Ep 721 - God, Women and World Peace Part 5
God, Women and World Peace - October 16, 2022
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Key Points
It has been God's intention that both the Abel and Cain sides be restored, not that one triumph over and destroy the other.
If there are two people, one is always Cain and one is Abel. They must never be separated before becoming united.
Seek and serve Abel and avoid being Cain.
God speaks through Abel. We must all become one with Abel.
The health of our faith depends on our being able to share everything with an Abel.
The unity between Cain and Abel is like that between our right and left arms. They cannot be separated.
To become Abel we must first become one with God through the Foundation of Faith, then from the position of a servant find and raise Cain with the heart of a parent.
When Cain surrenders to our love, then with his cooperation we can go to the parent’s position.
For us to stand as Abel, Cain must provide evidence that we are loved by God and truly a man of God.
In order to meet True Parents, receive the Blessing, be reborn and achieve inner resurrection, we need to “die” or completely deny our false life, false love, and false lineage.
Because our life, love, and lineage come from God’s absolute sex by rebirth through the messiah’s love organ, we must have absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience.
A husband and wife should serve, respect and move each other with the same heart with which they raise their children.
Spouses should see each other’s faults as their own, take responsibility for them, and not feel disappointed with each other.
If you have a parental heart and worry about your children because of their faults, you will love them more and give them more attention. It is the same for your spouse.
The wife must treat and nurture her husband from a mother’s position to unlock creative power.
Because it is difficult for spouses to treat each other with the heart of filial piety with which we treated our parents, our faith course requires a lot of prayer, sincere devotion, and tears.
In order to nurture a voluntary heart, everyone must follow the course of the cross and struggle.
We try to make our heart well up like a spring for our spouse, but it doesn't work, so we struggle a lot.
Those who struggle and work to become true people are not hypocrites.
Those who keep trying again and again to evoke their heart and longing will eventually become sincere.
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 is happy Sunday.
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> Looking almost anywhere in our fallen world, we observe struggle between good and evil, similar to the struggle between Cain and Abel. These struggles start in the conflict between mind and body in each of us. The mind, which represents the Abel side, struggles to overcome the body, which represents the Cain side. The struggle within individuals has expanded to the family, nation and world. As a result, humankind has always been divided into two opposing camps, one good, or Abel-like, and the other evil, or Cain-like, locked in struggle at every level. Always it has been God's intention, however, that both sides be restored, not that one triumph over and destroy the other.
An example of this division is the thief on the right side of Jesus' cross, who represented Abel, and the thief on the left, who represented Cain. So the key to God's work of salvation has always been to unite such divided sides, based on His ideal, in order to build a foundation on which to reclaim the True Mother and True Father. Ladies and gentlemen, if a family is not centered on God's ideal of love, there will be conflict among the members of that family. Without God's love as an absolute center, the family will ultimately break down. Moreover, a nation of such families will also decline. Because illicit, self-centered love invaded the family of our first ancestors, selfishness and greed have continued to dominate human history from the individual to the family, society, nation and world. For this reason, God's work of restoration begins at the individual level. Since Satan knows this, he also focuses his efforts on the individual level.
Looking almost anywhere in our fallen world, we observe struggle between good and evil, similar to the struggle between Cain and Abel. These struggles start in the conflict between mind and body in each of us. The mind, which represents the Abel side, struggles to overcome the body, which represents the Cain side.
Always it has been God's intention, however, that both sides be restored, not that one triumph over and destroy the other.
Today, let's take a look at True Father's words on Cain and Abel's positions based on the principle.
I will summarize Father’s words:
What is the Position of Cain and Abel as Seen in Principle?
1. If there are two people, one is always Cain and one is Abel. You must know how to distinguish them well.
2. However Cain and Abel must never be separated before being united as one. One side is the right hand and the other side is the left hand.
3. You must always seek and serve the Abel type figure and try your best effort to avoid the position of Cain.
4. God reveals His Word through Abel. Everyone must become one with Abel.
5. In order to have the right faith, you must be able to discuss everything about yourself with a being who is more Abel-like than yourself.
The important thing here is that Cain and Abel are not separate beings, but are to be united.
Just as the right arm and the left arm cannot be separated, so Cain and Abel cannot be separated. Therefore, we must go together forever.
“I don’t like Cain!” “I don’t like my Abel!”
As a right arm, how can you ignore the left arm? Where there is a right arm, there is a left arm. Therefore, the right arm and the left arm cannot be separated.
So, Cain and Abel cannot be separated. We must go together. The important thing is how can I (attain) the Abel position and, Father said, try to avoid the position of Cain? This is the issue.
What Must I do to Become Abel?
1. First of all, you must know clearly the view of the Principle and providence regarding Cain and Abel. In order for Abel to be established, it is necessary to know the view of the Principle that Abel cannot be established by being alone.
2. As Abel, the first requirement is to have Cain. Without Cain, you cannot become Abel.
How can you say, “I am Abel” without Cain? No one will recognize that you are Abel without Cain.
3. A period of preparation is required until Abel takes the position of being chosen as the true Abel. That is the foundation of faith.
4. In order for you to become Abel, you must first become one with God.
5. Abel must bring up Cain. Cain cannot grow on his own.
If no one follows me and respects me, I am still Cain. No matter how good my personality is, if I don't have spiritual children, I will remain as Cain forever.
If you do not have spiritual children, if no one follows you and respects you, you will remain Cain forever.
There is no Abel without Cain. Therefore, Abel must find Cain and establish him. Without Cain, I cannot establish the foundation of substance.
If you do not have your Cain figure, then you are still in the position of the Foundation of Faith. You have not yet established the Foundation of Substance. In order to establish the Foundation of Substance, definitely the Cain figure is required. You need to have spiritual children. Without spiritual children you are forever Cain. You cannot avoid the position of Cain. You need to have a Cain who respects you, follows you and longs for you. That means you have already established the Foundation of Substance.
6. How, then, do you bring up and nurture Cain? You must bring him up with the heart of a parent on behalf of God.
7. In order to become a true Abel, you must go through the positions of the servant of servants and then the position of the servant, the position of the adopted son, and ascend to the position of the son from the position representing God.
8. You must establish the condition of Cain surrendering. After setting such a standard, with Cain's cooperation, you will go to the parent's position.
9. To become Abel, you must receive God's love.
If I am to become an Abel, I must have evidence from Cain. There must be evidence that Abel is truly a man whom God loves. Abel must have a testimony that he is truly a man of God.
“You are truly a man of God! Seeing you is like seeing God! That is why I respect you and try to unite with you. Whatever you say, I want to obey.”
We have to have spiritual children not only conditionally, but from the bottom of their heart. They really respect you and follow you and long for you. “Wherever you go, I can go. When you die, I can die with you.” You need to have that kind of spiritual children as your Cain figures. Without this how can you settle the problem of Cain and Abel, mind and body, husband and wife, communism and democracy?
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.
To be Engrafted is to Fully Deny Yourself
<223-300> When a life starts centering on love, the life must connect the blood lineage. The life must be fruitful after it grows. So it’s not easy to engraft it. This engraftment is the providence of salvation. Numerous religions tried to make a green hill by engrafting wild olive trees onto true olive trees. There stand the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the center of the hill. Do you know what they are? They symbolize a man and a woman. This should be engrafted. That’s why you have to deny the truth you’ve been thinking centering on yourself. Therefore those who want to die will live and those who want to live will die. There is no way to go back to heaven but through the perfect denial of yourself. Amen! It’s an ironclad rule.
In order for the fallen man, the wild olive tree, to be born again from false life, false love, and false lineage to the true olive tree of true life, true love, and true lineage, he must be engrafted to the Messiah.
The history of engraftment is to meet True Parents, receive the Blessing and be reborn. However, in order to achieve inner resurrection, you have to deny the truth you’ve been thinking centering on yourself.
Therefore those who want to die will live and those who want to live will die. No one can deny himself without such an attitude. There is no way to go back to heaven but through the perfect denial of yourself.
Wow! Self-denial is very difficult. True Father said those who want to die will live. You have to deny yourself that much. It is not easy to deny your own self. Only if you are ready to die will you live. You have your own thinking, your own mindset, your own fallen nature, your own habits, your own tradition. They don’t work at all. That is why you need to throw everythng away 100%. You need to deny that much. Otherwise, you cannot live.
We must think that the purpose of following True Parents and joining the Unification Church was not to live, but to die. This is because unless you completely deny yourself, you cannot be reborn with true life, true love, and true lineage.
Father asked, did you come to the Unification Church to live? Or did you come here to die? How difficult it is for a human to be born again, that Jesus and True Parents have to tell us to die? The path of faith is a path that cannot be taken unless you thoroughly deny yourself and have a desire to die.
Dominion of the Organ of Love
<304-162> Therefore in order for unification movement members to return to the Garden of Eden and be united with God, there must be absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience centering on that love organ. It means that God and humankind are to be united in that organ. For a man, even though he denies all the five sensory organs and sacrifices them over the senses of flesh, he must not sacrifice the senses of flesh-man’s sexual organ.. If then, the history disappears. A nation blows out and a tradition vanishes. Hearing that eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was prohibited, it was talking about the organ of a man. The advice was given centering on that organ. Therefore all secrets of the Bible are now revealed.
True Father said that in order to become one with God, we must have absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience. This means that I must completely deny my false life, false love, and false lineage and become completely one with God’s absolute sex, the source of true life, true love, and true lineage.
My life comes from where? From my parents’ love organs. For human beings the source of life is God’s absolute sex. My love and my lineage come from God’s absolute sex. Engrafting means what? Completely changing my blood lineage.
Because my life, love, and lineage come from God’s absolute sex, I must have absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience to go to God. We must be born again through God’s absolute sex. That’s why True Parents are representatives of God’s absolute sex. This is essential teaching given by True Parents.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: There is a Cross on the Path of Love
1. Husbands and Wives Should Raise Each Other
Husbands and wives should nurture each other. A wife must be filial to her husband and a husband to his wife. A wife and husband must serve and move each other. When they serve and respect each other like Heaven, they will grow. They grow each other like raising a child. Husbands and wives need to have the same heart raising each other like they raise their children. Especially women, don't think of your husband as a better person than you. If you embrace your husband like a child, you will respect your husband. Then you won't feel disappointed by your husband. A woman should not think of her husband one-on-one, thinking of him and treating him horizontally. Even if the husband graduated from a better university and held a higher position than his wife, the wife should always consider him as her own child and nurture him.
To have the body of a servant with the heart of a parent means to have a parental heart that regards everyone as a child of God. Second, my body should act as a slave to others more than anyone else. Instead of trying to be served by others, serve and attend the other as a servant serves his master.
The same principle should apply when husbands and wives raise each other. We must have a parental heart and the body of a servant to nurture each other. A wife must be filial to her husband and a husband to his wife. A wife and husband should serve each other and move each other.
When a husband and wife serve and respect each other like heaven, they will grow. They grow each other like raising a child. Husbands and wives need to have the same heart raising each other as with raising their children centered on parental heart.
When a husband and wife are in the position of raising each other, they do not feel disappointed by each other. This principle applies not only to married couples, but to everyone whom you deal with.
That is why when we raise people, we need to have a parental heart and wear a servant’s body.
2. When Does a Couple’s Creative Power Come Out?
When starting married life, it is easy for a wife to regard her husband highly in the beginning, but criticize, accuse, or scold him when he does not meet certain standards or does worse than she does. Then the couple becomes enemies. Even if you see the faults of others, you should not regard them as faults. When parents keep thinking about their children's faults, they get upset. Parents should try to take responsibility for their children when they see their faults. If that happens, you will feel affection for your child and want to raise them well because of their faults. If you worry and are concerned more about your child because of their faults, you will love them more and give them more attention. Because of their faults, you feel more love for them. That is parental love. Parental love is amazing. However, the question is whether wives and husbands have such a heart when they see their partner’s faults. Can a wife treat her husband like a mother would a child every time? When that happens, creative power will come out.
When parents see their children's faults, they try to take responsibility for them. That is a parental heart. As a result, they think of their children's faults as their own. However, if you look at the faults of the other without a parental heart, you are easily disappointed and easily become enemies, easily criticize each other.
When I see my children’s faults and problems – they sometimes do wrong things – I feel that these are my faults. My fallen nature appears through them. When I treat my children’s faults as my own faults and am determined to be responsible for them and take better care of them, (I have) a kind of affection (for them).
Father said, “You need to apply this to your spouse as well.” If you just deal with your spouse in a horizontal way and see your spouse’s faults and problems, then it is easy to criticize – “Why do you do this?” – and easy to scold each other. That means that you only have a horizontal concept which does not help you at all. You need to have a vertical concept. If you have a vertical concept like parent and child, then you can solve the problems. Parents see children’s problems as their own problems because they have that kind of vertical concept. We cannot settle anything with a horizontal situation. We can only settle centering on the vertical concept and attitude. This is a top secret.
Because parents try to take responsibility for their children’s faults, they will feel affection for their child and want to raise them well. If you have a parental heart and worry about your child because of their faults, you will love them more and give them more attention.
Why don’t you have a parental heart toward your spouse? Toward your Cain? Toward your brothers and sisters?
Problems arise because the couple thinks horizontally when they see each other's faults. Whenever the wife deals with her husband, she must treat and nurture him from a mother’s position to unlock creative power.
3. There is a Cross on the Path of Love
Husbands should treat their wives and wives their husbands with the heart of a couple being filial to their parents and subjugating their children. This is easier said than done. Because it’s really hard to put into practice and I lack the heart to do so, I have to cry a lot over myself. Especially the wife has to cry a lot for her husband. Why should we cry? Because I don’t long for my partner, I try hard to long for them, but it’s difficult enough to die. Isn’t it difficult because I have to work hard to have the belief to long for them even though I don’t? This is the path of carrying the cross. There is a cross like this on the path of love. Since love arises spontaneously, who can’t love? Animals love, too. Even dogs wag their tails when they see someone they like. However, since all people know that human relationships are precious, we try to make good relationships with each other.
When a wife deals with her husband, it is difficult to treat him with the heart of filial piety that she treated her parents with. Likewise, when the husband deals with his wife, it is difficult to treat her with the heart of filial piety that he treated his parents with.
It is also difficult for a husband and wife to treat each other with the heart of a parent subduing their children. That is why our faith course requires a lot of prayer, sincere devotion, and a lot of tears.
We must appeal to Heaven with tears, pleading, “Oh Heaven, this is impossible on my own, so please give me the heart of a parent who can embrace my partner, my husband, my wife. I cannot do it on my own.”
In particular, a wife must cry a lot for her husband. As a man, I have(?) more fallen nature. Why should we cry? Because we don’t long for our partner. Fallen man does not have a longing heart. We try hard to long for them, but it’s difficult enough to die. This is the path of carrying the cross. There is a cross like this on the path of love.
Fallen human beings cannot voluntarily feel love on their own, right?
Fallen man does not have a voluntary heart and feeling. This is fallen man’s problem.
So, in order to nurture such a voluntary heart, everyone must follow the course of the cross and struggle.
That is why we need to bear the cross: “I want to love but I cannot love him! My heart does not come out! I don’t have a longing heart to love him! What can I do?” That’s why we need to pray, “Heavenly Father, what can I do?”
4. We must Overcome the Course of the Cross Between Husband and Wife
We have to respect those we don’t respect, so a cross exists there. It means that you have to act as if you like something, even if you actually don't. Then doesn’t that only look good externally? If that's always the case, it's hypocrisy, but if through that you try to make your heart spring up like a spring of water and make your faith and heart of respect burst out like living water, it's not hypocrisy. Those who keep trying to evoke their heart and longing will eventually feel sincerity. How can a couple's relationship only be good every day? Sometimes a wife hates her husband on the inside, but he’s still her husband, so what should she do? Still, she was blessed to her husband through True Parents, so she has to overcome it no matter what. Secular couples just pretend to like each other outwardly even if they don't on the inside. When they make good money, they pretend to look good to others, and when they lose money, they turn away. How many such families are there in the world?
We have to respect those we don’t respect, and we have to like something even if we actually don’t, so pain and the cross follow our path of faith.
I am a fallen man. You are a fallen man. We know the Principle. We have to evoke our heart. “I need a longing heart to love my spouse. It does not work! I try to make my heart well up like a spring, but it doesn't work, so I struggle a lot.” Trying to do something that cannot be done can seem like looking good externally.
However, those who struggle and work to become true people are not hypocrites. It's difficult at first, but those who keep trying again and again to evoke their heart and longing will eventually become sincere.
We need to make an effort. Do not give up.
How can a couple's relationship only be good every day? Do you have a relationship with your wife all the time 24 hours (a day) forever? For fallen man it is not easy.
Sometimes a wife hates her husband on the inside, but he’s still her husband, so what should she do? Thinking about the Blessing that Heaven has given you and trying to do well is faith itself. Never give up in any situation and keep working to overcome it. Putting in an effort is very important, no matter what, even though it is not easy. That is why you need to pray, to be sincere even though it is not easy. Keep going! Keep working to overcome. Someday you (will be able to) change a lot.
Anyway, this is my testimony, my experience. That is not hypocrisy. Invest your effort, “I really want to do this according to God’s will, God’s principle, True Father’s words, but my heart does not come out! What can I do?” You need to have prayer, repentance and cry a lot. It is difficult to love my enemy; what can I do?”
God listens to your prayer. As long as you (invest) your heart and sincerity and don’t give up, you surely will improve.
Today I spoke about “There is a cross on the path of love.”
(Video by Kathy Sabo, Washington State, Uplifting Education, a public program and resource to help create a culture of heart. She also created a kids’ game inspired by Morning Devotion.)♦
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