Ep 791 - The Ideal Home and World Peace Part 4
The Ideal Home and World Peace - December 25, 2022
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Rich Rangala
Key Points
When we celebrate, let’s not celebrate only in a horizontal way. Always we need to keep a vertical tradition with a worship service, bows to Heavenly Parent and True Parents, then children to parents, then sharing holy food, then sharing the word.
The original sin of sexual immorality which God loathes, is passed down through generations and is destroying families today.
Conversion of the lineage means removing the adulterous mind and converting it into a pure mind.
A child’s morals, character and attitude toward life are mostly formed by the love and happiness he experiences at home in his family plus the example of his parents’ love relationship.
To avoid succumbing to unprincipled love, a young person should love God most, know God’s word well, seek Abel’s dominion and guidance, report regularly to him, totally separate from a dangerous environment, and get blessed between 16 and 20.
RCC is Reporting, Counseling and Contacting. The system of RCC can really protect us.
In order to always remain within the realm of the Principle and God’s love, we must live together with the Word, be armed with it and possess it. Then God's love will always protect us.
A mother's sincere devotion should enable her children and herself to dream and receive spiritual guidance.
Children should learn that following guidance from dreams selflessly, avoids undesirable incidents.
Mother’s need to be spiritually very sensitive. That is the way they can protect their children.
The good spirit world is doing its best to help and protect us so that we don't go wrong.
Heaven will protect us and work with us if we always arm ourself with the Word and meditate on key words.
We can thoroughly digest the word that enters us and make it the strength of our heart by repeating it and meditating on it continually.
The more we taste the Word and meditate on the key words that move us, the more we realize its deep meaning and it becomes prayer.
Centering on the Word of God, we must find out by ourself how God sees our family and circumstances.
We should read God’s word in order to discover his heart of creation, of the fall and of restoration behind the words and how our heart feels behind them.
All words that are not connected in our heart will flow away.
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.♦
(Response to sharing) Actually Jesus’ birthday was January 3rd, but later on True Parents accepted celebrating (it on) December 25. I am grateful (for this).♦
Merry Christmas. I hope you have a merry Christmas. Have a happy day everyone!
My family really had a great time on Christmas day. I became Santa Claus and hosted family worship. I want to show some of my family worship service.
We had a family worship service on Christmas Day. We offered Kyungbae greetings to True Parents and Jesus.
My daughter’s family was supposed to join us, but our family is too big, so there is not enough room. So, she (had to) move out to another place. She could not join us. Our remaining family had a very beautiful ceremony.
This is how husband and wife, my wife and I, worshipped each other first. Of course, we first kyungbaed to my parents-in-law.
My children and grandchildren all did Kyungbae to my wife and me.
And my couple gave holy food to each member of the family.
Later on I gave a simple sermon about Jesus’ life, how he was born, how he was crucified and why True Parents have come again. I talked to my grandchildren with a video. It was very short, but meaningful and powerful.
This is a commemorative photo taken with my grandchildren.
This is a family photo. It was an incredible time. We had a very beautiful meal. My family prepared a lot of delicious food and ate it happily together. Everyone in our family had a happy time. I hope you, too, have a very good time with your family today.
When we celebrate, don’t celebrate only in a horizontal way. Always we need to keep vertical tradition. (We should) Kyungbae to Heavenly Parent and True Parents, to Jesus. My entire family kyungbaed to each other, children kyungbaed to the parents. Then we shared holy food. We shared about Jesus life and had a cake cutting ceremony.
I think we need to have a certain beautiful tradition style and become very holy.
When I appeared with a Santa Claus (costume), my grandchildren were shouting and were happy to see grandpa become Santa Claus and give gifts to each grandchild. Wow! They were so excited! I have not had a chance to share with my family, but it was really a wonderful time! I felt God’s presence.
According to Australian time, we just finished dinner and prepared food together. This was a beautiful time. We thought about Jesus’ life as well.
Today I’d like to talk about “The Ideal Home and World Peace” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given at the 2nd International Convention of the Women's Federation for World Peace, held on August 23, 1995, at Hotel Lotte World, Seoul, Korea > The reason people strive for everlasting, unchanging love between a husband and wife, yet can't seem to achieve it, is Adam and Eve's original separation from God, the Fall, which was caused by false love and adultery. The reason the original sin is inherited throughout the generations, and the reason we, in what the Bible calls the last days, are witnessing wide-scale immorality and family breakdown, is all due to this. What God dislikes the most is when a person goes against the law of love and becomes immoral. My question to you is: Who has a solution to the problems of youth, family breakdown and teenage pregnancy that are so prevalent in both the East and the West?
These phenomena are more fearful than starvation, war or any disease. Why is that? These problems are not just our problems today; they are the problems that will destroy humanity's hope in future generations. Today's immorality has direct consequences for our descendants. The home provides elements that are necessary for a child's internal development. The basic characteristics and attitude toward life are formed at home. Babies are born with a natural ability to receive love. Even after a few months, children can differentiate their mother's loving embrace from another woman’s. They grow up naturally experiencing love from parents and from brothers and sisters. People's ethics and character are mostly formed through the love and happiness they experiences with the members of their families. Parents' life as seen by children, especially the parents' love relationship, has a critical role in their child's ethical development.
The original sin of sexual immorality is passed down through generations. Because of this, sexual morality is becoming disordered and families are being destroyed as the last days come to an end. What God hates the most is breaking the law of love and being ethically wrong.
However, fallen humans love the sexual immorality that God hates the most. It is because we were born of Satan, the ancestor of lewdness.
Today s immorality has direct consequences for our descendants. If the ancestors and parents have an adulterous background, the descendants or children inherit it as well. Conversion of lineage means removing the adulterous mind and converting it into a pure mind.
The home provides elements that are necessary for a child s internal development. The basic characteristics and attitude toward life are formed at home. All the problems of today s society, nation, and world ultimately originate from the family. Therefore, when the family is sound, all environments are supposed to improve.
People’s ethics and character are mostly formed through the love and happiness they experience with the members of their families. Parents’ life as seen by children, especially the parents’ love relationship, has a critical role in their child’s ethical development.
Therefore, a broken family becomes a problem. As children grow, they must receive as much love from their parents and siblings as possible.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 14 - The Power of Love, the Power of the Principle and God’s Commandment
• Human beings are created through the Principle, and they are meant to live according to the way of the Principle.
• Therefore, it cannot be that the force inherent in the Principle would induce a person to deviate from the way of the Principle and cause him to fall.
• This may be compared to a train which cannot run off track unless aside from a breakdown in the track or locomotive, some outside force stronger than the train’s forward momentum collides with it and pushes it in a different direction.
• Similarly, the force inherent in the Principle guides human beings’ growth in the proper direction. But if some stronger force from a different direction and with an unprincipled purpose collides with them, they will surely fall.
• The force stronger than the force of the Principle is none other than the power of love.
• While human beings are in the state of immaturity, it is possible that the power of unprincipled love can induce them to fall.
• Without God’s love, there is no way to establish the true four position foundation, which is the purpose for which we were created; hence, love is truly the source and wellspring of our life and happiness.
• Although God created human beings based on the Principle, He governs us through love. Accordingly, in order for love to fulfill its proper role, its power must be stronger than the power of the Principle.
• If the power of love were weaker than the power of the Principle, human beings would pursue the Principle more than the love of God. For this reason, Jesus tried to raise his disciples with the truth, but it was his love that saved them.
“While Human Beings Are in the State of Immaturity, it is Possible That the Power of Unprincipled Love can Induce Them to Fall.”
Therefore;
1. Love God more than anything else,
That is why Jesus gave his first commandment: “You need to love the lord God with all your heart, all your soul and all your mind.” We call that filial piety. If we love God more than anything else, that is hyo, filial heart. If you have a filial heart, you can win over any difficulties, even any fall. You can prevent the fall through filial piety.
2. There must be a habitual life of inquiries, reports and counseling.(RCC). Human responsibility is the RCC.
RCC is Reporting, Counseling and Contact. This is really important. If Adam and Eve had kept this RCC, they would never have fallen. If there are any issues or any problem, we need to report: “Heavenly God, I have this kind of situation. What should I do?” You need to report, but Adam and Eve did not report. (Neither did they get) counseling, (and they did) not contact (Heavenly Father). They decided everything by themselves. That was a problem.
That is why if in daily life, if you keep the system of RCC, that can really protect you. No reporting can create serious problems. No counseling and no contacting always brings problems.
3. Must be armed by God’s words. What is in God's word is what is in God's love.
As long as you have God’s word, you will be protected by God because God’s word is God’s love.
4. Should thoroughly get a dominion by Abel.
Through unity(?) and a heartistic relationship with your Abel, you can overcome any temptation and problems. If you don’t have a heartistic Abel, then whenever you face some difficult issues, especially Chapter Two issues, it is not easy to overcome (them). That is why you need to have a good relationship with your heartistic Abel.
5. When a dangerous environment comes to you – for example, a woman comes to you; a woman or a man tempts you; this kind of dangerous environment, what is the best way? – you should be totally separated from it.
If you do not separate from this environment, surely you will be defeated by your opponent. Some boy or girl is very close and you ask Abel, “What shall I do?” The best way is to separate physically. Change the environment. You need to have distance. If you are together, the power of love is greater than any other thing. You cannot do it.
Father before going to the spiritual world really guided us. Now the era of restoration is over. Now is the era of God’s original creation. Our second generation...
6. Must receive the blessing between 16 and 20.
In the beginning many parents were struggling to send (their children) to Korea and don’t know (what to do feeling that) they are immature.
But I absolutely followed True Parents’ word. All my three children received the Blessing (when they were) under 20 years old. In Asia I initiated this; most of the second generation married between 16 and 20 years old. I think the problems are reduced (a lot this way).
When your second generation or third generation become 13 to 16, you should educate your children one-on-one individually and thoroughly (about) why they need to prepare for the Blessing and why they need to receive the Blessing earlier. You need to educate them very properly. I really appreciate True Parents’ guidance. They really saved my family. I absolutely followed True Parents’ guidance that children should be matched between 16 and 20 years old. Many of my relatives and others worried about it: “That is too early.” But since I tried to seriously educate them, I have no regrets.
This time when I came home, I really appreciated True Father (guiding us in) that direction.
The Power of Love, the Power of the Principle
And God’s Commandment
God created all things with his words. The Bible says, ”In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. (John 1: 1-3)
Therefore all the creatures are to live and multiply centering on God’s words, that is, the Principle of creation. Thus humankind was created through the Principle and should live on the track of the Principle.
The Word is the principle and the love of God. Therefore, in order to always be within the realm of the Principle and love, we must live together with the Word and be armed with the Word. If you possess the Word, the power of God's love will always protect you.
If you possess the word, the power of love will always protect you. Without studying God’s word, without keeping God’s word in your heart, there is no way to protect yourself. God’s word is very powerful. It gives you incredible stimulation. That is why you always need to meditate on God’s word and live with it.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: When You Read the Word, Find God’s Heart Behind It
How God Protects and Helps Me
1. The mother is the center of love in the family. As the center of love, the mother must offer so much jeongseong that she is always guided by the spirit world through her dreams. Now that the good spirit world is mobilized, it is doing its best to help and protect us so that we don't go wrong.
So how do I ensure that Heaven always protects me? First of all, we must arm ourselves with God’s word. You must always arm yourself with the Word and meditate, which is the condition for the spirit world to work with you. What are the conditions that must be set in our hearts? We must always conceive and live by the word of God. Then God can have a reciprocal relationship with us. If the Word is not conceived in my heart, God cannot work through me. If the Word is not in us, we can never grow. This is the same as the body cannot live without food. Without the Word, my spirit self cannot grow.
Now is the age of love. In the age of love, mothers must be at the center. As the center of love, the mother must offer so much sincere devotion or jeongseong that she is always guided by the spirit world through her dreams.
You must not guide your children in a humanistic way. More than any moral concept, tradition, or knowledge, a mother's sincere devotion should enable her children to dream and receive spiritual guidance.
When the mother raises her children, if she invests a lot of jeongseong, the children always have dreams. Then (you need to) interpret their dreams very well: “You need to be careful about this, or of that.” When they do not follow their parents’ guidance, something happens. Then from their youth they learn, “Wow! If I do not follow my mother’s or father’s direction, then there is some problem.” This is the right way to raise our children.
You must guide your children from an early age to feel that incidents will happen if you act with a self-centered attitude even though it was shown spiritually through dreams.
Now that the good spirit world is mobilized, it is doing its best to help and protect us so that we don't go wrong.
My daughter often has dreams. God guides her.
When the mother becomes a champion of jeongseong, the children and the mother always have dreams: “Today you have to be careful about cars,” “Today don’t go to (somewhere).” The mother becomes spiritually very sensitive, and the children (say?), “My mother always says that. So does my father.” Then when something happens, they start to realize, “Wow! I did not listen to my mother’s words. I did not follow my dream, and something happened.”
When children grow up having this kind of spiritual experience, they never run away. That is why (we should) not raise our children in only a humanistic way. Mother’s need to be spiritually very sensitive. That is the way they can protect their children.
So how do we ensure that Heaven always protects us? First of all, we must arm ourselves with God’s word. We must always arm ourself with the Word and meditate, which is the condition for the spirit world to work with us.
Whether we are sleeping or waking up, we must always conceive and live with the word of God in our hearts. We must always live with the key words of the Word and meditate on them. Then God will work through us.
If we don’t study God’s word carefully, then we are always subjugated by the environment.
This is because the word is God's substitute and God's love. Therefore, if the Word is not conceived in our heart, God cannot work through us.
If the Word is not in us, we can never grow. This is the same as the body cannot live without food. Without the Word, it is like there is no spiritual food, so my spirit self cannot grow.
I Alone Must Find the Word That Will Become the Life of My Spirit Self
2. Then, how do I digest well the word that enters me and make it the strength of my heart? It totally depends on my attitude and choice. If there are many side dishes on the table, it is the same as choosing which one to eat. Koreans taste the soup first. Then, they choose one of the side dishes and taste it. Next, they put the rice in their mouth and chew it over and over again to taste it.
Likewise, once the Word enters your heart and moves you, you must meditate and digest the Word over and over again. Then those words that inspired you make you happy. As if you were eating a delicious meal, there is something that touches your heart when you read or listen to the Word. Therefore, I alone must find the Word that will become the life of my spirit self. For example, if you are moved by the word “filial piety,” you should determine to become a mother of filial piety. And from the perspective of filial piety, you must think about how God will view your family. We have to find out on our own.
Then, how do we digest well the word that enters us and make it the strength of our heart? Once the Word enters our heart and moves us, we must repeat and meditate on the Word over and over again.
Meditation. When we are moved by the word, then we can (discover) which words really inspire us. They become our key words. Then we need to think about and meditate about these key words again and again.
Just as the more we chew rice, the more we taste it, and the more we meditate on the Word that moved us, the more we realize its deep meaning and become happy.
As if we were eating a delicious meal like this, when we read or listen to the Word, and there is something that touches our heart, we should meditate on it as a keyword. That meditation should become prayer.
Which words really touch our heart? (We should) meditate and continuously think about them from morning till evening. Then when we realize something, we can feel incredible joy and happiness and it becomes our (source of) energy; it stimulates our heart so much.
That is why the Bible says that God’s word is more delicious than honey. Do you feel that? When we realize something about God’s word, we can (feel) liberated and feel incredible joy and happiness. That is the taste of God’s word, more delicious than honey!
When You Read the Word, Find God’s Heart Behind It
3. I must think about how God views my family’s situation. Will God be at peace with my family? Or would He worry? I need to know this through my heart and conscience. Centering on the Word of God, you must find out how God sees your family and circumstances by yourself. When you look in the mirror, do you want to see the mirror itself? Or do you look to see what you look like? When I try to see how the mirror is made, I cannot look at myself in the mirror. Then, when you read the Word, do you read to find God's heart behind it? Or do you just try to gain knowledge of the Word through letters? Or are you just trying to read a book? I have to make effort to find how my heart feels behind the words.
Centering on the Word of God, we must find out how God sees our family and circumstances by ourself.
Then, when we read the Word, do we read to find God's heart behind it? Or do we just try to gain knowledge of the Word through letters? Or are we just trying to read a book? We have to make effort to find how our heart feels behind the words.
When we read the Divine Principle, we need to read God’s mind, God’s heart. This is the point.
As we read the exposition of the Divine Principle, we must read God's heart. Do not read the Word intellectually. We must read the heart of God behind the words.
We must know how to read God's heart when He created man and all things, God's sorrowful heart when human beings fell, and God's heart of suffering and pain when He restores fallen human beings. When we read the Word, all words that are not connected in our heart will flow away.
Whenever we do hoondokhae, any word that does not touch our heart just flows away.
That is why we need to think about which words stimulate and move us. We need to chew them again and again like a cow and meditate. Then we can understand more deeply and understand God’s heart behind them. That is why God’s word will become really powerful. We will be able to overcome any kind of trial, difficulty or persecution. That is the power of God’s word because God’s word is God’s love. When you read God’s word, you are eating God’s love. The more you read God’s word, the more chance you have to eat God’s love. God’s word is very powerful.
Those who do not study God’s word or seldom study it and don’t relate much to it, it is impossible for their faith to grow. That is why God’s word is God himself. God expresses his love through his word.
Today I talked about, “When you read the word, find God’s heart behind it.”
(Testimony Rich Rangala, Establishing CARP at RIT, Rochester, NY)♦
Do not (try to) resemble my family, OK? My family is not the standard. We still have far to go. We are externally living together, but when I see the internal situation, (I see) we still have far to go.
I am so sorry for my children that I do not have much time to spend with them. Now that I am here, my job is washing dishes and cleaning and taking care of my newborn grandchild – sometimes for one hour or two hours – and carrying (him).
Wow! My job with my family is more difficult than my mission as Continental Director.! My family is really the frontline. Taking care of the children is not a simple matter, but I love that. I cannot do cooking. I clean and take care of the children and take them outside here and there. (It is) incredible joy, even though it is hard work! Wow!
Let’s do our best to reach our Heavenly Parent and True Parents’ standard.♦
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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