Ep 775 - The Role of Women Has Become More Important Part 6
Opening, Inheriting and Fulfilling the Era of the Victory, Liberation and Completion of the True Parents - December 9, 2022
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Key Points
Now is the “processive” (progressive?) age in which humanity will shed their fallen nature, find their true self and live as a unified family attending God as their parent and changing their blood lineage through the marriage blessing.
We are entering the Cheon Il Guk era in which humanity returns to the heart of God, the spirit and physical worlds are united and the providence will be administered through heavenly law. It will be a time of peace and happiness.
To overcome the world, we must first overcome the religious world and the mental realm.
The UN must establish a religious Abel realm or council on which the Cain political realm must be centered in order to solve world problems. These correspond to mind and body respectively.
To bring peace in the U.S., ACLC as the heart and UPF as the body must completely become one and work together.
Prayer and sincere devotion establish a spiritual condition, and if you win here, you feel confident that God is with you and you win the actual battle.
Jacob needed the victory over the angel in order to win Esau’s heart.
Struggle with parents is passed down to one’s children.
A filial child who trusts, respects and attends his parents as God will inherit what is positive from his parents, will become better than they are and will bequeath his filial heart to his children.
If we no longer criticize, blame and complain, then we will no longer pass those negative traits on to our children and descendants. If we have a good heart, a beautiful mind, always loving, always giving, always embracing, we can bequeath that. Let’s settle everything in our generation.
The age of attending means breathing and living together with God 24 hours a day.
In the Completed Testament Age, True Parents took on the intangible God as His human body and became the substantial God.
Couples who receive the Blessing must also become a man and woman who unite and become the substantial body of God like True Parents. Man + woman = God.
God's purpose of creation was to use a human body through human beings, and that was realized through blessed couples.
Our spouse is the body of God, our substantial God. We live with our God.
When a man and a woman love each other and become one in heart, God will come to that place.
Because God operates on the four position foundation, His substantial love is always manifested through the family.
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 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> 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 era of the final stage is the era of heavenly affairs, in which human beings should follow the path of living for the sake of others, by establishing an absolute standard based on their internal and external purification through the Marriage Blessing Ceremony. In short, it is the era we are living in today, which is the time of opening the era of Cheon Il Guk, where we can return to the heart of the one true God. I hope you will bear this in mind forever.
Once the era of substantial Cheon Il Guk unfolds, the Association of the Union of the Spiritual and Physical Worlds will govern all things in the universe from the central axis position. What that means is that the spiritual and physical worlds will be connected and substantially united, and the providence will be carried out according to the heavenly law and the heavenly way. Elections of a secular nature will no longer be seen on this earth, and humanity will become one great family through intercultural and interracial marriage and enjoy peace and happiness in everlasting prosperity. Such a day is almost before our eyes.
I will summarize what Mother is talking about.
What Era are We Living in Now?
1. Now is the processive era that humans must go through in order to shed their fallen nature, find their true self and enter the era of living in a unified family attending God as their parents.
2. Now, the changing of the blood lineage through the marriage blessing, and sanctifying both internally and externally, and going on the path of "living for the sake of others' is the final stage, the age of heaven.
3. This is the time we are opening the era of Cheon Il Guk, which returns to the heart of the one God.
4. Now is the era of substantial Cheon Il Guk, where the Association of the Union of the Spiritual and Physical Worlds will govern all things in the universe from the central axis position.
Before he died Father often spoke about the Association of the Union of the Spiritual and Physical World. This is that kind of time. There is not much difference between the spiritual and the physical world. Now (the two worlds) really need to work and cooperate together. We are living in such an era.
5. Now is the time to prepare for the era when the spirit world and the physical world will be connected to complete the substantial unification and the providence will be administered through the heavenly law and the heavenly way.
6. Now is the time, through the Intercultural marriage blessing, to prepare for an era of peace in which humankind will become one family and enjoy a time of peace and happiness.
An incredible time has come. Father has fully paid the indemnity. This kind of time and era is really incredible. As long as we really unite with Mother, a great time is coming before us now. We need to know about that.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 11 - The Spiritual Fall 1
• God created human beings with two components: the spirit self and the physical self. The human Fall likewise took place in two dimensions: the spiritual and the physical.
• The fall which took place through the sexual relationship between the angel and Eve was the spiritual fall, while the fall which occurred through the sexual relationship between Eve and Adam was the physical fall.
• How can an act of passionate love be consummated between an angel and a human being?
• All the emotions and sensations felt between a person and a spirit are exactly the same as those felt during contact between two earthly people.
• Undoubtedly, a sexual union between an angel and a person is possible.
• We can understand this more clearly from the fact that there are reported cases of earthly people leading a married life with spirits.
Based on this let’s study Father’s word.
Set a Spiritual Standard First
<78-139> We Unificationists must overcome the religious world. And also God has to overcome the religious world. In other words, Satan must be overcome after subjugating him. Without victory over Satan, there can be no victory in the substantial world.
That’s because the Fall started from the Spiritual Fall. The confrontational relationship between God and Satan created a crooked spiritual standard. Therefore, the restoration of the physical standard cannot be possible without setting a spiritual standard first and then correcting it. You should clearly understand from the Divine Principle point of view. Do you understand?- Yes.
We need to know that the mind is subject and the body is object. Father speaks here about the importance of setting a spiritual standard first.
To overcome the world, you must first overcome the religious world. This is because the religious realm is the realm of the archangel.
If you overcome the realm of religion, you will surely overcome the realm of the world. First, you have to overcome the mental realm.
Therefore, the UN organization must first establish a religious Abel realm that corresponds to the level of the Senate. And only when the political Cain realm is centered on the religious Abel realm can all problems in the world be solved.
... We need to establish in the United States (United Nations?) a religious Abel realm which represents the spirit. The political world represents our body. The religious side as Able and the political side as Cain have to unite. Then the United Nations will become an ideal organization.
This is because religion and politics are like mind and body.
Then, in order to establish a world of peace in the United States ...
Actually our ACLC is very important. It should lead the spiritual (realm as) a kind of representative in America. Based on that our UPF as the body must completely become one.
ACLC and UPF need (to work in) combination. ACLC is like the spiritual standard and UPF will represent a physical standard. (They) need to work together and unite. That is an ideal system.
The Condition of the Spiritual Victory
<283-195> In Adam’s family, Cain and Abel had a fight outside of their mother’s womb and the second son, Abel was killed. Jacob could have faced his twin brother Esau since he stood on the foundations of suffering and the conditions of indemnity that many good people had made since Abel’s time. As a result, Jacob could meet the standard for spiritual victory by subjugating the angel at the River Jabbok..., That’s it! Adam committed the Spiritual Fall and the Physical Fall and this must be indemnified. As a result, Jacob could be blessed by Israel because he made a victory over the Spiritual and Physical Fall of Adam and Eve for the first time in human history through a condition of spiritual victory by subjugating the angel at the River Jabbok and subjugating Esau, the substantial body of the archangel. Therefore, Adam’s family lost but Jacob won. It’s the restoration of indemnity.
The reason we set the conditions for spiritual victory is to overcome the spiritual fall and gain spiritual victory first.
Prayer and sincere devotion establish a spiritual condition, and if you win here, you win the actual battle.
That is why through Morning Devotion or any kind of jeongseong or prayer condition, you have more confidence and you can feel God is with you. With that kind of absolute conviction you can win external anything actually. That is why the spiritual battle(?) is important.
How can you win the spiritual battle first? If you win the spiritual battle first, surely you can win the actual battle. This is important guidance.
If Jacob had lost the fight with the angel before meeting his older brother, Esau, he could not have won over Esau’s heart. In order to win the spiritual battle we need to pray and (have) jeongseong, always reading God’s word. We need to prepare internally very well. Then finally we can overcome any substantial reality.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Where are you Looking for God?
Now is not the Age of Faith, but the Age of Attendance
1. Respect arises when we absolutely trust our parents in our families. If we believe in our father in this way, we will have a heart of respect and attend that father. However, if the father wastes money by exercising violence, drinking, gambling, etc., the children cannot trust their father. However, if the father works hard for the family and does his best without drinking or smoking for the sake of the family, the children will respect and serve the parents.
As can be seen in family relationships, trust is needed first, and then serving with respect is the next step. We, the Unification Church, emphasize to blessed families that they go beyond just believing in their parents and attending them. Wives don't just believe in their husbands and vice versa, they must absolutely attend each other. The New Testament Age was the Age of Faith. However, the Completed Testament Age is the age of attendance. That is why we call this the age of justification by attendance.
If we have filial piety to serve our parents like God in our family, we will definitely feel respect for them.
Even if the parents disappoint their children, if the children think that their parents are in the position of God and have a heart to serve, then the children will become better than their parents.
A filial child inherits everything their parents have. The problem is that if we do not have filial piety toward our parents and the relationship with our parents is poor, that relationship is (passed down) to our children. Everyone must know this. That is judgement.
My fallen nature, my good things, my weak points, everything appear to my children.
Adam and Eve's trait of refusing to show filial piety to God (was) passed down to their descendants. Therefore, we must put into practice the resolve to end the results of the history of unfilial piety in our generation (that will) never be passed down to our descendants.
As can be seen through family relationships, first, we must trust in the other person, and then, a heart of respect and attendance is needed. We, the Unification Church, emphasize to blessed families that they must go beyond just believing in their parents and attending them.
Wives do not just believe in their husbands, and husbands do not just believe in their wives, they should absolutely attend one another. The New Testament Age was the Age of Faith. However, the Completed Testament Age is the age of attendance.
Anyone struggling with one’s own father and mother, this does not end (with him). Your struggle with your father and mother is passed down to his children.
That is why even though we are struggling with our father and mother, we need to overcome. We should be better than our father and mother’s standard. Then our children will inherit our good points. Through our sons and daughters we can know what our fallen nature is, what our problems are. Our children are our results. That is why if we criticize or blame our father and mother, then our children will criticize or blame us. We need to finish (this) in our own generation. Don’t blame Adam and Eve much, do not blame ancestors much, do not blame our own father and mother. We want to restore(?) (this) within our generation, no matter what. We need to respect our father and mother because their position is the position of God. Without them we (would) not (be) here. If they are wrong, then we need to make them correct. Good standard. We have to be responsible.
That is why I am so scared. If I criticize someone, my children will inherit (this); my descendants will inherit (it). That is why I need to have a good heart, a beautiful mind, always loving people, always giving, always embracing. If I have that kind of heart, I will no (longer) pass (negative traits) down to my children. My position is very important.
I am so grateful to Father and Mother. I will be responsible for any historical problems. I want to finish everything in my generation -- no more passing (negative traits) down. That is a responsible mindset.
Anyone, any leader, any member, any Cain, any Abel, if we criticize something, our juniors will inherit it from us. How can we become a true self? How can we become a true man or a true woman? (How can) we settle everything within our own generation? This is the point.
Where are you Looking for God?
2. We learned though True Father's teachings that this present age is the age of attendance. If it had not been for True Parents, we would not have known the word Completed Testament and that the Completed Testament age is the age of attendance. The purpose of the New Testament era was to believe in Jesus. But now, through True Parents, we have received the blessing and established families. Therefore, from now on, we must no longer seek the invisible God. God is no longer an intangible God. The couple who received the blessing have bodies that resemble God, and the yang and the yin become one body to become God. At the time of God's creation, the woman represents God's yin disposition, and the man is representative of God's yang disposition. Therefore, the place where two people meet is where they meet God. God has become a substantial being using the bodies of man and woman, so where are you looking for God? God's purpose of creation was to use a physical body through human beings, and that was realized through blessed couples. So, where are you looking for God?
If it had not been for True Parents, we would not have known the completed testament and that the completed testament age is the age of attendance. The age of believing may end with just believing, but the age of attending means breathing and living together with God 24 hours a day.
The purpose of the New Testament Age after Jesus, who came as the only begotten Son of God, was for the people to believe in him. However, in the Completed Testament Age, True Parents took on the intangible God as His human body and became the substantial God.
We who have been blessed by True Parents must no longer seek the invisible God. God is no longer an incorporeal God. The intangible God took on the body of True Parents and became the tangible God.
Heavenly God now wears the human body. One of his greatest wishes was to wear the human body. But Jesus was only half! True Parents as representatives of yang and hin, became the tangible, substantial God.
Accordingly, married couples who receive the Blessing must also become a man and woman who unite and become the substantial body of God like True Parents.
At the time of God's creation, because a woman is a representative who resembles God's yin characteristic, and a man is a representative who resembles God's yang characteristic, the place where the two unite is the place where God comes.
I came to understand more clearly through Father’s word that man is a half representative of God, 50%. God’s yang characteristics. And woman is 50% of God’s characteristics which are yin characteristics. That’s why when man and woman come together and unite together, that is substantial God. Who are substantial God? Man and woman (who have) come together. That is why we cannot find God without our spouse, our wife, our husband. Who is God? Man plus woman = God.
God has become a substantial God using the bodies of a man and a woman. Where are you looking for God? God's purpose of creation was to use a human body through human beings, and that was realized through blessed couples. Where are you looking for God?
You have been living with your God substantially all the time. Who is your God? Your husband or wife is your God. Wow!
God is not just a vague concept. He is very substantial. His incredible wish is what? “I want to become a substantial human being.” He created Adam and Eve, but they could not realize that. Jesus could not realize it. Father and Mother finally realized it and became God’s substantial body.
So when man and woman come together and unite, that is God. There is no need to look for the invisible God. Serve your husband or wife as the representative of God.
Now is not the Age of Faith but the Age to Take Responsibility
3. The place where God's yang and yin, and internal nature and external form substantially meet through a man and woman is the place where they meet God. When a man and woman love each other and become one in heart, God will come to that place. That is why if a blessed family cannot be formed, God is not there. Therefore, now is the era of attending the other person as God. Because this is such an age, we have entered the age of responsibility.
This is not an age of faith, but an age to take responsibility. What is your responsibility? It is to fulfill Heavenly Parent's wishes. Even in the family, when a daughter-in-law comes in, the parents-in-law have a wish for her. The same is true for a son-in-law. Then what is their responsibility? It is for the bride and groom to live a righteous life and be respected by one another.
The place where God's yin and yang characteristic, and internal nature and external form meet through man and woman, is a place where you meet God. When a man and a woman love each other and become one in heart, God will come to that place.
Sooner or later I will go back to Australia in order to meet my God. What is substantial prayer? Serving her, loving her, attending her – whatever she wants. I can help her. I can meet God through my wife. Where is substantial God? My wife is substantial God. Making her happy is making God happy. It is incredible! The unification principle is incredible! Father and Mother guide us with such incredible details. More and more I understand what the most important thing is: the relationship between husband and wife. This is really important.
Therefore, after receiving the blessing, a man cannot meet God without a woman, and a woman cannot meet God without a man. Because God is someone who operates on the 4 position foundation, His substantial love is always manifested through the family.
Therefore, there is no way to meet God apart from the family. This is the age where you cannot meet God no matter how much you pray and fast on top of a mountain if you cannot meet Him in the family. Family is the most holy place where God dwells.
If you cannot find him in your family, where can you meet God? This is one of the greatest teachings of our True Parents.
Therefore, if we do not form a blessed family, there is no way to meet the substantial God. A woman before a man is the substantial God. And man before woman is the substantial God. Therefore, now is the era of attending the other person as God.
Attend my father and mother as God, my children as God. This is the era of attendance. We need to start from the family.
This is not an age of faith, but an age of responsibility. What is your responsibility? This is an era where you take responsibility for serving your partner like God. That's why it's your responsibility to be respected and loved by your partner.
How much respect do you have from your spouse. If she doesn’t respect you, then you could not fulfill your responsibility. This is really incredible guidance. Thank God for True Parents. They teach us such details.
How can we love our spouse? True Parents teach us in detail. I again and again realize the value of my wife, of my father and mother, of my brothers and sisters, of my children. Where can I meet God? In my family. That is the holy of holies, right? Today we have learned very important things.
(Testimony Rev. Richard Sapp, Food Ministry, Florida)
Today I will go to Los Angeles. Because of the time difference, I may record my speech for several days.
Now is the Christmas season. Let’s inherit our beloved Jesus’ great love. I really love him. How much he sacrificed for the sake of the world! This year let’s bear fruit by visiting our ACLC churches and having a deep relationship using this opportunity of the Christmas season.♦
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