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<h1 class="entry-title">CORE OF UNIFICATION</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:18:24+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/core-of-unification.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:18:24+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">October 9, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>When you analyze the basic principles of God&#8217;s method for restoration, you can see that the Unification Church is absolutely necessary for God&#8217;s dispensation. If there were no philosophy of unification we would have to conclude that there is no God. The Unification Church emerged to fulfill that goal of unification and we are proof that God exists. God wants to manifest His love through our movement. How can we manifest the love of God? What is the central point where that love can be manifested? Is it the world or a nation like America or Korea? True parents are a fulfillment on one level, but where should the most fundamental center of God&#8217;s love be?</p>
<p>Certainly God would dwell with an individual who has no contradiction between his mind and body, but what is the possibility that the mind and body can become one, and when and where will that happen? If man had not fallen then no contradiction would exist; man must return to that state of sinlessness before the fall and liquidate all the contradictions within himself.</p>
<p>If the mind and body can welcome each other and try to move toward each other then they can be in harmony, but if they move in opposite directions then they cannot have unity. Imagine the body trying to go in the same direction as the mind and even overtake it. That would be the most desirable situation.</p>
<p>lf God is all powerful, why doesn&#8217;t He make the body go ahead of the mind? I have experienced the harshest life in a prison labor camp and I found that actually the greatest suffering is not found in prison but in the conflict between mind and body. Sinful man always regrets the consequences of his body struggling against his mind.</p>
<p>I ultimately came to the conclusion that my enemy is not the world or even the communists but my own body. Your worst enemy is your body. Do you believe it? I established one very firm principle for myself, that I must conquer myself before having dominion over anything else. Each of you is also committed to a ruthless battle of subjugating your own body. Your job is to have your body surrender to your mind and then bring it in the same direction. That is why a religious life is the pursuit of conquering your body.</p>
<p>If you have not conquered your own body then you haven&#8217;t reached the standard yet. Religion teaches the importance of a life of penance; when your body wants to rest then you should wake up and pray. Your body wants to eat delicious meals but religion teaches the value of fasting. What the body wants the mind rejects.</p>
<p>What is gained by living that way? By giving up your body you can receive the entire universe, so it&#8217;s a very good deal in a way. By giving up a little bit of your flesh you can gain the entire universe. This is absolutely true.</p>
<p>Why is it that you cannot feel the love of God all the time? Your body is the barrier preventing the love of God from reaching you. God&#8217;s love is shining forth but your body is blocking it, so by sacrificing your body and liquidating the barrier the shining love of God can freely reach you. Once this happens nothing will be in your way and the total unity between God and man and mind and body can become a living reality. Once you can receive God&#8217;s love, God will certainly dwell with you. God needs true love and cannot leave it once He has found it. Do you really understand this now?</p>
<p>What you ultimately need the most is the love of God. Do you know how beautiful and how powerful the love of God is? In this world men and women have romances and say they could die for love of each other, but suppose they were to fall in love with God first. That&#8217;s the key. I searched and found how that love of God can be reached. I not only found the answer but have experienced how the love of God can reach man. With the love of God the mind and body can unite in total oneness.</p>
<p>The love of God needs an object in order to be manifest and man is that object. When will this become reality? Religions have been teaching that the end of the world will occur when one central figure comes, or in Christian terms the Lord of the Second Advent. The love of God will be seen where the Messiah and his bride meet for the heavenly wedding ceremony. Is that place a horrible scene of judgment or a scene of cosmic spring and the fulfillment of love? God works logically and through your own mind you know that the first heavenly family will bring the cosmic spring.</p>
<h3 align="center">How much do you need a Messiah?</h3>
<p>Who is the Messiah? In what capacity is he coming? It is incredibly difficult to conquer the barrier and bring your separated mind and body into oneness so the Messiah comes as a model or example of how to go directly to God. He is not only a prototype of a true individual, but also of how to form a heavenly family. Eventually the Messiah will establish a tribe, nation and world which can be approved by heaven.</p>
<p>The Messiah sets the standard of perfection from the individual all the way up to the cosmic levels. In addition, the Messiah lifts himself above satanic accusation. As he starts his journey from the very bottom of hell straight up to God, Satan cannot accuse or destroy him.</p>
<p>The Messiah lays the highway from the highest possible heaven all the way down to the bottom of hell so that anyone who finds the highway can go directly to that goal. It is impossible for anyone else to lay that highway from the bottom of hell all the way up to the love of God. It could take you millions of years and still you would not get there.</p>
<p>The Messiah comes with shoulders so broad that the entire world can hang onto him and go the entire journey. If a trivial little fly hangs onto the tail of a galloping white horse, when the horse reaches the kingdom that little fly reaches the kingdom at the same time. God devised that method because He knows that everyone needs some help. No one is capable of coming to God all by themselves so throughout history God promised to send the ultimate one who will come to lead mankind into salvation. This is all within logic and reason. Is it convincing to you? Do you need a Messiah? What about everyone else in the world?</p>
<p>How much do you need a Messiah? As much as you need your own wife or husband? As much as your family, parents or country? This world is waiting for the ultimate one who can boldly announce, &#8221;You must love me most of all.,, Only one man has ever done that and his name is Jesus Christ. Without having the authority to proclaim those words Jesus could not have been the Messiah.</p>
<p>Jesus also claimed to be the only begotten son of God, meaning that he was the recipient of the first love of God and the only one who could disseminate it to the world. Did Jesus have the qualification to be the Messiah if he were the only begotten son of God? In addition to all this Jesus called himself the bridegroom and mankind his bride. As the true son of God, Jesus intended to meet his bride and create the first heavenly family on earth.</p>
<h3 align="center">The Messiah will first reconcile the body and mind</h3>
<p>The kingdom is seen first in the family&#8217; not in the nation or the world. The family is the building block and it starts with a husband and wife. Our strong point is that we teach the ideal of the heavenly four positions: God, man and woman and heavenly children. This is the completion of God&#8217;s ideal&#8217; the completion of the circuit for the expression of His love. By organizing this heavenly four units we create our relationship with the love of God. The heavenly four positions are the completion of the ideal of creation, meaning that there the perfection of love can be consummated. Once that is formed the expansion of the heavenly kingdom is only a matter of time. All that has to be done is to duplicate and expand these four positions.</p>
<p>When the Lord of the Second Advent comes what will he do? What is the mission and responsibility of the second Messiah? Jesus Christ came to realize that ideal but it was not physically consume mated in his own time. Will that mission be left undone a second time? Is it the Messiah&#8217;s mission to give food to the hungry? No, it is to reconcile your body and mind and ignite you with the fire of God&#8217;s love. That&#8217;s the job of the Messiah. If he can ignite the love of God in your heart so that your body and mind can become one then he has done his job. If he cannot do that then building the Kingdom of Heaven is impossible. The Messiah will reconcile the body and mind and liquidate all the contradictory elements by subjugating the body. After the mind and body are united you can follow his pattern and create a family&#8217; tribe&#8217; nation and world and ultimately the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven. If that is indeed possible&#8217; the world will see salvation. If God is really God and if His love is really burning then that must all take place here on earth.</p>
<p>What else does God really need from man? God has lots of love within Himself so why should He need more? Is He greedy? I am a man so I have love in my heart and in my body, but can I say that I don&#8217;t need any more love, that I have enough love to be happy? It is a profound truth that love will never become real love until it finds an object.</p>
<p>If we are like that then what about God? Does that principle work the same with God as with us? No matter how almighty God might be&#8217; His prodigious love will never be activated until He finds an object for give and take. An object ignites love. Who can be the object of God&#8217;s love? A monkey? Is anything else besides man qualified or entitled to be an object of God? Since God is universal should He love just a trivial chunk of flesh, or is He longing to deal with the universal kind of mind? Is the mind or body God&#8217;s real object?</p>
<p>Your mind is so big that you can even trap God inside. Your mind always feels that it can swallow the entire world, right? We each have the qualification to be an object of God because we each have a mind so big that God can certainly deal with it. When God loves you will He exclaim at how dirty you are after living in the satanic world and then push you aside? Or will God fervently embrace you and burn away your iniquities in trying to give you total love? Is God&#8217;s love conditional and partial or total and unreserved?</p>
<p>When the total love of God reaches you, your every cell will be filled and you won&#8217;t want anything further. You will feel totally intoxicated in that state and want its goodness to never end. That is the real world in which we are to live and all of you are supposed to become hosts of that love. Don&#8217;t you want to sample that world now? I came to lead you into that world, but how do you know that I am not a swindler? Perhaps I am deluding you with this beautiful idea, trying to enslave you for my own purposes.</p>
<p>How do you know this is not so? Your answer could be simply that it doesn&#8217;t really matter whether I am a swindler because no better solution has been offered. I am like the plus pole and I am trying to ignite this cold and sleepy world as a minus. Plus and</p>
<p>minus should instantly spark when they are connected, but this world has become so numb that all conductivity has been lost. It is taking a lot of effort on my part to wake you up so that the spark will jump between us.</p>
<p>If what I am saying is the truth then there is no other way you can be. What we are demonstrating here is a tremendous power that has never been seen in history. In being here you are really denying your body and in a way denying your family. You don&#8217;t care what your family says or what society says; you have just given yourself up but without this great energy and power flowing between us you would not do it. You would not do it unless there was a great hope burning in your hearts. Isn&#8217;t that true?</p>
<p>A peculiar situation is emerging, with parents trying to kidnap their own children. Never in history has this happened. Sometimes parents feel that they were successful because they brought their children home, but those children are not really with their parents because their minds are not there. As soon as they can they come right back here. Think of the spiritual power and energy which could inspire that.</p>
<p>Once you experience the spring, you cannot long for the winter. Because the cosmic spring is dawning and the central point of it is the Unification Church, you cannot help but want to be part of it. The greatest event of all is happening right here in this place. Do you want to commit yourself to be part of it? Why? The love of God is our ultimate goal, the love which is powerful enough to encompass the past, present and future. Everything you can think of comes within the love of God. When you can possess God&#8217;s love you can possess the entire universe.</p>
<h3 align="center">How can we be so certain that God is good?</h3>
<p>We can partake of the world with our five senses, and this is true in the spirit world as well. We are pursuing the world of goodness, trying to see good things, hear good things, and say good things. We are trying to leave the world of evil behind and completely live in the world of goodness. It is very true that the external world is divided into two worlds and we can witness one world of goodness and one world of evil side by side. That same phenomenon exists internally in the division between mind and body.</p>
<p>If man was originally created in this state of conflict then God must be an imperfect and evil God. People who are only looking at the reality of the world can easily come to the conclusion that no such thing as God exists, but if there is no God of goodness then the beautiful things we have been talking about are all meaningless.</p>
<p>Considering man&#8217;s imperfect and sinful state today, it is only academic to discuss how he can advance to the state of perfection and absolute goodness because it is virtually impossible. No such thing could come about. If there is no God then talking about the ideal world of love and unification is meaningless. There is no substance to it if there is no God. Even knowing this, however, our minds are ceaselessly pursuing the higher state of perfection, beauty and the ideal.</p>
<p>We cannot deny that our minds are searching after eternal value or eternal and permanent existence. The discussions of philosophers and religious people throughout history have focused upon the best method of fulfilling man&#8217;s innate desire for perfection.</p>
<p>Many philosophers started out studying perfection, trying to anticipate what the ideal world would be like. As a result, philosophers like Hegel came up with the dialectical theory. Basically this theory outlines how everything advances to a higher state through conflict and struggle with something else. That is fiction. It is impossible for two opposing sides to unite together and create the ideal. It is logically impossible to achieve the ideal state by the method of struggle and confrontation.</p>
<p>Even if we must create a substitute, man-made God, we definitely cannot find any kind of solution for this world without a God of goodness. Again, for expediency, let&#8217;s say we come up with a man-made God. If the God that we create is not a true one then certainly it will be impossible to reach the ultimate destination of perfection. We can finally conclude that there must be God because without Him nothing makes sense. If there is a real, true God then we can devise the right solution.</p>
<p>Now you know why philosophers have desperately searched to understand this one God. Religious people have also been searching after God, making all kinds of sacrifices for the purpose of finding Him, but they too have come to a point where they cannot be sure. Everything is hazy at the moment.</p>
<p>Let us think in another direction. Is it only man who needs God or does God need man also? If God does not need man then we should give up our search because we will never meet that God. Only through the mutual efforts of God and man can we hope to meet God. If God couldn&#8217;t care less about man then there is no hope, but in reality God also needs man. This is another important truth.</p>
<h3 align="center">The situation of both God and man is tragic<br />
because their common purpose<br />
has not been fulfilled</h3>
<p>What kind of God is He, and why does He approach man? We definitely need God and God definitely needs man so there must be a common goal or purpose where we can meet; otherwise there would be no union. The question of God&#8217;s existence is one thing, but more important is knowing the purpose of the relationship between God and man. We use money and knowledge and experience to survive and improve our situation, but do you think God needs those things from man? No. There must be some common purpose for which God needs man and man needs God, but somehow this common purpose has not been fulfilled. That is why mankind&#8217;s situation and God&#8217;s situation are both tragic.</p>
<p>We cannot deny that there is a conflict between man&#8217;s body and mind which reveals that there must be something wrong in men&#8217;s hearts. Where can a remedy be found? What is that common goal between God and man through which we can solve this question? Originally there must have been a common dwelling place for man and God but somehow man has separated himself from it and lost his connection with God in the process.</p>
<p>Concluding that there is a perfect God and realizing the imperfect state of man today we must come to one logical conclusion: Man is the one who is out of order, not God. Man deviated from his original state and is thus prevented from reaching perfection.</p>
<p>This is how we can reconcile the perfection of God with the imperfection of man. This knowledge of the fall of man is very precious because not only can we realize the existence and perfection of God, but at the same time we can explain the imperfection and contradiction of man. The struggles you experience because of contradictions within yourselves are a result of the fall , yet at the same time God lives in a different state, the perfected state. We can logically justify the existence of perfected God and sinful man by knowing about the fall of man. It was from that point that two worlds came into being instead of one.</p>
<p>With this concept of the fall we can readily understand how there could be both a world of goodness and a world of evil struggling with each other. The world of goodness is governed by God and the world of evil is the result of the fall. We cannot accept the premise of atheists that there is no God due to the imperfection of man. We know the Principle. After knowing this we can recognize how the God of perfection has been making efforts throughout history to restore the corrupted world into goodness. Religion is one evidence of the effort of God.</p>
<p>What is the purpose of religion? Simply speaking, religion strives to bring this world closer to God; it is God&#8217;s tool to communicate with this imperfect world and raise up good men. What is goodness? Anything that attempts to bring God and man into unity is good. Is hard work goodness or is eloquent speech, fasting or sleeping on nails goodness? People are very much in the dark about the definition of goodness.</p>
<p>Good springs from love. At the bottom line of every religion love can be seen as the source because it is the common purpose shared by God and man. Love is the ultimate goal of God&#8217;s search for men of goodness. Man is searching after God for the same reason. Religion has been striving for unity between God and man by stressing the common purpose of love.</p>
<h3 align="center">Why should sacrifice be the highest form<br />
of love&#8217;s fulfillment?</h3>
<p>Christianity has been preaching the love of God for many years and the other prominent religions in</p>
<p>history also have their foundations in love. For example, Buddhism preaches a life of mercy and benevolence, which is actually love. Any legitimate religion has to be based on love.</p>
<p>All religions emphasize self-denial and sacrifice in order to achieve that love. Without exception sacrifice is necessary for you to form an intimate relationship with God. Why should sacrifice be the highest form of love&#8217;s fulfillment? There are many, many answers but let us analyze this ourselves.</p>
<p>You have a mind and body, and of the two which one is less evil? The body is a real rascal and doesn&#8217;t have any sense of self-giving or humility. We have to ruthlessly subjugate our bodies because in weakening the body there is a greater opportunity for the mind and body to become one. Then the body can listen to the mind.</p>
<p>Meekness, humility and sacrifice are the virtues emphasized by religion and by applying them the body will be forced to unite with the mind. Who is actually pursuing such a goal through religion, man or God? God has been leading mankind toward that way of life, but God&#8217;s effort will be in vain unless man responds to it. A mutual effort is necessary if we are to reach the ultimate goal.</p>
<p>Why do we all need religion in our lives? Without going through the path of religion there is no way to reconcile the mind and body, no hope that some day you will even get close to God. The contradictions in man cannot be resolved without the process of religion. We can say that religion is an absolute necessity for man, not an ornament to pick up on a whim. Religion will be needed until the contradiction within man is completely liquidated and he is united with God in their original common purpose. Then the purpose of religion will be consummated and it will no longer be needed.</p>
<p>All of this brings us to the logical conclusion that religion will not be needed by man for eternity, but will be consummated by the emergence of man in perfection. It is logical that on our journey we start out from the very bottom of the fallen state. The journey will lead us into the ultimate goal of total and perfected union with God.</p>
<p>Do you think man&#8217;s best thinking and best efforts could devise the way to finally build the ideal world? That is absolutely impossible. Man&#8217;s only alternative today is atheistic communism, which claims the ideal world can be built without God. Because communism has only material things as its objective it has no foundation and will be blown around like a leaf in a storm. That ideology places value only in the material world, but do you think that our bodies are more perfected than our minds? The body is limited by circumstances but the mind does not have limitations. We conclude that this world can find hope only through a search after God in religion, in the faith that some day the union of men and God can be accomplished. As one man I have probably given the most of myself in the search for the answer to this question, the one who suffered most in order to win a probable solution. This is a total concept.</p>
<p>Actually what you and I need most is not God Himself but God&#8217;s love. If there is a God then it is inevitable that a new religious movement will come forth which will transcend national and racial barriers, uniting all people together to pursue one common goal: unity with God&#8217;s love. Clearly such a religious movement is necessary. The love of God embraces all races equally. God doesn&#8217;t express love according to whether you are white, black or yellow. If God&#8217;s ideal and love were limited to only one or two races then He would truly be an imperfect God. The ultimate religion must transcend national and racial barriers so from this standpoint let&#8217;s analyze existing religions.</p>
<h3 align="center">Religions are God&#8217;s tools and<br />
they should be universal</h3>
<p>True salvation springs from union with the love of God, which manifests everywhere in a fair and justified manner. Which race you belong to makes no difference at all. It cannot be said that the love of God works only in the Western hemisphere; it shines throughout the earth. Any religion which proclaims the segregation of the races is a false religion. A new religion is needed which embraces all men equally. For instance, Jews and Christians should not feel that they are the only people who deserve the love of God. They must feel instead that they are merely servants who must bring the love of God to all humanity.</p>
<p>Do you think God wants the whole world to be Jewish, or should Judaism be simply a tool of God? Do you think that God could limit Himself to the stuffy world of today&#8217;s Christianity, or should Christianity become a tool of God? The love of God is supreme and encompasses the highest possible level. Everything is part of it and everything is surrounded by it. The love of God can encompass all human existence.</p>
<p>Religions are only meant to be tools of God and therefore they should be universal and intermingling. Any religion which rejects such principles cannot be called a true religion. Measured by this standard, are all today, s conventional Christians perfected? In their interpretation of the Bible only Christians will be lifted up in the air to meet the Lord when he comes on the day of judgment. Basically they are unconcerned about the rest of the world and believe that everyone else will go to hell. Is that attitude right? If what they believe is the case then God is really a cruel God with an imperfect ideal.</p>
<p>A religion which can clarify God&#8217;s intentions is absolutely necessary. A revolutionary concept must come to Christianity and enable it to meet the criteria of perfection that God originally intended. That religion is the Unification Church.</p>
<p>What is the Unification Church supposed to do? First of all, make one world and elevate it into a world of God. Encouraging self-centered individualism is Satan&#8217;s final strategy to demolish this world and this nation and we must destroy this satanic concept. What am I trying to contribute to you? You have never really tasted the true love of parents or of husband and wife and brothers and sisters. I am trying to ignite in you spiritually the ecstatic joy of God&#8217;s love so that it will not be just a concept to you but be a presence in your daily life.</p>
<p>One phenomenon sets the Unification Church apart. Our members often meet me in dreams or visions and in all kinds of spiritual circumstances. The power of spiritual experience already exists and embraces each one of you every day. Those of you who have such experiences, raise your hands. In the mundane world those things may seem abnormal and certainly they have never been seen in any other religion in the past. Physically I am very far from our missionaries all over the world but I am just as close to them as I am to you. This is a most vivid testimony to the significance of our movement.</p>
<p>I want you to know that tremendous sacrifice has been paid in order to come to this level today. Many nations have collapsed and many millions of people have died for this. Since it comes to you without too much effort you don&#8217;t realize its value and you think that this is common everywhere. It certainly is not.</p>
<p>We are a religion of experience and feeling because God is not a conceptual God to us. He is the master of our daily lives. As soon as you come into this atmosphere you immediately become a recipient of new spiritual power and presence, but for people outside our Church it is an unfamiliar and perplexing thing to grasp.</p>
<h3 align="center">Are you really thankful to God?</h3>
<p>We must be thankful to God every day. Even if the world came against you and your life was abruptly ended, would you still be grateful to God? You can think of Satan as God&#8217;s tool in a way, a means of finding out whether your gratitude is real or not. I will never tell you to just be thankful to God and let me take care of Satan for you. Instead I will push you out into the corrupt and evil world. If you are really thankful then my mandate to you is to go liberate the world and come back. You will pass the test by remaining loyal, steadfast and thankful under any circumstances or experience. If you can do that then Satan has no power over you and eventually he must issue you a certificate saying that indeed you are a child of God. As an archangel, Satan must be the one to testify to God whether or not you are God&#8217;s child. You have to be superior to Satan to receive that testimony.</p>
<p>It is inevitable that all good religions in history receive persecution. Persecution is almost an indispensable ingredient in growing spiritually. Would you say I have received persecution or not? All of America has gotten up in arms over me. All that opposition is like a wave washing over me, with all kinds of beautiful titles being given to me, like &#8221;brainwasher&#8217;, or &#8216;`demagogue,, and even &#8221;Hitler.,, My response is just to smile at all of this because after</p>
<p>everything is settled, who will be the winner? I am the winner because the truth is our powerful ally. In the San Francisco legal case the lower courts issued conservatorships and the papers all wrote about the brainwashing charges. Then after the higher court examined the entire situation they said that the Unification Church hadn&#8217;t done anything wrong and that we had rights which were protected by the United States Constitution. The press did not report this decision too widely but the people who oppose us really received a setback. They will not be foolish enough to try this tactic against us again.</p>
<p>This is the right time for us to really show America who I am and what the Unification Church is all about; we are sending the one-hour &#8221;Reverend Moon in America,, program to television stations in all fifty states and even throughout South America. Now the book written by Dr. Sontag has come out which will tell the world what we are honestly trying to do. When the truth comes out America should have the courage to apologize to me.</p>
<p>Our antagonists will know in their hearts that they were wrong and eventually they will have to respect me for the way in which I dealt with the negativity; I never sought revenge but simply smiled and let God take care of it. That&#8217;s how we will win because we are not fighting on their level. Since you too have that knowledge and commitment I willingly push ahead without any hesitation. Having this dignity and strength, there is nothing under the sun we cannot do.</p>
<h3 align="center">Do you want to know the secret for<br />
meeting God in your daily life?</h3>
<p>In order to reach the love of God in your daily life the most essential thing is knowing how to conquer your body. This was my foremost task in searching for the truth. The body has three fundamental desires. First, the body gets hungry and looks for food. How could I conquer that desire of my body? I had to establish that I love God more than my body loves food when it gets hungry. By doing that yourself you can set a superior standard and demonstrate how your love of God is stronger than your body&#8217;s love of food. Jesus also conquered that particular desire and went through a forty-day fast. Many prophets and saints in history emphasized fasting in their life of faith.</p>
<p>Hunger is the worst kind of suffering and if you can forget your desperate hunger in your search after God you have made a very precious statement. Who among you has done a seven-day fast? There are quite a few of you. Think back on your own experience; when the seventh day arrived were you watching the clock for the moment you could eat again, or did you think, &#8221;God, I have tasted hunger now, but I love You more than I love food. I want to go after You instead of going after food.,, Have you prayed in such a way at that moment? Have you been longing for God more than for food? That is the real test and that is the way you should think when you fast. Until I was thirty there was no day that I was not hungry because I deliberately went without food in order to test myself. At that time I was so hungry that if someone was eating nearby my mouth hung open and saliva drooled out even without my being aware of it. When it gets hungry enough, the body just automatically reacts that way. You can&#8217;t say you have overcome your body until you have conquered desperate hunger by the power of your love of God.</p>
<p>The second fundamental urge is for sleep. Can you demonstrate that your love of God is stronger than your body&#8217;s desire for sleep? The second test is passed when in thinking of God He is so real and relevant that your intense love of God conquers your urgent desire to sleep. Throughout history all the people who seriously searched for God led ascetic lives and always had to fight their desire to sleep. They would do all kinds of things&#8217; even stabbing themselves and cutting their own flesh just to keep awake. Have you ever heard about this? For seven years I never slept more than two hours a day. This morning I arrived at 5 a.m. after traveling all night. My whole life has been training for living like that.</p>
<p>You need the love of God don&#8217;t you? You have to win His love and show that your love is more intense than anything else. When you are sleepy, your passionate love of God should be stronger than your craving for sleep. You have experienced feeling ready to collapse from exhaustion, but your love of God must enable you to conquer such moments. It is</p>
<p>most difficult to go beyond the level of hunger and sleepiness for the love of God. Jesus had to conquer all those bodily desires. The Bible said that he fasted for forty days and furthermore, we can well imagine that his life was a struggle both day and night. Jesus asked his closest disciples to stay awake and watch with him while he prayed desperately in the garden of Gethsemane, but what happened to the disciples? They fell asleep. They could not win over sleep and Jesus told them that though their minds were willing their flesh was weak.</p>
<p>This is not some hazy spiritual concept. You must overcome precisely these things in your life. I would not speak this way to you unless I had tested out everything in my own life.</p>
<p>The third desire you must conquer is the urge for physical love. The worst kind of temptation for religious people always comes in the form of sex. When men pray, Satan creeps into their minds in the form of a beautiful woman. Men and women have instinctive sexual desire, but your intense love for God should be stronger than that desire for carnal love. In this respect American young people have a great deal to overcome. The permissiveness in America has left the moral life of Americans looking like a dirty rag.</p>
<p>Now you understand why the major religions throughout history have always emphasized the value of celibacy. Your body is your worst enemy and it has three formidable weapons: the desire for food, the desire for sleep and the desire for physical love. I have fought the same battle that you are engaged in but you have no idea how many tears I have shed to win over these temptations.</p>
<h3 align="center">Since no one could overcome the ordeals<br />
I have endured, I found an alternative way</h3>
<p>You know we all need the love of God, but how will you pay back your own debts in these three areas? If you spent dozens of years being tortured in prison you still could not repay God. When you were hearing about the beauty and sweetness of God&#8217;s love all of you were happy and gay&#8217; but in hearing these things you have hit a stone wall. How will you break through? No one else can pay your debts. For many years I searched tor some alternative way for mankind to reach the ultimate goal without having to go through the ordeals I have endured. No one is capable of passing such impossible tests.</p>
<p>Without a doubt the lives you lived before joining the Unification Church were self-centered. Before you knew about God you were the central point of your lives, right? The quickest way to become qualified citizens of the Kingdom of God is to revolutionize yourselves totally, changing your concept of your purpose of life from selfish happiness to the happiness of God and humanity.</p>
<p>We can turn humanity&#8217;s concept of existing here on earth completely upside down. Do you deeply feel that you were not born for yourself but for the sake of God and humanity? If you do not eat food for your own contentment but for the sake of God and humanity then it can be justified. You should think of sleeping as preparation for you to do even more for God&#8217;s work the next day. Taking rest with that attitude cannot be called a sin because it is for the sake of God and humanity. Can you say that your desire to love God and humanity is as great as your desire to have love personally? This is the way your life can be turned totally upside down. Previously you did things to have fun and to become someone of distinction.</p>
<p>When you revolutionize your purpose of life then nothing is for yourself any more. If you have enough food for a good meal then you can think that you will do twice as much as you can when you are hungry. When you have new vitality after resting for a few hours at night then you can say, &#8221;God, let me go out and work.,, Instead of pursuing the old physical gratifications you can use your energy for the sake of God and humanity. That&#8217;s the way we live.</p>
<p>That is the only alternative I could find. Otherwise you have no qualification to eat and sleep and love. When you are very hungry and find a good meal but your concept still focuses on God and humanity, your eating is not a sin. That&#8217;s the way man was to have lived if there had been no fall. Eating is not a sin in that case, right? Now you know the heavenly alternative and you know how you can be justified in eating, sleeping and loving.</p>
<p>In the world as it is now each person stands in the center as an individual, surrounded by his family,</p>
<p>nation, world and the cosmos. Each person has to break through every barrier which limits himself. This world is the realm of the fall and you must come out of it in order to make another world, not with yourself in the center but with God in the center, surrounded by His own children.</p>
<p>What actually happens in this process? After you conquer yourself you meet another barrier and must form a God-centered family in order to break through. Then you will meet another barrier on the national level and after breaking through on that level you must build another world. As much as you are able to break through in the satanic world is what you are actually building of your own new world. This world is the consequence of the fall so we have to separate ourselves from the ways of this world and create a new world, becoming new people in a new way of life.</p>
<p>You must have been thinking about these things but have you ever solemnly decided that you were going to break through and liberate yourself from this world and its ways? This is exactly what I had to do. My situation is no different. I decided to conquer myself and my surroundings. I had to win on the family level and also in my society and nation of Korea. Now I have reached the barrier of the world and cosmos. The Washington Monument Rally was the spectacular culmination of what I have done spiritually on the worldwide level. That is the way I have progressed through this way of life.</p>
<h3 align="center">The degree to which you can invest your utmost<br />
is the degree you can receive God&#8217;s love</h3>
<p>Our movement has emerged on the worldwide stage. There is always resistance each time we try to break through to a new level because Satan absolutely does not want to see the heavenly world come into being. Of course he wants to prevent that from happening because it means the destruction of his influence and personal dominion. Satan&#8217;s world has to come against you so naturally there will be persecution. Even though you are only an individual working on the individual level of restoration, the entire nation and the world will come against you. Nevertheless we must overcome this situation. When the entire world comes against us it gives us a better opportunity to win over the world at one stroke. The harsher the rejection and persecution on the worldwide level the faster our day will come.</p>
<p>Even as a member of the Unification Church you will not actually have to go through exactly what I went through. You don&#8217;t have to start from the very bottom. By joining my crusade in its final stage, by overcoming the final barrier together with me you have already won the entire world. You don&#8217;t have to go through the whole process. That is your advantage.</p>
<p>Your 5% is to go the road of persecution and you must welcome it. You will be persecuted by all kinds of people on all kinds of levels. You must face and conquer all of peoples, scornful attitudes, but your struggle with persecution is never in vain. We are citizens of a different world. Until you are given the blessing you should have no concept of personal ownership, thinking that you own this or that. Until you reach this state you are even wearing your clothes for the sake of mankind, clothes which belong to mankind and which you have borrowed. After the blessing God will bestow upon you the right of stewardship. You have the wrong idea if you think of having some special savings account for your own enjoyment. Your fund raising is not for the purpose of paying bills for the Church, but for the purpose of restoring your own dominion over creation. You can&#8217;t think that you personally deserve some of the money you earn. Compared to the rest of the people you are going to eat less, sleep less and work harder. If you want to give yourself totally then you understand the right attitude.</p>
<p>Are you losing by doing this? No, what you are actually doing is investing yourself to the utmost so that you can receive the love of God to an equal degree. You are gaining something far greater than anyone else can ever imagine and because of that you can be grateful and persevere, no matter what degree of suffering you encounter. Every member must take part in fund raising and witnessing. Unless you walk up the first and second floors you simply cannot go to the third floor. Without going this course you are not entitled to the blessing.</p>
<p>We know this through the Divine Principle.</p>
<p>Because of the fall of man we lost the love of God, love of man and all the things of creation. Man himself became the tool of Satan. That is all the result of the fall of man. We will restore all these one by one. First all things of creation must be restored to God. Then fallen man must become godly man. Finally the love of God can be consummated and man can receive the love of God in blessing. Unless you willingly go this route you can only be seen as a thief who is trying to sneak into the kingdom. You have to submit your ID card as you come into the palace. You cannot sneak over the fence. The road of restoration is the real indemnity. You must go this route and then the love of God will meet you at the stage of perfection.</p>
<p>Do you have confidence that you can be blessed? Have your mind and body become one, totally free from satanic accusation? Are you entitled to have a godly woman as your wife? Whether you are a man or a woman, no one is entitled to say he has done everything and paid everything back. No one is able to say they are perfect and worthy of the blessing. I want you to be humble. God will have mercy upon you when you realize your true situation and then in His love put you together in heavenly matrimony. Only then do you have the right to accept the blessing.</p>
<h3 align="center">I know how the love of God feels and<br />
I want you to experience it too</h3>
<p>All throughout history people were in darkness with no one to guide the way, but now everything has been made clear. This is a magnificent blessing in itself. Now we not only see clearly the broad daylight, we can live it every day and make our way step by step to this goal. I want you to realize how precious it is that you are sitting right here. Do you feel that?</p>
<p>Do you ever get frustrated and wonder how long you may be selling newspapers, every morning, rain or shine? You may think you have been reduced to being a paper boy in the Unification Church. Many boys make a living delivering papers. You are not doing it for your own survival, however, but for the sake of God and humanity. We should be working harder with the newspapers than anyone who is selling for themselves. Are you working on that level? Have you become desperate for the fulfillment of the mission? You may have a hole in your shoe and wear ragged clothes and you may be drenched with sweat, but even under those circumstances you should be thanking God. Both Satan and God can respect that kind of man.</p>
<p>No word of complaint can be spoken. To come plain is the fastest way to bring yourself down into hell; Satan&#8217;s most effective tool is seen in complaints. I have many reasons to complain if I choose to do so. This morning I could have complained to God that He was unreasonable to ask me to speak to you after I traveled all night without resting, but God would insist&#8217; &#8221;You go and speak to them. They would love to see you.&#8221; Under those circumstances should I feel justified in speaking only thirty minutes, and only come under those conditions? Complaint has never even entered my mind because I am too busy fulfilling my mission. No matter how long you live this is a short life. I have so much to finish in my short life and every second counts. No one else can do my job and I cannot waste any time.</p>
<p>You are committed to a formidable responsibility. Do you think this all sounds like a big lie, or is it really the truth? Then shall we live it or not? I chose the same route as you say you want to follow and I have come to that goal. Was I destroyed or am I succeeding? Now I have come to the point where I don&#8217;t have to worry about my own needs because I know God is concerned about me. God provides food and looks after me. I have seen such things happen.</p>
<p>I know precisely how the love of God feels and I want you to experience it too. Don&#8217;t fear death; it is nothing. I gave up my life a long time ago and for the sake of this mission I am ready to go anywhere at any time. I have no attachment to this world. The only reason I want to live a long time is because of my mission. Sometimes I think of what would happen to the work of God and to our movement if I suddenly disappeared, but that is my only real worry.</p>
<p>I want to leave just one tradition when everything is over, that I pursued the love of God and was</p>
<p>a man of the love of God. When you go to spins world that love is the only asset you will have. That&#8217;s the only thing you can take with you to the spins world. When you possess the love of God you can do all things, and on behalf of God you can be given ownership of all things. Only in the love of God could it be justified.</p>
<h3 align="center">If you can&#8217;t get to the goal on your own<br />
then Satan will accuse</h3>
<p>I have laid the highway and even created the automobile to drive to the goal, but it is up to you to get the fuel and drive there. You must fulfill your own responsibility because I can&#8217;t do everything. Once you get started can you drive just anywhere? You have to follow the highway I have set up, but you do have the freedom to go as fast as you like.</p>
<p>Do you need my supervision or will you do it on your own? If I have to supervise and inspect you then Satan will accuse you of not getting to the goal by yourself. When I was going through my mission I told God to not even supervise me but let me go on my own. You are witnessing and selling the paper without my supervision but can you really do it? I won&#8217;t supervise but I will wait and see the results.</p>
<p>If you really know the truth then I&#8217;m really not needed here in America. I want to get a walking stick and a big trunk and go all over the world. Do you think I need a little vacation and a chance to enjoy nature? Would you permit me to do that? Now I have done my job and you know precisely what you need to do.</p>
<p>The love of God is yours, not mine, but you must win that love from God. You must mature on your own. Once you receive the blessing and become husband and wife would you want me to supervise you? You don&#8217;t need me to help you do your mission either. Until you find that ultimate love you do need me, however, and once you have found that love you are on your own. Then you will pull yourself.</p>
<p>Until you come to that level the secret for you to meet me very intimately is to pursue your mission with a fervent longing for God and the True Parents. When you shed tears for your mission the entire spirit world will surround you and I will appear to you spiritually. You can take advantage of that principle of the universe. If you are longing for me so much that you forget to eat or sleep then our encounter will go beyond any kind of physical sensation. The spirit world will be opened up and you will find yourself there with me.</p>
<p>Adam and Eve were supposed to be the parents of all mankind but that position was lost; once the position of True Parents is restored it should embrace everybody. Therefore, in spirit world everyone logically should become one family under that one title. True Parents should become very intimate to everyone of you yet it doesn&#8217;t make any difference how many miles apart we are. You have the secret way to be close to me and I can be with you all the time once our hearts are united.</p>
<p>There can be real unity between you and me when my heart can become your heart. If you want to find out if this is true, just try it out. How can you find such heart? When you are suffering and given persecution and when you are treated most miserably. When your heart is really suffering then you will know the very heart of my own suffering. That&#8217;s the way our hearts can be linked and that&#8217;s the way you can instantly elevate yourself to a higher level spiritually.</p>
<p>. Do you think someone can be close to me if they go everywhere with me every day? No, the person who is closest to the True Parents is the one who sheds tears for his mission, passionately involving himself every day, regardless of how scornfully he is treated by the world. That person is closest to me in the real sense. You have to go to the bottom of the world to set the condition of victory there and then come back with the record of victory. You youth of America should not violate the heavenly law. Your precious youth should remain pure and clean and always be one of dedication.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s message is <i>Core of Unification</i>. Where is the core of unification? It is found in the love of God. You must be proven victorious in the satanic world by setting the condition of uniting mind and body. Then you will go up to the other stages of family, tribe, nation and world. When you are victorious on all levels you can come to the final and complete union with God and you will find your ultimate home of peace, joy, satisfaction and tranquillity.</p>
<p>It is not easy to be victorious in love but shall we do it? Even though you may not have achieved that goal you know that the possibility of achieving it exists. You each may think of me in different ways but your heart toward the True Parents is the same. Go ahead and rub against each other; your friction will generate the heat which will melt all of you into oneness.</p>
<p>Suffering is a privilege when you are searching after the love of God. You must never think you suffer for my sake; it is all for yourself. How can you complain if you are working for yourself? If you want to complain you must complain about yourself. If you do more than the Unification Church and more than me then you might have the right to complain about a few things. I found out a long time ago that nothing can be gained by complaining so I have never complained, even when God was very cruel to me. I have always been thankful because if God was cruel it was actually a manifestation of His love. God tested me in an extraordinary way, wanting me to pass the test so He could give a special, extraordinary love.</p>
<p>This is the same reason that I push you out to hard work and suffering. You must win over hardship in order to become a recipient of the ultimate love of God. No one can complain about you because you will be entitled to that love.</p>
<p>Sometimes you may feel that your situation ten years ago and ten years from now won&#8217;t be any different, but I want you to know that even though physically speaking you may remain on the same level, spiritually speaking you will be living in an entirely new world. That&#8217;s our pride and heritage. Whether it is raining or storming outside doesn&#8217;t make any difference. You just cannot let yourself relax. You never know when you will die and before you die you must know the love of God. No one can guarantee that you will live a long life. Therefore, you must even live as though today were your final day. When you take a final examination in school what would you do the night before? You would concentrate all night long. You should be even more desperate than that for the heavenly purpose.</p>
<p>You cannot misuse this opportunity. This is an Can you commit yourselves to doing it? Thank you. unmistakable truth and we must take it seriously. Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">GOD AND THE BUILDING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:03:54+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/god-and-the-building-of-the-kingdom-of-god.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:04:58+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">April 17, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>We all know that if there had been no fall of man the Kingdom of Heaven would have come to earth, and all men would naturally have been born as direct heirs of God. Individually speaking, each man would have lived in perfection, with complete unity of mind and body. The Kingdom of God, therefore, was to be built by perfected men who were perfectly united in mind and body. And God would have been dwelling in the hearts of men.</p>
<p>As you already know through the teaching of the Divine Principle, when subject and object form one perfect unity, the dwelling of God is always there. Therefore, when subject and object unite, they not only form unity on their own level but bring themselves up to God&#8217;s level, and in addition their environment and anything involved with them automatically become involved with God.</p>
<p>In that setting there would be inner relationships between all parties concerned. Some joyful event for Adam would automatically be joyful for Eve and God as well. At another time the joy of Eve would be the joy of Adam, as well as the joy of God. In God&#8217;s ideal everything would work together on a common base, with a common harmony and unity. Then God and man would always react in perfect harmony in different situations. Had that been the case, where and when would God have been most joyful? Would the greatest moment for God have come with the completion of the restoration of man after the fall, or would God have wanted to see Adam and Eve grow to maturity and perfection without the fall? Which would have given God the most joy?</p>
<h3 align="center">A child completes his parents&#8217; vertical anchor to God</h3>
<p>I am sure that those among you who have children realize why the correct answer is the second one. When a husband and wife hold their first-born child, they truly feel the heart of parents, and they pour out their heart to their child. Unless you have held your own child in your own arms, there is no way to truly describe the feeling of the mother. A mother&#8217;s heart is filled with pride, joy and satisfaction. What do you think should be the most perfect, precious and treasured thing in this universe? The most precious thing for Adam and Eve or any parents for that matter, including God as the parent of all mankind, is not money, knowledge, or power, but their child.</p>
<p>The relationship between God and man is a vertical one, and that between Adam and Eve horizontal. From them we can draw one triangle. God is on the vertical line, above man, and Adam and Eve are on the horizontal level. However, in order to establish perfection, you can see that one whole area is missing. In order to have the whole relationship between God, Adam and Eve become perfect, this one area must be filled by a child.</p>
<p>This is why the Divine Principle teaches us about the heavenly four positions. When there is no child then the real vertical anchor from God down to mankind is not complete, and with that one area missing, man&#8217;s position cannot be stable. The child&#8217;s position is the point of hope for Adam and Eve, as well as for God. Everyone&#8217;s hope is concentrated on this one point. Adam and Eve are always one-sided; they cannot be in a position to receive God&#8217;s entire love or become the entire central point by themselves. In other words, the balance point in the universe is the point of the child, not Adam and not Eve.</p>
<p>The vertical love is God&#8217;s love, and the horizontal love is that of Adam and Eve. These loves will be consummated by the couple having a child in the fourth position. We can say that we have two parental loves; one is vertical and the other horizontal. The parental love of God is the vertical love of God, and the parent&#8217;s love is the horizontal love of God. There is a channel of God&#8217;s love flowing from God to Adam and Eve and their children. This creates three levels: the position of God, the position of Adam and Eve, and the position of child.</p>
<p>Horizontally speaking there is parental love, conjugal love and filial love. When we see this basic structure or principle in the work of God, then where is the beginning point of the Kingdom of God? We know that the perfection of Adam would have been the beginning point of the Kingdom of God on earth; a more perfect description of the Kingdom of God, however, is that it begins at the moment that Adam and Eve bear their child on earth. Suppose the fall was unknown to this earth. When you were born, your parents would have already been perfect. Then the moment of your birth would have marked the beginning of a new heaven for your parents, and would have marked the beginning point of another dimension of the heavenly kingdom.</p>
<p>Let us imagine the Adam and Eve whom God created. If God were giving love to Adam and lingering especially with him, then what would have been Eve&#8217;s reaction? Or if God were loving Eve, then what would Adam&#8217;s reaction have been? In such situations, the Kingdom of God might have seemed unbalanced when Adam was loved by God and Eve was left aside, or if God moved to Eve and Adam seemed to be forgotten. Actually the Kingdom of God begins when God loves one person because that love would automatically become his partner&#8217;s also. In that case, when God loved Adam, Eve would have rejoiced as much as if she herself were being loved. Adam would have rejoiced when God went to Eve because that experience would have been as real as God loving him directly. It would all be one and the same thing. It just wouldn&#8217;t have made any difference whether God loved Adam or Eve because it would all be the same. This feeling would have become real when Adam and Eve became true husband and wife. In a loving relationship blessed by God the two are no longer separate but perfectly one.</p>
<p>Perfection comes when there is unity through love; in other words, love is central to perfection. If Adam and Eve had realized this perfect unity and harmony in love, then there could have been no such thing as feeling forgotten or jealous. God freely goes anywhere and everywhere, and wherever God moves automatically becomes the point of joy for both Adam and Eve.</p>
<p>Then where can we find one central, visible point of love between all three? The children of Adam and Eve would be the one visible point where the three elements of God, Adam and Eve could be harmonized together. God&#8217;s supreme hope in creation was to see the children of Adam and Eve. Those children were to form the point around which God Himself and all things in the universe could be united.</p>
<h3 align="center">Our hope hinges upon our children</h3>
<p>Why do you love your children? A husband and wife may confront each other in heated battle, with neither side budging an inch, but the one point of unity always remaining between them is their children. Thus there is never complete separation. Why is that? Why don&#8217;t they hate their children when they fight with each other? If they were to disregard their children, then they would have nothing left because their children are their hope. They must have something to hang onto, and their children are that something. The hope of the father, the mother, and also of God all hinges upon the children, and they cannot disregard their hope.</p>
<p>Even though they may not consciously realize this, they can feel that their children are the beginning point of hope for the Kingdom of God here on earth and in heaven. History begins right there. Therefore, God, parents and children, all find common ground in the position of the children.</p>
<p>Parents can always forget themselves when they center on their children and their sacrificial spirit will extend even to the point of giving up their own lives. If a husband and wife are a happy couple and very much united in love but they have no children, can they say they are perfectly happy as a family? Even though a husband and wife may be perfectly in harmony, as long as there are no children some area of their lives will always remain imperfect. That is because they will not have the hope that will create their Kingdom of God on earth and hereafter in heaven. They will not have planted the seed of the Kingdom.</p>
<p>If a husband and wife go to spirit world without the experience of having children, then when they see God loving all His children here on earth they cannot share His feeling. Without having children they are lacking in one area and their feelings cannot parallel God&#8217;s in His own experience of having children. For eternity they will be completely lacking in that one vertical area, and they will have no way to gain that experience.</p>
<p>Then what is your conclusion? Do you need to be married and have children? There are many very egoistic, secular, and selfish feelings prevailing in our world nowadays. People are thinking that marriage is a burden, and that they do not want to be bothered with children. Even many Americans who did marry are making a conscientious effort to not have children. Why? They are afraid that they will be imprisoned by having the responsibility of a child. America is a women&#8217;s kingdom; here the women are always masters of the house, and in many cases the men obey the women. Many times a couple does not have children because the wife just does not want that pain and burden.</p>
<p>I frequently go to New York, and there I have seen that most of the well-dressed people are women, while the American men look miserable. The women not only wear beautiful clothes but their ten fingers are not enough to hold all their ornaments. The amazing thing is, however, that those women do not look happy, even though they have everything and are kicking their husbands around. Many of those women push their husbands to get them bigger diamonds and more gold. Do you agree? Only the men are saying yes! Can you women say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t need earrings or diamond rings. What I need is perfect harmony with my husband and a sacrificial spirit towards him so that together we can serve the purpose of God.&#8221; That is beautiful, isn&#8217;t it? Would you still say, &#8220;Amen,&#8221; if you had only bad shoes and rags to wear?</p>
<p>Your external looks and ornaments have no value in a spiritual sense; rather the kind of love that is dwelling in your heart is the key. A child is love made visible and the quality of your love can be seen in your child. When there is common fruit between a husband and wife then there can be no permanent separation between them. Their children are their most precious things, and for an innocent child his mother and father are most precious. In order to make a child happy, you must provide him or her with the love of a father and mother. Even more than that, the parents must give their children the love of God; they must represent God, and His love must be made visible through them.</p>
<p>God cannot forgive anyone who acts to destroy such a beautiful bond of love. The most pitiful situation, and one we can often see in American society, is that of a husband and wife getting divorced and fighting over their children. No matter how much that couple may try to invite God to come, there is no room for the love of God in that kind of situation. In divorce the parents are not only separating from each other but from their children and from God. Their vertical line of love is destroyed. The mother may say to her child, &#8220;Your daddy is absolutely no good. Please hate him.&#8221; That does not make sense because a child cannot hate his father; it is also virtually impossible for a child to hate his mother. Those of you whose own parents have separated, raise your hands. You know from experience that the most agonizing pain for a child is witnessing conflict between his father and mother, because then you do not know which way to turn. Can you love only one parent and disregard the other?</p>
<p>Actually a child becomes more sympathetic toward his father when his mother says he must hate his father. It is natural to oppose separation, and so it is natural for a child to protest the separation of his parents. In the most fundamental meaning, love is not for yourself but for others. That is the basic element of love, and anyone who would live this principle will always oppose the action of separation.</p>
<p>Can you imagine God coming down to a child and saying, &#8220;You must not love your parents. You obey Me; I am your God. You must hate your parents.&#8221; Could that child obey such a mandate? Even to God that child will say, &#8220;What kind of God are You?&#8221; If God ever asked a child to hate his own parents then it would have to be for a selfish reason, such as trying to win the child&#8217;s love for Himself by having him reject his own parents. But the entire universe revolts against any selfish motive.</p>
<p>How would the child feel if God said, &#8220;Your parents may not treat you right. I know your heart, but after all they are your parents. You must respect them; as much as I still love them, you must love them too. You must stay with Me.&#8221; If that child has really clear logic, he will say, &#8220;God is really God, a God of mercy, unselfishness, and sacrifice.&#8221;</p>
<p>A child is the visible fruit of love and that child will serve as the common ground of unity between husband and wife; because of that child, then, there is no way that they could remain eternally separated. We are to live our lives here on earth and pass into spirit world. There the perfect kingdom of heart has four parts, where the love of God, the love of father, mother, and child all together create a warm, harmonious feeling. The person who lives his physical life being separated from people and acting destructively will also be elevated to the spirit world. Do you think such a person can feel comfortable in a heavenly atmosphere? Is there any place for that kind of person to sit down in the spiritual kingdom if he has been living for the destruction of love here on earth?</p>
<h3 align="center">Can you honor a vow of eternal marriage?</h3>
<p>When you really understand the spiritual principle of the Kingdom of God in heaven, you will see what a crime it is for a husband and wife to separate and put their children in jeopardy here on earth. There is no defense in all of heaven and earth from . the accusation of a child toward his own parents &#8216; grieving, &#8220;You didn&#8217;t do me justice. You didn&#8217;t do God justice. You didn&#8217;t do yourselves justice.&#8221; God has provided no law that will give mercy in that case. This is such a serious matter.</p>
<p>When you understand this, you can see that marriage is not a light matter, but should be taken very seriously. Marriage is more serious than your own life, than heaven and earth, than your entire hope and ideal. When you find happiness in this serious area, you will find ultimate happiness.</p>
<p>As a couple can you exercise the responsibility of marriage toward your children and toward God? Can you pledge such responsibility? Your first responsibility is to become a true child of God yourself, under the True Parents. Are you exercising that responsibility? This is also a serious matter. Thinking about living the Divine Principle is the pinnacle of seriousness and there is no joke in it. Are you becoming a member of the Unification Church with that seriousness? Particularly in our day marriage is not considered a serious matter. Husbands and wives are not looking at their mates as permanent and eternal. They feel that if their love does not work out they can go try someone else.</p>
<p>When you blessed couples took the marriage vow in front of the True Parents, were you thinking that the pledge to your mate was eternal? How deep was your pledge? Can you say, &#8220;Yes, Father, my marriage will be an eternal one, not only here on earth, but hereafter in heaven.&#8221; How about those of you who are going to make that pledge, can you take it lightly? No, absolutely not.</p>
<p>God is eternal. God is permanent, and He will never shift His position. Even after the fall of man God did not chastise mankind permanently. God did not say, &#8220;Because you have become such a dirty, fallen sinner you and I have nothing to do with each other. Don&#8217;t come to me; I am no longer your Father.&#8221; God will never say this. God still recognizes mankind as His own sons and daughters.</p>
<p>When a child is born, he or she is permanently the child of his particular parents. Nothing under the sun-no rule, no power, no principle can alter or change the position of that child. That child cannot go away from his position, nor can his parents abandon their position. God is permanent and eternal, and that child is born to an eternal position. What about the mother and father? Can an impermanent and temporal relationship create something that is permanent?</p>
<p>The husband and wife must also be anchored in an eternal relationship. God is perfect and eternal and the position of a child is also permanent and eternal, but nowadays the unstable factor is the position of husband and wife. The positions of men and women are unstable because of the fall of man.</p>
<p>Men and women lack maturity and seriousness about marriage, believing that if one person does not work out they can go and find another. That feeling is the product of the fall of man; without the fall, man would not be capable of even thinking in such a way. As long as men even consider the possibility of an unstable relationship between husband and wife, thinking that there are other alternatives, then a permanent Kingdom of Heaven is not possible. From this standpoint, how many people here in America are entitled to the Kingdom of God in heaven? How about You? The concept of marriage so far in the fallen world has become a tool of Satan, allowing him to bind mankind for his own benefit. God&#8217;s most precious gift of marriage is being used by Satan.</p>
<p>Until we build this stable foundation, will it be possible to build the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth? The problem does not lie in heaven or with the people of the world. The problem lies right here with you and me. We are the key; if we can resolve this problem we will bring about the Kingdom of Heaven quickly.</p>
<h3 align="center">The Kingdom of God has been ready from the beginning of time</h3>
<p>Jesus Christ came down to build the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth. Could he possibly accomplish that all by himself? Did he have his bride? Did he have his own children? Was Jesus a man or a woman, or something else? You said he was a man; was he a real man or an artificial man? If he was a real man, then physically speaking did he have the perfect features and functions of a man? He was a real man and had every function of a man.</p>
<p>Then was he capable of being a husband, or would he have told all the women of the world not to come near him because God was watching? Was that the reason he never married? Jesus had pride, and he had a mission on earth as the only begotten son of God. God&#8217;s mandate to him was to build a heavenly family and to bring heaven here on earth. Jesus would have liked to see his bride-to-be as the most perfect woman under the sun, not for himself, but for the fulfillment of God&#8217;s will.</p>
<p>Today you are thinking that for the sake of God&#8217;s purpose you want to become a perfect man and marry the perfect woman in order to bring perfect children into the world. That was exactly Jesus&#8217; own desire. Jesus knew that God wanted to see His own living children here on earth, and he wanted to give birth to the perfect heirs of God.</p>
<p>Suppose Jesus had been blessed with a perfect bride. Do you think that because he was a holy man, Jesus should have kept five feet away from her all the time? Was Jesus capable of kissing too? Would he have kissed his bride only for the sake of some condition, or because he really wanted to show his love to her? As a holy man would he have looked at his bride just from time to time and then gone away, or would he have had fervent love in his heart to pour out upon his bride? Would he have been a sinner if he had done that?</p>
<p>God intended man to live in perfect love and perfect eternity, without even a little bit of separation. God Himself is perfect and eternal, and the position of children is always perfect and eternal, which is why God wanted the positions of husband and wife to be perfect and eternal. Is the action of intensive love divine or sinful? After the fall, man&#8217;s love became dirty and stained. Has mankind ever seen perfect love under God, manifesting the purpose of God?</p>
<p>No one has really known the purpose of religion and salvation. Many religious people have felt that the world is filled with filthiness and have tried to separate themselves from it and live an isolated life. It is often thought that a religious, divine life is a life of isolation, but we must realize that the Kingdom of God in heaven and on earth has been ready for a long, long time, from the very beginning of creation, and is just waiting to be occupied. The problem has been that of finding occupants for that kingdom. Men and women qualified for the Kingdom of God here on earth and in heaven have not existed. They were the missing key. Ultimately, this is not the Messiah&#8217;s problem. It is the problem of you men and women. This is often misunderstood by many religious people.</p>
<p>Jesus knew this truth. Did he want to build the Kingdom of God from his nation and the world, or did he want to start his kingdom by himself with men and women? He knew that he was the beginning point of the kingdom, along with other men and women. The subject of the Kingdom of God is not an issue of national sovereignty or government, but of individual men and women.</p>
<p>Man is the key; man is the subject. Therefore, when Jesus ascended into heaven, do you think he had to leave his key to the Kingdom of God here on earth, or did he take it with him? The key to unlock the kingdom belongs here on earth, not up in the air. Then where should Jesus have left that key-in a copper box in the Vatican in Rome, or in the hearts of individuals? Actually that key is right here. I want you to understand that the Kingdom of God has been ready from the beginning of time. If you men and women were in this perfect position under God, in perfect harmony, perfect unity, and perfect love for eternity, you would be so happy.</p>
<p>When we bring back this atmosphere of living under God then in thinking of your wife or husband or about serving your children, you would automatically be entitled to the Kingdom of God in heaven. In that atmosphere you would not have to make any special effort. Even in the fallen world everyone is thinking about his parents and children as his immediate interest. They occupy most of man&#8217;s attention. There is nothing wrong with that fact in itself, but somehow the content of that thinking changed because of the fall of man. We want to reverse those contents and make them heavenly.</p>
<p>Since the fall of man, our thoughts still center around ourselves, our parents, our husband or wife, and our children. However, the family is surrounded by many satanic layers: the society, nation, world and cosmos. The first step, therefore, is to liberate ourselves. We must get out of the satanic influence in order to liberate ourselves from sin and get rid of all these bindings, and after we free ourselves we can bring back the heavenly contents of the original world.</p>
<p>Actually the pattern is the same in both the satanic world and the heavenly kingdom. The problem is that the satanic kingdom is built on selfishness, and it has multiplied into selfish societies, nations, and into a selfish world. We have become prisoners of sin and been wrapped within all these satanic bindings. Therefore we must get rid of those bindings and re-build ourselves according to a new unselfish pattern that will be superior to the satanic world. This re-organization of men is the work of religion, transcending the level of race and nationality.</p>
<p>Then what is the Unification Church of which you are a member? Are we looking forward to unification within the framework of the satanic world, or do we want to build our unification starting here? Another important consideration is this: will we build a new, God-centered, unselfish pattern here, and then put up a big wall between the two worlds, saying, &#8220;Don&#8217;t come to me and I won&#8217;t come to you.&#8221; Shall we take that attitude, or once we are ready do we want to transform the entire satanic world into the heavenly world? This means we have a dual mission, a round trip to make. This is an important idea; on the way out we must liberate ourselves from the satanic world, and then we must go back to the satanic world to liberate it.</p>
<p>On both trips we are going to have a headwind. When you are trying to go out of the fallen world everybody will pull you, saying, &#8220;Don&#8217;t go! You stay right here!&#8221; And then when you try to come back everybody will try to keep you out. When I was first trying to come into America the State Department hesitated to give approval, and once I entered and became active they have been continually trying to push me out. America is a free country, and people from all over the world can enter with relative freedom. But when I came, all of a sudden the government wanted to resist. Since I have a following like you young people all over the world I have become someone to be recognized. If I am not just an ordinary person, then why don&#8217;t they want me to enter?</p>
<p>This does not happen because of any personal vendetta against me but because this is the way that the satanic world reacts. Therefore, throughout history the course of any messenger sent by God has followed this pattern. When God&#8217;s men came down to establish a beachhead in the satanic world, they have always been resisted. There is no way that God&#8217;s world can be built without resistance.</p>
<p>Do you think God is sending the Messiah to live a quiet life and then go away, or is he coming to shake the entire world? He is coming in the name of religion, not as a politician running for Congress or to be head of state. In the name of God he is coming to shake the whole foundation of the earth. Otherwise he is not a Messiah at all!</p>
<p>In that respect the Unification Church is setting records, isn&#8217;t it? As far as shaking the world is concerned, our record will be set between 1976 and June of this year. We are really approaching a pinnacle now. We have become controversial in this country, haven&#8217;t we? Many people imagine me as some kind of inhuman monster, with ten horns, six arms and nine legs. They can&#8217;t imagine what I must be like, and some people are really, really scared of my image. The other day I went to a shop in White Plains; I was dressed in simple sports clothes, but people immediately recognized me and stared at me with wide eyes, &#8220;Are you really Reverend Moon?&#8221; They did not quite expect me to look like a normal human being.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s men are destined to face opposition. When men face opposition one of three things can happen: one, they will be destroyed; two they will destroy their opposition, or three, they will unite all men, both good and evil, and come up with a new world. Opposition is not necessarily bad, and in any case we are destined to confront this headwind. The Unification Church is destined to go one of these three courses, and so is our opposition. Let us consider which side is going to win. You said that God&#8217;, side will win, but our opposition claims to be on God&#8217;s side too. They have m- people, and they come against us in the name of the church and in the n-e of God, so how do you know if you are on God&#8217;s side?</p>
<h3 align="center">Will you be a builder or just an occupant of heaven?</h3>
<p>I am sure you would like our Unification Church to win completely, but particularly in some of the more conventional churches, they think, &#8220;We must win in the name of God.&#8221; What will determine who wins and how do you envision that we can win? The spiritual power in the heart of each individual member will decide. The outcome will be affected by our personal qualities-how unselfish we are, how determined, committed, wise and persevering. Of course the external environment is important-how much economic power we can mobilize and whether Our organizational structure is sound-but from the external point of view the existing churches and conventional religious organizations have much greater influence and power than we do. President Carter is a professed Christian. Suppose even the President of the United States opposed us. Would you be very afraid? Would you surrender as soon as this entire nation of 220 million people came against us?</p>
<p>What power and conviction do you have to make you say you will never give up? Are you a Pfc follower of Reverend Moon, or a Pfc of God? Are you -y servant or are you children of God? We are invincible and strong, and we cannot be defeated because God is in us. We are the champions and soldiers of God, and we are here to truly give ourselves to liberate the world, mankind, and God Himself. There could be no nobler cause than this one. We are following this most unselfish, noble, and dedicated cause for God.</p>
<p>Suppose the Christian churches stood up and decided, &#8220;We are the champions of God and we will liberate all mankind and God.&#8221; Do you have a guarantee that God would favor a minority group like the Unification Church instead of supporting the Christian majority? Maybe God does not want to go through all this persecution. What guarantee do you have that God is not going to Pope Paul? With Pope Paul He doesn&#8217;t have to defend anything because for every situation there is protocol and honor guards and fanfare, but wherever I go there is persecution and shouting and outcry. God would not want to side with the losers and lonely people, would He? Wouldn&#8217;t God want to be proud Himself and relax, receiving great honors and hearing trumpets? If He goes with Pope Paul He might have all that.</p>
<p>There may be dozens of Pope Pauls and millions and billions of Christians, but most of them are working to attain heaven for themselves. We are working to build God&#8217;s Kingdom itself. Who has a better cause, those who are trying to get themselves admitted to e Kingdom of Heaven, those who are trying to get themselves admitted to the Kingdom of Heaven, or those who are trying to actually create heaven so that all can enter it? The builders or the occupants?</p>
<p>The answer is very simple. The Kingdom of God does not exist yet, and God needs builders of His Kingdom here on earth. This world is occupied by Satan, and so far Christians have had a tendency to try to get away from him by isolating themselves. They are expecting to find their own heaven in the air. Does God need those who are preparing to rise up in the air, or does He need those who will liquidate the satanic world, and build His Kingdom right here on earth?</p>
<p>We can reach another conclusion. Those who are working toward their own heaven can use everyone, old and young. But in building the Kingdom of Heaven right here on earth what we need is young people. God knows this requirement, and so God is bringing us young people. God gave the old people to those groups who are just trying to enter heaven. Age has become one distinction between us and many other churches.</p>
<p>If God is looking down on this morning service, it would not be quite appropriate to see all senior citizens sitting here saying, &#8220;Yes, Reverend Moon, we are going to build the Kingdom of Heaven! &#8221; It just would not look right! But instead God is seeing you young people who are not even married, who have shining eyes and brilliant faces, bearing you declare, &#8220;Father, let us build that Kingdom together! &#8221; You are burning with zeal, and you can do that right now, here in America!</p>
<p>Which group would give God hope-young people or just any kind of people? Is this teaching you are hearing about the ideal family and ideal kingdom more suited for older people or younger people? Married people or single people? You are God&#8217;s hope. Our vision is clear and our future is clear, As long as the churches who have inherited 2,000 years of tradition are interested only in finding their own heaven then their destiny is to diminish.</p>
<p>We are rising like the sun. Could winds and hurricanes and blizzards stop the rising of the sun? American young people are wandering aimlessly with nowhere to turn. There is no one to receive the young people of America because they are difficult people, almost like outcasts and untouchables. They are so explosive that even the President of the United States and great religious leaders cannot touch them. Only one man has come who can not only touch them but tame them. I am the one to whom God has given the power to influence their children, but ironically, I am hated by many parents in America.</p>
<p>My road is a rugged one. Can you follow me even to jail? I will wait and see when we come to that point. Simon Peter swore that Jesus was the son of God, and that he would die for Jesus at any time. And yet how many times did Peter deny knowing Jesus before the crucifixion? Do you have confidence that your faith and strength are superior to those of Peter? Do you say yes because you are young? What makes you superior? Again, the answer is simple. You will be superior if you can give up your lives at any time. That is the ultimate criterion. Your answer is getting weaker now. Can you do it? I must wait and see. I gave up my life a long time ago, at the very beginning of my ministry. I have the confidence that I will win over all my opponents because none of them are dedicating their lives to their purpose.</p>
<p>There are varying degrees of conviction in the lives of those who are saying things about us, but none of them are serious to the degree that they would give up their lives for what they are saying. My neck is always out, however. God is color blind and the fact that I came from the Orient does not make any difference in His sight. The important thing to God is finding which person will fight for His cause to the end. In this I am sure that I am first. With that conviction, our cause will not dwindle; we will be invincible.</p>
<p>Our goal is not limited to taking care of America. Far more than that, we are dedicating ourselves to liberate the communists and to liquidate that evil ideology. Can we accomplish such a gigantic goal if we are half-hearted? We will never accomplish it unless we give our lives to it. Have you ever thought about that? God knows that throughout my whole life I have kept my covenant with Him. I will stand up for my God to the end; God does not see in me any betrayal like Peter&#8217;s. Can you be that way? Don&#8217;t answer me, but look at your own heart and answer yourself. Do you have deep confidence?</p>
<h3 align="center">The true Easter</h3>
<p>The world has not known, but today, April 17, is the true Easter. The spirit world knows this and Jesus knows. What is the resurrection of Jesus? It is not merely the issue of whether his body rose out of the tomb. That is but a small part. The most significant aspect is the resurrection of Jesus&#8217; heavenly principle and His God-centered love. That particular aspect was a hidden secret until I came and declared it to the world. My declaration today of the meaning of Easter is a moment of great joy for Jesus in heaven.</p>
<p>There have been many great Christians of deep religious conviction, but for 2,000 years they have blindly believed in Jesus, leaving many fundamental questions unanswered. When I asked our seminary professors these fundamental questions they had no answers. They did not know where the Kingdom of Heaven is, for instance, or what true love is. You cannot expect to reach perfection by following unclear truth. You must clearly know the truth, not in a mirror dimly, but face to face.</p>
<p>Where is the Kingdom of Heaven? The Kingdom of Heaven begins when you become a man and a woman of perfection, and the man finds the perfect woman, and the woman finds the perfect man. That is why Jesus so often referred to the bridegroom and bride when speaking of the Kingdom of Heaven. To become the bridegroom is the qualification for each -an, and to become the bride is the qualification for each woman.</p>
<p>For 2,000 years Christianity had no way to clearly understand the meaning of this so they have interpreted it by saying that the bridegroom is the symbol of the Lord and the bride represents Christians and mankind. How could that be? Jesus is definitely returning to fulfill this prophecy which he could not fulfill either among the Jews or among the Christians. The Christians believe that the Lord will come on the clouds of heaven in a very supernatural manner, and the Christians will be lifted up into heaven to find the millennium in the air. But this is not at all the way God works.</p>
<p>God is a God of principle, and nothing the Christian majority believes will change the way that heaven works. God works according to His principle and not in some phantom fashion. Suppose Jesus was meant to be single; after he was elevated into heaven and sitting by the throne of God, he would have had one question to ask God: &#8220;God, why did You make man and then not use me as a man?&#8221; Will God answer, &#8220;Well, I created man just for an experiment,&#8221; or will He answer, &#8220;Man is for woman, and woman is for man. I have a perfect vision and purpose in mind.&#8221; God made you as men and women for a reason.</p>
<p>Jesus came as the king of all kings, but not to be a bachelor king. In God&#8217;s mind there is the concept of king and also the concept of queen and for this reason Jesus&#8217; capability and purpose was to come on the earth and create such a queen; he came as the father of all mankind. People do not understand that Jesus was also to be the first among all husbands of the world, as well as first among all the grandfathers of the world. Would he have preferred to say to all women, &#8220;Don&#8217;t come near me; I am the king of kings. You are not worthy of me. For all eternity I will remain single.&#8221;</p>
<p>What would Jesus have answered if he had been asked, &#8220;Do you want to become king of kings and remain holy and divine all by yourself, with the people bowing down 1,000 feet away?&#8221; I am sure Jesus would have answered, &#8220;Do not even ask me such a foolish question!&#8221; Man is a small creature but a giant in greediness, wanting ten crowns instead of only one, and a conglomerate instead of just one company. All men are this greedy. When you are so greedy, whom do you resemble? We are intended to resemble Jesus as well as God. Was Jesus a man with greediness and ambition or not? Is he the ideal man? Why?</p>
<p>If Jesus were to dance, would he be more joyful dancing solo or with a partner? When Jesus returns and fulfills his mission, taking his crown and his place in God&#8217;s palace, would he want to occupy his throne all by himself, or would he want to have his own queen, as well as princes and princesses together as subject of all the children of the world? As a follower of Jesus would you recommend that he stay on his throne all by himself, or would you say, &#8220;Jesus, don&#8217;t you want to marry and have your children and grandchildren?&#8221; Would Jesus say, &#8220;How absurd! I am a holy man, the son of God! What are you talking about? &#8221;</p>
<p>People have such misconceptions of holiness and divinity. I would like to bless the many dedicated priests and nuns in heavenly matrimony. All those thousands, even tens of thousands of priests and nuns who have already passed their lives and are in the spirit world are on my side and agree with me!</p>
<p>If there had been no fall of man, Adam and Eve would have brought their heaven here on earth up to heaven, and their family life would have extended through eternity in the heavenly world. The family is the building block of heaven for eternity and those who do not experience family life here on earth cannot fully understand heaven in the spirit world. Without loving your own children how can you understand the love of the parent for eternity in the spirit world?</p>
<p>Even Jesus Christ cannot fully echo the words of God when He is talking about the love of the husband and wife and the love of parents and children. Without his own experiences in that area even Jesus cannot fully share the feelings of God. Isn&#8217;t that true? Is it enough to be moved by the Holy Spirit? If that were enough then Jesus would not even have had to come to the earth. This teaching is the most orthodox, central teaching of God.</p>
<p>Are you already orthodox or are you going to become orthodox? The Unification Church is not a fly-by-night organization. It is built on principle and has logic and theory behind it that is 100% approved by God. We are now living that principle in all faith. We have not only logic and principle, but also experiences in our religion. That is why we are strong.</p>
<p>Even if someone beheads me or chops off my arms and legs, I still cannot deny the truth, so I have no choice but to continue. Some people think that when I die the Unification Church will collapse, but that is nonsense. Communism did not collapse after the death of Marx. Which ideology is superior, Marxism or Moonism? Our ideology is superior because it is the truth, and Marxism is a lie.</p>
<h3 align="center">No Sabbath for God</h3>
<p>There is no end to this topic and I could go on and on, but you have to sell newspapers so I want to conclude quickly. You are leading busy lives but what are you actually gaining? Christian tradition says that Sunday is the Sabbath, the holy day on which you rest in a holy way, eat in a holy way, and walk in a holy way. But I say that this world is dying; even at this moment it is desperately crying out for help. What kind of holy day is this? Is there a holy day in the communist world? Do they say, &#8220;This is Sunday; there is a truce so we won&#8217;t invade you&#8221;? That is not a communist tactic.</p>
<p>The real holy day is a fighting day; we must stop the world from crumbling and stop the spread of communism and win one soul after another back to God. That is a true holy day. There can be no such thing as a holy day without victory for God. Do not even talk about a holy day without the fulfillment of the work of God. If God is being defeated and retreating can you still claim that this is a holy day? How does God feel?&#8217;</p>
<p>Therefore this is my principle: every moment of the day is an emergency, and Sunday is the day to really go out and show victory for God. Once God declares victory then we can truly declare the Sabbath, not just for one day but for the entire week. Until then we must just persevere and go on.</p>
<p>Why did you join the Unification Church? Your life would be so much easier if you went to other churches. What kind of church is this, asking you to have 5 o&#8217;clock service and to be here by 6 o&#8217;clock to listen to a 2½ hour sermon that still has not ended? It is a lot better when ushers ask you to come in and be seated, and you can walk on plush carpets as organ music resounds in your ears. But when you Westerners with long legs come here and sit on the floor it is even painful. It is outrageous for the Western culture. They why do you still come here?</p>
<p>Why don&#8217;t you go ahead and find some more comfortable places? If you do not come then I do not have to talk, and then no parents will come against me. Would you still come even if I drive you and push you in the most unprecedented manner in history? Throughout my entire life there is not one day that I have not had to face criticism and persecution as my daily diet. Does anybody welcome opposition and criticism? Because you are Moonies you will be treated just like me and wherever you go people will look at you scornfully. What did you do wrong? Did you rob the bank or rape a woman or what? Are you half-way Moonies or 100%? When you deeply feel good about being a Moonie, then no matter what anyone does against you it will not bother you any further.</p>
<p>In Radio City Music Hail they have a feature attraction, &#8220;The Littlest Horse Thieves.&#8221; Ponies were used to haul coal out of the mines before machines were developed to do that. After the mines were mechanized the ponies were not needed, but the outside world was so strange to them that they could not adjust to it. The ponies in the movie were finally returned to the mines, where they were destined to live and die. Are you like the ponies? Do you know how people live in the everyday world? Before becoming Moonies some of you were drug addicts and hippies, and you experienced the corruption in the world. Then are you Moonies because you do not know anything about the outside world or because you know the outside world and found salvation in the Principle?</p>
<p>Can you continue in this way of life until your death? What would you do if not just your own parents but I chased you out? What would you do if your three meals became two meals a day, and then those two meals were reduced to one meal? Then what would you do if that one meal were given every other day, or every three days? You would say, &#8220;Well, if I receive one meal every three days then I am entitled to rest more.&#8221; But what if all of a sudden I said, &#8220;Go out fund raising and witnessing!&#8221; Would You complain?</p>
<p>Why do you have to go to such extremes? You have only one life to live, and only one youth to enjoy. Why do you have to suffer so much? Did you see God? Where is he? I see nothing, just the vast blue sky. How do you know that I am not a real swindler, as so many people outside our church think? Particularly you women and older men, why do you have to struggle three years or more before you can receive the blessing? If you leave the church you can have complete freedom to date and get married and do anything you want at any time. Things would be so easy; why do you prefer this way?</p>
<h3 align="center">God&#8217;s strategy to release His blessing</h3>
<p>You know that even before desiring God we are searching after the true love. You have tried out everything and found that nothing worked. The highest hope for all men is to have true love, invincible, eternal love, upon which you can relate as husband and wife, have children and build a family, and then build a society, nation, world and cosmos. When true love is the foundation then you will find the true husband and wife, true parents, true children, true nation and world. Through history there has never been such a thing available.</p>
<p>If no such true love exists then God must be a lie, and we cannot talk about God, Christianity or religion. However, if there is God, if there is religion, then there is true love and we can secure it and fulfill it. You can only meet God on the foundation of pure love. But we must search for this, and that is the mission of the Unification Church. We are here to secure, enjoy, and fulfill the true love of God. We have a destiny ordained by God, not just for ourselves but for all men, and at one time or another all men will have to go this route,</p>
<p>If the Unification Church does not lead you to discover true love then you must go somewhere else to find it. When you come to the Unification Church you can see the possibility and gain the confidence that you can secure such love. Being here and working to practice the Principle you can experience God, and feel the emergence of truelove. That is the power of our church. My entire life has never been easy. I have not even had one night of sleep when I was completely relaxed or completely happy because I felt like a sinner, as if somebody was always watching me, always oppressing me.</p>
<p>If God truly loves me, then why does He not do something drastic? Why did God permit this nation to come against me with so much negativity? Why did He not bring down brimstone and fire and judge the world, and let me become invincible, raising me up before the world? But God has reserved greater love, and He deeply wants us to deserve that greater love. He is so anxious to give it as soon as the moment comes when we can deserve it. The entire spirit world is working for such a blessing from God; even after a lifetime of devotion they still have not received it. Could God offer His entire blessing to me without my doing anything? God wanted to have me go through such a difficult path that no one in spirit world could accuse or be jealous of me. I must work harder and suffer more than anyone and only then could everyone in the spirit world bow down to me, saying, &#8220;Indeed, Reverend Moon, you deserve such blessing from God.&#8221;</p>
<p>God wants all the saints of the spirit world, including Jesus Christ, to come and petition Him, saying, &#8220;God, please give your entire blessing to Reverend Moon. He is indeed entitled to it and deserves everything.&#8221; God wants to hear that testimony from all the saints and holy men of the spirit world. Even though that prayer has already been given in support of me, God has still not released His blessing yet but is testing me even further. Soon all spirit world will mobilize and demonstrate against God, saying, &#8220;God, we will take up the responsibility of Reverend Moon. We protest that You are demanding too much. The time has come for you to release Your blessing I Such a thing never happened before in the entire history of man.</p>
<p>Actually God is wiser; by resisting their demands He is pushing the entire population of the spirit world down to the earth and mobilizing them. Then all those in spirit world will say, &#8220;Well, God is not directly intervening in Reverend Moon&#8217;s cause. Let us go down,&#8221; and they will all come down to the physical world. In this way many spirits will come to assist us in our cause on earth; then the blessing will go not only to you but to them. This is God&#8217;s strategy to liberate the spirit world; in this way the entire spirit world will be given blessing equal to that which you will receive here on earth.</p>
<p>My goal is to receive more suffering and take more beatings than any other man of God has ever taken in history. I can take the pain; I will take greater pain than any individual or group in the entire universe, in heaven or on earth. I am going to go beyond their capacity.</p>
<h3 align="center">I am setting records</h3>
<p>Look at you, transcending color and nationality, language and culture you are willing to die for this cause. You are beautiful and you are great. At this moment behind the Iron Curtain, many believers from the underground churches are in prison, but they are secretly moving. They are determined to suffer or die at any moment. When God calls for a martyr they are ready to become martyrs. If I were willing to use the strategy of the communists there is nothing I could not do; I have the power, the people, and the organization to fulfill any kind of mission if I resorted to the communists&#8217; type of activity and strategy.</p>
<p>If I said right now, &#8220;Let&#8217;s go to the front of the State Department and demonstrate,&#8221; would you follow me or not? But revenge and violence is not God&#8217;s way. God trusts me, and my way is God&#8217;s way. Even though I receive the utmost loyalty from those who follow me, more than any person has received in history, I will never exploit it.</p>
<p>In all of history have you ever heard that people from all the races got together where matchmaking was done by one father and where they were then married by the thousands? This is certainly an unprecedented record, What I have done is unprecedented and unique, and no one even dreamed before that such a thing could ever be done. You are married almost like the summer thunderstorm that quickly bursts in the afternoon. However, will your marriage also separate suddenly one day? After the blessing there is fidelity and obedience in those families, even when husband and wife are separated on different missions for seven years. Such faith deeply moves the heart of God and the True Parents. Have you ever heard of any young people going such a sacrificial course for any religion or state? Did Hitler do that? Did Stalin do that? I am very unusual and peculiar in that respect. When I matched you men and women, were you almost crying and forced into the marriage, or did you most willingly and happily accept it? The moment that I gave you your husband or wife, you felt joyful and were smiling from ear to ear. I saw it myself.</p>
<p>In the name of God I am setting records as an industrialist and businessman, although I am a religious leader. My basic mission is that of messenger of God, yet even in the field of industry and education I am setting new records. Has any man in history come from a small Oriental country like Korea, and even needing an interpreter, shaken the nation within four years? Even in such a city as New York I am not free to even go shopping because I am so well-known and recognized. People are afraid, knowing my capability and seeing the foundation that I have already laid. Some say that I am even worse than the Mafia. But I have done everything in the name of God, and always for His cause. When God looks at His son working so hard and accomplishing so much, will He smile upon him? Do you have pride in that?</p>
<p>Now when the service is over you should just run to New York, dash in and get the newspapers and go out, without even going to your centers. Do you feel such life and excitement? How long can you continue? Can you compete with me? Korea has come against me for more than 30 years, for practically my entire life since I initiated my ministry-opposition, slander, accusation, character assassination-one thing after another. But people are smart and through it all they are recognizing who I am. Even now, after being in America for four years, I have become famous and many are really showing reverence and respect for me, even calling me &#8220;Moon hero.&#8221; They say that I am really a hero among the Koreans.</p>
<p>Very soon America will follow this pattern. After four years the negativity and persecution have built up momentum in America, but that persecution will die out because there is nothing for it to feed on. The State Department, Justice Department and IRS are investigating our church, and now the Fraser committee is coming. However, they will soon run out of things to say. Then what will people say after that? Under such heavy beatings I not only survive but prosper. I keep going and finally reach the point where people cannot find anything more to accuse me of. The American people are a good-hearted people, and the time when they realize that they must give me credit is not too far away.</p>
<p>On all levels of the American government there are Cain-Abel struggles concerning us, with one group for me and the other group against. I do not have anything to do with them, yet on their own they have separated into two groups and are debating about me. Let the negative side do its utmost. This is the way that God&#8217;s strategy works: He allows the negative people to exhaust all their resources until ultimately they have to surrender.</p>
<p>The time will come when the nation can transcend politics between the Democratic and Republican parties, and in seeking national salvation in the midst of urgent emergency, the first person they will think about is me. This will come because our ideology alone has the solution for the problems of this country. Whether I live another 100 years or another 10 years or die tomorrow does not make any difference. My death would not change the destiny of this nation because I have already made my impact on the culture of America. I have established my footprint and from now on all the words, prophecies, and revelations that I have spoken will be fulfilled.</p>
<p>One thing is absolutely clear; you are not going to be digested by today&#8217;s American culture; you are going to digest America, digest the world, and create a new culture. You are a new breed of people, aren&#8217;t you? People think that if they can eliminate me that would be the end of it, but that would only be a new beginning. Each one of you will become Reverend Moon yourselves! Those who want to become another Reverend Moon, raise your hand.</p>
<h3 align="center">Sacrificial love and the fortune of your family</h3>
<p>I planned to speak for two hours but it is already three hours now! Let&#8217;s return now to the original topic of this talk, &#8220;God and the Building of the Kingdom of God.&#8221; That title will begin to be fulfilled when you love other people, when you love your neighbor, your brothers and sisters, your surroundings, and the people of the world. Why? Without the action of love, without self-giving, there is no way that you will find true love as a husband or wife, or the true love between parents and children. Your suffering in the process will never by in vain. That is the most beautiful principle. The greater your suffering, the more precious and valuable is the realization of your love. When your suffering is greater, then your love as husband or wife will become more precious. When your suffering is greater, your love for your children will become more precious and valuable.</p>
<p>The family is the building block of the Kingdom of God. God created in such a way that the family is the basic unit where all love can be fulfilled and consummated. God has been working for that family, Jesus Christ came for that family, and today I too, am working towards the establishment of that family. Your accomplishment is greater when your sacrificial giving is greater. Therefore your precious sacrificial way of life shall truly bring salvation to the world.</p>
<p>To make a tong story short, when you have no capability to love your spiritual brothers and sisters and your spiritual children, do not even talk about a perfect marriage or perfect children because you cannot yet be given those things. You must steadily build yourself by sacrificially giving your love to spiritual sons and daughters, and brothers and sisters. Only then will you find perfect love in your home between husband, wife, and children.</p>
<p>In the process of loving your neighbors and gaining your spiritual sons and daughters you will give totally of yourself, and through that God can bless your home, your spouse and your children. Then you will have a perfectly clear conscience and can enjoy love to an infinite degree. This is such a precious position and yet so difficult to achieve; God has worked for 6,000 years for it, and Jesus Christ has worked for it for 2,000 years. Even at the present time Heavenly Father and the True Parents are working toward the establishment of that foundation, and still that position is far greater than anything you have yet experienced in terms of suffering. That is why you must hold on to this way of life and never release it.</p>
<p>I have lived my entire life with this philosophy, bringing in many spiritual children and giving many people the blessing so that they might become husband and wife. I am watching an experiment in a way, to see what kind of children are born to those most loyal members of our family. This whole truth cannot be valid unless superior children come from such loyal blessed members. I am watching from this standpoint.</p>
<p>A few days ago I met with three officials of the Japanese church. In Japan there are many fortune tellers who read Sa-ju, which means &#8220;Four Pillars.&#8221; You are born on a particular year, month, day, and time, and each becomes a pillar which marks tremendous personal destiny in Oriental philosophy. Fortune-tellers are like the sages of the Orient. They are very much interested in me because I have had such deep impact in Japan, and they like to study the Japanese leadership with their Sa-ju. When they studied the families whom I blessed several years ago, they concluded that their matches were terrible according to the Four Pillars, and predicted that those couples would have terrible children.</p>
<p>However, the children who have been born are like real princes and princesses! The fortune-tellers are completely flabbergasted; this completely contradicted their predictions, and they are ashamed of themselves. There is one very famous fortune-teller who publicly recognized that I have a better way of reading Sa-ju. He humbly accepts me as a far greater sage than he, and he has promised to give whatever service he can to our church without taking any fee.</p>
<p>Everyone has his own Four Pillars. Even if your Four Pillars say that your destiny is absolutely terrible, do not worry. I have another way of reading it. When I match you with your spouse I want you to rest assured that in the heavenly way you are perfectly matched. Can you trust that? Since joining the Unification Church movement your original destiny has been changed. This is an important point. Now you live instead according to the fortune of the Unification Church, like riding piggyback on God&#8217;s own eternal destiny. Therefore your individual destiny is no longer relevant. As long as you are loyal to the heavenly destiny then your personal destiny will not affect you.</p>
<p>You have a pipeline into an unlimited reservoir. The only way you can receive an unrestricted supply of the water of life is by having loyalty, love and a deep heart. When you give your heart and loyalty then God can give to you from the unlimited reservoir of the water of life and He can give a heavenly child to you. When the loyal members of the Unification Church get blessed they will have incredible children who will be the future leaders of the world. The handsomeness of the husbands and the beauty of the wives will not determine this, nor will it be determined by white people marrying together, or yellow people marrying together. The greatness of the children will be determined by the intensity of the parents&#8217; heart toward God. So, do you mind suffering now?</p>
<p>I know this deep secret. I am not trying to be boastful but even looking at my own children I can see that the younger children are superior, and that is the way it should be. After 17 days Kwon Jin, the second youngest, was smiling and responding to emotion. Within three months he responded to music, and would call for it, and when the music began he would immediately stop crying. Then when the music stopped he began to make music himself. Now, less than two years old, he is singing songs in Korean and English. When I look at him I have to be humble to God, saying, &#8220;God, thank you. You love me.&#8221; Because such blessing comes from God through these children I do not feel that nine are enough. I think, &#8220;God, do you have more blessings to give me? I will gladly accept them. 10? 11? 12?&#8221;</p>
<p>I know the channel for giving love to the world, and in that way I can expand the territory of God&#8217;s work and spread salvation quickly. I do not want to impose a limit there. This is a most powerful and even fearful philosophy. Through my direct family and through the family of the Unification Church, God wants to expand the territory of salvation to reach out to every corner of the earth. I know that is the will of God, so that will be done.</p>
<p>Mother went to the doctor the other day, and the doctor advised her, &#8220;Well, you have nine children now, isn&#8217;t that good enough? Don&#8217;t you want to stop having children and enjoy your remaining life?&#8221; That is one point of view, but God sees differently. I&#8217;m sure clever members may have now caught a hint that Mother is going to have another child. You are not wise enough! If you were really smart then when I mentioned the doctor, you should have applauded at that point! Your sense is one minute too slow.</p>
<h3 align="center">Now I must set the tradition of God&#8217;s home</h3>
<p>Mother has never said to me, &#8220;You preach about true love and true men and women on the platform at Belvedere, but why don&#8217;t you practice it at home in East Garden?&#8221; She would not be qualified to be Mother if she felt like that. But Mother recognizes that I am living by deed, not just word, and nobody else but Mother can bear true testimony to that. Why don&#8217;t you ask her? She said, &#8220;All I have to do is smile. My husband is a perfect husband.&#8221; That&#8217;s a good answer for you. Also the children have said, &#8220;My father is the number one father under the sun. I don&#8217;t want him to become President or king; that&#8217;s too small.&#8221; For me that is the greatest compliment.</p>
<p>Whenever I can spare a little bit of time at home then I play with the children, but unfortunately I do not have much time for that. God has to understand that and also the children. I am sure they do. I have had a dual mission all these years: one has been to build the spiritual foundation of the Unification Church and get the message out to the world, but my internal mission is to build my own home and the central point of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth that is, to find Mother and nurture our children to make a perfect family, as a model of the Kingdom of God. I have only erected the tradition of the Unification Church.</p>
<p>Now I want to build the tradition of God&#8217;s home. I have already received persecution for the purpose of erecting the tradition of the Unification Church, and now I am willing to do whatever work needs to be done to build the tradition of the home and family. Adam and Eve fell, and for that reason there is no guarantee that my own children will not fall at this stage. Therefore, a period of setting the tradition is needed. Our environment is worse than the garden of Eden, where there was only the angel besides God and Adam and Eve. Nowadays satanic environment and influence fill the earth, and setting the tradition is difficult under those circumstances.</p>
<p>For this reason I need to spend more time at home. Do you agree? In the future you will follow precisely the same path. I will have my most busy time until June of this year, and after that I think God wants me to concentrate more at home. But I am sure that you will feel left alone. Then maybe I will delegate the mission of delivering a sermon on Sunday morning to Bo Hi Pak or other church leaders. Then will the people who come to Belvedere to listen to me become more or less anxious to hear me, &#8216; ?</p>
<p>Whenever I go on an inspection trip to other states I always want to go with Mother. I just don&#8217;t want to go anywhere without Mother. But the children always have to go to school and since I do not stay at home they always say, &#8220;Daddy, can&#8217;t you stay home a little more and spend time with us?&#8221; But as far as Mother is concerned, I hope she is happy. Actually, I have such an intensive pace that Mother has a difficult time keeping up with me. Sometimes she says, &#8220;I want to stay home today. &#8221; That&#8217;s inevitable, particularly when she is expecting a baby.</p>
<p>When I look at Mother and the children I am looking at eternity; she is my God-given wife for eternity, and they are my God-given children for eternity. In human behavior we always have some physical limitations and there are always personalities clashing at certain points. If you quibble and complain about those items then you can find dozens and hundreds of them every day, but when you look at eternity and can see your solid position of service, then you can blind yourself to those things. Then you only see beauty and grace and God-given blessing, nothing else. When I hear the children complain about my being away I take it as grace, as God telling them to tell me that my service is not good enough. That is the way I interpret it. Instead of reacting strongly, I only take it as God&#8217;s grace.</p>
<p>Building a home is the cornerstone of the building of the Kingdom of God on earth. I am doing it and you also must concretely lay the cornerstone of the perfect family here on earth. It is not a dream or concept. When you always look at everything from God&#8217;s eternal point of view then you will feel that God is with you.</p>
<p>Amazing things are happening in my family. The children&#8217;s spiritual senses are open so they sometimes see a spirit man or hear spiritual sounds. They told me, &#8220;I was playing the piano and there was a very noble man in a white gown standing just behind me and benevolently watching over my shoulder.&#8221; Hyo Jin is at a very active age. He loves music and riding horses and so forth, but he also enjoys quiet moments. He has a wild side but he also has a quiet and sentimental side; at 2 o&#8217;clock in the morning he all of a sudden got up and was playing the flute in his room one night. later he told me about hearing heavenly music.</p>
<p>In our home there is complete mixture of the spiritual side of life and the physical side of life, merging into one. The children are receiving important things in dreams, particularly visions of each member of the family in the future. They are telling each other, &#8220;I saw you in a dream, and you appeared this way.&#8221; Parents should put these experiences together, organizing and analyzing them in a beneficial way.</p>
<p>I am committed to building a realistic Kingdom of God here on earth. The supernatural beliefs of many Christians today about the Kingdom of Heaven will not happen. God is scientific and logical, and He will not fulfill His ideal in any other way. If you understand this then whenever you walk, you will walk to build the Kingdom of God on earth. When you talk, you will talk about the Kingdom of God; when you think, you will think about Kingdom-building. When you walk, work, run, rest, it will always be for Kingdom-building.</p>
<p>This year&#8217;s slogan is &#8220;The Kingdom of God on Earth and the Ideal Family.&#8221; From this year on we will get into realistic Kingdom-building. This is not just a slogan or concept; we must expand the territory, atmosphere, and environment of Kingdom-building, and we are creating our own families as the basic building block. Today is the real Easter. On this day we declare that we are undertaking the creation of perfect homes of love here on earth. When that is our resolve then there is nothing more joyful for Jesus to rejoice about on his Easter.</p>
<p>As a man you must feel yourself in the position of Jesus; as a woman you must feel yourself in the position of Jesus&#8217; bride, with both having the desire to build a home in the name of Jesus and his bride. Nothing could be more joyful for heaven and earth; that will liberate Jesus and the True Parents. By liberating Jesus and the True Parents you are actually liberating God. God&#8217;s liberation does not begin in any grandiose setting; it will begin in your home, in yourself. You are working to become a parent who can exemplify the love of God. You are going to become a father; you are going to become a mother. When you become like that then you are personifying the love of God, and you can enjoy the love of God, the love of father and mother, husband and wife, and children. All love shall be consummated in you. In that case God&#8217;s love is with you and will live together with you.</p>
<p>When you obtain this basic love, then the rest of our work becomes easier, because all you have to do is expand that basic love. If a wife has perfect unity and love with her husband then when she looks at other men she will see them as others in her husband&#8217;s world, and can love them equally. A husband sees other women as an extension of his wife&#8217;s world, and other children as extensions of his own sons and daughters. When you look at the entire world that way it realistically becomes one family and you can relate to everybody with God-centered love. Nobody is a stranger in that Kingdom. That is the Kingdom of God on earth.</p>
<p>Where do you begin? With you, yourself, and your home. That is your 5% responsibility that the Divine Principle is speaking of. If you are living this way of life, then you are guaranteed to end up in the same place that I will go, and you are destined to arrive at the throne of God. Those who pledge to go such a route, please raise your hand. God bless you.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">GOD DEPENDS ON US ALONE</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:11:15+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/god-depends-on-us-alone.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:11:15+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">June 1, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator &#8211; David Kim</h3>
<p>All of you know this is an historical day; many of you actually participated in our experience of one year ago today. In order to restore this world and humankind we must center on God&#8217;s will. God cannot accomplish His will by Himself alone, but must work with man. If man had not fallen, the will of God would have been absolutely completed at the beginning. Man and woman would have reached perfection and the fulfillment of God&#8217;s love would have been accomplished centering upon them. United in love, families of perfect husbands and wives, perfect parents and children would have spread to fill the universe. God&#8217;s original ideal is to become one with man and one with all things. This gigantic scheme of oneness would have been accomplished had there been no fall.</p>
<p>Not only would God&#8217;s will have been accomplished on earth, it would have been consummated in spirit world as well. The consummate form of heaven and earth will be seen when an absolute unity between the two is accomplished. If this had been realized from the beginning then there would have been no earthly hell, and after life on earth people would have gone automatically to heaven in the spirit world.</p>
<p>The culture created by perfected Adam and Eve would also automatically have become God&#8217;s culture and civilization, in spirit world as well as on earth. All mankind would have been offspring of the heavenly bloodline and all things would have been under God&#8217;s direct control and dominion. Under those circumstances God could have lived on earth among men. With His ideal of creation fulfilled God would dwell within each person as well as in the external culture and civilization created by Him through man. This is the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, both internal and external, which God had originally planned. However, our world has expanded in a way utterly contrary to God&#8217;s ideal, and we feel grief at the chaos and tragedy that has resulted from the fall of man.</p>
<p>Looking at this world we see many different cultures and a great diversity of living styles. Instead of one nation or family of mankind there are many nations which live in a state of separation and conflict. One world under God is the ideal, but this small planet is divided up by boundaries, which prevent people from traveling freely from one place to another.</p>
<h3 align="center">Religious people have misunderstood the purpose of religion</h3>
<p>This world is entirely contradictory to God&#8217;s will, and thus He is looking for someone to realize His ideal for mankind. He has been establishing religions in order to solve this problem of division. Indeed, the purpose of religion has been to guide all men toward that one final goal of the fulfillment of His will. However, the original founders of the various religions did not generally understand that their religions were not for the service of their nationalities or races but for God&#8217;s broader purpose.</p>
<p>The life of faith of any great religion must transcend the individual and the nation and reach out to all mankind. No true religion is confined to one small state. Until now most researchers of religion have confined their study to the boundaries of a single theology, never considering the wider purpose which embraces all religions. Many religious people have only considered their own salvation and limited their thinking to one doctrine; they never thought about the salvation of the world and all of mankind.</p>
<p>Because of the situation of the fallen world, God must pursue the course of restoration both externally through culture and internally through the religious aspect of man&#8217;s life. But always God is striving to establish the unity necessary to fulfill His will. At this time people are talking about actualizing one world of peace and order, yet at the same time many religious leaders all over the world are sheltering themselves in their own religions. This is entirely contradictory to God&#8217;s will; the continuation of many separate religions is not helping to fulfill His providence. God cannot easily work through the kind of religion which strictly centers on only its own doctrine. God&#8217;s desire is that religion go beyond that level and strive to eradicate evil throughout the earth.</p>
<p>In the past, superior cultures have dominated and absorbed lesser cultures and in the same way superior religions have absorbed lesser religions. From now on this process of assimilation will not happen by force or violence but naturally as mankind matures spiritually. Since God is going to save mankind through religion, a religion must appear which will stimulate this maturity and assimilation and which can save all mankind. That religion must be able to embrace and direct not only one nation but the entire world; a heavenly ideology must be given by God which can connect the entire world to God.</p>
<p>The role of God&#8217;s new religion is not to combat other religions but to be compatible with the truth in them all and thus link them all together, uniting them into one. This religion will not only influence the nation of its origin but will embrace all nations and cultures, having the power to unite not only the people from one homogenous culture but those from all cultures. This is the kind of religion God is ultimately seeking to establish.</p>
<p>Jesus came 2,000 years ago to bring one religion which could unite all peoples with God; however, Christianity today has more than 400 denominations. If Christians had the spiritual power to uphold the idea of one world then there would not be 400 denominations at this time. Not only would Christianity have succeeded in bringing unity in the world at large, it would have united man&#8217;s internal and external worlds as well. Instead, Christians have expended much of their energy on petty denominationalism.</p>
<p>What is God&#8217;s desire for religion? He would closely follow the religion which could embrace everything. Suppose Jesus Christ were to come on the clouds right now; what would he see when he came? Instead of having one body of Christianity on earth he would be faced with 400 denominations. Each group would be insisting that they alone had the one true faith and that everyone else was heretical. If Jesus Christ were to come right now he would have nothing to say to God, nothing to offer Him except confusion and division on earth. He could not pray to God, &#8220;My disciples have worked hard for 2,000 years but now I have 400 denominations. Will You please accept the fruit of their work regardless?&#8221; If Jesus were to come right now, could he admire and praise all these denominations and their attitudes towards each other?</p>
<p>The fact that religious people are so divided demonstrates that they are not living the true faith; God cannot accept such division. He will embrace those who insist that all people must be united into one through God and Christ. We have been preaching that viewpoint and other religions recently are moving in that direction also.</p>
<p>Even though you have nothing, you are convinced you can save the world</p>
<p>As a new religion, we cannot save the world if we remain at the level of one nationality or race. To save the world we must transcend all past racial boundaries; Koreans alone cannot save the whole world nor can Japanese, Americans or Europeans. There is one God and one Christ and our motto is that mankind must be united into one. This is the natural course of history.</p>
<p>God has long been planning to have one movement for unification centering upon the True Parents. Your mission is to unite the world. You have wonderful ideals, but there is a long way to go to accomplish this most complex mission.</p>
<p>You speak English, but is that the language originally spoken by Adam and Eve? In what language did they converse with God? We don&#8217;t know what that language was, but their descendants should speak and live with one religion and culture and have one mind and one heart. This is the destiny of all mankind.</p>
<p>I have visited many nations and find that they are all proud of their past. In their museums and archives they have preserved the artifacts of their history, items they consider wonderful and valuable. From God&#8217;s point of view those things are worthless. Those items in national museums represent the exploitation and suffering of many people. It cannot be said that they represent affection and service to the world. Basically no nation has that to be proud of.</p>
<p>How would God feel when citizens feel proud of their royalty in all their splendor? America is a little closer to God&#8217;s heart in comparison with the European countries which are so attached to their past; Americans are still developing a sense of their heritage, trying to find something valuable about their nation to take pride in.</p>
<p>In the Unification Church we do not even have museums, and compared to these nations we don&#8217;t have many historic artifacts. Even in your room you may have just enough space to lie down and get up. You are just like gypsies; even a snail has its tiny shell as a house, but you don&#8217;t even have a shell. In the worst circumstances your natural parents disown you for calling me Father. Sometimes they may kidnap you after getting a conservatorship and then try to deprogram you. Some of you have gone through this kind of strange experience. If you did research in a library you would find nothing to parallel the parents&#8217; kidnapping of their own children, especially in this nation.</p>
<p>What is causing all this? You Moonies must be very radical people and have some mysterious power to warrant being so persecuted. God certainly has to be sympathetic and pay attention to you. You are gathering here because your ideal is to save the whole world. Even though you look like a snail your thinking is, &#8220;I am going to save mankind and the whole world.&#8221; Do you really believe you can do it? Even though you have no car and few possessions, your whole aspiration is to save the world and all mankind. The world may not envy your diet and you labor at jobs which ordinary people would shun-no one else in this world wants to witness, fund raise or sell newspapers every day-but you are still doing it.</p>
<p>In some peoples&#8217; opinion you are crazy to sell the News World every day and go out fund raising and witnessing, all with the fervent belief that you are going to save the world. Even though some of you are over 30 you are still not worrying about getting married, but thinking constantly instead about saving the whole world. I am responsible for you crazy people. The same thing applies to me because I am always thinking in the same way. All my life I have been persecuted and harassed by my opponents. Maybe the opponents who follow us on earth will follow us all the way up to heaven! I only ignore much of what they do because I have no time to fight back. I am too busy doing my work. I am not here in this world to fight; instead I must go steadily toward the fulfillment of God&#8217;s will. Is it very hard to follow in my footsteps?</p>
<p>Yesterday Mr. Kamiyama came to make plans for the anniversary celebration today. He expected me to decide that we should have this meeting at the New Yorker Hotel, but my feeling was that even though you may not sell as many newspapers, there is greater spiritual significance to your being here. Sometimes you feel that it would be much easier for me to meet you in New York than to have all of you come up here, right? By your laughing you are confessing what you are really thinking. Because of that feeling I must call you here.</p>
<p>If I met you in New York you would stay in bed until 10 minutes before I arrived. There would be many spiritual hindrances in that case, so instead I am sacrificing your work by having you travel up here. From the spiritual point of view, which one of us should God accommodate? It would be very awkward spiritually if I were to get up first and travel for an hour while you remained in bed. God would not let me speak under those circumstances because you would not be ready to receive my message. If that attitude were to become a habit then a dangerous situation would develop. Can you understand this? It is wonderful for you to discipline yourselves to be here by 5:30. It brings you greater benefit than you realize. More effort always brings more result. That is spiritual law, and that is why I had you be here by 5:30 instead of 6 a.m.</p>
<p>Do you think becoming a Moonie is a wonderful thing or a tragedy? Should you have more money in order to be happy? You have no money, but you do have ten fingers and two hands. Do you feel happy? We own nothing. Many of our critics say that I own mansions, but everything is owned by the Church. Mother and I own nothing and I am suffering because I don&#8217;t have enough money to fulfill God&#8217;s will. You are in the position to share with this suffering; I have a universal job to do but not enough money. Instead of my giving you money, you bring money through fund raising to be used for God&#8217;s purpose.</p>
<p>Where has all the money gone? All the money you earned is used to bring tangible results for the restoration of the world. It will never be misused. I have more headaches because I want to match money you earn to the accomplishment of bigger things. You are not working to support me but for the world and for mankind. My livelihood does not depend upon what you earn. This must be clear. How do you feel when many people criticize you for being a Moonie?</p>
<h3 align="center">Moonies and Sunnies</h3>
<p>In Korean the sound &#8220;moonie&#8221; means dialogue or discussion between a superior and subordinate, as distinct from a conversation between equals. This is similar in meaning to a discussion between man and God, subject and object. A second meaning of the sound &#8220;moonie&#8221; is that of a fabric, like silk, but not just of one color, which would be dull. Fabric with some beautiful design and many colors is more meaningful and this we call &#8220;moonie.&#8221; All of this means two things. We are influencing the world the same way beautiful embroidery enhances clothing. We are consulting with Heavenly Father in order to enhance this fallen world with heavenly beauty.</p>
<p>In another sense the significance of this is that people who need guidance will come to consult with you. You are then in the position of superior. Secondly, when the world is seeking to advance, people will have to come to receive the kind of inspiration that beautiful embroidery gives to silk cloth. You are called &#8220;Moonies&#8221; now, but very soon you will be &#8220;Sunnies.&#8221; When you are promoted to become Sunnies all the rest of the world will be called Moonies. Then Moonies will hold the subordinate position and Sunnies will be in the position of superior. As they consult back and forth they will unite and the world will become one.</p>
<p>The nickname &#8220;Moonie&#8221; is excellent and dispensational. You are born as a Moonie but you die as a Sunnie; when your earthly life is over you Moonies on earth will go to heaven and occupy God&#8217;s throne and become Sunnies. My topic this morning is, &#8220;God Depends on Us Alone.&#8221; God&#8217;s hope and expectation is to see His ideal manifested on earth and in spirit world, having Moonies on earth and Sunnies in heaven. God is anticipating this kind of unity.</p>
<p>In the Orient a person is described as moon-like or sun-like. A woman wants to be moon-like while a man is sun-like. Why? The moon is always changing but the sun never changes. Which one do you want to be? There are no others like Sunnies and Moonies on the earth. We have no boundaries or racial discrimination here in our Unification Church. God is colorblind and He recognizes no regional boundaries. If we become His real children then we cannot have those concepts either.</p>
<p>Suppose later you were to become the president of one nation. When the time comes to eliminate the barriers of national boundaries you would lose your position as head of a nation and become a common subject instead. Are you ready to do that? You may say yes because you have not yet even become a president. The problem is that people usually do not like to resign from or yield power once they have it. In the Unification Church you are asked to totally dedicate your time and your substance, but some members are reluctant to completely let go. How are you going to resign your presidency if you have this kind of nature? Could you overcome your human nature? This is something to dank seriously about. Unless you are ready to give up all you have and dedicate all your spiritual and physical power, you are not qualified to be an eternal citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
<h3 align="center">Why can&#8217;t God trust you?</h3>
<p>Individually you have to think about whether God can depend upon you. Some of you are dozing off now and during the week you complain in your hearts about fund raising and hard work and about not having been blessed yet. Can you really say you have given everything to God? As an individual do you have confidence that God can depend upon you? Even though you say yes, I must disagree. God must look into each of your hearts and decide whether He can depend on you and in each situation whether you can bring some success or advancement. Please raise your hand if you truly have confidence that God can depend upon you.</p>
<p>Why can&#8217;t God trust you? Here is the reason. God trusted Adam and Eve, the first human beings, but. they failed Him. God&#8217;s experience with man through the ages has been sad and bitter. How can He trust you now? Has the history of restoration been a failure or success when God trusted individual after individual? After so many bad experiences in His past, how can God trust you? Please think seriously about this. Are you really united? God found He could not even depend on Adam and Eve, who were born without original sin.</p>
<p>God may trust your thinking and your ideals but not depend on your actions. It is very easy to talk about big things like restoration of the world and of perfected mankind, but the actual practice from day to day is very tough. God trusts that you are thinking of noble goals, but where did those big ideas originate?-from within you or from the True Parents? These are not even your ideas. To make these concepts a part of your life is a different matter altogether.</p>
<p>Your word and deed must become one. Only when you can actualize your concept in deeds will God be able to depend on you. Have you reached that stage? In order to accomplish individual restoration you have to pay indemnity as an individual. You don&#8217;t even know how to pay indemnity for yourselves, yet you have to restore the family, tribe, nation and world. You cannot really even conceive of the task that lies before you.</p>
<p>In your ignorance of this matter the best way for you to advance is to be grafted to the True Parents; you cannot do it by yourself. When you are grafted you will be connected to the root of God&#8217;s lineage. Do you really feel a need to have True Parents? Who knows, I may be an impostor; how do you know whether I am genuine? Have you ever grabbed God in your prayer and demanded to know the truth? Did you ever in your life desperately ask this question?</p>
<p>On what basis can God depend upon us? This question has come down through history to us. God has been thinking about this for a long time, and the past saints and sages and Jesus Christ himself have always pondered this. The main question is how to translate this concept into action. The saints and sages of the past have been unable to completely resolve dais.</p>
<p>To be totally trusted by God you must learn to have subjectivity over all things, overcoming all hindrances and opposition. The individual conviction to overcome all difficulties in fulfilling God&#8217;s will must be engraved in your heart and at the same time our entire church must be united in this determination. One person alone is not enough. Even God&#8217;s conviction alone is not enough. Each one of you and our whole organization must go forward in this conviction. God cannot trust you people because He has had such bitter experiences for 6,000 years. But if all of you make a joint effort by centering on the True Parents then God may dare to have hope.</p>
<h3 align="center">Your response to difficulty is the problem, not opposition</h3>
<p>God may admire you for believing in me and for the ideals you have learned from me, but the problem is how to put those ideas into action, regardless of the world&#8217;s opposition and hindrance. He will wait for that time to come because until then He cannot trust you. The problem is not the opposition of the world but your deeds in responding to it. You must gain a deep sense of confidence and be able to act on this confidence even while you meet opposition and persecution. Your spiritual power comes from being one with Heavenly Father. That means unity as a living reality, not just as a concept. Who would follow me if I were just a man of words and concepts? But I have another side; you follow me because I am a man of action and iron will. To most Americans I am not so important or distinguished. I am not just an ordinary person, however, but a man of action and I accomplish whatever I say I will do.</p>
<p>The Yankee Stadium campaign and victory of one year ago is very vivid in my memory. One year ago Heavenly Father carne down from His throne to Yankee Stadium. Do you think God really depended on us at that time or not? Amidst the crisis of the storm many members and also observers were thinking, &#8220;If there is God and if He loves Reverend Moon, then why is such a violent storm happening at this hour?&#8221; At the moment when the storm began a huge poster with my picture fell to the ground in my waiting room. Right afterward Mr. Kamiyama came racing to my room and cried, &#8220;What can we do?&#8221; I thought at that time how important it is to remain calm and stable when we meet this kind of crisis. When there is confusion all around, you must humble yourself and calmly meditate. The war is far from over; we must not relax until the end.</p>
<p>If any mistakes occur then the Unification Church must assimilate the outcome. If heavenly conditions are not met then we must receive the chastisement of heaven. We must do our best by all means, but we must also be ready to carry full responsibility in the event of failure. I was always thinking about the aftermath of Yankee Stadium. If God chastised us for the outcome then we would accept it; if the outcome passed God&#8217;s test then we would receive greater blessing.</p>
<p>One year ago my total energy and thought and power were concentrated on the Yankee Stadium crusade. At that time I knew that my enemies had even hired assassins to kill or harm me, but the rainfall thwarted their plans. From the normal common-sense point of view the rally should have been canceled due to the storm; only Moonies would continue under such adverse conditions.</p>
<p>You must remember and evaluate that scene during the storm. It is because you overcame and performed even under difficult circumstances that a more excellent result was established. Because of that zeal and power we were able to make Washington Monument a success in only 3½ months. I originally planned to have the Washington Monument Rally in 1977, but we had that history-making event early. From the dispensational point of view the Washington Monument Rally established the cornerstone of my work on earth.</p>
<p>You Moonies have become controversial because you are taking action, not just thinking and talking. Everywhere you go your action is of a different dimension than that of the rest of the world. You are really trying to save the whole world.</p>
<p>Suppose I were to get depressed and drop this work. Those of you who would really keep going, raise your hands. How can I depend on you? It is very easy to raise your hand. Are we talking about taking serious action 10 years from now, 5 years or one month from now, today, or what? Your volunteering means you will go out to the whole world, even at the risk of your lives. Because I have this determination I will even come down from spirit world after my death to continue my work on earth.</p>
<p>When Mother and I landed in America in 1972, I made a covenant with God, saying, &#8220;In three years I shall do these things. You called me to come to America and now I am here. Everything I will do will be to save this nation and all mankind.&#8221; I have done everything I promised God at that time. You must make the same vow for the coming three years.</p>
<p>One of my responsibilities was to become known and to spread God&#8217;s word to every household. Whether I am liked or disliked does not matter; my name should be known throughout the United States and the world. Even people who may not know about the Unification Church have heard of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon by now. I have been able to do this in a short period of time. I am not handsome to look at but I am different because I am a man of iron will, a man of action.</p>
<p>You must be people of action; you can do more than I if you live this concept. It @ not ordinary thinking. America is a super-power in the world and a leader of the free nations. I came here to shake this gigantic nation in order to save it and the world. Few others have come to this country with such determination.</p>
<p>Simply because I am becoming known here in the United States, people from all walks of life-scientists, politicians, religious leaders-are taking action against me. However, I am resilient like rubber, bouncing back again and again. By the time the attackers get tired I will still be strong and even more powerful than they. I will definitely be victorious over them. God will then come to me, saying, &#8220;I will lift you up now.&#8221; Recently the news media seems tired of attacking me, so I will revitalize their interest through the News World.</p>
<p>What is the victorious element in all this? The more they attack the more I will overcome, using that power for a positive purpose. Even while we are attacked we automatically bounce back, gaining the victory even in the midst of what looks like defeat. The more we are attacked the more victories we gain. To ordinary eyes it looks like the Unification Church is declining, but inside we are increasingly strengthened.</p>
<p>Who do you think is behind me through all of dais? I depend on God, and because of my complete conviction and dedicated action, God must back me up. Even though God supports me, however, I do not depend solely upon Him. If parents can depend upon their sons and daughters then they can be proud of their family. The same thing applies to me. I not only depend on God but upon my children.</p>
<p>The whole world situation is tragically pessimistic. God must certainly be comforted when someone reassures Him, saying, &#8220;Heavenly Father, don&#8217;t be discouraged. I am here and I am going to correct this situation. Let me finish the job You are doing on earth.&#8221; Then God will delegate His authority and say, &#8220;Yes, you do it.&#8221; I have approached God this way, and after His endless defeats and failures He is now beginning to have hope for the future. God must certainly be proud to see what I have done in this country in a short period of time, stirring up this nation in His name. God can depend on me now.</p>
<h3 align="center">Your responsibility is to take the initiative</h3>
<p>Today&#8217;s theme is, &#8220;God Depends On Us Alone.&#8221; You are in that position. If you only follow after me and depend on me for instruction then you have not done your own work. You have to take the initiative. Before I give instructions about what to do you can anticipate what needs to be done and put your ideas into action. Your victories and accomplishments will inspire God to begin to trust and depend on you always.</p>
<p>If you can inherit the attitude I had in coming to this country then you will accomplish even more. You can put the same strategy into action, determining, &#8220;I am going to save this nation and the world and mankind.&#8221; As you substantially move in that direction then God will say, &#8220;I depend upon you.&#8221;</p>
<p>I have proclaimed to the world, &#8220;We must go to Moscow.&#8221; You know that I am thinking along this line so you can go ahead of me and have everything prepared, ready to march forward to Satan&#8217;s city of Moscow. You must think that way. In case I cannot go to Moscow you individuals must go. You must be responsible for all the different problems arising in this world and nation. God will depend upon the individual who can put this into practice; that person will become the leader of this movement.</p>
<p>Making a pledge in words is very easy, but from now on when you look in your mirror ask yourself, &#8220;Am I qualified to be trusted by God?&#8221; Even Peter, the disciple who three times pledged his faithfulness to Jesus, later betrayed Jesus three times. Can you sisters feel this way? Is there a limit to the difficulties you will overcome? Always you must think about whether you are dedicated enough to risk your life for this cause; then you are ready. Gamblers risk money, but you have to be ready to risk your lives to fulfill God&#8217;s will.</p>
<p>Some of you become a little gloomy when I ask serious questions like this. Have you ever risked your life when you were fund raising? When witnessing? In the midst of your fund raising or witnessing you might feel miserable even though you started out thinking, &#8220;I will save the whole nation, the whole world.&#8221; Then you have to connect with God, who sees how tragically this world contrasts with His ideal of creation.</p>
<p>The lesson you have to learn is how to be constantly sensitive to God&#8217;s own feeling of misery. Think of God&#8217;s situation; when you are feeling miserable do you ever realize that God feels the same way? If you feel that same deep passion then God will be with you, and even though you may earn only a small amount of money it is of infinite value because it is connected to the heavenly heart.</p>
<p>Your inheritance of the heavenly heart in witnessing and fund raising is an invaluable spiritual asset. In that way you have to re-determine that even though your offering is small, you will go beyond it; it is meaningful because it is connected to the salvation of mankind. This must be your concept.</p>
<p>This is the aspect which God values most in your fund raising and witnessing. Before God we are only a small number of people, but even with a small number of people He is trying to fulfill His ideal on earth. There is still hope for the future, but only if that small number on earth can truly represent God&#8217;s ideal.</p>
<p>In my prayer I comfort God; &#8220;Even if there is a small number of members, this is the foundation on which we will expand. In a few years we will have multiplied and spread all over the planet.&#8221; With this kind of hope I approach God to comfort Him. My pledge to Him is that even in the midst of persecution I have confidence in my point of view and in my action and I will overcome everything. We are responsible in this way and must be able to surpass persecution. We are the only people who are able to do this heavenly task. We have to give constant stimulus to heaven by our actions so that God can have hope for the future.</p>
<p>The relation between you and me is the same; I want to be able to trust you and have hope for the future through you, your ideals and your actions. In that way you will become responsible men and women. Even now, who can Mother and I depend on? You are the ones we must depend upon to be responsible for the total restoration of the world.</p>
<h3 align="center">Without persecution we will not advance</h3>
<p>At this time there are armies on earth for individual nations but there is no heavenly army with a loyalty and spirit that transcends national boundaries. Even the United Nations troops do not fit this category. In the future a universal heavenly force will be formed with the spiritual power to eradicate the satanic forces throughout the world. That is the concept of the mobile units of the IOWC; the world will not be saved by guns and cannons. You cannot think the world will be saved by &#8220;our hands&#8221; but by &#8220;my hands.&#8221; You and I have the same destiny and in the event that we fail in our battle for the world we will die together. This is the spirit we have to have in our heavenly army.</p>
<p>The different races have been fighting each other throughout the past, but this time all the races and nationalities will form a heavenly army together and will die together for one cause. We are of the same flesh and blood, and even though we are from races which used to be enemies, we are one army under God. Have you gained this conviction?</p>
<p>In following me so far you have accumulated many experiences. You cannot imagine the experiences I have had. I will never forget the torture I received under the Japanese imperialists who dominated Korea, or the brutality of the communist prison guards. In South Korea our Church was formed in the midst of upheaval and we were persecuted for no valid reason.</p>
<p>Through all this suffering I have always been aware that even though we may pay a great price of indemnity, all that we have paid will be nullified if we do not gain the final victory. The more persecution we receive, the more we have to accomplish. If there is no persecution then there is no chance for us to advance. Thus, if we are not persecuted from outside our Church then I will persecute you. By being tested through persecution you can bear more fruit, and then in the future your descendants will inherit the wealth of your accomplishments.</p>
<p>Through persecution you will become perfect. If Satan attacks and you survive, or even if Heavenly Father or I persecute you and you survive, then everywhere you go you will be victorious in everything. From then on you can control Satan as you like. You will become the channel through whom the 6,000 year war between Satan and God is finally concluded. I always imagine that I will be the prosecutor of Satan in heaven&#8217;s court and I will testify against him.</p>
<p>It will be easiest for me if I can finish everything while still on earth, however. It is my prayer that if my job is left unfinished that God will mobilize a hundred times more people to finish the task. I will organize forces from spirit world and with them descend to lead the worldly forces to accomplish the unfinished task. When it comes to my determination, God has no choice but to depend on such a person as me.</p>
<p>If you are a solid person with convictions such as these, then if Satan or even God spins you around you will always come back to your original position. If you habitually act on your thinking then you will not be influenced by other forces, even if you have no food to eat. This is the kind of daily routine you have to adopt in order to become an unchangeable person. In your mind you have to be always mobile, ready at any time to pack up and leave. Our critics say that I live in luxury, but Mother and I have no attachment to anything. I must maintain a certain minimum standard of living in order to meet the standard of American culture, but I feel most comfortable when I have just a small pillow instead of king-size bedding. I prefer simple living and I am always ready to return to that. I am ready to go wherever God instructs me to be.</p>
<p>You women might be very unhappy with such a husband, right? Women tend to want to possess their husbands and their surroundings. Even Mother may not like this attitude. You people do not know when or where you might need to go, but when the time comes you must be ready to go anywhere without complaint, even to Africa or to the communist world.</p>
<p>This attitude is entirely different from most peoples&#8217; thinking. I am curious to see what kind of people you will be in the future. Even though you look weak now, if you inherit this ideology and put it into action for five or ten years you will control all of America. You have great advantages over me because you are accepted in this culture and you speak the language.</p>
<p>Yesterday I saw a member who has a Masters degree scrubbing the floors in the Manhattan Center. Do you hate to do such jobs or do you do any work with appreciation? I am never ashamed of anything I am doing. At Barrytown I taught the students how to make fishing nets. Even our professors were amazed. At that time a theologian&#8217;s conference was going on and the visiting scholars never expected to see me at Barrytown. They sneaked in to take a look at what I was doing with the students and were amazed and impressed to see me doing such humble, manual work. You have no excuses to make to me because I have done everything before you, even the most humble labor.</p>
<p>The world is big, encompassing many civilizations and many religions, but from God&#8217;s point of view there is no one to trust except you Unification Church people. Can you realize that Heavenly Father is depending on each one of you? The Heavenly Kingdom on earth is your Kingdom of Heaven on earth if you create it with your own hands. What kind of mind are you going to take with you to spirit world after your 80 or so years on earth? You are going to spirit world with your children and with brothers and sisters of all different races. This is the attitude you must have.</p>
<p>Because you are the only ones God may possibly trust you must be proud of yourselves. You are the only people who can give hope for the future to the whole world. You are the only ones on earth who can possibly fulfill the ideal of God&#8217;s kingdom. Through your individual hard work and initiative I can depend on you and God can depend on you. If you are going to become people of action, raise your hands. May God bless you. Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">GOOD DAY</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:15:42+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/good-day.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:15:42+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<div class="pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-bottom-left"><a href="/blog/2018/06/13/good-day.html?print=pdf" class="pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="/assets/vendor/pdf/images/pdf.png" alt="image_pdf" title="Download PDF" /></a></div><h2 align="center">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
<h3 align="center">July 3, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>Merely hearing about a good day makes us feel good. Without exception all men are looking forward to living good lives, but who is going to decide what is a good day? No matter how many good things are going on around you, unless you are feeling good yourself you do not think it is a good day. Our conclusion is that you are the one who decides what is a good day.</p>
<p>A good feeling is correspondent, needing to be reciprocated. No matter how good you are, you don&#8217;t really feel good unless the environment responds to you. Upon waking up in the morning the surrounding atmosphere gives you a certain feeling or mood. Something may uplift you and then you feel good, or nature may communicate with you and you feel happy.</p>
<p>The beauty of nature is not just horizontal, however, but is also vertical. Sunshine beams down upon the earth and creates vertical beauty. When you look at a broad river stretching away before you, you feel absolutely expansive and want to breathe the universe. Yet all these factors alone cannot make one really happy.</p>
<p>Joy cannot be stimulated only by seeing objects. Viewing the river and the sunshine cannot fully stimulate your joy. If at the same time your ears perceive beautiful music or sounds of nature then the visual beauty will be greatly enhanced. If you are gazing at beautiful sights and &#8216; all of a sudden you hear beautiful music then your eyes are pulled in the direction of the music, right?</p>
<p>Which of the two is more stimulating? Why music? Music is another expression of visible nature, capturing the essence of human joy and sorrow. Human passion can be conveyed by music and generate a certain mysterious feeling of inspiration in the listener. People drive three or four hours to get out of the city for a picnic on the 4th of July, looking for a beautiful, natural setting. Yet even then they carry a radio or Sony TV. Why? It is human nature not only to seek the beauty of nature but to pursue stimulating sounds of music as well. Without it we are not complete. Smell is another stimulus to reach one more level of awakening.</p>
<p>However, even if your vision is satisfied by beauty and your ears by beautiful music and your nose by beautiful fragrance, what happens when all of a sudden someone appears with whom you can share your joy? That stimulating relationship comes first; when you have someone you really want to talk with then everything else becomes secondary.</p>
<p>When you have someone you can relate to with love then it is not only your mouth which is speaking. Your entire body is involved in your conversation. When you communicate with a passionate heart, your entire body and soul are totally mobilized to express yourself. You cannot just talk, but want to gesture with your arms and move around and look at everything. That is what makes your expression more genuine.</p>
<h3 align="center">Your senses are for perceiving and communicating joy</h3>
<p>Why did God give man his five senses? They are God&#8217;s gift for perceiving joy and relating ourselves to everything around us. By looking at someone&#8217;s eyes you can tell whether that person is joyful or sorrowful. Your eyes tell everything about you. But even more amazing is the fact that all five senses work together. There is no such thing as your eyes laughing and your mouth crying. When your eyes laugh then your whole face harmonizes together to express one feeling. Often people erroneously think they laugh only with their mouths. It is the same as if a single individual in a group would stand up and start laughing; you would say he was a crazy person. No, your entire body laughs, including your limbs.</p>
<p>Sometimes I speculate about who invented make-up. Women try to re-create themselves by using cosmetics, but they invest the most time and creativity in making their eyes beautiful. Your eyes are a very critical part of your face, carrying great weight in your expression. If your eyes look bad then your whole appearance is bad.</p>
<p>To draw attention to their ears women wear earrings. Nowadays even men sometimes wear an earring, or go one step further and wear a nose ring. The nose is also an important area. You want your nose to stand out in a beautiful way, but with the wrong kind of make-up your entire face looks flat. Western women with bigger noses want to make their noses look a little smaller, while Oriental women have flat noses which they want to make stand out a little more. After fixing their eyes, nose, and ears women also fix their mouths.</p>
<p>This emphasis on make-up illustrates my point this morning. Your senses are such an important medium of communication that you want to improve them to carry greater weight. In addition to wearing make-up, Western women like to decorate their necks. Unlike Oriental women, Western women expose the upper parts of their bodies, particularly when they go to parties. Then they need to wear necklaces with ornaments in the center. Western women are tall and have long necks and to balance their long necks they wear necklaces to create a focal point of attention.</p>
<p>In an effort to look shorter, Western women wear short skirts. A tall woman in a long dress looks like a crane or a stork! However, women&#8217;s behavior in the West does not suit the shorter Oriental women. If little Oriental women were to expose the upper portion of their bodies and wear short skirts and necklaces then they would look ridiculous.</p>
<p>Whether you realize it or not you make efforts to harmonize with nature, wanting to present yourself in the best way possible. All existence in the universe is relative to something else. You want to wear good clothes in order to present yourselves well to other people. If you don&#8217;t care about your surroundings then you do not have to pay any attention to how you dress and act.</p>
<h3 align="center">We relate our love to everything in the universe</h3>
<p>The topic is &#8220;Good Day.&#8221; On which good day would I share the greatest joy? Which day is the best day for your ears? Is this a good day because you are hearing a good message? What is a good day? When your eyes perceive beauty and your ears hear beautiful things then you might say you had a good day. Every sense must be in harmony. It is a good day when all five senses and everything in your body can rejoice together.</p>
<p>Then what is the essential factor? There must be one event which can evoke the joy of all five senses. Only one word expresses that essential factor: love. Who in this universe will recognize the precious value of love? Man values love the most. Have you ever heard of art in the animal world? A literary masterpiece or a great painting expresses love. It is as simple as that. True and profound writings about the interactions of love in the past, present and future are always part of great literature.</p>
<p>The art of expressing beauty is essential in literature. An author doesn&#8217;t just talk about &#8220;eyes,&#8221; but about &#8220;eyes which sparkle like stars.&#8221; There are all kinds of expressions of character, like, &#8220;your nose stands up like a craggy mountain,&#8221; or &#8220;your nose is the symbol of strength.&#8221; The fundamental purpose for using such adjectives and images is the expression of love. In comparing something to nature, you are not just expressing a feeling about nature but expressing love. You always relate the beauties of the trees, flowers, flowing rivers and waterfalls to love.</p>
<p>Why do men do this? To begin with, beauty and nature were created to stimulate our sense of love. That is one purpose of their existence. A masterpiece of literature has as its central theme a love which connects all of the beauty and wonder of nature&#8211;the heavenly bodies, the beauty of rivers, mountains, trees and flowers&#8211;all of which come together to stimulate the expression of human love. Unless a work expresses the feelings of everlasting love then no matter how well it is written, the reader easily loses interest. The central theme of true art is always how to manifest the human passion of love. Poetry is no exception; poems just use fewer words. Young people in particular are idealistic and most sensitive to all these feelings, being easily intoxicated by the emotions in art and literature. Science and other areas of teaming are very monotonous and dry in comparison.</p>
<p>What about religion, is it a dry subject? Religion is not a dry subject because a religious way of life is centered upon love. Religion has also stimulated a great quantity of art. The major portion of art is the horizontal expression of human passion, but a religious expression of passion describes vertical love. That is the only difference between secular and religious art. An expression of vertical love is not found in jumping around as in classical or folk dancing; you don&#8217;t pray by square dancing, for example. The passionate love is the same, but the expression is different.</p>
<p>The religious experience engenders a deeper awakening of love which inspires something even greater than the horizontal form of art and literature. For this reason, a religious philosophy and life serves as the basis for art in every culture. In European museums the masterpieces are those which are related to religious philosophy or a religious expression of love. The foundation of all art, whether it is sculpture, painting or literature, is always a religious passion or inspired divine love.</p>
<p>In looking at a painting of a man and woman in love, seeing that they are in love does not give the viewer inspiration. If their surroundings in the picture suggest an atmosphere of love and the composition itself suggests some quality of heavenly, eternal love, then the painting becomes profound, conveying an essential depth of feeling in that one finite frame. That painting is realistic because it depicts a man and a woman, but it is also profound because it is as deep as the universe and God Himself. In viewing such a painting you can be greatly moved by the substantial connection between human reality and such profound depth.</p>
<p>It is also human nature to express the consummation of human passion in different ways. In addition to pictures of your family you may have a picture of some religious personage whose philosophy describes a certain kind of love. Normally your family pictures are displayed underneath the image of some religious personage, which shows that you want to be embraced by some greater universal awakening or environment. That environment is the setting in which you want to show your love. That is vastly more meaningful than offering your love in a setting as barren as the desert.</p>
<p>Yet that is not all. In addition to those pictures you decorate with beautiful pictures of nature and with plants. In doing all this you imprint your personality within your room and create a microcosm of the universe there. When you go into someone&#8217;s room you can quickly know that person&#8217;s personality.</p>
<p>Why does your mind work like that? Somehow it pleases you to do that; some inner feeling pushes you toward surrounding yourself with greater beauty. It is our constant effort to harmonize ourselves with the universal existence. Even those who have no religious concept at all and who do not know about the saints and religious leaders at least have a secular person they respect, like a hero in history or a national leader or even their own ancestors.</p>
<p>This particular human behavior is universal, whether in the past or in the present, whether Western or Oriental. Do you agree? It expresses your basic original nature of not wanting to be isolated, of wanting to be with people you look up to or love, and with nature. You want to be a part of your surroundings and you constantly look forward to both horizontal and vertical relationships of love.</p>
<p>In your loving relationships you always want to be embraced by the entire universe, having your cosmos around and within you. You just cannot bear to be outside of it. The good day is the day you acquire that horizontal love and vertical love harmonized together in the universe, so that you are living in an atmosphere intoxicated with love. The conclusion I come to is that this is the good day you are looking for.</p>
<p>Everyone has to agree with this conclusion, whether the President of the United States, an Oriental or Westerner, a high-ranking or a humble person. Even in the spirit world everyone will agree with this conclusion. Furthermore, if you go to God and ask Him whether that is His conclusion, He will say, &#8220;Yes, that is my conclusion also.&#8221; Why do you applaud? Something in this message made you laugh and feel happy. Words of truth stimulate your feelings of joy.</p>
<h3 align="center">Each one of your features expresses<br />
the heavenly four positions</h3>
<p>The forehead is an expression of God&#8217;s world and is wide in order to depict the wide heavenly world. The eyebrows placed as they are symbolically represent the boundary between heaven and the physical world. So the features below your eyebrows are an expression of the physical world. Your eyes symbolize a man and a woman standing side-by-side on the same level. Wide eyes are horizontally long instead of vertically long. Can you imagine your eyes being vertically long? The eyes move horizontally more than vertically. When you look up, your whole face moves up instead of just your eyes. However, when you look from side-to-side you don&#8217;t have to move your face too much; your eyes can move instead.</p>
<p>Just like the eyes, men and women are supposed to move more horizontally than vertically, covering the entire horizontal universe. You can find three parts in your eyes, representing formation, growth and perfection. In addition, the eyeball represents the universe, symbolized by its roundness. Unless wheels are round they will not move smoothly. For the same reason men and women should be round, not square or angular.</p>
<p>Your ultimate goal is to become a man or woman with the same qualities as the eye. Below the eyebrows everything exists in duality, while above the eyebrows there is only one. Again there is a contour, with your forehead, nose, and mouth representing formation, growth and perfection. There are three lines in your mouth-the upper lip, the lower lip and the line where they meet.</p>
<p>Have you ever thought about who sets the direction for your body? Your nose is always forward of your body, going in front of you and guiding the way. There is a little valley between your nose and mouth. There are vertical and horizontal lines in your face, with the mouth and eyes creating horizontal lines and the nose forming a vertical line.</p>
<p>Another analogy can be made about your face. The eyes represent God, the nose represents mankind, and the mouth represents the entire creation. This is very logical because you absorb the things of nature through your mouth. The central point of the universe is Adam and Eve, the nose, and overall the entire universe is always watched by God, the two eyes.</p>
<p>God existed in the beginning, and later when men were created with physical bodies the eyeballs developed first. Do you know that? This is not only true with humans but also with the entire animal world. The nose develops last. This is especially true of Orientals. Westerners are born with bigger noses so you do not notice this too much, but when an Oriental baby is born it usually has a very flat nose. In Jin is a good example because she has a flat nose, but later as she reaches the age of 20 her nose will be more prominent. This parallels the course of creation, in which man was created last. The nose is the last to be perfected in the human body.</p>
<p>Why do you have 32 teeth? 4 times 8 makes 32; the number 32 is composed of 8 groups of 4. The teeth are the first parts of your body to deal with nature, continuing their work every day.</p>
<p>When you have 32 beautiful teeth you will never get hungry because your teeth will always be ready to deal with the universe. The appearance of your teeth is very important, particularly for women. It is logical that the things of nature, knowing they were created for the purpose of men, would want to be taken care of by beautiful teeth instead of ugly teeth. Did you know that nature appreciates beauty? Our appearance is not just random; it corresponds with the universal creation.</p>
<p>The respiratory system has four units, and the same is true of vision. Inside the brain there is one focal point for reception of nerve impulses from your two eyes, which explains why you see one image instead of two. You have two ears and can hear sounds coming from all four directions.</p>
<p>The overall structure of your body is also an expression of the heavenly four positions. Your mouth and nose both have a shape which is a modification of the four positions. On your hand the thumb represents God and the two thumbs represent the dual essentialities. A baby growing in its mother&#8217;s womb frequently holds its thumb inside its fist. It is symbolic of God remaining in the center of the universe, surrounded by time, the seasons and all existence. Each finger has three segments corresponding to the three stages of growth, and all together your four fingers have twelve segments, paralleling the four seasons and twelve months.</p>
<p>You have three essential organs-the lungs, heart and stomach. When you look at the human face you see three major areas and by analyzing their proportions you can analyze someone&#8217;s personality and destiny. The universe is round and the entire human body is also basically round. Don&#8217;t look at someone just from the front because he should have beautifully round and solid features in the back also. Athletic champions tend to have thicker bodies, meaning that they are rounder.</p>
<p>Perhaps you think my head is an average size, but actually it is an extraordinary size. I can never find ready-made hats that are big enough. My head is wide both sideways as well as front to back. The individual is indeed a microcosm of the universe, so by knowing universal truth one can analyze any individual. Without even one word of conversation I can know a lot about a person.</p>
<h3 align="center">Harmony is needed because all<br />
of man&#8217;s characteristics are essential</h3>
<p>The differences between Oriental and Occidental people are noticeable. Westerners have large eyes and immediately perceive anything that is close by. On the other hand, Oriental eyes are smaller but they illustrate a tendency to penetrate more deeply and look further away. This difference already reveals who it is that will have greater vision of the future and a deeper philosophy of human life; Westerners are more pragmatic and reality-oriented than Orientals.</p>
<p>My eyes are narrow but long. Because physically I am very similar to this universal structure I can perceive and penetrate many situations and understand people from many different cultures. This is very meaningful.</p>
<p>Just being a Westerner should not become your pride. A Westerner has a longer but also narrower nose because God has a special purpose for the white people. That particular feature of Westerners is related to the fact that the Western culture developed primarily in the northern areas. A longer nose is a benefit when living in a cold weather climate because winter air has to travel a longer distance and will warm up more before entering the lungs. In addition, the nostrils are narrower in order that too much cold air should not enter the nostrils at the same time. The black people have different characteristics, with shorter, wider noses. The culture of black people developed in the warmer regions. Hot air should move in and out of the body more quickly than cold air, and with shorter noses the air travels a shorter distance. The beauty of the creation stems in part from its adaptability.</p>
<p>Would nature be as beautiful if each species had only one color? Would bears be as beautiful if they were only white, or are bears of many colors more interesting? Among human beings, those who live in the northern areas have whiter skin, while those nearer to the tropical zones are darker skinned. Those in the middle areas have yellow or brown skin.</p>
<p>Westerners whose ancestors are from the far north often have blue eyes, representing a longing for the blue color of clear skies and fair weather, and for the clear blue water of the warm seas. When you are living in an area covered by icy whiteness you grow up longing for green areas and blue water.</p>
<p>People in the valleys should not scorn those on the peaks or vice versa. Both features are needed, so harmony is the key word. There are seven major colors of the universe and one color alone cannot fully express beauty. The harmony of these colors brings out the fullest beauty. White is created when every other color is reflected away and also when the seven colors of the rainbow all blend together. White is the color of perfection and nobility so the highest places on earth are covered by white snow. God&#8217;s beauty is harmonized beauty.</p>
<p>The hand expresses many things about a person. When his hand is very thick, that person is richly blessed. Having a deep palm indicates something similar; when you have a deeper container then things remain in it. Each of our features has some meaning.</p>
<p>Oriental culture analyzes the universe by first examining basic principles. On the other hand, Western culture examines the external creation first, trying to then deduce basic principles. Which way is more direct?</p>
<p>It can be said that the Western culture is a meat eating culture, while Eastern peoples primarily eat vegetables and fish. The white culture originated in the northern areas of the globe and the most available food came from animals. Having its origins in the necessity of killing animals, Western culture developed the practice of medicine that emphasized treating symptoms of illness primarily by introducing foreign substances or by surgery.</p>
<p>Did you know that Westerners have shorter intestines than Orientals? The explanation is that the main food was traditionally meat, a substance which should not remain in the body too long because harmful substances may otherwise be produced. Paralleling this fact, Westerners generally lack the spirit of perseverance and patience to hang on until the last.</p>
<p>Among the animals, tigers and lions also have very short intestines because their main food is meat. Animals like the cow and ox have very long intestines because their primary food is grass. In the Bible it is recorded that the animals which were offered as sacrifices were vegetable-eating animals, like sheep and oxen and doves, which eat insects. Animals like the cow, sheep and ox have infinite patience; no matter how hot the day, they keep chewing and keep plowing.</p>
<p>Oriental people have longer intestines because vegetable substances are more beneficial when they remain in the body longer. By having to pass through a longer digestive tract food remains in the body longer. Throughout history the people who needed greater fortitude and patience to endure more suffering and to be a pioneering force were the Asian peoples. The Western culture needs an alternative to its present way of life; Western culture will decline if it continues along one extreme.</p>
<p>It is also time for white people to love the darker colors and to appreciate the hot weather as well as the cold. It is providential that America has been entangled with Asian affairs and involved in assisting Korea. It is not just because the American people have merciful hearts. It would not bring good fortune to this country if President Carter ever disengaged this nation from Korea. If America were to retreat from Asia at this time then because of the law of indemnity America would suffer a great deal to overcome the effects of her failure. I have a clear responsibility from God to stop America from abandoning her providential responsibility. Asia and America must maintain their connection.</p>
<h3 align="center">We are the kind of people who<br />
breathe the universe every day</h3>
<p>How do I know you white members love me? Simply by the fact that you are here, in many cases against the opposition of your own parents. Why are you doing it? I did not make you do it. The universal destiny is pushing American young people to come to the Unification Church. Providential destiny is not a man-made destiny; it is heaven&#8217;s work that the Unification Church is plowing forward, and anyone who is trying to stop it by human power will be shattered. The destiny of God shall not be affected.</p>
<p>If we were only engaged in selfish, human affairs we would have been destroyed a long time ago. If an individual without a heavenly purpose had received such accusation and slander as I have he would have collapsed a long time ago. But I am different; the more persecution and pressure I receive, the tighter and stronger I get. No one can turn me back because I am not waging a man-made campaign; I am following a universal destiny. That is why you are extraordinary, even fearful people. No one can figure you out. Only a small portion of the moon shows before the full moon appears, but each day more is seen. Opposition never makes you Moonies small; it only makes you grow. Through the month of June we have been hard-pressed, even seeming to decrease in the eyes of the world. But from the month of June on we are going to gradually show more and more until the full moon is seen. The day of the full moon is a good day.</p>
<h3 align="center">I am really enjoying talking to you<br />
this morning. I don&#8217;t know where the time flies!</h3>
<p>When you look at a seed you think of the universe. When you look at the stars you think of the universe. When you look at a bird flying you think of the universe. When the butterfly flutters by you look at the universe. When a tiny little ant is crawling on the ground you think of the universe. We are the kind of people who breathe the universe, who live and harmonize with the universe every day. The universe is our stage.</p>
<p>In the morning you pick up 50 copies of the News World and go to a dirty comer of New York City, yet even then you are breathing the air of the universe, running out to embrace the universe. Even the negative reaction of the people never deters you when you have a universal frame of mind. The sweat you wipe off is universal sweat, not your own. In the same way, when I speak to a congregation I do not think I am just speaking to you but to the whole universe.</p>
<p>I am convinced that when I speak not only you get excited but also nature and spirit world and even God become joyful. Even negative people who come find themselves forgetting their criticism. I have seen instances when people have come to listen to me, not for spiritual inspiration, but to find fault. After one hour they totally forget their purpose for coming and after the speech they think, &#8220;Oh, I came for some other reason. I was brainwashed!&#8221; That is how the stories of brainwashing got started.</p>
<p>Certainly they were not brainwashed; without realizing it they were momentarily intoxicated at being absorbed into the universal harmony. This is the kind of experience which all of humanity will eventually enjoy. That is certainly not brainwashing. Instead it is washing all the dust off the human spirit so that each person can experience the universal harmony.</p>
<h3 align="center">By itself, human love can only create a flat surface</h3>
<p>I know very well that my critics think amazingly bad things about me. They even think I am not human, but some kind of iron man who doesn&#8217;t need food or rest and who cannot be controlled. What they imagine is my mysterious quality is nothing else but my being in harmony with the universal destiny. That is what influences my surroundings. It is there like an invisible magnetic force which can attract any metal located in its electric field. Metal is pulled to it because there is a certain rapport. That is exactly what happens when we are together like this. Universal force and strength enable people to feet some kind of affinity with me, whether they like it or not.</p>
<p>Your mind responds to that magnet because the power of love is activated. One person cannot pull another human being unless that love is practiced. I am not talking about horizontal love; this mysterious, powerful love is vertical. Our greatest pride and treasure in the Unification Church is that we bring the living God into the realm of human affairs. God is not a concept to us but a living God with whom all our lives can be connected and harmonized. Our philosophy and theology is uncomplicated, stemming from the heavenly four positions.</p>
<p>This philosophy can unify up and down, front and rear and left and right, all directions. This harmony will create one grand circle, the ultimate expression of perfection. Everything can be absorbed within that circle; there is nothing it cannot contain. Human power and love can be horizontal and therefore unite left and right, front and rear. But human love alone cannot unite up and down. Without the vertical element, human love can only create a flat surface.</p>
<p>How can we add the vertical element? Which comes first, horizontal or vertical? Why the vertical? Look at the tree as one natural expression of universal truth. The trunk has to be correctly aligned in order for the tree to be aligned. If the trunk dies or is cut down then no tree remains. If you ask a tree what it resembles the tree will answer, &#8220;I live in the image of the universe.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trees grow into a rounded shape, particularly those trees which bear fruit; a tree trunk and branches together create one big ball. The vertical line is the trunk itself, growing like a solid pillar. When that trunk is alive the whole tree is alive and reaches up to the heavens. Even vines which spread on the ground like the sweet potato, always turn their leaves and sprouting tips up. All nature is directed toward the source of life. In nature that life source is the sun so everything in nature looks at the sun.</p>
<p>Do you think about what takes the role of the sun in human life? Can we say that the source of love is here on earth and that together men and women can ultimately perfect their love here? That is not true. Only illicit love looks down to the ground. True love is always looking up for some greater source of love, like plants looking for the sun&#8217;s rays. Such people are proud of their love and have nothing to hide.</p>
<p>Like the sun, the position of love is the universal center. Being higher than man&#8217;s love, that center is vertical not down on the ground. That center is God. It is His vertical love which supplies the richness and resources of life. It is important to understand whether that life source exists beneath or above man. The higher love represents parental love, while the lower love represents children&#8217;s love. Love always flows from upper to lower. Throughout Biblical history there was an emphasis on having sons because having an heir was very important. An heir ensures that there will be a channel for vertical love to continue on for another generation and bring prosperity.</p>
<p>Even though the American divorce rate is increasing, most separated parents each want custody of their children. Because the life source of universal love is a vertical one, parents either consciously or intuitively want to become closer to the trunk-line of love through a relationship with their children. If the vertical line is not straight then you cannot expect the horizontal love to be straight. Without vertical and horizontal lines which are at 90 degrees, the ideal of four positions cannot exist.</p>
<p>Throughout history those seeking a devout life of faith have abhorred married life. Each major religion recognizes the value of celibacy. Marriage is the horizontal expression of basic human nature, while man is supposed to obtain the vertical expression first. After the perfection of vertical love man is supposed to expand that love onto the horizontal level. This is why religious life stresses the vertical, spiritual life, discouraging horizontal love.</p>
<p>The fall of man began at this very point. Adam and Eve, the ancestors of mankind, engaged in horizontal love before obtaining the vertical love between God and man as parent and children. That was the fall. We have to rectify this wrong beginning. Because human history started with illicit horizontal love, vertical love must be upheld and horizontal love must be denied. Now you can understand why throughout history the religious life has been one of denial, of leaving your spouse and children and parents. In attempting to deny everything in the human world, religious people led ascetic, isolated lives, searching for the lost vertical love. Until recently that way of life was stressed by religion.</p>
<p>Do we need religion then? Human history actually started out with a loving relationship with God and it will be consummated by religion, nothing else. The way of life that denies the necessity of religion, like communism, cannot remain any longer. No matter what people may say or try, there is no other ultimate solution to human affairs. Religion is the only way we can solve human problems. Every culture throughout human history had a religious origin. Those peoples and nations in history which could not advance to a higher religious philosophy were always destroyed. Today&#8217;s America is a proud nation, but it is the power of Christianity which made this nation&#8217;s greatness possible.</p>
<h3 align="center">You must love the world as much as you love God</h3>
<p>The religion which will provide a solution for world problems will be the one which can put everyone in touch with the core universal truth and force. The Unification Church exists just for that purpose. There is a proud German man sitting here and he has so much pride in his own country that he thinks the German people are a super race. Why did he come here? Simply because he is a Moonie no one will treat him with respect.</p>
<p>This proud German came to America and was given instructions to sell the newspaper every day and to go witnessing. He was told to do incredible things and yet he does not have to do any of them. He is free to go back to his own country. What power could have kept him here? All of us are here only because we know the ultimate solution for the problems of the universe.</p>
<p>The Unification Church has one special, extraordinary feature, and that is the concept of &#8220;True Parents.&#8221; Never before in all of history has that been heard of. Such a name as True Parents is logical, however, once you really know the fundamental truth. Now you are looking forward to becoming a true brother and sister and a true husband and wife, but how could you do that without first installing True Parents? You need a model or prototype, and the True Parents must provide that standard of human behavior. Thus in the Unification Church we have two of the most important words under the sun: True Parents. That is why people from all over the world and with all different colors of skin are disregarding their old surroundings and relationships and opportunities and following this one goal.</p>
<p>Why is this goal so valuable? Do you need the True Parents? You say so, but how will your parents feel when they hear such words? They quickly feel some implication that they are false parents. For this reason I am sympathetic with them when they want somehow to get rid of me or kidnap their own children. Of course they want to keep you as their children. Have you ever read about parents kidnapping their own children before? Why don&#8217;t you just go home on your own? Your parents are waiting, ready to do anything for you.</p>
<p>When you come to the Unification Church you gain nothing tangible that you can get hold of. In one way of thinking you are in miserable shape. Yet there is something here you cannot disregard, something formidable and mysterious yet very real. It makes your heart full of joy and inspires you to give your total self and even then still not feel adequate.</p>
<p>I have never said that you must not worry about anything else except loving me. Instead I say that you will only deserve my attention by totally loving the world and the universe. I am actually pushing you out, not pulling you in. My central teaching is this: as much as you love me you must equally love the world, mankind and the universe. If you see something valuable in me then live the same way for the universe.</p>
<p>Other people will say that you are crazy for living this way, but as long as you are sure of yourself in loving God and mankind then you will be totally intoxicated in this way of life and in this love. Then you really won&#8217;t care about criticism and will find fulfillment. Once you stand on that ground, then no matter what the world says you will have a spiritual strength and power that nothing under the sun can resist or obstruct. When your love and faith are that real then life truly becomes intoxicating.</p>
<p>Do you white people think this is true? What about you black people, do you feel the same? Did I convince you of this? It was not 1; only God could do that. You must realize that we are living in the most incredible time, witnessing unprecedented events. We are being carried along by the universal destiny. This movement is not made by man and I am not just pushing my own ideology.</p>
<p>My life is only like one little seed, dropped in the ground of this dark world and beginning to show signs of life. All of a sudden the world is seeing signs of life, noticing little leaves appearing. Now a tree is forming, growing both vertically and horizontally. As my efforts have an effect on a larger scale then my influence on the environment also grows larger.</p>
<p>When I say you should love the world as much as you love God I mean that your vertical love should be practiced on the horizontal level. In order to create the heavenly four positions you must live both the vertical and the horizontal together. You may want to stay with me, but when you come to me I will only kick you out and tell you to love the world. Then as you come back from the world I will accept you.</p>
<p>We want to create here the total perfection of the heavenly four positions, but to do that you must practice your vertical love in a horizontal world. The person who says he loves the Unification Church and the Unification ideology but does not want to live and practice it is only a swindler. I must love the world as much as I love God; otherwise I am not worthy to stand in the sight of God.</p>
<p>I know that God still loves America and the world, so regardless of how I am mistreated I will still love America and the world. I cannot return to God until I love the children of my fiercest enemy. Then my responsibility will be accomplished. We have to subjugate our opponents, not by force but by love, the natural process of the universe. That is our ideology. This is the most profound ideology anywhere, the perfection of religion. There is no better philosophy than that one.</p>
<p>We are talking about the heart of God, not just die concept of God&#8217;s existence. Our ideology is simple. I want to love my spouse as much as I love God. I want to love my children as much as I love God. I want to love my neighbors as much as I love God. I want to love the world and mankind as much as I love God. Since I know that this is the only way of life that God can approve and the only way we can reach God, I have been completely practicing this life. I want to leave this tradition and conviction with you also.</p>
<p>The depth of your love for God is your standard for loving your husband, your children, your neighbors, your society, your world and even those in the dungeons of hell. That is your criteria. I want you to make this feeling passionately real, down to the marrow of your bones. You cannot just will this to happen one day; you must make daily efforts and struggle to overcome the limitations of your heart. That&#8217;s what we are here for. Critical adults may think you. are all immature and young-looking and accuse me of being some kind of fly-by-night charlatan. That is far from the truth; what we are doing is as permanent as a rock.</p>
<h3 align="center">God wants restored children who can maintain heavenly dignity</h3>
<p>No matter how much outsiders study us they cannot find the source of the power of the Unification Church. You have your own dignity and pride in doing even trivial, menial work and no matter how the world persecutes or criticizes me I am not bothered at all. I have my own pride and dignity and power source. Only God&#8217;s love could bring that power.</p>
<p>Even though I often dress very humbly, I feel even better than a king on the throne of a nation. I have a deep understanding with God. You too can think of yourself as a prince or princess of God. Our Heavenly Father has asked you to go the way of a lowly person in order to come to His throne ultimately. This is what you are doing now. No matter how humble you look, you must not forget your dignity and pride as a prince and princess of God.</p>
<p>That is precisely my way of thinking. I started out in a humble place in the small nation of Korea, yet I had the dignity and pride and awareness of being God&#8217;s prince and I precisely understood the direction I was walking. The first chapter of my mission included stirring up a great deal of controversy in Korea. In the next chapter I went to Japan and turned the entire nation upside down. Now in the third chapter I have come to America and the entire nation is agitated, wanting to get rid of me. This is not the end of it; America is only Chapter 3. In Chapter 4 the entire communist world will say, -We must completely eliminate him.&#8221;</p>
<p>I want you to know that you have in your hand a special credential from God and True Parents which says that you are the princes and princesses of God. You are privileged people, but with that credential you must do things which other people cannot duplicate. That is your pride and dignity. I came from Korea with that Heavenly credential and I have done things that other people just cannot compete with.</p>
<p>Because I am summoned by God I cannot degrade this credential or shame myself; I must maintain the dignity of a prince of God even though I may die a thousand times. If you call me Father then you are taking positions as sons and daughters. That means you inherit that credential from me. Can you live up to that credential? Do not bring shame and embarrassment to that position.</p>
<p>Do you have the ambition to be the top notch people of the world? Why do people who do not know anything about God still have that ambition? God initially created man to become His sons and daughters and we have to prove our dignity as His princes and princesses. We have to live victoriously, becoming triumphant on every level, from the individual level all the way to the world level. By setting the standard of triumph and victory you will be recognized as truly being sons and daughters of God.</p>
<p>Put yourself in the position of God who has lost His children and wants to restore them. He is our almighty Father so would He want to have children of dignity and pride or would He prefer children who are petty and weak? Why shouldn&#8217;t your marriage be arranged based on your whims and desires? Marriage is very important to God so as princes and princesses you should not be capricious and influenced by some handsome man or beautiful woman who is not God-centered. A prince and princess should only marry another prince and princess. Even though a member may be crippled and ugly, he still shines far brighter than anyone who is not God&#8217;s restored child. The members of our Church have that value.</p>
<p>I want to trust that as strong men and women nothing will deter you. If people slap you and sneer, &#8220;Are you a prince or princess of God? Don&#8217;t be ridiculous&#8221;&#8216; could you seriously maintain your certainty? I am in the image of God. I may not be handsome like God, but you know that at least my heart absolutely resembles God&#8217;s.</p>
<p>It is my pride that I have total unity with the love of God. God is my Father and no one can sever that relationship. Even if you behead me you will not separate me from God&#8217;s love? Are you like that? You must be dignified men and women, standing as the backbone of God&#8217;s love. You are a tower of strength, the visible form of God&#8217;s love. As you achieve this nothing can deter you.</p>
<h3 align="center">Only by your practicing this standard can we have oneness</h3>
<p>We will march on until we win the ultimate victory. If death stops me then even after death my march will go on. My worst fear is not that of death but the fear of what it would be like to lose God&#8217;s love. That is the one thing that we can never allow to happen. I want you to know clearly the position you hold in relation to God and the True Parents. That position is so valuable that millions of dollars of the world&#8217;s money cannot buy it.</p>
<p>It is possible for us to be welded together so perfectly that nothing can separate us. Then if I push you out into a mission far away, what you are actually doing is not becoming separated but expanding your center of oneness, and your power will increase according to the degree of your unity. In other words, the further away you go, the more your power will increase. It is analogous to stretching a rubber band. The more you stretch it the greater will be its pressure and tendency to contract. In the same way, your desire to be close to the central point increases. The further you go away from the center, the stronger is the pull you feel.</p>
<p>You are pushing yourself forward because you feel pulled to the center all the time. That&#8217;s what you are doing now in witnessing and fund raising. You go out because you know the significance of your mission, but actually you want to be in the center, and in order to get back there quickly you have to finish the mission. Then you can say, &#8220;Father, I am here.&#8221;</p>
<p>That is why my pushing you out is not a merciless act but a loving act. By doing so you feel the greater attraction to the center and you become more energetic. When you have difficulty and hardship you think, &#8220;How much Father suffered in order to make me grow and raise me up. In order to let our people grow I must suffer like Father.&#8221; When you compare yourself to my position you will always gain strength.</p>
<p>If you keep doing, thinking and acting like that you cannot help but keep growing; you cannot stand still and grow. Your gradient of influence and power is based on how much you are growing. Ultimately you will become like the original center, like a sun which generates energy rather than a moon which reflects energy. By practicing this you can come to fully understand my situation and God&#8217;s loving heart. Only then can we have oneness and a common pride between us. There is only one mainstream, and it is connected to this way of life. We want to liberate God from 6,000 years of sorrow in our lifetime. You are very ambitious if you want to do this quickly.</p>
<p>The center of this world is God&#8217;s position. By disciplining yourself in this way you will become a living, walking God, a true son or daughter. With God in the center and each other at either end a new creation will be formed and the heavenly four positions created.</p>
<p>The happiest day and the good day will be the day God feels delight because of you, the day when you people and all the universe can be harmonized in ecstatic joy and delight. Your perfection is the source of joy for the universe. That will truly be the ultimate good day. Jesus taught and lived this way, desiring most to have a true loving relationship with God.</p>
<p>Jesus&#8217; first goal, therefore, was to become an absolutely pure, perfected son, and his second goal was to become a true husband for one woman to whom he could pour out his entire love, a woman who loved God as much as he loved God. Jesus&#8217; third goal was to be like God in loving his sons and daughters as God loves His own children. Jesus wanted to become a father himself so he could love his own children. Those were his three goals.</p>
<p>After fulfilling this position as son, husband and father, Jesus wanted to fulfill God&#8217;s desire by expanding this harmonious love to the entire world, enabling the entire world to enjoy the same intensity of God&#8217;s love as Jesus did. As you know, Jesus was crucified on the cross. His great misery and heartbreak was that he then could not fulfill his goals of husband and father. Certainly he could not spread those three loves of God throughout the universe. The crucifixion totally blocked the fulfillment of Jesus&#8217; desire.</p>
<p>We must inherit Jesus&#8217; heartbreak of his unfulfilled desires and take the responsibility to bring the good day when they can be achieved here on earth. Then we can expand our love throughout the world and embrace all the things of creation. The day we can make that a reality is truly the best day.</p>
<p>Once we achieve all of Jesus&#8217; desires in full then no other duty will ever be as heavy. We will rejoice over our accomplishment with dance, music and song. We may not see the total fulfillment of it in our lifetime yet we are not discouraged because this Principle will be fulfilled whether you are here on earth or not. That is our pioneer&#8217;s privilege, laying the cornerstone of the Kingdom of God.</p>
<p>When you realize that this staggering dream could come this close to being reality in our lifetime, how can you sleep at night? How could you ever sit idle? It must become your hard-headed struggle to shorten the period of accomplishment. I want to completely give my blood and sweat for this goal in order to shorten the time. Your prayer should be, &#8220;God, don&#8217;t let this arduous task be passed on to my descendants. Let me do it. If there is any suffering to do, let me suffer so I can leave them the accomplished, fulfilled Kingdom of God.&#8221; If you live in that philosophy every day yet still are not able to fulfill this goal in your lifetime, then still you will be free from the accusation of your posterity. However, if you spend this time idly then you indeed will be accused.</p>
<p>Every day we must give our absolute, maximum effort to see this good day. I don&#8217;t care which path I have to take in order to see that day. I may work like a beggar or be maimed, but no matter what happens to me, as long as it helps to advance this purpose I do not mind.</p>
<p>I am close to the age of 60 and keenly aware that each moment is totally precious. In my heart I am constantly declaring an emergency. Mankind is sitting idle, waiting for your helping hand. You are not working so that I may see that day, but because God is waiting for that day and mankind is waiting for that day.</p>
<p>This is the first Sunday of the month of July, 1977. You must become builders of the good nation and the good world. If you are committed soldiers then the good day will be realized. You must feel that if anything hampers that goal then you could toss aside your own ego and fate. Forget everything and become unswervingly fierce, dashing forward to restore everything. Shall we do it? Those who will do it raise your hands. Let us pray.</p>
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<h3 align="center">May 22, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>There is no one who likes unhappiness. A sad person has sorrow and agony in his heart because no matter how much effort he makes, happiness eludes him. How does someone come to be in this position? The problem is simple; the unhappy person does not have an object to whom he can freely give, or from whom he can freely receive. Even if he possesses a most precious treasure, no one can enjoy happiness if he has no personal relationship of give and take.</p>
<p>The largest diamond in the world could not bring you any excitement and stimulation if you had no one to share it with. Why is it said that blind people are unhappy? The eyes are important instruments in the give and take relationship because you can identify your object with your eyes and then establish a give and take relationship. It is also said that a hungry person is an unhappy person. The body needs food and when its reciprocal relationship with the physical world is broken, that person is unhappy.</p>
<p>Unhappiness is the condition in which a person has no way to freely have give and take. The amount of give and take you can have will determine your happiness or unhappiness. Since everything works under this law, what is the most precious thing for man? You said love, but the word love itself does not have any meaning. If someone is alone then love does not surface. When you speak of love, you automatically think of two units in perfect harmony and unity through give and take. Love is the force that will unite internal and external, subject and object into one.</p>
<p>Once that unity is achieved, the value of each becomes equal. For example, men and women are very different; men are tall and women are short. Men have rough beards, and women have smooth skin. Men&#8217;s hands are rugged and women&#8217;s hands are feminine. When men and women are separated they have very different values, but when a man and woman marry and are united into one by love, they share each others&#8217; values and characteristics. Through love the value of each becomes equal, with both sharing in their total value, knowledge and honor.</p>
<p>Why is man born? The communists say that man lives to eat, that matter is everything. How would an idealistic man answer? There are many men of justice who might answer, &#8220;We want to work and produce,&#8221; but these men go out and work only eight hours a day! The democratic world and a country like America think in that manner.</p>
<h3 align="center">What could unite people as different as men and women?</h3>
<p>Perhaps you sense that those answers aren&#8217;t quite complete. You may remember your parents insisting that you study, but you sense that studying is not man&#8217;s purpose either. Politicians may live as though their purpose in life was to obtain power, influence, and control, while many other people live for money. Great artists of the world might say, &#8220;We live to produce masterpieces and to enjoy beauty.&#8221; But still something seems to be lacking in all these answers. All of these are very important reasons to live, yet somehow our body and spirit are still not fully satisfied.</p>
<p>What is man supposed to live for? What purpose is man fulfilling? Joy and happiness are the results of a certain cause. When you say that man lives for true love, then somehow you are satisfied, feeling that you have found something big enough to fill you and more. Love is intangible and it cannot be touched, but somehow you can recognize love, and at hearing words of love you feel good.</p>
<p>Does a woman need someone to love, or is she satisfied to love just herself.? Who is that someone, another woman? No, she needs a man. The same is true of man; he cannot love by himself but needs a woman. The amazing thing is that before the teen years boys do not like girls too much. When children play, the boys want to play with boys, and the girls with girls.</p>
<p>Boys and girls are very different when they are young, with boys being aggressive rascals who destroy everything, and girls being interested in quiet games and dolls. When we see their drastically different characteristics, there seems to be no chance for boys and girls to become one. They are so far apart that it is almost impossible to unite the two when they are young. Nothing else can bring boys and girls into one but the amazing, mysterious power of love.</p>
<p>Most of you do not know what it is like to be married. I trust that in the Unification Church we can truly find virgin men and women. You are now at a most precious stage, but you are looking forward to the greatest dream of your lives, even though you may not know precisely what love truly means. When men and women reach a certain age they have some power of attraction for each other. Women, for example, want to beautifully present themselves to men. Why? For themselves? No, they are conscious of someone looking at them and they want to look nice. This perfectly parallels a fishing expedition; they are trying to throw some bait to the men. Sometimes they wear necklaces, earrings and make-up to show off.</p>
<p>In looking at human behavior, we see that women always send out waves of love first, trying to be attractive so that they will be detected. Men are rather dumb and slow in responding. Neither do they wear necklaces or makeup. Men and women are quite different in their development, with women maturing much faster than men in matters of love. All the way through high school women are much more sensitive to love than men. When I observe my own children, I see that the girls appreciate things more deeply and also get embarrassed more easily. We can conclude that God made women this way so that they could grow in purity, and in their marriage become the focal point and illumination of love. That is the way of life God created for women.</p>
<h3 align="center">The desire for love influences every action</h3>
<p>What is a man&#8217;s way of life? Men also respond to love. When a man gets mad his temper flares like fire, and love is almost unthinkable at that moment. Still, that is just one side of a man. A man is eventually melted by a woman, drawn by her toward the way of love. This is a very important universal law, that men were not made for men and women were not made for women. Men were not made for the sake of power and domination, but for women. When God undertook to create man He already had a blueprint for woman, and tried to adapt His creation of man accordingly. In the same way, when God created woman, He already had His blueprint of man in mind, and He created woman to match. It feels good to know that God had the love of our mates in mind when He created man and woman.</p>
<p>Why did God create man and woman to begin with? Their purpose was the consummation of love. The origin of all creation began with love. God&#8217;s blueprint for men and women came from His thinking about the ideal form of love. This is a most astonishing fact. Love was the motivation for creation and out of that motivation men and women were conceived to perfectly give and receive love. God designed men and women to live a life of love, to be fruitful in love, and then to dwell in love for eternity. We come to the conclusion that we were born for love, and that our reason for living is to love and to grow toward the perfection of love. This is the purpose of life.</p>
<p>If we examine the history and motivations of war we will see that love was actually the motivating factor behind war. When the circuits of love between people and nations are severed, they then strive to conquer each other so they can resume some give and take of love. Perfect love is so powerful that it can melt the heart of the enemy. No matter how intensely two enemies have hated each other, love is so powerful that love can heal even that rift. The basic definition of good and bad comes out of the motivation of love. If you like someone very much it is usually because that person understands you, or is in favor of you. If somebody hates you then it is difficult to like that person.</p>
<p>No amount of money, knowledge, or strategy under the sun can unite enemies. Only perfect love has the power to unite even enemies. If a communist were asked if love had the power to unite, his answer would be, &#8220;No, that&#8217;s impossible.&#8221; Communism totally denies the power of love; love does not exist in the communist ideology. Do you suspect that regardless of their ideology communists know deep within their hearts that love is more precious than matter?</p>
<p>By centering upon materialism, the communists put matter in the subject position. Because this view conflicts with basic human nature, the Marxist ideology must be wrong. If the communists really want to build an ideal world then they must proclaim love as the supreme power in all the creation; otherwise they are lying to their own hearts. How could love, the greatest force in the universe, be contained in something as small as matter? Because a small container cannot become bigger, we can conclude that communism could never conquer the world, and never truly build a utopia for mankind.</p>
<h3 align="center">Human logic can never comprehend God or man</h3>
<p>Throughout history there have been great philosophies and philosophers who searched for the true meaning of human behavior and happiness. Each one of them must always answer one fundamental question: Does God exist? Every philosophical battle ultimately returns to that one fundamental question and still this question has not been solved. Could a definitive decision be reached if philosophers gathered together at a convention to take a vote? If they voted yes, would God exist from that moment, or would God be there even if they voted no?</p>
<p>Scientists who try to prove God&#8217;s existence by scientific methods are foolish. Imagine scientists trying to find God in glass tubes. Will God suddenly come into being when man discovers Him, or has He always existed? Religious people are much wiser; they have already made up their minds that there is a God, and not only that He existed from the very beginning, but that He will exist throughout eternity.</p>
<p>If that is a valid statement, then religious people are the most powerful and happy people. Philosophers try to prove or disprove God through logic, but God is so big that He doesn&#8217;t fit into human logic too well. This is a very important statement; if you could prove God&#8217;s existence through logic then God would be small enough to fit into human logic, meaning that man could create God and know all about Him.</p>
<p>Can you show me your mind and explain it to me? If you could grasp your mind 100% then you could create your mind, but you cannot do that at this time because you don&#8217;t know your mind totally. This shows the greatness of your mind. Man also has a mysterious aspect, and human logic can never perceive the greatness of God or man.</p>
<p>Man has acquired tremendous knowledge and developed vast technology to the point where man thinks he can become like God and do anything. Man has become arrogant in his knowledge, but God knows that all man&#8217;s data is really like a peanut compared to the truth of the universe. The person who totally believes in limitless truth and energy and tries to embrace it is the greater person.</p>
<p>The men who can make the greatest contributions to human history are not scientists or philosophers, but those who have infinite faith and can unite with the universe. Therefore, you see that the religious leaders, not the scientists or philosophers, have made the most impact throughout history.</p>
<p>The great philosophers and scientists in history are not referred to as saints. Why? A prerequisite for sainthood is the perception of God. Without God, sainthood has no meaning. We are all scientists to some degree, but the great saints throughout history, for example, Moses, Buddha, Mohammed and Francis, all centered their lives upon God. Even though they did not use the same term for God, their lives all started out from one common ground.</p>
<p>The saints of history did not teach that the most important thing is power, money, or knowledge; they basically taught one thing: love. They taught of two kinds of love, the vertical love between God and man, and the horizontal love between man and man. No matter how much knowledge a philosopher or scientist may have, if he does not know love then he does not truly understand man or man&#8217;s behavior, or the principles that guide man.</p>
<p>Perhaps a scientist will make a tremendous discovery which results in a great contribution to human society. If he is a bachelor with no family, then in spite of his great discoveries people will wonder if he could be truly happy. If he does not know love then he does not know the true value of man&#8217;s life. The greatest way of life is the pursuit of true love. That pursuit of true love is the backbone of human history, and will continually make an impact on human history. This is why I did not become a philosopher or a scientist, but a religious leader.</p>
<p>Who will bring hope to mankind? Not scientists or philosophers but the religious men who proclaim the supreme beauty and power of love shall give vision and hope to mankind. Do you think true love has the power to unite the races? Today the racial problem in America is grave and it is apparent that Christianity is not being practiced in the truest sense. Jesus Christ&#8217;s gospel is far greater than racism. Christianity in America is declining. Until the emergence of a new, revived Christianity the world will not be able to advance toward God.</p>
<h3 align="center">Why have we found happiness in religion?</h3>
<p>Having all this information as background, can you explain why Unification Church members are happy? First of all, we are happy people because we are religious people. We are seeking to make the greatest contribution to mankind and to experience true happiness. We are happy to be religious people because there is a possibility that we can reach God and consummate His love. In no other field is there a way to reach God. Once we recognize that going a religious road enables us to reach God and practice His love then we are happy people. Furthermore, we know that the possibility of love is not limited to our own lives; we can bring the gospel to mankind and transform our whole world into a world of happiness.</p>
<p>Do you believe in God or do you know God? We can each say, &#8220;I know my mind is real, and in &#8216; the same way I know that God is real. However, for the same reason I cannot fully explain my mind I cannot fully explain God.&#8221; Your mind controls your way of life and you obey the directives of your mind. Similarly, you know God is there, dominating your life and giving you mandates and guidance. Your mind handles the horizontal elements of life, while God controls your way of life in a vertical or universal sense.</p>
<p>You are glad God is with you. That is why Unification Church members are happy people. You know God as the subject of love, and therefore you can become His object, creating a circuit of love with Him. Because you know God so well you can say, &#8220;God, You are almighty and omnipresent, but no matter how great You are, You need me because without Your object You cannot be subject. I am Your partner and without me You are not perfect.&#8221;</p>
<p>Does that sound arrogant and boastful? How can you praise God as the creator of all things in heaven and earth and then say to Him, &#8220;You are merely my subject?&#8221; The only way you can say that is by shooting a beam of true love into God&#8217;s heart. When God is struck by your true love He is rendered helpless.</p>
<p>The essence of love is the equal value given each person through unity. The situation of God existing alone without man is unthinkable. Subject and object cannot exist without each other. If man did not exist then God would vanish. There is no way that God could continue alone, and without man the universe would have no value.</p>
<p>Imagine a man who has achieved the pinnacle of power, perhaps becoming the President of the United States, with the power to influence international affairs. Even if his wife is a very humble, uneducated woman, if she has made a relationship of love with her husband then her position is instantly elevated along with his. Would the President want her to remain secluded because of her humble origin, or would everyone have to pay due respect to the First Lady, regardless of her background? Even if that woman has come from a background as low as the sole of a shoe, to the degree that they pay respect to the President everyone would have to respect her.</p>
<p>The power of love can bring a person from the lowliest to the most supreme position, and the universe will not complain but will bow down to that person. Christianity teaches that even though you are lowly sinners in the bottom of hell, you can be raised up the level of sons of God; yet even though Christianity preaches that ideal, no one has ever had the power to become a sinless son of God. Christians teach, &#8220;God is the creator and you are sinful man. God is way up high and you are on the bottom.&#8221; Christians still think that a tremendous gap will always exist between God and man. Being convinced of this theology, they criticize the Unification Church, saying it is impossible for men to become like God. However, they then contradict themselves by calling God &#8216;Father.&#8217; The same God they feel they cannot come near they approach as Father. This is an incredible contradiction which we have to correct.</p>
<p>When you have true love which can penetrate God&#8217;s heart, you can lead Him around any way you want. If God does not accept this theory, then you can ask, &#8220;God, are You a God of love?&#8221; If God says, &#8220;Yes, I am a God of love,&#8221; then you can explain to Him why He needs you as His object. Love needs an object and God needs love; without an object God cannot be God. In all His world of creation, who would love God most? Man would love God most, so man is indispensable for God.</p>
<p>You must love God without hesitation. This is the greatest contribution the Unification Church is making to human history, explaining the most genuine version of God. The Unification Church is making a contribution by bringing the living God into man&#8217;s life. We ourselves live in that conviction. We can raise ourselves up to the level of God because in the name of love we are making ourselves objects to Him, not in word alone, but in reality.</p>
<p>We don&#8217;t need a concept of God. We need God as our subject, coming into our very tissue. Unless we practice this then we cannot even talk about the Kingdom of God on earth. I am needier dumb, nor am I following some blind faith. Any sermon I give has already been tested and proved in my own personal life.</p>
<h3 align="center">I can only pursue this life because of God&#8217;s love.</h3>
<p>Why are you happy in the Unification Church? You are not worshipping a conceptual God, but a living God with whom you share your life. Without having any breakfast and sitting on this cold floor, you are still happy people because you are sitting in God&#8217;s lap, embraced by His love.</p>
<p>I am amazed that you sit for long hours, even when your back is aching, and still listen attentively. I feel a great joy watching your expressions because sometimes you are completely overwhelmed. What do you gain from this? You won&#8217;t be fed a meal; instead the love of God will come to you out of this. I have been persecuted, cursed and criticized for thirty years, yet I am the happiest man. Out of this suffering way of life I have teamed about God and His love. God is always intervening in my life with love, and I feel the love of God down to my bones. When there is not much persecution then God relaxes, but in an emergency, when a terrible battle is unfolding here on earth, then God intervenes every second of the day. Because of God I have no reason to fear persecution, and I even welcome it.</p>
<p>I can pursue this kind of work because of the love of God. Of course I get tired and find it difficult to go on sometimes, but I go forward willingly. The harder I work, the more I can feel God and I am a happy man. Does persecution discourage you or does it give you power? Many of your parents have nice homes and good food, and they want you to stay home with them instead of listening to me. Even so, you still come and endure a hard way of life. This puzzles people and they ask, &#8220;What is Reverend Moon&#8217;s power?&#8221; They study us scientifically, logically, but they cannot come up with any answers, because answers aren&#8217;t found in logic or test tubes alone. Until you know the love of God, you will not know the reasons for our dedication.</p>
<p>The women sitting in the audience this morning smell of sweat and not perfume. I know you did not have time to take a shower or do your laundry because every moment of your day is dedicated to working for God. You need rest for the next day&#8217;s work and instead of taking a shower when you have ten or fifteen minutes, you would rather take a nap. Besides that, I don&#8217;t speak very many comforting words, like, &#8220;My sons and daughters, you are doing well and I am glad you are working so hard.&#8221; Instead, I push you out and give you a hard time. You must be crazy if you still come to listen to me!</p>
<p>When people with Masters degrees and Ph.D.&#8217;s join our movement, the first thing I ask them to do is to fundraise with peanuts. I am sure they are shocked, &#8220;Even though I am a Ph.D. I still have to fundraise with peanuts!&#8221; But I strongly feel that no matter how many Ph.D.&#8217;s someone has, he will not be able to love mankind unless he can love a bag of peanuts or a bucket of flowers in the name of God. He must feel that he is elevating the value of those peanuts and flowers to the highest degree, and put himself in the peanut&#8217;s position. Then each peanut will say, &#8220;I am loved by a Ph.D.!&#8221; and the flowers will feel, &#8220;My Ph.D. loves me.&#8221; That love will restore the dignity of all things, particularly things like peanuts and flowers, which mostly have been sold by beggars or played with by children.</p>
<p>The Unification Church members will love the peanuts as God&#8217;s creation, and love the flowers for revealing the beauty of God. By doing humble things like this you are elevating the dignity of nature and all things which God created. All things have felt mistreated by cruel and greedy men, but now their dignity is being restored as God&#8217;s creation by unselfish men of God and they feel that God is restoring their true value. The man who loves all things of creation can love God. The man who disregards the things of creation cannot love God.</p>
<p>Imagine how dramatic it is for a wealthy woman with many diamonds to join our church and then place more value in a bag of peanuts than in her diamonds! The peanuts would feel, &#8220;Now I have more value than diamonds! I have been elevated to kingship in the peanut world! &#8221; If you treat all things of creation this way, then God will treat you this way. You are like the peanuts of the world, but God has picked you up and said, &#8220;You are my child.&#8221;</p>
<h3 align="center">In knowing God and His love there is immeasurable depth</h3>
<p>Now you know the meaning of selling peanuts. You may think it is impossible for a Ph.D. to fundraise with peanuts in the street instead of teaching in a university, but as a son of God I have traveled the road of beggars, not only selling peanuts, but doing every kind of menial task. There is nothing I have not done, and there is nothing I cannot do. I can work in a factory as a laborer or a foreman, or I can come to Belvedere and teach the word of God. I never fall behind anyone or anything. The professors and great philosophers of the world will listen to me; the intellectuals only know about a very small segment of the universe, while I am teaching about the most precious truth of God. If I can bring such truth then I am certainly entitled to come before America and the whole world to proclaim it.</p>
<p>Am I a good teacher? I make you American young people work so hard, and even have you stop dating. Does the rest of the world consider me as good a teacher as you do? Even after receiving the blessing and working so hard you cannot live with your husband or wife right away. Is this standard what makes me a good teacher? Most people criticize me for doing things in a strange and unreasonable way, but you support what I say. What has happened to you? You are the kind of people who don&#8217;t care what parents may say or what newspapers may write. The important consideration is whether we know with certainty that we are in the position where we can receive the love of God.</p>
<p>I am a man who does not fear guns or bombs or death threats. The one thing which could make me tremble would be the departure of God&#8217;s love. I will do anything and everything to possess the intensity of God&#8217;s love. If doing crazy things is the only way to keep the love of God then I will do them. I would not trade the love of God for the sovereignty of a nation or even for my own family.</p>
<p>I actually own nothing and my pockets are empty. What do you gain by following such a gentleman? Don&#8217;t you mind? You have to buy lunch for me instead of my buying lunch for you. If you really think about it you have met someone quite mysterious. It&#8217;s hard to judge or measure me.</p>
<p>Compared to Gerhard&#8217;s fist my hand looks like a peanut, but with this small hand I can do everything. One label is not adequate to describe me because I have been successful in so many different areas. I look like a fisherman, a farmer, a laborer, a religious man, and even sometimes like a gangster and a fighter. There is no way to describe me in one word.</p>
<p>How can I do so much in one lifetime? My secret is that I know the love of God, and in knowing God and His love there is immeasurable depth. God is really greedy in a way because He wants everything, and for this reason I have to go in every direction in order to respond to God. Because everything I do is for the sake of God, everything I touch is successful. No matter how rough I am or how hard I push you, it is never for my sake but for the sake of humanity. My conscience does not hurt because God knows very well that I am only working for His benefit.</p>
<h3 align="center">God&#8217;s standard of love is horizontal as well as vertical</h3>
<p>I said at the beginning that the person who can freely give and receive is a happy person. Is there only one correct direction for give and take? You must become the type of person who can have give and take in many directions, such as front and rear, up and down, and left and right. God is like this type of person. Christians should know that God&#8217;s ideal is not limited to vertical give and take between God and man, but rather that God wants men to have give and take on horizontal level in all directions as well. The person with a circuit of give and take of life like this is the happiest person.</p>
<p>No matter where people stand in relationship to God, to the right or the left, in front or in back, high or low, everyone wants to have give and take with God. You know love is the most precious thing to God. Satan, who has been trying to steal God&#8217;s most precious things, would certainly try to steal love. When you understand this, you can automatically understand that the fall of man occur-red through the misuse of love. Love fulfills God&#8217;s will when used for God&#8217;s purpose, and fulfills Satan&#8217;s will when used in an impure way. The entire history of restoration is a history of God seeking to restore the order of love.</p>
<p>Satan&#8217;s love is temporal and destructive while God&#8217;s love is eternal, constructive and progressive. The free sex which is rampant in America today is a form of love, but it is temporal and destructive. When Satan destroyed true love, morality was also destroyed, and Satan was able to destroy man&#8217;s entire history. Eventually people may even want to change the Constitution and the laws so they will be free to behave like animals. Satan knows the supreme value of God&#8217;s love for God&#8217;s world, and because Satan wanted to destroy God&#8217;s ideal, Satan stole the love of God and used it as his own tool. God loves pure love to the utmost degree, but at the same time He abhors Satan&#8217;s love. Satan&#8217;s illicit love is a one-way street to the bottom of hell; the world is running down that street.</p>
<p>God does not even want to look at Satan&#8217;s world; Christianity, however, without knowing God&#8217;s strict standard of love, is for the most part permitting itself to degenerate into social functions for dancing, drinking and easily accepts the rapidly declining standards of love. A true God could not condone such churches, but would feel like throwing them into the ocean.</p>
<p>God is patient, however, always trying to make one more effort to save America. I proclaimed to this country that I came as a firefighter because America&#8217;s situation is like a house on fire; I came in the position of doctor because this nation is like a sick patient. I am sure the American people were irritated at those words, but I deliberately said those things to aggravate Americans. If America won&#8217;t listen to God&#8217;s word then I will use America&#8217;s young people to accomplish God&#8217;s will. Parents will see the 180 degree turn their children make from a satanic way of life to a God-centered way of life, and they won&#8217;t be able to deny the truth of what I say. I am fully aware of all the accusation and persecution facing us, but let people strike us anyway.</p>
<h3 align="center">Three elements will ensure America&#8217;s survival</h3>
<p>America needs to repent. Famous theologians, scholars, ministers, and all Americans must repent together. If you people here do not know how to repent then America might not know how to repent. Americans must look at their own children, and you are the oldest of those children. They know that you are not dumb and they are wondering why you are all here. You would not remain in the Unification Church unless you were wise people.</p>
<p>We must restore God-centered morality or else America is destined to collapse. The Roman Empire collapsed from within, of its own moral corruption, not from outside attack or infiltration. America is in far worse shape than the Roman Empire was because there is no tradition left in this nation. Once the moral center is removed from America it will collapse and no trace of it will be left.</p>
<p>Once America crumbles, all types of fighting will begin. America has proudly called itself a melting pot of peoples from all over the world but that is not America&#8217;s accomplishment. If this nation keeps the Christian spirit alive and strong then God will protect and sustain the melting pot, but if America loses its Christian foundation then America will no longer continue to be the harmonious melting pot of the world.</p>
<p>Can the Unification Church help? The loss of three vital elements could destroy America: the moral standard, racial harmony, and the Christian spirit. The corruption of these three elements is the internal problem of America, but also there is the external threat of communism. The Unification Church can renew America. First, True Parents are needed. Then through the blessing you can become true husbands and wives. Finally, you need brothers and sisters to form a true family. We are talking about living as true families.</p>
<h3 align="center">The providence behind America&#8217;s democratic traditions</h3>
<p>The Japanese and Americans were enemies thirty years ago during World War II, and the Koreans and Japanese have historically hated each other, yet now a Korean man has come to America with Japanese people and is trying to save America. In the Unification Church, historical enemies have become united as one body and are trying to save another enemy. There is no parallel to this outside the Unification Church. The Bible says to love your enemy and Christianity has emphasized that you should love your personal enemy, but we in the Unification Church go beyond loving personal enemies to the level of not only loving national enemies, but of working to save them. That is the messianic ideology.</p>
<p>When Jesus was on the cross, his prayer was for forgiveness, not only for the Roman soldiers nailing him down, but also for the entire Roman Empire. Our goal and ideology is to perfect Jesus&#8217; ideology by not only loving our personal enemies, but by even leaping over national boundaries to save and unite nations that have fought each other in the past. When this is your living ideology, you will be actualizing the ideology of the Messiah.</p>
<p>Two former enemies, Japan and Korea, are now working to save America. Are the peoples of those nations living comfortably, or are they suffering more than you? Are the members from those nations working harder than the American members? America is the most powerful country of the world, yet people have come from abroad trying to save this country, and they are working harder than the American members. Realistically speaking, we are doing things unparalleled in history.</p>
<p>I know history will reveal that I spent more missionary funds here in America than anyone has ever spent for other missions throughout history, but all of that was for the sake of America&#8217;s mission, not for the Unification Church. Agencies of the government are investigating the Unification Church; the IRS for example, has been investigating us for several months. They have not found anything wrong, but they keep looking for some way to trap us in a criminal act.</p>
<p>America has received many VIP&#8217;s in its history, and in God&#8217;s sight I am a most precious guest who has come to help this country. How could America treat this guest so terribly? It is a sign of America&#8217;s collapse. When God looks at America, He thinks, &#8220;America, I am totally disgusted with you now. You could not even embrace one Korean man in this large country. Instead you are trying to chase him out. What kind of God-centered America are you? For 200 years I worked to train Americans to live harmoniously with all people so that finally one man could come to this country bringing my ideology and be warmly received. For the sake of that man this country has been given enormous blessing, but now that the final moment has come, this nation is failing.&#8221; God allowed a certain permissiveness to develop in this country so that America would receive His new ideology. That is one reason God allowed democratic freedoms in this country. Contrary to God&#8217;s plan, however, America is tolerating satanic things like free sex, but trying to limit my religious work.</p>
<p>Even though America has treated me shamefully, I am not happy that God is angry and ready to chastise this nation. Most people would say, &#8220;God, You are absolutely right to chastise America. I can&#8217;t stand these people.&#8221; But instead my prayer is, &#8220;Please be slow with Your wrath and hold back Your anger. Be patient and give me a chance.&#8221;</p>
<p>My covenant with God for America will not continue indefinitely, but has a specific time element. That is why I have proclaimed that by 1978 the Unification Church must achieve a certain goal in America, and by 1981 the Unification Church has to accomplish specific results worldwide. I am following God&#8217;s timetable, and my work is a commitment for a lifetime. You American citizens are supposed to do this also. Should you fall behind me or be ahead of me? But if the downhill trend persists, even you will decline as well. I want to make you go ahead of me. That is why I have been pushing the Japanese members to work harder in order to inspire and stimulate you American members. You accidentally joined the Unification Church, didn&#8217;t you? Can you bear your responsibility, or do you still need me in America? If your answer is that you want me to stay that means you want me to work harder!</p>
<h3 align="center">We are responsible for every aspect of the world</h3>
<p>The Unification Church is doing historical work. Now Western members admire the Oriental culture and some Americans want to marry Orientals. A new culture is beginning in the Unification Church, one that transforms enemies into brothers through love. Satan cannot do that; only God can do that and this love is the ultimate power and principle by which God can conquer Satan. From God&#8217;s viewpoint the Unification Church is quite orthodox, and will definitely be prosperous.</p>
<p>I created the Unification Theological Seminary for the sake of Christianity, not for the sake of our members. The professors who teach there are not from our church, but from other faiths, being Roman Catholic, Jewish, Greek Orthodox, Presbyterian, and Methodist. It is really for the sake of their own denominations that the seminary pays them to come together there.</p>
<p>Many scholars, from Harvard for example, have come to observe the seminary. They saw that the Unification ideology wasn&#8217;t taught there, but that the professors are often teaching their courses from the point of view of their own faiths. After observing my way of doing things, these scholars concluded that I am either a number one fool, or a number one genius! But now that the first class is graduating after two years, what has happened? All the professors have been influenced by the students. The process has been reversed; instead of the professors only teaching the students, the professors also have been taught by the students.</p>
<p>Our professors are all famous theologians, but when I asked them ten questions about God and mankind, they could not answer even one. Our members are students of the professors, but they know the Divine Principle so well that they are able to clearly evaluate all the different philosophies they are taught. They affect the professors with the spiritual power and insight of our faith and ideology.</p>
<p>Do you know what I am going to achieve through the Science Conference, or why we need the New York City Symphony? We are responsible for all of God&#8217;s world, not just theologians. The Unification Church is grabbing God with one hand and grabbing the world with the other in order to connect the two of them. We are also grabbing the world with both hands to glue it together in all directions horizontally, front and back, left and right.</p>
<p>The center of give and take is God&#8217;s love, and the ideal of God is for everyone to have give and take in all directions centering on His love. Self-centered love exists in the world around us, but in our world God is the center. Unification Church members are happy people because we live the way God lives, and love as God loves. We are teaming to become like Him and be people with many directions.</p>
<p>You know God is your Father, but are you really God&#8217;s sons and daughters? You must achieve a higher level as sons and daughters of God than Adam and Eve, who fell. Only from that position can you call God your Father. The Unification Church standard is the highest of any religious teaching in history, and once you achieve that standard then Satan&#8217;s infiltration and accusation are no longer possible. That is the level you eventually achieve.</p>
<p>Once you elevate yourselves beyond Adam and Eve&#8217;s fallen position then you can unite with God in love, and there is no power under the sun that will separate you from Him. The deepest love of God has never been tasted by any people, including the saints of history. You are truly setting your sights high and the achievement of your goal is quite near. You are truly happy people.</p>
<h3 align="center">Without man there is no heaven</h3>
<p>What makes you happy? You are the people who know God&#8217;s way of life. The Divine Principle is a serious and important truth. Nothing exists without principle or law, and you are learning God&#8217;s principle, not only in theory but also in practice. You are going to live that Principle.</p>
<p>Another important point is that you are not just living a God-centered way of life for yourselves, but you are pioneering the way and laying the foundation for the future and for posterity. God wants you to incorporate these three elements: First is heart. Become the people who can understand the heart of God. Second is the Principle. Become the people who understand the Principle of God. Third is tradition. Become the people who will leave behind the correct God-centered tradition. God created the world through the Principle for the sake of love, and everything exists under the Principle. The greatness of the purpose of creation is that God wanted to create mankind to have the true heart of God and to practice the Principle of God.</p>
<p>Why does God need Adam? God is subject while Adam is in the object position, and unless Adam can first unite with God, he cannot be the subject on the horizontal level. Why does God need Eve? Unless Eve can first become one with God she cannot take the object position on the horizontal level. That means true love cannot even be discussed without God as the center. Who is master of love, men or women? In order to become a true man, every Adam must unite with God. At that moment of unity he becomes a man; otherwise, he is only an animal. Women are just the same. The prerequisite for saying the word &#8220;man&#8221; or &#8220;woman&#8221; is a concept of God. Without God the words man and woman do not exist.</p>
<p>The prerequisite for God to think of man is love. When God thinks of man, He first thinks of love and then He thinks of the Principle; He automatically thinks of man&#8217;s position, and of how man is the living, walking representative of Himself. God is the internal and invisible God, whereas man is the external and visible God. That is God&#8217;s way of thinking.</p>
<p>When you go to spirit world and call, &#8220;God, my Father,&#8221; God will say, &#8220;Yes, my son?&#8221; His answer does not come from the blue skies up above but from within your own heart and mind. God is dwelling in your mind, and when you listen to your mind you listen to God. In Corinthians, God spoke through Paul to say, &#8220;Do you not know that you are God&#8217;s temple, and that God&#8217;s spirit dwells in you?&#8221;</p>
<p>Mankind is the visible form of God, manifesting the masculine and feminine characteristics of God. Together men and women are the total visible form of God. We read in Genesis that God told Adam to name the animals of creation. Adam had little understanding of the creation, but because God was dwelling with him he was able to name the animals. When does the Kingdom of God start to exist? Heaven can exist only when God and man are together. God and man together create the Kingdom of God, and without man there is no heaven.</p>
<p>When you go to spirit world you can speak with God but you cannot see God. God is invisible not only to this physical world, but also in the spirit world. God needed to manifest Himself in a visible form in order to have some connection with this physical world, and that visible form became Adam and Eve. Man was put in the supreme position to be the visible, walking form of God.</p>
<p>Why did God create man? God longed to realistically express and consummate His love, and to fulfill His ideal for the creation of all things. By accomplishing the ideal of heaven and earth through man, God could be fulfilled. We can conclude that God needed man and the creation for His own self-perfection. Unless man becomes perfect, God remains a God of failure, not a God of success. This is how I am making the greatest contribution to mankind and to the new culture of the world; I am bringing the living God down to man and bringing man up to God. God and man can finally become one in this New Age.</p>
<p>Those who want to become the central hosts and hostesses of the universe, please raise your hands. Why do you feel that way? You consciously or subconsciously understand what you are, and that your position is God&#8217;s position. Because God is your Father, and you are His sons and daughters, you are in the same category and have the same rights as God. I am not just concocting this sermon this morning. I went before God and Jesus Christ with this truth and it was upheld before all of heaven. You will see this clearly after you die.</p>
<p>You can breathe God&#8217;s love when you go to spirit world and the love of God surrounds you; when God&#8217;s love is not there, however, you suffocate. Love serves as the atmosphere in the spirit world, whereas in the physical world you breathe air. You must practice breathing love here on earth so you can breathe love when you are elevated to the spirit world. That is the purpose of a religious life.</p>
<h3 align="center">When true love is given it returns with a plus</h3>
<p>Love starts when you put yourself in the position to serve others. From the very beginning men and women were created to serve one another; it is only through a woman that a man is fulfilled and through a man that a woman is fulfilled. This basic principle of life cannot operate when you do not exist for each other. I want you to know the difference between the two kinds of love. A love for others is the true love of God, but a selfish love is the love of Satan. When you marry, do you want to be loved or to give love? If you want to get married to only receive love then you are manifesting the selfish love of Satan.</p>
<p>When you give love it always returns with a plus. When you give a certain amount of love it is never lost, but will ultimately return increased. Through give and take, love will multiply and prosper for eternity. Love will return with a minus to the greedy person who always wants to take, simply because he has already kept some portion for himself. The true love of the Kingdom of God will never exist if you are intent on only receiving love. The condition for the Kingdom of God to exist is to love and serve others. Satanic love is exactly the opposite.</p>
<p>Why is there divorce? When people marry only to make themselves happy, their relationship cannot last long. Because these people are selfish and greedy they take more and more through the years from their family, society, nation and world. In the end, they find that they have lost everything. Man has come to the point that he must change his way of life 180 degrees, by living to give love. Then the world will certainly change.</p>
<p>The scholars and philosophers of the world have never imagined having the kind of universal gathering that I will have in order to declare to the world that all the ideologies of history which do not teach absolute unselfishness are destined to vanish. Only the ideology which teaches of service to others will survive.</p>
<p>Why are you the happiest people? Because you know you can become God-like men and women. When you meet God you can ask, &#8220;Are you my Father? If so that means I am your son and I resemble You.&#8221; God will say, &#8220;Yes, I am your Father, and I want you to be just like me.&#8221; Then you can say, &#8220;I am here living and acting just like you. Do you feel good or bad about this?&#8221; God will exclaim, &#8220;Oh, I like that!&#8221;</p>
<p>If you are ambitious then you will not stop there. You might propose to God, &#8220;Father, I want to go one step further and be better than You. I am more handsome than You! I can be more dramatic than You, speaking and doing things better than You do. How do You like that?&#8221; Would God then say, &#8220;You rascal! V,/hat are you talking about? You cannot be better than me&#8221;? No, God would say, &#8220;What a son I&#8217;ve got! I surrender to you! &#8221; God would even humble Himself that way because God recognizes that genuine love is supreme.</p>
<p>When you search after supreme love, do not expect an easy road. You must do your utmost to reach that goal of the greatest love of God. When you pursue that goal single-mindedly you establish yourself as a host and hostess of the nation, the world and the universe.</p>
<p>I want to do for you as much as I have already done for some of the Korean and Japanese members, such as buying houses to let them settle down. As the True Parent, I want to do more for the black, yellow and white members than your own natural parents would do. Before I go to spirit world I want to set that condition and fulfill my pledge as a parent in the name of God&#8217;s love. You would only follow me wholeheartedly if my heart were unconditionally pure. Because of that love, no matter how many people are in a room, it seems empty compared to when I am there. Even if there are not many people in a room, after I enter the room seems filled.</p>
<h3 align="center">Everything is precious if done in love</h3>
<p>If you can feel God, and live and eat God&#8217;s love, then regardless of hardship, you are the happiest people under the sun. Whether or not our Church has many physical possessions does not measure my value. If we lost everything we own I would not be sad or shrink from this mission. Even if something happened to all of you one morning and not one of you remained, I would not be shaken; as long as the love of God is intact and strong, my intent will persist. As long as the love of God exists, the universe is never empty but completely filled with love. Sometimes I feel so happy that I think even God envies me.</p>
<p>I have already decided to live and die on this course. I cannot alter this course because it is the only route to the love of God. The greatest, happiest man under the sun is the man who is born through love, practices love in his lifetime, and dies in love. That man is not only the happiest man here on earth, but that man can proclaim himself the happiest man before the throne of God. He can report to God, &#8220;God, I am the happiest man under the sun, not only in the physical world, but also here in the spirit world. I have fulfilled my purpose as man on earth, and now I am here in front of Your throne. Please accept me.&#8221; God will bless him, saying, &#8220;You are indeed my son. I am proud of you.&#8221; That is the highest possible blessing, and it will remain eternally.</p>
<p>I know that anyone who follows the Unification Church tradition to the end will inherit that position. That is the culmination of anything you might strive for. You may wonder if I am lying, but do not worry. You will find out for sure when you die. Do you want to go to the same level of heaven that I will have? Do you want to go to the level of heaven that the Japanese members are striving for? Then you have to work the same way I am working, the same way the Japanese members are working.</p>
<p>In reality I want the American members to be better than Japanese, even better than me. Not only will I be very proud of you, but that will be one more reason for you to be welcomed in the sight of God. This same principle works all around us. All parents want to be proud of their children, and God is no exception. Do you want me to leave you alone to maybe achieve the goal, or do you want me to discipline, chastise, and push you so hard that you have no choice but to achieve the goal?</p>
<p>I always think of the analogy between the Unification Church way of life and golf. I am the golfer and you are the ball that I send flying down the fairway. I want to have my ball land right next to the hole so that I can just tap it in, not somewhere in a sand trap, or even on the edge of the green. Actually I want to be the golfer who makes a hole in one 100% of the time. If you say, &#8220;Oh, Father, you hit me too hard. I don&#8217;t want to sail through the air,&#8221; then you are not worthy to become a hole in one.</p>
<p>Everything is precious and sweet if done in the name of love, even a spanking. One morning I was speaking and one brother was sitting right here. That morning I used that person as an example and hit him. Afterwards another brother was arguing with him, &#8220;I was supposed to be sitting in that position! Then I could have gotten hit. You took my seat! Next time you must not sit there.&#8221; The next Sunday the other brother came early to get that seat, and was waiting to be hit by me. As it turned out, that morning I did not hit anybody.</p>
<p>You represent all the races of the world. Since I have laid the foundation for the Unification Church all over the world, everywhere you travel you find my home, and therefore your own home. If you went to England you would call the English Unification Church &#8220;my church.&#8221; You are happy people because the Unification Church is one home and one family. Without any question you are the happiest people. You have two eyes and you certainly have the right to shed tears, not just of sorrow for God, but of joy. The Unification Church way of life is exciting, whether it be fundraising or witnessing, and when we take action all of America is embroiled in controversy.</p>
<p>The skunk is famous for its bad odor, but would the smell be bothersome among the skunks themselves? How do you know; have you ever been a skunk? The world might say that Unification Church members smell worse than skunks, but that smell of sweat and dust is the most perfect perfume to God; He likes that smell. Because you don&#8217;t see God you don&#8217;t realize how often God comes. Many times I lived like a beggar, dressed in very humble clothes, having no place to go and having to sleep overnight in the street. God&#8217;s presence was with me all the time. If I were to describe my experiences with God you would not believe how fantastic they are.</p>
<p>Moonies have a Moonie smell. Does that make you happy or unhappy? People may think you smell bad, but as soon as they find God and smell God themselves, then your smell will be like perfume to them. The time will come when the world will discover this. In a way you are the first heavenly skunks. Everybody will want to become baby skunks. If you sisters really want to follow me then you will marry a better man than 1. Furthermore, he will be more wonderful because he will be a much younger man than I.</p>
<p>We must not be deprived of our dignity. Our pride is heavenly pride. Let us together strive forward until we meet God on the ultimate level, the level of perfection. Let us pray.</p>
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<h3 align="center">October 23, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>The month of October is almost past. Winter is coming and on the way here I thought about how we should take care of all the members who sit outside in the open air on Sunday morning. Are you also concerned? All you are responsible for is getting here early enough to sit inside.</p>
<p>Those who are in leadership positions have to think about everything in advance, planning what to do in certain situations a month and a year from now. In a home the children have endless energy and lots of joy and they are concerned only about the present. As long as they are content in the present they are happy but that&#8217;s not good enough for the host or master of the household; he has to be thinking about everyone&#8217;s future well-being. Children welcome a severe winter because they love skiing and ice-skating and playing in the snow. To children winter means excitement, but responsible people should not think of the future only in terms of fun. Leaders should think about making preparations for the winter, for example.</p>
<p>The government of a nation is no different. In any country most people live in the present&#8217; worrying only about whether their immediate needs are being taken care of&#8217; but the leaders of the country should not think only about the present. They must plan for the nation&#8217;s well-being far into the future and we can say that the greatness of a leader parallels the breadth of his vision. If one leader thinks about 100 years in the future but another can envision the future 1,000 years away, who would be more of a host for that nation? Certainly the leader who has greater vision into the future has greater capacity for leadership. Would Americans prefer a leader who can offer a vision for 100 years ahead or someone who can see ahead through a millennium?</p>
<p>I want to ask whether you American young people cherish your nation&#8217;s traditions. Many people would say that they don&#8217;t care about tradition but only about freedom. They want to do anything they like. Do you freedom-loving people think you need a tradition? You members are a different brand of American and that&#8217;s why you say yes, but what about the millions of young people not in our Church?</p>
<p>Upon what kind of foundation can we uphold a tradition and what kind of tradition should be cherished? By definition a good tradition is the way of life which can lead people toward permanent prosperity in the future&#8217; being like a rail for the people to travel along. In other words, tradition has value through all time. You don&#8217;t want the kind of tradition that is useful only for the past or present but not for the future. You want a tradition that is valuable yesterday, today and tomorrow. What would that kind of tradition be?</p>
<p>The universal tradition would guarantee prosperity for your home and nation and world on a permanent basis, ensuring its unchanging value. Why would that kind of tradition be desirable? I already mentioned that the true host is the king or national leader who can offer a vision not only for 100 years but for 1,000 years in the future, steering the nation toward that long-distant future prosperity. That leader is thinking about what kind of tradition to leave behind him to be like a railroad track along which his people can progress. The true leader is concerned about this tradition.</p>
<p>What kind of qualification would this kind of national leader have? Most of all, he should not be centered on himself. He would want not only to give himself for the betterment and prosperity of people in the future, but also be able to elaborate on the central core truth of an eternal, lasting tradition. Would a random way of life be adequate for his purpose?</p>
<p>What ideology could form the essential framework of the future? You are right in saying that love should be the core truth, but it cannot be a love whose scope is so narrow that it cannot go beyond the level of individual or nation to embrace the world or the universe. We need a tradition of love big enough to break the shackles of individualism and embrace the universe. If anyone could set up the tradition of that love it would remain on earth forever. Have you ever thought about this? Since you have become Unification Church members you have broadened your thinking but I&#8217;m sure that such ideas never occurred to you before.</p>
<h3 align="center">The tradition which will guarantee future prosperity</h3>
<p>Our pattern of life today should be focused on the future, with our way of life of love and our concept of love extending to the world. That pattern of life should be established now. Undoubtedly I am an Oriental man while you are Westerners and together we must find the tradition that can work in the East and West alike. The external necessities like money and knowledge cannot link both worlds. America enjoys the greatest wealth in the world but I want you to know that America&#8217;s wealth will not continue indefinitely. Money comes and goes.</p>
<p>Because money is temporal and even knowledge changes, we need to find value that can always climb up. Where should we look? Some power is needed to make the family one solid unit for eternity. We must make society a solid unit which can continue for eternity, and the nation must be a solid unit which can continue for eternity.</p>
<p>These ideals can never be realized unless they are begun with love. Families which center upon parental love will remain united. In order for parental love to go on for eternity there must be someone to inherit that tradition; clearly, children should be the recipients. We need a way to educate children to become the heirs of that tradition and to expand it to have even greater value. Each generation will learn the importance of the tradition already established and not only inherit it but expand it for the future.</p>
<p>That tradition will begin in good homes, with parents always urging their children to be better than themselves. With this fervent desire, parents will constantly pay attention and give encouragement to their children. Such parents will give much thought to motivating their children in the best way possible, anticipating the day when they can become better than the parents.</p>
<p>There is nothing that these parents would not sacrifice for the betterment of their children and they would also be willing to even force their children in a direction which would make them better than their own parents. How should children react to that? Would it be reasonable for them to say, &#8220;You are dictators and I don&#8217;t like you. I don&#8217;t want to be bothered. Leave me alone&#8221;? Should that be their attitude, or should they say, &#8220;Father and mother, I understand your will and I cherish your tradition. I will do my best to receive it and expand it.&#8221; How can we educate American young people? Do you see the need for this tradition in your own lives?</p>
<p>It is certainly easy for parents to say, &#8220;All right, do anything you want. If you just want to sleep and eat, go ahead; I won&#8217;t bother you.&#8221; No real parents would like to do that though. They would teach their children to respect other people and show them something better than fighting with their brothers and sisters. Would any parents encourage their children to fight with each other? True parents are constantly working to pass on the tradition of love.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t make any difference whether you are in the East or the West; there is a common tradition of love that most parents of all races are trying to establish. Everyone wants their family united together in perfect harmony so they can have happy, peaceful lives. Everyone hopes for that experience, whether in the East or West. Tradition is essential in this case because it is the only connection with the future. Realizing its significance, it is common sense that parents would want to leave the tradition behind, even if it required the utmost sacrifice.</p>
<p>Would children in the tradition of love be unconcerned if their parents wanted a divorce? Instead they would each say, &#8220;I am your child. I am the cement between the two of you and because of me you should come up with some kind of agreement and be the best parents for me. I need parents.&#8221; We must establish in young people an awareness of the responsibility of parents, letting them know that because of their children they have no right to be separated. Because of their children&#8217;s love a mother and father have no right to even think about separating. You young people can start a trend against divorce in this country.</p>
<h3 align="center">True patriotism reflects the family</h3>
<p>The son of filial piety is the son who loves his father so much that his father cannot even imagine separating from his wife and going away from his son. Even not being able to get along with his wife could not push this father away. Any parents who have a child whose love they could not bear to push aside by separating certainly have a child of filial piety. The good son who truly loves his parents would never want to have them separate or be people who just live for themselves. That son is preserving the tradition of love which propels the family toward eternal prosperity.</p>
<p>We have reached the very critical moment here in America when each one of you Americans should create this basic tradition in the American home. If any country has this tradition of love in its families and expands it onto the level of society and nation then the beautiful relationship between the government and people can be compared to the relationship between parents and children. When that happens you know that the society and nation have established the true tradition.</p>
<p>The sad thing about America today is that &#8220;patriotism,&#8217; is an empty word. American young people blink their eyes in perplexity if you talk to them about loving their country and ask, &#8220;Why should I love my country?&#8221; No one has properly educated the young people and the modern way of life has become tragically sensual and carnal, with love relationships being as casual as animals&#8217;. There is no depth or spirituality there&#8217; only physical contact. Animals sometimes demonstrate greater fidelity than human beings. Where can you find love of country in such people? Many people think they love their country because they pay taxes and that their responsibility ends there.</p>
<p>True patriotism does not begin on the level of the nation; you must find it first in the family. In other words, the pattern of loving at the family level is the model for all relationships of love in every level of society. The relationships between parents and children, husband and wife and brothers and sisters are the basic patterns of love. If you have a deep understanding of unity and a spiritual love at home, all you have to do is expand it to the level of society and nation and you have patriotism.</p>
<p>If you create the right kind of atmosphere of family love then you won&#8217;t have to educate your children too much in terms of patriotism and love for humanity because they can easily extend their love and respect for their parents to the nation&#8217;s leaders. Loving the neighbors will be as natural as relating to their brothers and sisters. Those who have experienced the warmth of a loving home won&#8217;t be baffled by the concept of patriotism; it will immediately make sense to them. But to those whose home was devoid of love any talk of patriotism is an empty gesture.</p>
<p>What you need here in America is the right tradition of love, even if it means omitting the State Department or some other government function. The government is not what determines the prosperity of America. What you need to absolutely guarantee the prosperity of this nation is the right tradition of love. The president&#8217;s role in the country is like that of a father and the trust and love and respect of the people for their nation&#8217;s leader would move them to unite around his direction and policy. When citizens can look at their president as being like a father for the greater purpose of their nation and can respect him as they respect their own parents at home then the right kind of tradition is being passed on. Education in the home can be such that the tradition of the father&#8217;s position can be expanded onto the national level; for the purpose of the national goal and out of devotion to the national sovereignty individuals would even be willing to give their lives, as much as they would for their own parents.</p>
<p>The nation is a greater level than the family so when a priority must be decided the nation comes first. People must feel that they can even sacrifice their families in service to the people of the nation. The lesser can always be sacrificed for the greater. If war comes, the young people can give up their own lives and the older people give up their own children to participate in the national calling. That is love of country. Loving your country is an act of loving your own wife and children, not of deserting them.</p>
<p>If that kind of tradition is set in any country, that nation will flourish because the people will rally around any cause and be ready to make any sacrifice. This is the most ideal tradition of love on the family and national levels. When that kind of relationship is achieved between individual and family and individual and nation , that country will undoubtedly prosper. Once that happens, no power can threaten the prosperity of that country. If danger comes to that country, each individual will participate to protect his country and home; instead of fleeing from danger, the people will want to make sacrifices for the lasting prosperity of their nation.</p>
<p>Compare the two types of nation; one may have lots of money and power&#8217; but lack fidelity, loyalty and tradition. The other type of country may not have much money or weaponry, but each citizen is motivated to follow the true tradition of love, to sacrifice himself and participate in the greater cause, even as far as giving his life. Which country shall prosper in the long run?</p>
<p>The tradition of a true family is the same for a patriot and a saint</p>
<p>Thinking people who are searching for long-lasting prosperity have to think about this tradition. No matter how much they have for the present&#8217; the most important factor will always be what tradition of love they cherish. Many traditions have existed in history but they never extended beyond the level of the nation, and each nation has clung to its own sovereignty alone as its ultimate goal and purpose. That has been the extent of man&#8217;s thinking&#8217; but what about God? Has He been thinking in the same way? If God favored one nation out of all the world, would He be a good God? Not only would He be a very poor God, but if that nation were to decline then God would be destroyed together with it.</p>
<p>We know that God is different and does not think only on the human level. God&#8217;s level is the world and in His view patriotism is not limited to the love of one country; His level of nationalism embraces the world as one nation, one unit, and He wants to promote the same tradition of love on that level. God certainly upholds patriotism on His level of nationalism, not man&#8217;s.</p>
<p>This brings us to the question of whether there is really a God or not. One way we can prove that there is a God is by observing the abundant evidence that God is trying to promote worldwide patriotism and a concept of the world as one nation. With much evidence of this you can automatically believe that there is one higher sovereign working toward that tradition.</p>
<p>What kind of movement would seek to link man and God? Let&#8217;s analyze religion. Can you find a certain patriotic ingredient in religion that encourages loyalty beyond the level of race or nation? That evidence alone is sufficient to recognize that God has been promoting unity throughout history. If no religious philosophy can be found which encourages patriotism or filial piety beyond the level of race or nation then you can come to the conclusion that there is no God, but if you do find such a thing in religious teaching then you must recognize that God exists. We can conclude that God must be insisting that everyone love something higher than their own family or nation. Regardless of the color of his skin or nationality, each person must love something above the level of his own family and nation. The true God must insist upon that.</p>
<p>Any religion which expressly teaches the ideal of a world brotherhood is closest to God, and whoever has tried to advance such an ideology or way of life is known as a saint or holy man. A holy man is defined as the man who can freely and openly move in and out of the love of God, without hindrance or reservation. A holy man is not necessarily a giant or a miracle worker. A holy man knows how to link himself to the King of the universe, God. Simply put, he is linked with the reality of God so completely that no one can sever their relationship. Our goal in life should not be limited to patriotism for just one nation but should be the goal of a holy man and saint.</p>
<p>Such a man thinks that even if he must sacrifice his own family and nation he will live for the prosperity of the world. Does this sound like I am only trying to justify our way of life in the Unification Church? Is this just a clever definition of a holy man, or is this the truth? What this world needs is only one book not the millions of volumes in the library of a famous university. We could lose them all and not miss them because we need only one book that depicts a holy man&#8217;s life in the tradition of love between God and man. If that one book exists then we need nothing else.</p>
<p>What is eternally worthwhile about volumes on American history or Japanese or Korean history? They are nothing but a burden. Unless we know the core truth which can somehow link us with God in heaven and set up the right tradition which can guarantee man&#8217;s eternal prosperity on earth and in heaven, we have nothing. How can you know how to love the world? How can you know the way of life of holy people or saints? It might seem impossible to follow but it is really very simple. The very tradition of love which you establish at home-how the children serve their parents and how the parents love their children-is the same basic formula of the life of a patriot and of a holy man. The only difference between them is their central subject&#8217; but otherwise their way of life is just the same.</p>
<h3 align="center">One common road leads to happiness<br />
for the family, nation, world and God</h3>
<p>Ultimately we come to the conclusion that for the greater cause any smaller purpose shall be sacrificed. God might need to proclaim an emergency of the Kingdom of God and call all the nations of the world forward as crusaders, needing them to go beyond the level of their own nations. Then all the national leaders should be willing to respond and march out with banners to obey God&#8217;s orders.</p>
<p>In that situation the United States or any nation would naturally become only one division of the whole army&#8217; but in reality how many national leaders think of themselves like that? The President of the United States might not want to cooperate because he envisions his role as being closer to President of the World than only a division commander. If he thinks so, he is wrong; if God were commander of that army it would be a great honor to be just a division commander.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s seriously think about the relationship between religion, the true nation and God. First of all we must have one common reference point. God thinks, &#8220;1 am God of the world.&#8217;, If all nations and religions can accept God&#8217;s sovereignty then one embracing harmony can result. In that case God&#8217;s way of life, the nation&#8217;s way of life and the religious way of life would be parallel and unification would be automatically possible. Everyone could come to the same goal. Mankind has always been striving for knowledge, and ultimately his efforts lead to one thing: God. Mankind is actually trying to learn about God and His work. Ultimately whatever God wants for this world should become the overall national</p>
<p>goal and what God wants should become the overall goal of religion. What God wants should also be our individual goal.</p>
<p>What is God&#8217;s desire? God&#8217;s goal is the true tradition of love which will beautifully entwine the family, society and nation with the world. That same tradition is the direct short-cut for connecting mankind to God and creating one happy family of man. One common road will lead to happiness for the family, nation, world and ultimately God. That&#8217;s what God&#8217;s goal is all about. Much complicated philosophy has appeared and many books have been written on this subject, but the whole matter is very simple.</p>
<p>If someone asks you where you are headed you can say that you are trying to go beyond your society, nation and world to reach God as your ultimate goal. In order. to meet God you have to embrace your family, society, nation and world and then extend beyond to reach God. The nation must also go beyond itself individually and advance to the level of the world and God.</p>
<p>If God thinks at all, He must think in this fashion. If any national leader is a thinker then he also must think in this fashion. If any religious leader is a thinker then he should reason in this one direction, to this one simple goal. There is no truth beyond this. Can you accept this? I want you white people to look me in the eye and answer if this is true. You answer yes because you are members of the Unification Church, but would most American people be able to say yes? Regardless of whether anyone is a member of the Unification Church, anyone who will listen to logic must admit that this is true.</p>
<p>Who shall be remembered in the long run? Whoever adheres to God&#8217;s philosophy and way of life as their own will remain. The greatest possibility of becoming such a remnant can be found in religion because it already leans in this direction. The thrust of every religious philosophy points to a time when the world as it is will end, when mankind will consummate God&#8217;s goal and there will be no more pain or sorrow, but only joy and love. That is the goal of all religions.</p>
<p>We must be alert to recognize the many false kinds of religion which glorify self-centeredness and teach the attitude, &#8220;I don&#8217;t care about the world or even God Himself. I only care about ensuring my eternal happiness.&#8221; Are these the people who are entitled to the Kingdom of Heaven? What about the people who are not even worried about their own heaven because they are too busy building a kingdom for other people? If someone is too busy loving his parents and nation and world to think about his own kingdom, could he eventually end up in heaven?</p>
<p>If Jesus had set an example of selfishness as the best way of life then God would say, &#8220;Jesus, we don&#8217;t need you. Don&#8217;t bother coming back; just stay up there.&#8221; Jesus never taught a selfish way of life, however; he came to promote this tradition of love and to open up peoples&#8217; minds to a worldwide way of life. That way of life represents the hope of God&#8217; the hope of humanity and the hope of all people. That teaching alone brings hope for peace.</p>
<p>At the end of the world loyalties like nationalism or denominationalism will mean nothing. An immoral way of life and abuses like free sex will have no place at the end of the world because they are not the solution. The only possibility for the ultimate peace and tranquillity of the universe to be secured is through commitment to the tradition that I have described. It is the only way of life that can promise hope for this world.</p>
<p>Whether people accept this or understand me is immaterial. The important thing is what God wants, and God has been thinking throughout history about this one way of life. All the holy people and saints throughout history have been working for that one goal. Logically we can understand that this method offers the only hope for lasting peace here on earth. If that is the case then regardless of what people say it shall be done.</p>
<p>Do you think many people in spirit world regret missing the opportunity to live this truth while they had their physical bodies on earth to work with? You have a body now and the world&#8217;s past saints and mighty rulers alike all envy you people, wishing they could be in your place. Instead of yearning for his throne, a powerful king would long to be the most humble member of the Unification Church. Do you really feel pride in your position? When you take a big bundle of newspapers in your arm do you think,</p>
<p>&#8220;God, I am greater than the King of England. I can be proud and the entire spirit world envies me.,, Do you go out with that pride?</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s be serious for a moment and think about really going out with pride in your position here. Do you seriously think those people in spirit world laugh at you or truly envy you? I want you to know whether you are really committed members or not. A king or queen in spirit world envies even the half-hearted member who is still hesitating over whether they want to be in the Church or not, simply because that person still has a body. Amazingly enough, this is the truth.</p>
<h3 align="center">You can inherit the tradition of Jesus&#8217; love</h3>
<p>Let&#8217;s think for a moment about Jesus. Externally speaking Jesus had a miserable life on earth. He came to the small nation of Israel where everything is within walking distance and journeyed around the country talking to prostitutes, tax collectors and fishermen, proclaiming astounding, outrageous things. In many cases he was chased after and finally he was crucified at the age of 33 . Jesus lived a miserable life, far more miserable than yours, but he had heavenly pride to say to the country, &#8220;I am the son of God.&#8221; He made one unmistakably clear proclamation, &#8220;Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.&#8221; Jesus made no compromise about this proclamation and before his death he proclaimed himself as a bridegroom. He also made this stunning statement, &#8220;He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me.&#8221;</p>
<p>Jesus announced that everyone must love him more than their own family or nation and understandably people thought he was a blasphemer. Finally people thought that they just couldn&#8217;t tolerate Jesus any more so they had him crucified. Jesus asked God to forgive the Roman soldiers who were crucifying him because they did not know what they were doing, and at the moment of his dying he murmured, &#8220;Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.&#8221; Then he died.</p>
<p>Jesus&#8217; intention in saying these things was only directed at building the Kingdom of God here on earth, but practically speaking, what is the Kingdom of God? The Bible doesn&#8217;t say clearly, but the Kingdom of God Jesus was trying to build here on earth followed the blueprint that I have described this morning. It follows a simple teaching: As much as you love God your Father, that much you must love your country, your society and your own home. When that one tradition of love links every aspect of life, the Kingdom of God shall become a reality. When everyone worships one God as their common Father then no barriers will remain-no national boundaries or walls of language or denomination. Every barrier can be broken down.</p>
<p>If Jesus had just come to establish a new religion then he was not the messiah. In reality Jesus couldn&#8217;t care less about religion; what he cared about was a God-centered kingdom and that kingdom cannot be built by religion. That kingdom will be built by the family. Jesus came to build the first true family so that he could bring God down to a real home where He could dwell as the sovereign, as the true Father. There is no other way God&#8217;s will could be fulfilled. If Jesus wasn&#8217;t following this course then he could not be the Messiah. There is no other way to build the Kingdom of God here on earth. If Jesus could have succeeded in creating the first family and multiplying it not only in Israel but in Rome then certainly the cornerstone of God&#8217;s kingdom would have been laid at that time. Because Jesus was ultimately crucified, however, it has been impossible to build the Kingdom of God. Not even one God-centered family has been established.</p>
<p>Jesus said that he would come back and pick up the mission he had to leave undone, and announced that he would return as a bridegroom. If this is the truth, do you think Jesus can come on the clouds of heaven with a host of angels? Many sincere Christians are waiting for Jesus&#8217; return on the clouds of heaven, but that manner of fulfillment is absolutely impossible. God cannot place His hope in those people and without doubt that doctrine will fade. The end of the world is marked by the decline of Christianity because Christians are looking in the wrong direction to meet the Messiah. Do you think Jesus is smiling to hear what I am saying or is he upset and mad?</p>
<p>The prototype of the Kingdom of God is the God-centered family, in which all families, societies and nations are heading toward one goal: the love of God. Since everything has a common purpose, the directions of every level correspond to each other.</p>
<p>No matter how you mix them up, the family goal, national goal and world goal all correspond. The same principles work on every level.</p>
<p>Your goal in life is to set up the standard on the family level and once you do that you can go ahead to higher levels and fulfill them. Our way of life is simple: we advance step by step until we reach the ultimate goal, with the cosmic love of God as our master on every level. As an individual your point of reference is God and a society&#8217;s governing factor is God. The same holds for the nation and world. As long as there is one host in heaven, there will be no contradiction here on earth. Nothing else is important.</p>
<p>When we talk about unification we are using a big word. I must be crazy to come up with such a big goal! No one else ever dreamed of trying it. It&#8217;s like an impossible dream, yet this principle will ultimately lead to unification.</p>
<p>Suppose you could live here on earth for 10,000 years. Would you want to just cling to your wife or husband, thinking that you don&#8217;t need anything else in this world? You and I must set the right tradition by giving our blood, sweat and tears to lay the foundation for posterity to become the true society, nation, world and universe. There is no other way for us to spend our time.</p>
<p>If you were able to live here for 10,000 years would you be happy because you could live longer, or because you would then have time to build not only your home but a society, nation and ultimately God&#8217;s kingdom here on earth? Have you been thinking all the time about building that kingdom or just now because you have heard me? You have no confidence, do you? I know that you really never thought about it before. If somehow all the goodness and value were taken out of life yet this one core truth and tradition remained, are you convinced that ultimately the unified heaven and earth would become reality?</p>
<p>With this tradition unification is not an empty word but a realistic goal. What do you think would happen if this tradition were passed down throughout the future? Without doubt prosperity would be ensured because this is precisely what is needed. If Belvedere is the humble birthplace of this new tradition, would kings and queens and presidents make pilgrimages here to worship together fifty or one hundred years from now? Do you think it will become a heavenly museum later on?</p>
<p>I want you to be really proud of your position today because this wonderful truth is available to you while you are still here in the flesh. This is the very goal Jesus wanted to accomplish. All the saints and holy men wanted to accomplish this but they couldn&#8217;t and now in spirit world they envy you. God has been trying to accomplish this goal but never in history has it been finished. Do you have pride in the fact that you can possibly finish it here on earth in your lifetime? In the sight of God you are actually spiritual giants, shining like the sun, and to Him and to all of spirit world-including Jesus and all the saints-anything you hear or see and anything you talk about is extraordinary. They are all paying attention to every move you make; that is how much they are interested in your actions. People outside our Church may scoff, &#8220;You Moonies are no good and you are only brainwashed nuts,&#8221; but all you have to answer is, &#8220;You just wait a little while. The only reason you say these things is that you don&#8217;t really understand.,, Just forgive them because they do not know what they do.</p>
<p>I have spoken for two hours now and you are all elated. If I had the opportunity to speak to the entire nation, especially the young people of America, using the same logic and talking about the wonderful revelation from God, do you think they would be moved? If I had a chance to talk to them I could inspire at least one fifth of them to change at once.</p>
<h3 align="center">It is my fervent concern<br />
that you become better than me</h3>
<p>It&#8217;s ironic that the world believes the worst things about me. I am called a rotten criminal, a brainwasher, a demagogue and a charlatan. Once our opponents go to spirit world and learn the truth will they feel ashamed or not? If it is true that I have brought the truth then we can only pity America.</p>
<p>Will you be just bystanders and watch them feel sorry later on, or will you teach them the truth now and show them how to change? This is an urgent situation, but even though the real truth is here they don&#8217;t understand and can&#8217;t change because they are in darkness. In order to awaken them would you just do small things for them or would you do your absolute best and give your utmost energy? Shall we do our best without any holding back? Shall we just be &#8220;reasonable&#8221; or shall we go all out? Why?</p>
<p>This is the one golden opportunity in history; this is the time when you can receive at once all the love of God and humanity, both past and present. You can consummate history at once and receive God&#8217;s love 100% if you are 100% committed. If you respond to God with 100% commitment then you can receive 100% of God&#8217;s love. I want you to become crazy about that. This is undoubtedly a dramatic and romantic time&#8217; isn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p>To those of us in the Unification Church these words are not just an empty slogan. We are actually living them. Some couples were given the blessing seven years ago but they are still sacrificing their own lives or the sake of the world and humanity because they see something greater than themselves. At East Garden there is still one staff member from the 777 blessing, but when I told her to go and be with her husband and have a family she answered, &#8220;Father, I know that is important and I will fulfill it someday, but can you extend my mission here for a couple more years? I want to do this mission first.&#8221;</p>
<p>That sister is not having a grand time in East Garden, enjoying lots of leisure and peace and quiet. She works hard cleaning, serving and looking after the children and Mother and myself until early in the morning. It is a strenuous job, but she wants to continue a little bit longer. She finds the greatest value in serving God and humanity and knows that she won&#8217;t have this kind of opportunity in the future.</p>
<p>I was moved very much recently by one of the seminary graduates. The graduates could take a position of respect in society on an important level, but I sent them out on the MFT instead of giving them responsibility right away. Some of them complained but most of them did their best. One person did especially well and I wanted to appoint him as a state leader but he said, &#8220;Father, the MFT looks like menial work, but I have met God in these three months and I would like to stay longer. Would you give me special consideration? I cherish this experience of meeting God more than state leadership.&#8221; That person discovered the real God in the most humble level of activity. Do you want to do it too? Those of you who are willing to do that or anything else, raise your hands please.</p>
<p>Now I am almost sixty and I am not going to live here on earth permanently. My life here on earth shall come to an end within a decade but that does not bother me at all. What I want to do right now is form the right tradition and then I will go on my way. My most fervent concern is a simple one: I want to teach you to become better than me, so that even after I am gone you can carry on my tradition and steadily expand it. I am totally dedicated to creating that kind of person, just like a parent trying to mold the character of his children, guiding them to study and to be kind, courteous and loving, to become people who serve. A parent is responsible to mold the character of his children and by molding your characters I want to leave behind true leadership and a tradition of love.</p>
<p>I want to see love in you that is not self-centered, love that branches out to embrace your family, society, nation, world and God. In that tradition any leader will get rid of himself in trying to become totally public-minded, directing the focus of the peoples&#8217; love toward God and humanity. As long as we have the right spirit of love it doesn&#8217;t make any difference whether the World Mission Center&#8217; the News World building and Belvedere are all blown up and nothing remains. With the right tradition we have everything. This is the only thing we want to keep and hand down from generation to generation.</p>
<p>In this tradition we have the kingdom, we have victory and we have the liberation of God. In this tradition everything will come. It is a great thing for the Japanese and European members to come and give themselves up for the sake of America. They are demonstrating that they love America more than their own country or society or home. You may not have a chance to love your family or your own country but never mind; you are loving something greater than all those. When you consummate your love on the level of the world you will consummate every other level as well because they are all included in the greater level. Are you doing it willingly and joyfully or because you have to? Why?</p>
<h3 align="center">Once you are captured by God&#8217;s<br />
love you will be the most diligent<br />
servant of your community</h3>
<p>Love is inevitable. It is not a choice. Love is a way of life and you have no choice whether to love or not love. That is the Principle and you are to live it. It doesn&#8217;t make any difference how much I am persecuted; I am doing gigantic, extraordinary things for America, the world and for God. I see my role here in America as one of educating the people and creating a revolution in their hearts. I want your deeds to become the yardstick to which I can point and say, `&#8217;Do it just like they did in New York.,&#8217;</p>
<p>We have to bring the light of hope to the lowest realm of this society and clean it up. You must see such places as the enemies of God, places where people are degraded and ruined every day. The pattern of sex and drugs and corruption has infected the American young people and is spreading all over the nation and the world. New York is a place of total darkness, not just the dusk of evening time, and the area where the World Mission Center stands is particularly bad. I want to be the one to clean up the entire city of New York. Once we resurrect the city, everyone who comes to New York will automatically feel it and they will be trained in our tradition. I would like to see New York become a godly city.</p>
<p>Do your eyes see straight or crooked? How about your ears and how about your thinking? We must have straight action also. This morning we must make a resolution that the year of 1977 will see the start of a new history. We cannot surrender this year into the hands of Satan. Let&#8217;s pledge to God that we will make this a victorious year for Him by our actions.</p>
<p>Whoever lives this tradition shall be the hosts of the future. In this particular way of life you will see the birth of your loving family, your loving society, your nation and world. Ultimately you will possess God. The darker things are now the better because light shines out brighter in darkness . The fact that the world is pitch dark is God&#8217;s blessing. All we have to do is lift up even a little lantern to break up the blackness.</p>
<p>God needs to see resurrection here on earth. This is a dying world and God needs a new brand of people-new champions and new pioneers. That&#8217;s why God needs me and called me here to America. When the blackout occurred recently New York revealed its true nature. New York is like a dead body. Dead people cannot resurrect other dead people; only a living person can bring resurrection. If everybody lived well in God&#8217;s sight then they wouldn&#8217;t need resurrection, but in reality they are dead and in pitch darkness. You are living people and that is why you are going door-to-door to witness. You must feel that you are the source of new life for New York and that wherever you speak, sweat and labor the life of resurrection will be felt.</p>
<p>Do not be selfish-minded when you do your witnessing or ever think &#8220;I may find my future spouse here. I may be very lucky.&#8217;, You are discovering more than your husband or wife because you are discovering the world right there. You should not be loving just the American people but all the people of the world. Because you love the world you are going out to expand your love to the people you meet as representatives of the world. The truth will talk and reveal everything eventually and when people see the power of life and resurrection in the Unification Church they won&#8217;t go anywhere else. It doesn&#8217;t exist in the churches because God Himself is following you. Universal power will come around you and all kinds of miracles will happen. You will see for yourselves. People will say, &#8220;I saw you last night in my dream. An angel told me that someone important would come and that I should welcome him and give him anything he needs. That&#8217;s you. I saw your face.,, Spirit world works around the clock and you can receive constant blessing if you are anxious to do God&#8217;s work even more than 24 hours a day.</p>
<p>It might happen some day that you are so tired that you sit down on a bench to sleep for just five minutes but you don&#8217;t wake up until the next morning. Do you think God would condemn you? God would wrap a spiritual blanket around you for protection. You can be so close to God that you feel His</p>
<p>presence continually and when you go to spirit world you can reminisce with Him about your experiences. God will say, &#8220;My son, did you know that one night when you accidentally slept all night on that bench I put a blanket around you? You didn&#8217;t know then but I did that.,, You are creating topics for conversation with God.</p>
<p>We can become the hosts of the future; there is no question about it. When you become the hosts of the love of God He will approve you and the entire spirit world from the past and everyone in the present and future will approve you. How handsome or beautiful you are doesn&#8217;t matter. If God says to you, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know you,&#8221; what good would it do to be handsome or beautiful? You might be disabled and crippled, but when God says, &#8220;I know you,&#8221; you are greatly honored. That&#8217;s the way I feel. You didn&#8217;t feel that way before now&#8217; did you?</p>
<p>Become a total prisoner of the love of God. Once you are captured by the love of God you cannot go any other way. Not only that, you will actually live like a prisoner, chaining yourself to your responsibility and being the most diligent servant of your community. If you live in this fashion and still New York does not survive then I am wrong and you can throw me out. Only if you live this philosophy to the utmost and still it doesn&#8217;t work can you accuse me or complain. If God doesn&#8217;t cooperate with you then that means that there is no God.</p>
<p>By looking at me you can know that God is alive and completely involved in your actions. I have lived my life exactly as I described this morning and I have continued to become greater and more successful. Actually I am not trying to become a victorious person in all areas, not at all. I might fail miserably in business for instance, and even end up with nothing, but it doesn&#8217;t matter as long as I emerge at the end with one thing: being the most successful person in planting the tradition of the love of God. In proclaiming the love of God I have lived the love of God and I know that God is with me. Nothing else matters. Nothing else ever fails if you succeed in this one thing.</p>
<p>People see that I am connected to some mysterious source of power. They don&#8217;t realize that I have become successful by living in the love of God and that&#8217;s why many people in the world want to give up everything for my sake. You have been living like crazy people&#8217; but do you regret it? Many people are trying to kill me but here are black&#8217; white and yellow people gathered together who want to die for me. On the surface it may look like I don&#8217;t even love you because every day I keep pushing you out to even further suffering. Why do you love me? You know there is something about me that is more precious than anything else-the love of God-and you want to inherit that love.</p>
<h3 align="center">It is our honor, not our defeat,<br />
to confront Calvary and Gethsemane</h3>
<p>At times I react very strongly when someone says&#8217; &#8220;Father, I love you very much.,, I don&#8217;t like to hear this; I would rather see this in their actions. I don&#8217;t like to have just lip service. Many people can speak flowery words of praise but I would rather not hear them. If you love me then show how you love me. Acquiring this particular position required untold suffering; in order to secure the love of God I invested absolutely everything, my total best. The value and stature of this position require that it not be treated cheaply or offhandedly.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t like to see people assuming that they have the right to be blessed when they are not seriously taking responsibility for our work. I only like the person who even forgets the word &#8220;blessing,, and just keeps busy with the mission and the word of God. If it were possible to just wait for the love of God to come then I wouldn&#8217;t have worked so hard, but I know that&#8217;s not the way the love of God can be obtained.</p>
<p>If I really did come the easy way and only moved people&#8217;s hearts with smooth talk then I would be the worst kind of fraud. If that were the method by which the Unification Church was built then no one would truly love me, but the Unification Church was built with sweat&#8217; blood, suffering and tears. Nobody has shed more tears than I. That&#8217;s why no matter how much you work you always feel insufficient. Our members tell many stories of their experiences with me but nobody can truly understand me because no one knows my whole background.</p>
<p>You could see the most suspenseful movie thriller ever made and still not sense the danger, suffering and suspense of my own life. It is worth enduring all of that for the love of God, and after death it is far more precious. To become heir to the love of God is not easy because it means following this pattern of my own way of life. There is no other way you can do it.</p>
<p>If you genuinely suffer for the sake of God and shed tears and sweat for the sake of God then you will assuredly become another Reverend Moon. All of mankind will come and bow down to you and in remembering your tradition they will cry. People will come to your tomb and seek to shed tears and taste your sorrow and pain. Millions and millions of people have gone year after year to Israel, trying to experience the heart of Jesus and walk where he walked. Even though Jesus could not fulfill the whole of his mission he did leave behind the true tradition of love. You can not only leave that tradition behind you, you can fulfill it in your earthly accomplishments .</p>
<p>Not only can you hear words, you can actually put them into action. That will be the greatness of your tradition. That is where resurrection will take place. Jesus was resurrected but in this age we are concerned about national resurrection and the world&#8217;s resurrection. We must live up to the extraordinary opportunity of this age. We must not let this opportunity pass by unfulfilled.</p>
<p>You should be able to pray with gratitude in any situation. In the worst kind of pouring rain you can be grateful for the chance to test and prove yourself. In the worst kind of cold you can thank God for the chance to taste the worst kind of historical weather. If you are hungry&#8217; freezing, suffering or in pain you should go beyond that suffering and still think of God and be grateful. It is not for yourself individually that you go the path of the cross but for the sake of the world. Your suffering is linked to the garden of Gethsemane and the Mount of Calvary. You will go over the pain of the garden of Gethsemane and the Mount of Calvary, not dying, but as a living victor.</p>
<p>When you feel that you can die for the mission then the power of resurrection will come. Because Jesus went to the garden of Gethsemane and ended his life on the Mount of Calvary we cannot avoid that course ourselves, but in our case it is a great honor, not the result of leaving our mission behind unfulfilled. By overcoming them victoriously and by giving ourselves as living sacrifices we shall win the world and the heart of God.</p>
<p>You must have the experience of praying for the city of New York and shedding tears for the resurrection of New York when the entire city is asleep. Your heart should be impatient for the night to pass quickly so you can knock on doors and meet the people again. Have you ever asked God to shorten the night and make the dawn come quickly so that you can go out and work?</p>
<p>If this is your way of life then you can definitely make a victorious garden of Gethsemane and Mount of Calvary out of New York. Instead of dying you can be victorious. If you are indeed successful then do you think my name will be resurrected or not? When people really learn the value of this tradition from you they will come and wait for hours outside East Garden just to get one glimpse of my face. Think of how many people will wait all night at Belvedere to hear me speak on Sunday morning. The Tarrytown and Irvington police will have to be mobilized to straighten out the traffic jams. We won&#8217;t even need our own security on watch at East Garden because the police will say, `&#8217;Won&#8217;t you let me sit there and take your place for one night?&#8221;</p>
<p>Once people truly know the meaning of what I have done those things will happen. That&#8217;s why I designated New York as the front line out of all the possible trouble spots in the world. You are the front line soldiers. Can you sleep or eat as you wish, at any time you want? The World Mission Center is like our fortress where you are trained and disciplined.</p>
<p>I want to ask a special question of the people who are complaining. Why is it good to be strict with you? You may have a little more hardship and you may be severely disciplined, but because of this New York will come to life quicker and this nation will be revived and the world will live. The philosophy of our tradition is that for the greater purpose the lesser shall sacrifice. Do you have any exception to that? If you think, &#8220;Well, I can think of a few exceptions,&#8221;</p>
<p>then you are still in a dream world, not the real world of the Unification Church. Discipline and hard work are the reality, the severe day-to-day battle we are engaged in.</p>
<p>The entire world is pointing at you for being Moonies. All right we will accept that. Unless we have a different kind of pride and hope we cannot go ahead of the rest of the world. If you only wanted to dress like the world does and eat and sleep as it does then you should have left a long time ago, but you have a different kind of goal and commitment. Our diet is hope for the future. If you sustain yourselves on it then I guarantee you that you shall become the hosts of the future.</p>
<p>Is there anybody who hasn&#8217;t heard about me? Whether people like me or not doesn&#8217;t make any difference. I am not the only person to be controversial; every one of you is a controversial figure, aren&#8217;t you? In the future students in every academic field will study me. Even my most adamant critic and most fanatic opponent will gradually hear about the truth and have to change his attitude, step by step. Because what he believes now is not the truth, he will have to change.</p>
<p>All of this fanatical opposition is God&#8217;s strategy. Because most people adamantly oppose me without knowing anything substantial about me, all of America will be deeply apologetic once they find out the truth. It is inevitable that they will change but until that day comes I will continue on.</p>
<p>Do you feel that this is inevitable? Maybe I&#8217;m lying to you. Are you more certain than I am? Uphold that faith and you will not be a loser. Furthermore, in order to hasten that day do not stand still but arouse controversy yourself. Be a troublemaker for God. You have the power. The time will come when people will seek out my disciples. You won&#8217;t have to go knocking on doors because people will seek after you.</p>
<h3 align="center">We are laying a multifaceted foundation for the future</h3>
<p>This morning I spoke about the leader who worries about the future, making plans and preparations. If all of you are blessed and have children in the next five years, how will you feed and clothe them? Have you thought about the future? Did you assume that I would take care of everything for you? That is physically impossible. The American government couldn&#8217;t even do it. God cannot do that either. You should be able to do it and that means you have to earn your own livelihood. When you are blessed and have children should you just take care of making a living? Then who will remain in the Church? My plan is for everyone to come up with a source of income in the Church. One example is the newspaper.</p>
<p>We are not only doing spiritual work, we are actually laying the foundation for our grandchildren. Suppose you have a deep relationship with the people who buy the News World from you. If you can explain how good ginseng tea is for good health they will want to buy some. Once the people trust us they will rely on our services. We can start a mobile department store and a grocery delivery service and supply their daily needs with a loving heart. What we are doing today is laying a many-faceted foundation for the future. Your 360 homes will all become like your own home. If each family has five members then there will be birthday celebrations all around the year. You would be invited to every birthday and you simply couldn&#8217;t keep up with all the parties. Once you have won the hearts of the people it will be one thing after another.</p>
<p>Once we set up a model here in New York then we can duplicate it in other cities. Your own future well-being, the future prosperity of this nation and its defense against a communist take-over, and finally the well-being of the entire world can be assured by what we accomplish now. Suppose 1,000 people have to die in order to resurrect 10 million people. Those 1&#8217;000 would become historical heroes in the sight of God and we must be ready to be those people .</p>
<p>You want to have a family eventually&#8217; don&#8217;t you? I want us to create an atmosphere and society of our own in which we can work three hours a day to support our families and then devote the remaining hours to activities for God. Would you rather work in a company where you will be singled out for being a Moonie or would you rather help create our own positive atmosphere in which you can not only support your families but also give most of your energy for the work of God?</p>
<p>We make ginseng tea now and once people appreciate its benefit for health it will become very popular. Now people drink all kinds of crazy stuff but we can give them a healthy drink. Ginseng cosmetics, perfume and soap are also good products. We could make a ginseng wine that is really like a ginseng tonic.</p>
<p>There are limitless resources which we can pioneer and the time will come when you can just call people on the phone instead of running around door to-door. There will be supporting organizations and people will want to give everything for the sake of New York, not just a weekly tithe. How about you; can you even do the tithing? We will be in a position to really lift up the life of the city and open the door to a much better future.</p>
<p>This is divine and holy work and those who hesitate to act upon it are like deserters. The neighborhood of 360 homes where you have your home will be your community and after you die the people will erect your statue there. My name has been crucified in this city but would your becoming the messiah to your 360 homes help to resurrect my name or would that dirty it even more? Opposition is welcome. It is a great thing after all because it gives us a much more dramatic background to work in. Do you feel lucky to work while there is opposition? Soon the opposition will go away and there won&#8217;t be another chance later on. This is the time for you to get down to work while persecution is still available.</p>
<p>After you sisters are blessed and you go to your husband&#8217;s territory, all you will have to say is, &#8220;I am so and so&#8217;s wife. &#8221; You won&#8217;t even have to give your name. Will people say `&#8217;You&#8217;re one of those crazy people. Get out of here&#8221;&#8216; or &#8220;You are so and so&#8217;s wife! Please come in and make yourself at home. This is your community and your husband is our hero.&#8221; Would you and your husband feel proud or not? Soon you will have children and when they go to elementary school and meet people in the neighborhood the community will say, &#8220;You are their child! Come in. Your father and mother are great people and we love them dearly.&#8221; Your children will be proud and think, &#8221; I thought my mother was rather ugly and I thought my father was a little short&#8217; but here they are heroes!&#8221;</p>
<p>I see that New York can be transformed into a holy land by your deeds and your love. Once a new atmosphere is created then even if you are trying to starve and suffer no one will let you! No one will let you be destroyed.</p>
<p>Suppose you and your spouse both die suddenly and your children are left as orphans. You won&#8217;t have to worry about them because everyone will compete with each other to adopt them and take care of them like kings and queens. Is it logically possible? Then why don&#8217;t we go out and do it? Whatever the sacrifice, whatever the cost, we must do it. You must clearly organize your thoughts in this regard.</p>
<p>In looking at an issue of the News World you can visualize your own loving home, society and nation and the birth of the new world. Your hard work starting out early in the morning is the beginning of your new kingdom.</p>
<p>We need to establish one model here and to do that you have to just grit your teeth and persevere. Do you women want to do it? No matter how loud you say yes, you are still women and your answer doesn&#8217;t sound loud. What about you men, would you do it? Are you men happy when you are defeated by women? A man was defeated by a woman in the garden of Eden and that pattern persists today in American society.</p>
<p>Following the heavenly tradition is the one royal way to become the host of the future in the kingdom of God. By practicing this way of life and setting a tradition of the love of God in your life the future will be yours and you will hold the world in your arms. Today you are asking me to have hope. In about one month I would like to go and knock on some doors and ask whether any Moonies have come to visit. The answer should be yes.</p>
<p>Are you agreeing with me because you have to or are you really bubbling with enthusiasm because you know it is true in logic? Do you have the internal power of God&#8217;s love to willingly answer yes with conviction? You can chase out anyone who does not live up to that yes.</p>
<p>Jesus knew that the flesh needs stimulation and that&#8217;s why he said, &#8220;The mind is willing but the flesh is weak.&#8221; How can you make your flesh strong? You can harden it by pushing it past its limitations. Teachers in the schools no longer have the power to spank the children but this is not a good rule.</p>
<p>The flesh is lethargic to begin with and already American young people are not willing to be disciplined. I would like to see students telling their teachers, &#8220;If I am not moving in the right direction you just hit me and make me go the right way. I am willing to be disciplined and to listen to you.&#8221;</p>
<p>Being a Moonie is already hard enough and now I&#8217;m talking about clubbing you! Are you ready to give up? I would never really club anybody but if I ever did I would never forget him. When blessing time came I would give much closer attention to that person.</p>
<p>Once for a certain dispensational purpose I reprimanded one of the young Korean members who was very loyal and very faithful. Afterwards that person received spiritual blessing, seeing a vision and angels coming down. That person was on cloud nine every day and asked me for more reprimands but I said, &#8220;No, my chastisement is not that cheap.&#8221; But even if I resorted to clubbing and spanking, would you take it in order to have God&#8217;s will realized here on earth? You are real Moonies if you want me to push you hard so you can close the gap between you and God.</p>
<p>An old Korean proverb says that if you love your son then be hard on him and if you hate your son then give him lots of food and luxury. A beloved son sometimes needs to be whipped. He will forget the pain of the whip, but will really long for the love of his parents and for the love of God. A parent who will do that is truly noble and divine.</p>
<p>If you will be grateful and persevere to the end please raise your hands. You shall become the hosts of the love of God. Thank you very much.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">LET US MARCH FORWARD TO OUR HEAVENLY FATHER</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:23:15+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/let-us-march-forward-to-our-heavenly-father.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:23:15+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<div class="pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-bottom-left"><a href="/blog/2018/06/13/let-us-march-forward-to-our-heavenly-father.html?print=pdf" class="pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="/assets/vendor/pdf/images/pdf.png" alt="image_pdf" title="Download PDF" /></a></div><h2 align="center">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
<h3 align="center">November 13, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator &#8211; Mr. David Kim</h3>
<p>Even though fallen mankind lives in darkness all men are destined to go to God. Depending upon his or her degree of spiritual growth, each one will march forward to the Father sooner or later. The world&#8217;s present situation can be compared to the deep darkness of the night with the only light to be seen showing far above you, like the twinkling stars. If you can grasp this situation you know that your only hope is to direct yourself toward the starry sky, yet even though you can see the light twinkling above you cannot fly up to it. The situation is desperate because you are unable to reach that small light. However, if you find any little light on a lower plane then you have hope.</p>
<p>Suppose that there weren&#8217;t even twinkling stars in the sky and total darkness surrounded you m Even though you may be standing you can&#8217;t really tell whether you are in the air or on the earth. How discouraging it is to find yourself in that situation! This is the position all mankind is in, surrounded by total darkness with nowhere to go and without any sense of direction. As a human being you cannot just stand still in the darkness, however; you are destined to move somewhere.</p>
<p>What good will it do even if you have eyes? In the darkness you cannot see and you have no hope of getting anywhere. Though you have five senses they cannot function in that utter darkness so what use are they? Even though you are the center of the cosmos, in this situation you cannot declare that you are center. Have you ever thought of yourself being in darkness as deep as I have described? You have no hope in that situation and you grasp for something you cannot hold. You want to see something but you cannot see anything; you try to hear something but you cannot hear. As a human being in that situation you would feel hungry but you can&#8217;t see any food in the darkness.</p>
<p>If in that miserable state you find a little twinkling light then you have hope. Your five senses will focus intently on that light, even if it is as weak as a firefly&#8217;s. As that little bug jumps you will follow him. If it flies away you will run after it. Once you find that light you cannot bear to see it leave. You could never be content to see it go while you stay. You will want to pursue that fluttering firefly in the night. You have to realize that you are in this position and your hope lies in that light. Even if it comes only once a month or once a year, you have to appreciate that light because it can guide you out of this total darkness.</p>
<p>If that light appears, all mankind will pursue it wherever it goes. If someone knows that the small firefly light will appear once a year then that person will eagerly wait in the darkness for the one year to elapse. He will wait one month, three months, eight months for the time to go by and his longing and the joy and delight he feels at its coming cannot be described. If there were a way for him to grasp the light, how desperately would he try to catch it? Maybe the girls would say, &#8220;Why do we need that light? We cannot catch it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Would you ignore the light or try to catch it? If another person were to see you desperately grabbing for that light as your hope, he might think you were crazy. Once you find the light you cannot take slow steps; you will do your best and run as fast as possible to catch the light, right? Whether you are white, black or yellow doesn&#8217;t matter, or whether you are from an advanced or underdeveloped country. If a country or individual finds the light they will try their best to catch it.</p>
<p>Have you thought about how this fallen world needs that kind of light? You need that light because of the human fall, but you have to be alert. If you close your eyes, you will never recognize that moving light. You have to have wide-open eyes. If it did not come, would you wait with wide-open eyes for six months or even one year on the chance that you could catch the light?</p>
<p>Some other people who do not believe that the light exists will ridicule you and say you are stupid. One type of person will not care whether the light comes or not but another type of person will remain vigilant, regardless of how long he must wait. Which kind of person are you? Many people will say, &#8220;We don&#8217;t need the light and we don&#8217;t need direction. We don&#8217;t need to know a purpose of being,&#8221; but there are also God-oriented, conscientious people who have hope even after waiting many years for the light.</p>
<p>Only those people who believe that the Messiah will come keep their eyes wide open because they believe the light will appear and crush the darkness of this world m They are the religious people of the world and they are very, very sincere about watching for the light. Even though other people have eyes they cannot see and even though they have minds they cannot reason properly to expect a light to come. Religion teaches that you have to go the watchful way and that over the mountain there is light. This is the teaching of religion in the past. Isn&#8217;t this why you come to Belvedere so early in the morning to listen to me, for instance? Are you only here to sit on the cold cement?</p>
<p>The communists claim that there is no direction. They are materially oriented and are convinced they don&#8217;t need that light. What is the Unification movement doing with respect to this issue? The democratic system which fosters religion and the Unification movement will both be losers if they do not give mankind clear direction to find that light.</p>
<p>There are many foolish groups which give wrong directions but there is only one true light. The 400 denominations within Christianity are all divided among themselves about what the proper direction is and most of the rest of mankind has become numb and senseless. Even though they have eyes they cannot see and even though they have ears they cannot hear. Man&#8217;s five senses are not as sharp as God originally made them.</p>
<p>Where is the light? Toward what can your five senses direct themselves? Your perception cannot be limited to the individual level, but should go all the way to the world level. Unification of the world is possible if that true light appears because it is not limited by class, culture, color or race.</p>
<p>The road we are on leads to the light that all mankind is longing form What kind of light is it? The light is truth but what is the meaning of truth? To the hungry person truth will be food m The thirsty person&#8217;s truth is water to drink. The dying person&#8217;s truth is life. Truth is the pen with which a person who wants to write can communicate. What is truth to your ears? The wonderful sounds that come to your ears are truth and the beautiful smells that come to your nose are also truth m The definition of truth is ambiguous.</p>
<p>What is truth? That question raises all kinds of philosophical problems. You might say truth is God but if I am separated from God, why do I need Him?</p>
<p>What is my connection to Him? Should I struggle or fight with God or what? Is God an idiot, or can you argue with God about what kind of God He is? If God</p>
<p>I had an invisible hand, would you like to hold it? This is philosophy&#8217;s problem. If God can satisfy all your senses then maybe you need God and then you might say that God is truth.</p>
<p>What is the essence of God? Lover. What is the content of love? When you hear the word &#8220;love,&#8221; before you can even think about it your five senses feel joy and you are satisfied. We need that love. You enjoy dove, right? Have you seen love? You can see or experience the result of love but you have never seen love. Is love latent within you or not? Why can&#8217;t you find it?</p>
<p>Love is everywhere in you, even within your clothing. Since love is everywhere, when you have a handkerchief from your beloved you can feel his love. Love cannot exist by itself can it? Where does love start? If there is no position of subject or object then dove will not exist. If I say that without an object I am happy and I have love then everyone will say that I am mentally ill. But if I am by myself and pull out a handkerchief with sentimental memories from Korea, then when I talk to myself I am not crazy because there is a normal subject and object relationship there. An object is very valuable, isn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p>What is most valuable in the whole world for women? Husbands. There are different kinds of men -handsome, average and ugly-and sometimes they can be crippled too. Which man would you like to have as your husband? A handsome one? You flunked the test! If you are alone and the only man left is a cripple, you cannot be picky and refuse to marry him. Would you refuse him as your object or would you try to love him? The most important point is not which kind of husband you have but how you can obtain a genuine love in your subject-object relationship. That is the issue, not whether he is ugly or handsome.</p>
<p>Someone might ask what a true woman is. Is she the most beautiful woman? Who knows, a true woman might have big eyes and gigantic hands and arms and look like a lumberjack. Maybe she will be so ugly she can&#8217;t even look at herself in the mirror. Can she be categorized as a woman who smiles and jokes, one who is active and sings well and is very versatile? Should she be an Olympic champion? The woman who possesses true love is a true woman.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s narrow down what true love is. Some women say, &#8220;I have true love and a beautiful face and a beautiful figure, so I have a right to have a true man as my husband.&#8221; Would the true woman say that or would she say, &#8220;I am a beautiful woman and I have true love, but I will love a crippled, ugly husband with all my devotion; I will sacrifice myself as a woman to love him.&#8221;</p>
<p>Would you like to be a true woman or an ugly woman? If a true woman should marry a crippled man we have a real problem because there are not so many cripples in the Unification Church m How will we solve this theological question?! We can conclude after all this discussion that the final definition of the true woman is that she not only loves someone who is close to the ideal, but she is ready to love the ugliest and meanest man.</p>
<p>The definition of true love includes loving someone who is on the lowest level. Why is it possible? Love is the power flowing between two to unite them. If you always look for the ideal person then you are already limited so you have to expand your scope. If you could learn to love anyone then the power of love will multiply with give and take. The circular motion of such love will make it perpetual.</p>
<p>What is God? How does God exist? Could this idealistic, higher level God say, &#8220;I&#8217;m on the highest level, so I don&#8217;t worry about the worst people.&#8221; Such a God could never qualify to be God because God is all-inclusive, able to embrace even the people in the dungeons of hell. God includes both extreme and He even loves those in the dungeons of hell more than those in the higher level of love. We don&#8217;t need the kind of God who only functions on the ideal level. God must be able to embrace everything because God is eternal.</p>
<p>What is a true man? The true man is able to love his own enemy because love is an eternally circling motion. At Harvard there are lots of well-dressed young men who are handsome and intelligent but are they true men? Whom are such people centered on?</p>
<p>Usually they are centered on themselves and because their point of view is too limited they all flunk the test. The intellectual guy criticizes and judges everything according to his knowledge, but such a person is not the true man. Would you women like that kind of small-scale husband? It is good for you not to have that kind of intellectual type but a man with a homely face. If you can find true love for him then that&#8217;s the best husband for you. Where is the light I described? That light shines in the place where this kind of true man and true woman have true love between them and that is where all mankind is destined to go.</p>
<p>Why do you come to Sunday service at Belvedere in the early dawn? You are sitting on the floor, which is an unusual custom in the Western world. You are here because you would like to have true love and you believe you have found the truth, right? Is it good or bad that you men want to be the President of the United States and you women want to be the First Lady? You must really manifest your true love in that position. If you can love people in the dungeon of hell then you are all set. If as the First Lady you pray for them and shed tears for them and care for them then you merit your position. If the First Lady has diamonds and is a fashion plate but she is arrogant and selfish then she flunks the test. The First Lady should have sensitivity toward the happiness of mankind; that&#8217;s what will qualify her to be First Lady.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s look at the Unification movement. I am a controversial figure right now; how do you know whether or not I&#8217;m a cheater or swindler? Nearly 200 million other people believe the worst about me. Only one thing is sure. If I love mankind more than anyone else, if I worry about mankind and God more than myself and my family then one thing is certain: I stand for truth. If that is not true then I am false and there is no need for the Divine Principle. Do you love me? I am not satisfied with only hearing your answer. You have to put this into practice exactly as I have done. You have to carry God&#8217;s love and any love you have for me and give it to the people through your deeds. Otherwise I cannot believe what you say.</p>
<p>If you love me then you have to go out and love other people. Go even to the end of the world and carry your love to the most difficult places. Will you go complaining all the way, or with appreciation and willingness? How much will you love mankind? You have to love the people more than you love me and more than you love anybody you are close to. That&#8217;s the standard. I ask no more than that.</p>
<p>The person who will practice this kind of love will have a free pass to Heavenly Father&#8217;s home. T have seen that such people will own the Kingdom of Heaven. These people are copying what God has done and they will freely go everywhere in the spirit world. Their love is their qualification.</p>
<p>If God has eyes, will He just gaze at the blue sky and endless space? Where will He look? God will focus first on the dungeon of hell because that is His sorrow. The God who looks only at the beautiful world is not the true God. God is the one who looks down at the bottom of hell, thinking, &#8220;How will I lift up this person&#8217;s soul to be just like me?&#8221; Even though that person is in hell he belongs to God, and even in hell he desires God.</p>
<p>The souls in hell result from man&#8217;s fallen history but even in that shameful condition they are looking at God. Some Christians believe a very strange thing, that at the time of the final judgment God will cast wicked people into eternal fire and only Christians will be lifted up in the air. Heavenly Father does not necessarily believe what the established churches believe. According to the Principle God is going to liberate the people who have been living in hell, and those people who work hard to liberate them will find themselves in a world correspondingly higher. If you work hard in hell, you will be rewarded in heaven. Regardless of how much Divine Principle you know, simply believing that you are going to liberate those souls and trying hard to help is all you need to obtain citizenship in the kingdom. You may not think much of what I have said, but when you go to spirit world it will be proven true. Do you believe it?</p>
<p>What kind of children are pious sons and daughters? Are they the ones who say, &#8220;I love you Daddy and Mommy,&#8221; and bring their parents presents, but who fight with each other? No. The true mother and father will say that the child who is a good son or daughter loves his brothers and sisters more than his parents. This principle applies to all mankind and if it is applied, the Kingdom of Heaven will quickly come.</p>
<p>Who is a loyal subject to his king? He who loves the king&#8217;s subjects as much as he loves the king and queen is a loyal subject. This principle also applies to those we call saints. A saint lives for God. All the past saints lived for God and to the degree they loved God they loved all mankind. After they loved mankind to the same degree they loved God they could come back to be embraced by God. Does it make sense? When Jesus Christ was dying he prayed for his enemies; he practiced God&#8217;s love even on the cross. Because God is that kind of God Jesus also had to live that truth as the Messiah. That is why he can be termed the highest saint of all.</p>
<p>Modern Christianity has failed to practice this love which should have been inherited from Jesus Christ. Christians on earth were to love all mankind more than they loved Jesus. That is the responsibility of Christians at this time but they have gone a totally different way. Even though they criticize me the leading theologians and church leaders are destined to go in this direction eventually, regardless of their own doctrine. There is no way to revive modern Christianity except by following this principle of loving all mankind more than Jesus loved God.</p>
<p>With this truth it is possible to erect the Kingdom of God on earth. Do you really understand the truth I am telling you this morning? When you are hungry you long for food, but you must know this truth and practice it with more urgency than you look for food. You should know this more clearly than you know when to sleep and when to get up. Who does not know how to practice this? I want you to practice it, to love God and all mankind. That&#8217;s the way you will prepare for your role in the Kingdom of Heaven, by loving suffering mankind.</p>
<p>You work for God and for mankind m Do not say you work for me or the Unification Church. I do not work hard for the Unification Church but for mankind and Heavenly Father. The people who left the Church to do other things will never be judged by the Unification Church but by mankind and the world; we have nothing to say in that situation. People who oppose us often quote our former members when they criticize us to defend their position but in reality those people dropped out because they could not cope with difficulties like you do.</p>
<p>I know that God&#8217;s nature and His concept of the ideal world and spirit world is entirely different from existing Christian doctrine. Is it difficult or easy to build the Kingdom of God on earth according to our concept? You know where the light is in the darkness and how you are going to obtain that goal in the future and you also know where mankind is destined to go. When you follow that light your despair and disappointment will go away and the farther you go the more light you will see and the more joy you will find with God.</p>
<p>If you apply this Principle, God will dwell with you even if you are in prison. In the lonely place where you are persecuted God will visit you. Where ever you go God will follow you. Why in the world are you Americans, who are privileged to have academic freedom, following a controversial man from Korea instead of your own theologians, scholars or politicians? You are my main trouble. Why don&#8217;t you leave me alone? I know that if I kick you out you would come back again anyway because you have felt joy and satisfaction here m This is a big issue with those who dislike us.</p>
<p>As for me personally, I have no privacy at all. Not only do you follow me but even in the remote countryside of Alabama people recognize me! There is nowhere I can go quietly or privately. In Japan and Korea tremendous commotion surrounds my visits. Why is this phenomenon happening? lt is all a result of the power of love. Only love of a high dimension could inspire even Westerners to be attracted to me. You feel so good that even the different between the Orient and Occident doesn&#8217;t matter. You know the whole truth. When you go to spirit world you will be tested on how much you lived this and you cannot say that I did not teach you. This is the key to the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
<p>Based on this principle I can predict that the Unification movement will spread all over the world, regardless of persecution. Why? There is no other theory or doctrine through which we can unite the whole world except this one. Even though there are many brilliant scholars and politicians who talk about idealistic concepts, they are all divided among themselves. I am the only one with the principle which can unite all mankind. When you are eating, figure out if this is possible or not. When you are walking somewhere or when you are asleep, analyze whether this is true. If you ask Heavenly Father whether it is true He will say, &#8220;It is true. You are right.&#8221;</p>
<p>Heaven and hell will be connected to each other by love and the circling movement of love shall everlastingly continue. The liberation of hell and the liberation of God are based on this principle. Ever since human history began only one ideology has emerged which can liberate both mankind and Heavenly Father. When people call you a Moonie, think of this precious truth and don&#8217;t attack them. When you practice love you will find yourself in heaven.</p>
<p>If your opponent listens to you he will become a member quicker than anyone because he will see the road from hell to heaven. That is heavenly strategy. When you came the first time you doubted everything but now you are Sunnies, right? You have to remember your situation before you become a member. When people argue about something you have to embrace them with this power of love. You have to face your opponents and forgive them so that your own repentance will be actualized and you can bring these people to God.</p>
<p>You know that true love will save mankind and liberate God. Some people may like me while some may not, but regardless of their complaints or doubt, one thing is sure-that you have sensed this love here even without understanding the reason.</p>
<p>If you really long for me and are anxious to do better than I am doing then suddenly the spirit world will open to attend and guide you. Even with your physical eyes you will see this. This is our spiritually dynamic aspect, which is found nowhere else. You cannot purchase this kind of thing. You can only find it here, where you try to live God&#8217;s love. No atomic power can destroy this, not even political power or financial power. Even God cannot destroy the Unification Church now because He has no other choice. No one else will believe it unless they have this kind of spiritual experience. We can say there are three stages of development in this movement: First, Moonies, then Sunnies, the Kingies. You can be kings and queens because you aim to love God and have God love you directly. You never wanted such a thing in the past.</p>
<p>You have confidence that you are going to be citizens in the Kingdom of Heaven, right? When you witness, you are writing out your own ID card as well as IDs for your family, nation and the whole world to enter heaven. From the very beginning I received constant persecution, but I always thought of it as accumulating a heavenly bank account-the more persecution I get, the more receipts come in. If I am right then I will be a spiritual billionaire.</p>
<p>Decades ago I planned the dispensational timetable and events have paralleled my plans. The climactic scene was fulfilled in the year 1976, when everything was finished by the True Parents. Ever since the victory at Washington Monument I am on the creditor&#8217;s side instead of the debtor&#8217;s side and now many other people will help and all spirit world is set in motion. The &#8220;Reverend Moon in America&#8221; program is being shown to the public and a distinguished scholar has had a book published about us; the deprogrammers were defeated by a lawsuit that was decided in our favor in San Francisco-all of these things are just the beginning.</p>
<p>It was communists who first started using terminology like &#8220;brainwashing&#8217;, to attack me, but I have kept quiet, even though the New York Times and Washington Post both printed those allegations. One journalist analyzed the amount of media coverage our movement has received and he calculated that in the United States alone at least $300,000,000 worth of time, writing and space has been used to cover us. News from America goes throughout the world, which means that billions of dollars have been spent to attack me. The media did a thorough job!</p>
<p>This is all God&#8217;s strategy. Without that kind of trouble it would have taken a hundred years for the world to know about me, but now every nation is aware of me. Two years ago I sent three missionaries to each of 124 nations and the nations which respond to those three people will completely turn to God&#8217;s side when the time comes. Truly this work is one of the greatest adventures ever seen in human history.</p>
<p>In the long run Satan&#8217;s evil forces did a great favor for our movement by opposing us. In that sense we have a very strange doctrine: persecution is welcome! If an enemy attacks us for no reason then we will receive an equal amount of blessing. This is the law of indemnity and restoration. Any true religion must receive rejection first and then receive benefit. All the saints and sages in the past were attacked and then in turn God&#8217;s forces could operate. Truth is the shining light in the darkness of persecution. All of God&#8217;s plans will go forward ace cording to its formula. I am the first religious person in history to receive so much persecution in his lifetime, not just nationally but worldwide, with even the communist countries speaking against me.</p>
<p>Objectively speaking we can conclude very easily that the Unification Church is completely on God&#8217;s side or Satan&#8217;s side but not in between. When you listen to my application of God&#8217;s principle you know we are absolutely on the side of good. Before you came here you did not belong to God&#8217;s world, so how can I believe that you are convinced? How can you show me? The Bible says truth will liberate you from ignorance, and now that you have knowledge you must practice it and then darkness will fade away. You must have confidence in it.</p>
<p>How are we going to approach our Heavenly Father? You cannot go directly to Him or to the True Parents with no condition. You have to go the opposite way, winning the heart of God by liberating mankind and God. If you go out to the world carrying God&#8217;s heart then when you come back after finishing the mission you will automatically be heading toward God. You cannot go directly to Him. Jesus Christ went the same way, going the opposite direction first by loving his enemies. The saints God raised up in troubled times all practiced this truth and then went to be embraced in the bosom of God. When I explored the spirit world I never met famous ministers in the Kingdom of Heaven; those people did much talking but never put their words into practice while on earth.</p>
<p>I want you to be the people who can actually save mankind and liberate God. You are front line soldiers. If you are near to God then you will go out and suffer and love all of mankind which is under Satan&#8217;s control. Then even though you look miserable you will automatically be a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven when you die. You don&#8217;t have to worry about anything; with that spirit you are going to make this hell into God&#8217;s earthly kingdom.</p>
<p>Why are you here in New York? We are going to erect the Kingdom of Heaven on earth starting in the dungeon of hell. New York is an earthly hell and that is why I decided to set up our headquarters to save this country in New York City. Our World Mission Center is on 8th Avenue, a street famous for prostitution. Without putting this teaching into practice in the worst place we will be unable to go to heaven.</p>
<p>Some of you may think you lost everything because you joined the Unification Church. You are walking a painful road instead of living easy lives, even though you may be college graduates. Are you miserable in your hearts? When you graduated from college you never thought that you would go fund raising with peanuts! You are experiencing the opposite direction I talked about, the difficult way, so you must uplift your feelings and realize that this is a blessed situation. You are going this way to save mankind and you have to go with appreciation. Then you are overcoming.</p>
<p>Some people protest that I am talking this way to you to hide the fact that I&#8217;m making you work hard for myself. They don&#8217;t realize that there is no other way but working hard; you are in a marathon race to the Kingdom of Heaven and you have to run fast. When you go forward in your work you are approaching Heavenly Father and then you will have true love. When you have a struggle and you face total rejection then God&#8217;s love will come down.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t be disappointed when you have struggles or when you are troubled: don&#8217;t cheat yourself. Think of how you are going to run toward Heavenly Father to get more joy and more true love. That&#8217;s the power with which you can overcome. When Jesus Christ chose three disciples at the Sea of Galilee they joined him because they found the light. Without any suspicion or doubt they accepted Jesus and became his disciples. That&#8217;s the leap forward you have to make if you have difficulty. Do you know now how you are going toward God?</p>
<p>I want to speak frankly now. When you know I am coming to speak on Sunday morning you come with enthusiasm, but you do not come with the same mood when I am not here. You must be more diligent and more enthusiastic when I am not here. The pious son and daughter still love one another even if their parents are absent. The loyal subject loves his nation more when his king is absent. The same thing must be true for you. When I talk to you directly you listen, but when your leaders say something you hesitate. That&#8217;s not right. Even though they may give you some wrong direction, if you unite and work even harder, thinking about the True Parents, then you are far better off than before. Now you have the secret of how to work with your leaders.</p>
<p>If I went to spirit world tomorrow would you work harder or would you relax? Even though I may go to spirit world early I have established that the Kingdom of Heaven shall be erected on earth because of this principle. Who is going to do it? You should answer, &#8220;I am.&#8221; Since coming to America I invested all my heart and mind, all my property, all my energy and love in this country every day. I pour out everything I have, spiritual and physical, and I push you people out to sacrifice yourselves for the American people. This is the sphere of God&#8217;s love. If you believe it and practice it then I will appear to you in spirit. Other people do not understand how all this can happen! Even though you are pushed into earthly hell, God&#8217;s love will descend on you. This is the power of the love you possess.</p>
<p>The longer the period of suffering for mankind that you endure, the bigger the amount of love you will receive from God. Do you feel that this is fact? How much we push ourselves since knowing the light is the key point. Your thinking must move faster than your body since your body must follow the decisions of your mind, but you have to push your body faster. In the long run all that we gain will benefit you the most, even more than God and mankind. You have no room for complaint because all that you are doing and suffering is for you. That is how I feel too You have to be qualified as God&#8217;s worker in order to save mankind. You have to qualify yourself and work harder; that&#8217;s why you have to push yourself. You have to be a winner in the marathon race. Do you clearly understand?</p>
<p>Shall we put this into practice or not? I want you to know exactly what to do. Please raise your hands before Heavenly Father if you want to put into practice all that I have said. Thank you. Let us pray.</p>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:10:37+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/let-us-thank-god.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:10:37+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">May 29, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>Through the Divine Principle we learn that even though our actual stature is small compared to the entire universe, we indeed represent the entire universe. Man&#8217;s life derives from the life source of the universe; the universe exists because of man and man&#8217;s history is comparable to the history of the universe.</p>
<p>God created the entire universe with man as the model. Even though men commonly believe in evolution, evolution is only a resultant observation of the creation. The universe is not a random, arbitrary result of undirected forces. God planned out His creation from the most primitive to the most supreme forms of life. He had a definite plan from the very beginning, and knowing what kind of man He wanted to create as the ultimate glory of His creation, God planned the rest of the universe accordingly.</p>
<p>From the very beginning, a purpose preceded each creation. There are two kinds of purpose, internal and external, and subsequently man has one purpose for his physical body and another purpose for his internal man or mind. Together these two purposes pursue one common goal. God wanted His creation to have the two aspects of spiritual and physical, which would not contradict but harmonize with each other. This was God&#8217;s original plan, and His effort is reflected throughout all the different aspects of human nature. For instance, men and women have been constantly striving toward one common goal. Why should people as different as men and women try to unite around one central purpose?</p>
<h3 align="center">All existence was preceded by one common purpose,<br />
around which everything wants to unite</h3>
<p>Without being preceded by a common purpose which could unite both physical and spiritual energies around a common goal, evolution could never operate. It is our understanding, therefore, that before progress can ever take place, two types of energy must already exist which seek to sustain one common purpose. Through this mutual attempt by each to harmonize with the other, the value of their common goal becomes much higher.</p>
<p>The primitive levels of existence seem to have randomly evolved into higher, more complex beings, but some goal must have influenced them to go in that direction. Evolution itself cannot create a higher goal for the development of the world. Instead the direction of development must be derived from a certain goal or purpose which precedes existence itself. All of creation comes under this principle, and man is no exception. However, man differs from the rest of creation in that he has the built-in energy to progress by his own creative efforts. We are born to progress and to elevate our own value by pursuing higher and higher goals.</p>
<p>No man or woman wants to be alone or to stand still. Instead, we try to involve ourselves in something in order to be part of a higher purpose and goal. All of man&#8217;s literature and art, for example, are expressions of man trying to harmonize himself with his external surroundings. Each of us has this basic desire to harmonize with those around us and to bring about something greater than our moment-to-moment existence. Through having a certain direction we want to harmonize with each other and to ultimately achieve a goal of higher value than ourselves. This principle affects all the created beings in this universe. The theory of evolution describes only one small aspect of interaction in a very complex universe.</p>
<p>It is a fundamental principle that interaction can never occur when there is only one entity. There must be at least two elements in order for interaction to occur, and furthermore, the separate elements must seek some common benefit by their relationship. Otherwise, there will be no harmony in their give and take. Men and women strive to become one because they see that by doing so they each can derive some common benefit. If oneness is pursued for mutual benefit, then a mutual purpose must also exist. Everything has two basic features, existence and direction, and there is mutuality in every aspect of human activity.</p>
<p>Communists do not acknowledge that an inherent direction and goal preceded the universe, and their theories do not touch upon the fundamental basics of interaction. Instead, communists use dialectical materialism to justify the actions of the Communist Party, applying a false theory of spontaneous change to explain how miraculous results can be expected from a communist state. There is actually no such thing as a miracle in this universe. There must be a cause and direction for everything. From man&#8217;s perspective a certain action may seem sudden or miraculous, but viewed from a larger perspective it is apparent that no such thing is possible.</p>
<p>Has basic human nature evolved through history? Nowadays men and women love each other, but what about men and women who existed thousands of years ago? Would their love have been different from ours today, or was their impulse to seek harmony and the fulfillment of a goal as intense as ours?</p>
<p>Why should creation stop at the level of man? Why haven&#8217;t sudden total changes in species occurred recently? More and more complex animals appeared throughout the ages, but no creature has appeared which is more highly developed than man. Creation seems to have stopped with man. Do you think that happened because man shouted out, &#8220;We are perfectly happy, God. You can stop right here&#8221;? Since creation developed up to the level of man and then stopped, then we must conclude that there is a universal will and consciousness which preexisted man, and which had already planned the entire creation to conclude at the level of man.</p>
<p>Even if we select one small aspect of creation, such as man&#8217;s eyes, no scientist and none of man&#8217;s theories, such as dialectical materialism, can fully explain its functioning. We in the Unification Church are destined to fight against the false ideology of communism in the future, but in order to win over it we must clearly understand the true purpose and direction of creation. This is what will disprove dialectical materialism.</p>
<p>The whole dispute boils down to one simple question: Which came about first, matter or consciousness? Communism states that matter came first, while most people in the free world think that consciousness preceded matter. Where did the matter to construct an eyeball come from? What influenced matter to form eyes? Why does the nose on your face remain still, while your eyes blink frequently? If there is no consciousness or reason behind that phenomenon then why do your eyes blink at all? Do they move at random?</p>
<p>Your eyes move from left to right and up and down because they want to fulfill their purpose of providing vision. When you go out on a dusty, windy day much dust blows up your nose, but it still does not move. In the same situation, however, your eyes blink many times each minute. Why the difference? There is a reason and purpose behind it, namely that if your eyes became dry then they could not function. Your eyebrows are not on your face by accident but to help protect the eyes. Everything works out to have a certain purpose.</p>
<p>Could eyes have known ahead of time that they would need protection from dust and wind when they came into the world? No eye could know in advance what kind of world it would have to cope with, and. thus prepare in advance. However, instead of understanding that each creation has an internal cause, dialectical materialism states that everything just happened to occur the way we see it.</p>
<p>There must be some universal consciousness which existed before the eye, and which planned out how the eye would cope with the atmosphere and dust. Which came first then, matter or consciousness? Everything has a reason to exist which was planned out by some universal mind, and nothing under the sun exists on a whim or at random. This concept is the fundamental difference between our ideology and communism. My purpose is not to dwell on this subject this morning, but I want this point to be clear before going on to my main subject.</p>
<h3 align="center">Only through love can man relate everything<br />
to his desire for a higher purpose</h3>
<p>Why was man born? Someone planned ahead of time that man would be the supreme creature in all creation, having the supreme purpose, direction and goal in all tie universe. In studying our own lives it becomes evident that everything we do is for the purpose of receiving some benefit. You did not come here this morning, for example, in order to lose something but to gain something, even though it is intangible.</p>
<p>Are you now receiving something from me? Why isn&#8217;t it good to sleep when I am giving a sermon? The simple explanation is that by dozing instead of listening you are losing something. Sleeping at this time is a waste of your energy, of the universal energy, and of my energy. The position of leader is a very fearsome one. If I had no inspiration to give you then after two or three sermons you would see that there was nothing to gain by being here and you would not come. However, if you are benefited and inspired to a higher level after coming here, then you smile from ear to ear as you leave.</p>
<p>Why is love good? It is only through love that we can relate everything to a higher purpose. Every one of you sitting here has the built-in nature to want to reach higher levels and higher value by pursuing higher goals. Each day you want to be more righteous than the day before. In addition, you feel, &#8220;T want to succeed and become a center of attention. I want to be respected for giving much benefit to the world.&#8221; Where did you get such an idea? If everyone happens to feel that way then the theory of evolution might be correct. However, that particular ideal will never &#8220;evolve&#8221; into something else.</p>
<p>Nothing can change that constant ideal. If you received electric shocks, would it be possible to move that thought out of you? Would an atomic bomb change that human idea? Why not? No matter what happens to you, you will always return to that same direction and purpose. If you are whirled around until you are completely dizzy you will still resume that direction. Even if you are pushed down or beaten, some power within you will always bring you back to that certain posture.</p>
<p>The magnetic forces of the North and South Poles form the standard for all navigation. If the electrical fields of the two poles changed at random every day, what would happen to men at sea and in the air? Can the world make orderly progress if everything happens at random? There are many forces trying to influence you toward a certain direction, but some internal power pulls you right back. In spite of this fact, communism denies all these basic human traits, saying, &#8220;Men must be re-made and totally revolutionized; they must be turned around once and for all.&#8221;</p>
<p>Throughout this century communists have been &#8220;revolutionizing&#8221; men to live within communistic cultures, but if the Iron and Bamboo Curtains and the Berlin Wall suddenly did not exist, do you think any of the citizens in those countries would want to continue living under those systems? No matter how much people are indoctrinated, in the depths of their hearts they know that communism contradicts basic human nature as well as the basic nature of God. Any ideology that denies the basic, original nature of man will not last.</p>
<h3 align="center">For what can we be thankful to God?</h3>
<p>My topic is, &#8220;Let Us Thank God.&#8221; Why can we be thankful to God? First of all, we have been given the power to interact and become harmonized with the cosmos. Man&#8217;s universal desire to be harmonized with one another is not originally his own concept, but God&#8217;s. We are in the objective position, and God is the subject with a greater mind than ours, a mind which is interacting with our small minds and influencing us to interact with each other. Intuitively we want to engage in certain actions and achieve certain results.</p>
<p>It is common for people to think, &#8220;Thank heaven,&#8221; when they receive some blessing or favor. Most people habitually think in terms of material rewards, but have you ever been grateful for the built-in, God-given nature which motivates you to seek happiness in a goal and purpose? Have you thought about this intangible gift from God? Men and women want to find happiness by uniting with each other, but are grateful for this desire only after meeting their mates.</p>
<p>You have ample reason to be thankful to God far before your marriage, because you have the beautiful nature that seeks to make progress, and to unite in harmony with all else. Do not neglect being thankful until your marriage; this nature within your heart that seeks interaction is reason alone for thanksgiving. Have you been thankful for it?</p>
<p>Older teen-agers automatically turn their heads when someone handsome or beautiful passes by; some power pulls their eyes in that direction. Did you ever realize the significance of that energy moving within you? At a certain age women start to feel some admiration for men and to pay more attention to them. Have you ever been thankful for that instinctive energy? You act in that fashion because it is your nature to parallel the rhythm and direction of the universe.</p>
<p>At a certain age women have the desire to move toward men and men have the desire to move toward women, responding to the universal energy which gives them a higher purpose for being together. What are you going to fulfill by being united? As both parties move toward the point of harmony and unity by loving each other, a new power to create is released and new life is born. By thus fulfilling his position as a representative of God, man will elevate himself to be the lord of creation.</p>
<p>In giving birth to their children, men and women are exercising their most precious power of creation. A woman&#8217;s most supreme role is that of bearing children. Bearing children is not just an ordinary, random thing; the power and energy of the universe is focused in your own body to bring about the greatest event in your life. When you women conceive your children you must realize that the universe is moving within your womb and making new life. In preparing for your children you will think vertically high and horizontally wide, linking the universe and your vision and dream for the future. Most of you have not had this experience but your time will come. Your age is the age of dreams.</p>
<p>Through universal energy men and women come toward each other, and in having a child their dream will become reality. When men and women are united in their ideal then through their children their love can become deeper and wider. The love of young people before marriage is directed horizontally toward each other, but when they have children their love deepens to become vertical as well, uniting parent and child.</p>
<p>It is the power of love that unites people both horizontally and vertically. A startling phenomenon in America is the increasing divorce rate. However, even parents who seek divorce from each other will fight over custody of their children. Why don&#8217;t they just abandon them instead? Horizontal love can be broken and terminated, but the vertical line of love is irreplaceable and parents do not want to lose it. No one wants to separate themselves from God, and through their vertical love with their children they want to keep themselves within God&#8217;s sight.</p>
<p>A husband and wife may come to despise each other and decide to separate, but no parent can despise his child and want to end the relationship forever. The wife may become an evil woman and the husband may become an evil man, but no one wants to curse his own child. Why are people like that? There is a vertical relation between heaven and earth and ultimately no one can separate himself from God. Everyone, whether consciously or unconsciously, recognizes this vertical longing and wants to secure God&#8217;s love for themselves.</p>
<h3 align="center">Without being devoted to your children,<br />
you do not even deserve to be married</h3>
<p>Many people deny the past and future, wanting only to live for the carnal pleasure of the present time. If you truly dwell in eternal love, however, then your love has the power to harmonize the past, present and future; in true love there is no such thing as dwelling only in the present. Love cannot be spoken only in the moment. There is no such thing as a husband and wife who enjoy life while their children cry out, or children who are happy while their parents grieve. The husband and wife of a broken family will cling to their vertical connection with their children because they know that ultimately that relationship will bring them life or salvation. Man&#8217;s inner nature tells him that he has some hope of salvation by clinging to the vertical love between God, parents and children.</p>
<p>Have you women ever been thankful that as you reach a certain age your body developed to enable you to bear children? This is the expression of the power of God. If you are really thankful to God for His gift of your body as His temple, then you will never be involved in a tragedy like divorce. For whom does your body change? Ultimately that change comes so that you can give birth to children. Your body structure changes in two areas mainly. Why do you have wider hips than men? God gave you a large foundation so that when you deliver a child you will not suffer too much. You have large breasts so you can feed your child.</p>
<p>Did God give you those features for you to indulge in your own carnal desires? Ultimately their purpose is for the creation of your children. The real gifts of God are your children, who are more important than your body. How many American women are thinking in that fashion? American women have failed God&#8217;s test. Shall we re-educate them?</p>
<p>Do you always know who your real father and mother are? Your parents are your parents, period. It is impossible for some other person to become your parent. How many here have parents who are divorced? Even though you may address your stepmother or stepfather as mother or father, you know you are not their child and your heart is elsewhere. Is there anyone who joyfully accepts their stepparent as their real parent? In Jin told us about one of her classmates whose mother recently re-married. The girl said, &#8220;I never want to call him my father. I would rather just call him by his name.&#8221;</p>
<p>The vertical love between parents and their children is closest to God&#8217;s love. I want you to realize that you have this mission and purpose. That is why God gave you the beauty of certain features as breasts and hips. Ultimately they are not even for your husband, and their misuse for carnal desire is utterly wrong. If you do not care about your own child and about his future but only live for your carnal desires, then God would want you to cut your breasts off because you would not deserve to have them. After that you might have the right to ignore your baby. Divorced people who hear these remarks might feel uncomfortable, but I must tell the truth.</p>
<p>Unification Church members are very fortunate people because they know the truth. If you do not like your husband or wife then you should not have children. Your goal is to have good children for the future, and without that desire you have no right to get married or to live with your mate. If you use love only to take advantage of someone in satisfying your carnal desire then you are actually a violator of universal law.</p>
<p>Keeping American women happy is an incredible job and American men have practically no time to think about anything else. After being divorced many men refuse to get married again, grumbling, &#8220;I&#8217;ll just have another messy situation. I&#8217;m sick and tired of it. No more.&#8221; There are many women in America who marry a man just to get his money; after a divorce the law is such that it favors women and they can become very rich after divorcing.</p>
<p>Unification Church women, have you ever thought about divorce? You could certainly do it, couldn&#8217;t you? Why not? Now you know why; everything you have, including your own body, is not yours. Even your love is not for yourself but for the sake of the universe. When you have a universal mind to embrace a universal purpose and to embrace God, as you become an older teenager and are sensitive to surrounding nature you become very sentimental and emotional in your reaction to the universe. Why are you built that way? It is a sign that you are maturing in love. God gave you a certain sensitivity which enables you to relate to the world with love.</p>
<h3 align="center">Your ultimate source of pride is your love</h3>
<p>What can men and women be most proud of? Are diamonds and gold the things men and women can be proud of in this universe? A woman&#8217;s source of pride is her husband, and a man&#8217;s is his wife. Why is that? When you are growing up and reaching for maturity you do not appreciate the sacrificial love of parents. As children, none of us really appreciated our parent&#8217;s love. Hyo Jin, for example, is interested in so many things that sometimes he does not truly appreciate his parents&#8217; tender love. He is showing signs of maturity though. Sometimes I see him standing in front of the mirror and studying his face. It is a natural law that he wants to be handsome and capture the attention of other girls. It shows that when he is mature and ready to be married that his wife can be proud of him because he has been making himself attractive.</p>
<p>For eternity a man can be proud of his wife, and for eternity a woman can be proud of her husband. Nothing else matters in the universe except your love; ultimately things like knowledge or money do not matter. When you have someone you can truly be proud of and love with all your energy then you are a happy person.</p>
<p>Even if you are poverty-stricken and have nothing to eat or drink but a cup of water, you can be one in flesh with your mate if you can truly understand and be proud of one another. You may have to sleep under trees at night, but if you have understanding and pride in each other then you will dwell in happiness. If you were to ask God what He would be most proud of in this universe, God would answer, &#8220;I am most proud of men and women who are totally in love and utterly proud of each other. Their love is the most beautiful possible thing to behold.&#8221; Love is the one thing which can make everyone laugh, even the entire universe.</p>
<p>Each of you is working toward that day when you will be proud of your husband and wife and want to shout out to the universe in your joy. With love you can conquer your husband and with your love you can conquer your wife. Love creates horizontal unity and vertical unity, and through this love you can even make God your prisoner. Through love you can conquer and occupy everything. God will become helpless before your love.</p>
<p>A dog or a tree, anything in the universe which you touch with a loving heart will appreciate your love. When you look at nature you should realize that everything is a God-given gift which you can use to express your love toward your mate. God already knew that you would have the mind which would want to express your love in the form of a gift, so He provided the entire universe to you as a gift item. If you see a little kitten with soft fur, you think, &#8220;My wife would like this kitten.&#8221;</p>
<p>Have you ever heard anything like this before? Do you really feel to your bones, &#8220;Yes, the universe should work like that&#8221;? This is a simple, fundamental universal truth. It is a simple yet gigantic truth, but no one noticed it. I have brought this special truth as a tremendous gift from God, and without any reservations I am giving it to you. It is the pride of the Unification Church.</p>
<p>There is nothing in this universe which is unrelated to you. When you are proud of your wife or husband then the entire universe becomes a gift item as the tangible expression of your love. That is why the universe exists. When a married man meets another woman he will notice how she is similar or different from his wife. He may glance at her, not because he is attracted to the woman, but because he loves his wife and is reminded of her. Women will notice a certain man in the same way.</p>
<p>We relate the people we meet to the members of our family. When you look at an elderly woman you think, &#8220;Oh, she is like my grandmother,&#8221; and when you look at younger people you think of your own children or of your younger brothers and sisters. In that way you expand your immediate family to include all mankind. If there is a God who has an ideal then this must be it; this is the only way God could have His ideal of one family of man spread throughout the world.</p>
<p>What can men and women be proud or. You women who do not yet have husbands are proud of the men. It is true. Whatever the time of day, women&#8217;s minds are occupied by men. Not being a woman, I cannot completely know your mind, but through the Principle I can see that your mind would probably be like that. Some women insist, &#8220;I don&#8217;t ever want to marry.&#8221; They are the greatest liars under the sun.</p>
<h3 align="center">Through your mate, then your children and then<br />
your parents you can fully know God&#8217;s love</h3>
<p>Have all of you ever been thankful that you are able to love another as an expression of God and the universe? A husband and wife together represent the entire universe. When a wife enters the place where her husband is she enters not merely as a wife or as an individual, but as a representative of the universe. Of course, this kind of thinking has been non-existent in your lives so far because the rest of the world never thinks in this way.</p>
<p>If a man and woman are dedicated to the universal purpose and recognize themselves as universal beings then what kind of child would they have? What can men and women be proud of after each other? Their sons and daughters. Men and women are proud of each other, but as soon as they have a family their focus will change from being proud of each other to being proud of their own children.</p>
<p>Giving your own testimony or hearing someone else&#8217;s testimony about what a wonderful husband or wife you have is always uplifting and everyone around will walk on cloud nine. It never fails. Your pride centers next on your children. We have to be aware of this basic human nature when dealing with parents; in order to capture the faith and good will of a parent the best thing to do is to praise his children. Even if the parents know your praise is exaggerated they will smile from ear to ear anyway.</p>
<p>Men and women are proud of each other first and next they are proud of their children. What comes after that? Thirdly, they are proud of their parents. After having your own children you will all of a sudden realize the value of your own parents and be proud of them. It is not good enough to think you love your parents; not until you have your own children will you begin to truly understand and appreciate your parents.</p>
<p>This explains the reason that God created man&#8217;s life to be centered around the family. God knew that no matter how much we thought we appreciated and loved Him, we could never truly appreciate and love Him as our Father until we had our own children. Only by first growing up as children and then loving as husband and wife and giving birth to our children could we fully appreciate God as our parent.</p>
<p>Do you think God, as the one true Parent, feels bad that the realization of the parents&#8217; position comes third, with husband and wife first and children next? God does not mind that He is not fully understood until man reaches the level of perfection. God does not want to settle for anything immature or incomplete. Instead He wants us to grow through the formation and growth levels and then come together as mature personalities to stand before Him. From this point of view, no matter how much a husband and wife were in love they would still be immature and imperfect without having their children. Their love would be crippled and incomplete.</p>
<p>After receiving love as children and experiencing the conjugal love of husband and wife you will ultimately come to the realization that the most wholesome, sacrificial and fundamental love is parental love. In an ideal life you would fully enjoy and experience all these three loves.</p>
<p>Because the perfection of love is actualized as parental love the center of a home should be the older people. If grandparents live there then they should be the center because they are the parents of the parents. They are the host and hostess of the home and after they pass away your parents would become the center.</p>
<p>Why should the oldest people be the central people of the universe? Who is the oldest person in the universe? God is the oldest, and since He is the center of everything we must follow that tradition. Following this understanding through, which tradition or culture is closer to the universal, God-centered culture? Do you American people feet good when you hear that the Oriental culture is closer? I did not come to America to import the Oriental culture. That is not my concern. Externally speaking there is much in the American culture to be appreciated. Speaking internally of God&#8217;s tradition and culture, however, what I am teaching is neither the Oriental tradition nor the Western tradition, but God&#8217;s tradition.</p>
<p>It is sad to see American society today with its cruel disregard for its senior citizens. The other day in Central Park I saw a great many senior citizens who were sitting idle, watching passing cars and staring at the trees. I asked one of them, &#8220;Are you happy? Where do you live?&#8221; The person answered that he lives in a senior citizens home and that he is very unhappy. When I asked what would make him happy, he said he wanted to live and play with his children and grandchildren, but that they did not live in New York.</p>
<p>How many Americans really care about the old people? When children reach a certain age they just declare, &#8220;I&#8217;m free now. Good-bye, it&#8217;s my life now.&#8221; Yet it is not only older people who are ignored in America. Often parents are so busy with something that they do not care about their children or pay attention to them. These children are entirely on their own, feeling lonesome and abandoned.</p>
<p>In the Unification Church, however, we are going to change all of that. My concern is how to bring the heavenly culture into America&#8217;s way of life. I am not speaking only on behalf of senior citizens, but on behalf of all three levels of parents, husband and wife, and children. The whole of American culture needs to elevate its outlook. Externally this nation has already achieved much and made tremendous contributions to the world; once the heavenly way of life becomes an integral part of the American culture then America will be heaven.</p>
<p>There are so many things to be thankful to God for. We are thankful for being men and women, and for being husbands and wives, and for the blessing of having children. We are thankful to be the instruments of the creative energy of the universe. If we have truly grateful hearts, will God be unhappy to look down at us? When you are thankful for being what you are, the universe and all nature will respond to you in happiness.</p>
<h3 align="center">All of creation, including man, has a<br />
perfected life if it is given for God&#8217;s purpose</h3>
<p>In leading the fishing expeditions at Barrytown, where many hundreds of carp were caught, I thought very much about the universal principle of creation being killed to become food for man. Six big turtles lost their home as we dredged the Barrytown lake to accommodate more carp. I felt sorry for them and had them put in the Hudson River, thinking, &#8220;You turtles go and live in the wide world.&#8221;</p>
<p>When I go fishing I send the first fish back to its home. I thought that even a lowly creature like a carp appreciates love, and when someone appreciates their purpose for being what they are they even want to die for that person. In that sense the carp are not a sacrifice as they give themselves for the person who loves them. This was God&#8217;s idea for creation. By being loved and appreciated by the Unification Church members, all these creatures shall be thankful and proud of living and dying for the purpose for which they were created.</p>
<p>Love is supreme. Living for love and dying in love always brings happiness. V,/hen the moment of your death comes you will be smiling as you think about your love, and it will be your joy at that moment to be embraced by the one you love.</p>
<p>Suppose someone said, &#8220;I understand that Reverend Moon caught a lot of carp in the Hudson River. I&#8217;m sure those fish just curse him as they die.&#8221; How would you answer? Before hearing my explanation I&#8217;m sure you would have been confused, but now you know how carp have a perfected life if they can die for the sake of God&#8217;s purpose, becoming the flesh and blood of God-centered people. Is there any more precious cause carp could pursue? There is the difference of heaven and earth in your actions depending on how you are motivated.</p>
<p>How does this principle apply to you? If there were a place of death so honorable in the sight of God that there you could receive His love without limit, would you consider that to be a very unfortunate, tragic place, or would you revere it as an honorable place to be? If you could choose between living forever on earth or dying and finally receiving God&#8217;s love, which one would you take?</p>
<p>This principle applies the same way both to a carp and to a man. The ultimate question we have to ask ourselves then is, &#8220;Am I ready to die for the love of God?&#8221; What is your answer? If your answer is yes then your death is not death. Your flesh and your spirit become the spirit and flesh of all mankind and of all the universe. When you center your life on the higher level you will live for eternity.</p>
<p>We are in the midst of the greatest of all educational processes, with the greatest possible purpose of teaching mankind that each person must be able to give his life for the sake of love. This is a far more precious education than ten Ph.D. programs at Harvard.</p>
<p>Why are we gathered together in the Unification Church? We want to give our lives for the supreme love of the universe, the love of God. There is no greater education than the education you are receiving this morning, hearing that everything started out from love, and that love is the goal and direction for all things. God gave everything in creation to be gifts of love. When you realize this and live your life in appreciation of God&#8217;s love, then you shall be glorious when you go before the throne of God.</p>
<p>We must be thankful to be born as men and women. In a sense we are the curators of God&#8217;s own museum, the universe. Men have built their own museums, like the National Archives and the Museum of Natural History, but they are really trivial compared to God&#8217;s own museum. All museums of the entire world put together cannot compare to the mystery and beauty of one living leaf. God created a living, growing museum, not one which is stagnant and collects dust. But if we can create in our lives the beauty of the love of God then our museum is truly beautiful.</p>
<p>When I walk through a museum I see many people who really ponder the things there and appreciate them, but I often wonder how people can pay more attention to rocks that are just gathering dust than to God&#8217;s museum, which has much more beauty and mystery. If you go to the riverside and pick up one small grain of sand, can you say how old it is or what its personal history has been? There is much mystery in a grain of sand; nobody understands the hidden history of God which it contains.</p>
<p>An oak tree has a history of tens of thousands of years that reaches from acorn to acorn back to the very first tree. Have you ever asked a tree, &#8220;Where do your leaves come from? Where does your trunk come from?&#8221; What is the source of energy that is derived from the soil? Where does water come from? Here on the Belvedere grounds there is dirt from all over the world, from Europe, Asia, Africa. The universe is contained in even one grain of sand or one small particle of soil. When you look at yourself you are seeing a universal being, with your energy, flesh and blood gathered from the same source as the entire universe. You are truly a microcosm of the universe.</p>
<p>My flesh and blood are formed from food, and since I have traveled to all six continents and forty different countries I have eaten Asian food, American food, European food, Indian food and African food. My physical body is literally universal. My body is a museum because it is a collection of ingredients from all over the earth.</p>
<p>You can say to God, &#8220;I am Your museum piece. I am a microcosm of the universe and here I stand as a universal person. Are You proud of me?&#8221; God will definitely say, &#8220;I certainly am and I&#8217;m envious of you in a way. I&#8217;m invisible but you are physical and you can look at yourself as being universal. That&#8217;s exactly why I created you.&#8221;</p>
<h3 align="center">As people who are indebted, we can only<br />
show our gratitude by giving to others</h3>
<p>Where did your life come from originally? Your own parents invested themselves in you, and nature also gave you the food to make your flesh and blood and bone. If you were to repay all those to whom you were indebted you would have nothing left. In addition, you are also indebted to God who originally gave you life. What do you have left then? God, your parents and nature invested themselves in you, and therefore you are a chunk of indebtedness.</p>
<p>The important thing is, have you been grateful for that investment? An indebted person can be nothing but thankful. God, your parents and nature will say, &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to give anything back. You keep it for yourself.&#8221; What a wonderful gift your life is! Throughout your entire life you can be thankful. Have you ever thought about that?</p>
<p>Jesus told a story that parallels this, about a cruel man who had been forgiven a debt he could not pay, but who then threw a man into jail who was indebted to him. His lord spoke angrily to him for being so cruel after he himself had received mercy. We have nothing that is inherently ours; God gave us life unconditionally, without requiring that any contract be signed or interest paid or any loan paid back within a certain number of years. The only way we can repay Him or show our gratitude is by giving to others.</p>
<p>We can say we have parents on three levels; nature is one level of parent, as well as our physical parents who gave birth to us, and God is the ultimate parent. We are in the position to be thankful to all of these parents, and since everything we have does not really belong to us, we must be ready to give it out at any time, saying, &#8220;Nature, this is from you; my parents, this is yours; Heavenly Father, this is all Yours.&#8221;</p>
<p>You may think it is you who walk around, but you are not the one who makes you walk God is not greedy or trying to take everything back from you, but God created you for a special purpose and all He wants is for you to want to live up to that ideal. Until now you were probably grateful for only the trivial things in your life, but never thankful for the greatest things for which you are indebted.</p>
<p>How about sunlight? Without it you cannot survive, but how often are you thankful for it? At Barrytown we are enlarging the pond to accommodate more carp and the crew doing the work was very impatient at being hampered by the running water. I thought, &#8220;I know it is a hindrance, but don&#8217;t be upset because without water nothing could survive on this planet.&#8221; How many minutes could you survive without air? You do not feel any danger because you&#8217;re so secure, but what would happen if there was no air anywhere for five minutes?</p>
<p>You may be thankful for trivial things like a can of coke when you are hot and thirsty, but what about this gift of the universe which God gave us-the sun&#8217;s rays, the air, the fresh water, the sea and the land? Are you thankful that you can be a man or a woman and a husband or wife, that you can be children and then parents?</p>
<p>Instead of being thankful for all the universal gifts which God has provided people are many times impatient, cursing nature and cursing God&#8217;s work when something interferes with their desires. The wintertime brings cold weather and people complain about inconvenience, but nature needs both cold and hot weather. Different temperatures cause certain changes in the soil, and cause shrinking and expanding in nature. All things are harmonized and regulated by nature&#8217;s laws.</p>
<p>By only complaining about the creation we not only offend God but all of these great gifts. First of all we must be thankful to God; that is the beginning point of our lives. Then we can talk about being thankful to our own husband or wife and children and parents. Without God we could not exist for even one second. This world has become devoid of thanksgiving to God. Once you broaden your life of thanksgiving and gratitude to God then you will find that a more loving relationship between God and yourself will develop.</p>
<p>A wholesome God-centered personality begins with thanksgiving and deepens to embrace a relationship of love with God. You must think big! You must be able to embrace the universe and when you look at man you must see him as a universal being; when you look at nature you must feel that it is God&#8217;s masterpiece. That is the kind of personality God hopes to find in His children, and the Unification Church must become second to none in that way of life.</p>
<p>When you live in thankfulness here on earth, you can go with love to God&#8217;s own dwelling and live there in infinite love for eternity. When you train yourself through nature to live in gratitude then the universe will help you grow into a wholesome personality of love so that you can eventually reach the level of God&#8217;s glory. This is God&#8217;s whole dream.</p>
<p>In our lives we want to find the maximum benefit in the universe and to develop wholesome personalities, and to one day stand proudly in the sight of God and to enjoy His eternal love as His children. God knows when you suffer misfortune or are troubled, but when He sees that even at the bottom of misery and misfortune you still have room to be thankful to Him He will shed tears over you. When you overcome such a test with thanksgiving under any circumstances, you shall be blessed. You may feel that you are finished and are sinking down to the valley of death, but as long as you have this way of life you will never end your life at the bottom of the valley. Instead you will go over the mount of glory.</p>
<p>The Unification Church is going through a valley of persecution but I will never grumble or complain to God. We are attracting world attention by our extraordinary way of life and the whole world is watching as we go down into this valley.</p>
<p>We are like leading actors and actresses in an exciting movie spectacular. If the mountain we are crossing were just made of sand then the movie would not be very exciting, but because the mountain is rugged and steep, with sheer cliffs, forests and wild animals, it makes a much more exciting movie. If this were a calm relaxed movie it would not be memorable, but we are making the people strain forward in their chairs with the tension of the drama.</p>
<p>The world is our audience and God is watching the stage from the royal box in the center. I want you to move and inspire God so deeply that He weeps helplessly. Eventually God will bow down to you saying, &#8220;My son, my daughter, I&#8217;m proud of you.&#8221; What will the rest of the audience do when God bows down in tears? They will be completely melted.</p>
<p>This is our extraordinary way of life, living for the gigantic goal and purpose. There is no ending. There is no retirement waiting for us, only a life that is always more exciting. Are you thankful to be a member of this exciting team? Raise your hands if you are going to live in gratitude to God and be sons and daughters of appreciation. May God bless you. Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">LET US THINK ONCE MORE</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:12:38+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/let-us-think-once-more.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:12:38+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<div class="pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-bottom-left"><a href="/blog/2018/06/13/let-us-think-once-more.html?print=pdf" class="pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="/assets/vendor/pdf/images/pdf.png" alt="image_pdf" title="Download PDF" /></a></div><h2 align="center">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
<h3 align="center">June 12, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>In this world we frequently see people who are very unhappy, particularly in places like prison. During my imprisonment in North Korea I knew one prisoner who had been sentenced to death and worried about his day of execution all the time. Generally, the most hopeful moment for any prisoner is the time when his name is called; it could mean that his parole or release is coming up, or that his relatives have come to visit. But for the prisoner who has been sentenced to death, hearing his name called might mean that the time has come for his execution.</p>
<p>A prisoner under the death sentence is obsessed with thinking about how he can avoid his execution. Moreover, he always feels tension and agony, regretting whatever he had done in the past to incriminate himself, thinking, &#8220;If I had not done that particular deed then I would not be in this position today.&#8221; The most painful thought is that some minor act brought this calamity down on him, an act which might easily have been done a little bit differently.</p>
<p>The most unhappy memories are not born of gigantic events; most frequently it is a trivial matter that opens the door to great unhappiness. One&#8217;s life or death destiny can be changed by one little mistake, a failure to dank and evaluate one more time. Such a failure is always the result of self-centered thinking. In analyzing great mistakes or great crimes we always conclude that if the person had thought of the impact his actions would have on the well-being of others, he probably would not have committed such a blunder. It is always selfishness that results in crime. The worst crimes are committed by people who have become so self-centered that they dank only of themselves and want revenge for being hurt by something. The actions of one person who does not think properly can bring great misfortune.</p>
<p>If any person can put himself in a position to think for the public good then he will hardly ever make great blunders. Unhappiness and crime are the results of a person&#8217;s exaggerating his own importance and being motivated by only his own welfare. This understanding can also be applied to our own lives.</p>
<p>Whether we are at school, at home, or with friends, this principle is always in action. Whether we advance a great purpose, disgrace ourselves or retreat to the lowest possible realms, our progress upwards or downwards will be determined by this one fact. Particularly when we are faced with making decisions about an important commitment we must always think once more before we act. In making an important decision we must think deeply from the public point of view. Those who reason only from selfishness are truly their own worst enemy. But if a person is totally committed to the benefit of others and willing to give himself sacrificially then he will normally not make any serious blunders, even though he acts without thinking.</p>
<h3 align="center">Only selfish people need laws</h3>
<p>There are two kinds of people following our Unification Church way of life. One kind is always complaining while the other kind does not complain but concentrates all their energy on giving of themselves. If a person complains then who is at the center of his complaint? Is it complaining to say, &#8220;I am sick of the Unification Church. We have to get up so early every day&#8221;? Suppose a person shouted at the other members, &#8220;Let&#8217;s go out and work earlier and harder.&#8221; Is that complaining? No matter how much he may give people a hard time about selling more newspapers, that would not constitute complaint. Sometimes a person&#8217;s face and tone of voice are harsh and hostile and the person looks like he is complaining. However, that may not be a complaint but more like a warning or advice.</p>
<p>What is the difference between making a complaint and giving a warning? When motivation comes from one&#8217;s own selfish point of view then a complaint results. However, if someone acts or speaks out for the sake of others, for the sake of the public or for the sake of God, then no matter how harsh it may be it is not considered a complaint but a warning. Sometimes I speak harshly and bluntly and sometimes I even scold you. But when you see that my anger is motivated by concern for others and for the cause of restoration, you know my purpose is an unselfish one. Then you can willingly accept it. On the other hand, if a leader speaks strongly to you and you can see that his motivation is selfish then you don&#8217;t want to follow his direction.</p>
<p>If a soldier kills many of the enemy on the battlefield he may be given the Medal of Honor. However, if that same soldier even accidentally kills someone during peacetime then he is called a criminal. Both are acts of murder. Why do people applaud one act but punish the other? Only one thing makes his actions different: the soldier is not motivated by personal benefit to kill in combat. When his action is a public one for the defense of his nation then he is honored, but if he kills at home for his own selfish reasons then he is condemned.</p>
<p>In light of this, how can we define what law is? Law is a regulation or criterion to control or contain the actions of selfish people. Laws are a necessity if selfish people are to live together. Whether for an individual, group or nation, the law sets limits and prohibits people from violating their minimal social responsibility. On the other hand, no laws are needed between people who naturally live their lives for the sake of others in a totally unselfish and devoted way. Have you ever heard of a law regulating people who are sincerely devoted to service? Man is supposed to be liberated from the law eventually. You must become people who do not require laws on the levels of the individual, group, nation and even the world.</p>
<p>What kind of person can live above the law? Broadly speaking, such a person pursues a cause that is greater than himself, but there are different degrees of unselfishness. If there is a group of people living unselfishly for the sake of the nation and a group living unselfishly for the sake of the world, which one is working for the higher purpose? The person who is only devoting himself to the sake of the nation is not big enough to be above the law of the world. Sometimes the interests of the nation conflict with the interests of the world. People are finding out that worldwide standards are needed to regulate nations.</p>
<h3 align="center">If you can totally live for God<br />
then you are above judgment</h3>
<p>America has its own national laws and is also involved with many other nations. Even so, many Americans feel that they only need to be concerned with the well-being and survival of their own nation and not of the rest of the world. From the viewpoint of the world, that attitude is not a righteous one because it conflicts with the well-being of the world. The era in which America is respected by the world is over.</p>
<p>On every level good and evil is determined by one simple principle: whether a person is motivated by selfishness or unselfishness. For example, if the president of a nation works purely for the sake of his nation then he is on the side of goodness and shall be respected by his nation. But if he works solely for his personal political gain then he is recognized as being selfish and suspected of being corrupt.</p>
<p>However, let&#8217;s say that the president goes one step further and works for the well-being of mankind and the world. Then he becomes a person who is respected by the world. If his attitude is limited to serving America&#8217;s best interests then his actions will frequently cause resentment and friction on the worldwide level.</p>
<p>Wherever a law is needed judgment becomes necessary. Basically, judgment is always given according to the degree of selfishness of an act. Suppose you want to become a person who lives above the law, more than just a law-abiding citizen. To live above the law you must become an unselfish person; then your outlook is not limited by your own selfish purpose. When you become a person who is determined to live for the highest cause, the sake of the world, then you will be liberated from the need for all levels of law below that cause.</p>
<p>When you become the type of person about whom people can say, &#8220;He does not live for himself. He lives for God,&#8221; then you are indeed a great and fearless person. In your language you frequently use the word &#8220;great,&#8221; but do you know its meaning? Greatness can only exist when you are unselfish. Who is a strong, bold person? The person who lives for a selfish purpose will never be great or bold or strong. Only those who live unselfishly for others will be strong, bold, great people.</p>
<p>The entire complicated world of human affairs can be assessed by this simple principle. There are many schools that teach complicated subjects but few that teach the simple rules of human living.</p>
<p>Our Unification Church school teaches those simple things. Religious people live under the law of the world and ultimately under the law of God instead of confining their point of view to just the family or the nation. Therefore, the people who limit their thinking to national laws, especially national leaders, need to be educated and enlightened by religious people. Today there is a lot of confusion as to what constitutes a religious person and a political person. If politics were needed to govern religion then religion would no longer be capable of serving the world. Religion would no longer function as religion but would function instead within the limitations of politics.</p>
<p>What kind of religious leader is needed and what is the Unification Church? Do you need the constraints of law or are you already above the need for any laws? When you absolutely live for the sake of God you will not be hurt by the limitations of lesser laws because you are guided by the supreme law of God.</p>
<p>This kind of situation can be seen in America today. I am trying to obey the supreme law of God. Even so government agencies are checking everything I do for signs of criminal selfishness, but no matter how diligently they look they will find only total unselfishness and dedication to the ultimate law of God. After they have checked everything they are responsible in the sight of God to proclaim our innocence to the world. I have never done a selfish thing in America, nor have I hurt or damaged America in any way.</p>
<p>The most important concern is who will ultimately be victorious. The fact that we are in the minority does not matter; if I had to confront billions of people by myself it wouldn&#8217;t matter. Who the stronger group or person is will ultimately be determined by the law which they pursue. If you unswervingly follow the supreme law of God then in comparison the power of any lesser law will be just like dried grass.</p>
<p>America and Soviet Russia both have different laws and are pursuing different goals. Which one is following the true ideology if both nations believe that they are right? Both cannot be true and you must know how to judge which is closer to the truth. The nation which is determined to sacrifice its own national goals for the benefit of the world is following the highest ideology. That is the criterion for determining the truth.</p>
<p>Ultimately you are destined to stand before the judgment of God. If you have become a person who can live totally for the sake of God then you have already transcended any need for judgment. But if you live your life for your own selfish purpose then in the sight of God you need to be judged. The person who is above the law will he the one to pass judgment. Christians who pursue small selfish benefits, acting and working only for their own denomination, will be judged by Jesus, the very person they claim to follow.</p>
<p>Even though Christians themselves have violated many of God&#8217;s laws they still judge others, calling them heretics or anti-Christs. Some Christians insist that the Unification Church is false and heretical, but are they qualified to pass judgment? Did God give them that authority? If Christians are only concerned about their own church denomination, they shall be judged by the people who live beyond the circumference of their own religion, the people who totally dedicate themselves for the sake of God.</p>
<h3 align="center">An unselfish person can distinguish<br />
good from evil in any situation</h3>
<p>If you are a person who can live above the law then in any situation you can immediately determine the good and evil of a conflict. The accuracy of your insight will depend on how unselfish you are in your own life. The people who are judged for violating the laws of the state or nation and are put into prison are being chastised for living only for their own selfish purposes. Individuals, societies and nations will ultimately be evaluated according to this one simple criterion.</p>
<p>Any leader must at some time choose individuals to fill responsible positions. What is my criterion for choosing leaders in the Unification Church? The one quality I most dislike in a person is the habit of being selfishly motivated. I will give the most responsibility to those who are unselfish. It is as simple as that. With this simple understanding you will be able to evaluate teachers, philosophers, societies, and nations.</p>
<p>With this criterion you can even evaluate God Himself, determining whether He is a good and true God or an evil, false God. In our religious life there are many temptations, like feeling that you should be having more of a good time and wasting less energy on other people. By knowing the standard of good and evil you can clearly know why such desires are not good to act upon. If you become the kind of person who is absolutely 100% sure of living for God and humanity then the topic today, &#8220;Let Us Think Once More,&#8221; does not need to be discussed. When all your actions are automatically good then this topic is redundant.</p>
<p>Whatever you do, if your motivation is to improve the work of God and His Kingdom then your actions are good, no matter how trivial or menial they may appear. Fund raising and selling the newspaper are menial jobs, but does that make them evil or worthless? Are you doing these things for the advancement of your own selfish purpose? The New York Times is a selfish paper so we are challenging it for the sake of God and America. Is our ultimate purpose in starting the News World just to put the New York Times out of business? Our purpose is much broader than simple competition on a business level.</p>
<p>The American people often boast that America is a very righteous nation, but since I&#8217;ve come to this land I have not seen the righteousness of America. I am looking for an ideology and a righteousness that is pursuing a greater goal than my goal. But I have not found it. I am not here to praise America for its glorious history of 200 years or for its accomplishments. Will America despise me for that? Instead I came to America and judged this nation with my words at Yankee Stadium and Washington Monument, saying that this nation will be destroyed if it continues as it is going now. Americans probably resent those words because I am not an American, but even though I am from the small country of Korea I speak with authority.</p>
<p>It is very humiliating for Americans to hear a foreigner declare that he has come to heal America, that America needs a physician from outside. I did not come to please Americans but to speak unsettling words to them. I came to ask Americans to become humble and unselfish for the sake of God, which is the opposite of what America would like to hear.</p>
<p>I did not come to earn money for myself or my family. Instead of demanding things from you I have given you new life and new hope through the Divine Principle. America needs to be educated and you are the ones who can be the great teachers for this nation. For example, American women are frequently very demanding and insist that men serve them. Often their ideal is to be treated like queens by their husbands. Are you women sitting here different than the majority of American women? Because you know the Divine Principle you have changed and think instead that your husband will be the king of your home and you will serve him. Who changed your thinking-your college professors or President Carter?</p>
<p>What will happen in America if the men and women are not re-educated about true marriage? Many men are now so afraid or resentful of women that they would rather live among themselves. The demand for gay rights has spread because more and more men would rather live with another man than a woman. From God&#8217;s point of view, however, this is a sign of the ruin and destruction of this country. This precisely parallels what happened to the Roman Empire and to Sodom and Gomorrah when lustful immorality brought those nations to ruin.</p>
<p>Why are you American women listening to me? It is because you realize that this way of life is ultimately the most beneficial way of life for your family, nation and world. The other day in New York City I saw a man demonstrating for men&#8217;s rights and liberation from the tyranny of women. Only in America could this peculiar kind of demonstration occur. However, the era of women&#8217;s push for supremacy is an extraordinary but temporary period of God&#8217;s dispensation, stretching from 1918-1988. During that period the true relationship between men and women will be restored. American women may think I am advocating their humiliation, but what do you think? When the 74 couples were being matched for the blessing I asked the brothers what nationality they wanted their wives to be, and nine out of ten said they preferred Oriental women. You women here are in the position to pay indemnity for the sake of all American women.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s return to the original subject of today&#8217;s sermon, &#8220;Let Us Think Once More.&#8221; This topic is Himself, determining whether He is a good and true God or an evil, false God. In our religious life there &#8211; many temptations, like feeling that you should be having more of a good time and wasting less energy on other people. By knowing the standard of good and evil you can clearly know why such desires are not good to act upon. If you become the kind of person who is absolutely 100% sure of living for God and humanity then the topic today, &#8220;Let Us Think Once More,&#8221; does not need to be discussed. When all your actions are automatically good then this topic is redundant.</p>
<p>Whatever you do, if your motivation is to improve the work of God and His Kingdom then your actions are good, no matter how trivial or menial they may appear. Fund raising and selling the newspaper are menial jobs, but does that make them evil or worthless? Are you doing these things for the advancement of your own selfish purpose? The New York Times is a selfish paper so we are challenging it for the sake of God and America. Is our ultimate purpose in starting the News World just to put the New York Times out of business? Our purpose is much broader than simple competition on a business level.</p>
<p>The American people often boast that America is a very righteous nation, but since I&#8217;ve come to this land I have not seen the righteousness of America. I am looking for an ideology and a righteousness that is pursuing a greater goal than my goal. But I have not found it. I am not here to praise America for its glorious history of 200 years or for its accomplishments. Will America despise me for that? Instead I came to America and judged this nation with my words at Yankee Stadium and Washington Monument, saying that this nation will be destroyed if it continues as it is going now. Americans probably resent those words because I am not an American, but even though I am from the small country of Korea I speak with authority.</p>
<p>It is very humiliating for Americans to hear a foreigner declare that he has come to heal America, that America needs a physician from outside. I did not come to please Americans but to speak unsettling words to them. I came to ask Americans to become humble and unselfish for the sake of God, which is the opposite of what America would like to hear.</p>
<p>I did not come to earn money for myself or my family. Instead of demanding things from you I have given you new life and new hope through the Divine Principle. America needs to be educated and you are the ones who can be the great teachers for this nation. For example, American women are frequently very demanding and insist that men serve them. Often their ideal is to be treated like queens by their husbands. Are you women sitting here different than the majority of American women? Because you know the Divine Principle you have changed and think instead that your husband will be the king of your home and you will serve him. Who changed your thinking-your college professors or President Carter?</p>
<p>What will happen in America if the men and women are not re-educated about true marriage? Many men are now so afraid or resentful of women that they would rather live among themselves. The demand for gay rights has spread because more and more men would rather live with another man than a woman. From God&#8217;s point of view, however, this is a sign of the ruin and destruction of this country. This precisely parallels what happened to the Roman Empire and to Sodom and Gomorrah when lustful immorality brought those nations to ruin.</p>
<p>Why are you American women listening to me? It is because you realize that this way of life is ultimately the most beneficial way of life for your family, nation and world. The other day in New York City I saw a man demonstrating for men&#8217;s rights and liberation from the tyranny of women. Only in America could this peculiar kind of demonstration occur. However, the era of women&#8217;s push for supremacy is an extraordinary but temporary period of God&#8217;s dispensation, stretching from 1918-1988. During that period the true relationship between men and women will be restored. American women may think I am advocating their humiliation, but what do you think? When the 74 couples were being matched for the blessing I asked the brothers what nationality they wanted their wives to be, and nine out of ten said they preferred Oriental women. You women here are in the position to pay indemnity for the sake of all American women.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s return to the original subject of today&#8217;s sermon, &#8220;Let Us Think Once More.&#8221; This topic is significant because selfishness is always part of what motivates anyone who grew up in this world. if you truly dedicate yourself for the sake of God and humanity, there is nothing to be afraid of and no place that can confine you. God will never judge you and there will be no place you cannot go.</p>
<h3 align="center">Selfishness is powerful enough to destroy even God</h3>
<p>When you are a selfish person there are many layers of confinement because you are blocking yourself. You feel helplessly confined by the law. But as soon as you are determined to live not for yourself but for others, there will be no boundaries to confine you. Who then is the truly wise man?</p>
<p>Personal struggles and battles always arise because of selfishness. You say, &#8220;Why are you bothering me,&#8221; or &#8220;Why did you say that to me?&#8221; &#8220;Me&#8221; is the center of problems and also the center of hell. &#8220;You&#8221; is the center of heaven and when you say, &#8220;I live for you; I help you; I love you,&#8221; that is heaven. Your greatness of heart on earth will determine your boundaries in heaven. If that &#8220;you&#8221; boundary is just big enough to encompass your own family then your heaven will encompass only your own family. But if that boundary is big enough to encircle the nation and the world then your heaven is going to be that big. If your boundary can include God then everything in His power is all yours, including all of heaven.</p>
<p>Which boundary would you like to embrace? Can you really say to God, &#8220;I live for You&#8221;? The determination and qualification to live that way of life are not easy to acquire. You must shed more tears than the entire world has shed and you must bear the burden that the world&#8217;s people have not borne. That is the criterion of good and evil and the boundary of heaven and hell. Success and failure as well as happiness and unhappiness are also divided by this boundary.</p>
<p>Let us examine this particular truth from the Biblical point of view. The fall of man occurred because of the self-centeredness of the archangel Lucifer, and his selfishness evoked selfishness from the heart of Eve. Destruction always comes from selfishness,.</p>
<p>God was hurt. Even God is selfish sometimes and could destroy Himself. Selfishness is powerful enough to destroy even God. If God was truly angry at Adam and Eve for causing Him anguish then He could have obliterated them. But if He had done that then He also would have been destroyed because His purpose would have been destroyed. Mankind would have ceased to exist because God can create the world and man only once. Because of the nature of creation it is impossible for God to wipe out everything and start anew.</p>
<p>After the fall of man God did not react out of personal anger. He thought about the unselfish way, suppressed His anger, and started on the road of restoration. God determined to forget Himself and think of man by giving man a chance to restore himself. The grace of salvation came into being when God decided to save man. God cannot reverse His decision once it is made and even if restoration takes 10,000 years God will pursue His goal.</p>
<p>Today there are people who say that God is dead. If you were God, how would you feel listening to such an awful statement? Would you want to strike them dead? God suppresses His anger instead and sends people to tell the world, &#8220;God is not dead. God is living and strong.&#8221; The religions which claim that God is dead are weak and vulnerable, but because I claim that God is alive and that He is our Father our movement is strong.</p>
<p>With what authority do I speak so boldly? An ordinary man may become ambassador to another country and speak with authority but what is his authority? Behind that man is a nation and sovereignty, and he speaks with the authority of representing them. Can the power of the sovereignty of this American nation be compared with the sovereignty of God? Our movement is strong and powerful because it represents the almighty sovereignty of God. That is the reason why I was able to come to this country fearlessly and proclaim the truth throughout the land with confidence.</p>
<p>The evidence of God&#8217;s power attracts attention and the world is scrutinizing me very intently. President Nixon was the president of the most powerful nation on earth but even he resigned from office after a year and a half of public criticism. People thought that I might last for only six months, but after five years in the American public eye I am still going strong.</p>
<p>It is amusing to see how obsessed some people are with investigating everything I do. If I were to hide a worthless rock somewhere I am sure some agent would go to extremes to get hold of it. At one time one of our members was approached by people who wanted to buy the trash from Belvedere. Were those people motivated by a desire to help us, or did they have some malicious intent?</p>
<p>People who are giving me a hard time cannot sleep too well at night, but when the time comes to rest I rest very well and have no worries, Why? Most of the people who come to America have some selfish purposes but I did not come here to receive money, honor or fame. I knew even before I came to America that I would be persecuted and cursed, but I spent sweat, energy and money here anyway. I worked harder than anyone else, but with one difference: it was for a totally unselfish purpose.</p>
<p>I am receiving all the scorn, suffering and persecution that I knew was inevitable, but still I forgive America. I am being ridiculed, but before God I defend America, saying, &#8220;Won&#8217;t You be patient with America a little longer and give me a chance to turn this nation to Your Will?&#8221;</p>
<p>Day in and day out I visit, listen to and encourage you members. Even when I chastise you and urge you to work harder and harder, you still come to hear my sermons and meet with me. Why? If you did not come then I would have an excuse to give God, saying, &#8220;God, for 3½ years I did my absolute best here in America, but no people came to work with me. Therefore, I have to leave this country.&#8221; But since you keep coming, even after chastisement, I cannot say that to God. You are giving me a hard time by not packing up and leaving me alone!</p>
<p>You know that ultimately you will be better off with me and that here you can be a winner. If I declared, &#8220;I&#8217;m leaving America. I&#8217;m fed up with this country,&#8221; your various government agencies would say, &#8220;Bravo! We succeeded in getting rid of him.&#8221; But how would you feel? You would want to follow me even if I went back to Korea. If we had one million members here and I suddenly decided to leave, then the State Department would be flooded with one million passport applications in one day.</p>
<p>America is not acting wisely right now by mistreating and misunderstanding me. There are thousands of young people following me and that number will increase in the future. I will train you to become strong champions of God and of freedom and you shall become America&#8217;s strength everywhere. I have no attachment to places like Belvedere or East Garden; I am staying here at this particular time only because it is my mission to work in America. America is just one stopover point. I do not need anyone to support me or my family. My way is clear and I am not concerned about my livelihood because God will always take care of me.</p>
<p>Do you want to follow me? People think you are crazy because you are willing to wait for the blessing, even though you may be getting old. That is why people say you are brainwashed. They don&#8217;t see that you are not foolish, that you have found something of priceless value and are gaining everything.</p>
<h3 align="center">As a central figure, I am always<br />
checking myself for selfish motives</h3>
<p>Adam and Eve&#8217;s motivation for the fall was selfishness. Cain was jealous of Abel because Abel&#8217;s offering was accepted by God and Cain took a selfish point of view in his justification of why God only favored Abel. Cain did not know that Abel was playing a specific role in the sight of God, and Cain&#8217;s motivation in making his offering was to bargain for God&#8217;s favor. He did not realize that his offering had a historical purpose and would affect the past, present and future.</p>
<p>If Cain had thought more deeply before killing his brother then history would have been different. If Adam and Eve had examined their motivation one more time before they fell, then history would have been different. Noah was careless in lying naked on his bed. If he had thought about it once more, for his children&#8217;s sake, he might not have committed that blunder.</p>
<p>Ham was humiliated at seeing his father and he felt his dignity was hurt. &#8220;Me&#8221; was the center of his thoughts and actions and based on that motivation he covered his sleeping father. That action brought tragedy to the dispensation. Covering his father&#8217;s body was not wrong but Ham should have had unconditional respect for his father as a man of God. If he had approached his father without shame and with a loving heart covered his father&#8217;s body then that scene would have been beautiful to God.</p>
<p>It was essential that Ham honor the fact that his father was accepted in the sight of God. Noah had persevered through 120 years of ridicule and persecution in order to build the ark, and because of his faith Noah&#8217;s family was the only group of people alive upon the face of the earth after the flood. Ham should have been humble after witnessing this and should have looked at his father from the public point of view.</p>
<p>Abraham offered three sacrifices-two doves, a ram and a she-goat and a heifer-but he was careless and failed to cut the doves in two. If he had been more serious and thought once more that this was for the sake of the entire history of God then he would not have committed that blunder. The indemnity for Abraham&#8217;s failure brought 400 years of slavery in Egypt, a foreign land, to his descendants. The ultimate result of this and accumulated failures in Old Testament history was the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The seeds of Jesus&#8217; crucifixion were partly sown in Abraham&#8217;s failure.</p>
<p>Moses struck the Rock of Horeb twice instead of once, laying a base for the Jewish people to fail and be destroyed in the wilderness. Moses was upset at that particular moment, but he translated his anger into action. In an earlier moment of anger he shattered the tablets upon which God had written the Commandments. His short-sighted actions were a contributing cause in the failure of the people in the wilderness.</p>
<p>John the Baptist recognized Jesus as the son of God and at one time proclaimed that fact to the world. This was a very serious proclamation! If afterward John the Baptist had once again thought deeply about the implications, he would have acted differently. If all the men of God who played important roles throughout dispensational history had deeply pondered about their missions once again, they would not have committed such crucial blunders and history would have been different.</p>
<p>I am in precisely the same position and I am always checking myself for any hidden selfish motives. For example, I did not want to show any animosity whatsoever toward the American people because of their persecution of me and the Unification Church. That would be the self-centered way of thinking. Instead I brought Asian people here to work and toil for the sake of America, despite the persecution.</p>
<p>If the Asians unselfishly give of themselves for the sake of America, even if America rejects them and shows no appreciation, then Korea and Japan will not perish. It is the formula of history that even the greatest nations which oppose God&#8217;s will inevitably decline. Let us be public people who can live the principle.</p>
<p>I have gone through my years of youth as you have and I felt the same emotions and anguish as you do at this time in your lives. What was I doing at your age? There was terrible persecution of our church during which I was tortured and often kept in prison. I experienced incredible abuse. My prison terms would have had a much different meaning if I had actually committed some crime. Then I would have deserved a jail sentence. But all I did was proclaim the word of God as I do now in America. In those days I warned Korea and Japan and even communist North Korea that the future was in peril and that we must follow the path of God in order to survive. At that time I was ridiculed and persecuted and put in jail, but my revelations have come true. Today many people realize that what I said in the past was true.</p>
<p>If you were selfish-minded people then you would not have remained in the Unification Church but would have packed and left a long time ago. I am the same. We remain because we know that by sacrificing ourselves America and the world can be saved. Yet for doing this we have still been persecuted. I want you to know that God is sympathetic and on your side, regardless of how pathetic you may look. God sees that even though the majority of Americans have misunderstood and mistreated me, Americans like you here today honor and respect me. Your degree of loyalty has been demonstrated by very few people in American history. You have demonstrated that even through persecution you will follow me.</p>
<p>What made you like this? Have I personally forced you to follow me? I have never even met each one of you, and with many of you I have never had a personal conversation. Why then do you want to follow me? Your parents are ready to give you everything you need-money, shelter, food, schooling but you gave up all these things and followed me. Why? It is not my power but the power of God that is manifested in this room. Nobody can provide such power except God, and that is why you are so precious and priceless to me. God molded each and every one of you and brought you to this level.</p>
<p>One humble member is greater than tens of thousands of people who may oppose us. One million people means nothing; as one individual member, you are most precious. Looking at your faces I can dismiss what has been done to me. God is the same. You are so beautiful in the sight of God that when He looks at you He has hope and is able to forgive all the rebellious people, feeling that because of you He can save the rest of America. Your loyalty is a gift from Heavenly Father.</p>
<p>Are you happy or unhappy? You are truly happy because you have God caring for and loving you, but most importantly, God will never betray you. You have found someone who truly pays the utmost attention to your future and is leading you into your eternal value. As long as God is paying attention to you, you have your own future. You and your family will not only be happy, but you will assure America of its future and be able to bring great happiness to the American people; because of you the nation will be forgiven and because of you the world will have hope. That is why you are happy people.</p>
<p>You can experiment with prayers of gratitude and prayers of complaint</p>
<p>Certainly your day-today life is a difficult one of sacrifice and hard work. Before you joined the Unification Church you may have worn beautiful clothing and jewelry and spent much time on yourself. But now there is no guarantee that there will even be hot water in the morning. You may think, &#8220;What have I gained? I&#8217;ve lost everything and I&#8217;m miserable now.&#8221; Well, there is a certain truth to this, but when you feel this way then think of today&#8217;s topic, &#8220;Let us Think Once More.&#8221;</p>
<p>God knows you better than you know yourself, and if you want to air your grievances do so before God because no one else has the capacity to comfort you. Don&#8217;t complain among yourselves. God will listen to your complaints in your prayers.</p>
<p>You should experiment with this on your own. One day come to God and offer a prayer of complaint; maybe you single sisters who are older could gripe, &#8220;God, what are you doing up there? Why don&#8217;t you come down and help me? I need to get married.&#8221; Then the next day you could pray, &#8220;God, You know how old I am and how people think I&#8217;m an old maid, but never mind Father. If my life can help You in Your work, if I can be like You and live for the sake of this world and humanity, then I am willing to become Your sacrifice. My life is Yours. You just tell me what You want.&#8221;</p>
<p>At the end of two days compare how you felt on each day. I tried this myself. I had showdown prayers with God and sometimes I would just pray and jump wildly around and stamp on the ground. Then I discovered which is the best kind of prayer. You too can experiment with offering self-centered prayers of complaint and unselfish prayers. The results will be absolutely different. In the first prayer you make yourself miserable, but in the second you sanctify yourself.</p>
<p>In the human way of life there is always self-centered thinking. That is why I gave this sermon this morning. Whenever you begin to feel this way, please remember &#8220;Let Us Think Once More.&#8221; Even selling the newspaper can be heaven or hell. One person may feel, &#8220;I hate this kind of job.&#8221; They force themselves to go out but they are miserable. Another may think, &#8220;This is menial work, but I&#8217;m doing it for the sake of God and humanity.&#8221; It is the power of your thought that makes the difference between heaven and hell.</p>
<p>The most beautiful teaching of the Bible is to be humble and not arrogant. The people who live a selfish way of life will never get to the Kingdom of God in Heaven. I have been to all the different realms of the spirit world and never once did I meet one self-glorifying person who had arrived in paradise. I knew some famous and respected ministers whom many people thought would go to the highest part of heaven, but in spirit world I discovered that they were in hell. They were so misguided as to receive glory and honor for themselves, leaving no room for Jesus Christ or God. The Kingdom of God in Heaven is a public sanctuary and a private, selfish kind of person cannot get there.</p>
<p>You elevate yourselves toward heaven through overcoming tribulation, but hell is also waiting at that moment. Whether you stand on the side of selfishness or unselfishness determines whether heaven or hell surrounds you. The choice is yours.</p>
<h3 align="center">Do not decide anything until<br />
considering it with patience</h3>
<p>Today&#8217;s sermon is not abstract truth but a practical formula for your daily life. Because you must make decisions every day, you must stop and think once more and put yourself on the unselfish side. This sermon is not only given for you, but also for me. We all exist together under the same law. Therefore, every day is an internal battle within ourselves, an intense battle which people outside our church don&#8217;t encounter.</p>
<p>You are the one who will stop you from reaching heaven and push you into hell, no one else. That is why you must be careful about the words you speak. Once you have spoken you are committed to action. First you must be careful about the words you speak, and secondly you must be cautious about the words you hear. If selfish remarks are being spoken, do not listen to them. The same applies to selfish deeds; do not look at them. The best defense is to not even talk to the person who lives selfishly. The way to improve yourself is to have give and take with persons who are spiritually more advanced. Then you can live in a higher love and a higher law.</p>
<p>If you go to a good leader for advice he will tell you to eliminate your private self so that your public self will be free to act. If the person you consult says, &#8220;Go ahead and act on your own selfish desires and we will ignore them,&#8221; he is definitely not a true leader. The person who guides and inspires you to live an unselfish way of life is a good teacher, friend and parent.</p>
<p>If you are facing an impossible situation and feel you just cannot go on then pray to Heavenly Father and He will advise you. The best answer God can give you is, &#8220;My child, I understand your heart, but you must be patient and withstand this trial. That is the best way to receive your blessing.&#8221; God will give you that answer every time.</p>
<p>The Chinese character for &#8220;patience&#8221; is a combination of two characters, with the top portion symbolizing &#8220;sword&#8221; and the lower portion symbolizing &#8220;mind.&#8221; The idea conveyed is to keep the sword planted in your mind instead of rashly pulling it out to attack somebody or something. That is patience. Keeping the sword planted in your mind is most painful at times, but the person who can endure and be patient time after time is the person who will win one thousand battles.</p>
<p>You had better dank once more at every decision-making occasion; even concerning little things do not decide anything until you have considered it with patience and perseverance. Let us be patient one more time. Let us endure one more time. Before you take action, think about it one more time.</p>
<p>The essence of today&#8217;s sermon is patience. Usually we don&#8217;t like to hear that word but it is crucial. By being patient and by enduring suffering you inherit the blessing of those who attack you. America is attacking me in anger but I am patient because I will ultimately inherit the blessing under those circumstances. This is the formula of history. When you cause damage you must pay the penalty, but the reverse is equally true: The more you willingly suffer, the more you will ultimately be reimbursed. The greater the persecution you endure, the greater the blessing you will receive.</p>
<p>It is not that we are waiting greedily to receive America&#8217;s blessing for ourselves. God&#8217;s intention is for us to receive the blessings but then to return them without any hesitation back to this nation. If they are refused then we will try again and again until they are either accepted or until God says, &#8220;You keep them.&#8221; Wherever God goes He carries blessing with Him, going to the places where He can find willing recipients. That is the mind of God.</p>
<p>I know very well that you are sometimes discouraged and despondent, but I am absolutely certain that no matter how difficult a situation you may face, you will never face the same difficulties that I have passed through. I was tortured many times and threw up so much blood that I was more dead than alive. Even at that moment I practiced the Principle. I did not panic and pray to God to deliver me from my enemies and alleviate my suffering. Instead I prayed, &#8220;God, Your will shall be done. I shall never let suffering stop me; I will go on so don&#8217;t worry about me.&#8221; Because God knew my suffering so well I could pray in no other manner.</p>
<p>God knows that your path is a difficult one, yet He has to put you in that position regardless. You must be sympathetic with God for having to ask such things of His children. I knew that there was a reason for someone having to go that route, and when God chose me to do it I responded, &#8220;God, I want to do this and I understand Your heart in allowing this suffering to come to me. I know You have a reason and therefore I will completely accept and bear everything.&#8221; That frame of mind opens up a whole new world where the most difficult and critical situation can be turned around 180 degrees. It is not God who will initiate that drastic change. You yourself must apply the formula.</p>
<p>When I came to America I knew that inevitably some people would attack me, trying to force me to leave this country and trying to destroy the Unification Church. When critical moments are at hand, I do not feel fear but willingly, courageously, and enthusiastically face the difficulty.</p>
<p>I know that my actions can change a nation&#8217;s destiny during critical times. Even when powerful people fabricate accusations against me, it is only another chance for me to turn the whole situation around. Once there is controversy, a nation will be divided into two camps of opinion. That is happening right now but I remain silent and make no public statement.</p>
<p>There are many people who like you Moonies because you are clean-cut, dedicated and morally sound, but those people say they can&#8217;t stand Reverend Moon. That is all right; eventually they will discover that you Moonies are good because I am good. This is all God&#8217;s most profound strategy. If I quietly came to America and no controversy resulted then the media and consequently the public would have ignored me. Then the world would never have had a chance to hear of me.</p>
<p>As we become controversial many people try to destroy us but that only makes us even more controversial. People get confused because they see us in person in a good way, but the media portrays us another way. Do not worry about the pros and cons of the world&#8217;s opinion. Let people fight among themselves. We will work for the sake of America and do extraordinary things.</p>
<p>I have to use an interpreter to speak but you can speak for yourself when you witness. You are better off than I am! Because you are younger than I am you have more energy. This is your own country and you will be accepted by American citizens. In many ways you are in a superior position and there is no reason why you couldn&#8217;t do greater things than I can.</p>
<p>Your slogan should be that you will do better than I could. Even if you are persecuted more than I am, you will be able to bear the burden and smile and laugh even where I would have cried. The secret is, &#8220;Let Us Think Once More.&#8221;</p>
<p>Today is Sunday. Because it is set aside for God it is more public. There is more of God&#8217;s work to do and there is no retreat, only advancement. Those who want to go forward today, raise your hands. God bless you. Let us pray.</p>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:07:44+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/living-sacrifice.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:07:44+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">May 8, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>The religious way of life and way of faith is the way of sacrifice, and the necessity of sacrifice came into being because of the fall of man. According to the Divine Principle, the fall prevented Adam from standing on the side of either God or Satan. Fallen Adam was not in a position where God could fully claim him; therefore, throughout history God has worked to separate the good and evil in Adam through the providence of Cain and Abel. By Cain and Abel making a proper offering together, God would be free to claim Adam.</p>
<p>According to the Principle, the purpose of a sacrifice is to enable God to deter-mine the ownership or possession of a particular level of creation. Therefore, we come to the conclusion that unless we can make an acceptable sacrifice, from the individual through the universal levels, by which God can claim the entire creation then we will not have the Kingdom of God on earth. The sacrifice offered on the altar of God must be separated or cut in two. The altar symbolically represents the entire universe, upon which the sacrifice is cut into two parts to show that good and evil are separated in purity. In order to be accepted by God the blood of the offering must shed, demonstrating that the impure blood of Satan is drawn out.</p>
<p>The Old Testament era is the period in which man must make offerings of all the things of creation. All the creation was employed for making offerings. The things of creation will purify the altar, and upon that foundation man himself can rest upon the altar. The most important aspect of the offering is that it is not for God&#8217;s sake but for man&#8217;s sake. A great distance between God and man was created by the fall, and man is destined to indemnity his way into heaven; thus the offering is not for the sake of God but is the opportunity for man to become closer to God.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s role is to judge whether a sacrifice is acceptable or not; when God is presiding over a sacrifice He is approving it. It is man&#8217;s heart in making the offering that needs to be approved by God. Man must be completely united with the spirit of making the sacrifice as a conditional offering on the altar. All throughout history man has made many kinds of offerings, including superstitious offerings, thinking to please God by bringing Him something. That was a wrong understanding.</p>
<p>The true meaning of offering a sacrifice is to enable man to come closer to God. On each level of restoration-individual, family, society, nation, and world-man must represent himself and make an offering to come closer to God. From this we can also conclude that the making of offerings should not be continued for eternity, and that the day will come when man will have no further need to make offerings.</p>
<h3 align="center">The Messiah needs man to complete the sacrifice</h3>
<p>God has a final purpose in restoration, and the symbolic altar on the individual level has been expanded onto the level of one tribe and one nation. After making a successful offering on the worldwide level, man can finally eliminate the necessity of further sacrifices or offerings. The key principle in making an offering is this: the man and the sacrifice must become one.</p>
<p>During the Old Testament era man used the things of creation to make offerings. The physical offering by men was supposed to be made on the national basis with the symbol of the universal sacrifice for men being the Messiah. Why is the Messiah needed as the physical consummation of the sacrifice? Jesus Christ as the Messiah came as the sacrifice upon the altar of the nation of Israel, but the Messiah needed man to complete the sacrifice because man was to be benefited, not the Messiah. The Messiah does not come for himself but for man. The universal Messiah came to the nation of Israel, the universal altar, and the people of Israel were supposed to completely unite with him and thus be offered together on that altar. However, that unity was not there. Jesus was offered as the sacrifice on the altar, but there was no man to offer that sacrifice to God. There was no one united with Jesus.</p>
<p>When Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross, none who accepted him were there, and the priests and all the disciples had disappeared. No one was there to offer Jesus as the sacrifice on the altar. An offering and sacrifice is presented to God for the sake of man, but if there is no man there to be benefited then how can the offering be given value? The only possible way that the sacrifice could still be effective was to consider that Jesus was separated between spirit and body.</p>
<p>In that way Jesus&#8217; body represented the people of Israel, whereas Jesus&#8217; spirit took the position of the actual sacrifice. By having his spirit and body united, Jesus made his sacrifice acceptable in the sight of God. For this reason the dispensation of the New Testament era has been separated into the spiritual and the physical dispensations. Jesus&#8217; offering was accepted as a spiritual offering; the sacrifice he offered was a spiritual one. Therefore, Jesus has been working on that base to establish the spiritual foundation, from the family to the society, nation, and world, until the time when the physical offering could be made.</p>
<h3 align="center">The divided body of Christ</h3>
<p>We frequently hear that the church is the body of Christ. Does this mean that those buildings of wood or stone are the body of Jesus? What is the body of Jesus? Not the building but the people of the congregation are the body of Christ. What right do people have to say that they are the body of Christ? When Jesus was crucified 2,000 years ago Jesus&#8217; body was in the position of the people. Ever since the crucifixion Jesus&#8217; body has been represented by the people who have united spiritually with Jesus. Those people were not there 2,000 years ago, but all through the New Testament age believers in Jesus have served in the position of the body of Christ.</p>
<p>If the believers are the body of Christ, then could there be more than one church? There are many different denominations and kinds of Christianity, which indicates that Jesus&#8217; body has been divided up. This is not acceptable in the sight of God. When we see the current situation from the viewpoint of God and Jesus Christ, the existence of so many denominations in the name of Christ is heartbreaking. It is just as though Jesus&#8217; body itself had been tom apart.</p>
<p>Under God there must be one more universal, physical offering that is not separated between spirit and body. This must be accomplished by people united together to offer a living sacrifice which can be accepted by God. In order to serve as a foundation Christianity must be united into one body. That is the first and most important condition to be achieved. The heart of Jesus Christ is grieved when he sees that his own body has been so shamefully divided. Christianity today is in the position of Jesus&#8217; body, but when there is one mind, how can there be 1,000 bodies? There should be one mind and one body.</p>
<p>Are all the hierarchies in Christianity really the one body of Christ? Can the Pope in Rome claim that he is completely one with Christ, and that the mind of Jesus and the body of the Pope are one? Originally God intended for the Pope to be the one symbolic body of Jesus, representing all Christians of the world.</p>
<p>If Jesus&#8217; mind and the body of the Pope had become completely one then the Roman Catholics uniting with the Pope could have been one with Jesus. By thus having all Christians represented by one central figure Christianity could have set the tradition to become one with Jesus. However, even the unity between Jesus and all Christians together would still not complete the necessary conditions for making the final universal offering to God. If that one condition could consummate everything then there would be no prophecies needed for the Lord of the Second Advent.</p>
<p>In reality there is a permanent gap between Jesus and the people that cannot be closed, however much they try to unite. Because Jesus&#8217; own mind and body were not sacrificed together 2,000 years ago it is impossible for Christians today to completely unite with Jesus. One more gigantic step is needed in order to complete the universal offering which was predicted, in which the body of Jesus and the mind of Jesus are totally united to become the living sacrifice on the altar.</p>
<p>Because of the faithlessness of the people the body and mind of Jesus were permanently wrenched apart. Consequently, in the future someone representing the body of all Christianity or mankind will receive the spirit or mind of Jesus, and become one completely united entity offered to God as a living sacrifice. This is the course of restoration.</p>
<p>The conditions which were permanently broken by the crucifixion of Jesus must be restored and consummated. That is the role of the second coming of the Messiah. Do you think the Messiah could fulfill that role by coming as some fantastic celestial body up in the air? It is ironic that in this modem, scientific age people harbor the idea that some day Christ will appear up in the air and ask Christians on earth to join him there.</p>
<p>In view of the extensive division and conflict within Christianity today, do you think being lifted up in the air is going to suddenly bring about unity? Maybe Christians would arrive there and stand back to back while trying to meet one Lord! Can you imagine men who are that unprepared to receive Christ begging God to send His son? A revolution in religion must come and we must change ourselves and prepare for the coming of the Lord in a different way.</p>
<h3 align="center">Without unity man need not think about receiving the Messiah</h3>
<p>What does God want from the Christians? Would God encourage them to become even more divided? Instead, God would say, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry about the Messiah. I will send him when you are ready, which won&#8217;t happen until you become united!&#8221; It is what God wants. Unless a spectacular movement for the unification of Christianity unfolds here on earth there is no way that God can send the Messiah. Could God allow His son to be crucified once again?</p>
<p>What will happen if Christianity fails to become united? In that case God would allow it to become so weakened as to render it powerless. If this were not the case the denominations would still fight among themselves and would inevitably crucify the Messiah again. If Christianity declines, however, it would not have the energy to crucify the Christ. Furthermore, people would be much more open to receive new direction and when Christ did come it would be much easier for him to work in such an environment.</p>
<p>When will the end of the world come? It will come when the Christian churches have been weakened by fighting among themselves to such a degree that they have absolutely no effectiveness here on earth. When will that day arrive? When the individual is separated from the Principle of God, the family, society and nation will break down. The whole world of Christianity will then be weakened to an impossible degree. This is exactly what America is experiencing today.</p>
<p>Christianity in America has become so weakened and fragmented that nothing could possibly restore the existing pieces into one whole. It resembles a pottery vase which has shattered into so many pieces that it is impossible to put it together again. Any movement for unity must begin by melting all the broken pieces together and re-molding them into an entirely different shape, rather than attempting to piece together the original form. Our goal is unification by the revolutionary tactic of melting and remolding mankind according to the concept of God. The emergence of a movement of unification in this particular era is the most remarkable work of God.</p>
<p>If God sees that there is one movement that is suited to His purpose, then will He nurture that movement or will He break it down? Certainly God will nurture this movement until it grows sufficiently to absorb and influence the entire religious world, and eventually the entire world itself. Why are you here? What kind of gangsters are you? The Unification Church has many denominations-Korean, Japanese, American, black, white&#8211;are you fighting among yourselves?</p>
<p>If you are truly united then God will smile upon you. Unification is the most important qualification for meeting the Messiah. Until the foundation of unification is prepared you need not think about receiving the Messiah. Who wants that unification? First God wants it and then you unification soldiers want it. What God wants is actually what man wants. If the whole stage is ready when the Messiah comes then he can fulfill his mission without any inhibitions or delay. If a heavenly army is ready when the Messiah comes then the he will say, &#8220;Let&#8217;s go liquidate the satanic world and bring the people and the world back to God.&#8221; At that time will the Messiah be working to restore the family and society, or the world and universe?</p>
<p>Our goal is world unity in order to make the universal offering. For this purpose we must gather heavenly champions from all five races, black, white, yellow, red, brown. What would fulfill the ultimate ideal of God? Neither the individual, family, society, or nation is the problem. The problem is how to unite all men together as brothers and sisters, creating one family of God. That is God&#8217;s ideal.</p>
<h3 align="center">A mediator is needed between races and religions</h3>
<p>Imagine a Texas rancher who owns an enormous cattle ranch. He will probably own different kinds of cattle. Will he want to have all those different cattle dividing by breed and courageously fighting among themselves, brown against red, black against white? Would he be satisfied by seeing this most daring scene? As rancher of the entire universe, would God be happy to see you Unification Church members fighting instead of uniting to go out and restore the satanic world?</p>
<p>I have seen many cattle ranches, but I never saw the cattle fighting among themselves because they had hides of different colors. But in some cases you are fighting, and Christians are definitely divided, so in the sight of God we are far inferior even to cattle. In many cases man&#8217;s actions indicate that he is inferior to animals, doing things they would never do. Could such people seriously imagine going to heaven? How could God accept all those people who have such wickedness in their hearts that they are even inferior to animals? God vomits when He witnesses these things, and would tell such people, &#8220;Don&#8217;t even talk about your heaven. It does not exist for you.&#8221; The heaven that I know does not accept such people.</p>
<p>Could Americans who hate races other than their own truly be entitled to heaven? It is impossible. In order to be admitted to heaven white people must receive a citation from black people, and black people must be cleared by white people, &#8220;Yes, these people are truly entitled to heaven.&#8221; Unless you are approved here on earth by your brothers, you will never end up in heaven. When I came to this country, Americans witnessed an Oriental man suddenly becoming influential, particularly among young people. Either subconsciously or consciously many white people harbor suspicion of Orientals and they have been trying to retaliate against me at every opportunity.</p>
<p>One reason that white people might resist me is that they view me as a guardian of minority groups. If there is conflict between blacks and whites, then who can qualify as a mediator? It does not make sense for either a white or black person to stand between them because one of the two sides would never listen. Therefore, the mediator whom God would send must be a yellow man.</p>
<p>If the present situation in America were left alone this nation would polarize into two extremes; eventually whites and blacks would come to the point where there could be no harmony or coexistence, and one group would exterminate the other. The American government should budget millions of dollars just to prevent that occurrence, yet I have come as a mediator without asking even one penny of the government.</p>
<p>Without realizing what I am trying to do, Americans have been trying to kick me out rather than accept me. I have brought a God-given solution for the impossible division among the Christian churches, yet those same churches have bitterly criticized and opposed me. Judaism and Christianity are just like oil and water and without accepting some mediator from God they cannot resolve their conflicts. There is no reason for Judaism and Christianity to oppose me.</p>
<p>You must have heard about my courtesy visit to our neighbor, Bard College. I did not go there to bomb the buildings or to steal anything. At Barrytown we welcome not only Bard College people, but also the local villagers. We even made a special nature trail where they can walk when they want to visit. Barrytown is for the benefit of all. We would welcome the visit of the President of Bard College. Who ultimately owns Bard College? It belongs to God. Has anyone ever gone to Bard College with credentials from God? Who appointed the judge and the police? The Bard College land was originally owned by Indians, not white people. Was it bought from the Indians?</p>
<p>It is commonly known that Jews have very good minds, but actually so far they seem to lack common sense. Why do I say dais? This Unification Church movement will grow and win millions of members, including Jews. They are taking a hostile position towards us at the outset of our movement; if Jews were really clever they would become friendly instead of trying to make one more gigantic enemy for themselves. If they continuously attack us then we have a right to self-defense, but I know that a most serious situation could develop out of that. I have been humiliated by the Jews over and over again and accused of anti-Semitism, but I am not interested in fighting back. If I were to do that then a most formidable barrier would be created. In the future will there be more Jews or more Unification Church members?</p>
<p>This Church has no boundaries and many of our members are Jewish. The Unification Church is a rising sun and has a vision of the future; it will grow and eventually embrace the world. We have to persevere and be patient. We will just swallow all of our wrath and fulfill our purpose of existence by bringing unity among Jews and Christians and people of all religions and races. We will go that way because God wants it and we have no other choice than to accept. Do you know my character? I have an iron will and a fearful mind; nobody can control me except God. Only because I know that God wants me to do things in a certain way can I persevere and be patient.</p>
<p>God needs to find a man with guts and a single-minded will; otherwise it would be simply impossible for Him to deal with Satan. Are you also the type that can totally grab a situation with both arms and not release it under any circumstances? If that is so then the lump in my throat is all gone. You are my hope and because of you I can forget everything. I have that same relationship with God, and because of me God can be patient and persevere. &#8220;My son is withstanding all those impossible trials. My son is still hanging on and I should be patient.&#8221;</p>
<p>America&#8217;s economy has no guarantee of permanent prosperity. This country has lots of potential problems with all its different peoples and cultures, and if some day its economy crumbled this nation would degenerate into a most savage, primitive and barbaric society. At that point the communists would grab their chance and ignite a fire in the oil of confusion. America is more vulnerable in this way than any other country.</p>
<p>Americans are pretty much convinced that because we are a group of monsters the Unification Church will decline. But in reality we always harbor the greatest hope and joy; we have a standard and determination to go on sacrificing ourselves for the purpose of God. Which would you prefer, to be inside or outside our Church? Your faces are telling me that you like being inside. Whatever God likes, I like too, and when God sees your bright faces God is certainly happy. I want you to know you are the hope of God and also my own hope.</p>
<p>The other day Mr. Kamiyama told me that some members delivered newspapers in the morning by bike. One member parked his bicycle for just ten minutes in order to deliver a few copies, and when he came back the bike was gone. Even a semi-truck was stolen which was locked up outside our garage. The best way to deliver newspapers is to use # It transportation! For that reason I think we made the right decision to start the paper in New York; the population is so concentrated that going door-to-door does not involve walking long distances.</p>
<h3 align="center">A living sacrifice does not offer beggar&#8217;s prayers</h3>
<p>My topic today is &#8220;Living Sacrifice.&#8221; Of all the sacrifices offered in the history of the Old and New Testaments, none were completely successful. Today, however, God is putting Ms hope in you, and you are going to be in the position to fulfill. Will you indemnify the wrongdoings of history? In other words, will you become a living sacrifice in the position of a living animal?</p>
<p>Do we belong to the animal kingdom? We are animals yet we are different because we know God. We belong to the animal kingdom because we have all the functions of animals, yet because we know God we must put ourselves in the position of a living sacrifice. Jesus came to do the same, to unite everything into one through his sacrifice. You must understand one thing very clearly; when Jesus came as a living sacrifice, should he have come down to unite with the people, or should the people have gone up to unite with him as the sacrifice?</p>
<p>Would you ask Jesus to come to you, promising that you would faithfully wait for him, or would you say, &#8220;Lord, you just sit right there. I will dash to where you are?&#8221; We are the ones to move and take action. This is what God and Jesus are expecting of us. Jesus did not say that he would do our repenting for us and then bring the Kingdom of heaven to us while we sat still. He said, &#8220;Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!&#8221; We are the ones who must adapt. Jesus did not come to be changed; we are the ones to be changed. This point must be absolutely clear.</p>
<p>Ultimately Jesus will not save you; Jesus brings the power of salvation but only you can save yourself by reaching out to Jesus. All the Christian denominations are praying and waiting for God to come and rescue them from the evil and despair of the world by taking them up into the air. That will not work. God is waiting for a man to come who will say, &#8220;God, You stay right there. I will change myself, then I will change the world by bringing the people to Your throne and Your way of life.&#8221;</p>
<p>Do you think God would want to have one final showdown at one altar, with mankind making one offering that would finally establish universal salvation? Or would He want to accumulate little offerings here and there, bit by bit, day by day? Trivial prayers are offered here and there every day and after listening to just ten people you would get tired. God has to listen to billions of people trying to talk to Him, with everyone saying, &#8220;God, can You give me a little more blessing? Can You give me my salvation?&#8221; If all of a sudden someone comes up to say, &#8220;God, don&#8217;t You worry about me. You rest right there and let me go down and take over Your job,&#8221; God&#8217;s eyes will pop out!</p>
<p>God&#8217;s life has been so tedious, listening to the same old prayers for thousands of years. I know very well that God blocked His ears many years ago. Put yourself in His position; wouldn&#8217;t you want to block your ears if you heard the same kind of nagging wherever you went? I knew this a long time ago and I decided not to pray such prayers.</p>
<p>The only prayer I can offer to God is, &#8220;God, don&#8217;t You worry about me. Go ahead and rest and let me take up the fight as Your representative. Let me fulfill Your ideal.&#8221; God can sense such a prayer coming and then He listens closely, pulling all the cotton balls out of His ears. A selfish prayer is just a dirty prayer, a beggar&#8217;s prayer. We ought to offer the prayers of comfort and inspiration and encouragement to God, not the prayers of beggars.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s heart has been broken over and over and pierced by people&#8217;s faithlessness and distrust. He has been suffering so much that if He hears someone say, &#8220;God, I know Your heart has been broken. We cannot afford to let Your heart be broken another time. Let me take over Your burden; let me take over Your sorrow,&#8221; how wonderful He feels! Even though that man may not be able to fulfill his promises, God is still looking at him like a Daddy, &#8220;What a nice son I have! He has so much heart, so much giving.&#8221;</p>
<p>When you go out fund raising, don&#8217;t ask God to send people to you and give you your goal. Instead of praying that kind of prayer get down to work and at the end of the day bring God your result, &#8220;I had a wonderful day God, and I offer this money for Your purpose. You have suffered so much. You wanted to see Your ideal fulfilled right away and I&#8217;m going to work continuously to fulfill Your dreams. Leave it to me.&#8221;</p>
<p>You could be one of two kinds of people. One kind of person says, &#8220;Boy, I worked so hard but nothing came. Maybe God has left the Unification Church. What can I do?&#8221; But the other kind says, &#8220;God, no matter how difficult my experiences are they are still far less than Your own suffering. I am glad to have a chance to taste Your suffering, and I am going to go on and ultimately win the victory for You. You can rest assured.&#8221; Would you like to be the second type? You are certainly greedy, aren&#8217;t you? All right, now you translate that into action.</p>
<p>Actually I am the greediest and the most impossible person. Using my own hands I am trying to save America; most people do not think of more than themselves, much less the world or the liberation of God. If I am just standing still and thinking about these things, do you dank they will all get done? No, I have to get down to work and get my hands and feet wet.</p>
<p>I decided that during the first six months of 1977 I would he in the forefront, going faster, working harder, and suffering more than any other member of the Unification Church. I hardly get any rest; I go to bed at 2 or 3 o&#8217;clock in the morning, then at 4:30 or 5 o&#8217;clock I wake Mother up, &#8220;Mother, it&#8217;s time to go.&#8221; Then Mother tells me, &#8220;Father, it&#8217;s only 4:30 now. You just went to bed a few minutes ago. Won&#8217;t you rest a little bit?&#8221; But I insist, &#8220;No, it&#8217;s a bright early morning. Get up. Let&#8217;s go.&#8221; Mother has a hard time keeping up with my pace. I just cannot lie down on the bed and be idle. I rest a little, then even if it is too early to go out I read the newspapers or find something to do, just running around in the house. You laugh, and it is funny in a way; however, it is also a serious matter. Looking down, God is so serious.</p>
<p>Yesterday I had several plans. I wanted to go to Barrytown, but after the incident there, all kinds of people would just crowd around me. That little incident at Bard College shook up the entire world! I wanted to go to New York or Boston, but the news had spread everywhere. Instead I put on dark glasses and took the children to Philadelphia. I took them to Independence Hall and Valley Forge, and in walking around those battlefields where George Washington fought I thought about our battle. When God thinks of me He is comforted that He found the right person here on earth. God&#8217;s standard is very high and it is not easy to keep Him feeling that way.</p>
<p>The Bard College incident was truly amazing, and it was at the top of the news everywhere. It was Arbor Day, and President Carter planting a tree was the tenth news item, while my going to Bard College was #I! I only made a nice visit to a neighbor and that made world news. What kind of news would it have been if I had murdered someone! Actually university campuses are essentially public places. I have been to visit many university campuses like Harvard and Columbia, if all these schools had acted like Bard College then I would have been arrested countless times!</p>
<p>In the last three years there has been a great deal of fellowship between the seminary and Bard College. Actually I did them a favor by visiting them because it put them in the news. When I thought about it I was comforted; I am such an unusual man that the entire world jumps at the slightest little thing I do.</p>
<h3 align="center">Jesus&#8217; inheritance from God</h3>
<p>You have a choice. Would you like to become the sacrifice itself, or the person who offers the sacrifice? The sacrifice? Are you sure? Not too many are speaking with confidence; your yes is shaky. Because of unavoidable circumstance, Jesus&#8217; body and soul were divided and offered separately as he died on the cross. Was that Jesus&#8217; desire or did he want to become a living sacrifice offered in one unified manner? What about you? How can we become like the mind and body of Jesus offered together?</p>
<p>Think of your situation the same way that Jesus thought about his. In walking through the valleys of Israel Jesus did not think of them as belonging to someone else. He thought, &#8220;God is my God. Israel is my nation. These are my people.&#8221; There was always an intense seriousness in his heart. Are you of the same frame of mind? Are you thinking, &#8220;God is my God. Mankind are my people, and I am here to save them&#8221;?</p>
<p>What was the conviction and philosophy of Jesus? Did he just routinely eat good meals and idly pass his days, planning to live a long life? Jesus thought, &#8220;God is my God. Mankind are my brethren, and this whole world is waiting to be re-created by the son of God. I am here for that mission.&#8221; God thought in the same way that Jesus did. Both God and Jesus were pursuing the same ideal and ideology, and for that reason God could give His inheritance to His son Jesus.</p>
<p>Jesus wanted to give his inheritance to the Christian world, to his brethren. He wanted to give each Christian the conviction, &#8220;God is my God, mankind are my brothers. This land belongs to me and I am responsible to God to re-create it in God&#8217;s way.&#8221; Those people who are denominational and sectarian leaders and only interested in promoting their own sectarian purposes are outrageous. We must inherit Jesus&#8217; philosophy and ideology instead. Denominationalism is just a roadblock for God. We must break away all the barriers of sectarianism in order to really reach the people.</p>
<p>We may abolish the national and cultural boundaries, but more than that we must work to re-create the world as one unit, and the people of the world as one family of men under one God. This is not only God&#8217;s ideal and Jesus&#8217; ideal, but it is the deep hope of all who are struggling in this crumbling world. People may be convinced that such an ideal is impossible yet still they think about it. Even in the world as it is people talk about peace, don&#8217;t they? The peace they are seeking will be the result of having parents, children and relatives united together in harmonious, joyful unity. Doesn&#8217;t everyone desire this unity as parents, husbands and wives, and children?</p>
<h3 align="center">What do you think about?</h3>
<p>If the ministers and clergymen who preach sermons on Sunday morning cannot talk about God as ,&#8217;my God,&#8221; or about mankind as &#8220;my people,&#8221; or about this world as the home of one family of men, they are heretics. They are frauds if they cannot talk with conviction about these things.</p>
<p>Who are you then? Do you feel that God is &#8220;my God&#8221;? Beyond the boundary of America, have you thought about all lands belonging to you? Have you ever thought, &#8220;I am responsible for this land. I have to invest myself in restoring this land in the sight of God&#8221;? This is the kind of religion God has been waiting for. Therefore, we in the Unification Church cannot be aloof of the world situation. We must feel totally responsible, as if this world belonged to us, for nobody else will take care of it. &#8220;I must take up responsibility because the Christian churches are crumbling today. The young people are morally corrupted so I must take up the responsibility. I can see the world crumbling because of the infiltration of communism, and so I must be responsible for communism.&#8221; We each have to think in this way.</p>
<p>Since this is our determination we must revive Christianity, liquidate the communist ideology, and work with young people to bring back God-centered morals. Are you dating and having a good time with other young people? Do you want to brush aside responsibilities and just pray and wait for wonderful reforms to appear as a blessing? No, you must be different. What do you think about while you are eating? You must think, &#8220;The world, Christianity, communism, the young people.&#8221; What do God and Jesus think about when looking down at this world? Those same things.</p>
<p>Do Jesus and the saints and disciples sit idle and do nothing in spirit world? No, they are always working, constantly looking at the world situation and thinking and laboring in the same way that God is thinking and working. What do you think about? The blessing? Your every word and every deed must be permeated with the thought, &#8220;God and world, God and world.&#8221; In that context you must speak, act and work.</p>
<p>Until now you may not have thought about this, but in listening to me you can clearly understand Jesus&#8217; philosophy and God&#8217;s philosophy and now you can see clearly how you can become a true Christian and champion of God. Have you come to that realization today? Even unto his death, Jesus was absolutely unmindful of his personal loss. Instead he was worrying about his mission, God and the world. In the 2,000 years since his death Jesus has been continually working for God and the world.</p>
<p>Christians should inherit Jesus&#8217; philosophy and conviction, but instead they are often fretting only about their own denomination and church. Instead of feeling concern for the rest of the world they are concerned about securing their own heaven. They are thieves! It is ludicrous to see such people opposing me when I have totally given myself to bring the world back to God! Which side is God standing on?</p>
<p>We arrive at a simple conclusion: Any movement that God approves will be prosperous no matter what, and its opponents will inevitably crumble. Our job is to bring salvation to Christianity while there is still some sign of life. When God sees a man who is desperately pursuing this mission all day long He is inspired and cheers, &#8220;My son, you are even better than I!&#8221; Don&#8217;t you want to live that kind of life?</p>
<p>So far have you been worrying about yourself, about what kind of marriage you will have, and what you job will be? Jesus proclaimed so clearly, &#8220;Do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or put on &#8230; Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness.&#8221; He said that the gentiles worry about themselves, but the chosen people need to worry about bringing the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth.</p>
<p>Can you firmly determine to inherit Jesus&#8217; philosophy as your own, and live and act and think precisely as he does? Then you will become one with him as his younger brother. If you try to become a christ yourself, then will Jesus say, &#8220;You blasphemer! How could an ordinary man try to be like me? I am King of kings!&#8221; Or will he say, &#8220;My brothers, God bless you&#8221;?</p>
<p>Those who only live to fill their own stomachs shall not succeed. How about you? Is y-r mind completely filled by God and the world? Is there even a little bit of room left over for anything else, or with all your heart, all your mind and all your soul are you absolutely centered upon this mission? You who can say, &#8220;God and True Parents, I can pledge that I am absolutely like that,&#8221; raise your hands. Amazing! Are you really? The problem is that you constantly go up and down like a roller-coaster. Instead you have to continuously go up.</p>
<h3 align="center">Your hard work is to benefit yourself and your descendants</h3>
<p>Why do you come down? I have no personal reason to chase you out to witness or fund raise; I myself do not need the money or the people. You are the ones who need them. In God&#8217;s sight I am certainly entitled to inherit God&#8217;s kingdom, but what am I doing? Every penny I get I use for the sake of world restoration; every member who comes I mobilize for the sake of world restoration. World restoration is my only thought and constant hope.</p>
<p>Until my hope is realized I cannot get tired. It is impossible for me to break down. If anyone can live up to God&#8217;s standard then without any hesitation I am willing to give my entire inheritance to him. Such a person is absolutely entitled to God&#8217;s kingdom. I did not come to America to be indebted to this country or jealous of those who live here. I do not have to worry about my own circumstances, and America does not have to help me. I came to help save America.</p>
<p>Unification Church members should never think, &#8220;I am witnessing and fundraising to help Reverend Moon.&#8221; Not at all. You are doing all those things for your own salvation and to benefit your own children. Strictly speaking you are not even doing it for God or Jesus. You are doing it for yourself and it will benefit you more than anyone else.</p>
<p>Man was supposed to be born for God, for humanity, and for this world. That is his original purpose. Everybody wants to bring a gift to God; what kind of gift would you bring? Neither an entire world of treasure nor titles of power are gifts that God will accept. Instead God will cherish the deeds you did here on earth out of your love for Him, and how much you precisely lived His own philosophy when on earth. That record here on earth is intangible, yet that is the only gift that God can recognize as meaningful.</p>
<p>Do not even think of your own family from a selfish point of view. When you sisters look at your husbands you should think, &#8220;My husband is representative of all men of the universe.&#8221; When you brothers look at your wives, think, &#8220;My wife is representative of all the women of the world. When we have unity between us we bring unity to the universe and unity to mankind. I am serving by living as a true husband.&#8221; As you serve your husband or wife you are serving the entire world of men or women. Men and women together in marriage are an example of service for the world. In marriage there is no barrier of heart so there could be no barrier of race or nationality. There are no barriers in the world of love. That is Jesus&#8217; ideology.</p>
<p>Jesus wanted to plant that philosophy within the nation of Israel 2,000 years ago; however, the people and nation together were centered on their own selfishness, thinking about Israel&#8217;s glory and the glory of Judaism. They did not accept Jesus&#8217; vision, but even now the Jews must repent and live according to Jesus&#8217; ideology.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s Christians are no better than the Jews in this sense. They do not care about the rest of the world, but are more concerned that they will be lifted up in the air when the Lord comes, abandoning the rest of the world to be judged and cast into unquenchable fire. They do not care if the world burns to the ground as long as they have their millennium up in the air. But God&#8217;s true heart is to use all of Christianity as a sacrifice that the world might be saved.</p>
<p>It is indeed my ideology that we have the Unification Church become a total sacrifice as we reach out to save the world. If this is wrong then there is no such thing as God and we do not even have to worry about finding hope in this world. In these Last Days God sent me to teach His people, not with symbols and parables but with the absolute truth, not in a mirror dimly but face to face. There is no excuse now because the broad daylight is here.</p>
<p>What is your mind filled with when you are eating? By loving God I make God mine. By loving the world I make the world mine. No matter what the world may do to us, we will love this world and these people more than anyone else here on earth. Nobody can be greater than we as far as loving our mission and loving God is concerned; nobody can beat the standard of the Unification Church.</p>
<p>I may perish but I must leave the indelible footprint of my tradition and ideology behind. You must think, &#8220;Even if I die I will achieve this goal and ideology through my own children and posterity.&#8221; Then true liberation can finally take place; the agony and sorrow of Jesus&#8217; heart can be rectified and God&#8217;s broken heart shall be liberated. Do you know this clearly now? Before you even eat, what are your thoughts? While you eat what are you thinking? After your meal what would you think about?</p>
<p>Why did God give you your own eyes? To see the world from the viewpoint of God; your eyes are God&#8217;s windows. God gave you your ears to hear music as a resounding inspiration to love God. Your nose was given to breathe the air of love, air of harmony, service, and sacrifice. All your senses were meant to reach out to love everything and revolve around one central figure-God and the world.</p>
<p>In using a fish net you have the weights to draw the net down and anchor it. Love is like the weights of the net; we just follow the path of those who went before us in love, drawn behind them. There is no line above love. You must not pursue a love that will be shameful in the eyes of God or mankind. Americans have tried everything in their quest for fun and carnal pleasure; they have tried a hippie life of unconcern, free sex, and even streaking. Was that for God? They did it for selfish, carnal pleasure, and living that kind of attitude will only bring the destruction of mankind and the world, and the destruction of God&#8217;s tradition. Fostering that kind of life is like murdering billions of people and spreading their blood over the land.</p>
<h3 align="center">If you become a living sacrifice the world will see resurrection</h3>
<p>There is no room for dancing or rejoicing in a world filled with that destruction because there would be no joy. That is the mind of Jesus and of the True Parents. Your body lives according to your mind and obeys your mind. Through living, your mind and body become one. When you harbor Jesus&#8217; mind and live accordingly then Jesus will say to you, &#8220;You are my soul. Indeed you are my body and you represent me totally.&#8221;</p>
<p>How wonderful Jesus would have felt if his disciples had followed him that closely! If the disciples had really shared his mind and lived up to his mind with their actions, how victorious his mission would have been! That was exactly what Jesus wanted, but that tradition was not created 2,000 years ago. But now I am proclaiming precisely the same ideology of Jesus and God and we can live that ideology for the first time in history. Would God brand us as heretics or would He be grateful?</p>
<p>Regardless of opposition we must go on, and we must become one with Jesus by doing so. We must really pledge to God, &#8220;Nobody will deter me. I am going to inherit Jesus&#8217; own ideology and I want to live it.&#8221; So far this has been hazy in your minds perhaps, but at this moment can you say, &#8220;God, this is absolutely clear, and I am going to live it.&#8221; Can you make that pledge?</p>
<p>If your goal is real then it has been worthwhile for me to come here and really speak my heart. I am a representative of Jesus and my life is a living sacrifice on the altar of God. Since I am in that position then I am living the life of Jesus and anyone who helps me and follows me shall receive salvation. If this is also your conviction and faith then you are the physical resurrection of Jesus and his ideology, and through you the entire world will see resurrection. You will bring salvation wherever you go, and anyone opposing you will in reality be opposing God.</p>
<p>The showdown shall be made before your life is over. You will see that anyone who goes against God cannot last long. I have witnessed many occasions when people who made a wrong relationship with me simply perished. I prayed for their forgiveness and prosperity, yet in spite of that they suffered. Once anyone comes against God and His ideology they are in a most serious position, even though I may pray for their blessing.</p>
<p>I am alone but not isolated or weak at all. Would you like to be me? When you lie down you must think that you are Jesus lying down: &#8220;My body is the resurrected body of Jesus. I am reviving Jesus&#8217; breath that was stilled 2,000 years ago.&#8221; Is this criminal in light of the Bible? Not at all. The Bible is teaching us to become one body with Jesus; Jesus taught, &#8220;I am in the Father and the Father is in me.&#8221; He also said, &#8220;You are in me and I am in you.&#8221; Jesus meant that everyone can become a representative of the Messiah, a part of the Messiah. Your becoming the physical manifestation of the Messiah is the essence of God&#8217;s ideology and Jesus&#8217; ideology. Are you heretics by claiming to be messiahs? Not at all! God created everyone to be a messiah. As long as there are people who need to be saved the title of Messiah is needed.</p>
<p>With this teaching in your mind you can go out to the world and proclaim, &#8220;I am the messiah.&#8221; That is not a sin at all, instead you will be welcomed by God. This morning I have been speaking to you very clearly about how Jesus came to be a living sacrifice, but instead became a dead sacrifice. Today we are the resurrection of Jesus, the living sacrifice; in his place we are going to consummate the mission that he left undone here on earth.</p>
<p>Three days ago we had a precious sacrifice. One of our brothers died in action when he was run over by a subway car while out selling newspapers. Whether you are killed is not a problem; the important thing is how you die. What do you think about the moment your death strikes? Your own misery, or God and mankind? You mission? That is what will determine your place in spirit world. If that brother lived and then died for God and mankind then his death was a glory and he inevitably went to Jesus&#8217; realm at the throne of God.</p>
<p>At the moment of your death you should be able to say to God, &#8220;I lived for You and for the world. I have done my absolute best, and You know that I spent every ounce of my energy for You and the world. God, please receive my soul.&#8221; Then you are indeed a son of God, and shall be gloriously accepted at the throne of God; you shall remain as an elder brother or sister of the world for eternity. Because you lived the highest credo under the sun no one can exceed your position. Step by step we want to bring the family, society, nation, and world to be transformed into the altar upon which we can present ourselves as a living sacrifice. When God can accept our offering then the world shall be revived and resurrected. At each stage we are expanding the Kingdom of God here on earth.</p>
<p>Everyone has pledged today to become a champion of God in that respect. Members of all five races are assembled in this room. Those who can say, &#8220;God and Father, without any mistake I am absolutely going to live that life. Until I die I shall not change my course. I am going to live for you, God, and mankind.&#8221; Let us make that pledge once again.</p>
<p>My Heavenly Father, please accept this pledge of our young people to give their heart and soul and life for You and Your mission. Give them Your blessing so that they shall become a living sacrifice on Your altar. They shall bring the world into resurrection and they shall bring this world into the Kingdom of God here on earth.</p>
<p>This is a historical moment that you shall remember. I want you to live your life as a living sacrifice. May 8, is a day of new beginning and from now on you must not voice complaints. The world is tired out but we cannot be tired out. God has not rested yet; I have not rested yet; you cannot rest yet. There is nothing you cannot face, nothing you cannot do for God. If you really are what you pledged then America will live. No matter how much sacrifice you pay, you must sell the newspaper.</p>
<p>Let us face whatever shame may come and the victory of God will soon be proclaimed here on earth. Your deeds and your way of life shall be raised up; the world is waiting for your offering, having only one thread of hope, which lies in you. If you live with that faith and conviction then God will always be with you, never leaving you alone for one moment. May God bless you in your victory. Let us pray.</p>
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<h3 align="center">May 21, 1977<br />
World Mission Center<br />
Translator-Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>At a meeting or service like this, the person who makes the effort to arrive first and sit at the front is the most prepared to receive some blessing. I want to ask all of you who just arrived with the IOWCs from different parts of the country about what kind of feeling you had when you came to New York. Were you excited, or did you feel it was just another change? You were excited about coming to New York to see all the skyscrapers and sights in this famous city, right?</p>
<p>I am not much to look at and I am so busy that I don&#8217;t have a second to spare, but even so you wanted to see me. I just finished a meeting with the European leaders and they all were anxious to know when I was coming to Europe. I had to tell them that such a trip was not in sight yet. I thank you from the bottom of my heart that you are excited to come to New York because you want to see me, but I am also sorry that I cannot spend the time with you that you desire. I arrived at East Garden at 3:30 this morning and then got up at 5 o&#8217;clock. You too will get busier and have a tough schedule. Do you mind?</p>
<p>Men normally have a very adventurous character and like to go out to catch something, like animals and birds, right? How about the women? Men and women certainly have different characteristics. Would it be better for us to follow the men or women&#8217;s direction? I tend to agree with the men that we had better follow the men&#8217;s direction because men are basically born with an out-going, aggressive nature.</p>
<p>The characteristics of men and women are very obvious when they have extra time; men are always going out to find some adventure while women sit down to do needlework or draw pictures or work in the kitchen. What would have happened to this world if there had been no men but only women pioneering human civilization? If there were only women to advance human civilization, we might still be living in a primitive age. Do you women agree? It is women&#8217;s nature to disagree and answer no, even though inside they know it is true.</p>
<p>All things considered, what are women really good for? Who designed your clothes, women or men? Answer me honestly, who runs faster, men or women? Who designed the watches and created the eyeglasses and made the beautiful rings that you women wear? You women are sitting idle and trying to exploit men, aren&#8217;t you? Do women at least show gratitude and humbly accept whatever is given to them, or are they always trying to take advantage, taking more whenever they are given something? What is a good woman? What is a good man?</p>
<p>God has been watching the movement of history, knowing very well the nature of women. He has been thinking that before the end of the world women&#8217;s true honor needs to be restored, that women should become people who can live for a good purpose instead of being a degraded group. He is also drinking that He will give them a hard time and have them pay indemnity for all the things that women have done in history. If God is really watching history, do you think He would have such thoughts?</p>
<p>If I were in God&#8217;s position, I would have thought about it. Is it a reasonable idea? There will certainly be a time for the complete renewal of this fallen world and God is thinking about how to use women as the champions who can really give their blood, sweat and tears, letting them elevate their old situation before the new world begins.</p>
<p>Do you want to become men and women of God? Putting yourself in that position, would you also think that this is the time for women to really play a major role, to repent and indemnify the lives of women in the past? Did you ever think about things in this way before? Women must be revolutionized for the sake of God and the sake of the New Age. Is there anyone here who disagrees? Do you women want to get married simply to be loved and to be given lots of gifts?</p>
<p>Let me ask you another question. If God really loved you, would He tell you to take it easy and sleep late and not bother about doing any hard work? Or would God say, &#8220;Because I love you I&#8217;m going to put you to work so that for the first time in history true women may be seen. By working with all your heart and soul I want you to become women that history will be proud of in the future.&#8221; Which way truly expresses the love of God? I am convinced that you know the right answer. I&#8217;ve given you women a hard time this morning, but don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;ll give the men a hard time too.</p>
<p>Who in history has committed more atrocities? Who killed more people in history, men or women? Acts of war and the most horrible crimes have been committed primarily by men. Are you men proud of this? Have men been good material or bad material? If you think men are basically bad material then do you think God should treat them harshly or leniently? When God starts to push you hard, will you welcome it without hesitation or will you be rebellious? In examining history, we see that man has been a rebellious animal, always complaining when God asks him to do something.</p>
<p>Are you good men or evil rascals? I heard your answer. If you are evil rascals, should God treat you as decent gentlemen? Suppose a tiger got loose in New York one day and ate one man. The police would be mobilized and the event would be big news. Is it a good thing for tigers to eat men? It is not good at all, but every day in broad daylight in New York how many men kill other men? Is that worse than a tiger killing a man? The tiger might eat the man for food, but a man doesn&#8217;t have to kill another man. In light of this, are you men superior or inferior to a tiger?</p>
<p>Men sometimes do things that are even worse than the acts of animals. How would you treat that particular tiger if you caught it? Would you praise it and give it food or would you punish it? If you were captured and punished like the tiger, would you rebel at your treatment or would you be resentful? Repentance makes sense to us, but what about the rest of the world? There aren&#8217;t many signs of repentance to be seen.</p>
<p>Is God willing to tackle the vast work needed to tame evil men and change them into champions for His cause? If God roughs you up, would you protest that He can&#8217;t do that in America? When God sees someone who can tame evil man and make him a champion for the cause of good, would He worry about what method was used? Would God worry about whether the work was too hard? If God knows that men and women have been evil throughout history then He would certainly want to see to it that men and women restored their lost honor and became committed to the side of good before He began the task of rebuilding the old world into His new Kingdom.</p>
<p>Would God Himself do the work on earth or would He summon men and women to do it? If that is the case, would you like to be hand-picked by God when He needs a champion, or would you want to avoid that role? You want to become God&#8217;s champion, right? Who would become the leader of a group of such people? If you were God would you choose someone who could only complain or someone who was obedient and only wanted to fulfill God&#8217;s will? You say you want to become a leader. Have you already passed that test, or are you still considering whether to go that route? Are you still mulling over the question or are you going straight to the goal? Your answer doesn&#8217;t sound confident because it comes from your lips, not from your heart.</p>
<p>I am not just trying to entertain you; I have a reason to say these things this morning because I want to hit a target. The bullets I am shooting are God&#8217;s words and my target is your heart. When I ask you whether you really want to become men who pass the test of God, your answer should show the confidence in your heart. That is a decision being made by everyone. American young people do not think in this fashion.</p>
<p>God sees degrees of commitment among you. God is sincerely trying to advance peace among man, longing for the realization of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Will He make such efforts just to see all of you pass only the third degree? Nothing comes easy in this world, particularly the most excellent performance.</p>
<p>Suppose one of you gets very tired and loses his will to go on but then is dragged by force and pushed so hard that he cannot help but bring the Kingdom. Will that person be grateful later or not? After that person enters the Kingdom the club he thought was so cruel will look more precious than gold because that was what made him find God&#8217;s world. From that point of view will you welcome a beating from such a club? You answer yes because you know that without such discipline you might never find that blessing. There are two kinds of whipping. When a whipping is given for the sake of someone&#8217;s eternal life, it is a good whipping. American young people do not understand this concept. They confuse it with another type of whipping, which is given to satisfy one&#8217;s own greediness. That is evil.</p>
<p>Is murder a sin or not? What about capital punishment? When a criminal is executed for his crimes under the law, no one is doing it for their personal benefit, but for the safety and security of all. If any person is seeking revenge for his personal reasons, however, falsely accusing someone in order that he be executed, then the person who actually needs to be punished is the accuser, not the prisoner.</p>
<p>You must know clearly the definition of good and evil. The outward action is not evil in itself; the motivation behind it is the source of good or evil. This is a serious matter to consider. If God felt that ½ of mankind had to be eliminated in order to save the other 2/3, do you think He should do it or not? God is ready to do that if necessary. Unless you completely understand this then the world will be confusing and you will have no clear direction. The side of good always perseveres in hope, trying to benefit mankind. The side of evil has no such characteristic. As soon as evil people feel vulnerable or abused they strike out, regardless of who is right.</p>
<p>Is God a good God or an evil God? Is Satan good or evil? Do you know the criterion for deciding whether God is good and Satan is evil? You must think that you can persevere for the sake of good, being patient and sometimes suppressing your anger, moving on with hope, not despair. The reason for such perseverance is the need of the world and God for your assistance. God is persevering and patient, not for His own sake, but for the very enemy who harbors animosity toward Him.</p>
<p>Everyone in the universe has parents, right? Were your parents good or evil? Many American young people say they don&#8217;t know and don&#8217;t care one way or the other but that is not good. Do you have a good mother and good father? Many of you didn&#8217;t answer because you are doubtful. There is much divorce in American society, but whose side does God take? God will ask the husband and wife whether they considered the possibility of getting a divorce before they committed themselves to marriage, and in order to receive His sympathy their answer must be no. The partner who takes the initiative in seeking separation is the person who is guilty of wrongdoing in front of their children.</p>
<p>If it is the mother who caused the separation then her child can even protest to her and comfort his father by saying, &#8220;My mother does not deserve to be a member of this family. As your son I want you to be happy. I will bring you happiness, even if I must find and serve a new mother.&#8221; That kind of young man would not be unhappy with having a new mother. Having a clear sense of justice, he would be serving his father by bringing him a new wife to make him happy again, knowing that he is a good man. How many American young people think in that fashion? Most of them could care less, thinking that if their parents want to separate that it is their business. They aren&#8217;t interested in calling their new stepparent &#8220;father&#8221; or &#8220;mother.&#8221; Marriage in America is like a business contract signed by two people and broken whenever they feel like it. America&#8217;s family life is absolutely miserable because divorce is so prevalent and so casual. The Unification Church is going to be a different kind of movement. By having a clear sense of judgment we can reconstruct American family life and create a healthy, harmonious society. We will create permanent homes in our society. Selfishness and unselfishness determine the value of everything and even in family squabbles and divorces the person who acts out of unselfishness and for the sake of the children and the community is a good person. Unless we practice this clear principle there is no way to reconstruct American society.</p>
<p>In every comer of life selfishness is your worst enemy. You can evaluate your own home life from this standpoint. If one of your parents was selfish or greedy you felt disgust and your children will be the same. This message is painful for those who cannot accept or live this principle and I understand very well that they will oppose us. Will you then support me or join the negative people who are opposing me out of selfishness? Even if I chase you out, would you still come and support me? The only reason for you to come is that I scold you and chase you out, not for your own benefit, but for the benefit of all.</p>
<p>All through the past, present and future anyone who has pursued this goal has also gone this drastic way. The parent who tries to be patient and persevere through difficulty with his partner, hoping until the very end for a reconciliation, is a good person. That person&#8217;s future will never be completely blocked. A selfish person may seem to be living a very wise and clever way of life, but this life will eventually hit a stone wall.</p>
<p>Parents and children may not get along too well sometimes, but the important thing is which side is closer to God&#8217;s principle. In individualistic America many parents only think of themselves as instruments for giving birth to children, nothing more. They go their own way and let the children go theirs. On the other hand, there are children who regard their parents with contempt for their lack of education or low station in life. Those sons and daughters may be convinced that there is nothing to be learned from such insignificant, ignorant people, regardless of the fact that they are their mother and father. Those proud, boastful children will reject their parents, denying that they have any responsibility to them.</p>
<p>Would you still become a pious, loyal son, regardless of your parents&#8217; situation, or would you be boastful? Would you still respect your own parents even if you became a professor at a famous university? Even if there was not much to learn from listening to them, would you still pay respect to your parents? Why? Their unselfish motivation is the reason you should respect them, the fact that they tell you certain things for your sake and not for their own benefit or ego. One principle always operates in this universe, which is that your motivation is the actual measure of the value of your actions.</p>
<p>True parental love is always given for the sake of the child. Because it is not measured by money or by honor, parental love does not tarnish or change. Even if you have knowledge that can change the world, if you utilize it for you own benefit, you are no more than Satan. What can we consider precious, the vast knowledge of professors or the unchanging, sacrificial love of parents? There is no comparison between the two. American young people must know where true value lies.</p>
<p>I have the mission of grabbing the wild, untamed young people of America, disciplining them, and revolutionizing the life of American homes. I want you to become mothers and fathers who are dedicated and sacrificial, who are not boastful about their own deeds but who give totally. Your heart will resemble the heart of God when you steadily try to serve the well-being of your family every day, without change. That giving and serving is equivalent to the actions of God. Then you possess true authority, more than anyone who is trying to command everyone else.</p>
<p>If you can be totally unselfish then you can offer certain advice sometimes, even to your father and mother. If you are lovingly living that principle then your deeds will be noble and justified. Even in that case, however, no son can compete with the degree of intensity of his parent&#8217;s true love; if you blindly serve and respect your parents, you still feel no complaint because the intensity of parents&#8217; love and children&#8217;s love has no comparison. Parental love is far greater and more intense. We must make this boundary absolutely clear.</p>
<p>This boundary line of truth is straight, not crooked, extending from the individual all over the world. Can you clearly see it or not? The significance of its straightness is that no one can challenge it; that straightness is unselfishness. In living that principle you can be patient and persevere and do your absolute best for the sake of others.</p>
<p>I am closely watching the many blessed couples in our church. The couple which assumes that the church should support them is one kind, while the husband and wife who want to not only support themselves and not be indebted to the church, but even want the church to be indebted to them is another kind of couple. No matter how early you were blessed, if you are trying to use the members and the church for your own benefit, you are no good. That is exactly how I think about myself. There is no exception to this; that is the way of goodness.</p>
<p>I am fully aware that America has come against me, thinking that I am a dangerous person who should be thrown out of America, but I will change America&#8217;s young people and discipline them and give them a hard time, all for the sake of America and for the sake of those who are trying to destroy me. I want to make absolutely clear the truth that America does not exist for the sake of the Unification Church and that we will not exploit America. The Unification Church is only an instrument to bring this nation to God; America and the world come first. You must never act by thinking only of what is beneficial for the Unification Church. I never think like that. I will only support what will benefit America and the world, whatever the penalty or sacrifice may be. If Satan puts up a roadblock then I will penetrate it.</p>
<p>I ask you to come this way also. If you hesitate to go this way then I will even spank you. By knowing my motivation you will know whether that is a good or evil act. Even with a handful of people like you I will confront the opposition and penetrate all the way to the final goal.</p>
<p>When you look from the point of view of truth you realize how much ugliness there is outside. Is the motivation of our opponents unselfish or selfish? On the other hand, is what I am trying to achieve selfish or unselfish? That is the standard which determines good and evil. Our opposition is waging a war to destroy the Unification Church, but I will never bend. They fabricate all kinds of allegations, but still we are patient. We have profound truth to testify about and yet still we take beating after beating.</p>
<p>Which side is pursuing a good cause? Do you have confidence that you are pursuing a good cause or aren&#8217;t you sure? Because we are pursuing an unselfish cause we are on the side of absolute goodness. That is why God respects you, why He is with you. Furthermore, the good people of the past and future will bow down before the strength of your conviction; you are not pursuing this good cause with popularity and fame but in the face of impossible misunderstanding. Because we persevere under those conditions our efforts have value. If we are totally on the side of God then the selfish world will fall into chaos and the time will come for the harvest. You must have that kind of confidence. We are men of justice who are not to be deterred by events around us.</p>
<p>You did not have too much power or authority in the past because your goals were not clear or were founded on incomplete truth. But as soon as you clearly saw the truth in your heart you felt the power to pursue this life. Truth is power; knowledge is power. Americans are proud people who think they are first-class citizens, being very civilized and very dedicated to justice, even sometimes giving up their lives to save others. Are you really proud Americans? The most important thing is whether you are really proud to be a member of the Unification Church, even though you are persecuted. Are you here because you have no other choice? You are a coward if you take cover every day.</p>
<p>If I were a coward I would not have ever challenged America. Instead I stood up in the name of God and now I cannot tum around. That is the way I have walked for thirty years, but I am never defeated, even by fatigue. The people who adamantly opposed me twenty and thirty years ago now bow down to me. Some years ago the Japanese media publicized me as the worst rascal under the sun, but now the Japanese are realizing that Asia needs my philosophy and conviction. Now the same situation is happening in America, with impossible things being said about me. Our opponents thought that I would easily be gotten rid of, but instead they have found that I am getting stronger and that this movement is getting stronger and that this movement is getting bigger. They see that I have a fearless attitude and that the time will eventually come when even this country will change.</p>
<p>Would God feel excited to see such an ironwilled man marching on or not? Would God tell me to relax and take it easy, or would He say, &#8220;My son, go on. I am behind you 100% every day&#8221;? What do you think God wants from me? How would He feel if I asked for a vacation, even after thirty years? Instead I tell God to take a vacation.</p>
<p>What kind of teacher would you like to have, the first type of person or the second type? How could you claim to love me if you are trying to push me to work harder and receive greater suffering? You have to answer, &#8220;This world needs you in order to be transformed into goodness. Only you can liquidate all the evil. I absolutely support you. Please be patient and go on, even though it is difficult.&#8221; That is true respect.</p>
<p>If every year one out of a hundred people dies, every year 40 million people are passing to spirit world and in most cases they are going into hell. It is love and respect to ask me to go on because you know we can bring them to heaven. When you say that then I will bow down and listen to you. If you are thinking of everything from God&#8217;s point of view then I can say that I love you. Such sons and daughters can rightfully inherit the Kingdom.</p>
<p>That is exactly my position with God. I say the same thing; &#8220;God, 40 million people every year end up in the dungeons of hell. We must save them. I need your spirit and power in order to do the job.&#8221; God will not only listen but will always support such a prayer; the man who walks in that spirit is a man of justice. His goal is clear and noble; it is not even America&#8217;s goal or one country&#8217;s goal, but the goal of the world, spirit world and God. The man of justice rises up for the liberation of God.</p>
<p>We come to the conclusion that men of justice are assembled in this room and in the Unification Church. This movement is truly trying to do justice for God. Why am I so busy every day? There is no area I do not touch or become involved in. I go out to sea, set up factories and businesses, create newspapers and buy real estate, not just in New York but all over the world. There is absolutely nothing that I do not touch. Sometimes even our members and leaders are confused about which project is top priority. When we go to sea we are fishermen and in the mountains we are hunters. We are workers at our factories and journalists at our newspaper. What is the central point?</p>
<p>Do I work this hard because I eat 100 meals a day? I haven&#8217;t even had breakfast this morning. There is no one who worries about money more than I do. If the whole American defense budget were given to me I would still worry about money. Do I work this hard to get my food or car or house? Am I working for my wife or children? For honor or fame? You young people already give me much respect and love so what else could I be doing all this for? I could discipline and run this organization to be more powerful than even the most evil kind of organization like the Mafia, but I am standing on the side of God, trying desperately every day to accomplish something.</p>
<p>Are you lucky to be here because you don&#8217;t have to worry about having a place to sleep or about having some work? Why are you lucky to meet me? I push you to go out to witness, fund raise and sell the newspaper early in the morning. You are sometimes so busy working from morning to night that you have not even a moment to relax over a meal, having to eat standing up.</p>
<p>People will say that you are crazy, but you are never crazy in the sight of God. Sometimes I wish that you were so busy for the work of God that you even had no time to go to the bathroom. Become a person who has no shame before God. Yesterday I saw a beggar pick up a rotten apple, clean it and put it in his pocket. I thought, &#8220;I wish that beggar could be a Unification Church member for the purpose of God.&#8221; I am looking for the man or woman who, even though he may have ample bread at home, so strongly feels the urgency of God&#8217;s work that he merely picks up a rotten apple in the road and eats it and continues on. That person Would do that not because he is in need, but because he is so dedicated to the work of God that he didn&#8217;t want to spare even one minute for himself. We need that kind of spirit to accomplish the will of God. The saints in heaven, all good men and women, Mother and 1, and even God will bow down to that person.</p>
<p>I know very well that this is the way of life of the saints and holy men. Would you be self-conscious and worry about your own dignity and honor, or would you forget all those things and be crazy about your mission? The more of a beggar you become the more you will be reduced until you have nothing. Why would you want to pursue this way of life? That is the life that God lives and that is the only way you can bring restoration to mankind. It is the one way of life that does not perish but remains eternally. The Kingdom of God is built in that humble fashion.</p>
<p>Yesterday I went to Barrytown to train the seminarians in making nets. I found that buying the necessary materials in the New York area would have cost thousands of dollars. I was looking for a way to save God&#8217;s money so I went all the way to New Haven, Connecticut, where I found the right kind of surplus store and bought everything for only a few hundred dollars. I was dressed very humbly and no one in the store knew who I was, yet they sensed something different about me. When the Lincoln limousine pulled up front to load in the materials the owners of the store were completely flabbergasted! They stood in the door like robots as we drove away. Then they realized that I was Reverend Moon.</p>
<p>Later at Barrytown everyone went through intense training in making nets. I was teaching them until 1:30 in the morning, but even then I didn&#8217;t tell them to go to bed or just give them instructions and leave. Then everyone realized I was going to speak to you at 6 a.m. so they said, &#8220;Father, we will take care of this. We know how to do it now so you go ahead and talk to the members in New York.&#8221;</p>
<p>Why didn&#8217;t the seminarians complain about working all night? They knew that I was working harder than anyone else. I am teaching you a hard way of life but that&#8217;s really the good way. Only the pursuit of a good purpose can produce people who don&#8217;t complain about hard work. As long as you feel you can go one step ahead of me and that you shall do more than I do, the Unification Church will be a church of resurrection at the place of death; we must climb down to the place of death in order to get our glorious resurrection.</p>
<p>American people are clever people and I know you understand what I am saying to you. The young people of America outside of our Church are perishing every day because sexual immorality, drug use and the VD epidemic are spreading. The result of that life is that many of their children are born deformed. In a spiritual sense those young people have already perished. They have abused their freedom and they don&#8217;t seem to care about their families, their society, nation or anything. How can such a society survive?</p>
<p>I am not the only one talking about the decline of America; parents, religious leaders and researchers confirm what I am saying. Can America be restored as a God-centered nation by the armed forces or the Pentagon? Can the knowledge of science that sends men to the moon cure the ills of society? No scientists or government leaders can do it. Even if all Americans were united together they would still find it impossible to accomplish by themselves.</p>
<p>In order to save America God sent one man from Korea with a message of salvation, yet everyone considers him an enemy. You young people of the Unification Church are the only hope for America and you must become a stepping stone for this country&#8217;s salvation. When America is turned around, the entire world&#8217;s population will have hope. This is why God sent me to work in America, rather than to any other nation. You must not be defeated.</p>
<p>I want you to know that I am a very lonely person. I began a one-man crusade thirty years ago, when absolutely nobody understood me. I stood up without fear at a time when the world was crumbling in darkness. I have travelled from the distant mountainsides of Korea, through many difficult years and have finally arrived in America, trying to install God&#8217;s movement here. Imagine how far I have travelled!</p>
<p>From the very first day I undertook my mission I dreamed of America because far before you were born God had a masterplan and the United States of America was its target. If God is concerned about fulfilling His plan then He has to bring young people like you to the Unification Church. We did not meet in the Unification Church just to save ourselves; we have the much greater purpose and mission of liberating God, heaven and earth, and all mankind. Since God sent you to me, I have the responsibility of transforming you into champions of God, and after being disciplined and trained you will become historical persons. I want to make the Unification Church members work harder than a beggar, not because you are hungry but because God and humanity are hungry. God thinks in this way.</p>
<p>Why did we buy this kind of building here in New York, big enough to hold 5,000 people? Simply because we must prevent New York from crumbling. I gave instructions that all our buildings were to be restored and fixed up, not only physically but also in the spiritual sense by our members giving their hard work. If everyone worked at the pace I do, with the same purpose in mind, we would have beautifully finished the physical restoration of our buildings in a year. All that work would not have been prolonged this long.</p>
<p>You should never think that now we have lots of comfortable bedrooms and plenty of hot water. The New Yorker does not exist for your own comfort. You have no idea what a burden and responsibility our Church is bearing economically because of our properties. Before you think of all the wonderful things you have to think of how much sacrifice by brothers and sisters it took to acquire such things. Do the leaders of our movement worry about the financial situation? Heavenly Father pities me because I have taken up that burden. If you know how many Korean families are suffering, how many Japanese members are suffering, then you know why we must solve these financial burdens in America.</p>
<p>President Carter&#8217;s administration wants to withdraw the troops from Korea, but I continue to bring people from Korea and Japan to save America. America is still important in the sight of God as the instrument to save the world. If America fails in its mission then America shall become the enemy of God. Our mission must succeed even if we all must become living sacrifices. America is deeply indebted not only to me but to the Korean and Japanese members of the Unification Church. I have found that if I am indebted to someone I simply cannot sleep well nor relax until I repay them. Anyone with the tendency to take advantage of other people will never succeed and never prosper.</p>
<p>Are any of you wearing the same three-year-old T-shirts and pants over and over again? You have lots to eat here, but in Asia the kind of food you eat is considered a precious meal and three-year-old clothing is considered brand new.</p>
<p>You want to go to the same part of heaven the Korean and Japanese members will go to, but does your conscience hurt if you aren&#8217;t working as hard as they? If you feel shame then you have felt hell, not heaven. You must be liberated from that shame so you can stand proudly before God and the spirit world. I want to help you be liberated from shame so that we can enter heaven proudly, side by side. The Korean and Japanese members have set conditions and sacrificed themselves for the sake of America. You would be ashamed if you went to the spirit world without doing much here on earth. Then I would also feel your shame because I would not have fulfilled my responsibility to teach and discipline you. Then the spirit world would have to chase you back to work in the physical world until you fulfill the necessary conditions. My aim is to push you out and discipline you so that you can ,be completely liberated from shame.</p>
<p>It takes a lot of money and manpower to run the newspaper company and I have not committed us in that way as a hobby or for entertainment. Why should we start a newspaper if it is only a burden economically? I know that it is needed as God&#8217;s instrument to fight against communism. That fight is our ultimate responsibility and we must prepare today or it will be too late by the time the confrontation becomes an emergency. Two years ago I founded the Unification Theological Seminary amidst criticism about wasting money and manpower, but no two years later the seminary has become vitally important in the overall scheme to fulfill God&#8217;s goal.</p>
<p>The newspaper will be equally important in the future. Even though you and I are suffering to lay the cornerstone, we&#8217;ve got to do it for the future. You say, &#8220;Father, we&#8217;ll never let you down, but you must realize that there are human limitations.&#8221; I want you to know that God&#8217;s 6,000 year old history of restoration will never be consummated if you think in that fashion.</p>
<p>We are trying to make a dream come true and that&#8217;s why I am leading you. If you could do it yourselves within the normal limitations then I would not be needed. Nothing is impossible in God&#8217;s sight. You must trust the living God and know beyond the slightest doubt that you can do anything. Everyone has been watching me and the Unification Church for the last four years and they know that our movement is growing and succeeding. After the successful Washington Monument &#8211; Rally I founded the News World and our critics are confident that our newspaper company will crumble so they scrutinize us with great interest and curiosity.</p>
<p>This venture is a real test because those major newspapers which have a history of 100 years and more are struggling financially today. The old established newspapers like the New York Times and Daily News are watching to see if the News World will last even six months. Even if we last one year they will say, &#8220;Well, Reverend Moon is an unusual man, but his newspaper will certainly fold after another year.&#8221; The Unification Church will gain a reputation for being able to do the impossible once the News World becomes an absolute success.</p>
<p>After we win our reputation for always succeeding, people will come to join our work and be part of us. The die is cast. We are committed to this goal and we shall achieve it. With a reputable newspaper like the New York Times struggling to keep growing, the impact of a booming News World, not only in New York but throughout the United States and around the world, will be tremendous.</p>
<p>I am already proceeding with the next project and have instructed Dennis Orme to lay the foundation for another newspaper in London. The world has predicted that I will be destroyed and become soup, but the entire spirit world is cheering and supporting us and God is proud that the day has finally come when He has a real champion on earth.</p>
<p>I can understand why we look crazy to the people who are struggling to keep newspapers going that are houndering now after 100 years of success. This kind of crazy venture is exactly what I like. I don&#8217;t want to do just what ordinary men have done, but something that other men cannot do. Do you like being challengers? Of course it&#8217;s difficult, but can you always stare at the goal without closing your eyes and march on? Compared to our goal, this little newspaper company is a peanut; the Madison Square Garden and the Empire State Building are just little toys. We must think that way and not be intimidated by a peanut project. You should be like that because no matter what, we are going to save New York and the entire country and world.</p>
<p>At the outset of this speech I said that men and women have been wicked from the very beginning. God wants to see the day come at the end of the world when He can mobilize such wicked men and women and put them into work far harder than slavery to let them really prove themselves worthy at least once in history. You accepted that challenge, didn&#8217;t you? You are different from ordinary young men and women who are pursuing the gratification of their carnal desires or seeking their own honor and knowledge; you are giving your heart and sweat and life and blood, everything for the sake of God.</p>
<p>What will God say if you become crazy about this mission, trying to bring the Kingdom of God here on earth? Would I feel like rejecting you or like glorifying you? I am eager for the day when I can ask you to stay behind and not go out because the work is already done. The time will come when the entire world will work for you and you won&#8217;t have to be out on the front line. By the time that happens I want you to have acquired a record that no one can top, that will enable you to stand proud and without shame. In order to obtain the greatest victory we must give our greatest devotion and make extraordinary sacrifice. Those who can do it, raise your hands. Thank you.</p>
<p>How many copies of the paper will you sell? Some members reluctantly go out to sell the newspaper while others say, &#8220;Father, I want to go out and I&#8217;ll really live up to your expectation.&#8221; Which kind are you? I know that even some leaders have been complaining. I&#8217;m sure that from this time on there will be no such person among you.</p>
<p>We must create the journalism and the mass communication of justice. Unless we can turn journalism around, how can we save America? If I am basically a religious leader, why do I become ensnarled in such a difficult worldly task? My goal is to save the world and unless we can influence the media to become an instrument of good, the world will be ruined even faster. Everything must focus on this problem. This newspaper is really a showdown for us so your eyes must focus on the newspaper and your mouth and ears and every other organ as well. Your mind and heart and will must be focused upon the newspaper. I want you to know with complete certainty that this is my own policy. No matter how good a leader someone may be, if he can&#8217;t do well in selling newspapers, I don&#8217;t need him in that position.</p>
<p>I seldom send out personal letters, but I recently sent out directions to all the foreign missions around the world that they should serve as reporters for the News World. They have a dual mission as missionaries and as reporters. When the European leaders came for a conference I also emphasized to them how they must contribute to the News World. We must follow God&#8217;s pattern; God is holding His own will and ideal in one hand and in the other He is pulling the satanic world to His side. That is exactly what we must do-seize our Principle way of life and at the same time grab the media to speak to the world. People controlling the channels of mass communication have significant power to influence peoples&#8217; opinions so we must pull their work toward God&#8217;s goal. It is God&#8217;s way to fulfill a dual responsibility with no complaints.</p>
<p>I found an unusual inspiration in seeing the Western way of life, particularly in the style of eating. No matter how hungry Orientals may be they always use one hand, but Westerners use two hands for cutting and holding and grabbing. By seeing this nature I knew that Westerners are equipped to handle dual responsibilities. Yet even having that tradition, Westerners are most singleminded! You only think about one thing at a time; if you are told to do two or more things you become totally confused about where to start.</p>
<p>Your two eyes are both coordinated, as well as your two ears and two hands. What does all this show? Can&#8217;t you do two missions at the same time? Some people say that if they try to do two things at once that neither one gets done, but that is so ridiculous that you shouldn&#8217;t even talk about it. If you can&#8217;t do two things well it is only because you lack commitment.</p>
<p>You can be like the gunfighters in Westerns who fire both guns at the same time. We don&#8217;t want just one-gun fighters! Isn&#8217;t it more exciting to see someone using both guns at the same time rather than just one? You must be able to pursue dual goals, but that does not mean you need a dual spouse. That is the only exception and other than that you can do many things. If you want to have a lot of children, go ahead and have dozens of children!</p>
<p>Even though you may lose one hour of sleep in order to reach your assigned newspaper area, go ahead. When God instructs me to do something I may get no sleep at all, but I do it willingly. Likewise you must do 100%. I am instructing you from the public point of view and from God&#8217;s standpoint. Not only will your fulfillment of those instructions give you satisfaction, but it will benefit all of New York. If you are going around the instructions and looking for the easy way out then your efforts are unacceptable. The more effort is needed to bring your accomplishment, the more blessing you can bring to the spirit world. If you sell 100 copies in a convenient area but another seller has to travel a greater distance and then sells 100 copies, his accomplishment has greater value. The person willing to take up the worst kind of responsibility with enthusiasm shall control the world. Are you trustworthy? I had all the IOWC teams come to New York and I want to see them completely outdo the New York members.</p>
<p>I am speaking now to the blessed couples stationed in New York. You must not become a burden to the church. The World Mission Center is home to those on the front line and I will chase out anyone who thinks their family is an excuse for not selling newspapers. If the Japanese couples are like that, they should go back to Japan. They should not become a burden to the hard-working men and women in the World Mission Center. If any American couple is like that, they should go to another center. The World Mission Center is the battlefield and everyone must keep pace with the fighting forces who live in this building. Otherwise, they do not deserve to live or eat here.</p>
<p>If you have a complaint, please raise your hand and tell me. Is your complaining for the sake of America and the world or are you complaining from a selfish point of view? If your answer is the latter, you must stop centering upon yourself because it affects all those around you. God needs men and women who can dedicate themselves to humanity and the world. There are no exceptions.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s dispensation cannot be entrusted to selfish people. Men of honor and justice will live in the World Mission Center. This is God&#8217;s house and must be utilized solely for God&#8217;s purpose. So much sweat and blood and sacrifice went into purchasing and restoring the World Mission Center that any activity that is not for God&#8217;s purpose must not occur here.</p>
<p>Sometimes I get very tired and I want to lie down even for a few moments, but my conscience never permits me to do that. If I am living like that then how can you take a nap? If you think of the world, God and posterity, you realize there is a lot of work to be done. I want to leave the most meaningful inheritance to you and my plans for our Church are not for my own purpose but for you.</p>
<p>Anyone opposing God&#8217;s will is our enemy. The communists are watching and waiting to see us crumble but that day will never come. If people curse you and scorn you, don&#8217;t retaliate. Instead say to yourself, &#8220;Wait just three more years and we&#8217;ll meet again then.&#8221; That is what I have been doing all these ye-s. Opposition is like an elixir to me; it always stimulates and spurs me on to accomplish more courageous things. Anyone on the side of justice grows stronger with opposition and difficulty and therefore we are bound to be successful.</p>
<p>Today after pledging a new determination, will you rise up to a higher level of accomplishment, or will you continue at the same pace that you have been keeping? When you come home after a day&#8217;s work and feel you have not fulfilled the day&#8217;s quota, you have to cry out in repentance and ask God for forgiveness. God&#8217;s heart will be moved and He will have mercy upon you. The dark night of evil is so close at hand that we cannot let a day go by without having absolute commitment.</p>
<p>I do not want you to be defeated but to be victorious men and women. I must do more than any of you. Anyone who can survive and prosper under such discipline for ten years can then go out and do anything in the world; he has nothing to fear and there is nothing he cannot be successful at. This is how I think about myself.</p>
<p>Everyone who really understands the purpose of the Unification Church, whether in spirit world or on earth, wants us to be successful. I am restless because the goal is so near. It is like a tug of war; the day is coming when the rope will break and we&#8217;ll jump over the victory line. I want you to be busy working hard from this time on and to be proud of the schedule you are keeping. Perhaps you beautiful young ladies will want to be transferred to a remote area if you cannot keep the pace I have set. Actually I am a person to be pitied. I do not like to push you out either, but for the sake of God and humanity I have to do it. Can you sympathize with me?</p>
<p>Throughout human history women have been defeated by men, but from this time on I want you women to be victorious over men. The small Japanese women have been working under adverse conditions here in America, yet they are so determined to not fall behind the men that they have been winning over them. You American women, however, do not think in that manner, do you?</p>
<p>Do you want me to trust you? In order to trust you I must train and discipline you and push you out. Will you stand for that? Sometime I would like to invite only the women to Barrytown to catch carp in the muddy lagoon. The carp are bigger than you are and they are so heavy that You will just sink into the mud. Would you throw the carp away to lighten your load and call for help or would you tenaciously cling to the carp and call for help? I&#8217;m sure 99% of you women would throw the carp away!</p>
<p>Everyone knows that Mr. Ken Sudo is a short man. When he was fishing in the Barrytown lake he sank in the mud and could not move. Probably all of you women will sink in the mud too. If there were only one or two of you then you could be pulled out, but if all of you sank at once, what could we do? The high tide would cover you! Then all the newspapers would print that I buried the women in the mud. Do you still think I should take you to Barrytown? If I do we will need a special watch force prepared to rescue you.</p>
<p>One year ago the Korean Folk Ballet asked to go out to sea with me. I told them that the sea is rough and that it would be very difficult, but they persisted and finally I took them fishing for tuna. After the boat had gone out one mile, the entire Korean Folk Ballet was wiped out! If I hadn&#8217;t taken them out then at least I would have remembered them for having the willingness and guts to go, but instead the trip was a miserable failure and it is not a pleasant memory. The same applies to you. I know that no matter how loudly or how much you women shout, I cannot trust that you can do it.</p>
<p>Can you surpass the men at selling newspapers? I cannot trust that either until you show me you can do it. What about you clumsy men? Will you be defeated by the women? I cannot trust you men either because you are too easily distracted and are tempted by so many things. Do you all want to show me what you can do? Will the men or the women be the winners? I want you both to be the winners and then I will gladly be defeated.</p>
<p>In that way the Unification Church will never be defeated. If you can defeat me then the Unification Church will prosper. If I can defeat you then the Unification Church will decline. I want you to be champions! I trust that you can do it.</p>
<p>Let us rise up at this hour as the men and women of justice. Raise your hands if you pledge to fulfill the role as men of justice. Let&#8217;s be victorious together. May God bless you and be with you. Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">OUR DESTINED RELATIONSHIP</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:21:57+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/our-destined-relationship.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:21:57+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">November 6, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator-Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>Good morning everyone. The topic of my talk this morning is <i>&#8220;Our Destined Relationship.&#8221;</i> The Korean word here means more than just &#8220;relationship&#8221;; it indicates being born or destined to meet.</p>
<p>When we look at rivers or lakes we know that they do not come into being all at once. Many drops of water from the tops of mountains or from plains and valleys all over the earth come together to make up a creek, river or lake. However, even water on top of a mountain is not at its point of origin. It begins as rain, which comes from clouds of vaporized water. When you look closely you will find that those drops have rich and varied backgrounds.</p>
<p>We must recognize the diverse history behind the drops of water which make up the creeks or streams that become giant rivers and lakes. You may say, &#8220;What a beautiful lake,&#8221; but your understanding should not be superficial. If those lakes and rivers could express themselves, they would have deep fellowship with man and would want to share their history. Those drops of water and those rivers and lakes must have a tremendous amount of pride in their own history. We men also want something to take pride in, but when we compare man with a body of water, which has more to be proud of? It&#8217;s very&#8217; herd to decide between the two, but actually the latter has been the witness of history.</p>
<p>Have you ever thought about whether the water in the ground at Belvedere could visit Korea? The water of Belvedere can travel anywhere in the world because it has existed for millions of years. Water here can become a cloud and travel over the ocean, becoming rain in Korea and other parts of the world. Furthermore, the water of Belvedere could have been in a cup of water you drank long ago. Without your even realizing, it could have left here many years ago and arrived at your table. No one can say that this couldn&#8217;t be true.</p>
<h3 align="center">Everything prefers a life<br />
of activity and adventure</h3>
<p>Suppose water from Belvedere came to you some months or years ago, and right now is in your bloodstream, back here at Belvedere again. That water will exult, &#8220;Father, I&#8217;m here! You are talking about me.&#8221; That particular water originated in Belvedere and now has come back here, feeling very excited that it is being talked about.</p>
<p>One feature of a body of clean water is its blue color. All the different kinds of water, even filthy, smelly water or muddy water, have the characteristic of never repelling each other but flowing together in harmony until they become pure and blue again. There are all kinds of relationships in our universe which are mysteriously intertwined and beyond our understanding. Let us compare our relationship to that of the water. Many years ago did you think you would be meeting Reverend Moon? Did America ever think that one day Reverend Moon would come and stir up a storm, becoming a lightning rod of attention?</p>
<p>This morning, look at the relationships between you m There are black, white and yellow faces here which came from all over New York to gather together in the early morning and sit on the cold cement floor. The floor is very hard and your bottoms get sore and cold. Sometimes I see that it is most uncomfortable for you to sit here for long hours. There are other churches which would welcome you and provide fluffy cushions and warm chairs where you could relax and listen to the music and the sermon. With all kinds of luxurious, plush churches waiting for you, why do you come here and suffer?</p>
<p>Drops of water flow in all different configurations according to their destinies, trickling into rivers and lakes, constantly joining and coursing along together. The drops of water must have very interesting conversations, sympathizing with those who flowed along a monotonous course through the plains and thrilling to the stories of tumbling down mountains and roaring down Niagara Falls. Certainly the drops that have tasted more chaotic situations and surmounted more obstacles have more to tell.</p>
<p>How about man? America has a 200-year history in which this vast land was gradually settled with little resistance, later becoming the most prosperous nation in the world. That is one story, but maybe there is another race or country which has had a history of many thousands of years of suffering, hardships and reverses before arriving in the present. When the two nations meet, which country has more to tell? Any people or race which has a more colorful, rugged experience has more to tell. This principle holds true here on earth and also in the spirit world.</p>
<p>If we look at a race or nation having a distinctive history of hardship in trying to survive and prosper and compare it with another race or nation which has gone through an equally difficult course but for the sake of God and mankind, which can we say is more noble? Nobility and value can be determined by purpose, not by suffering alone. The purpose behind the suffering will determine its value.</p>
<p>Imagine two types of people gathered together. One type doesn&#8217;t know much about society and has had little experience, but the other is deeply experienced in life, having gone through suffering and tasted both sorrow and joy. Which would naturally become the center of attention? Whoever has had more and deeper experiences and hardships has more to tell. We know that in order to really shine in history a person must have some experience to be deeply proud of.</p>
<p>Water which traveled all around the world seven times has more of a story to tell. The more the distance traveled, the more events there are to share. Which life would be more colorful from God&#8217;s point of view? Do you think He would say that once around the world would be quite adequate as far as He is concerned? God is no different from men. Regardless of a man&#8217;s walk in life, whether he is young or old, a scientist or a religious person, the general tendency of human behavior is the same.</p>
<p>Where did you come from? Many scientists claim that there is no God and that everything has evolved from pure energy. You don&#8217;t know much about your origin except that you were in your mother&#8217;s womb for nine months. You have no memory even of that, so how can you say you are from God? There is no simple answer: In your family&#8217;s history alone there are all kinds of confusing entanglements, and how much more confusing it must be to understand about the ultimate origin, God.</p>
<h3 align="center">How can we say that God exists?</h3>
<p>How can we answer the question of whether there is really a God? Energy tends to dissipate when it is not used, and activity always slows down when energy decreases. The energy output of any system must always be smaller than the energy input. You don&#8217;t spend more than you earn, and the same is true of energy. Then how do we develop and become prosperous? It doesn&#8217;t make sense to say that simply because the world exists it is automatically bound to become more prosperous; things cannot happen in random fashion. People cannot logically explain why this should be, and in an attempt to understand the universe they come up with the very convenient explanation, &#8220;Nature takes care of it through energy.&#8221; But what is nature itself? The energy in nature cannot be produced unless there is some interaction of two entities. When you just stand still there is no energy being produced or used, but as soon as you have an object or partner with whom to interact you can move anywhere. Even though you have energy, unless you interact with others that energy doesn&#8217;t serve any purpose.</p>
<p>If interaction is to take place, two entities are necessary, subject and object, and before we talk about energy we must confirm their existence. Where do subject and object come from? To answer this we may ask: When do you know you have love? When you are standing all by yourself can you say you have love? Love manifests when you have an object or a subject, a partner. When you exercise your energy through the power of give and take, you can recognize the existence and action of love. To get energy we need action, and to have action we need a subject and object. Thus, we cannot say that energy itself is the beginning or the source, because in order to get energy the interaction of subject and object is necessary. It is through the process of subject and object having give and take that you have energy to sustain your existence.</p>
<p>Is it true that everything in the universe resembles a circle? Matter in its smallest form exists in circular motion, as do the enormous heavenly bodies. Energy is derived through interaction which creates circular motion because that is the only motion which results in unending give and take. The various parts of our bodies are rounded. There appear to be many sharp points and angular parts of a tree, but if you look closely you will see that the overall shape is round, from the leaves to the trunk.</p>
<p>Is there a limit to your growth, or do you just grow unceasingly? Your internal mechanisms are designed in such a way that they grow to a certain point and then stop. If each organism is programmed to stop growing at a certain point, then how can larger or higher-level entities be made from lower life forms? This can only result from there being more and different kinds of interaction, a chain-reaction of give and take, so to speak, which can produce greater and greater productive energy. Through the interaction of a subject taking on object and then together becoming a higher subject which can take another object, energy can increase and become increasingly fruitful. From this point of view the theory of random evolution is certainly nonsense.</p>
<p>Once again we come to the question: How do we know there is a God? God is none other than a gigantic super-plus or super-subject, while you and I are a tiny plus and minus which together form one small minus m What is a minus and what is a plus? The body is minus and the soul or spirit is plus; together they make up one individual, which is a small minus. There are always plus and minus relationships in the life of our body and spirit. For example the body will say, &#8220;Spirit, don&#8217;t worry about God or spirit world. Just enjoy things while you are here on Earth m You will live a hundred years.&#8221; That&#8217;s what we call earthly life. On the other hand, plus is saying, &#8220;No, Body listen to me. There is a giant super-plus out there and we must unite with Him. That is what makes us free and eternal.&#8217;, Everyone lives through the struggles of the plus and minus as they strive for unity.</p>
<p>Within ourselves is a certain entity which recognizes the existence of the super-plus and which makes a constant effort to join together with it; This is why physical satisfactions cannot bring a person total fulfillment; even when one&#8217;s stomach is full, there is still some drive within him to be completely free and satisfied by searching after and finding some higher subject. Human beings all act in this fashion, even when they have abundant pleasure in seeing beautiful things, hearing beautiful sounds or having a full stomach m All of you have everything your bodies need, but you still search after some other kind of satisfaction.</p>
<p>Does that particular desire come from you or from somewhere else? Even though your parents gave you life, your real aspiration is to strive toward that ultimate individual, that ultimate super-plus. Should you always stay with your parents just because they raised you? No, because you were born with a distinct character of your own. As a result, each individual looks at the same goal but from a completely different angle, and therefore, the same topic looks different to each person.</p>
<p>You need an object because no matter how great you are, the most distance you can cover alone is 180 degrees; no man or woman alone can be 360 degrees perfect. The power of love causes two people to interact and allows them to unite. The power of love is the power which makes the two interact. Would you prefer love that is made of straight lines or contours of peaks and valleys? Love should go straight forward so that it can create a 90 degree angle between two people. When this angle is misshapen, the circular interaction between the two elements will not become completely round, but oval instead.</p>
<p>Would you want love to be permanent or temporal? Only permanent love resembles the love of God; permanence, absolute purity and absolute beauty are all elements which correspond to the elements of God. Because such a basic origin of beauty, love, perfection and purity exists in the universe, we feel constantly drawn to that source and have an innate desire to be like Him and instinctively we make efforts to be like Him. Because the object is the mirror of the subject, all objects connected somehow to that subject are trying to pursue the same goal. God, also, cannot exist all by Himself. He needs us, therefore, and has to reach out.</p>
<p>Why do your eyes constantly move and turn from side to side? Why can&#8217;t they stay still&#8217;? W~11 you answer, &#8220;My eyes are moving, because my parents said they should&#8221;? Since your parents or ancestors have nothing to do with the operation of your body, who could have ordered your eyes to move? Nature? Did a monkey tell your eyes to move? How do you know whether God ordered it? You haven&#8217;t seen Him, but there must be someone, some giant thinker somewhere in the past who decided that the human eye should move. Those who believe in evolution, however, say that the eye and all its processes just developed by chance over the eons.</p>
<p>An even more mysterious occurrence is the presence of moisture around the eye. Something inside your eye always provides a little bit of moisture all day long so that your eyeball doesn&#8217;t dry out. If you ask that moisture why it is there maybe it will answer, &#8220;Because I found it very comfortable here.&#8221; Perhaps some time ago the eye petitioned some force, explaining, &#8220;I need a little bit of moisture, and if I don&#8217;t get it I&#8217;ll go on strike.&#8221; In reality, the eyeball doesn&#8217;t realize who made it move or who gave it moisture.</p>
<p>Everyone has eyelashes, but wouldn&#8217;t the eyes be much neater without them? Sometimes eyelashes are bothersome, especially when one gets stuck in your eye. Why should everyone&#8217;s eyes have moisture and eyelashes? They seem to be awkward and unnecessary but someone put them there and there must be some will or purpose for them. Someone wanted to put hair on the human face, but why not on top of the nose? Why do there have to be lashes around the eye rather than on top of the nose? Awhile back some communists were discussing Divine Principle and they were asked why the universe functions as it does and why certain patterns are universal. They replied that it is all due to nature. We know that that answer provides no logical explanation and nature certainly does not function illogically.</p>
<p>We know that moisture, lashes and eye movements are necessary to the eye, and without them it cannot functionary Do you think your eye could function all day long without blinking? Even without your thinking about it, you blink your eyes to keep them clean and moist. When you are working hard and perspiring on some hot day, if you didn&#8217;t have eyebrows then all the perspiration would end up in your eyes.</p>
<p>Just by analyzing one small eye in this way, you can find tremendous mystery. In some unknown time the eye was designed with the understanding that most animals would need visionary The sun provides light so we can see around us, but without light there is no need to have eyes m Because heat and air evaporate moisture, some super-mind thought about</p>
<p>how to prevent the eye from being damaged by dryness. Finally, that mind knew that the air collects dust and that there should be some protection against it for the eye. These functions were all prerequisites to the design of the eye. Did the eye know all of this itself? Do you think this knowledge was there before the creation of the eye, or did it come into existence after the creation of the eye?</p>
<h3 align="center">Which came first, existence or thought?</h3>
<p>The basic dilemma in the world today is this: Which came first, existence or thought? Ideologies today are divided over this basic predicament. The free world believes that thought came first, and therefore it recognizes God m Communists recognize no God and say that matter appeared first. Even from. a common-sense point of view, however, we can see that existence can&#8217;t come first, and this point alone proves the communist ideology wrong. When we reflect in this fashion, we come to the one indisputable conclusion that there is a superior intelligence, a first being or first cause, which existed prior to any other existence. You can call Him God or John Doe; it doesn&#8217;t make any difference as long as He is there.</p>
<p>The human body reflects the mystery of God m Even if you try for millions of years to analyze everything with your mind, you will not know all there is to know about your body. For instance, there are thousands of eye doctors, but there are more mysteries about the eye than they ever thought about. Do you think they know everything about the eye and that there is nothing more to know? Are they in the infancy stage of knowledge or the perfection stage? They think they know, but actually their knowledge is in the infancy stage compared to the knowledge of the eye which God possesses. How could these infants say there is no God? They have no right to say that.</p>
<p>The intelligent mind which we call God has a character and personality and we are reflections of Him. Because we are the objects and He is the subject we go together hand in hand. We each have a spirit or consciousness which provides an invisible channel for communication with that intelligent mind m For this reason, there is more to a human being besides carnal desire; we have spiritual desires and each person seeks some spiritual satisfaction and perfection without which no man can be truly happy.</p>
<p>Have you ever thought about why your nose has two holes facing down? Why don&#8217;t they -face up? Instead of two eyes facing front, what about having one eye in back and one on your fingertip? It would be very handy for looking behind! You can sit down at the drawing board and try to draw a better man than God has, but you will never come up with a better blueprint than yourself. Think about how you would like to make man and woman look. Where would you put the two eyes?</p>
<p>God has already described the purpose and function of woman. She was given breasts while man was not, because some intelligent mind thought that women instead of men would bear children and would need to feed them. Would the breasts have the realization that when the baby comes they will feed it and start it toward adulthood? Those breasts certainly didn&#8217;t realize their future purpose and didn&#8217;t plan in advance to develop. There was a blueprint ahead of time for them to follow.</p>
<p>In the morning when you get up and look in the mirror, do you appreciate your face and always praise God saying, &#8220;God, I&#8217;m looking at Your masterpiece. These eyes, ears and mouth are perfect. What a genius You are! God, You&#8217;re wonderful.&#8221; Can you buy these precious features with a Ph.D. from Harvard? You can&#8217;t, so you must thank God for your precious face and promise to take care of it.</p>
<p>There are two types of people. One looks in the mirror and says, &#8220;God, what a masterpiece I&#8217;m looking at. You are a genius. Praise the Lord.&#8221; The other person says, &#8220;What kind of God are You to make me so ugly? Why couldn&#8217;t You have made these eyes a little larger and this nose a little higher? God, what kind of poor artist are You?&#8221; Which conversation would make God feel better?</p>
<p>The most beautiful human face is a black person&#8217;s when he laughs-he has black lips, white teeth and a red tongue. How colorful! No white person&#8217;s beauty can compare to that. You have a treasure in your body and face which nobody can buy, not even for the entire earth. Do you have a real face</p>
<p>or an artificial one? You are unique in this universe; there is no second you and no money can replace you. You are priceless because no one can reproduce you m</p>
<p>Sometimes you are sleeping and snoring so loud that it bothers everybody, but that&#8217;s the unique you which no one can reproduce. The human body itself is a museum of all the beauty of God&#8217;s creation. You are the walking museum of God. who is happier &#8212; the person who realizes the super-intelligence of God and is proud of being His walking museum, or the person who without thinking is just groping for food like an animal? As God&#8217;s museum you can embrace the universe, and shout out that you are proud of God and of being a walking God. You can live this type of life or you can live like a little chum; of dirt.</p>
<p>I can never truly understand the communists because I&#8217;ve never been a communist myself, but I can imagine how miserable and sad they are because they have reduced themselves to being chunks of dirt. They are actually saying that matter is primary, that material things give their lives meaning. In their thinking they are always looking down and their activity is always underground, like a mole&#8217;s. God&#8217;s way of life is vastly more spiritual, however. We look up to God and embrace the entire universe, but even the universe is small compared to yourself; you are the walking God and nothing is bigger than God. This perception is the difference between the two worlds.</p>
<p>To the communists everything is clandestine, surreptitious and super-secretive, but the free world is more open because God lives in the broad daylight. With its openness the Carter administration reflects one symbol of democracy, but in fact, it is actually too open for today&#8217;s world. The other extreme is the communist world, which is too secretive. God&#8217;s life is open and public because He has nothing to hide. Only unrighteousness and injustice need to be hidden.</p>
<h3 align="center">God wants to have a<br />
family of beautiful, living color</h3>
<p>Today you have met Reverend Moon, but this is not an ordinary encounter. It&#8217;s not white to white, black to black, or even black to white, but an encounter that is super-special. Whatever the twists and turns in your past, our paths have crossed at this point. Particularly at this time of strife and racial conflict in America, it is significant that you have met me, an Oriental man.</p>
<p>Black and white are extremes on two different sides, with great distance between them and little hope that they can come together by themselves. A middle ground is needed in order to have white and black come together and that is the yellow race m Recently many yellow people have immigrated to America, providentially fulfilling a role given by God. Did God bring so many yellow people to America to wage war against white or black people? No, God brought Orientals to America to harmonize both extremes.</p>
<p>&#8216;There is a difference between the white person, yellow person and black person standing here. If the white person is looking for a friend, the person who looks most like him is yellow. This black person is also looking for a friend and the one nearest him is also yellow. By the yellow man&#8217;s standing in-between, he can shorten the distance between the two extremes and easily harmonize them. God has been thinking about how to unite the races as one family because He wants to have a family of beautiful, living color. He thought it best to put the yellow man in the middle as a catalyst or as glue to bring black and white together and that is certainly a logical way to think. God is using the Unification Church as His instrument to fulfill this particular idea. Therefore, when I ask what kind of brides you want, both white and black brothers answer, &#8220;Father, we want Asian brides.&#8221;</p>
<p>We are not talking about an empty slogan or gesture. This has been our way of life all these years. Some people are antagonized by my work to unify the races m White people say that I am the enemy of the white race because I encourage interracial marriage, and for the same reason black militants say I am contaminating their race.</p>
<p>How do the majority of people in the world like to think? Which conviction is more noble, the American arrogance, or my stand that all people are the children of God and must become mixed together as one family of God? Anyone who opposes this is not opposing me, but opposing God&#8217;s ideal and intention, and centuries from now that person will be proven the adversary of God m God is moving in a definite direction and has a definite goal for mankind.</p>
<p>The time will come when history will be different. Now people think that blacks should stay together and whites should stay together, but the time will come when I will say, &#8220;Okay, you two whites get married,&#8221; or &#8220;You two blacks get married&#8221; and they will say, &#8220;Oh no, Father. You&#8217;re limiting me; that is the most awful thing you could ask.&#8221; The important thing is what God likes. Do you think God always wants to see polarization of the races or does He prefer my way of thinking? I have been given the most precious of missions, a mandate from God to bring the races together, and to do that I have developed an ideology whereby blacks and whites can easily and joyfully join together with other races.</p>
<p>Imagine an elegant party at which there are hundreds of white couples, hundreds of black couples and hundreds of yellow couples. Everyone thinks they are having fun, but all of a sudden an interracial couple appears m Wouldn&#8217;t that couple become the central attraction? In today&#8217;s prevailing social attitude such an interracial marriage is undesirable, but when that mood and way of life change such marriages will become beautiful and noble, and such couples will be not only the center of attention but respected heroes.</p>
<p>At this party one couple will be asked to give their testimony and tell about their way of life. There are hundreds of couples at that gathering and each one can&#8217;t talk, so which one should be chosen? Which story would be most exciting to hear? The interracial couple can tell a story just like the one told by the water that I talked about earlier, which went around the world and arrived back again at Belvedere. I can imagine that this one couple would have a very dramatic story indeed.</p>
<h3 align="center">Like the oceans and streams,<br />
our destinies are intertwined</h3>
<p>Even in the meeting of two Koreans like myself and Mr. Pak there is a lot of history, with many intertwinings and ancestral relationships which inevitably brought us together. It is destiny. If there are such relationships even among Koreans, how much more so in your case here in America? Your story is far more dramatic because you come from entirely different cultural backgrounds, but those twists and turns over thousands of years have brought you to where you could meet me at this particular juncture of human history.</p>
<p>The implications of this are astonishing. For example, Bo Hi Pak was like a little stream somewhere struggling to make his life better, but as soon as he met me this little stream hit the Mississippi River and an entirely new world unfolded for him, with a totally new outlook and visionary Suppose Mr. Pak is the Mississippi River, but all of a sudden that river hits the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. When we hit the ocean, we realize how small we have been.</p>
<p>We can apply this analogy to our ideology. The while the American way of life and thinking are like a stream. Even if the Americans were to compare themselves to a river, they are nothing next to the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. That&#8217;s why before joining the Unification Church you were the American versions of Bo Hi Pak. You were living like small streams, flowing along and trying to make your lives better by gaining glory and honor, but all of a sudden you met the ocean, Reverend Moon. Then your sense of value changed completely and now you don&#8217;t care about the small stream or even the Mississippi River any more m You want to become the center of the ocean. When you were the Mississippi River you were proud of your many kinds of fish, but after arriving at the ocean you can talk about whales and sharks. Which is more exciting?</p>
<p>Many times I say that you don&#8217;t have to stay here, that you can pack up and go home. You may even pack up and go away for a little while, but soon you come back and sneak in. What power is pulling you? Once you have discovered life in the new world you cannot be satisfied with anything else, even though you try and try. When you come here no one feeds you and you are pushed out to work hard, but still you have an excitement, vision and hope you cannot relinquish. That&#8217;s why people say you are crazy.</p>
<p>The destiny of your relationship with me is absolutely gigantic. When our destinies come together it is not just a horizontal coincidence; neither is it limited to what you see happening right now. Beyond us there is another vertical relationship. Whether you like it or not, you are like a person who is wearing a giant hat which is covering the entire world and the spirit world. The brim of your hat is so wide that even before you come into sight someone will say, &#8220;Be careful. feel a vibration. A Moonie is coming.</p>
<p>If you really know that truth about the Unification Church then the measure of your value is totally changed, even if you have been a member for only one month. Do you envy President Carter? If you were asked whether you wanted to be either the daughter of President Carter or a Moonie, what would you answer? Your present way of life, your goals, vision and hope have no comparison with the Unification Church goal and vision are like an ocean-: goals or way of thinking of any president, senator, king or queen here on earth today. It&#8217;s like comparing the Pacific Ocean to the Mississippi River.</p>
<p>It is a known fact that we face all kinds of harassment. The United States government is harassing me as much as it can in order to hamper our movement. They are even trying to throw us out of the country. But it has no effect on me, and I look upon them with forgiving eyes; it is very humorous watching earthly powers trying to trap me. Even though they sometimes thins; they have been successful by pushing me into prison, it is not the end of me and doesn&#8217;t bother me at all. We are living in a different world with different values. Our value is like the ocean and theirs like the river.</p>
<p>The Korean government was so fearful of our movement that it tried every oppression imaginable, but the Unification Church and Reverend Moon were bigger than the government could deal with and it gave up. The Japanese government and mass media tried to malign me to an incredible degree, but they also gave up and now are asking our members to be their advisors. Today in America there are many narrow-minded policy makers who think; that I am a threat and that they must do something about me before I become too big. They are attacking me all the time but they will soon discover that their persecution only makes me more of a giant.</p>
<h3 align="center">Americans have always<br />
misunderstood my purpose</h3>
<p>I want you to understand the pattern of religious history. We are not like any secular group which easily collapses under harassment Religious movements, and especially the Unification Church, grow faster when harshly treated. The worse others treat us, the faster we will grow. This can happen because our origin and source of energy are different from that of secular groups. When you receive persecution and negativity, your eyes shine more brightly, your muscles tense and you are ready to go straight forward.</p>
<p>Some government agencies which are trying to curtail my activities and push me out of the United States are searching for some point they can quibble about. Because they cannot criticize religion they say that my organization and activities are political. Because I supported President Nixon they contend that I&#8217;m political and should be kicked out. They should know what kind of meeting I conducted with President Nixon in the White House. I walked in, sat down with Nixon in the Oval Office and we prayed together. It wasn&#8217;t very political, was it?</p>
<p>Let them ask Nixon what I did when I met him in the Oval Office. I told him, &#8220;You must be a God-centered President and let God run your office. You must be responsible for curtailing the communist take-over in Southeast Asia. Your foremost responsibility is to save millions of lives in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.&#8221; I wanted him to be a strong President who would have the strength and power to conduct the war properly and conclude it the way God wanted. If this had taken place, the outcome would not have been the shameful debacle which followed.</p>
<p>The reason I wanted to have the presidency preserved in dignity was to speed the victory over communism for the sake of America and the world. When the presidency loses respect and dignity, it can only create an atmosphere in which the communists can become strong and active. America is crippling itself and becoming very ineffective in combating God&#8217;s formidable enemy, communism.</p>
<p>The United States will suffer grave consequences by crippling the watchdog activities of the CIA, which has monitored the activities of communist powers m America has no idea about the seriousness of communism. It should be strong and unyielding in dealing with the communists, but now even the CIA has become crippled and has lost its morale. Public opinion is such that Congress is even exposing the CIA&#8217;s necessarily secret activities in public investigations. You will soon see clashes between the Defense Department and the State Department, which are becoming so isolated from each other that they cannot cooperate. America is moving toward self-destruction; a governmental crisis is at hand and it may lead to bloodshed.</p>
<p>Today many people think I am an agent of the Korean government. On the contrary, if there were no God and no providence, I would probably be the first one to attack the Korean government for its outrageous persecution of me. Personally speaking, the government is my unforgivable enemy, but I am God&#8217;s agent, period; I am only concerned with one thing-that the will of God be done. For that reason I have come here to love America. I support Korea and Asia because I know my mission and God&#8217;s will so clearly.</p>
<p>As an individual I am a very hot-tempered person m I cannot abide certain injustices being done to me, and if there were no God I would have done all kinds of cruel things in revenge. But because of God there is nothing I cannot endure. If I had wanted to be popular then I could have said sweet things to the American public, but instead I came and declared that America is declining. I am sure Americans were shocked to hear that, but America is a sick patient who needs a doctor to write a prescription. America is a house on fire which needs a firefighter. I am sure many Americans were disturbed to hear that and felt that their dignity was hurt, raging, &#8220;Who is this fellow from that backward country of Korea? America is at the center of Western civilization and certainly a little Korean preacher cannot tell us what to do.&#8221;</p>
<p>Billy Graham is a popular evangelist who is supported by most Americans because he knows how to say things people want to hear. He gives no judgment or declaration of truth. I too now exactly what to say to America and I can be very diplomatic, suave and courteous. I know how to praise America and I could do that if there were no God and I was only working for my own honor and popularity. But when God is there and is seeing America differently, I cannot say such things. I can only say what God wants to say, whether people like it or not. You applaud and feel excited because you know that this is just, but at the same time most people look at you and say you are brainwashed. Even after listening for two hours and sitting on the hard floor, you are smiling from ear to ear and are still attentive.</p>
<p>People just can&#8217;t understand this, and can only accept the charge that you are brainwashed. Is my goal to destroy America or save America? On the other hand, is America&#8217;s object to destroy me or save me? Is it evil to want to save America? The important fact in this matter is that God is the judge. You are sitting here today because you are smart; if you were dumb you wouldn&#8217;t be here.</p>
<p>Was your commitment to this movement forced upon you, or did it develop from inside you? You have the clear vision and sensitivity to perceive the truth and you have evaluated and tested this in your own way before coming here. You compared the values you found here with what you saw outside our Church, and you found no similarity between the two ways of life. You are here because you saw with your own eyes and heard with your own ears; you thought about it in your own mind and then spoke out your commitment. In that action who is the subject, you or me, and who made the decision whether you should stay or go? If someone is about to chop your head off will your answer still be the same? If you are telling me the truth then America is already saved and whatever we do now is merely a postscript.</p>
<p>Even if you are brought down to the valley of death, you will die with proud commitment. &#8220;I died for the cause. My destiny is not empty, nor is my death in vain. My glory is thanks to God.&#8221; In that case you will never die or be destroyed because no power here on earth is stronger than that particular commitment and dedication. You have supreme power in God and that&#8217;s the greatness of the Unification Church.</p>
<p>Even under the most severe persecution we stand strongly committed. Our strength doesn&#8217;t come from the size of our membership but from the commitment in each-one of your hearts; that is the asset which assures God&#8217;s victory. You know that the destiny of your race, your nation and your world will follow wherever you wall;. Furthermore, as the central figures you are carrying the fate of the entire spirit world as well as your own restoration upon your shoulders.</p>
<p>When you are fund raising, whether on city streets or in the small towns of America, you must feel that you are laying the highway for the Kingdom of God on earth, and that after you are gone many people may come freely. Wherever you go, a spiritual highway is laid which God and the nation can enlarge. The more ground you cover, the greater the highway can become and the greater the number of people can help develop it. God will feel great as He watches you lay that beautiful highway, and even the angels will come and try to open the use of that highway for themselves.</p>
<h3 align="center">We will divide the worlds of good and evil</h3>
<p>God knots the entire history of man, and while sitting on His throne in heaven He sees all the come motion and hears the racket down here on earth. He knows that this era is experiencing greater confusion and controversy than at the time of Jesus, with even spirit world becoming wild with commotion because everyone is excited about something. God doesn&#8217;t want to just sit on His throne anymore. He wants to get on the bandwagon and be a part of the action. God will say, &#8220;What are you so wild about? What&#8217;s going on there? Let me be the referee.&#8221;</p>
<p>When God comes down, the first place He visits is Belvedere. He looks around during Sunday service and sees you good-looking young people sitting on the hard floor at 6 o&#8217;clock in the morning and He thinks it&#8217;s great. He goes to the streets of New York, to the World Mission Center and the newspaper company, to the MFT teams and TMC, visiting all the offices and seeing that everyone is doing His job. Put yourself in the position of God going on a tour through all the commotion in the world. Will He decide to remain with Reverend Moon or not? Do you have the conviction that God is with me? am truly an unselfish person for God and humanity.</p>
<p>Picture one little sister going door to door, her body tired and aching, selling flowers to raise more funds. When God sees her, do you think He will bless her or not? Will God say to this young sister, &#8220;You poor, crazy girl, why do you do that? Go home and relax with your parents and eat and sleep a lot.&#8221; Or will He say, &#8220;My daughter, you are doing all of this for me. I must bow down to you. My daughter, leave it to me. Anything you want me to fulfill I will do. I have never had a daughter giving so totally of herself for my sake. You understand my heart and now I understand yours.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Unification Church is in the position of that daughter. Throughout history God&#8217;s heart has been pierced and broken again and again, and in one sense He is outraged at the incredible betrayal of humanity. But God has been waiting for the day when He could wholeheartedly support one group of people who genuinely represent His heart. We want to meet God, and not just meet Him but really cry out in His historical anger. He is truly comforted by that, and feels that for the first time in history He has met His true sons and daughters, exclaiming, &#8220;No matter how great my pain in history, in seeing you I have no regrets for you are a comfort to me.&#8221; We must become that kind of Church.</p>
<p>A new movement, a new religion which represents God&#8217;s sorrowful heart must emerge to totally change the world and completely unite it with the suffering God. While the world is turning away from God and speaking His name only as a curse word, one group of people is giving themselves totally and sacrificially to His service. They will divide the worlds of good and evil, and then the world of evil will end and the world of good will blossom.</p>
<p>I have been walking that path, being given the worst kind of treatment in Korea from my own people and even here in America. Wherever our missionaries go, wherever the name of Reverend Moon is mentioned, it is immediately slandered. While the world thinks that I&#8217;m worse than the Mafia and it treats me as the most evil man, God is looking down at me and has one worry: &#8220;Maybe Reverend Moon will become tired and say, &#8216;God, I cannot go any further. Forget me and I won&#8217;t worry about You anymore.&#8217; &#8221; But then God sees that no matter how severe the persecution of the world, each day I become harder and stronger like a rock. There is no sign of discouragement, and daily I become stronger and tougher.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the Unification Church. We have totally won the heart of God. Our ideology inspires us to be representatives of that suffering God m He has a lot of resentment, so let Him take solace from us. We can become His comforters and move Him to say, &#8220;Because of you, I have no more anger and sorrow.&#8221; When He can say that then you will not meet the God of anger or wrath, but the God of love. He is far more miserable than any crucified person. We must become the champions to heal the wounds of God, who has been betrayed again and again. If you assume that supreme responsibility before God then there is nothing more that anyone can do for Him. Then God will bestow His supreme blessings upon you and no one will complain, because you will deserve them.</p>
<p>Becoming the instrument which can heal the broken heart of God is the highest goal of religion. That religious goal has to be fulfilled in history for there is no other way to open the Kingdom of God. Then true love will be seen and true judgment will be given.</p>
<p>We are going over the hill and beyond the boundary of what is humanly possible. You cannot complain because we are destined to be here and you can&#8217;t complain about your own destiny. No matter how loyal a subject has been, if he complains just once, his entire record of loyalty vanishes. One denial will nullify every great achievement from the past. Please cling to the mission without complaint.</p>
<p>No matter how fatigued I am, I never complain in prayer or ask God for anything for myself, but only seek to comfort Him. I want to go beyond human limits, and before I had set that goal for myself I knew there would be difficulty and impossible situations to overcome. I even asked God, &#8220;I know that You want us to leap beyond the goal and fulfill very quickly, and for that reason I ask You to give us more pressure and persecution. We want to bear even greater pain so that Your timetable can be shortened.&#8221; That&#8217;s the way I always think. Imagine a very glorious wrestling champion selected from among 240 million Americans to confront a small, unknown Korean opponent. The fight begins and in the second round the big giant is knocked down by the little champion. Because of that one battle, the entire United States will be humiliated. If God is the judge who is refereeing this impossible fight then He will say to the Korean, &#8220;You deserve the blessing, the trophy and the victory.&#8221; It would be only just that the little champion receive the blessing.</p>
<p>Is there any religious leader who has this concept of serving God by stirring up more controversy? Has anyone else said, &#8220;Come on and hit me. I want to rile you up because I want to make my battle dramatic and shorten the history of God&#8217;s restoration. I want to go over the hill quickly.,&#8217; Have you ever seen a religious leader who talked like that?</p>
<p>You could say that I am ruthless. The communists are a formidable enemy and they dominate two-thirds of the world. Without thinking twice they will execute anyone, anytime. Because many people are afraid of the communists&#8217; lack of mercy, they won&#8217;t say anything against them. But I&#8217;m not afraid and I stand up and declare the truth. Even if the United States becomes helpless in dealing with the communists, if the State Department gives up and the CIA loses hope, I will not give up. Even though everyone else retreats, I will spring forward, fighting in the front line and declaring that communism is the enemy of God. It&#8217;s ridiculous that the New York Times and Washington Post are trying to link me with the KCIA. In my sight, the Korean CIA doesn&#8217;t even come into the world picture.</p>
<p>Three years ago I looked at America and the world, and came here declaring that within three years I would stir up this country and shake the conscience of America. I said I would do it and I have done it. Where does my influence originate? I am just one simple individual who has nothing. I am not dumb, however. I know how formidable the power of American government harassment can be. I have only one ally-God. My other friends and allies are the citizens of the spirit world, the subjects of God, who is King in that world. When God is my ally, the spirit world has to be my friend and ally.</p>
<p>All Americans and world citizens together can never compete with the citizens of the spirit world m If someone comes against me, God will lead their children to me. The worst kind of revenge parents could receive is to see their children join with me. Right now that battle is in progress, and every day we can see children standing up against their parents.</p>
<h3 align="center">Our only weapon is the love of God</h3>
<p>God is waging this war, and if anyone tries to harm me he will meet fearful retribution from heaven. I do nothing against such people; only the living God can avenge me. Knowing this I am unafraid, even though the entire world may come against me. God has been working so strongly here in America that young people have made themselves outcasts and revolutionaries, bucking the establishment and the patterns of the American way of life. God knew that the young people should have the courage to sever themselves from the establishment and respond to the new ideology from heaven. The hippie and yippie /movements parallel God&#8217;s plan for young people {to no longer trust the old ways. Now God has raised up heavenly hippies and yippies-you.</p>
<p>America is now on the verge of success or failure. If America moves just a little in the right direction, it will succeed greatly, but if it makes a slight mistake, it will plunge down into the dungeons of hell. It&#8217;s a tightrope America is walking, and there is only one way America can survive. The older people and established churches can&#8217;t understand this, but you young people have seen the vision of a new America. God is dwelling among us and we will be joined by other young people. Together we will ignite the spark of heavenly revolution.</p>
<p>:~ You are not being turned on by drugs but by the truth of God, and you have been going all over America to shake it awake. Hippies and yippies and the Unification Church have some things in common. Neither eat much or care about sleeping at night, and even late at night or early in the morning we are singing. The police are often called when the Unification Church gathers for assemblies, because someone complains that some crazy people are singing at late hours.</p>
<p>When the police come and see these crazy people who are so happy and jubilant, they must think that we are intoxicated or getting ready for an orgy. How else can they explain it? They don&#8217;t know that we are intoxicated in the love of God. They will never understand, so don&#8217;t try to explain it to them; tell them instead that the only way they can understand how we feel is to become Moonies themselves. We feel that to be a Moonie is to be given a giant medal by God and we wear that medal proudly as heavenly princes and princesses.</p>
<p>People think that Moonies are the trash of the world and the outcasts of society. Our understanding is entirely different. We have overcome the world already, not for ourselves, not for the United States, but for God. We are of a different world, living in a different kingdom. Because I am the center of this group, the world thinks I have political ambition and want to become President of the United States or conqueror of the word. In some ways they are right, but I am not interested in ruling this dirty world. America has a formidable arsenal of nuclear bombs, but we don&#8217;t even have one little needle. How could we possibly conquer anyone?</p>
<p>We have our own medicine-the love of God- and if someone swallows a big dose he will never be the same. Once you taste the love of God, you can&#8217;t forget it and you are only interested in repeating the experience. With God&#8217;s love anyone who happens to be near you can become your brother and whether they are black or white won&#8217;t make any difference to you. Once the love of God makes them one, there is no distance between black and white.</p>
<p>Do you think I am a totally blind, bumbling person, or an intelligent and logical person? I have not come to these conclusions at random or by whim, but after serious consideration. I knew spirit world was real and I wanted to check every corner of it to be sure that this was right. After you observe my personality, you will know that I investigate everything meticulously, leaving no stone unturned.</p>
<p>I am not like ordinary people who just speculate that maybe there is a spirit world, or who pragmatically think that it&#8217;s probably safer to believe in God than notary That&#8217;s not the way this religion was born.</p>
<p>If I had started out on such premises the Unification Church would never have survived to this point but would have vanished long ago. To receive spiritual guidance, I have an invisible antenna which no one can perceive. I am indeed a puzzle and a riddle to most people. I don&#8217;t have anything, but still you follow me. I&#8217;m sorry that I don&#8217;t have any money or clothes to give you. All I can give you are harsh words to push you with.</p>
<h3 align="center">When the races can shake hands,<br />
heaven and earth can become one</h3>
<p>Black eyes, brown eyes, green eyes, all colors of eyes are gathered together here. Why do you make a big commotion and problem? You tasted something sweet, not of earthly sweetness but of heavenly sweetness, that you cannot get any place else and naturally you have to come here. When you taste that truth, all of a sudden spirit world opens to you and you see visions and hear voices. Many people have seen me in visions and dreams. Even in a communist country like Soviet Russia there is spiritual activity revealing many wonderful things happening here in Belvedere and the United States. Many times I have received news of this. Do you think the communist atomic bombs, rifles or cannon can stop it? No one can stop the strategy of God.</p>
<p>This formidable event is unfolding here right now and you are the principal participants. You are not just Americans and Japanese; upon you rest the destiny of the country, the world and the cosmos. When white and black shake hands in this Church, it&#8217;s not just two individuals who are shaking hands but representatives of two races. Two races and two hearts are shaking hands.</p>
<p>Furthermore, heaven and earth, which have been separated for so long, are finally coming together. In a sense, white represents heaven and black represents earth, and by black and white shaking hands horizontally heaven and earth can become one. We can say that white people are symbolized by the tall mountains covered with white snow, and black people are symbolized by the deep valleys covered with water or rocks and soil and green growing things. When white and black shake hands, the two contrasting natures come together. If the snowcapped mountain said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t need any deep valley,&#8221; and the deep valley said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t need the snowcapped mountain,&#8221; then both would be ugly. Their beauty is only manifested in the harmonious blending of the peaks and the valleys together. It is necessary for them to come together and create one beauty.</p>
<p>You are white people; therefore, you probably like only the color white, right? How come you like only white people but you wear black suits? What a contradiction you are. If you like black suits more than black people, then does that mean that people are less important than clothes? That doesn&#8217;t make sense.</p>
<p>If a black dog is trotting over to a white dog, will he bark, &#8220;Stop right there; don&#8217;t cross that boundary. I don&#8217;t want you near me&#8221;? Will a white cow tell the black cow to keep its distance? What about birds? When men segregate themselves it indicates that they are relegating themselves to a position lower than the animals; their morality is lower than animals m This morning I haven&#8217;t spoken so kindly about white people, so probably all you white members will want to pack up and leave, right?</p>
<p>This Church is a most historic, glorious place and it is here that we are destined to meet. Our relationship is a special one because it doesn&#8217;t develop by whim or at random but in the providence of God, and God is at the center of our relationship when we meet each other here. I have the ability to unite all the races here in America and truly change all people into brothers and sisters. If that is possible by my ideology but I hide myself on top of a mountain, America will send a Boeing 747 to capture me and bring me back. America needs to welcome a VIP who can lead this country to a plateau of hope. You agree, but your parents, many arrogant Americans and successful people don&#8217;t think so. They look at me with scorn and castigate me severely.</p>
<h3 align="center">When I see you speaking out with God&#8217;s indignation,<br />
my own aching heart is healed</h3>
<p>Ordinarily I would have already left this country and the only reason I stay is because I know you are the hope of God. God is placing His trust in you and I cannot abandon you or that hope. You are so precious that there is nothing I cannot bear, no slander or mistreatment I cannot endure for you m Sometimes I want to get revenge because America has done too many dirty things to me, but because I find hope and comfort and see the future in you, there is nothing I cannot bear. If America finally gives you a royal welcome then I will gladly go somewhere else, because then you will be ready to take care of this country on your own.</p>
<p>The day will come when people will accept you and come to you with tears. They owe many times the number of tears that you and I have shed for this country. If the American people shed tears of repentance and regret for what has been done to me, there will be hope for this country. By your becoming my disciples and God&#8217;s children and direct heirs, it doesn&#8217;t make any difference whether I have an official position in this country or notary Wherever I go it will always be the same.</p>
<p>You must not forget your position, your relationship and your destiny. You represent the billions of people of this world and of the past. When I see pictures of you working hard, I am comforted and I want to forget my own past suffering. When I see that you feel anger and wrath for God, my own angry and aching heart is healed. An extraordinary relationship and bond has been made between you and me. Our reality may be a sad and painful one filled with tears, but it can be linked instantly to the great realm of joy; you will discover this when we come together in spirit world.</p>
<p>When God is ready to judge the world, I will say, &#8220;Father, I suffered for the people of this country. Please use my suffering, tears and pain as indemnity and forgive them. Could You save them and bless them?&#8221; That is my ideology, God&#8217;s ideology and the way of life that prevails in spirit world. Are you people heretics? Will anyone who thinks in that fashion destroy America? When America was declining and being destroyed, I came to light one beacon of hope. I have the truth and the spiritual power to revive this country and save it.</p>
<p>You know very well how much you have changed already. Before you knew the truth, your thinking was very narrow and centered only on yourself. Now you are thinking of God and humanity first, and of yourself last. What a revolutionary change! What power made you do that? The whole population of America together could not change you like that. Did I do it? No, God moved you and turned your heart around. God&#8217;s power is the only power that is greater than 240 million Americans, and the ereatest event that has happened to you is this internal revolution.</p>
<p>Would you like to be victorious or be defeated in this most astonishing relationship and position you have today? Those who want to become victorious, raise your hands. Thank you. God bless you.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">OUR NEWBORN SELVES</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:21:21+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/our-newborn-selves.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:21:21+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">November 1, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>The central thought and principle of Christianity is resurrection, which means rebirth. Jesus said, &#8221;Unless one is born anew he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.,&#8217; Rebirth was the central thought of Jesus&#8217; teaching and, of course, the central principle of God. If that is the case then it should be the central thought of all mankind. That means that the entire universe and every human being is destined to go through this process of being born again, and in the Unification Church we have many conditions, such as the separation or purification period, which are all part of that process.</p>
<p>Parents are prerequisite for being born again; you cannot give yourself rebirth. Rebirth is needed because of the fall of man, but what was the fall? It was a false birth or a false beginning. Each person must clearly understand that everyone has been born of fallen, sinful parents before they can understand resurrection. Today there are billions of people here on earth, but how many really have realized that they are children of false parents? Even in the Unification Church, how many members feel they are born of fallen parents?</p>
<p>When looking in the mirror it is the simple human tendency to not worry about the past; you just want to be proud of your handsome features. How many of you look at your image in the mirror and think that you are the result of sinful parents, that every feature is the product of the fall? If women see a little scar or blemish when they look in the mirror then they may wish it was not there, but how many are concerned about the sin of their ancestors?</p>
<p>From God&#8217;s point of view each person is seeing a dead body when he looks in the mirror. There can be no life in that person because of the fall . The image you see in the mirror is an ugly one in the sight of God because all mankind is the product of sinful ancestors. If you would be a faithful and religious person then you must first recognize this fact. Without resurrection no one has life, and each person is born as an object that cannot be forgiven. If there is judgment in this world then you must feel that you are the one who deserves it first.</p>
<p>What kind of sin did man commit? In order to explain more realistically, it can be said that man&#8217;s sin was a betrayal of God; man also betrayed the</p>
<p>world for his own benefit. God had an ideal for man and the world but all of mankind has sold it out. Finally love, the most precious item that God gave us, has been betrayed. That is the real truth about each person. How can any fallen man even think about governing the world or being recognized and honored by the world? What a shallow, ridiculous idea that is when you really think about it. Furthermore, Adam betrayed Eve and Eve betrayed Adam. Because the first ancestors were unfaithful to God and each other, each of their descendants has committed the same crime. The original value has all been lost-God&#8217;s value, man&#8217;s value&#8217; universal value and the value of the ideals and beauty that God prepared originally for mankind. We must restore them one by one.</p>
<h3 align="center">The fall submerged each person<br />
in the realm of death</h3>
<p>To whom were these things sold? To Satan&#8217; the culprit who masterminded the crime of the fall in order to gain for himself everything that God created. By what method did Satan achieve that goal? He worked through the self and through love&#8217; the two most vulnerable areas. After everyone sold themselves to Satan they became dead. In the sight of God no one has value, being like mere clods of dirt. Everything was swallowed up by the sinful world and the universe was totally submerged in the realm of death, which has Satan as its master. To reach the realm of life everyone must break through this realm of death and come out; otherwise no life can be obtained.</p>
<p>Each individual is down at the bottom of the realm of death, surrounded by the family, nation, world and cosmos, all of which are submerged under the sinful world. Your desire is for new birth and new life, but where shall you be born again? At the very bottom? No matter how much you struggle at that point, there is no resurrection and no new birth there. You must first come out of the realm of death and darkness. That situation is made even more difficult because each individual is being pressed down by many different layers of weight; the family system, social system, national system and world system are all combined to keep him down on the bottom. Did you know before now that there was so much to break through?</p>
<p>There are only two ways in which you can come out of that situation. Either all the weight must be lifted up so you can freely maneuver, which is unlikely, or you must break through each layer and emerge as a winner. If you have enough powerful thrust to break through the layers, then it is exciting to be pressed down because when the pressure is greater, the drama of breaking through is much greater. With that power you can turn this entire fallen world upside down and push the realm of death away, leaving you on the pinnacle from which you can easily launch yourself upward. Once you conquer the world you will have a final showdown with Satan. The ultimate act of a man of God is to knock Satan out.</p>
<p>The moment you confront Satan and subjugate him, God will appear. You haven&#8217;t seen God yet because He will not come into action until you are victorious; at that point He can intervene in your personal affairs and then you can be concerned with finding the parents who can give you new birth. This is really common sense, isn&#8217;t it?</p>
<h3 align="center">Once you are victorious over the world,<br />
resurrection is your reward</h3>
<p>What is the role of religion then? Religion starts at the level of the individual and expands to the family, tribe, nation and world, but no matter how much worldwide impact religion may have, the individual is ultimately the decisive factor. Each of you should become a person who can govern religion, not be controlled by it. Does man need religion, or does religion need man? Religion needs man, as it requires a true man to fulfill its purpose. Once the purpose of religion is fulfilled by finding true men, it is no longer necessary. Only because of the fall of man has mankind descended into a world of death and religion become necessary to raise him up. Once we achieve the original concept of creation, however, there will be no more religion because none will be needed.</p>
<p>The Unification Church is none other than a religion, so where does that mean we are today? Are you pulling the Unification Church or is it pulling you? Does the man who is already resurrected need further religion? If his resurrection is complete then he doesn&#8217;t need religion. Once you break through the realm of death you have fulfilled the purpose of religion, and as you come out of that realm for good you will find God and parents.</p>
<p>The purpose of the Unification Church is to find God, the one common Parent. This is only the medium or system in which we can truly find God. Even though a person may discover God, however, for a long time he will simply not understand who He is. For instance, a child knows that he has parents who gave him birth, but as an infant he has no concept of who they are. A baby goes through nine months in his mother&#8217;s womb, but after he is born could he tell about what it was like in there? A baby doesn&#8217;t know anything about what kind of world he is born into, and after he is born he just worries about how to survive, crying out when he needs help. Each person seeking rebirth is like a baby and in his new environment he must accept milk. Have you ever cried like a baby when you were spiritually hungry? At first you come to church just like a baby wanting milk, but as you grow you have a certain consciousness of your surroundings, and then later you recognize for the first time who is feeding you.</p>
<p>The important thing is that the parent&#8217;s role is not just that of feeding milk to the baby. Parents have to give milk first&#8217; of course, but later also give discipline and guidance for molding their child&#8217;s character. Parents have a vision and concept of what their child will be like in the future. If he is to be a world citizen then he must be able to uphold certain standards, for which his parents must give all the necessary training. The good parent shapes his child&#8217;s character to fulfill certain roles.</p>
<p>The parent must have a concept of how his child needs to be educated to eventually become a world leader who can uplift the world instead of being dominated by it. True parents will let you grow as a baby initially, but when your awakening is sufficient they will teach you that this world has lost God&#8217;s concept, that this is a deviated world and that, therefore, we must restore the original value and goal of life. Everyone needs parents to lead them out of the realm of death, giving them the full realization and sufficient energy to break out of this muddy realm into a new world of life and resurrection. This is how God visualizes resurrection taking place in the fallen world.</p>
<p>God sees that in order to achieve the religious goal of breaking through the realm of death there is always a certain amount of pain and pressure to overcome. God deliberately adds His pressure to the pressure already on a man who is seeking new life, as part of the process of disciplining and toughening him. Already the family is pressing down, as well as the society, nation and world, and eventually God Himself will lean on you&#8217; but out of all that He wants you to be a winner who can come out above it.</p>
<p>The qualification to be victorious and to be resurrected&#8217; therefore, is to become victorious over the world. Once you meet that criterion you are victorious, and resurrection is your reward. Everyone lives in a world of temptation, particularly at your age, but no matter what kind of temptation comes, the good person will not be stained or affected by it. Once someone is victorious in the sight of God, He will trust that person. After you achieve the realm of resurrection you can be given everything you need -a family and physical necessities, as well as glory and honor-but until then all those things are obstacles. The more you possess, the more burdens you have in your climb toward resurrection.</p>
<p>The religious way of life initially demands sacrifice, requiring that you deny all your surroundings and ultimately deny yourself. This is not to destroy you but to save you and let you emerge later as a victorious person. You must become invincible so that nothing can deter you from moving forward to the ultimate goal of meeting God and becoming totally perfected. In that commitment you will have the will power to deny everything and to continue moving forward to become a victor.</p>
<h3 align="center">You can only meet God&#8217;s<br />
standard by overcoming persecution</h3>
<p>If you demonstrate the power to deny your surroundings then ultimately another, more difficult kind of temptation will come spiritually. Have you gone through such testing in the Unification Church? How can a man prove himself victorious? By knocking out several other men? The worst temptations for men always come through women. A most beautiful, charming woman can make a man feel totally intoxicated, but if you annihilate that temptation then you will prove yourself a victorious man. The worst temptation for a woman usually comes in the form of a most handsome man, and when you sisters see a handsome man approaching you might be almost totally melted without knowing it. If God asked you to show Him how victorious you are you couldn&#8217;t answer, &#8221;In the boxing ring I knocked out several men.&#8221; That isn&#8217;t a real accomplishment in the sight of God. But you can say, &#8221;I felt the worst kind of temptation from this man and I won. I went straight forward to You and I didn&#8217;t even hesitate.&#8221;</p>
<p>None of us are physically very beautiful or handsome because we work very hard. When you are out fund raising on the streets your faces are covered with lots of dust instead of makeup, for instance. When you were fund raising or witnessing were you momentarily intoxicated with a handsome man or beautiful woman, or did you think, &#8221;Father, trust me. I will be victorious,,? While you were carrying out your daily responsibility and you met an outstanding man or woman, did you ever wish you could have such a person as your spouse? Your laughter is a very clear answer, &#8221;Yes, Father, I admit that.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is the real test. This is God&#8217;s standard for recognizing anyone as a true man or woman. When you use this criterion to evaluate the many different religions, do you conclude that they merely oscillate back and forth within the realm of death, or are they really taking themselves out of that realm into resurrection? What about the Unification Church? Are we just the same? We are different. We are heading toward new life and resurrection.</p>
<p>This is the reason the teachings of the most prominent religions in history have always been similar. They emphasize an individual&#8217;s denial of his circumstances and his leading a celibate life in most cases, trying to conquer sexual temptation and stand on the side of God. Christianity in particular emphasizes this in the West, while in the Orient Buddhists isolate themselves from the secular world to make themselves divine&#8217; trying to follow spiritual instead of carnal desires. A man of religion is always going to the mountain to isolate himself. Jesus, for example, went to many lonely places, fasting and taking time for prayer and secluded meditation. That is the kind of effort needed to pass God&#8217;s test and be recognized as a man of perfection.</p>
<p>Initially&#8217; religion teaches you how to pass God&#8217;s test, and once you pass you go out to confront the satanic world and widen your own territory. When you become a victorious individual, persecution doesn&#8217;t matter because you are like a locomotive, having generating power within yourself. Clearly you can only meet God&#8217;s criterion through persecution because without it you would have no way to prove yourself. Good religions are destined to be persecuted because of this principle. A new religion has always begun in the life of an individual and then expanded at what we might call the grass roots level, ultimately confronting persecution from hostile governments which try to suppress it. Jesus was nailed to the cross by the Roman government&#8217; for instance. Because religion does not ultimately recognize national boundaries and customs&#8217; it poses a powerful threat.</p>
<p>Even if Jesus had overcome the persecution of the Roman Empire he still would have had to go to the world. The ultimate victory must be won on the worldwide level. Whoever would be victorious on the universal level can be hardened by the nation, the world, spirit world, Satan and God Himself, all together trying to defeat him. One religious leader must break through that supreme pressure because only by winning that kind of universal victory can man be restored into God&#8217;s original universal concept. God can only be God of a true universe without sin. Otherwise&#8217; everything will always fall short of the level of perfection.</p>
<p>Throughout history God has been dealing with the fallen world&#8217; but we must liberate Him to deal with the true world&#8217; the pure world of original men. We have to elevate God to a new height. That is the ultimate duty of a religious leader&#8217; and by doing it&#8217; the satanic world will be isolated and a new world created where God and true men can live together.</p>
<p>Until a religious leader emerges who can set a standard high enough, it will not take place, however. Without total victory by one man, that will not take place.</p>
<h3 align="center">God loves you and is<br />
allowing you the chance to be victorious</h3>
<p>Obviously we are talking about the Messiah, or the Lord of the Second Advent. All kinds of mysterious predictions have been made about this man, but who is he and why does he need to come? The Messiah is the man here on earth who is victorious over every temptation in the universe, including persecution from the world, God, Satan and the spirit world. He will naturally draw their attention because that man is to be the universal champion, because the world&#8217;s destiny depends upon him. The religion which will welcome the Messiah will also draw the attention of the world and receive utmost persecution. It has to go through a most painful process, and we volunteer to take that position because without it this world has no hope.</p>
<p>Many of you here are Americans, but you are being persecuted by your fellow Americans. That is actually God&#8217;s scheme; God wants you to lose your attachment to America as it is now by having other Americans attack you. In other words&#8217; God is asking you to give up the selfish America and to love this nation, not on the national level, but from the point of view of the world and God. God is asking you to discover a new America, to give up the things that are corrupted and to search after the things that can be resurrected and remain permanently.</p>
<p>You are Americans, but you are a different kind of American who lives for the America of tomorrow, not today. You want to become Americans who can be welcomed by God, the creation, spirit world and every man here on earth. Therefore, receiving persecution is actually good. Would you like subtle persecution which slides in sideways, or persecution which hits you head-on? We don&#8217;t want to go a sneaky way but to confront a head-on collision, starting with the whole United States government. I am doing precisely that.</p>
<p>The amazing thing is that the government can be ruined by its own power. It can mobilize all its resources for a confrontation with the Unification Church, but when all of a sudden the Unification Church jumps over it, the government will collapse in a heap from its own weight! That is precisely what is happening in the newspaper world too. Many publishers think it is just a matter of time until The News World collapses, but actually we will jump over them.</p>
<p>Do not be afraid of persecution; worry instead about being victorious over it. Without persecution you have no way to prove yourself. Today the Unification Church is going precisely that course, with not only governments but religions attacking us. There is no friendly quarter anywhere in sight. I am all by myself in the center of the upheaval and at least in this respect I am unique. Let the world decide whether I am the most handsome man; the main thing is that I have become controversial to such a degree that I am singled out for attack by the entire world. No other individual in history has caused more controversy.</p>
<p>One brother who is working underground in Eastern Europe wrote a letter some time ago and said, &#8221;Even here everyone knows your name and over the radio I hear the government trying to slander you. I felt so good hearing about you over the radio.&#8221; I admire one thing about communist leaders: They know how formidable a person I am. They are watching my every move and at every opportunity they try to slander me in hopes of making me ineffective against them. On the other hand, the free world leaders are asleep, ignoring what I am doing. The only ones in the free world who know our true potential are other religious people. Eventually, however, the whole free world has to know.</p>
<p>This is a battle, no question about it. Generally you would think that if God loves me He shouldn&#8217;t be sitting idly by and permitting all the persecution; He should come down and knock some people around! The same kind of question was asked in the Bible when Jesus was crucified, but this question was not answered until now. If God had intervened to kill all the Roman soldiers and bring Jesus down from the cross, He would not have been acting out of love because that would have blocked Jesus&#8217; way to</p>
<p>become victorious over the world. Do you understand why God cannot intervene in that way?</p>
<p>God loves me and is allowing me the chance to become victorious. I want to walk through the valley of death for my entire lifetime and become victorious. That&#8217;s the victory God is waiting for. If we become victorious with our own strength and commitment then the entire world has no condition to accuse and they will have to bow down once they are defeated. At that time will we try to retaliate for all the trouble they have caused? No, when we are victorious we will let them see who we really are and what the work of God is all about, and then we will even give them more blessing than the members who have gone through all kinds of suffering will receive. It might sound peculiar, but receiving that love will really be the worst kind of treatment they could expect. Their consciences will hurt and they will try to pay some indemnity by working a hundred times harder than Unification Church members.</p>
<p>Should we destroy the rest of the world just to send this little group here to heaven? The traditional Christians think that God loves only Christians, and that when the day of judgment comes they will be lifted up in the air to meet the Lord while the people remaining behind are destroyed in unquenchable fire. That belief is the worst treachery toward God. If God is really working to build the kingdom in that fashion then we donut need that kind of God.</p>
<h3 align="center">Everything I have done was to save you</h3>
<p>Our Unification Church way of life is God&#8217;s way of life, and in our ideology we parallel God&#8217;s thinking. I want you to understand how close we are to zeroing in on that moment of fulfillment. This year saw a wave of harsh attacks coming from every corner of America, but 1977 is the year for us to jump way over all of that. There is nothing wrong with what I did here in America; everything was done to save you. Many of you have backgrounds of all kinds of suffering. Some of you were drug addicts and many led promiscuous lives but you were pulled out of that. Many of you might have committed suicide but I pulled you out of it. Most of you have experienced the hippie life, but now you are experiencing rebirth and you see a different purpose in life. Your eyes are shining and you are clean-cut. What&#8217;s wrong with that? Did I teach you to rob banks or kill people? I am always repeating one simple sentence every Sunday: Go out and give yourself for the sake of God and the sake of the world.</p>
<p>I am exposed to great danger here in America. I have heard how anyone can hire an assassin who will kill anybody for just $170&#8242; and in a literal sense anyone who joins this movement has to be ready to give up his life just to begin with. Not only my own life&#8217; but also Mother&#8217;s and all our children&#8217;s lives are committed to this spiritual revolution in full knowledge of the tremendous danger which accompanies it. No one has yet thanked me for coming under tremendous persecution to save this nation. No one&#8217; that is&#8217; except you.</p>
<p>I want to be at the forefront always, working harder than any of you, preaching and sweating more than any of you. In the last three years I have spent more money for the sake of America than at any other time in my entire ministry&#8217; even in my own country&#8217; but there have been no welcoming signs from the government or the White House and no national leaders have said one kind thing about me. The United States government has even given sanctuary to a group like the PLO&#8217; who are the worst terrorists in the world&#8217; trying to give them a voice in the Middle East negotiations and in the United Nations . That is ridiculous . On the other hand&#8217; I came to this country trying to give it everything I have&#8217; yet the government has never said one kind thing about me.</p>
<p>You know who I am and where we are&#8217; so you must become tough and courageous. Your power far surpasses the evil and iniquity outside. Don&#8217;t be embarrassed to go anywhere&#8217; and whatever your chore is&#8217; do not be ashamed of it. You are doing the most noble task of all. Fund raising is not meant to feed ourselves but to keep this nation and world alive. Maybe Americans are the only kind of people who do not understand; the earth and sky know&#8217; but the American people are blinded.</p>
<p>As persecution becomes more intense each day, should we hide out somewhere? Now that I have been talking to you, you say no, but weren&#8217;t you weak</p>
<p>soldiers one hour ago? I&#8217;m sure that many of you thought about how coming to Belvedere would take up hours you would rather spend sleeping, right? On the other hand, maybe you thought, &#8221;Well, since I have to go to Belvedere I don&#8217;t have to get up to deliver newspapers.&#8221; Your laughter is giving you away! God is allowing you the opportunity to become supremely victorious, not just mediocre. That chance is reserved for you.</p>
<p>Once I break through all the way to the realm of resurrection and the world can see what I have done, then overnight the world will see the truth and become repentant. God is waiting to give me that kind of dramatic victory. God wants to expedite the work of salvation, and making me fight a one-man battle against the world is one of His strategies. By being victorious, I can shorten the time of restoration. The Unification Church cannot be in a half-way position. If it is bad then we are the worst kinds of gangsters, but if it is good then we are right next to God.</p>
<p>We have to decide whether we represent the worst evil or represent God Himself. The Mafia is one of the most feared groups in the fallen world, but we are at the top of the religious world. The entire religious world despises us as much as it hates the Mafia because we have brought ourselves to the pinnacle of the religious world. If our Church has that stature, can you as individuals just wander around in the middle ground? At the outset of 1977 I declared that New York is the front line. You are becoming front-line soldiers, going to every street corner and knocking on every door in New York. This is our battleground. You are using your head almost like a battering ram trying to penetrate the minds of the people.</p>
<h3 align="center">Marine industries and the Unification Church</h3>
<p>Two weeks ago I was in Alabama, which is known as the ship-building capital of the United States, looking around to buy a shipyard so we can build our own vessels. Would you want our factory to be mediocre or number one? That is easy to say but not to fulfill. We have to work harder than anyone in order to be number one. It is going to be a tough job but I will push you. There were no women working the Alabama shipyards and I thought that this is one way we can make history. We will have women shipyard workers! If you women become welders then your fingers and faces will get marked up, but is that all right? Now at 7:42 a.m. on November 1, 1977, the women have pledged that they want to be welders at the shipyard in Alabama. All you men are out of jobs today! If the women are willing to do that much then you men have to work harder, even into the night.</p>
<p>I knew years ago that unless I intervened in the shipbuilding and fishing industries with my own resolve and determination, this nation could have no hope for those two industries to survive. I met two wonderful individuals in Alabama, a father and son who have spent their lifetimes in the business. They said that the boat-building business is in a boom period, with many people going out to sea. I answered, &#8221;That may be true, but what about a few years in the future?&#8221; They replied thoughtfully, &#8220;Reverend Moon, we didn&#8217;t think about that but you are absolutely right. The men have no deep motivation and American women just cannot wait patiently for their husbands to come home from the sea.&#8221;</p>
<p>Usually the wives of fishermen have betrayed their husbands in the past. What shall we do in order to reverse the trend? I will make you welders and fishing captains, and our fishermen won&#8217;t have to worry about their wives running off! If the Moonies and Sunnies are doing that, the rest of America will not want to face being defeated and having to give everything up to us. Once they decide to compete with us, the marine industries will be revived. I am determined to give vision and hope to the American young people so they will be motivated to go out to sea. The oceans are a vast, untapped area waiting to be utilized by courageous men and women and we want to initiate that. There is a chance for America to become great by conquering the sea, but if your countrymen ignore the sea and only want to lead complacent lives then America has no hope to lead the world. America is blind to this.</p>
<p>I am leading the way in this field and the Unification Church will follow through. I would really like to see you beautiful sisters become fishing captains and go out to sea, being so knowledgeable and dedicated that men won&#8217;t mind taking orders from you. Then people will recognize Sunnie power and Moonie power. I want to make our women the presidents of many companies so that the employees who just graduated from Harvard and Yale will all have to listen to you. You may look tiny and weak but when the men on the ship are scared to death, you women will take command and give orders to rectify the situation. You might even take your own babies with you! I am very excited about this idea. I was planning to travel around and look at businesses in Alabama, for instance, but Mother was somewhat hesitant and said, &#8221;Father, you know that&#8217;s a man&#8217;s job, so you go and I will stay home.,, But I told her she should come along anyway.</p>
<p>We are not seeking millions of dollars for ourselves by starting businesses; we are looking at the world and this nation and preparing to spearhead change. Imagine the time when we have thousands of vessels and I can say to the American government, &#8221;[here are so many farmers sitting idle and receiving government subsidies for doing nothing. What kind of ridiculous system is that? You pay them for not growing crops, but in the meantime millions of people are starving in other parts of the world. Let the farmers grow their crops and let us transport that food all over the world to feed the poor. We have the boats to do it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fishing has seasons and doesn&#8217;t last twelve months a year, so why shouldn&#8217;t we transport things all over the world in between seasons? How would you feel being the captain of a boat loaded with grain and headed for a nation where many people are starving? I would select the tiniest of all women to be the captain of such a boat and have her wear a special hat with official decorations. We must all have a dream to live for. I have more dreams than anyone else, but the difference is that my dreams become reality.</p>
<p>I will establish a system in which you women will be the captains and your husbands the first mates. You men will have to say, &#8221;Yes, ma&#8217;am,&#8221; when the captain gives orders, even though she may be your wife. Do you men feel good or bad about that? If you are a seasoned captain then whether you are man or woman doesn&#8217;t make any difference; the crew has to obey. Will you men say. &#8221;Father, we will never get behind the women in leadership and experience,,? Up until the blessing there are many things that the tiny women do better than men, but after marriage comes I don&#8217;t want to see you men falling behind the women because I am a man too!</p>
<h3 align="center">We are citizens of two worlds</h3>
<p>Why do I keep stirring up so much controversy? I could be comfortable at home with Mother and our children and no one would criticize me. After knowing this truth, sitting still is impossible because I know that the ultimate victory is within reach. I want to guarantee the realm of resurrection on the worldwide level. Initially, I was all by myself in this realm of darkness, pioneering a one-man battle, but I will multiply and become two, ten, a hundred, then millions, and this pioneering work will become wider and eventually cover the entire world. I planted stakes in 120 nations by sending a group of Reverend Moons into those countries, knowing ahead of time that they would receive persecution initially.</p>
<p>I am centrally located here in America as an axis around which to raise all 120 nations up, step by step. In each nation our members are starting a highway, making it wider and wider, just like the central one I am making here in America. Eventually, each country will be turned around and each sovereignty will find new direction. Even America will eventually welcome me and know who I am. Once America starts to say, &#8221;We need you, Reverend Moon,&#8221; the rest of the world will do the same because American citizens are the children of the world.</p>
<p>The Abel members of the world&#8217;s races came here to America, primarily for religious freedom. America is the Abel country in the sight of God, and Abel&#8217;s duty is always to save Cain, in this case the rest of the world. There is only one country under the sun where descendants of the world&#8217;s races are gathered, but you didn&#8217;t make this country, nor the American people; God raised this country up for the purpose of the world. Once we move America we can move the world, and I am thinking day and night about how we can have impact upon America. Are</p>
<p>you also thinking day and night about America? Day and night you need to make conscientious effort to become one with me; that&#8217;s the way of life in the Unification Church.</p>
<p>Do you really like me? Your being so devoted is how you bring me a lot of persecution! You love your Unification Church brothers and sisters more than your own natural brothers and sisters, which means that you white members think more of your black brothers and sisters than of your own family. I can&#8217;t understand that mentality because I have never been in a white man&#8217;s position. If what you are saying is true then you are doing something better than me.</p>
<p>Why do you love your brothers and sisters in this Church so much? You love them because God loves them. What is your justification for loving Reverend Moon? You know that God loves him.</p>
<p>I have an ideal nation in my mind, but in actuality I have nothing else. I have nothing to give you, therefore, but still you are trying to follow my ideology and way of life. Americans are always proud of being first-class citizens of the world, but by following me you have become tenth-class citizens! You are risking your American reputations, but do you still want to follow? That could only be possible because God loves my imaginary world more than God loves this physical world, and you want to belong to that world, not this one.</p>
<p>Actually, it doesn&#8217;t matter if this world comes against you because we are not of this world. We belong to the other, ideal world, God&#8217;s world. We are not only citizens of that world, however; we are trying to forge a link and bring the two worlds into one. We do things for the true world, and for that reason we are in a position to be loved more by God than ordinary people.</p>
<p>When you go to spirit world you will be higher than any saint or holy person who ever lived in history because you are being loved by God in two worlds. No one in spirit world has had that experience, even though God originally wanted to love man both on earth and in spirit world. All the saints, including Jesus, should respect you because even Jesus could not duplicate the work you are doing now. Today your dream is as great as Jesus, dream 2,000 years ago, but it is possible for you to make it reality while you are in this world. This commands Jesus&#8217; respect and admiration. Once you deeply realize this, you will be front-line soldiers without any hesitation. We are at the front line of the historical battle&#8217; not just in one nation but in the universe. You can definitely see our ideal and all you have to do is take one big step to reach it.</p>
<h3 align="center">The Japanese in America</h3>
<p>Why were you Japanese so foolish as to come to America? America is the country that dropped the atomic bomb on your country and killed millions of your people. Did you come to make millions of dollars in America or to beg for food? Even the American Immigration Department is trying to kick you out but still you are hanging onto America. You Japanese are still here in America in order to hasten the day that God can bless America with both hands, and you want to be with Americans to see that day. You Japanese represent the Asian countries. You are from a nation which was once an enemy but you are here to forgive and bless America. You are giving your blessing along with God&#8217;s to hasten the day this former enemy country can be blessed more than anyone. By doing it, your own nation&#8217;s blessing is guaranteed.</p>
<p>You are setting a new tradition because your actions are loving actions. That is the supreme love, to love your enemy. You came here for one other reason&#8217; however; you came because I am here on the front line and you want to be with me&#8217; thinking&#8217; &#8221;I want to be your shield and protector and do your work.&#8221; You volunteered to become front-line soldiers for the cosmic battle. All we know is the role of the front-line soldier, and day and night nothing else comes to mind except winning the victory.</p>
<p>Would you Japanese members ask me for a little relaxation after working here for so many years? I will see to it that all the Japanese members will be pushed to an extreme, impossible degree. I want American people everywhere to see the Japanese members and say, &#8221;I don&#8217;t want to be near them because I just cannot compete with them.,, I want you Japanese to set the toughest example to follow.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t you Americans sometimes think that the Japanese members are foolish to come and work so hard when they don&#8217;t even speak the language? Don&#8217;t you think, &#8221; That makes me uncomfortable. I want to rest, so why don&#8217;t you relax too?,, I know there are at least some who think that way. Americans do everything super king-size compared to the Japanese. You are tall and have long arms and even your eyes are bigger. You walk like cranes but the Japanese walk like sparrows. How can you let yourselves be defeated by the Japanese?</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t want you Americans to get behind the Japanese; if you are defeated by them then there is no way you can win the real blessing, because even if they decline in the future God still has to give them the blessing. Actually, I am on America&#8217;s side because God has been on the side of America. God wanted to prepare this nation so perfectly that it could fulfill its extraordinary task in the final day, and because God worked so hard I want to see America become superior in every way. In order to do that you Americans must suffer more for this country and the world. The person who takes more of a beating is the one who shall be rewarded with more blessing and love. If that is not the case then God is wrong. If I do not think in that fashion then somewhere along the line I am also wrong.</p>
<p>Japan was defeated in World War II but now that is all past and we are engaged in the most historically important battle. I am Korean and they are Japanese; have you Americans been defeated by us Orientals? If not&#8217; then you shall be prosperous and I shall be prosperous because you and I are not enemies; we are one family, even though we are separated by nationality. My victory becomes yours and yours becomes mine.</p>
<h3 align="center">Because I have already opened the way,<br />
you don&#8217;t have to go the entire distance by yourself</h3>
<p>Even in the secular world parents want their children to be superior to themselves, so how much more true is this with heavenly parents.? They really want to see heavenly children become better than themselves. Do you welcome suffering more than your own parents? Would you do it for my sake or the sake of the world? Within several decades I will no longer be here on earth, but God and the world shall remain. You love God and the world, and therefore, your love shall be permanent. I want you to take over the duty that is more difficult than my own, and if you suffer more than me then you shall receive more of God&#8217;s love, which is the source of life.</p>
<p>The fall of man resulted from self-centeredness, but now in the opposite way we give ourselves for the sake of God and humanity; this ideology will totally annihilate the satanic way of life and bring this world into the realm of resurrection. Your struggle is actually a very short one because you are engaged in the final battle. By demonstrating your fortitude and loyalty and winning in that final battle, you will inherit all of my accumulated victory because it serves as your foundation.</p>
<p>Under normal circumstances you would have to go through every step, beginning with the individual level. I have already gone through the whole sequence, but by participating in this one universal battle you are actually indemnifying my every accomplishment on the horizontal level. You are acquiring the entire foundation of my victory and all of it will become your asset. I am standing at the top of the ladder after winning every level of victory, but if you start out from this point and follow me farther and farther through every step on the horizontal level , you will receive my entire foundation.</p>
<p>You can measure yourself by how I have lived. When you come to a difficult moment you should think, &#8221;Father suffered more than I did and I want to surpass him.,&#8217; If you always set your sights on me then you can overcome anything. Because I have already opened the entire way for you , you don&#8217;t have to worry about going the entire distance by yourself. By aiming to achieve my standard you can inherit my entire foundation. That is a demonstration of your love. By following this one man in the center and wanting to sacrifice yourself for him, even more than for your own family or country, you are giving your total love to him. In that way you are actually shortening your own dispensation.</p>
<p>With every step you are becoming victorious because you have this absolute standard to follow. When you look at me you cannot say you are tired, or that following me is too much to be expected.</p>
<p>There is no way you can exceed me but that is why you constantly make effort, and while you are doing it you are really becoming one with me. A vivid example is the Japanese members here. They have their own nation and their parents across the Pacific, but they gave everything up to come follow me in this country.</p>
<p>The Americans in spirit world can see and compare the Americans and the Japanese with me. Who is demonstrating more serious unity and commitment? Many of you Americans have probably experienced thinking that you cannot go on any further and that you want to leave this movement because you cannot keep up, but then your ancestors appear in a dream and chastise you, saying, &#8221;My son, that&#8217;s not the way you should be. You must persevere.,&#8217; Some people have told me that kind of story. Practically every one of you should have that kind of experience of being counseled and given direction spiritually.</p>
<p>Why should that phenomenon happen? That is the proof that spirit world is watching over you and taking care of you. They want to be proud of you, not ashamed. This country is at least a Christian nation while Japan is not, and if the Japanese are already working hard, how could you not do more? People outside have no concept of this kind of spiritual guidance, but in the Unification Church we are fully aware of this reality in our lives. Without knowing this vertical principle, the world and the United States government think they can remedy the situation simply by throwing me out of the country. But I tell you, if that ever happened then the activity of the entire spirit world would become so intense that you would be exhausted. Such a commotion would result that no one could restore order.</p>
<p>If white people never become fully awakened then the spirit world will mobilize the black people as soldiers to preserve America&#8217;s blessing. Better that black people should take over than to upset the providence; black people are American citizens too. If I lead the way then this will happen. From being on the street corners you realize that those who support us the most are minority groups; they have given me a warmer reception than anyone else. The spirit world is behind you because they cannot stand in the forefront&#8217; and they are trying to use these minorities to steer America in case the white people fail.</p>
<p>The impact of one man is not limited just to him or his family; the whole nation and world will be affected. I am here to reconcile the differences and bring unity to America and all races. I am a welder of the human races, here to heal the rift between them. God knows very well that the blacks and whites cannot totally unite unless there is a mediator, and He is using me as that mediator. God has seen the future and is concerned about how to create one human race.</p>
<p>White people have to be humble and meek because otherwise they will be deprived of all blessing. Look at how black people are coming into prominence, particularly in sports. Most of the American champions in sports are black people. There&#8217;s a great potential among blacks, and once their future is opened up by the Unification Church ideology they will become even more motivated. Historically, blacks have been oppressed and they felt that suffering to the bone, seeking a way to make their race outstanding in the sight of God. Once they have the proper motivation they will do it.</p>
<p>The history of the world reveals that oppressed people always conquer their oppressors once they have a superior ideology. It is always the case in the history of God that the oppressed people have become the masters in the next generation. That is the inevitable consequence of Principle in this fallen world. We are following the same pattern.</p>
<p>Because of this principle God appears to be weak and powerless, even to the point of allowing the birth of an ideology like communism, which is an outright declaration against God. Today the worst kind of living hell on earth is New York, and when the blackout hit, New York became a literal hell overnight. The Unification Church must come to conquer living hell and revolutionize it. Are you going to influence New York or be influenced by New York?</p>
<p>New York has become gentler and is not persecuting you too much, so you should go out looking for persecution. You go once, twice, three times to visit your assigned homes, and no matter whether people point their fingers at you each time, their consciences will not allow them to keep it up. The first time you knock on the door they may be almost like lions trying to bite you, and the second time be almost the same. The third time they will stare at you, but the fourth time they will shake their heads, &#8221;Boy, I just don&#8217;t understand these mysterious people. I&#8217;m sorry. I didn&#8217;t treat you right before.&#8221;</p>
<p>Their apology will be as deep as their wrongdoing and the more they persecute you, the deeper shall become their repentance. This is the strategy of God. Because I know heavenly strategy I never get tired or become hopeless. It is impossible. I proclaimed that we will have a rally in Moscow, and that is not an empty dream. Already your brothers and sisters are giving up their lives right now to prepare for that day. If they are working under such adverse conditions, how can you say that it is difficult to do the work of God in New York? You can&#8217;t say that. Whenever I receive a report from the underground movement in communist countries it makes me tremble. I see that you are too idle come pared to our members there who are risking their lives every day.</p>
<h3 align="center">Your rebirth can set the world right again</h3>
<p>What is our ultimate goal? That is the topic of my message this morning. In one stroke we want to transform this entire world of death into a realm of light. It has absolutely become a possibility that we can erect the physical Kingdom of God on earth. If you didn&#8217;t have my victory to look at and you had to start out from scratch, you could try for millions of years and still not come out into the realm of rebirth. There are many people in history who tried to take every step but they always faltered after they achieved even a little goal. Never in all history has anyone reached the top.</p>
<p>I want you to feel to the bone that because you are serving as an axis, the entire world is turning upside down and right side up. Our work is progressing, with the spirit world as one hand and all of us here is the physical world as the other. Together we are turning and transforming the world. You must feel that God is using you as an axis and realize that if you make a mistake then the worst consequences will come about&#8217; even worse than the fall of Adam and Eve. That is precisely the position of each one of you.</p>
<p>In order to be born again as a brand new baby of God, both Mother and Father and God will give you strength, but only if you become strong like a dynamo; otherwise you cannot have rebirth. When a child is born the head comes out first, and that indicates that we have to push ahead. The astonishing thing is that when you are born again your ancestors are born again, as well as your generations in the future. By knowing such a formidable truth I am not bothered by anything.</p>
<p>Your own birth is accompanied by the birth of the angelic world, spirit world and physical world; your own birth sets all this existence right again. Your ancestors represent the angelic world and your future generations represent spirit world, placing you in Adam&#8217;s position. Adam is the seed, and as a result of Adam being born in the right way, the future world and spirit world are all brought together. Adam is in a position to say, &#8221;Because of me and because of my love you shall be blessed and your children shall be blessed.&#8221; Can you fulfill that position?</p>
<p>What qualification will enable you to be resurrected? As a son of God who receives His love you can be born again. Then shall you be better than or inferior to Jesus? Jesus is in the parent&#8217;s position and everyone else in the children&#8217;s position, and as I said before, it is the parents, utmost desire to have their children become better than themselves. In his own lifetime Jesus could not consummate his mission nor love his world or the angelic world. He could not love the entire universe and God in his own lifetime, but as a son and daughter of God, you would give him great joy by doing everything that he wanted to do but could not.</p>
<p>This kind of statement is the reason why conventional Christians sometimes call me a heretic. Because we want to work harder than God, will God say, &#8221;How could you ever think of such an impossible thing?,, Will we be God&#8217;s adversaries for wanting to liberate Him? When God hears His children talking just like that, do you think He would be mad or happy? Any parent wants to hear that.</p>
<p>The time has come for the opportunity to liberate God and Jesus and the spirit world by your own hands and sweat. Is that wrong thinking? Jesus swatted blood in agony at the meaning of his own death, but we are sweating for our own rebirth and the rebirth of humanity. That is my ideology, the ideology of resurrection. Could you complain?</p>
<p>The mouth is supposed to eat food, not speak words to destroy you. Just like a baby drinks milk to live, you must grow under any circumstances, overcoming everything and continuing on. Are you growing at night when you are asleep? Wherever you are and whatever time of day it is doesn&#8217;t matter because every moment of the day you are growing. God is holding you in His arms like a baby, but you are growing so fast that God will tell you, &#8221;You are growing bigger than I am! You go out now and be independent.&#8221; That&#8217;s resurrection.</p>
<h3 align="center">Rebirth begins in your struggle in a humble place</h3>
<p>Initially in the Unification Church we embrace people and give them food and shelter and love, but when you become a real man of God He will say, &#8221;Get out of here and go be independent. Be like me and make miracles happen in other countries.&#8221; Just like any country expects an adult to work and pay taxes, you will go out and become a productive, independent man&#8217; and without doubt your productivity will become so great that the kingdom will flourish. Before the world even knows it, the world will become our territory; already we are embracing the universe, even without other people knowing it. Columbus came to America and claimed the continent, and in the same way we will soon discover a new continent within our arms.</p>
<p>Do you want to open your arms wider than God, or do you only want to embrace the world a little bit? You may say&#8217; &#8221;God, I want to embrace the world more than You. My arms are longer than Yours and I will do more than You do.&#8221; Then God will say, &#8221;All right, you take over. I want to take a little nap.,&#8217; God will gladly leave the mission to you. God is looking for men and women with arms longer than His and I am looking for that in our Church. If everyone comes to the Unification Church and only does less than I do&#8217; then this house will fall to the ground.</p>
<p>When I was in Alabama going from town to town, we stopped at McDonald&#8217;s after a long afternoon. We were sitting outside in the open air, and a little black sister with a box in her lap was sitting nearby, just smiling and smiling at Mother and myself. We didn&#8217;t know her but Mother soon discovered that she was our MFT member. This girl just couldn&#8217;t believe that we were real! We asked her why she didn&#8217;t come over and say, &#8221;Hello, Father and Mother. Welcome to Alabama.&#8221; She said, &#8221;I just couldn&#8217;t imagine that Father and Mother were out in the country here, and I thought I was seeing some kind of vision. But now I see you are the real ones!&#8221; She was a little black sister, all shiny with sweat, but at that place there was such a beautiful meeting of father and daughter, and mother and daughter.</p>
<p>God works in mysterious ways. Sometimes you are the only one who knows that you are working in the back country where hardly any other Unification Church members come, but all of a sudden God sends the True Parents right there to embrace you. There the intense joy of meeting is more ecstatic than here where you expect to see me week after week. Always Mother and I express more unreserved love in such a situation. That&#8217;s the way God works, and even in a remote corner God&#8217;s love is more intense. You will not receive God&#8217;s love at the comfortable headquarters. God is way out on the front line, and there His love is manifested in a dramatic way.</p>
<p>Where can we have this rebirth and resurrection? In a very glamorous area, or sweating and struggling in a remote area? You are searching after God&#8217;s love and it is going to come to you after very hard but very dramatic experiences. You might think that IBM has the best computers, but no, the best computer is in spirit world, where your entire life is already mapped out on your own computer card. You are traveling in the fallen world and you go up and down and have struggles along the way. You sometimes go up very high, but sometimes you dump down low. Would you like to go up and down in this realm of death, or in the realm of resurrection? It&#8217;s not easy! You have to hang on and persevere through the fiercest suffering.</p>
<p>A big grandfather clock has rhythm. I like to hear that because it is like the rhythm of your life, in which you push yourself up with each stroke. You will never get into the realm of resurrection as a solitary individual. First you must cross the boundary and go to the world. Because he did not have the world with him, even Jesus could not go to the Kingdom of God in heaven. I am very intent in the midst of this emergency. Today there is a state leader&#8217;s conference, but tomorrow I might take off for somewhere else. There is a busy heavenly schedule and I am making my own computer card and mapping out my own life.</p>
<p>In the realm of resurrection you are going to see the day of new birth. Once you see that day then everything becomes yours-the spirit world, God and the physical world-and you can claim it. No matter what the cost or sacrifice, while we have this flesh on earth we must reach that realm of victory. I want you to know that as members of the Unification Church you are living in a golden time because you still have persecution coming to you. It is almost like the birth pains of a mother who is pushing her baby out to be born. The entire universe is focused upon you, and to the limit of your strength you can push yourself into the new world.</p>
<p>There are many babies who die during delivery. Do you want to be born dead, or be a victorious child? Here in New York you must look at the Empire State Building and think that if you throw yourself against it that even that huge building will fall. Yesterday in Alabama we made many plans, talking about buying 200 acres with waterfront, even though I had no money ready. I told the real estate broker, &#8221;We have as much money as we need and we have an even more precious thing; we have as many dedicated people as we need.&#8221; I was thinking about you when I said that and this morning I wanted to make sure that you are here! Can you give me that confidence that we have as many good people as we need?</p>
<p>I came barehanded to this country and have been able to do this much. Therefore, I have no doubt that by following my example you can be equally successful, even if you have only bare hands. Do you just feel good or can you do it? Does that mean that when I buy a shipyard and send either men or women down to work that you can fulfill the mission? That means you can become either captains or welders or fishermen, whatever I assign you to do? I set the tradition already at Barrytown by teaching members for two nights straight how to make nets. I went fishing many nights with no sleep, and went out to sea at 3:30 in the morning every day. That&#8217;s the way I set the tradition. Can you match that record, not for my sake, but for the sake of your own country and humanity?</p>
<p>Do you think that I am so miserable that I need your help? Not at all. God and the world are more miserable than I am. They need help, so we must go. Will you pledge to conquer the realm of resurrection and plunge into the world with it?</p>
<p>Thank you very much. God bless you.</p>
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<h3 align="center">June 5, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>It is human nature that everyone has the desire to be proud of something about themselves and about their families. This desire has no boundary and is the same in the East and the West, in the past and the present and affects everyday lives as well as famous people. After thinking about what kind of God exists, I concluded that God is the same. God would want to be proud of Himself and His creation as well as of His children. In other words, there are not a great many different things which God wants to be proud of, but rather only Himself and His family and what He created.</p>
<p>Since human nature works in the same fashion, we are the image of God. Because God feels proud, we too experience that feeling. That same nature affects families and nations. For example, Americans want to be proud of America and of what it has accomplished in the world. Americans who love their nation feel proud and inspired when they look at their flag.</p>
<p>When Americans explain the meaning of the flag they always say that the stripes represent the original thirteen colonies. If I were an American I would answer this way instead: &#8220;The stripes represent Jesus, the son of God, and his twelve disciples.&#8221; Which answer do you like better? Some day America is going to have a new God-centered tradition and explanation for its flag, in which God comes first plus Jesus and his disciples represented by the stripes, and the fifty stars representing the first fifty truly Christian nations of the world. The number fifty will increase to include more nations in the future, reflecting the ongoing development of God&#8217;s kingdom. At this time we in the Unification Church are working toward 50, 70, to 120-to all the nations. The internal meaning behind this can be derived from the Bible; Jesus had 12 apostles and 70 disciples, and next would have had 120 disciples in his own lifetime to spread the gospel all over the world. The stars on the American flag would represent all of Jesus&#8217; disciples as well as each nation.</p>
<p>If America became a nation of God, working toward the establishment of God&#8217;s kingdom, then the American people could have even more pride in their nation and flag. Americans are proud of this nation&#8217;s mighty economic power, its pioneering heritage and democratic tradition. If someone criticizes America then most Americans get upset. This is not bad or wrong because it is the human nature God endowed us with, and God Himself will feel the same way when His world comes. God wants to be proud of the things He has and proud of the people He has, and He wants the people in His kingdom to be proud of the ideal they have.</p>
<p>Sometimes people do things just in order to boast about them and get attention. For example, some people wear fancy eyeglasses simply to show off. They don&#8217;t necessarily have bad sight, but they wear the most stylish glasses. Why do women wear earrings? I am sure that some woman in the past had very ugly ears and started that tradition of wearing earrings because she wanted to improve her ears.</p>
<p>If you have very nice ears, you can be proud of them without wearing ornaments. If you are self-conscious about having ugly ears then you want to draw attention to an ornament and away from your ears. Necklaces were probably originated by women who had ugly necks. A woman who has a long neck has extra space which she wants to improve by putting something beautiful on it. People wear all these things to disguise certain deficiencies they may be conscious of, trying to enhance their feeling of value.</p>
<p>Raise your hand if your nature is different. Not even a single hand. Were people in the past any different? What about the people to come in the future? This human nature is a cosmic thing; we are all in the image of God and God gave His own nature to us.</p>
<p>One extraordinary aspect of Western culture is the effort made to make bathrooms ornate and beautiful. In most Western homes the bathroom is a very expensive area. Why? It is human nature to beautify even an area where we are not doing the prettiest thing. God is just the same, and we not only live in that fashion here on earth, but even after we go to the spirit world.</p>
<h3 align="center">All nature delights in seeing its characteristics reflected</h3>
<p>You want to be proud of yourself, but it is important to understand that you will suddenly realize how little you have to be proud of about yourself if you are far from being in God&#8217;s true image. What kind of person should you be in order to be proud of yourself in spirit world?</p>
<p>You must be a true, eternal, and unchanging person, not an imitation. When your being reflects that standard, you are just that, true and eternal. If you compare yourselves to that standard then you can measure the degree of your genuineness. For example, there is a basic standard for judging diamonds and a diamond must meet that standard before it can be recognized as a good diamond. Genuine gold is soft and has the quality of not rusting, as well as having an unchanging color. All of these qualities are the standard of reference which determine the genuineness of a particular thing.</p>
<p>There are many imitations today, but you don&#8217;t feel as proud of an imitation as you do of a real diamond or real gold. In the same way, in the spirit world you want to be proud of yourself for being close to the standard of perfection. God is the standard of perfection and you can be proud of yourself when you are closest to the image of God. Your original personality characteristics are molded after God&#8217;s, and in resembling Him you can be proud of yourself.</p>
<p>What kind of eyes might God have? How do you know God has two eyes; have you seen Him? In order to love the nature God created and love Him more deeply, God gave you two eyes to enjoy the universe with. It is necessary to have two eyes to express your love, and since God wants to express His love He needs two eyes also. It works both ways: God reflects your image and you reflect His.</p>
<p>Parents also take great delight in their children, who most resemble them in all the world, even though those children may be ugly. Suppose beauty queens from all over the world were gathered together for some pageant and among them was one ugly woman. If a group picture was taken and copies given out, whose face will the parents of the ugly woman look for when they get their copy? Inevitably they will look for their ugly daughter in the midst of all the beauty queens.</p>
<p>Because their children most reflect their parents&#8217; characteristics they will bring delight to the parents. Look at the elephant world. Elephants are an incongruous shape and a gloomy color. When I saw an elephant family one day they were all in the mud, playing and making themselves completely dirty. The baby elephants were imitating what their parents were doing and covering themselves with mud, but the parents were smiling upon them and nudging them with their trunks and enjoying them. Why should that be? Parents enjoy seeing their baby doing the same things they do.</p>
<p>All of nature delights in seeing its own characteristics reflected. Is it true that love can be communicated only in a most glorious palace? Even in the mud there was an expression of love among the elephants. During a fishing expedition yesterday at Barrytown everyone was covered by the mud and sometimes you couldn&#8217;t even see their eyes, yet even under those circumstances there was much joy and excitement and laughter; I thought that even in those circumstances we can communicate more of trust and love.</p>
<p>Why did we take so much delight among ourselves in such a situation? There was a common denominator of being covered with mud and each person took great delight in the likeness. That principle works precisely the same way in spirit world. No matter how handsome or beautiful you think you are nobody will agree with you; only when you resemble God will people recognize your true beauty. Then you have become someone you can be proud of. Everybody&#8217;s shape or form reflects God. Even though there are differences between Westerners and Orientals, all are a reflection of God.</p>
<p>How will God laugh? Most people naturally look up at the sky when they laugh. Why? It is built-in human nature that when you have something to really laugh about you don&#8217;t want to laugh all by yourself but together with God. The same is true whether you are Western or Eastern. Then will God laugh up to the sky? I think that God must look down toward us when He laughs because He wants to be joyful with us. It is most logical. You will find out how true this is when you go to the spirit world.</p>
<p>The subject today is &#8220;Our Pride.&#8221; What is the pride of the Unification Church? People have probably told you that you are brainwashed. Our critics use that word with a negative meaning but we take it as having a good meaning. You wash something to bring back its original beauty. Even animals wash. The person who always wants to wash himself, his clothes and his spirit is going to progress because that nature comes from God. God gave that nature to man so that he could come closer to God&#8217;s original nature.</p>
<h3 align="center">It is our pride to greet God even before the sun and the birds</h3>
<p>One basic difference between primitive and advanced civilizations is that most primitive peoples don&#8217;t care about their surroundings while more cultured people keep themselves and their environment clean. Because of the fall, man&#8217;s brain needs to be washed. God knows that man went wrong so He has been thinking about how to wash the human brain of impure thoughts. Therefore the original definition of &#8220;brainwashing&#8221; is not bad. People who do not want to change their way of life to resemble God are not on God&#8217;s side, while those who welcome God&#8217;s brainwashing are on the side of heaven.</p>
<p>Another criticism we hear is that I am enslaving you young people. People say I make you get up early for worship and then push you out to work hard during the day. They say you come here early because you are forced to. I don&#8217;t think so. We feel spiritually uplifted by getting up before the sun rises; you don&#8217;t feel good when you sleep late and get up in the middle of the morning, as though you were defeated by the sun coming out first.</p>
<p>When you get up in the early morning and are busy and then the sun rises with great dignity, it will say, &#8220;Did you arise first to welcome me in the morning?&#8221; If you are up first to greet the birds then you can feel that their singing is their praise of you. Most important of all, when you get up early in the morning first call the name of God, beginning the day with Him. How would God feel? He does not want to be welcomed first by the birds or the using sun. God wants to be praised first in the morning by His own children. You came up here early in the morning solely for the purpose of God, welcoming Him and praising Him and hearing His word. Is it hardship or joy and glory? This is a precious life you are living.</p>
<p>Do you like to come to Belvedere? Some pragmatic people-and most Americans are-would wonder why I have this many people travel all the way to Belvedere each Sunday instead of having only one person travel from East Garden to New York. Why don&#8217;t I speak to you at the New Yorker instead of making you get up so early? I know that the time you spend traveling will awaken your enthusiasm to come in the right frame of mind. I am also working early in the morning, earlier than you; you are coming in anticipation of hearing me speak, and I have been concentrating my thoughts on what God&#8217;s message might be.</p>
<p>If there is a receiving aspect which is eager to respond plus a giving aspect ready to give, then truly great inspiration will come. If you only had to walk downstairs in the New Yorker on Sunday morning you would sleep until five minutes before the speech, and even then get up reluctantly. You would not be ready in that case.</p>
<p>Your preparation creates an atmosphere for the service, and your deep, spiritual preparation will enable you to receive great blessing. Many of you are still sleepy even after traveling all the way up here from New York. Nobody could even get you up if I were to meet you in New York. After three Sundays of such reluctant participation you would think, &#8220;I wish Father would eliminate all these Sunday visits. &#8221;</p>
<p>That is just another side of fallen nature. However, in order to come to Belvedere you have to make an effort, getting up several hours earlier. Coming such a long distance builds the expectation and you will get more out of my message. There are people sitting out on the lawn, but if their motive is only to be comfortable, rather than because there is no room up closer, then the spirit here is not correct.</p>
<p>I think there must be a certain system for service here. Perhaps one Sunday all the men would sit inside and next week all the women, to give an equal chance to everyone. However, if on the Sunday the men were supposed to be inside there was one sister who insisted she had to be inside to hear me, then I would have something to remember her for. Her firm desire would be one more thing for her to be proud of before God.</p>
<p>People outside the Unification Church are saying not only that you are brainwashed, but that you have been enslaved and your money taken away so that I can live in mansions and high fashion. I know very well what is being said about us. America enforced a slavery system only a century ago. Comparing your life here to that forced slavery, could we say that you are forced to be here? Have you heard that you are here only because I control your mind? What makes you come here? Are you here because I forced you, or is it your own desire and conviction to be here?</p>
<h3 align="center">This is a heavenly school and we have high standards</h3>
<p>Put in simple terms, the Unification Church is a school and you are the students who have come to learn. You are here to learn and school begins at a certain hour. Would you prefer to get here just ten seconds before class begins, or would you prefer to get here well in advance and be ready for the teacher?</p>
<p>There are basically two kinds of teachers. There are many teachers today who tell their students that they can take it easy and not work so hard. Another kind of teacher gives his students a hard time and insists that they do their assignments. Which one is truer to you? The true teacher looks at your future and paints a dream and a vision for you. With that goal ahead of you he will then discipline and inspire you to do your best. If the teacher is pushing you and giving you a hard time it is not for the sake of the present, but for the future.</p>
<p>There are also two kinds of parents. Some parents don&#8217;t want to bother either their children or themselves by giving discipline. The other kind of parents are serious about their children becoming true men and women and would ask their children&#8217;s teachers to give them strong guidance and strict standards. Which kind of parents are the most loving?</p>
<p>The Unification Church fits into the pattern of the concerned school. I do not need you to serve me or to support me or my family. That is far from the truth. This is a school of heaven and we have high standards because we have a vision of the future. All through human history most people have tried to achieve selfish goals, and by working on a selfish level they ultimately faced destruction. They ruined not only themselves but their nations as well. Those who pursue selfish goals can never accomplish true good.</p>
<p>Right now the entire world is continuing to pursue a selfish way and everything of value is being lost. This is the lesson of history. It is my observation that soon the world will hit a stone wall and find that there is nowhere left to turn. This is why there must be a new kind of education; the world must have a way to break through that stone wall. To do that we must revolutionize the thinking and way of life of the world, turning it around 180 degrees from the selfish way of life to the unselfish way of life. The world has been ruined by the selfish way of life, but there will again be hope for the future when people are inspired to follow an unselfish way. If this thinking is correct then certainly this ideology could change the world. We have hope, because when the people of the world revolutionize their thinking we will be able to go forward to great peace and prosperity.</p>
<h3 align="center">What do we have that no one else has?</h3>
<p>What is the greatness of our Unification Church? You may look like slaves to our critics, and you may work even harder than slaves, but unlike the slavery of the black people of the past, your hard work is freely given for the sake of God. In this new way of life a revolution of mankind will take place. This is why we have the gut conviction that what we do is different from anything else in history. This is our pride.</p>
<p>If the locomotive pulling a train hits a stone wall then it cannot go forward any further. However, for the train to back up another locomotive must come from the rear and pull it in the other direction. So far the world is being pulled straight towards that stone wall, but you Moonies are the locomotive coming up from behind to pull the world back into the right direction. Some people are convinced that your eyes are glazed and that somehow you don&#8217;t look normal. Is that true, or are you looking at reality very clearly? There is so much adverse publicity on that point that sometimes people hold up their fingers like an optometrist to see where your eyes focus.</p>
<p>An amazing amount of attention is given to you because you are Moonies. When you say you are a Moonie then everybody watches to see how you behave. Even the ordinary things you do may suddenly seem strange to them. Even though you dress normally, they think that somehow Moonies wear a different kind of clothes. The important thing is that these people are aware that we must have something that people outside our Church do not have. If that something is the right thing then we can really be proud of it. Our unique position is our pride also.</p>
<p>What do we have that is different? Simply this: We Moonies get up earlier and work harder and go to bed later than anyone else, but not for ourselves. Every moment of our day will be completely filled with service to humanity and God. This is what we have and others don&#8217;t have.</p>
<p>Mankind is one group of people; no matter how many billions of people there may be they are all part of one family. This family of man is going to be proud of people like the Moonies. At some point this family of man needs someone to pioneer a new direction; otherwise all will be ruined. The Unification Church is making that revolution a reality by demonstrating that it can be done. We are the first group to proclaim that an ideal world, the Kingdom of God on earth, is possible.</p>
<p>Amazing things can become possible by applying a way of life different from the rest of the world. Because we are different, persecution has become our daily diet. Do you think that I am sick and tired of persecution, or am I in a position to be proud of being persecuted? In most cases people are ashamed and hurt by criticism and opposition, but I am proud of going to jail and of being persecuted. I have lived that kind of tribulation my entire life.</p>
<p>I am absolutely convinced that going to jail has an entirely different purpose than people realize, and whether people realize this or not does not matter. God knows the difference so people&#8217;s opinions mean little. Most people are put in jail because their actions were selfishly motivated, but I am put in jail because the nation and world cannot digest the revolutionary way of life I teach, that of sacrificing myself for the sake of the world. Because today&#8217;s world has rarely seen such a man, people come to the point where they are afraid of me and they would rather put me in jail.</p>
<p>At that moment jail is not a shameful place. All of America is upset, trying to solve the controversy and return to its old ways. I am proud to be the person who can do things that even the President of the United States cannot do and which this nation doesn&#8217;t know how to digest and accept.</p>
<p>The Unification Seminary is a good example. When I created the seminary only a couple of years ago it had only fifty students in the first class. Externally speaking it is not an extraordinary place, but many of the scholars who have come to lecture there have been completely fascinated by our students and wanted to have some of them in their own school. Why is that? Those professors supposedly came to visit and to teach the students, but actually the professors themselves were the ones who were taught, not just the students. Instead of being influenced by the negativity, those professors started to speak out; they are very conscientious of truth and once they see the truth they will never back down.</p>
<p>At Barrytown those scholars could learn what the Unification Church philosophy really is about and also see the fruits of it in the students. The experience was so moving for them that they have been setting off spiritual bombs when they speak in a positive way about our church. Most people have heard only that you members are brainwashed slaves, but these professors ask such people, &#8220;Have you seen them and talked to them? I have, and I know they are not brainwashed.&#8221;</p>
<h3 align="center">Will the storm surrounding us blow over or intensify?</h3>
<p>Already Americans are fighting among themselves over us in the business world, the academic community, in the government and every walk of life. This war will not end soon but will become more hectic in the days to come. The pragmatic politicians may think that the easiest way to end all the turmoil would be to simply ship me out of this country. This is why they are searching for any reason to accuse me of doing something illegal. The Immigration Department, the IRS, the Justice Department, even Congress is trying to find some violation.</p>
<p>With all this government involvement, many more people have become interested in us and are looking more deeply into our movement. That is when conscientious people will discover that I am not so bad after all! Public opinion will begin to turn and condemn the deprogrammers as brainwashers, rather than me. When the judge in San Francisco made a questionable judgment in favor of the deprogrammers, the legal community became divided and there were many harsh criticisms of the decision.</p>
<p>Where will all the controversy end? Will everything soon come to a climax and our work get easier, or is the storm going to build up and up even more? When people come to take a deeper look at me and the Unification Church they will discover the truth. Then they will become different people because truth has the power to change the human heart. After all, have I done anything wrong in, this country? Even non-members ask that question.</p>
<p>Look at the organized crime in this country which thrives on prostitution, gambling, and drugs; the government has been helpless to deal with organized crime. Why then do they come to oppose me? In our Church they see good looking young people who used to be drug addicts or wanderers with no purpose, but who now completely have devoted themselves to a new relationship with God. Only after realizing that more than just a few young people are being changed do people fear that I will become powerful and try to dominate the world.</p>
<p>One of the greatest miscalculations of those who oppose us is their firm belief that I am an agent of the Korean government. That kind of assumption begins with the thinking that nothing good can come out of Korea. When the media mentions that I am a Korean evangelist there is usually an undertone of scorn. Because Korea is a small country that Americans never knew too much about and because Korea is indebted to America, then a man from Korea is criticized for speaking out.</p>
<p>They want me to be quiet because I speak out about what is wrong with America. I say unpopular things, that America will lose God&#8217;s favor and is destined to perish if it continues in its present direction. I am not here to praise America and to ask for money, but to warn America that it must return to a godly way of life.</p>
<p>Because I am Korean, Americans are jealous when their young people listen to me. Do you think they would kidnap their own children if I were another white man, even if I taught the same principles and inspired the same conviction? No, they would not be as upset if I were a white man. The amazing thing is, however, that not too many Asian people follow me here in America. American young people are following me here, and we are writing a new chapter of American history. Future generations will think it was most extraordinary that no American inspired the American people, but that a man from Asia came and inspired the Americans to build a new America, making them realize the truth of their destiny.</p>
<p>After this chapter is written there shall be no segregation or racial discrimination because an Asian, one of a minority group in this country, came and preached the gospel of love and equality of all men and races. Here we are creating the new hope and future of America. I am here to help this country get back on the right track, but if America does not heed my advice then this nation will be further entangled in difficulty. Racial unity is the key to the survival of America. America has been the melting pot of all the world&#8217;s people, but if Americans persist in thinking in terms of races, nationalities and religious groups, there will be tremendous difficulties ahead.</p>
<p>In an unseen way I am contributing more to American history than any other individual. There has been no American leader for you who could give honest hope to the young people of America. My purpose is not to divide people; I want to be silent and keep doing my job, working to bring harmony and understanding instead of inciting more fights. My desire is to save America, to bring new hope to America through you. Through you the extremes of America are being brought into one harmonized center.</p>
<p>The government is very powerful and I don&#8217;t want to have it turned against you. We are still a small minority in this country and we still need to lay the foundation here. I am building a movement to convert American youth into better God-centered American youth. Many people think that I am trying to convert you into Korean youth, but that is far, far from the truth!</p>
<p>When the Jews came to America they were a persecuted minority, but now some prominent Jews are in turn denouncing me as being anti-Semitic. There are millions of young people in this country, and eventually this movement will spread because young people here have nowhere to turn. Why then are the Jews treating us as enemies? This is a universal movement and not confined to any race or religion; the time will come when we are so big that people will not want to oppose us. I don&#8217;t want anyone to have caught themselves in that position in the future. My attitude now is just to be patient.</p>
<p>Why are some Christians opposing me now? Do you think the Unification Church will outgrow traditional Christianity or not? Many congregations have mostly senior citizens; what will these churches be like in another few decades? In contrast, many of you are young people and by the time you become senior citizens those other churches will all be gone.</p>
<p>Christian churches have already done incredible things against me. You do not know the vicious and dirty things they did to slander the Unification Church in Korea and Japan. Plots to kill me and harm my family were made, and some Christians plotted to stop the weddings and our other activities in the early years. Even now, in America as well, some Christians are trying to disrupt our work. Can you find any worse enemy than that?</p>
<p>How much more should we take? God has been patient with His rebellious children for 6,000 years, however, and therefore I have never lifted even one finger to take revenge for all that has been done against me. All I have done is to pray for them. It is significant that those negative forces have been themselves destroyed, one by one, even though I have never retaliated. We have never lifted up a finger against them but one after another they have destroyed themselves. When we are free ourselves from satanic accusation, we have nothing to fear from outside forces because those forces will eliminate themselves.</p>
<p>Are you ashamed when people ridicule you on the street? Today&#8217;s world may scorn you, but your deeds will be recorded for all of history to read. God and all the spirit world, including all your ancestors, are with us. If the FBI arrested me and put me in jail I wouldn&#8217;t even blink. The Bard College incident last month shows how determined some people are to use trivial things to harass me. The whole world learned through the news media that I was arrested, but I only smiled at the whole thing and thought, &#8220;You foolish people. That&#8217;s not the way you can win over me.&#8221;</p>
<h3 align="center">The person who has not been persecuted has not much to be proud of</h3>
<p>I have never done one single thing that is shameful to America. If I have committed any crime it is that I raised up young people like you and re-made them into children of God. If that is a sin then I have definitely committed it. Since you are Americans too, you probably agree with all the professors, ministers, parents and everyone else who thinks I am evil. You don&#8217;t agree? That is why people say you are crazy! Amazingly enough, that is our pride.</p>
<p>We have something that people don&#8217;t understand: our pride. The person who has not been persecuted has not much to be proud of. I have pioneered a new movement to receive persecution for the sake of good, and as members you also become pioneers. Am I the only one who feels good about doing this, or do you feel good about it also? Does America feel good about it, or Korea?</p>
<p>Certainly this is for America&#8217;s benefit. Few patriots could ever have imagined doing for this nation what I have already done. Then how can America mistreat me? All of you are the true patriots of America, and the American people will some day be grateful enough to treat you kindly. I want to see the day come soon when the American people understand you.</p>
<p>Because we are asking for donations for this work our fund raisers many times are thrown in jail. You go fund raising not because you are incapable of earning money or of holding a job-many of you could earn tens of thousands of dollars if you held a regular job-but because we chose this route for the sake of the movement. Are you asking for donations so you can get rich? Absolutely not.</p>
<p>None of the real estate we purchased is for my sake. I will do things for the sake of America and then go back to Korea. All these things will remain here to be used for the sake of the world; I will not take them back with me. This is my pride.</p>
<p>We bought 500 acres of land in Tarrytown and I announced that eventually we wanted to build an international, God-centered university there. The village of Tarrytown reacted by passing an ordinance against building more educational institutions. They would rather not have their peace disturbed. They are using other subtle ways to try to move the Moonies out of Tarrytown, for example, by deliberately designing a new zoning code for the purpose of keeping the Moonies out. We are actually thankful to them because these things will make American history more interesting, and as a result we have more to be proud of. I have become so controversial that everything I do gets a news article, but I am simply collecting more material for history.</p>
<h3 align="center">We are going to harvest the blessings of the oceans</h3>
<p>I have been going out to sea in a boat called New Hope. The public may think I just go yachting for pleasure, but every day I am collecting more material. God has hidden unlimited resources underneath the sea, and the oceans will be the key to future development in the world.</p>
<p>I know very well that in the course of developing sea industries we may sometimes suffer some sacrifice. Eventually we will have hundreds of fishing boats, and some of them may be lost at sea. Even losing husbands and brothers will not deter our pioneering zeal because that business will be for the sake of humanity.</p>
<p>We want to become masters of the sea. The ocean surface is twice as big as the surface of the land, and furthermore there are vast resources beneath the sea. Any nation which can overcome the difficulties will conquer the sea. We first teamed to have dominion on the land, and with the same pioneering spirit we can conquer the sea as well.</p>
<p>Our battle is now being waged on the land, and we must be victorious here, being tested and seasoned by a hurricane of persecution. Then when real storms come at sea we can welcome them. The Pilgrims who came to America were pioneering people; otherwise they would not have crossed the Atlantic Ocean, especially during the stormy months. They realized that an uncertain destiny lay ahead of them, and that they had no guarantee for their lives; few had ever safely arrived in the New World, but they started anyway., They overcame by their hope and faith in God. Now in the 20th century we also are forging ahead, like a boat in a rough ocean, with faith in God. Whatever the persecution and blowing winds, we have faith in God.</p>
<p>I look at the vast ocean resources as God&#8217;s blessing waiting for the Unification Church. I have promised to God, &#8220;Give me twenty years&#8217; time and we will conquer the sea, taking dominion over it and returning the glory to You.&#8221; That is how I think everytime I go out. Later we will establish a great foundation, and even the Ford or Rockefeller Foundations will look like peanuts in comparison. That is the way we must realistically feel.</p>
<p>Do you like going out to sea? You may like the sea but you don&#8217;t like riding in the boat do you? When the Unification Church women marry sailors and fishermen, America will have hope. American men are refusing to become sailors or fishermen because of women. Sailors are gone at sea sometimes three or six months, and often their wives don&#8217;t wait faithfully for them. When the husband comes home there is no wife there! After that he thinks, &#8220;No sir, I&#8217;m not going out to sea again. I&#8217;m watching my wife!&#8221;</p>
<p>Women thus have the potential to destroy the opportunity for developing the blessings of the oceans. I will definitely match the most beautiful sisters with brothers who are sailors. By being loyal and faithful to their husbands they will set a new example. If the most outstanding women are hoping for husbands who are seamen, then all our brothers will want to become sailors! Don&#8217;t even think about marrying one of our very outstanding members before you become a seaman.</p>
<p>One of the captains on my boat, the New Hope, is named Spiro. He is from Greece and he is a very outstanding and good-looking man. I love him very much, and when blessing time came I looked for a most outstanding woman. I recommended one sister who has helped care for Mother as a nurse-midwife. She is slender and beautiful and I never hesitated to suggest her to Spiro. That sister, Leslie, has another kind of blessing from God; as an inheritance from her grandparents she receives a certain amount of money every month. Their home is already guaranteed! Spiro couldn&#8217;t ask for any better wife than her! But he only got that blessing because he loves the ocean and above all he is absolutely loyal in his work for the Church.</p>
<p>All these things are our pride in the Unification Church. The fisherman&#8217;s life is a hard, dirty, even crude life and fishermen have to be very rugged. Furthermore, fishermen have always been known as thieves and liars. Why should I have us get into the kind of business which is known as a living hell? I go down to the bottom of hell and by revolutionizing such a place and bringing heaven there then I can hasten the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.</p>
<p>Col. Pak&#8217;s report:</p>
<p>The other day I read a letter to Father from a captain down in Norfolk, Virginia. His name is Tony and he always told us, &#8220;You Moonies are in the wrong business. You will never make it in fishing because it is dirty and full of cheating and corruption.&#8221; The fishermen cannot bring their families to see their boats because there is so much swearing and ugliness at the docks. In the last six months, though, the atmosphere in Norfolk is changing; although the work on the docks is really cruel the men have changed and there is no more swearing and drinking going on. Now they love to bring their wives and children to the dock and do so more and more frequently because they want to have their children mingle with Reverend Moon&#8217;s members.</p>
<p>Captain Tony has been fishing since he was 12 years old, for 30 years, and he is a rugged individual who knows the sea. He met Father and shook hands with him when Father first went down there. Our competitors tried to ruin our fishing industry in Norfolk by giving us a bad image, but Tony found that every time he took one of our members out in his boat he got a big catch. He told me about an incident at sea when his boat was sinking because of a sudden large leak. He asked our brother to pray, and for the first time in his entire life he prayed together with someone. The minute their prayer was over a Coast Guard cutter appeared and soon a helicopter came with extra pumps enabling the boat to be salvaged and safely escorted back to the dock. Tony told me, &#8220;Without Reverend Moon I would have been dead!&#8221;</p>
<p>Last year brought the most severe winter Tony had experienced in his thirty years of fishing, but he took in more fish than he had ever caught in one season. His catch was the equivalent of ten boat loads. I told him, &#8220;Do you know why you got so many fish last winter? Reverend Moon is praying for you. He loves the sea and he deeply meditated about setting up our business in Norfolk. He shook hands with you and he knows your name. That&#8217;s why you had such a big year last winter.&#8221; Tony asked me, &#8220;Would you kindly ask Reverend Moon to keep praying for me?&#8221;</p>
<p>You members are not the only ones witnessing about Father. At sea the captains talk by radio. I met another captain, named Oswald. He is completely impressed by Father and our members working in Norfolk. One day he came back and told one of our members, &#8220;I had a big fight today at sea. Some other captain criticized Reverend Moon on the radio and I had such a fight with him on the radio that I didn&#8217;t even have much chance to fish. But after the fight was over all of a sudden the scallops started coming and we got a whole boat load!&#8221; His family lives in North Carolina, but this summer he is bringing them to Norfolk to meet our people and experience the love our members have. He never thought that such love was possible.</p>
<p>Most of the time fishermen become dried up emotionally, working like machines almost. But in Norfolk our members sometimes go out to wave as the boats put out to sea. The fishermen want to come back with a big load, not just because of the money, but because they don&#8217;t want to disappoint our members there.</p>
<p>One captain told me that he and his crew have recently been seeing visions. He was awake on deck while going out to sea one night but the crew was asleep. All of a sudden he saw a pure white rainbow arching up from the ocean, something he had never seen in all his years at sea. Usually these things appear to only one person, but when he woke his crew up to look each one could see it! Another night he looked into the water and saw his own image, and suddenly he saw a halo around his head. He just couldn&#8217;t believe it! When Captain Tony said, &#8220;Tell Reverend Moon to pray for me,&#8221; this man said, &#8220;Tell him to pray for me too.&#8221;</p>
<p>One time Father said that once a fisherman&#8217;s heart is melted, he is a person closest to God. Our members have seen how this is so true. Men like Oswald and Tony are now bringing more boats to do business at our dock. In the last two months they brought four new boats. One time Oswald&#8217;s boat had equipment trouble so he could not fish and he radioed back that he had to come in. On the way back he saw another boat with engine trouble; that ship had a tremendous catch of scallops, but it couldn&#8217;t move. Oswald volunteered to tow that boat into our dock and they unloaded their catch there. That boat has stayed with us ever since.</p>
<p>Many other wonderful things are happening in Norfolk. Father picked a man named John Schmittke as our manager. He is just like our family member and calls Reverend Moon &#8220;Father.&#8221; He told his wife that for the first time in many years he could leave the business at night with the feeling that he doesn&#8217;t have to check every inventory, every door and every freezer. Previously there was so much theft by employees that unless he was a watchdog they would steal from him. He told me he knows one man with a fishing business in North Carolina, but that he is only successful because his twelve sons are also in the company and can keep checking everything. But John said he can trust our members.</p>
<p>There is a freezing company next door, where many people bring merchandise. After our company rented space there the supervisor told the employees, &#8220;Don&#8217;t let anybody come in except the Unification Church members because they are trustworthy. They can come in and go anywhere they want, but not other people.&#8221;</p>
<p>This morning Father has talked about a revolution among men, particularly in the most dirty and impossible place like the hell in the fishing industry. Tony kept saying that we would never make it because we were so naive, but this time he told me, &#8220;I have high hopes that Reverend Moon will revolutionize the entire fishing industry.&#8221;</p>
<h3 align="center">Everything I do is to lay a cornerstone of tradition</h3>
<p>When I created Tong Il Industry in Korea, our machine shop, there was never a day when I didn&#8217;t visit that industry, sometimes even three times. The entire time I was thinking that I was dealing with all the engineers and machine specialists in the spirit world and that our factory was a joint operation with them. In anything we do it is most important that the spirit world recognize and acknowledge that I am far ahead of what anyone else has ever done and that I certainly deserve their support. That recognition from spirit world is most important.</p>
<p>In order to receive their cooperation I have to do things differently. First of all they must clearly know that I did not create that factory for my own sake but for the sake of the world. In setting up Tong Il, I always felt that I was laying a foundation and cornerstone of tradition for all future industry and for the world. Those concepts will move the hearts of those in spirit world. I love that factory more than anyone in history has ever loved that life, and in building it I was always intensely interested in how to develop everything. Once I touch something in the name of God I must create a powerhouse which will progress to the world level; I must do my best, with total sincerity.</p>
<p>Always a time will come bringing adverse situations and stormy weather, and there have been many times when the factory was faced with peril and crisis. We lost much money and there were different kinds of setbacks, but each time I spurred myself on to a higher level. It was a tremendous investment for our Church, and at that time the leaders at headquarters did not like what I was doing; we invested much money into Tong Il only to have the money vanish.</p>
<p>The more the people closest to me thought negatively, the more I gave my heart. I showed my complete determination by giving my whole heart and energy and soul under any circumstances and investing even more money. Today Tong Il is the leader in the Korean machine industry. We have a streamlined factory and have received government recognition for the quality of work done there. It is the time now to establish our industry all over the world.</p>
<p>I am always conscious of those in spirit world and always in competition with them because I know that they must be in a position to approve my actions. I always felt that unless someone could devote himself with A his heart and soul and mind, more than I did to the Tong Il industry, that no other person would be capable of running that place. Even if government people took it over they could not make it more successful because in the name of God I gave everything to it.</p>
<p>Sometimes even someone as close as Mother could not understand my motives; I would get home early in the morning from the factory and only wash and then turn around and go out again. At that time Hyo Jin was only a young baby, but even then I always took him on every tap I made, riding back and forth on the bumpy, rugged roads. Even Mother does not know my prayer for him at those times.</p>
<p>Hyo Jin has a very adventurous character. When he rides a motorcycle he doesn&#8217;t do it in an ordinary way but rides on rugged roads and does difficult stunts. Even as a boy, once he was determined to do something he just hung on until it was done. He is just like I was in my younger days. When I was young I came home many times so completely tired out that I almost collapsed at the door. Hyo Jin is doing the same thing now.</p>
<p>We bought much land at Chung Pyung, a beautiful mountain lakeside area, and some day there will be an international training center for the Unification Church. I went to that place often, sometimes two or three times a day, even though each trip took three or four hours. Once I set my mind on something then no one else can move it aside. I know that no one can touch that land until it is developed for God&#8217;s purpose; because I gave all my heart and prayer to that place, no one with a lesser motivation is worthy to claim it. Before we bought Barrytown I went there seventeen times to look around and pray and make a master plan, giving my whole heart to it. I wanted my heart for Barrytown to exceed the vision and dream of the person who originally built it.</p>
<p>There are many possible businesses to start in this country, but I decided on the fishing industry. Therefore, rest assured that it will be done, because I gave my heart and soul and total energy to it. Now you can understand that I am giving my heart by going out to sea earlier in the morning than anyone else and coming later.</p>
<p>Yesterday I was training the seminarians in net making and teaching them about different fish. I never went to bed the night before and last night I was also up very late. For the last three days I have had almost no sleep. Knowing the consciousness of spirit world, I want to exceed anyone who gave themselves for the fishing business. There are many in spirit world who set records, and I want to exceed them in giving all of my heart and soul. Once I lay the foundation, the spirit world can begin to totally and overwhelmingly support us.</p>
<p>There are thousands of people who died at sea under miserable circumstances, and in 1975 1 had a special ceremony and prayer, calling all of them to forgive them, liberate them and send them into a higher spirit world. By my going through the kind of ordeals they experienced at sea, the value and dignity of the sea is elevated and restored. Because all the people who died at sea are now vindicated, the entire world has to help our efforts at sea.</p>
<p>You cannot expect a result without a cause. The cause may be invisible but the result is physical. Sometimes I come back from the sea and only have one meal, and then without even changing or taking a shower I go out again. What matters is where my thought is.</p>
<p>All the things that are happening in Norfolk may seem to be miracles, but all of them have a cause in spirit world. People have died in a situation like Tony&#8217;s, when his boat was sinking; the Coast Guard pilot doesn&#8217;t know why, but something pulled him to that area to pick Tony up. These are the mysterious things that happen wherever we go in the Unification Church. You must motivate the spirit world to help. It is our pride that we can do that.</p>
<p>So far I have named three things the Unification Church can be proud of. First, we&#8217;re proud of the Unification Church; second, we are proud of our tradition; third, we are proud of our people. But our pride must not end there; it must go on. Elevating our pride to the level of the nation, we must have this same pride in America, and furthermore, in the world.</p>
<h3 align="center">The time will come when the<br />
public is proud of our establishments as their own</h3>
<p>Eventually I would like to open all of our major facilities like Belvedere and Barrytown to the public and let the public be proud of our establishments as their own. I am still waiting for an opportune time though, because there are still so many people who intend to destroy our church and would set bombs. All kinds of things could happen. The time will come, however.</p>
<p>I like the name &#8220;New Yorker,&#8221; the original name of the World Mission Center. The New Yorker belongs to New Yorkers. I would like that particular building to be known not as a Unification Church building, but as the New Yorker. The Tiffany Building is the News World Building now, but New Yorkers should feel an attachment to it and think of it as their own. The News World is a New York newspaper.</p>
<p>We must first be proud of all our establishments, like Belvedere and East Garden, as American establishments. We are proud of them for the sake of America and eventually we will be proud of these things for the sake of the world. They do not belong just to the Moonies.</p>
<p>In order to make Belvedere and East Garden the property of the world, the people who live there should be working day in and day out for the sake of the world. You in New York are working day in and day out for the sake of humanity, and I have the people at Belvedere and East Garden also working for the sake of the world and humanity. In that way they can become a world Belvedere, world East Garden and world New Yorker.</p>
<p>We must make a Unification Church that belongs to the world, not just to the Moonies. That means we are going to live our lives for the sake of the world. Whether you are of the yellow, white or black race does not make a difference; if you truly give your life for the sake of the world you will say, &#8220;This is my church, my house.&#8221;</p>
<p>If you are doing that then the Unification Church has a future, pride and hope. Our way of life may be very humble and our food very coarse, but that spark, that spirit is universal. You are universal men and women who are living to achieve some benefit for mankind.</p>
<p>Those who lived rich lives before were not the people who were working for the sake of the world. It is far more dramatic and beautiful to God to bring yourself down to the humble way of life, having done nothing but truly give for the sake of the world and humanity. The more you suffer for the highest possible goal and bring yourself down to the lowest position, the greater will be your honor and the greater will be the divine purpose you accomplish. That is the pride of the Unification Church.</p>
<p>So what do we have? What we have is not for us but for God and for the world. I do not think of Belvedere as my personal private property, or even the Unification Church&#8217;s private property. You must not think that way either. It all belongs to God and to humanity. Then you can be proud of it because it is God&#8217;s property. If our Unification Church members are living that way of life then we can truly be proud of one another. We are here to restore all the things of creation back to God, and in order to do that we restore money by using it for God.</p>
<p>It is your pride to be restoring the creation for God and purifying yourself for God. When you feel that pride then a bag of peanuts or a stick of chewing gum comes to have an entirely different kind of value, becoming a priceless piece of God&#8217;s property. Every penny you collect goes to the Church to be sanctified for God and then used for the world. We can be proud of that. The more you suffer for this noble purpose, the greater will be your accomplishments. God recognizes you more because you do so many things under the most unusual circumstances.</p>
<p>You are going out to harvest God&#8217;s own things and bring them to Him, where they belong. Then God will say, &#8220;Go ahead and spend it for the world.&#8221; Even when God wants to spend money He will not spend it by Himself but will ask you, &#8220;Do you think it should be spent for this purpose? For America and other countries?&#8221; God will ask your permission because you are the one who is actually harvesting it for Him. In that sense everyone is elevating himself to an equal level and participating in God&#8217;s decision-making body. Fundraising is a noble deed and through it we can share in God&#8217;s decisions.</p>
<p>We will never perish as long as we go this route. We are the people God is dependent upon and restoration of the economy is an important task in this matter. I am looking forward to seeing who will be the champions among you, who will emerge to do more for the sake of God and His Kingdom. Because God loves the things He created, we too love all these things.</p>
<p>God also wants to love the people, so we are the ones who love the people enough to bring them back to God. That is the reason for witnessing, and that is why witnessing is more intense than fundraising. After all, men have a greater value in the sight of God than the things of creation. It is not an easy task to pour out your heart and soul to a person and guide him to becoming God-like. Re-creating a man is a difficult task, but that is why it is our pride to do it on a 24-hour basis.</p>
<h3 align="center">It is your pride to embrace in love the extremes of the world</h3>
<p>Would it be easier for me to lead the Korean disciples or the Americans? It gives me greater pride to lead Americans because it is a more difficult task: we have a different language, cultural background, and even different faces. Actually the most difficult part is that the Western thinking process is completely different; compared to the age-old courtesies of the Orient, American customs are almost primitive.</p>
<p>I must lift you up step by step, re-shaping you in both external and internal things. For one thing, you are sitting on the floor. It is impossible for Americans to think of sitting for long hours in a cramped room like this, but now you are ready to go anywhere with no problem. Many times American leaders come for a conference and sit with their legs sticking out in front of them toward me. In the Orient that practice is unheard of; even 2-year-old boys and girls would laugh, &#8220;That&#8217;s amazing, how can they do that?&#8221; However, it becomes your pride to start out that far down and then come up high. Then God will be proud of you as His own objects.</p>
<p>You too, are proud of your loved ones, but you must try not to love only familiar, similar things. You must love from extreme to extreme. It is far more dramatic to see a black and a white or an Oriental and a Westerner as a couple living happily together. Americans generally don&#8217;t think that way but God thinks differently. Do you want to embrace such extremes? Because I pay more attention to an international marriage, that becomes the tradition of the Unification Church.</p>
<p>Generally, international couples experience scorn from the world for being different, like a minority group, but the Unification Church will be the champion for international couples. Eventually I will fully establish this new tradition, and as people see God blessing those international marriages there will be more and more of them throughout the world. Through these marriages the national boundaries and racial differences will automatically be broken, and some day international marriages will be in the majority.</p>
<p>The world basically thinks of America as a white people&#8217;s country. When a black American wins a gold medal at the Olympic games, and the national anthem is played as he receives his medal, many people react by thinking, &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t belong to America; he&#8217;s not American.&#8221; America has failed to give an impression of racial unity yet. It still conveys the sense of white people being supreme. Will that be the case when there is a Unification Church nation? Would you white members identify with one of our black brothers who won a gold medal? This kind of ideology must become this country&#8217;s ideology and the world&#8217;s ideology.</p>
<p>When this very tall brother Gerhard goes with me as a guard, many people look at him and they wonder, &#8220;Could that German really be loyal to that Oriental man?&#8221; Whenever I travel in the Lincoln limousine, Americans automatically think that some dignitary is arriving, like the President or some official. First they look at the driver and when they see our good-looking brother they assume that there must be an even more good-looking man sitting behind him. When they look in the back seat and see me their expression completely changes. First they are smiling ear-to-ear and then suddenly they look shocked. After they recover from the initial shock they think I must be a foreign minister or ambassador from another country. I don&#8217;t like to travel in that car too much.</p>
<p>Many times people are very sarcastic and ask the driver, &#8220;You are one of us. Why do you drive that man?&#8221; That kind of thinking shows that Americans are not really ready to embrace the rest of the world. Without some re-education America cannot become a world leader in the truest sense.</p>
<p>We in the Unification Church are proud of our tradition, proud of our love of unity, our love for the world and our love for one another. I feel that the highest possible heaven will be reserved for the couples who demonstrate their pride in embracing the extremes of interracial marriage.</p>
<p>We are truly transcending the national and racial barriers and God is proud of this organization. Simply because God is with us this organization cannot be destroyed. That is our pride. We are the only group which can gather people for mass weddings. Many nationalities are gathered together and joyfully participate in those weddings, with husbands and wives giving their common pledge to God.</p>
<h3 align="center">Your greatest legacy win be your tradition</h3>
<p>If someone were to list my contributions to America then one of them must be that I am the first one ever to come from Asia and introduce the depths of the Oriental spirit in terms of God, making possible the unity between East and West. I am the first to lay the foundation of this unity between East and West; it is not by knowledge or by anything else but love. This is a new tradition that America has never had. It can be seen in your willing desire to marry someone of another race, and together to serve God and humanity. Nobody forces you, but you want to be an example of a truly happy family embracing two extremes. A great deal of effort is needed to harmonize one extreme with another, and that is why it becomes our added pride to do it.</p>
<p>A pious son is the one who overcomes the utmost difficulty for the benefit of his parents. It is a rare thing to see in America now, but loyal subjects or patriots are those who gave themselves totally, under utmost difficulty, for the benefit of their king or nation. The greatest of all saints are the sons and daughters of God who will strive under incredible difficulties to achieve the purpose of God. Indeed Jesus Christ did that.</p>
<p>We have much to be proud of in the Unification Church. The very things that we are proud of are the very things that all mankind and also God Himself wants to be proud of. On behalf of mankind and God we are fund raising, witnessing and building revolutionary marriages. You can be proud of that in itself.</p>
<p>Which kind of person will you be when you go to the spirit world? One person will proudly say, &#8220;God, look at how great I am and how greatly I lived, gathering knowledge and honors.&#8221; God will kick such a person out of heaven. The other person will say, &#8220;God, I am sorry. I have not much to be proud of. I didn&#8217;t bring many accomplishments, but at least I can assure you that every moment of the day I thought about You and mankind and did my best to serve. Everything I earned I wanted to spend for the sake of humanity and I wanted to guide the people I met to understand You. My effort is there.&#8221; God will say, &#8220;You are my child and you shall be with me for eternity.&#8221;</p>
<p>If you live that way of life here on earth then you don&#8217;t have to go anywhere to see heaven; you will make this place heaven. Such a person is already living in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. You all must be proud that you are doing that. I am concentrating my entire life to accomplish certain goals; in the same way, when you concentrate all of yourself on your mission for the very purpose of God and humanity then you are becoming a man of heaven.</p>
<p>That tradition will be the truest asset we can leave behind; money, knowledge, honor, even your own children&#8211;those are not your greatest legacy. We are launching an extraordinary once-in-history crusade, which is our greatest pride. Our pride is universal.</p>
<p>What we are doing is far greater than what the President of the United States can pursue, and greater than anything the greatest American ever thought. Even without being perfect, we can at least be sure that this is the way to become a son of God or a daughter of God. And that is the noblest of all titles you could receive. You can be heirs of God and receive His entire inheritance and bequeath his Kingdom to posterity. That is the position you are occupying today.</p>
<h3 align="center">It is your pride to persevere so mankind can be saved</h3>
<p>So far you probably never thought of your tradition in that way and didn&#8217;t have that pride. Usually you think mostly about physical inconvenience, about how you get up early and work hard and whether you are hungry. When people ask, &#8220;What church do you belong to?&#8221; your answer just does not come out proudly. V,/hen people yell at you and give you a hard time you usually want to shy away from them and feel miserably defeated. You probably cry sometimes and blame me, &#8220;How come Reverend Moon brought me into this misery?&#8221;</p>
<p>All my life I have thought about this, far more than you can imagine. My first reaction is not to stand for persecution but to crush it in an instant. My temper is so hot that I cannot stand such injustice, but I always think about how people have spit at God so many millions of times and how God endured it. By His enduring, God is giving people a chance to be revived, and in the same way your endurance will enable you to turn men and women from the satanic side to God&#8217;s side. It is your pride when you can exercise that kind of power.</p>
<p>You have nothing to be ashamed of, even if you are begging for food. It is the person who would shame you who is the one that is shamed. Sometimes go deliberately into a situation and by your presence stir people up and let them give you a hard time. Though others around you may ride in the best car available and you may walk, inside yourself you must maintain the pride to think, &#8220;I am more precious in His sight than all those people and positions put together.&#8221; When you feel this way then you will never be alone and even the birds and animals can comfort you. Sometimes people just passing by will suddenly stop and offer you assistance, and other amazing things will begin to happen around you.</p>
<p>Do you feel ashamed when you go out fund raising? Did you have this kind of logical understanding before, or somehow you just blindly gathered the courage to overcome your fear? Now you have both the courage and the reason to be proud. Those who accuse you and beat you are the people who will be shamed, while those who assist you are the people who will be elevated. You are helping to bring them blessing so they and their forefathers can some day share in heaven.</p>
<p>When people spurn you, you can think, &#8220;All right, while you are sleeping I will work and because of me you shall be liberated. I am a mediator, and even though you misunderstand me today, I will pray for you and work harder to prove to you how truthful we are. Some day you will know.&#8221;</p>
<p>When I was younger I could keep an intense schedule and go many nights without sleep. But now my body bothers me and has certain limits. Sometimes my legs suddenly get weak, but I curse them, &#8220;We have no time to be weak! We have still farther to go!&#8221; Mother sometimes thinks that I am made of iron, that God built my body in such a way that I do not feel fatigue. Her nickname for me is &#8220;The Brass General.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mother takes a little longer to get ready than 1, and many times I have to wait for her. While waiting, many frustrations are going through my mind. Then when she appears she mentions something to slow us down more. But I calm my frustration, thinking, &#8220;Yes, in the name of God I have the power to endure this also. What else?&#8221;</p>
<p>I know that the time will come when Mother will completely appreciate what I am, and at the same time I know that she will absolutely follow me. I know that without understanding the whole situation someone may unintentionally do the wrong thing. When you understand then you do the right thing because if you don&#8217;t then your conscience hurts. Nothing is driving me except my conscience. Unless I live up to my own conscience I feel guilt-ridden and unhappy.</p>
<p>When I look in a mirror I see that I am no longer young. No one is happy to see himself aging, but amazingly enough you Unification Church members seem to take great delight at seeing this aging face. It is God who inspires you that way. You do not deliberately try to feel that way, but somehow God made you want to look at me and feel fondness for me. God can say the same thing about me, that I want to look at Him all the time and love Him. In order to be my God He had to first capture my heart, which is why He inspires you to feel close to me.</p>
<p>In addition, God knows clearly that for me to fulfill the mission He gave to me that He must create some spiritual tie between us. That is why you are drawn to me without any conscious effort. Those who have my picture, raise your hands. Who told you to have such pictures? You robbers! Really, it is God who made you want a picture of me. Even married people have pictures of Mother and me instead of their own families. Did I ever enforce a regulation like that? That very love between us is what you can be proud of.</p>
<p>God is a living God, so I am never alone or lonely. My relationship with God is a living witness to you; I feel the presence of God every day and if you live as I have lived then when you become old you too will be respected and will be loved by the people. I can assure you that in heaven you will be given absolute respect and admiration and love.</p>
<h3 align="center">The tomb I will leave behind</h3>
<p>When you pass by a cemetery you never see many people there visiting. Perhaps once a year one of the family might remember and put flowers on a grave, but that is probably all. I have thought about what will happen when I die. I think about whether only my wife and children will visit my grave or whether there will be line after line of people coming to pay respect.</p>
<p>When you become a universal man of God then your impact and presence is not just with your family but is universal. Every day at your tomb there will be a new spiritual element present. Because you planted a universal tradition, every person who goes there will receive something different; one person who is despondent will be comforted, and people facing tremendous difficulty will come just to be inspired, remembering that in your life you had courage to overcome incredible hardship.</p>
<p>The tomb of such a universal person can give all kinds of answers and comfort to people in despair and difficulty or in happiness and excitement. I have thought about whether I can leave that kind of tomb behind to this world. In order to leave that presence behind I must live that kind of life. When there is despair I must be a person to inspire, and when there are setbacks I must become a person to courageously advance.</p>
<p>I have not lived that kind of life for myself but for the purpose of God and humanity. I have set that tradition yet that is not my footprint but God&#8217;s footprint. That living teaching will remain as long as God remains. After my death I want to witness, even at my grave. Tens of thousands of years in the future I will still be alive and witnessing.</p>
<p>I decided that I do not want to have everything fulfilled in my own lifetime, but to have the ultimate fulfillment come in the future so that even after my death I can continue to witness. I am already preparing for that. The living God is our God, and until His goal is fulfilled this deep desire and anxiety will not be treated idly. It shall be reaped and fulfilled and God will definitely deliver His promise. Until then the Unification Church and I will continue and prosper. If this is a true church then we must embrace the will of God as our own.</p>
<p>It is certainly your infinite pride to have Reverend Moon as your teacher. In turn I want to be proud of you who want to succeed my tradition and way of life. Having such people in my own lifetime in this room is my pride. You know what is the pride of the Unification Church and your own pride, what is God&#8217;s pride and what is my pride. What will you do now that you know? Do not give any excuses or complain. The only words you can speak are, &#8220;We will go and we will do it.&#8221;</p>
<p>There is not much time. Even when people attack you there is no time to spend in arguing with them because you are too busy. No matter what persecution comes there is too much to do to spend time defending yourself. There is no time to fool around with these people. With that kind of attitude I have already established missions in 120 countries. No saint in history has ever done this.</p>
<p>I will risk everything for the things we are proud of in the Unification Church. Are you already doing that or are you going to do it? Up to now you may not have been that way, but now you can become that kind of person. You may remember the shameful deeds you have done here and there and have many things you want to hide, but are you now going to be a different person? Without having done your utmost you can&#8217;t even talk about whether you deserve recognition from God or the True Parents.</p>
<p>You must get down to work and achieve results. You do not even have to ask me to come help or ask God to help; when you become an indispensable person in the sight of God then He cannot afford to not help you. I do not think about how much I have already done and how I do not need to make any further effort. I am not dwelling on the past or even on the present; I am looking at the future and seeing how much work there is to do.</p>
<p>You must eliminate the idea that I am a different person than you are, born for a different mission. Do not think that. You must feel that you can be just like me and even outdo me because you have so many other advantages. You are younger and Americans will accept you as being one of them. I want you to have that kind of conviction. I want to see members who think, &#8220;All right, Father and I are in competition. Father is older than I am so he will get tired first but I will keep going. Father, I will outlast you.&#8221;</p>
<p>You should think, &#8220;I am young and I have a grand future. I will take the entire world as my ministry. What Reverend Moon did here in America I am going to do all over the world.&#8221; I have said that our next target is Moscow, which means Must Go. Do you really have the feeling, &#8220;I must go&#8221;?</p>
<p>Even if I get hit by a communist bullet I do not want to be hit in my arm or leg but right in my chest or head. Then when I go to God I can say, &#8220;God, I have something to show. I never dodged the bullets.&#8221; If a bullet hits you somewhere else and you die, then when you go before God you could say, &#8220;God, I wanted to be hit right here, but they mis-aimed. Father, let me go down to earth once again and be hit again the way I want.&#8221; Almighty God will let you go again.</p>
<p>Are you really young men and women of courage and commitment? I am not the only one watching you; God is looking down and the communists are watching too. Can you pledge to be like I have been and even outdo me? Those who can pledge that, raise your hands. Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">RENEWED PRIDE</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:23:54+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/renewed-pride.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:23:54+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">December 4, 1977<br />
Washington, D.C.<br />
Translator-Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>I can see how hard the Washington members have worked to make this day possible and I&#8217;m sure they have learned a great lesson about how hard restoration work can be. It is common sense that it is not easy to restore something to a state better than it was originally. The Unification Church, however, has a new tradition of acquiring something old and restoring it to a state better than its original condition. That is our faith and dedication. It is very symbolic that we have restored a former Mormon church into our heavenly temple, but we are not just talking about one church. We are going to follow this pattern to restore the nation, the world and the cosmos. Therefore, my message this morning is titled &#8220;<i>Renewed Pride</i>.&#8221;</p>
<p>Suppose there is an ugly man who puts something beautiful and dazzling into the environment; then he seems to be a noble man. We must know how important it is to have the right environment. The goal of the Unification Church is the completion or perfection of restoration. What then is the goal of restoration? It is to restore the original state of creation, to raise everything to the original level of God&#8217;s expectation. God created Adam and Eve according to a certain standard in the garden of Eden, but that standard was lost. Now God is going to restore it. Would God want to do it halfway, to perfection or even beyond perfection?</p>
<p>Think for a moment about what kind of face or what kind of appearance Adam and Eve must have had before the fall. I&#8217;m sure Adam didn&#8217;t have good razors or good hair cutting equipment, or even decent clothes. Without cutting his hair for many days Adam must have looked like a hippie in the garden of Eden. But today man has many conveniences, good clothes, good razors and grooming equipment. Today&#8217;s man may be better looking than Adam was in the garden of Eden. Did Adam have a toothbrush and toothpaste in those days? The Unification Church is talking about restoration and going back to the original; does it mean going back to that ugly appearance or primitive state?</p>
<p>Suppose there is a big mansion which is most beautiful and elegant, but there is no host or hostess in that house. That mansion has no value in that case. Before the fall, Adam and Eve may have</p>
<p>looked primitive, but their master, God, was inside of them. With his host dwelling inside, Adam was the temple of God at that time. Adam was beautiful because everything he did and thought was an expression of the living God inside him. Before the fall Adam and Eve were looking with the eyes of God, listening with the ears of God and thinking with the mind of God. God and man were one.</p>
<h3 align="center">Adam and Eve&#8217;s relationship with God</h3>
<p>Was Adam inclined to sing some song at that time? What kind of song can you imagine for him? Probably he had a song of joy, but can you have joy alone? Before the fall every motivation he had came from God and naturally his song concerned the glory of God. He was singing only of God. Adam must have smiled and laughed, but where did his smile and laughter originate, and for whom? Did the motivation for his joy and smile come from looking at Eve and she looking at him? It came from feeling the existence of God within his own heart. Even Adam and Eve&#8217;s smile and laughter were expressions of God&#8217;s smile and God&#8217;s laughter. Suppose Adam danced in the garden of Eden. To whom was that dance dedicated? It was merely the expression of the joy of God and must have been dedicated to God.</p>
<p>They both must have worked, and even their work was for the sake of God. They must have eaten and drunk, but only for the sake of God. There was a full awareness of God dwelling within them. Adam and Eve&#8217;s every act-going to sleep, waking up, working-was motivated by God. If this Adam and Eve had matured and married, what would have happened? Before marriage their primary give and take was with God but after marriage a new kind of relationship would have emerged. How would Adam have acted? Would he have thought that now he could do everything on his own, even if God didn&#8217;t like it, without caring about God&#8217;s feelings, or would he still have listened to God?</p>
<p>Do you think Adam knew that the marriage relationship existed? I&#8217;m sure he knew what marriage was and what a woman was. He knew just by observing the natural relationships between male and female animals, but although he knew what marriage was going to be, he was not yet fully aware of love itself. The time would have come when God would have poured an awareness of love into Adam and Eve, awakening them to the joy of love in the level of perfection that they were growing into. However, love cannot mature without the blessing and participation of God m Without God, they could not consummate love.</p>
<p>Suppose the time had come when God could bring Adam and Eve together in heavenly matrimony. What kind of message would He have given them? Have you thought about it? I&#8217;m sure God would have said, &#8220;You are now husband and wife. Love each other and be happy.&#8221; Then suppose they were in love; how would they manifest that love? Because no tradition was already established, there must have been some guidelines from God for Adam and Eve and the first provision would have said, &#8220;Love each other. Adam, love Eve more than you love me. Eve, love your husband more than you love me.&#8221; Do you think God would have said that or would He have been greedy and said, &#8220;Love each other, but a little less than you love me&#8221;?</p>
<p>How would you feel if you were in God&#8217;s position? Until marriage Adam&#8217;s entire love and dedication would be directed toward God, as would Eve&#8217;s, and then all of a sudden they love each other more than they loved God. Do you think God would feel left out or forgotten? Until then God had formed a trinity with Adam and Eve, making a relationship with each one of them. All of a sudden Adam and Eve had each other, so wouldn&#8217;t God feel left out? Why not? Would a physical parent feel left out? Suppose there was a widow who had a wonderful son whom she loved with all her mind and soul, and one day he married and went away with his wife. The mother would naturally feel happy, but there would also be a part of her that would feel lonely. In studying Divine Principle haven&#8217;t you encountered this question? Unlike the mother, God would not feel lonely because God is love itself, the center of the universe. Adam and Eve were a manifestation of that invisible love and through loving each other they would become deeper in God as well. Therefore, the more intense the love they felt for each other, the deeper God could dwell within them because their love was centered on Him.</p>
<p>Therefore, if Adam hadn&#8217;t fallen, he would have loved Eve in the position of God. In other words, he would have loved his wife as God loved her and Eve would have loved her husband as God loved him. Therefore, Adam and Eve united in perfection would have been the walking God, living God&#8217;s way of life, God&#8217;s life itself. It was the Principle of Creation that Adam and Eve feel the joy of God. When they feel joy, God feels joy; when God feels joy, they feel joy. There cannot be any barrier between them because love is one. Love belongs to God, to Adam and Eve and to couples. One love unifies. Even though Adam and Eve were united in oneness, the central figure would still be God. That was the ideal of creation.</p>
<p>Suppose God is in the center. The center is always stable. Love is at the center of everything and the entire universe revolves around it as the active force of the universe. Without love there is no axis and without love there is no center. To make a family one, parental love serves as the axis. For the nation to become one, the sovereignty serves as the center. For the universe to become one, God Himself must serve as the center.</p>
<p>Therefore, when you have that c]ear and absolute center in your life, no matter how far out you stretch, you always come back to the center. You will never stray. Neil Armstrong traveled a long way to the moon but he didn&#8217;t want to stay there. He wanted to come back home to earth where love is. Isn&#8217;t it true that you want to return to the central place where love is? Sometimes you run home to get food, which is temporal, but ultimately you long for the center where love is. That&#8217;s the real home. Love is precious , and when you really want to give true love it means that you are committed to creating a true home, a true center.</p>
<p>Love is the axis around which the universe turns. All creation wants to have its homecoming in love. Therefore, it&#8217;s very logical that the entire existence of the universe is in a circle; also the entire motion of the universe is a circling motion because of this truth. For there to be a circle there must be an axis, and all living creation is circling around that axis.</p>
<p>Children have certain items they cherish and carry with them all the time. Parents, picking up an item loved by their children, find hidden value in it. If a little child made a tiny clay bird which you could hardly see, but his mother found it one day when she was cleaning, then knowing the heart and effort the child made to create it she would be attracted to it and use it to decorate her desk or table. Why is that? Love links and communicates.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s think for a moment about what God likes most. God likes power and likes to see wrestling, right? Is God envious of all kinds of knowledge and having more knowledge is God&#8217;s goal? More than anything else God likes money? But think about what God does not have and what God needs. Not power, knowledge or money, but love. God needs love simply because even God Almighty cannot create love by Himself alone. Love needs an object or partner, and without a circuit of give and take even God cannot consummate love. For that purpose God created man to be His object of give and take, to create a circuit of love between God and man.</p>
<h3 align="center">Can anything be offensive or ugly in the object you love?</h3>
<p>What makes everything look beautiful? Love makes the whole look beautiful. Everything else may be partial, but love makes it whole. Love dominates and love controls and love overcomes. Is there anything dirty or filthy where there is love? Is there some ugliness in love? Suppose you are a parent and you love your children. What is ugly; what is filthy? If the dirty things become beautiful in love can you even eat everything the children make or have? If the baby needs a diaper change, the mother and father can take care of it with no problem, but how about tasting it? Why does everyone laugh? &#8220;Father, what kind of talk is that? Aren&#8217;t you crazy?&#8221; But the power of love can go beyond. Maybe you think you can love your child up to the point of changing diapers, but no more. Is that the kind of love you have for your children? No, I want you to go over.</p>
<p>You applaud and you seem to be happy. Suppose a husband loves his wife very much, but on one particular day he takes her hand and sees it is dirty.</p>
<p>Can he say, &#8220;I cannot love you today. Keep your distance&#8221;? Whether her hand is dirty or manicured doesn&#8217;t make any difference in love. Have you thought about which kind of love you would prefer? Perhaps your wife&#8217;s fingers have a lot of germs, maybe even poisonous germs, but you are totally intoxicated in the love of God and love itself. When you kiss her hand the germs would become helpless! They could not be lethal because love is all-powerful. will people think you a crazy man or will they envy you? What a love! Do you want to become a person whom people envy, a person who is intoxicated in love to that degree?</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s imagine another crazy thing. Suppose the wife is going to the bathroom and is taking a long time, so her husband goes into the bathroom. Whatever the atmosphere or smell doesn&#8217;t make any difference to him and he just gives her a big kiss. Is it good or bad? Once you are intoxicated in love you can be blind. You don&#8217;t smell any ugly smell. These are extreme examples but think about it. What kind of husband or wife do you want? Do you want the person who can love you conditionally up until this [limit and no more, or unconditionally and blindly?</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know what you think, but I think love which is all-powerful and unconditional is most desirable. Conditional love isn&#8217;t even love. I want to have a person truly giving himself unconditionally for the fulfillment of love. What kind of love would you go for? Only love that will be manifested in a clean, sweet-smelling place, or are you intoxicated in love so that you are always giving unconditional devotion?</p>
<p>If you can be a man or woman who can love someone to that degree then you will be a happy person. Or if you are the man or woman who can be loved by someone with that kind of love, you are truly the happy person. When I look at the spirit world I see that the highest realms are occupied by the men and women who demonstrated unconditional love here on earth. Think about yourself. You go to the bathroom and you smell your own smell. It&#8217;s not pleasant, but do you think about getting out in a hurry? No, because it&#8217;s you yourself who are making it. So what&#8217;s the difference if someone else is doing it and you love him or her as yourself? I am using the bathroom as an example so you will never forget this idea!</p>
<p>You can revolutionize yourself and stop being the person who draws a line. Become an unconditional person instead Love transforms everything, transforms ugliness into beauty and dirty smell into perfume. Where does this unconditional love dwell? In heaven Sometimes you see a married couple who are drastically different from each other. The woman is charming and beautiful, but when you see her husband you never could have imagined how ugly he is. Nevertheless, they look so happy together, smile in at each other, talking to each other. What makes them that way? Love does, because love blinds them and goes beyond any logic or reason.</p>
<p>Beautiful appearance is logically stimulating, but when you go beyond that level you don&#8217;t even see it. Suppose there is a person with a long, hooked nose, ugly ears and a dark, scarred complexion. Many people think that&#8217;s all a deficiency or handicap, but for his loved one those features become his strong point and she will say, &#8220;I love your nose.&#8221; that&#8217;s love. Without love life is a desert and it has no sweetness.</p>
<p>Have you ever thought about how God looks? Is He handsome or is He ugly? I don&#8217;t want to answer that question directly because whether God is handsome or ugly doesn&#8217;t make any difference. The most handsome man in the universe without love is far inferior to the ugliest man with love. An awesome, all-powerful God without love doesn&#8217;t make any sense. God is almighty in love; He is unique and He excels in love. That&#8217;s why He is God, not because He might be tall or handsome. His love makes Him supreme, nothing else.</p>
<p>Do you need love?? Nowadays American love is very carnal love. Is that true love? We are talking about restoration and about uniting the world in brotherhood, but unless all these things are centered upon true love, there is no meaning or substance to them.</p>
<h3 align="center">What would make God want to dwell in this new church?</h3>
<p>This morning Col. Pak was probably very happy at the opening of the church, but I didn&#8217;t feel that kind of excitement because I have one small regret. Yes, you have done the job and I commend you, but how much better would it have been had we built this church from scratch? Suppose this morning you could have said, &#8220;Father, we carved the marble from the top of the mountain and carried it here and laid it. From scratch to this perfection, we did it all.&#8221; Then how much love and value would this church have? You worked in restoration for about two months but when the Mormons built this temple it took them about three years m They worked for three years and you worked for two months; there is no comparison. Was your effort inferior to theirs? Can you people who worked on it say that you put a thousand times more effort and energy into this building so that it has become yours? You said yes, but do you think God would agree with you? Do you think God will acknowledge that you invested more effort in it?</p>
<p>I had another thought when I walked into the building. The Mormons built this building with lots of energy and hard work, but then they sold it. They abandoned it and then went out and built a new temple. The important question is: did they put more energy, tears and sweat into building the new and bigger temple than they did for this church, or did they just invest a lot of money and give the plans to the contractor to build? Did money build it, or heart, sweat and labor? That&#8217;s the important question.</p>
<p>Put yourself in the position of God. Will He think, &#8220;Since the Mormons built this big marble temple now I have a bigger house. I want to go and stay there.&#8221; Or, &#8220;Even though this temple is smaller, because the members put their heart and labor into it I would rather stay here.&#8221; That&#8217;s the key question. Does the size of the building determine where God stays? God isn&#8217;t crazy for power or money or economy. No matter how big a temple man builds, in the sight of God it may be nothing. It could be less than dust. The important thing is the spirit and the soul inside. The size of the building will not determine the dwelling place of God.</p>
<p>I walked into this building thinking, &#8220;Father in Heaven, Your sons and daughters are in this congregation. They really poured out their heart, sweat and energy for this building. That is valuable for You. Furthermore, we restored this temple not for our own glory but for the celebration of this city, the nation&#8217;s capital. We have a purpose and a providence to be here. Even though this temple is smaller than the new one the Mormons built, Father, because of our purpose I know You are dwelling with us here.&#8221;</p>
<p>If we gave all of our energy unselfishly for the sake of God in heaven, then we are superior to any church on earth. In that respect this temple could be greater than any temple on earth. If giving yourself unselfishly was your determination, then you have literally made this a historic place. Then from this time on, our action must surpass any record set by the previous members of this church or of Christians of any denomination. Our sweat, our tears, our energy and the intensity of our love of God must be greater than any which was seen before in this place. Then this will become our place.</p>
<p>Therefore, this morning I encourage you to have new pride and new confidence. This building has finally met its master, finally met the people who truly love it. This edifice will feel excitement because for the first time it will truly serve the purpose of God. I wonder what you have been thinking for the past two months. If your feeling of love and responsibility to God were intense and you unselfishly gave of your sweat, then that intensity can surpass any known here before.</p>
<p>What were you thinking while you were painting? &#8220;We are restoring our church&#8221; or &#8220;God, this is Your house. I&#8217;m painting Your house so that You can embrace the world and bring the entire world in. For that purpose I&#8217;m restoring this wall.&#8221; Who was occupying the center of your thought-you, our church and our members, or God and the universe? That determines the value of what you did. Have you made a place where the entire population of the spirit world can come down and dance in joy? Can even God come down and feel that this is truly His house, His temple where He can stay? Did you make that kind of temple? With what frame of mind did you work? If you truly have intense love for God then in even fifty days you can surpass thousands of years in the world of heart. That is only possible in heart.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t talk about the Mormons any more. This is not the Mormon church. This is our church. This is God&#8217;s house. From this time on we must make new history and the intensity of your love will determine your success. How much have you loved? How much will you love?</p>
<p>Even among those who restored this building there could be a difference in feeling. &#8220;Why is the Unification Church driving me crazy? Why can&#8217;t we have two more months to finish? Why can&#8217;t we have a fun job?&#8221; Some people might have had that complaining heart. Is that loving this place as God&#8217;s house? Suppose one person worked sixty days and nights with a complaining heart, but suppose there was one man or woman who came just one night and apologized to God, &#8220;Father, this is Your house. I&#8217;m sorry I couldn&#8217;t come any sooner. Now that I&#8217;m here I want to dedicate my whole heart and effort this one night.&#8221; That one person&#8217;s heart and effort can go beyond sixty days&#8217; work. It&#8217;s the intensity of the love in your heart that counts.</p>
<p>Love is great; love is absolute and unique. Love can shorten the time and go beyond barriers. Love is all-powerful. In order to make a new pride and make this a new place, you must love this building as God&#8217;s temple more than any previous member of the Mormon congregation did. Then God will make Himself at home right here and will work with you far more than He ever did with the Mormons.</p>
<p>Do you think this temple is saying, &#8220;Just love me and take care of me. Don&#8217;t let my roof leak.&#8221; Or will it say, &#8220;Yes, I want to become the dwelling place of the world. Let the world come in and use me for the service of God.&#8221; If it had a personality and mouth would this building say, &#8220;Love me more than anything else and never leave me&#8221; or &#8220;Love this city more than you love me. Love the nation and love the world more than you love me&#8221;?</p>
<p>What about God? God is here right now and what would He say to you? Let&#8217;s say on the restoration team there was one man who was an extraordinary example and loved this building as the dwelling place of God. Would God tell you to love this city, the nation and the world more than this man loved this building, or would God say not to worry about the city or the nation or world but just love Him?</p>
<p>Think about the history of Washington. In 1976 we didn&#8217;t have any building like this but we certainly made history anyway. We ran around to every corner of the city and had gigantic impact. What would Washington residents say to you? &#8220;Last year when you didn&#8217;t have any decent house you visited door to door, laboring to bring God&#8217;s message to the city. Now that you have this home you want to be comfortable and sit back and relax, don&#8217;t you?&#8221; Would you like to hear them say that? They are fair people. But other people might say to you, &#8220;Last year without having any decent dwelling you made history. Now with this magnificent church as your home and temple, let me see how much more you can do. I expect you to really bring salvation to this city. I want you to live up to what you said last year.&#8221;</p>
<p>God would be a lot happier and would prefer to stay with you without a home if you were going door to door bringing people the message of love. Unless you are more powerful and have more impact on this city and nation than before, you cannot sanctify this place or justify owning it. If this becomes only your dwelling place, God will never come. He will have no interest in it. All the beautiful moldings or the pipe organ will be nothing if God doesn&#8217;t dwell here.</p>
<h3 align="center">The significance of our<br />
having this church in Washington</h3>
<p>Today is the day of dedication and resolution m Each one of you must pledge to God to demonstrate far greater energy than you did for last year&#8217;s God Bless America Festival in Washington. &#8220;God, we are going to truly give ourselves in a far greater way. We will have an impact on the nation&#8217;s capital, on the nation and the world.&#8221; This is a day of pledge. Because all members of the Unification Church made tremendous sacrifice to make the Washington Monument Rally successful, on that foundation I was willing to spend the money to further that tradition so we could go on and gain the victory for God. That&#8217;s the only reason I spent that money here in Washington Members came from all states to be guests in Washington and work a year ago, but now we want to become the host of this city. None of the Christian churches will even be able to complete with us because of the intensity of our love. This is not just a Sunday church. It&#8217;s a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year church.</p>
<p>On 16th Street there are so many churches that people call it the Avenue of God, but many of those churches are run-down and dirty and some areas are crumbling. We have not only cleaned up our church, we are going to make a movement in the community to clean up God&#8217;s Avenue. I want you to go out to serve that way, without sleeping and only eating one meal a day. That is precious. God is always with the person who is awake. Many people sleep long hours every night and wake up late, but the Unification Church is busy 24 hours a day. At 5 a.m. someone is praying and at midnight there is some activity. God is with you when you are active, not when you are sleeping.</p>
<p>With our energy and our effort, we want to restore the pride of God and restore the pride of the entire Christian community. Many churches are unoccupied on Sunday mornings and that emptiness is crying out, &#8220;We want to be like the Unification Church. We want to be used for God.&#8221; We want to set the example. You must feel that you are a history-maker. In the 200-year history of Washington there were many good Christians who fervently gave their service for the sake of their fellow man and for God. But you must think, &#8220;I am a historic person. I am going to surpass all the records any Christian of this city has set.&#8221;</p>
<p>We should be historically superior to everyone. That is going to be our pride. We are not just competing with our contemporaries; we are competing with history. We want to set the new record in history. We shall surpass all Christians, being in the forefront of the sacrificial love of God. Your physical appearance, however humble it is, doesn&#8217;t matter. I want you to have a shining spirit inside. I want you to become men and women who shine as bright as the sun.</p>
<p>Even though Adam and Eve had no shaving cream or beautiful perfume before the fall, they were absolutely beautiful because they were the dwelling place of God. Because love was shining inside of them, they were as bright as the sun. Even though you look pale or weak, your love shining inside will make you beautiful.</p>
<p>Washington is the nation&#8217;s capital and what we are doing here is a first. For example, this is the first Christian church we have occupied Moreover, it&#8217;s the first time we have put our symbol on a spire high in the sky. When we bought Barrytown, I gave instructions to take down the symbol which our members put up. Why won&#8217;t I say the same thing here? This symbol will remain eternally up in the sky in Washington because it represents a symbolic victory. This is the tower which the Unification Church has built in the nation&#8217;s capital and from this time on our symbol will remain on that tower; we are trying to show the entire world what we are, where we are and what we are going to do.</p>
<p>The first time I came to the city of Washington in 1965 no one knew the name of Sun Myung Moon, but I prayed to God and made Him a promise. That promise was fulfilled with the victory at Washington Monument last year. Because that victory was won here in 1976 I wanted to make a monument in Washington, a living monument of heart, so that from generation to generation the spirit of the Washington Monument victory of 1976 would be immortalized. For that purpose this building was selected and restored, and for that purpose we are dedicating it today. The foundation of the Washington Church is the victory of Washington Monument. Therefore, this church is standing on the greatest of all foundations. We must build higher and higher and higher.</p>
<p>Following the victory of 1976, 1977 is a new era of fulfillment, of declaration and of victory. For that reason I have been looking for this tower in Washington. For that particular reason this edifice has been chosen and given by God, and for the first time in history we put our symbol high in the sky. I would like to have this symbol shine out from this place to all the world m This is a new history, a new day in our movement. How far will this symbol shine? It will start here and go on until we make the entire world the holy place of God. We will make the whole world the dwelling place of God so that it can be seen everywhere. Until then, the spirit of this symbol is the starting point. That symbol will be the symbol of the heavenly palace and of the Kingdom of God. Our goal is high and noble. It is so deep and far that before we reach it, we may face many setbacks and take much pain, but nothing will stop us until we reach the ultimate destination. We know only one thing: March forward, no retreat. We never learned to retreat.</p>
<p>Marching forward always means the sacrifice of comfort. Despite the amount of sacrifice, we have set the unselfish goal for the sake of God and humanity and as long as we continue on our march, God will be with us and we will win the victory. There is no other result we can expect except victory.</p>
<p>So far we have not been walking on smooth ground. We have been fighting on the rugged sea. That may continue in the future, but nothing has stopped us thus far and nothing will stop us in the future. I want you to know that unless we bring the kingdom while we are here on earth and put the symbol of the kingdom up on high, even though you are elevated in the spirit world there will be no rest. You will have to give your added energy, coming down as a spirit man to continue that task here on earth. We would rather do it while we are in the flesh.</p>
<p>Do you think I would tell you to love this church more than I love it or just to do the best you can? What do you think I expect of you? I want you to exceed me. One thing is sure. I know God and God&#8217;s love, and if you had that same power of love, then you would exceed my level. If you really have the same God and the same love of God then it can be done. Compared to me you haven&#8217;t suffered so much to come this far. Compared to my standard, you should go farther. If the Christian church had been united and had supported me from the beginning, then I would not have had to go through all that suffering for so many decades. I suffered for them and for the sake of the nation and world.</p>
<p>I won the battle and received the blessing and I want to share it with you and with the world. Do you want to ask me for those blessings free, or would you rather be deserving and worthy of them? In order to do that you must have a parallel direction of love. That direction means that I have been working single-mindedly for one goal for the sake of God and for the salvation of humanity. For that purpose I suffered, so you must think; in the same way. Think of humanity, and without hesitating go toward any amount of sacrifice. God is looking for champions who won over the cross and who want to go beyond the cross. God is not looking for the opportunist who sits idly waiting for the reward. Certainly that is not God&#8217;s ideal man.</p>
<h3 align="center">Make the upheaval you cause<br />
in this nation the most memorable in history</h3>
<p>The Civil War was the largest war fought here in America. Unless you fight a greater war than that, you cannot exceed that record of heroism. The American people know the Civil War had the most impact on this country and they have become complacent, thinking the record has been set. You people have to provoke a greater upheaval and have a greater impact than the Civil Warm Then people will say they have never seen such a thing in history. Let&#8217;s say you fought a greater war than the Civil War and contributed to the nation and the world m Then all the great wars of the past would become insignificant because people would have something greater to remember. Even though the Civil War has a 100-year history, our impact must be greater than any of those wars.</p>
<p>By the same token, God has already seen the Washington Monument Rally of 1976 and if you want to draw God&#8217;s attention to you then you must start a greater campaign and win a greater victory The only way you Washington members can evoke God&#8217;s interest in coming here is to be geared up to another victory. There is no simple way.</p>
<p>All along 16th Street there are numerous churches, but they are dark most of the week except for probably one night. This church shall be lit 24 hours a day, not because we are wasting energy but because there is activity. The lights should never go out. This room should never be empty, even if there is only one person praying. Washington must organize the same standard as the Washington Monument Rally, using this place as headquarters. From this time on, another kind of Washington Monument campaign must be resumed.</p>
<p>We will start a trend by being the only church lit up as the others go out at night, but one after another the other churches will follow our example. They will have to have more meetings at night and more prayer services in the mornings at 4 or 5 a.m. First one church, then two, then four and five will follow. This is a lighting-up campaign. Maybe they won&#8217;t respond right away but then you must make them light up. How can you do that? Perhaps we have ten members praying here; one will stay and nine go out and knock on the door of another church. The pastor might answer, or if he is away the janitor must answer, and our members will say, &#8220;We have come to pray at your church.&#8221; That person has to put the light on to ]et you pray. That is the house of God and if people came and wanted to pray, how could he say he could not light it for them? The pastor might be inside doing something else while the Unification Church members are praying in his sanctuary all night. He would probably feel rather uncomfortable. God was with us at the Washington Monument and that same God will continue to work with us in this campaign.</p>
<p>In the Unification Church our goal is perfection and the completion of restoration. Who was the motivating factor in Adam&#8217;s laughing and smiling? God. When he sang, who was the motivation? God. When he danced, who was it for? God. That&#8217;s the way we should be, the way this place should be. You sing for God and you laugh and dance because God is the motivation. It is not even for me or for anybody else but God. When loud bursts of laughter come out of this building at night, it is not because men and women are having lots of fun, but because God and man are having lots of fun.</p>
<p>If you should say to God, &#8220;You need a better place to stay. Why don&#8217;t you go down to the White House or Capitol Hill,&#8221; God would reply, &#8220;I want to stay right here!&#8221; God is not drawn to the size of the building but the intensity of the desire to serve and bring mankind into salvation. God dwells wherever the power of salvation burns. It&#8217;s not the White House which brings salvation, or Capitol Hill, and if you make this the place for salvation of the nation and the world, God has no place else to go except here with you. That&#8217;s the secret: you make God your prisoner. You can monopolize God. The monopoly of God must start right from this place. God has no choice but to become your prisoner if you are His representative. Then God will say to Reverend Moon, &#8220;Because of your good deeds, you have really given me new pride. You really restored my confidence and my value.&#8221; God will be joyous, anxious to be with you. He has only one desire. He will say to you, &#8220;I want you to make the men and women you are bringing to me better than you are. I want to train and discipline them m Then I shall be content.&#8221; In order to assure continued prosperity, the children should be greater than the parents. By the same token, I want you to be better than me. In order to achieve that goal there may be a prison cell waiting for you, or much suffering. There may be all kinds of curses and scorn waiting for you. Do you mind?</p>
<p>Christianity has just the same tradition. God wants to have Christians be even stronger than Jesus. Jesus was put to the supreme test on the cross and God&#8217;s plan was for Christians to be even stronger than Jesus and go beyond the cross. That spirit and power was kindled in the early centuries of Christianity and could conquer Rome. That&#8217;s the secret.</p>
<p>If you truly love me and truly want to follow me then you must become better men and women in the sight of God than I am. That&#8217;s my wish. That means you can inherit 100% of what I have received from God. My foundation, tradition and blessing can all become yours. I am approaching the age of 60 but I never think that I have done the job. I always think, &#8220;From now on God, give me a chance and I&#8217;ll do it. This is a new beginning.&#8221; I will continue in that philosophy until the day I die and on the day of my death I will never think that I have accomplished something, but that death is just a new start.</p>
<p>God has been shamed and you have been called here to save the dignity of God. You are here to save His prestige so that He can really declare to the world that He is God. You can also uphold the True Parents, and save the nation and save your own face too. Because people look at you more than they look at me, they will evaluate the Unification Church and its leader through you. If you are noble then they will conclude that your leader must be a noble man. Your image represents my image. The people who went to the Science Conference were totally enchanted with our young people and declared, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know too much about Reverend Moon, but through you I can imagine what kind of person he is.&#8217;</p>
<p>The Unification Church will prosper and always go on to victory if each one of you thinks that you will go a step further than I have m If you commit yourself to that then you are already a success, and we are already an invincible force which nothing can deter.</p>
<p>December 4 is a very amazing day. I came to Washington, D.C. twelve years ago on April 12. April is the fourth month. Today we are dedicating this building to God on December 4, which is the reversal of the two numbers. When I first entered Washington twelve years ago, Prayed and promised God what I would accomplish in the next twelve years m Those years have all passed and today I am praying and promising God what I will accomplish in the next twelve years m In the next twelve years, our task is going to be very simple if each one of you makes a determination that you will go a step further than me, and go over one more hill than I have. Then the entire world will come under God in those twelve years and you shall be living in the Kingdom of God here on earth.</p>
<h3 align="center">You are restoring the dignity<br />
of manhood and womanhood</h3>
<p>Will you promise that you v. ill save my dignity and honor? In addition to that, you men must preserve the dignity of manhood which has been lost in the sight of God. When you think of the men in history- Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Jesus-it is clear that although they played a tremendous part in God&#8217;s providence, in one way or another they failed. In this time in the providence your determination to God will be, &#8221; I will be a man who will not fail You.&#8221; You must restore the honor of men. Otherwise, you will not become sons of God. Unless you are honored as being victorious in the satanic world, you cannot even dream of restoring yourself to the level of Adam before the fall.</p>
<p>How about the women? Here in America the women are having a field day, aren&#8217;t they? You women have your dignity and honor in America. Even the President has to open the door for a woman simply because he is a man. Who is more responsible for ruining this country, the men or women? Honestly speaking, women have a more cunning character. They are trying to hide their true selves and present some other nature through their manicures, cosmetics and furs m A made-up face is not genuine. You have really inherited Eve&#8217;s character; she approached Adam in a very suave and calculated manner and enticed him, and if you women truly want to restore women&#8217;s dignity and honor in the sight of God, you must make an about-face. How about Unification Church members, do you have long fingernails or short ones? Women who have long fingernails don&#8217;t want to work; they just want to make themselves up colorfully and get attention. That&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t like a lot of makeup.</p>
<p>In heaven and earth women must feel, &#8220;God, I&#8217;m a true woman. There is no deceitfulness in me. I am a true, honest person and I am honorable in Your sight. I have no shame.&#8221; How many women can say that? You never thought about it from that angle, but when you really think about this, it has a lot of meaning. A lot of thinking needs to be done.</p>
<p>Therefore, let&#8217;s dignify woman in the sight of God. If there is a handsome, muscular man who tries to entice you, would you become his victim? I trust you because Unification Church women are different. They listen to what I say and believe the truth. If I ask them to go on the MFT it means that these beautiful women will walk miles and miles every day. I know those devoted women in the Unification Church, and there are many of them.</p>
<p>Why do you follow me? You are obedient to God&#8217;s will in order to indemnify the sin that Eve committed in the garden of Eden, when she thought only about herself and tried to have her own way, instead of obeying Adam. In reality you women are restoring your true dignity in the sight of man. Are you MFT members walking the street in that spirit? I have heard about all kinds of unbearable experiences, of sisters going out and getting no result except scorn, and standing on the street corner and literally crying. I let you experience that hardship to let you feel the shame that Eve brought down to earth in the fall. In order to restore her sin each woman now takes a position of being exposed to shame. It is only through single-minded devotion to God that she can still go on, and in that way she can prove that she is a worthy and honorable woman. On the MFT money is secondary. The most providential reasons come first: restoration of the honor and dignity of men and women.</p>
<p>I want women to be absolutely dignified and restored to honor so that they can walk in the sight of God without shame and in the sight of men without shame. Then nothing under the sun can deter or weaken such a woman and she can go straight forward to God. No kind of enticing can weaken that kind of woman. No temptation under the sun can change her direction. Even though her body is tired, if her eyes are shining and looking toward the one goal, nothing can tarnish her. That is a strong, invincible woman.</p>
<p>I want the Unification Church woman to be proud of being hand-picked at this particular time in human history, thinking, &#8220;I am fulfilling the most extraordinary role. No amount of work at any other time in history can duplicate my mission. I am a proud woman.&#8221; Do you want to fall behind the men or not? I would like to see women in the Unification Church who are more capable than men. I would like to make a woman captain of a fishing boat because most men do not want that job.</p>
<p>Once women do extraordinary things and truly restore their honor, that accomplishment will remain and the words of criticism will be blown away. I want you to know that you are not just restoring your own honor, but you are doing a great favor to the billions of women in spirit world. Those women are ashamed to lift up their faces but because dignified women are being restored here on earth, a condition is being made through which all women in spirit world will be liberated. Because of you, all the women in spirit world can be proud women and they will thank us.</p>
<h3 align="center">Each person has the responsibility<br />
of making themselves shameless<br />
in the sight of heaven and earth</h3>
<p>I am giving you such hard work and pain and suffering that you want to get back at me, right? I am pushing you out into pain and suffering and you still love me? This seems ironic and certainly people outside our Church cannot understand, but this is the basis for eternal joy. From the shortsighted point of view, you may be a foolish person to follow that kind of instruction, but in the long-range vision of eternity what intelligence you have! What a virtue to accept it and follow and fulfill it. People of the world look down and only see shortsightedly, but we look up with an unlimited vision in front of us. Since we are climbing up, there are a lot of hills to go over and it&#8217;s not easy. When you continually go down, however, your sight will be more and more limited until it&#8217;s buried in the ground.</p>
<p>Among American people the philosophy of hard work is quickly vanishing. Americans have much food and because they eat instead of work they become heavy. Which sex has more fat people? Women cook and taste the food all the time but men manage to stay slim because they work. The Unification Church is advertising a new diet program: All the fat women can come to the Unification Church. We&#8217;ll put them on the MFT and within three months they&#8217;ll be thin!</p>
<p>What I am saying is that man must restore man&#8217;s dignity and honor, and women must restore women&#8217;s original dignity and honor. At the dedication of this Washington Church I am declaring that you must commit yourself to the responsibility of becoming a changed person in the sight of man and heaven. Women, you must become shameless in the sight of the universe. Walk in the broad daylight without shame and let people see you.</p>
<p>You possess the love of God. Wall; without shame, looking straight up to the eyes of God and straight out to the eyes of the people. You are truly noble sons and daughters of God. I want you to know that your rank in the spirit world will be decided by how well you live this way of life here on earth. Each one must become a shameless person in the sight of God. In the sight of husbands, all the wives are to be shameless; and in the sight of wives, husbands are to be shameless. In the sight of the children, parents are to be shameless. Then your perfection and the completion of restoration will be finished. The love of God is the standard.</p>
<p>In today&#8217;s society how many wives and husbands have some kind of secret shame that they cannot speak of to each other? What kinds of things are exposed to their children, like divorce, fighting and killing among adults. If we wipe away the shame, everything will be solved. When you women demonstrate pure and genuine love for your own husbands, you are actually loving all the world of men. When you love your own wife, you are loving a representative of the entire world of women of God. When you love your own children, you are loving humanity, because those children represent the manhood and womanhood of God. All mankind is manifest in them. That is the way I five.</p>
<p>Every day I am hard on myself because I don&#8217;t want to have shame. Sometimes Mother is weak or sick, but I insist that she come with me all the time. Sometimes she must feel that she has a cruel husband, yet she always comes. I am looking at a different level because I never think of myself as one man or of Mother as one woman; I look at the entire universe and the consequences in spirit world of every action m Whether Mother goes to a certain place or not makes a tremendous difference in spirit world. All of womanhood in spirit world would be disappointed and we just cannot leave this stigma in history. You may not understand much of this sermon, but some day you will understand. When you go to spirit world you will really know how I was right.</p>
<p>Here on earth let&#8217;s make ourselves shameless. A woman must become a shameless wife in the sight of her husband. Before heaven and earth you must become a shameless person. If someone doesn&#8217;t go along the straight course then you must advise him and bring him back to the original course. If one person becomes shameful and another person becomes sympathetic to that person, it will ruin both of them. You must be a shameless person and bring the other person back to a shameless course. Children must be raised to know these things.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a gigantic universe out there and a gigantic God out there, but man is actually a microcosm of that universe. One man is actually one universe, and one woman is actually one universe. When a man and woman are walking down the street, heaven and earth are moving together because man represents heaven and women represents earth. Love is blooming there, bringing the two together into one entity. You don&#8217;t have to seek the love of God or even ask God to give you love. Just open your arms and make yourself a container and the love of God will come and fill you. When you become that kind of container, all kinds of gifts will come to you and all kinds of good people will come around you. When husband and wife become that kind of God-centered man and woman, then good children are the automatic result. Love is the key.</p>
<p>When you can look at your neighbors and mankind and love them as you do your own husband or wife, you are truly the saint of all saints. Indeed you are then the sons and daughters of God. Completion of the restoration is the extension of this kind of life on different levels. You live in this love of God, and love the world and love mankind as you love God, as you love your spouse. You exercise that way of life on a small scale, then on a larger scale in the nation and world. Each time you go over one level you are approaching perfection, and ultimately the infinite world will come under you.</p>
<p>I am doing just that. Wherever I go I want to be with Mother so we can feel sorrow together and feel ecstatic joy together. We will look at people from God&#8217;s position and weep from the position of God.</p>
<p>I had an apology to make to my own children. One day l asked them, &#8220;I am always going out with Mother. I don&#8217;t leave her at home so much and you are left alone. Do you still want me to always go with Mother?&#8221; The children all said, &#8220;Father, we don&#8217;t want you to go alone. Always go with Mother.&#8221; When I replied, &#8220;But we won&#8217;t be here to take care of you,&#8221; they said, &#8220;That&#8217;s all right. For you to go with Mother is far more important than us being alone at home.&#8221; Basically they know that if Mother and I go away that something important is being fulfilled. They know where our hearts are and what we are doing.</p>
<p>When we come home very early in the morning, maybe 2 a.m., we go to the children&#8217;s rooms and look at their peaceful sleeping faces. Then I really feel parental dove in a silent way, more than at any other time. I feel that distance can be comforting; separation doesn&#8217;t mean anything if there is the link of the love of God and genuine trust and honesty. Nothing can break that.</p>
<p>I have created a tradition for my children to follow. You are going to inherit the same tradition, and your children as well. The love of God is the moving force. With the love of God you can cleanse all sins and make yourself whole in the sight of God. Then what is the love of God? It is to love others more than you love yourself. That has been God&#8217;s tradition from the very beginning of creation. God wanted to love Adam more than He loved Himself. God wanted Adam to love his wife more than he loved himself and Eve to love her husband more than she loved herself. That was the tradition. What we are setting as a tradition today shall remain as a tradition in the future, and this way shall be walked by millions and millions of people in the future. Our responsibility is a great one.</p>
<p>This is some advice for you. Many people cry and repent for their sins in the sight of God, but you have a faster way to get to heaven. Pray and repent for lacking the love of God m &#8220;I want to love God more. I want to love the world more. I&#8217;m sorry I couldn&#8217;t do enough today.&#8221; That&#8217;s the fastest route. Our mandate in the Unification Church is to go beyond the level of just loving ourselves. We love others more than we love ourselves. That is the tradition the Unification Church is setting for the world.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s love is all-powerful and will dominate all. Those who want to become the hosts of this love, to have burning zeal in such love, those who can pledge to God and True Parents that you can confidently do that and live that life, raise your hands please. Thank you m Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">THE 23rd ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNIFICATION CHURCH AND THE HISTORY OF GOD&#8217;S DISPENSATION</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:07:05+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/the-23rd-anniversary-of-the-unification-church-and-the-history-of-gods-dispensation.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:07:05+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">May 1, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>The Unification Church was formally established in 1954; however, prior to the founding of our church a most incredible series of events took place to lay the necessary foundation. I want you to understand that God had been working for this new dispensation for approximately forty years prior to World War II, fulfilling His promises to the Korean people for the forthcoming great event of the New Age.</p>
<p>Through the Divine Principle you know that God has been working to fulfill His will by having His vertical dispensation indemnified horizontally. This morning I would like to reveal some of the extraordinary works of God in connection with our Church&#8217;s founding.</p>
<p>According to the Divine Principle, the history of God&#8217;s providence is developed on three different levels: the dispensations centering on God Himself, centering on the angelic world, and centering on man. The Old Testament era is the period during which God Himself worked directly in the forefront; in preparing the foundation for the future dispensation God was revealing the pattern of restoration. The New Testament era is equivalent to the work of the angelic world because salvation could only be achieved spiritually. The Completed Testament era, or time of the Second Advent, is the era in which men on the earth assume the major responsibility. Therefore, in order to consummate human history one nation must be found whose history encapsulates the entire vertical history of God.</p>
<p>Abraham made three types of offerings to God on his altar: a dove and pigeon, a she-goat and ram, and a heifer. The intriguing part of Abraham&#8217;s offering was that there were two birds representing the formation stage and two animals representing the growth stage, but only one animal representing the perfection stage; this indicated that perfection was yet to come. Korea was chosen as the stage for the fulfillment of the last chapter of human history in God&#8217;s dispensation, and consequently Abraham&#8217;s offering was to be physically and spiritually manifested on the horizontal level in Korea. The work of God Himself, or the equivalent of the Old Testament era, plus the work of Jesus and the Holy Spirit together in the New Testament era all had to be manifested in that land in order to fulfill the final chapter of human history. The foundation for those events had to be laid physically here on earth.</p>
<h3 align="center">Eve&#8217;s role in restoration</h3>
<p>The ultimate goal of God is to find one perfected Adam, but that Adam cannot come into being unless an Eve is found through whom he can be perfected. In other words, even though Adam might be appointed by God, he could never entirely fulfill his responsibility alone. In the garden of Eden, Eve was responsible for initiating the fall of man; therefore, unless an Eve can be found who can indemnity the fall in the garden of Eden, Adam would have no way to assume the supreme position of perfection.</p>
<p>Eve also had no way to reach perfection without Adam. In order to reach her perfection, Eve must either create Adam, meet Adam, or give birth to Adam. Bringing Adam here on earth is not the direct responsibility of God or even the direct responsibility of Jesus, but the responsibility of Eve, since Eve destroyed Adam in the garden of Eden. Eve is the one who must give birth to Adam. At the time of Jesus Christ, the role of John the Baptist was similar to the bride&#8217;s role, and through the execution of his mission the perfected Jesus was to truly become the Messiah. These events of 2,000 years ago occurred on the national level, but the coming of the Second Advent will take place on the universal level, and Eve must take the role of John the Baptist in bringing perfected Adam to the world.</p>
<p>The dispensation of restoration does not begin at the highest position in heaven, but must always start from the lowest possible human situation. Why is that? Ultimately Adam is solely responsible to bring God back to this world and bring mankind back to God. As the man who is responsible for all mankind, Adam should begin his journey at the very bottom of hell and pass through every kind of human life and environment on his way to the throne of God. In this way he can embrace all of mankind in the bosom of salvation. Furthermore, the Lord who is coming for that mission must ultimately serve Eve. He must come all the way up from the bottom of hell and perfect himself, then meet her and serve her almost as devotedly as he serves God.</p>
<p>Women have many qualifications, but the most precious title a woman can have is that of mother. Adam must serve Eve even more than he would serve his own mother. Another precious title that a woman can win is that of a bride, or wife, and apart from her family the greatest responsibility and glory that a woman can assume is that of empress or queen of the Kingdom of God. When someone asks a woman, &#8220;Can you be a true mother,&#8221; and her answer is yes, then she is already speaking in universal terms. Not every woman will become a queen in God&#8217;s kingdom; many more will become entitled to the roles of true mother and true wife. But you sisters here all want to become empresses also, don&#8217;t you?</p>
<p>Who is authorized to bestow these titles upon women? God? Jesus, who represents the angelic world? You women will not assume your true rights until you meet the true Adam. That is principled, isn&#8217;t it? Since all the men ever to live on earth were fallen, then in the sight of God women have actually never met a true man, and for this reason were not able to assume their rights. Women have been mistreated and miserable throughout history, cast out of their true position. They have been exploited by evil individuals, evil families, societies, nations, and by Satan himself. There have been many queens in the world, but their positions still had no value because until women meet the true man who is appointed by God they cannot assume the true rights of the woman&#8217;s role. When will that day of liberation come?</p>
<h3 align="center">Women&#8217;s liberation: preparation for meeting the true man</h3>
<p>Christian history reveals the culmination of God&#8217;s dispensation most clearly. All the women of the world are waiting for the one moment when the Messiah will come into this world representing the universal man. Always in the past women have been exploited and abused, but in 1918 there was a liberation, and for 70 years women have been taking positions above men, even trying to control them. This change in the history of women will continue until 1988. The women&#8217;s liberation movement has certainly been successful in this country, with American women seizing the role of empress.</p>
<p>In Biblical history women had no rights and the men assumed the major role in God&#8217;s dispensation, but that was an extreme situation and in one sense American women have the right idea. According to the Bible women are supposed to wear veils, meaning that women should be humble and meek in preparation to meet the Bridegroom. But instead of just taking off their veils women have even taken off their clothes! Throughout the world women are accepted even when they are practically naked.</p>
<p>In this country women have a commanding voice at home. In a typical American home the wife is master of the house, while the husband is like a servant; his shoulders are hunched over and he is always checking to see what his wife&#8217;s mood is. How about you women, do you agree with that? The other day in New York I saw an incredible scene. A bunch of poor, miserable men had gotten together in picket line and were carrying signs proclaiming a men&#8217;s liberation movement: &#8220;We want liberation from women.&#8221; Your laughing at that testifies that these problems are real. Actually all those men are wasting their time demonstrating; they should just join the Unification Church.</p>
<p>None of these things are happening at random. There is a reason and a Principle meaning behind them. This is a critical time, and God is consummating His entire history; 70 represents perfection, and so for 70 years women will be trying to assume their rightful, original role. This is their time of preparation to meet the true man.</p>
<p>I understand the reason behind taking such initiative in America, but it is also time for restored women to resume the objective aspect of their original role. All you sisters, would you like to be recognized for being feminine and charming, or would you like to be known for being very courageous and tom-boyish? All you brothers who laughed, would you like to have tom-boys as your wives or women who are feminine and charming? When I was matching couples for the blessing I asked the Western men what nationality they would like their wives to be. 99% of them asked for Oriental women. I am sure it was very embarrassing for the Western sisters to hear that all the men wanted to marry Oriental women.</p>
<p>It would not be easy for most of you American women to have an Oriental husband because most of them are shorter than you are. Would you sisters like to have tall men or short men as your husbands? Generally a man thinks that his wife should be at least slightly shorter than he is, which looks very normal. God gave women the privilege of always looking up to their husbands. They should not look down on men; that is the Principle. God actually made women shorter than men for the sake of women. If women were taller than men then throughout history their lives would have been even more miserable because they would have to do all the reaching for high things.</p>
<p>God thought a lot about how to create women. Instead of making women taller than men He made women a little shorter, but with bigger hips. Why? Because women are to assume two roles. First, in giving birth to children women need a strong foundation, and second, they will be living most of their lives in a sitting position, so God provided built-in cushions. Men have narrow hips without cushions because men are supposed to be active for the sake of women. From the very beginning God was thinking that a man is supposed to take the initiative and always be in action. A woman is to be objective, receiving grace from her husband, and always sitting home comfortably waiting for him. That is the way it should be. At the same time a man should be masculine, and that is why he has broad shoulders and strong arms. Going out into the world is the man&#8217;s role.</p>
<p>Now the time has come for women to restore their original role, particularly American women. Nowadays American men just do not want to get married and become the slaves of domineering women. Sometimes women get married intending to take advantage of men by divorcing them later and getting their money in alimony. Currently in America a man who is divorced more than once can become miserably poor because the courts award everything to his ex-wives, while a woman who gets divorced more than once gets richer and richer. Again, there is a dispensational reason for this. Women are important in the sight of God since they are in a position to take more of an objective role to the Messiah when he comes. Previously Satan used women to take everything away from men, but at this time God is using women to take everything away from Satan; however, such actions will only be justified if the wealth is subsequently given to God.</p>
<p>Where in American society can we find the true mother, true wife, and true empress? This is the problem, and a re-creation process must take place. We should re-educate women to become true wives and mothers and then they will be eligible to become queens. Are you Unification women being reeducated? Is your thinking different from that of ordinary American women? Your answer is very spiritless. If you have to be asked to answer willingly then you have not met the standard yet.</p>
<p>This phenomenon of women being able to rise and entrench themselves in power is very recent, showing that the time has come when God will elevate one woman to be the physical Holy Spirit. This is the time for the birth of the true Eve. God is looking for the ideal woman who has the qualifications and potential to become a true wife and true mother, and eventually the true queen or empress of the universe. Every woman is a candidate for this position, which is why women in general have been given a chance to rise. But God is looking for one perfect woman to summon out of the satanic world who has the potential to become the true wife and mother and queen, in order to establish her as the first God-centered wife, mother and queen.</p>
<h3 align="center">The beginning of my public ministry</h3>
<p>There were symbolic internal conditions that had to be fulfilled before I was eligible to begin my ministry. You now know that the appearance of the Messiah is drastically different from the conventional belief about the Lord coming in glory. The history of God&#8217;s dispensation starts from the servant period of the Old Testament era, continues through the adopted son&#8217;s period of the New Testament era, and culminates with the Completed Testament era as the period of true son, true father, true husband, and true king. The entire vertical history of 6,000 Biblical years has to be indemnified in the life of the Messiah before the physical dispensation even begins.</p>
<p>This internal dispensational history that I speak of all took place before 1947; my public ministry began after that year. The seven year period from 1947 to 1954, the year that the Unification Church was formally established, was the period in which I set physical conditions. The first place I went was North Korea. That seven year period was truly an incredible time. Having spiritually recovered the qualification for lordship before 1947, I had to set the condition of physical suffering in order to launch my own ministry, as well as the organization which carne about in 1954. Those seven years were a time of incredible suffering,</p>
<p>That foundation was finally laid in 1954, when the formal name of our Church was established as the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, and our Church began as a legal entity. From that year on through the seven years leading up to 1960, I built the substantial foundation of our Church in preparation for the installation of the True Parents in 1960. This was the greatest fuming point of all; God&#8217;s blessing came to Adam&#8217;s family with the blessing of the True Parents. The first seven years of the True Parents 21-year course took place from 1960 to 1967. This was the foundation for the heavenly family. My personal 21-year course, which paralleled Jacob&#8217;s 21-year course, also ended in 1967.</p>
<p>I worked to lay the national foundation during the seven years from 1967 through 1974. In order to lay the national foundation, the members in Korea, particularly the blessed members, completely sacrificed their family life. In that three-year period the Korean family endured incredible suffering and tribulation. By 1972 1 had already established a victory on the national level, and had begun working on the worldwide level. Therefore, in 1972 a tremendous movement was initiated in America while in Korea a fierce battle was yet being waged, both spiritually and physically. The Korean family members had gone out and were confronting tremendous physical sacrifices. They were leading lives of physical torture during the time I came to America to build the spiritual foundation on the worldwide level. In other words, I began working on the worldwide level while the Korean family was still working on the national level. The dedicated efforts of the blessed families of Korea were symbolic of the fulfillment of Jesus&#8217; mission.</p>
<p>In 1972, by undertaking the Day of Hope tours, I launched the spiritual condition of my declaration of God&#8217;s message throughout America. Do you think I was victorious? America had never seen such a man. For 3½ years I moved like a whirlwind through every state in America, meeting this nation&#8217;s leaders and receiving many proclamations from mayors and governors, including Jimmy Carter, who was then Governor of Georgia. At that time I received spiritual acceptance from America. This is one most fortunate condition that America has made. Even though many Americans have since become very negative, America at least welcomed me when I first came. In the future some Americans will beseech God, &#8220;Please forgive us. Even though people don&#8217;t understand now, please remember that as a nation we gave Reverend Moon more proclamations than any other nation.&#8221;</p>
<p>By the end of 1974 1 had successfully completed the Day of Hope crusade in Los Angeles, and on December 26, 1974, 1 returned to Korea. My return was needed to directly link to Korea the spiritual victory that we won here in America on the worldwide level. My worldwide victory must finally become a physical one, and in order to do that I had to reap spiritual victory here in America, bring it back to Korea, and then begin the physical worldwide dispensation from that land.</p>
<h3 align="center">Worldwide dispensation on the physical level</h3>
<p>The worldwide dispensation on the physical level began in 1975. That was the year I substantially turned Korea upside down. On January 6, 1975, 1 invited all the prominent people in Korea to the banquet room of the Chosun Hotel in Seoul, and there made the first address of my public ministry in Korea, in my native tongue. I invited people from all walks of life-die prime minister and government ministers, clergymen representing all religions, scholars-all were in one room. That was the first time they heard me speak in public. The banquet was the beginning of the Day of Hope tour in Korea.</p>
<p>Before that time I had never made a public appearance or address in Korea; instead I only spoke behind the scenes to our church members. The mission of the Messiah must be manifested on a worldwide level, and for this reason I first spoke publicly in America, which represents the world. In addition, America is the Christian nation which is playing the central role in God&#8217;s dispensation.</p>
<p>In 1975, a most important dispensational victory was won in Korea. After the Day of Hope banquet at the Chosun Hotel I went to every major city throughout the Republic of Korea, declaring God&#8217;s message to tens of thousands of people; it was the most historical evangelical crusade that ever took place in Korea. It was climaxed by the Korean Rally for World Freedom on June 7, on Yoido Island, which was attended by 1. 2 million people. At that rally I publicly declared that communism is the foe of mankind and the foe of God.</p>
<p>It is most interesting that at that time the Korean government was in the position of supporting me instead of opposing me. The major Christian denominations were accusing the Korean government of violating civil liberties, but their opposition to the South Korean government could only benefit Kim II Sung of North Korea. However, the Unification Church took a stand representing the true spirit of Christianity, defending the South Korean government and declaring war against Kim Il Sung. The Rally on June 7 was a most tremendous dispensational victory. Why? When Jesus came 2,000 years ago, the leaders of Judaism, the central religion of God&#8217;s providence, cooperated with the governments of Israel and Rome in crucifying the Messiah. But in 1975 the Korean government and the Unification Church members accepted me and raised me up in a most dramatic way instead of rejecting me. It was also significant that representatives from sixty nations participated in the Rally under my leadership.</p>
<p>The Christian population in Korea is said to be four million. The Christian leaders saw how the Unification Church was able to mobilize such a dramatic demonstration against communism, and to keep from being outdone by us they hastily organized a rally against Kim Il Sung that was held several weeks later. But even with 49 Christian denominations supporting it, attendance at their rally was less than 1/3 of our 1.2 million.</p>
<p>The situation at that time was like a showdown between the Unification Church and all the Christian churches, with the government looking on. The Unification Church had won such an obvious landslide victory, however, that the whole nation had to acknowledge what I had accomplished. Shortly afterward the government decided to compete with me and they also held a big rally against Kim II Sung, but even under government auspices less than 1.2 million people came. The Korean people just couldn&#8217;t imagine how I could have been so successful that year; it was almost as though some ghost had appeared and overnight done incredible things.</p>
<p>By attracting world attention and gathering the representatives of sixty nations, the June 7 rally accomplished a physical victory on the worldwide level. On the foundation of all our successes I could expand that substantial victory, and so I returned again to America, this time with a different, heightened mission. My previous mission in America had been on a spiritual level, but in 1975 1 came back to America to fulfill a physical mission. You know what we have done in this country since then.</p>
<p>The first three years of the third seven year course are 1975, 1976, and 1977. You are the eyewitnesses of the Yankee Stadium and Washington Monument campaigns which culminated in physical victory on a worldwide scale. Initially I had planned to have the Washington Monument Rally in 1977, but we were even ahead of God&#8217;s schedule. The purpose of the Yankee Stadium Crusade was to completely win American public opinion in support of us, and to demonstrate our strength. However, God was wiser, and He gave us rain that day, thinking, &#8220;Instead of being deterred by the rain, I know Reverend Moon will be spurred on to do more. I will give the rally a little sprinkle of water so that he will even be inspired to work ahead of my schedule.&#8221; That was God&#8217;s plan.</p>
<p>Within 100 days God&#8217;s prediction came true. I was determined to schedule the Washington Monument Rally ahead of time. However, the total time devoted to the Washington Monument campaign only amounted to forty days. We had to make plans and get all the permits, and that took so much time that we didn&#8217;t even know whether we could legally have the Rally that year. By the time all the permits were secured there were only forty days left, but I said, &#8220;The die is cast. Go ahead.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Washington Monument Rally will remain in American history, but not just as a record-breaking religious crusade; its tremendous impact will be felt even more in the days to come. Scholars in all the social sciences and in all religions will research it very deeply, trying to find out how one man from Korea could accomplish a rally that not even the American government or any churches had thought about attempting. Whether they like it or not, and whether they accept me or not, people everywhere have to recognize my tremendous impact. This is one decisive result of the Washington Monument Rally.</p>
<p>I have explained before what Washington Monument means in light of the dispensation. No matter what difficulty or opposition comes to the Unification Church, it will not disrupt our advance and prosperity. I am the only one who can build the superhighway that will enable mankind to reach God. God has three major headaches: the greatest problem of mankind is communism, and we are the only group with a solution to communism. Second is the decline of Christianity, and third is the immorality of today&#8217;s young people. Only under my leadership can we bring new life to the young people of America. Does President Carter have solutions to these problems? Are the Christian churches posing solutions?</p>
<h3 align="center">America&#8217;s situation since World War II</h3>
<p>In reality the decline of Christianity is like the rushing waters of Niagara Falls. Even the famous evangelists and religious leaders cannot reverse the tide. However, suppose today&#8217;s Christians and the media were open-minded enough to assist us in what we are doing. The Unification Church has the conviction and philosophy that can reverse the tide of decline in the churches within three years. There is a way back to true life and we have a God-given solution. But because most people have closed their minds and become negative they are unfortunately missing this great opportunity to be revived. The entire free world has become helpless, crumbling before the threat of communism, yet the solution to communism is resting in our hands. There is a solution for the present dilemmas of the world; there is a way to liberate American young people from being victimized by drugs and immorality. We have the solution, yet most people refuse to look.</p>
<p>Because you know the solution you are responsible for America. You are going to save this nation and give the young people a new vision and sense of morality. Through the victory of World War II, God gave America the chance to influence a vast portion of the world; if America had truly been God-centered then significant groundwork would already have been achieved for the Kingdom of God. But what happened after World War II? America retreated constantly from her worldwide responsibilities, becoming dangerously isolated.</p>
<p>God has given America a most extraordinary chance to work for Him by literally bringing the free world into a God-centered kingdom. America was in a position to take the initiative for good in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America, but look at the world situation now. One by one America has closed its door to those continents; already America has almost entirely retreated from Asia. Unless this nation advances in a new direction America will soon be trembling alone. Soviet Russia had been demolished during World War II and was struggling to survive against great odds, but even under those circumstances the communist leaders expanded their power and influence in the world. If Russia could advance in such a way in thirty years under adverse conditions, then what can Russia do in the next five years, when world conditions are much more favorable?</p>
<p>In the next five years this nation is going to face a very difficult time of danger and crisis. America is like a locomotive racing toward a cliff. I am the one man who is single-mindedly trying to brake that locomotive. I am trying to turn this nation around by mobilizing you handful of people. It may seem to be an impossible task, but you will see that what we are doing is God&#8217;s mandate. If I had never known God then I could be America&#8217;s worst adversary, even worse than the communists. But the only reason that I have the capabilities I do is because I know the dispensation of God. In looking at what America has done to me, my personal reaction is sometimes an intense desire to get revenge; I even sometimes feel that this nation cannot be forgiven. But by knowing God&#8217;s feelings I can suppress these emotions.</p>
<p>I have a dual position regarding America. I love this nation and I want to be America&#8217;s guardian, a real champion for this nation&#8217;s survival. At the same time my mission has a most fearful aspect because if God were to say, &#8220;All fight my son, you have done your job. Leave that country alone,&#8221; then there would be no mercy given to this nation. If God ever cut Himself off from America you would see for yourselves how quickly this nation would decline.</p>
<p>I did not come here to take direction from the State Department or to win the little green card that permits me to live in this country. I have absolutely no inclination to stay in this country; I am only here because of the mandate of God. Put yourself in my position; look at what the media has done in the last 3½ years, portraying me as a monster. How would you feel toward this country on a personal level? From that point of view this nation has committed unforgivable acts, yet if I were to leave, this country would be miserable.</p>
<p>You should not just know these things, but take up the responsibility for them. Even more than 1, you have got to go and awaken these people and turn this nation back to God. I am determined to train young people to become responsible for this country. For example, I am now training the seminarians; they are making up a new fishing net now, and I have had them fishing in the icy water of the Hudson River to see what kind of young men they are. They are not making nets and fishing for the sake of making money, but to build their own iron will and to become determined young leaders who cannot be stopped by anything.</p>
<p>I do not only deliver sermons to you. When I get down to action I can do anything, and do it better than anyone. Those seminarians are really rediscovering me, finding out that I do not just have theories, but that I have the kind of knowledge which can only come from experience. I have studied fishing and designed several patented tools for fishing. For instance, sometimes the hook gets caught in the fish&#8217;s mouth, and the fishermen have an awful time getting the hook out. I have invented a small tool to push the barb through and get the hook out easily.</p>
<p>One member saw me cutting the metal to make this tool myself, and he said, &#8220;Father why do you work so hard? Why don&#8217;t you just go to a tackle shop and buy one?&#8221; I told him, &#8220;America doesn&#8217;t have such a tool; if I could buy this kind of tool then why should I make it?&#8221; I invented a new net at Barrytown, one you have never seen. It is a one-way-street net and once the fish goes into the net there is no way it can turn around. Yesterday I had an appointment with the Belvedere people but I had a new inspiration for the net and got caught up in directing the seminarians about how to make it. We worked very hard all night, and I could not come here on time.</p>
<p>Do you want to come fishing with me? I do not want you to come because you just do not know anything about fishing; I would have to yell at you and give you a hard time. How can I train you dumb people? Do you still want to join me? We will have a national conference today with all the state leaders and IOWC commanders. Today&#8217;s conference will be in Barrytown and they will represent all of you there.</p>
<h3 align="center">The one reason I would accept this path</h3>
<p>Through this dispensational history that I have partially described this morning I have come to the position where all the debts in history have been paid; we are now beginning to erect a new history and I have declared the opening of the New Age. Based on the victories which I have described, I was able to proclaim the Day of the Victory of Heaven on October 4 last year. On February 23, the first day of the Year One could be declared. Tens of thousands of spirit men have been assigned to each one of you and if you reach out you will feel them around you. If you feel you are accompanied wherever you go then you shall be successful. You can fight hundreds of battles and reap hundreds of victories. If you have gained confidence by knowing what age we are living in and who I am, and you also know what victory has already been won and what kind of foundation has been laid, then wherever you go you can bring victory.</p>
<p>The foundation and cornerstone of the worldwide victory have been laid. This year and next year we will expand our substantial strength, aiming to raise up 30,000 dedicated young men and women in this country. By mobilizing this force the three major headaches of God can all be solved. The time will come when this nation and government will say, &#8220;Reverend Moon, won&#8217;t you stay longer? Don&#8217;t go; we need you.&#8221; That is the time that I will go.</p>
<p>Many kings and queens and heads of state will urge me to come to their countries and I will accept many of their invitations. Even now I have many invitations but I decline them, saying, &#8220;I am more needed here in America. I have a challenge and mission in this country. The fact that I still receive opposition here shows that my mission is not yet completed, so I want to stay. Are you Americans or Koreans? As Americans you should love your country more than a Korean like me. If you fail to do that then do not call me Father because you and I have nothing in common with each other. I did not come here to serve Korea, but to serve America. Are you Americans going to do more than I? Are you ahead of me now or will you be in the future? I want you to be greater than I am.</p>
<p>The past that I described this morning was a lonely path that I walked all by myself; it is a lonely battle that I have been waging my entire life, having no friend to understand me. For thirty years I gave this message to the elder members of the Korean family and they nodded but they never understood. Now, thirty years later they come to me saying, &#8220;Father, now we understand what you said thirty years ago.&#8221; That is their honest confession. You may not understand what I am saying this morning until thirty years later. This is always my situation.</p>
<p>I have always been a lonely man because no one has ever truly understood me. No one wanted to volunteer to go this lonely path, and the only reason that I would accept this responsibility was because I knew that God also was deeply lonely and sorrowful . Without this understanding I would never have accepted it. The true road of restoration is not an easy one. Following me also is not an easy path but a most difficult one. Many people, even yourselves, may not be able to consummate this path in their lives. It is probably far better for those who have no confidence to pack up and go live as they wish.</p>
<p>Along with everything else, much of my hard time here in America is because of you. Without you no one would criticize me. I am so well-known that when I go to New York I have absolutely no freedom. I cannot even buy clothes or go to a cubbyhole of a restaurant without people asking, &#8220;Aren&#8217;t you Reverend Moon? Would you please sign this?&#8221; I never have preferred this way of life, but since I did not want it God gave this role to me. What can I do? I have become famous and I want you Americans to also become famous; the American people love to be proud f themselves. Please go ahead and make yourself famous for doing the work of God, and after doing so you can become a shield around Mother and me and we can relax a little bit.</p>
<p>Can you become famous in the name of God? If you cannot do that by yourselves then I can make you famous. Do you prefer to become famous on your own in the name of God, or do you want me to make you famous? If you do not go ahead of me and really give yourself totally for the sake of this nation, then when you go into the spirit world all the Americans there will be pointing accusing fingers, jeering, &#8220;What a poor American you are! You knew the dispensation and met Father but how little you did!&#8221; You do not want to be ashamed do you?</p>
<p>When I put some American women into the Hudson River the other day some of them became stiff and numb. I have a mammoth task to make you into real women and then bless you. It might take ten years for you to pass the test, but do you want to pass before you get married, or after? It took God 6,000 years to restore one Adam, but that is using Biblical terminology. Counting by our years it took many thousands or even millions of years for God to recreate one Adam. Is ten years very long for me to re-create a perfect Eve?</p>
<p>At the recent blessing here everybody&#8217;s appetite was whetted, with even young brothers and sisters asking, &#8220;Father, what about me?&#8221; At East Garden one of the staff, who is only 23 years old, said, &#8220;Father, can I be included?&#8221; I had to laugh at him, &#8220;You are hardly even born yet!&#8221; On the other hand, in America you have every freedom to get married, even five or ten times. Why don&#8217;t you go ahead and exercise your freedom? If you all go away I will have fewer problems.</p>
<p>This is the 23rd anniversary of the founding of the Unification Church. These 23 years are just the external history of our church, but the true history, prior to the founding of the Unification Church, is known only to a few people whom I can trust. I was destined to suffer-as a servant, an adopted son, a son, husband, father, and king-more than anyone in those positions ever suffered in history. This was my destiny, and by doing this I could totally restore those who suffered on every level. This period of indemnity and suffering shall be over by 1981 at the latest.</p>
<p>If white America fails to respond then God will raise up another people or another nation that will come against the white people of America. I do not have to defend my actions; I can just be silent, waiting and knowing that God&#8217;s timetable is ticking by. On the other hand, however, since primarily white people are denouncing me, God can send more young white people to us and in the future, more white people will rise up in my defense. That is the way God will work.</p>
<h3 align="center">Most of you are not truly qualified to be here</h3>
<p>Before I came the universe was engulfed in darkness. All the many philosophers and religious people knew nothing of the heart of God and the meaning of the Bible, and when I revealed many things for the first time it was like the sun rising. Now everyone can see the true picture of God and history. I have not only discovered the truth, but I have lived it, and through experience I know how this universal truth will work.</p>
<p>The Unification Church is a school far greater than Harvard or Yale or Princeton, and is a place where only the elite of the universe can enroll. Harvard University can graduate a Ph.D. but that person can only turn around and teach theories at a blackboard. Even a thousand Harvards together could not create one son of God, but our school turns out sons of God every day. Millions of dollars could not pay the tuition at this school, and only a special kind of people can come here. To make sure that only God&#8217;s elite come to the Unification Church God is purposely letting opposition and negativity be stiffed up. In the face of negativity from society, those who can come to the Unification Church have to be special. Under such adverse conditions you could not join unless you have received special revelation from God, or have a brilliant conscience and heart. That is why I say that this is really a gathering of the elite.</p>
<p>Only those who are given direct revelation from God are actually eligible to join this group, but all of you are like by-standers who all of a sudden had some good luck. Why? The Divine Principle is bringing people faster than the revelations are coming from God. This is where the blessing of receiving God&#8217;s revelation can be seen. Since you joined the Unification Church by using your logic, then you analyze and evaluate everything too much; when I give some direction you stop and think about whether you will obey or not. However, the person who has received revelation from God directly knows who I am and does not even have to debate about following any direction I may give. God has told them who I am and they can instantly respond.</p>
<p>You are not actually qualified to be in this school, but God has made a special dispensation. You are like freshmen and sophomores in this great school, just eager to soak up the truth like a sponge. How could you ever say, &#8220;God, You must make me famous&#8221;? Just to be here is such a privilege that you cannot presume to expect that you will automatically receive the blessing. From God&#8217;s standpoint it is laughable for a person who is not even crawling to think about being married. After 2,000 years even Jesus does not yet have his bride with him. How could you assume that you deserve the blessing? You older sisters may be thinking, &#8220;Father, I am thirty years old. It is getting late! &#8221; But think of Jesus who is 2,000 years old.</p>
<p>You think you know me well, but you hardly know anything about me; only God knows me completely. Actually you have met a most unusual person. How are you different after meeting me? Those who say, &#8220;I am an absolutely different person since meeting you,&#8221; raise your hands. What is the difference? You have been fund raising and witnessing and getting all kinds of persecution and scornful treatment, is that what is different? Have you just done all of those things passively and reluctantly, or because a gigantic change has come about in you so you can tackle those things willingly?</p>
<p>How do you know I really sacrifice myself for humanity? After a long trip in the car my back aches very much, so would you buy me a giant plane? When? You may answer, &#8220;When you need the plane we will buy you one,&#8221; but don&#8217;t you know that I needed a plane the first day I landed here in America? America is a huge country to travel around. The time will come when contributions will come from all over the world from people wanting me to buy a plane that I can fly to their countries. But if I do get a plane the American State Department will say, &#8220;He just sent his young people out and exploited them to buy his gigantic plane.&#8221; My buying a plane will bring even more criticism.</p>
<p>I have already done many things, creating factories to manufacture many varied products and certainly before you buy me a plane I can create one. These things are easy compared to the work of restoration. The process of restoration is such a complex labyrinth that even for me it is never easy. I am glad that you were not given direct responsibility for restoration by God. You are lucky not to have received that mandate.</p>
<h3 align="center">Your only connection to me is the will of God</h3>
<p>You will never know me fully. No matter what you think, even though you call me Father or Master, you will never really know my true value until you die. In spirit world you will all of a sudden discover how much each one of you is indebted to me. In all of Biblical history, starting from Adam and Eve, and Cain and Abel, every mission ended in failure. Noah, Abraham, Moses, all of the Old Testament prophets, John the Baptist and even Jesus&#8217; mission all ended in failure. The record of Biblical history is a record of failure. In my own lifetime I have to mend everything and replace all those past failures with success. Do you think that is easy?</p>
<p>The foundation you stand on in the Unification Church is truly miraculous; all the historical failures have been mended properly and put into one unified work of God. I have successfully laid the foundation on the family level and expanded it onto the worldwide level. Now I am ready to rest and welcome my Sabbath. Now that I have done my job I can stand before the throne of God without shame and say, &#8220;Father, I have done what You asked.&#8221; Can you grasp the significance of this? All the events in the history of God are not some blind sequence of human behavior; there is a definite pattern and formula behind them all. I not only unlocked all the hidden formulas behind history, but I have put all of history together into one victorious harvest.</p>
<p>I am a complex and difficult person to meet. If you meet me in the wrong way you could be ruined. I have witnessed the destruction of people who met me incorrectly. America and the world shall not be an exception to this. I think it is impossible for you to understand this, but I say it anyway.</p>
<p>I came to stop the destruction of the individual, family, tribe, nation, and world, to brake this rushing locomotive that is racing toward its doom. You also have the power to do that once you make up your minds. Once you are firm in your commitment to serve God then God will be with you; there is no exception to this. Once your mind is completely set, then I know God will be with you.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s work has been that of taking serious, drastic action to reverse the rush of human history toward its doom. I am sure you have a certain reservation in your commitment because this is so vast to grasp and digest. You are in awe of what it means to have the weight of history on your shoulders. Can you seriously say, &#8220;All right, I&#8217;m going to lift up history. I can be the moving force to turn history around.&#8221; Have you ever thought about it and can you realistically feel that weight upon your shoulders?</p>
<p>Equivalent to the Old and New Testament eras, many spiritual groups appeared as the forerunners to raise up this one religious movement, They all came to serve a certain purpose, but they are all gone and the Unification Church is thriving now. From its very birth in Korea the Unification Church has been controversial, really upsetting the nation and world. Do You think this is a movement that will eventually decline and disappear, or will we not only become prosperous ourselves, but bring new life to the rest of the world? We shall either be destroyed or enable the world to live. Either we will be victorious or our opponents will be victorious. If down in our guts we have the hidden potential power to transform our enemies into our friends then nobody can doubt us. Restoration is very difficult, and in living the Principle you have to follow the formula. There can be no jump and each step must be taken with your entire life at stake. If you are holding anything of yourself in reserve then you cannot ever progress.</p>
<p>The 7,000 years of Biblical history extend from the original creation of man to his re-creation or perfection. The indemnity for this 7,000 years must be encompassed in one man&#8217;s seven year course. In one seven year period of my life I paid the debt of 7,000 years of history. Would God recognize that I had done that if I simply made an announcement of it? Do you think Satan would acknowledge that? I waged an absolute battle to go each step of that course. I had to literally pay, so that even Satan could not find fault.</p>
<p>You are now riding piggyback upon that victorious foundation. You are like a hitchhiker. I have acquired a car, and put gas in the tank and become an experienced driver. You just happened to be nearby and I said, &#8220;Come along.&#8221; You shall be eternally grateful just to have had the privilege of riding in this car, but do you as a passenger have the privilege of telling the driver to get you food and give you heavenly marriage? That is exactly your situation.</p>
<p>Outside of the will of God there is no connection between you and me; I do not need you. I only give 100% of my attention to you because I know God&#8217;s desire. Do you understand? Actually you can contribute very little to the fulfillment of the dispensation since it is already done. Do I still need you when you are only a burden?</p>
<p>God cannot abandon this country upon which His will is so directly resting; you at least have a chance to do something to help God&#8217;s providence here so that you can receive eternal credit in spirit world for your accomplishment. If you have no strong desire to dedicate yourself for the salvation of this country, then do not even mention that you are a Unification Church member. If your goal is not parallel with mine then you are no longer a member of the Unification Church. Are you fully aware of what you are expected to do? You have no fight to call me Father unless your purpose is parallel with mine. Before you call me Father you must become worthy to be my child. Before I speak about anything I live through the situation and fulfill it. Will you do that too?</p>
<p>April is over and one-third of 1977 is gone. If America does not change, if you make no remarkable headway in 1977 and 1978, then I will have no further interest in this country and will go elsewhere. You may rest and relax, but I will never do that. I will always reserve the right to say before God, &#8220;There is nothing I have left undone for the sake of America&#8217;s dispensation. The American people never responded to me, but Father, You know that I have done every single thing I needed to do.&#8221; Are you serious about the salvation of this country?</p>
<h3 align="center">You must go the path that I have gone</h3>
<p>To find the path for restoration you have to search diligently and you have to go every step. The secrets found in my search for restoration have been revealed. I have completed that search and put the Divine Principle together so that all can find it. All you have to do is live it. I organized the 7,000 year history of mankind&#8217;s failure into a seven year course, and I have showed you how to walk that course. You must do that, but you must be deeply serious about it, like Jesus was while walking toward the Mount of Calgary. You must adopt the seriousness of that moment.</p>
<p>Are you looking forward to the day of fulfillment and hope? You are now burdened by the responsibilities of yourself, your family, tribe, nation and world, and you must go individually, just as I have gone. I have laid the superhighway of the Principle so that everybody can go, but each one of you must actually do the traveling. In this seven year period of time you will start by going the servant&#8217;s path as obediently as a lamb, then going through the period of adopted son, the period of the son, husband and wife, father and mother, and finally the emperor and empress of the universe. You have to precisely cover this in seven years&#8217; time.</p>
<p>When you are triumphant in this seven year course then the past emperors and empresses will bow down to you when you are elevated to the spirit world. This is a very precious time because we can live through this while on earth. I have been walking this path for forty years here on earth and now I am asking you to successfully go this course for only seven years. If you say, &#8220;Father, please give me an easier task,&#8221; then you have the mind of a thief.</p>
<p>When I began the Unification Church in Korea our headquarters was a small shabby house. On May 1, 1954, 1 set up a small plaque in front of that shabby house, probably the smallest sign you could find in history, but the biggest words ever spoken: &#8220;Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity.&#8221; The biggest words, but the smallest sign and smallest house-that is the way the Unification Church began!</p>
<p>The room was so small that when I lay down my head hit one wall and my feet hit another wall. I was utterly penniless at that time, and that shabby house was not even owned by the Church but was rented. But now here in America, there is a concrete foundation laid in all fifty states in terms of having physical centers. You are going to do precisely what I did 23 years ago. You live in a small cubbyhole, but every person who comes to you is treated like a king and queen while you serve them like a servant.</p>
<p>If any of you state leaders wants to be served because you hold some position, then you will never be successful. You have to start out as a servant of servants, and go through each step. Unless you demonstrate the true spirit of service you will never be successful because the Unification Church was not built that way. You must go the path that I went.</p>
<p>Unification Church women have to think, &#8220;God, don&#8217;t worry about me. I am not even worthy to look at any man as my husband. I am not quite ready, and I would only be a burden to the man who would marry me. I am perfectly content in what I am doing, and I will give every ounce of energy for Your purpose.&#8221; Is that how you think, or are you proud women instead, thinking, &#8220;I am capable, and I certainly deserve the respect and admiration of men?&#8221; Are you that confident?</p>
<p>Have you ever imagined having a beggar from the street as your husband? Internally that beggar might be a godly man. Have you ever thought, &#8220;I am not even worthy to receive this man as my husband&#8221;? I started out as a servant of servants and you also must start out as a servant of servants.</p>
<p>For the sake of God, and for the restoration of mankind there is nothing that I cannot do. After you are successful in the servant position you will be elevated to be an adopted son. But remember that such a recommendation does not come easily. Does a master lightly say, &#8220;You are even too good to be my adopted son. I will make you my son and my heir?&#8221; That kind of recognition is not given freely. You are starting as a servant. Will God soon pronounce His blessing upon you, saying, &#8220;You are truly my son, and I am going to give you my blessing to become husband and wife.&#8221;</p>
<p>Unless you as parents have the firm conviction that you have been totally liberated from Satan and from sin, how can you ever give birth to a sinless child? Do you have the confidence to say, &#8220;My children are born of God and no longer have anything to do with original sin. They are not born of Satan and are eligible directly for the Kingdom of God.&#8221; That is not easy is it? Furthermore, can you raise yourself up to be an emperor or empress so that when you go to spirit world the highest possible saints will bow down to you? You are going to be the ancestors of your restored family tree and those who carry your family name shall be your descendants. I have covered that entire territory and consummated it victoriously. The Unification Church is the school where you can be taught, and I am now in the position to show you the way.</p>
<p>My forty years experience and fulfillment can be organized so that you can go that entire path in seven years. I am 57 years of age; 40 years have lapsed since I started the dispensation at the age of 16. Ever since I was 16, I have encountered intense experiences and walked the thorny path. I am the pioneer who cleared away every obstacle and made the broad, smooth highway ready for anyone to find and follow. I not only laid the highway, but I created an automobile for you. All you have to do is get a license to become a driver and then go to the gas station to get gas. At least that much is your responsibility. If you deny and reject even this small responsibility, then forget about driving quickly to heaven; you will have to walk and nobody will sympathize with your foolishness.</p>
<p>Will you drive on that highway? It is necessary that you complete your seven-year course and establish your own qualification to be blessed. You are not working for anyone else&#8211;the Unification Church, Reverend Moon, or God&#8211;you are working for yourself. First you must become victorious on every level, starting as the servant of mankind. I will give you more and more detailed truth, expounding on everything so precisely that you will realize, &#8220;I thought I had been a good member of the Unification Church, but now that I understand Father&#8217;s criteria, I see how phony I am!&#8221;</p>
<h3 align="center">Your blessing should come without your expecting it</h3>
<p>Do not worry about anything else for these seven years, but become literally crazy for God and crazy to serve mankind, forgetting about yourself. All of a sudden I will say, &#8220;You are my child. The time for blessing has come; I want you to get blessed.&#8221; Then you might respond, &#8220;Have three years passed already? Oh no, Father, I still have more to do and I must become more mature.&#8221; That is the natural response. In the garden of Eden Adam and Eve were not to tell God that it was time for them to get married. Instead God was to call Adam.</p>
<p>When a News World staff member wrote to me asking, &#8220;Father, I want to get blessed. Can&#8217;t you bless me,&#8221; I wondered, &#8220;Does that brother really know the Principle?&#8221; This brother here was extraordinarily lucky; he was not even a candidate for blessing, but was just driving the candidates up for the matching when he happened to be selected. He never expected to be blessed at that time. That should be the natural situation; if you really know the Principle you will know that this is the way the blessing comes, just all of a sudden.</p>
<p>The True Parent&#8217;s wedding in 1960 was not done on my own initiative. God gave me revelation after revelation, insisting, &#8220;The time has come My son. You shall prepare the altar to receive holy matrimony, and I shall bless you.&#8221; This is the Principle way. Even Mother never considered herself to be Mother. She was just living as a member of the Church when all of a sudden her name was called to be married. Some members are thinking that they need the blessing or that they deserve the blessing, but that is closer to satanic thinking. All you have to do actually, is to find your path in the Principle and just keep busy, running and running. Then all of a sudden you will find yourself kidnapped by God for the marriage ceremony.</p>
<p>In the strictest sense, when I observe the American family members, there is not even a single one who passes the test. If you die in the state you are in then you cannot be fully elevated into the Kingdom of Heaven, but will only end up in a middle level like a waiting room. You need to be re-educated before you can enter Heaven. You cannot avoid this Principle; you have to walk and live this Principle and there is no room for complaint. Could I complain to God about having so much hardship? Could I cajole God to come up with some kind of easy path or solution for me? If I ever complained, God would say, &#8220;Reverend Moon, you are not worthy to be my son. I will have to wait for another man to come.&#8221;</p>
<p>Dispensational history was only necessitated by the fall of man. I founded the Unification Church 23 years ago, and I am giving you the feeling that I had at that time. You must inherit that spirit and make it your own path. This is the meaning of this day. You must feel my heart of 23 years ago, and you too must be a pioneer of that day. My situation was just impossible at that time; under those circumstances could anybody even imagine that 23 years later I would lead events like the Washington Monument Rally?</p>
<h3 align="center">Only those who are deeply committed to God will remian</h3>
<p>At that time I was always being investigated by the Korean government, which was constantly trying to find some reason to put me in jail. Under those circumstances could you have thought that someday I would come to America and gather together all these young people and speak at such fantastic rallies? At that time nobody else believed it, but I know who I am and where I am going, and how successful I will be. The basic determination I had then has never changed. Many people who were following me have since become tired and left the movement, but the movement still continues. Those who were self-centered just could not stay but had to leave sooner or later. Only those people who can give up their lives for the sake of the mission will remain. Compared to my forty years, your seven years will pass very quickly.</p>
<p>Shall we go or not? Without any question, we absolutely must go. In those seven years you must experience heartbreak and tears for the sake of the family, society, and nation. You must spend anguished, sleepless nights for the sake of others and the sake of the dispensation. Do not try to get by in some easy way. In the same way that I have struggled from the most lowly place all the way to the point where I could receive God&#8217;s greatest blessing, you must also progress through every step. You have to realize that you are reaching higher levels as you progress with the movement. Do you sometimes experience uplifting feelings? These are not just your feelings, but spirit world actually inspiring you. Spirit world has to be one with you for every inch of your path. From this time on my teaching will be more precise and analytical, and you will know the truth word for word. You cannot avoid your seven year course.</p>
<p>You came to our movement at the most opportune time; in the shortest possible time you can cover tremendous ground and be given full credit for helping in the overall dispensation of God. You shall become a person who can help pioneer the final chapter of God&#8217;s dispensational history. You are participating in the nick of time, and all you have to do is get down to work. You have the great privilege Of working together with the True Parents, which millions and billions of people have been in anguish to do. They will not have that opportunity; instead you -e the ones with me in person.</p>
<p>Even the people who come to join our movement now are one step behind you because they did not help to bring the great victory in Washington. You fought that battle together with me, and there will not be any more opportunities like that in history. Now our task is to win America and win the free world. The more you realize this the greater will be the burden you feel, but that is the way it has to be. With that realization you will know precisely what responsibility you carry.</p>
<h3 align="center">Your 7-year course</h3>
<p>You have heard before about your seven year course, but you did not feel it to the bone. Those who can say they are already committed to it, please raise your hands. Have you prayed, &#8220;God, at this moment I pledge to You that I will begin my seven year course. I shall no longer follow the course of Adam and Eve who failed, but within the seven year&#8217;s time I shall finish the path of perfected Adam and Eve. God, trust me.&#8221; Have you had that showdown prayer with God? Then how can you begin your seven years? The Bible predicts that in the Last Days there will be seven years of chaos, suffering and hardship. All of world history will be condensed into that seven year period of time that the Bible describes. The Bible says that very few will survive this period of suffering, and that is very true, because the only ones who will remain within God&#8217;s will will be those who are truly determined and who truly know God, committing themselves deeply to that seven year course.</p>
<p>As soon as you undertake that seven year course of your own you will automatically draw opposition. Nothing will occur according to your desire. If you want to go this way then Satan will be trying to block every inch of your way and inevitably circumstances will drag you down to the lowest possible level. You will be deprived of all honor and left with nothing, feeling completely naked. God will use Satan to push you down, but you must welcome it, swallow it and digest it.</p>
<p>What is the method to be elevated to the position of adopted son or son? You must become a person who is ready to sacrifice yourself for the sake of a servant. When you are willing to give up your life for the sake of a servant then you will begin to find your life. At every step of the dispensation you have to be willing to give up your life. That is the quickest way to meet the heavenly requirement.</p>
<p>You must come to think of your own life as a trivial matter, like the morning dew. When I discovered the entire meaning and secret of the dispensation, then I felt the teachings of Jesus all the way to my bone. I felt so deeply such teachings as, &#8220;He who loses his life for My sake will gain it.&#8221; Not just once but many times you must totally give up your own life. That is the only way you can cover this ground. When you give up your life and go beyond the seven year course, then all of a sudden the universe will change and you will find your life protected. I was ready to die for the sake of the mission during the Yankee Stadium and Washington Monument campaigns. On the way to Yankee Stadium and on the way to Washington Monument I prayed, &#8220;I am willing to die for You. Whatever is required of me, God, Your will be done.&#8221; There were many assassination plots and threats but I never hesitated to risk my life.</p>
<p>Those were truly extraordinary emergencies. Unless you can be in a position of committing yourself to that degree you shall never understand God&#8217;s mission or know the heart of Jesus or become one with me. Whenever you encounter hardship, you can see how miserable and inadequate you are; at that time you can rediscover yourself and spur yourself on to higher levels. This is my everyday life.</p>
<p>The best way for you to safely journey through this period is to put yourself down on the lowest possible level, where you can even envy the beggars, where even sitting down at a table to eat becomes a luxury. Servants do not have the luxury of sitting down to eat at a big table with napkins and wines and so forth. We must put ourselves in the position of servant of servants.</p>
<p>With that attitude you can leap forward, and then you can understand humanity. Until I was 30 1 never bought even one suit for myself, and for the clothes I did get I always went to a second-hand store. I never wore ties or used hair tonic or body care items. During those years I put myself in a sinner&#8217;s position; I never had the courage to lift my face up but was always looking down.</p>
<p>Nature is asking to be seen by the true man, but unless I could fulfill my dispensational role, I did not feel privileged to even look at nature. I was so humble in my thinking that I wanted to hide in the presence of nature. Now I go to movies, but at that time I never even walked in front of a movie theater. Now I have graduated from that path, and nothing can affect what I have accomplished. I have perfected that course and transcended it.</p>
<p>I am like a rock and no one can entice me away from God&#8217;s will. There were many women who actually wrote love letters to me with their own blood, showing their genuine devotion to me. The religious path is not easy because of the many temptations around, and you have no idea what it takes to lay the foundation. But I have done it and I am freely sharing the fruits of it with you. No one has the right to complain; rather, continually be grateful and put yourself in a meek position. Even now that is my basic attitude toward God. After all the dispensational success so far I still put myself in a humble position before God.</p>
<p>For seven years in the Unification Church you will be crazy about fulfilling your mission, forgetting about eating, sleeping, and everything else. Even after your blessing I will give the couples separate missions and for three years they will go their own respective ways to fulfill another significant time period. Through all of that you must be absolutely obedient.</p>
<p>You must have a true picture of yourself. Some members look very substantial externally and seem to be doing a great job, but inside they are empty people, who are not worthy in the sight of God. In this period you will be given the opportunity to experience everything, being cursed, or struck, feeling great hunger, and even envying a beggar&#8217;s situation. It will be a precious period, and then you will be able to say, &#8220;I know the heart of God; I know Jesus Christ and I know Reverend Moon.&#8221; My hands are not so big but they have gone through much. The Unification Church was built upon my foundation of pioneering this hidden spiritual task. This foundation is not the product of easy living, but of the most incredible suffering and spiritual endurance.</p>
<p>When fund raising have you ever been kicked, hit, or spit upon by others? When you taste these experiences then you must think, &#8220;This is the path that was walked by all the saints and men of God in history.&#8221; Being spit at or hit is not that painful to bear, but being spit at or hit by someone who was previously a member and who has now betrayed the church is very painful. It is heartbreaking and you have to taste even that. You will finally know Jesus when you experience these things. Jesus had not only external enemies-the people who physically nailed him down on the cross-but he had internal enemies who betrayed him.</p>
<p>I have tasted prison life, not only under the communist regime but also in free Korea. I can never forget one former member who came up to me when I was being taken to the West Gate prison in Seoul. He looked at me and laughed scornfully, &#8220;You fool! Are you still doing this stupid thing?&#8221; I can never forget that man. At that moment I did not say anything to him, but in my heart I prayed, &#8220;God, give me a chance to testify to how righteous You are, and how I was obedient to You.&#8221; This is just one instance of personal betrayal; there are too many to count. When I close my eyes and start to pray, tears always come forth. I have experienced so much agony and pain and heartbreak that I know God, and I am in a position to comfort Him.</p>
<h3 align="center">Before God&#8217;s expectation I have no way to sit still</h3>
<p>No one understands me. My parents never understood, even my wife and children can never really understand. My understanding of God is a lonely understanding. You also can be a companion to that lonely God. I always feel how vulnerable and weak I am, but I know that God trusts and is depending on me to fulfill. When I see God&#8217;s expectation I just have no way to sit still. I feel, &#8220;God, You are Almighty. You can do anything You want, but because of Your own precious children&#8217;s failure You put Yourself in a position of such suffering. You don&#8217;t need to suffer, but You have been helpless, waiting so long for some man You could depend on. God, I really sympathize with You; I understand You.&#8221;</p>
<p>If anyone truly knew me internally then he just could not help but be crushed by sorrow. Spiritually enlightened people who can receive revelations and instructions in their prayers are the people who stay. When they pray about me God&#8217;s response is always the same; He responds to their prayer in tears because when God thinks about His lonely champion here on earth God just weeps. The vast entanglement of human history seems utterly impossible to ever reorganize, and even God hardly knew where to begin the dispensation. But one lonely man found the secret and lived through everything to bring the movement this far. Even for God that was something to behold.</p>
<p>Day after day I continuously wept. My eyes became swollen and painful because the tears poured out in gallons. I could not even open my eyes to the sunlight. So many tears were shed in laying the foundation of this Church. I will not explain this to you completely; you will never know because I will not tell you. If I were to tell you then you would be responsible to also go that way and I do not want that. I would rather leave an easier way for you.</p>
<p>That is why I do not want every one of you to repeat my entire 40 years&#8217; experience; I want to have sons and daughters who can inherit from me instead. However, if in your prayer you receive a glimpse of my path and agony here on earth then you will certainly be blessed. If you can understand this then in a short time you can do on earth what would take many millions of years of experiences in the spirit world. You will eventually know anyway in spirit world, but actualizing it would take a millennium of effort. Here on earth you can cover that same ground in the shortest possible time.</p>
<p>I am very sympathetic with Moses&#8217; position. When Moses went to the mountain to fast and pray for 40 days and nights he could receive the Ten Commandments, but when he came back down his own people had created a golden calf and were worshipping their idol. Moses was overcome with wrath, &#8220;How could you betray God in this way?&#8221; He flung the stones to the ground and they shattered. I have felt that same furious impulse many times. Moses went to the mountain and worked so hard to win the truth for his people, but their hearts were so small.</p>
<p>I have a fiery temperament and when I see such utterly impossible betrayal I just want to cut off that person and turn away. I have to impose the strictest discipline on myself in this area; I have my own credo and judge myself, saying, &#8220;Before you want to conquer the world or be the lord of all creation you must attain lordship over yourself.&#8221; I want to conquer the weaknesses of my own temperament.</p>
<h3 align="center">Your personal relationships are the key to everything</h3>
<p>If you truly want to become sons and daughters, you have to inherit the spirit of the True Parents-my spirit and my way of thinking. If you would be a leader you must inherit my spirit. In whatever mission you are doing, if all of a sudden you just burst into tears, feeling such a sense of urgency and sorrow for God, then your mission will definitely prosper.</p>
<p>We are talking about the universal salvation of mankind. We are going out fund raising to earn pennies and dollars, almost begging. How pitiful God&#8217;s situation is! But you must put deep meaning into the money you earn. Compared to the wealth of the world one penny is nothing, but when your heart is resting in each penny you earn then it shall become a gift of extraordinary value to God. The face value of a bill may be one dollar, but no millions of dollars can purchase your heart; when you have invested your heart in that dollar it becomes priceless. When you receive the people&#8217;s money and offer it to God for the sake of their blessing, every deed of yours becomes holy and divine. Then you feel such an urgency and sense of closeness with God that sometimes you just embrace a stranger and in your heart you cry out for the people. There have been many times like that in my own life.</p>
<p>Once I wanted to rescue a prostitute, a young girl who came to be in that pitiful situation. I loved her as my own sister, and wept with her and truly uplifted her. At first she thought that I had an entirely different purpose, but instead she found a big brother, someone who really cared in the truest sense. That memory is as vivid as if it were yesterday. That kind of deed is greater and more precious than prayer.</p>
<p>When you are fund raising and working hard all day you may sit alone by the roadside, feeling lonely as you eat whatever humble food you have. In the middle of eating you may break out in tears. When you put yourself in such a miserable position then you will feel God so strongly. When you are selling newspapers you meet all kinds of people. Do not curse them or yell at them if they do not want to buy. They are busy people and sometimes they do not want to be bothered, so when you stop them and they complain to you, you must accept them.</p>
<p>Your personal relationships are the key to everything. You do not understand how much I am training and disciplining you, molding your character according to the path that I have gone. I am taking you along that same path. When I was in school I wanted to give my friend a chance to be educated so I worked extra time at night in order to earn his tuition. Earning money was very difficult at that time, and it had to be saved penny by penny. Why was I able to do that? Because I knew the true God.</p>
<p>If I had developed my skills in a secular way then I would have been the president of many corporations by now. I would have been successful and respected in an entirely different manner, but I never undertook that direction. There is no one who has shed more tears than I have, and God knows they were shed for His sake. I willingly chose the route of suffering for God&#8217;s sake.</p>
<h3 align="center">I want to stand up for you</h3>
<p>I have been unreasonably treated by the people and persecuted. There was no personal reason for going through that suffering. I never had to put myself in that position. But I know God&#8217;s position, and instead of trying to be respected and admired by other people I wanted to side with that lonely God. Do you think that I actually did not have personal ambitions? As a young man I certainly had ambitions and dreams but I cut them off and closed all those doors. That is the only way I could have come this far. Even now many people think I have a great deal of money but actually I am still penniless, even though I can influence the spending of millions of dollars. Whenever I spend money I always think of you. I never like just to spend money on myself, eating out or buying clothes.</p>
<p>One time I took about twenty young members out to get them seafood in New York City. The restaurant manager saw me but did not recognize me and since I was not wearing a tie he said I could not be seated in the restaurant. I said, &#8220;Thank you very much,&#8221; and left. All of a sudden he discovered that the twenty young people were following me out, and he realized who I was. He tried to fix his mistake, but I simply said, &#8220;No thank you.&#8221; I am sure he knew that he missed a great opportunity, but I will not go to that place any more. Is human value decided by wearing a tie? If they treat me like that how will they treat black people? They may kick them out. You are all suffering people and I want to stand up for you. I do not want you to be mistreated.</p>
<p>Every penny you earn shall go for the restoration of this country, not for personal things. The MFT members are working very hard from morning to late at night, but they have no word of complaint toward me. If it were not for Mother I would only change my underwear once a week; it is only out of courtesy to her that I change every three days. Why? I know your position, and sometimes you never have a chance to change your underwear, and sometimes you have no time to do laundry.</p>
<p>In the past I have gone through precisely what you are doing now; you are truly inheriting my path. You and I are comrades with one thing in common: We put ourselves in a position of suffering only because we know God. If we have ever committed any crime, it is that of knowing God. We willingly chose this route; nobody has imposed it on us, so how can we complain?</p>
<p>Are we pursuing the wrong way and bringing destruction to the world? Is knowing God a crime? The whole world is in chaos and communism is expanding because people do not know God. The churches are breaking down. No matter how miserable such a life might look, knowing God is a privilege, and it is the one thing we cannot ever relinquish.</p>
<h3 align="center">Who will take care of God on earth after I am gone?</h3>
<p>A wise person will go all the way once he has made a commitment. Do not go only half way or be mediocre because you will only end up as a loser. If you want to become victorious then you have to persevere all the way. In doing God&#8217;s will I want to go the fastest way, never being mediocre or half-hearted. For the sake of my followers I took every precaution and checked everything about the Divine Principle two and three times. I wanted to be absolutely sure that this is the true way of God. A true researcher tests and re-tests to make sure of his results before he announces anything to the world. I have tested this out in every way possible. You can see then what an incredible discovery I have brought to the world.</p>
<p>Since we are committed, we cannot afford to go just halfway. Is this month of May a new beginning, far different from April? Let&#8217;s go forward with tremendous excitement. I am waiting for the kind of champion who can defeat me. Many times I am sad, feeling that I cannot afford to die because I know that even at this stage no one is competent enough to inherit my mission. No one has given me that comfort yet. I have given my life to God, but now who will love Him as much as I do? This is my only concern. When I die, who will take care of my God here on earth? I want to see someone emerge who can do that.</p>
<p>Is there anyone who could truly say, &#8220;Father, let me take care of your God and my God. You can go&#8221;? The person who could live up to that statement would be the center of the mainstream of history and would never perish, but become prosperous.</p>
<p>Counting in the Korean way I am now 58, and in 12 more years I will be 70 years old; in 22 more years I will be 80 years old. Recently I had a serious conversation with Hyo Jin, &#8220;As my son, do you know what road you should take and what preparation you should make?&#8221; When I was so serious even that most energetic Hyo Jin became very serious. I feel that I can give myself totally for 15 more years, and in that time I must find someone to succeed me.</p>
<p>I cannot afford to leave the world as it is, destined to more suffering. I must leave behind a world that is being resurrected. People think that after I die the Unification Church will die. Is it true? Would you prefer the movement with me or without me? Indirectly what you are saying is that after I am gone the movement will suffer. As long as I live I want to bear the burden of persecution so that after I leave the persecution will be finished; in my lifetime I want to bring this movement to success.</p>
<p>As your generation reaches its maturity, our movement will soar into prosperity. In my own lifetime I want to take care of all the bitter experiences, suffering and turmoil of restoration. I have already made up my mind to take the burden with me. How about you? Will you join me in taking care of these, or are you going to wait for the easy time? Do you wish this persecution would go away, or do you welcome greater challenge and persecution? Have you made up your mind already? That is the way you should be. Starting this month of May let us have a new day so that a new history can be erected.</p>
<p>If you feel just like I did when I initiated our Church 23 years ago then you are initiating your own movement in your own area of responsibility, saying, &#8220;Today I too, am erecting a new church; I shall be like Reverend Moon in my own area.&#8221; Are you going to do that? Those who are determined to go that way, raise your hands. Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">THE CHILDREN&#8217;S DAY WE HAVE BEEN LONGING FOR</h1>
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<h3 align="center">November 11, 1977<br />
Manhattan Center<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>As you all know, today is Children&#8217;s Day. Since the first celebration in 1960 seventeen Children&#8217;s Days have been celebrated, making this the seventeenth anniversary.</p>
<p>If there had been no fall of man at the outset of human history, all celebration days-God&#8217;s Day, Children&#8217;s Day, Parents Day and the Day of All Things-would have been combined into one. But as you know, the fall of man occurred and from that time human history has been the work of restoration. Everything cannot be done at once in restoration; instead there should be a precise, step-by-step process of restoring one thing at a time.</p>
<p>Through the Divine Principle you know that we must restore the standard or criterion for the true man and woman which was lost through the fall of Adam and Eve. Since Adam and Eve were the very people who fell, God could not work directly through them for restoration, but focused instead on their children and descendants. Unless God&#8217;s standard of goodness is understood by mankind, there is no way for man to be restored. Therefore, the providence of restoration has concentrated on one thing: the restoration of the true son who has not been touched by the fall of man.</p>
<p>Restoration has proceeded step-by-step through history. First of all, because of the fall of man human beings fell even lower than the servant position. Therefore, God first sought to restore the servant level, then the level of adopted son and finally the true son who can be recognized and heralded by the entire universe.</p>
<p>Once sinful, fallen man is restored to the level of true son of God, he will be elevated to true parenthood, the world of the heart of God. Presently we are going toward our ultimate goal and destiny, the heart of God. This is the basic pattern or formula of the providence of restoration, to be accomplished not only on the vertical but also on the horizontal level. In servanthood we stand on the outer circle of God&#8217;s universe, and as we move toward the center we come to the adopted son&#8217;s position, the son&#8217;s position and finally to the true parents&#8217; position.</p>
<p>Religions of the world have been the tools which God used to fulfill His entire master plan of restoration. There have been many religions throughout history, but each has its specific role to play in the plan of God. For example, some religions are used to bring man up to the servant level, to the adopted son&#8217;s level and another to the level of true son and true parents. Therefore, different religions have emphasized being the servants of God, or the adopted sons of God, or finally the sons of God and parents of mankind. Horizontally speaking, religions also occupy different territories while tending ultimately toward one unified world and one unified religion.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s look at the history of Judaism and Christianity, both of which have gone through several definite processes in their development. Judaism is the religion that restores man up to the servant level, while Christianity restores man up to the adopted son&#8217;s level; at the time of the Lord of the Second Advent mankind will enter into the true sonship of the Lord. This is all basic Divine Principle. The history of the world of religion is all God&#8217;s external work. Internally the one basic direction comes from God&#8217;s urgent desire for His sons and daughters to achieve the level of total restoration, the standard of being untouched by the fall. Where then can God find His son who has achieved the level of perfection, to whom the fallen world will be absolutely foreign?</p>
<h3 align="center">The providence of Cain and Abel</h3>
<p>We have to look at history in reverse, going back to the point where sin was committed by Adam and Eve. In restoration, everyone must go back to his parents, grandparents, and so on, all the way back to the very level where Adam and Eve were committing sin, and then beyond the moment of sin to the realm where sin was never known. There you can taste the true love of God. In purity you can deserve the love of God. Only through that process can the true son of God be born, but do you think it would be easy&#8217;?</p>
<p>After Adam and Eve fell God began the restoration with their children, Cain and Abel. If there had been no fall, there would have been no difference in the positions of their sons because all of them would have been the children of God. However, the children of Adam and Eve were the result of collaboration between Satan and Adam and Eve, and were related to Satan instead of God.</p>
<p>The original hierarchy of creation was reversed by the fall, with Adam and Eve coming under the angel instead of God m Even Satan could not deny that Adam and Eve were originally the children of God, however, and he could not deprive God of them outright. The love of man came to be centered upon Satan instead of upon God by Satan&#8217;s diverting that love to himself, and as a result the positions of Cain and Abel became polarized, with one representing Satan&#8217;s love and the other representing the love of God.</p>
<p>According to the history of restoration, Abel was supposed to be the savior of Cain. Cain could not go directly back to the side of God, but had to go across a `&#8217;bridge,&#8221; in his case, Abel. By Cain&#8217;s coming through Abel to be restored to God, the condition would be fulfilled for God, Adam and the archangel together to be restored into their original positions.</p>
<p>No one can return to his original position by himself. You Unification Church members should know very clearly that you are cast in the role of Abel, but that you cannot return to God without taking Cain with you. God will not accept you alone. When Abel wins the heart of Cain and unites with him, they serve in a savior&#8217;s role together. Only in that position can the true parents&#8217; role be restored.</p>
<p>This particular principle concerning Cain and Abel is apparent in the world today, which is divided into two: the Cain world which is communist and denies God, and the Abel world, the free world, which accepts or fears God. The struggle of Cain and Abel in the garden of Eden is mirrored in the fact that the communist world is more than willing to annihilate the entire free world. There is only one way the Abel world can survive this murderous intent, and that is to hold onto God. The problem today is that the free world is forgetting the true way of salvation, seeking to find solutions without God, and there are none.</p>
<p>We have definitely come to the last days of human history, but if the Abel world forgets the way of salvation at this important juncture and tries to save itself without God, it will inevitably fall victim to communism. In that case there is no hope, for it will definitely be slain by the Cain world m That is the present world situation.</p>
<p>Who will bring this world to the ultimate realization that salvation resides in God and nowhere else? Young people whose ages are approximately equivalent to the age of Adam and Eve before the fall represent the generation before the fall. These young people should rise up to take on this mission of awakening the world. America should proudly stand as a model nation of Christianity, but instead America is now going through rampant moral degeneration. Why is this immorality so prevalent?</p>
<p>Many American young people today are even more corrupt than fallen Adam and Eve. At least Adam and Eve felt shame in the garden of Eden, having the decency to hide their naked bodies with fig leaves, but today young people lack that basic decency, doing all kinds of things even out in the streets and parks. At least Adam had a sense of repentance, for after he realized he had committed sin he wanted to be restored. But today in America there is a lack of shame and repentance. Shame is not necessarily bad if it leads to constructive change.</p>
<p>The Abel world is being attacked in two ways, with the communist world constantly encouraging moral degradation, as well as constantly planning the external destruction of the free world. The world as a whole is becoming corrupt to a degree far worse than Adam and Eve themselves were degraded. It is clear that the trend of immorality in America is leading this nation into decline and destruction. There must be some power that can reverse the tide of degeneration and stop the destruction. That movement is the Unification Church. We are going to reverse the tide, and to do that we must be tougher than any communists here on earth. We are not only fighting the ungodly force of communism, however; we must bring ourselves into purity and eliminate the way of life that evokes the wrath of God. That is our dual mission.</p>
<p>As members of the Unification Church, we must first become far superior to the communists, and second, we must restore and preserve absolute purity. We must not waver but walk unyieldingly to our one goal, the love of God. Man collaborated with Satan, becoming his victim by uniting with him in love, and in order to liquidate this fallen condition we must restore ourselves and love God purely.</p>
<h3 align="center">The qualifications of a child of God</h3>
<p>Until you meet God&#8217;s qualifications and can be recognized as truly being His children, you are not entitled to have the love of your wife or husband. You absolutely must set one condition of totally dedicating yourself to God, and before that time, thinking about your own love and your own future is not acceptable to God. You must be recognized by God as loving Him more than anyone else-more than your own parents, more than your own siblings and even more than yourself. After you have achieved that qualification, you can begin to organize your God-centered family.</p>
<p>What is the first qualification you should have? The strength of your loyalty to God must be superior to the communists&#8217; loyalty to their ideology and you must become better people than they. Second, each of you must make the condition of giving your genuine heart to God and God alone. In the true world of Adam and Eve there is only one single-minded way of life, which is loving God. That is the supreme destiny and mission of man, and neither the angel nor anyone else would be able to disrupt it. As a result of the fall of man all kinds of competing thoughts came into the human mind, but God wanted man to be single-minded instead.</p>
<p>Even thinking about yourself means diverting yourself from loving God. You must love God to the degree that you can even forget yourself, that you are no longer aware even of your own heart. Jesus said that unless a person loved him more than anyone else in the world, that person was not worthy of him. This extreme statement derives from the principle of loving God more than you love your own family.</p>
<p>Has there been anyone who loved God this single-mindedly? The world has not seen human beings who were born to love God and to live in single-minded service to Him; instead man has had to go through the process of restoration in order to finally reach the point where one man can be given by God to serve as an example. In that sense the fallen world has now come to its last days.</p>
<p>That one man is not appointed on the basis of human recognition. He is given by God to ultimately restore the parents&#8217; position and become the true parents of true mankind, to lead the world into the fulfillment of the Cain and Abel process. To do this he must awaken the Abel world to follow his own example, which is to totally love God. Then he will lead the people of God to subjugate the satanic world, in this case the communist world. His purpose is to bring both worlds together and return them to God.</p>
<p>There is an old saying that evil people must follow the example of good men. Why should that be? The good man is in the position of Abel and the evil man in the position of Cain, and to be saved Cain must follow Abel. For this reason, religion has constantly emphasized performing good deeds as an example for the world to follow.</p>
<p>What is the definition of a good man? Some might say, &#8220;I never harmed anybody. My conscience is clear. I am a good man.&#8221; Others might say, &#8220;I am a good man because I have a good home. I don&#8217;t steal from anybody, and my wife and I don&#8217;t fight too much.&#8221; Some might even say, &#8220;I am a good man because I am an American. I am a number-one citizen in the world and everyone should respect that fact.&#8221;</p>
<p>What is the true definition of a good man and where is the origin of good and evil? At the end of your finger or on the top of your head? Good and evil originate in you, for you have both dwelling within yourself. Can you look at God face to face and say, &#8220;God, as much as You are good, I am good too&#8221;? Everything starts from you, and you can be good as well as evil. Therefore, it is up to you to make yourself wholly good. Evil can be illustrated by describing a powerful conqueror who wants everyone else&#8217;s well-being to be sacrificed for his. You know that such a person is evil. For the good man there is no &#8220;myself,&#8221; but only God and humanity; for their sake there is nothing belonging to &#8220;me.&#8221; There is no self to serve. Such a person is wholly good.</p>
<p>The goal of religion in history has always been the subjugation of self, with holy men constantly teaching others to not allow their bodies to be used as contact points for evil. That is why good religions in history have always emphasized giving and self-sacrifice. Unification Church members should become foremost in that public-centered, selfless way of life.</p>
<p>Did you go out to sell the paper this morning? Do you have mixed motivations in selling? You can go out with bundles of papers because you want to buy breakfast, which means you are selling newspapers for your stomach. Is this good or evil? An ordinary newsboy might say he has to sell papers to help his mother or brother, which is good, but in a limited way. What if he bought some food for his family&#8217;s breakfast by selling papers, but on the way home he decided he was even hungrier than his family and instead of taking the food home he ate it himself? His original motivation was good, but the final actions were evil.</p>
<p>Suppose there is another person who sells newspapers in order to serve his neighbor next door. His motivation is higher than the first person&#8217;s, but if his father takes the money and scolds him for helping the neighbors instead of the father, then even his good intentions can end up with a less meaningful result.</p>
<p>I want you to know that greater good can be generated by loving more distant things m Why are you serving a greater good when you serve those far away from yourself? The road of restoration is designed that way by God because that is His way of life. God is thinking in this fashion: Give yourself for the benefit of your family, give your family for the benefit of society; give your society for the benefit of the nation and give your nation for the benefit of the world. Finally, give the world for the benefit of the entire cosmos.</p>
<p>When he knows this is God&#8217;s principle, the pious son will parallel the feeling and work of God. The attitude of the loyal citizen who dedicates himself to the purpose of his nation corresponds to God&#8217;s spirit, and on another level there are holy men, or saints, who give their lives for the sake of humanity. Good parents should teach their own children in this fashion: &#8220;My son, you must love your neighbors more than you love me. Love your country and the world more than you love me. Serve God and humanity.&#8221; If any parent teaches his children in that fashion then he is certainly a good parent. Children of such parents will become greater, more universal beings of eternal goodness and they will secure true prosperity. By using this one formula you can evaluate the goodness of parents.</p>
<p>In history there have been many kings, both good and evil. A good king was one who taught his subjects that they must serve other people, giving their energy and sacrificial devotion for the benefit of the country more than for their own king m Furthermore, the good king emphasized, &#8220;Even more than you love our people you must go and love the people of the world and God.&#8221; The king who thought to sacrifice his own country and kingdom for the sake of the entire world was a good king in the sight of God.</p>
<p>A saint lives for the ultimate purpose of God and humanity. No personal desire can distract him, for nothing else is of greater importance to him, and he can give up his family, his own country and even his own life in dedication to the purpose of God and humanity. The patriot is greater than the pious son and certainly the saint is greater than the patriot. Which would you like to become? Those saints who founded the great religions have one thing in common-they gave up everything for the sake of their service to God and humanity. Their unchanging teaching was to love God and love mankind. The saint is the one who can say, &#8220;I love God and humanity more than I love my own wife, my own children and my parents.&#8221;</p>
<p>Put yourself in the position of God looking down upon the earth at His own children. Would you like to see your son taking care of and loving only his family; or would you rather have a son who took care of only his society, his nation, and world; or a son who could serve the entire universe? God wants to have a son who will love God and humanity most of all. There is no greater son than that.</p>
<h3 align="center">America as the Abel nation</h3>
<p>Frankly speaking, is today&#8217;s America a good or an evil country? America has been a great nation because many of its people sincerely wanted to serve the world m Americans have given love and assistance to other nations and American soldiers have died defending other countries m Recently, however, America has gradually become selfish, and now more than ever before America is emphasizing solving its problems before trying to help the rest of the world m This is exactly like the person who intends to serve his neighbor, but ends up serving only his parents, or worst of all, himself.</p>
<p>No matter what America says to me, my warning is this: &#8220;As long as this nation only intends to serve its own selfish purposes, it is standing against God&#8217;s prime principle and cannot flourish, but will only decline m America has been disturbed by my warning, saying all sorts of unkind things about me, but I am unconcerned m I care deeply about America because I know that once this nation declines the entire world will decline. Korea does not control the world&#8217;s destiny, but if America is ruined then the world will have no more hope.</p>
<p>With this concern in mind I came to America to kindle a spiritual revolution m Do you Americans want to be people whose foremost concern is just America, or would you like to become universal citizens, having your foremost concern focused upon God and humanity? Young people in America are dying spiritually, being corrupted by moral degradation of all kinds m I am trying to turn these young people around to become saints in the eyes of God, trying to bring a revolution to this degraded, dying generation.</p>
<p>Today America faces many troubles. For example, one reason the American steel industry is unable to compete with the prices of Japanese and Korean steel is the labor situation here. Workers want to work less and get paid more, but why are the workers acting this way? Many unions are influenced by a power that wants to see America decline. Because of their own selfishness in trying to look after themselves, they are putting formidable power into the hands of communism, being used themselves as tools to eventually bring this great nation down. To save the situation in just this one area a quiet revolution from selfishness to unselfishness is needed.</p>
<h3 align="center">Religious people must champion God&#8217;s cause</h3>
<p>Even though Abel was killed by his brother Cain, Abel had made an offering to God and was holding his face up to God. As the Abel nation today America will be set upon by communist nations, but as long as America keeps trust in God and tries to serve God even while it is being attacked, no power can actually destroy it.</p>
<p>In the eyes of the world you Unification Church members are miserable and pitiable. I want to ask one question: Are you confident that with our own power and influence we can bring the free world and the communist world into unity? Can we ultimately liberate God and bring humanity together to the throne of God? In order to save Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel should come together. That same principle also works on the worldwide level. Jesus was Abel on the national level, and if Cain, which was Israel and Judaism, had responded to Jesus and become one with him then on the foundation of the nation Jesus could easily have emerged as the True Parent of mankind. Then he could have erected a permanent worldwide kingdom on a base that was Godcentered and guided by God&#8217;s principle.</p>
<p>Bringing the Kingdom of God here on earth on a national and then worldwide scale was Jesus&#8217; only goal. With this in his heart, what would Jesus have preached? Would he have said, &#8220;Brethren, I am a son of God and I have many gifts and blessings for you m If you unite with me, I&#8217;ll give you good homes, good lives and abundant blessings. I will even make you powerful kings and queens in the world.&#8221; Wouldn&#8217;t he have said instead, &#8220;Brethren, even if you and I must be sacrificed, God wants to save the world. Let us become champions for the salvation of the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>The principle of restoration between Cain and Abel works on the individual, national and worldwide levels m The scope may be different but the principle remains the same. With the knowledge of this principle would you say that Jesus came to die or to achieve some other mission? What did he want to do? Jesus came to liberate God by taking the position of Abel to win Israel, which was Cain. Together with Jesus, Israel would have become the Abel nation and would have been able to win the rest of the Cain world. Then the Cain world could have presented itself before the throne of God and our Father in Heaven would have been liberated from His sorrow and grief and emerged as the Parent of mankind. That was the purpose of Jesus&#8217; coming.</p>
<p>Today many Christian churches believe that a happy God is sitting up there on His throne. If this is so then what kind of parent is He? How could He be happy while His sons and daughters are being corrupted and thrown down into hell every day here on earth? God has been the prisoner of a broken heart and needs to be liberated. For that reason God is desperately longing for the emergence of one man as the Messiah who can liberate the world and bring Him ultimate Liberation.</p>
<p>Why did you come to the Unification Church? You are here to liberate the heart of God and to liberate mankind. The purpose of your being here is to take care of the world and make it the world God hoped form God is in trouble m Look at the world. Every day the communists proclaim that there is no God, and even some Christians have said that God is dead. Someone has to come out and say, &#8220;God, don&#8217;t worry about it. Let me take care of the world m Let me give them an answer and show them that You are not dead.&#8221;</p>
<p>Christians are supposed to be doing this and people of all other faiths as well, but they are not. Therefore, we are called to stand before God as His representatives. Once you are truly motivated to do this, no power under the sun can stop you because your authority comes from the highest, most supreme power. Your parents may be tugging at you, but even if your nation pulls at you there is still no power to stop you. You must be proud of having such commitment and perseverance. We are not ordinary, pious children to our parents nor ordinary patriots nor ordinary men of goodness. No, we are here to serve the ultimate purpose of God and humanity by giving ourselves to mend His broken heart and liberate Him from His sorrow. That&#8217;s the job we are here to do.</p>
<p>Do you have confidence you will finish the task? If you American members are maligned by the government or FBI, will you look around for some place to live an easy, relaxed life? Or will you look for a place that&#8217;s even tougher than America? Whether or not you are an American wouldn&#8217;t matter if the people in the government chased you out. What would be your final farewell message to America? When Jesus was pushed out of this world, he said, &#8220;I will come back.&#8221; I hope each one of you would leave America with the final words, &#8220;I will return m&#8221; Would you really do this? If you did so, I guarantee that you would become a son or daughter of God m Such a person would be bigger than the world and would have the power within himself to unite the communist world and the free world.</p>
<p>Some people say that I am a dangerous man because I say that I will conquer the world m But to those people I say, &#8220;Why not conquer the world in the name and love of God?&#8221; This is not just my personal ambition at all. This is God&#8217;s ambition and in this battle I will be on the front line. If America adopted this way of life it would not decline or be ruined but would become a savior nation to the world. America could liberate God&#8217;s sorrowing, broken heart, and liberate the spirit world as well. America would become a country that could even liberate hell.</p>
<p>We want to make America that kind of country. After living this way of life you will see history testify to the effect of your presence in this country. People might not know at this time, but history will know. If the Moonies don&#8217;t do it then Sunnies will do it. The third level belongs to Kingies. After becoming Kingies you won&#8217;t need a country, for anywhere you go in the world will be your country. There will be no more boundaries and no one will exclude you from their nation out of prejudice. The only people who are actually able to claim this country as theirs are the Indians because they came here first. The Indians are of Asiatic origin, and as such could be called my cousins.</p>
<p>I know very clearly what the communists&#8217; strategy is. They are trying to promote racial war, one of the most effective strategies for the communist takeover of any continent. For example, they agitate among Indians by saying, &#8220;You know that the white people are your enemies.&#8221; With propaganda like this they try to divide the races and incite open conflict. A mediator is definitely needed in this struggle. I can say, &#8220;You Indians are my cousins. Don&#8217;t be hostile to white people, for they are your brothers.&#8221; To black people I can say, &#8220;I am a friend of yours, and white people are also our brothers m&#8221; As an Asian I can win the confidence of all races, and with the truth all humanity can be persuaded that racial hatred is not the true way of life.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think any white person could reconcile all races, coming on the foundation of the poor record white people have in dealing with other races. Black people might not do too good a job either, for no matter what blacks may attempt, too much distance exists between white and black. But I come from Asia, being neither white nor black. People may be suspicious of me now, but they will find out who I am and unite in friendship.</p>
<h3 align="center">The attackers in history were always defeated</h3>
<p>Today we learned the definition of goodness. If you understand what goodness is and if you are a clever man or woman, then you know what our way of life should be. Whatever you eat, you consume for God and mankind, not for yourselves. As you go out and work, whatever you do is for the sake of God and humanity. In going out fund raising, you know that every penny is going for the purpose of God and humanity.</p>
<p>You know what your way of life should be, and even when you come up against obstacles, if you are doing your work with 100 percent effort for the sake of God and mankind then God will smile upon you. When you are absolutely dedicated to living the life of God 24 hours a day, day in and day out, there is no moment of your own. When all moments belong to God and humanity, you are heroes in God&#8217;s world.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t be a small-minded person. Push out your chest and jump off your launching pad, like Apollo 11 going up into the vast universe. We are all destined to be launched, and our first objective is to reach the moon and become Moonies. Our next destination is the sun, and then we are Sunnies. Our third destination is the heart of God, and then we are Kingies. Jesus also proclaimed that in Christ each person should be king. Conventional ministers might think that I speak blasphemy, but you can find this in the Bible.</p>
<p>History has been nothing more than the struggle between Cain and Abel on different levels and in different arenas. History in its entirety all boils down to one thing: the struggle of Cain and Abel, of two powers confronting each other and trying to unite. In first joining the Unification Church you become small Abels, and later the center of Abel families, the Abel society, Abel nation, Abel world, Abel spirit world and Abel cosmos. We are the family that represents the entire world, but this family is not here to secure only its own prosperity; it has a mission to benefit the larger family, the nation and the world.</p>
<p>We shall not try to avoid being a sacrifice to save the world. Sacrifice is something with which to chasten oneself, and humbling yourself for the sake of others is the best condition you can make. Selfishness brought the fall of man and unless you have the courage to chastise and give yourself for the benefit of others, you cannot bridge the gap between the fallen world and the realm of sainthood. Through sacrifice you can most quickly achieve the goal of God.</p>
<p>Communists are always belligerent and warlike, but the tendency to invade and infiltrate is all a result of the fall. It is not God&#8217;s way, and as a result all invaders ultimately fail. In both World Wars the attackers were defeated. World War III is a global struggle between the communist ideology and the free world; the communists keep invading, but ultimately God&#8217;s law is going to apply here also.</p>
<p>Is the Unification Church attacking anyone? In reality the Unification Church is being attacked by America. America has already attacked me, and when I receive that kind of persecution the Church as a whole receives persecution. Who is better in the sight of God? The answer is simple. Our opponents are attacking us for the purpose of their own selfish benefit, yet even in this circumstance we are not resisting for our own sake, but for the sake of God and humanity. That&#8217;s why we are good.</p>
<p>The persecutors have done us much damage, but the day will come when they will have to try to indemnify their actions. However, since the evil they have done is against me and the Unification Church, they have incurred a debt they cannot fully pay, even if they were to use all this nation&#8217;s resources. They have done eternal evil.</p>
<p>We will tell them, &#8220;You cannot repay the debt or indemnify completely what you have done, but what you can do is bring Satan as your captive.&#8221; Once Satan is taken, we can control him and then our work is done. Then we can liberate mankind and God. The best strategy is to allow ourselves to be attacked, and I know that as individuals you have been beaten and as a Church we have been beaten. The whole nation has come against us and the whole world has spoken out against us. Because this is how the world will ultimately become indebted to us, receiving persecution is God&#8217;s best strategy.</p>
<p>At some point God will not be able to tolerate such evil behavior any longer and He will stand up in our defense. Then the spirit world will also say, &#8220;We cannot stand it. The world is doing too much against Reverend Moon and the Unification Church.&#8221; Later on some of the good people of this world will say, &#8220;What did Reverend Moon do wrong? Why do they do those evil things to him?&#8221; Perhaps even the Harvard Divinity School will have a kind of academic demonstration to support Reverend Moon.</p>
<p>Persecution is not necessarily bad for it stimulates and attracts all kinds of wonderful opportunities. One thing is certain: I will always move forward relentlessly, and even if the entire world tries to stop me I will pull the world along behind me. What I predict will come to pass. You will see that my words will become reality.</p>
<p>If we are able to save Russia by winning champions here in this nation, then America will automatically be saved. That&#8217;s why I clearly announced after the Washington Monument Rally that our next goal is to go to Moscow. At this moment our brothers and sisters are working underground in satellite countries, where many of them are suffering in prison. When you think of our brethren over there can you ever say, &#8220;My mission in New York is so hard&#8221;? For the sake of our brothers and sisters who are suffering we must liberate mankind from the yoke of communism.</p>
<h3 align="center">Most allegations against me are communist-inspired</h3>
<p>We must also liberate Christianity and Judaism. We are called anti-Semitic and I have been called the anti-Christ, but these accusations are far from the truth. We have one concern, which is that God&#8217;s will be done. We want to raise up people who are so committed and dedicated that they can even liberate the USSR. In the name of God, you and I will oppose any policy that will give unlimited advantage to communist countries. Whether he is aware of it or not, President Carter has done many lenient and foolish things, which only aid the goals of the communist countries. I don&#8217;t like it. Is he naively trying to win the hearts of communists? This administration is on the wrong course and you will see that it will be oppressed by increasingly difficult problems.</p>
<p>The negotiations regarding the Panama Canal seem to be a goodwill gesture, but if America was caught in global conflict with the communists and the Panama Canal was in communist hands, our link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans would be gone. If I were to see President Carter I would confront him with several painful truths. When I met President Nixon I did not comfort him, but gave him painful advice which was difficult for him to take. If President Nixon had taken my advice, however, America would not be as it is today and Nixon himself would not be in his present situation.</p>
<p>Many times I was appalled by Nixon&#8217;s policies. The Nixon Doctrine did not bring benefit but only tragedy to America, as it withdrew American power from Asian territories. The proposed withdrawal of American armed forces from Korea was not suggested first by President Carter, but by President Nixon. America has become a sanctuary where the communist powers can freely organize to undermine this country.</p>
<p>Because of the communist threat I hoped that President Nixon would remain strong and stay in office as President. In the American presidency is vested vast power which can be utilized to contain the spread of communism. Therefore, the weakening of the United States presidency only enhances the strength of the communists and that cannot be allowed to happen. If the power of the presidency is weakened, FBI and CIA activities against communist infiltration are also weakened. That would only provide further sanctuary to communist power. Trade unions are becoming powerful organizations and will become an even greater danger to democracy in the days to come m Workers are increasingly motivated by self-concern and do not care too much about the destiny of the nation. What can the Administration do? It will be increasingly immobilized by one trouble after another.</p>
<p>I will not budge in my stand against the communists. I will not yield or compromise, but will continue to march on. I know that my name is constantly mentioned inside Russia and other communist countries because the government publicly criticizes me as a capitalist running dog of the United States and the South Korean governments. I can appreciate that because it shows that they know the strength of my spirit and commitment. The only people who do not know about me are the leaders in the free world. They don&#8217;t know or appreciate who I am; at least the communist leaders know about me.</p>
<p>Who started the rumor that I am an agent of the KCIA? The communists. Who started the rumor that I am brainwashing people? The communists. They deliberately spread this slander in order to destroy me. Whether they know it or not, it is clear that most people in the free world media are only tools for spreading the lies of the communists. They tried to characterize me as a political person, for instance, by saying that my Watergate campaign was political. Anyone who says that should read the Watergate statement. All I said was, &#8220;Forgive, love and unite,&#8221; and if that is political then all of Christianity is political because that is the fundamental teaching of Jesus Christ. When I visited President Nixon in the Oval Office at the White House, the first thing I did was ask the President to sit down and pray with me to Almighty God. I was trying to tell the President that he must be humble before God and kneel to ask His guidance. I told him that he would find the solutions to his problems in no other way. You can see that my visit truly was not political.</p>
<p>The media does not tell the truth about us because many people want to see me destroyed. What they are doing is really political, but they rationalize, &#8220;He disturbs our peace. We have a wonderful thing going and we don&#8217;t want him here.&#8221; They have their own political goals and in order to achieve them they write as they do. The idea that I am a KCIA agent is absurd. The KCIA is so small that whatever they might say to me would be so trivial that I would never respond. The truth about this will one day come out. I am telling you all this today because I want you to know how I feel so that you can become a part of me.</p>
<h3 align="center">Fulfillment of the Cain-Abel<br />
providence on the family level</h3>
<p>When Cain slew Abel, that particular dispensation collapsed and God had to wait until the time of Esau and Jacob before it was fulfilled on the family level. The restoration principle here is rather simple; the younger brother in Abel&#8217;s position should restore the birthright and win the right to hold the elder brother&#8217;s position. At the time of Esau and Jacob, Isaac was in Adam&#8217;s position and Rebecca in Eve&#8217;s position, while their children were in the positions of Cain and Abel. Because Eve was the source of evil, Rebekah&#8217;s position was to make restitution for Eve&#8217;s sin by assisting her own son, Jacob.</p>
<p>The Bible records some puzzling events regarding Jacob. In order to restore the birthright, Jacob did some cunning things and told outright lies. He was dishonest, lying to his father and tricking him into blessing him by saying that he was Esau. Such deeds are not honorable, but even so God permitted Isaac to bless Jacob. Why? The Bible just reports the actual events, and theologians cannot explain the apparent paradox. No one can resolve this question without knowing the principle of restoration, which originates in the basic elements of the fall of man and God&#8217;s will for restoration.</p>
<p>Eve fell by denying her Father, God. She also denied the role of the father which belonged to Adam, who was to be her husband, and then Eve united with Satan and fell. In restitution, the process has to be reversed. Rebecca was in Eve&#8217;s position, Isaac was in God&#8217;s position and Esau was in Adam&#8217;s position. To reverse the process of the fall, Rebecca deceived Isaac and Esau so that Jacob could obtain the birthright of the elder son and thus assume his rightful position in God&#8217;s sight. Jacob was in Abel&#8217;s position, and with Rebekah&#8217;s help he succeeded in making Esau, as Cain, surrender. In the sight of God this reversed the original act of Satan. Satan had to be subjugated in order to complete the process of restitution, and because goodness was reversed by the fall of man, we must reverse things in order to return to the right way. Jacob won the first victory in the dispensation of God; therefore, God gave him the title of Israel, which means &#8220;victorious.&#8221; Jacob restored for the first time the birthright of God&#8217;s son, meaning that Abel was victorious on the family level.</p>
<p>Jacob was victorious over the position of fallen Adam and Eve by staying on the side of God. We cannot go into detail because it would take too long, but for the first time in history the birthright of God&#8217;s son was restored. The younger brother was brought into the elder brother&#8217;s position and the elder brother was brought into the younger brother&#8217;s position. Cain and Abel were united for the first time, with Cain humbling himself before Abel. Jacob became the first man acceptable in the sight of God, and the forefather of God&#8217;s people.</p>
<p>It is significant that Esau and Jacob were twins because twins are closer than other brothers, being born at the same time. Cain and Abel were born at different times, and their positions were brought into closer unity through the twins, Esau and Jacob. Even after Jacob consummated his responsibility and was given the blessing of Israel, the dispensation still had to grow to maturity. There was a certain part of Jacob&#8217;s life which was not purified: the time from conception in his mother&#8217;s womb until the age of forty. This span of time still remained in Satan&#8217;s realm and thus God wanted to repeat and perfect Jacob&#8217;s dispensation.</p>
<p>This was done through Tamar, the daughter-in-law of Judah, Jacob&#8217;s fourth son. Judah was the heir of God&#8217;s direct lineage. Tamar sensed that her husband was supposed to be the direct heir of Israel&#8217;s lineage, but he died at an early age without leaving a son. According to custom, his brother was supposed to marry Tamar, but he also died and Tamar still did not have a son to carry on the lineage. She looked at the youngest brother of her husband, but he was not given to her as Judah had originally promised. When Tamar saw this, she disguised herself as a prostitute and deceived her father-in-law. Eve had deceived her husband to fulfill selfish purpose, but Tamar deceived her father-in-law for God&#8217;s purpose. This was the fundamental difference which enabled God to work His providence through her.</p>
<p>In the relationship with her father-in-law Tamar conceived twins, Perez and Zerahm Just as Rebecca had experienced her two children struggling inside her womb, so did Tamar. Rebecca had protested to God and He answered that she must endure it because two nations were in her womb, of which the younger would become greater. The same answer was given Tamar. When the time of delivery came, Zerah&#8217;s hand came out first from his mother&#8217;s womb. To distinguish the two children, the midwife tied a red string around the child&#8217;s wrist, foreshadowing the appearance of the communist ideology before the time of the Lord of the Second Advent. An amazing thing happened, however. After the first child put out his arm, a struggle began inside Tamar&#8217;s womb and as a result the younger brother was born first.</p>
<p>You can see how meticulously God worked to successfully complete His dispensation; finally the birthright of Abel was fully restored in the history of Israel. Through Tamar, restoration was completed to include even a child in his mother&#8217;s womb, which is as far as restoration can go before the Messiah comes. Since that time the tribe of Judah has always stood in the priest&#8217;s position, and when the people of Israel came out of Egypt it was Judah&#8217;s tribe which carried the tabernacle.</p>
<p>These events laid the foundation for the Christ to be born free of sin. Through Jacob and Tamar, God had restored the birthright up to the time of the mother&#8217;s womb, and as a result the Messiah could be conceived through a faithful woman who came out of that particular lineage. Many people want to know, if the preparation for the coming of the Messiah was finished at the time of Tamar, why Christ wasn&#8217;t born in the next generation. The answer is simple. The Messiah must come on the national level and Israel had not reached the national level in Tamar&#8217;s day. Time had to elapse to allow the nation of Israel to develop, and by the time of Jesus the nation of Israel had been established.</p>
<p>Rebecca and Tamar were courageous, unselfish women. Their motivation was not their own enjoyment but purely the service of God, and they gave up their lives for that purpose. One more woman was required to fulfill God&#8217;s extraordinary dispensation and that was Mary, the mother of Jesus. Mary was in the position of Eve and Rebecca and Tamar and she went through exactly the same process: Mary had a fiancée, but she was disloyal to him and to her father, and conceived a baby without their knowledge.</p>
<h3 align="center">Jesus as the second Adam</h3>
<p>Mary was faithful to God. By the conditions already established and the indemnity already paid, Satan had no claim to the heavenly baby conceived in her womb. There was no room for Satan&#8217;s invasion. For many thousands of years God had prepared the foundation for Jesus so that he could be a Messiah from birth. Satan had no power over the baby Jesus because even his mother&#8217;s womb had already been sanctified. Jesus was born as the elder son, not just in respect to Israel, but to the world, past, present and future.</p>
<p>From the very beginning Jesus was different from anyone else, and was able to proclaim, &#8220;I am the only begotten son of God.&#8221; This is truly a formidable statement, and it meant that he was the first embodiment of the love of God, the first on earth to win the love of God. After a labor of many thousands of years, God could finally see His son born on earth. Did God want His son to be a champion, or to be killed? God&#8217;s real heart in regard to the birth of Jesus has never been known to the Christian world, which has thought that Jesus only came to die. That is total nonsense. Jesus was God&#8217;s only begotten son, and no father wants his son to be killed.</p>
<p>Since Jesus came as an Abel to the world, the nation of Israel and its people should have united with him without any reservations. Indeed, Jesus was supposed to have become the king of Israel, then the king of many nations and finally king of the world. Could he have accomplished that all alone?</p>
<p>From the beginning God intended to have His kingdom in the garden of Eden. The invisible God wanted his son, Adam, to be king and Eve to be queen, and to multiply children so that their offspring numbered like the stars of the sky and the sands of the sea. They were to be prosperous, and their children were to be kings and reign over all the world. If Jesus indeed came to restore the same position which God intended for Adam, do you think that he had to live alone all his life? God created Adam as a man and Eve as a woman to become a couple and form a family. Jesus came to restore Adam, and naturally his first responsibility was to restore Eve, his own bride.</p>
<p>What was in Jesus&#8217; mind as he was crucified? His people, his nation, God? Why did he not want to die? Foremost in his mind was the thought that he must leave behind a bride, the mother of mankind. But, knowing his crucifixion was near, Jesus left a prophecy for the future that he would come again and take his bride at the Second Advent.</p>
<p>The true bridegroom and bride were to form the true family together with their children, and that family then multiply into a society, nation and world. However. since the time of Adam many children of the fallen lineage have been born, and God had to provide a way to restore the already-existing world. Each person was to be grafted onto Jesus, the tree of life; then all could share the true life and love of God. In this way God intended to restore the entire world, and all mankind would become one people, the race of Adam. God never intended to have many different nations or races. God sees only one race.</p>
<p>Today many Christians believe that the Lord is coming a second time, but they believe that he will come on the clouds of heaven. If Jesus&#8217; goal was restoration of the physical family and the establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth, how could he ever achieve that goal by coming on the clouds with a spiritual body? That is nonsense. Christ will not come on the clouds of heaven. The role of the second Messiah is that of Adam, and since the first Adam failed and the second Adam, Jesus, was not given the chance to fulfill his mission, a third Adam is needed to fulfill that same goal on earth. This time God will do it.</p>
<p>The truth of God is logical. Do not ever think that I devised my own theory, or that what I am saying is my own idea. It is God speaking, and the entire spirit world speaking. In the spirit world you will see how this is the truth. I am merely the person through whom the new revelation has come m I am the first one to discover the true identity of Satan and the crime he committed, how evil he was and how he murdered Adam and Eve. I can now say to Satan, &#8220;You have been disguised all through history, but in front of me you can no longer hide m I know who you are and what kind of crime you committed m&#8221; For the first time in history someone has really confronted Satan.</p>
<p>No matter how terrible his crime, as long as a criminal is not detected, he can pretend that he hasn&#8217;t done anything wrong m Once his crime is detected, however, he must surrender. This applies to Satan as well. So far Satan has been an unknown criminal who could walk around in broad daylight, even parading in front of God and sneering, &#8220;Look at that guy. How dirty he is; he cannot be your son.&#8221; Satan has been accusing man over and over again before God. Now the son of God must prosecute Satan before God and present proof of Satan&#8217;s crime.</p>
<p>People say that I am a heretic because I claim that the Lord is not coming on the clouds of heaven. If you think I am a heretic, go yourself and ask Jesus how he wants to return. Today all mankind, and particularly the Christian world, are in darkness, knowing nothing about the will of God, nothing about the heart of God or the dispensation of Jesus&#8217; time. They oppose us out of selfish motivations and this must be changed, for God cannot accept it. Ask God yourself. He cannot tolerate it any longer.</p>
<h3 align="center">Jesus as the tree of life</h3>
<p>In the spirit world you will be able to see whether I am a true leader or a false prophet, but I am glad that the time will soon come when even without dying anyone will be able to see the truth. You will be able to meet God or Jesus Christ and ask them who I am. Ask Abraham, Jacob or anyone else in spirit world and they will tell you. The time is coming when they will testify here on earth.</p>
<p>We must be humble, never arrogant. We must feel the heart of God and all Christians should do the same. We must not be proud because of our Unification Church. We must be proud for God, however. Our label is not important and it is not our goal to create another denomination. Our goal is to unite all the denominations of Christianity, not to make another sect. Who is going to unite all those stubborn people? Not Reverend Moon and not you; God is going to do it.</p>
<p>Jesus was murdered. Why would anyone who came to this world to be killed want to come back? No one would come back under those circumstances, but Jesus must come again because he left his mission undone. Jesus is a man and as a man he is capable of marrying a woman. Christian ministers are shocked to hear this idea, but ask them, &#8220;You believe that you are a child of God, but would you be happy if everyone treated you as half a man? It is natural to you that people treat you as a whole man and that you marry and have children. Why wouldn&#8217;t those feelings also be natural to Jesus Christ?&#8221;</p>
<p>Christians say that we are heretics, but I tell you that this is not just ordinary heresy. I am a super-heretic in their eyes, and the amazing thing is that God likes this super-heretic. Children have been born all over the world since Jesus died. Even though they are sinful children, they are still children of God and need to be restored, but there has existed no tree of life for them to physically graft themselves onto.</p>
<p>If you want to know Jesus clearly and correctly, you must understand that he is not just the Messiah or savior; after his crucifixion Jesus had to come back as a spiritual parent. He is your spiritual father who is capable of giving you spiritual rebirth. When Jesus ascended into heaven, he brought down the Holy Spirit, which is the spiritual mother. Eve gave birth to sinful children, but the Holy Spirit comes to give man spiritual rebirth.</p>
<p>Through the power of love a father and mother create new life, and it is the same in the rebirth process. Each person must go back to the origin and be born again, beginning as flesh and blood and bone in our Father. You were created as a result of love, but sinful love. So you must go back to the body of Jesus in a sinless, sacrificial life. If you love Jesus and know that he is your spiritual father, then you must want to bring yourself inside his heart and be born again as his flesh and blood. That&#8217;s the desire you must have. Through sacrificial love you can go back to the origin, the very source of your life. Once you were flesh and bone of your father. If you love Jesus so much that nothing else in the world matters to you, you can absolutely give your heart and soul to trim m At that point the Holy Spirit can come to you and give you rebirth; then you are reborn as a spiritual son or daughter of Jesus m That is the whole process of rebirth in Christianity. It is the essence of Christianity. but it will elevate a person only to the level of adopted son.</p>
<p>Man was not created in spirit alone, but with a body. The ultimate step left to be taken is to be born again, not just in spirit, hut in spirit and body together. For that purpose Jesus&#8217; body is needed and he must return as a living person in flesh. So far Christianity has offered only the possibility of rebirth in spirit. Now in the New Age, when Jesus comes back as the Second Messiah, we shall be given the power to be born again in the body as well. Each person needs this physical rebirth before going to spirit world. Furthermore, the requirement to enter the Kingdom of God in heaven is that you become elevated as sons and daughters of God, loving the world as God loves the world.</p>
<p>According to the Bible, Jesus is not coming by himself but is also bringing a myriad of spirit men. All spirit men need to be born again in spirit and body as well as men on earth. When the Lord appears here on earth, the spirit world will want to come and unite with the body of Christ so that they may be born again in spirit and body. Because that is their ultimate hope, even those in spirit world are eagerly waiting for the day when the Messiah comes. When Christ achieves his goal here on earth, they all can be resurrected to the ultimate heaven. Not only men and women on earth but also spirit world will love Christ and follow him and serve him with their hearts and souls.</p>
<p>All mankind wants to become part of the blood and flesh of Christ, the True Parents. How can that be done? You can become flesh and blood of the Messiah by giving your unselfish, sacrificial love to the world. Your actions in loving the world will lead you deep inside the flesh and bone of the Messiah. If what I am telling you is truth, then at the end of the world there will be a new religion centering on one man and all the citizens of the world will want</p>
<p>to love and serve him, disregarding everything else. Once that magnetic force of love appears on earth, the place where the messianic role is being fulfilled can be recognized and the opportunity to live Jesus&#8217; prophecy will be at hand.</p>
<p>Jesus said that those who loved husband or wife or father and mother more than Jesus were not worthy of him. That idea can actually be lived in our lives. There will be one living person here on earth for whom we can give that kind of devotion and still want to give more. Even if you are killed for that dedication, you will not regret it. Certainly the love of God is more valuable than your life. You can forget eating and everything else in your desire to meet that person. Nothing else will matter to you, even if you die.</p>
<p>Become a seed in the physical body of the Father and obtain rebirth. When people become one with the Messiah to that extent then he will draw the attention of the world. The day will come when he will take his bride in what the Bible calls the marriage supper of the lamb. At that moment the entire spirit world and the entire earth will know their resurrection, for that is the gate through which they will all pass; they can be reborn through the first heavenly bride.</p>
<p>You might have everything under the sun, including a Ph. D. and a billion-dollar fortune and a wealth of knowledge. But if you cannot find the true gate to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, if you cannot find the True Parents here on earth, you are actually a poor person and have nothing at all. The Messiah comes on earth as a physical person in flesh and blood to meet his bride. Together they will celebrate and declare in heaven and earth the true sonship and true parenthood under God. That is the day of resurrection, the day of hope. The very purpose of the Messiah&#8217;s coming the second time is to declare to the world the true parenthood of mankind here on earth and forever in the spirit world.</p>
<p>The Old Testament and the New Testament will pass away. What the world needs is the True Parents as the true source of life. The true children of mankind will be grafted into that family of the true father, true mother and true children, and around them the world will be reorganized into God&#8217;s lineage. That day must come before you can truly have Children&#8217;s Day. Before you declare yourselves true children, you need the assent of three persons: God, True Father and True Mother. Today is Children&#8217;s Day, but before it is fully celebrated, the day of resurrection must come.</p>
<p>If you want to become true children of God then you must be different from people of the past. You must say to God that you are no longer pursuing ordinary, secular goals. &#8220;I am Your son, and day in and day out my goal will be to fulfill Your will and be Your representative and grow to be worthy of possessing Your love.&#8221; Those are the words of true children of God, and nothing will change them.</p>
<p>Children&#8217;s Day was declared in 1960, on October 1 by the lunar calendar. On that day, before God and with Satan observing, the True Parents declared Children&#8217;s Day to the world.</p>
<p>You must be the son who can transcend the level of family, nation and world and overcome all obstacles. You will be the single-minded champion of God. The day you make such a covenant with God is the real Children&#8217;s Day.</p>
<h3 align="center">Become a tree of life in your own right</h3>
<p>We are upholders of the new ideology of &#8220;Godism,&#8221; which means the absolutely God-centered ideology and way of life. You will each become a tree of life in your own right, and people of the world will come to be grafted to you and find resurrection. If you achieve this perfection, you will have the power to resurrect others, and everything you do will be for the sake of God and humanity. You will marry for the sake of God and the fulfillment of His will. You will bear children, not for yourself, but for the sake of God and mankind. You will eat and earn money and build houses and teach others, all for the sake of God and humanity. Nothing is excepted from this standard.</p>
<p>Your heart should be the dwelling place of God and the True Parents, and the dwelling place of all men in the spirit world and here on earth. Your heart must be that wide. Your love will become so intense and strong that you can embrace God, the True Parents and mankind not only here on earth, but in heaven as well. Are you that kind of person?</p>
<p>The solution of history has been given, creating an explosion of all history, allowing everything to become solidified; there will be no more problems after this. In a few moments I have described the 6,000 years of biblical history, from Adam to the present time, and each of you must walk through this history as I have done. Put yourself in the position of Adam&#8217;s family, but be an Adam who will not fall. Relive the history of Cain and Abel, being the Cain who does not kill his brother and the Abel who is not killed by Cain. Walk down the path of Noah, having his faith, but not making the mistakes he did. At each step of history put yourself in the center of that historical event and become the person who can make restitution.</p>
<p>Finally you will come to the time of Jesus. Then you can declare to God and the world, &#8220;I shall stand even taller than Jesus, work harder than Jesus and achieve more than Jesus did in his own time.&#8221; That&#8217;s not arrogance because you have advantages that Jesus did not have. Jesus had only a small country, but you have the world and the universe available to you m You can say, &#8220;I can love this world and universe that Jesus was not able to love in his time.&#8221; Furthermore, Jesus could not marry and have his own physical children, but you will marry in the name of God and form a godly family. You can give God&#8217;s children to this world. Jesus never experienced being a grandfather, but you will each become grandparents for God. You may not know how and why you came to this point, but you know that this is the way you are going to love.</p>
<p>The world has given us the name Moonies, but we have ourselves the name Sunnies. We start out as Moonies, and when we become Sunnies other people will become Moonies. After becoming Sunnies we have one more rank to achieve, the rank of Kingies. Then you will be given your certificate as a member of the royal family of the Kingdom of God.</p>
<p>Even though I may be ugly, I am more ambitious in terms of the love of God than any other man who ever walked on earth. Every part of my body is directed to the realization of that goal. My eyes want to see that goal; my ears want to hear that goal; my mouth wants to speak of that goal; my nose wants to smell that goal. My brain is thinking of that goal, nothing else but that one goal. I know one thing will be obvious in the future-no man could be as crazy as I am in regard to God. Everyone has been longing for the true Children&#8217;s Day for a long, long time. You did not just arrive here at random. You have gone through every kind of hardship, difficulty and persecution, but you have broken through barriers and have won the victory stage by stage and now you are here.</p>
<p>It is wonderful to know we are here at the meeting of True Parents and true children. For that reason alone this is a historic day. Furthermore, Children&#8217;s Day 1977 is extraordinary because this is the first Children&#8217;s Day since the year one of the Kingdom of God on earth was declared. The year of 1977 is a gigantic turning point, and I want you to feel deeply honored to be a member of this group.</p>
<p>Even if I were to die now, I would not be a failure. I am not in Jesus&#8217; situation facing crucifixion. The entire heavenly kingdom will open up and escort me down a red carpet to the very throne of God. I can lift up my head before God and say, &#8220;God, You know what I have done. I am entitled to the Kingdom of God in heaven. Let me open the door for the billions of people to come.&#8221; You also will be like that. You are going to be heirs of that philosophy and way of life.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s sermon has been an extraordinary message. You know clearly now how fortunate you are to be sitting right here as members of the Unification Church, and how fortunate you are to be sitting right here on Children&#8217;s Day as true children, facing the True Parents. This is not accidental. No money can buy this treasure and glory. This is the meaning of the day which you are celebrating. You are now a representative of God, our Father.</p>
<p>I have been walking this path throughout my entire life. I have come under intense persecution, stood against the current and faced every kind of pain that you can name. You, however, are standing on the foundation that I am erecting and you can win an even more extraordinary victory than I have. You can be true representatives of God and your glory will be even greater than mine</p>
<p>If you are living this ideology, if you feel it to the bone, then everywhere you go God will be with you and the True Parents will be with you. They will guide you step by step and you will never be alone. When Joshua and Caleb succeeded Moses&#8217; mission, God gave them one most important command: &#8220;Be strong and of good courage.&#8221; God wanted them to be bold for the chosen nation and for the remaining mission. I want to give you the same command: Be bold and strong. Be strong and courageous for your mission.</p>
<p>How about me, am I bold and strong? I am tough and courageous only because of God being there with me. For the sake of God there is nothing I cannot do, and no pain can stop me or hardship demolish me. When I was condemned to prison in North Korea, I did not pray, &#8220;God, I am going to prison. You must come and help me.&#8221; Instead I prayed, &#8220;God, thank you for this new opportunity. Through this ordeal I want to discover more of You. I want to become more like You. I will be bold and strong. Don&#8217;t worry about me.</p>
<p>Today we are free. We are not in a prison camp, so without any restriction we can give our utmost. What a precious opportunity we have! I gave up my life a long time ago. America is a dangerous place for me, like a jungle filled with savage civilization, but God is here and His will will be done.</p>
<p>Today is Children&#8217;s Day and you are celebrating this day as true children. Those who volunteer and pledge to God that you will become men and women just like the True Parents, raise your hands. May God bless you. Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">THE DESIRE OF ALL THINGS</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:13:16+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/the-desire-of-all-things.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:13:16+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">June 17, 1977<br />
Manhattan Center<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>Today is the fifteenth anniversary of the Day of All Things, or World Day. All of creation, including man, was made by God for a specific purpose. He did not create all things just to look at; His specific purpose was the fulfillment of His love. Even though God exists, without His love His very existence is meaningless. In order to be a true God He must be a God of love, and for this reason God wants to fulfill His love in His creation.</p>
<p>What is a true man? He is a man who is able to receive God&#8217;s true love. The desire of all things surrounding mankind is to see the day when they can receive true love from the true men who are recipients of God&#8217;s true love. All things of creation exist to receive true love from man, while man exists to receive true love from God.</p>
<p>Due to man&#8217;s fall this perfection never came about, and since fallen man was never able to fully receive God&#8217;s love, God could never fully give His love and thus fulfill perfection Himself. Man was never perfected, and as a result all nature has been unable to receive perfect love from man. God wanted to have a reciprocal relationship between Himself and all things and man, yet even though His creation was completed, no relationship of true love ever emerged. In that respect, neither God nor man has ever been perfected.</p>
<p>People talk about love today, but is that a true God-centered love? No, the love in existence now is far distant from the true love of God. Today many parents love their children, but because God has no part in it that love cannot be acknowledged by Him. The same is true of relationships between brothers and between nations. All are still on the level of imperfection, as is man&#8217;s love for all things.</p>
<p>Through the work of religion God has been striving to restore man; He began on the individual level and expanded to the worldwide level as man spread all over the world. The Divine Principle tells us that restoration starts with one man and God has been looking for one man of perfection through whom He can restore one woman of perfection. This is the concept of the Messiah and his mission.</p>
<p>Why is the Messiah needed? The Messiah is needed in order to elevate man&#8217;s imperfect love to perfection. Since love was stolen by Satan, the Messiah comes to restore and sanctify that lost love into the holy love of God. Since man became the prisoner of Satan, the Messiah comes to give mankind the true love of God. To be eligible to stand in the sight of God, restored man must establish a standard of love higher than the highest standard of the satanic world. The mission of restored man is to demonstrate a higher quality of love than ever existed in the satanic world.</p>
<h3 align="center">Restoration requires the highest standard of love</h3>
<p>In the truest meaning of love, the Messiah cannot embrace the people of the satanic world as they are. God cannot say to the Messiah, &#8220;Let them stay where they are. We can love them as they are and they can easily be restored.&#8221; If that were the case, restoration could have been done instantly and such a long period for man&#8217;s restoration would not have been needed.</p>
<p>The role of religion is to teach people to set their standard of love higher than the satanic world&#8217;s standard. The religious man is one who demonstrates higher love than anyone in the world claimed by Satan. For the sake of God he can then deny the value of anything in the satanic world and thus recreate the value of everything in relation to God. As religious people, we must be triumphant in this way of love.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s love will begin after we demonstrate our love, which is the very reason that Jesus said, &#8220;He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.&#8221; This is the true heart of God&#8217;s Principle. We must become people who can demonstrate a greater love toward God and toward the Messiah than toward anybody else in the world, because at that point God&#8217;s love will begin. By loving the Messiah, men and women can surpass the point at which man fell and reach the level of perfection.</p>
<p>For this reason, we in the Unification Church must fulfill a seven-year course of totally giving up everything to the love of God and the Messiah. Because I have already laid the foundation, however, you are eligible to be blessed only 3½ years after joining the church. The other 3½ years that were supposed to precede the blessing I freely give to you as a gift; after the blessing you and your mate will freely work 3½ years more to complete the seven year course. You and your spouse will walk the remaining 3½ years together as a couple.</p>
<p>The fall of man came through Adam and Eve at the growth level, and thus you must finish the remainder of the path to perfection as a couple. The 36 couples, the 72 and 120 couples have all gone through this formula precisely, and because of the foundation they have laid shorter periods of purification can be granted to later couples. For example, the 74 couples have been given the right to have children after only seven months&#8217; separation.</p>
<h3 align="center">Your hard work now will benefit your family later</h3>
<p>In the Unification Church our goal is simple and clear: To become a member of the church, to meet the Messiah, and then to go forward to fulfill and perfect the love of God. When you came here this morning your minds were already filled with your missions for the day. Why do your minds work that way? You think that way because your mission is for the unselfish work of God, and you feel that going out to sell the newspaper has the additional purpose of accumulating spiritual assets of your own.</p>
<p>In looking forward to the day of your blessing, you want to make yourself eligible to meet your future husband or wife. You men must think that through your experience of selling you are actually seasoning yourselves to be independent husbands who can go out and do things for the sake of your wives. You women are also paving the way to really help support your husbands, so that one day you will be ready to become independent couples in the sight of God.</p>
<p>How can we interpret this according to the Divine Principle? It is possible for one person to fulfill his role so well that his mate can freely receive his benefit and not have to strive as hard to reach the same level. When you men work hard you are actually paving the way to bring spiritual benefit to your own future wife and children. If you women work hard now, your accumulated achievement will go to your husband and children later on. What matters is whether your hard work is God-centered. Adam and Eve fell because they disregarded God. Fallen mankind has always worked hard, but due to their disregard for God their hard work has not gone to God&#8217;s side.</p>
<p>As you strive to stand above Satan and advance in the direction of God you will have to confront Satan&#8217;s realm on all the different levels: the family, tribal, national and worldwide levels. On every level Satan will always attack and try to stop you. This confrontation with Satan cannot be avoided. This is the reason that religious work has always been persecuted, and why religious people must have the unshakable determination to overcome any difficulties and go on further and further toward God.</p>
<p>We can conclude that if there is a totally unselfish group of people, its goal will be nothing but the service of God and humanity. The entire world will not understand or accept them, and that will be the sign that God and the Messiah can be met through that group. Furthermore, it is obvious that such a movement is already working on the worldwide level if it has aroused worldwide opposition.</p>
<p>The Unification Church is in that position today. There have been many religions throughout history, but no religion ever rose to the worldwide level as quickly as this one. As leader of the Unification Church, I have the special distinction of having received worldwide persecution in my own lifetime. History has never seen such a thing. If our members are solidly united together in heart and can go beyond the level of persecution, then Satan can never defeat this group, and in the sight of God we can prove ourselves invincible to Satan&#8217;s power on the worldwide level.</p>
<p>Why do we strive to become that kind of invincible group? We are seeking the love of God. To be eligible to receive the love of God we must go through the process of indemnity in which Cain and Abel must become one. Cain and Abel have been enemies, but they should be united in love instead. We must take the course opposite Satan&#8217;s way; if Cain and Abel had come to God&#8217;s side then they would have made true unity.</p>
<p>Abel should teach Cain how to be obedient to and united with him. Unification Church members must clearly understand what that means. Often you mistakenly think that Cain was supposed to be subjugated by Abel from the very beginning, but that is wrong. Cain is a rebellious figure to begin with, and Abel must teach Cain how to be obedient by demonstrating Cain&#8217;s role himself. Abel must show Cain the way by example. Love is the central element and Abel is supposed to love Cain more than anyone else. When Cain recognizes that Abel truly loves him more than anyone else does, then Cain will give up his false ambitions and arrogance and become obedient to Abel. Abel can pull Cain to his side by the magnetic force of love.</p>
<p>Answer me if I am wrong, but I feel that every one of you loves me. Is it true or not? It may not be 100% true of everyone here, but if the Principle is true then it must be largely true at least. If our Principle is God&#8217;s Principle then that kind of relationship must be here. Yesterday I met the Japanese sisters who are in the Korean Folk Ballet. When I asked whether they wanted to go back to Japan, their home country, everyone answered, &#8220;No, Father, because you are here. We want to stay here with you.&#8221; I wondered how sincere their answer was because Japanese people are very good at saying what people like to hear. What about you? Do you want me to believe that your love is genuine or false? If your love is not genuine then the Principle is not working.</p>
<h3 align="center">My legacy to you</h3>
<p>Sometimes Mother tries to get me to stay home and pay more attention to our family. She tells me, &#8220;As soon as you open your eyes you talk about going out to meet the members somewhere. Can&#8217;t you spend a little more time at home?&#8221; Why should I overwork myself by going out here and there to meet all of you? I could stay at home and relax with the children, but I am always looking at you instead of staying home. If I give my total attention to you and to the church then I am making your job instantly easier. Furthermore, in that way I can bring the spirit world and physical world together faster.</p>
<p>How can that work in the Principle? I am in the parent&#8217;s position while you are in the position of children. Children inherit the foundation and tradition of their parents, and by working harder than anyone else I am leaving you even greater assets to inherit.</p>
<p>Most of you are single men and women working toward the blessing, and when I was single I was in precisely the same position you are. When I was suffering in North Korea in the worst kind of prison, I still had hope because I knew that the wife God would give me for eternity could come on the foundation that I was laying. My hardship would make her way easier. By thinking this way I always had hope in the midst of any kind of suffering and hardship. &#8220;In being tortured by the satanic world I am paying indemnity for my future wife, and at the same time I am paying indemnity for the nation in which we will dwell as husband and wife.&#8221;</p>
<p>Restoration of the individual and family levels is the most difficult part of the restoration. Your family will be the basic building block of the Kingdom of God, and once you can restore this foundation you will always have a shield around you. These two levels are most difficult to restore because after they are formed nothing can destroy you, no matter what the satanic world will do. You are still exposed and vulnerable before you create that nucleus, but after that your situation will not be as vulnerable or dangerous and you will be able to form the tribal and national levels.</p>
<h3 align="center">Have you felt that you alone<br />
would finish the restoration?</h3>
<p>Why has God been sending mostly young people to our church? God wants individuals to come who can really suffer to lay their foundation of indemnity at a young age. While you are working as an individual for yourself and your future family, your family and society will come against you. God wants you to be strengthened under that kind of adversity.</p>
<p>Whenever you are working hard and suffering you must feel deeply that in all of heaven and earth you alone are going to finish the restoration. &#8220;God, I am Your only remnant. There is no one else but me to accomplish Your will.&#8221; Sometimes God deliberately wants you to experience the feeling, &#8220;God, no one understands my way of life but You. Even Father and the church members are not sympathetic with me. I seem to be completely cut off from everyone.&#8221; Even in that situation you may feel comforted that at least God is on your side, but the day and moment will come when even God seems to be saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know you.&#8221; At that time you will feel that you are utterly alone in all the universe.</p>
<p>If under those conditions you still do not give up, but insist, &#8220;No matter what God thinks or what True Parents say to me, no matter how unsympathetic the church members are, this is the right way, and I will go on anyway,&#8221; then at that moment you are elevating yourself to the highest level of faith. Once you reach that level you can be trusted unconditionally by God and by me, and eventually by the whole world. You will achieve that qualification by yourself, when everything seems to be denying you. If in that situation you still fight to uphold your faith, it will become your greatest asset, which neither God nor man can ever repudiate.</p>
<p>I know that many times you feel very lonely. It is a lonely hour when no one seems to understand you, but at that moment do not think back to your natural parents or to the joys and romances of your past life. In that lonely moment think of God. &#8220;God, whatever the situation, I will never give You up. The world may deny me and even bury me, but I would rather die than turn away from You.&#8221;</p>
<p>If you denied everything and were given up by your own family and nation because you lived for the sake of God, then when you die everything will be restored to you. This is the law of indemnity working. If you give up everything because of God, then God will lift you up and you will have everything again.</p>
<p>That is the path I have walked. Strictly speaking you will never have to go the way I went because you will have me on your side under any circumstances. All you have to do is follow my course. You have someone to follow but I had no one to follow. If you want to go an easy way then you will never reach the goal. Ultimately you will have to come back and follow the path I have already gone. Many people are trying to go their own way, but that will not work.</p>
<p>Now the entire world is saying, &#8220;Why are you Moonies so foolish as to follow that crazy man? Why do you have to follow him when he is so opposed everywhere?&#8221; Perhaps you cannot explain why, but something tells you that this is the best thing to be doing. Because I am not in your position I cannot be 100% sure, but I think that must be the case. I understand your experiences because I have lived the same pattern and way of life. The only difference between us is that I follow the invisible God, while you follow not only God, but myself, a visible man.</p>
<p>Why should we live this life? The only explanation is that we are searching after this ultimate love of God. When we are going in the right direction we feel good and something inside tells us to keep going ahead.</p>
<h3 align="center">The love desired by men and women</h3>
<p>Today&#8217;s message is, &#8220;The Desire of All Things.&#8221; Let&#8217;s start with women; what is their desire? The desire of a woman is to have a husband who loves her with true love. A man&#8217;s love is true when his love represents the love of God, so a woman is actually looking for a man who represents God and gives her God&#8217;s love. Because God is eternal, unchanging and absolute, He created man only once, intending him to share in those same attributes. Therefore, God cannot destroy man even though he has fallen, but instead is working to restore him.</p>
<p>True love must represent God&#8217;s characteristics, meaning that true love must be eternal, unique, and absolute. A woman wants a husband who will respect her as being his wife for eternity and who will love her with an absolute and unchanging love. All of you sisters want a husband who represents God and who can give you that kind of respect.</p>
<p>I am not a woman, so I don&#8217;t know precisely how you feel, but knowing the Principle it should be the case that women are not looking for freedom, but actually want to become prisoners of love. When you and your husband have true love, you are helpless before that love and want to go anywhere your husband leads you. When your husband truly loves you as absolute, unique and eternal, the more you look at him the more he looks like God and acts like God. The time may even come when you say, &#8220;All I need is this one man because he is my God.&#8221;</p>
<p>What is the desire of a man? A man wants the same love from a woman. Such love between men and women is really God&#8217;s desire, and once you are united in that fashion God will automatically dwell with you, and His love will be manifested in you and in your object. When you look at your mate you can be proud that he or she has the qualities of being absolute, eternal, unchanging and unique. You are going to equip yourselves to become men and women of God and of love. You are the ones who will lead the way toward that ultimate goal, which is God.</p>
<p>The parents&#8217; role is to educate the children and give them guidance. If the parents fight with each other, then they cannot teach their children by example. My own children sometimes fight, but Mother and I should be able to say, &#8220;You children should stop fighting. Look at your own father and mother.&#8221; The first step for parents to become one with their children and for children to have unity among themselves is for the father and mother to become one with each other. Then children grow to realize that fighting cannot bring any goodness. Sometimes I see my children fighting very severely, and one of them either gets knocked down or his nose starts bleeding. Then they automatically come to Mother and me, crying, &#8220;Daddy, Mommy, look what happened to me. I&#8217;m sorry we fought. We&#8217;ll never fight again.&#8221;</p>
<p>It is a wise child who will say, &#8220;Father, my brother didn&#8217;t behave too well. Will you give me permission to fight?&#8221; If they want to get permission from me then I say, &#8220;My son, my daughter, let me tell you about something better than fighting. Go and love them instead.&#8221; I see in that child a greater capacity for love, and the future of that particular child is much more solid.</p>
<p>The relationship between God and man is the same as this relationship between parents and children. The desire of all things is to receive the love of men who have that kind of ideal relationship with God. All things of creation are looking forward to the fulfillment of the three loves: the love of God, the parental love of Adam and Eve, and also the love of the children who are the recipients of this perfected love of God and their parents. Children are in the most ideal position to receive more of God&#8217;s love because everything is consummated in them. The children of Adam and Eve are in a greater position than Adam and Eve themselves because the children are in a position to receive the love of God and also the love of their parents.</p>
<h3 align="center">The vertical line of love</h3>
<p>The love of parents and children follows a vertical line, while the love of a husband and wife is horizontal. We can know that this is true by seeing that even though there are many divorces here in America, the separated parents still want to hold onto their children; even though they have separated horizontally, they want to hold onto the vertical line of love. Why is that? Children are the parents&#8217; link to God&#8217;s parental love. Even in the fallen world, parents see that the only hope for their love to remain is their children. Thus a husband and wife may dissolve their relationship, but they continue to hold onto their relationship with their children.</p>
<p>According to spiritual law, the worst kind of crime is that of parents who neglect their children and leave them or actually push them into the dungeons of hell. There is no forgiveness for such acts. There are certain things God can do, and if you repeat the same act there is still room for forgiveness; but there are things that even God cannot do, and if you commit that kind of crime then there is no forgiveness. The mistreatment of children is the most unforgivable thing in spirit world. On the other hand, God&#8217;s heart will be moved by parents who are willing and ready to die for their own children, saying, &#8220;You are like me. I have been living in that position.&#8221; God has been a living sacrifice for the sake of His children.</p>
<p>When you Unification Church members get married and have children, will you just throw them away and seek your own happiness? Many people look at children as obstacles to enjoying their own lives and such people really deserve hell. You must be people who embrace your children even if they interrupt your most intimate moments. Even the basic instinct of animals is to love their children. Sometimes men behave even worse than animals, which means they are the lowest creatures under the sun. God&#8217;s criteria of beauty is heart and love, not how tall and masculine or how beautiful you are. That does not count.</p>
<p>The desire of all things is to receive the love of God, the love of Adam and Eve, and the love of the children who receive Adam and Eve&#8217;s love and God&#8217;s love. Our greatest achievement and the greatest inheritance we can leave our children is the love of God and our perfected love as parents. That love is the greatest inheritance that children can ever receive.</p>
<p>We have to introduce God&#8217;s love to our children. In their immaturity children do not automatically know God, so how will you teach them? You must demonstrate love of God yourself. If you commit some kind of sin toward your own children, you must consider it the worst kind of crime. Instead of apologizing or repenting to God, you must mend your relationship with your children. That is much more important. If the children can forgive their parents then God can automatically forgive you. On the other hand, when children commit some sin, the parents should take the position of their children and apologize or repent before God. Because of the parents God will then forgive the children.</p>
<p>The one thing that God can never forgive is the destruction of His love. If anyone abandons God and pushes His love aside, that person cannot be forgiven. If God could just freely forgive that then He would never have needed to work for restoration these many thousands of years. If God could allow man to do anything at all then there would be nothing unique, absolute or eternal remaining. God has forgiven man much, but He cannot compromise on this point. God wants to create the eternal, absolute and unique love between Himself and man at any cost.</p>
<p>In this world, particularly in America, there are many people who purposely break up loving relationships and healthy families. Anyone who hurts true love that way cannot be forgiven. We must establish the tradition that the beauty of a married couple living happily together and sacrificing for each other is applauded as the most precious jewel of all. Instead of feeling envy and jealousy or trying to deprive them of anything, everyone should praise them as museum pieces of the Unification Church.</p>
<p>God will have a family museum of treasures from everywhere, but the beautiful God-centered love of a husband and wife will be the most shining museum piece of all. When God has festivities like World Day He will want to visit His museum, and there is one display that God will never miss, the beautiful love between husband and wife. God is looking for that kind of home.</p>
<h3 align="center">Through love creation has a most<br />
glorified and honored position</h3>
<p>The desire of God is to see His love going down to Adam and Eve and their children and to all things of creation. Adam and Eve want to see the love of God poured out upon their children, to give their own love to their children, and to see their children loving all the things of creation. The children want to feel the love of God and of Adam and Eve, and then give it away to all things.</p>
<p>In receiving all this love, the creation will exclaim, &#8220;We thought we were the lowest and most trivial things in God&#8217;s sight, but now we see that all the love of God is ultimately given to us!&#8221; Being in the position to receive the love of God, love of Adam and Eve, and love of children, all things are in a most glorified and honored position.</p>
<p>In gratitude for the blessing of receiving all kinds of love, the creation will want to return glory to God by giving the very best in the universe to man. That is why all things provide you with food, themselves becoming your flesh and blood. The service of all things is to become the physical form of God&#8217;s love, and by becoming your flesh, blood and bone, letting you grow and develop a noble character so you can live in heaven for eternity. Everything in nature will take great pride in becoming the flesh and blood of men who are children of God. Through man&#8217;s spiritual quality, all things can influence the center of God&#8217;s love. That is the pride of all things.</p>
<p>This is a most beautiful and holy world of creation. Can you men and women fulfill the kind of position as representatives of God and truly love all things? Many people in this world never try to appreciate creation but always complain instead about their food, clothes and houses.</p>
<p>Have you ever had the experience of apologizing to the earth for having to step on it? If you have such a loving heart to want to step softly on the ground, the ground will eagerly respond to you and even push your feet up. When you go to the bathroom, you are just giving dirty things to nature, but if you feel sorry then nature will say, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry. l will receive it and use it as fertilizer to grow many good things.&#8221;</p>
<p>Great literary works have come from a mind of appreciation for nature. Man is not to be a robot, but to see all things with a loving heart and to express that love in a descriptive way. Do not ever have the attitude that we men are the lords of all things; it is God who has given man that supreme position.</p>
<h3 align="center">Man should live in joy and happiness<br />
for the sake of the universe</h3>
<p>The structure of all things is condensed in our own bodies. For example, our bodies resemble trees: the heart corresponds to the trunk in its role of circulating the blood, while the stomach corresponds to roots and the lungs to leaves. All the earthly elements are contained within the human body, and in the same way we also possess all the elements of the spirit world. Thus, when one man moves a small universe moves, and this is why man&#8217;s actions are precious and supreme.</p>
<p>Because you are a microcosm of the universe, when you are genuinely happy it is not just you who are happy, but the entire universe and spirit world as well. Therefore, man should live in joy and happiness for the sake of the universe. We have only one truly worthwhile way to live, acting for the sake of others and always feeling grateful. If you have that basic attitude then you are living in heaven here on earth. A farmer is dealing with nature for the sake of others, for instance. If you can praise nature as the masterpiece of God&#8217;s work, you can find many ways to show your gratitude. When you always feel grateful, you are truly living in heaven here on earth.</p>
<p>You cannot avoid going the way of indemnity. You must willingly take the worst kind of indemnity while you are single men and women, and after you get married take the second worst. After you have your own children you can live much better. This is how you must go through the three levels of indemnity. God, too, has been suffering all these years for one single purpose, to find one true Adam here on earth.</p>
<p>I want you to go through the worst kind VS experiences and receive all kinds of persecution before you are blessed. I want you to be willing to embrace all of that because when two individuals are married after going through these experiences, they will truly understand each other and be able to deeply share in love. You can be truly intoxicated in this love.</p>
<p>When you become this kind of husband and wife, you can certainly devote your entire energy to loving your own children. There is a possibility that God&#8217;s ideal family can be created )y such parents. When you are truly practicing God&#8217;s way of life by giving yourself for the sake of others and when you are willing to go through suffering, then God will never forget you. He will not only give you the greatest of all blessings, but through you will definitely come the greatest of all blessings in the form of children.</p>
<p>You must make up your mind while you are single to leave behind some achievement for the benefit of your mate and children. Do not become indebted to Satan, who will be trying to block you from receiving the blessing. Do not be the kind of men and women who have Satan waiting to collect more indemnity from them on their wedding day.</p>
<p>If you become a wife who has great merit in heaven then you can come out and say, &#8220;Satan, here are my credentials. Don&#8217;t ever touch my husband! I have paid indemnity for both of us.&#8221; You and your mate can work together and finally say before God, &#8220;We are free of the accusation of Satan in all of heaven and earth.&#8221; When you are completely united in love and have paid all the necessary indemnity, no one can claim you. Together the two of you will be an invincible force, and wherever you go nothing will be able to stop you.</p>
<p>You are not actually working for the benefit of the church at all, and you are not here to help me. At the same time I want you to know that you are the recipients of the foundation which I have laid, and by standing upon that foundation you are freely given an easier path to go. There is no doubt that you are indebted to me. But since you are here striving to build your own heaven, to whom would you complain when you get tired? In this church you are your own employer. The person who complains or tries to make excuses will never go over the mountain into heaven. After the fall, Adam and Eve each blamed each other in explaining to God what happened, and in this world everyone tries to escape taking responsibility for their mistakes. But that is not the tradition of heaven.</p>
<p>You should not become persons of excuse or complaint, even though you are in a position to justifiably complain. God pushes you into positions where you want to complain and you could gripe about a thousand things a day, but it is your greatness to go over the difficulty with gratitude and not complain like everyone else in the world. There are innumerable things I could complain about to God. I could exclaim, &#8220;What kind of God are You? You&#8217;re the one who asked me to go to America, but all I get here is persecution, and Americans are even trying to kill me. God, do You really love me?&#8221; However, I have never complained to God, but have only accepted my situation in humble gratitude.</p>
<p>I always pray, &#8220;God, wait. I want to do this myself. Just give me a little more time.&#8221; In the same way, your prayer should be, &#8220;God, just wait a little bit and I will deliver the result by myself. I don&#8217;t really need the help of the church. I want to prove how worthy I am in Your sight.&#8221;</p>
<p>What would you gain through obedience? Simply this, your perfection in the love of God. In that perfection you can become a wife or a husband who is centered upon the love of God. As liberated men and women you will be given the power to liberate all things. That is the power God wants to give you and that is the reason we are going this way.</p>
<p>Our ideology is to each become a central figure who with love can influence his mate, influence all things of creation, influence the Kingdom of God, and even influence God Himself. Shall we really go and live that way of life? Raise your hand and stand up if you really make that pledge. Thank you very much. Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">THE DESIRE OF GOD</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:14:26+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/the-desire-of-god.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:14:26+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">June 19, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>All of mankind, men and women together, have desires they want to have fulfilled. There are many kinds of people with many different types of ambitions; some want to become judges, others to become scientists, and still others to become writers. Nations also have ambitions; certain countries pursue political ambitions, while others pursue economic goals, and others pursue religious goals. The same is true of the world; the democratic world has its ambitions, and the communist world has its ambitions. It is equally true that God has desires.</p>
<p>There are many kinds of ambitions and many approaches to fulfilling them, whether on the individual, social, national, or world levels. None of these are necessarily parallel all the time, but everything is flowing in a certain direction. When I go out to sea I can see that even the vast ocean flows in a certain direction. Air is the same; all over the globe the currents of air and changing temperatures on the surface of the earth are influencing the weather.</p>
<p>Just like the water and the air, mankind is also flowing in a certain direction. Every day of our lives we have some ambition we want to see fulfilled, and later when you set up your homes and have families you will have ambitions for their futures. Every day we look for something exciting and good to happen. In each of the four distinct seasons of the year&#8211;spring, summer, autumn, and winter-and in the seasons of our lifetimes we have certain desires we would like to fulfill.</p>
<p>Our universe has a certain overpowering destiny which encompasses our smaller destinies. The most important problem is whether such a destiny moves at random, or whether there is a certain discipline and direction which guides the universe. That is the question. What do you think? Is everything moving at random, or is there a basic discipline and will? Does the universe itself make up its mind, &#8220;This is the direction to go&#8221;? There must be some guiding principle within the universe, but who is going to be its subject or center?</p>
<h3 align="center">What cause and motivation<br />
gives direction to the universe?</h3>
<p>Certainly there was will before there was existence, and that will emerged according to the principles of the universe. Do you recall the moment you first came out of your mother&#8217;s womb into the universe? Did you inhale air first, or exhale first? You might have some opinion, but how do you know? Our question is, as a newborn baby, were you conscious of inhaling air? Does that sort of thing happen automatically according to universal law or principle, or does each baby make up his own mind?</p>
<p>Did you decide whether to open or close your eyes when you first emerged? A child is fed many times at his mother&#8217;s breast, but is a baby educated before birth about how to suck its mother&#8217;s milk? How does a baby know about such things before he comes into the world?</p>
<p>There is definitely some invisible, yet very strong force in the universe, which is pulling and controlling universal interaction. No matter how trivial or small it may be, nothing happens at random. There is a theory of evolution which concludes that the universe moves forward by its own will. How could evolution come about without having some cause, process, and result? Without some guiding will, how could this complex world ever emerge? There is definitely a cause and motivation which gives direction to the entire universe.</p>
<p>Could that direction be determined by existence itself? For example, as soon as we were born we opened our eyes to look out. What were our eyes actually doing? There was direction in that action, and behind that direction was a purpose. The cause behind all existence determines the direction it takes in moving toward the goal; therefore, everything has a certain function to fulfill. Thus we can say that the universe is not evolving at random.</p>
<p>Many people claim that there is a process of spontaneous evolution and that everything happens naturally. However, even behind this &#8220;natural&#8221; evolution there is a hidden cause, direction and purpose by which everything follows a certain disciplined direction and way of life. Everything in existence is moving in its respective direction, continuously striving to reach its perfection and to achieve some common goal.</p>
<p>Evolutionists insist that the path of development in the world follows a straight line, and yet the entire universe moves in a circling motion. The seasons follow in the same sequence, and history itself moves in cycles. If everything in the universe advances in a circular pattern, why does evolution itself not follow the same pattern? Electricity flows through circular give and take of plus and minus. Even within matter as hard as a diamond, circular motion is seen between subject and object inside billions of atoms; when their give and take is tightly organized, those atoms create hard matter. By examining the universe we come to the conclusion that man&#8217;s life has to be included in this universal law; man does not just come out of the dirt to live one life and then vanish. Human life implies much more.</p>
<p>There must be some basic universal energy from which &#8216; our life springs. We talk about a governing principle, but can you see that principle with your own vision? The principle is invisible and can only be understood after explanation, but even so that invisible principle is always in the subject position and the entire visible world is nothing but the manifestation of it. Man did not evolve out of this earth, but from some invisible principle in the depths of God&#8217;s heart. God&#8217;s will and principle preceded you visible men and women, and an invisible idea of man existed which God manifested into the visible form of man. God&#8217;s will is for man to reach a certain perfection and then return with that perfection to the invisible world which cannot be seen with our physical eyes.</p>
<h3 align="center">Circular motion allows perfect give and take</h3>
<p>Let us think for a moment about why all life exists in circular motion and a circular shape. In give and take action energy is moving in two opposite directions, and unless the give and take action produces a circular motion the subject and object will only clash. In God&#8217;s law, therefore, the creation is based on circular motion. When perfect giving is responded to by perfect receiving, there is complete perfection of circular motion, meaning that no confrontation results and no energy is wasted. When energy is given in less than a perfectly circular motion the reception is also imperfect and the total energy is reduced. This is the law of movement. Why is this universe round? In order to have the perfect conditions for give and take.</p>
<p>There is a very beautiful Oriental concept of &#8220;won mon.&#8221; &#8220;Won&#8221; means &#8220;round,&#8221; and &#8220;mon&#8221; means &#8220;complete fullness.&#8221; This concept means that in the state of perfection one must be perfectly round and also filled completely. Oriental philosophy reveres this state of roundness and fullness.</p>
<p>Why are men and women so different? A man is like a piston, tending to push out and be aggressive in nature. Women are more internal and withdrawn in character, being the recipients of man&#8217;s aggressiveness. The act of pitching a baseball is an aggressive motion, while the act of catching is receiving and more passive. Does the ball itself just move in a straight line, or is it circling? Do you think a bullet moves in a simple straight line, or is it rapidly whirling? Every motion contains a circular element. All the forms of the human body are primarily round; look at your eyes and the shape of your fingers and limbs. You cannot find any portion of your body which is nearly square. Your teeth are the hardest portion of your body, but they too are rounded in shape.</p>
<p>The solar system, the galaxies, and the heavenly bodies are all round and are moving in a circular motion. In the Unification Church our principle is the same. Because of circular motion we believe that if we can just continue our positive giving then we will receive positive things in the future. Whatever we give is never ultimately lost but will return.</p>
<p>Every action follows a circular path. For example, when you kick a ball, will it fly up in the air and then fall down at a 90 degree angle? No ball moves like that, but instead follows a curving path. When a speeding automobile makes a turn it always tilts away from the direction of the turn. Making a turn is actually the most dangerous moment in driving anything, and at that moment you must stay close to the ground to avoid an accident. In the same way, when God is in motion He is closest to men when making a turn. Such a time is particularly dangerous and severe and accidents can easily happen; however, it is also the time when we can expect some revolutionary new happening.</p>
<p>As you watch a thrilling movie, why do you get so excited when the action moves closer to the edge of life and death? When children at a playground ride a play horse they still bounce up and down. If the horse is not moving then why does its rider move? The rider just wants to get into the action. If you find yourself in the midst of a fearful situation or doing some adventurous thing then you inhale very deeply, and after the suspense is over you naturally exhale very deeply.</p>
<p>Because everything occurs according to universal law and principle, our lives also flow in circular motion. One man and woman together make one life of circular motion. As we get older and become senior citizens our hair will turn gray and even white. Many children are born with light hair, which turns darker as they get older, then becomes light again when they are old.</p>
<h3 align="center">God loves the harmony that embraces all extremes</h3>
<p>In the northern countries people often have white complexions and very light hair, but toward the southern part of the earth people have darker complexions and hair. Why do you think black people are so successful in sports? White people basically have a well-developed upper body, but they tend to have long skinny legs and are unstable if they are attacked from below. On the other hand, black people are strongest in their middle part and legs, which is why they can run faster.</p>
<p>The other day I watched a basketball game in which one team had a black champion who was about my height. The white players were very tall, but this shorter black man broke through their defense by jumping, almost up to the level of the basket. Black people have a stronger foundation in their legs, which gives them a great advantage in athletics. Many U.S. Olympic champions are black people, for example.</p>
<p>Oriental people are balanced, h their upper and lower portions the same, like a log. Look at the Japanese people for example; they are short and straight, top to bottom. White people represent the northern part of the earth and black people represent the southern part, while yellow people represent the combination of the two. Even when compared according to body construction, we can see that yellow people are in a position to harmonize both extremes.</p>
<p>From these examples we can learn that one cannot find perfection within oneself alone. God does not give total perfection to any one group of people because He is thinking in terms of creating harmony; He created both extremes to have them become perfectly harmonized. The most ideal and dramatic harmony is not seen in just bridging a short distance. Instead, God wanted to see breadth and depth of motion from one extreme to another in order to generate the most dramatic beauty.</p>
<p>The race problem in America is very great at this particular time. Racial discrimination begins by looking at something different than yourself with scornful eyes. White is the color that reflects every wavelength in the spectrum. Just like white reflects away colors, white people have tended to separate from people of other colors, a tendency which has in many cases involved them in racial war. In comparison, black absorbs every wavelength of the spectrum. Since white and black have opposite characteristics they must have give and take. You cannot exist for only one race because to repel the other will bring only ruin. There must be total giving and total receiving between races.</p>
<p>Is the earth itself more black than white? The peaks of mountains are white because they are covered by snow, while the valleys are black because topsoil from higher up is washed down by the rains. The black race characteristically absorbs the qualities of other people. Like snow on top of a mountain, the white race can be said to be cold in character; white people have always lived in the northern part of the world, and to protect themselves they had to resist their environment. Their kind of stubbornness, which could overcome the cold, is so strong that white people do not easily compromise or readily embrace anyone else. I am not being critical of white people, but analyzing their qualities in a geographical way; I have observed human nature all over the world.</p>
<p>Paralleling the fact that weather in the valley is always warmer and all kinds of elements are being washed down from the mountains, black people have the capacity to embrace all kinds of human elements. They have a greater appreciation of many different kinds of human emotions. My conclusion is that the white culture must be harmonized with the black culture in order to make one culture of roundness and fullness. This is God&#8217;s purpose in sending an Oriental man to the Western world; I come as a mediator to merge the two cultures into one ideal, heavenly culture.</p>
<h3 align="center">Beauty includes contrast</h3>
<p>I haven&#8217;t even started on my main subject yet and already one hour has passed! The universe has a will which is translated into Principle, and all resulting existence moves in circular motion and is round. Why? Positive giving and positive receiving harmonized together can create an ideal shape and an ideal means of existence.</p>
<p>I described how white people tend to live in the northern lands and on high ground covered by snow. Higher places are closer to God and symbolize God&#8217;s ideal. However, does the pinnacle of the mountain exist for its own sake, or for the sake of the valley? Whatever comes down from the top of the mountain always ends up in the valleys on either side; the mountain is in a position to link and harmonize the two valleys. In the 20th century, the valleys are represented by the cultures of the Orient, plus the cultures of the Middle East and Africa. As the embodiment of Western culture, America represents the mountain.</p>
<p>In the last days, America is to serve as the link between the Eastern and Western valleys. Americans should willingly fulfill this role because as a Christian nation America is in the position closest to God and is God&#8217;s representative. Since America has not been fulfilling this role, I have come to the top of the mountain.</p>
<p>God is looking for harmony between the races, which is similar to harmony between a mountain and a valley. These same principles work in every phase of our unification way of life, including marriage. The white, black and yellow races in the East and West can create a new kind of harmonized human race. God wants you to be dramatic. He would most enjoy couples who come from such different backgrounds that they have to travel around the world to visit their relatives. That kind of dramatic visit is more in God&#8217;s taste. God thinks it is most dramatic and exciting to see a white mother feeding her black baby, and vice versa.</p>
<p>The characteristics of beauty include contrast, like the combination of blonde hair, blue eyes, and white teeth. At sea there is nothing but blue water for miles and miles, and after awhile the blue color becomes boring. If suddenly you see a black ship approaching from far away, that black dot attracts your entire attention. When the black ship raises its white sails it becomes more exciting and dramatic to watch. If the black ship raises a multi-colored flag, it becomes absolutely gorgeous. Since everything else around is blue, you become content to watch only the black ship with white sails and multi-colored flag. That is what I call dramatic.</p>
<p>I am causing a lot of controversy because the white culture is like a vast ocean in which a yellow dot has suddenly appeared, and is attracting attention. Some Americans are not welcoming me. But God has been sailing vast oceans and is bored with man&#8217;s present culture. All of a sudden I have appeared like the black ship, and God is focusing His entire attention upon me. I will not only raise white sails, but also the multi-colored flags of all the nations. Put yourself in God&#8217;s position and look down on the little ship, raising white sails and waving multi-colored flags. It is a very dramatic sight to behold.</p>
<p>You are the sailors on that ship which is attracting so much attention. White, black, yellow, red, and brown people are waving to the nations. There is a great deal of excitement and action on our boat! If you were to go to a world&#8217;s fair but only white or black people were there, you would say that it was not a good world&#8217;s fair. All the colors are needed to make a bustling and exciting place, right?</p>
<p>I am wearing a gray suit. Why did I wear a tie with red dots? Simply because that is dramatic and attracts attention. Do you know why I wear this little tie tack in the middle? Because that is where my heart is located.</p>
<p>Women wear necklaces and ornaments which usually hang down in the area of the heart. The necklace attracts attention to the place where your heart and love are. It is as if you are saying, &#8220;Come to my love.&#8221; It would be convenient to feed your babies if God had put women&#8217;s breasts on top of their arms, but instead He wanted to have mothers nurse their sons and daughters close to their hearts. It represents giving their love. When you analyze things from this point of view, the whole universe becomes intoxicating.</p>
<h3 align="center">Those who were obedient to the<br />
universal destiny have changed history</h3>
<p>I have strayed from the main topic, which is the desire of God. I said at the beginning that there is a predestined will which produced the Principle, and that no matter what people may say or do they are destined to follow the rhythm or pulse of the Principle. No one has the power to stop or compromise the will of God, and wise people are obedient to that will; instead of fighting it, they sail with it. In the Western world, men of wisdom are those who are discontent with their present materialistic culture, and are searching for new vision and spiritual elements in the Oriental culture in order to harmonize with the universal destiny.</p>
<p>There is no one who wants to destroy themselves or to be destroyed. Then why is everything declining today? The only explanation is that the universal destiny is moving in one direction, and those people who do not walk parallel with it are headed toward ruin.</p>
<p>The people who change history are those who breathe the destiny of the universe and try to be obedient to its rhythm. There is not one type of person who does not desire to be a hero of mankind, but some people are ruining themselves while others are progressing. Why is that? As I said before, one group of people is moving with the direction of the universal destiny, while another group is rebelling against that destiny.</p>
<p>Suppose you must jump across a river; first you measure and decide how high you must jump to get to the other side. The people who do not follow the universal destiny are like the people who fail to realize how far they must jump and fall into the water. We must harbor a noble vision and high ideal, but the fulfillment of such a goal will require the longest possible preparation time. God is the same way. He has been preparing for thousands of years for the one final leap. Because His dream is so great, it needs tremendous preparation.</p>
<p>Apollo It&#8217;s actual performance took only a few days, but years of research, thousands of people and billions of dollars were involved. If you draw a picture of the earth and the moon, you can jump from the earth to the moon and back again on paper. It&#8217;s that simple. By the same token, if you picture the Unification Church and God&#8217;s ideal world, you can easily jump back and forth. You have done it both on the blackboard and also in your mind. The actual launching of the Apollo 11 ship was not that easy, however, and neither is our launching to the Kingdom of God.</p>
<p>I often hear people say that they think the Divine Principle is superb but they do not want to be a part of the Unification Church. God does not need those people. Having their attitude is like saying that you like the idea of going to the moon and back again, but you do not want to do it. Your vision is broad because you have a blueprint; no matter how difficult each day may be, you must cover new territory and move toward the actual realization of that blueprint. That is our way of life.</p>
<p>Last year, in 1976, the emphasis was on the Yankee Stadium and Washington Monument rallies, but all of a sudden in 1977 1 am pushing everyone out to sell The News World. Who knows what the emphasis will be next year! I may say, &#8220;Eat and sleep for 24 hours a day or I&#8217;ll hit you.&#8221; Everybody is probably thinking, &#8220;Boy, I&#8217;m glad that day is coming. Father will have us eat as much as we want and sleep 24 hours a day.&#8221; But I tell you, such a life is real hell. After one week you will say, &#8220;Father, let&#8217;s go out and sell The News World a little bit.&#8221; In 1976 we had rallies according to our blueprint and we took one step forward. In 1977, selling The News World is another step forward. The important thing is that we have a masterplan, and every day we are advancing toward the ultimate goal. Do not be shortsighted.</p>
<p>Yesterday I took a group of members fishing at Barrytown. They were ambitious and eager to beat the record of the New York Church and the IOWCs in Barrytown fishing, but they did not catch many fish at all. I think that was providential. They were doing a very good job fishing, and looking down at them God smiled and said, &#8220;I love you very much. But to love you more, I&#8217;ll teach you a little lesson. If you catch lots of fish you will be arrogant, and you should be humble.&#8221; So God gave them a small catch. The person who learned a lesson from that experience at Barrytown is a great man. He learned he should not take for granted that he can do everything well.</p>
<h3 align="center">Difficulty should strengthen your determination</h3>
<p>Everything has meaning and a reason, and there is no such thing as a total failure. Tears roll down your face when you cry, but if your mind falls down with your tears, there is no hope. However, if you are determined and your mind rises, then you can utilize every situation for the best.</p>
<p>Persecution should not drag you down or discourage you but should make your determination rise. The Unification Church is in a position to be persecuted and misunderstood, so this is your opportunity to develop strong determination and become an invincible force. That is the way of the Principle. The person who is capable of going deep down into the valley is also capable of jumping to the pinnacle of the mountain. The pinnacle is never linked to another pinnacle but to the valley, and together they have a common destiny. This is a universal principle. Those in the valley can one day come to the pinnacle of the mountain.</p>
<p>We in the Unification Church are receiving terrible treatment from the world, as though we were being pushed deep into the valley. The important thing to remember is that the valley is linked to the highest part of the pinnacle, and with determination we can climb up the mountain. It is not easy, however, and you need a champion who will be the first to reach the top of the mountain. He will plant a stake at the top and let down a rope by which other people can climb up; then they eventually will build a cable car. Scaling the mountain is not easy!</p>
<p>You are living in both extremes, with the world trying to push you down into misery and your God-centered vision and ideal on the highest peaks. No one in history has ever accomplished what you envision, and your way of life is the most difficult way. Once we set up the cable car to the peak, its lines will stretch for miles and miles, and people will wait for days and years to obtain a ticket to get to the top.</p>
<p>You are engineers who are setting up the cable car line from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the valley, and I am the foreman and chief engineer. God has been working for thousands of years to bring mankind up from the lowest point of human misery to the pinnacle of His ideal. Many have tried to follow God up the mountain. Women have tried to follow, but as the road got steeper and more rugged they decided to drop out. Men have not been any different. They were determined to follow, but halfway up they also dropped out. God brought provisions for the journey and He fed His followers along the way, but as time passed they saw that God had less and less. Being afraid for themselves, they said, &#8220;God, we thought we knew You, but You are not the almighty God we thought You were. We are going our own way.&#8221; This realistically describes how man has deserted God.</p>
<p>The important thing to understand now is that because you are too close to the ground you do not see the pinnacle; instead you see nothing but trees. You cannot even see the other side of the forest. It may seem that you are not making any progress at all. Of course it would be much easier to feel inspired if you could see the pinnacle, but as you climb the steep, dark hill there is no destination in sight. When you turn around to gaze all the way down to the valley it is easy to become jittery and fearful. Many people change their minds, thinking, &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to be stupid! Some fools may still want to climb the mountain, but I will be wise and turn around.&#8221; Are you that type of person?</p>
<p>Ever since Adam and Eve, all mankind has given up after gaining a certain distance. That is human history. You may say, &#8220;Today is a very hot day so let us take a day off and not climb.&#8221; Would you still want to go even though your body may ache? The closer you get to the pinnacle, the more exhausted you will become.</p>
<p>As God is leading His children to the pinnacle, greedy people with hidden personal ambition will certainly give up and even Satan will eventually give up. But God wants His children to become victorious. Who will remain? The person will remain who says, &#8220;It&#8217;s not for my own personal glory that I go. This is my destiny, and nothing under the sun can stop me except my own death.&#8221; If even at the moment of death you still harbor hope then you will live spiritually, and God will pick someone to canny on your tradition.</p>
<h3 align="center">We have reached the highest point<br />
ever attained in history</h3>
<p>We must be determined to go on until the moment God Himself gives up, insisting, &#8220;As long as God is alive, there is no way my hope will die.&#8221; Only a person with that conviction has the possibility of reaching the pinnacle. I did not say that he is guaranteed of reaching the top, but he does have the possibility of reaching the top. The person with determination and vision will find the shortest possible route and reach the top. What kind of person are you? Are you the type who can determine that even though you may die you will still leave behind a shining tradition and the tools and provisions posterity will need to reach the top? I am doing precisely that.</p>
<p>We have traveled far from the starting point, and below us we can see the points where mankind before us has always turned around. Even though your path is not yet completed, you have reached the highest point ever attained in history, including by the spirit world. Keep climbing the mountain until 1981 and you will reach the pinnacle. Do you want to die after you reach the top, or do you want to prepare a banquet and invite God to, a victory celebration? You should be prepared for a celebration, and bring along what you will contribute.</p>
<p>The Unification Church has started many endeavors, such as performing arts and businesses, which are all preparation for the banquet on the final day! When you reach the top, don&#8217;t you want to say, &#8220;These are the gifts for the banquet. I made them with my own hands, Heavenly Father.&#8221; That is the way I think. In order for you to do that, I am driving you relentlessly in order to reach the standard which will get you to the peak. Do you mind? The important thing is whether you welcome it with bubbling enthusiasm and such a sense of urgency that there is no time to even use the bathroom.</p>
<p>The person who can completely forget his biological needs is truly crazy to fulfill God&#8217;s mission. In Korea it often happened in the early days of our church that members would not want to miss even one minute of my speech in order to go to the bathroom. Such people are hard to compete with because they have no concept of time passing, and no realization of their physical needs. God wants to have that kind of dramatic children. God wants dignified and loyal sons and daughters He can be proud of for eternity, children who are unique and unprecedented in all of history.</p>
<p>When I ask who wants to follow me up the mountain the women always answer quickly, &#8220;We do!&#8221; But later they drop by the wayside. Women are champions for answering. The men do not always answer right away, but they go farther than the women. Is that right or wrong? That is true of Oriental women at least. Are American women different? You are not too much different in height, your voices sound the same, and your hands are tiny. American women are like Korean and Japanese women then, right?</p>
<p>You women must make up your minds this morning that you will not be defeated by the men no matter what. As you climb the mountain behind some man, he may not be moving quickly. You should reach out and inspire him. For example, you could say, &#8220;The banquet will begin soon, and we must get to the pinnacle quickly. Perhaps there will be a blessing there.&#8221; That is more inspiring to a man than if you kicked him. When he hears that he will say, &#8220;Oh, oh, yes.&#8221; The best way to inspire men is through love, and the same is true of women.</p>
<h3 align="center">We must be prepared to give God a banquet</h3>
<p>History is the chronicle of man trying to reach the peak, and the Messiah is the one who starts from the very bottom of hell and climbs up to the top of the mountain first. When you also reach the top and come before God, He will call out to the world, &#8220;Look at these champions among men and women. I am proud of my sons and daughters and I will honor them. The entire universe must bow down to them.&#8221; This will be God&#8217;s order. The entire universe will answer, &#8220;Yes, Father,&#8221; and it will bow down.</p>
<p>In the Unification Church the blessing is actually given out seven-tenths of the way up the mountain because individuals cannot finish the final portion alone. Therefore, the blessing is given at that point, and with the power of a loving relationship as couples, men and women will go forward together to the final banquet in the sight of God. That is our way of life in the Unification Church.</p>
<p>What kind of person would you like to become? Do you want to be the one who arrives in time for the banquet after all the preparation has been made by others, or do you want to be the first to arrive and help build the palace at the banquet site? I am sure you want to be the builders.</p>
<p>God is invisible and He cannot prepare the banquet ground. You not only need to witness and do spiritual work, but you must build the banquet hall. God would never go to Satan&#8217;s banquet. Instead, you must get to the pinnacle first to clear the wilderness and build the banquet site. This means you must carry many materials to the top of the mountain. All of our projects are needed as components of the banquet.</p>
<p>Until you reach the goal you may look miserable to non-members of the Unification Church. No one will give you recognition on earth, and even God is waiting until the day you reach the pinnacle. Are you determined to reach the top? You must not blame anyone, or use anyone as an excuse if you do not make it. Do not complain, or else when you arrive at the banquet hall people will accuse you and say that you do not deserve your blessing. If you steal the materials you bring, you cannot present them as your own achievement. You must earn them with your sweat, blood, and tears.</p>
<p>If you are not quite capable of playing a major role in building the banquet hall, at least be someone who can be a positive element and contribute to the banquet. Then you can say, &#8220;Father, this is my banquet. We did it together.&#8221; God does not desire thousands of family-level banquets; instead He desires one banquet on the national level, after having one whole nation restored. When God has one nation under his direct dominion as a foothold on earth, we will have a day of celebration.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s desire is to reach the highest pinnacle where love is the supreme way of life. You blessed couples should not worry about your own surroundings, and whether you have a nice home and furniture at this time. Worry instead about how to achieve the national level quickly. Together we will give our total energy toward this achievement and then go on to the worldwide and cosmic levels.</p>
<p>At the worldwide banquet we will offer all the treasures of the world to God. Satan has always ruled the land, which is one-third of this earth, but our goal is focused on the unstained area, the two-thirds of the world which is the sea. I keep saying that the women of the Unification Church should have an interest in the sea. Western women should already be more interested in the sea because their eyes are blue, like drops of water.</p>
<p>The desire of God is to see the day of the banquet of heaven and earth. You must become the men and women who will make that banquet possible. I may not see that day here on earth. Even if I do not, my spirit will still live and you will ultimately reach the top. My physical body may falter, but my spirit will go on. As long as I have life here on earth, I will not spare one ounce of energy or one drop of blood to accomplish God&#8217;s will.</p>
<p>I am almost 60 years old; my life is one of total emergency and urgency is my constant companion. Sometimes I wish I could be 30 years old again like you, so that I could quickly finish everything while on earth. This is the most urgent time of human history. Those of the white, black, and yellow races should exert their last ounce of energy to achieve this goal in their lifetimes. If I am not living on the earth then this mission will become hundreds of times more difficult.</p>
<p>During the time I am living here on earth we must lay the major foundation of unification and harmony and tradition. You stand in a very fearful position because you are participating in the mission during my lifetime. You must be able to echo my heart. If you do not, you will not be able to lift up your face before God when you die. Your ancestors will ask, &#8220;What did you do?&#8221; and you will face their accusation.</p>
<p>God desires that our church be God-centered and God-motivated. God wants to know that I did my absolute best and that there is no more ground to cover, and I want every member of the Unification Church to receive that praise from God as well. God will say, &#8220;You are my sons and daughters, and you did your absolute best. There is nothing more to be done.&#8221;</p>
<p>Have you reached that level of dedication and service? God has declared that a super-emergency exists at this time in history. We can make the third Sunday of June in 1977 the turning point. Shall we do it? Then let&#8217;s go over the hill. Thank you. Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">THE HEART OF REUNION</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:16:40+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/the-heart-of-reunion.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:16:40+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<div class="pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-bottom-left"><a href="/blog/2018/06/13/the-heart-of-reunion.html?print=pdf" class="pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" src="/assets/vendor/pdf/images/pdf.png" alt="image_pdf" title="Download PDF" /></a></div><h2 align="center">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
<h3 align="center">September 11, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>I am very happy to see all of you again after being away for 70 days. When you are separated from someone, you long for them the most if there is a common purpose or goal between you. Then you both yearn to see each other and look forward to the day of reunion. I am Korean and you are Americans and we come from the opposite ends of the world. There must be a providential purpose linking the two extremes of East and West; otherwise, you would not miss me and I would not miss you and we would not look forward to meeting each other again.</p>
<p>To the ordinary person it may seem as if the vast ocean is one stationary body of water. Actually the ocean is continually in motion, with cold currents and warm currents running their separate courses and colliding at certain points. All kinds of movement can be found in the ocean. The tides come in and go out twice a day and tidal flows all over the globe are linked together.</p>
<p>Beneath the ocean&#8217;s surface are a great variety of fish, which are influenced by the currents and the tidal waters. Very often many fish gather where the warm and cold currents collide, creating certain areas famous for fishing such as the northern part of the US. near Boston and northern Europe. Different types of fish live in fresh or salt water, but at spawning time certain species go to an estuary, where the fresh water and salt water flow together, to lay their eggs.</p>
<p>It is very intriguing and even mystical to see how the places and times of meeting and coming together are very important to all forms of life. For instance, the ancient cultures such as developed in Greece and Rome without exception began to grow at places where land and water meet. No early human civilization could prosper apart from a river or the sea.</p>
<h3 align="center">It is universal power that pushes<br />
two extremes together for a greater purpose</h3>
<p>When the distance between two parts is extreme there is always greater joy, emotion and drama involved in their reunion than if they had not experienced such extreme separation. I came from a land on the other side of the globe, a land that many Americans drink of as being a remote country. In their minds they still envision Korea as being ravaged by war. It is as if the U.S. was on the pinnacle of a mountain while Korea was in the depths of a valley. That is why many people cannot understand how a man from Korea can attract such attention in a nation which stands at the pinnacle of modern-day culture.</p>
<p>In the vast ocean a tremendous variety of things happen when the warm and cold currents meet. When we gather together we are like five kinds of ocean currents flowing into the same area and extraordinary things can happen as a result. It is not my will or your will but some providential will that makes this so. There must be a universal power that pushes two extremes to unite for a greater purpose.</p>
<p>Exciting music is not made with just one or two tones, but with tones which range from high to low and with a variety of instruments. That blending of extremes makes exciting music. At the same time, one instrument alone cannot create excitement. In order to make the drums exciting the drummer has to combine many motions and gestures as well as rhythms. The violin combines different extremes, using thin strings to create very feminine, beautiful sounds. The beauty of the violin is that even though it has only a few strings, it is possible to produce extreme variation in sound.</p>
<p>The union of people from the East and West can be compared to playing the violin; Westerners are like the low notes of a violin while Asians are like the high notes. Americans walk with a long, swinging stride, like King Kong, but the Japanese walk lightly, taking small steps. More excitement is created when the two extremes unite to make one harmonized picture. We do not use the word harmony to describe primarily the unity of similar things. The most moving, beautiful harmony is created when extremes come together. The value of harmony lies in this unity.</p>
<p>What color flowers do you like? Everyone has a different preference. If everyone liked only the color yellow, however, then everything in the entire world would soon be yellow, with yellow clothes and even yellow lipstick. The result would be a mad, mad world of yellow! The blending together of all kinds of colors can be interpreted and understood in many different ways; it is a universal mystery. When you can see your feelings reflected in different ways you never tire of such beauty.</p>
<p>In just one person you can see many different colors; Bo Hi Pak, for instance, has black hair and a tanned forehead and a gray suit. Women always wear ornaments to enhance their appearance, but they don&#8217;t wear everything of the same color. When they wear red they want to wear some jewelry that matches, something of a different color that harmonizes.</p>
<p>Would everyone without exception like to have blue eyes? How about having a blue tongue or blue skin and teeth? Why did God give blue eyes to some people? The people who have white skin, high noses and blonde hair need some contrast, so God gave them blue eyes, like two little ponds. Because American noses are so high their eyes are very deep; you have to peer in several miles to see their eyes! If they had black eyes at the bottom of such deep wells they would look fearful, almost evil in a way. Having lighter color eyes creates beauty and harmony in a much more dramatic way.</p>
<p>Imagine a person laughing whose teeth were all black. He would look like a monster ! When you examine the creation you know that God is really an artist, and that no better harmony could have been created. Everything is interestingly blended, with people having precisely the features which would harmonize with a certain color face.</p>
<p>One action may have two entirely different meanings. Imagine a person whose mouth was always open. You would usually think that something was wrong with that person, that he was out of his mind. But that person might be intoxicated by some magnificent emotion or some tremendous shock. Laughing and crying change your features in similar ways, but one expresses joy and the other sorrow.</p>
<p>Light is always created at the boundary when two things meet in harmony. Why should people from one culture follow someone from an extremely different culture? Why have you Americans come to the Unification Church, which was founded by a man from Asia? You are here to unite the universal beauty of the two extremes of East and West together into one harmonized culture. When two great cultures meet to form harmony, turmoil is inevitable at first. When a flowing stream hits the rocks in its path disturbances are created. It goes through many convolutions, splashing over rocks and churning at the bottom of a waterfall, but that does not alter its destiny. All streams eventually join the mainstream which flows to the oceans. All water is connected to the same source and flows to the same destination. In the same way many parents are currently opposing the Unification Church, but the day will come when they will join the mainstream, just as all running water eventually does.</p>
<p>There is tremendous variety and purity of creation in the mountains, and the water from mountain streams is also very healthy. Mountain water absorbs essences from the varieties of creation found there, but rivers which run through the plains and flat lands, like the Mississippi or Nile, have no clean taste or special characteristics. Every pebble on the bottom of a mountain creek, every weed and every leaf play an important part in harmonizing the entire environment. When looked at from this viewpoint everything becomes more beautiful. The running streams which start in the depths of the mountains will never make you sick, no matter how much you drink. Mountain animals drink the pure water and breathe clean air all the time so they are strong and healthy.</p>
<p>Everything that I am speaking of comes down to one simple word: harmony. The ideal world is not a world of uniformity and regimentation but a world of harmony in which each person plays a distinctive role. It is not one species alone which creates the grandeur of the mountains. They are made beautiful in part by the infinite variety of the trees, some gigantic, some crooked, and of all different shades and hues.</p>
<h3 align="center">Cultures must partake of both<br />
the pinnacle and the valley</h3>
<p>Why do we meet here? Why do we need to create harmony? I have a reason for selecting the topic of today&#8217;s sermon as &#8220;The Heart of Reunion.&#8221; External unity itself has shallow meaning, and I want you to appreciate the fact that there must be deep meaning and love in our gathering together. There are all kinds of subjects to study in our world, but I think the study of harmony is the most important. After being educated in the &#8220;Department of Harmony&#8221; would you want to marry within your own cultural and racial background?</p>
<p>White and black people live together here in America but have they created perfect harmony in this land? Who is responsible for that lack of harmony, white people or black people? Be honest and frank. I agree with your answer that basically white people have been responsible for that. Even though God meant for harmony to exist when he put two extremes together, there is little harmony among the races here in America. The white people must take primary responsibility for the lack of harmony in this country,</p>
<p>At high noon the sun is bright but even at that moment the sun is moving towards the opposite extreme of midnight. In living you must be willing to go through the darkness of midnight to arrive at the high noon of the next day. The Western culture is primarily a white culture, and in general white people think of themselves as superior to the black and yellow people. Westerners think of their culture as being self-sufficient, but that is comparable to refusing to go through midnight; the sun cannot always remain at high noon. The Western culture will never see broad daylight again unless there is unity. When Westerners can be broadened by absorbing elements from other cultures, a new day will dawn and there will be the glorious prosperity of another high noon.</p>
<p>The cultures which can go from the pinnacle to the valley and vice versa are closer to perfect harmony than those which never change their positions. The Greek and Roman empires thought they could stay on the pinnacle forever. They had no intuition that they would be destroyed, but now their civilizations are gone. Today the Western culture is enjoying being on the pinnacle, but this civilization will also terminate unless it seeks the valley. This is a universal law and no one can escape it.</p>
<p>The key to the continuing prosperity of the cultures is harmony but a harmonizer is needed, someone who can bring unity between two extremes. That unity cannot be accomplished all at once, but will require time. It is logical that a yellow man would be the mediator between black and white. Because God needed such a mediator He asked me to come to America to heal the rift between white and black. It is the white people who have been rejecting me while the black people have embraced me. That does not mean that God is showing special favor to the blacks alone, however. That phenomenon will help to save the white people by giving them another chance to transcend the barrier of race.</p>
<p>White people feel threatened by two things primarily: the power of communism and the increasing power of the yellow race. When Western leaders look at me and at our movement they wonder whether I am a communist or the leader of some yellow menace and they easily feel suspicious. But an even more formidable enemy would be the yellow race mobilized by the communist influence. America is obviously fearful of Red China, and the American government policy makers are in effect trying to charm the Chinese leaders.</p>
<p>Why should America, only 200 years old but the mightiest nation on earth, be so intimidated by Red China, whose present form of government is less than 30 years old? Anyone who is aware of world affairs can sense a threat to the Western world from the Asian communist powers.</p>
<p>I may be from Asia but the position I take is opposite the communist stand. The Asian communists say that there is no God, but I proclaim that there is a God and that He is our Father. Instead of supporting communism I have come to the West to educate the young people about God. The communist Chinese declare that the yellow race has unjustly suffered because of the white race and that the oppressed people of the world should now unite under communism to conquer the world. I declare that we cannot allow that to happen and that our solution instead is to unite all the races together under one common parent, God; that will be the governing power of the world.</p>
<p>Two powers within the yellow race are confronting each other in a fierce battle. One, the Asian communists, wants to swallow up the West, while the other, our Unification Church forces, wants to defend the West from that menace. I have come to this country for a purpose which is like filling a container with everything necessary to accomplish that mission. Once everything necessary is gathered, that container will overflow and then nothing will be able to stop us from defending the West. The power that is gathered will certainly not be for yellow people alone but for the salvation of the Western culture and all races of mankind, coming together as one gigantic river more powerful than Niagara Falls. We are building up that stream, starting out like a small creek and building into a big river.</p>
<h3 align="center">The seasons of history</h3>
<p>In what direction should the Unification Church go? We must move to the extremes. If we are in a high place we must head toward the lowest place and work there. If we are in the lowest position we must head toward the highest position. In America, the Unification Church is in the lowest position. We should be ready to aim as high as possible and move America back to God. It is realistically beginning to happen this year. Eventually we will not be on the bottom but will find ourselves way on top.</p>
<p>Where should we go after that? To Moscow! The tropical waters of the earth are slowly fuming toward the North Pole, while at the same time the waters of the northern areas are heading toward the warm areas. The ancient cultures were found in semi-tropical climates-for instance, Egypt by the Nile River and Greece by the Mediterranean. The present nations leading the free world are found in the temperate climates, however. The trend of history is inclining toward the cold weather zone, with a northern power like. the Soviet Union determined to dominate the world and cover it like a blizzard.</p>
<p>The garden of Eden was located in the tropical zone, which can be compared to spring. Human civilization eventually spread to cooler climates comparable to autumn, and now has penetrated the coldest, most winter-like areas. History has entered the autumn, and just as winter&#8217;s winds blow the last leaves from the trees, the cold wind of communism is being felt in this autumn culture. But at the same time, autumn represents the harvest when new seeds enfold the promise of a new generation. Now the leaves of the old culture are falling, but at the same time we are harvesting the seeds of a new culture.</p>
<p>I want you to know that this trend of human civilization precisely parallels the patterns of restoration. The seed is protected by its hull and cannot be destroyed by weather. It is protected until the new day arrives. Who will greet spring when it arrives? The seed is the only element that can go through the hard cold winter to start new life in the spring. This is not my theory at all but an historical principle.</p>
<p>The new way of life will not be contaminated by either the communist ideology or democracy. In other words, the seed will not be affected by any of the four seasons. Where can we find the ideology which can be that seed? The Unification Church has the ideology, and you will be the seeds that shall survive the severest weather to meet the spring. Have you ever before thought about yourself as being a seed?</p>
<p>You are just starting to dank that way. If you are absolutely convinced that you can cultivate that seed then this is an historical event. This concept is so gigantic and the reality is so soaring that once you deeply realize your position, you would feel as if you have been struck by lightening. I know you have never imagined that such gigantic things are happening.</p>
<h3 align="center">Like seeds forming, you must absorb<br />
elements from all races and cultures</h3>
<p>Today&#8217;s Western culture is equivalent to the autumn season. No matter how much you may want to delay winter&#8217;s arrival, its coming is inevitable. Even now winter is knocking at the door and in order to be a fruitful seed, the Unification Church needs a shell of discipline and training that will enable it to survive under any circumstances. In the summertime people go to cool places on their vacation and in the wintertime they go to warm places like Miami Beach, trying to escape the cold weather. But Unification Church members do the opposite; we meet the seasons head on and conquer them. That is our way of life. Your living that way is a manifestation of formidable spiritual power. The degree to which the American people say you are brainwashed is a measure of your conviction.</p>
<p>You know you will go through winter but you must also envision spring&#8217;s coming. Your job is to make yourself a solid seed so that when the spring comes God will cast you on very fertile ground and you will be fruitful. Are you ready to be tested by the cold weather of communism? Could you withstand torture by people who want you to recant your faith? If you are that strong, the fallen world will call you a problem child because no one will be able to bend you; but in studying the trends of history it is obvious that people like us must inevitably appear. The existence of the Unification Church is not an accident but the fruit of history.</p>
<p>We are thankful to be chosen for this job because we have the hope that after the cold weather of communism passes a new world will be born and spring will come. That is the day our hope shall be realized. The winter is never permanent. By gathering together people from all races and cultures we are trying to exchange each other&#8217;s indestructible elements in order to arm ourselves to overcome any circumstance. We can never be destroyed if we are trained for survival.</p>
<p>In order to become one solid seed, you must draw energy and nutrients from all elements: the soil, water and sun&#8217;s rays. All year round a seed is gathering the elements it needs. Do you white people still have some feeling of separateness from black or yellow people? Do you black people feel resentment towards whites, even after learning the Principle? Unless each of you can draw good elements from the others you cannot survive to grow in the springtime. The whole point is how to create one indestructible seed. When the spring culture of the ideal world comes I would like to name it &#8220;choon wha,&#8221; which means &#8220;one central harmony&#8221; or &#8220;central peace.&#8221; Are you ready to become the essence of the central harmony?</p>
<p>Our contribution is to knit all mankind together with the love of God</p>
<p>History is advancing toward one spring culture of the Kingdom of God on earth. That is the ultimate goal of human history. You are supposed to be the seed that will grow in that springtime, but where does a seed come from? God is the ultimate origin or root from which each seed grows. You are the seeds of God, created through the process of love, and two gigantic loves are essential for your life and must be harmonized within you-love of humanity and the love of God.</p>
<p>Love must always freely move into the center and then back out to the world. Love is not stationary but flowing all the time. The center of that circling movement is the Messiah; in occupying that position he channels the heavenly love so that you can transmit it on a horizontal level.</p>
<p>Throughout history man has thought that the ideal society with perfect love between man and God and man and man was only a dream, but the Messiah shall make the dream a reality. The Unification Church is born for that purpose and we can attain that goal. The greatest contribution we can make to the world is to knit all of mankind together with the love of God. Throughout history there has always been conflict between North and South, East and West, not just between nations but within families and on every level of society. Historically unity has proved to be an impossible task but I am striving for that today.</p>
<p>Even on the small peninsula of Korea the Southerners and Northerners have a sense of different identity and have had animosity toward each other throughout their history. Even in our church, when a southern man and a northern woman were blessed together they were like two knights ready for battle. When they initially confronted each other with animosity their families were also hostile, but as their relationship became happier their joy naturally influenced their surroundings and their relatives. Now their hearts have been melted and they are united as one family.</p>
<p>Initially there was a great deal of criticism of our mass weddings in Korea, but now many Korean young people anticipate becoming part of one such wedding. Even non-members feel a great deal of excitement. There was also violent opposition in Japan when our members were married apart from the usual traditions, but now the parents have seen how happy their sons and daughters are and how beautiful they are together. Parents have even said there must some magic to those mass weddings to make those people so happy.</p>
<p>Americans think you are just foolish young people but wider acceptance of our movement will come when people see the fruit of the Principle. The quickest way to unite mankind into one family is by intermarriage of the different races. The movement which can elevate such marriages will inevitably bring harmony and unity to the world, without war or conflict. In the future more and more Americans will seek international marriages uniting the different nations and races; these will bring honor not shame.</p>
<p>To accomplish this gigantic historical task, you must discover the extraordinary power of love, love that does not become the circumstantial victim of society. Supreme love transcends every national, racial and cultural barrier. People have always talked about love but human love alone will never accomplish the task of universal unity. Therefore, the Unification Church rallies around one love, the love and heart of God. We are the first group in history to talk about the heart of God.</p>
<p>If it is really true that we know the heart of God then we are like the sun rising in the morning and no one can ever stop us. Furthermore, the brightness of that morning sun shall brighten the entire world. There will be one center of heart here on earth, linking all mankind to the heart of God, spreading all over the world and constantly pulsing through the action of give and take, unable to stay in just one place.</p>
<h3 align="center">Love is the best of everything<br />
in all the universe</h3>
<p>Your whole purpose for reaching the center is to meet the heart of God. That experience is so overwhelming and exciting that you cannot disappear there forever, but must emerge again to embrace your family, society, nation and world. As you touch each of those areas you will always leave a bit of the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
<p>This is the joy in the heart of reunion. The East and West are meeting here today, not merely because we want to see each other for personal reasons but because the heart of God is linking us together into one. Words cannot describe that heart too well for it is beyond words. Intuitively you can understand; that something is what warmed your hearts and brought you here today.</p>
<p>If the heart of God is not moving within your heart then you feel empty, even though you may be a member of the Unification Church. Once the invisible but powerful axis of the heart of God is moved out of you, everything becomes empty. Once the heart of God dwells within you, no matter how lonely you may be you will be filled and the universe will be filled. A person who is completely filled is a joyful person because he lacks nothing.</p>
<p>Once you have felt the heart of God you feel that you cannot survive if it should ever leave you, and until you are reunited with God&#8217;s heart you feel lifeless. Often a child will dearly love his mother and want to be home just to be with her. If he runs home one day and finds all his brothers and sisters home but his mother gone, then he will grumble and say, &#8220;Nobody is home.&#8221; Everyone else may be there, but if his mother is gone then to him it seems that nobody is home.</p>
<p>If there is a center of love then you can give love unselfishly and without limit and you can become a subject of love. When you give out of the fullness of this love, you multiply love and can realize the ideal. Love transcends distance and time.</p>
<p>The speed of light is nothing compared to the speed of love; you have no idea how fast love travels. Love is fastest, brightest, fullest and sweetest. Love is the best of everything in all the universe. Only through the power of love can this miracle occur, not through bullets or threats. The Unification Church&#8217;s philosophy and conviction are connected to the center of the universe &amp;-the heart of God. We shall become the shining examples of that love and heart. I want you to realize that each of you can possess the highest thing, the brightest thing, the sweetest thing and the fullest thing.</p>
<p>What kind of mood were you in when you carne here this morning? Did you want to get here quickly or did you grumble that you needed more sleep? Why did you miss my ugly face? I didn&#8217;t bring you any gifts from Boston.</p>
<p>You came because you can feel a special power of love when you are around me and you want to receive it. But you can manifest and give that love too, right? Love cannot be seen but it can be felt. When the True Parents are not present it feels as if nobody is home, doesn&#8217;t it? As soon as I walk into a room, the room is filled. Although I am the same kind of person as you, this is true because I devote my entire life to receiving the heart of God.</p>
<p>Anyone who is strongly connected to God can become a life-giving object, even though that life is not visible to the human eye. You may not become a sun, but you can at least become a lighthouse in the dark. When you first started selling newspapers I&#8217;m sure you were scoffed at, but now if you don&#8217;t appear in your area each day there are people who miss you. You have become a lighthouse already.</p>
<p>You must have the faith and conviction that you are a lighthouse lighting a dark world. The lighthouse will shine forth even in the worst kind of weather because that is the time ships need the lighthouse most. When you are surrounded by the thickest fog you must shine forth all the more. The more adversity, the greater must be your light.</p>
<h3 align="center">I have now set the fishing tradition</h3>
<p>I have become a legend in the Gloucester area; the newspaper there wrote several articles about our fishing and we were a topic of conversation for the whole town. Hundreds of boats come every year from all over to fish in that particular area; when the New Hope put out to sea and dropped anchor then often many other boats would follow and anchor in the vicinity. When we had a tuna strike then other fishermen would bring out their binoculars to watch what I was doing. At first the negative people would want the tuna to break loose and escape, but after a few days of successful catches they began to change their thinking and the rumor began that I have something good working for me.</p>
<p>I was always the first one out to sea. Some of the seasoned professional fishermen would go out early to outdo me but no matter how early they got out the New Hope was already there. The fishermen were not only inspired by this but when they tried to compete with me they had to work so hard that they had no time for their usual drinking or laziness. By the end of the summer a rumor was going around that declining town that I am the only one who can save Gloucester.</p>
<p>Without any exception I got up every day at 3 a.m. The New Hope went out in the moonlight and in many cases returned home with the stars and moon shining. Do you like to get up early in the morning? The staff members working on the boat were never told what time to get up but since I arose at 3 they followed me, no matter how sleepy they were.</p>
<p>This has been my tradition for four years in America. It is not easy to follow me because no one can outwork me. My crew knows what I would do, and if I tell them to be out by 1: 30 on the Atlantic they get up and go out with no grumbling. I have even set the tradition of staying out and working all night. all night.</p>
<p>This summer I did not earn much in terms of money, but in terms of tradition, I earned billions of dollars worth. By following that tradition, the fishing industry in our movement will blossom and contribute much to America&#8217;s entire fishing industry in days to come. Because I have now set the fishing tradition, no one will hesitate to go out to sea, even the women. If I were a coward then no one would go seriously but now people will be eager to go. There is a record of when and where I caught each fish and how big it was. In the future fishermen will be trying to challenge that record.</p>
<p>Even though fishing is incredibly hard work, I wanted to give myself without any reservation to set the tradition for the posterity of the Unification Church. That has been my work for the last 70 days. What would you do if I were to go out selling the News World 24 hours a day? Would you be selling 24 hours a day also? I might bring the victory if you do not.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t know how hard I worked in witnessing. For seven years in the early days in Korea I slept only two hours a night and day after day I spent preaching the word of God and teaching the Principle myself. Sometimes members would become drowsy and sleepy and then all of a sudden be chastised by an angel saying, &#8220;How can you sleep like this when he is working so hard day in and day out?&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure this is the first time you have heard these things. The things I ask you to do I have already done many times in the past. Now I am asking you to do the same. You have no cause to complain.</p>
<p>Throughout my entire life I have accumulated a wealth of experience and spiritual power and now I am bringing it all to America. When visitors come to America they usually try to take something back to their home country, but I am doing the opposite. Everything I have accumulated I want to freely give to the American people, but instead of welcoming me, America is rejecting me.</p>
<p>If you were not here giving me love and listening to me then I would have no more interest in America and I would leave this country. You are the ones holding me in America and you represent 240 million people. You are the hope of this country; without you America will be lost. While you are alive and strong you must let 240 million American people know that the Unification Church is a movement of reunion centering upon the word of God. Once you harness the power of the heart of God, you will have the energy to be a lightning bolt, lighting up all of America. The important thing is whether you have that explosive power in your hearts. You are now like living bombs, just waiting to be ignited and then explode, not for destruction but for salvation.</p>
<p>Today is a new day of reunion and this is the reunion place for the East and West and heaven and earth. The implications of this unity are vast; with this kind of heart New York is much too small to be our stage. When you reach out you must feel that New York is not large enough to hold you. Have you felt, &#8220;I am the harmonizer of heavenly culture and earthly culture. I am the focal point of love. I am a messenger of the love of God, having the infinite energy that will bring springtime to this nation.&#8221;</p>
<p>When you live with the heart of reunion, with the heart of God and the heart of parents, constructive and creative power is generated. By having this nation as our center and all coming together as one we can truly become dynamos to create a new world culture.</p>
<p>There must be purpose for having reunion because otherwise no one would want to meet a second time. We must be ready to meet again after creating some achievement. This morning you should be different, making a new beginning with your heart of reunion and marching forward to the ultimate fulfillment of your goal. Those who can be different this morning, raise your hands. God bless you. Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">THE ONES WHO CAN RECEIVE GOD&#8217;S LOVE</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:17:52+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/the-ones-who-can-receive-gods-love.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:17:52+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">October 1, 1977<br />
Pasadena, California<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>Los Angeles is a very lovely city, a wonderland for living, with many things here to attract the attention of young people in particular. California&#8217;s intriguing qualities draw people from all over the country and many young people who come to California join the Unification Church.</p>
<p>Why is California so attractive? You could say the reason is mostly historical, since California has always been a meeting ground between the cultures of the East and West, but the simplest answer is the wonderful weather here. The open spaces and a clear blue sky match the spirit of young people. The state of California radiates a beautifully free and optimistic feeling, with the sun out and smiling back at you all the time. Young people have enthusiasm and hopeful vision, and would like to become as the sun beaming on all the world. They want to freely interact with the whole world.</p>
<p>A thunder storm is a vivid demonstration of the power of heaven, seeming to reveal an angry god. Lightning and thunder have a fearful, threatening quality that makes the world tremble. No one looks forward to it, but on the other hand, everyone welcomes the sun each morning. The sun shining in the blue and endless sky symbolizes hope, giving out warmth and light. Young people are poetically minded, thinking in dramatic and romantic ways, and when they see the sun in the blue sky shining on a green world their inspiration is stimulated. The singing of birds and the harmony of animals and nature all inspire the feeling that they are involved with the entire universe, echoing its heartbeat.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t come to lecture about literature or poetry this morning, but I can&#8217;t help it today. I love the weather and the sun. Usually older people are so entangled with worldly affairs that they don&#8217;t have time to appreciate the sun and the sky, but I am like you young people, with a mind of admiration and appreciation for nature.</p>
<p>Usually when people hear my name they associate it with government investigations and think I must be miserable after becoming so controversial. On the contrary, I am the happiest person, enjoying nature and beauty, warmth and love and light. I can understand why young people come to visit here and I love to visit California just like you do. You want to look up at the sky and embrace the beauty of nature, singing out your renewed sense of hope and vision. That&#8217;s the way I see myself and this must be the reason why so many young people around the world come to follow me.</p>
<p>Some of you may think I love California only because I don&#8217;t live here; you may be bored to death with blue skies and dry weather and think you like the rainy weather and seasons up north. If that is the case, you don&#8217;t know all my different sides.</p>
<p>I would like to dwell on this thought a little more before I start my main topic. I spent many, many hours at sea this summer. When I went to sea I saw nothing but blue all around-the blue sea, the blue sky and the dark blue of land on the horizon. I speculated about why everything is so blue and who it all resembles. I wondered whether the sea was blue because it was looking at the sky, or the sky was trying to be blue like the sea. Which one carne first?</p>
<p>I came to the conclusion that because the sky is blue, everything dwelling on the earth wants to be like the sky. The sky, or heaven, is the subject and everything else wants to take after it. When I say this, some Western young ladies should smile broadly because their eyes are blue too, but I don&#8217;t see any of you smiling. Your lack of response must mean your poetic or romantic capacity is near zero!</p>
<p>Anyone with blue eyes can think, &#8220;My eyes are blue because the sky is blue; the dwelling place of God is blue.&#8221; Everything seems very poetic when you think that your eyes are all blue, but solid eyes would be monotonous. At the center of your eyes are black dots that break up the monotony. How awful it would be to have an eyeball that was nothing but blue with no center. Because that black dot lends depth and mystery, blue eyes never become tiresome to look at.</p>
<p>I have analyzed the eyes of white people very much. After looking at you once I would never be stimulated to look at you again, but the black dot in the center gives you such mysterious depth and profound feeling that I never get bored. It&#8217;s just like the sun which contrasts with the blue sky. The sun shines on all things, giving light, and your eye is the center which can perceive and analyze and understand your surroundings.</p>
<p>Why am I speaking like this today? Every time you come to a conference you hear basically the same things and afterwards you go back and forget them all, but now at least you&#8217;ll remember this new thing-the meaning behind having blue eyes.</p>
<p>Now I have spoken with you for a short time and the ice is already broken. We have harmonized our hearts and have become one. That shows the beauty and goodness of the word, but at the same time it is fearfully powerful. After years of meeting people I can spot the newcomers when I look around because they are completely stiff and frozen! I gave you a relaxing message at the beginning because when you are at ease you can experience a flow of emotion; you can go up and be inspired and go down and be determined. When you are stiff, nothing can take place! Envision how the ocean waves always move up and down, up and down, and how a big log in the water can be a disturbing factor by interfering with their free flowing motion. In the same way, the free flow of emotion will disappear when you are nervous. Just be natural.</p>
<h3 align="center">If your roots are deep<br />
then you will be invincible</h3>
<p>Let&#8217;s go to the main subject now. Some of you have come here with questions on your minds that you really want answered, but please put them aside and get ready to listen.</p>
<p>Do you like sweetness or bitterness? Most people would prefer sweetness, but if you experience only sweet things then you easily become bored, forgetting and never understanding the sweetness. The person who understands bitterness can truly appreciate sweetness. The truth has both extremes, which harmonize together to compose meaning.</p>
<p>American young people are not receptive to much besides good things, preferring only to go up and pursue sweetness. They have no balance and don&#8217;t understand where they are. Americans forget to be grateful for a full stomach and they take food for granted. Most of you have become totally insensitive to the beauty of having a place to dwell and you never even appreciate having parents. American young people have become nomads who are numb to beauty, numb to sweetness. You need the discipline of suffering.</p>
<p>If God really loves this nation of America then He must prepare some way to balance your lives. The Unification Church, therefore, has been given a mandate by God to train American young people to appreciate beauty and sweetness by bringing them back to suffering and hard work, back to the taste of labor and sweat. By doing so they can become people of depth and appreciation, people who can understand experiences from one extreme to another.</p>
<p>Many people come to America trying to find the ideal world but instead they find that everything here is floating because there are no roots. Nothing is settled and unchanging. When a big tree becomes taller and taller it needs deeper and deeper roots underground. When I carne to America I thought that if I could help Americans understand the necessity of roots which grow deeply into the soil, then I could give them the power to help the world.</p>
<p>Many of my critics think that I have some really good ideas and they accept the ideology of the Unification Church, but at the same time they think that I enslave you young people. They see that I am pushing you in a direction completely opposite to your previous way of life, compelling you to dig your roots deep into the ground. The important thing is not to break, but to drive your roots deep into the ground and firmly secure yourself. If your roots are deep in the soil then you will be invincible. I myself live this life and I will be second to none in pursuing the highest ideals. My goals are the highest and I pursue the highest state of goodness, yet at the same time I am not floating around in the air; I am realistically rooted in the ground, working and sweating to help society. This is my way of life.</p>
<p>If you are sending your roots down in rocky soil, are you going to have shallow roots with many small branches or are you going to penetrate down deep, like a drill? How much have I suffered in my life? If I revealed the extent of my suffering, every one of you would break down in tears. If you heard the full testimony of my life you could not stay still. But do I seem tired out or helpless, or am I fresh with love and humor and fighting spirit?</p>
<p>I am the one who has really suffered. The nation of Korea tried to crush me but my deep root was not cut. Later Japan tried, and now America is trying, but this will not bother me. Even the President of the United States left office after just 1½ years of opposition. The world has been trying to uproot me and the Unification Church, but it has failed and now is realizing that this root is giving out leaves and flowers and life. Soon they will find hope in us. Even while America opposed me I have been putting down roots in American society.</p>
<p>The whole world is trying to force you into changing, but instead of being crushed, send your roots down deeper and deeper. As long as you survive to come back strong then nothing can curtail you. Americans have vehemently opposed me and tried to get me out of the country, but what they have done instead is to make me very famous. No one can deny that I have had impact on American society. The more people try to push me away, the stronger I will become and the more they will be amazed.</p>
<p>I have been driving during my whole trip around the continental United States but next time I will need a new mode of transportation. Maybe I will buy helicopters and airplanes. Undoubtedly the media will accuse me of using you to buy airplanes for myself but the important thing is the purpose behind it. If there is a genuine need and purpose then it doesn&#8217;t matter what the public says.</p>
<p>The 747s can carry 360 people. If I were going to Europe and 20 people were going with me I would tell the public that anyone who wanted to could fly with me to Europe free. What do you think would happen? There would be a long, long waiting list. What would we do for seven hours on the flight over? There would be a good meal and then we would have good entertainment. Sunburst and the New Hope Singers would perform, one of our films would be shown and a Divine Principle lecture given! The waiting list to accompany us would be so long that if we took everyone it would take ten years to get them all to Europe.</p>
<p>What I need is a big plane so that more people can come and I will be the pilot myself. Think of what tough competition that would be for the other airlines. Certainly no one else can afford to fly people to Europe for free. The airlines will demonstrate against me, but what about the people who want to go? Do you think this is a good idea? I have decided that we really need to buy a jumbo jet.</p>
<h3 align="center">You must be able to harmonize your ideas,<br />
bitter experiences and the suffering ahead</h3>
<p>I will drive you into the earth like stakes. You may hit rock farther down but still I must drive you in. Will you complain? No? Then the meeting is over now. Let me go. If you are so determined to do everything, then what else would I need to tell you? My power comes from the fact that no matter what I start to do, I just hang on tenaciously until the end. Nothing can stop me, not even the curses and persecution of the whole world. I want to take the worst and the best. Having only the in-between is not good enough for me. If I hang on long enough I will be victorious.</p>
<p>The task that I face from now on is a rugged one. Are you willing to follow such a leader? To be candid, let me say that following me is not easy. You must be born for your mission because otherwise it&#8217;s too difficult. You should pack up quickly and leave if you&#8217;re not ready to go all the way because the person who will be merely halfhearted and mediocre is better off not even starting. Why do you persist in following me? Your own parents are trying to crush me and if you weren&#8217;t here they would stop. Do you still want to come? Will you totally give yourself up for three years? What if you don&#8217;t even get the chance to be married?</p>
<p>I want to ask a question of the newcomers here who have never seen me before. Have you made up your minds that you are determined to follow with all your heart and soul, no matter what happens? We are going to lead history and to do that we must be capable of enduring any kind of hardship. I am tough and flexible and strong and I can withstand anything; even though I often seem to be at the breaking point I never break. Sometimes people think they have pushed me to the brink but then when they let go I bounce back. On one side I am very human and warm, but then sometimes you see me get a little angry. You haven&#8217;t really seen me angry yet, though. When I really stand up to fight then nothing can stop me. I am a born fighter, period.</p>
<p>I want you to be like me and become real fighters. Would you women like being married to men like me? Could you be wives who would support and follow husbands like that? It is not easy to give encouragement and support to such a man. Mother is very tired after traveling several thousand miles in a car. This morning she asked to stay in the room to say a little prayer for me while I came down to speak, but I told her to come down because everyone would want to see her.</p>
<p>If you really want to have an ideal husband you must be able to carry burdens and suffering yourself. First become a person of high caliber yourself, because otherwise you are not worthy to marry a man of high caliber.</p>
<p>Do you think that everything is guaranteed now and that our way will be easier from now on? Now more than ever we need strong determination to give our whole selves and voluntarily take any amount of suffering. There is suffering ahead of such degree that it cannot be described in words but only understood heart to heart. You must go in and out of that level of suffering many times in order to be perfected. Don&#8217;t be naive and think only about your ideals. You must be able to harmonize your ideals with the bitter experiences and the incredible suffering that lie ahead. In this way you will become a true man or woman.</p>
<p>People are drawn to see the awesome power of Niagara Falls more than they are to see the smoothly flowing Amazon or Mississippi Rivers. Niagara Falls is much smaller but people are fascinated by the incredible activity of the water there. God is just the same. He is like a tourist looking down at the earth, seeing many rivers of men which resemble the Amazon or Mississippi, but being drawn to the person who is like Niagara Falls. I don&#8217;t want to be like a smooth river. In order to attract God I want my activity and power and gusto to be even greater than Niagara Falls.</p>
<p>A normal river doesn&#8217;t have a Niagara Falls. Should the Unification Church be like other churches? The fact that we are not is the greatness of our Church and the greatness of our challenge. Things happen to us that never happen to other churches, with your own parents even trying to kidnap you and persecution coming on all sides. Do you still want to go ahead under those circumstances? If you do then you will create something even greater than Niagara Falls in the sight of God. In living that way of life you are writing the greatest poem and creating the greatest masterpiece of art. We are becoming the creators of great things.</p>
<p>Expensive trees are the ones which have developed unusual shapes or symmetry in the course of their rugged lives. The human race can be evaluated according to the same principle. For example, the Korean people have gone through all kinds of suffering and struggle throughout their history and in the sight of God they have something to be appreciated. My own life has been a focal point of such suffering. I am not controversial only in Korea, however; we are seeing the same pattern emerge in Japan and America. People who closely analyze our Church think that it is fragile and insist that it cannot last more than six months, yet we will not only endure but continually prosper. The source of our strength is the secret beauty that gives the Unification Church true value.</p>
<p>If you never lose sight of your ultimate goal when you are falsely slandered and criticized then that will become your ultimate value. When you do not lose sight of your own king then you are a loyal subject, and when you do not lose sight of God then you are a saint. Outside of such devotion there is no real value and nothing really precious existing in the world. Having such a heart gives us the most precious value we can possess.</p>
<h3 align="center">Did you ever think that you<br />
are the bone of this country?</h3>
<p>If you were asked if you would rather be flesh or bone, what would you answer? Maybe some of the women would want to be flesh in order to be seen and appreciated. A bone is ugly looking and very tough and if it is struck it makes a sound, but thinking people who appreciate value would want to be bone, not flesh. Bone forms the framework, the structure. Bone is like the principle out of which everything starts. Without a frame nothing else can stand.</p>
<p>What actually makes a man handsome? Bone is subject and flesh is object, yet no one thinks of that essential bone. When people say you are handsome they are noticing your face and body. No one says that your bones are very handsome. American culture centers on the physical things instead of pursuing the foundation or framework of things. The bones of American culture are rotting; its bones of love and morals, of social behavior and ethics are crumbling into dust. However, the &#8220;good life&#8221; of fleshly gratification will not last long. It is like morning dew and will vanish tomorrow.</p>
<p>We recently experienced a 24-hour blackout in New York City and the jungle-like turmoil that resulted clearly demonstrated that America is dangerously close to crumbling. Who is going to save New York? No amount of flesh can save New York. Only bone is adequate and we are intent on becoming the bones of society. I am going to create one bone after another and link them to every facet of society, After we have put new bones in American society we are going to create a whole new America.</p>
<p>Are you becoming solid bone? The life of a bone is very different from the life of the flesh and you must know very clearly what the difference is. You could live a luxurious life on earth for less than a hundred years and be a dictator who can command anything to be done, but in the end your flesh will decay and what will remain? Nothing. In educating people about dais, the Unification Church is fulfilling a most critical role.</p>
<p>Some of you have been in the Unification Church for many years. Did you ever think that you are the bone of this country, a bone which nothing will tarnish or bend? Have you ever thought that you would be the Rocky Mountains of this country which would stand firm? Have you state leaders ever thought that you are the solid bone of your state&#8217;? If a bone becomes soft and rots then everything else will die. Your bones must be tough yet flexible so that they cannot be broken. You must not allow yourself to be broken.</p>
<p>I did not come to compliment the American culture or to make money. No, I came to train some people to be extensions of the heavenly movement, to put the missing bones into Western culture. The situation of Christianity today is something like a new baby, which after nine months in its mother&#8217;s womb is trying to be born, but which is having difficulty in the delivery. It is supposed to come forth as a newborn baby, but who is going to safely deliver it? I have come to make that delivery possible in America. This movement shall take the role of delivering the princes of the New Age in America.</p>
<h3 align="center">You have truth, but do you have conviction?</h3>
<p>There is one word that is very critical in our movement: the truth. Everything is true and everything is real. That is why we have True Parents, true sons, true daughters. How do we become different from others? We don&#8217;t just react emotionally; when something happens we analyze and appreciate it.</p>
<p>What I have been teaching you this morning shall remain at the center of your heart, even if you come to think it&#8217;s too difficult to follow and you pack up and leave. No one can erase this teaching from your heart because it is true. If you leave the Unification Church and go out to live your own life then still you will teach your children what I have taught you this morning. Even though you may not mention the name of the Unification Church, no one can remove this teaching from you because it is like the bone.</p>
<p>I have left my footprint in America&#8217;s culture and no one can remove it. Modem religious history will be changed by it. My body can be destroyed but I shall live on in your hearts in the form of this teaching and no one can take me away. Do I teach you this way because I want you to follow me? I have told you it is not easy to have roots that can never be pulled up. Are you ready to follow anyway? If you are a tree you must be the root. If you are a man you must be the bone. You must become an essential part of the human being.</p>
<p>America is a proud country and is trying to prove all over the world that it is the greatest country on earth, but where are its roots? In free sex and the hippie movement? It will all be destroyed by the first hurricane that blows because those things are ephemeral. Thinking people must see that there is no root here in America.</p>
<p>God has a purpose for this nation but this country is floating now. It is imperative that we send down a strong root into the good earth. That&#8217;s the philosophy behind all the work I am doing. Modem people are just floating and have decided to go wherever the wind blows. There is no strong sense of justice and righteousness in this country.</p>
<p>I have been working for thirty years and during that time many people met me but passed by. All kinds of people may come and go but this one person will never change his course. Every day I keep going. Many people have thought that following me meant losing because I would surely be defeated, but what has happened in the meantime? All those who opposed me in the past in one way or another have become miserable, but I have survived all kinds of storms, I will become even more well-known than now. Looking at me today everyone must concede that I am a successful man and there is no question about the fact that I am having an impact on history. Do you want to become that kind of man and woman? Do you want to become like the bone, or like a tree with deep roots? Who here has determined to become a root so deep that you are inseparably entwined with my roots?</p>
<p>For the sake of human history this movement is indispensable but the task we face is a difficult one. I must make you into fighters. You should not be people who are resigned to being here or who reluctantly, passively approach your responsibilities. I must transform you into people who just can&#8217;t help but live this way of life. You must be born champions, born revolutionaries.</p>
<p>After the crucifixion of Jesus, Christians suffered for 400 years, demonstrating their devotion even at the cost of their lives, and ultimately Christianity became the bone of the Roman Empire. The remarkable thing is that though they had great power, their understanding of truth was shallow. If those Christians with all their determination had had the enlightenment of our truth, they could have conquered the whole world.</p>
<p>Let us ask ourselves a question. Today the basic truth of heaven and earth has been revealed. If the Unification Church has determination that surpasses the determination of Christians 2,000 years ago plus having the ultimate truth, then can we become the bone of the world? That is the movement I have ignited. Each one of you must be tough, equipped with both truth and conviction. While I was fishing in Boston my pattern was to get up at 3:30 a.m. and be out at sea by 4:00, not because I wanted to make lots of money in tuna fishing but to show this revolutionary zeal. Americans really hate getting up early in the morning, particularly to go out to sea. I want to conquer something Americans don&#8217;t want to do. The sea is the best place to train men and women to be tough.</p>
<p>When the first class graduated from the Unification Theological Seminary the students thought of themselves as the intellectual elite of the Unification Church, but I told them that they didn&#8217;t need any more lofty ideas, that instead they needed to conquer reality, to conquer the deep valleys and dirty ditches. If they can do that, they will be the kind of leaders we need. That is my purpose in sending them out for six months on the MFT.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure most of them were flabbergasted at being given such a menial assignment. Those who cannot be successful on the MFT will not be given special missions. Each of them must emerge from the valley and demonstrate Ws capability. I want the Seminary students to conquer the extreme of the high pinnacle where the sweet wind blows as well as the deep valley.</p>
<p>I am a man for all seasons. I can be the best farmer, or go to a fishing village and be the best fisherman, or at a factory be the best worker. There is nothing I cannot do and there is nothing I hesitate to do. I am at home in any surroundings and will always come out being the best at anything. I want to be a triumphant person in the struggle of living a God-centered way of life and I want you to strive to be triumphant in that way of life also.</p>
<p>I want you to think of everything in reverse. I see that everyone else&#8217;s nose faces downward, but I think of my nose as being upside down and my eyes as seeing backwards. I even train myself in the reverse process of things happening. I want to be a person who receives abuse instead of praise, not for doing evil things but for doing good things. I have trained myself to endure hunger and go without sleep I even forget to eat sometimes. Who said you must sleep eight hours a night? One hour is good enough sometimes, and if you don&#8217;t have to sleep that one hour then that is even better. Who said it is abnormal to go three nights without rest and then just sleep a little the third night?</p>
<p>My body has been tortured to an incredible degree, more than anyone else can imagine. I am almost sixty but people twenty and thirty years old have given up trying to keep up with me. I feel that they avoid being with me sometimes because they are exhausted, but what&#8217;s the difference between us? We all have the same kind of physical body. When Mother and I were driving from the East to the West coast Mother was very concerned about my health and would say, &#8220;Father, you need a little rest, even in the car. I brought a pillow, so would you lie down and take a little nap?&#8221; At such moments I thought about how our trip was an historical event and I didn&#8217;t want to leave the record that I just slept while driving. So I threw the pillow aside and told Mother, &#8220;No, I want to took after you.&#8221;</p>
<p>I always feel like I&#8217;m a marksman on the front line, always aiming at the enemy. I am always intent and take a great interest in everything.</p>
<p>Do you women here feel that you could keep up with me? I asked Ye Jin whether she would like someone like me who pushed her all the time, or an easygoing husband who would let her sleep and enjoy life a little more. She answered she wanted a husband like me because there would be more excitement to life. I don&#8217;t have even one minute of private time because my life is public, but this time I gave instructions that no one should try to keep track of where Mother and I were going. Are you confident that you can be like me? Remember, our struggle is an eternal one. The foundation that you lay today will have eternal value, so it is worthwhile pursuing. I want to make sure whether you really want to follow me or not. If at the moment you are dying you can think that you will never give up, then regardless of what people say about you, you are the greatest.</p>
<p>So far we have had a pretty good talk, so shall we stop here? What more do you need to hear? You will become the bone of America and the world. What else do you need? You should answer that since you will become the bone you need the flesh, right?</p>
<h3 align="center">I want you to reap a wealth<br />
of experience so you can harmonize the world</h3>
<p>MFT members, have you been grumbling at me in your hearts or have you been thankful for your mission? Have you been taking an easy course and always goofing off? If I were fund raising I would never settle for reaching a certain minimum goal every day but think about how to get higher and higher goals. I want to work until my arms and legs give up. I don&#8217;t want to take the time to sleep lying down but instead sleep and walk at the same time. That&#8217;s the kind of life I enjoy. Sometimes at night I go to the bedroom to sleep for a few hours but I only get halfway there, and in the morning I wake up and find I have been sitting in a chair for those few hours. On some days my legs ache and throb with pain, but I just lean against the wall to take a little rest.</p>
<p>When I have exhausted my physical body, my mind is peaceful and my conscience is clear and I feel the deep love of God flowing through me. Sometimes I just half lie down on the bed, but when I&#8217;m half asleep I feel someone come and lift me up onto the bed, even though no one is there. I don&#8217;t want to talk about this kind of thing too much because you will think I am superstitious, but I know that there is always spiritual power around to support me and encourage me. One day I was very fatigued and my legs were very sore but as I was walking my legs suddenly felt feather light. That kind of power is always available for you too.</p>
<p>Since you are going to go to spirit world eventually, do you want to come to the part of spirit world where I will be? I will lay the highway and provide the car for you, but you must do two things: you must learn how to drive the car and provide the gas. Since I cannot do everything, at least that part is your responsibility. You must learn how to drive the entire length and breadth of society without an accident or collision. Everyone is looking at you because you are Unification Church drivers. They must recognize that you really know how to navigate your way through all parts of society. You never know when a collision will occur if you doze, either spiritually or physically.</p>
<p>I want you to know that in MFT training the money you gather is not the major goal. You are training yourselves to be the people who can be self-sufficient, who can create the gas for your car, so to speak. Once you are trained on the MFT then you have basic training for supporting yourselves and after that you will have witnessing training and learn how to win people. I am looking forward to meeting the ideal people that you will become. When you really fulfill your mission on the MFT and in witnessing, then not only can you be blessed and have a home and a family but you will become the champions who will save the world. If you want to become a citizen of the world then you must raise people of at least ten other nationalities in your own home, making it one family.</p>
<p>I want to make the world one world and your families will be a focal point of that unification. Because the family will play the major role in bringing together all kinds of nationalities, you should be able to create harmony in your home. You have to be self-sufficient so that you can help other children and educate them in your own home. If the husband goes on some other mission then the wife can carry on that work and if the wife must be gone then the husband can carry on. The Unification home shall always be autonomous. I want you to become the kind of men and women who can maintain your own homes.</p>
<p>Now when you are young you will visit a great variety of homes and have the precious experience of learning about human beings and human affairs. By associating with many different types of families you can experience many different things which you will then call your own. If you are with a beggar you will be able to relate to him because you have learned what it is to be a beggar. You will treat rich people in certain ways because you understand them. You will understand the working people and the uneducated people because you have associated with them. By going through every kind of experience you can become a harmonizer, bringing people together from every part of life.</p>
<p>Only someone with a wealth of experience can harmonize the nations, the poor and the rich, the learned and the uneducated. I have experienced all these things so I see into your hearts. I was the number one worker in the communist prison camp. I have worked as a miner and even experienced being a beggar. Why should I do all that? Not to fill my own stomach or receive some kind of glory but to offer my whole life for the sake of God and humanity. My unselfish purpose has been clear from the very beginning.</p>
<p>The world may come against me and even put me in jail but I am only worried about God and the salvation of humanity. Even under the adverse conditions inside the North Korean prison, working with an impossible kind of people, I never gave up. How much more should I do when I can move freely about, when all the necessary materials are available? How could I rest even a minute?</p>
<h3 align="center">What is the suffering here in America?</h3>
<p>Whatever I do I will be second to none. I even have experience in all kinds of sports and I know how to harmonize sports people because I know their world and their psychology. That&#8217;s why I was already in action the minute I landed in this unfamiliar country of America. I didn&#8217;t start cautiously or pause to learn about this country before taking action. America is called a melting pot and it is said that anyone who stays here five years will be absorbed by America. However, I have not seen America to be a genuine melting pot but instead a nation that is decaying. How could I become a part of that?</p>
<p>I must make it God&#8217;s melting pot instead, and once I grab that mission I will never leave it until I am finished. Thinking Americans predict that if America continues like it is that it will not survive very long. Have you heard your own people predict the decline of America? America was once a respected name all over the world but today Americans are looked at with suspicion in other countries. If this continues, then in ten years Americans will be ashamed to be Americans when they travel overseas. People will want to spit at them. We want to be people who are welcomed wherever we go. Even in the African jungle people should say, &#8220;Are you Unification Church members? Welcome! Come with me.&#8221; Only if we set up that kind of tradition will America survive.</p>
<p>I know you fund raisers are going through persecution every day but do not ever think that you must endure just because God needs money. There is a much more important purpose behind what you are doing, which is for you to become a man or woman who is so tempered and polished that you can become a catalyst of world unity, a person who can be self-sufficient in any life.</p>
<p>When I was teaching in Korea twenty years ago I was pushing the members, telling them to go out and suffer, to fast and work hard. The Korean way of life has always been one of suffering and our members were already tired, but I pushed them even more until they were totally exhausted. Now twenty years later they come to me and say they are grateful for my pushing them so hard in those days.</p>
<p>The worst suffering can be described as having no shelter, no warmth and no food, but what is the suffering here in America? No one suffers from hunger here or has to worry about where to live or what to wear. This is really heaven as far as physical needs are concerned. You live in the kind of country in which you can actually survive for fifteen days on one day&#8217;s earnings. If you earn the minimum wage and work for ten hours then you have $30 in one day. With $30 worth of groceries you can survive for one month. One hamburger can sustain you for one day with no problem. It&#8217;s hard to truly suffer in this country.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t understand that in other countries people are starving. America has many restaurants and tons of food are thrown out every day. You can go to such places and find food to survive on with no problem. Don&#8217;t think lightly of hunger; it is the worst kind of suffering.</p>
<p>How much do you appreciate your clothing? Without adequate clothes a person is miserable but in this land of abundance you have never suffered for lack of clothing, have you? The worst kind of situation you have faced is not having the right kind of clothes for some special event like a wedding. There is no shortage of housing either; often a large house has only one lonely couple living in it. If you were to help them a little bit they would love you and be more than happy to have you stay with them. Many grandfathers in the city are so lonely that when you talk to them for thirty minutes they will ask you to stay with them for a few days. There are literally thousands of people who yearn for someone to stay with them.</p>
<p>Life in Korea is entirely different. If you have no house then there is absolutely no place to rest, even in a farmer&#8217;s barn. What is so difficult about life in America? Many years ago in Korea when members went out pioneering, the Korean economy was so poor that one day of hard work would not buy one day&#8217;s food for them. Here bread is nothing special, but over there they could not afford bread to eat so they would crumble what they had into water and drink it. They were always hungry and the young people were so undernourished that their legs would sometimes buckle as they were walking.</p>
<p>In those days our missionaries were assigned to work in certain cities, and in order to survive they would walk miles outside the city to work and then come back to teach in the evenings. They never had one night&#8217;s sleep free from hunger at that time. Many people were taught the Divine Principle back then who never knew how their teacher was suffering. After six months or one year they learned what kind of suffering those people had gone through and they embraced them in tears. From that time on people who were being taught would sometimes bring their lunch to the missionary and themselves go hungry all day at school or work. Our pioneer would eat that lunch for the sake of his mission, thinking, &#8220;I am eating this in order to go on. I&#8217;ve got to accomplish.&#8221;</p>
<p>Eventually the schoolmates of those young members noticed that they didn&#8217;t bring a nice lunch to school any more. In order to not have this reported to their parents, those students would walk around outside at lunch time in order to be inconspicuous, but the news got back to the parents anyway. People would ask, &#8220;What happened to your son or daughter since they joined the Unification Church? Why don&#8217;t you give them lunch any more?&#8221; Can you imagine how shocked the parents were? They asked their children, &#8220;What happened to the lunch I gave you?&#8221; and the students would have to confess that they gave it to our missionary so that he wouldn&#8217;t starve. The parents would not believe their children and became angry at our missionary, accusing him of stealing from their sons and daughters and calling him a bloodsucker.</p>
<p>There are too many such stories to tell you all of them. Sometimes communities would organize to evict the missionaries and stop them from working. Sometimes our members were severely beaten. Our missionaries were called wolves and accused of coming to steal the lambs, the children of the town. At the same time there was another level of persecution coming from Christians who spread all kinds of dirty rumors and slander about the Unification Church.</p>
<p>I was leading those suffering missionaries and my heart was aching every day. I told God, &#8220;I have only one hope. I want to go on for ten years and then You will be vindicated.&#8221; I was determined that we would make the money to buy our own food and I gave all my energy to creating our factory, devoting myself to it 24 hours a day, giving instructions and ideas. In this way I laid the foundation ten years ago while our members were suffering.</p>
<p>America is really a sanctuary for missionary work. There is persecution here, but how many of our members have been beaten to the point that they have to go to the hospital? The Korean Christian churches created an image of me as a bloodsucker and told parents they must defend their children from me. Then those parents tried to create incredible barriers so that their children wouldn&#8217;t join the Unification Church.</p>
<p>Knowing that this situation existed in Korea, the Japanese members determined that it must be vindicated by their blood and sweat in Japan. Japan is totally different from Korea but they wanted to suffer as much as the Koreans and work as hard as they could, feeling serious about not being indebted to me and to the Korean members. Our Japanese members worked very hard and earned much money, the money that I spend in America for you and for this country. I bring hardly anything to Korea but instead use it all for America. I am looking forward to the day when you will be ignited, the day you will seriously say to me, &#8220;Father, we Americans will never fall behind the Japanese or Koreans. You wait and see; we shall never let you down.&#8221;</p>
<p>You should know, however, that even if you make a great deal of money here in America I will never use it back in Korea and Japan. I will spend it for the sake of the world. Just as the Japanese determined that they would never be behind the Koreans in suffering and then gained a tremendous result, I look forward to having you say, &#8220;America will never be behind Japan or Korea. America shall be the champion of champions.&#8221;</p>
<h3 align="center">My consuming concern is for unity among the races</h3>
<p>I would like to see the black members saving their lunch money to help support the white leaders and I would like to see the white members leaving their lunch for their black leader and being scolded for helping a black man. If that kind of historical situation occurred in American schools, America would be revolutionized overnight. Unfortunately, that kind of situation is practically impossible in this wealthy country.</p>
<p>I am thinking about how to form a spiritual link between black and white so that they cannot be separated by anything. Should the link be as teacher and student or as brother and sister? That problem has been a consuming concern for me, that black and white can truly live as one family, eat as one family and dwell as one family, with no selfish motive.</p>
<p>Have you ever thought about saving a bit of money every day to feed me with in case I don&#8217;t have the right things to eat, and even if I do have enough food, to want the privilege of feeding me anyway? Have you ever thought about buying me clothes or getting a house to welcome me one night? There is only one way you can create that spiritual link and that is to devote yourself to total unity with your leader and to work 24 hours a day without any complaint. By doing this all other things shall be forgiven. In that case our spiritual link will not be broken.</p>
<p>The important thing is whether you leaders in particular have the kind of conviction to work 24 hours a day, being absolutely crazy about God&#8217;s work morning, noon and evening. Are you that dedicated, that single-minded? If you become that kind of leader then you will raise up that kind of follower. Even though I have spoken at some length on this, your faces are blank and you don&#8217;t really understand. Why do you follow? Do you have a poignant, painful realization about the situation down to your bones? We must create that kind of profound spiritual link among us.</p>
<p>I have come to one conclusion: In an atmosphere of persecution you will do your absolute, unselfish best and then you will win unselfish followers and become one with them. It is the only way you can create that important spiritual link. You must feel that you are born for this mission and that you will leave this tradition behind. I went through the five provinces of Korea many times, but I have poured out more soul-searching energy into this country of America. I have traveled this path many times, visiting each state with a heavenly heart.</p>
<p>When I first came in 1965 1 had no nights of rest because I spent them in the car. I am still willing to go at that pace, but out of concern for Mother I must slow down a little bit, though I still maintain a hectic schedule. I must be sympathetic with Mother because she has had ten children and her energy has been drained. Her body has been absolutely given to God. Sometimes people think Mother must be made of iron but that&#8217;s not so. In the Korean custom the wife usually massages her husband, but he never massages his wife. That kind of thing is unheard of in Korea, but sometimes I must ignore that custom and massage Mother&#8217;s legs because she is so tired she just can&#8217;t go on.</p>
<h3 align="center">Suffering creates the<br />
strongest spiritual link among us</h3>
<p>Our war is fought everywhere, even in the home. How can we overcome the present difficulties and achieve the next goal? Suffering creates the strongest spiritual link among us and without it we have no deep emotion at being together. If we have been pushed down together and have been hungry together and tried to take care of each other, then a deep heart-to-heart relationship can be formed, regardless of whether we are Korean or Japanese or American. The way you can find a heartistic relationship with the True Parents is to accept suffering. There is no other way. Because you follow the True Parents you have been persecuted and kidnapped and deprogrammed, going the same course your leaders have already gone. That faith will forge an unbreakable link between leaders and members and the True Parents.</p>
<p>When you go through incredible suffering you can pray, &#8220;God, You have been suffering more than anyone else. Our True Parents have gone ahead of us to pave the way and they have faced many times more suffering than anything I face, so let me go on. I shall be triumphant and bring glory to You.&#8221; If your heart is that willing to give your total self for the sake of God, the True Parents and humanity, then even before you cry out your ancestors and the spirit world will cry out on your behalf. You will become an indispensable person for the spirit world. There is no other way to find a heartistic link with God and with each other.</p>
<p>What can bind together the spectrum of the world&#8217;s races here in America? Certainly knowledge and organization are inadequate for that. Money cannot help and words are cheap. Only one thing can unite you-heart. Unless you feel this sense of unity to the bone, nothing will work. Your stomach, your dwelling place and your sleep are most critical, but you rise above them by loving your town, your mission and this way of life more than you love to eat or sleep.</p>
<p>How can God set up His world of heart here in America? Think of it. You are used to sleeping eight hours every day and having three meals; you can get anything you need to wear and you can go out and get cheap love anywhere, even for $5. How can God set up the blueprint for His kingdom here in America without instituting some drastic changes?</p>
<p>You leaders must not become complacent. You dank that if you have a few members, that they can go out and do the witnessing and fund raising and come home and do the cleaning and cooking at the center. If you give orders in that way, you will bring to yourself the worst kind of curse you can receive as a leader! A leader should be crying out at night with more tears than anyone else.</p>
<p>I am determined to buy up land and houses for your future security, but not now. Eventually I will have all the best schools and homes for you, but until you show that I can call you my children I will not do those things. I will not speak to you until you are qualified to listen, and until then my words will be judgment to you. The people who were with me on the New Hope wished many times that they could sleep a little more and get some better food. Out on the boat they would sneak out to take a little nap, but I want to demonstrate to you the kind of person who is always in the forefront. I am never standing on the sidelines. That standard is exactly what I am asking of you today.</p>
<p>I am only one man but none of you love this country more than I do. In that respect I am asking you to compete with me. All the buildings I have bought and put to use, like Barrytown, the Manhattan Center, the World Mission Center, are for the American people. I will take nothing away for Korea. My life would be much easier if we didn&#8217;t need to buy such buildings.</p>
<h3 align="center">Anyone who takes my words seriously<br />
cannot help but become a leader in society</h3>
<p>You young men and women must truly realize what I am saying and stand up from today on. You must love America and you cannot complain. I am praying for you when you do not know it. The New York winters are cold and windy but I many times go out in such weather to cry out, hiding my tears from Mother. I sometimes feel pity for you because if you hadn&#8217;t met me you wouldn&#8217;t have to suffer this much. If you were only suffering for my sake then I would be the worst kind of criminal, the worst devil under the sun, but my conscience is absolutely clear that this is the right thing. No matter how much you suffer, it is more than necessary for the sake of this country, your own people, your own relatives and eventually God and humanity.</p>
<p>If you precisely follow my instructions, then I predict that in ten years we will be so superior in economy and manpower, in prestige and every possible way that we shall easily surpass our opponents. A man who takes my words seriously cannot help but become a leader in society. The women will lead women&#8217;s groups and you men will lead your town or society. You cannot help but become number one because nothing is superior to this teaching. Society will have to admire you because your way of life is unselfish and your attitude is humble and your character is correct. How could anyone deny you if you are dedicated and hardworking?</p>
<p>Your MFT work is not just to pay bills. You are leaving an important tradition behind for everyone who works hard and serves God and humanity. Don&#8217;t ever think that you are working for the sake of the Church; the Church is only providing you with training. Those who will ultimately benefit will be humanity and God and that is why I came to work in America. Without reservation I am pouring out every ounce of energy into the mission, using all the money and knowledge I can muster in this showdown in America. I even want to borrow money and become a debtor for the sake of God and humanity. If I died one day and left billions of dollars in debts behind, when people discovered the truth about why I borrowed that money everyone would want to pay off the debts and do still more.</p>
<p>What kind of leaders are you going to be? If you are going to be with me then you are also going to be liable for my bankruptcy if it comes to that. Would you run away? Or would you say, &#8220;Father, never mind. Let me take care of it. My shoulders are big enough to bear this burden. &#8221; If we take up the burden together then we can satisfy our creditors. With whatever money we have we will buy land and build many universities. Our real future lies in our posterity, our own children. We want them to become true God-centered champions, and in order to train them well we need schools and universities.</p>
<p>Mr. Kamiyama is now responsible for the finances of our Church. All kinds of bills come to him and people complain about how he handles money, but he barely gets rid of one debt when a bigger one comes along. Sometimes he is discouraged and seems to lose heart, but then I tell him that he and I are just guests in this country, that we are going to help the American people to stand on their own feet and to pick up the world. After all, we are not the masters of this country. Let the American people do that. We can leave them the tradition by giving our sweat, our blood and all our energy for the sake of this country. Some day the American people will understand, and even though they do not appreciate anything now, history will understand.</p>
<h3 align="center">You have been crying, but<br />
for whom did you shed tears?</h3>
<p>You have the same nose, two eyes and strong body that I do. You must not be defeated by my standard but do more than I do. I know you are treated in all kinds of abnormal ways, being spit at and cursed, but take this as a privilege. Think of it as a joy and honor that you are beaten, not for your own sake, but for God and His sake.</p>
<p>Your goal is not me but God. You must become a champion who will move the heart of God and also touch the hearts of mankind. Let me cry out for you because of your deeds. Let the members who have heard about you cry out for you. Then the rest of mankind will indeed cry for you.</p>
<p>The link of tears should transcend the level of God so that your tears can mix with His. It is then that the world will be moved. I know it is true that when God&#8217;s tears are shed for you then you are really a godly man. I am a man of tears. I have shed many tears in the past and I know there are more to shed in the future for the sake of mankind. I am looking for the place where I can shed my tears. I want you to know that if God is moved by your deeds then His blessing and assistance will be with you.</p>
<p>In prison I never taught one word of Divine Principle but I did things that moved the heart of God and then the spirit world came down on my behalf, preaching the Divine Principle and bringing disciples to me. The people who don&#8217;t know this kind of history from their own experience and who don&#8217;t know the deep meaning of this path I have gone are not ready to be known as Unification Church members.</p>
<p>If someone asked me what I would say to my children on my deathbed I would answer, &#8220;This is my will, that you children take over my mission for God and humanity. You must know the taste of tears and work with tears. I haven&#8217;t accomplished it all. This is my will.&#8221;</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t complain or talk about trivial things because there are much more worthwhile things to do. Has God ever made an excuse for Himself?. God never wants to make an excuse; He merely wants to consummate the work of restoration and let the world see it.</p>
<p>I trust you MFT members and want you to do well. When you are persecuted and mistreated I want you to feel that you are mistreated on behalf of God and Jesus and the True Parents, and that you should bear the beating for your own children in the future. It is a glorious challenge. You can take delight when people curse you for being a Moonie and you can thank God for the opportunity to experience what He has experienced. There is a profound, mysterious kind of joy you can feel which establishes you as a true member.</p>
<p>I want you to know that there is no way you can come close to me or be a true leader of the Unification Church without going this path of tears and suffering. You have been crying, but for whom did you shed tears? For whom has your tongue spoken? Have you pitied yourself or had some anger you could not contain? Your tears should be for God and humanity and your tongue should be speaking for God and humanity. Then you are truly Unification Church members.</p>
<p>For whom has your body been living? You have been living for yourself but now you must give your body for something else. There is a way now for God and mankind to live and you should invest your body for that purpose. When you shout it out from a position of struggle, God will answer. Then mankind will respond to you because you have had common experiences; you also are good and bad and you have had success and failure. The destiny of mankind and God is hinged upon whether God and mankind can respond to you.</p>
<p>This is the third seven-year course. We have now completed almost seventeen out of twenty-one years. Continue until we enter the twentieth year and you will see how much you can withstand of the threats and frustration which should not even have been yours. These are God&#8217;s frustrations. You must withstand God&#8217;s frustrations and anger and always try to vindicate God, not yourself. I have had to withstand beatings and character assassination for thirty years and I want you to be patient also.</p>
<p>When my eyes see something awful I tell them to forget it. When my ears hear something ungodly I tell them to forget it. Try not to see or hear those things. You have a heart full of pain but be patient. For the sake of God and humanity you can do it and finally the day will come when you will vindicate God and humanity. We can do far better than to sit and wait for God&#8217;s comfort to come down; because we are in a position to consummate our mission, we are going to comfort God. Unless you live this way you really have no right to even pray. If you just pray with your mouth you are a hypocrite, but when you have some deed to show you will have matching words to say. This is the path the Unification Church must take because this is the only shortcut to the heart of God. There is no other way to become close to Him, no magic way to go this route.</p>
<h3 align="center">The life you are living<br />
now is my workshop for you</h3>
<p>A husband and wife should be united heartistically and then they can unite in a common struggle, becoming one body. The Church is not trying to exploit you but is training you through your hard work. What you are doing now in training is what you will be doing for the world for the rest of your life. The life you are living now is my workshop for you, training you to transform the world. After this training you can turn around and do the same thing for the world. &#8216;Ibis is a privilege because by doing so you are participating in the work and tradition of the True Parents, and above all the work and tradition of God. You are literally inheriting His Kingdom of Heaven here on earth.</p>
<p>We want to be victorious in love because that is the ultimate victory, nothing else. You may not conquer a nation or conquer the world by force but when you become a victor of love you can conquer and unite the world. Everything else becomes small. Eventually everything will come under this one love.</p>
<p>Jesus was crucified on the cross and externally speaking he was a failure; however, he dramatically demonstrated his love for humanity by forgiving and loving his own enemies. That deed made him a victor of love. Love conquers all and nothing can displace or overthrow it. Once you occupy this highest pinnacle of love no one can topple you. If you love me then we do not necessarily need to be together physically; when you pursue the same goal and follow the same way of life and tradition then you are actually living together with me. We discuss, live and push forward together in the same way of life.</p>
<p>When you have a hard day and return to the center in the evening you might say, &#8220;God, I had a rough day but I won. I never gave up and I never did a shameful thing. I love You and I want You to be proud of me.&#8221; Many times you murmur to yourself, don&#8217;t you? When you are driving and talking to yourself you are actually talking to God and when you become more and more involved in this, the living God will actually answer you and say, &#8220;My son, I heard you. I understand and am glad that you won the battle. You are indeed my son.&#8221; You will actually hear His voice. The key to this relationship is how much of your heartistic energy you pour out to God. There are no technicalities. You know the credo of the Unification Church, to shed tears for earth, sweat for man and blood for heaven. Those are not empty words but living words.</p>
<p>When the hot weather comes most people try to get away somewhere to be cool, like the seashore, but you Unification Church members simply sweat even more when the hot weather comes. Under those circumstances would you think about how miserable you are, or would you thank God that you sweated for Him that day? One person might curse the heat but the other would thank God.</p>
<p>Your spiritual growth will eventually become a straight line, just as the existence of God is like a straight line. Often God comes and goes-you experience God and then He disappears and then comes again later-but that indicates that you too must become like a straight line. I am merely one Oriental man, but there is something mysterious about me that makes you want to see me again. When you see me you are awed by some kind of power and at the same time you feel a loving warmth. Sometimes I come to you in dreams to give you guidance. What kind of man am I?</p>
<p>Tears often come when you think of me and in the next moment you realize you are entirely open to the spirit world. All the important spiritual areas have been blocked because of the fall of man, but when the blockage is removed you can purify yourself in heavenly love. There must be a movement creating such exciting and explosive energy that every individual in the universe can break through that spiritual blockage. The spiritual world and the physical world are actually one, so that the power needed to break down the barriers is really simple; it all depends on one thing: how much more you love God than you love worldly things. How pure and genuine is your love? Ultimately we must become victorious in love, where there is no boundary.</p>
<p>Who sees me frequently in their dreams? Sometimes you may find yourself crying when you are missing me. If you are out fund raising and all of a sudden you are struck with such love for me that you start crying and missing me, then a few steps ahead of you I will be standing there, even carrying the same kind of fund raising product you have and going ahead of you fund raising. This is happening all over, particularly in Japan. There are many mysterious spiritual things happening to our Japanese members, especially to those selling the marble vases door-to-door. All kinds of spiritual assistance are coming to them and other members themselves are completely flabbergasted at how much money they are earning. The secret is that God comes down and helps them.</p>
<p>Many times their underwear is so ragged that they would not want it to be seen by their friends, but they have no regrets about it. Day after day they have been shedding the genuine tears I have been speaking of this morning, God&#8217;s tears. The agony of mankind is real to them and the tears of God are real to them. Of course they are given money to buy underwear and so forth, but they are thinking about how they can spend this money for the sake of God. Instead of spending it for themselves they want to give it back as an additional contribution. These little things move God. God is infinite but He takes delight in those little things and that&#8217;s the way I live too. I want every bit of my life to be that dramatic. Many times in the past God literally cried out for the True Parents because of this attitude.</p>
<p>I have many hidden secrets known only to God. God knows how easily I break down in tears but I don&#8217;t want to act that way in public. I really want to live a deed before I talk about it and then I can teach this way of life with authority. I&#8217;m not just a philosopher. There is nowhere else under the sun that you can find someone who is like me. There is no one who can replace me or replace Mother. This position is absolutely precious and irreplaceable and unique. In order to accomplish this position and relationship, a great foundation has been laid at tremendous sacrifice. Many nations have crumbled and many billions of people have suffered to lay the foundation without seeing its glory, You are like the flowers which have seen the ultimate day of blooming, but there are many people who fertilized the seeds who have never seen the flowers&#8217; glory, people who were the trunk, soil and water to lay the foundation: You must always remember and appreciate this.</p>
<h3 align="center">I want you to take the initiative<br />
out of your own desire</h3>
<p>For whom do you work on the MFT? The clearest answer is that you do it for yourselves in order to become people who love God and humanity. Without that you can never have a relationship with the True Parents. No matter how much we say we love God, as long as we do not fulfill our responsibilities towards God and humanity, we have nothing to do with God and humanity. All the work you do is ultimately to make you the kind of person who loves God and humanity so you can have a relationship with True Parents. Each moment on the MFT is absolutely priceless. How can you be tired and to whom can you complain if your labor is for your own benefit?</p>
<p>I want you to become subject and take the initiative out of your own desire, with no one forcing you to do anything. If you want to push yourself and discipline yourself and really give 100% for God and humanity, you will become God&#8217;s pride. I never want to feel that you are just following my instructions but rather that you have really perfected yourself in the image of God on your initiative. You may not know your value, but the Unification Church members will know how perfected and precious you are.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure many of you complained in your hearts before coming to this meeting, wondering why certain things have to be done or figuring out shortcuts for doing things you don&#8217;t like. Have you thought in that way before? Those who say they have never complained aren&#8217;t telling the truth. I myself have sometimes complained to God but then God gave me a real spanking! Then I knew that complaining doesn&#8217;t work and it&#8217;s better not to do it! If you have never complained then you are better than I am.</p>
<p>Internal discipline is such that you can force yourself to do something even when you don&#8217;t want to. Particularly in the beginning of your spiritual growth that is necessary. Sometimes I am super stubborn and don&#8217;t want to listen to anyone. God knew that if He sent me out in that condition that I would run into lots of trouble, not just getting fines for speeding, but something serious. God trained me every day giving me all kinds of discipline, and after He finished, the whole direction of my life was different. In this way God has opened up new opportunities, giving me instructions Himself and telling me what to do. I have conquered myself and become God&#8217;s pride. This is the way a son of God should behave.</p>
<p>What kind of person will you become? There are two ways to go. All of us will go to the spirit world, but if you can live the way I have been describing then God Himself will prepare a dwelling place to welcome you. Otherwise you can live a dirty and untruthful life on earth and end up in a trashcan in heaven. There are two ways to live, and it is obvious which destiny you would rather have.</p>
<p>I want to give you two pieces of advice. First, under any circumstances do not complain. Second, do not give up. How about you Seminarians, do you complain? Your faces look a little bit tired. You studied for two years and you thought that you were graduating from the Unification Church. I want you to know that instead you are just entering it. What you need is not just thoughts about heaven but the working heaven, the deeds of heaven. Christianity has only been thinking about heaven so it has declined, but we are making a new Christianity which shall be different.</p>
<p>I have been thinking very much about how we can clean up a city like Las Vegas. Maybe we could set up a gigantic casino with all the gambling machines and games and then set fire to them and bum it all up in one night. That would be dramatic! Then I would explain why we have to do this, why gambling is no good and why so many things in Las Vegas are wrong. People would certainly listen. If I were an ordinary man who was in business to get rich then I could make billions of dollars in Las Vegas and buy up the city.</p>
<p>Another place I want to clean up is New York. There is a tremendous amount of prostitution, not only in New York but also in Japan and Korea, and I have been thinking very much about that dark side of society. Religious leaders must look at reality and try to find solutions instead of avoiding the problems. One of my main motivations for buying the New Yorker was that it was located at 34th St. and 8th Avenue, right in the middle of the prostitution district. We don&#8217;t need an empty heaven, but a realistic one.</p>
<h3 align="center">What is the value of our time together here?</h3>
<p>I really regret that I cannot train you state leaders directly, in totally different circumstances than in your states. Particularly the first graduates of the Seminary have great responsibility. Did you keep a diary when you were fund raising after graduation? You could have written a beautiful book. The ideal heaven is up there but reality is right down here, the top and the bottom of heaven. You can write a beautiful masterpiece about how to bring it together.</p>
<p>There are all kinds of human lives and all different levels of living. I must be able to link each of them with heaven and take them all there. It is your responsibility to learn how to lead those who refuse to go into heaven. It is easy to lead those who are willing to go to heaven; the people who want to join the Unification Church are no problem, but fuming the adversaries of the Unification Church around and convincing them of the truth is your duty.</p>
<p>What you feel about your state is more important than what you know about it. Do you want all the people in your state to listen to you obediently, or are you unconcerned even if the opposition fires machine guns at you? If they don&#8217;t &#8220;shoot&#8221; at you then you ,&#8217;shoot&#8221; at them. When I carne to America no one ,&#8217;shot&#8221; at me so I &#8220;shot&#8221; at America.</p>
<p>Even without speaking I am opening up tremendous new horizons in the hearts of the American people, changing their understanding of the Oriental culture and people. Indirectly I am contributing toward welding the two cultures together. Orientals have always been a minority in this country, being unrecognized and unknown, but since my arrival America&#8217;s entire concept of Koreans has changed.</p>
<p>Like Americans, there are all kinds of Koreans, tough ones, unbeatable ones and controversial ones. Look at me-I am a mystery to the American people who don&#8217;t understand how I can influence their sons and daughters, inspiring them to change their lives and do extraordinary things. But let me ask you, do I threaten to shoot you if you don&#8217;t obey? All I do is talk to you. I don&#8217;t even want to talk too much but you asked me to talk so I must. You are the cause for this long speech!</p>
<p>While we talk we develop some rapport, a meeting of heart. Conviction, power, truth, righteousness and light are shining upon us; the darkness is disappearing and you are automatically becoming new people without even knowing it. You have met an incredible person, one who not only gives inspiration but who also appears in your dreams and visions. Your hearts are pulled towards me and when you unite with my direction your conscience is clear, but when you disunite you suffer in your heart.</p>
<p>Are you some kind of prisoner? Are you held captive by invisible bars and chains? No, you are embroiled in one event that has never happened in the past and will never happen again in the future. This work will continue on for thousands of years, but you are the only ones who can be with me as a living person and hear directly what I have to say. Future generations will understand about me through spiritual revelations, but you have both physical and spiritual experiences with me. That is your honor and your pride.</p>
<p>When you know me and I embrace you spiritually then that spiritual oneness intermingles with the physical world. No one in the past and no one in the coming generations will have this experience. only you. This experience could never be bought even with billions of dollars; it is that precious. You are unaware of its value now, but when you go to spirit world you will see our movement and its origins, and you will know what a priceless treasure it is to have lived at this time, face to face with me.</p>
<p>Are you happy or unhappy people? I don&#8217;t see any realistic happiness yet. Let me illustrate. Suppose you have a wonderful husband and you love him with all your heart but suddenly he dies; then you become totally despondent and your deepest desire is for him to be revived. If all of a sudden you find your husband walking toward you to embrace you, you are filled with the greatest ecstasy and excitement. What I am trying to describe is the same thing that is happening to you here. Your happiness today shall be greater than that, if you really understand the value of this moment. Unfortunately, its value cannot be described and I don&#8217;t blame you for not understanding because you know so little about spirit world and the origins and future of this movement.</p>
<p>All you worry about is your own part of the world and your own individual mission of fund raising or witnessing. Your worries center around making good public relations or being good salesmen, but I tell you that once you really realize the true value of sitting right here facing me, nothing in the world will matter to you.</p>
<h3 align="center">If you are full of contradictions,<br />
it is a joke to talk about the Kingdom of Heaven</h3>
<p>The key to the Kingdom of Heaven is right here on earth. The Kingdom of Heaven is not the hazy realm that Christians describe but a real kingdom of love and perfection. Do you want to hear about it? I wanted to cover several subjects but I have hardly covered any ground at all yet. You are sitting and listening but my legs are getting sore standing up all the time.</p>
<p>You know me, you know the direction and you know the goal. The new members here have discovered that I am just a man, not a superman. I have humor and I am a genuine person, but at the same time I am other things. You can understand the external, visible Reverend Moon, but what about the internal, invisible me? Do you want to know him too? Do you think you would like Reverend Moon better at this stage in life or as a young man? Actually we are tailing about external differences. There are two types of Reverend Moon externally, but internally speaking there is no difference.</p>
<p>If you ask a grandmother if her mind is as old as her physical appearance, with gray hair and wrinkled skin, what would her answer be? She would smile because the question is amusing and the answer is obvious. She will never hesitate to say, &#8220;No, young man; even though I&#8217;m seventy years old my mind is just as young as yours.&#8221; Could that be the case? It certainly is. In the physical world there is difference in age but in the world of mind there is no age. There is only the prime of life.</p>
<p>What would you want other people to notice about you, your physical appearance or your mind and appearance together? Especially the young people who are looking forward to marriage should be serious about this question. What are you looking for in a husband or wife, just physical appearance or the invisible character as well? What kind of love would you like to receive? What kind of person could you love? Would you prefer a husband or wife who can give only physical love or would you want one who would give you his internal self also? What kind of love is more genuine? How about yourselves? Are you living only on the physical level or the internal level as well?</p>
<p>The religious world has been pursuing the internal man, but since it couldn&#8217;t find the ultimate answers it has been declining. The Western world has been following after the external or physical man and has been declining. What remains? Increasingly men are asking, &#8220;What is the essence of man? What is the essence of the nation? What is the meaning of existence?&#8221; All these questions are being pursued more and more intensely but no answers are emerging.</p>
<p>When you observe one man he is full of contradictions between his mind and body, right? Those of you who have no contradictions between your mind and body, raise your hands. Is there anyone? You know the truth. If individuals of contradiction marry and have children then that contradiction is multiplied. Hegel theorized that the universe started in contradiction and he developed dialectical materialism to describe it, but only a fictitious God would create man in this condition. Such a God should be cursed for making man in this way. No one in history has toiled more with this question than I have. Unless contradiction is resolved there is no use talking about world peace or a brotherhood of man because there are no means of obtaining them. When your body and mind unite into one temple of God then you can dwell in a happy society, nation and world, but if you are full of contradictions within yourself then trying to dwell in the Kingdom of Heaven is a big joke. Actually the nation and world are not the subject; you are the subject. You are more significant than the society and the nation, and the most precious thing for you is subjugating yourself.</p>
<p>This explains why you cannot solve your parents&#8217; problems; only they can solve them. Your problems must be solved by you; no one else can solve them for you. You can be an object and lend support to someone who is struggling, but you cannot take the subjective position over their problem. Even if the rest of the world has become the Kingdom of Heaven, is this kind of heaven any good for you, or anyone, if the heart and mind are suffering?</p>
<h3 align="center">I toiled more than anyone to find<br />
the solution of man&#8217;s internal contradiction</h3>
<p>You find two people fighting within yourself and the difficulty is to unite them into one. If God is all-powerful and can solve this question, why hasn&#8217;t He done it already? Since He hasn&#8217;t, He either is incapable of doing it, or doesn&#8217;t exist. Have you thought about that? This has been a fundamental question for mankind. The great religious leaders like Buddha, Socrates, Mohammed and Confucius all encountered the same questions, but where is the obvious answer? All mankind has been waiting for the answer and even God Himself has been waiting for the answer, but it has not been found before now. How can the answer be found?</p>
<p>If all love starts from contradiction, how can you find anything genuine? If we are drilling a hole in a wall you need a sharp drill with a sharp center, but history is like a drill with two points. With such a drill you can make all kinds of nicks in the wall but you can&#8217;t make a hole. If God could have solved this quandary He would have done it a long time ago, but it is a man who must do the job. I determined that I would find the answer and explain how the contradiction could be resolved.</p>
<p>I am only a resultant being so I must know my origin. Do you have some awareness of how you spent the nine months in your mother&#8217;s womb? After you were born you gradually became aware of having a mother and father who gave you birth, but did you actually become aware of where you came from? We have to deal with our ultimate origin.</p>
<p>I am here myself and that is reality, but is God a reality? There is no guarantee. I am dealing with all kinds of contradictions outside, but there is no guarantee that I can ever find God. Communists and atheists are insisting that there is no God. To find the origin, I started by making a hypothesis: &#8220;If there is a God, He should be like this. If there is no God then the world should be like this.&#8221; The world should be a world of peace, stability and tranquillity, but if two people are fighting constantly then there can be no world of peace. How can you have a peaceful home if the husband and wife are constantly fighting? In our hearts we desire to see one united world of peace and harmony. That is surely man&#8217;s most far-reaching desire and ambition, and it hasn&#8217;t changed at all throughout history.</p>
<p>If man&#8217;s original desire did not change, what did change? Our bodies always betray us, moving in all different directions because they are not stable. The person who vacillates and goes off in too many directions at one time, or who frequently alters his basic position, is more evil than the person who is stable. History reflects man&#8217;s constant effort to harmonize the two contradicting forces. There is a constant and unchanging will to bring this about.</p>
<p>The universe is far more precise than a computer, moving according to law. No heavenly body can deviate from the laws of nature. What would happen if the sun and earth moved at random? There would be incredible chaos and catastrophe in that case, but in reality the planets have stayed on course every minute for millions of years. They will not deviate from cosmic law. How could the universe be that precise? The communists and other atheists explain it as being a natural phenomenon, but there is a loophole in their argument. Can randomness create the precision of law and nature? Can a random mind project regularity? Even the slightest deviation in a rocket&#8217;s plotted course to the moon can create a catastrophe.</p>
<p>Our solar system alone has many satellites but this solar system is just one of many systems. There are billions of systems like ours moving in the universe, so can you say that it just happened without someone&#8217;s planning it? There are billions of cells in the human body, all of them differentiated. They are all specific for one function or another but they are harmonized together to make one man; they all have the same purpose.</p>
<p>Could man make chunks of gold appear at his command? Even if be prayed for years and years or produced sophisticated machinery, man could not create gold. Helpless man is trying to evaluate the universe but it is impossible. Man is incapable of judging the universal law and the universal system, because man is merely a small part of it and not capable of knowing everything.</p>
<p>Why do you have eyelashes and eyebrows and what would you do without them? Did your eyes just happen to appear as they are? Did they know ahead of time what conditions in the atmosphere they would encounter, and prepare to be protected by blinking eyelids? Did your eyes make themselves, knowing ahead of time about drying winds and dust and hot weather so that they could provide for eyebrows and blinking? Of course not.</p>
<p>The eyes didn&#8217;t know ahead of time, but the important thing is that someone did know! Someone knew and planned and provided for the eyes to encounter dry weather and dust. Is the eye the result of some random action or whim? Who planned ahead? When we pursue this more deeply we come to the question of whether matter or spirit came first. If you ask a communist whether the eye knew ahead of time that it should be equipped with eyelids, he will have no answer. He cannot deny the logic that a universal intelligence must have existed before the eye. Before the eye could be created the concept was already in someone&#8217;s mind, someone who knew the necessity for eyes and knew exactly which design would be best.</p>
<p>I do not possess universal intelligence because I am a result. I didn&#8217;t know where I came from and it was not my will that brought me here to earth. There must be a great wisdom which preceded any existence here on earth. We call him God. Ask the communists about how to revolutionize eyes and how to change the law so that eyes are upside down or so that one is in front and one in the rear. Can you revolutionize how your nose perceives smells or how your mouth detects taste? What the communists are trying to revolutionize is the economic system, but the economy is not one of man&#8217;s higher-level activities. The communists proclaim that a person&#8217;s occupation is what determines his personality and his value, but should something that insignificant be man&#8217;s master?</p>
<h3 align="center">There will never be peace<br />
until man knows his origin</h3>
<p>Unless we can find the one ultimate source of the universe there is no way that man can find peace on earth. If there is no real God then even if we conjure up a fake or conceptual deity we will have no solution. Is God real or not-this is a fundamental question. You must align yourself with a particular solution, but in any case, you are part of the problem. If there is a God then you are the cause of the world&#8217;s problem and if there is no God you are still the cause of the problem. However, the solution is different depending on how you answer the question of God&#8217;s existence. The communists propose one extreme solution and either they are correct and there is no God, or there is a God. The two situations cannot coexist.</p>
<p>If God does exist then the next question is why He is so helpless as to leave the world in this condition. It could be that a relevant, working relationship with man was severed and since then the living God has not been able to re-establish it. God could be an honest and true God who wants to make a relationship with a true man, but since there has been no true man it has been impossible for there to be a true relationship. Our logical conclusion is that God exists and He is a God of true love, but He has not yet found a deserving object of His love upon this earth. Since He cannot have a relationship with an evil man, He is seeking some solution for the future. This has been His situation throughout history.</p>
<p>If there is a God, He must be true, pure and perfect. If that God created man, but man came to be dominated by conflict both internally and externally, then there is a contradiction, for perfect God would not produce that kind of man. Only one explanation could account for this situation-simply that man is the one who is out of order. God has been waiting for the day when mankind will elevate themselves into being His genuine objects. Then God will be free to establish a real working relationship with man. All of human history has been the process of striving toward that goal.</p>
<p>There are two solutions that can be proposed; First, an individual might think, &#8220;I know that I am a deviated man and I am striving to somehow win the ideal world.&#8221; Or he might think, &#8220;Because I am out of order I need to perfect myself first and then seek the original relationship with God.&#8221; God will intervene in the second situation. If you think of yourselves as being legitimate and perfect then this world is full of contradiction, but when you look at yourselves as radios that are out of order and need to be repaired then a logical conclusion emerges; &#8220;Yes, I must change because my present self is not the original one. I must revolutionize myself to fit the original concept of God and then not only can I be restored, but the relationship between God and man can be restored, and the relationship between man and the universe can be restored.&#8221; For this purpose the religious world has come into being and all throughout history it has grappled with the task of restoring man.</p>
<p>If there is a true God, His solution for the problem of history must be the road of restoration. God looks at this world as one which is out of order and needs to be mended. God must plan for man to be restored back to his original state, making possible His original relationship to man. By accomplishing this the society, nation and world will be mended. Religion has been creating a cultural sphere which is moving toward God&#8217;s ultimate goal for the universe. It was small in scope in the beginning, but through history it has enlarged to the level of tribe, nation and world.</p>
<p>The modem world is divided into four basic cultural spheres-the Oriental or Confucian cultural sphere, the Buddhist cultural sphere, the Islamic sphere of Asia Minor and the Judeo-Christian sphere of the Western world. If there is a God, He must be striving towards one world. He has one love which will govern the entire world and one culture which He would like to see throughout the world. God doesn&#8217;t want to see America clinging to its one way of living, separate from other countries. God wants one concept of love to make a cultural sphere which will permeate one nation and then spread to all nations of the world.</p>
<h3 align="center">Knowledge of the fall<br />
offers man his greatest hope</h3>
<p>How would God achieve this? With money or some business venture? By power or knowledge? You all talk about love but what is your concept of love? You all know the love of a divided mind and body going in all different directions but what is the origin of that kind of love? Where does love dwell? Does love start in your physical body and then flow into your mind, or does it start from your mind and flow into your physical body? Most people think physical love comes first, but what kind of trashy love is that? The communists say they can revolutionize even your mind and love, saying that love is just a physical sensation to be gratified and your mind a product of economic environment.</p>
<p>Should love be changeable? When love is based on physical sensation a person can go after all kinds of love, just like animals, and by having relationships with many people he feels more stimulation. A husband and wife usually fight over lack of love or miscommunication of love, but are they fighting because of their bodies&#8217; or their minds&#8217; miscommunication of love? Normally the wife protests to the husband that he is just loving her body but not really giving his real heart to her. She insists she doesn&#8217;t want to be treated like an animal and reminds him that he pledged to love her with all his heart and soul and mind instead. One partner may say something but his mind can actually be somewhere else. A couple will fight when they see something fake about their love which reveals that their minds and bodies are separated. Nobody loves a changing love.</p>
<p>Where is the origin of love? Does love come from a changing source or an unchanging source? Can you find physical love that is unchanging, eternal and unique? Everyone is looking for the kind of love that originates in an unchanging source. The mind will never get old and infirm, but always stay as fresh as in a person&#8217;s prime once he makes up his mind that he wants to always pursue unchanging love. We usually ask someone who is being untruthful if their conscience doesn&#8217;t bother them because we know that the mind is supposed to have unchanging qualities.</p>
<p>There are body-oriented men and mind-oriented men and they are not necessarily friends. If one goes first and the other follows, then at least we have hope that the other will catch up some day, but this is never the case. The mind always pulls in one direction and the body in another. If God made man this way then He is man&#8217;s worst enemy, but we have shown that instead some man-related event imposed this situation. It is not of God&#8217;s own doing at all. When an unprincipled power pulls the body in one direction then you are its prey or victim. These things can be explained in one sentence: this is the result of the fall of man.</p>
<p>Knowledge of the fall offers the greatest hope to fallen man because with this understanding we can find the road of restoration. Not only that, God&#8217;s existence and the contradiction of man&#8217;s existence can now be understood. Mankind must know that man was broken by the fall and must be repaired. God&#8217;s mandate is for man to become whole again and return to Him.</p>
<p>Why can&#8217;t God deal with man as he is? The Bible says to forgive your enemies seventy times seven, and if that is the virtue of a loving God then why can&#8217;t He come down here and embrace fallen man? Why can&#8217;t He intervene?</p>
<h3 align="center">The real battle is being<br />
fought in you, not in the nation or world</h3>
<p>We must understand the essence of the fall of man. Another power named Satan was involved in the fall of man. Consequently, there is a good god which is God and there is an evil &#8220;god&#8221; which is Satan. That does not mean that originally there were two gods, two origins of the universe. How can man ever find harmony within himself unless some reconciliation is made between the two gods? God is not God unless He can deal with this evil &#8220;god&#8221; and the evil fallen body of man. If God cannot bring man&#8217;s evil body to the side of good then Satan will bring man&#8217;s good mind to the side of evil. God must be capable of liquidating this evil world that has come under the subjugation of Satan.</p>
<p>What is the domain and base of the evil god? Satan&#8217;s working base is not America or your family but your physical body, while God&#8217;s working base is your mind. Expanding this pattern onto the world scale, there are two worlds: the God-denying world and the God-accepting world. The two must be divided and a final solution found. Desiring to create the world which represents Him and His ideology, God is inspiring religious leaders and champions and letting them expand their influence all over the satanic world on the social, national and worldwide levels. The external appearance of that world at this time in restoration is known as the democratic society, or free world, and the representative of that free world is America. The other world is the communist world, which claims that there is no God and also claims that the end justifies any means. Communists don&#8217;t care how many people they kill but only want to control the world. In the process they treat men like animals because for them human life has no value.</p>
<p>In the democratic world we enjoy freedom to grow spiritually, but the communist world only grants the freedom to glorify the communist state. Freedom does not mean giving license to your body to do anything. Freedom means liberty within the law of God; God is giving us the freedom to actualize goodness. Instead, America today considers freedom the right to pursue individual gratification, particularly when it has to do with the body. True freedom, however, gives man the right to live for the dispensation and purpose of God. Misuse of freedom brings destruction to the eternal nation and world and is not part of the true freedom of God. Freedom should result in constructiveness and be an asset to the Kingdom of God. The concept of equality is also important and means that everyone is equally valuable in the sight of God and for the purpose and will of God. In that respect we are all equal. This is not blind equality where you can claim you are equal to everyone and have a right to do anything anyone else does.</p>
<p>We have been talking about the free world and communist world, but don&#8217;t concern yourselves too much with them. The thing to worry about is yourself as a base for Satan or God. The real battle is fought in you and you will determine its outcome. Would everyone be happy if the communists took over the world? The very people who claim to be communist also experience struggle between their minds and bodies, the same contradiction you fight against every day. You are the problem area.</p>
<p>If you want to become a godly man, then in subjugating your physical body with your mind you should not want to become only a citizen of one nation but a world citizen or universal citizen. Did God create national boundaries? They are obstacles created by man, not by God. God is thinking of how to eliminate boundaries without seeing wars erupt all over the world. What would be God&#8217;s most effective tool-power and threats? Definitely love is God&#8217;s way, but why couldn&#8217;t God have done it a long time ago? This question presents a very grave problem. God seems very foolish to have allowed all kinds of problems to emerge without intervening. Love is not a new word, but God sees very clearly that until He can find one man who is truly victorious in His sight and who can be a living example of His love, He has no base upon which to work on earth. God is looking for one man, not one nation.</p>
<p>When God gives His love, does He want to give it with just His body at one time and His mind at another, or all together? In the sight of God we must become an acceptable base by being united in mind and body as one central point, No power or money exists which can unite mind and body into one; the only possible way is through the love of God Himself. The power of the Almighty God should be pure and perfected enough that it can cleanse all iniquity and unite mind and body into one. Perfect unity should be caused by the perfect love of God. It&#8217;s logical that if you are to become a reflection of God you must empty yourself and become a new man, causing your mind and body to resemble God&#8217;s mind and body. Then God will come down to you and dwell in you in love.</p>
<p>What kind of love does God need, and if God has everything, why does He even need our love? Although God is the origin of love, His love cannot be activated until a circuit is formed and to do that there must be an object to which energy can flow. Without an object God&#8217;s love and energy will remain dormant. Do you men have love? How about you women, do you have love? Does your love manifest when you are all alone as an individual? It is a universal truth that love is activated when there is a circuit formed by having an object. No matter how almighty God is, unless He can find an object of give and take, He is lonely and very poor. Those who want to live a bachelor life for eternity, raise your hands, If there is such a person, he has some problem. God would be really angry at you if you ever suggested that with His loving heart He should forget about all His headaches with fallen man and remain a bachelor.</p>
<h3 align="center">Through your hard work your body<br />
is being conditioned to lead a heavenly life</h3>
<p>Man has two desires: He wants to love and he wants to receive love. Many times women, especially American women, think about how to be loved but they forget about giving love when they get married. If a person just wants to receive love then he is the worst kind of robber. God&#8217;s love is the only unchanging and unique love, and without having that kind of love as a cure we will never have any hope for humanity.</p>
<p>You must empty yourselves completely and receive the love of God; then you have hope for your mind and body to become one. When they are united in the love of God there is nothing that can separate them. Even in the fallen world men and women sometimes think they love each other so much that they would rather die than be separated, but how much would they be intoxicated by the love of God? The love of God can totally consume you because it is incredibly pure, genuine and unchanging.</p>
<p>There is no solution in the human world that can cure the division between the mind and body of fallen man. The only solution is the love of God and if it comes into you, you must totally open yourself up. Let the love of God dwell in the temple of your body and let it become master of your mind and heart. That is the only possible hope for this fallen world. The body always opposes the will of God but your mind does not need so much nurturing or education. It knows what is best while the body always blocks the will of God. The fall of man created this entanglement of love and now the mind and body go in two different directions. Because it was illicit love that brought the fall of man, man has since emphasized body-oriented love and resisted the coming of heavenly love.</p>
<p>Throughout history God&#8217;s constant effort has been to suppress the influence of the body. This emphasis is the principal teaching of religion, with religious life always stressing denial of the bodily desires. God&#8217;s mandate is that your body should obey your mind and if the body wants something else, don&#8217;t listen to it. This teaching has been God&#8217;s tool and is always the beginning point of good religious teaching. You cannot fulfill the period of restoration instantly but must nurture your mind with the word and power of God, making it God&#8217;s ally in your body. In time the body will be conditioned into obeying the mind. Through your hard work you are conditioning your body into accepting a certain way of life.</p>
<p>Satan broke the law of the love of God and when he did that he destroyed virtually everything in the universe. If God were to forgive Satan, He must then destroy everything else because then there would be no hope for restoration left in the universe. That&#8217;s why God cannot forgive Satan. Jesus taught that you must forgive your enemy seventy times seven and more. That means you should love the pitiful person who is victimized by Satan, but not that you should forgive Satan who caused the sin. If God had forgiven Satan then there would be nothing left to restore because God would be compromising His own love. That would threaten the very existence of God Himself.</p>
<p>When you look at Satan you must know that he is the enemy of the love of God because he did the unforgivable: he broke the law of the love of God. When the end of this fallen world comes close, Satan will go on a rampage out of desperation. That is why there is so much free sex and abnormal satanic love in today&#8217;s society. It has even become common for married couples to exchange partners for a night and think it&#8217;s fun!</p>
<p>Satan has always been trying to absolutely control the world, but when the complete revelation of God&#8217;s truth is given and the Messiah comes, then Satan knows he has no hope of success. Then he will shout defiantly, &#8220;I can&#8217;t have the world but I&#8217;ll never let you get it either.&#8221; Satan is using the communists as a tool to undermine this nation internally; they demand acceptance of the lowest kind of social behavior because they know that it&#8217;s the way they can eventually make this nation crumble so they can easily take it over.</p>
<p>The Unification Church will stand up, expose and thwart this activity and liberate the world. We will expose to the world what Satan has been doing and who he is. Satan has been winning for 6,000 years but at this time I am pushing Satan into a corner and telling him to stop! The love of God is the only way we can bring a solution to the world. We have the total truth revealed by God, and Satan is on the defensive now. If you can win the love of God then nothing else matters; you may lose your country, the world, even your own life, but even so you are winning a greater life. Once you possess the love of God, nothing else matters.</p>
<p>This movement is pursuing two goals: We are searching for the way to make God real and also searching to find the God-like man who can act on behalf of God here on earth. Once we become the embodiment of God&#8217;s truth we cannot go in any direction except God&#8217;s, and once we find the solution then this world will begin to shake.</p>
<p>The Principle describes the past and present, explaining not just one topic, but all of history from man&#8217;s origin to the present time, including a vision for the future. When you engage the love of God you become a universal man because God does not belong to one country or race. Unity of all races, nations and the world becomes possible in the love of God because it transcends all those levels.</p>
<p>Our ambition is the greatest of all, being not only to win God but to penetrate the love of God and possess it completely. Then we have won the world. Man&#8217;s value becomes limitless and without price when he is united with God. You are to make yourselves into people who are the embodiment of God, who are no longer bound by human weakness. God will become a real subject to you and govern your daily life, and even though you dwell on earth you will then live in two worlds because the spirit world will be so close to you.</p>
<p>Anyone dwelling in God&#8217;s love is like a magnet, pulling others to him</p>
<p>This principle is a real one. My life has been dedicated to verifying this truth over and over by living it in all situations. When we all manifest it, God will be visible to everyone. Once you become a prisoner of God&#8217;s love you want to become one with the person who is the center of that love on earth. Such a person is like a magnet which has pulling power over anything nearby.</p>
<p>God is one magnetic pole in heaven and I am another magnetic pole here on earth and together we have formed an electric field. Everyone in that magnetic field can be activated. You may feel as though you are being pulled towards me, but then when we are one you will realize that you have become a magnet also. Then you can pull many others, so great is the supreme power of love. You are not drawn to me personally, but to the love of God which is being transmitted through me. That love belongs to God and not to any individual.</p>
<p>God never created a power greater than love, and when you are truly intoxicated in the love of God then all the mundane needs like eating and sleeping and worldly love become secondary. You can transcend their influence once you are caught by the love of God. At that point your longing and love for me will become so strong that you cannot forget me for a moment, even in the midst of any activity. It is then that the world of impure love will no longer be of interest to you and a big door will open wide to a pure, genuine, spiritual love. That should be real to you in experience, but also clear to you by logic.</p>
<p>The problem is whether the Unification Church is actually living this way. Do you really love me that much? Am I more important to you than eating and sleeping? When you experience this, that love will become real right here in the Unification Church, and even more amazing, anyone around you will feel the same magnetic power and be pulled to you. They will want to love and respect you and do anything to support you.</p>
<p>God has been longing for 6,000 years to see the day when that would come about. Actually the number 6,000 is just symbolic; God has been longing and waiting for millions of years for that day of fulfillment. That day is happening now in this junction of your lives and mine. You believe this is the truth but because of your lukewarm attitude you do not live it. Later when you go to spirit world you will see the most realistic and incredible truth unfolding before you and you will feel ashamed.</p>
<p>How much do these pounds of flesh mean to you? A wise man will invest his body to attain external value at this key time in history. That is why Jesus taught that the Kingdom of Heaven is in the midst of you, that no one should seek the Kingdom of Heaven anywhere else. The Kingdom of God is composed of the love of God, which is very logical. Jesus said, &#8220;I am in the Father and the Father is in me and you are in me and I am in you.&#8221; All of this makes sense once this principle becomes real to you. Your day of perfection comes when you are inseparably linked to the powerful, explosive love of God.</p>
<p>Throughout the thousands of years since your first ancestors were on earth the physical body has been serving Satan, but when you revolutionize your body as a base for God instead, those thousands of years of stains will be wiped out. Something that dramatic is possible and will throw Satan into despair and bring the day of glory and vindication for you and for God. Can you declare your day of victory? Have you ever thought about the love of God and do you feel that you are becoming the embodiment of His love? I know you have tried and that you are beginning to sense it, but the day will come when it will be real and you will feel ecstatic joy. If you taste that love even once then you won&#8217;t want to go anywhere else. If you are lying down at that moment then you&#8217;ll say, &#8220;God, don&#8217;t disturb me. I want to lie in this position for eternity.&#8221; I won&#8217;t explain these experiences too much for your minds won&#8217;t grasp it.</p>
<p>I have examined these things from the historical point of view, the religious point of view and the dispensational point of view, and from every angle I have come to the same conclusion. The most important verification of it is my own tears. I have cried out for Heavenly Father&#8217;s heart for many years, shedding tears which are testimony that this is the truth. Alone I discovered this precious jewel that no one could possibly buy with money. Since I am the one who discovered it, I am the front-line soldier who must show the way so that no one else will be mistaken.</p>
<p>I am crazy and impatient to lay the highway so that everyone else might arrive at the same conclusion. I have been walking the path from the individual level, to the family, tribal, national and worldwide levels. I came to the pinnacle at the Washington Monument Rally, the symbolic victory representing the universal level of God&#8217;s victory.</p>
<p>When spiritual people ask God who I am, God&#8217;s voice reveals to them that they must know clearly that I have done greater things than they. God has done much more than I have, working for millions of years, but I have fulfilled His providence on the physical level in several decades. Logically you understand how religion has been the tool of God. I want you to know that what I have explained is very scientific, confirmed by theory and logic.</p>
<p>Since confirming the truth, I can come to America and proclaim that I can unite the world. Without such a background no one could boldly announce such a thing, but you have met the very man who can make such a declaration. I started out with nothing, without one handle to grasp in this vast universe. I didn&#8217;t know where to start because there was no teacher, no comforter, no friend. Now I have many friends in you, but I was the one who re-created you.</p>
<p>Are Americans indebted to me or not? Those parents who kidnap their own children will later repent and regret how foolish they were. It seems unreal now, but in the future their lineage will have a black mark if they cause their children to leave this movement.</p>
<p>What kind of person do you want to become, a possessor of God&#8217;s love or of a Ph.D. from Harvard? Is it more precious to be President or a child of God? It is quite clear to you now, but coming to that conclusion was not so easy for me. You have no idea how I prayed for hours and hours, and how even now I sit on the floor in prayer every night. I am a serious man. Unless I had the real answer to all the world&#8217;s questions I could not tackle this mission. No other religious leader had the answers that I now know.</p>
<p>Even if what I say is a lie, you could never lose by following this way of life. Suppose I had created a whole new theory for uniting the world that God never thought about; God would come down and bargain to buy it from me.</p>
<h3 align="center">What method will bring you to the love of God?</h3>
<p>Now we come to a matter of more reflection. You want to be taught the method which will bring you to the love of God, but you are all greedy to get such a precious thing without paying for it. How much tuition would you be willing to pay? All the people in the spirit world and the physical world put together couldn&#8217;t pay for it. Many people think that I came to America for selfish reasons, but I laugh at that because possessing America is far too small a goal. My goal is much bigger: I wanted to know how to have the love of God, and I found the answer to be very simple. Do you want to know what it is?</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s start by saying that there are three undeniable urges in man. If you are hungry enough you will do anything to get food. When you are tired you have the urge to sleep, and when you have the urge to make love it can be overwhelming. If these three elements are denied man there cannot be any happiness.</p>
<p>Who here has fasted seven days? On the seventh day you may count the minutes until you can eat, but that final moment will determine whether you pass or fail your entire fast. If you run to the kitchen and grab your food then you have failed, but if you can think of God at that moment and say, &#8220;Heavenly Father, I love You more than food. I can sustain far greater hunger than this for You&#8221; then you have succeeded. If you can fulfill your responsibility with a hungry stomach then you are an even more precious child to God. If you even forget about mealtime you are more precious. Women are generally weaker in this area than men. You must be victorious in overcoming hunger. Your love for God must make you strong enough to overcome the love of food.</p>
<p>You must be able to endure lack of sleep for love of God. Sometimes I am busy at night and just forget the time to sleep. For seven years in the early days in Korea I didn&#8217;t have any bed to lie on and be comfortable in so I just lay on a table and slept a couple of hours. You can go out walking at night and say, &#8220;God, I&#8217;m here. While the world is sleeping I came out to meet You.&#8221; Even now I love nature because it reminds me of the past when I went out in nature asking God to meet me.</p>
<p>Can you overcome the urge for physical love out of love of God? In the old days in Korea, many women chased after me but I was victorious. How could I withstand the temptation presented by having many women following me? Only through the power of the love of God. You will also face these temptations.</p>
<p>My first wife wanted to divorce me because she thought that I didn&#8217;t love her and was only intoxicated with God. She just couldn&#8217;t stand it and protested and protested, trying to win my attention, but it wasn&#8217;t possible. She always said she could never find another husband like me and always complained that I should pay attention to being with her for just thirty minutes. Knowing the Principle, I really tested myself to show God and humanity that the power of God is so strong that nothing could hamper it. Could you interrupt loving your mate out of love for God? The ultimate test is whether you love God more than anyone else.</p>
<p>Even if you made a hole in yourself with a drill it would not equal the pain of liberating yourself and loving God most of all. How much are you fulfilling the qualifications to be a son or daughter of God? You must feel ashamed when you cannot win over all the temptations in perfection. What would you say when you pray? &#8220;God, help me. I want You to love me&#8221;? Ask yourself if you are really ready to receive the love of God. Have you made yourself qualified? An imperfect person should say, &#8220;For my sake, for Your sake, don&#8217;t come too close to me. I&#8217;m not worthy. Let me make myself ready for You first.&#8221; Why can&#8217;t you become sons and daughters of God more easily? Do you want to eat anything you like and sleep all the hours you feel like? Do you want to live the way you like and still claim to be God&#8217;s son? God has told me, &#8220;You are my loving son,&#8221; and you certainly want to hear the same thing from God.</p>
<p>Do not try to get God&#8217;s blessing of marriage too quickly. Blessing is fearful in a way. I am sure some of you are wondering why you haven&#8217;t been blessed yet, but instead you should think that you are not ready to receive a member who is really loving God, and that you can&#8217;t lift up your face before God. When you know the standard then you know how unworthy you are and you can honestly think that this person is too good for you. That person is God&#8217;s representative and you in turn should be able to love him as God&#8217;s representative.</p>
<p>The Americans who have had free sex come to me and think that they are ready to be blessed. How can they think that? I compared their lives to my own standard and then I reasoned that everyone has a past to be forgiven and decided that they could be accepted with repentance. The important thing is your attitude and you should use every second of the day to elevate yourself to the higher goal. In many cases I don&#8217;t see that urgency in American Church members. Complacency and apathy are a big problem. In any case I am not the one who will judge you; the Principle will judge you instead of me.</p>
<p>You state leaders are important to our Church but you don&#8217;t know me too well. It is a serious situation. It is providential that we have met but how can we succeed together? &#8220;True Parents&#8221; is an awesome word but you say it without thinking. Sometimes I don&#8217;t like to hear it spoken because it is too cheaply said.</p>
<h3 align="center">Instead of complaining, put meaning<br />
into your difficulty</h3>
<p>There is indemnity for you to pay and you must do your 5% by taking your hunger or sleepiness as a condition of indemnity. Put meaning into these things instead of complaining; show that your love of God is greater than all of your desires. By doing that you can fulfill your 5% very quickly. I have become victorious in overcoming hunger. I have become victorious in overcoming lack of sleep and I have become victorious in overcoming the urge for love.</p>
<p>Up to now you have been eating for your own comfort and satisfaction and you have slept for yourself and made love for yourself. Instead of fasting all year in restitution, you must revolutionize the concept of eating and sleeping and loving. When you have your meal in front of you, think that you are going to consume the meal as God&#8217;s representative. Let God eat the meal instead of yourself. For the sake of God and humanity you need that meal and as God&#8217;s representative you will take the meal for your body. After you eat go out and use it for God&#8217;s work instead of your own entertainment. God gave you a full stomach and now you can go and work for humanity. That&#8217;s how your concept should become different.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t sleep for yourself. Sleep for God and humanity so you can be a better fighter tomorrow. The physical body does indeed have some limitations but don&#8217;t stop there. Go to your maximum and when you reach your limitation don&#8217;t stop. Cross that limitation and then come back and rest. Then your concept will become different.</p>
<p>It is the same in making love. As a blessed couple your love is for the sake of all humanity and for the sake of posterity. You are doing a favor for God in creating your family, but husbands must look at their wives as the symbolic total of all women of the world and of all future women of the world. By loving your wife you can love all the women of the world. Remember the greater love that you can pursue-love of God, of the Church, of the True Parents. You can transcend your personal love and become an offering for the greater purpose of love. Always be ready to go beyond yourself.</p>
<p>How could you not expect persecution and suffering for following such a high goal? Being a man of God, you are not persecuted as one man but as a son of God, as the representative of God. By receiving persecution and suffering, you are paying indemnity for all those in the past who suffered here on earth. Had you ever thought that you were doing them that favor? God is giving you the chance to win over all facets of human relationships-political, religious, physical, economic, sexual-and clear them in the spirit world. Actually you are setting a condition to liberate yourself in all those areas and then no one can accuse you because there will be nothing left for Satan to manipulate.</p>
<p>No one can do your 5% except yourself and you must search after it and liquidate it. When you make yourself God&#8217;s representative then everything you do becomes God&#8217;s act. When you pick up peanuts or gum for fund raising, it is God&#8217;s act. God has given you a mandate to fund raise and even though you may look like a beggar you are actually God&#8217;s ambassador. If you fund raise under much persecution then you will feel lonely, but if you win the result with the conviction that you are God&#8217;s ambassador then it is even more precious. People may not like to give you money but you have a right to receive it because it will be used to restore the ungodly world. Everything depends on how your mind works. That creates value.</p>
<p>Life on the MFT is valuable indemnity. There you meet all kinds of people, circumstances and suffering and the only way you can sustain yourself is by making yourself an ambassador of God. It is excellent training. Perhaps you have been in the Unification Church for three years but still you are humbly dressed and externally you have gained nothing. You might even look more pale and humbly dressed than you did three years ago but now you have some precious luggage, a package of indemnity. If you did anything wrong while you were sincerely trying to do God&#8217;s will then that becomes my responsibility, not yours.</p>
<p>If you have a big package of indemnity then you can go to God and pay indemnity for your family, your race, your country and even the spirit world, all out of your own spiritual bank account. It parallels the love you can give in the spirit world. My thinking is different from yours; I am looking for the next problem because I want more criticism and controversy so I can fill a bag of indemnity big enough to liberate everyone, including the spirit world.</p>
<p>Is going on the MFT a blessing or curse? On the MFT you can meet God. When you go out to the streets with a sincere and earnest heart then God will speak to you. Do you think that you are a wise guy to avoid hard work? No, you are foolish, wasting your energy and time. Whether people recognize your work or not, jump into it and bite into the mainstream of the movement. The Bible says that you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free, and now you know why the Unification Church must go this way.</p>
<p>Money manipulates everything in this world, but our money is entirely different because it has nothing to do with our own power. I am winning money for God&#8217;s purpose and spending it for humanity, not for myself. You have to go beyond loving your own race and nationality and make yourself a person who loves God. Then you are a world citizen, a universal man.</p>
<p>At first you were frightened, but now you are confident to do the job</p>
<p>Ours is a dream-like task but we are seriously tackling it as reality. After being on the MFT you will go witnessing, sweating and shedding tears for the restoration of man. Later you will sweat and labor for the construction of your family and home. MFT duty or witnessing is a light burden compared to harmonizing one heavenly home here on earth. Perfecting your love in your home is not easy! When you are husband and wife, you may quarrel about trivial things and then you will look back on your days on the MFT and witnessing, remembering how you were really patient to win one person. When you think of that then you know that winning your husband or wife is more difficult.</p>
<p>At the outset of human history Satan plundered the heavenly creation and Adam and Eve, and ultimately took away the love between God and man. Now we are restoring all things by restoring love and creating heavenly homes. I know very well that we have to pay the historical debt and I know how difficult it is. When you set the condition of absolute obedience then whether your result is good or poor doesn&#8217;t make any difference. You can grab me and say, &#8220;At least I did one thing; I obeyed you unconditionally,&#8221; Then I have no excuse and God has no excuse. If you love me then how could I send you away?</p>
<p>Originally God wanted man to become physically and spiritually mature at the same time, having one man and woman create the heavenly garden of Eden. When man and woman, mind and body, East and West become one and are ignited by the love of God, then the true garden of Eden will exist. Can you imagine the time when all indemnity is paid and you are lifted up by the fire of love? You would blast off and zoom all the way through the cosmos.</p>
<p>This world is trying to evaluate the depth of such knowledge and truth but it can&#8217;t be captured by only watching me or by using special lenses or a microscope. When I went to sea, people in nearby boats were studying me with binoculars but all they saw was an ordinary Oriental man sitting there. The depth of someone&#8217;s heart cannot be seen. You can hide a beautiful love in your own heart and no one can see it. Each one of you should have a powerhouse inside that is not visible to the human eye. When you become a powerhouse of the love of God you can communicate with the spirit world and with God Himself.</p>
<p>In the beginning when I would push you out you were almost frightened, but now the truth has filtered down to the depths of your heart and you feel that this job needs to be done, and you also feel confident that you can do it. I am not just blindly pushing you. I never ask anything that I have not already experienced, so don&#8217;t think I am just a cruel man. Once you know the truth then you can joyfully respond and push yourself out. You will become a self-disciplined man.</p>
<p>Shall we continue to search after the love of God? If the rest of the world were competing to do more for the love of God, what kind of world would we have? If America is restored, then its young people will ask where they can go to suffer and put on the shoes of a servant in order to help the people. You have learned that already so you want to practice it here in America, and if all American young people were mobilized in that fashion, then with the love of God the world could be conquered as though it were a small peanut.</p>
<p>Usually I do not speak this openly. Do you know why I am in such a jubilant mood? I drove westward for several thousand miles and now I feel as though I have arrived home in Korea.</p>
<p>When I see immature, uncommitted people I feel almost sorry for them. Will you determine to live up to my expectation? This is your country, so you should want to restore it more than I do. Would you like to do it in place of me? Your yes is not a committed yes. Since we were searching for the love of God and we found it, that&#8217;s all I have to say. Is there anything further? You have the highest goal and you know it clearly now. Don&#8217;t worry about whether God comes down to help you in your state. You can tell God to go help the weaker people in another state. You can tell me to go take a trip and really appreciate America or to take a year or two and visit other continents instead of coming to visit you. Can you do it? I don&#8217;t even need to worry about ten or twenty years from now? I heard your answer. Let us pray.</p>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:27:08+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/the-participants-in-celebrating-christmas.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:27:08+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">December 25, 1977<br />
Manhattan Center<br />
Translator &#8211; Sang Kil Han</h3>
<p>When we think about Jesus we know that he was not born with a personal purpose, like the average individual, but rather that he came to this earth to save the world. Because of the fall mankind clearly needs a savior if he is to return to God. Since mankind is not united with God everyone must go through Jesus in order to return. God had a purpose in creating the universe and mankind, but because of the fall His purpose was not fulfilled and ever since God has been striving to restore the lost men. He is determined to fulfill that purpose, which could not be accomplished until the time of Christ. We know that the reason God wanted to see Jesus Christ on earth was to restore the families and individuals whom God had lost contact with, even though mankind has never been fully aware that it required tremendous preparation on His part to send the Messiah to the earth.</p>
<p>It was not easy at all for God to prepare fully to send His son. Because man failed to accomplish the original purpose of creation, God had to prepare someone to fulfill that original perfection, someone who could be born in purity. Simply stated, God had to send His son down to earth through the body of a woman, but not just any woman; preparing that woman to be the mother of the Messiah required painstaking work.</p>
<p>Jesus&#8217; mother, Mary, was not quite in the position of having nothing to do with sin. In other words, she was unable to obtain the level which existed before the fall took place; she was elevated, yet not quite to the point of having nothing to do with sin. In order to compensate for that, Mary had to take the firm position of loving God more than anyone else, even to an absolute, impossible degree. Also she needed to establish the position of doing something to cut the ties with the fall. These two conditions were essential.</p>
<p>Once the necessary conditions were met, Jesus was conceived in Mary&#8217;s womb and could be recognized as having no ties with the fallen act. It is difficult to grasp, but Jesus was born way beyond the realm of the fall and had nothing to do with sin. Once Jesus was born, God must have been happier with him than He was with His original creation. At the same time, however, Jesus&#8217; birth could not wipe away the painful reality of all the fallen people. God could not ignore or forget the fallen world. Before the fall only God exercised dominion over Adam and Eve and there was no such thing as Satan; however, nowadays even many devout people wrongly believe that Satan existed before man was created. This was certainly not so.</p>
<h3 align="center">What was the mission of Mary and Joseph?</h3>
<p>God was not the only one in a position to try to exercise dominion over Jesus. Satan came into existence at the moment the fall took place, and certainly Satan continued to pursue man, especially a man like Jesus who could fulfill God&#8217;s purpose of creation. Satan was very active and persistently tried to take Mary to his side. Mary knew that she was in the middle of an important situation, but she did not understand it fully. Perhaps she had a hint of her responsibility but Mary did not completely know her situation at that time.</p>
<p>What about Joseph, Mary&#8217;s husband? He did not fully know the situation either, nor any other close relatives, even Jesus&#8217; brothers and sisters. What about Jesus, then, who was born in these circumstances? Jesus had to have understood each person&#8217;s responsibility because otherwise he would not have been able to clarify the situation. Did Jesus know all of this the moment he was born, or did Jesus gradually realize it while he was growing up?</p>
<p>It was God&#8217;s intention that everyone around Jesus, including Mary and Joseph and all the relatives, nurture Jesus and protect him from Satan so that he could fully develop himself and his ideals before finally undertaking his mission. They should have devoted all of their possessions, energy and heart towards protecting Jesus so that the will of God through him would be meticulously protected from possible invasion by Satan. The sole purpose of their lives should have been to protect Jesus while he was preparing for his mission.</p>
<p>This was the situation from God&#8217;s point of view, but who thought about that kind of thing at the time? Certainly all indications-biblical and historical- show that they did not understand what they were to do for Jesus. Since that time, even religious people have had only a slight idea. The traditional attitude, for instance, has been one of praise for the way in which the Messiah was born in a stable and laid in a manger on straw. How could mankind be proud of the son of God being born in a stable?</p>
<p>The Jews were prepared by God to receive and assist Jesus, but did even those people really have the slightest idea of who Jesus was and what they were supposed to do in order to help him fulfill the will of God? They did not know a thing. Was there anyone who understood Jesus&#8217; mission as an individual, his mission to restore his family and the nation around his family and finally the whole world? It is very clear that there was no one, either secular or religious, who helped Jesus accomplish his mission.</p>
<p>If there was anyone at all who understood Jesus and helped him it was God Himself. God knew, but no one else except Jesus understood his responsibility. Was God contented and happy while looking down on His son born in a stable, crying in the cold, with no one around him knowing what they were supposed to do and with Satan searching intently to find some way to stop him? Could God feel easy in that situation?</p>
<p>Let us go back and think in a little more detail about what the immediate environment was. Mary was Jesus&#8217; mother but Joseph was not his father. When Joseph married her, Mary was pregnant and Joseph knew that it was not his child she carried. He was a righteous man so he married her, but was Joseph rejoicing each day because his wife had a godly son? Or was Joseph always angry and wondering whose child it was anyway?</p>
<p>Joseph did not know anything except what he was told in one short dream. Joseph was a righteous man so he married Mary as he was instructed to do by an angel, but how long do you think Joseph could feel righteous and happy about it? Don&#8217;t you think he kept on wondering and repeatedly asking her, &#8220;Whose baby is it?&#8221; Could Mary just casually answer, &#8220;Oh, it was conceived by the Holy Spirit, so you should be happy&#8221;? Even if Mary had truthfully said that, do you think that Joseph would have responded with joy?</p>
<p>Be realistic and imagine yourself in that position. Suppose everyone respects you as a very generous man, but you have to marry some woman who is pregnant with someone else&#8217;s child. If she told you that it was conceived by the Holy Spirit then perhaps one day you would not have resentment, but could you still feel generous for all the years to come. You are a good sample of people to ask this question of because as Unification members you have a more worldwide point of view. If one of you were in Joseph&#8217;s situation, hearing gossip and criticism all around, would you feel very happy and content with Mary? Would you be glad to serve the child once he was born and sacrifice to protect him from evil?</p>
<p>It is likely that Joseph asked Mary many times whose baby she carried because he was curious and because he tried to understand. But remember that at that time an unmarried woman who became pregnant was required by Mosaic law to be stoned for committing adultery. At first Joseph probably thought he would understand, but in the long run he could not accept the situation. Do you think that their relationship was happy for very long? It is probable that they quarreled and distrusted each other rather than fully understanding and cooperating in love in the sight of God.</p>
<p>Once Jesus was born the rift became even greater and Joseph looked upon Jesus as something which was not wanted and which had ruined his relationship with Mary. This was the realistic situation that existed all through Jesus&#8217; life. Because of their parents&#8217; attitude towards Jesus, even his own brothers and sisters did not respect him, much less think that he was the son of God. They even treated him worse than they would other children because he was different.</p>
<p>Whenever parents respect a child then his brothers and sisters will also, but when the father and mother are indifferent or hostile then the chances are that the other children will treat him the same way. The Bible records that Mary and Joseph took Jesus to the temple in Jerusalem for Passover, and when they couldn&#8217;t find him after the celebrations they left for home without him, only coming back to look for him after three days. Jesus was very indignant and condemned them. Even in an average family can you imagine parents leaving a child of Jesus&#8217; age all alone in a crowded city? We can safely assume that Mary and Joseph quarreled over this. Joseph probably said, &#8220;Forget about it. Let&#8217;s leave,&#8221; and Mary had to go along. Because Mary was very insistent, however, and Joseph knew that Mary would not yield, they turned back again to find Jesus and bring him home with them. This is a far more logical and consistent understanding than any other interpretation.</p>
<h3 align="center">As a child, Jesus was caught<br />
in an unbearable situation</h3>
<p>While Mary was pregnant and while the disharmony between Mary and Joseph continued do you think that rumors went around the whole neighborhood about how they often fought? In a neighborhood as close together as an ancient Jewish village the chances are that everybody knew that Mary and Joseph did not get along together for some reason. The high priest knew everything about his community, for instance. Zechariah, the high priest at the time, and all the relatives at least knew and disapproved of the situation.</p>
<p>Joseph&#8217;s family knew that Jesus was not really one of them and even though they might not have discussed it in front of him, Jesus was not respected. Even now in a society as permissive as America&#8217;s, if a girl has a baby whose father is not known then there is some talk about it. An even harsher situation prevailed in Jesus&#8217; time, when an unwed mother was punishable by death. Certainly there would be cruel gossip. Could Jesus grow up happy and contented like an average child under these circumstances, or can you imagine that Jesus was caught in an unbearable situation? Every child that Jesus played with certainly must have made comments about things heard from his parents. Jesus just could not have had normal relationships with other children.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, the fact remains that Jesus was born to save all of the people. He was the only begotten son of God and his object of salvation was exactly the people who ostracized him. The way the king of kings was treated and understood by the people around him was vastly different from God&#8217;s ideal for Jesus.</p>
<p>Did anyone around Jesus try to defend him? There is not one account which records such dedication. Jesus was mistreated and persecuted by his own family because they completely lacked any understanding of who he was. Even without his being king of kings and the son of God, was he even treated as well as the son of a common family?</p>
<p>Common sense would say that even on holidays or special occasions no one made special clothing or gifts and presented them to Jesus. The brothers and sisters who were more favored by Joseph might have gotten something, but even Mary was reluctant to anger Joseph by giving anything to Jesus. Of course Jesus must have wanted to wear the special clothes and eat the special food of that time, like we all do, but it was not possible to acquire it. Was Jesus free to do whatever he pleased? Circumstances always blocked him from pursuing whatever he wanted or needed to do.</p>
<h3 align="center">What kind of person could have consoled Jesus?</h3>
<p>Jesus definitely knew that he was special. He heard what the common people thought about him but his own self-image was completely different. From the time he was small he could never talk openly in his own way. The only consolation he could seek was in communication with God, and he spent most of his time praying to God and seeking His guidance. As a result Jesus became stronger and stronger in this period and circumstances compelled him in only one direction-toward God and the realization of His ideal. He knew that mankind&#8217;s thinking was vastly different from God&#8217;s and that it had to be corrected; he also knew that society understood nothing about what God wanted and that he himself would have to change it. Because of his adverse circumstances Jesus had to really pray hard to God, to the point where God could talk to him and teach him what he would need for his future work.</p>
<p>Do I imagine these things and then tell you, or do I know the facts? Although most people do not believe this, I have seen this sorrowful situation myself. All of you can readily accept that what I have said is true, but there is even far deeper significance than what has been explained. Under these circumstances, do you think that during Jesus&#8217; years on earth anyone celebrated his birthday with real joy? As Jesus grew older and knew more and more clearly who God was and what his own mission was supposed to be, his heart became heavier and more agonized and his environment became more difficult to tolerate.</p>
<p>The most precious friend for Jesus would have been the person who came to him, not with many presents or words of congratulations, but rather with a tearful heart to console him in his situation and to discuss with him what he was going to do in the future. If someone like this had been there then Jesus would have been far happier than if someone had come with presents. That person could have been one of his own brothers or sisters. Knowing his hidden suffering, he or she could have brought just a small piece of cake wrapped in a handkerchief to give to Jesus on his birthday, saying, &#8220;The people don&#8217;t understand you, but I will try to help you. You must not be disappointed.&#8221; Jesus certainly would have welcomed such a person far more than someone who came with a fancy present for him and then went away. If there had been one such brother or sister in Jesus&#8217; family then Jesus would have remembered him for a long time arid would have spoken about it.</p>
<p>When Jesus felt despondent he had to pray to God more intensely, and being moved by Jesus&#8217; fervent prayer, God would have taught him, &#8220;You will later become great in this way and rise to this particular position.&#8221; That&#8217;s the way it was supposed to be anyway, with God telling him many things in detail. Because of these experiences Jesus knew that God was his best friend and the one closest to him, quite unlike Joseph or Mary, or even his brothers and sisters.</p>
<p>Jesus was very serious in thinking about the national situation at that time, praying about how to change things. He would have asked God time and time again, &#8220;Father, when will the Messiah appear on this earth to correct the situation?&#8221; Perhaps he was told many times by God, &#8220;You are the Messiah. You are the one who has to do it.&#8221; Do you think that hearing God tell him once was sufficient for Jesus to believe it year after year? Certainly he would have asked more than once, wanting some other answer.</p>
<p>We can safely imagine that he was to]d in detail many experiences which he could expect to happen, such as, &#8220;Expect someone to come visit you tomorrow. At a certain time such and such a thing will happen and you must do this and avoid this.&#8221; He was instructed in this detail by God about many things.</p>
<p>It is very apparent that Jesus had to train himself in this way internally. Wherever he looked in the physical world there wasn&#8217;t one opening of understanding so he had to strengthen and redetermine himself and prepare for his mission. Jesus knew what God had in His plan for himself, the Israelites and all the rest of mankind. God is spirit, but by having a body Jesus could understand the existing situation of man&#8217;s world, and he knew that he had to be the central point to bring that world back to God. Do you think that he wanted very much for someone to show some understanding, or that he wanted to hear even one word of love spoken to him, knowing that without him no one had any chance to return to God? Jesus yearned to hear the high priest say, &#8220;We must prepare ourselves to receive you, because that&#8217;s the only way for us to return to God.&#8221;</p>
<p>Do we know of anyone who understood and said this? The people not only did not come near him, they even opposed him directly. Jesus know they were on the road straight to hell and he was absolutely desperate to make the people believe in him. To the last, the people did not understand him and as a result Jesus was crucified. When Jesus died on the cross he was unspeakably despondent. Jesus was absolutely desperate at the people&#8217;s lack of understanding, but how would God have felt at losing him from the earth, and at having to prepare once more for thousands of years to send the Messiah?</p>
<p>God depended upon Jesus to fulfill this mission but should God have blessed the people anyway when Jesus was denied and crucified instead? When Jesus was in deepest anguish on the cross God&#8217;s feeling was exactly the same. There could not be any difference whatever. When you are really indignant and absolutely furious inside, can you even think about giving happiness or blessing? When someone comes near you at such a time do you feel like being generous and open-hearted? This is exactly the feeling God had. There was absolutely no chance of His giving any promise of salvation at that time.</p>
<p>With this understanding we know how much the traditional belief of Christian churches causes deep pain to God. The most devout Christians have taught worldwide that God had prepared for 4,000 years for Jesus to come to die, and that Christians should be happy that he died to give salvation. When God hears this do you think He would feel like blessing them?</p>
<p>In this desperate situation Jesus realized the significance of what had happened and he said, &#8220;I will come back again.&#8221; Not a soul has understood his true meaning. It is not possible for Jesus to come again on the clouds in a happy way and magically restore the world, yet everyone believes that that is what will happen. When millions of people sing hymns and exchange presents and wish each other good fortune on his birthday, could Jesus possibly be happy and wish them well? All the festivity only serves as a painful reminder to Jesus of the failure of half of his mission, which only he could fulfill here.</p>
<h3 align="center">The true celebration of Christmas</h3>
<p>Is there anyone who can celebrate Jesus&#8217; birthday in its true meaning, understanding his situation and what he was supposed to do? There are millions of people who celebrate Christmas because everyone else does, but is there even one individual who knows Jesus&#8217; situation and then commemorates the day? The only celebration which would have meaning for him would come when one who suffers more than Jesus and is more despondent than Jesus himself comes to Jesus, saying, &#8220;I have a difficult situation but your situation is much worse. I would like to celebrate your birthday nevertheless. Forget about your sorrow for a moment.&#8221; If there was someone like that then Jesus would burst into tears and momentarily celebrate his birthday.</p>
<p>There are many people here in this auditorium but what kind of people are you and what are you supposed to do? Shall we get many good things by using Jesus&#8217; name, or shall we help Jesus, or shall we just follow Jesus? What is this Church designed by God to do? What is the purpose of sacrificing ourselves? By sacrificing we are to fulfill the idea which Jesus pursued and thus bring everyone into unity.</p>
<p>When we become one with Jesus and he is happy then we will be happy, but when he is not happy and things are difficult will we avoid him for awhile? Are we going to be one with him at the time of the cross or before, or even earlier, when God planned the dispensation? Are we going to be the group whose tradition and vision begin even before the time of Jesus with the ideal of God, when there was no Satan but only perfect unity in every way? Can we start from there and go through difficulty, participating in God&#8217;s glory all along? Are we going to be one with the Christ from that time on until the realization of God&#8217;s ideal on earth?</p>
<p>At Jesus&#8217; time the people did not understand him, but today everyone must understand this realm of heart. If someone in the most lowly servant position had come to console Jesus and talk with him, Jesus would have felt much closer to him than to all the other brilliant people at that time. Because that person&#8217;s heart would have been closer to Jesus&#8217; he would have been close in every other way as well. Jesus wouldn&#8217;t have stopped that person from coming just because he wasn&#8217;t in the same noble position as Jesus; he would have embraced him right there and burst into tears. That is the realm of heart, the standard of value, which surpasses any national or social boundary and which can link people forever.</p>
<p>Can people feel complete oneness simply by sitting around a plush banquet table eating steaks and good food? It is the really desperate situation where everybody sheds tears together that heartfelt unity with Christ is realized. Why would you prefer the second setting? You feel drawn that way, not because you like struggle, but because Jesus feels that way and God feels that way. The only reason why everyone must also do such a thing is in order to share in whatever God has for you.</p>
<p>This is also true for me. People would prefer many other things, but even though the family may drift away or the society may not give a ready welcome or the world may not understand, we cannot abandon the way which God has opened for mankind and the Messiah, no matter how difficult it is. This is why I am doing what I am doing. The sole purpose for my being here is to have you follow exactly the same path as God Himself. Do you agree with that? Sometimes it is very difficult but this is the only sure way to become a friend of Jesus and of God Himself.</p>
<p>We chose the same way Jesus did and in that way we can understand and participate in the friendship of God. In that process each person will be chased away by his own physical family and society, but still he must follow God and Christ the same way Jesus did. This is the only true religious way and the Unification Church finds itself in that very situation.</p>
<p>Each one must think about whether he is going to cling to the dying Jesus on the cross or to the living Jesus before the cross, or to God&#8217;s ideal even before Jesus was born. If anyone is clinging to that original time and becoming one with God, then after the birth of Jesus and his activities on earth he must be one with him until the fulfillment of the dispensation. If a woman is going to follow Jesus she must follow with the heart of Mary and relieve that situation of 2,000 years ago by trying to be the best possible Mary. If it is a man then he should try to serve Christ in the position of Joseph, being determined to protect Jesus from any possible invasion and serving him until the fulfillment of the mission.</p>
<p>To follow Christ a person must also follow like Jesus&#8217; own brothers and sisters, who were meant to understand him completely and love him and do the most difficult things for him. By doing this and becoming one with Jesus, Jesus and God Himself will never be able to say in the future, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know you.&#8221; Those who are following Christ as a real friend can console him, going over the path of thorns in this world and feeling fury at all the injustice done to him. Such people can say, &#8220;They don&#8217;t understand. I will compensate for their mistakes so don&#8217;t blame them or be agonized at the situation. Try to forget about them and let&#8217;s do it together.&#8221; If the Messiah had had such followers then certainly God would have been able to come and liberate the rest of the dispensation. If someone came to Jesus to express regret at his difficulties then Jesus would answer, &#8220;Well, it is difficult but I can bear it. But how about you? Your path is more difficult.&#8221; Such a flow of heart is the foundation for heaven on earth.</p>
<h3 align="center">How can we soothe the turmoil<br />
in God&#8217;s heart and Jesus&#8217; heart?</h3>
<p>How should I nurture the Unification Church and in what direction should I lead it? Our purpose is not to become happy and comfortable together but rather to persevere in hardship; the job has to be done and we will even search for the most difficulty to go over in order to console Jesus and God along this way. How can you say that is good? That is the only way to soothe the turmoil in the hearts of Jesus and God Himself. We have to straighten out the regrets and the incredibly oppressed feeling, the furious sense of frustration that God has and Christ has. Without untangling that, there is no chance for mankind to be blessed or to come anywhere near the concept of blessing.</p>
<p>If we avail ourselves like that then everyone can go back before the time of the cross and be the real friends of Jesus, be the best Mary and the best Joseph. Everyone can become completely one with Jesus in its truest sense. Even though you live 2,000 years after Jesus did, you can be friends with him because love is not bound by time and space. When you are persecuted in the street and spit at, are you persevering for yourself or because of mankind and God? Because we can go beyond time and even space to become completely one in dove and heart, even before the time of history, we can persevere that way.</p>
<p>When Satan tries to condemn and persecute Christ himself, each person ought to be very strong and resolve, &#8220;For me there is no Satan and no doubt. There is no such thing as a second thought about protecting and serving Jesus himself on earth.&#8221; At Jesus&#8217; time the best follower would have thought only of the nation that they were involved in, but now we will go even beyond our own nation and work for the sake of the world. We have to be proud of living that way.</p>
<p>We will pick up where Jesus left off and fulfill the salvation of the nation and then go beyond that to the world. Jesus was opposed by only one race and one religious denomination, but in the course of saving the world we are persecuted by many races and many denominations. We will surely face that opposition so we have to feel supremely confident. Why should we choose that course? We do it so that together with Christ we can inherit his work for the sake of the country and the world. First we inherit the work of Jesus who fought for his country&#8217;s salvation and after that we will inherit the work for the world at the Second Advent. Our suffering now is much beyond the national level; not only all denominations will come against us but all religions will persecute us, yet we will still cross over it. Even Jesus did not experience that. This is the first such encounter even for God.</p>
<p>We must determine that by going through this difficulty we will surely become strong leaders, training ourselves in the position of Jesus&#8217; twelve disciples. When the disciples met a difficult situation with Jesus they all fled. There was no trace of them when Jesus confronted his most difficult time. Of course we must be better than any disciples at that time to stand strong and protect our Lord. If we do that then God will have a strong grasp on us and won&#8217;t let go. That means we are in safe hands and no matter who opposes us-the communists or the whole free world-could God be really disheartened?</p>
<p>The one who is persecuted can only get nearer and nearer to God. In other words, there is nothing to lose and inevitably you can be the closest of all to God. This is exactly what happens when anyone perseveres to his real breaking point. Then God Himself appears to teach him in detail. Anyone can experience His miracles 24 hours a day.</p>
<p>Though we are scorned we are happy, fortunate people. Sometimes you don&#8217;t eat well and you might not get much sleep; your parents even try to kidnap you but still you are fortunate. Even with that kind of persecution we have stayed on the side of God. This is a historic achievement and God will give you His highest praise. At the same time God will pour out His fullest love to you. That is condition enough.</p>
<p>We can call ourselves the fortunate ones since we love God to that extent and since God loves us in return; in the end love reaches everywhere, dominating everything. In fact, we can become like God Himself because of love. Because we love Him that much and He loves us that much, we are the same as God. After all, we are the sons of God; the only difference is that He is subject and we are object.</p>
<p>My topic is &#8220;The Participants in Celebrating Christmas.&#8221; The world is celebrating Christmas in its best way and we are celebrating Christmas in our way. Let us celebrate this Christmas in the truest sense, understanding the true situation of Jesus and the meaning of his second coming, devoting all our heart and love to becoming one in love with God. Then we are the participants in all that belongs to God.</p>
<p>No matter how shabby the clothing we wear and no matter how unworthy we may be, even if we don&#8217;t have any presents to bring, if we devote our heart for that cause, we can be the true participants in this Christmas. The world is celebrating Christmas but not in the true way and God does not find any meaning at all in that celebration. Our numbers are small but our hearts are intense in the desire to be one with Christ.</p>
<p>I wonder whether members were thinking of all the joyous times at Christmases in their past as they walked in here this morning, and whether they didn&#8217;t wish they could relive those happy moments instead of celebrating Christmas so seriously in the Unification Church. After this service each one must go out in the rain to continue his daily chores, and you might have wondered why you aren&#8217;t taking the day off.</p>
<p>We must remind ourselves that this is the saddest day of all for God and Jesus. Jesus never had one real birthday celebration when he was on earth, and it will be immensely meaningful to him to see the many people who are gathered here to celebrate in the true sense. Wouldn&#8217;t you be grateful to participate in the true Christmas celebration? Do you think Jesus would be happy to see that the people gathered here have had tears and sweat staining their faces, and have gone without beautiful clothes to do God&#8217;s work? Do you feel confident that Jesus would be deeply moved to see you gathered here to sing Christmas songs and wish him happy birthday?</p>
<p>You must know for sure that you are on the road to becoming sons and daughters of God, to whom even God and Jesus can be thankful for what you have done. Such people are the most beautiful women in the world and the greatest men. Jesus would certainly pick a wife from such a group, completely disregarding anyone else&#8217;s beautiful clothing or jewelry or education. Would you be a participant in celebrating Christmas in its truest sense? Do you celebrate with a feeling of complaint hidden in your pocket? Those of you who are determined that for the rest of your lives you will stay close to the path of Christ, embracing the past and present and the future until God&#8217;s will is fulfilled, raise your hands. God bless you. Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">THE PINNACLE OF SUFFERING</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:15:06+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/the-pinnacle-of-suffering.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:15:06+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">June 26, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>Certainly no one enjoys suffering or tribulation because there is no happiness or joy in it. People want to avoid suffering because it is an abnormal state of being and it represents reversal instead of progress. Our individual minds reflect God, the center of the universe, who must also dislike suffering. If God, the center and master of the universe, is in a position to suffer then all the other elements of creation that belong to God have the same destiny.</p>
<p>I represent the Unification Church, and if I am in a position of suffering then the members of our church cannot avoid the same fate. As the leader, my own suffering is for the public purpose and is inherited by everyone who belongs to the same organization. The same principle applies to a family, society, nation, and the world. Though the president of a country may not be in a position of suffering, there may people in his country who are deprived. The president of a nation is responsible for the individual or group that is suffering, whether he is directly or indirectly involved. He should work to eliminate the suffering of the people.</p>
<p>Any organization, family, society, or nation is composed of a subject, or leader, and followers. Let us use the family as an example. A member of a family may be burdened with tribulation which does not directly involve the head of the home. Therefore, the head of the household is in a position to alleviate his relative&#8217;s suffering. Some of you in the church may be experiencing great struggle, yet I am not directly involved in your individual situation. That means that I can work to alleviate your suffering.</p>
<p>We can extend this concept to the ultimate level; God may not be in a position of immediate suffering, but He is in a position to liberate the suffering of all people under Him. If God Himself is in a position of suffering, however, then the situation is entirely different. Who will lift away the suffering of God?</p>
<h3 align="center">For God to liberate man,<br />
God himself must be liberated</h3>
<p>Unless someone has experienced God&#8217;s suffering in his own life, he cannot liberate God. God is in a position to have happiness, not suffering. If there are people who are suffering, there is always hope that their tribulation can be lifted, but only as long as God is in a position to exercise His power of liberation. The most important point I want to make this morning is that, at all cost, God must not be put in a position of suffering but must be freed from it.</p>
<p>What is the pinnacle of God&#8217;s suffering? There is no question that the fall of God&#8217;s children, Adam and Eve, is the focal point of His difficulty. Their separation from God was a very pitiful and tearful situation. God is the Father of mankind and Adam and Eve are His first children, the ancestors of fallen mankind; when these children fell, the consequences had a direct impact on God and caused Him incredible suffering. Because the fall was a physical act, God lost His connection with the physical world, and in addition, He endured suffering of the mind and suffering of the soul. The seeds of man&#8217;s suffering throughout history were planted by Adam and Eve being corrupted at the beginning of human history, and from that time on suffering was handed down from generation to generation.</p>
<p>The fall of man brought three consequences: God lost His children and He lost His temple, because man was to be the dwelling place of God. Furthermore, God lost the only home in which His love could be manifested; Adam and Eve were not only to be the children of God but to be the recipients of His love. With the fall of man God lost everything He had hoped for in the love of His own children, the love between husband and wife, and the love between parent and child.</p>
<p>The ironic thing is that Adam and Eve did not deeply understand how much pain and suffering their actions were actually causing God, and since then no one has ever understood God&#8217;s heart of suffering at the moment of Adam and Eve&#8217;s fall. The fall was the pinnacle of the suffering of God. The destruction which occurred in the garden of Eden must be indemnified, and man must be restored to his original state by his going over the apex of God&#8217;s suffering.</p>
<p>How can fallen man feel God&#8217;s heart if Adam and Eve could not feel it? In listening to a sermon like this you may feel sympathetic with God but you still do not feel His sorrow down to your bone. Let us bring this situation down to the personal level. Suppose a woman has lost her parents, husband, and children in a tragic accident. Even though she has been living in the fallen world all her life and therefore has seen and experienced many types of evil and sin, the tragedy of her loss still causes her unbearable suffering. How much more pain and shock God must feel, being completely pure and never having experienced any sin, suffering, or crime before the fall of Adam and Eve.</p>
<p>Today many people commit suicide. Do you think God&#8217;s suffering at the moment of Adam and Eve&#8217;s fall was greater than the despair people feel when they commit suicide? God&#8217;s suffering is the only true suffering. No one but God is truly entitled to use the word &#8220;suffering.&#8221; We may experience some tragedy, yet as time passes the pain and grief will be eased. However, that is not true spiritually, and the passing of time will never ease God&#8217;s heart.</p>
<p>One thousand years is just one moment to God,&#8217; who has no concept of time, and the pain of man&#8217;s fall has never gone from God&#8217;s mind and heart. Could God ever decide, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to suffer any more,&#8221; and just cast His suffering out of His heart? Even though He is almighty, could He ever change His situation? God&#8217;s love is absolute, unique, and unchanging, and it is impossible that He could alter His heart and decide not to suffer.</p>
<p>If you lost your loved ones, you could never erase from your mind the memory of them or the pain of their departure. It is there to stay. It is the same with God. There is no way God can remove Himself from the tragedy of the fall unless the fundamental cause is eliminated. God cannot say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be part of this suffering any more.&#8221;</p>
<h3 align="center">God&#8217;s entire hope has been concentrated<br />
on the momentous day of resurrection</h3>
<p>God&#8217;s experience of the worst kind of suffering and tribulation was the beginning point of His restoration work, and He only finds hope in one exhilarating word: resurrection. Resurrection has the deepest meaning to God because through that path mankind is able to return to the original state when Adam and Eve were brand new and without sorrow, sin, and crime. Since the fall was the pinnacle of God&#8217;s suffering, the reunion of God and His children will certainly be the pinnacle of His joy.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s heart will burst with emotion and His eyes fill with tears of joy at the moment that He is liberated from His suffering and sorrow. God&#8217;s hope and desire and entire restoration work have been concentrated on that one momentous day of resurrection.</p>
<p>What must be man&#8217;s desire? To liberate God&#8217;s suffering we must experience greater pain than God&#8217;s own pain at the fall. Our desire and hope is only to go over the apex of suffering and meet a liberated God in the realm of resurrection. Religion is the road which will take you to the pinnacle of suffering and beyond to the realm of resurrection. Man&#8217;s first step is to conquer and liquidate the suffering of God.</p>
<p>I am not talking about only your own individual resurrection but the resurrection of your brothers and sisters as well, because the fall occurred with more than one person. You must go over the pinnacle of suffering together because the conquest of suffering will occur in the same atmosphere as did the fall of man. Therefore, you will experience the same situation as Adam and Eve before the fall, and must go over the hill of suffering instead.</p>
<p>Adam and Eve&#8217;s relationship was far more than that of brother and sister. They were in the position to become husband and wife with the blessing of God, but instead they became husband and wife in the satanic way after the fall. For this reason you have to go over the hill of the fallen world and into the realm of the resurrected love of a true husband and wife. First you must restore yourselves into a position of vertical love with God and upon that condition you will be brought together in the horizontal relationship of husband and wife. Together, centered upon God as husband and wife, you will create the trinity that will become the base of four positions as you give birth to children. This is the process of resurrection. There is no other way to surmount the pinnacle of suffering and liberate God.</p>
<p>Men and women long for the day they will become husbands and wives, and for the rest of their lives they will remember it as a most momentous day. If they form a happy marriage, it is a rare couple that forgets their anniversary. Every cell and fiber of your body concentrates on that one goal: the day of the fulfillment of love as husband and wife. That is a day you can really experience truly ecstatic joy, and every inch of your body wants to be uplifted by the joy of that day. Nothing is more precious than the fulfillment of that love.</p>
<p>Have you ever thought about how to concentrate your whole being to manifest love in a most dramatic way? When you put everything into crystallizing your love then your whole system works toward that one fulfillment. You can only be melted into the bosom of love when you find that day of becoming husband and wife. Nothing else in the world can be more precious than the true manifestation of love. God has given marriage as the apex and fulfillment of your love.</p>
<p>That love is the purpose of life and you will definitely achieve it although there are negative forces which say that such joy and love are illusions. That kind of conviction shatters man&#8217;s entire hope and desire. However, no power can destroy that hope and desire in man, no matter how negative the atmosphere. Even in the fallen world you still have this power to love and be loved.</p>
<p>I want you to understand that the pure, almighty God has been yearning for the day of reunion with His true children. There is no way to express or compare the excitement and joy God will experience on the day of that reunion. God&#8217;s whole being is love, and there is not one moment in which God can forget His children. His entire energy is moving in the one direction of meeting His true children and no power under the sun could ever eliminate this desire from His heart. When God concentrates upon His love, a millennium has no length and ten thousand years has no significance. The heart of God will not change with the passage of time but instead only intensifies in desiring the day which brings the fulfillment of His love.</p>
<h3 align="center">God&#8217;s children will go beyond<br />
the pinnacle of His suffering</h3>
<p>The people who can become the children of God are the ones who can go beyond the pinnacle of suffering and understand God&#8217;s heart. The only man in all of history who understood God&#8217;s heart was Jesus. Jesus knew God&#8217;s suffering heart and discovered how to liberate Him. Even though a multitude of men had lived and worshipped God before him, Jesus could say, &#8220;I am the only begotten son of God.&#8221; Also we read in the Bible that Jesus said, &#8220;I am in the Father and the Father is in me. I and the Father are one.&#8221; Jesus could utter such things because he was centered upon the love of God. He was saying that in love, he and God were one. It is a strange concept to consider that &#8220;you are in me and I am in you.&#8221; It is possible only when we speak of love. Jesus understood that, and he had the conviction that he was dwelling in the love of God.</p>
<p>Jesus also said, &#8220;I am the bridegroom and you are the bride,&#8221; putting himself in the bridegroom&#8217;s position and all mankind in the bride&#8217;s position. The ultimate goal for a woman is to be a bride, and the ultimate goal for a man is to be a bridegroom. Love is the key word needed to speak of this relationship, which is the culmination of your life. In speaking of a bridegroom and bride Jesus was not referring to the fallen tradition begun by Adam and Eve. He knew that we must go over the pinnacle of suffering and become heavenly bridegrooms and brides.</p>
<p>Until the time of Jesus God&#8217;s heart contained only suffering, but when Jesus proclaimed that he was one with God and was His only begotten son, God felt as though He had received an electric shock. Jesus&#8217; words were the most revolutionary words ever spoken. Jesus was the one person in history who was able to give God this type of shock. Jesus had the key to solving the entire, fundamental human problem of the severed relationship of love between God and man. He was really the Messiah of love, who could conquer the apex of God&#8217;s suffering and go beyond to the realm of resurrection. If Jesus&#8217; mission could have been fulfilled on earth then God certainly could have declared to the world, &#8220;My will is done.&#8221;</p>
<p>Could God and Jesus ever have been separated? Jesus&#8217; goal and the goal of history was to conquer God&#8217;s suffering and move into the realm of total resurrection. God saw the possibility of Jesus fulfilling that goal; however, God was never able to declare the fulfillment of His desire. That day did not occur because the rebellious people crucified Jesus, destroying the opportunity for the fulfillment of God&#8217;s will.</p>
<h3 align="center">God&#8217;s only remaining hope</h3>
<p>Christians think that Jesus came to die for their sake. How can God feel when He hears this kind of remark from man? Was the establishment of Christianity the fulfillment of God&#8217;s will? Could all the Christians of the world together be in a position to comfort the sorrow of God? Not at all. If Christians want to comfort God they must not only become like Jesus but also go over the pinnacle of the suffering of God. Then they would be able to say, &#8220;God, in me You see Your only begotten son.&#8221; There is not one who is like that, and many Christians are only trying to secure a place for themselves in heaven. That is not the way God can be comforted.</p>
<p>God knew and Jesus knew that no one else could comfort God nor surpass the mission of Jesus. That is why Jesus said he would come again. What does that mean? It means that Jesus&#8217; job was left undone and that he must come again in order to conquer the pinnacle of suffering. Jesus held the key to the fulfillment of God&#8217;s will, yet because of the faithlessness of the people that possibility was not fulfilled. This means that mankind must go over one more hill with the Lord of the Second Advent.</p>
<p>Only three major events in history are of importance to God. The first was His creation, the garden of Eden. The second was the mission of Jesus and the possibility of his fulfillment. Since that was not accomplished, God has looked forward to the third event, which is the day of the Lord of the Second Advent, and the final consummation of His hope. That day will be the greatest day since the day of Adam and Eve and Jesus.</p>
<p>The garden of Eden and Jesus&#8217; mission on earth are in the past. Of the three events, God&#8217;s only remaining hope is the day of the Second Advent. Whether consciously or unconsciously, Christians are looking for the one day of the coming of the Lord. Will God be really angry at mankind for the first time and destroy the earth on that day, or will God be able to fulfill His love at that time?</p>
<p>Even children who were pure and unstained, like Adam and Eve before the fall, were not easy for God to guide. But today, after the fall of man, the people God has had to work with are really trash. In the sight of God fallen man is so ugly and dirty and distorted that He does not even want to look at them. That is the fall of man. Women want to make themselves beautiful by wearing makeup and jewelry and flashy clothing. But God does not see any of that. He sees instead the true internal man and woman, which is ugly and distorted.</p>
<p>What is the Unification Church trying to do? You may say, &#8220;Oh, we are working to restore America and bring resurrection to this nation.&#8221; But what you actually mean is, &#8220;Unless we restore the true love of God, then America and the world have no purpose.&#8221; The purpose of the Unification Church is to liberate God from His suffering. That is the ideology of both God and Jesus.</p>
<p>We in the Unification Church follow a most difficult way of life because our goal is to place ourselves on the pinnacle of suffering and therefore be able to say before the world, &#8220;God, I am Your begotten son, Your begotten daughter.&#8221; You must have that dignity and that confidence as a child of God. Have you realized that this is our goal and that you must work at it?</p>
<h3 align="center">If you say that God is your Father<br />
then you must take responsibility for Him</h3>
<p>Why is the Unification Church primarily a gathering place of single men and women? People who marry in the worldly way have made no condition for their marriage to be recognized by God. Each person must receive the blessing from God. For this reason God has hope in single men and women who can be trained and guided to become true sons and daughters of God before they marry.</p>
<p>If someone demanded to hear whether you knew God, what would your answer be? Would you say, &#8220;Well, God seems to exist,&#8221; or, &#8220;What do you mean? I am His child! &#8221; Even at the point of your death could you still testify that you are sons and daughters of God? Have you ever doubted that your natural parents were your own father and mother? In an immoral nation like America, how do you know who your father is?</p>
<p>You have no doubt about who your parents are and God must become more real to you than your own natural parents. Then you can say, &#8220;I am His child,&#8221; Is God that real to you? Your answer must come from your entire being united together; otherwise your mind will be going in one direction, and your body in another, and your heart somewhere else. If your commitment and confidence are strong, then even if the sun rises in the west you can say, &#8220;I know that God is my Father.&#8221;</p>
<p>Your heavenly Father is not mediocre, but is almighty and all perfect. When you say He is your God, you must take responsibility for that relationship. Why aren&#8217;t the sons and daughters of God afraid to be criticized, persecuted or even to die for God? The reason is very simple; it is because God, their Father, is supreme in the universe, and they know that dying for His sake is not to be feared but instead would be a most glorious expression of their love.</p>
<p>Jesus had not one fear about dying on the cross. He thought of only one thing, that he was dying to conquer the suffering of God. His only concern was God&#8217;s mission, not his own life. At the moment of his death, the noble heart of Jesus was absolutely unselfish. That was the peak of unselfish dedication, and resurrection was possible because of his heart.</p>
<p>We can conclude that as long as Christians emulate the unselfish heart of Jesus, Christianity can prosper. It is impossible to have a true relationship with God, even if you call yourself a Christian, unless you follow the example of Jesus&#8217; heart. We can also conclude that the Lord of the Second Advent must come with the same heart and love for God. Upon that foundation of love the Lord can restore the individual, society, nation and world.</p>
<h3 align="center">Following a doctrine does not<br />
qualify anyone as a child of God</h3>
<p>God will use the religion that inherits the heart of Jesus to build the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth in the final day. Regardless of their pride in their accomplishments, Christians today do not have the same concern that Jesus had for the heart of God. They do not talk about the consummation of God&#8217;s will or the Kingdom of God here on earth. Great churches with plush carpets do not impress God at all. If there is a man who is not recognized as being Christian but who has the same heart as God and Jesus that man will be used to fulfill God&#8217;s final dispensation.</p>
<p>Suppose the worst communist dictator, Kim 11 Sung of North Korea, suddenly died one day. Even though millions of people would be relieved at his death one man would still shed tears. Even knowing his father was a vicious dictator, the son of Kim 11 Sung would grieve at his death. The relationship between father and son is a unique and special one, transcending all reason.</p>
<p>Religions around the world are convinced that God is smiling and happy from morning to night, enjoying His power. I come from the humble nation of Korea and have proclaimed, &#8220;God, my Father, is suffering and His heart is broken. I must liberate Him from His suffering.&#8221; My prayer is that God will give me a chance to do this. That is my position now.</p>
<p>The entire world may call me a heretic, but only the person who understands the heart of God is qualified to be His true child. The responsibility and purpose of the Unification Church is not the pursuit of glory or power but the complete liberation of God, which neither Adam and Eve nor Jesus were able to accomplish. You and I are gathered together to liberate the suffering heart of God.</p>
<p>We may face more criticism and persecution than Jesus did, yet nothing will stop us. We expect opposition, but in spite of opposition we can go over the individual, family, society, national and world peaks of suffering. We will stand on the pinnacle of the suffering of God and go beyond, to the realm of resurrection.</p>
<p>We are looking for the one momentous day when God can declare, &#8220;I am free of sorrow. My broken heart has been healed by my loving children.&#8221; You must have the confidence that you will be the begotten sons and daughters of God, who will inherit the heart of Jesus and go over the pinnacle of the suffering of God and liberate Him. You must feel, &#8220;God and I are one; I am in the Father and the Father in me and nothing can separate me from God. Even if the entire world rises against me I will not be stopped.&#8221;</p>
<p>Our goal is so great that nothing can be compared to its value. Therefore, we shall overcome any power trying to block our way and still continue on. You must have the confidence that you were born solely for this purpose and are destined to live and die for this purpose. Have you ever thought, &#8220;If I cannot accomplish this mission in my own lifetime, I will leave a legacy for my children because with God there will be a day of resurrection&#8221;? Jesus died without fulfilling his mission in his own lifetime, but that does not mean that Jesus failed. He was resurrected and left a spiritual legacy which affected all mankind.</p>
<p>Men and women look forward to becoming husbands and wives, the culmination of the horizontal level of life. Jesus, too, looked forward to meeting his own bride. God has been looking forward to meeting His children for the 2,000 years since Jesus was on earth. All of humanity as well has been looking forward to that one momentous day of hope. The Unification Church will celebrate that day. The color of your skin, be it white, yellow, or black, does not matter. Only one thing is important-your heart. This is the central point of our ideology, and if you would become a true member you must deeply understand this. Your goal is simply this, to become God&#8217;s begotten sons and daughters. After that you shall become God-centered husbands and wives and restore the garden of Eden, the ideal of God. You are in the position of Adam and Eve and you can begin the new heavenly history. You will create the first history of God.</p>
<h3 align="center">You must not bargain with heaven,<br />
or look for the easy way</h3>
<p>The people who do not want to inherit the suffering heart of God but only want the blessing of the final day are like thieves. I know there are members who have thought, &#8220;I thought there would be a chance to be blessed after the Washington Monument Rally. I&#8217;ve already been in the Church for three years, so why shouldn&#8217;t I be blessed?&#8221; Are some of you thinking like that? Once you know the broken heart of God, could you ever think in this manner and still lift your face to Him? This is not the way to put yourselves in the position of sons and daughters to God.</p>
<p>The first qualification for the blessing is to become a begotten son or daughter of God. You must realize and fulfill that. If your commitment is so steadfast that you feel it in your bones then our work will progress much faster. Many people try to find the easiest ways and dodge the difficult jobs. Some people even bargain with heaven, saying, &#8220;All right, God, I&#8217;ll do this if You will give me that.&#8221; Do not bargain. It never works. You owe an incredible debt to God yet you never speak about paying back all that you owe Him. If you do not quite have the heart to meet the standard of God but have a repentant heart, raise your hand. God will not criticize you but will be moved and sympathetic with you.</p>
<p>Are you really a perfect member who meets God&#8217;s standard 100% of the time, or are you not yet perfect? Are you sincere, or are you phony? Some of you are impostors, but even impostors do not want to be treated like impostors. That in itself is dishonest. If you are an impostor you should be treated as one.</p>
<p>The important thing is that the value of whatever job you do, even if it seems trivial and menial, depends on your heart. Do you sell the newspaper on the streets with the full realization that you are indeed the son of God? &#8220;God, I am Your begotten son and I am selling newspapers because I love You. The world may scorn me and criticize me but I don&#8217;t care. I am concerned with only one thing: to maintain the absolute tradition and spirit of being Your true son.&#8221;</p>
<p>The only thing I have to be proud of is the full realization that I am God&#8217;s son. My only desire is to leave this tradition with you. When I look at Mother I do not see her as &#8220;my wife,&#8221; but as God&#8217;s loving daughter and I know I must treat her with respect. If my thinking is wrong then judge me; I welcome it. This is the ideology and position of God and no power can condemn me.</p>
<p>When you realize that you are the sons and daughters of God, the resurrection of your hearts can take place and your union with God can be sealed. You will not be alone in this venture but will ultimately need a spouse. Together you shall appear with one heart and one tradition before God.</p>
<p>You were all born into a satanic lineage, and Satan has every right to claim everything about you. But God can change you and you can be born again. If you do not realize that you must be reborn, however, then you cannot be in the position of true sons and daughters of God and you are certainly not entitled to be here. No matter what calamity may befall you, your body is the temple of God and no one can separate you from your love for God and God from His love for you. You are His begotten child and He is your Father. This is our religious way of life. We are seeking to transform ourselves from contaminated vessels into noble temples of God. I want you to know that you are a most happy and proud group of people in the sight of God.</p>
<h3 align="center">Persecution is my opportunity<br />
to love God more profoundly</h3>
<p>After I came to America, all types of accusation and slander were directed at me. That does not matter because I have one single-minded concern-my right to love God as God loves me. No one can alter this privilege in the slightest degree. Furthermore, I am grateful for the opportunity to be persecuted, because I have a better opportunity to feel God&#8217;s broken and accused heart. &#8220;God, I thank You for this. Father, I thank You for the opposition 24 hours a day because then I have 24 hours a day to love You more. Because of this experience, my love for You is more profound.&#8221;</p>
<p>We are constantly criticized, but God will use each occasion to produce greater results for our work. For example, &#8220;brainwashing&#8221; has been a point of attack. That issue has become stale, and the issue now in the forefront is the allegation that I am an agent of the KCIA. However, the man who was formerly chief of the KCIA for almost ten years testified before a House subcommittee that he did not even hear about me until he came to America in 1973! Even the Washington Post reported what he said. People were waiting for him to say, &#8220;Yes, Reverend Moon was my agent,&#8221; but his testimony only revealed the truth. I am not asking my. critics to apologize to me; I only want them to be humble in the sight of God.</p>
<p>After the Washington Monument Rally last year I declared that until June of this year we would encounter great tribulation and turmoil. The month of June is almost over and I see the heavenly strategy changing. Now the time has come to declare the truth to the world. The world has been in darkness, but now the sun is rising. We can have the confidence and the dignity of God and march fearlessly forward. We cannot bend the dignity of the truth.</p>
<p>A poor image of me has been created throughout the years, and people actually brainwashed themselves into thinking that I am a charlatan or fraud. The honest, innocent minds of America have been poisoned by the media. But now the time has come to let the world know the truth about me and what I represent here in America. The American people are righteous people, and eventually the tide of negativity will be reversed and a different opinion of me shall be created.</p>
<p>This is heavenly strategy working. God wanted me to quickly become well-known, whether in a negative or positive light. Unfortunately, due to the media the negative accusations became known more quickly, but now all we have to do is reverse the tide and present our true image. The world is bored with bad news and criticism and is ready to hear about some hope.</p>
<p>If you follow God&#8217;s basic principle of heart you will achieve victory. Your job is to become the begotten sons and daughters of God. You must say before God, &#8220;Father, I am Your child. I shall marry in Your name so that together with my mate I may become Your perfect temple, fulfill Your love, and liberate Your sorrow in heaven and on earth.&#8221;</p>
<p>We will say to God, &#8220;For the first time in history You have sons and daughters who truly understand Your suffering. Heavenly Father, please be comforted by us, because we understand Your broken heart. God, take comfort and rest because Your sons and daughters are determined to gratefully go over greater suffering than You have.&#8221; That is our prayer,</p>
<p>You can see how valuable and priceless an individual you are. Do not demean your own value; you are precious in the sight of God. No matter how miserable your way of life appears, your job is to uphold God&#8217;s dignity. Those who can say, &#8220;Now I have changed completely and am following the direction of God,&#8221; raise your hands. Now all you have to say is, &#8220;God, trust me. Eventually my spouse and myself together will go over the hill of suffering even greater than that of Jesus, who was Your begotten son 2,000 years ago.&#8221; If your faith is greater than Jesus&#8217;, then you will approach the Mount of Calvary and be in a position to be crucified. But you do not have to be crucified. You can conquer death and achieve resurrection as living sons and daughters.</p>
<p>Have you ever prayed, &#8220;God, give me the burden of America. I will bear it alone now and later I will bear it with my spouse. Please give me the worst and heaviest possible burden. This is my privilege.&#8221; Please raise your hands if you can pledge to God that you will never do anything to harm or sever your heartistic relationship with Him.</p>
<p>When you determine in your heart and mind to give up your life for God&#8217;s purpose, then the hill is no longer in front of you. Nothing is a deeper or heavier responsibility than that. You will never decline with that determination, but will gain increasing confidence and achieve ever greater victories in the days to come.</p>
<p>You should end this month of June with the new realization, &#8220;We are Your begotten sons and daughters.&#8221; Then the new month of July will begin with new life and prosperity ahead of us. Those who are grateful to God for this opportunity, pledge to God your 100% loyalty by raising your hands. May God bless you. Thank you. Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">THE RETURN TO TEARS</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:19:36+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/the-return-to-tears.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:19:36+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">October 16, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator-Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>American young people probably do not know much about tears. Because America is basically an affluent country you never get really hungry or really cold, and under those circumstances real suffering is far removed from the American way of life. I want to ask those of you who never cried to raise your hands. You all say you know the taste of tears, so let us analyze for whom those tears were shed. For yourselves so far. How many of you have experienced shedding tears for others? Only after joining the Unification Church, right? Basically there are two kinds of tears, the tears you shed for yourselves and the tears you shed for others.</p>
<p>With whom did the history of tears begin? I&#8217;m sure that the first man and woman to shed tears were Adam and Eve and certainly God shed tears because of the fall of man. Adam and Eve cried for themselves as a result of the fall, but for whom did God shed tears? God is Father of mankind and after seeing the degradation of His children at the fall of man God shed tears not for Himself but in sorrow for Adam and Eve and their anguish. The tears shed by Adam and Eve were for their own misery but God shed the tears of goodness and the tears of mercy for the sake of His children.</p>
<p>Those tears themselves are tragic. Man&#8217;s history began in tears, with sorrow and tragedy, and for God also history was first marked by tears. Those tears meant tragedy for both man and God. Man really deserved to shed tears for his sin, but God did not deserve to shed tears. This history of tears originated with the ancestors of mankind and has expanded down through the generations to all mankind today.</p>
<p>Human history is a repetition of the suffering of tears, emerging again and again in suffering and struggle and broken-heartedness. Mankind has been oppressed as individuals, families, tribes and nations with the one suffering because of the other. No one has conquered the history of tears. We have to grieve for the world and suffer in sorrow for the consequences of history on all the different levels; then we may hope to return to the origin of goodness. The fall of man actually began with only two individuals, but because they were the ancestors of mankind their actions shaped the history of the world. Their transgressions brought the entire world down to tears.</p>
<p>Man has fallen down to the bottom and in order to raise ourselves up everyone must advance step by step and eventually go beyond the realm of tears. This is our mandate. The entire history of man&#8217;s tears and sorrow was all for the sake of himself. Man has been grieving over his own misery but in order to go beyond the realm of that suffering we have to change and reverse the purpose of tears. We still grieve but for a different purpose. We need a reorientation in this world of tears to the other kind of tears that God shed when He wept in grief for the sake of others.</p>
<h3 align="center">First a man must shed tears for man,<br />
and then he must discover the realm of God&#8217;s tears</h3>
<p>Where can man truly find happiness then? The ultimate happiness comes when he can conquer not only the tears of man but of God as well. We must restore the world to the realm where God no longer needs to shed tears. The history of tears began because of the fall of man. When we conquer the realm of man&#8217;s degradation then we can certainly find the realm where God and man no longer need to shed tears. This is precisely the point we are approaching today. It is our destiny as men to go over the two hills of tears. We must cross over these two hills in order to be totally happy. Those who are trying to pursue the road of truth must shed tears over the misery of humanity and taste the suffering of man. A thinking man could only be grieved by the problems of man&#8217; the suffering and dying of men and all the misery that permeates our society.</p>
<p>Many young people think about what the real purpose of life is and they agonize over how and where they should direct their young energy. That is the beginning of the road along which you will conquer tears. Those people who never even think about those things-the meaning and purpose of life and death-do not even belong to the species of man. Thinking people wonder about their own lives and also about the society&#8217; nation and world and they grapple with the problem of bringing a solution to those who are suffering and in misery. Man has to think in that direction.</p>
<p>Grief over the suffering and sorrow of man alone will not bring any lasting solution. Man has to go further, down to the bottom and origin of tears. We have to go beyond human tears and realize the tears of God. Tears that are shed for one&#8217;s own sake or the sake of one&#8217;s nation, for the human level alone, cannot ultimately contribute to the over-all solution of bringing back the ideal world here on earth. No matter what, all of that is still within the realm of selfishness, being merely the continuation of the tears that were shed by Adam and Eve for themselves.</p>
<p>Everyone must discover the new realm of tears that God has shed and deeply experience the taste of those tears; otherwise we will never solve human problems. This means learning how to shed tears beyond self-centered suffering and misery. First we must discover God and discover God&#8217;s tears and become people who shed tears to alleviate the suffering of God.</p>
<p>I want you to know that those people in history known as saints and holy men were people who learned about the tears of God. By centering upon the grief and sorrow of God they have been looking at mankind from God&#8217;s point of view and shedding the same kind of tears that God shed. That is a religious way of life and by shedding the same kind of tears that God shed you become a co-worker of God&#8217;s. What kind of religion stands as a co-worker on the side of God? The religion that not only teaches man to shed tears for humanity but to shed tears for God will undoubtedly receive God&#8217;s blessing and become the central religion of humanity. There is absolutely no question about it.</p>
<p>The chief question is for whom you weep. If a village realizes that a person is crying for the sake of the village then the entire village has to bow down to him. That act is noble because it is not for the person&#8217;s sake but for the sake of the village. If there is someone who sheds tears for the sake of the nation then the entire nation is benefited and the citizens should bow down and respect that person.</p>
<p>The son of filial piety is one who shed tears not for himself, but for the sake of his parents. Without exception the loyal subject is the one who sheds tears for his own king and queen. Patriots are those who shed tears for the sake of their own country and countrymen. A saint or holy man is a different kind of person altogether. The patriot is concerned for the</p>
<p>nation but a saint directs all his energy and tears for the sake of God and all of humanity. Under that condition alone can we say that a person has lived a saintly life.</p>
<p>Looking at the great saints in history, is there one who truly shed tears in order to bring God and humanity together, even at the moment of his death? Certainly we find one in the person of Jesus Christ. At the moment of his own death on the cross he was worrying about his own adversaries, the Roman soldiers who pierced him with their spears. He shed his tears and sweat for the sake of his own enemies. Because Jesus cried for his worst adversary he was actually crying for the sake of all types of people. By shedding his tears for the sake of his worst enemy Jesus not only won the hearts of all good men, but will also win the respect of the worst kind of sinful man in history.</p>
<p>Jesus considered his own well-being last of all, praying at the end that God accept his soul, for he had done his very best. Jesus directed his whole life toward shouldering all of God&#8217;s suffering here on earth and as his life ended on the cross he could say that he had done it. You can see how different were the selfish tears of Adam and Eve and the unselfish tears Jesus shed. Both were falling down to their deaths as they shed tears, Adam and Eve being the victims of their sin, and Jesus being crucified on the cross. As they approached their spiritual death Adam and Eve shed tears for themselves but Jesus shed tears for the sake of humanity and for God and for his own enemies.</p>
<h3 align="center">Christianity has forgotten that<br />
its role is to share the tears of God</h3>
<p>Christianity was supposed to inherit the tradition of Jesus Christ and share the tears of God, but in the course of 2,000 years of history that role has been forgotten. How can we distinguish the true Christianity from the false one? Christian churches which are wrapped up in their own sorrow or difficulties are churches of no life, but those which are shedding tears for the sake of God and humanity and their own enemies are the churches with life. For the first four centuries Christians endured the utmost persecution and certainly they must have wept very much. The problem is whether they cried for themselves alone.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s examine Christian faith and prayer in the past. How much have Christians in the past cried for more than themselves or their own church or nation? At most they may have thought about their own country when it was in difficulty. Certainly God has answered that level of prayer a long time ago. Christian prayers in history have not been wide enough; their scope has only reached the level of their church or denomination and at most their nation. How many Christian people have been praying for the sake of all humanity, or for the heart of God and the cosmic dispensation?</p>
<p>Christian thinking has never extended that far because of the limit of biblical teaching. The Bible says that at the end of the world God will manifest His power of judgment and all evil people will be burned in fire, with only the righteous and God-fearing people being lifted up in the air to see the millennium. That&#8217;s the concept Christians live with so how could they pray for all of humanity? When you really know God you know that such a scene could never happen. That is not the true meaning of judgment.</p>
<p>History is looking forward to another epoch, the coming of the Lord of the Second Advent. That marks the time when mankind for the first time will learn to shed tears for all humanity, even including the spirit world. Because of the limitations of its teachings, conventional Christianity could not produce a man who could truly give himself for the sake of humanity here on earth and in heaven. A new breed must emerge to take responsibility for the entire cosmic dispensation, not only here on earth but also in heaven. The Unification Church is born for that mission.</p>
<p>The Unification Church has a declaration for the world: We must go beyond tears for our own selfish interests to the tears for humanity and plunge into the tears of God so that we can conquer and eliminate them. We must shed all of God&#8217;s tears so that He has no more left. That is the Unification Church&#8217;s task. That&#8217;s the realm that Adam and Eve never even imagined existed.</p>
<p>No matter how many tears were shed for the sake of humanity, those tears are meaningless unless you really know the love of God. Ultimately speaking, we are going to be shedding tears for the very heart and love of God. We must declare ourselves to be victorious not only individually in rectifying the sorrow of God and becoming a source of joy to Him, but also on the level of family, society, nation and world. Our ultimate goal is to remedy the pain in God&#8217;s heart, and starting from this base to become the center of the family, the tribe, a nation, the world and the cosmos. That&#8217;s the way we should live as individuals . No one has a guarantee that they will live on earth for very long. You may start out to do that but you can never know whether you will pass through every step that needs to be conquered.</p>
<p>When should you shed tears for God? Don, t wait until you reach the family level but start right now. We are teaching that from the very beginning of your commitment to this movement you must shed tears for the heart of God. You must put yourself in the position of God, with your eyes being God&#8217;s eyes and your tears God&#8217;s tears. You must look after humanity as God would look after His own children.</p>
<p>All men represent Adam and all women represent Eve. There are five colors of men and women; when you look at them as God looks at them and weep and suffer for them, you are putting yourself absolutely in the position of God. In that case can you be prejudiced about race and think that God loves only a certain race of people?</p>
<p>We must be color-blind in the Unification Church and not distinguish between races because God is color-blind. You are learning God&#8217;s point of view, seeing the world as God does. As we look at the world we grieve over the suffering situation of humanity and cry out for them as God has been doing. The amount of God&#8217;s own feeling you experience will determine the depth of God&#8217;s love that can reach you. How much you become a portion of God shall determine the quantity of God&#8217;s love that you can experience.</p>
<p>At night God looks over the city of New York, grieving at the misery there. The people do not even realize that God exists, that their own Father exists. Almighty God is waiting to help but they don&#8217;t even realize they are all the children of God. How lonely God must be! How much God&#8217;s heart must be grieving. Can you imagine how lonely and aching God&#8217;s heart is, looking at so many of His children enslaved in the communist world?</p>
<h3 align="center">The course of repentance</h3>
<p>A true religion teaches the necessity of repentance but how many of you know how to repent so far? Repentance must be an act of tears, not for yourself, but for humanity and for the aching heart of God. Have you experienced that kind of repentance? A repentant heart can say, &#8216; &#8216;Now I realize what a poor and miserable son I have been. I have pierced Your heart over and over, never even realizing that You existed&#8217; my Father. I have broken Your heart and now I come to You and need Your forgiveness.&#8221; This is the first repentance.</p>
<p>How do you know that your repentance can be accepted by God? You can see proof in your own resurrection. When your heart has grown in such a way that you totally put yourself on the side of God and in looking at the world shed tears, you know that your tears are no longer for your selfish purpose. Then you know your heart is with God.</p>
<p>Regardless where the heart of God moves, no power under the sun can deter it. It moves straight forward, all the way to the end. As the father, God is ceaselessly going after His own children but He will never tire. When you put yourself totally on the side of God you are like a parent trying to save your dying children. How can you as a parent get tired or bored? You cannot help but go straight after hue inanity, until every soul here on earth is saved. If you feel as their parent, there is no way you can get tired. Our road may be getting tougher and tougher and our tears may come more frequently, but does that mean that we are retreating or giving up the mission? No, that will spur us on even further.</p>
<p>First of all, have you ever cried out before heaven and earth, &#8220;God, I have been a sinner, I have been the worst kind of criminal in Your sight. Please forgive me&#8221;? Have you shed such tears yet? Have you said to God&#8217; &#8220;I have no more personal ambition. I only ask for Your mercy upon me&#8221;? Have you ever totally given yourself to do God&#8217;s will, feeling that</p>
<p>if you receive God&#8217;s mercy there is nothing you cannot do? This is the first step, the freshman course.</p>
<p>In many cases people look for a convenient God who will smilingly accept everything they are already attached to. Such people want God to come in a very narrow gate. How about you, right now, in your own heart? Have you ever thought about yourself as the worst kind of sinner, who would give up anything to receive God&#8217;s mercy and forgiveness? Have you experienced that? By sincerely feeling that repentance, you can liquidate your entire fallen past and disengage yourself from the consequences of the fall.</p>
<p>From your individual tears and misery you can make a gigantic leap from one world to the other, from the human level of tears to the level of God&#8217;s tears. You can do this because you can disengage yourself from the iniquity of the past, freeing yourself from all the attachments behind you.</p>
<p>That point is critically important. You have been crying your own tears, but at this point of repentance you can meet the tears of God and be embraced by the merciful, loving God. You are then experiencing the grief and agony of Adam and Eve, but at the same time you are experiencing the suffering heart of God. The two start at one point. You must pass through that experience. Unless you pass through that realm, you will never understand the love of God, no matter what.</p>
<p>Words alone are empty. What you need is to shed so many tears that your eyes swell shut and you cannot bear to open them in the sunlight. We need men who are able to shed the tears of God. Nothing can happen with dry eyes. It is in tears that most of the re-creation process takes place. In that atmosphere alone can the re-making of a new man, society, nation, world and new universe take place. That&#8217;s why the declaration is made in the Bible, &#8220;Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.&#8221; By repentance you can come nearer to the kingdom and to union with God.</p>
<h3 align="center">Without your tears, your sweat<br />
and blood have nothing to do with God</h3>
<p>This is the way of life of the Unification Church. Nothing bothers us if we put ourselves in an unconditional position. 1n that we are different from ordinary, secular people who center the world around themselves.</p>
<p>I want you to know that without tears, no matter how much sweat you shed, it has nothing to do with God&#8217;s work. No matter how much blood you shed, without tears it has nothing to do with God. Tears are the link between you and God. Tears must come together with your sweat and blood because otherwise you are not walking the road of restoration. We must return to tears.</p>
<p>You have cried for yourself but in doing that you bring yourself down to the sinful world. In crying over your own ambitions and desires you are actually declaring to the world, &#8220;I am an ally of Satan.&#8221; Unselfish crying for the sake of God is a sacred and divine thing.</p>
<p>In order to shed tears for God you must first find the right environment. If you stay in a very comfortable place and try to cry for God, tears will never come to your eyes. Instead, you must go after the situation where you can be stimulated to shed tears for God.</p>
<p>What is that battleground? That is where you wage war against Satan and Satan comes against you. In other words, that is where you make yourself a champion of God and fight the battle against Satan. There are all kinds of places where you will inevitably be affected so that you can taste the tears of God. You have to go out to the world and disturb everyone. Take their children to the side of God; take their wealth and power to the side of God.</p>
<p>How can you do this? The fallen process began with words, but words which were lies. Satan took everything away from God, not with weapons and violence, but with words. By the same token you will give the word and love of God to bring back to God the things Satan took away. False love and lies brought about the fall and therefore the truth and true love of God will bring the satanic things back to God. It&#8217;s very logical restoration. The entire world is starving for truth and true love. If you really become a heavenly messenger and disseminate the truth and the love of God, then people will be gathered to you like small metal pieces pulled by a magnet. That is exactly what I have done. I came to America and have been</p>
<p>plundering the young people from the satanic world to God&#8217;s world. God has the power to pull everybody eventually. I am determined to shake up the world so the world is disturbed.</p>
<p>We shed tears for God and humanity and other people get upset with us over their children and their belongings. Actually this is a confrontation of two kinds of tears. We have to cross this bridge of tears. When you go to witness to the people and try to bring spiritual children you must shed tears for them; unless you are tearfully loving them and thinking of them you will lose them. You must be so moved as to speak about the truth with tears and convey the love of God with tears. When you meet the people in that fashion God will be with you. There is no other way.</p>
<p>If your heart is like that then no matter how deeply the world may bury you it cannot possess you. You just have to set your goal high and advance step by step through each level. Your companion on the journey will be tears and your job is to sow the seeds of love. You are longing for the true husband, wife, children, the true society and nation and in the meantime you will pave the way with tears. No foreign power can infiltrate this realm. You must volunteer for the most miserable place because there you have more chance to cry out for God. When you are in misery and holding on to God then you are very close to the realm of tears.</p>
<p>This is our salvation. You can search after misery and welcome it. You overcome it by holding onto God and shedding tears as God did Himself, looking at misery from God&#8217;s point of view. When you overcome those tears then you have indeed expanded God&#8217;s territory. It is the cosmic rule that whenever a true religion emerges it is always accompanied by persecution. Persecution is not a difficulty to be run away from but a blessing to plunge into. Persecution is a blessing because it will bring you to the realm of tears.</p>
<p>You have an empty container to fill with indemnity and when it overflows Satan will have no more power to touch you or our movement. That will be a real day of hope. That very day is at hand, with the entire nation pouring out a tidal wave of unreasonable slander and persecution. Those powers are now dissipating, however, and the time is ready for us to counter-attack. A new mood has been created. A one hour television special about the Washington Monument victory is being shown around the country. This is the first wave of our counter-attack. The truthful, in-depth testimony by a prominent scholar like Dr. Sontag will totally disarm our worst critics, and if they have one ounce of conscience they have to feel sorry for what has been done by our opponents.</p>
<p>The entire press corps and publishers all over the country will read this book out of curiosity. Their motivation will be to find something to quibble about, but the important thing is that this book will expose how untruthfully our movement has been written and spoken about. The time will come soon when the American people will know how I lived my life, how many tears and how much sweat I shed for the sake of this nation and the sake of the world and they will have to gratefully acknowledge what I have done. We have been patient and long-suffering, yet in turn we have never wanted revenge. We have never learned how to get revenge, but God will see that justice is done.</p>
<p>Every kind of persecution gives us the priceless opportunity to shed tears for the purpose of God. The day that God sheds no more tears is the day that we will no longer shed tears or mankind shed tears. We can completely conquer sorrow. Who shall truly cry out for God and truly agonize for humanity? We are chosen to be champions of tears and sorrow for the sake of God and humanity.</p>
<h3 align="center">How much have you shed tears in a serious moment?</h3>
<p>This morning remember your lives in the past. What kind of past did you live as a member of the Unification Church? When you are selling the News World your tears must fall upon your papers. The New York Times is a very influential paper and if it became a tool of God it would hasten the accomplishment of His mission. Unfortunately, that paper is not God&#8217;s paper. We have a little paper, the News World&#8217; and this is where God is placing His hope. When you think of how meager our paper is at this stage, don&#8217;t you feel some tears of sympathy for</p>
<p>God? Do you think, &#8220;I really want to make this a gigantic, powerful paper so that You can truly use it as Your tool. I am still young and I can definitely make the News World a success in the shortest possible time. God, give me the opportunity.&#8221;</p>
<p>Once we move the city of New York you know that we can certainly move the United States and the entire world. This is a key city. I declared that New York is the front line of our movement and I brought the best member here from around the world for that reason. What are you doing? Are you really going after the mission with tears?</p>
<p>Again, this is the day of your own repentance. The will of God and the dispensation is waiting out there. How can you worry about being hungry or about your clothes or tiredness in the sight of God and in the sight of the dispensation? If you really want to be in the mainstream of the Unification Church then you must go beyond all that and come to the point of tears. When you turn your tears into the tears of God then you will see miracles happen.</p>
<p>How many times have those of you working in offices shed tears on your own paperwork? All the leadership in our movement should be praying special night-long prayers in tears. You are most likely not going to lift your faces to look at God because there is some shame in your hearts. Are you just waiting for some great things to happen to the Unification Church without shedding tears? You can&#8217;t expect blessing to come to you without even shedding tears.</p>
<p>It is a serious matter. Regardless of the past we must return to tears. How much have you shed tears in a serious moment? You are basically followers but you have someone leading you in the right direction. You have an example to follow but I have no one to lead me. In this vast universe I am the one who has to steer the ship. It is a miracle that we have come this far and I am deeply grateful that it has been without having a major setback.</p>
<p>I may have shed many tears and endured much suffering but I know one thing: God has shed more tears and endured more suffering than we can ever even imagine. When you know that God is toiling and shedding tears, can you freely say that this life is too difficult and too tiring for you to continue? Some of you are so tired that you take a nap for just a few minutes but when you wake up you must feel ashamed and say to God, &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t my intention but I ended up spending a few hours for a nap. I&#8217;m sorry to do this in front of You, Father.,, Sometimes you must spend a little money for yourself but even then do you wish you didn&#8217;t need to spend it on yourself? Our path is definitely not an easy one.</p>
<p>I must spend money for my own children but it is not without reservation. When I spend money for them I think of them not as my own but as Unification Church members. Why should I live like that? Nobody would bother me for spending my own money and living my own way of life and loving my own children, but every time I spend money on my family or rest at night I feel apologetic before God. I live like that because God is like that.</p>
<h3 align="center">The requirement for defeating communism</h3>
<p>My personal mission in the dispensation was completed by 1976 and I was triumphant in it. On the personal level I have fully accomplished my mission. However, from this time on the greatest task is still ahead: dealing with the power of communism. It is impossible to communicate with communists so no message and no amount of reasoning will work. In the free world we meet and talk with each other and because of religion we can live together, but in the communist world there is no religion and no religious message will influence the government.</p>
<p>What shall we do then? We have to tearfully pray and pay indemnity for them so that they can emerge out of the yoke of communism themselves, finding their own way to get rid of their shackles. That&#8217;s the only way. In addition, if we in the free world can build an ideal society on a religious foundation here on earth, we can show them that our way of life is far greater than anything their ideology predicts. You&#8217;ll see that the more we succeed in the free world the more there will be internal problems among the communists themselves. Internal revolution will break up their ranks and the spirit of God will be at work. More and more economic catastrophe will persist in the communist world and even famine will occur.</p>
<p>As Unification Church members we must shed tears for the sake of the communist world, tears that can represent the entire free world. We will pave their way spiritually. As long as there is communication in the free world it is only a matter of time until people come to the truth of God. There is no other alternative. Communism is the only barrier to world unification because no communication is possible.</p>
<p>I am speaking to the seminarians now. You are already destined to walk this path. You in particular must feel that you are indebted to every member of the Unification Church. You have an extra burden and in order to be recognized you truly have no right to complain, but only to show your merit in your deeds. Your conscience should not allow any other way. Making excuses for yourself doesn&#8217;t work in our movement. For your own benefit I would like to be extra hard on you, pushing you out to prove yourselves.</p>
<p>Another group of people who must take great responsibility are the early members of the Unification Church. When you come to Belvedere you must reflect on the path you are walking. Are you thinking mostly about yourself, your food and clothing or your own position? When you do things for your own purpose and to pursue your own goal then you are deeply in trouble. Your ancestors are watching you from spirit world and your descendants also are going to judge you. They will see the law of God and evaluate you in light of that. They will see where you stand and how imperfect and impure you are. I urge you leaders of our movement to shed tears first. Those who do not know the taste of tears will never become true leaders of our movement. You must pray hidden prayers and experience lonely meditation. There is corruption and destruction coming on all levels, both spiritually and physically. Right now you are preparing yourselves to work for the sake of humanity so how can you take it easy? When you look at the American school system and realize how the students are living, the promiscuous attitudes they have, how can you young people sleep comfortably and stand by idly? You must feel that you will be like spiritual bombs exploding on campus to eradicate all that.</p>
<p>Have you ever seen any professors cheerfully embracing the young people, trying to lead them in the right direction? Are any of the students truly loving the school and the professors , concerned about the well-being of the people and really praying for them? There are no students like this. How many government officials are really concerned for their own country regardless of what department they are in? How many of them are tearfully trying to serve their nation? The salvation of America will come when tears are shed on all levels&#8217; particularly in the government. When people feel unselfish about this nation and the world, America&#8217;s salvation is near. However, no one is moving in that direction. The vast majority is totally nonchalant and unconcerned about the situation. They only care about their own salaries and well-being.</p>
<p>America has everything in abundance except tears. In that this nation is poor. God is searching after the people who have wet eyes but when He knocks on America&#8217;s doors and finds no one like that God certainly has no choice except to turn around and leave America. God has only one hope: the Unification Church, you members. Because God&#8217;s eyes are brimming over with tears, His only hope lies in anyone who can embrace Him with that same tearful heart.</p>
<p>You members have the public mission and you are becoming God&#8217;s objects, responding to His tears with your own tears. In that way we can mold the movement of salvation for America and the world. That&#8217;s the only way God can respond and work with mankind. The real members of the Unification Church are the members with tears. The true leaders of the Unification Church are those with tears. The fall of man came because of self-centered tears and in restoration we must shed selfless tears, public tears. When we shed tears for the public purpose, for God&#8217;s purpose we accumulate the genuine assets of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. The tearful life starts from the individual and then tears and more tears will break through one barrier after another until the worldwide level is reached.</p>
<p>So far you have not been thinking in that fashion but this morning you are learning the value of tears. Please show me who of you are determined to walk this path in a tearful way, responding to God&#8217;s tears and shedding public tears for His purpose.</p>
<h3 align="center">The fastest advancement on the path of restoration</h3>
<p>What is the fastest way to advance along the path of restoration? Put yourself in the position of Adam and Noah and shed tears for them and for the other central figures in history. Put yourself in the position of Jesus and cry for his sake. By doing this you link together the individual level, the tribal, national and worldwide levels.</p>
<p>Go one step further and put yourself in God&#8217;s position during the time of Noah and understand how He suffered waiting through the 120 years it took Noah to get ready, only to see that particular dispensation fail at the most critical moment. Then put yourself in the position of God looking down at Abraham wandering like a gypsy and meeting all kinds of persecution. How tense and anguished God was while He waited! Then go through the time of Moses and the suffering of the Israelites and later the time of Jesus. Put yourself in every level representing God and try to share His aching heart. Don&#8217;t you think God shed tears at each of those events?</p>
<p>By doing this you will be an individual upon which the entire providential history shall rest. Today we are witnessing the consummation of human history in which all the central people have suffered. You must realize that actually Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus suffered for you to see this day.</p>
<p>God shed tears at the time of Noah, particularly when Noah failed his mission, and God shed tears when Abraham made the mistake in his offering. God shed tears for Moses and again at the time of Jesus. Since God shed tears at every historical event, when you put yourself in God&#8217;s situation you can certainly shed tears for these people. When you link yourself with God you can cry out for them. All this probably seems very far removed from your own lives, but that is exactly why you need a champion going in front of you. The Unification Church is following my tradition because I have lived through the entire past in this way.</p>
<p>Someone has to pioneer the restitution of all the historic mistakes and I have been doing that starting at the individual level. Everything has been connected and all the entanglements straightened out. I want you to know that someone has shed tears for you. By putting myself totally in the position of Adam, Noah or Abraham I searched to find the mistakes they made and come up with the solution. I stood in the position of all of these historic people and cried out for their sorrow. I have shed two kinds of tears throughout my life, one being the vertical tears of discovering the truth and putting myself in the positions of history. The discovery process was accompanied by so many tears. At the same time I had to link those discoveries with actual indemnity in my deeds. That can be said to be horizontal tears.</p>
<p>I have been linking history together with the present on the horizontal level and restoring it by paying the debts of the past. There is a spiritual struggle and a spiritual discovery and on each level I would expand the territory of the individual, family, tribe, nation and the world. This vertical effort represented the spirit world. This is the real restoration now, the physical restoration on the horizontal level.</p>
<p>The vertical level of discovery in tears expands to the horizontal level through an individual, tribe, nation and world. The appearance of the Lord of the Second Advent is the final manifestation on the horizontal level of the vertical level of the dispensation. It sounds easy or simple but it certainly is not. I want you to at least know one thing: the Unification Church has the truth that has cleared up all the entanglements of the past. The misery of the past has all been sorted out. The diagnosis has been given and the treatment and prescription has been written, not just by logic but with the linkage of heart.</p>
<p>The foundation of logic and truth is there but the strongest binding force is the linkage of heart. One spiritualist wanted to know the truth about me so he prayed to God to really know who I am. When God answered, it was not with an explanation but with an overflowing of tears. That was His answer. I have shed universal tears for mankind. That&#8217;s who I am. Most individuals are not capable or equipped to discover these things. You can use the knowledge I have acquired and shed tears for the sake of God and for my mission. Then you can inherit my accomplishments and have them become your accomplishments.</p>
<h3 align="center">Confront your mission and do your absolute best</h3>
<p>There are some older members who know how to take advantage of me but they don&#8217;t shed tears for me. They think they are wise but they are very foolish because they will not remain with me forever. Some of the blessed couples in Korea know how to take advantage of me and exploit me but they do not shed tears for me. In order to really save them I will put them to one more test once our mission is all accomplished. I will push them into the worst possible position and let them come out of it. They must repent for taking advantage of the Unification Church . When I see our leaders dressing in the best clothes or driving the most up-to-date cars I study them closely, asking whether they deserve to have those things.</p>
<p>Because I have reconciled and paid the debts of history you shall inherit all my accomplishments by uniting in tears with me. If you really live your love for me and for the sake of God and humanity then in turn you can certainly be loved that much by God. I shall never get behind anyone in fulfilling God&#8217;s will but be in the front line position, no matter what. No matter how many people get tired and retreat, I myself will never retreat. I am always giving more and more directions. If you fulfill one particular mission then I will give you more and more responsibility. Some people limit their sense of responsibility to just the area of their mission but that is wrong. The person in a high position should always be trying to do for others and for the entire past.</p>
<p>I have given many instructions but none of those plans has been carried out. Instead of tackling the mission wholeheartedly you are just beating around the bush. You must confront the mission and not try to evade it. Do your absolute best and if you still cannot fulfill it then don&#8217;t worry; God will take it over and link it to a higher level. Those people who are trying to evade the mission and go the easy way are very foolish.</p>
<p>When you come on Sunday morning to meet with me everyone is on an equal level externally, but it is not so internally and spiritually. There are all kinds of different levels existing among you. I am desperately trying to accomplish God&#8217;s mission here on earth but instead of being a part of that effort most of you are just standing by like observers. If that is the case, you will never become the owner of the gold mine you have stumbled across. Those who will actually become the hosts and hostesses will be those who come after you if you remain by-standers. Even though they may come later, if they really plunge into the mainstream of the mission they will get to the goal before you. The people who just wait for good things to happen will never make progress, whereas those who wholeheartedly commit themselves even though they may come later can certainly reach the goal.</p>
<p>Many, many early members just boast about being early members but in reality they are just blocking the way of the members who came later. To do that is to be the worst enemy of God. If you are not capable of accomplishing very much then you must humble yourself and shed tears for God. When a capable newcomer comes who really pursues the mainstream of God&#8217;s will, you as early members must at least praise him and be humble to him, realizing how much God needs him.</p>
<p>You all know very well what kind of men you are. Don&#8217;t try to cover up and hide yourselves but get out of the shadows; on the other hand, don&#8217;t come to the Unification Church just to be somebody. When a leadership position must be filled, don&#8217;t try to build your image up as a leader in the hope of being chosen. If your heart is not ready, you are certainly not a leader.</p>
<p>I do not speak too much to individuals about their shortcomings but I have a sharp eye and a sensitivity for these things . The early members should be the first group of people to repent and shed tears this morning. Why should it be like this? Simply because that is the only way we can remain in the love and grace of God. There is nothing else to be feared under the sun, not lack of money or lack of power or anything else. You need fear only one thing: the love of God leaving you. We want to remain in the grace of God. The return to tears is the only Principled way you can remain in God&#8217;s love.</p>
<p>I am exactly the same. I am afraid of nothing, not poverty or hunger or any kind of persecution, except the possibility that the love of God might leave me. That is my one fear. I must cling to it until</p>
<p>the completion of my earthly life. Nothing else will work except the straightforward fulfillment of the truth and the following of God&#8217;s law.</p>
<p>This morning let&#8217;s make a new beginning. If you haven&#8217;t done well in this respect, then resolve to follow the tearful path. From today on let&#8217;s make a different day and really desperately go that route, searching after God-centered tears. Who are the host and hostess of the World Mission Center in God&#8217;s eyes? All kinds of people are dwelling inside, but the person who sheds tears for the sake of New York City, for the sake of God and humanity, the person who sheds tears in his own room, for his own mission, this person is the true host or hostess.</p>
<p>No matter how much you shed tears in secret it won&#8217;t seem to be recognized, but it will become a life-stream that will not end, flowing from generation to generation. The children born to those people will be the heirs of the Kingdom of God. When you become an area of low pressure, then automatically an area of high pressure will be drawn to you. With tears you are making yourself into a low pressure system here on earth which the high pressure of God will naturally come to visit. When you meet, a hurricane will be created.</p>
<p>You must sometimes feel that in all of heaven and earth you are the only faithful one remaining, the only one whom God can depend upon. Then you can reassure God that you will be with Him all the way and ask Him to let you take up responsibility for the nation, this world and this cosmos. God will accept your offer. You can make a tearful declaration before heaven and earth, pledging, &#8220;I am all alone on earth so You and I are true partners, Heavenly Father. As You have been persistent in restoring the individual, family, nation, world and cosmos, I shall be just the same here on earth. As long as You will never give up, I will not give up.&#8217;, You must experience this heightened moment sometime, bursting into tears which are not for you but for the loneliness of God. If you never give up but persistently continue all the way to the end of your life here on earth, you will absolutely be sealed as the sons and daughters of God. God is looking for tearful sons and daughters. The true companions of God are the people with tears. Tears and tears must meet. You can pray to God&#8217; &#8220;Please send me to the valley of tears so I can conquer them.&#8217;,</p>
<h3 align="center">Are you a person for whom God can shed tears?</h3>
<p>Today is a day of resolution to live the life of tears . You have already raised your hands and pledged that to me. You know very well what level you are on and you don&#8217;t need an explanation. Since you also know the truth and what direction to go, can you allow yourself to be destroyed? You are public property; in the sight of God you are no longer a private person. If you don&#8217;t let yourself serve the public purpose then you are destroying yourself and you cannot let that happen.</p>
<p>If you become tearful over others then many others will become tearful over you. It is most important that not only other people shed tears for you, but that eventually God shed tears for you. This is the real challenge while we remain here on earth, how much our deeds and thoughts can make God cry. How can you do that? The only simple way is to be responsible for the job that even God finds difficult to fulfill. If you take it upon your shoulders and try your utmost then God&#8217;s heart shall be moved, and in that case who shall ultimately become the hosts and hostesses of this world? The people who are victorious in tears shall become the hosts and hostesses. If that is not the case, the teachings that I have given are all lies.</p>
<p>Does what I am saying feel like truth? Whoever sheds tears for you is your truest friend. The true members of your family are the ones who can cry out for you and shed tears for your pain. If you want to be in God&#8217;s family, you must be able to shed tears for God, don&#8217;t you think? God will cherish the person who can really cry for Him and give his heart for Him. This person will become a close member of God&#8217;s family.</p>
<p>Who shall be the closest friend of Jesus Christ? Whoever grabs the mission of Jesus and really cries out in sympathy with his position. By the same token, who is my closest friend in the Unification Church? The person who sheds more tears for me will indeed be my closest friend. Therefore, whoever sheds more tears for the sake of God and the True Parents will become the true owner of the Unification Church. The Unification Church is destined to penetrate the free world, the communist world and go beyond and I am the one leading the Unification Church on the rugged path. You could say that I am a very pitiful person, but God is above me, leading me. How much more difficult and miserable God&#8217;s position is! I still have to take time to rest but God even has no time to sleep.</p>
<p>I can think of something else for a while, but God doesn&#8217;t have the freedom to do that. There is only one thing in His mind 24 hours a day. You are following a God and a leader who are both miserable and if you look for relaxation and lots of fun in the Unification Church, you are mistaken. We are determined to do what no other organization or other group of people could duplicate. We have to go the path of tears as our way of life. Have you already made up your minds to go that route?</p>
<h3 align="center">All of your suffering can be<br />
linked to God&#8217;s suffering</h3>
<p>How many of you are going door-to-door, shedding tears for your people? Have you ever thought that God cannot come to those doorsteps physically and needs you to represent Him? You must feel that you are knocking on the door as a representative of God, gathering your heart and love and everything together, trying to penetrate that door and win the hearts of the people inside. You can feel that heart of God, who has come to this door after many thousands of years preparation. God has reached that door through you but only after many thousands of years of ordeal. He didn&#8217;t just come overnight.</p>
<p>When you open the door and the person looks at you, you may feel tears falling down your face, stopping your words. Have you ever visited your homes with that heart? Many of you may feel that you don&#8217;t want to do this but you must go with tears&#8217; truth, love. You must knock on each door equipped with these three things. No matter how evil the person inside the house may be, Satan cannot claim those tears or your truth or your true heart of love. As long as Satan is incapable of doing that you will be a victor. Let those 360 homes be like your own children&#8217;s homes. Go out there and stay up all night talking and look at the rising morning sun together with them. You must have the conviction in your heart that you are God&#8217;s representative to them. You needn&#8217;t think of visiting only during the daytime but also at midnight. If you go out there and wait to meet a certain person, staying up all night and cheerfully praying under those circumstances, then as long as you are there America will never perish.</p>
<p>Have you physically visited all 360 of your homes? Everyone should be able to say yes. When God ordered the Hebrews to leave Egypt by a certain hour one night, messengers were sent to tell all the people. If the messengers missed any home those people would not be able to leave on time, but who would be held responsible? The messenger. Throughout posterity, that messenger who failed to tell a particular person to leave at such a moment would be accountable for his fate.</p>
<p>You are in a New Age Exodus. It is possible for you to bring the people in 360 homes out of suffering but if you fail to tell these people to come out of their yoke of misery and into salvation then you as a messenger are responsible. When your legs get sore and you are really tired, you have more chance to shed tears in thinking of God&#8217;s own legs hurting for many thousands of years. All of your suffering can be linked to God&#8217;s own suffering. That&#8217;s why suffering is precious.</p>
<p>Those 360 homes will almost be your resting place. They will be like your reservoir of tears. I want you to know absolutely that New York is the front line. You are like a savior to your 360 families. I am asking you to represent me and go door to door since I cannot go myself to each of those people. You have so much to talk about and so much to tell them. The media has spread all kinds of misunderstandings about me, particularly in New York City, so you have much to straighten out. You are not the only ones assigned to your particular area; God has assigned spiritual assistance there also. You have spiritual counterparts working together with you. Without fulfilling your responsibility, how can you come back and lie down and sleep at night? America is lying dead and the world is going downhill. You young people of America who have learned the truth, how</p>
<p>can you be so complacent? How can you say that you are members of the Unification Church and that you are the sons and daughters of God? God is not resting . You must repent today.</p>
<p>When your head gets tired, accuse your own head, &#8220;You have been working for Satan for so long and now for the first time you are exerting yourself for the sake of God!&#8221; That&#8217;s the determination to have. Go out today with the same feeling with which Jesus Christ prayed in the garden of Gethsemane. It was a most serious, heart-rending prayer that Jesus offered. From today on you are going to pray in the same seriousness for your 360 homes. You may falter at some point but because of your prayer those 360 homes will have a chance to see salvation.</p>
<p>If I were in your position and hadn&#8217;t fulfilled my responsibility to those 360 homes I couldn&#8217;t possibly lift up my face or eat and sleep. Have you done well or poorly? How can you lift up your face in the sight of God? Don&#8217;t you feel these words as reality? Why should you feel repentant? By living like that you are becoming the possessors of the love of God which is big enough to share with 360 homes and more. You are becoming the hosts of the love of God and that shall bring resurrection to your 360 homes. People accuse you but that&#8217;s all right. Let them persecute you. Persecution is your blessing in a way.</p>
<p>Somehow the Divine Principle message came to you first and you felt that you were a new person with new life. There are so many better qualified&#8217; capable people out there who are waiting to have that message touch them. All you have to do is meet them with the truth. Without doing it, how can you say you want to be a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven? When you go to college you have to pass examinations before getting your diploma and the same thing is true in the Unification Church. New York is the front line and unless we can fulfill right here, whom do you think will do it? The entire world is upon your shoulders. The words you hear on Sunday mornings at Belvedere will be a curse instead of a blessing if you don&#8217;t live them.</p>
<p>This is not a joke at all . Did we make the Divine Principle tapes because we have lots of money? No, we had to borrow the money and we did it under great strain . In order to succeed right here I mobilized all the energy of the Unification Church elsewhere. In doing that I hoped for only one thing: that you should become exemplary and I could show you to the world and say&#8217; &#8220;Look what New York did.&#8221;</p>
<h3 align="center">You must use the blessings you have been given</h3>
<p>You American people know the truth and have been given the opportunity and materials to do the job but you haven&#8217;t used your blessings. If God had poured this much effort into Africa the whole continent might have been turned around by now. All kinds of miracles can happen right now if you lay the foundation. If you had laid the foundation of tears, the people in your 360 homes would be embracing you and saying that they hadn&#8217;t understood before what you were doing. If your responsibility had been fulfilled then the adversaries of our Church and the negative parents would have already started to learn the truth about what we are doing. Will you do the job or not? Even if you must give up eating and sleeping? Which is more precious for your life? You must make up for the failures of the past by keeping this high standard in the future.</p>
<p>Once again you have heard that we must do it with tears. I have trusted you but now you are shaking my confidence. Get up early in the morning to pray because you are the messiah to 360 homes. You must pray for those people and have mercy upon them in tears. You can become a close friend to them and if they have a problem they can come to you for help. Then New York shall become our home and be dominated by the truth and love of God and He can work a tremendous dispensation through this system. New York is the worst type of evil city but that is why we made the front line right here. If we can overcome this city and turn it around the impact will be gigantic. Your shoes may wear out and your clothes be worn and soaked with sweat; your eyes will be swollen with tears as you travel about but if you are to save this city you must be single-minded and not think about anything else. Before you eat and before you sleep, think about the mission. The News World will be a very important medium for you to contact the people. That&#8217;s why I asked you to sell the paper.</p>
<p>We will make a new beginning this morning. At least you know exactly what you are to do. How can you say it doesn&#8217;t work without even trying? The Unification Church itself will receive God&#8217;s judgment and punishment if New York perishes. We must tearfully go forward to fulfill the mission. God has been shedding tears and now you are participating in this glorious task of God and the True Parents. Become a co-worker with us. This is your greatest blessing. You can come up with all kinds of excuses, that you need a little bit more money or a car, but don&#8217;t say it. Actually God is helping us; because Manhattan is such a concentrated city, having a huge population, traveling from one place to another is very simple.</p>
<p>Who of you can say, &#8220;In the next three months I am going to do the things I have never done before. I will set a new record&#8221;? Once you do that, I know that New York City shall be conquered by God&#8217;s love. Do you think that can be done? If you can do it, and you know you can do it, how excited you can be to save America and save the world.</p>
<p>In these three months you will set the pattern for the next three years, until 1980. By then the entire world should come under the dominion of God. The destiny of the world is upon our shoulders. If we do this the world shall be revived. If we fail then the world will crumble. From God&#8217;s standpoint in the dispensation, this is the front line. All the leaders should be running ahead in the forefront. If doing this means you have a problem with your family, then could you give up that family? That family will not receive any benefit by hampering you in this mission. Totally free yourself from those hindrances. The life of New York is determined by your own actions.</p>
<p>You can see that 8th Avenue is the avenue of prostitution in New York City. We should do more than they do, working day and night for the sake of God. I would like to have all the Unification Church women clean up the area. Men exploit those women and victimize them. You may even learn karate or tae kwon do and even knock those men out. There a lot of things to do. Ultimately we would like to have the cooperation of New Yorkers. You know my true intention and desire. This is so serious that you should forget eating and sleeping to attend to the mission. That is my criterion.</p>
<p>We are going to sow the love of God with tears and by doing that New York and America will prosper and survive. Who is going to take up the responsibility? God alone? Myself alone? You are in a way sorrowful&#8217; miserable people because you are following a sorrowful, miserable God and a sorrowful, miserable teacher. You are in good company, however.</p>
<p>The consequences of your failure will be catastrophic because the destiny of the world hinges upon it. I want you to know that in history no one has seen such a movement. Years ago we talked about a new age but when we launch an offensive there shall be a response to it. Today is a new day; repentance and a new record are coming. Those who pledge once again that this is the beginning of a new three years, raise your hands please.</p>
<h3 align="center">My plans for the worldwide IOWC</h3>
<p>If we have enough core members in 1978 I will organize a global IOWC of 10,000 members. In order to transport them all we will need 30 jumbo jets. If landing each plane takes 10 minutes it would still take about five hours to accommodate all our jets , and just our coming to land will be a sensational event When the 700 member IOWC global team was in Korea we were able to bring 1.2 million people to the rally at Yoido Island. Think of how many millions of people could be awakened by 15 times those 700 members! Each country will compete to have the IOWC come to their own country because of the great benefit they will bring. When we move on the international IOWC level I really want to see each one of us going as an ambassador of God.</p>
<p>The young people of the world will want to join and be ambassadors of God. There will be worldwide clamor to join the IOWC. Applications will come from all the different continents and we will have to select the cream of the crop, organizing a brilliant performing arts program. When our movement is known to the world as a Peace Corps in the truest sense, it will be America&#8217;s pride. If 10,000 American citizens went together to Germany the United States Ambassador there would have to take an interest. The German Foreign Minister and the U.S. Ambassador would want to discuss on the national level how to best help our IOWC, right?</p>
<p>Having an impact in one nation will open up many doors around the world, and the time will come soon when nations will compete for a visit by our IOWC. Your IOWC I.D. card will become very prestigious. I would also like to have uniforms designed and have IOWC members known by the uniforms they wear. We will be known to the world truly as defenders of peace.</p>
<p>I can see that this will start to happen from June, 1979 on. You must revolutionize your thinking. All the airlines of the world will be competing among themselves to become our special chartered airline. The world will have to be interested in knowing about Reverend Moon and the Unification Church because we will be too big to overlook. Only one group will be really troubled: the communists. Already they know something is happening and they don&#8217;t know how to stop it. We will even volunteer to go to a communist country and if they don&#8217;t want us to preach the gospel, that&#8217;s all right. We have many other things we can do; we can help a humanitarian cause or solve a scientific problem or be cultural emissaries. If they still reject us then they will be very unpopular in world opinion. I am a Korean citizen here on earth, but you are Americans and with an American passport one is able to go easily to many countries throughout the world. You could fly even to Moscow and nobody would stop you.</p>
<p>This is what the Unification Church will be in just four years. Think about it. You are being persecuted on the streets of New York and while this period is necessary we want to get beyond it. Shall we do it? We can mobilize people outside the Unification Church to form an IOWC but they will need to take a test; perhaps they can choose whether it will be about English, history and so forth, but the Divine Principle will be a required topic. They will devote themselves to studying every page of the Divine Principle because they will see that the Unification Church is the means for jumping into worldwide activities. If they see some hope and vision then they will be glad to help. We have our own companies, cultural groups and seminary and once people see that we are succeeding they will want to become a part of it all. Thinking people will recognize that doing this work is the quickest way to worldwide leadership. Do you have regrets about being a member of the Unification Church? The seminary graduates in particular may feel that they wasted two years. No matter what you do outside and no matter how brilliant you are, you cannot compete with God. You must see that you will all become successful upon this foundation.</p>
<p>It may be easy for you to imagine all this now, but 10 or 20 years ago many people followed me without seeing any result. They just trusted me absolutely. Shall we give our every effort to achieve this goal? If you are really smart you will be excited about this, so much that even at night you are wide awake thinking about it. Some people have endured even 30 years in prison for their faith, but I am asking you to give yourself up for three years just out of your desire. Is it worth doing? Will you handsome men give up three years? How about the ugly men, can you do it too? If you think you are ugly then you should throw yourself even more into the front line work as revenge for your handicap.</p>
<p>What will we gain by doing so? America will live. God will live. I will be liberated too. When the whole world is totally free my concern will be how to make you the happiest bunch of people. We have to liberate Mother too. Mother is trying to keep up with me but it&#8217;s very difficult. Yet still she has one secret to make me surrender and slow down. When I want her to go even further she says, &#8220;You don&#8217;t understand women who have given birth to 10 children. Do you really know how difficult it is to give birth to even one child?,, Then I say, &#8220;Yes, I have never given birth to even one child. You must be right, I surrender.&#8221;</p>
<h3 align="center">I want to preserve America&#8217;s blessing</h3>
<p>We are not talking about a dream or empty words; our vision is a realistic one and it is within our reach. I came as one individual and shook up this country and even New York is too small for you if your determination is as big as mine. Today is October 16. October is the month of liberation; on October 14 I was liberated from prison and October 4 is a day of heavenly liberation. We have a historic task weighing upon our shoulders.</p>
<p>So far you mostly notice the people who work less than you do, but don&#8217;t concentrate on them. Look at the fast runners in our movement and figure out how to run one step faster. That&#8217;s a cure-all for your own problems. Don&#8217;t worry about who will be your husband or wife. If you are really doing your best then the best possible mate is waiting for you. By doing this one thing all other things shall be solved.</p>
<p>Why do I want you to run forward and accomplish this task? Because I want to be able to say that the American people did it so that God can preserve the same blessing America has had for the last 200 years. I would like to see the American people so zealous and strong with inspiration and actual accomplishment that they will tell the European and Japanese members of our Church that they can return to help their own countries. That&#8217;s the way America will save face in the sight of God and the world. If America doesn&#8217;t do it then I will assemble the world membership to do it, but I would most like to have it done by Americans. We will see what happens in 1978.</p>
<p>The restoration of the world is there waiting to be finished. It is not that difficult now and it can be done. I would like to have everything accomplished by the time you become 30 or 40. It depends upon your own efforts. When you first started your door-to-door campaign you felt, &#8220;Why should we do this? I don&#8217;t think it will do any good,,, but now you realize more and more how important that campaign is. Our purpose is to educate the leadership of America, raising up God-centered people to become national leaders. Even if you wake up suddenly in the night you know where you are and what you should do. Have you ever had the experience of suddenly waking up at 3:00 a.m. and automatically springing up to go out to do your mission? If you become that kind of person then the entire spirit world will come with you. When people in the spirit world are mobilized they will worry about what you eat and wear. Your ancestors will come and alert certain people in advance that a young person will come to their house and that they should prepare a nice hot lunch or breakfast for him.</p>
<p>I have experienced this myself many times and if you live the same way I did, that same experience will happen to you. If that only happens to me then there is no hope for the restoration of the whole world, but that same principle works through you. That&#8217;s why even if I die you can continue on because the same principle will work in your life. If you work just like I do then spirit world has to come down.</p>
<p>Those who are not members of the Unification Church do not know what we mean by this. This is not a threat or a menace, but is actually the truth . Your earthly life is very short but when you live your life like that here on earth then when you go to the spirit world there will be a red carpet rolled out and a royal welcome waiting for you. The shrewdest businessman could never find any better deal than this one. So far you have only seen a small vision for yourself through your own eyes, but when you see through God&#8217;s eyes you take in the entire universe.</p>
<p>The Unification Church has a wonderful gospel and opportunity for black people&#8217; who historically have been oppressed by white people. Since God does not see color this is your opportunity to lead America. No question about it. The oppressed people actually have a better chance to be accepted in the sight of God because they are always in a better environment to see God and cry God&#8217;s tears. The person who normally does not cry for a foreign country only sheds tears once his country is lost. That is not necessarily bad, but if you can cry not only for your own country but for God, then you are automatically linked to Him.</p>
<p>If America abandons Korea, Korea&#8217;s situation will not necessarily be hopeless. There is another kind of force that will come around to support the country of Korea. The free Asian peoples know they have to support Korea to ensure their own survival. Actually the destiny of the entire free world hinges upon that nation. Anyone who is sincerely concerned about a communist takeover must logically rally to the side of South Korea. God strategically positioned Korea and that country is very close to His heart. When anyone is really utilized as a tool for a higher purpose he is blessed because he is in a position to exercise a great deal of influence. The important thing is: make yourself a needed tool of God.</p>
<p>If you realize that if the Unification Church fails the world has no hope, that if the Unification Church fails God has no hope and you shed tears with that heart, then you will be brought right to the heart of God. We actually live the truth instead of just talking about it. Once we actualize the truth our victory will be worldwide. The more difficult the dimension and scale of your task, the more love and glory of God you can deserve.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t think that someone who is running and working very hard is foolish. Think instead, &#8220;That person is depriving me of greater blessing. I cannot let all the blessing go to that person. I should run faster.&#8221; The wisest person runs for 24 hours a day without resting because that way no one can compete with or conquer him. Therefore, I have adopted the policy that I will run on a 24 hour basis. I am not dumb. In pursuing God&#8217;s love I am asking for the most precious thing in the world, and by going after me you will reach the same goal. Do you know what attracts people to me? I make myself very attractive by crying more, working harder and going after suffering more than anyone. I am not handsome yet people like you are drawn to me. Washington Monument is a very good example. The American people never believed that I would ever succeed, but once they saw that I meant business and that people came and actually listened to me, they changed their attitude.</p>
<p>I want you to be miserable for the sake of God. When you cry out all the time you may look pitiful and everyone may say you are a poor, foolish Moonie, but they won&#8217;t realize that 10 years from now you will become a hero in their country. Do you see that this is the case? Is it wrong? Are you going to make the 10,000 man IOWC possible? Let us promise that to God.</p>
<p>I want you to know that glory will come in a tearful way and in tears you will meet God. You will truly be united with God and He will never leave you. His love will stay with you forever. Today let us return to tears. Please repeat after me, &#8220;Let us return to tears. In tears we see the love of God.&#8221; God bless you. Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">THE ROAD OF RELIGION AND THE WILL OF GOD</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:05:40+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/the-road-of-religion-and-the-will-of-god.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:05:40+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">April 24, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>We are members of the religious community; there are many religions in our world, and the Unification Church is one of them. Historically all religions have flourished and declined, along with the cultures which embraced them. To begin with let us consider why religion is necessary. Man is the only creature in God&#8217;s creation for whom religion is necessary; in addition, there is a subjective role in religion which man himself cannot fulfill. Whatever definition we may give religion, it concerns the relationship between God and men.</p>
<p>Who initiated religion, God or man? Some people are convinced that man initiated religion, while others feel that God was responsible. What is your answer? We must establish the fact that religion would not have been necessary if there had been no fall. It was man who brought the fall to the earth and therefore man who made religion necessary; however, God initiated religion because fallen man needs to be restored in order to recover his original relationship with Him. Religion is a tool to help fulfill that purpose. Thus man necessitated religion but God certainly is the cause of religion; He is the reason that religion exists. The ultimate goal or destination of religion is to create God-centered people. Religion is merely a temporary tool which God is using to recreate man.</p>
<p>Is there anyone who is really fond of religion and who wants to go through the ordeal of religious life? I can imagine what went through your minds this morning. You had to get up one hour earlier than usual because summertime has started, and you probably thought, &#8220;Why should I go and listen to Father?&#8221; You had to make such an effort just to wake up, and that is an ordeal.</p>
<p>Look at me as an example. I am the founder and leader of the Unification Church, but you and I are in different categories; when people ask you which church you belong to, your answer is, &#8220;i belong to the Unification Church.&#8221; But when they ask me the same question I cannot give the same answer. I am the founder of the most important movement on the earth. Leadership is not a passive position at all, but the most strenuous calling within religion. My position is on a spiritually elite and distinguished level, but if people ask whether I like my religious life, what do you think I will answer? Are you anxious to know my true answer? It is the same as yours: &#8220;Definitely no.&#8221; Even after these long years of experience in leading the Unification Church, going day and night, still my answer is no. Why?</p>
<h3 align="center">Secular discipline and religious discipline</h3>
<p>The religious way of life is not a normal way of life; it is a very peculiar life and it is not fun. It involves tribulation and hardship, suffering and continuous self-discipline. You are not free to do anything randomly or at your whim, but instead you must follow by putting yourself in the passive position. You certainly cannot be the subject in the Unification Church; instead the truth is always leading you. I am sure you remember how you felt free to do many things before you teamed the Principle, particularly the chapter on the fall of man. Nobody is checking on you now, but your own conscience is watching out for you and disciplining you.</p>
<p>You lead such a disciplined life here in the Unification Church. Think of it, even your coming here early in the morning like this is a discipline. Normal Americans sleep late in the morning after staying out on Saturday night, maybe dancing until 3 o&#8217;clock in the morning. You live such a different kind of life. Your actions are not careless or random, but trained and guided. Even your thoughts and speech are being shaped by discipline. You select songs to sing according to a standard. Where you will go and your direction to get there are also defined.</p>
<p>Is this an easy and fun life? What about living impulsively, going anywhere and doing anything you want, is that really the good life? Before you knew the Divine Principle the pleasurable things of a carnal life seemed natural because it was all you knew. This is the current trend in America, and on the university campuses and in the cities there are all kinds of things going on, with no mental discipline or discipline of the conscience. If no one wanted to date you then you were consumed with agony, and your parents were too. That was the direction of your life before you joined the Unification Church.</p>
<p>In the Unification Church, however, we have a new tradition. Here you are so convinced against dating that you are afraid someone might ask you for a date while you are witnessing to them! When others see that you are so changed it is easy to see why they say the Unification Church brainwashed you. Was that free life really fun or is being a slave to a certain principle more of a free life? If you are a student at a university can you say, &#8220;I am a free man so don&#8217;t anybody bother me. All you professors don&#8217;t need to bother coming before 12 o&#8217;clock because I don&#8217;t want any classes before noon, and besides that you can&#8217;t make me take any required subjects.&#8221; Can life work out that way?</p>
<p>What about your social life and your job? When you are working for some corporation, can you say, &#8220;I am a free man and I&#8217;m going to come to work any time I want&#8221;? Could the nation of America decide not to bother with laws and government? Religion is not the only disciplined way of life; all social life and human behavior has to be disciplined in order for people to survive and create harmony in society.</p>
<p>All these disciplines may seem to be binding forces in human life, but everyone must come under a set of rules and regulations. This has been true throughout history. However, religion is different. Social laws and decrees are inescapable, but religious discipline falls upon you only by your personal choice. No one can force you into a religious way of life. The religious life is such an extraordinary life that while you are yet here on this earth you are actually relating to two worlds.</p>
<p>Like anybody else you are living as an individual within society, but even so you are dealing with another world. One standard is set by secular society in the earthly world and commands you to behave in a certain way, while the other springs from the spiritual world of religion.</p>
<p>Which of these is more important and valuable? We are together here because we value the religious way of life and the religious mandate as being most important. But there is not tangible proof that the religious life is more important; physically your face looks the same prior to joining the Church and after. So what is the difference? You cannot completely display your new spirit, and even a crazy person laughs harder than you do. What are you really gaining then? Where is a tangible sign that we have gained some valuable truth or light? What can we be proud of as religious people and as members of the Unification Church? Actually, your religious faith or religious order should never become your source of pride.</p>
<p>The guiding light within a religion should be the dispensation or will of God. There is a difference between God&#8217;s will and man&#8217;s will, and the reason for your believing in religion lies within God&#8217;s will. Without experiencing a religious way of life you cannot speak about the will of God and the will of man.</p>
<p>Human history is like running water, continually flowing into the indefinite future. There are no straight lines in history but always patterns of change like waves. There appears to be no direction in history, but actually there is one central thread connecting everything. Human beings are the ones who weave up and down and circle around that line. You may think that mankind is just living at random, but God is leading history toward a certain purpose and destination.</p>
<p>Do you think that God&#8217;s will and destination are eternal or changing? God is eternal, unchanging, and absolute; therefore His direction also remains unchanging and eternal. However, man is temporal. Do you think it is easy for that temporal and changing man to parallel his life with the eternal way of God? Usually mankind just cannot hit the bullseye. Religions vary according to their different cultural settings; however, they are generally shooting in the same direction as God even though they never manage to exactly parallel His direction. As we shoot up, cross the line and shoot down, we create the up and down waves of history. Generally we are moving in somewhat the right direction.</p>
<h3 align="center">God must have a universal religion in mind</h3>
<p>History is moving forward in waves with the central direction of history being the will of God. Whenever a superior religion comes into being, it creates a superior cultural sphere which absorbs the existing cultural spheres. The backbone of a culture is its philosophy, which is derived from a religious conviction. This explains why a more enlightened religious way of life has the power to absorb the lesser cultural spheres.</p>
<p>Religious people have to live within the secular world, while at the same time being led into &#8211; ever deepening spiritual life. Clearly they must necessarily live within a dual discipline. The imbalance between the spiritual way of life and physical, external world is very amazing. The external world is developing at a fast pace, creating a technological society and a quickly changing way of life. In comparison, mankind&#8217;s spiritual understanding is still dwelling in an underdeveloped country.</p>
<p>In the past, a newly emerging religious philosophy usually created the environment or atmosphere for a new cultural sphere to develop in a particular territory. In the present world, however, scientific advancement requires that men live as one unit. However, while the world seems to be getting smaller and smaller every day, the spiritual capacity of men still remains in a primitive era, with no means for exercising dominion over the quickly changing world of modern science.</p>
<p>In the ancient days religious ideology did have an influencing effect on the overall affairs of men, and that is the way it should be. But the contemporary world does not respect religious influence within its world affairs. The world desperately needs a way of life which can embrace all men, but in actuality people&#8217;s life styles are largely dictated by selfishness. This contradiction is particularly felt by the young, who are yet very idealistic.</p>
<p>Even religious life is becoming increasingly external, remaining enslaved by certain formalities, and following thousand-year-old traditions. Tradition has become a shackle, and religions have no way to advance; their former disciplines or traditions are too small to embrace the world. This is why young people are so rebellious in their search for a more open atmosphere to replace rigid tradition. Because of this situation God is becoming more and more hazy in people&#8217;s lives. In contrast with the past, many people today are simply not convinced that God even exists. Since science has not yet proven God&#8217;s existence, modern people are becoming more and more confused about Him. Religion is failing in this modem day.</p>
<p>There are extreme contradictions between the religious world and the secular world. If God were developing and approving only the secular world then the religious impulse would perish because it would not be needed by God. However, if God were to value and guide man&#8217;s religious life instead, then this secular world would be doomed. Which one is God&#8217;s choice? Which life should we choose?</p>
<p>When you think about it, has the world gotten where it is by its own choice, or has it become like this as a result of outside influence? Indirectly, it seems as if God has permitted the world to freely run its own course. God is almighty, and He has allowed this world situation to come about; indirectly God is responsible. On the other hand, the realm of religion is also God&#8217;s responsibility, but God has not yet revealed to the world a religion which is universal enough to enable us to cope effectively with world problems. Then who can be responsible for all this disharmony?</p>
<p>When we see the imbalance and contradiction between the secular world and religious world, we can only conclude that if God is going to take responsibility for the world that the time has come for Him to undertake some extraordinary, revolutionary action to completely change the format of religion. He must have a plan to reveal a more comprehensive ideology which can influence the present world and change it into the ideal that He has been hoping to see established.</p>
<p>God must have some universal religion in His mind. Because the world is ready, this is about the time that God will release such a religion to mankind. Without this religion the imbalance between the spiritual and physical worlds cannot continue much longer. Either the conflict must be resolved or they will both cease to exist. God must have a solution for both the religious and secular worlds together since He is responsible for them both. Which course shall we take? We have to change either the world or religion. Certainly religions today must change through the emergence of a new, universal religion which can take a subjective role in the secular world.</p>
<p>The first problem facing this religious revolution is the resolution of denominationalism. Would God have wanted all religious people to be united by one religion? The dynamic, magnetic force of a new religious ideology would have the power to engross the attention of young people everywhere, particularly those who could not fulfill their vision and hope in the established religions. Why would that religion have such an impact? Young people are very sensitive to the future, having a vision that makes them more receptive to new and higher ideals; when they sense that there is some group pursuing these ideals then they want to join. The future of the world belongs to the young, while the present world belongs to their parents and the past to their grandparents.</p>
<h3 align="center">How can we recognize the new universal religion?</h3>
<p>The three generations of the past, present, and future-grandparents, parents, and children-must become united. If the grandparents are moving east while the parents are moving west and the children south, can we say that they are in harmony? Since history is always moving into the future, who should pioneer the new history and stand at the forefront of the march? If a new religious movement emerges which has young people striving toward a vision of the unity of mankind and global harmony, then it can be recognized as being in the center of God&#8217;s will. At the same time, however, the older generations may be trying to dissuade their young people from participating, simply because they themselves cannot move as fast. The older people will insist, &#8220;No, no, let&#8217;s stay here; don&#8217;t move forward. This life is good enough and we should be content.&#8221; Should you obey them?</p>
<p>The universal goal of mankind is world brotherhood. A new religious movement with that kind of vision should come into being to mobilize the idealistic passions of young people and to begin a universal march toward that vision. No one can restrain such religious people because they march in step with the forces of history and the vision of God. Each day that march will gather strength and momentum because it is the revolution that God Himself is inciting. Who in the world can stop it?</p>
<p>Until they find that revolution, the young people-American young people are a good example-will be restless in their search for that vision. But without having any principles to anchor themselves to God, they will just sporadically revolt against their society, trying to find their happiness in some random way that they call &#8220;freedom.&#8221; American young people will experiment with anything in their attempts to find some resolution of their desires. Today they have come to a dead end in their search. Now they are in miserable shape, like a weary bird with drooping wings. Although they are searching for world brotherhood they have attempted to establish it outside of any religious standard, often believing that carnal pleasure is part of true happiness.</p>
<p>However, a new movement of young people working for world brotherhood must come into being, but this time following a path laid out by religion and the way of God&#8217;s will. This movement of young people will be entirely different from the secular, fun-seeking movements that are all around, yet still working toward the same ideal for the world. That very movement has now come into being and it is you, the Unification Church. In seeking solutions in a secular way, the young have hit a stone wall; they completely gave up and had to retreat. But in following a spiritual or religious way we can penetrate any number of stone walls. Do you have that kind of spiritual force? We have many, many stone walls that we must spiritually penetrate. The first is often what we call the parents stone wail and even the grandparents stone wall. After going through those we will encounter the super stone walls of nations and governments. Can you even penetrate those?</p>
<p>Is it easier to overcome an obstacle by penetrating it or by flying over it? God knows that secret; this is the time of flying. Any religious movement that will give young people the energy, conviction, and power to fly over any secular difficulty must be the universal religion that will eventually save the world. Is there such a religion? Are you saying yes because you are Unification Church members? Who do you expect to recognize you? Of course God is the first to recognize you, but who is next? Certainly as members of the Unification Church you, too, should recognize the value of what you have. God is hoping to have this religious movement take off and leap over all the difficulties of the secular world that surround us. We must also think in the same way. Instead of digging down into foxholes, we must want to jump up and leap forward. Our thinking should parallel the thinking of God.</p>
<p>In trying to leap forward, do you feel some thrill or even some fear of danger? As you are jumping you may suddenly look down to see the deep valley far below you, and worry, &#8220;If I should fall into that valley I will be smashed! &#8221; That creates such a thrill of adventure! Imagine that a rescue plane is flying over the top of the mountain where you are stranded in order to drop a rope for you to grab onto and be pulled to safety. The opportunity for rescue is passing over you, and at a precise moment you must jump and seize the rope. If you jump at the right time but you miss the rope then you will plunge to your death in the valley! That precise moment becomes a life-and death opportunity. Only the person who has courage, guts and an adventurous mind can jump and reach out; other people may be too timid to even make an attempt. Are you that courageous?</p>
<p>Suppose each of you were a Minute Man guided missile. When the commander-in-chief pushes the right button you will be launched; can you fly fearlessly all the way to Moscow? If you truly have that spirit then this is going to be a formidable organization. Already we are formidable; however, you will see in the future that this is going to be an absolutely impossible organization to deal with.</p>
<p>How is the Unification Church different? We know the will of God and we know God&#8217;s providence clearly. Compared to any other religion in history and throughout the world today we know the will of God and God Himself more precisely than anyone. That is the special value of the Unification Church. As individuals you may not know God&#8217;s specific plan, but at least you clearly know one thing: God is determined to save the world.</p>
<p>What is the desire of mankind? Are the goals of a secular man and a religious man different or the same? The secular world follows goals that lead in many different directions. Let such people go in any direction they like; eventually they will hit a wall and stagger around to start looking for a religious cause to follow. They will have no other choice.</p>
<p>By now young people have tried everything, including streaking, but I have heard that increasingly they are searching for spiritual values. There is absolutely no other way that they can find what they want. Furthermore, the growing interest in religion is reflected in the rising enrollment in church-run schools. This is one indication that the people who could not find secular solutions are coming all the way back to seek out a religious life. Long ago I predicted that this would happen, and that the year 1976 would be the fuming point in American history. From now on the search for spiritual rather than material solutions for this nation&#8217;s problems will intensity.</p>
<h3 align="center">Our church is beginning its take-off</h3>
<p>You sometimes enjoy watching the full moon rise at night. Is it more moving to see the moon rise over the open plains or over a mountain? Which is more artistic? We in the Unification Church are like the moon rising from way down in the valley. We climb up and up and finally go over the mountain. Even though we are now in the valley do you still believe that we are going to make it over the mountain? Often we are so busy doing some little thing that we do not even see the mountain or the sky. Does your foot or your hip go up first when you jump over the hill? God is almighty; there is nothing He cannot do. When you take off in the normal position your head is up and legs are down, but why not have your head down and your legs up? It does not matter much because we can still jump over the hill.</p>
<p>The Unification Church itself is going to make the jump, not just individuals within the church. Take the San Francisco court case as an example. We are well aware of the hardships and difficulties, but in the meantime our whole church is beginning its take-off, even while you are unaware. Do you feel that the whole church is beginning to rise over the mountain? Do you think I am just trying to tell you something nice because you came so early, or am I simply telling you what is really going on in the world at large? I have a clear sensitivity by which to evaluate events in the world.</p>
<p>One indicator of public opinion is the mail that is sent to me; it is like the pulse of the nation. You have no idea of the interest and attention that was given to the Unification Church after the San Francisco court case. Suddenly many people became sympathetic to our cause and decided, &#8220;I&#8217;m not a member of Reverend Moon&#8217;s group, but I can&#8217;t find anything wrong with him.&#8221; Perhaps they have also come to a decisive conclusion that there is no one else in the world who can really tame the young people of America and discipline them in a moral, God-centered way. Americans have witnessed the futile efforts of the government and religious leaders to guide young people, and they are beginning to recognize that all these court cases are largely motivated by sheer jealousy. Righteous America is now beginning to stand up for me.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the time is coming when people will begin to admire my courage. Everybody thinks that by this time I must be completely tired and shriveled-looking like a shrimp. But on the contrary I am more courageous and looking forward to even greater accomplishments. Every day I am marching forward more passionately, becoming busier and more respected. People say, &#8220;Well, we must give this man credit.&#8221; They might have thought that I would look bent-over like a shrimp, but this shrimp has wings, and instead of sagging down I am flying upward.</p>
<p>If God is alive and concerned with religion, He must either be giving His concentrated attention to the Unification Church or else He does not really exist. Nowadays the religions of the world are becoming powerless. We are in the minority, no question about it, but even though we are such a small group we are a fearless group, and furthermore, we are intensely anticipating the greatest of all accomplishments: that of liberating even the communists who have already taken over two thirds of the world&#8217;s population.</p>
<p>This is the age of confrontations and the faster you go, the greater a winner you should be. If you slow down and lose momentum then you will be shattered, but when you move like a bullet you will smash through your opponents. In a head-on collision the fastest car will receive less damage, while the slower-moving car is more vulnerable to being smashed. A bullet is made out of lead, but because of its speed it can even penetrate metal.</p>
<p>We are the church with the greatest speed; when you move faster and faster, all you have to do is stretch out your two arms and you will begin to fly. Everyone wants to fly, and here on earth man has studied all the creatures that fly and created many devices to carry himself through the air. Wouldn&#8217;t God want to have a religion that could enable people to fly? Among the many religions of the world, which religion would God choose as the one that should fly? Can you fly?</p>
<p>When your mobilization order is issued you must prepare to take off, running faster and faster and spreading out your arms, heading toward the goal. But why don&#8217;t you lift up? If you were airborne right now and in the process of flying over the mountain, would you be dozing or would you be 100% alert to see what is happening on the ground? Do you want to fly over the mountain without even realizing it, or do you want to fully enjoy the excitement? You are actually more susceptible to letting go of the rope when your eyes are wide open with excitement; then you might crash down into the valley.</p>
<p>When you become serious you will just focus your energy like a fist; since you know what is going on down there you don&#8217;t even have to worry about making a mistake in your excitement because you are very serious. At first you will be serious because you are aware of what is going on, but after you are over the mountain you can release your anxiety and rejoice. When have you had that kind of serious moment? Saying that you are serious at this moment means that you have not been serious in the past; you have just revealed yourselves! You are just listening and trying to feel serious. But have you ever really been serious, with your heart and mind and deeds all synchronized?</p>
<p>Our religion is the only one which has both extremes, being ultra-conservative in moral discipline, for example, but at the same time so liberated in idealism that we can embrace the rest of the world and reach out to the stars and the sun. In both extremes, the goal we are striving for is absolutely clear. We are like machine gunners who clearly know where the bullseye is and can always aim in the right direction. This is evidenced by your prayers and also by your actions; for the sake of the world you are trying to go beyond yourself and by following that concept you are shaping your new way of life. In that way you can embrace the rest of the world.</p>
<h3 align="center">Everything naturally comes in pairs</h3>
<p>Two Chinese characters are used to write &#8220;God&#8217;s will.&#8221; One character is a combination of the character meaning &#8220;the beam in a house,&#8221; and a character meaning &#8220;word&#8221;; it is literally translated, &#8220;fundamental teaching.&#8221; The top portion of the other character means &#8220;manifestation,&#8221; or &#8220;building,&#8221; while the other section means &#8220;heart&#8221; or &#8220;mind.&#8221; Altogether the letters translate &#8220;the fundamental teaching for the construction or manifestation of the mind and heart.&#8221;</p>
<p>The word meaning &#8220;Bible&#8221; is also written in two Chinese characters. The first means &#8220;divine,&#8221; or &#8220;holy.&#8221; When you analyze this one character, it depicts &#8220;ear,&#8221; &#8220;mouth,&#8221; and &#8220;king.&#8221; Holiness is the king of ear and mouth. The other character means &#8220;writing&#8221;; altogether they mean &#8220;holy writing.&#8221; &#8220;Heaven&#8221; also combines two Chinese characters; one character means &#8220;two,&#8221; and the other means &#8220;person.&#8221; Two persons make up heaven.</p>
<p>&#8220;Grace&#8221; or &#8220;mercy&#8221; are important words in the Bible, indicating a reciprocal relationship between two identical sides. In other words, two are involved in mercy, not just one. Here, one character means &#8220;righteousness,&#8221; while the other is &#8220;sheep&#8221; and ,&#8217;self.&#8221; In other words, when you put yourself in the position of a sheep you will create righteousness. This is comparable to Jesus&#8217; teaching of the selfless giving of oneself as a sacrifice; that is righteousness. Two persons create virtue, with one virtue originating on earth and the other in heaven. In the heavenly way of speaking, two people make heaven, while on earth virtue is manifested by putting oneself in the position of a sheep. All these are very symbolically written, and very removed from the Western way of thinking about these concepts. This may be difficult for you to understand, but there is very profound meaning behind them.</p>
<p>Everything naturally comes in pairs, in order to create action and result. Can you laugh without moving one side of your mouth? Suppose you keep your lower lip still; can you laugh with just your upper lip? You need to keep both eyes open in order to capture one image. This unified action by a pair creates holy action because that is God&#8217;s way.</p>
<p>Therefore, everything that God initiated can be holy and good. When I prayed at holy ground on my way here I heard the beautiful birds singing. Do the birds sing early in the morning because they have 5 o&#8217;clock pledge service too? Are they singing because they are hungry and miserable? They sing because they are looking for their mate. Suppose only Mother was sitting here all by herself, would it be the same without me? What if Mother stayed home and I came alone? If one of us does not come then you feel that some area is missing.</p>
<h3 align="center">God chooses those who live their conviction</h3>
<p>Today&#8217;s topic concerns the road or way of religion. What is our road? Our way is one of leaping and jumping over any kind of hardship or persecution. Do you have the kind of attitude that allows you to think, &#8220;This is another hurdle to challenge and I welcome it.&#8221; God will lose interest in any religion that does not have the capacity to leap over obstacles.</p>
<p>Noah, for example, was a man of conviction who could be adventurous, and God was with him because Noah&#8217;s conviction made impossible things possible. Being with Noah, God felt a tremendous elation because his conviction was stronger than any of those negative forces that persecuted and ridiculed him. Nobody could stop Noah. His wife and his children tried to nag him, but he just answered, &#8220;All right, if you feel that way then stay behind and let me go.&#8221; Are you like Noah? Suppose Mother tried to oppose my work and keep me home. Should I say, &#8220;You are my loving wife and I must be 100% obedient to you&#8221;?</p>
<p>God&#8217;s promise and vision of tomorrow is greater than anything you can think of, including your own family. The central persons or future hosts of the world will be the men of conviction who can leap and be adventurous. Because they are the ones who can become God&#8217;s champions, God is going to work with them, and when God is with them they will automatically be the masters of tomorrow&#8217;s world. Whatever persecution and ridicule we may encounter, we will be like Noah; when we have a vision of tomorrow then nobody can stop us. If we are not affected by those headwinds then God will indeed work with us and the future will indeed be delivered into our hands.</p>
<p>Suppose only black people are gathered together to do this; who will the future belong to in that case? If only black people come to follow me then indeed the future would rest in their hands. If black people were given God&#8217;s blessing and power and authority, should they then say, &#8220;You white people persecuted us so much in the past that this is the time for us to take revenge by dominating you.&#8221; If that is their attitude then those people have no way of deserving God&#8217;s blessing in the first place. If the black people are the ones who qualify to receive the blessing of God they must go to share that blessing with the white people, persisting even if they are rejected and misunderstood. If any black members are following our way of life because some day they want to have the power to take revenge on white people then they are the enemies of mankind, and are not worthy to stay here.</p>
<p>In America the most famous champions in sports are primarily black people. Why is that? Blacks have definitely been oppressed, feeling deep down inside that they want some way to excel over whites. In that sense white people have given some stimulation to black people because after receiving so much oppression black people want to receive respect. Great champions could not be born among black people without that kind of stimulus.</p>
<p>That same psychology works in the Unification Church. All my life I have been the underdog, and always I felt, &#8220;Some day I want to show the world how fight I am, and how powerful and how needed we are.&#8221; With this zeal deep in my heart, I always have a hidden anger and wrath that spurs me on to higher excellence. The important thing to know is that when you utilize this stimulant constructively you can be a winner. God does not particularly oppose that kind of psychological behavior, but rather uses it. However, God watches very carefully for any feeling of revenge because He hates that attitude. But if you use this negative influence in a constructive way to stimulate yourself, then you can not only excel yourself, but in trying to reach out and embrace your opponents you will show them that the greatest victory comes by love. That is God&#8217;s way.</p>
<p>Why do you think God feels that way? Imagine that we jump over the hill; are we going to land in a desert or a populated area? Among secular people or heavenly people? Your reason for landing on the other side of the hill is to save those people and influence them to come into heaven. You must work with them, but if you have a hardened feeling of revenge then God cannot bless you because you will only misuse His blessing. Only those who can embrace others and give unselfish love will receive the blessing because they will benefit so many other people. Black people in particular must be careful and overcome any feelings of revenge. Unification Church members in general should be careful. We can become stimulated by negativity, but we must not become hateful. We do the work of God, and we must do as God does. If ever we resist God&#8217;s way then we are striking God instead of Satan.</p>
<p>Abraham was a man of conviction who plunged into adventures. When Abraham became a wanderer, he was in miserable shape, traveling aimlessly with his family in the wilderness. Yet under those circumstances God gave him this blessing: &#8220;Number the stars, if you are able to number them. So shall your descendants be.&#8221; Only a crazy person or a man of adventure could accept that blessing and uphold his faith. Abraham suffered much, almost losing his wife and all his possessions and relatives to the Pharaoh in Egypt, yet he never, never gave up his faith in the blessings of God. Nothing could change his conviction and he fully lived that conviction, ultimately receiving his promised blessing from God. Anyone who just sits and waits for God to take care of everything will never encounter the blessing of God.</p>
<p>There are three types of religious people in this world. One type are the men of faith who are sitting idle. The second are the men of faith who feel that they should at least set some condition by doing something to help God. The third type are the men of faith who want to translate their conviction 1000/c into action by giving up their lives. Which ones do you think God will side with? Do you just want to set some condition of indemnity to jump over the mountain, or do you really want to pay the full amount and release yourself completely? If you say, &#8220;I want to pay the full indemnity,&#8221; then your attitude becomes absolute; that is most bold.</p>
<p>In using a balance scale you have an object to be weighed plus the weights to measure with. Which one would you prefer to be? These weights are needed to determine the value of the object, but once that is done the weights have no intrinsic value. Only God is dealing directly with Satan, and strictly speaking you actually have to pay only a relatively small condition to Satan. God only uses your indemnity on a conditional basis, like the weights, in dealing with Satan. However, in actuality would you want to be proud of yourself and pay your indemnity in full, or would you want to be forgiven by making just a small condition of indemnity? If you have the capability, which one would you prefer?</p>
<p>Why does God only require conditional indemnity? You might decide, &#8220;Those poor people are so weak and vulnerable that they cannot pay their full amount. They are the reason God only requires a small condition, but that is not for me. I&#8217;m going to pay 100%.&#8221; Do you have that kind of willingness? Not too many I see. Without courage you will not accomplish such a thing.</p>
<p>Do you think I am a man of courage and adventure? If someone else is sitting in a chair yet claims he has greater conviction than 1, will God bless him? God is looking not only for conviction but for actual deeds. Creation can never happen when a man is just sitting idle. We can know that God is a God of action by observing those historical persons like Noah, Abraham and Jacob.</p>
<p>Did Jacob show God a small condition and then demand his blessing, or did he work to cam every inch of his blessing? Conviction must be followed by action and deed. Jacob went to the wilderness of Haran to his uncle Laban and there he suffered 21 years, not forgetting his mission for even one second of the day. Moses also upheld his faith, and translated that conviction into action, even revolting against the Pharaoh. Why did God choose Moses? He had many deficiencies, but God saw Moses&#8217; true qualifications: he was a man of conviction, a man of boldness and a man of action. The 40 years of wandering in the wilderness could not shake Moses, even though an his people rebelled against him. This was the quality God was looking for when He picked Moses as a leader.</p>
<p>In contrast, John the Baptist was a man of failure in dispensational history. He had faith and conviction that he should prepare the people for the imminent coming of the Messiah, and for thirty years in the wilderness he lived an ascetic life, eating locusts and wild honey. Yet after making that sacrificial condition he failed in action. Even though he testified to Jesus as the son of God he failed to follow him; he felt that his fame and reputation were at stake, and that he just could not follow a carpenter from Nazareth.</p>
<p>I know that way of life, and I know that no matter how much faith you profess or how much conviction you might have, nothing will happen unless faith and conviction are translated into action. I am thinking big, preaching world salvation and the liberation of mankind and God. My words and deeds must match, and unless I am capable of adventure and risking my life I have not lived my faith. I know that saving the nation and the world is not an easy task, and I have been training and disciplining not only myself but all my followers, mobilizing them toward such a goal in the way that people will see that our words and actions match.</p>
<h3 align="center">Living your conviction means getting burned and bruised</h3>
<p>What can stop a car which is speeding 100 miles per hour down a superhighway? What about lions and tigers, or an Executive Order from the President? Only an internal mechanism can stop the car, the contact of brake with wheel. This world is crumbling and there is actually no mountain which can stop this car, but I am like a small brake lining, the special piece which can squeeze the wheel and stop this tumbling world.</p>
<p>If America is that car rushing down the incline, then when you apply the brake do you think sparks will fly and the wheels will heat up, even becoming red hot? You are like the small piece of metal that slows a wheel, so do you expect to get some scars and bruises and burns? Is that natural or unnatural? Those who want to become such a contact piece, even though they may get burned and bruised, raise your hands. Your answer is absolutely great, and means that you want to be tested in actual battle.</p>
<p>The Unification Church indeed follows a religious way of life. God will welcome your strong conviction. If I am only feeling my conviction but sitting idle and waiting for God to move, then God will say, &#8220;My son, I need somebody else.&#8221; But in reality I am moving. In less than a few years I have stirred up all of America; I have visited every corner of this land, and have become the center of controversy and attention in a good way. All these are signs that I am a man of action and not a man sitting idle. In order to reach the moon do you have to leap forward or do you have to dig into the ground? If I am the moon then you are the astronauts on Apollo 11, and you must strive harder than Neil Armstrong. &#8220;Armstrong&#8221; means arm-strong, not word-strong. That is the kind of man who will reach the moon.</p>
<p>Maybe some of you men have that kind of appetite and ambition, but how about you women; are you equally courageous? Are you going to be passive followers behind the men? You say no, but I cannot believe it because all the pioneers and revolutionaries who really changed the shape of history were men. In history men have inherited the position of power and authority to lead the world, having the character of courage and boldness. Women are very good spectators, but usually women are nagging and trying to restrain the men instead of encouraging them to go forward. Are you different?</p>
<p>Actually, in the Unification Church there is convincing evidence that the women are ahead of you men. Are you listening very carefully? The record shows that in our two major activities of fund raising and witnessing the women have consistently been the winners. Why are you brothers so silent? You are defeated in statistics and actual results, but I will take your word for it if you say, &#8220;Father, we admit that we have been defeated by the women, but from today on it will be different. You wait and see.&#8221;</p>
<p>So far I have been explaining the way of religion. There are different kinds of faith. Most Christians have a faith in God and Jesus, and they want to go to heaven, but they are each thinking, &#8220;I want to go to heaven, and have God give me my secure little cubbyhole upstairs.&#8221; But in contrast, our faith in God shapes our way of life and we pledge, &#8220;We will be Your representatives, and we want to build Your Kingdom of Heaven so that all mankind can live there.&#8221; I have thought about this and after testing out this kind of faith I know that it is 100% correct. I am absolutely sure that if this conviction is wrong and God cannot cooperate with us then God can never in eternity achieve His will.</p>
<p>I have spent the last couple of days at Barrytown with the seminarians. To symbolically show them how they can become victorious I taught them to knit a huge fishing net to catch thousands of carp at one time. I worked all through Friday until 6 a.m., then all day yesterday, only coming back here at 1 a.m. The seminarians might have thought that I am only an excellent teacher and lecturer, but all of a sudden they realized that I am also a fisherman who knows everything-how to make a net and how to catch fish by the hundreds.</p>
<p>With my two hands I have created factories and farms. I know how to fish and mine and do every kind of labor there is, as well as leading spiritual work. I can translate that same spirit into action in every phase of human life, and I am never a stranger anywhere; when I go to a farming community I can immediately tune into it.</p>
<p>What kind of leader do you want? One who sits on a chair and only speaks to you to make you work hard, or someone who can act as well as speak? One record-breaking miracle that I have achieved is that these fragile women are working harder than men and bringing more results. A woman&#8217;s nature is not oriented toward work, actually. So far in history a woman&#8217;s role has been to make herself into a beautiful ornament, who only participates at times of relaxation or enjoyment.</p>
<p>I have analyzed why women wear such awkward high heels. Men are confident enough without high heels, but women are always lagging behind; high heels were invented to tilt you forward so you could catch up. Finally the purpose of high heels has been achieved in the Unification Church, meaning that you women have caught up with the men. America is truly a women&#8217;s kingdom, and by wearing high heels they have caught up with men. There is a very principled meaning in high heels; most women wear high heels but only wander and do nothing. However, when you sisters wear high heels then you really move fast. We are a group with a high heel spirit, and we run faster and push ourselves forward.</p>
<p>You men have been failing at doing men&#8217;s jobs, which is why the women have outshone you. However, if we did not wear any shoes but just went barefoot then I know for sure that men would win. Men are rugged and ready to go barefoot, but women have been trained to wear sensitive nylons and they are not prepared to go without shoes. In that area men can win.</p>
<p>Then how can you women combat that? In one thing you women have an absolute privilege-in bearing children. Some women complain about how painful God made childbirth, but do you realize what a privilege God has given you? Because of that unique capability you can be treated with respect by men and listened to. If you had no ability to bear children then you would be no good to your husband, but because you can give a son or daughter to him then he will listen to your every desire. You have not thought of it in that way. You thought God was punishing women by giving them such pain, but instead that establishes your right to be protected. Have you heard of any war in which women went out to fight and die by the tens of thousands? Women have always stayed behind and just waited for the men to come home again.</p>
<p>We have come to the conclusion that unless you have conviction accompanied by courage and boldness you will not fulfill the will of God. The man without those qualities cannot be part of God&#8217;s dispensation, but if for God&#8217;s purpose men can become bold and courageous then they shall play the central role in God&#8217;s history, not only for the present, but all throughout the ages. Because God is eternal there is no exception to this in either the past, present, or future.</p>
<p>There is now a revolutionary religious teaching which is inspiring young people to unprecedented boldness and courage, mobilizing them toward the highest ideal of world brotherhood. If such a religion is working in this world, then indeed it must become the hope for the future and God must be working with that group.</p>
<p>We will see how brave you are. The bolder, more courageous, and more adventurous you are, the greater will be the blessing which you can receive from God. The blessing will not come to you; you must go to win it. Can you make a pledge, &#8220;I may not have been perfect yesterday, but from this moment on, Father, I will be a different person. I will be bolder, braver, and more courageous than ever and I will risk my life for my conviction.&#8221; Those who can pledge that, raise your hands please.</p>
<p>Will you welcome rain and hurricanes when you go out to sell newspapers? That bad weather can challenge you to sell more papers than in good weather. Do you welcome it? Your voices are dying! Some people look like they are thinking, &#8220;Father, you spoke three hours and you inspired me but I cannot trust how long my actions will last. I cannot promise you that.&#8221; Shall we make our newspaper surpass the New York Times? Shall we be oppressed by the existing churches, or shall we transcend their prosperity?</p>
<p>Have you heard about the great campaign we are waging through the Unification Seminary? I feel ecstatic joy because certain things which I have planned are happening precisely according to my idea; the things that nobody could imagine are now literally unfolding. You do not know what is going on in the rest of the world. You are only aware of selling newspapers every day, but while you are doing that in New York City there are many spiritual atomic bombs exploding here and there. Do not be discouraged.</p>
<p>All the people who came out of Egypt were destroyed because they fell into faithlessness, yet God raised up Joshua and Caleb because they were men of boldness and courage. Unless you become bold and courageous and strong you cannot surpass them. God knows that better than anyone else.</p>
<p>Today the new summer is beginning, and I am now giving you one most clear-cut instruction: be bold and strong, because that is the way you can receive God&#8217;s blessing. Can you do it? Raise your hands and pledge to God that you will be bold and strong! Thank you. Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">THE THINGS THAT BELONG TO GOD AND THE THINGS THAT BELONG TO MAN</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:08:47+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/the-things-that-belong-to-god-and-the-things-that-belong-to-man.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:08:47+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">May 15, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>All men have ambitions and will always strive to see them substantiated. Everyone&#8217;s basic ambition is to possess the good things of the world and to have the power to dominate the bad things of the world. The desire to have the good and expel the bad is also the same ambition that moves the family, the society and the nation. Throughout history men&#8217;s ambitions have been evolving, and the state of societies, nations and the world has been progressing according to the fulfillment of men&#8217;s ambitions.</p>
<p>There are two basic concepts of ownership in the world today. The concept and philosophy of the free world emphasizes the rights of the individual, and the concept of the communist world emphasizes that the state controls everything. One concept exalts the individual while the other exalts the state and denies the individual. Individualistic ownership and the freedom to practice religion is valued in the free world, but religion is normally denied in the world where the position of the state is supreme. In the communist world all value is defined by the state, but in the free world individuals can find their value in seeking to live up to God&#8217;s expectations for them.</p>
<p>At the moment these two mutually exclusive ideologies are clashing on the worldwide level, and both of them are crumbling, even though they have spread their power all over the world. Before we can determine who should own this world with all its wealth and power, we must determine who actually owns us. Man is trying to possess all things, but who possesses man? It is necessary to understand the basic origin of man&#8217;s ambition to possess the things of the world. Do you think that the world should belong to man or that man should belong to the world? Of course, the world must belong to man. The dignity of man comes first, and then all the things of the world belong to him. Man is the key because through man ambition emerges. National ambitions are prominent only because of man.</p>
<h3 align="center">Without being God-centered, both the free world<br />
and communist world will decline</h3>
<p>Man is supreme in this physical world. However, the central concept of the communist world denies that man is supreme and tries to enslave man to the one supreme entity which it calls the state. This is a fundamental conflict in the basic principles of the free world and communist world. Under communism all things belong to the Party, which must be obeyed and which has the ultimate goal of world subjugation. Man&#8217;s value under communism is exactly the reverse of the value that we advocate in our Principle; communism maintains that a man&#8217;s value is determined by his loyalty to the Party. Under communism the individual can be sacrificed for the sake of the Party, and in addition the individual can sacrifice everything for the sake of the Party.</p>
<p>Is any Communist Party eternal, having the authority of an eternal power? No, the Party is temporal and always changing, always adjusting itself to fit some new form. The truth is unchanging, eternal and unique, and one can never find eternity or truth in situations of constant flux and fundamental change. People governing under such systems always violate basic human rights and debase human dignity.</p>
<p>A wall was erected in Germany which divided East Berlin and West Berlin. If there were no barrier and no manned sentries blocking their way then the people who are oppressed in East Berlin would come to the West. Why is that? Without question, basic human rights and dignity have been crushed in East Germany, and no one prefers to remain in such a situation.</p>
<p>If communism were to acknowledge man&#8217;s supreme value and allow man to exercise his human rights and freedom, then certainly that system and that ideology would conquer the world and more. Instead, however, communism is a formidable enemy of human rights and even the rights of material ownership. On the other hand, the value of the individual is recognized in the free world. Man is recognized as being supreme under such a system, and because of religious influence a degree of harmony and universalism can be found in the free world. Because religions put God in the center of men&#8217;s lives, solutions to social problems can be found which will foster harmony and unity. When people give their contributions in church they do so with the desire, either conscious or unconscious, that their money be spent for the sake of God and the world.</p>
<p>With its stress on individual rights, what would the free world be like without religion? Individualism without the influence of religion would inevitably crash into a stone wall. If not religion, what could solve the problems of individual selfishness and greed? Because many people are working toward the same goals, clashes are inevitable unless there is some standard. Religion talks about peace, love and unity in the world, but those ideals are alien to individualism.</p>
<p>No one individual is exalted when you talk about peace and charity, and freedom cannot be upheld by selfishness. What kind of country is America? Individual rights are stressed in this country, yet there is harmony and unity around the idea of a national goal. America evolved from the respect for individual rights, yet America has also been involved in trying to help the world and advance the well-being of all mankind.</p>
<h3 align="center">America has failed itself and failed God</h3>
<p>Where did these American concepts originate? Some people accuse America of selfishly trying to conquer the world for its own benefit. Others credit the American people with recognizing that God is working for the benefit of the entire world, and that America must help the world as a champion of God. Which is true? Both answers have some truth, and America has been motivated for both reasons. But in reality, America is stopping in the middle of the street and giving up before reaching either objective. America has not continued its former efforts to be involved in the world, even for the sake of God, and is rapidly withdrawing from its commitments around the world. America presently is not doing well in its international relationships.</p>
<p>The democratic ideal of world brotherhood is not even working in America, and America&#8217;s involvement in the world has had many side effects and caused some tragic repercussions. If America had never wanted to be involved with the world, then America would not have bothered becoming involved in Asia. However, America half-heartedly became involved, and when communism began its inevitable infiltration many people suffered greatly for their cooperation with and trust in America. If America had never sought to save those countries from communism-then those people might never have been murdered. Instead, millions of innocent people died because they tried to cooperate with America; when America turned and walked out on them they had nowhere to look for further protection and they became victims of terrible retaliation for their having taken up arms.</p>
<p>By doing things half-way, America has become the enemy of both the communists and those people who believed in America and then were betrayed. There are former free world nations which thought they would be protected by America and which now have become communist countries, like Vietnam and Cambodia. The people of those nations trusted Americans to be the saviors of the freedom and dignity of mankind, but instead they were betrayed. Now they have to cooperate with the communists and have reason to seek revenge against America.</p>
<p>The world is in such a chaotic situation that not only the communists are trying to destroy America, but those former free world nations which once depended on America themselves would like to destroy America. This is a realistic picture of today&#8217;s world situation. Americans must realize that their nation has many enemies who are not only communist, but who were formerly staunch allies.</p>
<p>There are people of every race and nationality living and working in America. People from nations which used to be in America&#8217;s sphere of influence before failing to communism are now making connections with members of their own race within the United States for the purpose of influencing and agitating their countrymen. Do they want to assist the American people, or are they intent on destroying this nation? Communists are capitalizing on America&#8217;s problems by offering new solutions to those who are disillusioned, claiming, &#8220;America has failed your expectations, but we have a better way to unification.&#8221;</p>
<p>If we assume that America was motivated to get involved in World War 11 by national ambition and a desire for world domination, we can only observe that America failed to reach its goal. But let us say America did not work for its own ambition; if America tried to fulfill God&#8217;s desire by intervening in world affairs, then America has failed to fulfill God&#8217;s expectations. How could the result of God&#8217;s work be termed a failure? Ultimately God cannot fail, but His chosen champion may somehow depart from His original will. If men lead America away from God&#8217;s original will and ideal then the result is certainly going to be failure and the death of this nation.</p>
<p>How could today&#8217;s communism become so formidable as to control two-thirds of the world? Through the efforts of communists themselves? Actually God allowed communism to spread, in a subtle way teaching the world that eventually all mankind should belong to one ideology. In that sense communism has prepared the world to accept one ideology with God as its center. God wants mankind to learn the ideology which can show them that they must belong to God.</p>
<p>God is the father of mankind and is always trying to benefit man. Whatever God wants should be the goal of all mankind. There should be no difference between them. When one goal is pursued by God and man together, all will dwell in harmony and unity.</p>
<p>It is God&#8217;s way that when the entire universe is living in prosperity then America too can be happy; in disregarding the rest of the world, America will have no way to better its position or to be happy. For Americans to seek prosperity at the expense of the world would be the same as America trying to be God. Having America&#8217;s will prevail over the world would not bring prosperity, but having God&#8217;s will prevail would not only bring prosperity, but eternal unity through one ideology. Communism is a totalitarian system, but it is a concept that God will eventually utilize, having Himself as the center instead of the state.</p>
<h3 align="center">Why did God allow the spread of communism?</h3>
<p>What is the end result we are pursuing, and what are the goals of goodness and the purpose of religion? We are all working toward the one common goal of absolute prosperity for the world, and no matter how great or small your contribution to that goal, it will multiply goodness. Is there any room for individual selfishness when you talk about good? If a man is just working for his own greedy gain, would you term him a good man? Always the degree of goodness is determined by the individual contribution to the prosperity of the whole. How much one individual contributes toward that common goal of the well-being of mankind will determine not only his individual greatness, but his own well-being. Why is that?</p>
<p>God is pursuing that way of life, and any individual trying to parallel God&#8217;s own way of life will be recognized as good and great. Strictly speaking, all those who pursued goodness throughout history were actually being totalitarian; however, they were absolutely God-centered in their pursuit. We must firmly grasp the concept that we are here for the sake of the world. A great religion is worldwide and universal; there is no great religion which can be characterized as only local.</p>
<p>Even national power cannot ultimately prevail against religious life which is worldwide and universal. What is God trying to accomplish through religion? Will God praise today&#8217;s religions which are crumbling? God has only one purpose for religion; it is His instrument for winning the entire world to one sovereignty of God. God ultimately wants all of mankind to come under Him and the entire world to come under man. We are going out to win the world for the sake of God. As we return all things to God we will create and expand the territory of goodness.</p>
<p>Since Americans are extremely individualistic, this nation is very vulnerable to being internally divided. Do you know there is a communistic Christianity emerging, a Marxist Christianity? It is quite logical that this should happen; if God&#8217;s champion fails to fulfill then God always allows a satanic element to show the world what the basic format should be. Since God is trying to set up a God-centered ideology or theocracy, it is logical that an imitation like Marxist Christianity should spring up. When God-centered people fail to fulfill God&#8217;s will, then the same goal will be pursued by satanic people trying to take over the world for their own ideology, which in reality is only an imitation of God&#8217;s ideology.</p>
<p>In other words, Satan has the same goal that God has. The only difference between their goals is that one is God-centered while the other is Satan-centered. But the end results are both the same. Today Satan is trying to advance political totalitarianism, but eventually we will also see a God-centered variation of that same thing. Since God wants to have a unified world of men and material together, Satan has been trying to achieve the same thing except from the reverse direction. Satan has been using a materialistic ideology to conquer man and dominate the world as his own; he wants to fulfill the same thing as God, except without God. As long as there are both God and Satan in our universe, at one point in history there must be a conclusive confrontation between their ideologies.</p>
<p>The communist world elevates material to the supreme position, and is trying to conquer all men and destroy all religions and ideologies. It is inevitable that Satan would come up with an ideology which denies man and God because ultimately he wants to eliminate any chance for God&#8217;s Kingdom to come about. This is indeed Satan&#8217;s scheme.</p>
<p>Where is the Carter administration leading America? Is it pursuing a religious, God-centered goal, or is it pursuing man&#8217;s way, or is it half-way in between? Who does America belong to? What kind of nation would America be if it belonged to God? How many Americans are thinking about America&#8217;s well-being and how many Americans are thinking about the world? Are the people who have become hippies and indulged in self-centered freedoms thinking in patriotic terms about the well-being of this nation? They want only to satisfy the carnal desires of their bodies. Does that way of life belong to God or to Satan?</p>
<p>Because this society cannot accept such behavior, such people have been chased out of school and out of society. Young people today are wandering people. Is America leaning toward God or toward Satan now? Then what must the future world be like? The solution for the future is heavenly &#8220;totalitarianism&#8221; centered upon God. The free world will not see that new vision until God&#8217;s new ideology emerges. Under God&#8217;s protection and within God&#8217;s sovereignty America&#8217;s national strength must be increased to defend righteousness. Then there will be hope for the future and hope for the world.</p>
<h3 align="center">Separation of religion and government is not God&#8217;s will</h3>
<p>From man&#8217;s point of view everything belongs to the individual as well as to God, and as much as things belong to the individual they also belong to America and to God. However, from God&#8217;s point of view everything belongs to Him, as well as belonging to man. God and man together share ownership and dignity.</p>
<p>When God blessed this nation with great victory in World War 11, America had a chance to fulfill a great purpose in the name of God. If America&#8217;s desire had been to help the poor and the suffering nations because they all were God&#8217;s children, then today&#8217;s world would not be like it is. There would have been no room for the expansion of communism. However, America has not looked at the world from that point of view. America thought of its national self-interest first, not the interest of the world and God. America has shamed itself.</p>
<p>Whether with an individual or as a nation, God will not dwell with anyone if they are self-centered. Only when an individual or nation is dedicated to the service of mankind, of the whole, will God be there. if America had been dedicated to the service of the world, would America have become like it is today? Ultimately, God provided the directions for doing just that; Christianity was the chosen instrument of God.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s American society, particularly the selfish denominationalism dividing Christians, reflects the failure of Christianity. By concentrating on sectarianism Christians have forgotten the world. A new movement with a new ideology that goes far beyond sectarianism must emerge, and through it man&#8217;s goals can be re-focused on the world and on all of mankind. Christianity must turn around 180 degrees and take a major role in this revolution. That is man&#8217;s only hope to solve today&#8217;s problems.</p>
<p>What are we trying to do as the Unification Church? Our concept is that we must return to God in order to embrace and liberate the people of the world. We must even liberate those who suffer under communism. Initially then, we must build the movement which will overcome all the barriers of denominationalism and initiate the spirit of unity and oneness. Would this movement of unification be for the selfish purpose of the Unification Church, or for the sake of God and mankind? This purpose belongs to God and mankind, and we must transcend nationalism, racism, and sectarianism. We must discover a new ideology through which our members can become even stronger than those committed to communism. Then through us the world will find hope and finally God will have one group of champions whom He can trust to take care of this world.</p>
<p>Why are young people in America joining the Unification Church, even under our present adverse conditions? They are idealistic and their burning desire is to find something more positive and constructive than communism, some goal they can devote their lives to for the sake of God and humanity. That vision cannot be found outside the Unification Church. Thus idealistic young people come and join.</p>
<p>The Unification Church has the clear-cut goal of transcending sectarianism and racism and promoting a God-centered &#8220;totalitarianism.&#8221; However, the democratic rights of the individual will never be violated in this new ideology. We will be able to enjoy all the freedoms that Americans have, but at the same time we must also embrace those who are communists and demonstrate that they can find solutions for man&#8217;s needs in God. In this new ideology men can find the solution to the problems of both the free world and communist world; we can save both worlds.</p>
<p>Communism offers totalitarianism, but not religious freedom or individual rights. It is not the ideal, yet throughout all of history religions also have grievously departed from the will of God, leaving a chronicle of failure after failure, particularly in the Middle Ages and throughout the Renaissance and Reformation. Christianity has often failed, receiving scorn instead of respect from the world, until finally in modern governments church and state were officially separated. This is the position that religion stands in today.</p>
<p>The true position of religion, however, is as the center of every aspect of man&#8217;s life. Actually, God&#8217;s plan is that national leaders, like the President, Congress and all those with civil authority, should be recognized by God first and then be given the mission to govern society and the world. After God&#8217;s sovereignty is established in this world should He guide the President and the Congress? Do you think God will say, &#8220;I am only the God of religion. I am not interested in civil authorities and the American national leadership. I don&#8217;t care about your tiny country down there.&#8221; Would God separate government and religion?</p>
<p>The separation of government and religion was never God&#8217;s will, and it is not a means by which God can fulfill His will. Pursuing this route will have only disastrous results and will allow satanic forces the freedom to develop unchecked. There are many unifying movements, for example the United Nations, working to aid peoples and nations. Those movements should not be governed by civil decisions alone but by the decisions of God. With this combination alone will these movements ultimately be successful.</p>
<p>Presently these movements are talking about unification, but unification without God and religion. These cannot be successful, even though they work hard to bring world unification. The communists around the world have used force to bring about unification, but that has not worked either. Ultimately we must turn to religion; however, when the world finally discovers this it may already be too late. If the free world is not awakened soon enough then God will be forced to permit communism to rule the world first.</p>
<p>If communism ever gains the power to govern the entire world, at least one third of the world&#8217;s population, especially the white population, will be obliterated. For example, when Chairman Mao of China took power he liquidated at least one quarter of his own people. The communists&#8217; nature can condone even the murder of 25% of their own people, for communists do not look at each human being as having unique value. If such people were to seize power in America they would easily treat Americans as casually as insects.</p>
<h3 align="center">God told me plainly, &#8220;Go to America&#8221;</h3>
<p>God never wanted such a thing to happen, and mankind does not want such a thing. God is trying to prevent a world catastrophe by sending His champion to this country. I have come to awaken and mobilize the world for the sake of God before it is too late. God is desperately attempting to prevent the doom of mankind, and in the face of such a catastrophic situation we cannot be concerned with differences of race or religion. There is absolutely no time to deal on such a petty level. We must concern ourselves with knowing precisely where God is heading.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s ideology never changes from the past to the present or to the future but remains the same for eternity. Look at God&#8217;s method throughout Old Testament history. God&#8217;s instrument was always the prophets, who even spoke strongly against the rulers of their nations; the prophets listened to God and authorities of the nation were to heed their words. During the 4,000 years of Old Testament history, the rulers who listened to the prophets were prosperous while those who denied and persecuted the prophets were destroyed. New Testament history is no different. When nations and civil authorities were in great difficulty and the world was in turmoil, God always sent a prophet as His voice to speak out for the sake of the world. If the rulers listened to the words of the prophet then there was a chance for revival and prosperity, but if he were not listened to then doom followed.</p>
<p>This worked rather well until the Middle Ages when the separation of church and state forced God into a position of isolation. By denying that a prophet could speak with authority to a government, there was no channel of communication between civil authorities and God. That was a most effective tactic of Satan, which worked to successfully block communication between God and man. As a result, man-centered humanism became society&#8217;s focal point instead of a God-centered ideology.</p>
<p>History has come to the point where humanism will now decline. God can allow humanism to collapse, but a theocracy embracing a God-centered ideology must survive. Out of humanism was born the greatest satanic ideology, the materialism which was developed into communism. Materialism must be destroyed while a new God-centered humanitarianism must survive. This means that the world must undergo a great process of re-education, As God&#8217;s prophet, I am speaking to the world situation, and if governments do something wrong then I will speak out publicly.</p>
<p>I spoke out about the Nixon administration, not because Nixon was such an attractive or important person, but because through him I wanted to communicate with the American people and embrace them with God&#8217;s ideal. If Nixon had truly listened to me, do you think history would have been different? In 1974, I also warned President Thieu of Vietnam that if he continued on his present route of trust in America, his nation would be ruined. I told him that unless his nation could be inspired by a new determination and a new awakening to a God-centered ideology that the communists would take his country. But he did not heed my warning about trusting only in America.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s way is always to raise a prophet or messenger to educate the rulers or civil authorities. I did not come to this nation to be politically involved but to educate the people. The leaders of this nation must be awakened to the will of God. I did not come to receive America&#8217;s persecution, and only for the will of God do I tolerate suffering.</p>
<p>God told me very plainly, &#8220;Go to America and speak, regardless of whether they listen to you or not. If the leaders of the nation will not listen to you then the young people and future leaders of America will listen to you.&#8221; That is how you come to be here listening to me now. We are here to break the deadlock of the present day and to alert America to God&#8217;s vision of the future.</p>
<p>We are absolutely centered upon God and His will is our will. I am fighting against sectarianism and racism and against the satanic ideology of communism; these are my enemies. By defeating these evil forces I want to bring the world back to God and to honor the true dignity and ownership of God and man. This is my philosophy.</p>
<p>When you center your life on mankind you will find peace and harmony, but when you center on selfishness then harmony and unity will never exist. Are we working only to benefit our church? No, our religion is for the sake of mankind, and as soon as we save mankind we can abolish religion as being unnecessary. We are gathered together here from lands all over the world to construct God&#8217;s sovereignty and God&#8217;s nation.</p>
<h3 align="center">We simply cannot allow this nation to crumble</h3>
<p>We have to have a clear diagnosis of what is wrong with America and what direction history is taking. Because we are not in darkness in these matters we are the strongest of all people of the past, present or future. How could we conquer the past, present and future if this were not so? In that respect I have the dignity and pride of heaven. I know precisely what God wants, and I have already made my mark in history. I am pulling the present into the future in God&#8217;s direction, but are you doing the same? Are you living for the sake of God and humanity? When you find God and humanity, then you will find yourself.</p>
<p>Prior to that, everything that you have must be returned to God and to mankind. Then after turning everything you have over to God, you can receive everything brand new from God and it shall remain with you forever, belonging to you as well as to God. No one will challenge your ownership. I am not talking about receiving just a chunk of land like Belvedere, but about receiving God&#8217;s entire Kingdom, and even inheriting God Himself. That is the goal of the Unification Church. Do you understand?</p>
<p>Whose money is in your pocket, yours or God&#8217;s? In the name of mankind you must return that money to God. People think I am a millionaire, and in one sense they are right, yet I do not own anything. Anything I can influence or gather together is used in the name of mankind. No one who accuses me has ever thought about that, but from the individual level on up nothing in this church belongs to me. It all belongs to you and is supposed to be returned to God in the name of mankind. If there were a nation which I could influence, it would certainly not be my own nation but a nation for God and mankind.</p>
<p>Until God can become the absolute ruler of the world, there is no way He can exercise His power. Some people criticize me for being a dictator, but I want to make it absolutely clear that in my entire heart and soul I am desperately trying to bear witness to God&#8217;s way of life. My drive and persistence comes only from my urgency to teach this world about what God wants. I want to make God the absolute ruler of this world. If I should die without seeing the foundation laid for that day to come then I will die with regret. I want to hear God&#8217;s voice here on earth so clearly that it cannot be mistaken.</p>
<p>Democracy is only a transitional ideology which is serving the greater purpose of God. If America is humble in the sight of God then this nation shall remain forever and be blessed forever, but if not then America has no chance to survive. We simply cannot allow this nation to crumble or be destroyed. Therefore, we must strive to reverse the present trend and instead make America into God&#8217;s America. We must work hard today to make America&#8217;s people into God&#8217;s people.</p>
<p>If the American people could be sufficiently informed of God&#8217;s ideology then no voice would be heard speaking against me. Even though a great deal of misunderstanding surrounds me, the American people are slowly but surely becoming aware of what my true goals are. Recently Mr. David Kim received a letter from a parent who was pleading for his 14-year-old daughter to be accepted to the seminary, to be educated as a truly religious and God-centered woman. That parent said, &#8220;I know that in this nation there is only one person who can make my daughter into an absolutely God-centered woman and that is Reverend Moon. Would you please ask Reverend Moon to accept my daughter in his college?&#8221;</p>
<p>Even though the media has portrayed me in only distorted ways, the truth has still spread regardless. The time will come when parents take baseball bats to hit their children and chase them to the Unification Church. Regardless of how ugly or impossibly dumb you may be, at least you do know that our goal is to work for the sake of God and humanity. At least you know that much. Sometimes I think, &#8220;These people give me so much trouble; is there anything I do wrong? Is there something wrong with me?&#8221; Now, hearing your answer and seeing your faces I will trust myself a little more.</p>
<p>When Satan influenced man away from a Godcentered ideology man turned to humanism, which has now further degenerated into the materialism which proclaims that matter is God. We cannot leave this situation alone. We must bring the truth of God back to mankind and let God be boss of the world.</p>
<h3 align="center">Communist leaders know that I am their only serious threat</h3>
<p>Any opposition I receive from the U.S. government is actually minor compared to the real threat coming from the communists. They know that I am going to explode their plans like dynamite. All the communist leaders are fully aware of me, knowing I am the only threat to their plans for a communist takeover of the world. In every way possible they are trying to stop this movement. The American media and American people are so naive that unknowingly they are helping to promote the communist stand.</p>
<p>Is a newspaper like the Washington Post God&#8217;s instrument? Look at the real situation; when I wanted to print a warning to America in a patriotic message on July 4, 1976, the Washington Post refused to carry our full-page ad. Yet the same newspaper has carried full-page ads from Kim Il Sung, not just once, but over and over again.</p>
<p>The American FBI and CIA should know what the Washington Post is doing. The communists know very clearly that if I continue for another ten years as I am now that it will be impossible for the communists to take America over. Therefore, their whole internal strategy centers on how to stop me by either harming me or destroying my church. The communists are very cunning and clever and know how to mobilize the media and opposition groups to label me as being anti-Semitic or non-Christian. Furthermore, they use whatever influence they can to even mobilize government agencies or committees to somehow undermine us.</p>
<p>Am I truly anti-Semitic? Our newspaper, The News World, frequently prints articles sympathetic to the Jews. When Jews have a demonstration to support Jews suffering in Russia, The News World is the only newspaper that gives that news a major headline. Is that something an anti-Semite would do? I am trying to revive Christianity, but does that mean I am non-Christian? Did I ever teach you that Christians are our enemies, or have I told you to pray for them as our brothers?</p>
<p>Spiritually I have heard Christian ministers praying to God to destroy my work and throw me into hell. Many Christians think I am their enemy but does the Bible say to hate or kill your enemy? If only on this point, they are greatly removed from the teaching of the Bible. Have I ever instructed you to disrupt worship in other churches? Of course not. In contrast, some Christians have tried many times to disrupt our endeavors. Is that God&#8217;s way or the teaching of Jesus?</p>
<p>We should not be hampered or discouraged by their opposition, but just break through to glorious victory. The newspaper we created is not my newspaper but is merely one instrument through which we can serve the purpose of God and humanity. We must make a showdown with all our opposition. Are you too tired? Are you willing to sell papers? America is watching the newspaper, evaluating the performance of the Unification Church to see whether we really have the power to influence all of America.</p>
<h3 align="center">All of our endeavors have the purpose of liberating spirit world</h3>
<p>The success of our newspaper will influence many people. So far I seem to be crazy, or at best people credit me with being a smart religious leader, but as far as building a newspaper, most people are skeptical that I will succeed. Do you want to see their prediction fulfilled? Will you work hard to make The News World successful, for your sake or my sake or what? What will you gain by working hard for the newspaper? You don&#8217;t have anything now, and you may not have anything later either. The most important yet invisible effect of your efforts will be seen in the spirit world. Seeing one God-centered newspaper running strong, all the tens of thousands of media people in spirit world can repent, &#8220;God, we are sorry. Now we can see how a newspaper should be run in a God-centered way.&#8221;</p>
<p>All those in spirit world, particularly those who dealt with mass communication here on earth, have been waiting for a paper to start which could act as a champion for God&#8217;s ideal here on earth. I have done it. By helping us operate this newspaper as an offering to God they can help revolutionize mass communication here. After God grants them forgiveness they will bring about one of the most spectacular changes ever seen here on earth by &#8220;brainwashing&#8221; the editors-in-chief of the world.</p>
<p>If everything else I have done is discredited, at least one thing will stand: I have taught you and made you into people who know the truth face-to face. By knowing this truth, you have become one of the most important of God&#8217;s instruments in America. Will you become God&#8217;s champions or only trash? How can I trust you? Your eyes are not even single-mindedly focused on one goal but follow many different directions instead. You need to make up your mind that for a certain number of years no enjoyments like movies or restaurants can tempt you. I set up such a period during which I was never even slightly affected by passing in front of a theater or a beautiful restaurant.</p>
<p>Restoration does not mean just restoration of man, but the restoration of everything, even food and clothes. The time will come to have all these in abundance, but during the time of restoration you must experience having to eat just a little bit of rice, even having to use your hands as the bowl and eating in the bathroom. Your Western-style toilets are very high-class, but the kind of bathroom I am talking about is the kind that most of the world uses, just a plain &#8220;honey-bucket,&#8221; which has to be emptied by hand.</p>
<p>I started the path of restoration at the very bottom, always in the same kind of miserable situation you have heard about over and over again in restoration history. Now I can eat at a table with very nice silverware and enjoy my meals, but that was only after certain conditions were met. For many years I had no chair or even silverware. My hands were my God-given silverware and I ate my meals near the honey-bucket, just like the worst kind of beggar.</p>
<p>You celebrate your birthdays, but for many years I marked my birthdays by fasting. Since I have set that tradition, can you Unification Church members eat good meals on your birthdays? I decided that for three years my birthday would be celebrated by fasting. You should do the same in restoration. I wear good suits now, and many people assume they are custom-made and cost hundreds of dollars. But this suit I am wearing cost only $49! Until I was 30 I never even bought one humble dress suit. Instead I went to a second-hand store or thrift shop and always wore second-hand or old military clothes. Why should I do such a thing? I started out at the bottom for the sake of restoration.</p>
<p>Now I can approve the spending of millions of dollars for the sake of the movement, but there was a time when I never spent even one stingy penny. If you think I have always spent a lot of money for gifts for the membership like I do now you are wrong. I did the worst kind of labor in the world, for the sake of restoration. You don&#8217;t know my real history.</p>
<p>You might wonder what meaning all of this has for you, but in spirit world my every deed is watched and everything has a meaning. By doing all these menial things and beginning my ministry at the very bottom I could make a condition of indemnity for the spirit world and obtain their liberation. As it says in Matthew, &#8220;Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.&#8221; Unless the condition of indemnity is set here on earth, nothing will be solved in spirit world.</p>
<p>Why should I fast on my birthday? In history there were many people who died on their birthdays, not because their health failed but because of war or some disaster. How could I liberate them? By my suffering on my own birthday these people could be comforted. Why did I initiate the Science Conference, gathering together hundreds of scholars from all over the world and spending all that money each year? Why do we sponsor conferences and pay expenses for professors from every field to visit the seminary? Why did I get involved with President Nixon when he was so unpopular? Only because of the spirit world.</p>
<p>Newcomers here may not understand this explanation, but the person who really knows the Principle knows that there are many more people dwelling in the spirit world than on earth, people who are waiting for their indemnity to be paid so they can be liberated and comforted. I am responsible not only for all people here on earth but for all the people in spirit world as well.</p>
<p>The same purpose applies to our newspaper here in New York. If we persevere under adverse conditions and persecution and within the shortest possible time establish an important record-breaking newspaper company, then God in heaven and all spirit world will be comforted and proud. If we fail in all our endeavors then we are bringing only shame to God instead of honor. Even today we want to set a new record,</p>
<h3 align="center">As living beings, you must not let your lives be stagnant</h3>
<p>To whom do you belong? In Korean phonetics the sound &#8220;god&#8221; means &#8220;hat.&#8221; Are you possessed by a hat or by the living God? For whom is your mouth alive? How about your eyes and ears? If you are doing anything for God, then how can you complain? When you are hungry, is it your stomach that is hungry or God&#8217;s stomach that is hungry?</p>
<p>God is there when you are out selling the papers, and He knows in advance who will come by in the next few minutes. Perhaps an important gentleman will pass by who would not only buy many papers, but who might have the key for some great success for the newspaper company. As God is watching He will be counting the minutes, hoping that you will stay on and meet the man. When you are out selling do you ever think, &#8220;God, I am sorry, but I have to leave soon because I have another mission now. If you are sending me a special man, please send him right now because I have to get back. I don&#8217;t see anyone right now; maybe You are going to send him tomorrow. I will come back.&#8221;</p>
<p>Do you have a conversation with God every moment? You have to think like this. Do not ever think that you are just selling newspapers. You are selling the heart of God; you are selling God&#8217;s inheritance and God&#8217;s Kingdom. When you know the true significance of everything you do then every penny you gather is more precious than a million dollars. When you single-mindedly do everything for God and His purpose, you can make those in spirit world help us. If you think of God and humanity more than they do, they simply cannot be idle but must come down to assist you. That is a heavenly rule which they cannot violate.</p>
<p>When I undertook the Washington Monument campaign, I enjoyed my solitary moments because I was never lonely. Always I was in communion and conversation with God. I can enjoy being alone because I am never lonely. Instead I am always in competition with the spirit world and even in competition with God. Even God may sometimes think of something besides the mission, but I have the kind of pride that I want never to think of something else. Every moment of the day I think of the mission; then I can shout to God, &#8220;You must send the entire spirit world down to help us.&#8221;</p>
<p>If you really want to break the records of history then spirit world has no choice but to come down; if you exceed their level of devotion here on earth then they have got to come down. Living things are not stagnant but are always growing, so as living creatures your dedication and your results in selling the paper must also grow. Your selling record should be increasing by at least one paper every day instead of decreasing. If some day you cannot sell too well then find some other external condition, like staying out for a little longer time, one minute longer than yesterday, ten minutes longer. You have to do your utmost; your giving of your heart and soul must grow every day.</p>
<p>If you do not think that way from the moment you begin then everything will lose headway instead of gaining. I always feel that whether the Unification Church will advance or not is up to me, and I take the entire responsibility upon my shoulders. If I allow myself to become indebted to you by doing less than you do then our work will never grow. I want to do my utmost in speaking of God&#8217;s mission, more than the spirit world and even more than God Himself. I never want to yield the number one position, but always be in the forefront here on earth and in heaven.</p>
<p>I think of the world, not of the Unification Church, and every moment of the day I am concentrating on how to live for the sake of God, humanity and the world. If I should die without fulfilling my mission, then God Himself has a responsibility to carry out my mission. If He did not, then there could be no God. Do you understand? God is wholeheartedly pursuing the goals of the Unification Church, and as long as that God is living we will never perish or decline. However, it is up to us to make this work advance quickly and prosper. The moment I wake up my thoughts are of the mission, God, and the world. I will never be indebted to you. I am almost 60, but even at this age I will not fall behind the young people.</p>
<p>I frequently go out to sea because the future economy of the world will depend upon the vast resources of the sea. The future will belong to the person who pays more attention to the oceans of the world. In addition, many people throughout history have died at sea in war or tragic accidents, and I want to comfort those people and pay indemnity for them. Sometimes when I hear that a dangerous storm is coming I purposely go out to sea. Many people think I go out only for pleasure, but going out in such weather is a desperate baffle, not pleasure. I must do these things to liberate the many people who died under such circumstances. In 1975, 1 had a special ceremony at sea with Mother and one of our daughters, for the sake of the people who died at sea. Even my own captain does not know what procedures and ceremony were held.</p>
<p>At the end of last year and the first part of this year I visited Las Vegas four times. Why? There are many dead gamblers in spirit world who otherwise would have no way to be forgiven. People think that I go to Las Vegas to play the slot machines or to win at blackjack, but that is absolutely untrue. That condition has now been fulfilled, and even though I may have to stop over in Las Vegas on a plane trip, I would not even touch a slot machine. Las Vegas means no more to me than New York or Washington, D.C. When I look at Las Vegas, I think of how that carnal city could have a God-centered future.</p>
<p>The first time I arrived in this country I visited every corner of this land in all 50 states to pray for the nation. I went to the high and low places, the bad places and the famous places in order to pray for them. Now I have even been to sea and to gambling places to pray for the people who lived such kinds of lives. During the Bard College incident I had my first opportunity to visit a police station in America, and I took that time to pray for the police.</p>
<p>The court proceedings resulting from the Bard College incident have now been postponed until the 16th of June, 40 days after the arrest. Those dates did not occur by accident; in restoration there is no such thing as coincidence. Six years ago Mr. Kwak had a dream that I would be involved in this kind of incident at some future time. I have known for some time that great turmoil would develop after the victory at Washington Monument and continue through June of this year. We have witnessed the development of such events, but now the entire situation is gradually shifting in our favor.</p>
<p>It brings shame to America that Bard College would try to embarrass me in such a trivial matter. However, this incident and events like it will not hamper us but will gradually change national opinion. Eventually people will be outraged at such narrow-minded attitudes in America. For two years our seminary students participated in fellowship and sports events at Bard College, but all of a sudden my visit stirred such commotion. It is truly a laughable, trivial matter.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the American people think of a college as a place which the public would visit. New Yorkers know that when people come from abroad they want to see Columbia University because it is famous. When people visit Boston they want to walk around Harvard and see the campus. I went to visit Bard College for the same reason. If visiting a campus is illegal, then how many other people should also be apprehended by the police?</p>
<h3 align="center">At some time each of you must cross an impossible hill</h3>
<p>The San Francisco court case and Bard College case will all substantially contribute to turning national opinion toward the Unification Church. Recently a major Jewish magazine proclaimed that after long research and investigation they had come to the conclusion that I was not ever anti-Semitic. A Roman Catholic magazine recently published the opinion that the Unification Church is part of the Christian heritage and is not heretical.</p>
<p>Why are spokesmen of these major religions speaking out in this way? All of this is fulfillment of my prophecy. You remember hearing me predict such events. At one time or another in our lifetimes we must go over an impossible hill. It is a steep challenge but once you conquer the obstacle then you can make a great leap forward to great glory and achievement. Therefore, after crossing over the hill you have to be the one who can embrace the territory on the other side.</p>
<p>The communist world is our goal. Since the Washington Monument victory I have been praying for Russia because there are many good Russians who are champions of God and who need to be mobilized. I am praying for some opportunity to ignite these people; through the avenue of spirit world I am trying to forge a link across the Iron Curtain with the power of prayer.</p>
<p>If Americans, particularly the young people, would heed my advice and listen to God&#8217;s ideology then America could push back any future communist take-over. But Americans just do not want to listen, and in the meantime America is crumbling. The time could still come when this nation will have to give up everything and in the final moment Americans might think, &#8220;We should call for help from Reverend Moon.&#8221; I hope that day will not come too late. We must not wait for the time to come when America must suffer too many casualties and sacrifices. We are going to mobilize ourselves to hasten the day when America will listen. If the communists control the entire world, then no matter what America may do it will be helpless,</p>
<p>No matter what anyone may say, you are God&#8217;s children. Should I love you or hate you? I want to love you, but only for the sake of God, America and humanity. If that is your goal also then I am with you all the way and will love you fervently. That same desire is what unites us. If you do not love God and humanity, then I do not need your love, and I do not even want you near me. If you are doing your utmost for God then when you come to me I will respond. But if you put yourself first, only joining the Unification Church to derive some benefit and to be prosperous, then I will kick you out.</p>
<p>The world must come under man&#8217;s dominion but man must gain dominion in a God-centered way, When you belong to God, you hold the rest of the world in one arm and become the bridge between God and all things, drawing everything together into universal oneness. Those who think you love me raise your hands. I am sure though, that if I were to push you out for the sake of God and humanity that many of you would make excuses and try to leave.</p>
<p>When you do all things for God then you share ownership of all things with God. When this kind of people live here on earth and expand into a great population then we will see the Kingdom of God. Now we are going over the greatest obstacle of history as we come to the pinnacle. One type of person will leap forward and cover the entire distance with one try while another type of person will decide he is so tired out that he stops trying. You might not have realized that a certain huge lake was on the other side of the mountain you were crossing, and though you do not see any place to land and though you may not be a great jumper, you must seize your opportunity at the risk of your life.</p>
<p>The Unification Church has come to a time of great testing and risk when a great leap forward must be made. Jesus said, &#8220;For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.&#8221; Our risk is not for the family, society or nation; the world is at stake. If we are willing to lose our lives for the sake of the world then we will find life, and when we find life ourselves the world will find life.</p>
<p>You have become part of God, belonging to Him. When you land safely after this adventurous leap forward, the Kingdom of God on earth shall begin. No matter what kind of enticement is offered, once you have reached the goal you do not even feel inclined to look back. The road of restoration is extremely crooked and difficult, but once you finish it you are done. You have no idea how difficult a path I have walked. You have not come this far for your sake, but for the sake of God and humanity. If you continue for the sake of God and humanity then there is nothing you cannot do and nothing for you to fear.</p>
<p>There is only one time in all of history in which man can gamble for God, mankind and all things at once. Religious life has always been a life of risk, but so far men have been betting their lives for either God, mankind, or all things of the world. Never before and never again will they be able to bet on all of these things at one time.</p>
<p>When you survive and win this time then God will be given life, mankind will be given life, and all things of the world will be given life. Don&#8217;t you want to possess the world? All of mankind has been harboring a dream of governing the universe and of directly meeting God, but they did not know about the truth and they never before saw the opportunity. That opportunity is knocking at the door now, and the Unification Church as a whole must be adventurous and willing to risk anything. Can you do it? The most critical time of history is passing now before 1978. Each moment is ticking by and we must successfully use this time for action.</p>
<p>You must become single-minded people and throw out all unclean, impure thoughts, leaving only a clean, pure mind for God. Any evil that influenced you before is your enemy. We cannot march on alone but are in need of our brothers; Jesus is our brother and Christians are our brothers. We must be the mediator to unite all religious people or else they will never become one. By doing so, God&#8217;s position and man&#8217;s position will become one position, belonging to you and to God. God needs adventurous people at this stage and He is seeking after the most bold and courageous men and women. Those who believe in God to the utmost degree shall never fail. This is where heaven and earth can be united; this is where God and all creation can be united.</p>
<p>Nothing ever belonged to you, but to God and humanity. I have no interest in any church organization; the Unification Church can disappear as long as the will of God lives and marches on. America itself has no meaning in God&#8217;s sight as long as His will marches on and His goal is accomplished. Today you must make your pledge that you absolutely belong to God and nobody else and that your goal is God&#8217;s goal. We must be willing to bear the cross and never relax until we finally fulfill.</p>
<p>Which position are you going to take, the position of Jesus or of his disciples? Compared to the path of restoration, death is relatively easy. Dying will not bring complete restoration. You have to persevere and taste living death in order to finish the road of restoration. I have never been afraid of death, but I cannot die until I complete this mission. When Jesus suffered for the sake of God then he was resurrected. The same will be true for you.</p>
<p>Those who can be representatives and ambassadors of God, who can bear the cross, raise your hands. May God truly be with you. Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">THE TRADITION OF THE UNIFICATION CHURCH</h1>
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&nbsp; <span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-13T05:24:33+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/13/the-tradition-of-the-unification-church.html" rel="bookmark">June 13, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-13T05:24:33+01:00">June 13, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1977.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">December 11, 1977<br />
Belvedere, New York<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>Man cannot live apart from his historical position. Everything he does, from making his food and his clothing to his everyday way of life derives from the background of history. Any society also has its inherited position and it maintains some link with the nation, either failing or succeeding on that level. Everyone is affected by their family tradition, social tradition and national tradition.</p>
<p>With this in mind let us determine the meaning of patriotism. The patriot is the person who faithfully fulfills tradition as an individual in his family, society and nation. Who is a saint then? We know that Jesus Christ, Mohammed and Confucius were saints, and that all these people organized the traditional religions of mankind. They are the ones who left posterity the kinds of tradition that all mankind benefits by. Were they people who always did as they wished, living every day in fun and laughter? No, from an earthly point of view those saints lived very unfortunate lives, far more difficult than average. Why did they live that kind of life? These saints were not concerned about their own freedom; instead they wanted to be totally obedient to the one divine will and they subjugated themselves to live that way.</p>
<p>Even though they had individual desires, those saints always thought about God and His tradition and how it could be manifested on the individual level. When they looked at their own families they always thought about what the authentic family would be in the sight of God. In observing their own society they always wanted to know from God&#8217;s point of view what society should be. They also had a fervent desire to know what traditions a nation should have in the sight of God. Naturally they also wondered how the world should serve God.</p>
<p>These saints were people who wanted to follow that tradition not only for the sake of life in this earthly world, but also for the spirit world. Their goal in trying to establish God&#8217;s tradition from the individual level all the way up to the level of spirit world was ultimately to find union with God. This striving for unity with God was the tradition they wanted to leave behind here on earth.</p>
<p>They knew that God is sovereign not only of this world but of spirit world as well, and this is why the tradition of the saints could have permanent impact on earth and afterward in heaven. These saints lived for the future, even though their contemporaries may have persecuted or accused them. Those saints were living in hope for the future and even though they suffered in their own time they always upheld their vision and kept striving for its fulfillment.</p>
<h3 align="center">The basis of trueness is love</h3>
<p>Once again, what is a saint? In one word, a saint is a true man, a man who can live in the past, present and future and in whom God can have confidence. A true man will never be corrupted over time, or seem less holy down through history. Such a man is like God, who is unchanging in value throughout the past, present and future. The value of a true man cannot be changed through time; his past value is his present value and his future value equals his past value. What is the fundamental basis for determining this? Is this demonstrated by a man&#8217;s faith not changing from the past, present or future? By a man&#8217;s actions not changing in purpose with time? What makes God true throughout the ages? Definitely the basis for trueness is love.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s love is constant and if a true man is defined as being in the likeness of God then his love also is unchanging in the past, present and future, both here on earth and in spirit world. We must fully understand this basic principle of the true man. You might proudly claim to be a true man because you don&#8217;t lie to anyone but does consistent action alone distinguish a true man? What about consistently speaking in one uniform manner?</p>
<p>No matter how consistent that man is in action or in speech, without love he is not a true man. Your natural parents are probably truthful with you, never lying or equivocating and their actions are consistent, but is that enough to make them true people? They must be in the likeness of God by having their love the same as God&#8217;s. If a husband, for example, is diplomatic and affectionate and always faithful to his wife, would that alone make him a saint? What more would you want in a husband? It is not formality or appearance that counts, but love in the likeness of God.</p>
<p>If something resembles a husband or parent, can it be called love? It must be something like God, not just like a husband, to be love. If you just cannot help but respond in love then what you have encountered is truly love; the mind and heart have to feel love in return, without having any choice. If you love someone, for example, do you ever wish that he would disappear? Love wants to bring him close, day and night. That is the feeling of love.</p>
<p>Here in America is it true that all parents and children feel a deep closeness? What kinds of sons and daughters are you, real or counterfeit? If you were to tell your parents that they were fake would they agree, or would they exclaim, &#8220;what are you talking about!&#8221; If a relationship is artificial and formal then people become strangers. For example, compare your family relationships to the true feeling of love; do you want to be close to your parents always, or do you wish that they would leave you alone?</p>
<p>Americans often demand the right of privacy, insisting that their parents stay out of their world and not bother them. Is there privacy in the world of love? Does God have a schedule of love, being available a few hours in the morning, then in the afternoon and again in the evening? When speaking of love there is no privacy in God; He has no schedule. If there is someone who wants to receive love 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, then God wants to be with him. Love is the one thing that God wants to be intoxicated with. If you are really the personification of that love of God then would you be happy just momentarily or 24 hours a day?</p>
<p>You women have been looking forward to having the kind of husband who will bring you right into heaven. As a woman you have three tests to go through; first you must receive the love of parents, and then love your husband and your own children in that manner. Then you can go right into heaven. There has to be some kind of standard. No one can enter heaven in just a mediocre way.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s talk about the providence of God. Some might say that it is a providence of war, that God enjoys seeing people clash. Jesus was a messenger of God who criticized people for being blasphemers and being like serpents and he certainly made some people angry. If Jesus had told the Jews that they were wonderful men of God, would he have been killed? Without exception the other saints like Confucius and Mohammed also declared to the world something it didn&#8217;t want to hear.</p>
<p>Why am I being criticized so much today? Am I telling Americans that they are the greatest people on earth and that I love them? I am being criticized for declaring that Americans are ruining themselves and their country. I understand very well that Americans don&#8217;t want to hear anything like that even from their own children, but when all of a sudden a stranger comes from a foreign country and criticizes America, they get particularly incensed!</p>
<p>Every Sunday morning I repeat things that even you don&#8217;t want to hear, but still I say them. You repent and accept it all because you have hope and you want to make a new beginning, but the rest of the world doesn&#8217;t accept what I say and resists changing. Attitude is very important. Unlike the rest of America you think, &#8220;No matter what you say to us, we will accept it, knowing that you will only lead us to better ourselves. You are not here to destroy us but to raise our standard.&#8221;</p>
<p>You might look back on your life and remember how you had all kinds of freedom before you joined the Unification Church. Now here you might feel deprived of your freedom, and what&#8217;s more, you are pushed out into the hard work of fund raising and witnessing. The weather is bitter cold now but in the early morning you get up to come to Belvedere to hear me. You live crazy lives. Why do you have to do this? Isn&#8217;t there another way? If you slept twelve hours a day you would still have twelve good hours left to work so why should you bother with being so uncomfortable? Wherever we turn there is always controversy, whether we knock on doors or start a business. Even when I go down to Alabama there is controversy. Americans want to know why I am bothering them. Are we going to become rich? Not at all.</p>
<h3 align="center">Please accept your tribulations as training</h3>
<p>Actually we are here to spread love. Even if the people hate us, we still want to spread the love of God. We want to talk about the love of God, on doorsteps and street corners and in airports and bus stations m Every word and every deed is the gift of love, a manifestation of love When you ask people to donate they may snap, &#8220;Don&#8217;t bother me Leave me alone! &#8221; But if you still forgive them then they are the ones who are indebted.</p>
<p>We have a responsibility to share the love that comes from heaven. Representing every race and all the people of the world, you were hand-picked by God to distribute His love. God always works to set anything up conditionally in the beginning, and in our case you are conditionally spreading God&#8217;s love when you go fund raising with peanuts and flowers or chocolate. Have you ever thought about it this way? Every morning in the darkness you go out selling newspapers but are you making a lot of money? We are actually gaining nothing and money-wise we are losing, yet still we do it.</p>
<p>You were assigned to 360 homes but do the people like you to knock on their doors? You do it anyway because you are chosen and ordained by God to give out His love. I want you to know that you are all the heirs of God and candidates for sainthood. There are all kinds of people walking on the same street you do, but is there anyone else going down the street in genuine innocence, simply trying to give away the love of God? Early in the morning are you motivated that way, day after day?</p>
<p>Some people may misunderstand us but eventually they will know our true motivation and they will bow down, knowing that we are truly doing unselfish things for the purpose of God. People test you Moonies when they accuse you but then they find that you are strong and firm inside, not boneless like jellyfish. You are not just talkers or salesmen but you have something solid inside, something that they can feel is bigger than themselves. You are individuals who can look straight up to the future, who know the present and also the past. People will see in you the hope of the universe, because you are representatives of God. After all the kinds of suffering you have gone through, people would expect you to look tired out, but instead they see that your eyes are shining and your posture is confident.</p>
<p>We want to polish ourselves and become new. When you go to the riverside or seashore you can find well-rounded, polished stones which are very beautiful. On the mountainside, however, you find stones that are all jagged and irregular in shape. Which kind of stone would you like to be? Why do you prefer the round, smooth stone? You say that it is the most beautiful, but that is just its external appearance. Its smoothness shows how hard a time that stone has gone through, how much it has been tossed by the water and slammed against the sand. It is not easy to make a hard stone smooth. Unification Church members all start out like the stones on the mountainside, with lots of sharp edges, but each time the waves and rocks beat against the stones a little more wears away, making them smoother and smoother. Those tribulations break off parts of you and it&#8217;s very painful, but inside you still say, &#8220;I want to persevere and go on.&#8221;</p>
<p>Once you are seasoned and polished and hardened then you have a well-rounded personality. The beauty of a round shape stems from its sameness on all sides. Try this experiment sometime; pick up a ball and draw faces on it from all sides. You can draw on it from all directions and it will look the same, but you cannot draw too many faces on an odd-shaped stone.</p>
<p>Which would you rather be, a sharp stone or a round one? You are like God and God basically has a round character. He likes roundness and everything that God makes always has some round aspect. I can see one evidence that God loves Oriental people by the fact that their noses are more rounded and smooth!</p>
<p>You actually become smoother faster when you do things like selling the paper, bumping against the harsh cold air and the hardness of the people. Would you rather be very meek in selling the newspapers, or would you enthusiastically go from person to person? After you have been trained in this fashion you have keen eyesight and can evaluate what kind of man or woman a person is.</p>
<p>The public may look at a small sister as a simple person, but all of a sudden when she starts talking a beautiful sermon comes out! They will gasp, &#8220;Where did you learn all that? You are talking about big things! &#8221; That&#8217;s her Unification Church training. The MFT experience will give you basic training for dealing with all kinds of people. Even without your realizing it you are becoming the best diplomats, with a sixth sense about people This is formidable training which is impossible to get in any other way. MFT is really your most difficult task m A person&#8217;s money usually stays way down deep in his pocket and doesn&#8217;t like to come out but you are trying to talk it out! It really takes concerted effort to move a person&#8217;s heart.</p>
<p>In meeting you, a person might momentarily feel closer to you than to his own wife. You can make such a deep impression upon him in the shortest possible time because you can analyze a person. Instead of wishing that you hadn&#8217;t approached him to donate, he will think, &#8220;I wish you could be my own daughter,&#8221; or &#8220;I wish you could be my own brother. What a wonderful person.&#8221; If you meet that same person a second time you know that he will greet you first. He might say, &#8220;I&#8217;m so glad to see you again! Shall I buy again?&#8221; You might use wonderful diplomacy and say, &#8220;You already donated once so you don&#8217;t have to give again,&#8221; but if he insists then you could tell him, &#8220;Well, if you really want to help then you could give a substantial donation and get a whole case.&#8221;</p>
<p>When you come back with a good result at the end of the day, instead of being proud of how much money you have you must be jubilant that you could distribute more of God&#8217;s love. Then secondly appreciate the money coming in. You must look at the merchandise you carry as being containers of the love of God. If you have candy and think of it as the love of God, would the candy be happy? If it has a personality, the candy will feel, &#8220;I want to be eaten by a man who appreciates the love of God in me as much as the person who sold me.&#8221; The candy wants to be possessed by such a person, and would even say, &#8220;If he doesn&#8217;t eat me himself then I want to be eaten by his loved ones.&#8221;</p>
<p>If the person truly appreciates the candy then it will not just be candy but a tonic for good health. Two purposes are being served. First, it gives joy to man by giving love, and second it brings joy to God m Does that make God joyful because God loves money? No, in the sight of God it is not money; it is the appreciation of His love m When you raise funds and come back with result you must pray and offer that money to heaven, saying, &#8220;God, these people appreciated Your love and received it. Would You remember them and add Your blessing to their homes?&#8221; Indeed God will respond to you and His blessing will go to every home which gave that money.</p>
<p>You are like God&#8217;s water holes, offering the water of God&#8217;s love m Would you like to be a pipeline the size of a finger, or as big as a giant water main? Would you just stand still, or be energetic and actively embrace the world? You know the answer, but knowing it is one thing and doing it is something else.</p>
<p>Spiritually you look like the jagged stones from the mountains, and you need perseverance in order to become round; many things have to be chipped away so that only the genuine portion will remain. What color stone would you like to be? I like white. White paper is capable of receiving all colors m Blue paper cannot show blue ink, for instance, and black paper cannot accept any color. I like white because I want to embrace everybody of every conceivable color. Wouldn&#8217;t you like the kind of man who is capable of accepting anyone? The person who can embrace all circumstances and who is disturbed by nothing is a prince of peace. He has inner tranquillity all the time m If you are that way then everybody can come and share themselves and you will accept them all.</p>
<h3 align="center">If you truly represent God, He will vindicate you</h3>
<p>Is pushing you out for fund raising right or wrong? If you really love to tackle that mission more than you like eating and sleeping and loving, then by doing it you will discover a far greater love than you ever knew. I want you to have that gift. When you apply yourself in your mission more than you love eating and sleeping and loving then you will inevitably discover a new world of genuine love and value.</p>
<p>Then it doesn&#8217;t make any difference where you go. You can go to the dungeons of hell and still have spring all around; I will be there with you and God will be there with you and you will never be alone. Spiritually I will take you by the hand and lead you in each direction. That discovery of new value and the sense of permanent love cannot be found in a comfortable classroom. That kind of experience can only be obtained through actually knocking on the door of the Harlems of this world. By that experience alone can you taste love, which is why I am pushing you out.</p>
<p>Please take it seriously and do not feel that you are being used. If you willingly go that path you will discover new value and meet God there. How many of you have really walked down the street in the heart of God, and how many tears did you shed on behalf of God? Someone might mistreat you, but forgive them and come back with hope. Next time you visit him you can have hope that he will be a new man and treat you differently. You are always being deceived by people, but always be their friend anyway.</p>
<p>Even though you are always being deceived, people will become different with time. Know that the power of God is there, that God is not leaving you alone; if you have that much forgiveness and generosity and prayer but still the other person doesn&#8217;t repent then don&#8217;t worry about him. Spirit world will come down and chastise him.</p>
<p>When God sees how much you truly represent Him and He is moved by your heart, then God will feel anger and want revenge, exclaiming, &#8220;I cannot leave this situation alone! I must come down to help.&#8221; That kind of togetherness with God cannot be found when you are sitting idle, waiting for God&#8217;s blessing. You must be out there in the forefront in order to meet God.</p>
<p>I am living in this fashion now but this is not the way of life I prefer. I felt much closer to God when I was in prison, when there was no bed to lie on and I just dozed leaning against the wall. In that kind of life I found God right beside me, always watching over me. I long for that depth of relationship with God.</p>
<p>The power source which sustained the saints in history was found in that kind of circumstance. When there was agony and hardship they found God, not in comfort. I don&#8217;t need good clothes or a warm welcome from people because the only thing I care about is the love of God. If someone stripped me naked and then threw me out into the cold, God would still be loving me, and I would not feel the chill. Are you that way?</p>
<p>Some of these sisters&#8217; faces are cute and innocent and charming, but I wonder how much longer that beauty will last, how much longer I will see those faces here each week. Maybe someone will lure them away. When you feel you cannot stay here any more because it is too hard and you can&#8217;t stand it, then all of a sudden you will find something more attractive outside, perhaps someone who will ask you to come with him. Many women are captivated by their own beauty and when they look in the mirror they admire their nice complexions and slim figures. When they are confronted with the MFT mission they are horrified and insist that they need beautiful clothes and nice things.</p>
<p>Why did you get up early to come to Belvedere on a cold morning like this? What a life! Did you come because you want money or food? If you really want true unchanging love, you must realize that it is not going to be gained in very relaxed fashion. You have to go to extremes and there you will find it, but once you have it you will have unperturbed happiness even at the bottom of hell&#8217;s misery. Now when you look at a movie about an ordinary person living an ordinary life do you find it interesting? I&#8217;m sure you are more interested in people who are doing extraordinary things.</p>
<p>In Hollywood there are all kinds of glamorous stars but are they really like they are on film? Are they true men and women? History is on record like a film and you are the leading actors and actresses in manifesting the true love of God. Have you ever thought that you were starring in the dramatic movie we are making at the moment? Should you be dressed like a king or queen, or would it be more dramatic if you wore miserable clothes? What about wearing your shoes backwards? There is a very striking explanation of why you should-shoes are going toward the secular world and you want to go in the opposite direction! You may have a ragged suit with many holes but since you have tasted the world as it is, you are now going in the other direction. You women can think that God is your leading man. Could you find any better?</p>
<p>The archives of heaven are being gathered right now, with God recalling every suspenseful situation, and your name will appear there, too. Suppose you were present when some climactic moment was being filmed but you were dozing m How would you like to see that played back later on? If a person is very ugly then whether he is dozing or not doesn&#8217;t make any difference in how he looks, but a charming face asleep is not attractive m</p>
<h3 align="center">Only the love of God can unify the world</h3>
<p>The most dramatic and stirring life is the search after permanent and eternal love. A lot of people think that the presidency of their nation is the ultimate position, but presidents become slaves to their responsibility. Many successful people think that their lives could only be more fulfilled by being an influential member of government, but the permanent rank you want is not of President of the United States but that of a genuine searcher for the true love of God. Let people say anything they want about how we are evil people. One thing is true: the Unification Church is here to find the true, permanent love of God.</p>
<p>How can we create unification? The way of unification is simple. You heard how people tremble when they read in &#8220;Master Speaks&#8221; that I said we will conquer the world, but how could we possibly do that? With bombs or fists? You say that we will use love, but whose love? My love? I am a mortal man who may change, but the love of God will not change. God is eternal and if the love of God is burning in each individual&#8217;s heart then we don&#8217;t have to worry about how the Unification Church will unify the world because the love of God will do it.</p>
<p>Do you feel that the love of God is the solution to everything? Is there no better happiness than obtaining the love of God? Even asleep in bed you would still be dancing with that love! This is not just an amusing thing; it is absolutely true. If you are fervent in focusing yourself on that love then you can penetrate not only this world but spirit world as well.</p>
<p>If you are intoxicated in that love then you can see all of spirit world and hear the music of that world. Your nose will not just breathe air but the atmosphere of spirit world, which is love. Your whole body will move in conjunction with spirit world; then you will be on cloud 9 and your feet won&#8217;t touch the ground. I searched after that love and I know that is it not stored in a palace, but found inside the boundaries of hell. Those who do not reach out for that love shall remain in hell.</p>
<p>When you understand this, the teaching of Jesus becomes very relevant; &#8220;For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.&#8221; That&#8217;s the truth. The bottom of hell is a real gold mine because there anyone can find the true love of God. Since God&#8217;s love is blocking the exit of hell, however, anyone who does not know the love of God cannot come out. Hell in the spirit world is beyond the reach of anyone on earth, but you can digest physical hell. In order to liberate hell in the ultimate sense you must start here on earth. The New Yorker is on the avenue of prostitutes, 8th Avenue. I might assign our women to kidnap the men who go to the houses of prostitutes and liberate them from sin. Then you can really straighten out this country of America.</p>
<p>You need to really be experienced and toughened by training so that you can tackle any kind of extraordinary mission. Hearing this, you may be trembling inside, thinking, &#8220;What kind of religion are you teaching? I just want to pray and meditate and go to heaven, but now you are pushing me not only into fund raising but into confronting prostitutes. How could we liberate people like that who are at the bottom of human misery?&#8221; Someone has to liberate them and reach out for their salvation. They are also lost daughters of God and His heart is broken because of them. If you are in the likeness of God&#8217;s heart then in order to liberate God you must get down to liberate your own brothers and sisters. Fund raising and witnessing are only kindergarten training; the real tough training is still ahead of you!</p>
<p>I asked God what kind of tradition He would like to set up here on earth. Do you think He answered, &#8220;My tradition is to conquer the world, period. I want power&#8221;? If seizing power were God&#8217;s only objective then it wouldn&#8217;t take more than ten seconds; He would have done it already. God is all-powerful and He could knock everybody out if He wanted to. Suppose God&#8217;s tradition was to become rich or to acquire knowledge for the sake of humanity. Would He have done it already or not?</p>
<h3 align="center">What has God been lacking that He should suffer?</h3>
<p>Then what&#8217;s the problem with God? He seems to have everything already, but if you ask God whether His tradition of love is fulfilled, God will say nom God will answer, &#8220;My son, love cannot be fulfilled by oneself alone m I need a partner.&#8221; God has not found that perfect object here on earth yet and that&#8217;s why the world is still suffering.</p>
<p>Not just anyone can be a partner of that love of God because His love is perfect and supreme; whoever will be capable of becoming a partner of that love must have a record of loving the entire world, past, present and future. Such a person should be able to demonstrate that love of God here on earth, but no one has reached that level. Have you seen that incarnate God here on earth? Because God has not seen that individual either, He has been waiting and working for thousands of years.</p>
<p>If that almighty and perfect God puts His trust in you then do you automatically become the object of that love, without any basic transformation? The world has become like it is because no one is capable of qualifying as the recipient of that fullest love of God m What does God need? Certainly He does not need power or knowledge or money; what He needs is an object who can handle His love. How much have you been thinking that God is supreme, that you could sacrifice everything and still feel that God is priceless? Have you ever been totally filled with the love of God, wanting to serve Him totally for the fulfillment of His purpose?</p>
<p>Look at your own heart and discern if it is pure or stained. In all your concern about your own marriage and how old you are getting did you get distracted from concern for the love of God? I know you want to be recognized by me but if you feel ignored then you only get discouraged. Most people today think that God is either all-powerful or dead, but you must realize that God&#8217;s ultimate search is for the object who will become the recipient of His love, not for supernatural power. Nobody else even thought about how God might be suffering except Reverend Moon. I have experienced God&#8217;s broken heart and I know how He searched for many thousands of years and could not find the partner on earth who could respond to His love.</p>
<p>God cannot be tired, but even that tireless God is almost at the point of fatigue. I want you to know that He is almost ready to say, &#8220;There is no hope for mankind. Forget it.&#8221; But I am one man who can say on behalf of all humanity, &#8220;God, just be patient a little longer. We are not going to disappoint You. If You will wait, we will bring the result to You.&#8221;</p>
<p>My only worry is about God deciding not to give me a chance, about seeing the day come when God says, &#8220;Reverend Moon, even you cannot remedy the situation. I must give up on this world.&#8221; This is the worst kind of condemnation I could receive and that&#8217;s what I worry about. I want you to know that God is serious about the situation of mankind. Realizing that the destiny of all mankind is at stake would you think about having your own little home or about how soon the blessing is coming? No, if you are truly the sons and daughters of God then you must be crazy about the mission, busy comforting God, saying, &#8220;God, give us a chance and we shall never disappoint You. We will never let You abandon this world.&#8221; That&#8217;s the Unification Church way of life.</p>
<p>God is breathing your words and actions, for they represent His only shred of hope in the entire world. The things that I tell you to do are so extraordinary that only those who are determined to give their lives and die for the cause could fulfill them. Even if we commit our lives there is still no guarantee that we will get to the ultimate goal; the situation is that serious. God&#8217;s world of love should conquer the world of hell step by step and liberate it. The love of God is our weapon.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not going to be as simple as going out to get money. You are going out every day, either witnessing or on MFT, to expand the territory of God. Whatever your responsibility, you have to cling to the mission and cry out day in and day out. You must make your mission wet with your tears and give everything you have-your body, soul, mind, your knowledge, your possessions-and commit yourself to fulfilling your mission. I committed everything to the American movement because the focal point of the heavenly dispensation is now here. I committed my life, my fortune, my family, my know-how, everything I have m Not one penny has been held back. Your position is to make yourself just the same. If you don&#8217;t like doing it then I am sorry; you cannot be prosperous in that case and just have no right to be here.</p>
<p>What has God been lacking that He should be suffering? God hasn&#8217;t found His object of love here on Earth m There is only one organization of people who can think in this fashion; you cannot find anyone else besides the Unification Church trying to remedy this particular situation. When John the Baptist saw Jesus he called him the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world. In the same way, hosts of angels will look at you and proclaim that you are the messengers of God&#8217;s love. That&#8217;s the way they must describe you if you truly go this difficult way.</p>
<p>You are the children of God who are carrying the burden of God&#8217;s love to disseminate it to the rest of the world. No matter what happens, when you see the evil of the world you can&#8217;t say, &#8220;God, I just abhor all that. I want You to cast down Your brimstone and fire and burn it away.&#8221; That&#8217;s not the love of God. When you are mistreated by the world you will say, &#8220;God, I want You to have hope for them. Give me a little longer and I will claim their hearts and raise them as Your genuine sons and daughters.&#8221; This is how Abraham tried to dissuade God when He was ready to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah.</p>
<p>Each year is most precious now. Seeing the manner in which 1977 has gone by I feel that it is shameful to welcome the arrival of 1978. I regret not pushing all our members a little more in 1977. I wish I had done it so that everyone would have brought more result and we could have welcomed a greater morning together in 1978. Any of us may become a sacrifice, but the important thing is that God&#8217;s front line moves forward and His territory is expanded. Do you understand that heart? Do you think I just hate you and am trying to destroy you, or is this a genuine expression of love?</p>
<p>What is the tradition of the Unification Church? Not money, not knowledge or power. The love of God is the Unification Church&#8217;s tradition. I have nothing to be proud of. I am a miserable man from the earthly point of view, a lonely man who is accused and persecuted. How can I complete a foundation for the love of God while I am still living here on earth? The world which is controlled by Satan hates me because I want to be a messenger of God&#8217;s love to the world.</p>
<h3 align="center">Restoration of vertical history</h3>
<p>We are rooted in the tradition of each era in history. The Old Testament is the era of the servant while the New Testament is the era of adopted son. The Unification Church is coming into direct son ship and to do that each person must become better than adopted sons, better than any Christians here on earth. In what respect must you be better? You know that Heavenly Father is searching after His object of love, thirsting for love. A servant always expects some reward and even an adopted son also wants to get more; these religions always expect some blessing from God and worry about their own church, wanting insurance from heaven. God is not the exclusive possession of the existing Christian churches, or of any other religion. Each person can say, &#8220;God is my God.&#8221; I am His child and I discovered that God is impoverished in love and His heart is broken. Everyone else may want blessing and material wealth, but the true child will tell God, &#8220;We will take care of giving them all those things. In the meantime we want something else; we are going to be objects of Your love and respond to You.&#8221;</p>
<p>We are accomplishing the vertical restoration of history in the horizontal way. Each person must inherit the love of God m Each one must inherit from the Old Testament the love of the true servant and then consummate it, as well as the New Testament love of the true adopted son. On that foundation the love of the true sons and daughters can be encompassed. The Old Testament era made an offering of material things and in the New Testament era Jesus as the son was given as the offering m In the Completed Testament era we must do both, restoring material offerings to inherit the Old Testament tradition and offering man in the New Testament tradition.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what you are doing in fund raising and witnessing. The persecution you encounter is an encapsulation of the Old Testament history and you must accept it as restitution. It is a test of whether you are still changeable or not, whether you are really permanent or temporary. Even the communists are irate about our fund raising and use this topic as a forum for denouncing the Unification Church.</p>
<p>Should we stop because people are upset? If people oppose us we will only do that much more. When it becomes more difficult, we will work even harder. Each person must restore the Old Testament era in his way of life, needing only about 2.5 years of dedicated effort. After passing through the Old Testament era each one must do the same for the mission of Jesus, which is fulfilled by witnessing. That might take another 2.5 years of dedication, making five years altogether. God created man on the sixth day, and in a seven year period paralleling the seven days of creation each person can enter the era of the direct sonship of God and go beyond the level of the fallen realm. When you reach this level then you are eligible to receive the blessing. At that point you still must go through another 2.5 -year period, the final test of your absolute loyalty.</p>
<h3 align="center">Marriage in the Unification Church</h3>
<p>Why is it the Unification Church tradition that even after marriage you cannot have a family immediately? Adam&#8217;s fall occurred at the top of the growth stage so you are given blessing at that point, but you must still go past the third level. In restoration the two of you must reach perfection instead of repeating the fall. Even though you are husband and wife, together you must love God more m That is how you will fulfill the final period m Selfish and illicit love brought the fall but this time God-centered love will make restitution.</p>
<p>The youngest age for a man to be blessed should be 27, because after three years of separation he will be 30, the age of Jesus when he started his public ministry. Some brothers might be outraged but if they feel that way they should pack up and leave. In America parents get worried if their teenagers don&#8217;t have a boyfriend or girlfriend, but we are just the opposite. What would I gain by installing such a demanding rule? Nothing. If I didn&#8217;t have to worry about God&#8217;s rules and about spirit world then anything would be all right.</p>
<p>Men and women must be hard on themselves if they intend to pay the historical debt. Each person has to be firm with themselves and cry out for restoration. Sexual desires are torture to withstand, particularly in energetic young people, but in order to pay the historical debt you must overcome them. Only something greater than the urge for sex can overcome it, and without having some greater power from God you could not do it. That is the supreme test. You must show God that you can surpass the urges of satanic love. Just grit your teeth and become totally numb to that sexual level. Then God will give you the blessing of love. That is why the age of thirty is the magic figure.</p>
<p>You know how promiscuous American young people are and outside our Church you would be free to love at any time of day or night, but here in the Unification Church you are really paying the debt of the rest of the world. It is probably the greatest of all torture and normally those are desperate years. I set the minimum standard as three years of giving yourself for God and forgetting all earthly carnal urges. You must make restitution and cleanse and purify your past.</p>
<p>If you look at the early marriages of high school boys and girls in the everyday world, you will see that few of them last even six months. Half of all marriages nowadays break up, but even though your marriage comes late it is built on a solid foundation and has permanency. It has a purpose and a chance of absolute success. If I were to set the age of forty as the minimum for marriage then when couples got together there would be no question that they would be united completely into one! If I told them to get a divorce if they wanted to then they would reply, &#8220;Get a divorce after waiting this long? What are you talking about?!&#8221;</p>
<p>The length of time you live in happiness is not the most significant thing; if you live only one year as husband and wife then you want to live it with dramatic intensity, not drag it out for thirty or forty years. This tradition of marriage is a very beautiful way of life. You unmarried members should not just think that you are single but that you are actually living with God; as you lie down in bed, think, &#8220;God, let&#8217;s sleep together.&#8221; God is always with you m The more you long for a mate, the greater is your chance to succeed in marriage.</p>
<h3 align="center">Restoration of the Old and New Testament eras</h3>
<p>In your own lifetime you must restore the Old Testament era, New Testament era and Completed Testament era, and before your blessing you must pass heaven&#8217;s examination m You can graduate from the Old Testament era by restoring material things and offering them to God, in our case by fund raising. By investing your heart and body and soul you earn the material which you offer to God m Whoever wants to spend the money on his own needs first and give what&#8217;s left over to God should not even go out fund raising. The person who works hard and even adds his own money to the result, even one penny, is beautiful before God m In that case you have completely fulfilled. I know this law of restoration and I don&#8217;t like to spend anything you raise; I would rather add my own resources m Your parents may think that Reverend Moon is depriving you of your earnings and slavedriving you, but that is far from true.</p>
<p>The condition for the New Testament era is met by witnessing, giving your heart and soul and mind to restore the people m By linking this effort with your own family members, your entire ancestry will be benefited. I sacrificed my own family because of this movement, taking care of the members while my own family suffered, and eventually was sacrificed. That family will be given ultimate blessing, however, because that is God&#8217;s way.</p>
<p>In order to save the world God gave up His own son as a sacrifice. To win salvation for mankind you must not only give up yourself but your own family and children as . The person who is given a witnessing mission sometimes wants to slip away and not go out, but when you go out for witnessing you have to give not only your entire heart but even commit your entire family, trying to do more than any pioneers in American history. When you feel that even in doing that you are not doing enough, then you have passed through the Old Testament and New Testament eras.</p>
<p>It is your good fortune to be able to witness. Many people say they don&#8217;t have time to witness, but they are lacking in heart, not time m Those swindlers who think they can get by and go the easy way are wrong m If the easy way were possible, I would be the first one to relax. One lifetime is short enough so why should I have to live this seriously if there were an easy way? I cannot deviate from the Principle, however.</p>
<p>In the beginning, God, Adam and Eve and the angel together made up the whole universe. Originally these three were linked by love but long ago the linkage was severed. This is the fallen world so restoration must begin at the bottom, with all things of creation. Next the loyal servant must be restored, who was the original angel. Since the angel betrayed God in the beginning, no matter how badly anyone in that angel&#8217;s position is treated, he must not rebel again but always be obedient. Every member of the Unification Church starts in the position of serpent. for awhile, first fulfilling the position of heavenly angel. The outside world represents the satanic angel and it constantly harasses you, yet you must be superior to that. No matter what they say, you must still love God and follow with burning conviction. Just forget yourself and remember the suffering of God m That&#8217;s what counts m If you will not be shaken and will remember that because of the love of God you are different then you will be surrounded by true love, and while the rest of the world may decline you will prosper.</p>
<p>Why will the world hit you and persecute you? You have to prove yourself superior to them and without this confrontation you have no way to show yourself. Unless a fighter gets into the ring he cannot prove how good he is. If people oppose the Unification Church and then surrender then that&#8217;s a real surrender, but if in the very beginning they accept us they will soon complain if God doesn&#8217;t love them equally. God lets the world persecute you so He can give you the key to the Kingdom of Heaven and not have anyone accuse you of not deserving it.</p>
<p>The time to worry is when there is no persecution. When you go out witnessing do you want a companion so you can enjoy it more? How many men did God start out with? How many Messiahs came 2,000 years ago? God sent only one Messiah here on earth, and there was only one Adam in the garden of Eden, only one Eve who fell. There is a deep reason for you to go out witnessing all by yourself.</p>
<p>When you finally do bring three spiritual children then your headaches really begin! Often you might not want to deal with those men and women, but you must persevere and embrace them and love them with God&#8217;s love. Through the first year, second year and third year there will be all kinds of upheavals, but that&#8217;s the way you can prove that you will not change, that no circumstance can defeat you. In the meantime you will prove you are better than your own parents or brothers and sisters, and better than your teachers.</p>
<p>I want you to know that even Peter, who supposedly was Jesus&#8217; chief disciple., betrayed Jesus at the end of three years. This test of betrayal is the formula of faith which all men have had to pass through. You must be able to sustain your faith without food and without rest; you have to give much comfort to your spiritual children. If you have food, then you want to give it to them, almost being their servant in every way. You may wonder why you do this, but remember that this is the way I went. When you see me now you may think I never suffered, but actually I have passed through the misery at the bottom of the world. I have fulfilled the condition of giving all kinds of service to all kinds of members. If you feel now that you just cannot help but love me, it is because a long time ago I set the condition in the most dramatic manner of demonstrating love for all men and women.</p>
<h3 align="center">You must know the circumstances<br />
of Jesus, True Parents and God</h3>
<p>Let me ask you, do you really love me? No, I think you complain to me in your heart about not being given more blessings. Even if your blessing doesn&#8217;t come soon, will you still love me? In the end you will have demonstrated such unselfish love and devotion that even a hoodlum in your neighborhood will treat you like royalty and bow down in respect. At one time he probably tried to do all kinds of evil toward you but even he will bow down. That is the glory of our way of life.</p>
<p>This is an unspeakably hard life to live and that&#8217;s why once you live it you will receive the most supreme love of God. It is hard, but I tell you that this road cannot be avoided. If you cannot finish it in this world then you will still have to go that route even after you go to spirit world, and then you will vividly remember what you could have done differently that would have changed your situation. Hell is the world of regret, and in that regret you really don&#8217;t have room in your mind to think about your husband and family.</p>
<p>Actually the blessing is not of prime importance. What would you do with your marriage without even solving these fundamental problems? Only after putting yourself entirely in the love of God does marriage make sense. You must go down to the dungeons of hell and search there for the love of God. I did not search for or enjoy God&#8217;s love at the throne of God; I reached out to that love in the worst kind of suffering, with blood and tears. You don&#8217;t know how I was tortured many times and practically killed.</p>
<p>That is the basic formula and without it you cannot find God&#8217;s love. When you go all the way to your limit and feel like you are dying, there things begin to happen. When you are so hungry from working without food that you feel almost ready to faint, at that moment things start happening. No one can give you that experience, or buy it with money. Unless you experience this you will not understand. You must feel that you are representing God and that every motion you make is on behalf of God. You must put yourself in God&#8217;s place, walking on the road of restoration.</p>
<p>Many mothers in the world went through incredible suffering to feed their children or to give them an education. Just like them, you are taking the suffering road to give God&#8217;s children salvation. Is there any room for complaint? Can you get tired? That kind of mother cannot be tired and neither can you. Every penny she makes helps send her son to school and guarantee his success. Every drop of sweat you shed will bring hope to the people of the world.</p>
<p>Go out in the position of father and mother and love the world and then come back. Gathering a billion dollar fortune is less precious than fund raising with peanuts or flowers, knocking on doors. You must go out to witness because otherwise you will not know Jesus&#8217; circumstance or True Parents&#8217; circumstance or God&#8217;s circumstance. I am still working at making money and still witnessing. If you pass through all these stages then heavenly love will link them all; God&#8217;s love will come down and your love of God will go up, making one whole linkage.</p>
<p>Once you go through this condition with all your heart then you shall have your own things and your own children and your own world of God here on earth. By paying this vertical indemnity you shall do all of this. Only after I did all this has God given me the right to own material things in His name. Because I passed through all these three stages I can now have a family. That is the result of going precisely the same path, through the Old Testament era, New Testament era and Completed Testament era.</p>
<p>While you are setting this kind of vertical condition you are doing horizontal things like fund raising and witnessing and getting the blessing of God to create your family here on earth. It took God 7,000 years to complete this one cycle but you are doing this horizontally on earth in seven years. If God suffered for 7,000 years to make this possible, can&#8217;t you even do it gratefully for seven short years on earth?</p>
<p>Your love of God connects every aspect of restoration. What is the connecting tradition of all these loves from the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament? The axis is the love of God. You must put yourself in the position of Abraham, Noah, Moses and all the central figures and love God more than they did. Noah sustained his faith for 120 years, and you must be determined to be better than Noah.</p>
<p>Abraham lived comfortably in Ur of Chaldea when all of a sudden God told him to pack up and take off. Now you live in the comfortable New Yorker and have hot water and nice beds, but if I told you to pack up right away would you respond like Abraham? Abraham became a wanderer, but are you better than Abraham? If you haven&#8217;t even thought about it, how could you be better? At least start by thinking about being better. After that would you put it into action? When God asked me to go to America, could I have exclaimed, &#8220;God, what are You talking about? I finally have enough room here in Korea to be comfortable and anyway I don&#8217;t like America&#8221;? I knew that all kinds of persecution would come, that my responsibility would be to shake the world into outrage against me.</p>
<p>Before I came I talked with my closest disciples and told them that I would be a target of worldwide persecution in three years. I prepared them to remain in Korea and gave them instructions, knowing ahead of time what was coming. At that time they said, &#8220;What are you talking about? No one will know you.&#8221; They never believed it, but what I said at that time was absolutely fulfilled. I am a mysterious man in one sense and you think you know me but you really don&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Are you better than Abraham or Moses? Are you better than Jesus? In one sense you are better because without dying on a cross you can have a blessed home and children here on earth. Jesus was crucified but the Unification Church will not be demolished. Even in his lifetime Jesus worked only in the little nation of Israel, but our IOWC is going all over the world. The world is our stage; the universe is our stage. If you are better than Jesus then you should be doing bigger and better work than Jesus.</p>
<p>Are you better than Reverend Moon? Give me a reason why. You are better than Reverend Moon because I am getting older but you are younger and you shall remain longer than I will. When I die will our movement go up or down? If my lifetime goal were to build all kinds of boats so that we could move out to sea then if I were to die would you want to finish or would you just think it was a big headache? After I die will everything move faster? If you say so then you must show me while I am living what you can do after I die.</p>
<p>You should never be satisfied by being better than me. Step out and say, &#8220;God, I am Your son so I am going to be better than You! &#8221; You will not insult God if you tell Him, &#8220;I love You with all my heart and soul, and because I love You so much I want to inherit Your mission. I cannot afford to let You suffer any further. Won&#8217;t you stay behind and let me finish?&#8221; Will God be very mad or very joyful? He will be smiling ear to ear. God will say, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been waiting for this day and it has arrived at last.&#8221;</p>
<p>Would you like to have your sons and daughters be inferior or superior to you? How could they be better than you if you are perfect? God will like your attitude and He won&#8217;t accuse you of being greedy. He wants your children to be so heroic and beautiful that it will be His joy to watch them. Having such children is God&#8217;s promise to you.</p>
<p>If you have no love when you voice all this ambition then you will insult everyone by saying you are better than they are. Saying you are better than God would be unforgivable. But if you do it with love, out of love of God, then it becomes their joy instead and with that desire you can go everywhere. Such unprecedented love was never manifested anywhere and you can be the first pioneer in the conquest of love. Anyone who possesses the greatest love in the universe will receive the respect of everyone, no matter how exalted. We are looking forward to the fulfillment of that supreme love. Is it believable when you hear me?</p>
<p>Before I die I want to bless all the races of the world, and love them and feed and clothe them. That&#8217;s my philosophy and way of life. I want you to be the same and even better. There is so much persecution that there are few occasions for me to manifest that love, but because you have more time ahead of you and the world will eventually accept you, you will have a chance to love the world more. You need to taste three kinds of tears-tears of longing for love, then the actual taste of love, and finally the fulfillment of love. These are the tears of joy you must taste.</p>
<p>That is the tradition God wants you to leave and once you fulfill then anywhere you go you will be in the forefront of heaven. At any ceremony Jesus and God will want to put you in front because you are the conqueror of love. How beautiful or handsome you appear doesn&#8217;t make any difference; what counts is your state of mind. If I stayed a number of days at the New Yorker, I would walk on every floor at 3 or 4 o&#8217;clock in the morning and really love that building. I would look for those who are cleaning or preparing food for brothers and sisters. Those are the people who advertise their heart without words.</p>
<p>If there are 1,000 residents in the New Yorker then feel that at least you must do one thing more than everyone else. Get up first and go to bed last. When you pray, feel that you are praying for all one thousand. Perhaps you will fall asleep while you pray and then wake up the next morning and start the day; God loves the person who lives that dramatic kind of life. Whether I am here or not doesn&#8217;t make any difference. You are the heirs of the love of God. That is most precious under the sun.</p>
<p>The American people are waiting for the birth of such a man. All humanity is waiting for the birth of that man. Did you see the movie, &#8220;Oh, God!&#8221;? By the end of the movie the main character had become miserable because he was persecuted and kicked out of his job after he met God, and he was very discouraged. But God said, &#8220;You are on a different level, the level of all the saints. That&#8217;s not bad company, is it?&#8221;</p>
<p>Once you become the owner of the love of God there is nothing to envy in this world. The world is yours because nothing exists without a relationship with God and whatever God possesses becomes yours. Did you live like that in the past? How about in the present? We have one hope: to live like that in the future. Once you live like that your own history will begin. So far the past has been someone else&#8217;s but the moment you live as possessor of God&#8217;s love, there your history starts. With that background you can knock on the door of heaven.</p>
<p>The Unification Church is going to inherit that tradition of the love of God, past, present, and future, and it will remain as your own accomplishment. You shall be a conqueror of God&#8217;s love in that tradition. Before now your hands got dirty working in the secular world, but now you can want your hands to get dirtier working for God m You once ate much good food in the world, but this time you want to eat solely to do God&#8217;s work. You must think that everything you have already done you can do more intently for the work of God. If you train yourself like that then in everything you do you will feel the explosion of God&#8217;s love around you. Do you know it or not?</p>
<p>If you can say, &#8220;Father, I know it now and I want to make my own history in winning the love of God and leave my tradition behind,&#8221; raise your hands please. Let us pray.</p>
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<h3 align="center">April 18, 1977<br />
Manhattan Center<br />
Translator &#8211; Bo Hi Pak</h3>
<p>Today we commemorate the 18th anniversary of Parents Day. No other group on earth celebrates True Parents Day. We have four major celebrations during the year, Parents Day. Children&#8217;s Day, World Day, and God&#8217;s Day, and by celebrating these holidays we are truly celebrating the rebirth of heaven and earth.</p>
<p>If there had been no fall of man, we would never have seen such holidays as God&#8217;s Day, Parents Day, Children&#8217;s Day and World Day. Adam and Eve would probably have been the only two people who would have celebrated these days, while their descendants would have celebrated only the victory of their established foundation. All of mankind was supposed to have been born on the foundation of these days. Through the fall of man, however, there was no fulfillment here on earth, and all joy was lost. Consequently there was no day of joy for God, no day of the True Parents, no day of the true children, and no day of all things. All mankind is born in sorrow and suffers in sorrow, and struggles to recapture the original world; because of the fall, however, that perfection has always eluded man.</p>
<p>There are many celebrations in our world, but all of them are for the joy of the satanic world, not for God. There has never been one day in which God could declare His joy. For example, each one of you celebrates your birthday and those who are married have your wedding anniversaries, but are they above the realm of fallen mankind? No, they are still outside the dwelling place of God.</p>
<p>When is the day going to come that mankind will establish a new kind of holiday? It will be the day that all men and God can be joyful together. That day will not be your own birthday or wedding anniversary or day of national independence. Throughout history all mankind has been looking forward to the day of fulfillment when God could declare His joy and personally commemorate God&#8217;s Day and Parents Day. Once God&#8217;s joy is declared, and God&#8217;s Day and True Parents Day are established, then automatically the true children will come into being, and all the things of creation will declare their joy too.</p>
<p>Throughout history, however, no one has seen God&#8217;s Day or True Parents Day, and all the things of creation are in agony in this fallen world. Out of 365 days in a year the most important day would be the day to honor God, the day on which God could declare His joy-God&#8217;s Day. The day we can declare God&#8217;s Day to the earth will be the king of all days, and that year will be the king of all years. I do not know whether you have ever heard of such expressions as &#8220;king of all days,&#8221; or &#8220;king of all years.&#8221; Do they make sense?</p>
<p>Today you are all here to celebrate Parents Day, but actually you are not entitled to celebrate on this day. Since meeting the True Parents you may rejoice over this Parents Day, but this joyful day is also sad because only this small group of people has recognized Parents Day and come together to celebrate. We also feel sorrow that we are still surrounded by the fallen world.</p>
<p>There were several consequences of the fall of man. One, the dignity and authority of God was damaged; in addition, mankind was separated from his intended state and fell into the dungeons of hell; at the same time a portion of the angelic world also fell; finally, all the things of creation were brought down. Thus it happened that everything suffered when man fell, including the dignity of God, and since then the entire creation has been trapped in a place of sorrow and despair. The world has become sick, but in the same way that patients cannot cure themselves, the world is helpless to restore itself. Who will come to restore the world? There is only one superior person who has the ability, power and will to bring man back to his original place-God.</p>
<p>The fallen process has been like a healthy person becoming ill, and in order for that sick person to regain his original health he must complete a reverse process; man must be restored to his original place by reversing the process of the fall. The world of salvation is equivalent to the work of restoration and involves bringing a person from an abnormal state back to his original state, just like bringing a sick person back to health. Salvation and restoration are the same, but the point of observation is different: From God&#8217;s point of view the process is salvation, while from the point of view of man who is to be saved, the process is restoration.</p>
<p>The principle that is vital to this process indicates that for man to be restored, indemnity must be paid. To liquidate sin man must pay the debt of sin. In the same manner, a patient must often endure suffering when being treated by a doctor. Sometimes the doctor must prescribe a very bitter medicine, and even though the patient is reluctant, he must take it to be restored. True medicine is often bitter. Fallen man is like the patient and must assimilate indemnity, pain and suffering in order to be restored into his original wholeness.</p>
<h3 align="center">What can cure the disease of fallen love?</h3>
<p>What kind of disease have you caught? The diagnosis is that fallen man has the disease of fallen love. It is the disease of love centered on Satan and controlled by Satan, and through it mankind has become prisoners of Satan by inheriting his lineage. All men are born on this earth as direct heirs of Satan. How did this disease of love start? The motive that initiated this love disease was self-centeredness. The fall was initiated when one person claimed self-centered love. That person denied the value of all other relationships in his desire to make himself the center of the universe. He only sought to bring benefit to himself, and when his desire entered the realm of love the disease was begun.</p>
<p>We must find a cure for this love disease. What medicine should be prescribed? Because self-centered love brought the fall, we must find a God-centered or unselfish love in order to be cured or restored. If Adam and Eve and the archangel had forgotten themselves in the garden of Eden, only thinking of God and their desire to place themselves in a God-centered love, then there could have been no fall or any of its consequences here on earth.</p>
<p>What is heaven? Heaven is created by those people who live here on earth with unselfishness and an absolute, God-centered love. This is the most basic principle, and all other principles you learn are the expansion of this basic truth. What I have spoken to you thus far is the very heart of the truth of God.</p>
<p>Do you love yourself most of all? Are you the center of your love? Is God the center? Twenty-four hours a day and 365 days a year have you been loving yourself in a God-centered way? If you cannot say yes then you are not destined for the Kingdom of God in heaven, and need liberation from your bondage. This is the most severe battle which you are waging every day, and each of you must become victors in this battle for your liberation. Without becoming victorious you will not deserve the Kingdom of God.</p>
<p>Suppose someone suddenly attacked you without any reason. The usual human reaction would be to yell, &#8220;Why did you hit me?&#8221; and try to hit back. But you must be patient, not because you are weak, but because in the name of God you are becoming different. Jesus Christ waged this different battle when he blessed his enemies. Jesus was thinking about his mission for God 24 hours a day, looking at everything from God&#8217;s point of view. Before seeking revenge against the world, he remembered how God had persevered and been patent while waiting. Knowing that God&#8217;s will was ultimately the restoration of mankind, Jesus did not wage his battle as Satan does.</p>
<p>Because Jesus prayed for his own enemies, especially at the moment he was being destroyed, he transcended all satanic realms, and totally liberated himself from accusation by Satan. From then on he was free to go to the throne of God and exercise the grace and power of salvation. Satan is always looking for some loophole or hook of fallen nature, and since most people have a thousand hooks Satan does not have to make much effort to snag them. But Jesus&#8217; life was absolutely pure, and no matter how much Satan tried to find some weakness in him, Jesus was not vulnerable.</p>
<p>Jesus Christ was completely free from satanic accusation, and by rising above the satanic realm he could become one with God in heaven. Since Jesus could enter that realm, God could use him as His instrument without any reservation. After Satan killed Jesus on the cross God was free to resurrect him. God did not have to pay attention to Satan, but could exercise His power to the ultimate degree. Because of Jesus, therefore, a new world could come into being which was completely free of the satanic world.</p>
<p>By knowing this principle we must clearly realize that when the Messiah comes for the salvation of mankind he will not come in glory. He will come in misery and assimilate all the pain and suffering of the world. He will be attacked by the entire satanic world, yet persevere without seeking revenge, being patient as God has been, and finally winning out in the end. Any religion or any work of religion which teaches the need for such patience while going the road of indemnity will be the religion which ultimately meets the Messiah.</p>
<h3 align="center">Our motive for unification must be clear</h3>
<p>Who are we, the Unification Church? The word unification is a big word, indicating that we want to embrace all religions so that we can unite all of them into one. Do we desire that for our own satanic purpose? No, we want to bring them back to the throne of God. That is the meaning of the word unification. The Unification Church must walk the messianic road, the road of suffering and beatings. It is the road that commences at the very bottom of mankind&#8217;s misery and rises all the way up to the very throne of God. That is the road that we in the Unification Church are undertaking.</p>
<p>We are assuming the responsibility of becoming that world religion. However, we must make our motives very clear. Are we here for the sake of the Unification Church, or for the sake of heaven and earth? The Unification Church exists solely to serve God and mankind because that is the way God thinks, and that is the way we must think. For that reason we receive the pain of suffering and difficulty, but we cannot be liberated from the satanic realm unless we think, &#8220;This is for God and humanity.&#8221; The satanic world is totally self-centered and in order to liberate ourselves from it we must live an absolutely different way of life. As we live this life absolutely, we will liberate ourselves from satanic influence. Is this clear?</p>
<p>When you go out witnessing and fundraising you might sometimes think, &#8220;I am not good for this. I am so tired I just cannot go on.&#8221; That excuse is acceptable if you are thinking only of yourself, but when you put God in the picture and claim you are universe-centered and mankind-centered then you cannot complain or say you are tired. You may think that many members of the Unification Church are working very hard, but from God&#8217;s standpoint this is not true. You have not yet met the standard that God has established. You may persevere for a time, but then come to the point where you give up, &#8220;No more. I want to rest now and do things my own way.&#8221; Then your attitude becomes a big hook. Satan is always watching and will say, &#8220;Look, you said you are working for God and mankind 100%, but your actions have given you away.&#8221;</p>
<h3 align="center">Harder times are coming</h3>
<p>Of course sometimes you get tired and weak, and sometimes you get sick, but at those times you must think, &#8220;God, You have suffered more than I have. True Parents, you have suffered more than I have. Heavenly Father, there are many brothers and sisters in this world who are suffering more than I am. I am so grateful that I can do this, and as long my life remains, I will continue.&#8221;</p>
<p>When you speak your gratitude and live it, Satan has no way to hook you. Then you are totally free to go beyond the satanic realm and to be like Jesus, completely one with God. I do not say this to bribe you to work. This is the basic principle of God. I want you to know that the logical conclusion of this principle is that even tougher days will come to the Unification Church.</p>
<p>You may think that every day our way of life gets tougher, with more persecution and pressure, but I want you to realize that this is the sign that we are near our total liberation from satanic influences. That final segment of our journey of freeing ourselves from the satanic realm is the year of 1976 through June, 1977.</p>
<p>A Congressional source informed me a few days ago that ever since our involvement in the issues of Watergate, the U. S. government has received many letters of both protest and approval about the Unification Church, and disputes over our church have developed within high levels of government. That person said that there has not been such a heated battle over one particular issue since Watergate. We are creating a world event, aren&#8217;t we? We will see the entire world come against us, and even now we can feel the pressure of the world upon our shoulders.</p>
<p>Our enemies will not only create national and worldwide protest against me, but will use dirty tactics to undermine us. For example, communists will infiltrate our ranks and behave like dedicated members. Once they are trusted they will begin to make all kinds of trouble, and ultimately their actions will reflect back on me. That is their goal, and I am clearly aware of this tactic. How pitiful my situation is. Already I am receiving all kinds of accusation and persecution from outside, but even worse, there are people who are calculating how to shame me from within the Unification Church. There is no place where I can escape the heated battle.</p>
<p>How do you see me? Am I a tough man of conviction and iron will, with the drive to go to the end, or am I the type of person who is so timid and afraid that I cannot even speak? I am a very hot-tempered man of extremes, and no one has a more determined will than I do. On the one hand I am hot-tempered and blazing like a fire, but I am also like a person with no bones who can take beating after beating and remain patient, never desiring revenge and never cursing anybody. I think that being hot-tempered and iron-willed as well as patient and enduring is what God wants me to be, and I am trying to fulfill that.</p>
<p>At the moment of his death, Jesus forgave those who killed him. My determination is that in my own life I will bless my enemies by persevering and absorbing all the beatings and pain the world may give. I want to establish that condition while I am yet on earth. Jesus Christ liberated himself from the satanic world by his crucifixion, but I intend to go past that realm while I am here on earth.</p>
<p>Why do I have this determination? God wants to see that victorious pattern sealed here on earth, not just in the spiritual realm. We need a victorious foundation here on earth, the complete liberation from satanic influence. This is my mission. I came to liberate mankind from all satanic influence, and to do that I have to be victorious by going beyond the satanic realm here on earth. Do you realize that the pinnacle of this providence was reached at the Washington Monument Rally? Then on February 23, the True Parents birthday, I offered an extraordinary prayer, forgiving heaven and earth and declaring a new day and a new history. Can you grasp the significance of the new day and new history? This is the work we are undertaking right now.</p>
<p>Today is the 18th anniversary of Parents Day. Your 18th year marks the beginning of your maturity, and I understand that in America some states allow 18-year olds to vote, recognizing them as adults. The truth of the matter is that women mature before men do. Women become adults at the age of 18, but men generally take three more years, maturing at the age of 21. The three years remaining until the 21st anniversary of Parents Day will be a buffer zone in which we can fully consummate our work. This is the period where we will restore the dignity and authority of the Unification Church. The Unification Church will then be able to stand before the world as mature.</p>
<h3 align="center">Soon God will ask us to<br />
claim His true love and authority</h3>
<p>It is not God&#8217;s mandate that I continually remain silent and humble while receiving persecution. When all the conditions are set God will ask me to declare my dignity and authority as an individual, a family, a heavenly society, heavenly nation, and world. The time will come when we will claim God&#8217;s true love and authority.</p>
<p>The 6,000 Biblical years of God&#8217;s history actually equal many thousands of physical years. God has been waiting that long for the day when one man would come to the earth who would truly grasp His concept, and possess His own will and conviction to fight and declare victory over the entire satanic world. That is happening now. Only with that viewpoint can you see how truly momentous this day is. Even if I were to die now I would not be a failure. I will go to the spirit world with dignity and power and authority and stand before Heavenly Father to receive His welcome. In the meantime my work on earth will continue. Do you believe this? We are already outside the satanic realm; I have already gone beyond it.</p>
<p>The work of restoration has been proceeding by the application of God&#8217;s Principle and that formula of restoration will endure. It was there in the beginning, it is now, and it shall remain until we totally liquidate all satanic influence, when we will no longer need the application of this formula.</p>
<p>When I declare that I have won over and transcended the satanic world, I do not mean that I have gone alone, but that the entire spirit world has also moved with me. As you know, the spirit world is equivalent to the angelic world. Angels by nature were supposed to follow Adam&#8217;s path as his servants in the original creation. Yet not only the angels were to follow Adam in his growth, even God would follow Adam. It is the Principle.</p>
<p>I am leaving the satanic world behind, and as I move further and further way from it God is establishing a new sovereignty here on earth. When that sovereignty is finally declared by God, anyone or any power which opposes it will be shattered. The Christian nation of America is a great giant among the sovereign nations of the world, but if America stands against the dignity of heaven, America will be shattered. That is the judgment of heaven.</p>
<p>Christianity prospered for 2,000 years, but in the two decades since 1960 it began a steep decline. I want to clearly declare that the reason for that decline is the Christian opposition of the new sovereignty, the new power and truth of God. If the Christian cultural sphere continues such a trend then it will be caught in an unavoidable decline. On the other hand, if Christianity will accept me and repent, and if America will accept me and repent, then there is a ray of hope. There is no other way for either America or Christianity to find hope. Many people may think this declaration is boastful and blasphemous, but I have declared this with the authority of the entire spirit world, which already supports it. I merely bear testimony to the truth.</p>
<h3 align="center">Satan must acknowledge that you have walked my path</h3>
<p>Once we can create our own society outside of satanic influence, should we not worry about the rest of the world, and say, &#8220;Let them just go to hell&#8221;? If we leave the world alone it will certainly decline and die. Do you think that is God&#8217;s will? I know that is not God&#8217;s will. Though we are now living in the same world our kingdom is different, and just as God sent His son Jesus from His throne to this fallen world, God is now sending you to save it.</p>
<p>I am now ordering you to go into the satanic world to save it, even risking your life. I want you to set the condition that you walked the same path the True Parents walked. I walked this suffering road for 33 years and by your setting the necessary conditions in the next 3% years I would like to give you all the blessing of having walked the same path I walked. I am sure that by now you desire to forget about your missions of selling and witnessing and just desire to unite with me now that my way is easier. That is not what I want. If anyone follows me to go the easy way I will turn you around and send you back into the satanic world. You have not yet set the condition of indemnity that you might be completely free, and only after working to pay your indemnity can you come with me.</p>
<p>Who is going to testify that you have paid your indemnity? Satan must be your witness, and you must go out to Satan&#8217;s world and get his signature to bring to God. Many people do not understand that they must go this course to overcome the satanic world, and they think that God is just weak and vulnerable, and even say that there is no God. But God is waiting for man to go out to the fallen world to suffer and win over Satan. Satan must say, &#8220;God, I have no accusation to make about this person.&#8221; God has been waiting for His children to win that kind of recognition so that He might be free to exercise His power. Do you want to take the easy way and merely follow me, or do you want to go into the satanic world and fight? Would you want to challenge any difficulty you might encounter, even at the cost of your life?</p>
<p>You must love those in the satanic world as much as you love God and as much as you love me. It is only upon that condition that you will be given approval by God and myself. That is God&#8217;s way. God and I will not complain at all if you love the satanic world most. You need two elements before you can come to God&#8217;s throne &#8216; First you need your spiritual children, for by having spiritual children you can liberate the spiritual world. Secondly, you need physical children, for through them you can liberate the physical world. God and I want you to go to the satanic world and fight to win these two conditions.</p>
<p>In the usual pattern of your life in the Unification Church, your first three years are devoted to winning your spiritual children. In the three years after receiving the blessing you can receive the blessing of having physical children. Altogether seven years are involved. You each must go this seven-year course in order to win all of heaven and earth. Creation took six days, with God resting on the seventh day. In the same way we must set the condition of working for seven years in the course of re-creation. If you cannot do this you are only following me externally, even if you are a leader in our church or one of the 36 blessed couples. As long as a person does not work for his own fulfillment in this Principle he is not worthy of me and cannot truly follow me.</p>
<p>Even now I am going the path of more suffering and pain, but not out of stupidity. I came to America to stir up this nation, expecting it to come against me. I did not come to elevate my own honor or dignity, but only for the purpose of God. For God&#8217;s sake I stirred up controversy and let America come against me. The turmoil of the hurricane lies in our path, but we are going to be victorious. I am the captain who is steering the ship through the stormy weather. America has entered a new age, the age of the deprogrammers, and Americans are closely scrutinizing me, trying to find fault. They will not find fault because I have done nothing wrong.</p>
<p>Who among the pilgrim fathers on the Mayflower had a visa to come to America? They came with religious conviction in the name of God. They came to this land to unselfishly fulfill God&#8217;s will. For the same reason, but on the universal level, the Unification Church young people have gathered in America in the name of God, to establish the Kingdom of God here on earth.</p>
<p>When the pilgrim fathers came from Europe in the name of God they were actually illegal aliens, but God&#8217;s dispensation lay with them. We are the New Age pilgrim fathers of the universe, and even though this nation may think we are illegal aliens, God is on our side. Ultimately God will overcome this negativity and opposition. The Unification Church is the first movement of liberation. No religious leaders today are even thinking on such a scale. Only I am taking a stand without fear, speaking out directly for God so seriously that I am willing to give up my life to declare my message.</p>
<p>There may be some communist spy or government agent listening here, anxious to find out what I have to say. Let them listen. Regardless of who is listening, there are certain things which I must declare. If I do not declare these things then I am not obeying God&#8217;s order. Who is going to bring the resurrection of mankind? Not Christianity, Judaism or communism, but members of the Unification Church. We have the power, we have the knowledge, and we have the conviction to resurrect this nation and all the nations of the world. Do you have the confidence to do it? Raise your hands, those who have such confidence. This is our responsibility.</p>
<h3 align="center">Your beachhead in the fallen world</h3>
<p>This 18th Parents Day is a very meaningful day. You must fully realize where you are standing and what your mission is. I have explained to you what kind of attitude brought the fall, and by wholeheartedly undertaking your mission you can liberate man from the conditions that led to the fall; in the future nobody will accuse you of being a self-centered person or of indulging in self-centered love. You now have the opportunity to be liberated from the satanic lineage and influence.</p>
<p>Even though you are leaving the satanic realm, Satan still has a claim to your body because you were born in his lineage. However, if your loyalty is with God 100%, then even though you still have that suing attached, Satan has no power to pull it. You must remember that a string is still attached, for Satan recognizes that your blood is his, but must also realize that you have been restored to a position outside of the satanic realm, the position of angels who have not fallen.</p>
<p>How can you create your beachhead in the satanic world? When God created man in the garden of Eden, He was assisted by the angels. In your recreation as well, you need the help of God and the angels. An angel is good and pure, but until the appearance of perfected Adam and Eve, the angel is not free to perfect himself. Without the perfection of Adam and Eve the angelic world cannot be perfected. For you to elevate yourself to the position of physical Adam, you must be surrounded by spiritual children in the position of the three archangels.</p>
<p>Now that you are in an area isolated from the satanic world you can create your own spiritual defense by winning spiritual children from the satanic world. With the help of God and those in the angelic position you can bring yourself into Adam&#8217;s position. Then you are ready to have your own children.</p>
<p>To establish your physical resurrection you must give birth to physical children of God who can be restored in the satanic world. Those children will serve in the role of your body.</p>
<p>In bearing and raising your pure physical children you are linking the spirit world to the physical world through yourselves. Because the fall of man came in the growth stage you must first restore yourself to the growth level, the position of Adam and Eve before the fall. The perfection realm was left unfulfilled by Adam and Eve, and shall be filled when you make yourself perfect Adam and Eve and win the right to give birth to your own sons and daughters.</p>
<p>You can go through this entire process in seven years&#8217; time, just as the total creation was accomplished in a seven-day period. In this seven-year period you will go through three stages. First, you have already separated yourselves from the satanic world and are being elevated to the position of unfallen angels. Second, you will elevate yourselves into the growth level, the position of restored Adam and Eve. Because the fall occurred between husband and wife, you must fulfill the level of Adam and Eve as couples.</p>
<p>The third stage of perfection is the parents&#8217; level. No matter how great you become as you are restored, you are still the product of the satanic world; you were born into the satanic lineage, and you still have ties with the satanic world which you cannot completely sever. Your children, however, will be born in the name of God, having nothing to do with the satanic world, and they will be the stepping stone by which you will elevate yourselves to the level of parents. The birth of your children is but the first step for you to elevate yourselves to the position of perfected Adam and then parent. There is always a chance for something to go wrong while your sons and daughters grow toward perfection and the blessing; you must take constant care in raising your children until they are mature and you can bless them in heavenly matrimony.</p>
<p>At what point can you be totally grafted into the lineage of heaven? The moment that you receive the blessing from the True Parents is the great moment when your bonds to your satanic lineage are severed and you become part of the heavenly lineage. Most marriages in the world are not God-centered, but in the Unification Church our greatest pride is that in the name of the True Parents couples can enter into the heavenly, God-centered lineage. At that moment they become direct heirs of God. Through the blessing the process of the fall can be totally reversed. But that reversal must be complete, for if some tiny hole remains then Satan will dash in to claim it.</p>
<h3 align="center">My goal is to make all of you true parents</h3>
<p>I know Satan&#8217;s secret, and no matter what the satanic world will try to do, it is destined to crumble. We stand on the side of God&#8217;s Principle; however, a pioneer or harbinger is needed to open all stages of restoration. Until one man can pave the way no one else will be able to find it. This is the most important key. The road of restoration follows a precise formula, but someone must pioneer that formula. As soon as you understand the formula, all you have to do is apply it in order to gain the same result. You can be restored as individual men and women as far as the growth level, but to enter perfection you need to receive the blessing and bear children. After a seven-year period of raising your children, you can reach the perfection of perfection.</p>
<p>You must also be protected and escorted by your spiritual children in the angelic position. You need angels around you, and that is why having spiritual children is a most essential requirement for receiving the blessing. They are in the position of angels to escort you, and with them you can attain the level of Adam and Eve before the fall and qualify to receive the blessing.</p>
<p>You must be able to come to the throne of God having completed each of these three levels in your life on earth: the level of restored angel, the level of perfected son and daughter, and the level of having raised your perfected children. These three elements must all be won from the satanic world. Your lineage behind you, beginning with your children, with each of them in one of these three different levels of maturity. Among your descendants you will see every level of accomplishment. From generation to generation your lineage will expand onto an ever larger scale, from the family level to the tribal level, national, worldwide, and universal levels. Even though I will be gone, this expansion will continue. Progressing further and further through the years, the realm of your own lineage will get bigger and bigger.</p>
<p>Your destination is the eternal dwelling place of the True Parents. Mother and I are not going to be the only True Parents. My goal is to make all of you true parents. It is the greatest honor that I can give to you. In your own area and lineage each of you is to become the true parents.</p>
<p>I am not just theorizing now, but speaking of the Principle which I have lived and walked. I have done this on the individual level, family, tribal, national, worldwide, and cosmic levels. I have gained invincible victory at each level of accomplishment, and thus I have declared the liberation of the individual, family, tribe, world, and cosmos. Now I am declaring the liberation of God Himself. Can you grasp the significance of this formidable statement? Some people exclaim that I am a heretic for saying such things, but let us wait and see who God believes is the heretic.</p>
<p>Every mission we undertake must be accomplished on both the physical and spiritual planes. Anything we establish in the spiritual realm must be duplicated in the physical world, and those physical accomplishments must then be united with our spiritual accomplishments. The entire spiritual world is in the angelic position; therefore, to find the physical element they must work on the level of the physical world. Even though it is not God-centered, this world is invaluable because it is only here that you can find what you need. When you can bring your physical children together with your spiritual children, you are truly in the Kingdom of God. In the garden of Eden children and parents can rejoice together in God&#8217;s glory, freed from any acquaintance with the fall.</p>
<p>I am declaring the absolute standard for you Unification Church members: unless you find three spiritual children in three years you are not entitled to the blessing. Jesus&#8217; ministry was focused on precisely that. He wanted to find his three major apostles and raise them in faith 11 they could establish the foundation for their physical families here on earth. It was God&#8217;s wish and also Jesus&#8217; desire that Jesus claim his throne and elevate himself to the position of True Parents. Instead Jesus met with such opposition that finally he was crucified without attaining it.</p>
<h3 align="center">We witness in order to restore<br />
the relatives of our Church</h3>
<p>Jesus must indeed come again; however, if God were to send Jesus the way the Christians predict, on the clouds of heaven, not only would Christianity crumble, but the entire world would crumble. The fall of man did not occur in the spirit world but in the physical world. Salvation must also take place in the physical world. No one can even talk about their kingdom of heaven until they establish their kingdom here on earth, for without establishing the kingdom here on earth there will be no kingdom in heaven. Jesus did not take the keys to the Kingdom of God with him to heaven, but left them here on earth. Matthew 16 says, &#8220;Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.&#8221; Without understanding the significance of the physical world, there is no way to understand the Scriptures and the true meaning of the Bible.</p>
<p>We members of the Unification Church are proud people, hand-picked for God&#8217;s mission. We have undertaken the liberation of the satanic world and the declaration of the glory and victory of God before heaven and earth. By now I am sure you understand that the restoration must go through that process. No one can enter heaven without walking this path and fulfilling this Principle. Christians are very naive to think that believing in Jesus is all that is required for them to end up in heaven while they &#8216;leave this world behind. Their idea of a guaranteed place in heaven is a crazy concept that could never enable man to fulfill God&#8217;s will. From God&#8217;s standpoint that is heretical thinking, not the principles of the Unification Church.</p>
<p>In the Last Days, the truth will seem to be a lie and lies will seem to be the truth. That is precisely what is happening today, isn&#8217;t it? Though I represent the genuine goodness of God, the world thinks I am some kind of monster; some people even think my organization is worse than the Maria. I studied science and mathematics and unless everything we do is scientifically possible, I will not even go myself. I am not a foolish man with blind ideals.</p>
<p>Why does the world come against us? The reason is very simple. They are afraid of us. Jews and Catholics and Protestants have been fighting and killing each other for 2,000 years, but when I appear they hastily get together as allies to make a statement against me. Without even knowing me some people now say, &#8220;Reverend Moon must be some kind of giant because the denominations were enemies before, but now they have come together as allies against this one man!&#8221;</p>
<p>This occurrence is prophetic. In uniting to come against me, the Jews, Catholics, and Protestants have shown that there is room for unity among the three faiths. Yet, without me there is no way that they can become one in the sight of God. We must become the catalyst, for it is with our blessing alone that they have the possibility of truly becoming one.</p>
<p>Our diligent witnessing is for a dual purpose. We are restoring our spiritual children of course, but we are also restoring our relatives; our closest relative is Protestantism, and our cousin is Catholicism, while our distant cousin, yet still very much our relative, is Judaism. The non-religious people of the world are extremely distant cousins. Their restoration is the job the Unification Church has undertaken.</p>
<p>I have fully expounded the external meaning of Parents Day in its historical context, but I have not yet spoken of its internal aspect. Would you like to hear it? Only a few people are saying yes; perhaps most would like to wait until next Parents Day! I see a lot of mouths still closed, and my voice is getting hoarse now. Shall we go on or not? Could someone come forward to speak so I can sit down? No, only I can speak this morning.</p>
<p>Is your flesh, blood and bone related to God or not? No matter how much you may say yes, even if your &#8216;yes&#8217; brings the roof down, at best we could say that they are conditionally related to God; in actuality there is no relation. Now you call me your True Parent, but do you truly have any connection with me? Does my flesh have something to do with your flesh? Does my bone have something to do with your bone? Does my blood have a relation to your blood? Restoration itself is only conditional. You will never be able to pay your whole debt, but by the conditions of restoration you can accomplish what would otherwise take a million years. That is a beautiful secret.</p>
<h3 align="center">Only a trade of love makes restoration possible</h3>
<p>What condition will make this possible? Money?Power? Knowledge? Faith? Even faith can change from morning to evening. What is the unchanging condition by which you can relate with God and the True Parents? You are correct; true love alone will make the connection. When Jesus Christ came to this world as the Messiah, he had an external and internal mission. His external mission was to rule the world as the Messiah, the king of kings, establishing God&#8217;s sovereignty. His internal mission was very tender, for he came as the parent of mankind.</p>
<p>How could Jesus internally elevate himself? He could not elevate himself to the position of True Parent by power or kingship. Those would have been to no avail. It was only by a love that was higher, deeper and wider than all the love the satanic world could offer that Jesus could fulfill his mission. As the Messiah, Jesus could declare that whoever would follow him must love him more than anyone or anything else, more than their country, parents, spouse, or children. Jesus could not qualify as the Messiah unless he were capable of declaring such a thing. From his desire to declare to the world the supreme love of God, Jesus said, &#8220;He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.&#8221; He was indeed the Messiah, and he knew that he was capable of giving that supreme love to anyone who could love him above all else.</p>
<p>By giving their greatest love to Jesus, Christians are entitled to inherit God&#8217;s kingdom and the True Parents love. Jesus actually came to make a trade of love. He brings heavenly love, and we bring worldly love. God&#8217;s love is so superior that His love will not come to you unless you can offer Him the best love you can give. In this trade of love you can restore your eternal kingship; you will inherit the visible kingdom that God possesses externally, but more importantly, in loving Jesus the most, you can even possess him and you can actually possess God. When you approach Jesus in that love he will respond, and even God will have no choice but to respond to you. This is a beautiful exchange, isn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p>Jesus declared to his disciples and to the world that unless they could love him more than anyone else they were not worthy of him. That is a most extraordinary statement! There was no way that he could avoid being accused of blaspheming. &#8220;We stone you for blasphemy; because you, being a man, make yourself God.&#8221; Finally he was crucified. In a way Jesus actually stimulated his own crucifixion by making statements that angered people enough that they wanted to kill him. His statements were certainly ambitious and bold; how could people accept such statements in those days? Imagine a husband and wife with a very deep relationship listening to one of Jesus&#8217; sermons while he was saying that unless they loved him more than their own spouse they were not worthy of him. Do you think that husband would turn to his wife and say, &#8220;Yes, go love him more than me&#8221;? Any husband would say, &#8220;Forget it! You love me most; you are my wife.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Messiah&#8217;s course is truly a stony path. Over and over God asks him to do impossible things. Raise your hand if you want to volunteer to become the Messiah. Anybody who would volunteer must have something wrong with his head. The Messiah must be able to eat his own stool and say, &#8220;This is as sweet as honey.&#8221; God is continually asking the Messiah to do absolutely insane things. Does this discourage you?</p>
<h3 align="center">God&#8217;s efforts to restore true love</h3>
<p>Why can love set such a significant condition? It is only with the condition of love that you can leap the many millenniums to restoration. God made love so supreme that with true love there is nothing that cannot be surmounted. Love alone transcends time, and does not know history. Among the congregation I see some elderly women. Think about that time years ago when you first fell in love; even though you are now 60 and 70 years old; it is as vivid as yesterday, isn&#8217;t it? The love that they tasted many decades ago is still fresh and sweet, and they want to dwell there even now.</p>
<p>Love knows no distance. If your beloved is trembling on a chunk of ice at the North Pole, do you think that your love will be frozen and weak? Distance makes no difference. Love can never be confined by time and space. Even God cannot revolutionize true love. From the beginning to the end, from alpha to omega, love remains the same, forever unchanging. If this little handkerchief were love, it would have greater value to lovers than the entire continent of the United States. Isn&#8217;t that right? Only that timeless, spaceless, eternal love can set the condition for you to be restored into heaven in no time.</p>
<p>How has God been working to restore this true love? Not just mankind and the angels but the entire creation was affected by the fall of man. Even the dignity of God was lost. The work of restoration means bringing everything that became fallen back into unity with God. God divided the restoration period into different segments. In the Old Testament era all the things of creation became the mediator between man and God. Why? Everything became upside down because of the fail of man. Originally man was supposed to be closest to God, but after the fall the things of creation were purer than man, and thus closer to God. For this reason man could only reach God by symbolically sacrificing himself through the things of creation. In addition, God created all things in the world before he created man. For these reasons the Old Testament era was the time in which God was restoring all things. God restored all things first, even before man could be re-created, and then turned to restore His children.</p>
<p>Israel was the nation in the position of servant; through Judaism men were lifted from the state of fallen sinner up to the position of servant. Then in the New Testament era Jesus Christ came as the son of God to bring an era of great transformation. During Jesus&#8217; lifetime men were to be lifted from the position of servant to the position of sons of God. As God&#8217;s servant, the nation of Israel was to support Jesus as the son of God, elevating him to the position of sovereign and then to the position of True Parent. The Bible referred to Jesus as a great teacher, but did not reveal the mission of Jesus as the parent. While Jesus was on earth the entire dispensation of restoration could have been shortened; the son of God came to restore true sonship, and to elevate himself into parenthood, raising the chosen people into direct sons and daughters, the true heirs of God. Then the entire nation could have been elevated to parenthood. That was God&#8217;s scheduled program.</p>
<p>Because of the faithlessness of the people, however, Israel could not advance that far, and instead of becoming a living sacrifice, Jesus was killed as a sacrifice on the altar of God. Thus Jesus actually died to lay the foundation for the future Messiah. By his own death he paid the indemnity and paved the way for the second coming of the Messiah; thus began the Christian era of the New Testament.</p>
<p>When the new Messiah comes, he will bring those in the adopted son&#8217;s position into the position of direct sons and daughters of God, and then elevate mankind into true parenthood under God. The second coming of the Messiah will be highlighted by the work of the True Parents. It will be the most brilliant new age, the final consummation of the work of God. The True Parents will be the mediators between God and man and all men shall be saved, becoming the direct children of God and true parents of mankind.</p>
<h3 align="center">We must build our own foundation</h3>
<p>Judaism was the national, external foundation for Jesus, but Christianity bears that responsibility for the second coming of the Messiah. Furthermore, the Messiah is coming on the worldwide level; therefore, the free world is in the position of the nation of Israel. When this situation is ripe, you will know that the day of the Lord is near. When the messianic work is fulfilled by the free world then God will take direct responsibility for the communist world. The restoration process can never be completed without this worldwide unity between Cain and Abel.</p>
<p>Presently a Cain-Abel struggle is taking place between the Unification Church and other Christian churches, and between the Unification Church and America. World restoration can be speeded up after the Unification Church, Christianity, and America find the way to unify. However, because the free world opposes us we ourselves must rebuild and stand upon our own foundation for the Old Testament and New Testament eras, and the era of this new age. History records the vertical process of restoration: the Old Testament era was for the restoration of all things; the New Testament era was for the restoration of the children, and the Completed Testament era will see the restoration of the parents.</p>
<p>Here in the Unification Church we are horizontally restoring the 6,000 Biblical years of God&#8217;s work in our lifetime. Within our own movement these three ages are unfolding horizontally. We are establishing an economic sphere; in addition we have children, and in the center we have the True Parents. We are restoring all of these things ourselves, and together we are bringing all of them to God as an offering. This work does not yet represent the Kingdom, however; only when God returns our offering to us as a blessing will the Kingdom begin. I am unfolding this dispensation in my own lifetime. After offering to God the spheres of economy, children and parents, the next phase to unfold will be that of the tribe and then nation, world and universe. I came to America in 1972, and my 3½ year campaign here was my offering to God of all the necessary conditions on the worldwide scale. My offering on the worldwide scale was completed by 1976.</p>
<p>New York is the symbolic heart of the world, and in this city we are working to firmly establish our economic strength. All the buildings we own in New York are part of this economic dispensation: Belvedere, Headquarters Building, East Sun, the World Mission Center, Tiffany Building, and the Manhattan Center, as well as all the land we own in Tarrytown. Compared to the wealth of the world all this is still small, but we must offer it all to God as our worldwide offering. Our effort is a worldwide effort and the energy of the world must be mobilized; for this reason every bit of money used to make this possible came from the blood and sweat of all our members around the world.</p>
<h3 align="center">On September 18, I fulfilled my covenant with God</h3>
<p>The final climax of this offering was the Washington Monument Rally. That was the altar upon which we offered to God everything that we had received. I want you to know that September 18, 1976, was the day of offering for the sake of the world; centering on the worldwide dispensation for America, that offering was made in Washington, D.C., the nation&#8217;s capital. The five races of the world gathered together there, symbolically proclaiming, &#8220;God, we have made this altar of ourselves; please accept all of us.&#8221; That day of offering was the most serious, most divine and sacred day of the history of the world. Because a pure offering was made that day, the salvation of the world is destined to be consummated. On that day the entire spirit world declared victory. All the men of God united to declare victory.</p>
<p>America should have declared victory together with us, but America failed to do that. Many well-meaning people even advised me that for the sake of the Church we should be a little more quiet, &#8220;Why do you want to make all the commotion of a Washington rally?&#8221; Even some of our leaders came to me saying, &#8220;Father, this will be a blunder. We just did Yankee Stadium and we need more money, more men; it is really impossible to do it this year.&#8221; But I remained determined. &#8220;This is the showdown of my lifetime. I will give my sweat, my heart and life to do it.&#8221; I decided to give everything-myself, my family, our members, whatever economic strength our movement could mobilize&#8211;everything that I could possibly give to successfully make that offering to God in Washington.</p>
<p>This was not actually my showdown; it was God&#8217;s showdown. I knew that God could not afford to fail in Washington, and I knew that God was the most nervous. Therefore, I was confident that God would come to our aid and I had only one conviction, &#8220;We shall succeed. We shall win.&#8221;</p>
<p>I want you to know that September 18, 1976, was lie my day of execution. I deeply felt like a criminal who had been sentenced to death and was going out to be executed. That is how serious I felt that day, utterly, dead serious. Until September 18, 1 completely lost track of time. I mistook my breakfast for dinner and my dinner for breakfast. Time swam in my mind. Even on my way to the bathroom I would suddenly find myself in a completely strange area because my mind had gone blank. You cannot imagine how serious I was during that campaign; only God knows.</p>
<p>How can I express to you the seriousness of September 18? The showdown of God was at hand. The showdown of the entire struggle of good and evil was at hand. The entire destiny of the Unification Church was before me that day. Unless all the conditions could be established for God&#8217;s power and the entire spirit world to be connected to the earth on that day I knew that I would not succeed. I was utterly serious, and I did it.</p>
<p>The victory of that day was a miracle. It was the work of God, not of Reverend Moon or the Unification Church, that we succeeded in Washington. Extraordinary numbers of people came. The whole event was totally beautiful! Without rain or accident, all was beautiful from beginning to end, Do you think that could be the work of men? No, it was God&#8217;s work. That victory established a new tradition. No matter what may happen to America in the future, nobody can remove the footprint which I so strongly imprinted in Washington on September 18, 1976.</p>
<p>One child got lost that day, and announcements were made all over Washington. There was deep suspense as people wondered what happened to the child who had come to Reverend Moon&#8217;s rally. But he was found within three days, happy and well. I felt that he symbolized the lost, wandering world which shall be restored. It was a beautiful symbol of resurrection.</p>
<p>When I came to America I was a lonely man. As I crossed the Pacific Ocean I prayed to God, pledging that the mission would be fulfilled. Three and a half years later, through the victory at Washington Monument, my prayer was answered; I was able to fulfill my pledge and covenant with God. Thereafter I could declare liberation. On October 4, 1976, I declared the Day of the Victory of Heaven as one step of liberation. On the True Parents&#8217; birthday, February 23, 1977, 1 declared that all heaven and earth, spirit world and physical world together, shall be forgiven. Forgiveness and liberation have now been declared. The New Age has dawned; the new calendar has started. The Year One has been pronounced.</p>
<p>This particular 18th Parents Day is a very meaningful and extraordinary day for these reasons. Now centering upon my mission you can begin to see how the Unification Church has evolved, what mission we are pursuing, and where we are going. You know now why we need funds. Economy represents all the things of creation that have been groaning in the satanic realm. By winning the economy to the heavenly side by our own hands and our own sweat, we are establishing the condition to restore all the things of creation.</p>
<h3 align="center">Your love alone can bring all things to the altar of God</h3>
<p>I am laboring harder than any company president in the world. I will strive harder and be more dramatically victorious than anyone in history. It is the love of God and love of mankind that makes this possible. In the name of God I want to break every record ever set. That is the way I seek revenge.</p>
<p>Even more than I love my own children I love every one of you as direct sons and daughters. I watch you more closely than you realize and seek to nurture you so that you can grow into giants in the sight of God. Why do I care about you so deeply? I know so well that not only Christianity but the entire religious world is crumbling. You are the people who will replace them, inheriting their foundation and their mission. You are very precious in the sight of God and I want to pour out my heart to you. I am from a poor country, but even when I came to work in America, the richest nation in the world, I did not spend American money to advance this movement to its present level. Instead, people poorer than Americans gave the money with which I have been raising up the American people and establishing the American church.</p>
<p>Because America is vitally important to God, I determined to love America more than my own children, more than my own country, more than my own Asia. God deeply loves this nation and has done more and sacrificed more for this country than for any other country of the world. What is America&#8217;s role? I will never say, &#8220;You must pay me back.&#8221; Instead America must go out to the world, the six continents and five races of the earth, and give of itself and its wealth. Four billion people are waiting for the touch of America&#8217;s hand. You must go out and serve them.</p>
<p>If America succeeds in this mission then the glory of this nation shall be astonishing and have no end. America will then remain the most prosperous country on earth. Love is the key. It is love alone that will connect all things together and bring them to the altar of God. When that happens God will turn around and give the whole thing back to you as His blessing. That will mark the beginning of the Kingdom of God on earth.</p>
<p>That is the purpose for which I came. No matter what the people outside of our church may have said, no matter what persecution or hardship the world may have given to me, I have never minded; instead I have been too busy giving everything to construct this mission. While Americans enjoy bread and meat, many of our members do not even enjoy a glass of milk, but only water. While American young people are idle and pursuing pleasures and relaxation, you and I have been giving totally of ourselves.</p>
<p>The great leaders of America have been applauded, respected and given glory, but instead of receiving glory and respect I have received persecution, misunderstanding and ridicule. Even under those circumstances I have survived. I came to America for the liberation of this nation and I was ready to go to jail if necessary; I am ready and willing to give my life for the sake of this nation.</p>
<p>Presently I am a miserable man in the eyes of the people. I walk the humble way, but I do it solely for the sake of God. Do you think God will always remain silent while America ridicules and persecutes His prophet? No, God will seek revenge for him. However, I pray to God, &#8220;Do not unloose Your revenge. Here are the Unification Church members. Look at these beautiful shining faces. They are the hope of America, they are the true America. Because of them won&#8217;t You forgive this nation?&#8221; That has been my prayer. America has become indebted to God, indebted to me, and indebted to you, the Unification Church. Some day America must pay everything back.</p>
<h3 align="center">I want you to understand what I am asking of you</h3>
<p>Please understand me. I love you, but I cannot be soft with you. Under the circumstances that would not be the expression of love. I have become a cruel person in a way, chasing you out to the battlefield. I want you to understand what I am doing and why, and I want you to support me.</p>
<p>If America had supported me with its mammoth wealth, even to the slightest degree, you would not have to go out and fundraise with such struggle. If America had supported me by freely giving of its young people, in such a way that negativity was not nurtured and spread, good people would have joined us freely and you would not have to go out to witness with such effort. However, America failed to respond in both ways.</p>
<p>I cried out in prayer to God, pledging and swearing that every dollar our members made represented every penny of America&#8217;s great wealth, and that every member that our Unification Church members brought represented the entire population of this nation. &#8220;God, honor their effort, honor their success, honor their sacrifice. God, each one of our members is taking up America&#8217;s role.&#8221; Each dollar you earn must be glistening with your tears; such money is more precious than any amount of money earned in business. Each member you bring must be the fruit of your sweat and blood and hard work.</p>
<p>Do not worry, the American government will not have to chase me out; the time will come when I will go, voluntarily. We will voluntarily send home our foreign members; the Immigration Department does not have to be concerned. But the time is not now. If I were to leave I know that every one of you would feel no more attraction to America, but would want to follow me. How could I leave this country at this moment? If right now I removed all of the Japanese and European members it is clear that this nation would decline, like a ship without a captain. Do you want to watch this nation die or not? Do you clearly understand why we have walked this path, the purpose for which we are here, and the meaning of the work we have accomplished thus far?</p>
<p>As soon as you were born you came under satanic lineage. Had there been no fall all of you would have been born of God; whether first, second, or third-born, you would each be the child of God. Instead, you are all destined to be born again. By the love of God you shall be re-born into the level of servant, adopted child, true child, and finally born again as God-centered, sinless parents. Then you will inherit all things.</p>
<p>We must give rebirth to all things, to the angelic world, to children of God, and to God-centered parents. From there we must expand our territory to the worldwide level, going beyond the satanic realm on the worldwide level and giving rebirth to all things on the universal scale.</p>
<h3 align="center">For the Messiah to come, Cain and Abel must unite</h3>
<p>Since the fall of man everything has been upside down, but we are reversing this process to make everything straight. God and Satan are intently fighting a tug of-war over the children of Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve were directly claimed by Satan, and long ago God put aside His hope for them. The angel was supposed to come under the dominion of Adam, but this became reversed through the fail, and Satan, the servant, controlled Adam instead. Cain as the elder brother was born in the position of Satan, while Abel was born in Adam&#8217;s position, representing the side of God. The original channel of command can only be restored by a reversal of dominion in which the younger brother takes the position of elder brother, thus putting the archangel position back on the servant level.</p>
<p>The children of God will then be born within that lineage. After the restoration through Cain and Abel is done, the fallen, stained parents will be restored through the restored Abel. Upon that foundation the unstained, perfected Adam will come as the Messiah. In the garden of Eden there was only Adam&#8217;s family; therefore, when the family is restored all things are done. That family will come to restore the nation and world, and all things.</p>
<p>God intended to complete this providence within three generations and then send the Messiah. At that time he would have established the True Parents and the rest of the family members would have been grafted into his lineage, restoring the entire family at one time. This was the dispensation of Adam&#8217;s family. However, Cain slew Abel, creating a repetition of the fallen act in which the archangel killed Adam instead of obeying him. Cain&#8217;s act multiplied the consequences of the fall.</p>
<p>The division and struggle between the Cain side and Abel side has been perpetuated from family level to the tribal level, national level and worldwide level, and man&#8217;s history has been the history of struggle. Man&#8217;s struggle has only brought greater division, and because Satan&#8217;s dominion expanded to cover the entire world, restoration had to encompass the far ends of the earth.</p>
<p>The tug of war that started with Cain and Abel has today expanded to the worldwide level. God is pulling His world and Satan is pulling his world; God is pulling Abel and Satan is pulling Cain. However, if Abel&#8217;s will to pull becomes strong enough, God can pull Cain all the way to His side, leaving nothing more to be restored. The dispensation of Cain and Abel is for the younger to achieve the position of the elder, and the elder to take the position of the younger. This process of restoring the birthright must be fulfilled up to the worldwide scale. God has been winning through heavenly struggle, slowly fitting things back into their original order. Through the process of reversal God started His work at the far end, bringing everything back to its consummation at the center.</p>
<p>The religious world of today is in the position of Abel, the younger brother, while the non-religious world is in Cain&#8217;s position. Cain will always seek to persecute Abel, and throughout history the religious world has always been persecuted. Cain always claims that Abel must submit to him, but the religious world responds, &#8220;No, we represent Adam and you represent the angel. You must obey us.&#8221; Always the satanic world takes the initiative to suppress the religious world, and always there is struggle.</p>
<p>If the conditions had been fulfilled in Adam&#8217;s family through the unity of Cain and Abel, all would have been completely fulfilled horizontally in one family. But that failed and the entire restoration became vertical, descending through history and expanding onto ever broader levels as the family expanded into a tribe, the tube into a nation, and the nation into the world.</p>
<p>Cain and Abel must become one. In the sight of God there was no difference between Cain and Abel when they were born, but because of the fallen act there was a vast difference in the meaning of their positions as elder son and younger son. The ultimate dominion in the world should begin with the positions of Cain and Abel united into oneness. You know from Old Testament history that the Cain and Abel providence which failed in Adam&#8217;s family continued through Esau and Jacob, and also through Tamar&#8217;s children, Perez and Zerah. The continuing providence for the younger brother to win the birthright of his elder brother was consummated on all levels, even in the mother&#8217;s womb. From this lineage Jesus was born.</p>
<h3 align="center">Jacob and Rebecca</h3>
<p>Cain and Abel were born separately, while Esau and Jacob were twins. As twins they were much closer in their relationship than Cain and Abel. Why was Jacob blessed? According to the Bible&#8217;s description he was a cunning man who lied to his elder brother and father, conniving with his mother to get Esau&#8217;s birthright. Why could God continually bless him in that case? Rebecca, his mother, also deceived her husband and son. In the garden of Eden Eve deceived both her husband and God, and this double deception brought the fall. Eve did not listen to God but listened to Satan, and lied to her own husband; she lied to two generations, father and son,</p>
<p>In the restoration Rebecca took the position of Eve, doing so by lying to her husband and her son for the heavenly purpose of assisting Jacob to restore the birthright. Through her fervent desire to fulfill the work of God, Rebecca was able to restore herself to the position of heavenly mother, and help restore Jacob as a heavenly son. Step by step, Rebecca cooperated with her heavenly son to restore everything. Biblical scholars are confronted with an unsolvable question of morality in Jacob&#8217;s course; he was a cunning man and a swindler, yet the Bible indicates that God continuously blessed him. Why? Without knowing the deep significance of God&#8217;s dispensation, there is no way to understand.</p>
<p>When Isaac was close to death, he blessed Jacob, believing that Jacob was actually Esau. When Esau later went to receive his father&#8217;s blessing he discovered Jacob&#8217;s deception, and he demanded, &#8220;Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.&#8221; But Isaac insisted, &#8220;Behold, I have made him your lord. What then can I do for you, my son?&#8221; Jacob was a man of wisdom, and in order to avoid the accusation of his elder brother, he had already conditionally traded his elder brother&#8217;s birthright for a bowl of lentils. Strictly speaking, Esau had no right to be angry, for he himself had already sold his birthright. Even so, Esau was consumed with anger and determined to kill Jacob, just as Cain had killed Abel. However, Rebecca again assisted Jacob and he fled from danger.</p>
<p>If Isaac had actually given Esau the blessing he gave Jacob then God would not have had a condition to side with Jacob, and a confusion would have emerged in the dispensation. However, God was always with Jacob, and through him God&#8217;s dispensation was successfully fulfilled for the first time. All the conditions of physical restoration were met and fulfilled.</p>
<p>After a 21-year sojourn in a foreign land, Jacob returned to Canaan. On his way Jacob was confronted at the ford of Jabbok by the angel, who represented Satan. The fall of man came when an angel subjugated a man; therefore, in restoration man must subjugate the angel. For this reason God sent the angel to confront Jacob, wanting Jacob to win not only physically over Esau, but also spiritually over the angel. By doing so Jacob could restore man to his proper position and bring the angel down to his proper position as servant.</p>
<p>When Jacob confronted the angel at the ford of Jabbok, he had to give his entire heart and soul, even more than he had during his 21 years&#8217; of servitude in Haran. Indeed, Jacob was determined even to die, and though his thigh was knocked out of joint he did not hesitate, but continued in his struggle. The angel finally acknowledged that he could not prevail against Jacob and blessed him, saying, &#8220;Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.&#8221; What was Jacob&#8217;s victory? Jacob won a spiritual victory over all the angelic world. From that time on Jacob was assisted not only by God but by the angelic world in whatever he chose to do. Spiritually Satan could not assist Esau when he confronted Jacob after 21 years of separation, and Esau had to embrace his brother.</p>
<p>You recall that Esau received a great many gifts when Jacob freely gave of his earnings of 21 years. What is the significance of this act? In doing so, Jacob set the condition by which we also can purchase our birthright through giving out our fortune. Thereafter all religious people have given up their material wealth to the satanic world, and in doing so could not only win the satanic world but win their birthright. Jesus also gave up everything, possessing nothing throughout his entire mission. Once you know the Divine Principle the Bible suddenly becomes very logical.</p>
<p>The restoration of Cain and Abel was completed for the first time through the lives of Jacob and Esau. God won His first victory on earth at the moment the two brothers became one and Esau embraced Jacob. Through his unity with Jacob, Esau and his descendants also received the blessing of God. Esau was born into Satan&#8217;s position, but during the process of restoration Esau cooperated with Jacob, however unwillingly, and when Esau welcomed Jacob, the two positions were restored, and God could extend an equal blessing to Esau.</p>
<h3 align="center">Further preparation of Jesus&#8217; lineage</h3>
<p>Jacob and Esau were about the age of forty when they finally fulfilled the will of God; however, their success could only affect those people of that age or older. No one below the age of forty could benefit by this progress in the restoration. God prepared another step in His dispensation that would protect His children from the period of their life in their mother&#8217;s womb until the age of forty. This providence had to be sealed within the next three generations of Jacob&#8217;s descendants.</p>
<p>Judah was the fourth son of Jacob, and Judah&#8217;s son married a woman whose name was Tamar. According to Jewish tradition, if a son died without leaving sons, his brother must act as a husband to the dead brother&#8217;s wife so that the dead brother&#8217;s lineage would be continued. Tamar did not have children when her husband died, and when the next brother refused to fulfill his responsibility, he died. However, the third brother was not given to Tamar when he became old enough, and Tamar saw that she had no hope to bear children.</p>
<p>She knew that her mission was to continue the family of her husband and Judah, his father, and she finally decided to sacrifice even her honor and prestige in order to fulfill. Disguising herself as a prostitute, Tamar enticed her father-in-law to have a relationship with her. Without knowing she was his daughter-in-law Judah consented. At that time adultery was punished by death. In order to save her life for the sake of her child, Tamar asked Judah for his signet and staff as a pledge for payment, and then confiscated them.</p>
<p>Three months later when it became obvious that the widow Tamar was pregnant, she was brought before Judah to be judged. You can imagine Judah&#8217;s horror, &#8220;Bring her out, and let her be burned!&#8221; But she answered, &#8220;By the man to whom these belong, I am with child,&#8221; and she brought out the things that Judah had given her in his pledge.</p>
<p>Man fell through fornication, and Tamar was one example of how God frequently used women of most unusual character in restoration. Why would God use adulterous women in the dispensation? They are in a satanic position, but if they completely deny their satanic nature when summoned by God, then they can be restored from one extreme to the opposite extreme.</p>
<p>God selected His champions from the most miserable situations. Tamar was a righteous woman, and though she was originally in a sinful position, she completely dedicated herself to God&#8217;s mission, risking her life, honor, and prestige. Paralleling the way Eve lied to God and her husband to bring the fall, Tamar deceived her father-in-law and her husband to-be, the third brother of her original husband. She was in a position to reverse the position of Eve by reversing Eve&#8217;s actions, but the significant thing is that she risked her life to do God&#8217;s will.</p>
<p>Tamar had conceived twins and in this case, the struggle of Cain and Abel began within her very womb. The Bible records how Rebecca&#8217;s twins also struggled within their mother&#8217;s womb. She had prayed to God to understand what was happening, and God answered her, saying, &#8220;Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples, born to you, shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.&#8221; Ultimately Jacob did gain the birthright from his elder brother, Esau.</p>
<p>When the time came for Tamar&#8217;s children to be delivered, the struggle ensued directly within her womb. The first child started to come out and the midwife tied a red thread around his wrist. That sign foreshadowed the emergence of communism in the Last Days. However, before the first child could be born there was a struggle, and the younger brother pulled the other back inside and was himself born first. That son was named Perez, and the other named Zerah. The result of this struggle is that for the first time the restoration of Cain and Abel took place inside the mother&#8217;s womb, the younger brother having subjugated his elder brother even prior to birth. Tamar&#8217;s extraordinary action cleansed Judah&#8217;s lineage and rendered it intact from satanic invasion from the time of conception.</p>
<h3 align="center">Mary</h3>
<p>Through this victory at the time of Tamar and also Jacob&#8217;s earlier victory, God could claim a foundation that spanned man&#8217;s entire life. Jesus was born in the lineage of Judah and Satan had no way to invade his life because the cleansing process was already completed. Jesus came years after the dispensation of Jacob and Tamar because God had to wait for the national foundation to be established. Conditions were all fulfilled on the family level at the time of Jacob, Tamar and Judah, but God needed to create a foundation to receive the Messiah within a nation, that he might gain victory among the satanic nations.</p>
<p>Finally after 2,000 years, God chose one more woman whose name was Mary. Mary was a revolutionary woman in faith who could follow God&#8217;s revolutionary tactics. Because the fall of man came through the archangel, an angel was needed to assist Mary by bringing her God&#8217;s revelation. Mary completely believed what the angel told her of her mission; the angel told her that she would conceive, and the child would be great and holy, and that his name should be called Jesus.</p>
<p>Mary&#8217;s situation paralleled Eve&#8217;s in the garden of Eden before her blessing. Mary and Joseph were engaged but not yet married; Adam and Eve were also in an engagement period as they were growing up. An angel brought Eve to the fallen act, but an angel brought Mary to the fulfillment of the heavenly dispensation. Mary was also in a position to deceive her husband and her father. Do you think Mary could discuss with her father or Joseph about how she had conceived her baby? She was asking her life because in those times an adulterous woman was to be stoned to death.</p>
<p>Mary was the third woman to be picked by God. Through the previous victories of Rebecca and Tamar all satanic conditions had been cleared from Jesus&#8217; lineage, and even though Mary conceived Jesus outside of marriage, Satan could not accuse her. Even inside his mother&#8217;s womb Jesus was already the only begotten son of God, and after his birth everything he did was with the authority of the son of God.</p>
<p>The events recorded in the Bible have always puzzled the world. For instance, in the genealogy of Jesus the names of four adulterous women are recorded: Tamar, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary. Another puzzling question was why the elder son was often in the position to be cursed by God. Without understanding the depths of the Principle there are no logical explanations for these things.</p>
<p>Jesus was in the position of Adam without sin in the garden of Eden. Did God intend for Adam to live his entire life alone in the garden of Eden? No, and in the same way Jesus was destined to create his own family through restoring his bride. Jesus&#8217; family was to become the cornerstone of the Kingdom of God by creating the new lineage of heaven and earth as the center of the universe.</p>
<p>The son of God came alone, but in restoring his bride and his children from Israel, and establishing Israel as his own nation, Jesus could have restored the world. But Jesus was crucified, and could not leave the foundation of the Father and Mother of mankind established here on earth. With no True Parents here on earth, how could anyone be re-born here on earth? Without parents how can you be born in the first place?</p>
<h3 align="center">How can mankind receive physical salvation?</h3>
<p>Forty days after Jesus&#8217; resurrection the Holy Spirit descended from heaven. What is the Holy Spirit? After Adam and Eve failed their mission as the True Parents of mankind, God&#8217;s concept of the True Parents was confined to the spiritual realm. Jesus came as the manifestation of God&#8217;s concept of true Adam, but no one was raised up to manifest God&#8217;s concept of Eve. For this reason the Holy Spirit comes in the role of spiritual Mother. The Bible describes the Holy Spirit as being like fire or water or like a dove, because it was without form, but the role of the Holy Spirit is that of mother spirit.</p>
<p>The Holy Spirit has served as the womb of a spiritual mother, completely embracing and covering Christians and internally giving spiritual rebirth. Jesus&#8217; spirit as the Father, together with the Holy Spirit, can bring the power of rebirth to Christians. No spiritual resurrection can come about until one truly receives both Jesus and the Holy Spirit.</p>
<p>God never intended that physical birth and spiritual birth come separately, but Jesus could not establish full salvation 2,000 years ago, and left only the power of spiritual salvation here on earth. He must come again to the earth to complete the portion of his mission left undone at that time.</p>
<p>An unusual phenomenon is taking place within the Unification Church; you are seeking to be recognized and loved by the True Parents. In your deepest heart you want to become one with them; without doing this you cannot be given complete restoration or rebirth. Physically it is impossible to become a part of the True Parents, but through your love, your total unity with them will be acknowledged by Heaven. Did you ever dream of such a Principle?</p>
<p>I want you to deeply realize that the emergence of the True Parents did not happen all of a sudden by decree one morning. Thousands and thousands of years passed in which God shed sweat and blood and tears to lay the necessary foundation in accordance with His principle and schedule, yet this work was continually being hampered by man&#8217;s failures. I unlocked the deep secrets of heaven and earth and determined to pioneer the path beyond the level on which all the dispensational figures previously suffered or accomplished, figures like Noah, Abraham, Jacob, and Jesus. I learned precisely what they accomplished and what they left undone.</p>
<p>I knew from the very beginning that unless I set my standard higher than all of those dispensational figures I could not fulfill the role of the True Parents in heart and love. I have now succeeded beyond the level they established in terms of heart and love. From the beginning I knew what to look for, what to ask for, and what to strive for.</p>
<p>All the confusion and chaos of history had to be resolved. I came like a doctor to operate, to straighten out the problems of mankind within the shortest possible time of 30 years, and to complete the foundation upon which God&#8217;s history could begin and all mankind could be brought to life. It is a miracle of miracles. What would you have done if I had not come?</p>
<p>Right now I look miserable in the eyes of the world. I have unlocked the most important secrets of life and have freely given them as a gift to the world, yet instead of being grateful the world has come back to ridicule me. You are God&#8217;s only hope; you are my only hope. However, since your previous life was so sinful you can never deserve the blessing of God in the Unification Church without totally changing from your previous philosophy and way of life.</p>
<h3 align="center">Who will inherit my mission?</h3>
<p>Your lives must be different from yesterday; each day you need to be re-created. Will you change yourselves today? On this Parents Day, let&#8217;s forget what you have done in the past because what counts is today and tomorrow. Boldly take the responsibility that God has bestowed upon you; courageously undertake what God has bestowed upon you and fulfill this mission. I want you to know that through you God will change the history of mankind.</p>
<p>I am not delivering this message today solely for your benefit. My audience is the world, history, and the spirit world. I am speaking to the world and every person here on earth shall listen to this word in due course. The entire spirit world is listening right now. The entire world will be without the excuse that they did not hear me.</p>
<p>Did my explanation of the Bible sound like a lie, or is it clear and effective truth? If the 240 million people of America and if Christians the world over could really humble themselves to listen to the truth, there is no way that they could say, &#8220;Reverend Moon, you are seeking to deceive and I do not trust you.&#8221; The power of the truth will unite men.</p>
<p>I am very anxious at this time. God wanted me to have fulfilled this level of accomplishment by the age of 40, yet now I am almost 60. 1 am anxious to recover those 20 years of time by declaring God&#8217;s truth to the world so that the world which has been destined to death shall see some sign of hope for restoration.</p>
<p>It is not yet too late, but America and the world must repent. God still wants to bless America. No one ever even imagined that the emergence of the True Parents could be this difficult and precarious. To come this far I had to persevere through and overcome impossible opposition and headwinds; I want you to inherit these experiences from me. Unless you inherit this heart of mine, you will have nothing to do with the place where I dwell and where God dwells.</p>
<p>When I die, I shall ask God, &#8220;Is there anyone who loved You more? Is there anyone who loved the world more? Is there anyone who really gave himself more totally for the sake of the world? Heavenly Father, can You name one?&#8221; There is no other such person. Therefore, I want to live longer because no one has yet come who can succeed me in my mission. I pray that among you someone can come forward to say, &#8220;Father, I can inherit your mission. I feel precisely as you do; I am another Reverend Moon. Leave it to me.&#8221; My prayer is to see even one person like that come from among you. The greatest blessing, the greatest gift that God could give me, would be to see such a man. That person will say, &#8220;Father, I shall not only equal your own record, I shall exceed your record so there can be glory and Sabbath for you and for God.&#8221; If many of you feel like that, then this is truly the glory and victory of Parents Day.</p>
<p>Can you pledge in this sacred, holy room, &#8220;God, I give You my covenant, my pledge, that I will never let You down, that I shall persevere even more than Father himself persevered, and with my hands Your mission shall be done. This world shall see resurrection and health because of me.&#8221; If that is the pledge you can give, then this is the place where God will look down and take great joy. Those who can solemnly pledge this severe and most difficult yet down-to-earth commitment, raise your hands. Thank you.</p>
<p>In this concept and in this conviction let us rejoice on this Parents Day. God bless you. Thank you all.</p>
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