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I am afraid that´s all for today.
Yesterday most of us were at Godwin´s Seunghwa and there Jan-Peter prayed about
fight against evil and fight for good.
We forgot sometimes that there is such fight between good and evil.
Even religious people don´t take seriously that there is a good side and an evil side in this world.
Why don´t we do it?
Because sometimes it is not sure for ourselves.
We may not even be sure that God exists.
We know even less that something unlikely being, Satan exists.
But I think that yesterday at Godwin´s Seungwa, it reminded us this again.
It is bloody fight.
So sometimes we forget that Sweden is a prosperous country in the West.
That Sweden was not involved with the World War has influenced us as well.
Our mentality has been little bit naive.
It was quite a long time ago when we were engaged in a war.
I think that we Swede are really not aware of evil.
Father Moon has spoken about this in his speech 1983.
He said;
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Anyway, Father Moon said 1983 about this.
If someone asks God and Satan, what do they say?
They will of course say that they exist, both of them.
And they know clearly what belong to them and what they want.
What does God want and what does Satan want?
It is the question.
He says;
In our universe, the three critical "actors" are God, Satan, and mankind.
What is the common desire of both God and Satan?
Do you think Satan wants to possess God?
Does God want to possess Satan?
No, they each want to possess man.
Everything that exist in the physical world, diamond, land and houses, they exist in the spirit world as well.
Both God and Satan are not so much interested in them but whom they want to posses is mankind.
You can also ask if Satan really want everything, if he is so greedy that we know he is.
Why then doesn’t Satan want to posses God?
And God. Why doesn’t he want to posses Satan?
The problem is that both of them have very different characters.
God, he is eternal, unchanging and unique.
God is like gold in a time of uneasy economy. Then currency goes up and when. Everything fluctuates.
Therefore people invest gold instead.
Gold bar. It has been keeping a constant value. God is like gold.
But Satan is temporal and changing.
Because they have this difference in nature - unchanging and changing so
would they really do not have each other to do just in terms of these character traits.
They don´t want to posses each other. They want mankind.
Mankind is both changing and unchanging.
This is both blessing and at the same time very bad thing for us.
In our situation we can relate both to God and Satan.
Both of God and Satan try to win mankind to his side.
Problem is within us. We can not blame society or the world.
Unfortunately we human being can wake up in the morning with an idea but ends the day with completely another way.
We are changing. If we are not careful to keep ourselves on the course, we become unchangeable or changeable.
You will find only stuffs, no course of life.
When I read this by myself, I understand that it is very easy in fact to relate to evil in daily live.
The problem is within us.
What are goodness and evil?
Yes. He explains it like this. He took an example with plant and sprout.
A sprout represent the original form in the creation.
And it should grow to become a tree.
Father Moon explains in this way that all that prevents this plant to grow to become a tree is bad.
For example, removing the soil from the plant, not giving water, sending to a cold air.
It is evil.
But God is opposite. He tries to reserve this original form so that the plant can grow up to a tree.
So it is God's law. God gives protection to all creatures.
We all need God´s protection in order to grow, in order to be able to fulfill our purpose in the life.
I remember when Marjorie came here for the first time, when she was just appointed as a sub-regional leader, to hold a sermon.
And she gave us a simple definition about sin. Everything that damage us is a sin.
We wonder what we should do, this or that. Is this good or bad_
If we think about this concept what is good for us,
if we see the original purpose that we realize as human being,
then everything that damage us is a sin.
It is very simple. We can understand in the same way,
everything that helps us to realize our purpose is good. It is something good.
Therefore from the viewpoint of the original purpose, we, all mankind live in love first here on the earth and then bring that foundation to the spirit world.
That is our purpose in order to build the Kingdom of Heaven. This is our purpose.
Therefore we know that we have give and receive both with God and Satan. This applies to everybody.
Next question is how we can separate us from Satan.
Father Moon said;
You must be guided by your wisdom.
In the period when you are being divided, God cannot teach or guide you.
So, you must apply a strategy to deal with Satan that you learned by analyzing your own experiences ---
must use all possible methods from all aspects of life and divide your environment to chase out Satan.
It sounds like very difficult. Sometimes I feel that it is quite easy to throw away Satan.
Here Father Moon says that there is nobody who will guide us,
when it is very difficult after we have worked out, fought and done everything what we could and tried, then still it comes a time that nobody will help us at all.
God cannot help us but we must make our own decision.
We must analyze our own experiences not others. We must consider really what I have experienced in my life,
Which kind of conclusion can we draw? What I have learned from the Principle.
In this moment we stand totally alone.
We must meet this conflict by ourselves.
But we know there are things, which work
throughout our life. We have it here.
For example, to live for others.
It is a good thing.
We have certain things we stick to.
We may not know everything but we know certain things like to live for the sake of others.
Rev. Hyun Jin Moon says in “A Bold Head and A Strawberry”;
Abonim has said that the core of his teaching is nothing but this:
live for the sake of others then you find your true yourself.
We must be fully aware that just to live for owns sake brings us to the evil,
but to live for the while creates development.
When you live for the whole, all doors will be open for you.
The doors for individual, for family, for relative, for a people, for the world will be open.
Everything will be open and welcome you.
To live for the sake of others is an universal truth that you need in order to establish the true way to live.
It is a principle that can be applied everywhere and is unchangeable for eternally.
Since it exceeds the past, present and future, we should always live for the sake of others.
Even when you take a first step in the morning,
you should consider whether it is for or against the public purpose.
And when you go to bed after all the works during the day,
you should reflect over about the day whether it was used for public or own purpose.
In addition, when you look back over the last twelve months of your life,
you should think about if you have lived a public life, or just focuses you on yourself.
We appreciate often separate units, separate individuals.
It is a gear as you can see.
Alone in the world as this single gear.
But the problem is that the gear has absolutely no function alone.
They can not do anything. This is completely meaningless motion.
I do not understand why I found this one.
OK. Now it comes the next picture.
Here it has been quite something.
Two people are working together.
We must understand that man can not live alone. We are interdependent.
We can only fulfill our purpose together with others.
Do you remember this network that I talked about a month ago about this book "Connected"?
We influence our friends.
And we influence our friends' friends.
But not only that. We influence and are influenced by our friends of friends of friends.
There are three parts. Because we live in a network.
Perfectly natural. Whether we like it or not, we live in a network. Even just to be, already there will be a network and give and take.
We are affected by those around us.
Norma and behavior spread, it's really amazing.
It seems that the networks of people have their own lives.
What happens if there are unhappy people in this network?
What should you do?
One can imagine that it's good to get rid of unhappy one. Away with you. You are sad.
But I've never seen it. This is a study from Harvard.
It's not a good idea. So you should not do.
It falls back on oneself to punish oneself.
So then it becomes less and network more vulnerable.
It turns out that if you have an unhappy friend, or a friend of a friend, you have 7% less chance of happiness.
To deal with an issue of that people who are unhappy gives us much reward.
If you push away unhappy one, then the network will become smaller, then somebody in a periphery will become another one.
Maybe I am in the outskirts.
And then I might be the next person who goes out. It's not fun, I think.
We will try to take care of each other. Not even one shall be unhappy or sad.
We will have a large network as possible.
And then it's something everyone can feel. We can be in the security fence.
It is actually a selfish way to think about. It is good to help each other.
One can see here God's point of view and say lots of nice words and you can say
really it's quite selfish to do so, to help each other.
We should live for each other. It's good for ourselves.
This is the next point, the Church.
I can understand that it is sometimes hard to work for the church and help.
This is public responsibility and everything.
But it looks like it is good to live for others.
But it's important to remember that living for others, it is not just standing up for what others want.
For example, like a kind floor mop and setting themselves to do things that others do not manage themselves.
indeed the servant of the servants, but
For living for each other then the church is a good training place and tool.
What does Father Moon say about it?
Imagine that the relationships between family, church and society as a triangle.
Will your focus be on the family?
On the church?
Or would it focus on the community for your own career?
Think about it.
To whom God would have more compassion?
To think about the church means to love people as God does.
It also means to save people.
In order to become a man of character systematic training is necessary.
You have to do and enjoy activities together in the church.
The church should be the port, which you can go through.
A public church has a different important value different from our home.
You can reach heaven through the church.
The family must pass through the church.
The church self is based on the foundation for the family to win the victory,
a place where family law is developing,
a place where honorable characters highlighted.
The church is a training place for the kingdom of heaven.
There is a mean for God’s providence, tithing.
Father Moon says;
By giving the tithe of your material assets to God,
you can establish a foundation which is equivalent to offering everything you own and have.
Even if you do not offer everything to God, but only give part of it;
but do it with all heart and all your soul, so this allows the rest can be counted as holy.
Tithing refers to all aspects of life.
From now on you should not just tithe in material things but also of your time.
It's no longer just about material aspects like before.
Tithing is a duty, a heavenly duty.
Why do we do all this?
Well, the truth is that if we live for others, if we help the church and tithe;
we get protection. We receive God's protection.
We can not always understand what is happening in providence, can not decide what is right or wrong in each situation.
But this gives us the ability to add condition to simply so that God can guide us the spiritual world can intervene,
guide us in the right direction when we need it.
We really need protection to manage ourselves to understand.
So what is preventing us?
This attitude, “Be myself and I”
I am the best.
It is known to you. This is also a variation.
It is exaggerated ego.
Man blows up for himself sometimes and becomes much larger than he really is.
But unfortunately it does not hold. It does not work.
But the air just goes out and then it suddenly becomes nothing.
Under certain situations, it works fine.
I am a little better than everyone else.
And later it disappeared completely.
Then you think that you cannot do anything.
I can not give lectures.
Or I can not preach.
I can not do ... I am a bad mother.
There is something that prevents us.
Conflicts. If we knows that there are conflicts going on where we live in, then we are more on Satan´s side,
Sometimes we use all arguments available there but the situation itself is wrong.
And one last thing.
If our lives become too burdensome then it is a clear warning signal.
If you start thinking too complicated how to solve things, then it is clearly an indication that something is wrong.
Then we must go back to the simple truths;
to learn to live for each other
Then the church is a good way to do it.
It is good to give tithing.
It creates just the protection that we need.
What God wants, the next step, it is for us to become like this.
We will become like gold.
Father Moon said he must make us like pure gold.
Often when the Father Moon speaks about this, then one thinks that we need to be cleansed, we have to go into melting pot and remove all ammunition.
We must also do it.
a continuous process. But,
in this speech, he talks more about what God has longed for. It was really people who can have exactly character of God,
being eternal remain finite and unique
This is like Satan attacks always.
We make good conditions. We are doing good deeds. We are kind to each other.
So we can look here. Ing-Marie, I have done this.
Then Satan says always that tomorrow you are not going to do this. It should not be like this.
These temporary small good things we can do does not really help but
we have to find a way in our lives so that we become eternal, unchanging and unique
We can become people who truly God and others can really trust in.
after ten years, we will do basically the same thing but much better, I hope.
And it is precisely such people who are building the kingdom of heaven.
We need to be such people.
We need those who make every day a good condition and build up and promise God that we will never be such people who fall.
We will never betray God.
For if we can become such people then God can really defend us.
Then God can simply say to Satan that these are my people, you have nothing to do with them.
And
The principles say that I think we could be such people.
Thank you very much.