Ep 786 - Let Us Raise Families Where God Can Dwell Part 1
Let us Raise Families Where God can Dwell - December 20, 2022
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Key Points
The Korean people love God, respect ancestors, value peace, and have never aggressed their neighbors.
They have a heart that can move God’s heart.
If as the elder-son nation the United States is to become the world's central nation and move the world, it must possess that same heart.
So, the most important education for Americans is to learn God's heart.
God gives the authority to rule all nations to the believers who fight and overcome the forces of lawlessness and fornication.
The last war is the war against obscenity.
God gives the authority to rule all nations to the believers who fight and overcome the forces of lawlessness and fornication.
Armed with the word, the mission of blessed families is to maintain absolute purity before the Blessing and absolute fidelity between spouses after the Blessing.
Parents’ pure love for their children and a child’s filial love for his parents confirm that there is “truth” within us.
Our relationships and actions should always come from the heart with sincerity.
To properly employ our heart is our portion of responsibility.
Heart and sincerity are essential for restoration.
When we are one in heart and one with the Word, we lose our fallen nature and self-centeredness.
To become one in heart we should follow the rules of “absolutely obeying” and “absolutely longing for” the other person without asserting ourself.
We can deny ourself with our spouse by respecting him as True Father, by getting rid of existing habitual stereotypes, by seeing something new in him, by thinking of our spouse as the substance of the masculine and feminine characteristics chosen by True Parents and by seeing him as God’s prince.
Our jeongseong and respect will gradually make our spouse pure because a perfect plus creates a perfect minus.
If we consistently have a positive heart of a parent, a desire to serve with a pure heart, and respect our spouse or child as pure whatever his situation, he can trust us, be re-created and become pure according to our attitude, thoughts and beliefs.
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 “Let us Raise Families Where God can Dwell” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This message was delivered to the wives of scholars attending the 10th International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences on November 12, 1981 at the Lotte Hotel in Seoul, Korea. > Ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for coming to visit the land of the morning calm. Reverend Moon and I have wanted to invite you to our homeland for a long time. For ten years, we have thought about this. We discussed many things that we wanted to show you and do for you. It is very meaningful that you have come, and I am very grateful to all of you.
Traditionally, the Korean people are known as a nation of people clothed in white. Korean people love God very deeply and we wear white clothing as a symbol of God's purity. We respect our ancestors very much, and we are a peace-loving people. Hundreds of times our country has been invaded by other nations, but we always overcame these difficulties. And in our 5,000-year history, Korea has never attacked another nation. For this reason, we are known as the Land of the Morning Calm.
During the Korean War in the 1950s, we suffered incredible tragedy. But God really helped us. Young military forces from sixteen countries came to our aid. During that difficult time, the people of South Korea united with the UN forces. Through that unity, we were able to protect our freedom from the attack of the communists. From the 1970s, our people worked very hard. Today Korea is recognized as one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Because of our growth, Korea was chosen as the host for the 1988 Summer Olympic Games. The people of Korea are grateful that our country will host this global event. History has shown us that behind every great man, there is a woman. In this sense, I respect all of you very much. You have helped your husbands create many things to help humankind.
Traditionally, the Korean people are known as a nation of people clothed in white. Korean people love God very deeply, and we wear white clothing as a symbol of God's purity.
We respect our ancestors very much, and we are a peace-loving people. Hundreds of times our country has been invaded by other nations, but we always overcame these difficulties.
And in our 5,000-year history, Korea has never attacked another nation. For this reason, we are known as the Land of the Morning Calm.
Then let’s look at True Father’s words where he mentions Korea.
Korea Which Takes Initiative in God’s Heart and Will Command All Humankind
<9-297> Standing at the cutting edge of civilization in the 20th century, people of the world today feel fear before the civilization created by humans in the position of a shared fate. In times like this, what do we need to search for? It is okay to lose both principles and denominations. You must find one Being, God. To possess God, what must be possessed? It is not circumstances or material things or some denomination, but it is the heart. It means that you have to occupy Him with heart. Such a person has nothing, but he must undoubtedly be able to move the entire universe and move God. If such people emerged on Korean soil, in the future, Korea will be able to take initiative in the world of God’s heart and command all humankind or even all of heaven and earth. I am confident that such a time will come. Korea will become like this.
The reason why God chose Korea is because it is a nation with a heart that can occupy God. There is only one way to occupy God, and that is the heart.
If you possess the heart that can move God, that people and nation will be able to command all mankind.
In that sense, if the United States is to become the world's central nation and move the world as an elder-son nation, it must become a nation that possesses the heart of God that can move (other nations). Therefore, the most important education in guiding the American people is to know God's heart.
Whoever conquers God’s heart can conquer the nation, the world and all humankind. As the elder-son nation, as the central nation of the world, how can we influence the world, how can we have a big impact on the world? First of all, we need to understand God’s heart. We need to clearly educate the American people about God’s heart, God’s wishes and his hope, his desire, his situation. As the elder-son nation we need to become a filial son and teach younger brother-and-sister nations and introduce God, introduce God’s sorrowful (heart). That is the key.
Of course, we can provide some materials and help them. Those are external things. The most important thing is how can we introduce God’s heart. Anyone who conquers God’s heart can conquer anyone. The important thing is heart.
For two years and one month I have been doing Morning Devotion . The key point is heart. Completion stage is what? The foundation of heart . Including myself, how can we upgrade our level of love to enter the world of heart. This is our final goal, our final stage. In order to enter the world of the heart, we need to understand God’s heart. That is our final goal.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 13 - The Physical Fall
• Eve then seduced Adam with the hope that by uniting with him, she could rid herself of the dread and stand before God once again This was Eve's motivation which led to the physical fall.
• Seeing Adam as her only hope of returning to God,
• Eve turned to Adam and tempted him, playing the same role as the Archangel had played when he had tempted her.
• Adam responded and formed a common base with Eve, and they began give and take action with each other. The power of the unprincipled love generated in their relationship induced Adam to abandon his original position and brought them together in an illicit physical relationship of sexual love.
• When Adam united in oneness with Eve, he inherited all the elements Eve had received from the Archangel. These elements in turn have been passed down to all subsequent generations without interruption.
• What if Adam had reached perfection without having yielded to fallen Eve's temptation? The providence to restore Eve would have been relatively easy.
Tribulation Due to Physical Fall
The Revelations of St. John 2:22~23:
“So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.”
The Revelations of St. John 2:26~27:
“To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery’ - just as I have received authority from my Father.”
Those who Win over the World will be Given
Power to Rule the Whole World
Those fallen believers who don’t believe in Jesus’ laws (words) and sovereignty but commit adultery along with the spirits of the world (language, writings, thoughts) will suffer great hardships such as war, famine and earthquakes. Besides that, their lives will be trampled upon by a dead Satan (murderer). Those holy believers who fight and gain victory over many lawless, immoral and violent groups around the world while obeying the commandment, and united with their King will have power to rule the whole world.
The holy Blessed families who win over the world will play the role of policemen and women who can break the evil signs (physical environment) and thoughts (language, writings) of the whole world which have existed throughout human history, as if they are broken into pieces like pottery with the iron scepter of True Parents’ words (truth).
To put these words simply, God’s punishments against fallen believers who commit adultery are all kinds of disasters, such as hardships, war, famine, and earthquakes. The cause of all hardships and war happening today is ultimately God’s punishment due to the spread of fornication.
What is the main reason? Fornication.
Therefore, it is said that God gives the authority to rule all nations to the believers who fight and overcome the forces of lawlessness and fornication that are prevalent in this world. In the end, the last war is the war against obscenity. The Bible promises that if you fight and win this war against adultery, you will be given the authority to rule all nations.
If we control Chapter Two , God will give us the power to rule the whole world. Wow!
Who is a capable person? It is a person who fights against adultery and wins. Who is a good pastor? He is a pastor who fights fornication and wins. Who is the Model Blessed Family? It is a family that fights fornication and builds a holy family.
Ultimately, the mission of blessed families is to maintain absolute purity before the blessing, and to maintain absolute fidelity between husband and wife after the blessing. And with the iron scepter of True Parents' words, we must fight and overcome the world and serve as a peace police man in front of the world.
How important it is to really win (over) Chapter Two.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: When Does Self-Centeredness Disappear?
Know That There is Truth (Sincerity) Within Us
1. An ideal couple should be overflowing with a feeling of longing and love towards their partner with a heart of filial piety towards their parents. And in the family, the mother must have a precious heart springing up for her child with a pure heart. When a mother is sleeping next to her young baby, she cannot sleep deeply, so even if the mother of a newborn baby sleeps, she doesn’t seem to really sleep. The slightest cry of her baby wakes the mother up. When looking at this, you do not even know how sensitive the mother is because she is so attached to her baby. The feelings a mother has about her baby are intuitions. In this sense, a mother loving her baby is real love. And the heart of filial piety in which the child genuinely loves their parents is also real love. Even if we are fallen people, when we look at how parents love their children with a pure heart and how children love their parents with a filial heart, we can confirm that there is truth within us.
In our hearts, do we only have falsehood and no truth? There exists something called truth in our hearts. For example, how great of an affection does a mother have for her baby? The feelings a mother has for her baby are very sensitive and she has intuitions.
In this sense, a mother loving her baby is real love. And the heart of filial piety in which the child genuinely loves his parents is also real love.
Even if we are fallen people, when we look at how parents love their children with a pure heart and how children love their parents with a filial heart, we can confirm that there is truth within us.
Even though we are fallen people, we have a true heart and true sincerity within us. We need to discover that and multiply it.
Therefore, in our relationships and (in the) things we do, we must always make sure (they) come from the heart and with sincerity. Our problem is that we don’t know how to utilize it. If I make an effort to be sincere to myself, anyone can experience that there in truth within themselves and feel their heart being evoked.
If God could not find any heart and sincerity in human beings, it will be impossible to restore human beings.
That is why in our inner self there is sincerity and a true heart. We have to know how to evoke our heart. That is the point. Everybody can have (? this). That is why we need to put our effort (into this) and invest (in) how to really bring up our heart, how to evoke it. That is our portion of responsibility. Only some people have a special skill to utilize our heart? It is not like that. Everybody has a conscience and a true heart and sincerity. To properly use our heart is our portion of responsibility.
When Does Self-Centeredness Disappear?
2. In our life of faith, we need to form good relationships with God, people, and creation. When you form relationships well and become one in heart, self-centeredness disappears. When you hear the Word and become one with the Word, your own fallen self disappears. If you are touched by the Word, self-centeredness disappears.
That is why both men and women will lose self-centeredness when they become one with their partner. In order for you to become one with each other, just follow the laws “absolutely obey,” “absolutely long for them.” This is a pure and sincere heart. “Regard your husband as True Father, regard your wife as True Mother.” If you look highly upon the other like this and respect them, it is easy to deny yourself.
3. It means to get rid of current stereotypes against your husband whom you’ve been treating habitually to this day. It means to throw away any preconceived notions that my husband is like this or that, and instead, think that my husband is the substantial being of God’s masculine internal nature, who was chosen for me by True Parents. This is a pure heart. Do not think that your husband is your own husband but that (he is) the person born as God’s prince your husband. Likewise, knowing your husband as God’s internal nature and serving him is pureness. It means that even if your husband has bad points, you do not think of them as bad. Even if the husband is a bad husband, the heart of such a wife’s jeongseong and respect will gradually make him pure.
This is not only about women. It is the same for men.
When will the fallen nature of self-centeredness disappear? When you become one in your heart in human relationships, there is no such thing as self-centeredness. When you hear the Word and become one with the Word, you will no longer have your own fallen nature. If you are moved by the Word, you will lose your self-centeredness.
Even between couples, when the husband and wife become one, self-centeredness disappears.
Then, what should we do to become one? We can do that by following the rules of “absolutely obeying” and “absolutely longing for” the other person without asserting ourselves. This kind of effort to obey one's partner is a pure heart.
So how can we deny ourselves every time we face our spouse? It is by looking at the other person highly and to “Respecting your husband like True Father” or “Respecting your wife like True Mother.”
And get rid of the existing stereotypes of husbands and wives that have been habitually treated until this day. Always try to see something new.
If we have preconceptions and we have stereotypical thinking – “My husband is ... He never changes. My wife never changes. My children are like that,” if our ideas are fixed with stereotypical thinking, ideas and judgment, then our wife and children will never change. As long as we do not change our concepts and thinking, our spouse and partner will never change.
Always try to see something new.
Even though our husband or wife is cheating us and our children betray us, we need to always have a positive concept: “Someday my child will change.” We need to have some kind of expectation. We need to see someone’s original mind and conscience. We need to appeal to his original mind. (For) everybody the original mind and conscience exist. That is why we need to change our concept and always try to see something new.
It is to think of my husband and my wife as the substance of the masculine and feminine characteristics chosen by True Parents.
If God had preconceptions and stereotypes, humans could never change, but God always has hope: “Even though now you have betrayed me, even though you have run away, someday definitely you will become my son, my daughter.” God has absolute 100% affirmation. If he did not have (this), it would be impossible to restore any human being.
Father said in any worrisome situation, God always says, “His original mind is still very good! His conscience is still very good.” God has 100% affirmation in the worst situation. It is incredible! Even though (we may) betray(?) him and run away, sometimes persecute him and ignore him, God does not have stereotypical concepts, thinking or ideas. He always expects something, “Someday you will change. Someday you will come back to my bosom” with tears and tears.
Who can (fulfill) that kind of role? Only God can. God has an unchanging heart and mind. He has absolute faith, “My son or daughter, someday (you) will come back to my bosom.” He has that kind eternal, unchanging, absolute expectation. He is sure even though now temporarily he belongs to Satan, someday you will come back ... to become my sons and daughters. He has absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience to ... his own principle of true love. ...
For fallen man if someone hurts him, he is his enemy forever. He doesn’t want to see him any more.
We need to love(?) What is true love?
It is to think that my husband is not my husband, but that the person born as the prince of God and to think that my wife is not my wife, but the person who was born as God's princess.
Then, even if the husband has many shortcomings, the feelings that the husband is bad will decrease. And the heart of such a wife’s jeongseong and respect will gradually make him pure.
That is why a perfect plus can create a perfect minus. “As long as I have respect, still loving, still investing, I still have beautiful expectations, even though he has a lot of shortcomings. But my expectations and respect are (greater) than his shortcomings. Father said, “Someday he will change, gradually change because a perfect plus can create a perfect minus.
If you just worry, worry, worry about your spouse, your worry becomes a prayer and the person will then make you worry all the time. Your worry becomes prayer which becomes reality. That is why we need to change our concept and think (to be) like (that of) God. God never changes. He has absolute faith. Definitely this evil world will end very soon. Heavenly Father has this kind of conviction and faith. That is why God is an amazing God. We need to resemble that kind of character from God, from our beloved True Father and True Mother.
Even if Your Partner is Inadequate, Treat Him or Her as a Pure Person
4. Even if your husband is inadequate and has bad points, if you treat him as a pure person, that husband will eventually become a pure person. The husband is well aware that he is inadequate. However, if the wife criticizes her husband, their distance becomes greater and the door to conversations closes. When a wife’s attitude is critical, calculative, and she belittles her husband, even if the husband does not respond, he knows his partner well. He knows very well that his wife is not pure. Not only that, but such mother also becomes known. “Our mother is not pure,” “Our mother has a short-tempter towards me and even speaks carelessly to me.” When a mother who used to cherish and love her children treats them angrily and upsets them, the children know very well that their mother is not pure. Children know the mother’s heart better than their father. Children are pure. They do not have even a bit of criticism, notions, discrimination, or concept of possession. Since they do not have any of that, they are pure.
5. Children know the mother’s heart better than their father. Children are pure. They do not have even a bit of criticism, notions, discrimination, or concept of possession. Since they do not have any of that, they are pure. Even with an inadequate husband or child, if you continuously deal with them with a heart of respect, anyone can change. The problem is that if you treat them with respect at times and look down on them at other times, the husband or children will not trust that mother.
My positive heart towards my husband, when seeing from God's point of view, will eventually change my husband. Know that the object is recreated according to the attitude of my heart. If I continue to have a negative consciousness about the other person, they will never change.
However, if you have an active mind and a heart of a parent with the desire to serve with a pure heart, the other person will change. Know that in the end, the other person is re-created according to my attitude, thoughts and beliefs.
If you have a negative image of the other person, know that it becomes a prayer and affects the other person.
Therefore, even if your husband has shortcomings, if you treat him as a pure person, that husband will eventually become pure.
Amazing!
Husbands are well aware of their shortcomings. However, when a wife criticizes her husband, the distance becomes greater and the door to conversation closes.
The same goes for how we treat our children. Is my heart that worries for them stronger than my heart that looks at them purely? Then that worry becomes a prayer and becomes reality.
Even with an inadequate husband or child, if you continuously deal with them with a heart of respect, anyone can change. The problem is that if you treat them with respect at times and look down on them at other times, the husband or children will not trust that mother.
That’s why in our mindset we need to really resemble God. If we just worry, worry, worry, that worry becomes reality. Even though that guy has shortcomings and (creates) problems, we always need to believe in that person’s original heart, original mind and conscience. Through my jeongseong I can help him. Someday he will change. We need to have that kind of ... concept centered on the parents’ point of view . That is why God and True Parents are amazing. They still have hope, they still have some expectations of me.
We understand that kind of parental heart. Let’s become God’s filial sons and daughters.
(Testimony Sean Warden, Witnessing to Samuel, Young Adult Missionary in Zambia, 3rd year in GPA)♦
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