Ep 716 - World Peace and the Role of Women 3 Part 9
World Peace and the Role of Women 3 - October 11, 2022
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Meeyung Owens
Key Points
Among the attributes of true love, the greatest attribute is the attribute of sacrifice for the sake of others.
Love without sacrifice is not love. Free love is not love.
Women must become leading figures in building a world of peace, correct deteriorating family morals and give proper guidance to our young people.
Having an eternal life after eating the fruit of the tree of life means Adam will bear fruit with true love and multiply true life, true love, and true lineage to his descendants forever.
The purpose of the seven-year course that everyone has to go on after the Blessing is to complete the Four Great Realms of Heart, the Three Great Kingships, and Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission and to become organized into the royal family of the kingdom of heaven.
To prepare to start a family and major in love, first be filial and serve God and True Parents, then serve your physical parents, and serve your Abel.
Life is a path of perfecting love so that we can have the essence of longing and love.
In the formation and growth stages and in the Foundations of Faith and Substance, we endure suffering and hardship in order to elevate our standard of true love.
For your first love to last, you have to live focusing on spiritual love more than on physical love.
Only by raising the level of love through fundraising and witnessing can we come to love our enemies, launch our family, truly treat our partner like God and serve him or her.
We have to deny ourselves and suffer to get rid of our fallen nature and find the essence of love. Then we need to value ourself as much as we value God because we must know our own worth to be truly happy.
After you are one in heart with God, you will no longer need self-denial because you treat yourself as God’s.
While we deeply love our parents and siblings, in the Blessing we love our spouse even more, serving him or her as substantial God. Only then will we find our original value.
We leave our spouse and siblings, whom we love, in order to marry for the sake of the completion of love.
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 am wearing this necktie. I want to appreciate Toshie Hanna(?). She gave me this beautiful necktie for my birthday. Thank you so much, Hanna.
Today I’d like to talk about “World Peace and the Role of Women 3” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given at the founding rally of the Women's Federation for World Peace in Japan and at rallies between September 24 and October 6, 1992 for Koreans residing in Japan> Men have tried for the past twenty centuries to build a world of peace, and now the task has been entrusted to us women. It is the decree of Heaven that we take up the task of building world peace through ideal families. In general, men tend to center on themselves, whereas women tend to be more willing to sacrifice themselves. With the coming of the age of women, we are entering a new history in which, instead of sacrificing the whole for the benefit of each individual, we are to sacrifice ourselves for the benefit of the whole and, in this way, exercise true love.
Let us strengthen our spirits with head-wing thought and become leading figures in building a world of peace. We need to correct deteriorating family morals. We must stand up against drug abuse and the spread of AIDS. We need to give proper guidance to our young people, who are wandering aimlessly along self-destructive paths. We are in a new age of transition in which women have to take a firm stand and contribute to world peace. I hope all of you will stand proudly at the frontline of peace. Once again, I thank you for your support for this upcoming nationwide speaking tour. I pray that God's blessing will be upon you and your families. Thank you.
Now, along with the age of women, we are living in the age of love. Before the age of love was the male-centered age centered on the archangelic cultural sphere. However, along with True Parents’ establishment of Women’s Federation for World Peace, they declared the end of the archangelic cultural sphere and proclaimed the age of love.
Therefore, while True Mother proclaimed that the task of building a world of peace, as well as peace in the family, was entrusted to women, she (also) said that this was heaven’s decree.
The male-dominant era centered on the archangelic cultural sphere was centered on self-centeredness. However, the women-centered age centered on True Mother does not sacrifice the whole centered on oneself, but it is the start of a new age that demonstrates true love that sacrifices the self for the sake of the whole.
Among the attributes of true love, the greatest attribute is the attribute of sacrifice. You must know that true love requires sacrifice. In order to obtain true love, you must pay the price of sacrificing for the sake of others. Love without sacrifice is not love. Free love is not love.
No pain, no gain. In order to obtain true love you need to know that true love requires sacrifice.
When I was young, I was so excited to hear this kind of guidance by True Father. He said, “Love requires sacrifice.” I (had) thought that one simply obtained love, that there was no need to pay the price, that love is just a happy thing(?). But True Father said, “Love requires sacrifice. Free love is not love. You need to pay the price in order to obtain true love.”
At that time I was 20 or 21 years old; I had to completely change my concept of true love. Since that time, I have needed to put (in) my heart and jeonseong. I needed to really invest with my sacrifice; otherwise it was not love.
Free love is not love. To get true love you must pay the price of blood, sweat and tears.
All grace without hard work flows away. Because women live more sacrificial lives than men, in order to achieve a world of peace, women's sacrificial love must be the center.
Therefore, women must strengthen their spirits with head-wing thought and become leading figures in building a world of peace and correct deteriorating family morals and give proper guidance to our young people, who are wandering aimlessly along self-destructive paths.
We are in a new age of transition in which women have to take a firm stand and contribute to world peace.
The meaning of the declaration of the Women’s Federation for World Peace is that on the world and cosmic level we reach the top of the growth stage and enter the age of love which is the age of completion. That is why women need to stand strong and create world peace based on women’s sacrificial love. Through this proclamation, we graduated from the archangelic realm. If True Father had not proclaimed the Women’s Federation for World Peace, such a beautiful era would not have happened. Whenever I think about the inauguration ceremony of the Women’s Federation for World Peace, this is really a different dimension, a different era. We need to know about that.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Fall - 2. The Tree of Life (1)
• According to the Bible, the hope of fallen people is to attain the tree of life. In Prov. 13:12, the Israelites of the Old Testament Age looked to the tree of life as their hope. Likewise, in Rev. 22:14, the hope of all Christians has been to approach and partake of the tree of life.
• However, in Gen. 3:24, it is written that when Adam fell, God blocked his path to the tree of life by stationing the cherubim with a flaming sword to guard it. From this, we can also deduce that the hope of Adam before the fall was the tree of life.
• Adam was cast out of the Garden of Eden without having attained his hope, the tree of life. For fallen people ever since, the tree of life has remained a hope unfulfilled.
Let’s study Father’s word.
The Fruit of the Tree of Life is From the Perfection of the Four Position Foundation
<128-304> When you read the Revelation of St. John, it says that one can have an eternal life after eating the fruit of the tree of life. That is the world that God and both Adam and Eve are longing for. Such a love makes a change to an eternal world, the world of love . Do you know what I mean?-Yes. Do you want love with the upper and lower sides? Or love without the upper and lower sides? – Love with the upper and lower sides. That’s why a woman who loves heaven more than her husband and loves her son more than her husband is to be loved eternally by her husband. When a husband with a wife who loves heaven and her own son more than her husband is able to say, “Thank you,” then Heaven will be with her. What is true love? It can come to a conclusion that you love your descendants and your spouse like heaven and earth. Do you understand? That’s called “four position foundation” in Unification church. Do you understand what I mean?- Yes.
Revelation 2:7 – “I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.” The tree of life symbolizes the perfected Adam. Having an eternal life after eating the fruit of the tree of life means Adam will bear fruit with true love and multiply true life, true love, and true lineage to his descendants forever.
The world of true love, where the Tree of Life is perfected and the fruits of the tree of life are shared, is a world in which a husband is able to say, “Thank you” even if his wife loves Heaven and her own son more than the husband.
The world of true love is a world where you love your spouse, children, and descendants like heaven and earth.
The Standard by Which you got Blessed and Born
<137-244> What is the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ? You may say ‘ Ah, we are the blessed couple. Let’s forget about the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. ‘The tree of life’ in the Bible, we do not need to know it.’ Not at all! The standard by which you got blessed and were born does not meet the completion stage. Your father and mother put you on the top of the growth stage, right before the fall. The 7-year course to the completion stage still remains in the realm of incompletion of portion of responsibility. If our first ancestors could accomplish their portion of responsibility, you would enter the realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle. The human fall occurred by invading the realm of the portion of responsibility. To accomplish the portion of responsibility, You should become a man and a woman with a sperm and an egg after the perfection of natural maturity centering on love, facing forehead to forehead and finally be able to declare that you are one.
The Blessing is not the standard of completion. The Blessing is received at the top of the growth stage.
After receiving the Blessing, the 7-year course – or it may be 21 years or 40 years – which we have to go on still remains. Father emphasized that the 7-year course that everyone has to go on after the Blessing is completing the Four Great Realms of Heart, the Three Great Kingships, and HTM mission and be(coming) organized in the royal family of the kingdom of heaven.
That is why during the 7-year course we must really complete Heavenly Tribal Messiahship. Of course it may take 14 years or 21 or 30 years. The important thing is that right after receiving the Blessing we need to fulfill the responsibility of the Four Great Realms of Heart, the Three Great Kingships and the final mission is to complete the Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Couples are People Who Should Major in Love
Life is a Course to Major in Love
1. Do you want to start a family and major in love between husband and wife? Then, be filial to your parents first. Serve your parents well. Serve your parents if you at least want to be happy. “Believe in Jesus well” and “Love Jesus more than you love your parents and siblings” means to experience abundant love by loving Jesus and for a man and woman to meet, start a family and major in love between husband and wife. Considering that life is a path of perfecting love, God's attempts to take Sarah and Isaac from Abraham must be seen as a training in God's love to raise the level of Abraham's love and create a happy couple. In our church, after elder couples were blessed, we have to know that True Parents made them go to the frontline for three years, mobilized them and made them witness so that they could have the essence of longing and love.
Do you want to start a family and major in love between husband and wife? Then, first be filial and serve God and True Parents, then serve your physical parents, and serve your Abel.
The goal of serving, attending, and being filial to God is ultimately to start family and for the husband and wife to serve their partner with the same heart (with which they) served God. In the end, the vertical must all bear fruit horizontally.
Saying, “Believe in Jesus,” “Love Jesus more than your parents and brothers,” “Serve your parents well” means to become people (who) major in love together as a couple with the heart that was filial and served the subject partner during all that time.
Considering that life is a path of perfecting love, God's attempts to take Sarah and Isaac from Abraham must be seen as a training in God's love to raise the level of Abraham's love and create a happy couple.
The reason we went out to the frontline and suffered or (went) someplace to pioneer, or (did) witnessing training or (did) fundraising was ultimately so that we could have the essence of longing and love.
Whatever suffering we experienced witnessing or becoming a pioneer, (we have) all kinds of experience in order to elevate our level of love. This is the main purpose. Suffering is not just for (the sake of) suffering. Suffering, difficulties, overcoming, creating a Foundation of Faith and Foundation of Substance, everything is in order to (raise) my spiritual standard of true love. This is the point.
Of course, we need to offer conditions for the sake of God. Abraham needed to offer his Isaac. All his sacrifice, including offering his son, of course, was to separate good and evil, but one of the main reasons was to elevate the level of love.
Through formation and growth stages, through the Foundation of Faith and Foundation of Substance, we need to enter the foundation of heart and love centering on husband and wife. The husband and wife are the conclusion. Marriage is entering the world of love, the foundation of love. Even though we work really hard in the formation and growth stages and Foundation of Faith and Foundation of Substance, what is the conclusion? We need to meet our spouse and complete love through give-and-take with my spouse. Conjugal love is really important.
Couples are People Who Should Major in Love
2. If you start living together right after getting married, it is easy to slip into physical love. In doing so, it is easy to lose the first love and become enemies, so after receiving the Blessing in our church, members were trained in pioneering activities for three years. If you receive the Blessing, get separated and miss each other for three years, then meet again, the level of love will increase, and you will have the possibility to grow into people who can major in love. All of you who have been Blessed are love majors who should major in love. Before you start the family, you have gone through two paths: the foundation of faith and the foundation of substance. Now is the time to know how precious you are. The past era of indemnity was an era in which even though we had Han for practicing self-denial and self-disregard, we had to endure difficult times to honor God as the most precious. But now we have arrived at the destination of love. We have entered an era in which I value myself.
If you start living together right after getting married, it is easy to slip into physical love.
Physical love can only last for so long, but it cannot continue forever. Therefore, for first love to last, you have to live focusing on spiritual love more than physical love. Otherwise, it is easy to lose the first love and become enemies.
The reason our church trained young people and made them fundraise and witness was to raise their level of love. This was the main purpose. Only by raising the level of love can we love enemies and start family and truly treat our partner like God and serve him or her.
That is why before you start family, you need to be victorious in passing the two courses of foundation of faith and foundation of substance. As a couple enters the course of love and serves each other like God, you realize how precious you and your partner are. Now the time has come (to go) to the destination of love. So we have entered an era of valuing oneself.
Now is the Time to Treat Myself as Precious as God
3. The present age is a time to value ourselves as much as we value God. This is because you must know your own worth to be truly happy. Until now, we have emphasized self-denial. Then why have we been emphasizing self-denial? It was because we have fallen nature and did not properly find the essence of love. In order to find our true self within ourselves, we denied ourselves. Then, what should I do after finding my true self? Once you've found your true self, you can’t treat yourself carelessly. Until now, you had to deny yourself because you were false. So, you have been training yourself while voluntarily bearing the cross and denying yourself. And you thought it was okay to face any persecution. But after you are connected with God, you no longer need self-denial because you treat yourself as God's.
The age of indemnity put a lot of emphasis on self-denial. It was an age in which we had to distinguish good and evil well and know our responsibilities well.
However, the present age is a time to value ourselves as much as we value God. This is because you must know your own worth to be truly happy. That is why we have been emphasizing self-denial so far.
The reason we have to deny ourselves and suffer is to get rid of our fallen nature and find the essence of love.
Then, what should I do after finding my true self? Once you've found your true self, you can’t treat yourself carelessly. Until now, you had to deny yourself because you were false.
But after you are connected with God, you no longer need self-denial because you treat yourself as God’s. If you learn to live with God, you will automatically become one with God in heart, so there is no need to deny yourself.
If you really treat yourself as God’s belonging and there is no more gap, then OK. But as long as our fallen nature remains, we need to continuously deny ourself.
When Married Life Begins, the Couple Sees Themselves as Each Other's
4. A man or woman lives treating their relationship with their parents as life until they get married. Before marriage, if a child has a good relationship with their parents, they always think of their parents when they act. Then, after marriage, the woman thinks, “My husband values me more than I do, and he considers me as more precious than life than I do myself.” Here the value of her spouse is raised. The woman says, “My husband is more important than me!” And she feels, “I have to respect my husband like Heaven.” When married life begins in this way, each spouse sees themselves as belonging to their spouse. When we walk the course of indemnity, we suffer physically to find the original substance of the Word in us. We tried fasting, prayer vigils, and voluntarily went on the path of suffering while mistreating our bodies. Why did we do that? It is to discover the true self within me through such suffering. However, after starting the family and the life of a married couple, I value my partner more than I do (myself), and the other person values me more than they value themselves.
When married life begins, you leave behind your parents and brothers and sisters to be with your partner. Why is that? It is for the sake of the completion of love.
You love God. You love your own parents. You love your brothers and sisters. Why do you need to leave your parents behind? Why do you need to marry? In order to create true love. Leaving your parents behind and meeting your spouse means that your spouse is more valuable than your parents in the sense of true love. (When) you leave your own brothers and sisters and meet your spouse, it means your spouse is more valuable than they are.
“Oh, I love my father and mother. I cannot get married. I cannot depart from my parents.”
Why do we need to leave our parents and brothers and sisters behind? It is for the sake of the completion of love.
The position of the couple is, in some respects, more precious than my beloved parents, Jesus, and my brothers and sisters. Why would you give up everything and go to meet your partner if the position of husband and wife is not more precious than parents, brothers, or God?
However, after starting the family and the life of a married couple, I value my partner more than I do (my parents and siblings), and the other person values me more than they value themselves. In other words, we must serve the other person as substantial God. Only then will I find my original value.
Of course, parents are important, God is important. But in a certain respect giving up my parents and my brothers and sisters and meeting my spouse, what does it mean? The completion of love is really important. That’s why when you see your spouse, he or she is substantial God. Do not search for God somewhere else. God is not a conceptual God. When you see your spouse, he or she is your substantial God. You need to treat your spouse as God. Wow! True Parents’ guidance is really amazing!
In the Old Testament Era (they) searched for God somewhere else. Even in the New Testament Era it is not clear. But in the Completed Testament Era it is clearly told that (your spouse) is your substantial God. You need to meet God through your spouse. Seeing your spouse is seeing God. How important is the value of my spouse!
Today I talked about “Couples are People Who Should Major in Love.”
(Testimony Meeyung Owens, Witnessing)♦
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.
This lightly edited transcript may contain errors and omissions. Indecipherable, inaudible or uncertain words and guesses are tagged with a “(?)” and indecipherable phrases, with an ellipsis “...”. First, second and third person pronouns have been left as spoken if the meaning is clear, and other apparently Korean English expressions have been preserved if understandable. Some repeated phrases have been eliminated.
Audio only is available at anchor.morndev.com, spotify.morndev.com & audio.morndev.com. Notes or transcripts of Dr. Yong’s Morning Devotion speeches from November 11, 2020 through March 29, 2022 are available as six paperback books at cost at Lulu.com/Shop -- search for Dr. Chung Sik Yong -- and as PDF downloads free of charge at MDBooks.Hoondok.com.♦