Ep 770 - The Role of Women Has Become More Important Part 1
Opening, Inheriting and Fulfilling the Era of the Victory, Liberation and Completion of the True Parents
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Dr. Chung Sik Yong, December 4, 2022
Key Points
• True Mother laid the foundation for WFWP with lectures in 106 countries, and has mobilized 1,600 Japanese Women's Federation volunteers from around the world. Inheriting that foundation, the United States should send American WFWP members around the world to grow the organization.
• Our vision centered on God and the vision for the sake of the world and humanity will surely come true.
• Believe everything comes true as we dream, think, pray with utmost sincerity, believe, proclaim, prepare and move forward.
• As the elder-son nation, America needs to help save the world and work toward total salvation.
• Satan tempts us three ways: spiritually by whispering self-centered, lewd and sexual thoughts to us, physically through pornography, and tangibly through seduction by lewd humans. We must reject lustful and self-centered thoughts, not look at pornography and reject physical temptations by not creating a reciprocal relationship.
• If we distinguish between heaven’s "Dos" and "Don'ts" and obey them well under the guidance of parents, Abel and our conscience, Heavenly Parent will take responsibility for our path to eternal life and guide us.
• Heavenly Parent takes 95% responsibility for humans by creating an environment for them, giving commandments to guide them and sending the messiah as a model, and he asks us to practice filial piety as our 5% by avoiding leading a self-centered, horizontal life based on fallen habits, judgements and preconceptions, and by distinguishing the "dos" and "don’ts" in order separate good from evil.
• God's Han and sorrow is that he cannot intervene when we fail because that would cause us to lose our position as a Creator.
• Heavenly Parent carried (out) His providence through those who obeyed. If human beings set the standard of obedience, God will do all the work.
• Heavenly Parent has continuously endured for 6,000 years and has finally been able to send True Parents to show us a model life.
• Like the prodigal son, fallen people turn back when they reach a dead end and there is no further way to go.
• The present world is truly the Last Days of the Last Days.
• Fallen people must repent in order to truly return to God. We Unification Church members must repent and shed tears for our ancestors and for unfilial humanity. Heavenly Parent always gives opportunities to those who repent.
• We blessed families must become righteous.
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 an ACLC Prayer Breakfast meeting at Life Center Church of God in Christ in Chicago hosted by Pastor T. L. Barrett Jr. About 100 people gathered together. It was an incredible and beautiful event.
Pastor T. L. Barret Jr gave greeting remarks, Joshua Holms, YCLC president, gave a video message regarding YCLC Vision. Then, Kevin & Shannon introduced YCLC. Dr. Ki Hoon Kim gave special remarks, and Dr. Rouse introduced me for the Keynote Address.
I gave the keynote address, spoke about a great spiritual awakening movement, and I encouraged the ACLC pastors to study the Divine Principle.
Many of them were inspired by the keynote address and signed up to study the Divine Principle. It was incredible! The Holy Spirit came down yesterday.
Dr. Michael Jenkins and Rev. Kazuo Takami gave remarks and asked the participants to sign up for Divine Principle study.
We took a group photo
Then, we had a witnessing group meeting with about 40 members in the Chicago Family Church. They shared about their witnessing activity, and I emphasized the importance of Jeong Seong before witnessing and how to become a champion of witnessing. It was a really live meeting, so much spirit!
We took a group photo.
Today I’d like to talk about “The Role of Women has Become More Important” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given at the World Women's Peace Network General Assembly held on March 25, 2012 at the Beache Palace Resort Hotel in Muchangpo, Korea> Beloved world leaders of the Women's Federation for World Peace! I would like to extend my warmest welcome to the leaders and members who have come from various parts of the world to attend the 20th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the Women's Federation for World Peace held in this beautiful Muchangpo, situated on the west coast of Korea. I would also like to return my deepest gratitude and glory to God and Reverend Sun Myung Moon, who is the co-founder of WFWP together with me. The Women's Federation for World Peace was founded in April of 1992 as a central organization of the women's peace movement at the Seoul Olympic Stadium in Jamsil, along with a declaration of the advent of the global era of women, with women representatives from more than 70 nations and 150,000 Korean women leaders attending. It is truly inspiring that this year marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of WFWP.
During the past twenty years WFWP has achieved amazing growth and development as it carried out various services and educational programs to advocate the firm establishment of families of true love and the elevation of women’s status, based on true maternal love, in all parts of the global village. From its early days, I prepared the ground for the global organization of WFWP and the foundation for its activities by going on speaking tours across continents and nations. Moreover, I mobilized all the WFWP members around the world, including the 1,600 Japanese members who were sent out to 160 nations in the world as volunteer workers.
Since its founding, True Mother has been laying the foundation for the global organization and activities for the Women's Federation through speaking tours in 106 countries, and has mobilized 1,600 Japanese Women's Federation volunteers from around the world.
Now is not the Age of Parents, but the Age of Children. True Parents established the Women's Federation and sent to the world 1,600 volunteer members from Japan's Women's Federation, representing the mother nation, and showed the model.
It was really incredible.
Now, in the era of children, the United States, representing the elder son nation, should inherit True Parents' victories, achievements, and model, and send U.S. Women's Federation volunteer members around the world to help the Women's Federation continue to grow on the foundation established by True Parents.
Dear brothers and sisters, you do not know how important vision is in our life of faith. This is because the vision centered on God and the vision for the sake of the world and humanity will surely come true. How happy would God be if the United States, as an elder son country, could send out volunteers centering on young people all over the world?
This is one of my greatest wishes, how we can send missionaries and volunteers all over the world.
I am sure that such a day will surely come.
Dear brothers and sisters, have faith. Believe everything comes true as we dream – as long as that dream relates to God’s dream, God’s vision.
This is one of my slogans. There are seven slogars. I always emphasize them.
Believe everything comes true as we think. Believe that everything comes true according to our prayers and utmost sincerity, jeongseong. Believe that everything comes true as we believe. Trust that everything will come true as we proclaim. Trust that everything will happen the way we prepare it. Believe that everything will come true as we move forward.
I always remind myself about my vision, dream, thinking, prayer & jeongseong, belief. This is really a powerful slogan. It always gives me incredible strength. As long as we have that kind of beautiful vision, we can serve 180 nations as the elder son nation, the USA. Our USA can become a providentially central nation. I want to inherit from the mother nation, Japan. I want to inherit that kind of spirit from the Father nation, Korea.
Now the time has come (that we need to fulfill) the role of the elder son. We really need to do it from now on. That is why Heavenly Father sent me to America. I need to work with WFWP, UPF, YSP and Family Federation. How can we work together with these four organizations to serve the world? Serve 180 nations, nearly 200 nations, in the world. We have that kind of vision – not just for America but for the world and humanity. As long as we have that kind of vision, I am telling you, our American will never perish. We were born to serve the world. Our stage is centering on the world, a global level. Not just our own nation.
Please think about it, with WFWP, UPF, Family Federation, YSP, day and night, thinking about total salvation. How can we help God and True Parents to save all humankind? We need to have this kind of vision, concept and dream all the time. Then God will give us incredible wisdom and will show us the way we can do it.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 10 - The Motivation and Process of the FallThe 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.
Based on this let’s study Father’s word.
The Temptations of Angels and Satan in the Last Days
<4-42> Likewise, since the archangel tempted Adam and Eve right before they were perfected, Noah, Moses, Jesus and people in the last days who are supposed to fulfill their missions must experience Satan’s attack. At first, there are physical attacks followed by emotional(love) attacks. That’s what is happening to us these days. When Christian history moves forward in a nation and a people, the path remains steady as an official formula course.
Our father teaches us in such detail how to overcome the temptations of angels and Satan in the Last Days. Let me explain in more detail.
The Process and Types of Satan's Temptations
This is the archangel’s temptation. It is invisible, substantial Satan.
1. Spiritual Temptation
> Satan's words
> Spiritual Fall (Lewd thoughts and enviroment)
2. Material Temptation
> Temptation of the Fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
3. Temptation of Affection
> Temptation of Physical Love
We must be careful and aware of the three types and processes of Satan's temptations. The first is spiritual temptation which is invisible archangelic temptation.
. Through his words, Satan keeps whispering self-centered, lewd and sexual thoughts into humans.
Satan always attacks us every second, minute and hour. Invisible Satan appears through our thoughts. Using his words, Satan says, “Have sex. Have sex. Where is a woman? Where is a boy? Have sex.” How can we deny that we are descendants of Satan? We know through the results. How can we deny that Adam and Eve fell through a sexual relationship? Can you deny yourself? You can see every second, every minute, every hour how much Satan tries to invade. If he finds room in your heart, he immediately attacks.
First of all, how can we separate Satan’s temptation from our thinking? We have to be careful before the physical fall of the spiritual fall, lewd thoughts and the environment. If you allow Satan’s thinking, Satan’s word, “Have sex, have sex,” if we allow it without separating (from it), then it will conquer our body. So how to separate from (Satan’s) thinking is the issue.
Without studying God’s word, without prayer and jeongseong, it is impossible. Even St. Paul struggled and lamented. For what reason? He was also a fallen person. Can you imagine? How can we overcome spiritual temptation without God’s word, without prayer? It is impossible to separate from Satan’s spiritual temptation, his word. Satan’s main words are the same, “Have sex, have sex. Drink alcohol. Smoke.” This is really incredible.
Secondly, material temptations. The fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil represents material.
The second temptation of Satan is physical temptation. Satan substantially shows the fruit of knowledge of good and evil in humans. Pornography that shows nudity of lewd men and women and shows something tangible and physical and tempts humans.
Ok, you accept Satan’s word, “Have sex, have sex,” then you are more interested in pornography. Already you have been invaded by Satan’s word and your eye and thinking and mind try to see pornography, men’s and women’s naked body. That represents material temptation.
Then finally is temptation of affection.
Third is when lewd men or women come and seduce me.
Therefore, you must reject lustful and self-centered thoughts. Next, do not look at pornography. And lastly even when physical temptations come, we must not create a reciprocal relationship.
That is why we need to separate from Satanic thinking. Satanic thinking will really destroy you, destroy God’s temple, destroy your heart. This is the result.
When I was young in middle school before I joined the church, why did this kind of thinking come to me? I struggled so much. I did not want it. I asked a friend, “I have this kind of thinking. How about you? Is it only me?” I was 13 or 14 years old. I hated this kind of thinking. (The friend said,) “Me, too.” Another friend said, “Me, too.” Oh my God! This is a common issue.
That’s why we cannot deny that we are descendants of fallen man. Chapter Two, the fall of man, is really real! Someone says, “I cannot see the archangel; he is invisible.” But how can you deny that Satan has attacked you? You cannot see him through your own physical eyes, but the spiritual fall is real. It is not just talk. If you have the spiritual fall, then it directly connects to the physical fall. That is why the spiritual fall is more dangerous than the physical fall. If you do not prevent the spiritual fall, you will surely fall physically. That’s why you must be very clear spiritually, internally, heartistically. You have to be pure from your heart.
Without studying God’s word, you have no power to reject Satan’s temptation. Without relating to your Abel, without your report, you are immediately tempted by Satan. That’s why every second Satan comes and confirms, “You are my blood lineage.” Where does Satan comes from. “You have Chapter Two thinking. I am the owner of this fallen man. You are my children.”
This is really the devil.
The fall of man, I am telling you, is really reality. Spiritual world is really real. Look at this world now. The Divine Principle is really amazing. If Christian ministers know the reality of Satan, the spiritual fall and the physical fall, then we can stop that kind of behavior. That is why we need to teach the Divine Principle. Why do spiritual leaders have more problems? That is why yesterday I talked very seriously about the (ministers’) need to study the Divine Principle. We cannot raise ACLC ministers any more as onlookers. No more tourists. They need to learn the Divine Principle. They need to know Satan’s reality.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Way for Me to Resurrect My Heart and Live Eternally1. In order to resurrect our hearts, we should not do what God commands us not to do and obey what God commands us to do. If we absolutely obey God’s Words like that, God will take responsibility over the way of our eternal life. I only need to not go on the path of death. If I just obey the things I was told not to do, God will take care of the way for my eternal life and guide me. When a mother raises a baby, she protects the baby in environments that are not good, cares about the baby’s health, prepares the baby’s nutrients evenly and feeds the baby, and if it is cold or hot, she prepares everything for the baby according to that environment. Then, if the baby just sleeps, wakes, and eats in the realm of the mother’s protection, they will grow well. If the mother’s sincere devotion and protection were 95%, then the 5% portion of responsibility that the baby has to do is just eating well, sleeping well, and peeing and pooping.
Adam and Eve's responsibility during their process of growth was to be able to distinguish between the "Dos" and "Don'ts" that Heavenly Parent commanded and to obey them. However, fallen human beings stumbled because they disobeyed the ”don’ts” and ignored the ”dos.”
Just as you have to follow the law in the world, you must live according to God’s word of law in order to follow the will. Therefore, Heavenly Parent takes responsibility for the rest of the way to eternal life when human beings carefully distinguish between the "dos" and "don’ts“ from His Word and follow them well.
That’s why God created the commandments, "dos" and "don’ts.” “Don’t eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Other things you can do.” God clearly gave us our portion of responsibility. We need to clearly distinguish "dos" and "don’ts.” You know how to distinguish these and obey God’s commandments, then he will be responsible for your eternal life. But fallen men always go the opposite way, right?
Therefore, as long as I keep the commandment I was told not to do, God will take charge of my path to eternal life and guide me. Accordingly, families should obey their parents well. In the path of faith, you must obey your Abel-figure's words. Internally you must obey the sound of your conscience.
You need to hear the voice of your conscience.
God’s Wish and Han (Bitter Pain) for Human Beings
2. If the baby wakes up and cries “waah~,” the mother will run to and embrace them, change their diaper, and feed the baby, so actually, the mother does 99% for the baby. The baby doesn’t even have 1% portion of responsibility. We can see this relationship between mother and baby as the relationship between God and us human beings. Our 5% human portion of responsibility is almost nothing compared to the things God does. From that viewpoint, if there is anything that God asks from us, what would that be? That is for us to not live a horizontal life centered on ourselves. What is that horizontal lifestyle? It is acting centering on our customs and habits, our own judgements, and self-centered preconceptions. It means to not repeat these fallen natures. God actually has the heart to help out with the responsibilities human beings have to fulfill, but if He goes so far as helping with those responsibilities, human beings cannot stand in the position of the owner, so He cannot intervene. This is God’s bitter pain.
Heavenly Parent prepares human beings with an environment in which He takes 95% responsibility and commands them. Our human 5% portion of responsibility may be nothing compared to what God does.
From that point of view, what would Heavenly Parent request of fallen human beings? It is to not lead a self-centered, horizontal life. To overcome horizontal life, you must always be in vertical alignment with Heavenly Parent. That is filial heart towards our Heavenly Parent.
Once we lose vertical alignment with God, we immediately become horizontal. Immediately Satan invades us. How can we keep this vertical alignment with God all the time? Once we lose it, Satan immediately knows and invades us. How can we overcome this temptation? (To the extent that) we love God, we can overcome Satan’s temptation. Then Satan cannot find any room to attack us.
If we have a longing heart for our lover, if we are crazy (in love), no one can find the space to enter that girl or boy. He is full of longing heart. If we love God that much, Satan cannot find any room to attack. We call that filial heart. We love God that much. We are full of a longing heart. We completely become one (with God). Then how can Satan attack? There is no room for him to attack.
The first commandment is that we need to love God and put God first. There is no other way.
The horizontal life is to act centered on our habits, judgements and our self-centered preconceptions. As God has been managing the providence of restoration for the past 6,000 years, He knows very well that it is difficult for any fallen human being to fulfill his portion of responsibility, so he sent the Messiah as a model.
Heavenly Parent, who sees repeated failures of fallen human beings, is eager to help them with their responsibilities. However, he cannot interfere because human beings are responsible for the separation of good and evil and for distinguishing the "dos" and "don’ts."
It is because if Heavenly Parent intervenes, human beings will lose their position as the Creator. This is God's Han and sorrow.
Even though he helps us, distinguishing good and evil is our portion of responsibility.
God Has Appeared in True Parents’ Substantial Manifestation and Showed Everything
3. When human beings obeys according to God’s Will, God also helps. However, if human beings are self-centered and have spiteful conduct, He cannot help. Having spiteful conduct must be corrected by oneself. God cannot help with that. If you do not correct your spiteful conduct but leave it as it is, what can God even do? Even God will be displeased with such person.
To this day, God has endured again and again for 6,000 years. And He finally sent True Parents and showed the model life. Even so, if people do not put it into practice, what more can God do? If the day when God can no longer endure and wait for this world comes, do you think this world will be comfortable? What would happen if God’s earthshaking wrath and judgement arose in one night? Even if God appeared in True Parents’ substantial manifestation and showed everything, if we do not follow it, what more can God do about that evil influence?
Heavenly Parent helps those who obey His will. Looking at Heavenly Parent's past history of the providence of restoration, He has carried (out) His providence through those who obey.
If we look at the obedience of Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Moses and Jesus, we can clearly see what kind of person God has used as the central figure. That is why it is said that obedience is better than sacrifice.
Therefore, if humans do not obey, are self-centered and do hateful things, God cannot help them. If human beings set the standard of obedience, God will do all the work in the end.
That is why obedience is really important. Absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. Without absolute faith and love, how can you obey? That is why absolute obedience already includes absolute love and faith. Obedience is really incredible. Adam and Eve did not obey God’s word.
Until now, Heavenly Parent has continuously endured for 6,000 years. And finally by sending True Parents and showing a model life, human beings can no longer accuse Him.
Nevertheless, if human beings do not practice, what more can God do? Mankind's fallen nature is indeed a vicious thing. Looking at the evil nature of fallen people, they can reach a dead end and only turn back when there is no further way to go. This is fallen man.
Like the prodigal son in the Bible who, when he was in a miserable situation (in which) he (had) wasted all the wealth he had inherited from his father and had no choice but to die, turned around, repented, and returned to his father.
The present world is truly the Last Days of the Last Days. Do you think the world will be comfortable in the future when the time comes when Heavenly Parent can no longer wait for this world? What if God's wrath and judgment shook the earth overnight?
Therefore, fallen people must repent in order to truly return to God from now on.
That is why yesterday when we had a gathering of ACLC (clergy), I (told them) that in order to go back to God’s bosom, we need to repent. Without repentance there is no way to go back to God’s side.
We Unification Church members must repent and shed tears for our ancestors in the past and (for) how unfilial humanity has been living in the present.
Heavenly Parent always gives opportunities to those who repent. When Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, they were destroyed because there were not even 10 righteous people. We blessed families must become righteous in this world and escape God's judgement.
Your mission and mine is very important. We need to become righteous people. Then Heavenly Father can forgive all of America and the entire world. We need to go that way. We need to repent and let others repent as well and go back to God’s bosom.
Today I talked about “The way for me to resurrect my heart and live eternally.”
(Testimony Pastor E.J. Rapada, Raising New Blessed Couples)
Through all the blessed couples, grand children and great grand children, we can restore a whole tribe. This is really powerful. That is why we should not ignore seniors. They relate to so many people and descendants. It is one of the ways to accomplish the Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission.
Also, I really appreciate that the Filippino community is doing very well centered on E.J., also the Spanish, Chinese, African groups. Now they are showing a model at the Clifton Church. I deeply appreciate this.♦
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