Ep 779 - Women as the Turning Point for Peace Part 1
Women as the Turning Point for Peace - December 12, 2022
Key Points
At his last public event before his ascension True Father emphasized that the Women's Federation must unite with True Mother and play the most central role in the world providence.
Your biggest enemy is your own self-centeredness.
Be vigilant about whether your thoughts are God's thoughts or self-centered thoughts.
Always report to Abel or to your spouse.
We must invest, sacrifice, and serve for the sake of the other person until he is completely satisfied with our love and surrenders naturally.
The reason someone accuses us is because he wants to be loved.
The archangel who became Satan has two hans and wishes: to receive love from a perfected human being and to receive the perfect love from God.
Persecution, accusation and blame come not from the attacker but from his ancestors and provide an opportunity for us to grow. We should accept such treatment happily and gratefully.
Before the Blessing, we believed in the invisible God, but after receiving the Blessing, we must attend, love and serve our spouse as the visible God.
Our family is the holy of holies because if we live according to Heaven's principles and laws, it is the place where God comes directly. The family is the Four Position Foundation that is God’s dwelling place.
Blessed families are sons and daughters to whom God gave birth through True Parents after paying the price of countless indemnities, hardships, and sacrifices for 6,000 years. They are the total fruit of God's 6,000 years.
Once you start family, your best Abel is your spouse.
Because fallen human beings are in the midway-position, neither God nor Satan can trust them.
You must live with approval. Husbands should report to their wives and wives to their husbands, even in small things, and then act.
We must always live, sleep, wake, eat, wear, and meet in accordance with God’s desire.
God’s law is absolute. No negotiation.
Obedience to God’s word, uniting with God’s law and principle is very important.
Ask your original mind. Discuss with your spouse, your Abel. That is the safe way to keep your life of faith.
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 “Women as the Turning Point for Peace” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given at the Women's Federation for World Peace USA Turning Point Assembly for the Abel Women's UN, held on October 27, 2012 at the M Resort in Las Vegas> Distinguished guests from around the world, peace leaders and women representatives from all fifty states of America, dear members of the Women's Federation for World Peace, WFWP International! I would like to extend our sincere welcome to every one of you for coming to Las Vegas to attend this historic United States Assembly for the Abel Women's UN at which we commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Women's Federation for World Peace in the United States. First of all, I want to express my sincere gratitude to the 7 million leaders from 194 nations who sent me their great love and respect upon Reverend Moon’s passing, and who visited altars around the world to offer condolences. Reverend Moon, who came to earth as the Savior and the True Parent of humankind, proclaimed throughout the globe the vision of an ideal world, which was God’s purpose at the Creation. He devoted his effort, without regard for his own life, to creating a peaceful world where conflict and war are no more.
Last July 16, after completing a busy schedule in America, we came to Korea, which we have proclaimed is providentially God's homeland. Immediately upon our arrival, we held the inaugural rally for the Abel Women's UN, which will play an active role in building a peaceful world in a new era. The event, which was held at the Peace World Center, was attended by 25,000, among whom were women leaders representing 194 nations. Beloved women leaders from around the world, that was the last providential event Reverend Moon hosted on earth. About fifty days later, he put the providence on earth in order, and then prayed the words, “I have completed everything.”
What we must know is that the last providential event and conference held 50 days before True Father's Holy Ascension was the Women's Federation Conference in Korea.
On July 16, 2012, as soon as True Parents arrived in Korea after a busy schedule in the United States, they held the inaugural rally of the “Abel Women's UN,” an organization that will play a leading role in the establishment of a world of peace in a new era. The event, which was held at the Cheongshim Peace World Center, was attended by 25,000 domestic and foreign guests, including female representatives and leaders from 194 countries. That was True Father's last event.
At that time, True Mother was scheduled to give the keynote address, but True Father suddenly decided on the keynote address and presided over the event.
Therefore, I believe that True Father's words at that time were like a will, and also hinted that in the future, after True Father's holy ascension, the Women's Federation must unite with True Mother to lead a new providence.
From this standpoint, True Father emphasized to us once again the importance of the role that the Women's Federation must play.
From this point of view, it is believed that True Father showed that the Women's Federation must unite with True Mother and play the most central role in the world providence.
Father proclaimed the Abel Women’s Federation. This is Father’s last rally before he went to the spiritual world. We need to know the importance of the Women’s Federation for World Peace. How much do Women’s Federation for World Peace members realize its importance?
I am a man, (but) I am not just focused on Family Federation. There are also UPF and YSP. These four organizations are the main organizations. From now on I think we need to create a strong foundation centered on these four organizations.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human
Fall 11 - The Spiritual Fall 1
• 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 EDP content, let’s study Father’s word.
Self-Centeredness and the Feeling of Receiving Less Love
<35-98> All individuals and the whole world are to be divided in the Last Days. That’s because the motivation of the fall arose from self-centeredness. The archangel fell due to the feeling of receiving less love centering on himself. And Adam fell because he was centering on his own desire. Since the seed of the fall was spread from generation to generation, you should clearly understand why these days have become the Last Days. Human beings have become corrupted since the mind and body relationship split apart after the fall. The families composed of such individuals have also been corrupted. That’s why such families are to be divided into four; God’s side, Abel’s side, Satan’s side and Cain’s side.
The reason why the individual and the world split into two was because the motive for the Fall was all focused on the individual. The archangel fell because of his feeling of being loved less centering on himself, and Adam also fell because he centered on his own individual desire.
We must clearly know that self-centeredness was the motive of the fall. The scariest thing is self-centeredness. When you become self-centered, you cannot see God, you cannot see your Abel-figure, and you cannot see the other person.
You cannot your spouse, your children, your parents, your closest friend – because you are very self-centered and do not know how to live for the sake of others.
In the end, you must know that your biggest enemy is not other people, but your own self-centeredness. Therefore, while living a life of faith, we must always be vigilant about whether our thoughts are God's thoughts or self-centered thoughts.
And in the midst of your life of faith, you must always receive permission and discuss with your Abel-figure. Therefore, you must always receive approval from the Abel-figure and live. You must always live by the subject partner.
You need to have a good habit.
“Dr. Yong, I don’t have an Abel figure to report to.” Then in your family your spouse has to be your Abel. The wife always needs to report to the husband; the husband always needs to report to the wife; children need to report to their parents, and when the parents go somewhere, they always need to inform their children. You need to report to each other. Through such reporting and discussing together you can have a more heartistic relationship. Without reporting heartistic distances develops. This is a problem.
Do you know what Satan is? The number one satan is not the archangel, not Adam, not my neighbor, not my spouse, not my children. It is self-centeredness. This is the most dangerous (trait). The fall begins from self-centeredness. The archangel was self-centered. Eve was self-centered, as were Adam and Cain. If you are possessed by the spirit of self-centeredness, you cannot read your wife’s mind, your husband’s mind, your children’s mind. You cannot catch your Abel’s heart. You cannot feel anything about God’s heart. Why? Because you are completely covered by self-centeredness.
That is why we need to be careful. Our motivation comes from where? Is my thinking centered on God, on Satan or on myself?
A Condition to be Restored
<35-258> The motivation of the fall lies in the feeling of being loved less. Thus, there can be no restoration of God’s side without setting a condition that God loved the beings on Satan’s side and fully loved the archangel. Therefore, you must love investing everything. This is the course of loving your enemies. You should establish such a condition in order to become the ancestor of a good tribe.
The cause of the fall is having a feeling of being loved less. Therefore, from God's perspective, restoration is impossible unless you establish the condition of completely loving the archangel on Satan's side.
Since the world of heaven is a world of perfect true love, no one should feel a decrease in love. Therefore, we must invest, sacrifice, and serve for the sake of the other person until he is completely satisfied with our love and surrenders naturally.
Therefore, we must fully love and move others so that they do not get the feeling of being loved less. To love the enemy means to move our Cain-figure's heart. If someone accuses us, it means that we have to love that person. The reason someone accuses us is because he wants to be loved.
Therefore, it is our responsibility to love the other person completely and even to move them so that they do not feel diminished in love.
The archangel who became Satan has two hans and wishes. First, is to receive love from a perfected human being. Second, is wanting to receive the perfect love from God.
No matter how much the archangel who became Satan accuses fallen humans, inflicts countless sufferings, and becomes an enemy to fallen humans, he wants human beings to overcome that and receive the dominion of a perfected human being who can love him.
Father said, if someone persecutes you or accuses or blames you, you may think, “I am right. How come that guy is like that?” That is the reason.
You are not dealing with that guy. You need to know (what is) behind him. It is connected to the spiritual world, to your ancestors as well.
For example, your spouse makes you very upset and you are very unhappy, don’t have such a good feeling, and fight back. That is a problem. You need to know that the cause is actually not from your wife. It comes from her line of ancestors. You need to deal with her invisible ancestors.
That is why Father said in order to become a perfect man, even though you are right, someone accuses you, you need to say, “I need to pay indemnity for my family, for my ancestors. If anything is wrong with my ancestors, I willingly will pay the indemnity.”
That is why Father says that (when) anyone accuses or blames me or persecute me, what (does it) mean? Let me grow up. There is no need to have give-and-take with this kind of issue. (Just) appreciate (it) and feel ... and decide, “I need to love more than before.” We need to have that kind of positive concept. For any blame, any persecution, any accusation, actually God is asking us to develop. If we have horizontal give-and-take with such accusation or persecution, then we will have problems. That is why any difficulty, trial or persecution that comes, accept it willingly and happily: “God is giving me an opportunity to overcome. (I will) not (be) influenced by that. God is asking me to grow up. What a beautiful opportunity for me!” We need to think that way.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Do You Know What the Holy of Holies Is?
The Responsibility of Couples After the Blessing
1. When we receive the Blessing from True Parents and live as a couple, even if the husband is wrong because he behaved badly and I do not have the heart to respect him, it is not that I look at him and respect him, rather, I need to know that he is my husband with a relationship with God. That is why a couple should attend each other like they attend God. This is faith. If we look from God’s perspective, the husband is God’s son and the wife is God’s daughter. Realizing this and serving and attending each other is our responsibility. The Completed Testament Age and Era of Cheon Il Guk are not the time to believe. It is the age of the couple to respect and value each other. Before the Blessing, we attended the invisible God, but after receiving the Blessing, we need to attend our spouse, the visible God.
When I look at my husband, I should not look at him from my own point of view, but from the perspective of God and True Parents. Even if I hate my husband, in the eyes of God and True Parents, my husband is God's son. Therefore, even if my husband has shortcomings, I must love him because he is the son of God with the relationship with God.
From God's point of view, the husband is the son of God and the wife is the daughter of God. It is our responsibility to realize this and serve and attend one another.
The Completed Testament Age is an age in which husband and wife must respect and value each other. Before the blessing, we believed in the invisible God, but after receiving the blessing, we must attend our spouses as the visible God.
Until the top of the growth stage, Adam and Eve grew up individually, but once we receive the Blessing, husband and wife become one. That is God. Without your spouse, there is no way to reach God. Do we only believe in the invisible God? God wanted to wear Adam and Eve’s body. God (wanted to) wear their bodies. When they receive the Blessing and start their family, that means they are substantial God. Therefore, our spouse is visible God. That is why we need to respect, attend and serve our spouse as the visible God. Then God is so happy!
Where is God after starting family? Our spouse is our visible God.
Do You Know What the Holy of Holies Is?
2. Do you know what the Holy of Holies is? The most holy, most rigorous, and most precious place is called the Holy of Holies. Our families are the Holy of Holies. Why? It is because we are families that must live according to Heaven’s principles and laws. We must live according to God’s laws. Our blessed couples are couples chosen by God. Blessed families are sons and daughters that God gave birth to. Therefore, the four position foundation centered on the family is the place where God is present. If we are in discord, bring out our fallen nature as they are, and have conflicts in the family where God is present, it is going on the path of death. Death has nothing to do with God. That is why when the husband and wife are in conflict, the vertical relationship with God is completely severed. If the couple fights, there is no way to find God anywhere. If you fight and have conflicts between husband and wife, no matter how much you pray, have all-night vigils, and fast, there is no path to find God. This is because after starting family, my spouse is God.
Everyone, do you know what the Holy of Holies is? The most holy, most solemn, and most precious place is called the Holy of Holies. In that sense, our family is the holy of holies. Why? This is because if you live according to Heaven's principles and laws, it is the place where God comes directly.
The family is God’s dwelling place. That is why the family is the holy of holies. It is because God dwells in the family substantially through parents, siblings, the husband and wife relationship, through the children. How important family is!
Do you know what blessed families mean to God? Blessed families are sons and daughters to whom God gave birth through True Parents after paying the price of countless indemnities, hardships, and sacrifices for 6,000 years. In other words, blessed families are the total fruit of God's 6,000 years.
Therefore, the four-position foundation centered on blessed families is the place where God dwells. If Blessed families in which God dwells are in discord, revealing their own fallen natures and having conflicts, they are going to walk the path of death.
When a husband and wife conflict, their vertical relationship with God is completely severed. If the blessed couple who have entered the realm of perfection are in conflict, there is no way to find God anywhere.
After you receive the blessing and start family, if there is fighting and conflict between husband and wife, we cannot find God anywhere.
If husband and wife fight and have conflicts, no matter how much they pray, have all-night vigils, go to the temple and fast, there is no path to find God. This is because after starting family, the spouse is God, so you have to resolve the conflicts with the spouse.
You need to directly deal with your spouse. Do not run away from your spouse and go somewhere, go to church and kneel down to pray. No answer (will come) at all. You need to deal with your spouse substantially directly. Apologize. Say you are sorry...
Are you looking for another God? Where! God comes down to human beings and becomes substantial God. Where are you looking for God?
The value of the spouse, of the family is really incredible. True Parents are the messiah. ... Who teaches in such details? If we establish a family; the family becomes the society, the society becomes the ethnic group; the ethnic group becomes the people and nation and world. ... In Adam’s family, the family was the problem. For Noah, family was the problem. For Abraham, everywhere, the family not the individual was the problem. The Four Position Foundation is the fundamental foundation.
Always Live Getting Permission
3. I emphasize one again that the most important thing in our life of faith is to never forget for even a moment that I am one who belongs to God. That is why God said to Adam and Eve that since they are His son and daughter, they should not listen to anyone else but listen to God’s words well, so He said “do not eat.” When God said to Adam and Eve “live according to Me,” it meant to absolutely obey God’s commands to do and not to do. When you try to do something that God tells you “do not do,” always ask God and get permission. We cannot carelessly decide about God’s words on our own. Deciding, judging, and acting as you please without permission is the Fall.
The important thing in our life of faith is to emphasize once again that we do not forget for a moment that we are God's children. If we belong to God, we must only obey and follow God's word.
If we really belong to God, we need to follow him. This is the principle: his guidance, his word. If I don’t belong to God, there is no need to follow him. If you have a confirmation that you belong to God, then follow him, follow his rules, laws and commandments.
Since we belong to God, why should we listen to Satan? If we listen to Satan, we become a part of Satan. Like God and Satan, the most terrifying being is human beings.
Because fallen human beings are in the midway-position, sometimes they belong to God and sometimes they belong to Satan. Therefore, the beings that God and Satan cannot trust are human beings.
Even God cannot trust them. Nor can Satan. Because they are in the midway, according to the situation and environment, coming and going. This is the issue.
That is why God said to Adam and Eve that since they are His son and daughter, they should not listen to anyone else but listen to God’s words carefully, He said, “Do not eat. I am your father, alright?” ...
When God said to Adam and Eve, “Live according to Me,” it meant to absolutely obey God’s commands to do and not to do. When you try to do something that God tells you “Do not do,” always ask God and get permission.
Anything you decide and do without permission from God and without your Abel-figure's permission in your realm of life is the Fall. You must live with approval. Husbands should report to their wives and wives to their husbands and take action.
After you start family your best Abel is your spouse, your husband, your wife. Always discuss and get permission. You already know what she is going to do, but still you need to report and have give-and-take. Don’t have the preconception that “My spouse’s character is like that. Maybe he shouldn’t think like that.” Don’t have such preconceptions even though you know your spouse very well. Still communicate. “Can I do this or that. Can I go out? Can I use this?” Even though you know, you always need to get confirmation through give-and-take. It is not just reporting to report, but in order to have a heartistic relationship. The purpose of the report is in order to have a closer heartistic relationship. That is why we need to report.
Without a report the relationship becomes distant. If there is a good relationship between parent and children, if they always report even in small things: “Mother, I did this one.” “Oh, my child. You did a great job.” Even small things. Parents know their children’s situation; children know their parent’s situation. Reporting is very natural.
I Must Live in Accordance with God
4. What does it mean when God said, “Do not do?” It means to live receiving permission from God. Just as I cannot choose to be born and die on my own, it also means that I cannot say “like” or “dislike” about the chosen person for marriage depending on my mood. If you decide and judge in your own way, you will surely get in some accident and go on the path of death. Judgement will follow. In the end, you will have deep regrets. Therefore, we must always live in accordance with God. We cannot even live with even one thing as we please. We cannot sleep, wake, eat, wear, and meet our partner in our own way.
Look at Adam and Eve. They did not listen to God’s word one time. Once they disobeyed God, what happened? What is their outcome? 6,000 years! How much ... indemnity they needed to pay. They had a miserable life! More than 95% of people went to the hell of hells. Can you imagine? For disobeying God’s word just once. “Do not eat,” but they at the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Just once... God’s commandment is absolute. (There is) no negotiation.
A good person is a person who always distinguishes between “do” and “don’t” that God has said and puts them into practice. It means that you should not judge 'good' or 'bad' based on your feelings.
If you decide and judge according to your own will, accidents will inevitably occur and you will end up on the path to death like Adam and Eve. Judgment follows. In the end, you will feel deep regret. This is because people who are prone to accidents usually act recklessly without reporting to anyone
Therefore, we must always live in accordance with God. We cannot even live with even one thing as we please. We cannot sleep, wake, eat, wear, and meet our partner in our own way.
Can you imagine that Abraham did not separate the small doves? What was the outcome? We may think that that is almost nothing; why was there that kind of judgment? Can you imagine? God’s law is absolute. No negotiation. We need to always think, “What is God’s commandment?” It is important. We can see that Adam and Eve did not obey and what the outcome was. Cain did not obey God’s word and in the end killed his younger brother. Noah, Abraham, all the central figures, what was the outcome when they did not obey? The Israeli’s did not obey Moses; what was the outcome?
Disobedience. What is the outcome of disobedience? That is why obedience to God’s word, uniting with God’s law and principle is very important. Don’t decide everything on your own. Ask your original mind. Discuss with your spouse, your Abel. That is the safe way to keep your life of faith.
(Testimony Shawna Lewis, Heavenly USA)♦
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