Ep 765 - Opening, Inheriting, and Fulfilling the Era of the Victory, Liberation and Completion of the True Parents Part 7
Opening, Inheriting and Fulfilling the Era of the Victory, Liberation and Completion of the True Parents - November 29, 2022
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Key Points
The two transitional periods before the CIG era were the era of worldly matters characterized by materialism and the era of human affairs dominated by humanism and knowledge, with the assumption that God is an aloof Creator.
The CIG era is the era of heavenly affairs in which people return to the heart of God, live for the sake of others, rid themselves of their fallen nature and return to their original selves, and live as one united family under God as their Father.
All people must know the Divine Principle, receive the Blessing, com plete Heavenly Tribal Messiahship and register in the CheonBo Won. Especially senior blessed couples must do this before they die.
We should thank the countless angels, saints and ancestors who worked hard and cooperated on behalf of Heavenly Parent's providential will in the past, take responsibility for their failures, and liberate their Han and grievances.
If you give thanks to the angels, you will receive their cooperation.
For the true liberation of our ancestors, we must attend True Parents, make achievements beyond what they have contributed, bless them, and hold an ancestor liberation ceremony for them.
In the process of restoration we must experience the love and guidance of three ages, first that of angels, second of True Parents, and third of God as his child.
You must not be bound by any material on earth or humanistic love. Also, you must not remain in any position of glory on earth.
In the family, you must uphold absolute harmony, filial piety, love, self-denial, and life for the whole purpose, and be prepared to make any sacrifices.
Restoration is complete denial of self.
There is hope for a family where the spouses absolutely obey each other and children absolutely obey their parents.
If the spouses say they will live for the sake of each other, there is only love and happiness.
In your relationship with your spouse, if you deny yourself, there is only happiness and love. If you assert yourself, there is only pain and conflict. It is that simple, but the practice is not simple.
Don’t disagree. Without talking, just serve, love, completely give up your own opinion. Let the original mind work. That is the only way that works.
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.♦
(Response to sharing) Now so far we have two second generation (members) to focus on witnessing. We want to get more volunteers in order to create model witnessing activities, and also I want to create another Heavenly USA team in the Clifton Church. Our Heavenly USA team is really amazing! I want to create that kind of local Heavenly USA (team) centering on the New Jersey - New York area and visiting Christian churches and witnessing. So we want to get some volunteers from the second generation. I really want to focus on Christian churches as well.♦
Today I’d like to talk about “Opening, Inheriting and Fulfilling the Era of the Victory, Liberation and Completion of the True Parents” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given at the Assembly for Inheritance and Accomplishment in the Age of Liberation Opened by the Victory of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind held on March 4, 2012 at the Daejeon Convention Center in Daejeon, Korea> These treasured Korean traditional values are not just matters of historical accident. Based on them, God prepared the Korean people and laid the foundation for the providence to establish the Messiah. Thus, riding on the energy of the Korean peninsula, the True Parents of humankind and the king of kings could finally appear after receiving the seal of Heaven. Beloved WFWP members, my fellow women leaders! The path that humanity needs to take now is clear. Why would you hesitate in the face of the D-Day that Heaven has revealed through True Parents? Only a year remains; Heaven's blessings will be with you on your ambitious and busy course. If you view the flow of history from the viewpoint of God's providence, you can see that the changes can be broadly classified into three stages.
First is the era of worldly matters that is, a time when materialism took precedence. Next came the era of human affairs, a period dominated by humanism and knowledge, with the assumption that God is an aloof Creator. However, these eras were transitional. They were eras we needed to undergo in the process of entering the era in which people can rid themselves of their fallen nature, return to their original selves, and live as one united family under God as their Father. The final stage is the era of heavenly affairs. Here, people follow the path of living for the sake of others. Each establishes an absolute standard beginning with the Marriage Blessing Ceremony, an internal and external purification. In other words, this is the time of opening the era of Cheon Il Guk, when we can return to the heart of the one true God. Please engrave this in your heart.
Looking at the flow of human history from a providential point of view, first is the era of worldly matters, that is, a time when materialism took precedence. Next came the era of human affairs, a period dominated by humanism and knowledge, with the assumption that God is an aloof Creator.
Now is the era of heavenly affairs where humans cast off their fallen nature, find their original selves, and live as a unified family attending Heavenly Parent as their Father and Mother.
The Era of Heavenly Affairs is the last stage in which each must establish an absolute standard beginning with the Marriage Blessing Ceremony, an internal and external purification, and follow the path of living for the sake of others.
The Final Era of Heavenly Affairs is centered on the culture of heart, where Heavenly Parent is attended as our parent, all of humankind receive the blessing, and live for the sake of others centered on Heavenly Parent's holy lineage.
In order to welcome this Era of Heavenly Affairs in earnest, all people must know the Divine Principle and receive the Blessing. True Parents are always emphasizing that all blessed families must take responsibility for the Heavenly Tribal Messiah activities in order to launch this blessing movement in earnest.
Now I really want to encourage the senior Blessed couples in the Clifton Church who want to do Heavenly Tribal Messiahship and register in the CheonBo Won, we want to encourage them to fulfill (this). That is why all Clifton Church members, whenever we do a Blessing event, we can get many people through ethnic groups; (We want to help) them fulfill the Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission and register in the CheonBo Won.
I don’t want to miss even one blessed couple in the Clifton Church. We are really working together and helping (each other). Let them really fulfill the Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission and register for the CheonBo Won. That is our most important mission.
In the past we focused on individuals doing their Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission, but I really want to encourage not just Sub-Region 1 and 2 but everywhere centering on the church leader, let our senior blessed couples fulfill their mission before going to the spiritual world. I don’t want to miss any blessed couple . My cherished wish is for our senior blessed couples to fulfill their mission and enter the substantial Kingdom of Heaven. How much they sacrificed for the sake of God’s will! I love each one of them. They are the ones who recognized True Parents earlier than anyone else. They sacrificed more than anyone else because of finances and health. Anyway I want to help them fulfill their Heavenly Tribal Messiah and CheonBo Won as well.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 10 - The Motivation and Process of the Fall
The motivation of the human fall lay within the angel. Therefore, before we can know the motivation and process of the fall, we must first learn about the angel.
• Angels were created by God prior to any other creation.
• God created angels to be His retainers (Heb. 1:14), "servants," (Rev. 22:9) and "ministering spirits,” (Heb. 1:14) who would assist Him in creating and sustaining the universe.
• Because God created us human beings as His children and gave us dominion over all creation, we are meant to rule over the angels as well.
Let study Father’s word.
The Fruitful Results of the Angels who Helped in Conducting the Providence
<1-286> The fruitful results of the angels who helped in conducting the Providence remain within us who are facing the last days. Besides, there are also other fruitful results of numerous saints. We must be responsible for such fruitful results in human history. We must be able to liberate all the resentments of thousands of Christians who helped in God’s Providence and of all the spirits dwelling in the spiritual world including Jesus.
We should give thanks to the countless angels, saints and ancestors who worked hard and cooperated on behalf of Heavenly Parent's providential will in the past, take responsibility for their failures, and liberate their Han and grievances.
Except for the archangel, all the angels actually assisted with God’s and human beings’ mission. Their cooperation was really incredible! We need to recognize (that) our good angels really worked hard for us to fulfill our mission.
First, we must acknowledge the achievements of the good angels who came in the providence and be grateful to them. If you give thanks to the angels, you will receive their cooperation.
This is not my word; it is Father’s word.
We must also show gratitude and acknowledge the countless saints (who) have contributed achievements to Heaven.
We should not judge Abraham or other central figures. Of course, they made mistakes or could not fulfill (their calling). However, we really need to appreciate them, to acknowledge their incredible contribution. Without their sacrificial foundation, we would not be here. We need to really acknowledge the achievements of the good angels and our ancestors. We must also be grateful to and acknowledge countless saints who have contributed their achievements to heaven.
Even to our numerous ancestors – there are bad ancestors, but there are incredible ancestors – their achievements and contributions should be acknowledged and thanked.
If it had not been for their accomplishments, hard work and sacrifices, you should know that today, we would not have been chosen or blessed by Heavenly Parent.
For their true liberation, we must attend True Parents, make achievements beyond what they have contributed, bless them, and hold ancestor liberation ceremony for them.
We are chosen guys. There are so many people living on the earth. How many are Unificationists? Not many, right? We are really chosen people! Why? Father said it is 100% because of our ancestors’ incredible contribution and sacrificial life. That is why we need to really appreciate our ancestors because of their foundation. Also, so many saints’ and sages’ and central figures and angels foundation, we need to appreciate them. We really need to appreciate them. Our life should be always giving thanks. Then more blessing will come – rather than complaining.
The Process of Restoration and the Angel’s Activities
<3-61> God worked through angels to overcome the difficulties of the process of restoration in the past and later worked through his only son. There must come a time that can be dominated by our Heavenly Father. St. Paul once talked about God’s love in Jesus.
It will not be enough to have only the love of Jesus nor the love of the Holy Spirit. It has to meet the standard that can be connected to God’s love through the love of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. In order to do so, we are not to be bound to any kind of worldly love. Also, we should not simply stay at any victorious place on earth. Since the day of hope is approaching, we should clearly understand that there must be a fearful day that God will judge directly.
We who have already started to follow the original path of humankind must throw away everything. First, things should be thrown away, next parents and children, that is, a family should be lost and eventually a nation and the world must be lost.
We who are in the process of restoration must experience the love of the 3 ages and go through the guidance of the 3 ages. This is very important.
First, in the process of restoration, we must acknowledge and be grateful for the era in which we were guided by angels.
Second, after meeting the Messiah, you must receive love through True Parents. But Father said that is not enough.
Third, after meeting the True Parents, you must go to the stage of establishing a relationship of God's love.
In order to pass through these three ages, you must not be bound by any material on earth or humanistic love. Also, you must not stay in any position of glory on earth.
Jesus said, “You need to love me more than your own father or mother or anyone.” ... because (those relationships are centered on the fallen world. We need to really appreciate our True Parents. We need to appreciate them more than our own humanistic relationships centered on our own father and mother, and brothers and sisters. If we set up that kind of standard with Heavenly God and True Parents , then finally we need build up an incredible, inseparable relationship of love with God.
In the end, everyone must restore the parent-child relationship that is inseparable from God.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Unification Church's Family View
1. Even if you have a family, if you assert yourself, you become a person who is unhappy. In a family, you must live for absolute harmony, absolute filial piety, absolute love, absolute self-denial, and absolutely for the whole purpose of the family. If you want to live for the sake of all family members, no one will be stubborn. This is the family view of the Unification Church. If you have a family, a self-centered argument or a self-centered view of life cannot be allowed. You can't decide everything on your own. If you decide on your own, you will be pushed out of the community called family. So that person will live a forlorn life.
Once you have a family – you have a husband or wife, and children – the first thing is to completely give up your self-assertion. Whether one's opinion is right or wrong, one should not break family harmony by strongly insisting on it. Self-assertive people end up unhappy.
The family does not allow any self assertion. Even if your opinion is correct, if you insist on it too much, you break family harmony.
Therefore, in the family, you must uphold absolute harmony – absolute harmony is God – absolute filial piety – not just children’s filial piety toward parents, but parents need to have filial heart, filial piety toward their own children. “I love my Heavenly Parent,” you need to haver the same mindset toward your children – absolute love, absolute self-denial, and absolutely live for the whole purpose of the family. Everyone should put family harmony first.
The Unification Church's family view is to get rid of self-assertion, get rid of self-centered view of life, and not make selfish decisions, whether it is in the position of parents, spouses, siblings or children. And for the sake of family reconciliation, they have the mindset that they are prepared to make any sacrifices.
“If there is a way to make harmony, I am ready to make any sacrifice, any suffering, any difficulty.”
You need to put family harmony first. This is the key.
“I am a principled man. I know the Divine Principle better than anyone else. I create more money more than anyone as a father and mother ...” If you assert yourself too much without denying yourself, you will break family harmony. That is why the family does not allow this kind of concept and attitude.
If You Affirm YourSelf in the Family, You Will Perish
In your family, if you affirm yourself, you will perish. Heavenly Parent sent True Parents to this earth in order to eradicate such self-centered thoughts and fallen nature. Why is Heavenly Parent so sad about man? It is because humans assert themselves and are stubborn rather than live for the whole. So, Heavenly Parent grieves when He sees such people. However, it is Heavenly Parent's Han that this has not yet been settled on this earth. In the end, you will see that due to your stubbornness, your family, your country and Heavenly Parent became forlorn. Heavenly Parent became forlorn because Eve did what she wanted.
In your family, if you assert yourself, you will perish. Adam and Eve asserted themselves before Heavenly Parent, centering on their own opinions. They did not care about God’s commandment. They only focused on their own opinion, their own thinking and then negotiated and associated with the archangel.
They not only didn't make Heavenly Parent's words their priority, they went as far as to ignore it.
The Fall is affirmation for self, and restoration is complete denial of self. Why is Heavenly Parent so sad about man? It is because they would rather think about themselves than the whole.
In the end, you will see that due to your stubbornness, your family, your country and Heavenly Parent became forlorn.
We must know that even though we claim to live according to Heavenly Parent's will, in the end, we are the ones living for ourselves. That is the issue.
Why Families Become Pitiful
3. The reason why families become pitiful is because husbands and wives start to get nervous, do whatever they want, and complain. Then that family is ruined. In particular, if a woman who is the center of love complains, the family will be ruined. The husband's position, of course, is the same. There is hope for a family where the spouses absolutely obey each other and children absolutely obey their parents. However, if you look at the families where couple fights, it is because the motive for getting married was self-centered and for their own sake. When everyone first got married, they said they didn't have such selfish motives, but isn't the reason couples fight in the end because the other person won’t live for the sake of their spouse?
The Reason Couples are Happy and Unhappy
4. When a couple is motivated by self-centeredness, will they do nothing but fight? If both spouses do as they want, telling each other to live for their sake, will they fight more? If family members tell each other to live for their sake, there will always be fights. On the other hand, if the spouses say they will live for the sake of each other, there is only love and happiness. In the end, whether you fight or are happy as a couple ultimately depends on who you live centered on. Isn't this a fact? If you deny yourself there is only happiness and love, and if you assert yourself, there is only pain and conflict. It's that simple.
The reason why families become pitiful is because husbands and wives start to get nervous, do whatever they want, and complain. If a husband and wife start complaining to each other, Heavenly Parent's blessings will completely run away, fortune declines and ruins the family.
I have heard many testimonies from brothers and sisters and have had my own experience, if there is no unity between husband and wife, all blessing goes away. You may lose money, or some accident will happen. In the family one of the most important points is harmony between husband and wife. If you start to complain, you destroy your family. Heavenly Parent’ blessing will run away, heavenly fortune will decline and finally it will ruin the family.
In a family, the wife and mother are the centers of love. If a woman who is the center of love complains, the house will be ruined. Her husband's position, of course, is the same. There is hope for a family where the spouses absolutely obey each other and children absolutely obey their parents.
I would like to confess to you when I started family with my wife in the beginning it was not easy – different culture, different background, different nationality, Japanese-Korean relationship of enemies. After fighting and disagreement, I came to understand – my conclusion – (is that) I need to give up everything, my own opinion, my own thinking. I just sat quietly without talking much. I just served her whatever she wanted. I completely denied myself. And now I find happiness, and she will do whatever I want. A long time passed before I started to realize this point. I hope you got it. You can reach that goal earlier than I did.
However, if you look at a family where the couple fights, it is because their motives in getting married were self-centered and for their own sake. And conflict arises when they think the other person is not acknowledging them.
When a couple is motivated by self-centeredness, will they do nothing but fight? If both spouses do as they want, telling each other to live for their sake, will they fight more?
For example, if there is fighting between husband and wife, maybe one side is right and the other is maybe wrong, but if there is fighting between husband and wife, it means your couple is still immature, still spiritually low class. If after 10, 20, 30 or 40 years they are still fighting, then their level of spirituality is very low. You still don’t know how to deny yourself. That is why self-assertion does not work at all in front of ones spouse. “This is the Principle! This is right. What I am saying is correct!” This does not work at all.
Without talking, (just) serving, loving, completely giving up my own opinion. (That is the) only (thing that) works. If you say, “According to the Divine Principle, according to the Principle of Creation, according to Father’s word, my Abel’s word, Dr. Yong...” (this) does not work at all. Without talking, just serve, attend, love, sacrifice and give. Only this way works.
I am a 65 year old year man. Only 48 years after joining the church I started to realize that. When I realized that, I could feel family harmony. I could feel what unity means. When you go through that process of self-denial, after that you can feel peace and freedom, and you can gain whatever you want. In the beginning you need to have that kind of process: “My wife is my God; my spouse is my God. Even though my spouse is wrong, I will just follow and obey.” With this kind of attitude of serving and love, my spouse (comes to) know that she is wrong. Her original mind knows that. That is why there is no need to teach her, no need to give advice. Her or his original mind knows very well.
If you deny yourself, there is only happiness and love. If you assert yourself, there is only pain and conflict. It is that simple, but the practice is not simple, right?
What is the Unification view again? In the family you must uphold absolute harmony, absolute filial piety, absolute love, absolute self-denial and absolutely live for the whole purpose of the family. Everyone should
What is Unification Church's Family View? In the family, you must uphold absolute harmony, absolute filial piety, absolute love, absolute self-denial, and absolutely live for the whole purpose of the family. Everyone should put family harmony first.
Today I talked about “Unification Church's Family View”
(Testimony Miye Iwasaki, CIG Missionary, Israel)♦
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