Ep 771 - The Role of Women Has Become More Important Part 2
Opening, Inheriting and Fulfilling the Era of the Victory, Liberation and Completion of the True Parents - December 5, 2022
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Key Points
True Parents established the UPF and WFWP as an Abel-type UN since the UN is currently not fulfilling its role properly as the world government.
TF: in order to move from the position of a servant to the position of a son, we must be able to enjoy entering the original world of creation even if we lose our lives while fighting evil in the realm of death centered on Satan.
Those who have a heart of freedom unaffected by Satan's dominion can rise above the position of servant.
Giving one's life to one's master is possible only in the heart of a son.
Just as an angel fed Elijah facing starvation on his way to Mt. Horeb, so when we are in a situation in which heaven sympathizes with us, God will mobilize angels to protect and care for us without fail. That's why the Bible tells us not to worry about what we will eat, drink or wear.
We must work harder than anyone else for God's will and stand in a position (in which) Heaven can sympathize with us.
We must avoid self-assertion and arrogance and treat ourselves as 100% God’s.
God’s wish is for me to become a filial son, to establish an ideal family and then to dominate all things and establish the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.
Because we were created by God, we cannot forget that we belong to God even for a moment and we must absolutely adjust to God’s absolute law.
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, I had breakfast meeting with Latino Ministry members at Chicago Family Church.
It was a beautiful meeting. I heard each of their beautiful testimonies. Now even the Chicago Church is going to start an ethnic group ministry. The Korean ministry group is doing well as well as the Latino ministry.
Then, I had a lunch meeting with KEA members in Chicago at Rev. Dong Hun Lee’s house.
His house is a church. It was very beautiful. Most of them are second generation plus third generation, and even fourth generation is coming soon. It was such a beautiful environment. They thoroughly keep Heavenly Parent’s and True Parents’ tradition. I felt overwhelmed by their effort and jeongseong. There was so much food, very heartistic, a family atmosphere. I was so impressed. I emphasized that they should multiply more. Abel needs to exist in order to save Cain. Where there is Cain there should be Abel. Where there is Abel, there should be Cain. So I said they should really multiply. I think they can do it.
Then, we had a Family Reunion Service celebrating 50th Anniversary of Chicago Family Church in Schaumburg Golf Course. About 400 people attended the service. The environment was very beautiful and warm. So many people and new guests came. ... leaders and staff did an incredible job.
Terushi Nakaza, assistant pastor of Chicago Family Church was a MC. We celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Chicago Family Church with cake cutting. Dr. Michael Jenkins came all the way from Washington, D.C., and gave congratulatory remarks and Dr. Ki Hoon Kim gave special history testimony about Chicago.
Rev. Kazuo Takami introduced Chicago Family Church 7 Key Victories 2022 and Vision. I delivered a message on the title of "Heart of Re-union.”
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> In addition, based on the special address I gave at the UN Headquarters, New York, in September of 1993, as well as three years' worth of efforts made to develop the services and programs I have mentioned, WFWP was approved by the United Nations Economic and Social Council as an NGO in General Consultative Status, which is the highest status given to an NGO. In particular, WFWP members have devotedly carried out various activities to realize the Millennium Development Goals instituted by the UN at the beginning of the new millennium, and it gives me great pleasure to tell you that, thanks to their hard work and their achievements, our status has been re-approved continuously at the reevaluations held every four years.
The Middle East Women Leaders' Peace Council has been hosted every year from 1997 under my guidance, and has now been expanded and developed into a more concretized and localized campaign thanks to the interest and participation of women leaders from 20 nations in the Middle East. I believe this is a truly remarkable achievement.
In addition, we have hosted Global Women Leaders' Workshops in different continents each year starting from 2000, and these have taken root as a beautiful meeting place for the participants to share their on-the-scene experiences in all corners of the global village, their wisdom, and their vision for the future, and to cooperate with one another.
True Parents established the UPF and WFWP as an Abel-type UN and carried out the providence, since the UN is currently not fulfilling its role properly as the world government. In that sense, True Parents said that the WFWP and UPF must fulfill their roles as world governments that guide the world and mankind.
How much True Parents emphasize the important goal of UPF and WFWP. Now UPF and Women’s Federation for World Peace are among the main organizations leading the world. Thank you so much to all the leaders of UPF and WFWP.
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 Angels were God’s Retainers
<4-321> God was working to establish His garden of freedom and kingdom of liberation using the angels as retainers in the Old Testament Age. You should be grateful even (if) you are risking your life in order to enter the realm of liberation where you can be liberated from the position of servant to that of God’s son. You must understand that those who have such a heart of freedom can exceed the position of a servant and thereby seek for the position of a son.
We are talking about the Angels who were God’s retainers.
How to Exceed the Position of a Servant and Go to the Position of a Son
True Father said that in order to move from the position of a servant to the position of a son, we must be able to enjoy entering the original world of creation even if we lose our lives while fighting evil in the realm of death centered on Satan.
When I think about it from that point of view, can I really give up my life for Heaven and True Parents? We see cases where even secular people give their lives for their parents and children.
However, how many people can sacrifice their lives for Heavenly Parent and True Parents beyond their physical lineage? And how many people can give their lives for the country and the world?
Jesus and True Parents overcame the place of death while fighting Satan. They were able to transcend the realm of Satan because they had the original blood lineage.
True Father said that only those who have a heart of freedom can rise above the position of servant. The realm of free heart refers to the original human heart that is not affected by Satan's dominion at all.
The character of a servant is unable to sacrifice his life for his master. Giving one's life to one's master is possible only in the heart of a son.
Angels are just servants. You cannot sacrifice your life as a servant. Therefore, when we grow up, we must leave the position of the servant and enter the position of the son.
Only true filial children with filial piety can give their lives for their parents. Our mission is not that of angels as the retainers. Our mission and responsibility is to become God’s sons and daughters. If we become God’s filial sons and daughters, we can be liberated from the position of servants to (become) God’s sons.
The Angel who Appeared to Elijah
<6-25> Elijah, who realized that he could not stay among the Jews fled to Mt. Horeb near Mt. Sinai where God had blessed his ancestors and where they were connected to God when the Israelites came out of Egypt walking day and night for 40 years. God already knew that Elijah had a long way to go beyond the border and there wouldn’t be any friends or sympathizers with him. That’s why God had an angel give Elijah a bottle of water and some rice cakes baked with a charcoal fire and had him eat them.
That is why God had an angel give Elijah a bottle of water and rice cakes cooked with charcoal and had him eat them.
What was the reason Heavenly Parent was able to send an angel to Elijah, who was in an environment where he had no choice but to die?
In the Old Testament we learned that God worked through angels.
It was because Elijah was in a position where Heavenly Parent could sympathize with him and show mercy on him.
Likewise, if we are in a position (in which) Heaven has no choice but to sympathize and show mercy, He will mobilize angels to protect and feed us. That's why the Bible tells us not to worry about what we will eat, drink or wear.
I am inspired this morning by Father’s word (about) when Elijah had this critical situation and God sent an angel (to help him).
God knows your situation very well.
Therefore, beyond worrying about what we will eat, drink, or wear, we must work harder than anyone else for God's will and stand in a position (in which) Heaven can sympathize with us. Then you will experience the fact that Heaven is alive and works without fail.
The question is whether I stand in a position with a firm, longing heart and where Heaven can sympathize with me as I walk the path of God's will.
In the course of our life of faith, God’s sympathy, the spiritual world’s sympathy, even people’s sympathy, even Satan’s influence(?), must be given with jeongseong and sincerity so that the works of heaven begin to unfold. After all, such a position is jeongseong, utmost sincerity that can only influence both God and spiritual world.
Do you have that kind of sympathy (inspiring) condition? When Heavenly Father looks at you, at our leadership(?), he and the spiritual world and your ancestors have no choice; they need to help. Father said when you have that kind of sympathy condition, God always protects you. ... without giving up. (You might?) think you are alone. God knows your situation very well. Do you think that God does not know you? He is the parent of parents. He is the one who knows your situation very clearly. Do not say that “No one knows me, no one understands me.” You need to believe that God watches over you, sympathizes with you, knows everything. If even in that situation, you still comfort God and console him and keep going without giving up, God will completely surrender.
“Wow! My daughter! You are struggling with your husband, right ? Your husband left and found another woman after receiving the Blessing.” But this woman kept going on with God’s will and never changed her mind and heart and still prays, “My husband someday will come back.”
You need to have that condition that God can sympathize with. When we have a condition God and the spiritual world can sympathize with, I think the spiritual world mobilizes to help you no matter what.
Since I came to America what kind of condition for (God’s) sympathy have I made?
“Wow! Dr. Yong is doing Morning Devotion with all American brothers and sisters without missing a single day. He is working together with all the American brothers and sisters investing jeongseong without missing even a single day. What I believe is that utmost sincerity moves heaven.
How can we mobilize the spiritual world? Utmost sincerity moves heaven, moves the spiritual world. As human beings we have limitations, so we have to borrow power through our jeongseong. If our jeongseong reaches heaven, God will sympathize with us, with American brothers and sisters because they have (invested) so much jeongseong together in order to accomplish True Parents’ will, to unite with True Mother.
When we make such a jeongseong condition, I am telling you, we don’t need to worry -- like Elijah. God sent his angel to help Elijah. We need to focus on God’s will and not worry about what to eat, what to drink and what to wear. We need to take care of God’s will first until God sympathizes with us. Today’s word from Father encourages me so much!
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Human Beings must Adjust to God’s Absolute Law
What is God’s Enemy?
1. What is God’s enemy? Human beings assert themselves, insist on themselves, and affirm themselves. Human beings, who were created by God, belong to God 100%, but if they assert themselves as belonging to themselves, God will be displeased and say “you belong to yourself?” We are 100% God’s. We have not known this until now. In fact, it is worth knowing but we have not known that. We breathe every moment, but who is doing this breathing? You think that we are breathing ourselves, right? If you could control your own breathing, can you also not breathe? You cannot. If I did not want to breathe, so I do not breathe, then I will die. Then do I breathe because I want to breathe?
What is Heavenly Parent's enemy? That is where human beings stand by self-asserting themselves, insisting on themselves and affirming themselves. In a word, all fallen human beings are very self-centered and equally arrogant. They emphasize their own opinion. They struggle with Abel, Cain, husband or wife, with everyone.
How can I deny myself? Without self-denial I cannot have give-and-take with Heavenly Parent. I am not mine. I belong to God. I am not a causal being, but a resultant being. The causal being, God, is the one who created me. I need to absolutely follow his blueprint. Absolutely I must unite with his blueprint. I cannot stand by my own self ... You are not a causal being, but a resultant being. If you know your identity very clearly. Who created you? You need to find your creator’s blueprint. You cannot say you belong to your own self. If I adjust according to God’s blueprint, everything will be fine. You cannot have your own blueprint.
Wow! This is a really important point.
Human beings created by God are 100% God’s, but when humans claim to be their own, Heavenly Parent gets angry and says, "”Are you yours?" “Do you really think your body belongs to you?” “Does your mind belong to you?”
Therefore, we must treat ourselves as 100% God’s. Until now, we didn't know this.
Human Beings Must Adjust to God’s Absolute Law
2. As long as I am alive, breathing is absolute. Do you know what ‘absolute’ is? It means that as long as I am alive, I cannot not breathe. But who is the one that lets us breathe? Human beings cannot breathe as they please. Human beings assert themselves all the while being unable to control their own breathing itself. From this perspective, human beings are life spirits that were absolutely created by God. If human beings know this law, we must absolutely adjust to God’s absolute law. Human beings did not know this. We really have not known this. That is why we need to deny ourselves. I cannot carelessly think of myself as belonging to myself and carelessly have preconceived notions. I cannot forget that I belong to God even for a moment.
Can you control your breathing just because you breathe? Can I stop breathing just because I don't want to breathe? As long as I am alive, breathing is absolute. Do you know what ‘absolute’ is? It means that as long as I am alive, I cannot not breathe.
Can I breathe out just because it is easy? Can I not go to the bathroom just because I just want to eat and not go to the bathroom? I cannot do any of these things.
From this perspective, human beings are life spirits that were absolutely created by God. If human beings know this law, we must absolutely adjust to God’s absolute law.
Everything must follow the principle of creation created by God. If you leave this cosmic law and treat yourself as if you were your own, you become God's enemy.
What is the purpose of God’s creation? Why did he create me? Because he is a causal being, I am a resultant being. He had a blueprint before creating me, before creating the cosmos. He had a law. He had some kind of intuition (about) why he created human beings, why he created the universe. That is why I need to know the blueprint. (Then) I need to adjust to the blueprint. I cannot insist on my own opinion. I need to go according to his blueprint, his thinking, his idea, and unite with him. That is the way to accomplish my goal. We always need to know what God’s purpose of creation for me was. What is his desire for me to do?
We always need to ask. We always need to think about his idea, his wishes. His wish is for me to become a filial son. Next, he asks me to establish an ideal family and then to dominate all things and establish the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. I need to unite with his blueprint and thinking.
We must know that human beings are not the cause but resultant beings. Therefore, I must live by the cause. So, you must absolutely deny yourself. You cannot carelessly think of yourself as belonging to yourself and carelessly have preconceived notions. You cannot forget that you belong to God even for a moment.
Today I talked about “Human Beings Must Adjust to God’s Absolute Law.”
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NOTE: This text and the PowerPoint slides from this speech are available as a link at the top of this text. Transcripts from November 3, 2021 to the present, personal notes from November 11, 2020 until November 2, 2021 and slides from August 29, 2021 to the present are available at MD.Hoondok.com as PDF files. Books of the transcripts and notes are available as PDFs at MDBooks.Hoondok.com.
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