your) life and that with your parents in the family is very important. If there is a relationship problem between parents and children, the children will rebel against the parents and go to the secular world and not care about God. They will lose their faith.
That’s why we (need to) educate them about the importance of the vertical alignment with God. What is the greatest commandment? We need to know that. We need to love God more than anything (or anyone) else, right? Vertical alignment is life. We need to practice that kind of lifestyle in our family. We need to treat our own father and mother as God. Our relationship (with our) children is important.
As a parent (it is important) not only to deal with our vertical position, we need to know how to deal with our children. (We need to) educate them very clearly about the importance of the vertical relationship with God and their parents. Also, when you go to church and connect with the church, your relationship with Abel is very important. If there is a problem with your Abel, then immediately you can (go the) horizontal way and create a lot of Chapter Two problems. Where there is a problem between Cain and Abel, you will lose your Cain. That’s why as Abel, you need to know how to take care of our teens.
Another way to overcome horizontal temptations is for the seed of the Word to enter me and take root so that I will not waver in any environment. Therefore, the Word puts down its roots and a promising character is formed only when you receive God’s absolute dominion.
That’s why you need to have a firm relationship with God, with your parents and with Abel. This is the only way to keep your grace and to overcome horizontal temptations.
What Must Be Done to Continue the Grace Received?
2. A person with an established foundation of faith and standard of receiving absolute dominion from the Word will have some period of continued grace of love. However, “debt of love” does not last longer than a certain period of time. When we heard the Principle and liked it, in a way, it is the same as being indebted because we received it at no cost. “I was excited because of some thing,” “I received grace because of such thing,” “I was excited through such experience.” These things become grace for a certain period. But there is no permanence. So what is eternity? It becomes eternity when I continue the grace I received and the gift of love. If you only have the Word you were graced by, you become indebted. Therefore, only when the interest of love is paid can the love be maintained. This is the law of love, as the Bible says, “Whoever has will be given more, whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken away from them.”
The grace we received can continue for a certain period. If you are very inspired by God’s word or someone’s guidance or the Divine Principle, you can keep (that inspiration) for a certain period.
However, once it passes a certain period, it can no longer be continued. In other words, the grace I received does not have permanence. To continue the grace I received, that is, the first love, without losing it is not easy.
Then what must be done to continue the grace received? This is the key point. Giving grace is done by God, but keeping or losing it is my responsibility. Therefore, If you only have the Word you were graced by, you become indebted.
Therefore, only when the interest of love is paid can the love be maintained. In other words, I have to put the grace I received into practice and multiply it even greater to those around me. I have to make the grace I received even greater by passing it on to my object partners and move them. This is the only way I can keep the grace.
How can we keep grace? We need to practice (it) and multiply (it). Without practicing it, surely we will lose the grace we have received. This is an important point.
We have been carrying on Morning Devotion for nearly two years. Maybe some parts (of it) stimulated you, inspired you. You received grace (from it). What (should you) do with it? In order to keep God’s grace, you need to practice and multiply it. Without practicing and multiplying (it), it just goes away. Because when we receive grace from God or someone, we have not yet paid the price for it yet. In order to keep our grace, we need to pay the price and we need to practice and multiply it. Practicing it and multiplying it is the only way we can keep the grace.
The Laws of the Material World and the Laws of the World of Love
3. The laws of the material world and the laws of the world of love are different. In the material world, it is cruel to give more to those who have more and to take away from the poor. However, the world of love is like that. Those who are rich in love receive more love, and those who are poor in love are deprived of even the love they had. If you absolutely believe in the Word, embrace it, and nurture it, you will establish a foundation for your own life of faith and grow. It is a matter of whether you grow while being indebted to others or while repaying your debts. Like this, there are different types when it comes to growth. Even though wealthy houses look rich on the outside, there are wealthy houses with a lot of debt. If you enter such a house, they have everything that can be owned, but if they borrowed everything as monthly rent, even though it looks like a wealthy house on the outside, it's a house in debt on the inside.
The laws of the material world and the laws of the world of love are different. In the material world, it is cruel to give more to those who have more and to take away from the poor.
In the world of love, those who give benefits of love receive more love, and the poor who cannot make benefits of love lose even the love they had. In a way, the world of love is cold-hearted.
For example, if a tree stops growing and stops, it dies. In the same way, if a person does not make the profit of love and does not grow, everyone will be pushed out and go to a world other than heaven. Therefore, in our life of faith, if we are indebted, we must pay it back, and we must return it by making a profit beyond what we have received.
It is an absolute destiny that humans must make a profit, not just maintain love.
We were born as human beings. We need to grow up. Without growing up, we will die. Not just growing up, we need to multiply and make a profit. We need to fulfill the three Blessings. Otherwise we will lose everything. So, we have to make a profit of love, not just maintain (it).
Received Grace Is Like Becoming Indebted Spiritually
4. You can also live a life of faith with a monthly installment plan. The grace you received through various conditions may not be purely yours. For example, to receive grace through fasting prayers, vigils or sermons, is like becoming indebted because you did not receive grace after paying any price or effort. Therefore, it is not purely yours. Even if conditions such as prayer, vigil, or fasting are not established, a person who has earned respectable results through his character and practice do not say they have received grace from anyone. They do not say that they received grace because they paid a price for getting a certain result with their performance. People say they receive grace when they receive a certain benefit on credit without paying the price. Those who have received grace through their true abilities have paid the price according to their life and practice. Therefore, a life of faith with a monthly installment plan is nothing to be proud of.
To say that we have received grace in our life of faith means that we are indebted to God and the spirit world. Therefore, what you received does not become yours unless you repay it or give benefits that exceed what you received.
Therefore, in order for the grace you received to be yours, you must pay the price to make it your own. If my faith grows more, I must live a life where I practice the Word and bring the results of love.
And to bring the results of love, you have to give constantly. You have to live a life of giving and forgetting, giving and forgetting and sacrificing and forgetting. If you boast only of the grace you have received, you will lose everything.
If you want to keep the grace you have received, you must practice it and reap the results of love. Today, we talked about what we must do to continue the grace we have received.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Sarah Jackson, Dallas, CARP)♦
(Response to sharing) Don’t misunderstand (and think that) serving God and serving people are different. You need to think that serving God is serving people; serve (them) as God’s. There is no difference. Of course, God is an invisible reality, but when you (relate to people), treat them as God’s. This is important. If you have a different understanding and different attitude (toward them), then there is a problem.
“So when I love God, how can I apply (this love)?” You need to love people as God’s. They are representatives of God. (You might say) “I don’t care about people; I am only serving God.” That is not the right attitude. Loving people is, at the same time, loving God. Whenever you do any mission, even an outside mission, you need to treat it as “God’s mission.” Even though people are from the outside, when you treat them as God’s representatives and truly serve them (with the attitude that) this mission is God’s will, then you can meet God. You can always feel that “God is dwelling in my heart.”♦
NOTE: This text and the PowerPoint slides from this speech are available as a link at the top of this text. Transcripts from November 3, 2021 to the present, personal notes from November 11, 2020 until November 2, 2021 and slides from August 29, 2021 to the present are available at MD.Hoondok.com as PDF files. Books of the transcripts and notes are available as PDFs at MDBooks.Hoondok.com.
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