Ep 717 - God, Women and World Peace Part 1
God, Women and World Peace - October 12, 2022
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Jinil Fleischmann
Key Points
Humankind can only solve their countless problems by knowing the existence of God, his ideal and purpose of creation, our relationship with him as his children, and his limitless hope and love for us as our parent.
He actually wants us to become better than he is.
The most complex, most stimulating, and most sensitive place God created is our most holy place where God wants to dwell but which we defiled in the fall.
God’s commandment to Adam and Eve was clearly that they not defile this holy place, his original dwelling place of Absolute Sex.
God intended that the center of love be the reproductive organs of Adam and Eve. The Bible contains many symbols of Adam and Eve that represent their reproductive organs.
Absolute sex is the core of the Bible and the origin of true blood lineage, true life and true love.
If you follow a course of indemnity and self-denial and listen to the Word, receive a lot of grace through the Word, give a lot of God's Word to your witnessing guests and practice love, you begin to feel God’s love coming to you.
Then you will long for God and for other people and realize how precious you are.
In the Blessing the husband and wife live as one body and become God’s substantial object partner to each other as God the Father and God the Mother and form a family.
While we are children, our focus is on the parent-child relationship, but when we become a couple and serve and cherish our spouse, we come to understand our preciousness and that of our spouse and treat ourselves as God’s children.
True Father has absolute authority and dignity, respects himself and regards himself as completely belonging to God, so Satan could never approach him.
Despite his perfection and his absolute authority and dignity as the Son of God, Father knows he cannot meet God without going through his partner. So he consults True Mother in everything.
Father seemed to think that if Mother were not by his side, God would not accompany him. The two of them thought and acted as one.
As a couple you cannot meet God without your spouse. He or she is your only channel to God.
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 “God, Women and World Peace” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This was an invitational address delivered on September 7, 1993 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York> Honorable President Ganev, your excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen: I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to you for coming here today. As leaders of the United Nations, you bear the responsibility of guiding this world into the next millennium. The promise of a peaceful and prosperous future depends directly upon the collective actions we take today. As we all know, our contemporary world is not a world of peace and happiness. It is a world of conflict and despair. We are confronted by the breakdown of our families and the moral decline of our societies. We debate issues over and over again and yet find no solutions. Why is this? It is because a true solution has to include God and deal with the root of the problem and not only the symptoms. To find this root, we first need to understand God's purpose of creation and realize that today we face the most critical turning point in the history of God's providence.
At this crucial time in history, God has asked my husband, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, to bring a new revelation to the people of the world. I have been supporting him in his work and I recently concluded a yearlong tour that took me to twelve countries, where I spoke on the topic, True Parents and the Completed Testament Age. A few weeks ago, toward the end of a speaking schedule that took me to all fifty states of the United States, I addressed members of the United States Congress in Washington, DC on this same theme. I would like to take this opportunity to convey this important message to you, assembled delegates of the United Nations and other distinguished guests.
God's ideal in creating Adam and Eve was that they would perfect themselves through true love so that, as True Parents, they could then create a good family of true love, true life and true lineage. Such a good family would have formed on the basis of hearts and minds united among the family members before God. When God created Adam and Eve, His first son and daughter, God wanted them to be better than Himself. Conventional thinking would say that this is absurd. However please take a moment to think about it. When we as parents look into the faces of our children, we wish upon them an infinite amount of love and hope. We want them to grow and achieve things we ourselves only dreamed of. Similarly, God wants to give limitlessly to His children. God is not content in giving just 100 percent. God's desire is to give a thousand times more than what He has.
Humanity and the world are facing countless problems today and have yet to find a solution. Why? It is because the real solution to the problem must come from God, not from human beings.
This is because the problem cannot be solved unless its root is revealed. Therefore, problems of the individual, family, society, nation, and world cannot be solved without knowing the existence of God who created human beings, and his ideal and purpose of creation.
And that is only possible on the basis of human beings uniting with God heartistically. How, then, can we become one with God heartistically?
First of all, if human beings as God’s children clearly understand and know that the relationship between God and humans is a parent-child relationship, and that God has hope and love for them as their parent, (then) they can become one.
When God created Adam and Eve, His first son and daughter, God wanted them to be better than Himself. This is a truly great discovery. It is a fact that no philosopher, educator, or great man has ever uncovered.
If you know God's love, desire, and heart for you, you can never go astray. When we as parents look into the faces of our children, we wish upon them an infinite amount of love and hope.
Similarly, God wants to give limitlessly to His children. God is not content in giving just 100 percent. God's desire is to give a thousand times more than what He has.
That is why we need to understand that God exists. We need to understand his nature. When we understand God’s true nature, then we (will) understand who “I am,” who we are. This is the way to solved any kinds of problems. If we truly know God’s true nature, his blueprint, his wishes, his situation, then we can resolve any problem.
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 Sanctuary Where God Stays
<143-91> Where does God want to stay? It’s the sanctuary of love. Is it made by human beings? It’s the most complicated, stimulate and sensitive spot among the things God created. Where is it then? Is it the women’s bosom? How do you call the contact spot where a man and a woman can make love? Where is the very edge of all human nerves? You taught us the sanctuary just before So what is it? (People laugh) That is the only difference between man and woman. It separates man and woman. Do you know what it is? You all know even though I don’t explain to you. That is precious.
Where is God? God wants to stay in the holy of holies. In other words, the holy of holies is the place where absolute sex, God's love organ, resides.
The fall of man is the defilement of this most holy place. The most holy place that became the most defiled place is the fall. God's sorrow and pain exists here.
True life, true love, and true lineage come from absolute sex, the most holy place. Among the things God made, the most complex, most stimulating, and most sensitive place is this most holy place.
In Genesis 2:17, God's commandment not to eat of the forbidden fruit meant we should not defile the most holy place. This is because the most holy place is the main original place where God dwells which is absolute sex.
All the Secrets in the Bible are the Stories About Adam and Eve
<143-91> Without the human fall, the place where God could dwell and where God’s love could stay was the sanctuary. Hearing that, a current Christian can not help but be amazed.(laugh) ‘Ah, what a sanctuary it is! Who made it? Human beings made it. When God created humankind, you may think what kind of sanctuary like a wooden stick (men’s sexual organ) it is. But it symbolizes Adam and Eve in the future. All those two stone slabs, the manna and coturnix(quail), and Aaron’s cane with a bud are about Adam and Eve. All the secrets in the Bible are the stories about Adam and Eve. A pillar of cloud and a pillar of fire meant Adam and Eve. The two olive trees in the Bible and the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil all symbolize Adam and Eve, too. The secret love of Adam and Eve was symbolized allusively in the Bible. But this has not been known yet.
The two stone slabs, manna and quail, the pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil all speak of Adam and Eve, and symbolize their reproductive organs, Adam and Eve’s most holy place.
Who is the center of the Bible? It is Jesus. Then, what is the center of Jesus? It is love. Then what is the center of love? It was originally Adam and Eve. Then what is the center of Adam and Eve?
Centered on what did Adam and Eve become one, and through what did they meet God? That is the most holy place called absolute sex. From this point of view, the center of the Bible is love, and the center of love is the reproductive organs of Adam and Eve. This is the core of the Bible, absolute sex.
No one (had previously) discovered this clearly. Father is an amazing man! When we talk about two slabs of stone, manna and quail, the pillars of fire and cloud, the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, we think these are symbols, but of what? We need to understand absolute sex and how the fall was the misuse of absolute sex. True blood lineage, love and life come from where? Absolute sex. That’s why absolute sex is the core of the Bible and the Divine Principle. How important it is!
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Realizing One’s Own Value Right Away is Faith
The Realization of God’s Love and One’s Own Value
1. When you pass through all indemnity and go through training to deny yourself, you begin to feel God’s love coming to you. Then, you will feel, “I am God’s temple! God is inside me!” Your values about yourself will change. Next, if you restore many unbelievers, you will come to know that your spiritual children regard you as the Lord. When you raise witnessing guests, you realize that they have deep attachment and long for you and even long for you more than their own father and mother. Through this experience, you discover that you are with God. Then, you begin to understand your own value. Then, after receiving the Blessing, the husband and wife live as one body and become God’s substantial object partner to each other. When they become a couple, the woman becomes God the Mother, and the husband becomes God the Father. This is none other than the family.
When you pass through all indemnity and go through training to deny yourself, you begin to feel God’s love coming to you. The reason you don't feel God as your parent yet, don't have enough gratitude for God, and can't feel His love is that you still have a lot of fallen natures or your spirit is young.
If you still have a lot of fallen natures, the world of your heart is very hardened. You don't feel the love of God coming to you at all.
However, if you listen to the Word, receive a lot of grace through the Word, give a lot of God's Word to your witnessing guests and practice love, you will say, “I am God’s temple! God is inside me all the time!”
When you feel and receive God's love, your values about yourself will change. You will long for God, and then long for people. Through this experience, you discover that you are with God.
Then you realize how precious you are. Then, after receiving the Blessing, the husband and wife live as one body and become God’s substantial object partner to each other.
When they become a couple, the woman becomes God the Mother, and the husband becomes God the Father. This is none other than the family.
We need to know and realize God’s love and our own value. In our life of faith, we really need to know our own value, who “I am.” If you know your identity clearly: “I belong to God. I am a child of God,” then you will know how to remove your fallen nature and how to overcome difficulties. That is why we need to understand the value of our own self.
Realizing One’s Own Value Right Away is Faith
2. When you are young men and women before receiving the Blessing, you could not discover your value right away because they were just on the path of indemnity, but when you marry and become husband and wife, you come to realize your own value and how precious you are as you go through the course of serving and cherishing each other. Ultimately, realizing that one’s value is precious is growth of faith. If you do not know your own precious value, you cannot grow in faith. As you can see, your value is something that cannot be changed even if you offer the entire world. However, if you are recklessly jealous, complain, assert yourself, and become arrogant, it is because you do not know your own value. Can you recklessly criticize others, be arrogant, and complain when your value is so precious? If you know your own value, you can never do that. If you treat yourself carelessly, your value will drop to the ground immediately. That is why you cannot treat yourself badly. I belong to God.
Young men and women before receiving the Blessing and Adam as the tree of life and Eve as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil each go their own individual path. At this time, they mainly focus on the relationship between parent and child, so they do not know how precious the value of a spouse is.
However, when you marry and become husband and wife, you come to realize your own value and how precious your spouse is as you go through the course of serving and cherishing each other.
Ultimately, realizing that one’s value is precious is growth of faith. If you do not know your own precious value, you cannot grow in faith. As you can see, your value is something that cannot be changed even if you offer the entire world.
That is why the Divine Principle teaches us that your value is God’s value, higher than (the) cosmos.
However, if you are recklessly jealous, complain, assert yourself, and become arrogant, it is because you do not know your own value. How can you act recklessly when you are more valuable than the cosmos and are children of God?
If you treat yourself carelessly, ignore yourself, and are pessimistic, your value will drop to the ground immediately. So always treat yourself as God’s.
True Father Absolutely Treats Himself as Belonging to God
3. When referring to himself, True Father called himself “teacher (seonsaeongnim).” Usually, in Korea, when talking about yourself, you do not use honorifics for yourself. However, when Father referred to himself, he added “nim.” What this means is that Father’s faith regarded himself to be like God. Father respects himself and regards himself as belonging to God. In that regard, Father is very absolute. Many church leaders were surprised to see this kind of True Father hold the Holy Wedding and discuss with True Mother. True Father always tended to direct leaders rather than listening to their opinions. When leaders occasionally raised some opinions to Father, he said “Do you think I am discussing with you and working the providence of restoration?”
Father’s faith regarded himself to be like God. He treated himself as God’s belonging. There is not much difference (between God and him?).
For that reason, True Father's authority is absolute, and his dignity is felt like the cosmos. True Father has absolute authority and dignity because he really treats his body as God’s body. He really treats himself as God’s belonging. He respects himself.
Like Jesus who said, “He who has seen me has seen God,” True Father thinks of himself as God. Because of this, True Father respects himself and regards himself as completely belonging to God, so Satan could never approach him.
We need to learn from Father’s attitude. He treats himself as God’s belonging with absolute conviction. That is why Father said, “If you treat yourself really as God’s belonging without doubt 100%, wherever you go, you can (experience) all kinds of miracles. Nothing is impossible. (There is) no need to be afraid of Satan at all. (There is) no need to worry at all. Wow! That kind of faith and conviction, treating himself as God’s belonging, was the same as (that of) Jesus: “He who has seen me has seen God. If you see me, you already see God. Why are you asking me to show (you) God? What are you talking about?” Jesus was like that. Our True Father was like that. Our True Mother is like that. How can we learn? Fallen man, even though we say we should treat ourself as God’s belonging, does not do that actually. This is a problem.
True Parents Showed Us the Model of a Couple
4. It is said that after True Father met True Mother and held the Holy Wedding, they always discussed. When surrounding leaders saw Father asking her “Mother, what should I do?” and ask for her opinions, they were surprised at first. After some time passed with seeing Father discussing with Mother rather than talking about his own assertions and opinions in front of her, the disciples of True Parents finally came to understand what the position of a true couple is. It is said that when Father discussed with Mother, he waited for her to respond with joy. Then True Mother always answered from True Father's point of view, so True Father used to be very happy with True Mother’s response. Wherever True Father and True Mother went, they always accompanied each other. Father seemed to think that if Mother was not by his side, God will not accompany him. So they always discussed and acted with each other. In this way, True Parents showed us the model of a true couple.
It is said that the leaders around True Parents were very surprised to see True Father, who has absolute authority and spiritual dignity, discussing with True Mother after their Holy Wedding. The leaders around True Father at that time thought about how True Father, who is perfect like God, could consult with anyone else.
However, after True Father met True Mother and held the Holy Wedding, they always discussed. When surrounding leaders saw Father asking her “Mother, what should I do?” and ask for her opinions, they were surprised at first because Father always asked Mother’s opinion.
True Father is a God of masculine nature, and True Mother is a God of feminine nature. True Father has absolute authority and dignity as the Son of God, but True Father, the master of the principle, knows better than anyone else that he cannot meet God on the journey of love that couples go together without going through his partner. Therefore, even True Father cannot deviate from the Principle.
Wherever True Father and True Mother went, they always accompanied each other. Father seemed to think that if Mother was not by his side, God will not accompany him. So, the two thought and acted as one. In this way, True Parents showed us the model of a true couple.
First of all, Father treated himself absolutely as God’s belonging. Even though Father had that kind of spiritual dignity, once he started family, he treated True Mother as God, and True Mother treated True Father as God. This is really beautiful.
As a couple you cannot meet God without your spouse. There is only one channel (through which) a husband can meet God; that is through his wife. The wife only has one channel (through which) to meet God, her husband. This is amazing guidance!
(Testimony Jinil Fleischman, Divine Principle Study Group)♦
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