Ep 695 - Women Will Play a Leading Role in the Ideal World 2 Part 7
Women Will Play a Leading Role in the Ideal World - September 20, 2022
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Key Points
TM: “Jesus needed to restore a woman in the position of Eve, who would be his object partner, and become a husband with her as his wife. They were to have children and ascend to the position of having dominion over all living things.”
Only God, Satan, and the Messiah can know the process of restoration that must occur in order to carry out the providence of restoration that cleared the lineage of sin and the process by which the Messiah comes to this earth and changes Satan's lineage to God's lineage.
The providence of the restoration of lineage was incomprehensible to human beings.
There must have been many mysteries that were not recorded in the Bible.
It is truly amazing that True Father and True Mother became True Parents after going through all these countless indemnification processes and being victorious.
It is very important to have a spiritual experience and conviction that the True Parents are the Messiah on your own.
If we only judge rationally about the providence of restoration and the messiah, we may make a mistake like that of the Jewish people God had prepared.
If we had not fallen, we would naturally understand God, that he is our parent just as children know who their parents are.
Blood lineage recognizes its own blood lineage. It is felt in the heart.
The fact that we still cannot feel that God is our parent is evidence that our life of faith is still ideological faith.
In the process of getting to know God, fallen human beings come to feel the existence of God heartistically through a four-step process. Ideological faith in which we come to know God; as we keep trying to be conscious of God, our faith becomes conscious faith; in customary faith we develop the habit of communicating with and feeling God; and finally in the faith of heart we develop heartistic communication and experience an inseparable parent-child relationship with God.
If you reflect on your past faults or mistakes more than on your accomplishments, it is possible to make up for your shortcomings.
To grow well and raise the standard of love, we must live with gratitude, growth, and resurrection every day through a frugal and sincere life.
God sees His children differently as time goes by. As time pas ses, God has different standards for us.
If we need to grow, but we fail to and delay growth, God is worried.
God has a specific plan for each of us.
Those who are sincere and do their best in every moment to fulfill the responsibility given to them from a young age, automatically know what God's blueprint is for them.
If we do not miss the time and become one with God's plan and vision for ourselves through heart-to-heart exchange with Him, then we will become the successful people He desires, both internally and externally.
To grow on God’s timetable for you, you should meet an amazing Abel and parents. You need to meet good parents, good teachers, good Abels and a good boss in your workplace
As we get older, our feelings of joy and gratitude should grow more and more and bear more fruit, so that amazing love can multiply and develop.
I can’t mistreat myself because I belong to heaven.
Those who appreciate themselves always make progress.
If we give thanks for everything, our complaints and dissatisfactions will gradually decrease.
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.♦
According to our church calendar today is the 47th anniversary of the establishment of UTS. Our UTS was established by True Parents in 1975. We wish UTS endless development in the future.
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 Women's Federation for World Peace rallies held between June 10 and June 30, 1992 in 40 cities, counties and districts through out Korea> Because of that restoration within the womb, Jesus, who came as the Messiah, was born forty generations later in the family line of Perez. To conceive and give birth to Jesus, his mother, Mary, risked her life with devotion. God's providence of salvation is the providence of restoration. God carried out the providence of restoration to bring an end to the lineage of sin that humanity inherited through the illicit sexual relationship between Adam and Eve, preceded by Eve's seduction by Lucifer. Such was the course of restoration and the history of the chosen people of Israel from the time of Cain and Abel to the birth of Jesus. Jesus came as the True Parent of humanity, the second Adam, passing through the course of struggle to separate good and evil and restore Adam's becoming the false father due to the Fall.
That is why Jesus needed to restore a woman in the position of Eve, who would be his object partner, and become a husband with her as his wife. They were to have children and ascend to the position of having dominion over all living things. This was also the purpose of Jesus' coming as the Messiah. In other words, Jesus came as the Messiah to restore the three great blessings bestowed by God after creating Adam and Eve: to be fruitful, multiply, and have dominion over all things. However the people of Israel did not recognize Jesus as the Messiah, and ended up dying on the cross. Jesus promised his Second Advent, that he would come to the earth again. He said that when he returned, he would come as the Bridegroom, so humanity on earth needed to prepare itself as his Bride and wait for him.
Today, let’s study True Father's words related to True Mother’s words. We are talking about how to restore the lineage.
How to Understand the Unlawful Content of the Bible
<22-255, 69.5.4> In the Gospel of Matthew, there are four major harlots: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Uriah's wife. According to the Bible, they are all harlots. No one knows why the Bible records such people at the very beginning of the Gospel of Matthew. It seems that in order to save all people, God had to providentially do so because evil people must also be saved. But that's not actually the case. When human beings fell, they fell into such a fallen state that they cannot be saved without going through such a process. That is why God's work continued through the tribes of Tamar and Judah.
In the history of Christianity, how did such a harlot continue history from the position of a mother? The same goes for the birth of King Solomon. King Solomon was born through the illicit act of King David taking Uriah's wife and having an affair. When I ask Christians about these things, pastors and doctors of theology get angry, asking how humans can understand God's will. It is Teacher's mission here to cut off and crush all the ignorance of these people. This fact cannot be denied by anyone who has read the Bible. Even an elder pastor, who is not a doctor of theology, cannot deny it.
God's providence of salvation is the providence of restoration. Because Adam and Eve, the ancestors of fallen humankind, had an illicit sexual relationship through the temptation of Lucifer, who became Satan, God had to carry out the providence of restoration to clear the lineage of sin passed down throughout humanity.
There was a providence that only God, Satan, and the Messiah could know, in order to carry out the providence of restoration that cleared the lineage of sin. In a way, there was a process of the providence of the restoration of lineage that was incomprehensible to human beings. There must have been many mysteries that were not recorded even in the Bible.
Only God, Satan, and the Messiah can know the process of restoration that must occur in the process of the Messiah coming to this earth and changing Satan's lineage to God's lineage.
Criticizing or judging this from a humanistic point of view can lead to a big mistake. What would happen if it were clearly revealed how Mary, the mother of Jesus, became pregnant with Jesus?
The same is true of True Parents’ course. There was a painful path to restore the lineage that only God and True Parents know. The important thing is that it is truly amazing that True Father and True Mother became True Parents after going through all these countless indemnification processes and being victorious.
The important thing is that they became True Parents. We do not know exactly what process of indemnification they went through. Only God and True Parents know.
That is why as a human being, as a blessed couple, if you judge only one process from a human point of view, you may cause a great misunderstanding and you may even make a mistake. Therefore, it is very important to have a spiritual experience and conviction that the True Parents are the Messiah on your own. You need to have your own spiritual experience and conviction that no one can deny.
Without a spiritual experience and conviction, someone may say all kinds of confused things. This is a problem. That is why we need to have jeongseong and prayer. You need not only theory and the Divine Principle, but you need to have your own conviction and experience. The life of faith is experience. Then finally you can have the conviction that God does exist and that Jesus and True Parents are the messiah. This is an important point.
Otherwise, if we only judge rationally, we may make a mistake like the Jewish people God prepared.
There are all kinds of issues going on now. The important thing is that you need to have a spiritual experience and conviction. Since I have had that kind of spiritual experience and finally conviction, I have no doubt at all about their messiahship. In this era, we need to have a clear conviction and understanding about 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.
Let’s study Father’s word.
If We Had Not Fallen, We Would Naturally Understand God
<20-36> If human beings had not fallen, we would never need to ponder whether or not God exists. Your original heart knows. In other words, if the original humans had not fallen, and entered the universe as parents of goodness, establishing a family and multiplying until they had established humankind, there would be no need to discuss the existence of God. You are connected through blood, so you can immediately understand through your body. Likewise, you do not need to explain things to trees. If God could be explained through words, then there must be some problem with the Creation.
If we human beings had not fallen, we would never need to ponder whether or not God exists. Your original heart knows.
In other words, if human beings had not fallen, you could immediately understand through your blood that God is our parent. Do you need to explain to your children that you are their parent while raising them?
If human beings had not fallen, we would immediately know from our original heart and blood. If there is a blood relationship, there is no need to check whe ther the relationship between parent and child is real or not. Blood lineage recognizes its own blood lineage. It is felt in the heart. Blood lineages are felt by the heart. Blood lineages need no explanation.
The reason humans do not know that God is their parent is that they have fallen. The fact that we still cannot feel that God is our parent is evidence that our life of faith is still ideological faith.
Today I would like to talk briefly about the growth stages of faith.
Growth Stages of Faith
In the process of getting to know God, fallen human beings come to feel the existence of God heartistical ly through this four-step process.
1. Ideological Faith
When we hear the Word for the first time, we accept that there is a God, both in principle and theoretically. This stage is called ideological faith.
2. Conscious Faith
And the next step is to keep trying to be conscious of God, whom you feel conceptually. We try to apply the living God in our life of faith. And we try to make it a custom to constantly feel God whom we con sciously feel. We call it conscious faith.
3. Customary Faith
Bad habits are bad, but good habits greatly help the growth of our spirit body. In this way, you can communicate with God by repeating the good habit of feeling that God is alive. Then, at some point, God’s existence is felt and experienced heartistically.
Finally we need to reach the faith of heart.
4. Faith of Heart
So, in our relationship with God, we develop heartistic communication and we experience the inseparable parent-child relationship with God. We call this faith the faith of heart.
We need to go through this process. Then finally we can have the faith of heart and have an inseparable relationship with Heavenly Parent. That is our final goal: to reach God’s and our Parents’ heart.
Ideological and Conceptual Faith are not bad; they are the beginning point, but if you just stop at ideological and conceptual faith, that is a problem. This is (just) the beginning stage. Ideological faith needs (to progress to) an upper level: Conscious Faith, Customary Faith, good Habitual Faith. Finally we need to reach the Faith of Heart.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: I Who Must Make a Determination According to the Time
Now is the Age of Love
1. If you remember and reflect on your past faults, there is a possibility that you can make up for your shortcomings. Parents in the world of love do not remember what they did well for their children. Even after feeding their children well, they just want to feed them more, and when they dress them well, they want to give better clothes. Because parents have high standards for their children, they do not remember that they were good to their children. Now is the age of love, so it's time to grow well and raise the standard of love. To do this, we must always supplement our lives through a frugal and sincere life. In this way, you too will grow, your standard of heart will be raised, and your perspective will change in the future.
What kind of person develops in their life of faith? If you remember and reflect on your past faults or mistakes, it is possible to make up for your shortcomings.
If we focus on the sense of accomplishment of what we achieved while our spirit body is on the path to completion, we may become arrogant and find it difficult to reflect on ourselves. Therefore, you should always make up for what you lack and live a life of reflecting on your mistakes.
Parents in the world of love do not remember what they did well for their children. If you really love someone, you always forget what you've done for them, and only think about what more you can do for them. The love that remembers what you gave is proof that you are still living within the fallen realm.
Now is the age of love, so it's time to grow well and raise the standard of love. To do this, we must live with gratitude, growth, and resurrection every day through a frugal and sincere life.
A sincere life is very important.
I Who Must Make a Determination According to the Time
2. God sees His children differently as time goes by. We just spend time yesterday, today, tomorrow, last year, and this year, but as time passes, God has different standards for us, so His perspective is gradually changing. The way a farmer sees a fruit tree is different in spring, summer and autumn. That is because there are standards of its need to grow and bear fruit according to the time. When autumn, the time of bearing fruit, comes, and flowers bloom, the farmer is not happy. He is happy when it blooms in the flowering season. He is not happy with a flower that blooms after time has passed because it will not become fruit. The same applies to you. If you realize something after time has passed, you will feel regret and sadness.
God sees His children differently as time goes by. We just spend time yesterday, today, tomorrow, last year, and this year, but as time passes, God has different standards for us, so His perspective is gradually changing.
When spring comes, God watches the trees wanting all things to sprout and flowers to bloom. When summer comes, He watches all living things with the hope that they will grow thick and prosperous.
And when autumn comes, He watches all things with a desire to bring forth beautiful fruit. God looks at human beings with the same heart, observing their growth and wishing they reach completion.
If flowers do not bloom when they should, God is worried. When we need to grow, but we fail to and delay growth, God is worried. If something does not bear fruit in the season of fruition, God is worried. The same applies to us. If we realize something after time has passed, we will feel regret and sadness.
God Has a Specific Plan for Me
3. God has a specific plan for each person. And as time goes by, God has eyes that set the standard for growth according to the time. However, many of us have missed the right time. It's only later that I realize it and feel sad to know that it's because I've met the wrong leader and fallen parents. I look back and wonder how much different I would have been if I had met a truly amazing Abel or leader, made realizations earlier, and made a circular movement with a more sincere and faithful heart. In fact, if you know that we spend our lives discriminating against each other, calculating this and that, and relating with others horizontally, we can't afford to complain.
God has a specific plan for each person and wants each of us to grow very well. Therefore, you should know and always ask God through prayer and meditation what His blueprint is for you.
Father said if you live a right life of faith, then between 17 and 24 years of age, you already know what to do. If you are really sincere every moment day by day, God will tell you your goal, your vision, what you should do. He will clearly tell each of us.
However, the important thing is that those who are sincere and do their best every moment of the responsibility given to them from a young age, automatically know what God's blueprint is for them. But if our lives are outward, false, empty, and fanciful, I don't know what to do. If anyone is faithful and very sincere in every moment, God is bound to teach him his blueprint for him.
However, human-centered plans and self-centered plans fail along the way and result in many regrets. Many people are frustrated even though they seem successful on the outside because they are completely empty on the inside.
So, if we do not miss the time and become one with God's plan and vision for ourselves through heart-to-heart exchange with Him, then we will become the successful people He desires, both internally and externally. However, many people miss the right time.
That’s why to (avoid) missing the right time, what should we do? We need to be sincere in every moment. Every moment is connected to eternity. If there is a gap and you have useless thinking, thinking about yourself, and are not very faithful and sincere, time just goes away. You miss the right time.
It's only later that fallen humans realize it and feel sad to know that it's because they've met the wrong leader and fallen parents. Maybe some of them met the wrong Abel. They look back and wonder how much different they would have been if they had met a truly amazing Abel or leader, made realizations earlier, and made a circular movement with a more sincere and faithful heart.
I did not have any major regrets because personally I met such wonderful Abel, but not just Abel. I really met an incredible messiah, True Parents, and also I met a really wonderful Abel, Rev Yohan Lee. But looking back, I have many things to feel sorry for and repent about.
Everyone, have you ever thought about how different our lives would have been if we had started this Morning Devotion, which we have been running for nearly two years, some 20 years ago and studied the words of True Parents as in everyday Morning Devotion? How much this would have changed our lives! How much our life would have become better – not because of Dr. Yong, not because of Morning Devotion. Only God’s word changes us. That is why God’s word is very powerful.
Also, you need to have a good Abel guiding you so you don’t waste your time.
Who is the luckiest guy? You need to have good parents who guide you in the right way. This is the luckiest guy. Secondly, when you go to school, if you meet the right teacher, you are a lucky guy. After graduating from school and going to the church, you need to meet the right Abel guiding you properly this way and that way. Wow! How lucky you are! Fourth, in your workplace you need to meet the right boss who teaches you what is right and wrong.
So, you need to meet good parents, good teachers, good Abels and a good boss in your workplace. That would be a great blessing from God.
Those Who Appreciate Themselves Always Make Progress
4. You need to know that as time passes, the value standard of how Heaven views people changes. The way Heaven sees you when you were 20 is different from the way Heaven sees you at the age of 21 or 22. When you turn 30 and 40, Heaven sees you differently. First, when you enter the path of faith and realize the Word and the truth, you must fill your life with a sincere heart. Next, you should be full of joy. If you have more gratitude for yourself, you will be filled with joy and that will become the driving force for your development. Those who do not have gratitude for themselves will not progress. Up to this day, I mistreated myself for doing more wrong things than good things, but when I have a relationship with God, I can’t mistreat myself because I belong to Heaven.
You need to know that as time passes, the value standard of how Heaven views people changes. Wouldn't it be great if, as we get older, our feelings of joy and gratitude grow more and more and bear more fruit, so that amazing love can multiply and develop?
First, when you enter the path of faith and realize the Word and the truth, you must fill your life with a sincere heart. Those who do not have gratitude for themselves will not progress.
Please remember True Father’s words: “Utmost sincerity moves heaven.” Utmost sincerity and gratitude. (Also,) do not forget Father’s word that “Unity of the body and mind begins with gratitude.” If we give thanks for everything, our complaints and dissatisfactions will gradually decrease. Even if Satan comes into my heart, there is no room for him to come and live.
Today, I talked about “I Who Must Make a Determination According to the Time.”
(Testimony Mr. Chen, Champion of Hoondokhae, “Hoondok Life”)♦
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