Ep 767 - Opening, Inheriting, and Fulfilling the Era of the Victory, Liberation and Completion of the True Parents Part 9
Opening, Inheriting and Fulfilling the Era of the Victory, Liberation and Completion of the True Parents - December 1 , 2022
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Key Points
Peace arises from investing oneself for others by giving true love.
The task of our unification movement is to shed more tears for the country – for America – and the world than anyone else and for us to become true people through the Principle. Then our movement can grow and thrive.
There are no exceptions to God's principles.
God is great. True Parents are great. The Divine Principle is great. Now we need to exemplify them to others, to show that we are great, that we are really children of God, that we are really true Unificationists.
In order for heaven's Will to settle on this earth, it is more important for it to be recognized in the physical world than in the spiritual world.
True Father said that Jesus' forgiveness for the Israelites and the Roman soldiers moved the thief on the right. That thief’s testimony to Jesus as the son of God was the condition for Jesus' spiritual resurrection.
The works of the spirit world will be based on an earthly foundation, achievements and determination.
The foundation of substance is the foundation of being recognized on earth through human relationships, the relationships between Cain and Abel-figures.
People on earth who become the subject, who offer prayers, sincere devotion and practice, and who inspire other people, will eventually move the spirit world.
The Bible speaks of this in Matt 16: 19: “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
Father begs us to bear fruit while we are still on earth. Once we have left, it is almost impossible to really grow up. That is why every moment of our life on earth is really precious.
The most fundamental thing in a life of faith is to meditate on the Word, especially the words that have moved you or given you grace.
You need to have a key word or phrase that inspires you and that you keep in mind throughout the day.
Meditating on God’s word can become your prayer and jeongseong.
The next step is to deny yourself in your relationships, that is, not to assert yourself.
Always think from the other person's and from True Parents’ and Heavenly Parent's point of view.
True Father lived for others so that Heavenly Parent could actively intervene in his life under any circumstances.
We can decline the human-centered horizontal relationships and conquer the environment through God’s vertical heart by always following the example of True Parents’ life.
TF: “I know (invisible) Heavenly Parent more than I know True Mother.”
We must think, and pray a lot and meditate about how to apply the principle and the Word and go beyond our habitual life.
Every second you must always live centering on the heart with sincerity.
We must invest our hearts to go deeper with the word from the body to the mind to the heart.
We should (invest) our heart in human relationships or in whatever we do
We must struggle and put forth a lot of effort with tears to be well armed with the Principle, inherit it, and go to the level of heart.
Even though we try to apply the Principle in our heart, for fallen man it is easy to forget. We need a lot of tears and pleading: “What should I do, Heavenly Father?”
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.♦
Today is already December 1. It is the last month of the year. Time flies so fast, right?
Whenever I think about December 1, I think about my spiritual father, Rev. Yo Han Lee’s, spiritual birthday. I think he is helping me so much from the spiritual world . He has such loyalty and great heart,f loving God and True Parents . I really appreciate him. He is the one who really raised me so much. I really appreciate his dedication to God and True Parents . Because of him I learned a lot about who our True Parents are, especially about Father’s course.
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> However, I would like to emphasize once again that the movement we must prioritize before anything else is the true family movement, based on true love through living for the sake of others, carried out in conjunction with educating for the highest values. Women also have to become standard-bearers of the peace movement. Included in the essential mission of this federation are various activities for the reunification of North and South Korea. Women have to play a leading role in bringing about Korea's unification and world peace. This will come by means of education in the thought and practice of true love.
Wars and conflicts arise from selfish motives from which emerge the desire to take others' land, possessions and the like by force. On the other hand, peace arises from investing oneself for others by giving true love. In the final stage, the era of heavenly affairs, in which we are to follow the path of living for the sake of others, the Cold War has ended and new hopes for peace and social justice are spreading across the entire globe at an amazing pace. Those leaders who turn their faces away from the new realities of the world, or who refuse to see them, will be wiped away by the changes that are sweeping in like a tidal wave. I believe the time has now come for us to step forward boldly, embrace our new opportunities and model the highest values.
Wars and conflicts arise from selfish desires such as to take others' land, possessions and the like by force. On the other hand, peace arises from investing oneself for others by giving true love.
We are living in the final stage, the era of heavenly affairs, in which we are to follow the path of living for the sake of others. Those leaders who turn their faces away or even refuse the new realities of the world, will be wiped away by the changes that are sweeping in like a tidal wave. Egoism, nationalism, and denominationalism directed only at one's own denomination will all disappear at some point.
In order for the Unification Movement to remain forever, we must walk the path of truly living for the sake of others, just as True Parents have said.
Our movement will disappear if it does not become the unification movement that the world, the nation, the society and the neighbors need.
There is no organization, group, denomination, or country that can survive ignoring the law of living for the sake of others.
Even though we speak all the time about living for the sake of others, even though the Divine Principle is great, if we do not practice it, it does not make any sense. Someday it will disappear.
If we make a mistake, we can focus only on the expansion movement of one denomination and degenerate into a movement that has nothing to do with the problems of society, the country, and the world.
In that sense, the task of our unification movement is how much we shed tears for the sake of the nation and the world.
How much do we Unificationists really love and care about America? More than George Washington and Abraham Lincoln?
We already know that we have to love the world, we have to love our nation. As a Unificationist we have to love (the nation) more than any patriot, more than George Washington, more than Abraham Lincoln. Otherwise, how can we say we are loving the nation of America?
The challenge is how much you love and care about the world and humanity more than anyone else, like Jesus and True Parents.
No matter how great the Principle is, if our movement cannot truly become a movement for the country, the world, and God, and if we do not change and become true people through the Principle, our unification movement will never grow and will disappear someday.
There are no exceptions to God's principles. So I really need to change myself and our community and grow and develop.
As a blessed couple if you do not follow God’s Principle, I am telling you, there are no exceptions to God’s Principle. We know God’s will; we know the Divine Principle; that is why we have to be more serious and responsible. What is our portion of responsibility? We need to change and to grow up. We need to create a beautiful community. Then everybody can say, “The Unification Principle is really right, really correct.” Then everybody (will be able to) follow us.
We have already proclaimed the Divine Principle is great, True Parents are great, but we are not proud of ourself because we don’t show it. God is great. True Parents are great. The Divine Principle is so great. Now the time has come to show that we are great, that we are really children of God, we are really true Unificationists. It is time to show the model.
Otherwise, we may shame our God and True Parents . We say that True Parents got a victory, but their children do not? That doesn’t make sense. That is why now is the era of the children. We are the ones to create the glory of our Heavenly Parent and True Parents.
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.
Angel’s Foretelling the Birth of Jesus
<3-234> How was God’s heart when He observed the birth of Jesus? When the angels were foretelling the birth of Jesus to the shepherds, there was no one foretelling it on earth. That was the sorrow of Heaven. If ever there had been anyone who could declare the existence of the Messiah instead of angels seeing the birth of Jesus at that time, there could have been great celebrations on earth just like in Heaven. We can come to the conclusion that Jesus was crucified due to the failure of the Jewish people to fulfill their mission representing the Israelites.
Heaven hoped that there would be evidence on earth (about the value of Jesus’ birth?) just as God, the spirit world, and the angels knew the value of the birth of Jesus and testified to it. This is Heaven's sorrow.
Looking at this, we can see that in the end, God's purpose of creation and the blueprint (for the creation?) are what He planned in heaven, and what he hoped to substantialize on earth.
Therefore, in order for heaven's Will to settle on this earth, it is more important (for it) to be recognized in the physical world than (in) the spiritual world.
True Father said that Jesus' forgiveness for the Israelites and the Roman soldiers who stabbed him at the last moment of his death, eventually moved the thief on the right. And the thief on the right testified (to) Jesus as the son of God, which was the condition for Jesus' spiritual resurrection.
When we see these things, we come to know that the works of the spirit world will be based on the earthly foundation, achievements and determination.
Looking at the central figures in the history of the providence of restoration, most of them succeeded in establishing the foundation of faith but fell short in establishing the foundation of substance.
The foundation of substance is the foundation of being recognized on earth through human relationships, the relationships between Cain and Abel-figures. Therefore, we must know that the spirit world cannot work at all unless people on earth become the subject, offer prayers, sincere devotion, and practice with interest. Therefore, those who inspire people on earth will eventually move the spirit world as well.
That is why the Bible clearly speaks about (this).
Matt 16: 19 - “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
Why did Jesus pass the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven to his main disciple, Peter? Because we need to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth first. This is the issue.
Why was God’s providence prolonged and delayed and delayed? Because God’s will has to be done on earth first. That is why the Bible very clearly says, “Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
That’s why (we need) a substantial foundation on the earth. Once you have passed away and gone to the spiritual world , Father says, it takes a long time to complete your spiritual body. Once you go to the spiritual world , it is very difficult. That is why Father begs us to bear fruit while we are still on earth. Once we have left it is almost impossible to really grow up. That is why our life is really precious. Our life is very short, 80 or 100 years. Each moment is so precious. Once we have left it takes a long time to grow and complete (ourself).
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: True Parents’ Life Should Become my Model
1. We need to completely clear our lifestyle of following the example of the secular world to this day, centered on fallen nature, and live a life of arming ourselves with God’s Words. We always need to live arming our hearts with empowering words from hoondokhae. The next level is to not assert myself thoughtlessly.
How did True Father come to live with God’s heart? How did True Father end up dominating the horizontal Satanic world? The answer is simple. It is because Father was someone who enthusiastically lived for the sake of God and others in any circumstances.
How can we also decline the human-centered horizontal relationships and conquer the environment through God’s vertical heart? Whether we are asleep or awake, we must thoroughly set this as our life creed. Therefore, we must always live following the example of True Parents’ life.
The most fundamental thing in a life of faith is to live a life meditating on the Word. Meditating on the word is actually very powerful. You must always meditate on the Word and live with the subject of the Word.
Do you have some kind of theme of God’s word? What is your key word for your daily life? You need to have a key word. Whenever you think of (your) key word, it can inspire you. Then you really need to think centering on your key word.
That is why you have to meditate over and over again on the words that have moved you or given you grace. This is the life armed with the Word.
That is why you always need to (keep in mind) a key word. Which one inspired you? Which word gives you power and energy? You always need to meditate – not just be inspired – and apply the word to your daily life.
The key word is very important. Like a cow (chewing its cud), we need to chew (on the word) again and again. We need to meditate again and again. You need to write your key words in your notebook – what words really inspired you? – and go back to them. (Write them down) from 1 to 10 and from 10 to 100 and note which key words inspired you (repeatedly).
That kind of meditation can become your prayer. You can spend time not just for one hour but for two or three hours meditating on God’s word. Meditating on God’s word is an important prayer condition and jeongseong. Just receiving (God’s word) and forgetting it does not make any sense.
The next step is to deny yourself in your relationships. To deny yourself means not to assert yourself.
Even though you are correct and you are very much an Abel-type person, even though you have a principled opinion, do not assert yourself. You need to take action first.
And always think from the other person's point of view. Even though you are correct and you have a very Principled style, still you need to hear someone’s point of view, and always think from True Parents or Heavenly Parent's point of view. How could True Father live with the heart of Heavenly Parent? You have to think about how True Father came to dominate the horizontal satanic world.
I really appreciate that I had time with Father and had a personal relationship with him. I had a chance to listen to his word a lot and study his word.
In every moment I ask, “If True Father or True Mother were here, in this situation what would he or she think? What kind of opinion would he give to me. I am very grateful that I had that kind of experience and relationship with Father. I saw Father smile and his anger. Sometimes he was upset. This personal relationship between True Father and me was so precious! When I just (picture) his face, I can get an answer. “In this situation what would he think? What kind of advice would he give to me?” He will give me an answer. Living with True Father was really an incredible experience.
Also, I spent seven or eight years with Rev. Yo Han Lee. He really guided me almost every day. When I made a mistake, he would correct me – not just for one or two years, but for seven or eight years. I learned what self-denial means. I could not stand in front of him without self-denial. I really appreciate that I learned what self-denial means. He was a model Abel figure. With such a figure, we can learn thoroughly.
Without a substantial model Abel figure when we learn God’s word and are inspired (by it), it is easy to forget. But when you live together with a central figure, you know your identity and you need to change your character. You need an Abel figure. He should be your own father and mother in the family.
True Father lived so that Heavenly Parent could actively intervene in his life under any circumstances. As a result, he always lived a life for others.
We have a substantial Abel like True Father and True Mother or very famous central figures. But Father, who is his Abel? The invisible God. We really need to appreciate this. We do not know how to relate to the invisible God but True Father knows how to relate to the invisible God and attend Him more substantially.
One day I was so surprise to hear Father’s word: “I know Heavenly Parent more than I know True Mother.” True Mother’s backside and face are like that. He knows where she has some spot. Father knows. But he said, “I know God more than that.” The messiah is amazing!
When I prepare for the Morning Devotion or preach the Word, I always pray that Heavenly Parent and True Parents will be invited to direct me.
I have experienced countless times that no matter who I meet or what I do, if Heavenly Parent is not with me, everything flows away horizontally. So I can't help but pray every moment.
How can we also decline the human-centered horizontal relationships and conquer the environment through God’s vertical heart? Whether we are asleep or awake, we must thoroughly set this as our life creed. Therefore, we must always live following the example of True Parents’ life.
True Parents showed the example. We believe in Jesus and his word, but his words are very short. Not much. But True Parents showed us everything: an exemplary life and told us so many things. How fortunate we are! We cannot blame those who lived in the Old Testament Era or the New Testament Era. They don’t have a substantial Abel. That is why they can make mistakes; they have their own thought.
But we have amazing True Parents, an amazing teacher, true king and true owner. Who has learned more than we have? Our True Parents are an incredible example!
The Reason Our Life of Faith is Difficult
2. Next, the reason our life of faith is difficult is because our hearts have not been resurrected. We do not apply the Principle to our lives and change them heartistically but just try to live according to our own thoughts and habits, so resurrection of the heart does not take place. That is why our life of faith easily dries out, becomes a formality, and gradually becomes more difficult. We should be living centered on the heart, but we often just try to live by believing. A life of simply believing in God and having faith in Jesus as the Messiah has no heart. Since the Principle is understood in the head, faith that only lives by believing just becomes faith that believes in the Principle and lives.
Why do we feel that our life of faith is not resurrected and difficult? It is because you have to apply the Word well in your life, but you always live your life according to your habits and way of thinking.
That is why our habitual faith is really dangerous. We have a daily routine: we wake up in the morning, have breakfast, go to work, have lunch, come back ... With that kind of habitual life, sometimes we forget the main point.
So we must think, and pray a lot about how to apply the Divine Principle and the Word into our lives. In order to do so, we must meditate on it a lot. The Word must always live in our hearts.
That is why we need to meditate on God’s word.
However, even though many people receive grace when they hear the Word, once they return to normal life, the Word just becomes words and they return to their own habits and lives. As a result, the life of faith easily dries up and becomes a formality, making it increasingly difficult.
And the most important thing is to go beyond just believing in the Word and always reflecting on whether or not your heart is moved by it. In other words, you must always live centering on the heart. Heart is the issue. A person who struggles to live centered on the heart is sincere with all of his heart every second.
How can we (stimulate) our heart? How can we (make) our heart well up? How can we apply the Divine Principle to our daily life? The important thing is that we need to put our heart (into it), our utmost sincerity. That is important. Without putting in our sincerity and just doing everything habitually and (out of a sense of) duty, there is no affect on our heart. That’s why the final stage is what? The foundation of heart. Every Morning Devotion I talk about heart because this is the final stage. The Kingdom of Heaven is what? The world of the heart. I continuously remind you and myself how to (bring our) heart to well up voluntarily, happily, joyful, gratefully. We need to (make an) effort; there is no other way. We need to put in our sincerity. That is our portion of responsibility . We cannot have it any other way.
Enter a Level Deeper
3. We have realized the Principle rationally, but we are unable to enter a level deeper. Without applying the Principle to our lives and changing them heartistically, we stop in a state of understanding a different principle. While saying “Let’s preserve Sundays,” “Let’s do pledge service well,” “Let’s do hoondokhae well,” we just follow them externally. We do not invest our hearts.
Where we try to be faithful to the organization and obedient to the church’s traditional rituals, there is no heart there. Isn’t this a problem? If only our bodies follow like that, it dries our hearts. Tears will disappear. We should arm ourselves with the Principle, inherit it, and go to the level of heart, but we are unable to enter deeper and all stop on the way and lose our tears. Since we have no tears, we have no hearts either. You must all know this very well and reflect on yourselves. We today should be concerned that there are no tears in our hearts.
If we first understand the Word, we must keep going deeper internally. You must enter from the body to the mind, and then from the mind to the heart. The problem is that we realize the principle rationally, but we cannot go deeper.
The problem is that without internally accepting the Principle in our lives and change to a stage of evoking our hearts, we stop in a state of just understanding the principle. While saying, “Let’s preserve Sundays,” “Let’s do pledge service well,” “Let’s do hoondokhae well,” we just follow them externally. We do not invest our hearts.
Every morning when we do Family Pledge and we know that we are an internal or an external guy, we (should) really (invest) our heart as the owner of Cheon Il Guk. That is our portion of responsibility . Without putting in our heart, dah dah dah dah dah... we just waste our time.
We should (invest) our heart in human relationships or in whatever we do, any responsibility. Not putting in our heart does not make sense. Our heart will never grow up; we become habitual, very formal, external. Then later on – we don’t know the reason – our heart becomes very dry. We are no longer a human being; (we have) no tears.
We try to be faithful to the organization and body(?) and obey the traditional rites of the church, but there is no heart there. If we just follow our bodies like that, our hearts will dry up and tears will be gone.
We must struggle and put forth a lot of effort to be well armed with the Principle, inherit it, and go to the level of heart. Since we, who have fallen nature, want to put (the Principle) into practice, we need a lot of tears.
Why?
Even though we try to apply our Principle in our heart, but for fallen man it is easy to forget. That is why we need to have a lot of tears. “What should I do, Heavenly Father? I have this kind of fallen nature, what should I do?” That is why we need to have repentance; we need tears; we still need to struggle to become a deeper, more internal person. How can we become people of heart? At least we need to have that kind of struggle and effort.
We try to live according to the Word, but it doesn't go well, so we can't help but cry.
You yourself, I myself, must know these things and reflect on them. Today we have to worry whether we have tears in our hearts or not in order to apply God’s word in our daily life.
(Testimony Geoffrey Quilates, Kosovo, CIG missionary)♦
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