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<h1 class="entry-title">ETERNAL HAPPINESS</h1>
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<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="2018-06-18T05:23:28+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/18/eternal-happiness.html" rel="bookmark">June 18, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-18T05:23:28+01:00">June 18, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1979.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">February 25, 1979<br />
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<p>Man has always yearned for the ideal and a life of everlasting happiness. If there had been no fall then human history could have started on the basis of happiness, and men would have lived together with and served the one True God. Because of the fall, however, people have even questioned whether there might be such a thing as an untruthful or false God who created evil.</p>
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<p>After the fall the original God could not live the way He intended. Instead He had to be the God who constantly fought His enemy Satan. An enemy is one who is always undermining and disturbing the peace and happiness of other men. Through what condition can God’s happiness and peace be invaded? We find that God is not being disturbed directly; Satan is disturbing God through man, who was to be the object of God’s happiness.</p>
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<p>We know that God wanted to find His true happiness and ideal through men Through love God will find everything and be able to assume His true position. This is the true God and His original course in goodness. We know that God has not been able to live in that way as a true God, however. Instead God has always been waiting to assume this position, slowly advancing towards it by finding and restoring what He has lost. This is the history of restoration and re-creation.</p>
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<p>God has not been seen as the God He really is because He has constantly had to fight and recover what was lost. Therefore, His position has been that of an almighty and judging God, not the God of parental love. He has been working through the Old and New Testament eras to reach His objective, always striving for victory, but His purpose has been frustrated over and over again. During the years of His struggle God has become burdened with despair and disappointment and this theme has been interwoven through history. Now knowing this to be God’s own struggle, mankind has called history the struggle between good and evil. Man has not clearly known that when he stands on the side of goodness he is helping God’s work and broadening God’s foundation, but if man puts himself in a position of evil then he is undermining God’s purpose and even helping Satan. Like a scale that moves up and down before balancing, man has always been swinging back and forth, trying to decide what to do. Your scale always wants to tip heavily to the side of goodness, but always there are failures and temptations waiting to push you the other way.</p>
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<p>In man’s lifetime there is always a pattern of, repetition, swinging up and down. How do God and Satan fight this war? It may seem that God is fighting against Satan, but that is not the case at all. Man is the central problem of all this fighting, and his whole environment is involved. Each man as an individual as well as the society, nation and world are all at stake during this fighting.</p>
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<p>We may say that someone is a good or bad man, and centering on that person we may say that his family is good or bad as well. A whole neighborhood or even a whole country may be viewed as good, meaning that it is comprised of generally good people. If someone is able to be completely objective then he will be able to compare the East and West and say that one may be better than the other. We speak in the same terms whether we are talking about one person’s life or the life of a country or even about the world.</p>
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<p>What kind of things are men proud of? When people have nice clothes to wear they are very proud, but the important point is how they obtained such finery. There are all different ways. A person may be given clothes as a gift from his king for service to his country, and then he can wear them with pride. Others may have stolen their clothes and be proud of their cunning and success. Someone else may have worked very hard and bought that clothing for himself, wearing it with pride in his hard work. People may be wearing identical clothes at the same time, but the history behind each of them is totally different, so some of the wearers can be more proud than others.</p>
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<p>Two people may be doing basically the same work, but their backgrounds and reasons for doing it may be totally different. For instance, one may volunteer, or be inspired by his surroundings or be forced to do it. When we eat nice food we feel good, but even food comes to us in different ways. Was it given to us as a reward, or was it stolen, or did we earn it? Although it is something nice to eat and gives us pleasure, if we stole that food is it good or bad? Even the thickest, juiciest steak can be a bad steak under certain circumstances.</p>
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<p>A lovely house is not such a nice house to live in if it belongs to a burglar. The same thing goes for a country. A country may be very prosperous, with eight-lane highways, modern apartments, and factories, but if that country has become rich by exploiting other people, can we say that it is a good country?</p>
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<p>Is America good or bad? Imagine a small country whose citizens are struggling to achieve the highest standard of goodness. They are very conscientious and though they suffer and remain poor they keep on trying. Is that a bad or good country? The size or wealth of that country is an unimportant consideration.</p>
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<p>Can it be said that a king is good or bad depending on how big his palace is, how many people are around to wait on him, or how big a realm he governs? Even if his status is taken away, does that determine whether he is a good or bad man?</p>
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<p>What is God like and how does He live? One thing we know is that God is the center and master of Himself, the family, society, nation, world and the entire universe. He has been forced out of the center, however, and lives in a very small and miserable situation. After being expelled from his palace by the enemy, He found Himself all alone, but He has been expanding His territory gradually and recovering what was taken from Him. He cannot forget how His brilliant world was taken away and He was forced to live in such a small and terrible place. Since He is unhappy, what must He do? He must reclaim what its already His. In other words, salvation and restoration actually mean that God is reclaiming what was already His, bringing it all back to be with Him.</p>
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<p>God will restore His country to be His own and restore the original world back to Himself. Has God ever lived in the original world in His rightful position? He has always been pursuing that ideal. We must realize that God has no actual foundation for living in that world. He has a foundation only in the sense of His thinking and ideal, but not in physical reality.</p>
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<p>As the result of being brought up in a certain way, people tend to think of themselves in certain categories such as nationality or race. Since this has been man’s habit for so long, can God easily raise him out of that environment? It is a difficult job because people remain very attached to their familiar surroundings. This is the unfortunate reality. Everyone has to be pulled out of his own particular hell, and even when he is pulled out he still retains many of his old attachments. Each person feels he must still live in certain ways and cannot do anything else. In this sense everyone has built his own wall so high that you cannot see over it.</p>
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<p>When Jesus came and said, “Come follow me,” it was his godly mission to liquidate all of those barriers. If he said, “Come follow me but continue to do everything as you have been; be nice to your family and meet all your obligations to your surroundings,’ we could not regard him as the one who was sent by God. Instead, he said, “Leave everything, even your life, and come with me.” The messiah’s mission has many aspects, but this point is crystal clear.</p>
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<p>If the messiah came today would he approve of everything’! He comes to give approval to heavenly things, but first he must take the position of denying all worldly things. That is his original mission. Otherwise, he would not be the messiah. Looking for the person who meets this requirement is another way of locating the messiah. Is there any indication that such a person ever existed here on earth? Was there ever a man who denied everything 100%? We can say that Jesus was such a person and can conclude that the messiah was indeed here on earth.</p>
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<p>Did Jesus tell his followers to cherish everything and be nice to everyone? On the contrary, he said, “Do not think I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.” Even John the Baptist said, “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” Why didn’t he say, “Rejoice, for the Kingdom of Heaven is coming”? True repentance is not easy. First you have to repent for the historical mistakes made during the dispensation, and then do what was left undone.</p>
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<p>The strict requirements of Jesus’ teaching are contrary to what we want to hear and in opposition to what we want to do. Compared to today, 2,000 years ago was a very spiritually dark and closed age, yet even under those circumstances Jesus said, “He who loves father and mother more than me is not worthy of me.” Do you think the people of that unenlightened time would have welcomed Jesus?</p>
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<p>If Jesus came today he would proclaim that people should love him instead of the President. He would walk into a wedding and say that it is better to live singly and forget about marriage in order to love Jesus. It is not surprising that people wanted to stone or club Jesus to death for the things he said. What if he had said, “I don’t want you to wait for marriage tor eternity, just until I say that it is possible.” Do you think that the man who was presiding over the ceremony would have said, “Jesus, you are right. This couple should wait to marry”? No! They all would have said he was crazy and wanted to toss him out of the church. The people of Jesus’ time thought he was a crazy man who was unfit to live in society.</p>
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<p>Reading the Bible with this understanding can give us much hope. For the first time we can find a clear and unmistakeable explanation about Jesus’ teaching. Is this my far-fetched explanation, or am I merely explaining the truth without compromise ? If man hadn’t fallen then this would be false, but because mankind has fallen this is the reality.</p>
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<p>Is there such a thing as happiness on this wide earth? Happiness can exist where there is a guarantee of eternal love and eternal ideal. Can we find something eternal today? No matter how many thousands of years ago it was started, can we find an ideal here today? Is there anything which is lasting, even the smallest thing? Can the True Parents guarantee happiness for everyone? If people knew there was eternal happiness in the Unification Church then even God would have a hard time stopping the avalanche of people who would be coming here. People pray every day for their ideals and happiness, but only if they are based on eternal love can we realistically talk about the ideal and happiness.</p>
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<p>Happiness can be achieved only through truth and the ideal. We may have an ideal for the sake of love. A woman dreams of eternally relying on her husband. Her ideal includes love which will last forever. Where can we go to find eternal love and happiness? Only to God. Can we imagine an ideal world without love? Would love be found in the country where people have nice clothes, nice food and the best homes? For those people love would only seem like an accessory. These days many people live in apartments and frequently move from place to place, but do you think they are happy that way? If a man moves from apartment to apartment, going from one woman to another, is he bound to find love eventually?</p>
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<p>There is a love which God approves and a love which Satan likes. There are also two kinds of ideal and happiness. What is the difference between them? The love God chooses is directed toward the eternal ideal, while the other is temporary, going first in one direction and then another. Which one did you choose to pursue? You may think you are seeking an eternal goal, but don’t you sometimes think back to the happy days when you were dating someone you liked? Do you give yourself a severe reprimand and forget those memories, or do you entertain that thought with yourself? Just like you would shake off noxious insects, you should run a mile away from those memories. I know it is not an easy thing to do, but it must be done and you can do it.</p>
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<p>The true religion is concerned about eternity, with God at the center. God is always in the center of the one true religion. There may be many things in life which look so alike that we cannot tell one from another, yet even among these things there is only one which is true. They may all have similar elements, but there is only one which is true. Is the Unification Church a religion at all? Is it a true or false religion? The true leader is one who always makes you do something that you don’t particularly like. I am consistent in doing that, and you may have decided it is because 1 am from the Orient.</p>
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<p>Recently one leader worked hard to prepare a good plan and brought it to me with many suggestions, but I refused to accept it. He had made many preparations before he asked to do all these things, but 1 turned him down completely. He had many sleepless nights afterward thinking about why he was turned down, imagining that perhaps I could not understand him because we were not the same age. The only reason why I refused his plan was because it centered around himself and not around God. In this matter I am uncompromising and unyielding.</p>
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<p>God likes us to go up and down instead of only one direction. A person who prefers only going up and refuses to go down cannot be called a true man because even God is not like that. When a man sets out in search of love, he will do better to go to the lowest place and absorb more suffering because then his love will become brighter.</p>
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<p>lt is good if you can recognize the opportunity to give up everything, repent and proclaim that the Kingdom of Heaven is near at hand. What do you gain by giving up everything? By relinquishing your own goal you gain God’s ideal and family and country.</p>
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<p>How can eternal happiness be achieved? Through true love and ideals. If you have eternal ideals in you then when someone comes and chops off your head will your eternal happiness go away? Does your eternal ideal remain with you even if your head is separated from your body? Do you have that eternal ideal within yourself now? If your parents or even the President kidnap you and beat you to the point of death would you still keep the eternal ideal within you?</p>
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<p>You have to have that kind of desperate experience in order to know what you will do. Who will give you a certificate saying that you have passed that kind of test? Not me, but Satan. If Ted Patrick kidnaps you and uses all his methods but still you don’t budge, he will have to sign your certificate and say, “I have nothing to do with this person.” If Congress investigates you but finds no way to change your mind and your eternal ideal, then Congress will issue you a certificate claiming they have nothing to do with you.</p>
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<p>When your case comes before God and He asks, “Do you really believe that this man has an eternal ideal,” Ted Patrick will reply, “Yes God, I really tried to change him but 1 couldn’t.” God will ask the government if they are really certain about this person and the investigators will have to admit they couldn’t find a flaw. Then God will proclaim that if there is no objection He will admit you to heaven. Satan is the first one to sign your passport or ticket to heaven. This is the reason why all worthy religions will go through persecution. Persecution indicates only that you are trying to do something in a different way than others want to do it. Opposition is painful, but it purifies you and makes you stronger.</p>
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<p>An exam is the best thing that can be given to a student. You might think that exams are not good because they are painful, but actually they can make you more capable. If someone takes an examination without really being ready and flunks it, can we say it was good to give him a test? For those who studied very hard the examination is good, but for those who haven’t studied, the exam is like hell. Studying hard means making sacrifices. You have to study while others are enjoying themselves, which means giving up many activities.</p>
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<p>As you may have heard, there are many blessed wives who are leaving their children in the nursery and going out on the bus teams. The couples may talk among themselves about how certain people didn’t go out, and question why they should have to sacrifice. Perhaps they think the wives are needed at home to take care of things. You be the judge. Do you think that what 1 ordered them to do was too harsh? Then is trying to avoid going out good or not?</p>
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<p>When people around the world see our members leaving their young children to go out and witness, they change their thinking about our movement. They expect to see the engaged couples get married and settle down with nice families, but when the babies finally come they see the mothers leaving them behind and going out to other parts of the country to witness. When they see that our families are separated again people think, “I will never try to understand them again.” That hardship is what Satan has been trying to focus their attention on. Satan is watching the ties you have with your physical father and mother, thinking that if you are persecuted enough by them that maybe you will change your mind, but you never change your mind! Ordinary people are thinking that once you have your children you cannot endure leaving them behind, but then they find out you have gone witnessing 3,000 miles away!</p>
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<p>Satan is closely watching the husband whose baby and wife are both gone. If that man thinks that I ask too much of their family, Satan will be right beside him, saying, “That’s right. I told you so!” But the man who is left alone can have a different attitude, smiling to himself that the little creature who disturbed his sleep at night is gone. His attitude should be, “He is not here for me to take care of any more so God must be with him. Now I can work even harder, and when I come home at night I can rest in peace.” Will God be angry with him, or be happy and think that for the first time He has found someone who could pass the examination of heart?</p>
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<p>On the other side, if the man starts complaining, then God is really worried, not knowing how he is going to pass this test. Satan will be really happy, though. “This is the last test and I knew that he wouldn’t pass it.” Can you imagine the scene where God and Satan are right beside you, watching how you behave? If a husband can give up his wife and children and have nothing left to lose, Satan has no claim on him any more and he is a free man.</p>
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<p>If I am smart then will I make a man give up everything in order to make him a free man? There is no better way than to get rid of everything. Do you welcome this thought? What about those bachelors who are saying that it doesn’t really matter so much, or the fathers whose babies have gone to the nursery? You may think that you can let your wife go away, but when you come to the nursery and see your child you may feel that he is not eating properly or is not spiritually well. If you worry about your wife and think that she is not well and may be ill, Satan has hope to find something to accuse with.</p>
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<p>If the baby had a mind like a grown-up would he welcome his father worrying and carrying on like that? If the child had a mind like a grown-up he would say, “Don’t come near me. You are worrying about yourself and not about me.” Then the father wouldn’t lose any time in going to his home church because the baby would not be crying; he would even say, “Instead of visiting me you should be going to your own home church!” Do you think this is my own peculiar idea? Would God look down on me and say that I am pushing you too hard?</p>
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<p>Many people have successfully followed Jesus’ teachings except in this one area: “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; and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.” So far no one has been successful in that area, and as a result everyone has been blocked from heaven. Apart from that criterion, many would have gone to heaven before now. However, most people have stopped thinking about it altogether. Would God be happy for the person who managed to cross that barrier for the first time in history? You can imagine how the rest of mankind would talk about such a person, calling him inhuman. In the Unification Church husbands and wives are often separated, and even when they have children, often leave them behind to do their missions. I know that the public criticizes me for telling our couples they must live this way, but I am not afraid of criticism. Should I feel this is too hard for you and not ask it of you? No, I want you to go over this barrier.</p>
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<p>Some examinations have many questions, and one question may be worth one one-hundredth of a point, but this question of leaving your wife and children will be given credit for ninety points. If you are a smart student then you will concentrate your effort on solving this big question. Then if you are wrong on all the other questions you will still get ninety points, but even if you solve all the smaller problems you will still get only ten points. Would you rather study under the teacher who can show you the answer to the big problem, or the teacher who concerns himself with all the smaller details? When you are ready to take the cosmic examination, which teacher would you rather prepare with?</p>
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<p>Do you like the teacher who encourages you to sleep all you want, or would you prefer a strict teacher who kicks and disciplines you? Even if you get up at 3:30 you will find such a teacher already up. He may tell you, “Now that you have gotten up so late, you’d better start moving fast.” When midnight comes and you have been working all day, this teacher will say, “How can you go to bed so early?” Teaching you in this way gives me as much pain as it does you, but if you are going to pass then someone has to push you that hard. It certainly is not for my benefit. I already have assurance of going to heaven, but what about the rest of you people?</p>
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<p>I already know what it is like to live that way because I did it long ago. I started out from scratch in the barest surroundings, not just once but over and over again in different countries. If I didn’t know what it was like and only made the members do it, would Satan have kept quiet? I have pushed Mother very hard and even sent my own child into an orphanage. If I hadn’t done that myself then my conscience would bother me constantly.</p>
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<p>The first 36 couples are living together now, but they can do so without their consciences bothering them because years ago they were separated for a long time. Also, ten and twenty years ago the situation was much more difficult than it is now.</p>
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<p>Even though externally America is comfortable and affluent, I know the difficulty that you must be going through being separated from your families. Once you know the Principle and realize how to live it, you should be competing to see who is going to do it first. Those who wait until the second or third opportunity comes will have more difficulty than the one who does it first. This is something that we should jump out to do and get over with. If you are prepared to do this for the rest of your life then you can stop sooner. Do you plan how you can get out of doing it, or do you want to be the first one to do it? Once you finish you are allowed to come back and there is nothing which is more difficult for you to do in the future.</p>
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<p>Satan will always be encouraging the person who hangs back. Satan knows this is difficult for you and he is always trying to tempt you. One American member wanted to report his concerns to me about various matters concerning the nursery. I was very stern with him and asked if he had ever worked harder and poured out as much heart as the people working in the nursery. If he had, then I felt I could listen. 1 had a clear idea about his own attitude. If a person is worthy of taking responsibility for this country, then he would lead this country in maintaining this standard and understanding. I asked him about this.</p>
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<p>Before he came to speak he should have spent much time in prayer and thought about the situation to be sure of what he was saying. I told him it is better to give a good spiritual atmosphere in the school than to give the children the best food and clothing. It is better for the children if someone is really praying for them and being with them. In a regular nursery children might have better care externally, with one adult caring for three children and working only eight hours. Here we have one person for every five children, but these people are pouring out their heart and love to them. This is the crux of the problem. External things aren’t so much of a concern, but money will never provide the love and prayer the children need.</p>
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<p>We are always challenged to make decisions about happiness. Anything and everything that begins with yourself at the center is bad. That which does not center around yourself is eternal anal good. The father who gives of himself for the sake of the family is a good father for that family. If that family sacrifices for the sake of the clan, that family will suffer the most, but everyone will say that family is the best in their clan.</p>
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<p>America is made up of many races and clans. If one clan really works together to help America in a crucial way, the whole nation will praise and respect all of them. If America will do that for the world, submitting to suffering to help other nations, then the world will live. All people would look up to America just as they did years ago. Will America be considered a bad country or a good country?</p>
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<p>Many religions follow certain rites and practices, but none are thinking of the ultimate solution for the world’s problems. We will never be second best because we are uncompromising in our standard. What will the world religions say when the Unification Church attains its goal? They will recognize that the Unification Church is better than they are. They are already beginning to see that we are more active and more effective, and as they understand us more they will like us more. Of course, we have to allow some time; we cannot expect all Americans to be able to understand us in a few days. How long must we live like this? This will be our way of life until America can follow and reach the goal. When we look back a few years it is clear that we have passed the peak of persecution.</p>
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<p>Years ago I predicted that 1978 would be the peak year of persecution. Now the communists and religious groups are increasingly fighting among themselves. The Unification Church faced its most difficult fight against injustice in 1978. Senator Dole’s hearing was held on the last day of the lunar calendar. Even up to the last day we had persecution, but now it is coming to a conclusion.</p>
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<p>Are we waiting for eternal happiness to come to us or are we going to build it? Is it not yet discovered, or are you going to build it? Once you resolve to do something you have to devote all your power to accomplishing it. How difficult it is!</p>
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<p>You may have heard that giving birth to many children is very difficult. Is it more difficult to build the heavenly kingdom, or to give birth to a child? If it is as difficult as giving birth to 1,000 babies at the same time would you give up and fall behind, or would you follow? Those women who have already given birth to babies know how difficult it is, but you men will never know.</p>
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<p>Should 1 accept your sincerity automatically, or should I seriously check you? Will the Unification Church survive when things become difficult? Are you honestly the ones to build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth? Would such a person doze off here in the morning? Those of you who have never dozed off here in the morning, raise your hands.</p>
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<p>Once we have a clear goal and are confident to reach it then we are much freer to do everything. We can go to the theater or a show, to a bar and watch people drink. If you are working for a goal you are free to do that, but if you do it just centering on yourself, you will find yourself in hell.</p>
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<p>Your balance scales are always swinging back and forth, depending on whether you have good motivation or are acting in a self-centered way. As I said before, even your clothing can be good or bad depending on how you obtained it.</p>
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<p>If you are following the right purpose then you can even go dancing, but without a heavenly purpose your dancing is bad. No one but heaven can see your motivation just by looking at you, but your purpose determines the value of everything you do. If we think about building heaven are we only going to include people who are rich, famous or powerful? We should be able to embrace them, but we also have to think about people in bars, houses of prostitution and so on.</p>
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<p>If I spent the night in a house of prostitution, people would think the usual things about me, but God would know the content of what I did there. If I went there and talked all night to save the people then it doesn’t matter what other people think. God knows what I did. It all depends on the content.</p>
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<p>I have started all kinds of social activities, schools and factories, and now I am even making a Hollywood-scale film. If I didn’t do these things, people would say that I built heaven on earth only for religious people, not the people in the streets, the shopkeepers or the factory workers. Though we do many secular activities, they have a spiritual content.</p>
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<p>Unification Church members go everywhere, not as Americans but as citizens of the heavenly kingdom, to research all that goes on. We will visit every house, not to criticize or look for something bad, but to know every family so we can raise everyone to goodness and clear out undesirable things. It doesn’t make any difference if people jeer at us. We will not stop going because of that.</p>
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<p>We are not doing this for ourselves but for the sake of the young people, to give them guidance and care. Nothing we do is really just for ourselves. We marry just as other people in the world do, but with different purpose and content. You said you are seeking eternal happiness, but do you have the ability to do it? Before you can make a machine you have to have the necessary skills. Are you skillful enough in doing home church work to save the nation? Is that job easy or difficult? How difficult? Saying that it is very difficult is the same as saying you can’t do it. As long as you have the idea that it is very difficult, you will find it difficult to succeed. Though you honestly think it is difficult, if you know you can do it somehow then you have some possibility of success.</p>
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<p>It was difficult for me to work here in America, but I never felt overwhelmed by the obstacles and I always knew that I could do it. I just kept on going, and the result shows that I succeeded. Do you understand what I am trying to say? If I know a task is very difficult then I set my mind to go one step further, and then I always reach my real goal. I always think that, even though I have to die some time, I will never die before the task is done. Though I am opposed today, I feel I will conclude that opposition before going on to something else.</p>
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<p>If you are serious about accomplishing something then you must prepare for it. You may pinch yourself to see how much pain you can stand, but when someone else pinches you it always feels more painful. You can test yourself by getting a champion wrestler to pinch you and see if you can tolerate it. Then go all the way up to God; His pinch will be so hard that there will be a hole in your arm. If He causes you the worst possible pain but still you won’t give up, God will say, “This person is out of my hands.” Then He will give up testing you. That is the way God works.</p>
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<p>You hear me talk about having a serious attitude, but you can never understand how serious I am. By nature I am a very serious man. I will build heaven with my very own hands. When I planned to make my own family, I determined it would be the ideal family which could set the example. I wanted to create the best family and have five races included. Mass marriage was started as a result. There is a chance you will be blessed with someone you like, but what if you are matched with someone you really don’t like?</p>
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<p>When I was in Europe I met many white members. Many of them were very nice and could do many things, but actually I did not think so much of them. Then one German sister came to me, saying she had discovered something in black men that was the most genuine and most pure of all. She found such a kindness and genuineness in them that she had never found in the white people. She said very seriously and sincerely that she had made up her mind to marry a black brother if I approved. ‘That was the first time I could really bow down to a white woman; I never thought it would be possible.</p>
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<p>I saw that couple the other day in New York because they are visiting here, and when there is time I want to take them to dinner. I respect them because they are pioneers in building the heavenly kingdom on earth. Even God could not help but respect them for their seriousness and sincerity. Since I am also working for the heavenly kingdom I can recognize the value of what they did, and when they are successful then it is like my own success.</p>
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<p>Once you become dead serious about this task you can realize how difficult it is. Anyone who says that he can do it easily does not really know what he is talking about, and may actually be very close to Satan. A serious man will think deeply all the time and the contents of his actions will be completely different from anyone else’s, even though their external activity may be the same. The inevitable conclusion is that it is actually God who is seeing through his eyes. When that person is moving his hand, it is not he alone who is using it but God. At first he may not be so certain of this, but as time goes on he can gain confidence that God is doing work through him.</p>
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<p>Although we may not have adequate education or preparation according to the worldly standard, long as we have that serious kind of mind God is always with us and we will always be successful. We may not see success with our own eyes, yet we will never perish; God will be with us all the time, even at the moment of death. This is most natural and matter of fact because only through that kind of man will God realize His ideal. If God does not help such a man then God will never achieve His ideal. It is obvious that God will be there with him.</p>
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<p>Does eternal happiness remain with this person or will it be found somewhere else? We know now that eternal happiness stays with the person who builds it himself. Doesn’t that stand to reason? The question is not so much whether a person simply wants to live in eternal happiness, but whether he is determined to make his eternal happiness. This deep desire goes hand in hand with eternal happiness and with God’s eternal love and ideal. As long as love and eternal ideal are part of this desire, eternal happiness will be found there. This is the only criterion for any happiness at all.</p>
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<p>You have discovered that you do this together with your Parents. Now you have confidence and are not just dreaming. Everyone hopes for happiness, but few people come near the goal. We are not brilliantly educated or good-looking and fashionable, yet we have come close to this ideal. As long as we are living with such confidence, we can come nearer to the eternal happiness and show it to everyone else. With such pride and sincerity nothing will hold us back. This is the ordinary path and attitude of the Unification Church member.</p>
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<p>I can gauge how much heaven on earth is being achieved by the measure of how much we totally devote ourselves to its creation. According to the amount of sacrifice we make in building this ideal and how much sweat and tears we shed in sympathy and agony for mankind, we can measure how successful we are in building eternal happiness on earth.</p>
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<p>The worldly concept of happiness is directly the opposite: most individuals care only about their own enjoyment, regardless of how much other people suffer. This is a commonplace thing. In the worldly point of view, anyone who tries to go beyond that is jumping down the river.</p>
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<p>The leaders of communist nations are very vicious and free world nations maintain armies to fight them. Other nations never send armies to help the communists. If the communist powers are rampant and no nation sends any army to check them then Unification Church members will go to the front to fight them. Will God say that the Unification Church is too busy with its own business and shouldn’t send members to help fight the communists?</p>
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<p>Why are we so opposed to communism? If the communists dominate the world do you think any religion, good or bad, will remain on earth? Can God have anything to do with mankind without the true religion? Should we stop communism ourselves, or just watch communism prosper and let nature take care of it? It is apparent that if communism prevails it would completely annihilate religion and then God would have no chance whatever for restoration. God has been waiting for the outcome, but I stepped forward and said, “God, You have no responsibility for this. I volunteer myself. You have never given an order to fight the war, but I will fight communism on my own initiative. I will wipe out that ideology so that it will never bother any God-fearing people” I will bear that responsibility and carry it out once and for all.</p>
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<p>Even when America was not willing to send any troops to Vietnam, Korea sent troops to fight with Americans in the name of freedom. Could Americans later say that the Koreans were fighting on their own? Or would they encourage the Koreans to go ahead and do what Americans were not able to do?</p>
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<p>In this thinking I am different from ordinary religious leaders. Even though I don’t carry out all my ideas, I stretch my imagination to the extreme. As a religious leader I cannot encourage people to kill communists. If there is no effort made to stop communism, however, then certainly there is no chance for any religion to survive, including Unification Church, and no way for God’s ideal to be realized. This is really a critical moment. If some of our members didn’t even report to me but just went on their own to fight and wipe the communists out, what do you think I should say when they are successful? Should I say, “I never told you to start a war!” Or will I be happy at what they did and say, “That is the one thing I wanted to tell you to do, but I could never speak directly”?</p>
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<p>It is our strength and blessing that we have a consistent and accurate view of history and the world. When I started a factory in the early days of our Church I decided it should be a machine-parts factory, even though that business is not very profitable. Everyone in Korea knew that, and members said, “Why don’t you start a paper factory and we can make millions overnight?” But I insisted otherwise. I thought that if America was overrun by communism and unable to defend itself that I would make the necessary guns with my own hands to support America. Would Americans question why I gave them free assistance?</p>
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<p>If any person thinks seriously about why people oppose Reverend Moon and the Unification Church, they can find absolutely no answer that makes any sense. It is completely ridiculous. It is always helpful to receive some aid, but you have to have adequate strength to defend yourself. This is why some of our members in Korea and Japan are learning karate or tae-kwon-do. We train and prepare ourselves, but we hope we don’t have to use these skills. If we do use them it won’t be for ourselves but for the sake of everyone else. This proved to be necessary in Japan because the communists are quite violent when they have rallies. As a result, other students don’t want to get anywhere near, but the Unification Church members are strong and when our members go together to confront them the communists are afraid.</p>
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<p>Power by itself is neither good nor bad; it only becomes so according to how it is used. If the Mafia and other such groups use violence for their own selfish purpose, people think that all power is bad. But if strength is used by God it is good. If you use it to wipe out evil then it is even better.</p>
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<p>What is your thinking-do you think New Yorkers want to eliminate prostitution, or do they want to keep it? If you preach and lecture that it is against God’s ideal, will it be eliminated? No, these people have heard preaching before. The only way to change them is to use force.</p>
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<p>The beautiful Unification Church women should train in karate. Then they can stand on every corner on Eighth Avenue and if someone comes to make a pass at them, it is just too bad! If there are fifty such casualties on Eighth Avenue, then no one will go there even if you invite them. Those who are not beautiful don’t have to learn karate!</p>
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<p>If a person is determined to save America and New York then shouldn’t the citizens of New York welcome him, no matter how extreme his actions? The average American is not treating me even as well as a prostitute. You Unification Church~members have to realize and feel a certain anger about America’s lukewarm attitude toward this injustice. Even if only a few people stand up, they will soon become a big group, and then a small stream and finally a big river. This has come to pass.</p>
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<p>Even though David was small he killed the giant Goliath. How can you say he did a good deed? You have to look at the whole situation. With that one deed he helped save 3,000 years of God’s work; otherwise, it would have been washed away. David did not win just an ordinary fight like we see in the streets. If David had been a rabbi then the people would have accused him for killing someone, but do you think that God was happy to see him fight Goliath and win?</p>
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<p>The same principle applies to me. If I confronted communism with armed force and won, would God be happy, even though many people were killed? Place yourself in God’s position and see whether or not you would be happy. You should be very sure about this. How would God react if you gave up your religion so you could be free to fight? Certainly all religions must do their spiritual work, but now the communists are threatening and no one is defending God or religion. The religious man can never afford to be stupid. How can a religious person, seeing communism destroying the churches, say, “I am a religious person so I must sit down and pray. God will take care of it because He’s omnipotent.”? That kind of religion will be swept off the face of the earth. What could God do with that kind of religion?</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is bound to prosper at this time in history because it fits the requirements for God’s work. Both God and the world need the Unification Church, so it cannot help but prosper. There is no other way for us to go. If there is any life in this country of America then it is founded in the love of justice. No one else may care about justice, but Americans will care. Will people of justice stand by while someone kicks you and steals from you?</p>
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<p>If Jesus had been more powerful than the Roman emperor when the soldiers were sent to arrest Jesus, do you think he would have submitted when they grabbed him? Suppose after Jesus had been arrested and put on the cross the soldiers wanted to fight for him and take him down; would Jesus have said, “No, I don’t want to come down. This is where I belong. Why do you interfere with my mission”? Nevertheless, Christians today think Jesus came to die and would have remained on the cross even if the soldiers had tried to save him.</p>
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<p>If the soldiers had rescued Jesus from the cross and enthroned him like a king, what would have happened at that time? If the Kingdom of Heaven had come at that time do you think there would be many different Christian denominations fighting against each other today? Let’s face it; the Christians don’t know any more than anyone else about which way to turn. God is not talking to them directly.</p>
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<p>Even though we are on the side of good, we still need power in order to erase evil; we will never use it for our individual purpose but only to save America, to benefit the world, and most of all, for the sake of God. How do we attain power? We must start at the lowest point, persevere there and go up through every experience successfully. This is why the first thing, Unification Church members learn is to persevere through any difficulty. We don’t make decisions centered on ourselves but with public minds. What matters is content, not external appearance.</p>
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<p>Does God instigate war, or does He intervene only after men start conflicts? Men start wars, but God helps the good side to win and reach the goal they fought for. God certainly doesn’t want to bring the world into unity through use of arms, and neither do 1. It is through love that the world must come into one under God.</p>
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<p>How different the thinking of the Unification Church is from the rest of the Christian world! Shouldn’t the world-champion wrestler be in the Unification Church? He wouldn’t come to be a decoration, but to knock out the enemy. Is it good to knock out someone else? It is only justified when public good will result from it. If nothing else will be effective then it is good. We need strong teams in wrestling, soccer, baseball and all sports.</p>
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<p>Will some member who is not a part of the team complain, “1 work so hard fund raising and witnessing and don’t have the best food. Look at those members of the wrestling team. They eat big meals and sleep all night to train for wrestling. Why do I have to fund raise and witness?” Even though you don’t say anything, will you keep a grudge inside and secretly hope our champion loses his match? A real champion would want him to win, forgetting his grudge; if you realize he is fighting for the same thing you are, you will cheer him on. If that champion is a Mr. Kim, will the world say, “Mr. Kim won,’or “the Unification Church champion won”? It’s natural that a champion must be given certain special considerations when he is training. Because he doesn’t fight for himself but for the Church, the whole Church has to back him up.</p>
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<p>The same is true for the Olympic teams that compete every four years. All of America follows the achievements of the American team and supports them. When one champion wins, all 240 million people will rejoice because he represents their nation.</p>
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<p>When a war is fought, don’t you think God enjoys it when the good side wins? Young boys like war games even though they have no concept of killing. When given a toy pistol, even good children will tell people to put their hands up, and be happy when they do. It’s very apparent that this is an expression of a competitive sense. I like war movies very much because the fight against evil is very real to me.</p>
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<p>Even Christians have regarded themselves as a heavenly army. We are no exception. All armies go to the front line to fight. More than anyone else, we have been entrusted with the mission to advance the front line of goodness. At Barrytown all the seminarians, both men and women, have regular karate lessons. If one of our Barrytown graduates sees two men fighting, then even though he is ordained as a religious leader he will tell them to stop. If they turn on him and snarl, “What’s it to you,’then he will say, “I said to stop it!” He will take off his coat and in a few minutes they will both be flat on the ground. If they don’t make peace with each other then he will strike again.</p>
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<p>Suppose a Christian minister comes by and two men are fighting. He may say, “It’s not right to fight. Stop it.” They reply, “You shut up or else we will knock you out.” He has no training, so what can he do? He will have to retreat and pretend he didn’t see it. If God watches both these scenes, which one will He really enjoy?</p>
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<p>I am unique among religious leaders, including Christians, because they have no idea about using power for goodness. If I go to the farm I am a good farmer. When I go into the fishing business I become one of the fishermen. I can eat raw fish and even their guts out of my hand. There is nothing I can’t do. If I go to a mine, I will dig day after day just as if it were my vocation. I can go to the slums and talk to the people and win their hearts. Without doing all these things how can you know what your objective is? Only after graduating from all those experiences could I think of coming to the United States to do anything meaningful. I have done nothing wrong. If it is bad to make the young people come away from drugs and walk straight toward God’s goal, then I am bad. But everything indicates it is good; from the dispensation point of view, this movement is vitally necessary.</p>
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<p>Many ministers think that when I die the Unification Church will disintegrate. Not at all. When I reach spirit world I am determined to push all Unification Church members ten times harder. No one minds that? Now you have promised. You continue on your own, and if that is not sufficient then I will push you.</p>
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<p>Those who are determined to build eternal happiness are the pioneers, and such people must go through all sorts of experiences. In one sense I am a very loving person, but I am also a person to keep an eye on because if I give a direction there are hundreds of people ready to do impossible things. Yet I am completely unlike the communists or people like Jim Jones; as long as the work of justice needs doing I will proclaim so and go head on.</p>
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<p>The free world needs this kind of leadership now. The world needs the person who strives for the ideal that is deep inside himself and who can never be inhibited. There are three kinds of people to be seen in building the kingdom of heaven: the people who really fight with everything they have, feeling no regret and winning victory for history; those who will die fighting because they are short of power; and those who retreat because the fighting is difficult and they are afraid to die.</p>
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<p>In which category would you like to be? Number one is best. Number two is permissible, but that doesn’t mean I am encouraging it. We should never be attacked and killed simply because we antagonized people in our zealousness. That’s not a worthy death. Your death will have merit when it could not be prevented, and when heaven and earth can acknowledge that. If you can avoid death, do so by all means. Heaven is intended for those who win over the circumstances, who persevere and keep on trying. The kingdom cannot be formed unless you survive the fiercest fights. Like the Bible tells us, we must be wise as serpents in order to survive.</p>
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<p>We persevere so that one day we can go on the offensive most effectively. Those people who only persevere but never strike out for good are not helping God’s providence. Through experience we can distinguish the time to attack from the time for retreat. All Unification Church members must be wise in perceiving when to attack head-on and when not to.</p>
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<p>In the home church you will have to teach everything to the people. If someone is opposing the Unification Church, don’t go to his house and try to get even. Keep a record of the untruthful things he says about you and teach everything you know, and if after hearing everything you have to teach he is still opposed, then go and fight him. He will be weak internally by that time and only need a little push. But after fighting, you must become friends with him. Otherwise, there is no sense in fighting.</p>
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<p>Even though we may need to fight the communists, afterwards we have to tell them why communism is wrong so they can change their minds and have godly thinking. This is why we have Victory Over Communism theory. If Christians are against us, we must show them why they are wrong; this is why we have Divine Principle. We have a complete explanation based on the Bible to show them how they are mistaken. If they repent, it’s fine, but if not then we need to make more effort to win them over. God first teaches people and shows them an example, then passes judgment. He always wants to teach still more, but He can’t wait eternally if they won’t listen.</p>
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<p>We cannot build heaven all by ourselves, but must teach other people so that they will understand and participate. We must do it first, and then with our experience we must teach them well before we can expect them to follow us. You have to be a good teacher and not rush them, or expect them to respond if you are unable to teach them very much. A person must like you first and then he will listen to what you have to say. Then he has to like what you tell him. Teaching people is not just a matter of talking. After they like you personally and like what you say to them, they must like you for your deeds. You have to make them like you in these three ways and then they will copy everything you say and do. That is how the heavenly kingdom will expand. We have to teach them by our personality, word and deed.</p>
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<p>Do you like the fishing business? Why? After I went to sea I talked so much about it that now you are enthusiastic about fishing too. I stayed out many days tuna fishing, and now since I like fishing so much and you like me so much, you like fishing also. One day all the sisters said they wanted to be captains of fishing boats. I’m not just talking about loving fishing, but showing it by my example. We have been building boats for over a year now, and I also bought a boat of which I am captain. When storm warnings are posted and everyone advises against going out, I still go anyway. When the waves are rough, everything inside the boat is tossed around. ln the beginning I held on to the railing, but after being tossed around for a few hours, I found it was easier just to get bumped around and I forgot about holding on. In rough weather the crew is tossed around and the furniture slides from corner to corner. Now I enjoy watching them move around; otherwise, there would be nothing to do. Since 1 have already showed the example, I am sure you will like that too, and even like going to sea in a storm.</p>
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<p>I remember very well the day I took the Little Angels on the boat. First they sang up on deck and wrote letters about their experience. When the waves got bigger they thought that was exciting and jumped up and down, but as the waves got even bigger they started throwing up. One older sister held a sick younger girl on her lap, but then the older sister got sick too. Finally all of them were sick. The boat was still heading out to the fishing ground, but their only desire was to go back to land! But how can you catch fish if you go back? I knew what they wanted, but should I have turned around and gone back to land’.’ l had to clear a path between them to walk back and forth, ignoring them to concentrate on catching fish. l didn’t take them with me just to sympathize with them, but to fish together. They understood that we were there to fish so they didn’t mind being pushed around and didn’t complain.</p>
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<p>We’re all here to build the Kingdom of Heaven, but if the going becomes rough should I say it’s too hard and send you back to rest, or push you to keep going? People can adjust. After being seasick for three days people get bored and want to get up and do something. Gradually they adjust and become immune to seasickness. Then they can eat and have energy to move around. New members always feel they can really see heaven. No one has ever been to heaven and they are excited, but soon they find that our boat sails through typhoons and that people persecute and spit at us. Some of them feel completely knocked out.</p>
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<p>Many people don’t go to work when it snows but can we stop working in bad weather? We go out anyway and work harder. That is our training. Now there are rockets that can take people to the moon, but do you think heaven is closer or farther than the moon? Once a rocket is launched can it come back and land and start over again? Can you say, “Let’s wait and rest here”? It really doesn’t make any difference what you feel; a rocket will just keep on going until it reaches its destination. Once you take off, God will adjust your course and have you land when the proper time comes. If you have only a little more distance to cover, yet you feel like getting off, how would God feel? Once we get on the rocket we just keep on flying, leaving everything else to God. This is what we are doing now.</p>
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<p>I have come here from Korea and Japan, and soon I will leave this country and go to yet another place to do what I have done here. Can you protest that I should stay in America? When the time comes to go I will go, and you have nothing to say to me about that.</p>
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<p>The amount of effort we invest in the heaven we are making will determine how happily we will live there. Who bought Belvedere, East Garden and the New Yorker? Soon I will build my own residence in America, better than the White House. You will not earn the money for that. I am also determined to build schools and universities. When I say I will build these things, will I do it? There is nothing I have said I would do that I didn’t accomplish.</p>
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<p>There is no time in each day to rest your head. Many nights I fall asleep in a chair at two or three in the morning. Then Mother wakes me up and brings me to bed. I sleep fewer hours than you do because I never want to depend on you. Even when the Korean members need more money for a factory in Korea they ask me. Yesterday I invested more money in our factories there. I am doing that for your future and for the future of the world, so I give directions about every detail of where and how to build the factories and schools. Those are complicated matters. Do you think that is an enjoyable or difficult task?</p>
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<p>Is your brain happy when you make it work day and night? Is the person who works all day long a happy person or a pitiful person? He might not be happy in the beginning, but as he keeps working his happiness will become greater and greater. I know you don’t always like what you do, but you do it anyway and gradually you will come to like it. At first you don’t like it, but then you train yourself.</p>
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<p>Once we set out to do something, like erect a building, are we going to build it slowly or quickly? While we are building this heaven we shall live under one ideal and love and establish it the way God originally intended. We will keep on working and building with our own love. Without doing so there is no basis for eternal happiness to be built. How does that sound?</p>
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<p>Are you more interested in working hard like this or in getting married? When I am talking for a long time like this many people doze off, but as soon as I mention marriage their eyes pop open. What does that show? Is it greater to get married or do this work? You have to understand which comes first. If you have never made this foundation yet you get married, can you forget about having to finish? That’s why it says in the Bible, “Woe to those who are with child in the last days.” It means that even those who are married must go pioneering and do this work on earth. If they were unmarried, it would be a lot easier. Even though they are married, they must set aside their family ties and go do that work.</p>
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<p>Is it better to do this work and build a home church while you are single and then get blessed and start a family, or to start a family now and separate while going to the home church? A baby can be a nuisance because his parents are no longer free. Your most precious time is taken up caring for the baby, and then you would wish you hadn’t married before you had completed your home church work.</p>
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<p>Since I conducted an engagement and blessing in Europe and Japan and an engagement in Korea, you probably think there will certainly be a marriage here too because otherwise it would be unfair. Don’t you think that way? How long can you say no? Until 1980 or ten years from now? You must think about finishing the work first and think about marriage after it’s done. That’s the best way.</p>
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<p>We have set out to build the foundation of eternal happiness. Everything is for this purpose. Would you invite me to come visit when you have finished? Let’s set the date now; when do you expect to be finished? What if I leave this country before 1981? That’s up to you.</p>
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<p>When I first came to this country the movement here was in chaos. I had to gather everyone together and train them, send them out, then bring them back again. We are now standing on the foundation of a lot of work. Now it’s up to you how long you will take to be successful enough to invite me to your area. Don’t you want to be successful in this? Then you must have some idea when you can invite me. It won’t depend on me but on your progress. Once you make up your mind, you have to promise before God with the seriousness of having a dagger stabbing you in the side, “No matter what happens to me, nothing will stop me. Once I make up my mind I will go straight forward to the goal.” If at all possible finish it by June 1981.</p>
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<p>I feel that you could do it rather easily within that time. If I had to do it, I could do it much earlier than that. You have to make a meticulous plan in order to establish the foundation of heaven, outlining each step so you can see where you are.</p>
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<p>You all want to go to the same place where I go, and all your home church members should look up to you the same way and wish they were going to the same place as you. You have to have them be so attached to you that they want to follow you, and in order to do that you have to devote all your heart to them.</p>
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<p>If you didn’t have to go to home church you would like to work together with me wouldn’t you? Your home church members should feel the same way about you. This can happen because there is an ideal and unchanging love there. That’s why you long to be close to me and work directly with me. If you really miss me then I will come to you in person. You will occupy that same position in your home church, and everyone will miss you and want to see you.</p>
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<p>In order for them to feel this close, you will have to devote all of yourself to them and then you will understand me. You will walk and walk, wearing out many pairs of shoes. Every household has a history and aspiration, and everything you invest in them will be inscribed there. Perhaps a certain family opposed you very much but later finally welcome you. Every scene of those events is a source of pride for what you did. You should make them so anxious to help you that they are eager to do many things for you after you are married. They will feel more happy than at the time of their own marriage and want to do something for you. You must make them feel so deeply about you that they want to carry you on their shoulders like football heroes.</p>
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<p>You have to plan ahead if you are really going to do these things. We have to continue through rainy days and sunny days without letup. If you can’t bear to leave your area and you stay there awake all night then spirit world will visit those 360 homes for you. Spirit, world will show each one of them that you are standing in the neighborhood and not going back to your home because you miss them so much. After having this dream or vision, when they open up their door you will be standing there. This can actually happen. Just as spirit world, Adam, Eve and God must work as one before the Kingdom of Heaven is realized on earth, you also will have to experience this before heaven can be realized in your area.</p>
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<p>Everything you do should be centered around your area. If you have to go to the bathroom, go there. When you cry, you must shed the most profound tears in your area. The best things that happen in your life should happen in your area, things that you cannot forget for eternity. When you become old and look back and say those were your happiest days, you will have the foundation for eternal happiness. That is where God’s love and ideal will be left. I experienced that while I was in prison, and even now I can feel the same everywhere I go. These things are happening even now, not only at the early times. The standard is the same for you as for me, but it will work only if you are complete in your feeling of love for that area.</p>
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<p>The experience of suffering is a very subjective thing. American people may suffer a little yet think that they are suffering a great deal, but in a poor country like Korea where people have had tremendous suffering they feel that such hardship is easy to bear. Looking down objectively at these circumstances, what would God think if Americans said they were already doing their best? What if they insisted they only knew the democratic way and wanted to do things that way? If asked who liked indemnity, no one would volunteer under the democratic system. You can imagine how difficult it would be to find volunteers.</p>
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<p>Americans are big people, bigger than the Japanese, for instance. The Japanese are working as hard here as they did in Japan, and Americans know clearly that they are not working as hard. Do Americans feel shame because of that, or don’t they care so much? Is that something easy to take, or do you feel you can’t allow that record to continue? You have to have some pride in what your own country can do.</p>
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<p>Is it better to have the Japanese tell you to do something or have me tell you’! Why me? Which brings more indemnity-failing at a task that I tell you to do, or “‘ailing the same task when told to do it by the Japanese? The choice is very obvious. If both Americans and Japanese engage in the same activities in this country, which nationality would I rather see winning? I make the Japanese work hard in order to teach you indirectly to work harder than they do. You must always work harder than they. Even if the Japanese rest, the Americans should not rest because they have to catch up. You should listen to this with the attitude that you can learn from it, rather than feeling that you hate to hear such things.</p>
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<p>When I go to Japan, I always praise the Japanese leaders, but when I come back to America I tell the American leaders they are not up to par and should work harder. When I call a leaders’ conference, they come with heavy legs, feeling I will scold them once more. After I do that three times, they want to collapse. They need some release from that feeling and say that democracy and the American way ot’ education are not like that. Don’t you feel that way’.’ Only a few of you are saying no, and those who say no perhaps don’t know so deeply. Do you think I don’t know about democracy and the American way of doing things? I already know about America. 1 already have evaluated which ways don’t work and that’s why I am going a way none of you have ever tried. If’ your way worked, America would be prosperous by now.</p>
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<p>How many times do you wish I would push you ahead when you feel you lack power to go on’! Do you think ten times would be enough for you’! It someone is really concerned about you, such as your parents, then they will push you even while you are in grammar school and expect you to study hard. They will push you throughout middle school and high school and even through college, and even then think it is not enough and want to push you further.</p>
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<p>If a student becomes impatient or arrogant and tells them that he’ll do it by himself, he has come to have false confidence and will probably fail I will continue to push you even after I think you can take care of yourself, and give you a shove until you fly instead of walk. I will take no chance on your failing. It is a happy thing to have someone behind you making sure you reach the goal.</p>
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<p>If the indemnity of 6,000 years is employed in a horizontal way, it will take 6,()00 years to fulfill. We are trying to condense it even into sixty days, so you cannot expect to go at the same speed that would take you 6,000 years. I am quite serious about making you fly in order to cover that distance. Is this bad thinking or good thinking? With that in mind, keep a record of how many times I have pushed you. Keep statistics in your diary and count up to 2,000 times or 20,000 times. The more pushing the better because more history will be accomplished through you. Each time I give you a push your name will be inscribed in history.</p>
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<p>I know that this will be the source of happiness and because I know it I can keep doing it. Thus, I will give you the most precious things. This is why I can keep on pushing over and over and over again, to fulfill the tradition of love.</p>
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<p>Even though I have fulfilled my portion of responsibility, I cannot just leave you alone to do your work because I know what’s ahead tor you. I will keep after you, paying attention to every detail, as if this were my own responsibility. This is the only way to set you on the right course without taking unnecessary risk. The people who don’t like that are the ones who will let America drift into chaos. Such a person is not only untrustworthy, but will one day mislead the American people and in the process destroy himself too. I am always aggressive toward that kind of person and I will give everything in the hope of waking that person up. That’s the only way.</p>
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<p>I have always intended to involve as many Americans as possible and drive them into as much suffering as possible. America has failed more than she has succeeded, so the greater the number who are involved the better; they will serve as a condition for God to forgive everything America has failed to do. If I don’t do that, there is nothing anyone can do to help America. No one can pray about America and expect that prayer to win God’s sympathy unless I make Americans suffer for the sake of God’s providence. On that basis I can pray to God, saying, “Father, please regard them with love because they didn’t rebel against me or against You. Take that merit and forgive whatever they have failed to do.” God will listen to that prayer.</p>
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<p>That is like Abraham’s prayer for the city to be there were ten righteous people to be found in it. God said if there were even only three righteous people He would not destroy the city. If there are ten such righteous men in America then I won’t want to leave this country, and that means God will stay in this country also. However, if 1 give harsh words and push but you complain and don’t respond, then I won’t be inclined to stay here. If I leave this country, God will leave too and then what can we expect ?</p>
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<p>As I told you, when I first came to this country I had to work all by myself because no one understood what I wanted to do. I have to untangle all the difficulties in this nation and you are the ones through whom I must do that. All Americans are opposing me in an outrageous way in the sight of God, but if the Unification Church members will never rebel against me for passing that burden to them then that will become condition enough to liquidate all the opposition rendered toward me. Then there is a chance tor heaven’s forgiveness to be given. Everyone must understand the meaning of these ties of love between the young people of America and myself. When I become close with everyone of you, an altar will be created to receive your sacrifice tor the sake of America. The altar and the sacrifice exist tor the benefit of the country. America is big and you know how impractical it is for you to reach out to 240 million people. There is a way to condense it by making a proper condition, however.</p>
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<p>When 1 look at one state leader, I don’t see him an an individual but see millions of people standing behind him. When I scold him, my words are directed to the millions of people behind him, and when I pray, that prayer goes to those people. The state leaders think of themselves as individuals and feel that the blame they are given is too harsh. They don’t think strongly that they are representing the millions of people, but they should. Although I know it’s difficult to bring ten people, 1 never praise them for doing well if they have accomplished that much. Rather I say, “How are you going to witness to millions of people at this speed?” They have to understand that with a million people waiting behind them ten is nothing. The responsibility to turn America in the right direction rests between all of you and me. Our relationship does not involve just yourselves and me; our purpose is to establish a condition for America to be restored. So this is a public life we are leading.</p>
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<p>I know that on Thursdays the leaders meet at the World Mission Center, but these days I have been trying to retrain from being there. Many times 1 have almost gone, but then didn’t because 1 know I will scold them like a machine gun and they won’t like it. Even though someone may be knocked out, I still continue shooting at him. Would you leaders like me to come to your meetings or have me stay away? If 1 go and scold you and you don’t like that, a rift develops which grows bigger each time I go. If 1 clobber you with my words yet you overcome it then you will come closer to me, but if not, there will be a greater rift. Nevertheless, the cold path of indemnity still remains. I am inclined to think that I can’t do this to Americans, so 1 think I will give the worst beating to Koreans in hopes that they can tolerate it. 1 cannot lead Americans directly so I give the Japanese leaders the responsibility, pushing then hard and hoping that the Americans will come up to the standard. If I give the same beating to Koreans, Japanese and Americans, I expect that, although the Americans can’t endure it, the Koreans and Japanese will tolerate it, obey and keep going strong. If I leave America, do you think you will still need someone to lead you?</p>
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<p>Forget about clinging to your education and your traditional ways; they aren’t important because they have the least to do with God. The path that God implemented and that I myself and the early followers all followed will be much more effective, even though it seems very different from what you are accustomed to. Much indemnity can be paid and love can become deeply rooted in this way. 1 have been consistent in implementing this way here in America. If you don’t do this while you are on earth, you must understand you are not free from responsibility once you leave this world. It is no exaggeration when I tell you it will be a million times more difficult later. You must understand that in the spirit world it is very difficult to make up for complaint against me. It’s a lot easier to do while in the flesh.</p>
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<p>After you bring success with home church, many Americans will understand the Unification Church and will be revived. Even after America is restored I will never compliment you, but will drive you out to every corner of the world. Until we teach and liberate the entire spirit world, we cannot stop going along this path. Can you get to the end without me? Can you reach there if I tell you to take it easy?</p>
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<p>If you are fifty years old then you never know how much longer you have to live, but when you have an historical task in front of you how can you help but work hard for it? Those members who are fifty or sixty years of age may think they are exempt from responsibility, but I cannot say the older people should take it easy and the younger people should work. Older people have more business to take care of than young people so I should drive them out even more. The only reason I don’t push the older people more is that if 1 do, they will run away. I feel free to speak to you young people because I know you won’t run away.</p>
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<p>Is it good or bad for me to push people? There is a reward waiting for those who respond when they are pushed. You will become the ancestors of your lineage, who are honored for doing this historical work. If you don’t achieve this then your second generation will take that position of honor instead. I am determined to make you become such ancestors while you are alive, not after you go to spirit world.</p>
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<p>Since this is the situation, you must always remember that there is a wall of indemnity between all of you and me. There is also such a wall between God and me. Even after all 1 have done, God has never once told me 1 have done enough. All the time God says to me, “This is a busy time. Do more.” I understand that, and if 1 were Heavenly Father I would say the same thing. To reach the standard required by heaven there is a long way left to go, so how can you say you have already done much? Even while God has been ruthlessly driving me out without a warm word, He has been supplying me with love. God sends people who come and cry, saying, “Thank you, Father, for what you’ve done for us.”</p>
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<p>Even though I push you just as ruthlessly, Americans will come and repent to you, saying they were wrong in persecuting you, and you will be much rewarded. You must understand that there is historical indemnity remaining between the leader and the people led. It is always the pattern that God will make everyone who is close to Him suffer because His purpose is to save the people who are far from Him. I am pounding on the Unification Church members as if you are the enemy, but the objective is to restore all Americans. This is why the Unification Church members are precious in the sight of God. What would their value be otherwise? When a Unification Church member is suffering it isn’t for himself but for the sake of America, and in God’s sight it is holy and precious.</p>
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<p>If America can be restored because of your suffering, then your struggles are nothing. If 1 am beaten and shed tears but billions of people are saved because of my suffering, the benefit on the side of goodness is so great that the suffering seems to be very small. Though we are living in a cold climate now, we have a clear idea in mind. Spring is approaching and soon we will be enjoying that warm climate. Once spring comes we will be able to forget all misery.</p>
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<p>I know what 1 have been saying is not pleasing to your ears, but this is why it’s so important for you to understand. I can never be more serious than 1 am when I talk this way. I know the hours have gone by and after so much time a sermon should end, but indemnity can be one result of going on. Sometimes I determine to talk until a certain person falls asleep. I am tired too, but feel it is indemnity. To sit here for five or six hours on the hard floor and listen to bitter talk will make up for the eagerness of people leaving quickly after hearing brief sermons in Christian churches. With all I have gone through yesterday and last night I am very tired and would like to rest my legs, but still I go on, watching people’s eyes. Last year I talked for 14 hours at one conference, but I was constantly watching how the people responded.</p>
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<p>Unless you understand the truth about God, you cannot understand what we do or what I am doing now. When everyone is dozing and only a few remain alert, then I talk about the most important things. Now the most important talk begins! It’s not a simple thing either. When you make an error, you may lose many years’ earnings in blessings, whereas if you go the right way at this point you can gain many years of hard work. I am especially watching those who are closest to the stage to see who will doze off; those who are sitting up front arrived at 3 o’clock, so if one is dozing I think that is too bad because his seven hours of sitting here is in vain. Those who are not dozing are better off than those up here. If you use a pin to keep yourself awake then any marks that remain on your skin are a visible record of how you encouraged yourself.</p>
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<p>Don’t think you are perishing when you suffer; the reverse is true. If you are a leader and go through suffering successfully, all your members will benefit from it as well. If all the 1,00() people here went away except tor one man, that one would inherit what all the others left behind. We have been talking about suffering, but I know you don’t understand suffering or how I suffered because I have never told anyone. Instead, I will make everyone go through it and then they will understand. I apply this same principle to my own children. 1 don’t feel my own children are any more precious than others.</p>
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<p>I must also plan ahead. If you persevere through this suffering maybe it will be enough to last for ten years, but what happens after that? I will give all the tests you would expect to go through during ten years in a short period of time. I could even do that in a few days, and once you are successful then ten years’ indemnity will be paid. I really look into what needs to be done in order to fulfill the of God in America.</p>
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<p>Sometimes I give a person a scolding even though he has made no mistake, just to see what his response is. This is very practical and can be helpful in planning what he can do in the future. I am quite serious about receiving some earthly treasure in the right way. If 1 do it in the wrong way I will be pursued in spirit world and asked why I left it to a person who fails.</p>
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<p>I must always use a formula, like a law, which applies to everyone. No one is to be favored at random. In that manner, if I want to give you more and more responsibility, I will. If it is better not to do so, that’s up to me. I do it in a very fair way, but still the decision rests with me.</p>
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<p>A person may be doing fine but then one day I slap him for no apparent reason and without explanation. I don’t know how he will receive it, but will just have to wait and see over several years. I don’t do that because Heavenly Father did it to me, but because sometimes it’s the only way to make sure about a certain person. Without doing that I cannot know. Heavenly Father did that to me all the time for the same reason. There is no explanation given, and in that case people sometimes get upset.</p>
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<p>Did you know that God promised me all the best things in the world, and the next day I was sent to prison? Someone else might have said, “God, You promised me good things. What kind of promise are You keeping?” But I received a silent answer long, afterward: “I gave it to you. Find it in the prison.” Heavenly Father wasn’t lying. He indeed gave me something that was to be found only in prison so I was sent there. Once 1 understood that, the second time I went to jail I had high hopes. Sure enough, when I got there, everything was prepared for me spiritually. When I was really starving, someone was preparing delicious food tor me.</p>
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<p>Knowing this, can you conclude that God sent me to prison out of hate or out of love? In the same way, if I beat you, is it because of hate or because of love ? If you know the answer and persevere, you will become great and achieve great things. Wherever Unification Church members go, their sole purpose is to build the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>While I was in prison I couldn’t witness openly without being punished or even executed. Since spirit world knew that, spirit world did the witnessing and people came to me that way. To those people it was the greatest joy to escape the guards and sneak to my cell to say good morning. If one person was able to do that, he was jubilant all day long. If one of those people walked by my cell at exercise time and could say hello with his eyes, he felt honored that day. My most precious memories center around those days and I often remember them. Now when I see spiritual phenomena, I recall that time.</p>
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<p>Your experience of working so hard that there is no time to think of anything else becomes the most precious memory. I need to impress a few members like that for the sake of America’s future. If I give a really harsh scolding which no one can bear, but one members cries and really repents, that stays deep in my memory. Then I want to see if he will shed tears again if I come and give an even stronger scolding. If he continues to shed tears the third time then because of him I cannot scold any more. The path of restoration should be tread that way.</p>
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<p>Is it good to scold or bad to scold? Is it good or bad for parents to strike their own children to make them study? The parents will know what the future will hold, so he will push his children even at the risk of causing pain.</p>
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<p>Over twenty years ago I told the Korean members that the whole world would oppose us as we became successful in doing the will of God and that they should be confident that the time was coming near. But I told them that if we digested that with gratitude and pride, never being beaten, then worldly blessing would follow immediately after. Haven’t I been called bad names and persecuted as I predicted? That period is pretty much over now because everything has been said that there is to say and no one can find any more accusation. I know the great blessing is getting near.</p>
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<p>We must understand that the forthcoming blessing is not for one individual but will go to all parts of the world. You are the public figures to receive that, but before I can pass that blessing along you will have to be persecuted by me; then people cannot ask why you got the blessing instead of them. People of all five colors of skin are here being pushed and persecuted by me. A great blessing will come which will be spread out among the five races. Who will be the first to show enthusiasm and win the race-white, yellow or black? I have no preference. If the black people come forward after all their suffering and persecution and remain humble then they will receive the major blessings. The yellow people have the same opportunity. If the white people do that, I will feel they can continue to lead mankind as they have done for many years. I watch the different races through these eyes alone.</p>
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<p>This is not a dream but reality. 1 have studied science and know that scientific explanations can’t be spiritual but must have solid logic and be proven many times over. You know that the people with the best minds will join the Unification Church. The greatest professors can come to the Unification Church because they will be able to understand what I mean and what I am doing. If they ask questions, I can explain everything they have tried to know about their lives and about history. No blind faith is necessary. If a person has made God a part of everything he does, as though there were a rope tying them together all the time, would that person only be average, or would he have a sharp mind?</p>
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<p>Viewed according to my own standard, I have not really driven you hard enough. If I drive you harder, would that be all right with you? Have you brought one person a month yet? Then You have to do that right away. This is the word of judgment. Time and time again I told you to do it. It will be the source of great regret if you don’t do it. If you do it, a wonderful blessing will come to you. I already told you to sell fifty copies of <i>News World </i>every day. A long time ago I told everyone that they should leave the World Mission Center and go to live in their home churches by September. Have you done it? I already gave you thirty copies each of Divine Principle tapes and transcripts to distribute in your homes on a rotating basis. Did you do that? You made a resolution to witness to 3,000 people in forty days. Have you accomplished that? If you didn’t do these things, you should always be repenting and preparing to do them.</p>
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<p>What will your excuse be if you go to spirit world and are asked why you always said you would do things but never did them? We said that by 1979 we would have 30,000 members and mobile teams traveling all over to influence America and the world. 1979 is already here but did we do that? I also told you to write to all of your closest friends to tell them what you are doing and what the Church stands for. Have you done that? Maybe a few accomplished these things, but what about the majority of you? There are many things you promised to do.</p>
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<p>I already said that the basic course for each member should be three years of fund raising, then three years of witnessing, but many members are trying to avoid that course because they want to go an easier way. I have already explained to you in detail what the reasons are for going this way. God first created all things, then man and love. God lost all things as a result of the fall, and in order to restore that we are restoring money and possessions. On that foundation we will restore all men who are lost. This is why the course of restoration involves a certain formula and standard. More important than the money we bring in is the value of laying this course so that those who come later can follow it more easily. You will not only set the tradition by doing that correctly for three years, but will come to appreciate material things because you know how difficult they are to earn. By doing this even while you are being persecuted you will develop your heart and see how much more precious one crippled man who is helping God’s work is, compared to others who are living for themselves. In this activity you are able to learn many practical things and train yourselves. That is the foremost front line where Satan and God come into contact.</p>
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<p>When you go witnessing after that, you know you are snatching a person from Satan’s front line. Satan is watching all the time to see how an individual will decide.</p>
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<p>Only a few members have been kidnapped and know what it feels like to have escaped and returned to the Church. Only those who have been kidnapped and have overcome the ordeal of deprogramming know how precious it is to be here. When you are kidnapped you have to pray to God to remain strong. Do the rest of you know how torturous it is to be forced to believe something you know is wrong’.’ When you overcome all that and can come back, you feel so confident that you know you can go over anything, no matter what happens in the future. From the Principle point of view kidnapping is good for the Unification Church. I wish the President of the Church and all the state leaders would be kidnapped once. Those who go through kidnapping and then escape and renew their determination are most precious.</p>
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<p>You might have tried to avoid responsibility or looked for the easy way, but if you are kidnapped you are desperate to get away so you can carry on God’s work, feeling, “God needs me. I must get out of here.” Your escape is a great experience. If 1 could disguise myself, I would like to kidnap certain crucial persons and bring up the things I know they hate most and challenge them, “The Unification Church is that way, so why go back?” Then I will see how they respond.</p>
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<p>I know you do things under what seem to be impossible circumstances, but look at my position. Your working hard actually is insignificant compared with the goal. Even though you don’t sleep in order to study for an examination, what good does it do if you fail? If you fail, should I say, “Well, you did your best. Try harder next time”? The only time you can be approved is when you meet the criteria and the standard.</p>
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<p>You have accumulated much failure in the past, so I am thinking that we will indemnify past failure within this year and eliminate that debt. Is that good or bad thinking? So should I just shrug and say that you’ve done your best, or keep driving you and make you understand why you need to be pushed?</p>
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<p>I know you have tried hard and yet you failed, so you have to be driven out much more before we can expect to achieve success this time. Home church came into being only last year, and by being successful there we can indemnify all the past failures I have just pointed out. Everything that you left undone will be offset by home church success. Don’t take many months or years, but do it in the shortest period of time. Make a plan and accomplish the goal. If we can set many records within this year then later members will have a much easier time and America will become livable again. America is about to go down the drain but your success can prevent any further deterioration. This is why time is so precious. I am expecting to have many people who will establish records during this one year.</p>
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<p>Yesterday Heung Jin came back from a school field trip with a swollen foot from walking so much. I thought that this is the standard we must set for this year. Even with a swollen foot he had to go back to school the next day. I feel that great poetry will come out of your home church activity, as well as great literature and a great history. Writing a diary you may say, “Today I am in no condition to go out. It’s raining but I still must go out because this is the call of God. If it weren’t for God I wouldn’t do it.” There is no greater poetry than that simple feeling, no better writing than that. All you have to do is carry this out and record what you felt.</p>
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<p>When we see someone in a movie walk into a wilderness, we are attracted because that is exactly how we are about to set out. There are a million people living around us but there is not one whom we can call a true person. It’s like being in the wilderness looking for human contact. You can keep a diary of the corrupted person you were teaching and how in time he came to trust you. Maybe you think it will take three years to rehabilitate him, and if you can manage to do that in one year it will be a miracle. Write down your idea about him. Are you keeping a record?</p>
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<p>Do you set out for the home church in the morning with a happy mind, or are you almost in tears to have to go out there? The only way you can go out to home church is with great expectation of finding a treasure of a person, to find your lost relatives. Do you think this is only dreaming or make-believe? No, the person who is successful in home church is the one who recovers the lost people, the lost country, the lost spirit world. Everything that was lost will be recovered by the successful home church workers.</p>
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<p>How do we go to heaven in spirit world? On the basis of home church. You must leave love behind you so that the home church people will be eager for you to come again. Once you leave the foundation of that love behind you, even though you have gone to spirit world you can come back and start working again in the spiritual way.</p>
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<p>Your country and your spirit world are condensed in your home church. You may think home church is only a witnessing idea, but this is the formula and law, not something that changes. It is more significant and precious in the spirit world than you can imagine. Throughout history there was no such thing as this arrangement of home church. As soon as the foundation is set, like a tree setting down its deep roots, you will see the satanic world crumble.</p>
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<p>Expect some miracle in the home church. When the Christians come to support you, what will the world be like? The world will come to God very quickly. When we are successful, everyone will realize who is on the side of evil and on the side of good. Do you think anyone could remain in the evil area for long after we become successful in home church? That’s where the eternal foundation for happiness will remain on earth. The very home church work you are doing now is the foundation I have talked about this morning.</p>
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<p>Since I decided we must indemnify everything during this year of 1979, I appointed Col. Pak to lead you for this all-out campaign. Since the blessed wives left here they are much freer to work; without their husbands or children they have nothing to worry about but can dedicate everything to God. Then they will have nothing to regret from previous years and can indemnify all the things they didn’t do; the husbands won’t have to worry how to get along with their wives but can work harder independently. They can sleep better without a wife or child and then go out and give their total commitment. If you look at it that way, is there any reason to complain about being separated from a spouse or child?</p>
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<p>Half of American marriages are breaking up because couples don’t care about each other or their children, but only about themselves. But Unification Church couples separate for the sake of everyone else. Don’t you think God can use that as a condition to offset all the wrongdoing in America? Are there any grounds for complaining about your family not being with you?</p>
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<p>You may feel uneducated and simple, but you can’t help but feel very insecure at the course America is taking. There is no intelligent reason to be optimistic. All the newspaper reports are bad. But if this can be stopped quickly and if America can be turned around as a result of what you are doing now, can you refuse to do this? Let’s put it another way: Sooner or later people will have to recognize that everything is hopeless and no one is doing anything meaningful about this country except the Unification Church. When that happens, you will be the flagbearers and then Americans will ask, “You are the members of the Unification Church. What do you think we should do?” Then you won’t have to lecture them but just tell them, “I have been doing the home church, loving the people and teaching them. If you do that, America and the world will come alive once more.” Your work won’t stop there but will expand and expand to include spirit world.</p>
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<p>Home church seems to be simple and humble, but this is the only way for God to live. You can explain that step by step with no problem. If everyone does that in America, this country will live. Senators and Congressmen don’t have to make long studies about the problem of how to benefit America. They don’t have to go to school and study for years. All they need to do is turn their eyes toward home church and the Unification Church members will show them the way. If they follow that pattern all throughout the United States, this country will live.</p>
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<p>If this is a reality then shouldn’t I send you out to suffer for a few years in the prime of your life? Even though you are not well-qualified in the worldly sense, if all you need to do is go out and do the job, should you hesitate to go, or should I hesitate to send you? I know you won’t refuse and you know I won’t hesitate. As a result, there will be an explosion big enough for all America to hear and for the first time there will be true hope. Discriminating eyes will see that the foundation for eternal happiness is beginning.</p>
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<p>Heaven on earth will start at this very moment, at this very point. Even with these small numbers. don’t you think America can begin to see the real path through which she can revive once more? There is no question in God’s mind that this small number of people is good enough. When God says, “I approve it,’ Satan will have to go away.</p>
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<p>Where do home church and eternal happiness begin? They begin on the hill of where Jesus prayed. Jesus prayed three times to God Home church should also start at Golgotha where Jesus bore his cross. When Jesus was at Gethsemane and Golgotha no one was sympathetic or understood him, but now there will be 100 other people watching you who realize how much easier it is than what Jesus had to go through.</p>
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<p>Jesus wanted a handful of people who would understand him and say, “Jesus, you stay here and I will do it for you.” But he did not have even one. Now, 2,000 years later, we find ourselves free to do anything we want. You can go out in Jesus’ position to seek those disciples who will want to bear the cross for you. You are free to meet the people, to train them and serve them. You have to feel how fortunate your situation is compared to the time of Jesus before you can go out to work in the home church realistically.</p>
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<p>It is already one o’clock and I am hungry, but I have one purpose in giving you a seven-hour sermon. Don’t forget this. You must understand this message and try hard so that when you go to spirit world you will have something to report to Heavenly Father. Without doing that, there is nothing you can say in the spirit world. We have to try and try to set a condition to gain more time for America and let God take care of the result. Keep asking God to postpone the end of America for one year or two years. “During this year I will commit myself totally and get things done in America.” We must pray that way to God, asking for an extension.</p>
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<p>There is no other way I can explain why we must do home church and what the result will be. Now it is up to you to digest and carry out. Your success will be America’s success and God’s success. If the Unification Church fails, you can imagine the future of America in a few years. Maybe you can say that America will fade away just as it was suddenly born 200 years ago,</p>
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<p>but the world will die also if America fails. At least be responsible for the world. Where will God go, where will Christians and religious people go in the face of communism? I have been telling you again and again that this is the most critical year in all of human history. What does it mean? This is a year of indemnity. By doing home church the right way, we will make up tor all the failures of the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>In London all the leaders have gotten together and are witnessing together in order to support America. To support the American effort Japanese members work many times harder than MFT members in America to raise funds. Last year the Japanese totally dedicated themselves and sent millions of dollars here. Can you say you can’t do the same? Because this is your country you should think that you can’t be outdone.</p>
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<p>As soon as we gain 30,000 people we will organize and go all around America stimulating the people and saying that we must do something to reverse the present trend in America and revive the pioneering spirit. We often hear about emergencies in the world, but now this country is in such an emergency that martial law should be declared. Will I say it is not necessary to do anything, as though this were peacetime?</p>
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<p>I urge you to understand this situation very clearly and through pioneering home church to make the foundation for the world’s eternal happiness. Everywhere you go, throw the bomb of love and ignite the people’s minds, giving them hope. Show them the way to live.</p>
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<p>When the seminarians came to London, before they even had a chance to eat I told them about the serious situation and instructed them to go out and find a place to stay and start witnessing. When I finished speaking it was nighttime, so where could they go? Many stayed in the train or subway stations, but within one week the last one managed to find some place to stay. They introduced themselves and started working from there. By the end of April all of you will go out like that too. Those who determine to do it, raise your hands.</p>
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<p>Home church has become the Unification Church trademark and is a very special word for us. Do you feel in your hearts that home church is a necessity? Many believers and religious people in history have talked vaguely about heaven without truly knowing how it could be developed. Jesus announced that the kingdom was dwelling in the midst of the people, but even he could not say that it was here on earth. I would like you clearly to know that the pronouncement of home church as a means of establishing the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth is truly an historic event.</p>
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<p>What kind of war have God and Satan been waging? What has been the work of God so far? Truly history has been nothing more than the struggle between good and evil. Where goodness dwells there is always love, and where evil dwells there is jealousy. Goodness brings oneness and unity while evil brings division. Good and evil are indeed 180 degrees opposite. The nature of Satan is one of jealousy and struggle. The battleground of this struggle between good and evil has been man, his home and society. We in the Unification Church are trying to shift this battle from the individual to the family and society.</p>
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<p>So far the dispensation of God has been trying to find one triumphant Adam, the victorious Messiah, with whom God could be united. If there had been no fall, God and Adam automatically would have been united into one, but Satan came between God and man, creating a tremendous barrier between them which requires a great effort to overcome.</p>
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<p>Satan’s number one weapon is self-centered love, which he has been multiplying in men’s hearts. He also uses arrogance. In order to liquidate Satan’s power and bring God’s victory we will first employ the weapon of God-centered love rather than self centered love, and secondly, we will be humble. Throughout history Satan and God have been continuously employing their different weapons, causing history to go up and down as man makes different decisions for one side or the other.</p>
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<p>However, today we do not see God and Satan clearly or know where they are. We can’t see air, for example, but when we feel the wind blowing we know it exists. Nothing seems to be in this space but when you feel the air brushing against your hand, you know it is there. By the same token, without different actions, the reality of God and Satan cannot be noticed. The battle line is the line between the mind and body. God is approaching the mind because that is His territory, while Satan is coming to the body, his territory. Where they meet is the front line. Unfortunately, the mind is not firm but rather shaky. In a way the eye has two masters, for the body urges it to see carnal sights while the mind urges it to look beyond to higher, purer sights. Both the body and the mind are trying to control the five senses at the same time, each for its own purpose.</p>
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<p>We frequently hear people insist that they themselves are good people, not evil. They claim to be living within the territory of goodness as they understand it to be defined. Their definition is always centering upon self, however; therefore, they judge the surroundings centering upon themselves and discern evil according to their own point of view. That is the core problem. The front line battlefield is always within you, shifting from one side to the other, from God’s side to Satan’s.</p>
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<p>Do you know there is a struggle within yourself? How many battles have been waged within yourself between your mind and body? Actually there is constant confrontation 24 hours a day. You sometimes feel that your mind is off-guard and you can quietly do certain things you would normally hide from it. But all of a sudden your mind comes back and says, “What are you doing here? I am watching.” Certainly your mind can be your connection to God, but still it has different levels of accomplishment. It can be connected in a stern, straight way, or in a sloppy, flimsy way. Both exist in your mind. Is the God in your mind the strong, disciplined one?</p>
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<p>The body also sends up its own campaigner to say, “Why are you doing these foolish things? The important thing is to keep your body strong, healthy and idle. In order to do that you need to have lots of rest, lots of food, lots of money and women.” You don’t need to be patient with that, but chase it out. Your body is trying to make itself excited by listening to its own propaganda. When the body gets mad or excited about certain things, Satan is standing behind it like a conductor, saying, “Bravo. That’s right. You’re coming along.” But the mind also has a conductor who is leading heavenly music.</p>
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<p>In everything you do there are two possible destinations: the heavenly realm, or the satanic realm. You are always up and down and sometimes Satan’s side makes headway, then sometimes God’s side. Although we are all on this seesaw, are we edging forward or moving backwards? Let’s say this line I have drawn is the central line. Our deeds look like a cardiograph on it, going up and down. Above the line is unselfish love and below the line selfish love. If a person registers more lines below the central line than above, that person is bent toward hell. Heaven is above the line. This is like an accurate scale which you cannot escape. Our everyday life is our desperate effort to try and let the heavenly side win. We try to put even a small grain of sand on the heavenly side so that we can accumulate our assets there. This is the battle you go through every day, and if you are defeated here there is no other battle which you can win. This is the first battle you must overcome.</p>
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<p>So far religious people have been ignorant of the fact that the battle line is within themselves, thinking it was thousands of miles away. That thinking itself is a sign of Satan within them. Which do you think is correct? Every trivial or substantial action you take every day, eating, sleeping, walking, everything, has two possible consequences and you are making a choice between them. You can fulfill a good or an evil goal in every little action of the day.</p>
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<p>What about Belvedere? Is this heaven or hell? What about the dozing person, is he in heaven or hell? What about the person who is awake but not really concentrating on listening? If your neighbor comes here and dozes, should you leave him alone or do something about it? Is it a good deed to give him a shock treatment that will wake him up? Then should the person who is sleeping say, “Leave me alone. This is a good place for me to sleep”? Or “Thank you. I’m sorry:” If most people in the world were pinched, they would say, “Leave me alone.” But those are very selfish words and we cannot say them. Instead we say, “Thank you.” That pinch is actually removing the satanic arrow from your body so you must be thankful. Look at your neighbor. How wide awake is he? You don’t want to sit next to the dozing person because sleep is contagious and spreads quickly.</p>
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<p>You thought you would have an easy time here in Belvedere but there is no easy time. This is war time. Sometimes your body says, “I wish I didn’t know Divine Principle because it has brought me so much suffering. If I didn’t know it, I could sleep much longer in the morning.” I am sure there have been times when you haven’t been able to get up at 4:30 am and stayed in your bed. But then you thought, “This is the time Father is talking, probably about me and those who didn’t come.” Actually you are tasting three hours of hell in your bed. Isn’t that true?</p>
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<p>The other day I talked to all the blessed wives and asked them, “Where are you on Sunday morning?” Most of them had a good excuse. “Well, I have a baby to take care of and can’t go.” But I asked them if they were living in heaven or hell and they said it was really hell. What about you? Do you think it’s heaven or hell?</p>
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<p>Every breath you take, every look you give is either heavenly or satanic. There are always those two possibilities. Before we can talk about home church we need to win the individual war. Do you think the person who is defeated in the individual battle will be very successful in the home church? The person who is already defeated as an individual is like a mortally wounded soldier. If he gets up and tries to go to home church, he will only become an obstacle there. In order to go to home church, you need to have won your individual battle, to be strong, healthy, disciplined and absolutely determined. That is the only way you can move on to the home church and bring results.</p>
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<p>Do you think God is aware that men and women are fighting at this front line within themselves? Is God shaky and unsure of Himself, sometimes thinking He must give up this restoration business because it doesn’t bring Him any joy? Do you think God moves straight forward to the goal or moves a step ahead and then retreats? What about you? The kind of man who is always going back and forth because he’s not sure of himself and then asks God for help will not even be listened to by God. Who would trust a double agent? Are you a double agent or God’s single-minded agent? God knows the double agent cannot be trusted, and if God tried to help him that help would sometimes be used for satanic reasons or power. How can God help such a person?</p>
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<p>All of us have come out of the satanic lineage and have a self-centered nature which always tries to evaluate from a self-centered point of view. Because history was sown in that fashion, we must reap in that fashion. Whether or not you love things centered upon yourself is a basic criterion. Do you give love in order to elevate yourself? If you live in that fashion, will you become satanic fruit or heavenly fruit? Have you changed? Even though you don’t say it openly, inside you are thinking, “Father, why do you always chastise me and give me a hard time?”</p>
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<p>There is some kind of rebellious heart within you, particularly in women. Since I always use American women as material for my sermons, they think, “Father, you always ridicule us.” But actually the heavenly heart should always be joyous and happy, even though used as a bad example in my sermon. Why should you be joyous? Because I used you. The Kingdom of God is the kingdom of use. If my goal was to take advantage of you for my private or personal benefit, it would be evil. But even though I seem to be unkind and harsh, my goal is to try to remold American women into the best of all women under the sun. For that reason you should be grateful. Sometimes I am very harsh with you. I know that my God’s Day message was very difficult for you to follow, but if you say, “Yes, Father,” then you can bring the results.</p>
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<p>Life in the Unification Church is always like climbing a steep mountain. Although you are successfully going over the mountain, I am still harsh with you and push you. Then you think, “Father, I’m going. I’m going. Please leave me alone.” But I worry that at the very top of the pinnacle you may fool around and fall down. In order to prevent that I want you to jump over and that’s why I keep pushing you. If you are going so fast that you fall over the top of the mountain and end up in a ditch on the other side, don’t worry because that will be the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>Let’s be realistic. We are climbing a steep mountain. Are you in danger of sometimes miscalculating and falling? Each one of you is in danger of falling Therefore, none of you can say you can let down your guard and that no one can bother you. That is a very dangerous attitude. Unless you are clear about that, all your effort and suffering could be in vain. Look at the monks of the Middle Ages who led austere lives in the monasteries because they thought that suffering would bring them to heaven. Their suffering was pointless because they didn’t know what their real goal was. Suffering is not the goal or the purpose. The purpose is completion of the dispensation. That is why we are suffering, but suffering itself will not automatically bring us into the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>If you are stern with your body and can conquer its propaganda, you can get to heaven quickly. If you can totally conquer the temptations of your body, your efforts will accumulate and you won’t have to suffer much. Do you understand that even smiling can have a good or evil purpose?</p>
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<p>Everyone should know now that there are always two possibilities. That means we all know the truth and are eligible for the Kingdom of Heaven. At the same time, since we all know the truth, we are eligible for hell, too. Suppose you end up in hell and look up and say, “God, why did You send me here?” Can you complain and say you got there without knowing why? Let’s say you end up in the Kingdom of Heaven. Can you boast, “I am the one who made it”? The balance of power within your own way of life will automatically determine your destiny in heaven or hell. There won’t be any judge who dispatches you to hell because the final showdown will already have been made within yourself.</p>
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<p>Each one of you is like a balloon. Some balloons fly high because they have light air, while others fly so low they are in danger of bumping into houses. There are some Unification Church members who are actually outside agents disguised as devout members. Their motivation is evil because its aim is to destroy this movement. We welcome that kind of person, however, because by coming here and hearing these words, his conscience can be moved and he will think, “How miserable I am. Why do I have to come here and pick on these people who are trying their absolute best to uplift themselves and their society?”</p>
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<p>We have had many extraordinary experiences in the past. One time a communist, by order of his boss, tried to infiltrate our Church to find some weakness. After listening to me many times he wrote a letter, saying, “I’m sorry. I came here by order of my communist boss to find your faults and destroy you, but after listening to your sermons my conscience started bothering me. Forgive me. I cannot listen to you any more for it brings me suffering. I must go. What the communists say about the Unification Church is completely opposite to what you are. You are great people.” This communist enemy testified to our greatness.</p>
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<p>What about you? Have you already made up your mind to be 100% on the heavenly side or are you still trying to make a decision? Suppose a blessing comes and you are matched. Would you like to have the best person or the worst person as your spouse? Suppose you are the elite of the Unification Church and so is your spouse. Then there is nothing special there. But if you are a brilliant person married to someone who is not so brilliant, imagine how you can make that person absolutely happy and uplifted. You can give double salvation to that person. Then which will God see as the most dramatic, being married to the superior or the inferior person?</p>
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<p>Have you women thought that you are inadequate to be anyone’s wife, regardless of whether he is a good or bad man? That’s the humble attitude. The opposite attitude is, “Where is the best man? I’m the best woman and deserve the best man.” Which one is closer to heaven and which one is closer to hell? Are you closer to heaven? Here again the biblical words apply, “He who seeks his life will lose it, but he who loses his life for my sake will gain it.” The woman who thinks she is qualified to have the best husband will end up with a very poor husband. The humble person who feels she is not worthy of any man will end up with the best husband. If you think in that way, God will make you seem like a shining princess to men.</p>
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<p>I myself never asked for the most polished, well-educated candidate for my bride. I just asked for God’s will to be done so that I could lift one woman up into heaven. “Father, if Your will is to give me the worst bride, I will accept it.” I was looking for the worst possibility and God gave me the best possibility.</p>
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<p>American women think choosing a mate is their business and they don’t want anyone to bother them. You are different now, but weren’t you like that before joining the Church? Don’t you sometimes wonder why it isn’t best for you to choose your own mates, why you can’t look at this man and that one and evaluate which is best? Think how wonderful it is for God to become involved in your wedding and for it to become a world affair rather than just your own private wedding. What a privilege it is that your wedding is for the sake of the universe. Would you prefer a wedding that God can rejoice in and True Parents can participate in, or one small wedding that boxes you into hell even as you are trying to be happy?</p>
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<p>If scholars wanted to study about weddings, would they have more material from outside or from inside the Unification Church? Marriage is so profound and deep in the Unification Church that no scholar can really get down to the bottom and perceive it completely. We elevate ourselves in a quite mysterious way through marriage. When you study for a Ph.D. you don’t study many different areas but delve deeply into just one area. In the Unification Church we delve so deeply into marriage, much deeper than for a Ph.D., that no one from outside can fathom it. Unless someone studied the Unification Church method he would not really know anything about marriage. Also, religious scholars who haven’t studied the Unification Church haven’t studied religion at all. Scholars who want to study man and haven’t studied me can’t really know man fully. Without delving deeply into the Unification Church and knowing the significance of good and evil in our way of life, no one can really know Moonies.</p>
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<p>You must always remember that you yourself are the problem and the front line, and therefore can never be caught off guard. You don’t want God to fail within you. When you are out working and become very hungry, your stomach says, “I am very hungry. Give me food or I will stop.” Then say to your stomach, “Be silent Satan. I will continue.” Have you ever noticed that Satan is always coming through your body? Sometimes you have to work very late at night and when it’s time to get up in the morning your body says, “Leave me alone. I need two more hours.” At that moment have you ever thought, “Satan, I’m not going to succumb to you”? When you have to walk a long distance and your legs complain, do you say, “You, Satan, be quiet. I’m not going to be defeated by you. Satan, get out of my two legs.” Invite the power of God into your legs. People may think you are crazy, but who cares? The important thing is for you, God. Then God will come down and give you energy so you can begin walking again.</p>
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<p>Women are exposed to many temptations every day. You would like some handbag or scarf and be able to walk down Fifth Avenue showing yourself off, wouldn’t you? You want to woo men with perfume. The Moonie girl’s smell is awful but that is really the heavenly perfume. For some heavenly man that smell will be the number one perfume. God purposely made the heavenly man’s nose different so that he can detect the heavenly smell of the Moonie girl.</p>
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<p>The normal nose is placed in the middle of your face going straight down, but suppose someone has a nose that is all crooked. The Bible says that what comes out of the mouth defiles a man. Suppose if every time someone said something wicked, his face became deformed or his nose and eyes became crooked. Do you think his mind would be happy to see his face? Your mind wants to see your five senses set straight in the right place. When the mind and body are united together and not following any wicked desires, that person is a godly individual. Each body is somewhat like a camera which has to be focused between the mind and body. Are you focusing every day? If you have complete focus between mind and body with a clear-cut image, then you can even see God. There is nothing you cannot perceive through that lens.</p>
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<p>According to Divine Principle, we have two minds, one spiritual and one physical. One represents the desire of the spirit and the other the desire of the body. Our job is to focus the two minds. If you were really focused, I wouldn’t have to deliver a sermon this morning because there would be nothing you could not see or perceive. If you focus on me, you will automatically know what I am thinking and want to tell you.</p>
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<p>Throughout history religion has been trying to chastise the body because that is Satan’s territory. The approach of Satan is always made through the body and you must block it. Are you a good or an evil person? Are you sometimes good and sometimes evil, or always good or always evil? Even after being in the Unification Church you are still in and out of evil, so you can imagine how God has had to deal with impossible situations. How difficult it is for God to do His job and how much easier for Satan to walk in. The door is always open for him. That’s why Satan always says, “God, these are my children.” No matter how hard God tries, man is always vulnerable to Satan. If your mind goes two ways, does it totally belong to God or have two masters? How can you be blessed when you have two minds and two masters? If you are a mixture of good and evil, what will your children be like? It’s a very serious problem.</p>
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<p>Do you think I have gone through that battle? I have indeed gone through that battle and won. Therefore, my motto has been that before you desire universal dominion, you must conquer yourself. Sometimes it takes a long time to overcome just one word spoken wrongly. If your entire life tends in that direction, how difficult it is to solve everything. While you are still in your flesh here on earth you can have hope to resolve the situation, but as soon as your spirit and body separate there is no way to resolve it. The mind, which has been the victim of the body, will end up in hell as the eternal object of Satan. If you knew the consequences, you would be cruel to your body, yet still it would not be enough because your body is your worst enemy.</p>
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<p>The body has three major carnal desires: hunger, sleep and sex. Do you have these three cravings? Religious life always emphasizes overcoming these three by denying them to the body. We discipline ourselves by fasting and overnight prayer and by overcoming desire. No matter what kind of woman comes and tries to tempt you, don’t respond but tell Satan to get away from you. There are always three satans ready to encroach on your body. What can you do? The person who can say, “I have disciplined myself, Father. I can control hunger and sleep and sexual desire” is ready to march to home church. If not, you cannot win the battle because you don’t have a weapon with which to fight.</p>
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<p>The 360 homes you are going to visit are full of temptations. You may feel, “They are eating good meals while I am hungry so why should I go to serve them? They are better off than I am. Why do I always have to go out so early in the morning and come back so late?” There are all kinds of men and women trying to tempt you. You are out there facing a poisonous atmosphere every day. Why do you go on like that, suppressing your desire? Because you want to win the victory of true love. “I will persevere over hunger and do without sleep because of the victory of true love. I will do away with sexual desires because of the victory of true love.”</p>
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<p>When you go out thinking that you will ultimately receive love, you will not win the battle. But when you go to give love unconditionally, you can overcome. Why? Because the person trying to give love possesses the attitude of God. All this time God has been trying to give love. As soon as you try to love people, the energy of God automatically comes to you, making you a powerful individual. Because there is tremendous energy flowing to you from God, you won’t even notice that night is passing. As the transmitter of God’s love you won’t feel tired the entire night.</p>
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<p>That’s the path I walked from 1953 to 1960. They were seven sleepless years. I intensely loved people, forgetting all about eating. I talked all day, so intensely that I thought evening was morning. There was no concept of day or night in my mind. I only knew the energy of love and of giving, so the entire spirit world came down and assisted me. That is real power and you can live that way.</p>
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<p>The first battleground is your body. Satan’s bullet always comes through your five senses. Between the ages of twenty and thirty, which is your age, if I dressed to go out, many women would follow me. But I always moved in the opposite direction. l always went to the second-hand stores for my suits and appeared very humble, buying surplus military clothes which had become worn-out and shiny. I always wore that kind of brownish jacket and trousers. When there was an occasion to mingle with people I would stand in the corner, even though I knew I could easily stand out front. That was the period in which I was waging war on my body, and once you declare war there is no substitute for victory. You’ve got to win. Without victory you cannot eat or sleep or do anything.</p>
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<p>A very good analogy can be made with a patient in a hospital bed. Every morning the doctor comes and measures his blood pressure, pulse and temperature, keeping a record. His temperature goes up and down. You are like patients in a hospital between heaven and Satan. There is a check-up every morning to see whether your temperature is up on Satan’s side or down on God’s side. Draw a picture of yourself and check every day to see if the different parts of your body passed the heavenly standard or succumbed to Satan’s temptations. Did your eyes pass the heavenly test? When you were passing by a good restaurant did your nose take your body in there instead of witnessing? Give yourself a check-up every day. Evaluate your eyes, nose, mouth, ears, etc. Keep that kind of diary 365 days. If your record is not good, you must continue that kind of check-up even for ten years until you have a perfect score. If your eyes fail you for ten years, it’s better to remove them and throw them away. Jesus said that if a certain part of your body offends you, it’s far better to do without that portion of your body.</p>
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<p>This year let’s give the check-up to ourselves and make ourselves winners. Do not relax and think that just because you are reading or studying the Divine Principle book every day everything is fine. You still need a check-up because there are still two possibilities, even in reading or lecturing Divine Principle. It’s very serious.</p>
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<p>In the confrontation between good and evil within yourself are you confident to repel Satan? Is it an easy or difficult task? It’s almost as difficult as dying. Therefore, unless you really make up your mind to die for victory, you will not win. Unless you commit your life to this struggle, you cannot win. We must win on the first battleground; then we can move onto the second battleground: home church.</p>
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<p>Our weapon to win this battle is not military; it is true love. If you are filled with the energy of giving true love, no satanic weapon can penetrate you. We can go out and fire the automatic rifle of love. You know that Satan is always going to be firing at you so the best thing is to ignore him completely.</p>
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<p>People are always trying to test you. You can become angry about something and lose your good heart and good mind so Satan always tries to anger you and make you complain. These two are the best signs of Satan’s victory. In order to win the heavenly way, you have to go in the opposite way. It is our good fortune and asset to be in the position of being opposed and persecuted. We are always in a position to be scrutinized and people look at us from two different directions. However small a condition we violate, they will try to rip it apart and destroy us. That situation keeps us always alert. Is it good or bad? If you are alert enough not to be exploited by that situation then Satan is blocked and has no way to enter. We always keep our guard up so that Satan can’t come in.</p>
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<p>We can elevate ourselves to different stages and attain our own perfection. Number one, we must not be arrogant; we must be humble. When you are trying to bring yourself forward, do it with love, for only with love can you speak with authority and say, “Do as I do and love as much as I love.” You can say that if you are an example of love. If you don’t do anything for your people, how can you claim it? Set your standard so high that you don’t have to tell other people what to do; they will automatically be ashamed to do certain things because of you. For example, you won’t have to tell people not to smoke. They just won’t do it in front of you. If they are fighting among themselves and a loving Moonie comes along, all you’ll have to do is look at them and their fighting spirit will be all gone. They’ll be ashamed.</p>
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<p>We must set the highest example. The battle between the mind and the body is a severe one. If your individual battle within yourself is so difficult, how much more difficult do you think the battle will be within your home church? Do not take it lightly. The road to perfection is very difficult. The Bible always teaches that dying is much easier than living. Giving of yourself unto death will bring your own perfection, your tribal perfection, and national perfection. Actually that is the easiest way to do it, but God did not give you an easy way out. You have to earn every bit of it. The course is so difficult that it took God millions of years to do. If there were an easy way, God would have taken it a long time ago. Instead, the battle is still being severely waged and the front line is right within yourself. For three years don’t remove your jacket. That kind of spirit is absolutely needed. If you relax just a little bit, you don’t know when Satan will creep in. If your guard is down even the slightest degree, Satan will penetrate.</p>
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<p>When I began my ministry, I needed eight hours of prayer in order to work for eight hours. Otherwise, there was no balance and the work was not produced. The American way of prayer is very easy. You sit comfortably on a chair, but in the Oriental way you are on your knees with your head down for hours and hours. Would you like to pray in this way for eight hours, or invest that time in working for home church? If you took the route of prayer, it would be far more difficult. Prayer is not easy.</p>
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<p>Today the topic is home church and the war of love. We are becoming the weapons of love, the cannon of love, shooting love all the time. What caliber weapon would you like to become, the pistol of love, machine gun of love, cannon of love or atomic bomb of love? You’re greedy, aren’t you? Do you know how the energy for an atomic bomb is activated? By chain reaction. One atom splits two other atoms, which split four other atoms, which split eight more atoms. These splitting atoms create incredible energy. That is the theory of home church chain reaction.</p>
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<p>The physical world has come to possess atomic weapons, so in the spirit world God must have the atomic bomb of love. The secular atomic bomb can bring nuclear disaster and wipe out mankind; man now has the capability of destroying himself. What about the atomic bomb of love? Would it destroy or bring peace, happiness and joy? Once you explode the atomic bomb of love it becomes the panacea for the problems of the world, and there is nothing under the sun which cannot be solved. Satan himself will vanish, for the one thing that will be destroyed is satanic power.</p>
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<p>You are going to the home church as one atom of love, saying to the people, “Become like me.” You cause other atoms to split other atoms, which in turn split more atoms. Our movement is here just to duplicate ourselves and multiply. We will create a chain reaction throughout the world and then the world will be converted by the atomic bomb of love.</p>
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<p>There have been many wars in history and their purpose has been deprivation, with men wanting to confiscate materials and territory from other men. Previously wars have been fought to win material, but the communist war is to win people, land and money. The ultimate war God is going to wage, however, is the war of love. People will fight to get love and to give love. The more intense you become in the battle of love, the better it will be. In other wars the more intense the soldiers became, the more destruction there was. But the more you distribute the love of God, the more the peace, energy and unity that people desire will come. Would you become an atomic bomb or an atomic love bomb?</p>
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<p>You have only one bomb, so when it explodes where can you get more? Home church is the battleground where you are going to explode your love. Where can you get more supplies for your atomic bomb? God is the reservoir. All you have to do is tell God you are firing your atomic bomb and He will supply you with more. God’s supply depot is a 24 hour operation. You can bring a request and God will always say yes because His supply never runs out. If you fire the atomic bombs of love as fast as a machine gun, the supplies from God’s depot will pour down like water.</p>
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<p>When you are firing the atomic bomb of love, would you think you are destroying people or that you are giving resurrection? Giving love creates such a joyful atmosphere. The more you fire the love of God, the more you as the gunner will become excited and elated. What kind of love would you fire? What kind of love is God’s love? True love. What is true love? Selfless love. Only selfless love can exterminate Satan. You are young people and if you only try to give love to young people then you are being self-centered. But if you give love to old people, children, black people, suffering and poor people, that is heavenly love. When you are trying to love more than God loves and more than I love, then you can become a saint. If you love home church more than your own father and mother, more than True Parents or God, do you think God will be jealous and say, “Don’t do home church. Love me instead”? Will I say, “Don’t do home church. Just love me and pay 100% attention to me”? Will your husband say, “You are my wife. Your first duty is to love me before you love home church”? How about the wife who says, “You must take care of me. I need you”?</p>
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<p>Home church is the basis for loving everything, even your wife and husband. Think that in going to your home church you are going to your wife’s or your husband’s home. You must go to that place and love them, and find your husband, your wife and your parents there. Don’t stand and try to let them come to love you but go out and love them.</p>
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<p>Everyone will be shot by the gun of love. In that way 360 homes will be demolished, but not in a destructive sense. The only one who will lose in that battle is Satan. God will be triumphant, as will True Parents, you and all your home church people. If you win the battle of love in your home church you will be as God to those people. Because God is invisible, you will be His representative. 1 would like to hear home church people say that when you enter their house God enters in you. “Even Jesus could not be better than this Moonie. Not even Reverend Moon could be better!”</p>
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<p>You know what kind of criteria you must establish. You must love the home church more than eating or sleeping. You must love your home church more than loving yourself, your parents or husband. With all your heart and soul and mind love your home church. You are going out there with the machine gun of God’s love and with its barrage you are firing at 360 homes every day. Would you be a winner then?</p>
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<p>When you become victorious, how would you become? When you have become completely victorious, your 360 homes will become your home. 360 people will say, “You have been hungry for so long. Please come to our house for supper. You have lost much sleep. This is your bed. Please rest.” Everyone will say, “Let me do your job for you. Take care and rest easy during the day and let me go out day and night and work.” If people really see God in you, would they say that?</p>
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<p>Love God more than anything else. God is the root and home church is the fruit and harvest of His love. When you come to the throne of God, can you proudly say, “God, I loved my tribe and the world representing You, and now I have come back to You”?</p>
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<p>Whether or not you can make your heaven depends on this one war. With the five senses of your body you are firing out this love. Will intensity in this battle bring us better results or poorer results? Right now people may not welcome you, thinking, “Oh, that Moonie is always coming, sometimes even twice in the same day.” But the time will come when they will say, “Please do more; teach us more; discipline us.” 360 home keys will be jingling in your pocket as you walk. The time will come when people will let you come in any time of the day or night. You must win that much of a reputation. If you are trusted to that degree there is automatically hope for building the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, for trust is the foundation for building the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>The motto for this year is Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven. As young men and women, it’s very good for you to get experience on the battleground. Would you go to the battleground to take possession of material, territory or people, or for the war of love? It’s an exciting mission and the best battleground you can find. The time will come when the 360 homes will volunteer their sons and daughters, competing against each other to have their children accepted first. At the end of the third seven-year course everyone will be blessed. In other words, you will literally find your bride and husband in the home church. Unless you are welcomed in your home church you can have no wedding after the third seven-year course is over. I don’t have the time to explain everything to you today, but that is the Principle.</p>
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<p>Is home church an exciting world? Why? Because each of you is going to be a gunner for the atomic bomb of love. Are you holding that atomic bomb of love? Those who have it, raise your hands please. How do I know you have that love? Show me where it is. The only way you can show that you possess that atomic bomb of love is by the success of home church.</p>
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<p>When you are literally adored by your home church people, will your own parents come and say, “You didn’t love me at all. How can you love all these people? You will get nothing out of it” ? Or will they say, “My son, you are great. I didn’t know you were such a saint.” Husband and wife will see each other respected as saints by their home church people and be proud of each other. History will tell that at one time we had the greatest of all young people here in America who brought the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth. People all over the world will be proud.</p>
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<p>Success hinges upon this one project, home church. By succeeding here, you have already loved God and the world. You are trying to become the atomic bomb of love, pouring love out in your home church area so much that you totally forget yourself. When you hear the word home church you will remember that you suffered for it, but also that this is where you fulfilled and won your own victory. This is the place of hosannahs. Since you suffered, the shining glory will be more valuable for you. No one can take away that love because you earned every bit of it through your suffering.</p>
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<p>Would you like to crave home church more than you crave food when you are hungry? Is your intensity about your home church greater than toward your first love? All men want to have a destiny with God, but I want you to know that God already set the appointment to meet you in home church. God is waiting for you in your home church area. Jesus is there and so is the Kingdom of Heaven. Everything you have been craving is there. I am out there. Don’t come here to meet me, but go to home church.</p>
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<p>How many Sundays are there in 1979? Ever since God’s Day I have been talking about nothing but home church. Have you been intoxicated and motivated, doing nothing but marching forward? When you wage the war of love, do not become a defeated person but become a triumphant person. When you become a victorious flag bearer of love, following behind will be Jesus, True Parents, God and mankind. This is not theory but the Divine Principle. It can be done and it will be done. Shall we do it? Raise your hands if you can do it. Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">HOME CHURCH AND THE COMPLETION OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN</h1>
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<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="2018-06-18T05:05:15+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/18/home-church-and-the-completion-of-the-kingdom-of-heaven.html" rel="bookmark">June 18, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-18T05:05:15+01:00">June 18, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1979.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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Translator – Bo Hi Pak</center>First of all I would like to express the joy of welcoming the new year of 1979, and the twelfth God’s Day. I also want to pray and invite the blessing of God upon the three primary nations for the providence of God-Korea, Japan, and the United States-as well as members of the Unification Church and nations all over the world.</p>
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<p>On this God’s Day I would like to express the dispensational meaning of home church and the completion of the Kingdom of Heaven. Although I would like to go on about the true meaning of God’s Day, time is limited and I will concentrate my message on home church and the completion of the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>Where do you think the name “home church” originated? It was supposed to have begun in the garden of Eden. When we talk about religion we are automatically including God because without God no church or religion could very well exist. The meaning of the Oriental word for religion, <i>chung-gyo</i>, refers to a fundamental, elemental teaching. Religion was to have been the most basic teaching of men. In a house one main beam supports the building, and the teaching that is comparable to that beam is <i>chung-gyo</i>, or religion. That beam is like the position of God. When that beam is removed the entire house collapses, and in the same way, when God is removed from religion the world totally collapses. No matter how much construction work is done on a building, until that one central beam is firmly in place the structure cannot stand.</p>
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<p>Home church was supposed to have existed in the garden of Eden, with the home as the place of worshipping God. God should have been the main beam of the home where His children could have lived in His love. The original concept of God’s creation began with one man and woman, who were to form one family and then form one nation and world. Therefore, as their family grew to this higher capacity, home church was to have become national church and then world church. That would have been the ideal.</p>
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<p>We come to realize, therefore, that we actually have a great privilege in being able to build and live in home churches. We are going back to the garden of Eden and building the structure of God’s ideal creation from the very beginning. In God’s original concept. He wanted Adam and Eve to perfect themselves and create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, beginning in their own home, multiplying a host of children, and then opening heaven in spirit world. Then all the generations on earth would automatically follow their parents’ path to heaven.</p>
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<p>In that case, the tradition that Adam and Eve lived in the garden of Eden without the fall would have been the tradition of the entire world because it would have been succeeded to by their children and all their descendants. Adam’s tradition was to have been the one God-centered tradition remaining here on earth, the one tradition of home and one tradition of church. Because of the fall of man, however, it all crumbled.</p>
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<p>In order to restore the original position mankind must go through a reverse process. The fall came in this sequence: archangel, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and through Adam and Eve the fallen tradition has become the tradition of the world. As you know, God wants to restore the entire world but He cannot do so at one stroke because when He initiated the work of restoration the entire world was occupied by satanic power. The restoration of the fallen world, therefore, has been a gradual, step by step process. The first step God had to take was to choose a champion from among fallen people. The central man God finds to undertake the mission of restoration must unite the angelic world first and then expand his territory from the home to the society, nation and world.</p>
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<p>One principle will need to apply to the relationship between this chosen, central man and the fallen people of the world, and that is the principle of Cain and Abel. Abel takes the side of the chosen one and Cain is on the side opposing him. In history we can see the inevitable polarization of these two conflicting parts-the mind and body within each person, as well as opposing elements in the home and society. We see this great separation in our world today, with one part being called the free world and the other the communist world. This separation stems from the confrontation of two ideologies-one a God-accepting ideology, and the other a God-denying ideology-and their final clash on a worldwide scale is now at hand. Anyone who follows a materialistic or secular way of life is engulfed by the satanic ideology, while anyone who denies the secular way of life and tries to bring himself to God draws farther away from the secular world.</p>
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<p>In this conflict of good and evil on the worldwide level, what is the focal point and front line? The front line is always the place where the chosen one and his opponent face each other. The front line is always where the mind and body come together. You actually stand on the foremost front line because within you there is a struggle between mind and body. Serving God and following the religious way of life has been the way to volunteer to be a front line soldier against the satanic ideology. Where can we find the true patriot and loyal subject of God? The greatest conflict is never found on the social or national level because the greatest of all conflicts occurs within oneself; this struggle between mind and body is the worst conflict that men face.</p>
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<p>I want you to realize that there is always a battle raging within yourself between your visible five senses and invisible five senses. When you go out you confront all kinds of temptations and your body wants to enjoy them, but the internal you keeps saying, “No, no come back and witness.” Whenever you go out on the street the world there is bombarding you with this machine gun fire, and unless you maintain a firm defense you will not be safe in today’s world. There are many invisible satans aiming at you as soon as you step out of the door.</p>
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<p>This is why the religious way of life has always begun with self-denial and further emphasized withdrawal from society’s temptations. Since there is always much temptation in the world, religious people have isolated themselves rather than be exposed to it. This one explanation verifies that we are in the showdown battle of hell and heaven. You are always at the starting point of either heaven or hell.</p>
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<p>There is always a tug of war between the visible and invisible self, and temptation is always trying to pull you in one direction, while God’s truth is trying to pull you in another. Each person is caught in the middle and usually goes a zigzag course, being pulled from one side to another. This is a very realistic picture. This is why in our world mankind is always looking for the best teacher, best leader and best parents to help them win over temptation. We know we are vulnerable so we want to have extra assistance.</p>
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<p>If there had been no fall then there would have been no problem because God would have been the best parent. Could any parent be better? The best teacher would also have been God. The best parent gives supreme, all-powerful love which no other love can penetrate to tempt you. Furthermore, since God is a God of all wisdom, as long as He is giving you guidance who can divert you? It would be impossible. Even nowadays young people commonly have two goals-they want to be well-educated and they want to find secure love. These are the two great aspirations of all people. But what is love in the secular world without God? American-type love? Love can have many different qualities. If you become a victim of the carnal love that is only used as a tool by Satan, you will be pulled all the way down to hell.</p>
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<p>The living God wants to tell people two things: “I am your parent and I am the best teacher for you.” Without question the cause of the fall of man lay in ignorance. Another cause was self-centered love. True love was supposed to be God-centered, but ignorance and self-centered love destroyed it and brought the fall. There is a craving for knowledge in our fallen world but it is all self-centered. People want to gain knowledge only in order to increase their honor and comfort and they want to secure love for self-centered satisfaction. This is why such love will not bring anyone to the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>The basic guideline in the world today is selfishness. People will do anything in order to profit themselves yes; this has been the standard and motivation throughout history. In that way of life people will sell their knowledge to be used for the worst purpose as long as it is for their own profit. They will even sell their love for personal gain.</p>
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<p>The God-centered way of life is exactly the opposite; that life is the unselfish, public-minded, world-centered way of life. In that way of life each person is ready to give himself to benefit the entire community or world. The God-centered person is always ready to give up His love for the sake of the world.</p>
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<p>I described two ways of life, one for hell and one for heaven. You are standing right in the middle in the place where both of them meet for a showdown. We can conclude, therefore, what the criterion is for distinguishing whether a person is good or bad. Why do you say you are good? How can you be so sure? The good man is unselfish, and his knowledge and love do not belong to him but to God. The good man’s way of life is like a straight line. Throughout history the person who gives himself for the purpose of others has been regarded as a good person, while the man who has sacrificed others for himself has been known as evil. That is the central point of education, and it has held true throughout history.</p>
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<p>If everyone really knows the truth, why has America become individualistic and self-centered? God’s work has been a tireless effort to restructure society, beginning with one unselfish individual and through him creating a family and society, nation and world, gradually bringing the lost world back.</p>
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<p>So far the basic error of religious teaching has been this: though religion has taught the basic value of sacrifice, it has extolled sacrifice as the necessary price to gain salvation for oneself. In return for their sacrifice people have expected to go to the top of heaven. A person should not be sacrificial only because he wants the highest place in heaven; that is selfish. No, we are going to sacrifice ourselves for the liberation of God and the healing of His broken heart, as well as the restoration of our True Parents and the liberation of all mankind. These are supposed to be the goal, not individual salvation. The truly sacrificial person feels he exists for the benefit of the world and God.</p>
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<p>Every religion will also be judged by this simple formula. The truly unselfish religion is the good religion. The Guyana tragedy is an extreme example of an evil religion. How could one man sacrifice the sacred lives of others for his own madman’s ego? The true religion would teach that if death is necessary then a leader should want to die in place of or for the sake of others. Such a person would be a true leader. The Jonestown group was not even following a religion but a doctrine that was totally opposite Jesus’ teaching.</p>
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<p>What vision and method for liberating God can be found in the true religion? Do you think God’s task of restoring fallen man to the Kingdom of Heaven is easy? It is an overwhelming task. If He had been doing it for Himself He would have given it up a long time ago. But He is doing it for mankind, not Himself, and so He is tireless in His efforts. He cannot throw up His hands and quit. If God were trying to restore the world for His own pocketbook or pleasure, I’m sure He would have stopped before finding even twelve people because the task is so unpleasant and arduous. God’s motivation could only be unconditional love.</p>
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<p>God originally created man to be His eternal object for give and take. The ideal of God is still there and until He reaches the ideal He cannot lay the mission down. American society today is confused because people lack criteria about good and evil. Neither do they understand satanic, fallen nature. The supreme religion is the one which will proclaim the liberation of God and the salvation of mankind. That is the highest teaching you can find. When we evaluate today’s religions from this standpoint we see that today’s Christians are not concerned about liberating God and humanity. Most Christians are narrow-minded because they are talking about “your” God and “my” God. From the ultimate standard of God’s religion we can see that today’s Christianity is not good enough.</p>
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<p>Christian denominations today promote their faith by proclaiming that their denomination alone can guarantee the Kingdom of Heaven. In God’s sight this is a very smelly conflict, like pigs in a pen debating about which is cleaner while they are all covered with filth. That blind, boastful attitude will bring nothing but their own decline and they will never see the sunlight. If there is truly a God of justice He would never let such a religion prosper. Any such religion is destined to decline.</p>
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<p>What will happen to the rest of the world? The same principle applies. If America becomes public minded and unselfish then this nation can survive, but if America becomes selfish, boastful and arrogant, then just like any religious people with such attitudes the nation of America will also decline. If you wait you will see how true these words are. You will see whether my conviction and ideology will win out or whether America will continue as it is. Do you think America can continue this way of life into eternity?</p>
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<p>Even though communists have conquered a large portion of the world’s population and territory, their ideology at least has certain virtues that parallel God’s own virtue. Marxism teaches that a utopia must come for the entire world. Communists say they want to save the world, want to liberate the world, but although the key word has been liberation, the actual goal has been world conquest. Even though the communists proclaim an international crusade for the liberation of the world, they don’t actually live it. Look at how nationalistic the Russian and Chinese communists have become now, competing with each other for spheres of influence. Even communists have not been able to transcend the barriers between nations or races.</p>
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<p>How would God feel if He found a group of religious people here on earth who are proclaiming the supreme ideology, saying that their goal is to liberate God and all of mankind’! Would God be pleased or sorrowful to see that they truly had conviction to do that and really lived a sacrificial way of life? If God found such a group here on earth, He would be so pleased that He might faint. Such a group here on earth is the Unification Church, and so in the sight of God the Unification Church is the most orthodox of orthodox and is the center of centers. Therefore, God will look upon all the other religions who are saying the Unification Church is heretical and say, “What are you saying? You are the heretics!” This is the reality of our position.</p>
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<p>Go and judge the Unification Church. Is it a good place or evil place? According to our formula of judgment, the Unification Church is good because we want to exist for the sole purpose of the liberation of God and mankind by sacrificing ourselves. I want to bring all America’s young people into the Unification Church to let them sacrifice for that purpose and that’s why this is a good group.</p>
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<p>Do Unification Church people have five senses? Do I have a good or a bad brain? Then why haven’t we fought back at our attackers before now? Why do we have so many lawsuits nowadays and why are we winning so many of them? All these years I have said, “Let the world hit us and persecute us. We will take a beating.” But now I am saying that we have come to the point where we must tight back.</p>
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<p>It has never been my desire to fight the satanic world in that way, but now God is saying that the time has come for us to show what we are. We must let the good people of the world know so that we can hasten the day of the liberation of God. Now the time has come for us to positively show what we are.</p>
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<p>Am I a man of great strength or a man of weakness? Even in my high school days I was a wrestling champion and proficient in all kinds of sports. There was no sport I could not do. I was known as a very powerful boy who was never defeated by anyone. Even when an older and stronger boy came to fight me, he never saw the end of the conflict until I had beaten him.</p>
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<p>I could never tolerate injustice because that is my nature, yet when I came to America everyone was scornful of me, accusing me of being a false religious leader. Even school children learned to criticize me, yet under these unjust circumstances I never spoke back, not even one word. The whole time America ridiculed me I was silent, working tirelessly to create the necessary base and foundation with my sweat and blood and tears. The time has come now to show the world what we are and what our true intentions are. The proof is seen in the material and spiritual foundation we have achieved.</p>
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<p>The virtue of God is seen in just such situations. God is powerful and almighty, but He has endured Satan’s ridicule for 6,000 years. In doing so God was testing Satan, seeing how vicious and wicked he was, allowing him to do anything. After 6,000 years God has accumulated complete documentation of Satan’s evil, and finally the time will come when God will say, “Satan, I cannot stand it any more. Here is the proof of your corruption.” This logic works in our world as well. For example, no judge will send a criminal straight to jail without hearing all the evidence at a trial. The judge will first listen to the defendant’s story and all the proof will be examined and checked, and then finally the judgment will be made. A court trial is a slow process. That’s good because God’s court is just the same. Following a slow process is God’s scheme to let Satan reveal all the evil he can do and incriminate himself.</p>
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<p>God wants there to be no complaint in His court once He pronounces a sentence. Even Satan will accept the final verdict as just. On that day even all the evil spirits in hell will say to Satan, “You deserve that sentence. You are a criminal.” God is a patient judge, therefore, documenting and listening to the evidence. We work the same way. We have been collecting all the evidence of evil against us and when God’s court is finally convened, God will show the entire world the undeniable proof of the evil that has been done, from the individual level to the family, tribal, national and worldwide levels. There is no way Satan will be justified in saying, “No, God, that’s not true. You are mistaken.” There will be no room for that. In order to win His case God has been more meticulous than anyone else. Is God a great judge or a foolish one? Unfortunately this process of collecting evidence takes time, but since He is taking the time to document a complete case there will be no one to come and say that His judgment was wrong, even after millions of years pass. Have you ever thought about it that way?</p>
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<p>The Unification Church has been the target of the world, and people of all nations, races and religions have been coming against the Unification Church and Reverend Moon. America is a multiracial nation, almost like a corporation having many stockholders of all kinds. Here in America you have all the elements of the entire world in microcosm. When I came to this nation and received persecution and accusation, it actually meant that the entire world came against me. People thought I would not last even six months, but that prediction was never fulfilled.</p>
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<p>When I first entered this country it was as though a little cat appeared all of sudden in a den of lions. The lions have been trying to intimidate the little cat with their fists, but the more they tried to knock him down the more this cat grew; and furthermore, this cat has been winning all of the lions’ children to his side. All the children of America have been saying that they really like the new cat who arrived among the lions. Everyone thought he was a cat, but he has turned out to be the biggest lion of all.</p>
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<p>Only those who have an eye of wisdom can see the true picture about me. Many American young people are clever, idealistic and conscientious. In the whole history of the United States there has never been such an ironic instance as this cat disrupting the den of lions, and Americans feel upset over this “intrusion” by a yellow man coming from Korea. The love of white people is not as deep as that of yellow people, but the form love possessed by black people probably is the deepest of all.</p>
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<p>You are gathered together here and you need to become great teachers because you now know the incredible truth about the universe and God. Everyone must become teachers who can teach the world how to liberate God and serve mankind. That is the very task God has been doing all this time, so we are taking over God’s job. Do you worry about leaving God unemployed? Because God is without form He will say to any champion who comes to take up His role, “You go right ahead and I’ll be working with you.” That’s the way God works. This is the Unification Church ideology and it is my conviction that we will make the Unification Church the ambassador and representative of God. We will go in place of God to do the work that God wants to be doing. We are going to educate the world for the liberation of God and mankind, demonstrating to the world the love of God centering upon the family, nation and world, teaching the world how we can love our fellow man.</p>
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<p>If you join the Unification Church but you don’t feel enthusiasm then you are not a real member. When members first come to the Unification Church they are burning with ambition to become teachers and teach the world about the love of God. They want to teach the world how to liberate God and mankind. Day and night I am looking for this kind of man and woman. The world is looking for that kind of person and God is also looking for that kind of man and woman.</p>
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<p>The amazing thing is that I never lose the attention of the American people, or of the world’s people for that matter. Even though people criticize me, they are always watching what I am doing and where I am going. When a tiger appears near a village all the villagers keep close track of it and pass the news, “The tiger moved from that mountain to that mountain.” Twenty-four hours a day that tiger is on the minds of the people. It is the same for the American people; whether they like me or not, they cannot forget me.</p>
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<p>That situation is our asset and our foundation. Unless God were working with us, the people would not be as interested. People are more and more curious about me and on that foundation we can truly win this nation. The people who are trying to discredit me have ulterior motives, and usually they are not very productive members of society. When good citizens look at the kind of people the deprogrammers are they think that if this quality of person is a fierce opponent of Reverend Moon then Reverend Moon must be doing something right and they want to know more. This kind of trend will soon start.</p>
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<p>God will lose nothing by following this strategy. If I had become instantly popular in this country, being welcomed by the President on down, then you would not have a chance to get in this room. All the people of high position would insist on being here instead. Whoever is looking for the truth, seriously investigating even unpopular people regardless of public opinion, is a real man or woman. These are the pathfinders God needs for the Kingdom of Heaven. You are those people and that is how you are helping God’s strategy.</p>
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<p>How many people would say, “I am a representative of God and I want to educate and love mankind”? If you are such people then would the American people eventually welcome me? Of course Americans love their young people, so when you go out into American society, explaining about Reverend Moon and your conviction and your way of life, they will soon welcome you. God knows I need many young people for His work and so He uses this strategy. Do you passively or willingly welcome it? Religion is supposed to be the basic teaching which will liberate God and mankind. There is no greater teaching than this one.</p>
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<p>What is the definition of a true parent or true friend” Such a person is one who will lead you to be a person welcomed by the world and God. I have been leading the Unification Church to work tirelessly through this philosophy. When I began this task I was all alone, but I knew that God set up religion because He wanted to be the true father who loved mankind. God’s position has been that of a teacher who could guide mankind into knowledge and show how He loved man. It is logical that, if God is such a God, if you take over the same position you will also become a teacher and parent of mankind.</p>
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<p>Whenever truth is proclaimed it will be widely tested. I knew that when I initially declared the truth it would be scorned as being lies and the teaching of a charlatan, but I knew God’s virtue of being silent.</p>
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<p>When I first declared this way of life there was opposition but I was silent. When I moved to the family dispensation and the families of the world opposed me, I was still silent. During the national dispensation all nations came against me but I was silent and moved to the world level. When America and the whole world came against me I was silent, and even when spirit world came against me I was silent but I moved on. While we are silently ignoring the slander and vicious lies, the time is approaching when the entire nation will accuse our attackers of being liars. The good people of America will accuse the media of having lied about me.</p>
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<p>You know now who the true man is whom God likes. Suppose such a true man came to America and this nation opposed him. Who would win eventually-selfish people or that true man? What if he had only one leg. Would he be defeated? What if he had half a nose or only one eye; wouldn’t he lose then? If that true man happened to have no limbs or someone had to carry him when he went out, would he be defeated by America? If a true man in that condition could still win America then what about me? I have all my limbs, so will I lose or win?</p>
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<p>Did I figure everything out in advance, or did I just plunge into the job? In your judgment have I failed or succeeded here in America? Have the deprogrammers succeeded or failed? Congressman Fraser investigated the Unification Church for two and a half years, but was he a loser or a winner? Did he lose his election because I fought him with bullets, or in a boxing ring? No, the spirit world came down and took care of the victory for us.</p>
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<p>The home church mission is done by people who take up the position of God as educators of mankind, teaching people how to love God and liberate mankind. If such people become champions of home church, the world shall be restored automatically and the Kingdom of Heaven established. This is the basic spirit and principle of home church. We are going to teach the world these things: one, liberation of God and secondly, love of mankind in the spirit of sacrifice. You must know clearly the logic of the ideology upon which we stand. We will sacrifice ourselves to educate the people and love them. If you do that then without question God will dwell with you and will lead your home church, working day by day with you . You won’t be able to part from God for even one moment. In order to teach this principle and way of life God has been looking for Abel-type champions on every level throughout history.</p>
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<p>On each level of restoration there must be an Abel figure known to God as the champion. There will be a worldwide champion to specialize in individual restoration, another for family restoration, another champion for society, another for the world and still another for the entire cosmos. Throughout history God has been working tirelessly to choose these champions, one from the East, another from the West, South or North, giving them missions to fulfill in the different ages. So far, however, no one has emerged to connect all those champions with each other and they have continued working in an isolated way. Satan is cunning; he cuts all ties between the Abels of the world and surrounds them, almost nullifying their work.</p>
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<p>God may seem to be defeated, but He has a clear strategy. He will establish one champion of the world and cosmos who will link all the Abels of the world and they will all emerge together at one dramatic moment of history. That is the purpose of the coming of the Messiah. He is needed to gather an account for all the world’s goods, documenting them and presenting them to God on the universal altar. When Jesus came, the son of God, he appeared as a humble man who was opposed by his family and nation and finally crucified. Therefore, he must come again. I have been working to restore all these foundations that have been hidden, and as Abel of the individual, family, society and nation I am linking them all together into oneness to offer them on the altar of God, finishing the final showdown.</p>
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<p>There are many Abels in the world on each of the different levels, but so far there has been no unity and each of them has gone in his own direction. Everything is disorganized. There are many denominations within the religions of the world, each of them creating its own world. When their members die and go to spirit world they create an exact replica there of these isolated societies here on earth. Someone has to organize all the Abels of each level into one direction, and if we succeed in doing that here on earth then spirit world will automatically mirror that and become one harmonized body. The relationship between the two worlds is something like that between a factory and a warehouse; whatever is manufactured here on earth is stored in spirit world. There is no such thing as a heaven after you die unless you have lived one here on earth.</p>
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<p>Who comes to this earth, trying to unite the central religion with all others in the world? First is God, and next are True Parents. Who are True Parents? Their position is exactly that of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden before the fall. They are the ones who will fulfill the original ideal of creation in reality, receiving God’s original inheritance and giving it to the world. Once this path is pioneered and you liberate God and love Him, liberate mankind and love them, you are entitled to become a true parent because you come under this tradition. I want you to know these two things very clearly.</p>
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<p>Since there has never been any unity in the religious world, someone is needed to unify it all. That is how the mission of the Unification Church was born. The first step is to straighten out the dispensational history of the central religions of Judaism in the Old Testament and Christianity in the New Testament. Our role is very simple: we teach what God wants to teach, putting ourselves in His position and telling the people what God wants them to know. When I started in the individual and family dispensation the whole satanic realm knew about it and came against me, but I was victorious in securing the individual foundation. The victory was won under tremendous opposition.</p>
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<p>It is the principle that when Satan wages war God’s side must endure and withstand the assault. It may seem as though God’s side is being defeated, but as long as it can survive and go on to the next stage victory is already secured and Satan has to move out. Satan always works for himself, teaching people that they will only lose if they stand on the heavenly side. Nowadays every nation is self-centered and if the people have information that might benefit all mankind they don’t want to reveal it because they want it to benefit only their nation. In order to gain or protect that information they even wage war.</p>
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<p>God is not a warmonger or attacker, but is always defending, letting Satan attack. Why does God have to be silent and defensive? It is because His angels and children are not ready yet; they are far weaker than Satan and God knows that this is not the time to stand up. How could He send His children out to confront Satan until they are prepared and qualified? God needs a champion who is just like Himself, who will be attacked but never shaken. In boxing, one fighter can win just by enduring to the end and letting his opponent wear himself out. That’s how God has been fighting Satan.</p>
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<p>In the meantime, though, God has not been sitting idle. He has been educating His angels and people so that they can be superior to Satan. If God has a superior force on His side then there wild be no fight because Satan will surrender as soon as God’s side shows up. Is that a wise or foolish strategy? Are we strong or weak? In what way’.’ We are strong inside. We are setting a record superior to Satan’s, setting a pace he cannot keep up with. In that sense is the Unification Church a fearful organization? God has no reason to be afraid of us, but Satan knows he is facing a formidable opponent.</p>
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<p>From the beginning I was opposed by even my own relatives but no one could shake my spirit. You are inheriting that spirit today, so when you are kidnapped are you influenced by the deprogrammers? It would have been easy for me to gather my relatives together and explain everything to them so they would understand me, but until now I have been silent and said nothing. I only thought, “History will tell. You wait and see.” I didn’t want to spoil God’s tradition of withstanding all kinds of beatings in silence. If I had won my relatives to my side then I would not be setting God’s tradition of being beaten in the worst possible way, all alone. Then God could not have said I was fully triumphant and Satan would always bear a grudge in his heart, claiming that he could have beaten me if only I had fought alone. If I am victorious with the help of others then I will only have that kind of conditional victory. I always prayed for God to be just a spectator and let me finish the fight by myself.</p>
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<p>God really left me alone, but was that punishment or love? God wanted me to win the title of greatest possible champion with no strings attached. You have never heard such a sermon anywhere else than in the Unification Church, but when you hear this don’t you think it is logical? That’s why only clever people can understand the Divine Principle.</p>
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<p>When I was victorious on the individual and family levels, all the nations, governments and churches of the world came against me. They used their power to imprison and torture me, and many times I was beaten so much that I threw up a fatal amount of blood and was left for dead. But even then I prayed for God to stand still and let me continue on my own, without His help. I wanted to comfort God by winning on my own.</p>
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<p>Of course, God had many ways to assist me, and even though I was frequently accused and brought to trial on false charges I was always proven innocent and released: The amazing thing is that the people who were trying to kill me are the people who have disappeared, either through sickness or accidents. None of them remains on earth today, but I am still fighting my lonely battle. In my own lifetime I have withstood overwhelming suffering and have been triumphant in laying the worldwide foundation. Satan desperately tried to stop me in Asia but he failed, so I came to the world stage, which is America.</p>
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<p>From December 18, 1971, when I entered America, until 1976 the entire world came against me, but I used the same tactic of fighting the lonely battle. No one came to my aid. When I first came, even the American leaders of our Church didn’t completely believe me, and still they are sometimes skeptical. But I fought the lonely battle, bringing our worldwide leaders to this country and training them. I never revealed my full plan to anyone, even my closest assistants; I just gave instructions to them. When I told the leaders to do something, however, there was no discussion because I had already done what I was asking of them, and they were only repeating my own victory.</p>
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<p>There were many stages in the battle -individual, family, tribe, society, nation and world. At every level I went over a hurdle and paid the necessary indemnity. Because of my achievement there is now one superhighway from the individual level all the way to the cosmic level, and the crooked road has been straightened out. We are becoming the mainstream of the history of God and mankind. This highway is so obvious and so permanent that once someone gets on it there are no obstacles of race or language to hinder him. Once he gets started he can go straight to the goal. It’s like riding in a super-van where everyone is welcome aboard. I am the driver and though you sleep I still drive in the right direction and you can be assured of reaching the goal.</p>
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<p>Having home churches was God’s goal in the garden of Eden but it was broken into pieces by Adam and Eve, causing many different obstacles to be set up throughout history. Now I have cleared them all away and we are returning to the original concept. It is your blessing and privilege to participate.</p>
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<p>When we make a highway on earth in the cosmic dispensation then the same highway is created in spirit world. When motorists on earth have the chance to travel on a superhighway they all pay attention to how they can get on, even though they may have to backtrack or go out of their way. The time is coming when the Unification Church will be overwhelmed with trying to accommodate all the people who want to get on this superhighway and are flooding the tollgate. I want you to be ambitious to be a teacher of mankind and love mankind as God is doing. Are you that way? Even ugly men and women can have that kind of ambition, right? The Unification Church is like a workshop where you can be trained to be a lover of mankind and God, and I am the one who will sign your graduation certificate.</p>
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<p>Do you love me? How much? Just as you love me now, when you teach mankind and give them God’s love you will be loved by them in return. I want you to know that this has been the hope of God and the hope of mankind, and we are here today to really fulfill that desire of theirs. We possess the greatest of all fortunes and the method to fulfill that dream and goal is home church. In doing this mission your Divine Principle book will be used so much that it will be like a rag. Concentrate on God day and night. Does God sleep at night? No matter how much we do we cannot keep up with God because He has no night. Do you still want to compete with God and not sleep at night: either?</p>
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<p>Does Satan sleep well ? What about Unification Church members” You may stop to rest for three minutes and ask God to watch over you, but because your body is so tired you actually wake up three hours later. God will still be watching over you because He promised to, but you can say, ” Why didn’t You wake me up?” If you do that then God will understand and Satan will not be able to dominate you. In your sleep you will still be with God. God knows you cannot rest for just three minutes; He knows your trick.</p>
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<p>I told the state leaders that they shouldn’t have their own bed or bedroom, but just rest a few minutes in the living room, giving apologies to God for needing to rest. God knows that we have mortal weaknesses, but this is the way we can overcome them. Every time I sit on the toilet I fall asleep, but do you think God will ridicule me for that? No, God will be sympathetic and encourage me to rest a few minutes right there. Sometimes for enjoyment God treats me to a tour of spirit world during those moments, showing what He is going to give to me, and then sends me back to work.</p>
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<p>Sometimes I get in the tub for a bath and suddenly I am snoring. When I take a bath Mother is always careful to make sure nothing happens to me in my sleep. Would God say, “What kind of man are you? How can you sleep in the bathtub?” I definitely think God likes me very much, and the fact that you love me is the undeniable proof of it.</p>
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<p>The starting point of the dispensation is one individual and the individual must become a family. As the family advances to each level it will expand the providential territory, becoming a nation and finally embracing the world, but it will be opposed at each step. Here in America I was opposed, but during that time I completed the individual, family nation, and world foundations as well as the condition to unite all the races. This involves the restoration of all Abels of the world into one unified organization. You know that opposition came from all corners-all races, all religions, and all nations-coming to a peak in 1976.</p>
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<p>Even while the world was coming against the Church we were growing on a cosmic level and we have won a cosmic level victory. While I was receiving persecution in this country I sent out missionaries all over the world to 120 nations to be like lightning rods for persecution on my behalf. The primary responsibility of the missionaries was not even to gain members but to stand firm and even if they had to die for the mission to stay and receive the persecution of that nation. If I hadn’t done that then I would have received accusation from spirit world that I loved only America, even though my mission was a cosmic one. The accusation that I neglected other countries was apt to come, but I prevented that from happening. My body can be in only one place at a time, but in the meantime I sent my representatives to every country.</p>
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<p>No one can accuse us of not loving Christianity or Judaism. I have given much sacrificial love for the Christian nation of America. Many Jews say that the Unification Church is anti-Semitic, but I have loved the Jews as the first chosen people. I respect their honor in that position. I made that clear, but I also said that killing Jesus Christ, the Messiah, was a crime, and the Jews will know this truth when they go to spirit world. I must set the record straight about why the Jews have endured a history of suffering for the last 2,000 years.</p>
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<p>Christianity faced a similar situation when it opposed the Unification Church, and it could have suffered the same fate as Judaism for 2,000 years into the future. That will not occur, however, because there has been enough acceptance in the Christian world already. That acceptance helped lay the foundation for me to advance all the way up to the cosmic level of the dispensation.</p>
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<p>This is the final dispensation here in America and when the pattern of what I have achieved here is expanded it will form the cosmic dispensation. Spiritually speaking, every victory you need has been won. There is no other victory left to obtain; the conquest of spirit world has been accomplished, and now all we have to do is translate the spiritual victory into physical victory. Since this cosmic level of condition has been set, you can go anywhere in the world and there will be no barrier you cannot cross. When we are able to work freely all over the world, the same situation will be seen in the spirit world. Now in the spirit world there is complete freedom of movement through all spheres. The time of disputes between denominations and religions is over. The worst kind of disaster humanity could face would be a racial war, but that crisis is also over because enough conditions have been set so that all races can be one family of man.</p>
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<p>This teaching transcends race and nationality. Because our teaching is a universal one, you as students are universal. This is the universal class and it represents the races of the entire world. Once the world receives the universal teaching, there will be no more racial barriers on earth. God can transcend every barrier. God is our teacher and this work will he conducted by Him, but at the same time He is more than our teacher. He is our parent. How could you ask for anything more than that? Harvard graduates are proud to be classmates from that great university. Don’t you think this graduating class here is comparable in honor with any Harvard graduates? This is the university where we enroll as brothers and sisters and here our parent and teacher is God. Are you excited? When you feel this excitement would it bother you to hear negative criticism of the Unification Church?</p>
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<p>How successful am I? Am I in a position to envy the President of the United States or should the President envy me? Do you envy the senators or congressmen or should they be the ones who envy you? You have the greatest teaching and the President of the United States must come to learn from you. Furthermore, you have shown through your actions that you love this country more than the president, senators and congressmen love this country. The highest honor in America would not do justice to the true heavenly teacher. However, God will award the medal of honor of the Kingdom of God to such a person.</p>
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<p>In a sense I am the greediest person in the world because I would like to have every single one of you deserve the medal of honor of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. I want to make each one of you a winner. In order to do that should I tell you to do as you like? The average person goes out on dates, takes long vacations and has the freedom to do anything. Here in our Church you don’t have dates but once you are engaged and even after the wedding you don’t necessarily live together! We have amazing discipline and people have to shake their heads. The main question is, would you welcome it?</p>
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<p>Many people work themselves to the bone trying to get a piece of paper saying they have a Ph.D. from Harvard or Yale. Here I am trying to give you kingship in the Kingdom of God. In order to win that title do you think you can work less than for a Harvard Ph.D.? I want you to become a tribal messiah. Does a heavenly king rule by using his fists and power? A true king rules for eternity by love. Kingdom building has both the spiritual and physical aspect. You don’t have to worry about the spiritual side because I have secured that kingdom. Now I want you to have the opportunity to participate in the physical kingdom building.</p>
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<p>Without winning the spiritual victory, no matter how much you do in the physical world Satan will always claim it. But now that I have won the spiritual victory and anchored the foundation, nothing can shake it. In the spiritual kingdom which I have already built no one is idle. All of spirit world is coming down, making a fence to protect us. All the great saints who died many centuries ago and the founders of the great religions are working to shield you and help you win the victory.</p>
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<p>Who is on the front line to resist spiritual infiltration? The saints in spirit world are protecting us like the guards who protect a palace, repelling all the spiritual negativity. Satan is trying to infiltrate you, but you have defenders who block his way and he has no way to penetrate that line. Satan is very clever, however, and works through spirit people to hit and run. They sometimes infiltrate successfully, but they will be detected and evicted. For a long time God had to use that tactic, penetrating the satanic camp to hit and run. Now the opposite is true, and Satan can only hit and run.</p>
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<p>The spiritual turning point was marked by the crucial victory in 1976. The three years following 1976 are the vital period. The second year is always the most difficult, but now we have gone beyond it and are beginning the third year. After the victory at Washington Monument all kinds of formidable attacks came from all quarters, with the State Department, Justice Department, IRS, SEC and Congress all coming after us. We also battled with the kidnappers and deprogrammers and the media. 1978 was an incredible year. All of this happened because of heavenly strategy and I predicted it many times prior to 1976.</p>
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<p>Those who oppose the Unification Church are the generation of the past and those who accept and welcome the Unification Church are the generation of the future. Our future is bright with hope. Would the generation of the past who opposed the Unification Church be the ones to educate you and bring you back, or would you educate them and bring them into the new generation? The showdown is over and even without my being in this country you can easily win. If each one of you clearly realized that home church is the destiny of our movement then you would give your life for it, and my presence here in this country would be irrelevant.</p>
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<p>Home church can easily be surrounded and protected by the spiritual victory I have won and there is no way it can fail. The spiritual power we can employ for the home church is many thousand times greater than anything the satanic world can mobilize. All you have to do is unite with True Parents’ spirit and intent. Make controversy; go ahead and create good trouble. The world is plagued with evil trouble so let us become makers of good trouble.</p>
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<p>I came to America to be opposed by the world, and now I want you to go to your home church to be opposed by that mini-world. I have won my home church here in more than 360 homes. Since I came here as a sojourner and have finished my home church, I have the right to go back to my home town. That’s why last year I went to Korea and had a special ceremony on November 2 to break down all the remaining barriers in the spirit world, liberating everyone from the barriers of religion and race.</p>
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<p>In that ceremony I eliminated the barriers between my tribe and all other tribes of the world. I also broke down the barriers between the Unification Church and all other religions in spirit world. Because of that ceremony the door is wide open, and whether a person believes in some religion or no religion at all doesn’t make any difference. There is absolute freedom now and everyone has the opportunity to hit the jackpot. There are no more barriers in spirit world or on earth. That was done by my succeeding in home church. You can declare to the spirit world, “Because our True Parents set the condition there is no longer any barrier between their tribe and our tribe. There is no longer any barrier between the Unification Church and the religions of the world. All good men of conscience in the entire spirit world and here on earth must come forward to participate in the kingdom building. I am here to enlist your support.” You can pray that way.</p>
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<p>You can also petition God, “You are my Father and I’m your child. I am going out to do home church as a tribal messiah and as your representative. Please send down one regiment of angels to come with me.” God will listen to that prayer. The angelic world exists solely to assist the true children of God. So far the angelic world could not come to help very much because you belong to the fallen generation. Now by doing home church you can become the true children of God and before all of heaven and earth you can request the help of legions of angels. In home church we set the condition to liberate the world, the condition that we truly loved mankind. By that condition God will forgive the entire world.</p>
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<p>You have to make some victorious condition like Jacob did. He wrestled at the ford of Jabbok with an angel, and when he won the angel blessed him by saying that his name was no longer Jacob but Israel. Upon that foundation God could bless Jacob. You must also win victory by going to home church and securing some condition upon which God can bless the entire world.</p>
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<p>Our way of life is like Jacob’s way of life. Initially his elder brother Esau wanted to kill him, just as the Christian world tried to kill the Unification Church, but when Jacob finally came back home then Esau’s heart was changed and he repented. Jacob loved him and gave him presents and embraced him. The two brothers became one. In the same way the world will finally come to embrace you. That will be realized through home church. My dispensation and victory shall be relived and reenacted SO that you can create the same condition. You must repeat my victory. This is the era for children to repeat the victory of their Parents.</p>
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<p>The entire world was my stage. Now I have finished and I am asking you to do the same in your small world of home church. As soon as you unite with this spirit I will be there with you. My victorious pattern and tradition will be your asset. Is there any easier way to go? Unless you build your home church in the world of Cain, you are not qualified to go back to your hometown and restore your own tribe.</p>
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<p>After the completion of a home church in the Cain world you can go and build one more home church, your Abel home church. Then you can invite your father and mother and whole family, and together with them you can enter the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God accepts only families, not just individuals. A family is three generations, and that is what you are supposed to enter with. Since Jesus was not able to complete the tribal messiah’s role physically here on earth, we are now succeeding to that mission. By physically creating our tribal messiahship, we can open the door for national and worldwide messiahship. There should actually be no blessing before home church is completed. From this time on, no one is automatically eligible for blessing simply because they have been members for a certain number of years. Only those persons who succeed in home church and restore spiritual children are qualified for the blessing. Jesus first restored his three major disciples and then the three became twelve. Those twelve plus his seventy disciples established the number 84. This is an important number for us and it must be done in seven year’s time by bringing one person per month. Jesus would have had the holy wedding after he had 84 people completely united with him. That is the same path I walked.</p>
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<p>First we need unity of Cain and Abel. The Cain and Abel dispensation is most crucial and most elementary, and the restoration of Adam and Eve comes on that foundation. The same thing must be done again on the worldwide level. Today there are two worlds-the Cain world and Abel world-and when those two are united into one then the True Parents of mankind can emerge and one world will be formed. When Cain and Abel become one, such as your mind and body becoming one, they serve the higher purpose. Next husband and wife can become one and establish parenthood. Parents and mankind must become one and serve God. That is the way the Divine Principle is structured.</p>
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<p>Where are you actually going to find your mate, your ideal object? In home church. You will be blessed with the person you find. That is the ideal situation. The procedure will be that the entire home church tribe in a general conference will make a recommendation to True Parents, saying, “This person and this person are just wonderful and our tribe wants to receive them as true parents. Would you marry them together?” That kind of recommendation will be given as the counsel of the home church. In the days to come there will be no such thing as blessing without having the home church program completed. This is not my statement, but a statement of the Principle.</p>
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<p>Home church is a great accomplishment and the pinnacle of the Divine Principle. After all the struggles of the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament, home church is the outcome, the ultimate fruit by which the Kingdom of God is going to be achieved. It is the ultimate fulfillment of love. I am telling you to be a teacher and one who loves. Truth and love are the two key words. Why do you go to home church? There are two reasons. First you will educate the people, but after education what would you like to gain” The purpose of education is to awaken them and bring them to the heavenly side. Education will give them birth. Once they see the vision they are no longer in darkness.</p>
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<p>At first home church people will not welcome you but soon they will say that without having you visit them they cannot sleep too well. “This Moonie loves me more than God and Jesus love me. He is like my parent. I couldn’t have any better parent than him.” Later on they will even want you to marry into their family. Each of your 360 homes will want to make you their son-in-law or daughter-in-law. If I were still single would you like to propose to me? This is how your people will feel about you.</p>
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<p>Many men admire how I live my conviction in spite of the world’s persecution and they want to live that way themselves. There is nothing impossible for me. When I need money, money comes. When I need manpower, that comes. In that respect, do you think that Mother is a happy and fortunate woman to be my wife? Am I a happy and fortunate man because I have such a beautiful wife, such happy, brilliant children and because I have you Moonies?</p>
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<p>Now you know what home church is. Ever since the fall of man, God, Jesus and all mankind have been longing to reach the ultimate destination. That is home church. The Unification Church is Cape Kennedy and we are launching home church to the Kingdom of Heaven. Neil Armstrong lifted off from Cape Kennedy and reached the moon. Now we are lifting ourselves off from the Unification Church and our destination is the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>The Kingdom of Heaven is a big place, so where would you like to land? Right into the heart of God’s love. The heart of God is not good enough; you have to be in the heart of God’s love. When you land in the heart of God’s love, you will surely give God a shock. At that moment God will really be awakened and He will smile ear to ear in explosive joy. Then the dancing will begin. When God begins to dance, the entire cosmos will be ignited in joy. All creation will feel joy with all five senses and everything will be intoxicated in happiness. That dance will be the ultimate grand finale. After that no more work of restoration will remain to be done. God will say that His restoration work is over and His ideal of creation is complete. His broken heart will be completely healed.</p>
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<p>Home church was the ideal of God in the garden of Eden but it was broken into pieces after many thousands of years of difficulties and tribulations. Now finally in the 20th century I have opened the doors. All conditions have been fulfilled and the doors of home church are open for all mankind to enter. That is the history we are witnessing today.</p>
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<p>How much you devote yourself to home church shall determine the distance between you and God and the intensity of love God can give to you. Set the condition that you love your home church more than your wife or husband, or children or parents. Jesus said if anyone loved his husband or wife or family more than Jesus, that person was not worthy of him. Today I am saying that if you love your own family more than you Jove your home church and more than you love God that you are not worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>Your home church is one small world representing all mankind and the entire earth; it is a microcosm of the whole earth. Where you live or travel makes no difference; your home church is the place where you will become a child of the Messiah and enter the Kingdom. Even if you live in Korea and then come to America you will still have to make a home church. No matter where you may go on earth, you must do the home church mission. Even if you went to spirit world now you have to come down to finish that mission because without going through that gate you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>There are no barriers between you and the home church mission, neither racial, national, spiritual or physical. Jesus gave the key to the Kingdom of Heaven to Peter, and today I give you the key to home church because that is the key to the Kingdom of Heaven. With one turn that key will open the door to salvation for one tribe.</p>
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<p>What is this year’s goal? Home Church and the Completion of the Kingdom of Heaven. This will come by love and truth. You come to the Unification Church to be educated and to straighten out the thinking of the fallen world. This is not brainwashing; it is brain-recreation. Here you practice true, pure love. In order to put the love of God into practice you must do humble things like witnessing. Your body always complains and tries to dodge the mission, wanting to rest and eat and to put off working. You should reply, “Are you telling me you don’t want to go the way Reverend Moon and the whole Unification Church are going? Come on! Do you want to fall behind everyone? I don’t want that! Get going!”</p>
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<p>Your worst enemy is certainly not me or the Unification Church but your own body. Your five senses are your worst enemy because they are always ready to be tempted. You have to constantly divert them, asking, “When are you going to betray me?” Your desires can betray you but you must not let them. Temptation is more severe among women in particular. You sisters here don’t wear makeup but I see that you are beautiful.</p>
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<p>All of you want to get married, but where will you marry? Where would you like to work now? Where would you like to eat and sleep? Home church? Where would you like to die? Where would you like to give birth to your children? All right, go ahead! In order to open the door of the home church dispensation the Unification Church needed a foundation, and in the process of erecting that foundation we needed Parents Day, Children’s Day, Day of All Things, and ultimately God’s Day. The fall of man came at the growth level, and so three seven-year courses became necessary to restore the formation, growth and perfection levels.</p>
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<p>If the Korean Christian churches had welcomed me at the beginning of my mission then the three seven-year courses could have been shortened into one seven-year course. Since they failed to accept me, however, it had to be expanded into three separate seven-year courses. I was actually supposed to erect the worldwide foundation in seven years, but because of opposition, particularly Christian opposition in Korea, 21 years were required to erect the foundation. I am creating the third Israel in the midst of the satanic world and we are undergoing an exodus, taking the third Israel out of Canaan. Wherever I turn there are roadblocks, but now these roadblocks will have no way to hold back the avalanche of heavenly progress.</p>
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<p>When I proclaimed the time for home church, it meant that the foundation was complete and that we had arrived in Canaan. Now we are working on settlement; this is the home church mission on a worldwide level. When the Israelites came into Canaan the twelve tribes divided the land, and now I am organizing the children of God to restore heavenly dominion throughout the world. No power under the sun can destroy the Unification Church. No matter whether I live or die now, our movement will never fail because everything is already accomplished. We are in the final seven-year course, creating the individual, family and tribe on the final, perfection level, having completed the formation and growth levels.</p>
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<p>If you complete these perfection years well your accomplishment will encompass all the other seven year courses, regardless of the fact that you were not here during that time. As long as you participate in the final seven years the final glory is the same. In 1976 we crossed over the final barrier to perfection, leaping into the direct dominion of God. It is good that people drastically opposed the Unification Church because now the drastic decline of the fallen world will be hastened. Now we can turn around and go on the offensive on the worldwide scale. We are going to transplant the victory we have won spiritually to the real society in a permanent way. That is home church work. If you do that it will be protected by the spiritual realm.</p>
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<p>Home church is surrounded by a spiritual foundation. The Messiah is the person who brings the spiritual victory and spiritual heaven down to earth to create physical heaven. Since you are a middleman or bridge to transmit the Messiah’s work to your home church, you are his ambassador, and therefore, when you fulfill your mission you become the messiah to your own tribe.</p>
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<p>Satan can no longer accuse you then, but if you fail that mission then your home church people will not be able to accuse you. Why? They will say, “You knew Reverend Moon’s ideology and revelation of truth and love. Why didn’t you live it? You are responsible for the fact that your 360 homes didn’t have the chance to go to heaven!” I have done this work tirelessly for twenty years, and upon that foundation you can do it in seven years, or even seven months. This is why accusation will come if you do not fulfill now. Your home church people will rage at you and you will have no excuse before them. They will be your judge.</p>
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<p>Home church is not a witnessing method. No, home church is our destiny, the final terminal and the fulfillment of the dispensation. Fallen man must walk this road; that is his destiny. More than a man is destined to marry a woman, fallen man is destined to finish the home church mission either on earth or in spirit world. Can you deny it? How can you erect the Kingdom of Heaven on earth other than by fulfilling the home church mission? This is not a dream or fantasy; this is the real blueprint from God. We have arrived at the final terminal. It is our great fortune to see this home church mission in our lifetime and install the pattern and tradition for history. You repeat the alphabet a thousand times a day in your conversation. In the same way, home church is the alphabet of the Kingdom of Heaven. It should become an intimate part of you. In home church you will find everything. In home church you can find God, Israel, Christianity, anything you want.</p>
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<p>How many of you are over 25 and still single? You who are candidates for the blessing must find your spiritual children in home church in the next 120 days or you will not be qualified for the coming blessing. I may plan an engagement for the month of May, so I am giving you a 120-day opportunity. Will you say to me, “Forgive us, Father. Please be easy on us and let us get blessed anyway, without talking about conditions”? Or will you say to me, ‘ Let us leave the highest tradition to posterity. Let us complete the mission now”? Did God and spirit world hear your answer” I’m not sure I heard your answer! In your time I would like to see the consummation of home church, the place where you will find your final resting ground and total fulfillment of heaven.</p>
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<p>One day after we finish our task here on earth we will have a great assembly in spirit world. At that time you will come to me in thanks for sending you out to home church, making it possible for you to go to the highest possible heaven. You will be comforted and there will be a celebration lasting for eternity. You can win assets of eternal value now, but if you come to me saying, “Please have mercy on me. I can’t come to your realm because I didn’t do the home church mission,” I will reply, “I don’t know you. Depart from me.”</p>
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<p>God taught this principle to me and this is why I desperately gave my life hundreds of times over to fulfill the mission. I have clearly taught you this here on earth, and if you don’t do it then in spirit world I will say to you, “Depart from me.”</p>
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<p>The first 120 days is the period when we will win a real victory in 1979. At this time everyone should fulfill home church and find spiritual children; then a great rejoicing will come in May. Have you decided, or are you still considering? This is your decision; I am not forcing you. I want you to pass me up and be so full of enthusiasm that I can follow you.</p>
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<p>I have been looking back on my experiences in 1978. I was away for 180 days, traveling around the world in Europe, Japan and Korea. When I returned I found the movement here totally stagnated and in a stalemate. That is why I initiated this last 40-day campaign. This year I must travel to many other places, but would you like me to face the same disappointment when I return again? Do you want me to trust you? Your answer means you are not going to let me down this time, right? We’ll see. Whether I remain here doesn’t make any difference, does it? This is your age; you can do it.</p>
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<p>You assemble to listen to my sermons at Belvedere, but would you like to come just when I am there, or even more when I am absent? Do you do home church just because I tell you to? Do you have an easier way? Centering on this mission you must gather your resolve for 1979.</p>
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<p>We are giving tremendous joy to God on this God’s Day, but more than anything else we can give Him happiness by making a new resolve and determination to do home church. Let us have confidence and go on to really live this. I want you to understand that God will never appear halfway through a situation; He will always wait until the end. If He assists you too much in the middle of the mission then you will have to pay too much indemnity, and God doesn’t want you to suffer in that way. You can say to God, “You are my spectator, and I will never let you down. Just sit and watch how I am doing.”</p>
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<p>Earn the money you need on your own and lecture to your own people. You don’t need anyone else to teach for you if you become a great lecturer on your own. On the West coast Dr. and Mrs. Durst are really united and their centers have exploded in heavenly spirit so they are bringing many spiritual children. In the middle of America the IOWC brothers and sisters are working and recently I visited them to inaugurate the three IOWC teams. They are going state to state to evangelize and win members and they have decided they are going to win one spiritual child every 21 days, not even in one month. Do you want to stall behind all of them?</p>
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<p>I initiated home church work in London six months ago, so I am going back in January to see how they are doing. Then I will go back to Japan and Korea and see how they are doing. I will check how the missionaries are doing in their countries in this mission. Do I have a busy schedule? Are you going to fall behind me or run ahead?</p>
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<p>When are you going to give me a little vacation? My vacation will begin when you complete home church, and I will come and sleep overnight in each one. What I would like to see is a parade of people from all 360 homes when I visit, all thanking me for sending their home church leader. How much would you like to have them welcome me in this way? I would like it to be to the degree that even the dogs are confused at seeing their masters welcoming a stranger so warmly.</p>
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<p>When I love a certain thing, does God feel the same way? Even if you lock the door God comes in every night. Having communion and fellowship with the living God every night should be our way of life and your home church should be like that. Please have faith in it. Work until it can be done.</p>
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<p>Have you made a decision today? You have 120 days, and getting four spiritual children is your tangible goal. Will you follow through on your decision? God bless all of you.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">LET US RESTORE OUR HOMELAND AND FATHERLAND</h1>
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<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="2018-06-18T05:07:30+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/18/let-us-restore-our-homeland-and-fatherland.html" rel="bookmark">June 18, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-18T05:07:30+01:00">June 18, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1979.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<div class="pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-bottom-left"><a href="/blog/2018/06/18/let-us-restore-our-homeland-and-fatherland.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>
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<h3 align="center">January 14, 1979<br />
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Belvedere, New York<br />
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<p>Today we are known as Moonies. People outside our Church criticize Mother and me for being called True Parents because words such as “True Parents,” “true children” and “true ideal” are difficult for people to comprehend. Truth is hard to find. Then how much more difficult it must be to find the reality or substantiality of truth. When you go to a library there are many books by authors who wrote according to their own desire and will, which they considered to be truth. But could their truth be incarnated into visible, substantial truth bodies? It is very difficult for scholars to turn their theories into reality. How much more true this is when we are talking about the ideal world or ideal life as a reality.</p>
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<p>In order to have truth become reality, we need to go through a tremendous ordeal of suffering and tribulation. In order to find one true man, much suffering is necessary. Truth doesn’t come through winning recognition from your fellow man but through being recognized by the ultimate one, the unchanging, Almighty God, His sovereignty and nation.</p>
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<p>Throughout history people have been looking for true man according to their own definition, and have tried to evaluate men in light of that definition. Saints and prophets are most likely to be known as men of truth, and it is interesting that those who have been called saints always emerge from among religious leadership. We can name Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, and Confucius as men who have been known throughout history as saints, acquiring this title by agreement of the people.</p>
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<p>Then let us recall what those saints did. Did they completely fulfill their missions, their life and ideal? The answer is no. Their ideal was not fulfilled in their own time but was left behind in their holy books, such as the Bible. All of those saints are now in the spirit world while their followers are now on earth teaching their ideals. But where are the true men and true women who are following the teachings of those saints? The true followers are those who are making the maximum effort to live that teaching, not just memorize it. Realistically speaking, how many in the Christian world can be known as true Christians? There are many theologians, priests and leaders in the Christian world, but where are those who can be known as the true followers of Jesus? In the ultimate sense there is only one. In other words, there is only one truth. Today we live in a world where evil is all around us. If some true man emerged in this evil world, he would be an outspoken adversary, representing the exact opposite of evil.</p>
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<p>In this evil world what criteria do we use to identify what goodness remains? Do you think we can find the true man among the well-known and recognized scholars, or among the downtrodden, suffering and persecuted? If a noted professor was a true man, would he hesitate to speak the truth for fear his reputation or prestige might be hurt? Suppose the true man was the president or king of a nation. Would he worry about upsetting people and losing his reputation if he said certain things? The person who is governed by concern for his own reputation cannot be a man of truth. The person who is born for truth is like a tank which goes straight ahead without any hesitation, even if it means digging a hole in a mountain or putting a bridge over a river. He would not think of going over or under but only of how he would penetrate and go straight through.</p>
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<p>There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points. This means there is no time to fool around. The true word is always shot straight, not flowered with adjectives. In Korean we say that a man speaks straight. Do you like to speak and hear straight words? it’s not easy. Those who like to hear and speak straight words, raise your hands. You are not speaking straight. You are a bunch of straight liars. The person who sneers, “You Moonies” is really speaking to you straight, but you don’t like to hear that, do you? Those who like to be told they are Moonies, raise your hands please.</p>
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<p>When you go to your home church area and people slam their doors, saying, “You Moonies can get out,” you think, “Why did I have to become a Moonie?” The person who says that is not a true Moonie. The true Moonies are the ones who are walking all six continents with dignity no matter what people say. To be a proud Moonie you must know the true definition of a Moonie. He is the one who can go to his parents and proudly say, “Father, Mother, I’m a Moonie. If you love me, you will listen to why I have joined the Unification Church.” That person will have the power to inspire his parents to become Moonies also. He is a true Moonie.</p>
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<p>In the Unification Church we have one super Moonie; if I am a true Moonie, you would want to pay attention to me and listen to my words. Do you know you have some invisible tail I can see trailing behind you? Is it true that the true Moonie shakes his tail and his head?</p>
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<p>In our world what is the distinction between the good religion and the evil religion? One person says, “I believe so that I can be saved and have the best place in heaven.” Another says, “I believe this religion because I find in it a way to save the world. I want to save the world.” Which one is the true religion? Based on that, look at the Unification Church. Which one are we? Are we here just to save ourselves or to save the world? Is it a good or an evil religion? Did you say it is good because you are in it or because it is really is the truth?</p>
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<p>When you wake up in the morning would you first look at yourself in the mirror, putting on makeup to make yourself look better, or think about the world and its fate first? You are unusual people, especially you women. Other women spend a couple of hours getting themselves ready in the morning. They do their nails and their hair, and spend an hour on their eyes alone. If I visited the sisters’ rooms, would I find them messy or neat? You have an excuse for not being neat because you are busy 24 hours a day.</p>
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<p>There is one Moonie who wants to spend every minute in his mission, ready to meet one more person at the end of the day, even though it means having no time to fix his room, while another insists that everything in his room be neat and right before going out. Which do you think is closer to being the true Moonie? If you are really crazy about your mission, you should be out 24 hours, but if you are out 24 hours and no one touches your room, it should be neat.</p>
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<p>Moonies really have no time to spend shopping, but there are always those who take time to care for themselves and look sharp. On the other hand, those Moonies who take no time for themselves look like beggars. Will God come down to those Moonies and say, “Get out of here you smelly Moonies,” or “What a heavenly fragrance you have. That is my smell.” To those who wear cologne God will say, “I don’t like that smell.”</p>
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<p>If God evaluates the way humans evaluate then He is not God. Something that offends the human nose might be fragrant to God, and that which smells good to the human nose might be a bad odor for God. God doesn’t smell physically but spiritually.</p>
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<p>One person follows his religion in order to protect his own well-being and another just forgets himself and tries to do one thing more for his fellow man and is willing to die for the world. Those are the two kinds of faith you can find in our world, regardless of the religion. Which is the true way of faith? This is why Jesus says that he who seeks to gain his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for Jesus’ sake will gain it. Isn’t that the immortal truth?</p>
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<p>There are two kinds of single men and women. One thinks that his marriage comes first and that if he isn’t matched next time, he just won’t stay longer. Another says that he will do whatever he can to fulfill the will of God for mankind and will tell God, “Use even my marriage for the purpose of Your kingdom.” Is there a rule that you can’t marry after you’re thirty years old? One type feels he has to marry by the age of thirty. Another feels that it doesn’t matter whether the age is thirty or forty as long as he can do the will of God for the sake of the world. There is still another who is forty and says, “God, if You want me to marry I will, but if You don’t want me to marry, it’s no problem. I will still go on.” Which one would you choose? Are your lips saying yes to the third one while your mind is saying yes to the first?</p>
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<p>Here in America who are the true patriots? Are they the ones who are using drugs, alcohol and free sex? What about the person who enters the realm of the prostitutes to try to liberate even one person from that world? That person would be mistreated, spit upon and slapped. The prostitute might say, “I have a business here. Pay your money and you can do whatever you want. But you are a strange person trying to persuade me to leave this world. You are crazy.” Which person is the patriot?</p>
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<p>Moral corruption has become the American way of life. Taking drugs is common today. But no matter how small a minority you might be, isn’t it patriotic to stand up against evil because you know it is not God’s way? Nowadays most parents are anxious for their children to have boyfriends and girlfriends, and they worry if their children don’t date. In the midst of that a strong direction has come which proclaims that young people should grow separately until they are mature and can meet with God. Only after that can they meet with each other as husband and wife. Which is the way to national salvation?</p>
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<p>I am being criticized because I am trying to change the behavior of society. I do not speak in soft tones. There is one way to go and that’s it. Even you as my followers have some reservations. Some think, “Yes, I’m a Moonie now and I’m going to be blessed but I don’t see anyone in the Unification Church who deserves to have me as a husband. The girl I used to date is better.” You might want to ask to be blessed to your old girlfriend but because you know it doesn’t work that way, you will have some complaint inside. Put yourself in my position. If I say yes to such requests, am I a true leader? Truth is straight so I have to be blunt and remain straight.</p>
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<p>Most Moonies come to the Church with some string attached around them, making them prisoners of Satan’s influence. You always have some rope and without even knowing it you are being pulled. In order to be a true Moonie, the first job is to cut the rope so you are totally free and independent. The true Moonie feels shame when he thinks back on his old life. If you don’t, you are still stained. Is that the kind of Moonie you want to be? Are you trying to be pure and cut off your rope?</p>
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<p>What about you women? You are working every day, but you are concerned at the kind of men you see in our Church. You have no idea with whom I will match you and you might feel scared to death at the idea of being matched to a certain person. Or maybe you want to be married to the man you used to date. Do you think in those ways? Or do you think that whomever I pick is the best one tor you and that you will be happy with that choice through eternity?</p>
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<p>Look at the way of life in the world. It is all a facade behind which the truth lies hidden. True things don’t have a facade but are open and sometimes may not look very attractive. This world makes things look attractive but they are all fake. God and truth come opposite the way you might imagine. If your aspiration is to go one way, God always comes to you in the opposite direction. When something contrary to your opinion happens, I want you to consider the possibility that it is closer to the truth.</p>
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<p>You walk on your feet, but suppose the heavenly man comes walking on his hands. He looks like an abnormal man, but would you accept that and still welcome him? When a person comes to you in an opposite way, ask in your heart if it is God’s will and if you will accept it and be happy with it. If you accept and commit your life, thanking and glorifying God, then when your wedding day comes the most miserable-looking man will turn out to be better than any movie star. He will turn out to be a heavenly, handsome man. In other words, that’s the way God tests you.</p>
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<p>Biblical teachings are full of seeming contradictions. As Jesus said, “He who seeks to gain his life will lose it, while he who seeks to lose his life for my sake will find it.” That means that those who are willing to die and be miserable will find glory. The person who is willing to accept the worst possible husband will get the best husband. The men who are willing to accept the worst possible women will get the best wives. Those who want to be rich will live in absolute poverty while those who really want to suffer in poverty will become rich. Those seem like contradictions, but that is the way God works.</p>
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<p>My case was the same. I told God I would marry according to His will. “If You want me to marry a crippled girl with one eye and half a mouth, it doesn’t make any difference. I will do that if it is Your will.” I expected the worst and God gave me the best.</p>
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<p>Mother was very young when she was blessed and said that she didn’t know very much. She didn’t know about the world of men at all. With a prayerful mind just to do God’s will, she accepted the challenge. Mother accepted everything in faith and service to God and came to be the True Mother of the universe. In the beginning I didn’t expect glory and I didn’t understand that position at all.</p>
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<p>I want to put you in the worst possible circumstances so you can say, “I’m dying and I have no future. I’m miserable and pushed down to the bottom, but I shall do it for the will of God.” I know that then the law of God will work and you will find the best life and the highest glory. That’s why Jesus said, “He who seeks his life will lose it; he who loses his life for my sake will find it.”</p>
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<p>There are about 500 people gathered here and sometimes I want to give you the worst treatment so that everyone will turn around and leave, unable to persevere any more except for one crippled Moonie. That person will be the true Moonie through whom God can work His will. The blessing will go to him even though he is willing to die for the Parents without expecting anything. That should be the only reason he continues, not because he expects to receive great glory or blessing or power. Then all of a sudden I will say, “Open your hands. The entire blessing is yours.”</p>
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<p>I am pushing you all out so much to home church that no one can stand it and most of you want to give up. But there might happen to be one miserable man or woman who keeps going after home church. That person will become the home church king or queen and all the blessing of the home church will go to that person. There God’s history will be written. That chapter will say that on such a year on such a day all the Moonies tried their best but couldn’t sustain the pace and gave up. But one cripple remained until the last, determined to die for the sake of home church. God will build His eternal home church upon that faith just as Jesus built his church on Peter, the rock. The men and women who remain shall be the rock of home church. That’s the way the true man and woman are revealed.</p>
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<p>In America there is a generation gap between parents and children. It parents really gave unselfish, fully devotional love to their children day in and day out, no generation gap could ever be created. The problem is that parents don’t do that. They do not act as the true father and mother. They are even worse than false parents because they are half-hearted parents who are unconcerned and the children have no feeling toward them. Wealth doesn’t bridge the gulf between parents and children. It’s better to be in a miserable situation where the father and mother are struggling to feed their children because then the children can feel the true love of their parents. Then they will be much happier in their relationship.</p>
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<p>Suppose there is a blessed couple with children in the nursery. The father is a missionary somewhere and the mother is trying to support the children with very little money. There are no luxuries for Christmas but the mother buys one small card and writes a I heartfelt Christmas message in tears. That’s the only way she can express her love on Christmas day and it is priceless, the very best gift of Christmas.</p>
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<p>I’ve had the same kind of experience. Now I receive many gifts and many honors from all over the world, but far more than those things I value the tokens of love I received in my days in prison. The prisoners who knew who I was saved their rice powder, bringing it to me even though they were starving. No one in that prison lasted more than six months because the diet was pitiful. If any edible thing was sent from outside it was like a diamond, yet those inmates hid that precious little package from the guard’s searches, saving it for my sake. That rice cake was far more valuable than East Garden or the World Mission Center because the truth dwelt in it. True man and true love can manifest in that fashion.</p>
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<p>There are three categories you can fit into: true man, fake man, and those who are trying to become true man. Which one are you? I’m sure at this very moment the fake man was converted into someone trying to be a true man. A promotion came this morning, but that’s all right because it’s the whole purpose of my sermon.</p>
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<p>Sometimes parents really push their children or spank them hard, but it is not out of a selfish motive. They want to see their children succeed and be independent, worthwhile people, receiving honor and glory from society. When parents really pray for the sake of their children and cannot sleep at night when something happens to them, it is an expression of true love. Truth can be found in such places, not in a glorious palace or luxurious hotel.</p>
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<p>Compared to the religions in the world is the unification Church a true one, fake one or one striving to be true? How do you know the Unification Church is true? Every time you come to Belvedere you hear something very harsh and difficult. I am pushing you to suffer. There is never one lenient Sunday morning when I say, “Okay, you have been working very hard, so everyone take it easy now. Take a nap.” You have never heard that. I know you have been suffering and doing the best you can, but when you come to Belvedere I push you more. You could very easily say, “Father, I’m trying. Leave me alone!” Suppose your nose is broken and you say you need a rest. I will say, ” Your nose may be broken but your two eyes are strong so keep going.” No excuse works. It sounds like a cruel thing for me to do. Do you think I am so insensitive that I don’t understand your suffering, and how you feel ? I know, because I am like you.</p>
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<p>I know my body wants to take a rest and go the easy way, but had I followed the mandate of my own body there would be no Reverend Moon and no Unification Church today. If I had been following the easy way and tried to satisfy my own body, do you think the five races of the world would call me Father and give their lives to me? Do you think that even though they are pushed so hard they would still go on without complaining? Those things cannot happen at random. If my way of life was totally opposite to God’s way, God would have said a long time ago, “My son, you are doing too much. Don’t try to make yourself and others miserable. Leave them and yourself alone. I don’t like the way my children are suffering because of you.” God would have called me to spirit world a long time ago.</p>
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<p>I have always said, “God, if You want me up in spirit world I am ready any time. If dying will complete the mission, I want to die as quickly as possible.” Then God replied, “No, my son, I need you down there.” In effect God was saying, “You just push them more. We need millions of young people like that in order to do my will on earth. I need you to take care of young people and create a heavenly army stronger than Hitler’s army or the communist army. I want to create an army for heaven which is strong in faith and dedication and love. Go ahead and create that army for me.”</p>
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<p>Do you think it’s easy to make that heavenly army of love? In order to make that army do you think all I have to do is sit around in a big chair and give orders? No, the only way to create it is with sweat, sleepless nights and incredible suffering. You have seen my life for some time now, and knowing how hard I work you feel you are not doing enough. You see something great inside me, something you cannot measure. If you could measure it and size me up, you would not obey me or follow me because you would know you were bigger. You know the truth and how the truth comes about, so make up your mind that your entire life will be a life of service and a sacrifice on the altar.</p>
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<p>Today’s subject concerns restoration of the homeland and the fatherland. Do you have a homeland? Where is it? Is your homeland the place to which your father and mother are trying to kidnap you? So far in history true men haven’t found a homeland. Then how could they have a fatherland? God told Abraham to leave his native land because it was no longer his homeland. In order to give Jacob the name Israel God chased him out of his homeland so he could overcome the danger of his elder brother’s wrath. For nearly 2,000 years the Israelites were wanderers all over the world, chased from their homeland. Christianity was driven out of its homeland and went to Rome, where it suffered. Christianity has been wandering around the world. If Christians had truly found a homeland, would they be persecuted and killed? Even Christianity hasn’t found a homeland where it is welcome.</p>
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<p>Did Jesus have a homeland? He gave up his homeland. He even said to his own mother, “Woman, what have you to do with me?” There was no relationship between them, for he didn’t call her “mother” but “woman.” Jesus never acknowledged his brothers, but said that those who did the will of God were his brothers and sisters. The place where believers are dwelling is not yet the fatherland. You are the citizens of one country and have a place to return to as your homeland, but that is only by name, for you have no real attachment in your heart. There is no real protection for eternity but always threats. What is the father country of democracy? If it is America, what about Vietnam? Under the guidance of America, Vietnam wanted to create some democratic nation in the American pattern, but what did America do? She betrayed Vietnam and gave it up to communism. Today America is not serving as the true, eternal homeland of democracy.</p>
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<p>Are public elections the way to pick the person God wants to lead the country? More than anyone else you know that elections are corrupt. Actually many communists are winning because they know people’s frailties and buy their votes, trying to undermine democracy. Every way you look, this country is destined to fall.</p>
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<p>Do you think Russia and China are the homeland of communism? Russia and China are divided today, fighting among themselves and trying to conquer each other. You never know which country will fall. There is a war going on now in Southeast Asia between Vietnam and Cambodia, which is actually a fight between Russia and China. Is that their homeland? There is no homeland for anyone.</p>
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<p>Where is the destination and ultimate homeland of all men? Where can truth dwell in prosperity and be secure? It is a logical conclusion that the Unification Church today is heading toward establishing the heavenly homeland, the mother and father country of the heavenly people. It is our job to build the homeland.</p>
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<p>Jesus could not establish the homeland; neither Confucius nor Buddha nor any religious leader has been able to do so. All kinds of ideologies were developed by devout Christians and communists who said they were trying to build the homeland of their own, or utopia, but it’s impossible. Even with God behind him, Jesus could not establish the homeland here on earth. Then how could man-made ideologies like communism or democracy establish the homeland here on earth? No homeland can be found where man is striving to become the center and be god. The Renaissance movement was trying to make man god, driving God off this planet. For 400 years now that movement has practically thrown God out the window. Do you think anyone is talking about the homeland today?</p>
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<p>Christians have no hope because the only reason they believe in Jesus is so that they can secure their own heaven. That ideology will not secure the homeland and father country for mankind. If there is some hope, it can only be in this new ideology of sacrificing oneself for the sake of God and humanity. Through this alone can we have hope to build the homeland and fatherland of mankind.</p>
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<p>Let us explain the reason why Jesus and the saints failed to secure the homeland. They failed because the followers were thinking differently from their leaders. There was no oneness in their way of life or their thinking.</p>
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<p>Throughout history religion has produced a great deal of martyrdom and sacrifice, but those people accepted that sacrifice and endured it passively. There has been no religious movement which has willingly and aggressively given itself to sacrifice, making this the pattern for building the kingdom. In the Unification Church there are people who are working for their own sake, and there are also people who are working and sacrificing themselves for the world, willing to die for the sake of mankind. In the ideal of God, which one is the supreme giver?</p>
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<p>Suppose there was a saint who actually upheld his faith and was willing to be martyred so he could go to heaven. There are many such people in history. The young people of the Unification Church are not yet martyred or crucified, yet they sacrifice truly for the sake of the world, trying to give their sweat and labor every day. Even though you are living and they are dead, who is more precious in the sight of God? Then if you who are living are more noble, what if you are martyred? You will be even more precious in the sight of God. If you become a martyr in our time in order to save the world, you will be the king of martyrs in history. There is no saint in history who could parallel your sainthood in heart. The true martyr is the Unification Church martyr, and we have them already.</p>
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<p>We walk this path for the sake of God and humanity, and for the sake of the past, present and future. Furthermore, we are going to liberate the spirit world and God Himself. Do you think the work is already completed or that this task is easy? Will that world finally come 10,000 years from now or do you want to erect it today with your own blood, sweat and tears? Why should it be now? If we lose one more year, we are actually losing 40 million people because in a year one percent of the world’s population of four billion people die. All those people will end up in hell with no chance of salvation if we sit idle.</p>
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<p>They will go to spirit world and say, “Why didn’t you Moons wake me and tell me about the Divine Principle? You didn’t do your job so you are not a saint. You didn’t love the world at all.” We must avoid such accusations from spirit world and mankind. Therefore, while we are alive and I am here on earth, we are going to knock on every door in the world and let the news spread so that people can go to spirit world without excuse.</p>
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<p>The providence of God has three stages: Old Testament era, New Testament era and Completed Testament era. Even though people oppose you, knock on their doors and make your appeal once for the formation stage, twice for growth and a third time for perfection. If they still reject you after three times, you have fulfilled your responsibility and they can’t accuse you. Even if their ancestors are good people, they can’t ask why we didn’t take care of their grandchildren down here on earth.</p>
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<p>I want to make my name known so that I can go to spirit world without any accusations from these people. Good or bad, my name should be known by all of mankind in their own lifetime. That’s why I have done many extraordinary and even peculiar things. In 1975 I also sent out missionaries representing Europe, America and Asia to over 120 countries, including communist nations, so that the people in those countries would be without excuse. Our missionaries are in jail right now in some communist nations, but I told them that even if they must die there not to come back for three years. In those countries they have become lightning rods for persecution.</p>
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<p>I want you to know that with the blessing of God my name has become controversial and has spread all over the world. It is God’s strategy because whether my name is known in a good or bad sense, this is the quickest way for it to be known all over the world. No one alive today or in spirit world can say, “Reverend Moon, why did you only love America? Why didn’t you do anything about my people and my country?” No such accusation can come.</p>
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<p>Surely we have done a super job and now we are going a step farther. Not only is my name known all over the world, now we are knocking on every door. How can people say they didn’t know me when I have been sending my own sons and daughters to their doorsteps? Sooner or later these people will end up in spirit world and then they will know the truth because in spirit world they cannot hide from the truth. They will know that this was the only way for ultimate salvation and that, although they had the chance because we knocked on their doors three times, they rejected us. They will grieve, “Even though the humble Moonies came to my door, I didn’t know they were the greatest of all saints. I had the chance to associate with them but I was not humble enough. ”</p>
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<p>Now you call the name of the True Parents. What is the duty of True Parents? They want to set two world records: first, to send their children out to the worst possible suffering, to the place of death for the sake of the world, and second, to truly love those children the most. Then in the spirit world the natural parents of those children will have to bow down in gratitude. The True Parents chase their children out to the world. Then you will become a central person in history. No love of natural parents can compare to the love of the True Parents, for they are making their children the natural sons and daughters of God. How can any parent expect more than that?</p>
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<p>We talk about liberating God. No one ever heard of such a thing before. In order to accomplish that we must bend whichever way our bodies will go because this is not the kind of mission we can give up. I want you to understand that the title “Moonie” is not easily attained. You didn’t come to the place where you can receive the blessing and end up in heaven by being idle and relaxed. You are here instead to create that heaven. In order to create heaven I gave up my parents, my brothers and sisters, my own family and children. I gave everything up and decided to die for the mission.</p>
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<p>So far I have been disappointed with the blessed couples here in America. When they have one baby they think their mission is ended, and use that as their excuse for not participating. If by holding your baby in your arms you can liberate God and the world, that’s okay. But there is much more territory to cover and a little child should not make you a dropout. The child wants to have great parents who set the tradition he can inherit.</p>
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<p>The true land is not a fantasy of our dreams or in spirit world. The homeland and father country is going to be right here on earth where we are going to build one nation. That fatherland is the one place you can call your homeland. However, so far we cannot claim any nation in the name of God. Does God dwell in Washington or Moscow? Our duty is to build the homeland and father country centered upon God.</p>
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<p>America has great potential and it if really could wake up to God’s ideal this nation could be very close to that homeland and father country of God. America is the prepared land far more than Korea or Japan. Here we can see one nation in which all races and nationalities, all languages and cultural backgrounds come and live together in one harmonious pattern. All we need is God at the center. I came to America because God prepared this nation. I want you to understand that I have poured out my love and energy here even more than I did in Korea or Japan. I have invested more money, more energy, sweat and tears right here in America. In Korea we did pioneer missions strongly but I never spoke in public there. It was only after I came to America that I spoke publicly because I wanted to begin my public ministry with the world as the audience, not just Korea or Japan. That’s why I came to America to initiate my public ministry and worldwide mission.</p>
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<p>Without understanding this the State Department has sustained much animosity toward me. Even now Congress is trying to deport me somehow, but I am laying a strong foundation here and no matter where in the world I go, God’s will shall be fulfilled in this country. God allows one homeland for all people, not two or three, and that homeland is where Adam’s family lives. Who is the master of the homeland? God is master because He is the center of Adam’s family. The physical center is whoever lives as the True Parents at that time. If Adam and Eve had fulfilled the will of God, their dwelling place would have been the first homeland of mankind, with father and mother united with God in the center and children united with parents. But because of the stall they all separated instead of uniting, husband from wife, parents from children, brother from brother. Instead of loving each other Cain killed Abel. False parents created a false homeland.</p>
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<p>Satan created his homeland rather than God, and this has expanded onto the worldwide level. Every saint God sent to bring restoration of the homeland and father country posed a great threat to the satanic world and! was killed. Therefore, God’s people have historically been wandering, searching for and craving truth. Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Jesus and Christianity have all been wanderers. I also have been a wanderer with no place to really anchor myself yet.</p>
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<p>We must expand our territory, with our brothers and sisters growing in numbers. Once the satanic people are found they are our brothers and sisters, not our enemy. Only Satan is our enemy. We must restore these people and thus expand our territory. You must not deprive them due to your small thinking. Think that if Satan works 24 hours a day, you will work 25 hours a day to restore your brothers. That’s the only way.</p>
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<p>I want you to understand that the true desire of God is to find the homeland. The true desire of the great saints is also to find the homeland and expand it into the true country of God. That’s the hope of mankind and all religious people. Although that has also been the will and desire of God, what has happened to religious people? They have become the prey of communism, being eliminated one by one. The communists are the only ones who are growing, taking over more people every year. Who in the world can turn the tide around? God is searching for such a champion.</p>
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<p>Moonies are God’s only hope because they are the only ones who are trying to reverse the trend and create the homeland of God. Therefore, I want you to understand that at this very moment of human history the entire attention of God is focused upon you. Jesus, the saints, spirit world, all of history and mankind are watching you and what you do.</p>
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<p>So far no one has known how to find the homeland. Do you know? Home church will not just make you a messiah to those people but also true parents to them. That is God’s goal. If those home church people are really grateful and willing to sacrifice for kingdom-building, then we can talk about expanding into the father country. You shall be superior to any past saint, servant of God or patriot in history. That will be our tradition.</p>
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<p>So that you can be this kind of person I will chase you out to the worst kind of suffering. On the other hand, I am prepared to give you the unprecedented love of God. That is the tradition we are going to build and pass on to later generations. I have never complained while building the basis for this tradition and you also must hand it down without complaint. By living this tradition you are building a bridge between yourself, your tribe, nation, world and the Kingdom of Heaven. Not only you but generations to come will walk across that bridge. By succeeding in your home church, you are building a bridge to the world and you are the pillar supporting it. You can reach out to the world and humanity will cross to salvation across the bridge you build. Five colors of skin must become one as brothers and sisters.</p>
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<p>There is only one group which thinks in that fashion-Unification Church, I am the only one who not only thought it but did it in my own lifetime. I brought a revolution to your hearts and your love, to your concept of nation and world, and to your concept of God You have more precious value than any saint who ever lived, for your are nobler and purer than they. You have such great value and yet sometimes you throw it away like a piece of paper in the trash because you can’t overcome some trivial disturbance or emotional problem. You cannot afford to lose this value.</p>
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<p>We are talking about the eternal father country. Who will protect you? Even if you die in the Unification Church, you have protection because I will take care of you; God will also take care of you. How much more could you want? If you leave the Unification Church and die outside, no one will even look at you, much less take care of you. It would be no better than a dog’s death. But even if you die in the Unification Church, your death has historical meaning because your True Parents and your God will guarantee your honor.</p>
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<p>Your homeland is the place where your parents and true love live, and where there is a longing for true brothers and sisters. There is complete freedom in that homeland. Today it’s true we don’t have that freedom in the Unification Church. Because we have a mission to complete we are working in a disciplined crusade. Not only you are bound by your mission; I am too. At this time, living within this discipline is freedom and brings substantial tranquillity because when you finish the mission you will have the entire homeland and father world at your fingertips. Then you can live and breathe it and enjoy it for eternity.</p>
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<p>Therefore, home church is infinitely precious. It’s almost like landing on the final terminal of Clod’s dispensation You can’t even compare it to Armstrong’s landing on the moon because then tour billion people on earth watched. But when you land in the home church, all the billions of people of history will be watching from spin-it world. You were not anyone special before, but by meeting with me and the Divine Principle you have become an historical person, a great saint. You can be proud. Is there anything you can’t spare for this? Even it I have millions of dollars of debts it’s okay because there is nothing I cannot give to fulfill this task.</p>
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<p>Christians think they can buy their way into heaven by tithing one-tenth of their incomes. I don’t give just one-tenth but everything, not to ensure my heaven but to bring all mankind into heaven. When you open your eyes, you will realize there is nothing more precious. No amount of dollars or diamonds could buy this life and no accumulation of earthly money could equal your worth. Compared to your position in history, the president or monarch of a nation has no honor and appears worthless. You are the universal Moses of the modern day, leading mankind into Canaan as the tribal messiah. Moses didn’t even know clearly why he had to do the things he did, but you know because you have the truth.</p>
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<p>We are going to the eternal homeland of God and our Parents, but you cannot return there without restoring Cain first, your elder brother. Unless you restore Cain, you have no escort with whom to enter together into the kingdom. Even if you restore your own relatives into the Church, as long as there is an evil Cain world outside, it can always destroy you and pull you back. Therefore, the Cain world must be taken care of first.</p>
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<p>You must succeed in the Cain home church; then you can do one more home church in your hometown and bring your own family back to God. Not only your Cain home church but your own parents and brothers and sisters will really bow down to you as they recognize you as a saint. While I was busy building my Cain home church, my parents and brothers and sisters, my Abel home church, all passed away in North Korea. But still I must go on to restore the father country and the father world.</p>
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<p>You must find your homeland and father world. If someone asks you where you want to die, you can say you want to die in the homeland, which is situated in the home country. That is not just America but all of the world. As long as the world is transformed into the father world, anywhere can be your homeland. Home church, where everything shall be solved, is the bridge to unite the physical and spiritual worlds.</p>
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<p>Even if tens of thousands of Moonies sari at one stroke, you could not even dream of achieving what I have achieved in the covenant that was made and fulfilled between myself and God. Now you have to do it because I have pioneered it all. The task before you is to become the tribal messiah. How incredible it is for you to become a messiah, especially on the national and world levels. Our mission is to restore the homeland. Would you do it even though your eyes pop out or your tongue is hanging out? Even if the nation comes against you and strikes you, would you do it?</p>
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<p>When you die in your home church, your people will bring your body to your homeland and make a shrine at your tomb. Abraham and Jacob died as sojourners in foreign lands such as Egypt, and many centuries later their descendants dug up their graves and brought them back to their homeland. But that’s not good enough. The Egyptians should have done that, making a shrine for Abraham and Jacob in Israel, but they couldn’t because there was no home church. You will live and die in your home church. Then your home church members will honor you. They will bury you in your homeland with great honor and pride. 360 homes will mourn your death, following your coffin to the homeland. If you can accomplish that in your home church, you are a hero and a saint.</p>
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<p>When I die do you think my own children would take me to the homeland to be buried, or would people from all over the world participate to glorify my work and bury me? All Unification Church members will mourn me. If you live and die like that then when you are elevated to spirit world you can say you have lived for the world, giving your life for all people. There will be proof to be seen because when you live in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, you can enter the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven.</p>
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<p>Now you understand. Shall we restore the homeland? Unless you find your home country, you cannot find home heaven. Today you clearly know that, don’t you? In order to find the father country, we can even sacrifice the homeland because the lesser can always be sacrificed for the greater. This is the way we can truly build one nation under God, not just one nation of America, but one country including the entire world. Here in America not only Americans are working but Orientals and Europeans as well; we are not working for the one nation of America but for our one father country of America, our father country of heaven. Whatever your nationality, you feel like the host and hostess of this country because that’s why we are all here.</p>
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<p>We are jumping from one land to another. First we are entering the homeland and then jumping to home country, to home world and home heaven. How would you create the homeland? Home church is the formula by which we can find homeland, father country, home world and home heaven. When you love your home church more than you love anything else under the sun you can unite the entire world. The only way to unity is through love. In the home church you are like a star shining in the darkness. More stars are visible at night, so when God looks down at the world He will see one, two, ten, one hundred, a million lights and soon their light will melt into sunlight. Then God will come down, saying, “Let’s have a tour. Reverend Moon, come beside me. Invite all the people you would like.” Then I will invite all the heroes and heroines of home church.</p>
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<p>Do you want to go back to your home country? When Christmas comes you feel you must go home. Is that your homeland? Which is closer to your homeland, staying in the Unification Church at Christmas and working or going home? This is why I do the same. The easiest way I could live would be to go back to Korea. There I have a home, and many people are waiting for me. Furthermore, in Korea I don’t need an interpreter. I have absolute freedom there because I know the customs and cultural background and can do things more directly. Here I have many more things to worry about because people are watching with a different point of view.</p>
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<p>Now I have a lot of pressure from letters from Korea saying, “Father, Mother, don’t spend your birthday in America this time. Come to Korea. We’ll give you a better birthday.” Even though you celebrate my birthday and have singing, in Korea the singing is in my language and moves my heart more. But still I stay here. Why don’t I go back home? Because the world is our goal. I am like a hero there and because there are no locks on the doors it is easy to do home church. There are no burglar alarms or watch dogs. But I want to succeed here in America with you because this is the microcosm of the world, the representative of all mankind where all races are brought together.</p>
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<p>I want to set the tradition of home church here in America because this is the shortcut to the world. Would you like that? Then here is straight talk: die for the mission. I make Mr. Pak suffer because I want to make him Mr. Home Church. Then he can do the same to you and bring your success. For what are we doing that? For Mr. Pak? For me? No, for the sake of God and the world.</p>
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<p>You can go many places with a U.S. passport, but in the near future I want to see the passport to the Kingdom of Heaven where you can go anywhere with dignity and power. With that passport you won’t need a visa to any country because before you get to the country the door will be open already. The immigration office won’t exist to check your passport but to give you a glorious welcome. Furthermore, you can get a tree passport to the Kingdom of God in heaven. There will be no visas needed to enter. You can go right into Heavenly Father’s place, embrace Him and say, “Father.”</p>
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<p>That “Father” is not an ordinary father, but Almighty God, the king of the universe and queen of all things. He has infinite love to give and when you embrace that Father as His son, even you will become a god. You will possess not only everything that belongs to Him but also God Himself. You can own God. This is the ultimate destiny of all mankind. Even after your death you cannot stop until you reach that goal. However, if you reach it after death, you have nothing to be proud of. But if you reach it on earth while your heart is beating and you are giving your sweat and tears, that is something you can be proud of throughout eternity.</p>
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<p>You should feel that your life here on earth is endlessly precious. “Why is time running so fast? Slow down. I have more work to do. I must build the kingdom and do more home church.” That’s the way you must feel in your life. You have heard that IBM has great computers but God’s computer is the best. Every action here on earth shall be recorded in heaven with one push button. When you go to heaven, God will say, “I want to show your record of home church to the people here in heaven.” Then He will push a button and your own home church movie will be on the screen. There will be no comparison to “Superman.” You have been hit, kicked and spit upon, knocked unconscious; you prayed and struggled. “The audience in spirit world will cry. Then finally God will begin to cry.</p>
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<p>I want to make that kind of movie and God is filming it now. God is filming you now. In a way it is good competition. White people will be seen by white ancestors, black people by black ancestors, and yellow people by yellow ancestors. They will want to know what the white people, the black people and the yellow people did. If the white people turn out to be last, your ancestors won’t like that. If the black or yellow turn out last, their ancestors won’t like it.</p>
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<p>Thirty MFT captains around the country had a contest and the top seven were Japanese. This is a Japanese country so it’s logical the Japanese should have the best record, right? No? Then why do the Japanese people work so hard and make the best record? America and Japan have been enemies, but now it doesn’t make any difference. The Japanese are not working for America but for our mutual homeland.</p>
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<p>If this movement prevails, the national boundary will automatically vanish. On January 14, 1979 you can say, “Well, Father, in 1977 and 1978 we didn’t know too much about this but now in 1979 we know it and we will do it. We will set the world record. ” Even with opposition would you do it? Even if you are put in jail? All right, do it. I want to watch you. Thank you. Let us pray.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">OUR POSITION</h1>
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<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="2018-06-18T05:06:00+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/18/our-position.html" rel="bookmark">June 18, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-18T05:06:00+01:00">June 18, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1979.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<div class="pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-bottom-left"><a href="/blog/2018/06/18/our-position.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<br />
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January 2, 1979<br />
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Translator – Bo Hi Pak</h2>
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<p>As you are fulfilling your mission you are meeting all kinds of people, on every level and in every walk of life, from influential leaders down to people at the grassroots. Therefore, you can read people’s thinking toward us and know what their attitudes are. I’m sure that in some cases people are scornful toward you and try to embarrass you, and inside you probably feel some anger and urge for revenge. More importantly, however, after people treat you this way you reflect back on it, and maybe you think, “Why do I have to come here and be ridiculed like this? I don’t need it.” This is the most discouraging kind of conclusion.</p>
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<p>You would be surprised at how drastically different you are now from when you joined the Church. You were accustomed to having freedom and money to spend for yourself, but here you have firm discipline and go toward one simple goal. The money you earn is not for yourself but for the public purpose. In this situation the person who truly has a burning desire to fulfill the work of God and His dispensation will receive the persecution and gain greater power and commitment. Those whose basic commitment is not clear will become discouraged instead.</p>
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<p>Your activities are not average but extraordinary. The work you are doing is unparalleled in the field of economy and there is no comparable example from the past. You are challenging the world in an entirely new way. You have done a great job and it is clear that this extraordinary declaration of war has been succeeding. Why? God is with you. In this work you come to experience God’s heart. He is the real owner of all things and all money, but He is bringing Himself down to a beggar’s position, petitioning the people and appealing to their mercy and compassion. In that situation you can feel that God has been suffering very much and you can know God’s heart to be in that position.</p>
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<p>Why should God have to bring Himself down to such a miserable place? Not because of any deficiency on His part, but because of the sin and fall of the degraded animal called man. Since men committed sin, men should be responsible for their affairs, but God has found no man trying to take up that responsibility because no one has ever realized it. Those people who realize that it was not God’s mistake but man’s responsibility must finally make a start.</p>
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<p>There are 240 million people here in America, but not a single one of them understands the suffering heart of God. We in the Unification Church are the only ones who understand, and furthermore, we are the only ones to share that suffering together with God. You must have that pride. When Adam and Eve tell they were ignorant, and that same pitch dark ignorance has caused the same mistake to occur over and over again. We must have an understanding of truth in order to begin.</p>
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<p>The unknowing act of Adam and Eve brought formidable consequences to all mankind, and how much more is our ignorance today bringing results that are just as formidable? We know the truth, but if we still commit crimes and don’t take responsibility, then how much graver consequences can be expected? There was room for forgiving Adam and Eve because they did not know the whole truth, but you cannot plead that. The only way we can go once we know the truth is God’s way. We have no excuse for deviating.</p>
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<p>I want you to understand that you are the center of the universe, representing not just yourself but society, the nation and the world. There is only one group like this in the world, burning with a sense of responsibility. That is our pride. Americans today really desire to have people like you, even though right now they oppose you. Americans may not realize how necessary you are today, but tomorrow America will definitely reach that conclusion.</p>
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<p>America will definitely realize that you have done great salvation work for this country and sooner or later this nation will mobilize to take over the public-purpose economic activities you are doing. When that time comes, what you have done today under persecution shall be the acts of the apostles, their tradition and guide.</p>
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<p>If you can accomplish this result under persecution, how much more will other people be able to do later under favorable conditions? Even though they may accomplish ten or twenty times as much, that is still not comparable to what you are doing today under adverse conditions. But when the day comes that everyone welcomes you, then MFT work will not bring as much joy. Your great joy today is that you are succeeding under adverse conditions, winning the victory because of your iron will.</p>
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<p>We are not suffering for the present time but for the future, heralding the new dawn and struggling in order to make it possible. While you are working you can see how public opinion is changing. Because you breathe the atmosphere of the society and nation you know precisely where we are standing and can gauge the nation’s attitude toward us. A few years ago there was total lack of understanding, but increasingly people are trying to understand, and they even think of me as the hope of the future Each time you meet such a person you are inspired.</p>
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<p>So far we have taken beating after beating, but the time has come now for us to let the American people know what we are and what we are striving for. The time will come when the truth will be told. People cannot deny the truth, but will recognize Reverend Moon and this movement as the history makers who brought renewal and revolution to a crumbling America. Although you may not think you have changed much since your first day in the Church, I want you to know that you are like passengers on a Concorde: Even though you seem to be staying in the same place, your value and achievement have shot forward and you are on an entirely different plateau than in the past.</p>
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<p>Aren’t you sometimes surprised at how much you have changed? You might have gone through high school and college yet remained unchanged, but you know that somehow you have changed 180 degrees here, becoming an entirely different person from your previous self. Sometimes you amaze yourself. When you analyze your own motivation for fund raising from early morning to midnight, do you have shame or dignity in your heart” I recommend that you keep a diary of all the dramatic events in your experience. For instance, record the time when someone gives you incredible mistreatment and you just want to throw everything away and knock him down. Write how you were patient instead and thought that your mission will help save not only good people but people like this man, and criminals who are even worse. Think that those people are going to have hope because of you.</p>
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<p>When you think that way, you can realize that those people are not necessarily serving a bad purpose; they are becoming rungs on the ladder upon which you climb up to sainthood. Then it is no problem when Americans or people of any other nation mistreat you; you will have the heart to embrace them with infinite gratitude, a heart of God. Will people of all races look down on such a person as a peanut or giant? Instead they will think that the saints must have been like that. Religious leaders always worked in their own countries, but your stage is the universe. The person who can save the world should be like that.</p>
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<p>Externally you may not have changed, but internally you are centered upon God and this mission and you are making yourselves giants every day. Even though you keep your money in a savings account there are many ways it can be stolen, but the value and assets you accumulate in your heart cannot be taken away. They are yours forever. In time you men will receive your brides and can show how you have lived your life according to this conviction. Would your bride ask how you could be so dumb? No, she wouldn’t, and I would not give such a wife to you in the first place.</p>
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<p>Your wife would even shed tears to realize what a giant of a husband she has and what a joy it is to serve such a man. You earn much money very quickly but don’t spend even one penny of it for yourself, giving all of it for humanity and God. That is your way of life. American women have never met such a man in all of history. Your wife can feel that she has a historical figure as a husband. This husband will be transmitting his greatness to his wife. Since you are working in an economic mission, will you have worries about how to buy your family groceries later? If I tell such a couple that their mission is to earn the money to build a house in three years, then they will be able to build a palace.</p>
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<p>This MFT movement in itself is a great revolution of thinking and of way of life. If building a house is your mission, you work for it 100%, and if I say your next mission is to accumulate a savings account then the interest alone on the sum you gather will sustain you. I don’t think any economics department teaches this kind of system. Once you finish earning the money then your entire life is freed for the single purpose of witnessing about God.</p>
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<p>You are responsible for your portion of the mission in the area of economy, but I am responsible for the economic mission on the universal scale. I am a super-MFT member. Without the necessary funds the world cannot be saved. Since I have done this work, I know how it works. My mission now is to make each one of you ready to take up greater responsibilities in the future</p>
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<p>You always have to do more than your given responsibility, not faltering or only meeting the standard, but always being above the standard. History may fall and the nation may fall but we can never fall We shall survive and prosper. Even though I am short, if I am going to pull a tree out of the ground I will never tackle a small one but will go after a giant tree. It your iron will and determination are there, even a giant tree will be uprooted. The Bible confirms this. But don’t ever think that everything can be done in one day. You have entered the best university there is to study for the best possible Ph.D. degree.</p>
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<p>When I first came to America our members wanted me to see New York and took me to the top of the Empire State Building, pointing out all the great buildings in this city. I nodded, and then asked how much the Empire State Building cost. They had no idea and were flabbergasted at my question. I told them that in a few years we would be buying some of those big buildings, and they thought that maybe I was crazy. The other day one of those members confessed how he felt that day, but now he sees that I have fulfilled many dreams that looked impossible. Now he believes that all those things I told them hack then will happen.</p>
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<p>Now you say, “Father, we are doing this MFT work to the best of our ability. What is our next mission going to be?” Do you have that enthusiasm now? Are you going to graduate from this university with honors? What kind of men and women will you become then? All great things happen gradually. Even the fastest bus or train takes time to reach its destination because it has to go over each piece of ground; there is no such thing as skipping anything. It just covers each small segment and keeps going.</p>
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<p>At any given time this locomotive might not look special, but to the person riding inside the train it is different Various trains might have distant or nearby destinations, but our train has the ultimate destination. We know what our terminal is. I’m sure for most people the first few weeks on MFT are just incredible and they think they will never be able to stay. But then they begin to see people respond and they experience some achievement and they entrench themselves in the mission, becoming like solid rock.</p>
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<p>You used to be afraid to see your leader returning for you, thinking that he would give you some more to do, but now that you are trained in MFT spirit you are ready and waiting for some new direction, ready to accept any challenge that is forthcoming. When you began you were completely occupied with the mission of selling and you had no time to think about anything else; now as a seasoned soldier you are getting the result and at the same time you are planning for the future thinking how you will be doing greater things. You have room for that now.</p>
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<p>How much have you grown? Tremendously. Now you have sharp eyes for analyzing all situations. You can make judgments and act upon them, learning quickly the process of leadership. In a boxing championship the winner will be the fighter who is able to think of his strategy even as the match progresses, analyzing his opponent’s weaknesses. I am the same. I am a religious leader, yet I am not doing only religious work. I am looking in all different directions and analyzing them so that whatever opposition comes I know how to maneuver.</p>
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<p>No matter how terrible the situation is, I always have room to think and plan. That same trait is absolutely necessary for you. No one who is sitting behind a desk trying to figure out how to save America will ever succeed. You have to be out with the people, breathing with them, and the plans and visions found there will save America. Do you think my way will save America or will the politicians in Washington do it. Instead of strengthening America they are losing America and the world. In the last few years the free world has been severely shaken, being manipulated more and more by the communist force.</p>
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<p>You conclude that even if young people have to be forced to come help save the world, such a system of force would be desirable. But do we do our work because we are forced? We don’t have to. You are not here to be forced by anyone. I know that you have every freedom to pack up today and leave, but I also know that if you leave then God will bring a stronger replacement. If Americans fail then God will raise up the Germans. If they fail then God will raise up the Japanese. If they fail then God will raise up the Koreans. There are endless ways that God can replenish this work and make it prosper.</p>
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<p>I will not give up because of any difficulty or because some people run away. I do not want to fail however, because I know that then your children and grandchildren will have to pay the indemnity for that and then their suffering will be many times more than yours. We want to finish the task ourselves and hand down a glorious future. Are you going to do it and succeed?</p>
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<p>Recently Mr. Kamiyama came to me, practically in tears, saying, “Father, our members are doing very well in December, but I am worried about their result in January and February.” I told him, ‘Why are you worried? If you worry about it then nothing can happen. But if you have confidence then everyone will have confidence and never let you down. They are not here to have fun but for the mission, and the greater the mission and challenge, the greater the standard they will have.” Would you accept that?</p>
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<p>In order to graduate from this university, you must make your good record in December a launching pad to soar even higher in January and February. Why think that January will be less successful? If you think that way then it will happen, but if you think the other way then that will happen. Everything is determined by what you have in your guts, in your concept anti conviction. It is not you doing it but your conviction. If your desire is so hard and concentrated then it will be fruitful. It is not my body doing the work, but my conviction and positive thinking.</p>
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<p>Do you think that after December you will be worn out and not bring the result” If you set a new record in December by working fourteen hours then in January you will work fifteen hours and in February sixteen hours. In December you worked normally at a walking pace, then in January a taster pace, and then in February you will run.</p>
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<p>If you get constant result, what would I do with your money? Do I have a big savings account somewhere? The American authorities all wonder where my secret stash is and they are searching all over the world for it. They still haven’t found it because it is in heaven. Finally, after scrutinizing our finances with a microscope, they have found that instead of taking all your money out of America to hide it I have actually raised many times more money elsewhere to spend for this country.</p>
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<p>From December through March our member countries around the world have given contributions to our work in America. You are here trying to save this nation of America, but would you want to be indebted to other nations of the world, or give benefit to those nations instead? I push you hard because I don’t want you to be indebted. I want you to be independent anti enable America to give benefit to the world community. That’s why I push you day in and day out. Do you like that idea”</p>
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<p>Where do you think Christianity has been ruined? Right here in America. It has become apathetic and compromised itself and you cannot avoid judgment for that. America is the nation that reduced Christianity to a trivial religion. There are hundreds of millions of Christians around the world and millions in America alone. All of those people could easily save America, yet they have allowed this nation to be influenced by communism and become degraded morally, remaining totally selfish. They should feel so ashamed about this that they cannot lift up their faces. Jesus taught that Christians should take up the cross. Are you willing to take up the responsibility which Christianity has left undone?</p>
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<p>Look at the nations surrounding America, like South America, Africa, Iran, the Middle East- where millions of people are breaking their ties to the free world. The communists have worked hard to make America crumble, but all of a sudden I show up and say firmly that America must turn around to go in the other direction. Those people who want to see America fall have discovered that I am their worst enemy and definitely want to destroy me and stop this movement. The communists are determined to destroy me, yet incredibly enough Americans are giving aid to them and refusing to accept my aid. The time has come for people to emerge who want to take up the responsibility, who cannot bear to see America stumble along like this any longer. People must move forward to make that declaration.</p>
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<p>You must have clear judgment and be afraid of nothing. Even the children of proud traditionalist Americans are becoming hippies and getting into drugs. If we see thousands of young people going in that direction then our job is clear. At one time in the past you were part of that life so you know what these people are like. Now you have become new men and women with a great vision, hope and determination. By turning these people around you know America can be saved.</p>
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<p>Our young people have demonstrated an incredible degree of giving and sacrifice. Even those people recently matched and blessed are giving up their married life for seven years to dedicate themselves totally to God. I know your miserable situation, but I know that your difficulty will prevent even greater misery and disaster to come. I know just how difficult your MFT work is, month after month and year after year, but if you cannot do it then America’s future will be dim. By doing it you can prevent the future misery of America.</p>
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<p>Do you agree that the final goal of the communist world is to make America “‘alter? Because America has always supported Israel, the Arabs want to see America crumble some day. There is much poverty in South America and people there often resent American arrogance. America has betrayed the Asian nations one after another, like Vietnam’ Cambodia Laos; Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines are all in a shaky situation now. The Carter Administration has given up Taiwan. President Carter is supposedly an advocate of human rights, but what about the right to sovereignty? How does anyone have the right to abandon a nation of seventeen million people at one stroke?</p>
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<p>Because America has proved unreliable, Asians do not trust America. Because they are only trying to survive, they will take a neutral position or even make ties with Red China. Won’t they be affected by an alliance with communists” these developments are America’s responsibility.</p>
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<p>We know all of this is coming and that the situation is desperate. Under these circumstances can we just sit back, or should we fight and win? That decision is yours. Once you have matte up your mind then you must honor your decision. The honorable man will carry out his conviction until the end of his life.</p>
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<p>I want you to understand that I am spending this time with you this morning because you have a special, important mission. I wish I could visit you in every corner of the nation, but I can’t, so since you came for the God’s Day celebration I told Mr. Kamiyama that I wanted to meet you. I am not meeting with any other particular department like this. Even though I am not with you physically, I am never indebted to you. I want you to understand that you are dwelling in the innermost part of my heart every day. Particularly when the weather is severe, as in winter, I remember that our MFT members are working outdoors. On every path you walk I am out there with you, ahead of you spiritually. Can you complain? Your suffering and mission is an extraordinary one, but I am always ahead of you so you cannot let up. If you feel that spirit then God will always be with you.</p>
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<p>There is a heavy load that needs to be moved, yet no one realizes that it must be done. We know that unless it is moved the world will have no hope, so we are carrying it on our backs like mules. A mule may be pulling desperately, yet even then the master may whip him to go further. Will the mule look around angrily as if to say, “I’m already working hard! How can you treat me that way?” Or will he say, “Yes, my master has a good reason to hit me. It will bring good fortune to the nation as well as us. Otherwise we will all collapse.”</p>
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<p>It is normal to complain about those who whip you, but those who can thank the whip and work still harder are the extra-ordinary people. That is what sets us apart from average people. I want you to be extraordinary people that way. If there’s kingship in the mule’s world, such a mule will undoubtedly be king. God is looking for such a man who deserves kingship in His kingdom.</p>
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<p>I am like that mule and God is a ruthless taskmaster. If anyone had a right to complain to God, I would be number one in demanding to know how He can be so cruel. But I thank God instead because I know He does it out of love, not cruelty. God has a better place prepared for us and wants us to deserve to be there.</p>
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<p>Do you realistically feel that without us this world is hopeless? If you really feel that to the bone then the job is almost done. People who want to avoid the responsibility are mediocre and whether they are here or not means nothing, so the person we need is the one who will take up the responsibility. Why have we become so controversial in the world? The more we are kicked and persecuted, the stronger this movement gets and the more we prosper. How could that happen? In most cases when people are clubbed or hit, they collapse, but the Unification Church is different. When all these incredible things come to us we just work harder and prosper more. How could anyone overcome us then?</p>
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<p>We are invincible, and therefore people become jealous. When you knock on a door and the person mistreats you, just smile and nod and say, .’We’ll meet you again three years from now.” Korea has mistreated me so much that when I came to America I said in my heart, “You just wait and see. I will come back and meet you then.” When I recently returned to Korea from my work in the Western dispensation centering upon America, people bowed down everywhere I went.</p>
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<p>Without success and victory we cannot return to our people or go back to our home town because the people will just ridicule you. I want you to go back with honor and dignity so that you will be not only accepted but respected. Some parents are especially negative, so you should go back with a most wonderful wife or husband and say you have come back with a queen or king. You are chosen American women, so you make yourself honorable and respected by all men and be their first choice as brides. Most American women your age never think about the things you are concerned with. You are heroines.</p>
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<p>The history we are making will have traditions stronger than any record set in 200 years of American history and we will turn this nation around. Do you know why I can revolutionize the 2,000-year old world of Christianity? Because the power and intensity of my history is stronger than the tradition of Christianity of 2,000 years. My tradition is becoming stronger than any previous one, and this ideology and conviction will eventually shape a new culture and tradition for the world. That is a scientific formula-the world will tend to go where the strongest power is.</p>
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<p>As I said yesterday, you must become educators, teaching America through your actions. You are loving America, earning money with a parent’s heart to give for the sake of the children, the people of America. You are becoming the parents of America and your position is to be the forefathers of a new America. How could a father let this nation crumble? Self-centered capitalism in this nation will tall prey to communism because that ideology at least claims to benefit the world, while America doesn’t. Unless we come up with a new economic philosophy, America has nowhere to turn except to communism.</p>
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<p>You are becoming teaching material. Your fund raising is an education process, and when people say that they don’t want that education you leave them without feeling bitter because you realize they don’t understand. Just think that they will enroll next time. You will meet them again in the days to come and they will apologize for acting as they did because they didn’t know. Just as they will do to you, America will do to me. That is precisely the path I walked, so can you say you want to avoid this route?</p>
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<p>When you American citizens receive ridicule from your own people it is understandable, but the members who come from abroad for the sake of this nation are unjustly ridiculed by Americans. You know that the Japanese members are trying desperately to set a tradition and leave a better record than the American members. For whom did those members come to work so hard? For their native land? Then you should be doing better than they do. Am I doing this work because I want to save Korea? No, it is all for America’s sake. You have to be burning with zeal to correct the injustice and wickedness of this world, feeling a heavenly anger to bring change.</p>
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<p>American young people are following a road of degradation and self-destruction, but we are moving toward hope, becoming masters of this nation by giving ourselves to save it. That is our way. If a student goes to Harvard to get his masters or doctorate but decides that the work is too hard and he doesn’t really want to make all that effort, will people sympathize with him when he packs up to leave? It would be much better if he had never attempted to go to Harvard.</p>
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<p>Our situation is the hardest possible, but from the dispensational point of view, our mission is an inevitable one. 1 know precisely how you are thinking. I have experienced a beggar’s life, sleeping outside many nights under bridges and staying in the hovels of the poor where lice are everywhere and people are always dirty. I stayed there many days. The people who lived there all wanted to come to visit me because I set the pattern of how to live in poverty with dignity. I am always a teacher.</p>
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<p>We did not start our fishing businesses only to make money, but to start rebuilding America’s economy. For live years I worked every day to set the tradition and find the best way. Now some officials in Washington have heard about what I am doing and they remark at what a perceptive man I am to see that America cannot afford to abandon her fishing industry. For fifty years that industry in America was desolate, but in time it will feed America. I have started far in advance of everyone else.</p>
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<p>In the last three years our investment of millions of dollars has not made a penny, but do you think we should give up? Would you tell me to provide the money” Would you support this? I need millions of dollars this year. I am chartering a worldwide network of communications known as FPI-Free Press International-which has cost millions of dollars to create. Also this year I have to invest even more in this fishing effort. Where can I get the money.</p>
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<p>What does MFT stand for? M is for Moon, I am sure; F is for faith. Is T for tedious? Would you like MFT to stand for “Moonie falling down in a tedious way”? Then what would you say” “Moonie standing on faith and truth.” I have to criticize Mr. Kamiyama because he grabbed the elite of the Unification Church for MFT, reaching here and there. In other areas there is a lack of leadership because he has all the good men and women. You should leave an excellent tradition then. If you cannot be number one in that case then you will really be Moonies stalling down tediously. Would you want that?</p>
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<p>Mr. Kamiyama is always coming to tell me that the MFT members are still young, but I see that you are the elite. I know that you can take it when I push you harder in 1979. I am so attentive to MFT that I always sign many pictures for you. No other group leader comes to ask for signed pictures the way Mr. Kamiyama does.</p>
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<p>One famous professor wrote me a letter saying that he had studied the signatures of famous people and that he collects autographed pictures. He asked me to sign my name so he could add it to his collection, but I refused, thinking that he didn’t deserve it. When Mr. Kamiyama comes to me for MFT, however, my heart is melted and I sign hundreds of pictures. Sometimes it takes hours and my arm is stiff, but still I go on. I am afraid that when you receive more than one or two pictures from me that you will start to be indifferent and not cherish them as much. Is that ?</p>
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<p>I have discovered that you are tough, elite people who can take a beating so I will push you out in 1979. Will you take it” I know that if you become the new dynamo of the MFT that the teams around the nation will be influenced by you. That’s why I am speaking this morning. That’s another responsibility of yours since you were here to hear me this morning. I would like to have 100,000 members on MFT right here in America eventually.</p>
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<p>You are the future leaders, and in the years ahead people will work according to your tradition. Not only will you be the leaders, but you will have the power to influence the nation. Whatever you unite to do, you will accomplish. Each person will be leading 3,()()() people. Even a Senator doesn’t have 3,0()0 devoted followers, but your 3,000 shall be united under you to turn this nation right side up and create a living America. In ten or fifteen years MFT activity around the country will be the talk of the town. The people who are influenced by you today will be senior citizens by then, and when they gather to talk about the good old days the topic will be those MFT Moonies and what wonderful young people they were, so dedicated and giving.</p>
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<p>This kind of encounter with the MFT will be even more memorable in America’s little towns. There is no place where the MFT has not been. Soon history will record a chapter about the repentance of the American people over how America treated me. People felt threatened by our competition and deliberately tried to defeat me, but the entire world will know how I was right and America was wrong. Americans will repent, but they will have one consolation-even though they were wrong there was a handful of American young people who discovered the value of what I am doing early enough-that is you. You will be a comfort to America in the future.</p>
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<p>What you are doing today shall shine like the sun in the future, and the more you suffer today, the more you will shine then. Imagine how in a state like North Dakota the newspapers will be calling on people to repent, but will also report about the young people from that state who discovered the truth years before and went on MFT, giving all of their earnings for the public purpose. When that time comes, the name Moonie will be honorable and we will be the educators of the nation. This is not my fantasy; this will happen and I will make you that kind of leader.</p>
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<p>Without your knowing it I am planning for the future and it will all unfold step by step. Do you feel that simply by having True Parents you have hope. When I declared the overwhelming task of stamping out all the evil in the world, did I do it on a whim or was I serious and ready with a fighting plan? No mortal man has ever dreamed of such a thing before. That is not all. I am declaring the liberation of God. If a person can declare the liberation of God, is the liberation of America a big or small task in comparison?</p>
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<p>Have guts and conviction. Even though America has ridiculed and persecuted me, do you think you have met the right man or not? Even though I push you to the MFT mission, do you think it is your, good fortune to have met me? Even when people snap at you and are hostile, do you still think you are fortunate? I want you to understand that the road we are walking is the road toward glory, with no comparison to any other road. It is truly the honorable one. L)o you know why America is declining now” Not because it lacks education or money or honor, but because so Par it has not found people like you. This is the first time in history such people have come forward.</p>
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<p>Moonies have become the essential treasure of this nation. You taste the reality of society every day; you know the real condition of the oppressed people and the minorities in America, so you can sympathize with them. It is a world you never dreamt of in the past. The influential people in this nation have never tasted that. Perhaps you were apathetic toward Orientals or black people before joining the Church but now they are precious to you. Your attitude toward different races and cultures has changed. Black people were brought to this country as slaves, as though they were animals, but you have discovered how hard they have worked to build the basic foundation of America. They are in the position of forefathers to this nation as well.</p>
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<p>Black people have been oppressed so much that they have a deep spiritual heritage. Since you are beginning the rebuilding of America, you can understand the suffering of the black people. When you cry, they can share those tears, and when they cry you can share their tears too. The majority of white people are still resistant to uniting with blacks, so we are like mediators between the two. The pro-violence extreme in the black community and the apathetic white community on the far right have always clashed and we must be a bridge between the two. No matter how much America resents the Moonies, they need us to be mediators at this critical point. Do you think we are needed by the nation?</p>
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<p>America is a microcosm of the world, with all the world’s races assembled here. America is at the point of going up in flames, but we are serving to help hold the broken pieces together. When we succeed here, we can definitely succeed on a worldwide scale because already there are peoples from all over the world here. We will have people from every nation and race coming to participate in America’s salvation, even though they have no other connection with America.</p>
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<p>The most formidable enemy is the communists, who are trying to infiltrate society, trying to weaken this nation like cancer from within. Many clergymen are actually communist or influenced by communists. The parishioners who give much money are often given church office, such as deacon or elder, and in that way communists can covertly assume such positions of influence. The Christian spirit is the backbone of America and made it possible for this country to be a social melting pot. Only in that spirit can many different kinds of people become one cohesive, working body. Once that Christian spirit falters, though, there is nothing else to keep people together.</p>
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<p>We have come to the crucial moment when a way must be devised to bring nations and people together. Do you think our Divine Principle has enough life-giving power to unite the Christian world? You young people are the elite of society, and you are convinced and inspired by Divine Principle. The victory of World War 11 was won in 1945, and this is 1979, 34 years later. The Christian spirit was at its peak after World War 11 and people who were your age at that time are now almost senior citizens. You are a new breed of American who never really knew a time when there was a Christian spirit in this country.</p>
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<p>Those soldiers who were in their twenties during the war are now in their fifties. Those men knew what communism was about and they understood patriotism. Today those people are the backbone of American Christianity because they are still in a position of influence, but in another decade they will all be out of the picture. You can see that the next five years are the crucial time in which we must lay the foundation her a new Christian movement to revive this nation.</p>
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<p>If we started right now it would be impossible to train the necessary people from the ground up. Therefore, the people who are already summoned by God, people like you, shall become the essential moving force to revive the Christian world and create a dynamic force to awaken people to the danger of communism. When all the facets of American society come together a powerful central role will be produced. The drug culture is prevalent, not only in college and high school but even in elementary schools. Under these circumstances, the communists won’t have to fire a single bullet in order to see America crumble; it will only be a matter of time.</p>
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<p>Teenagers are the hope of any nation, but if they are corrupted by drugs and free sex then the children they rear will be corrupted. Statistics have revealed that venereal disease is the second most prevalent illness in America after the common cold. If children are born under those circumstances then chances are that they will be disabled or have mental handicaps. Think how tragic it will be for the grandparents of such children to see them in mental institutions. No matter how much money the parents earn, they will hardly be able to pay for a lifetime of psychiatric treatment. This is the bleak future, without exaggeration.</p>
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<p>You are living in this society, so you know the situation better than I do. You must see that spiritual dynamite has been laid, ready to blow up the whole nation, with the fuse already burning and all set to explode any moment. Will the communists be glad to see this situation or not” The communists have been working hard to infiltrate troubled nations in Africa and South America, and though people there are looking to America for hope and assistance, this nation is crumbling from within.</p>
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<p>Why have I come to America to work? Simply to protect the dignity of God. God cannot tolerate America’s dwindling to that level. My concern is not just what America will be like, but that God’s situation cannot be hurt. For C; oaf, the True Parents and America’s sake you are united as champions to save this nation. Do we have the strength and ideology to set this America right? Since your answer is yes. we must hurry, for the time bomb is ticking. if you lose one moment of time, then history is actually losing a thousand hours. When you speed things up by one minute, history will gain thousands of hours. That’s how much every second counts.</p>
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<p>I am declaring an emergency. I could organize our members to build factories to create our financial h>undation, but is there time for that? Or should I get into the drug traffic from Asia to make quick money? In this extreme situation I must turn to you on the M El. I know that we need a material foundation in order to proceed with spiritual work so I ordered a special crusade in Japan, in which every member will have a special fund raising task for four months.</p>
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<p>We have no factories; we have only our bare hands and our sweat. You are part of that campaign. If we have 500,000 people around the world dedicated like you then we can quickly influence the world. You are actually doing a different level of home church and it is the same thing I ordered in Japan. Would you fall behind them or beat their record?</p>
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<p>Because education is needed, the first thing we will build will be an international university. We already have much land bought for that purpose. After you finish your MFT mission how about getting your MA or Ph.D. at our university” With our own hands and sweat we will build this university and it will be a dramatic experience to go there to get your degree. Is it something to be proud or ashamed of? This is within reach.</p>
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<p>I planned to increase MFT strength to 3,000 by the end of last year, but when I was traveling abroad the American movement didn’t do too well. Now I think that each of you can do the work of three people, though. Can you do it?</p>
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<p>Today my topic is “Our Position.” I explained the position of the world and of America, of the Unification Church and the MFT, and of the providence of God. On every level everyone has failed the mission. God is in a pitiful position of waiting because He needs champions, and only one group is now determined to say they will do it-that is you, the Unification Church. Look at how pathetic American Christianity is. The American nation as well has utterly failed its mission. But in the midst of all this difficulty a David has appeared to fight Goliath and that is the Unification Church. What is our weapon” Our truth and conviction are our weapons.</p>
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<p>After defeating Goliath, David became a king. Do you think I felt good or not when this David knocked down the Goliath which was the U. S. Congress? Are you very unhappy and pale, or bright and dignified and ready to march forward” The MFT started out with peanuts and flowers, and many members with college degrees have participated. When they started out they always met opposition, yet the joy they felt was greater than when they received their diplomas! They felt successful even while doing something as humble as fundraising. Your MFT work has greater value than any degree a university could offer you.</p>
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<p>That’s the kind of training you are getting now. We cannot be average; we must be extraordinary. That’s why we can do what others cannot, and even without factories we can still produce and prosper. In the meantime I have many plans that are unfolding quietly-for permanent businesses, for the future missions of the blessed couples and their families and so forth. All these things are emerging every day.</p>
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<p>Now you understand our position. Will you reluctantly undertake this task, or go out with eagerness? You like football, don’t you? Why” I like football because it is a rugged game that requires an untiring fighting spirit. When I see a player running with the ball and then get tackled, with ten other players falling on top of him, I think surely someone’s leg must be broken, but everyone gets up and starts all over again. That spirit is what I like.</p>
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<p>That kind of ruggedness can only be found in football, not in any other area of American life, but I feel that we have thousands of such heavenly champions in the M FT. The excitement of American football draws many spectators, but in the same way your game will be watched by millions of spectators on earth and in spirit world. There are many colorful cheerleaders out there behind you!</p>
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<p>When you are caught in persecution yet still you reach your goal, you are really a victorious champion when you come home. Don’t come dragging in at night, but enter like a winning football team into the fieldhouse. If you are trying to be a Moonie, MFT is the best place to be. Today is January 2, 1979. We are just beginning the new year. Do you have confidence to win the victory this year? I want you to liberate poor Mr. Kamiyama. 1 hand-picked Mr. Kamiyama to come to America from Japan for the new crusade on the worldwide scale. When I first came there were many American leaders who thought they would work closely with me, but all of a sudden this little Japanese who didn’t even speak any English appeared, and they didn’t think it was right for him to be there. They told him one day that he could pack up and go back to Japan and they could take care of the mission here. He was really in a corner, but he knew that I had asked him to come. I told him to wait for three years and he would see that those American leaders would be ashamed of what they had said to him. In the meantime, he was to work with them and eventually lead them. Did that turn out to be the case or not?</p>
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<p>Mr. Kamiyama is a foreigner. Do you think it was easy for him to come without knowing the language and culture? It was a task two and three times as difficult as normal, but he overcame all the obstacles and is now in charge of a vital mission, the MFT. He is actually a very fortunate person because there is no place for him to run away to. The only people who can liberate him are you. If your mission is successful then his mission is successful and the entire Unification Church is successful. You are going to be his liberators.</p>
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<p>The financial burden of the Unification Church is a heavy one. No one worries about the financial situation except him, and when the situation is bleak or your record is not good then he comes to tell me that our situation is difficult. I know he wants me to find money somewhere else, but I tell him it is his responsibility, and every time he somehow overcomes it. Every month there are payments to meet so every month is a heavy burden for him. But while he is bearing this burden we steadily advance and become bigger. The person who has untiring faith and obedience is never really stuck but will always emerge as the winner.</p>
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<p>Mr. Kamiyama is in a position to be resented by the church leaders because he holds the purse very tightly, so he has a lonely position. I told him that he only survives because of his name, which means ‘God’s mountain.” If he were a river mountain or land mountain, he would have collapsed a long time ago. You are poor MFT members, he is poor Mr. Kamiyama and I am poor Reverend Moon, one man struggling for the purpose of the universe, suffering day in and day out. Beyond us, God is suffering and lonely. We are all poor people together, rising up for the ultimate liberation of God.</p>
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<p>There is nothing to do but march forward. When you return to your area will you create a new hurricane of this spirit? My mandate is that your December 1978 record is your new launching pad. I want each of you to resolve that your 1979 record will steadily improve over what you did last December. Those who resolve that, raise your hands. God will see that a hurricane has come to MFT but if you are knocked out by that storm then there is no hope for restoration.</p>
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<p>From this position we can take care of this emergency and come back with victory. Amen. Will you pledge, “I will do it. 1 will do it. I will do it”? 1 expect you to become a locomotive; I can’t speak to MFT all around America so you must tell them what 1 have said. Will each of you be locomotives? Then I trust you. One good thing about MFT is that your record is obvious at the end of the month. Crazy people may be able to go on for a month or two, but only if you are clever can you go on for the whole of 1979. I trust and believe you.</p>
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<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="2018-06-18T05:08:03+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/18/restored-family.html" rel="bookmark">June 18, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-18T05:08:03+01:00">June 18, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1979.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<p>I’m sure all of you realize by now that the cultural barrier between East and West is very difficult to cross. Spoken language, writing and customs must be understood in order to communicate. To those without some reason to be interested, the East seems far away and unreachable. When seen in God’s providence East and West are like twins, but the roots of Oriental culture developed and a spiritual heritage emerged sooner than in the West. What we call Hellenic culture is part of the heritage of the eastern part of the world, and the origins of all other ancient cultures as well are to be found in the eastern part of the world. If Jesus had not been crucified, then Christian culture would have started in Asia Minor and spread toward the Orient, but because of the crucifixion Christianity spread in the other direction, toward Rome and Europe.</p>
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<p>God intended Christianity to stand on the foundation of Buddhism and Confucianism as the religion of perfection in the Orient. Christianity was intended to be a great unifying force embracing Hebrew, Egyptian and Hellenic cultures, unifying them into one world culture. But because of the crucifixion Jesus’ disciples traveled toward Rome and Britain, and later to the United States. Since coming to America, Christianity has spread across the Pacific and come full circle to unite with Eastern culture.</p>
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<p>At the present time there is much friction between East and West, but actually it is to be welcomed; that friction indicates they are confronting each other, and only through confrontation will certain differences be worked out or eliminated. Eventually the two will emerge as one harmonious unit, and in that sense friction is not necessarily bad.</p>
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<p>The Korean peninsula is divided in half by the 38th parallel, and the United States is linked to the southern half as an ally. President Carter wanted to withdraw America’s military support, but some power is preventing him from doing so. Carter is not the first president who wanted to withdraw militarily from Korea; President Nixon was the first. The American political mood is such that America wants to abandon Korea, but instead of allowing that to happen, God is sending Reverend Moon to. America; the Korean arm is holding America very tightly!</p>
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<p>Present trends are leading America to give up different traditions and systems in its culture, such as the family unit. A dangerous situation is developing here in which people find no value in family life or in the church, and finally no value even in themselves. Young people feel they don’t need their parents or education or culture, and say they are going back to nature, which really means they are living like animals. Some influence is pushing them to deny their old surroundings, preparing them to welcome the new culture. If they hold on to the old ways then there is no room for the new when it comes.</p>
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<p>When you are hungry you don’t care what kind of food you eat; you just grab anything and eat it. Right now God is allowing the American people to feel very hungry culturally, so as soon as something good comes they will grab it. Young people are interested in the mysticism of the Orient and many are moving to California, the place closest to the Orient.</p>
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<p>We can see that there is a will in history which is not moving randomly. This age is being prepared for the new age to come in the future. Learning new ways and adopting a new culture is not easy and cannot be achieved by ordinary means. It is not easy for Americans to come sit on a concrete floor to worship God because you are accustomed to having nice carpets and chairs. Usually people go to church at 11 a.m. after eating a leisurely breakfast and reading the newspaper, but in the new culture we get up at 3:00 to come to Belvedere at 6 a.m. Have you heard the rooster crow in the morning? Why does he shout out so early like that? He is in the role of alarm clock, and those who are alerted spiritually know it is time to awaken.</p>
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<p>There is a saying that history is made at night, but actually it begins in the early dawn; important things always start early in the morning before the sun rises. The persecution we receive from people is like the dark midnight in a deep valley, but we are climbing up out of that valley. We have come quite far, and historically speaking we are in the hour just before the dawn. Until now people have seen me in the worst possible light, even believing evil things about me that are completely untrue. But now the dawn is coming, and when they see the sunlight they will realize that what they thought was evil is actually the most precious and important of all. When the dawn comes they will see the true colors.</p>
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<p>My topic this morning is Restored Family. It is not an easy topic because restoration of the family is not easy. It is not easy to read what I have written here on the board because it is very high-level writing. Handwriting is an important aspect of a culture, and without knowing the meaning and beauty of’ this writing you cannot understand its depth.</p>
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<p>There are four Chinese characters in this title and one Korean letter. Each Chinese character has meaning. The first means “two persons.” This one refers to another person. This one means “day,” and this one means “repeat.” Each component here has a meaning. The East and West have different ways of’ observing the same object.</p>
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<p>This Chinese character means ” heaven.” Literally it means “two persons,” in the sense that you cannot see heaven without at least two persons together. This next character means `’virtue:’ which in its literal translation is very philosophical: Again, goodness cannot be achieved by one person alone; there must be subject and object in reciprocal relationship for goodness to emerge.</p>
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<p>Future historians must record that one of my accomplishments was to bring the culture of East and West together in unity, not just on the level of’ older people or scholars, but in particular among young people. That contribution alone is really an extraordinary one. Also, I am the one who created the movement in which Western and Oriental young people longed to have husbands and wives from other parts of the world. That in itself is a revolutionary movement. I never forced you to go that way, but somehow you feel that you would find joy in doing so.</p>
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<p>A sense of mystery always derives from unknown factors. Why does man yearn after woman? Because she is a mystery; once she is known completely, however, there is no more mystery and attraction. Why is woman longing for man? Because of this mystic element. American women today are making a great mistake by exposing themselves too much, and because men know all about them their attraction is very much decreased.</p>
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<p>Oriental women are very secretive, which is a great weapon. American women are all open and straightforward like machine guns, but if you make everything known then you lose your attractiveness. You know about Western culture and its limitations so it is losing interest for you. Now the Oriental culture is intriguing because there is much there you don’t understand. This is why you want to study and taste some portion of it. You want to conquer your ignorance about it and really see what is there.</p>
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<p>God is a mystery because no one really knows Him entirely. If you could see God from all angles then you would lose all interest in Him. The same is true of the Unification Church; the world is saying many things about us, but they certainly don’t yet know all there is to know. Because of this mystery the interest of’ people outside our Church is mounting. They want to find out what 1 am all about so they come to investigate, and in the meantime they are convinced by the truth and love here.</p>
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<p>It is an extraordinary thing that in this day and age all five colors of skins have gathered together with one common goal and truth, with a tremendous hope to move the world. Joining the Unification Church is just the beginning, and then all kinds of things happen after that. Unification members are a new breed; you are American citizens but there is something different about you. The Korean and Japanese members are not quite 100 percent Korean and Japanese, but have some special element which makes them Moonies.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church can be compared to a magnet made out of five different components, which are the five races. Together they have tremendous pulling power. The black component of the magnet pulls black people, the white component pulls white people, and so forth. Everyone is pulled by that one magnet. The important thing is how big this magnet will grow. We are gathered together to become the heavenly magnet, growing even under adverse conditions, with the rest of the world accusing. If we can grow under adverse conditions, what will happen when the entire world wants to welcome us? The communist movements have grown quickly, but it will seem very slow compared to the changes that come when the atmosphere is set to receive the Unification Church. This atmosphere will be created all over the world, and exciting days are coming with the approaching dawn.</p>
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<p>If you lose a few hours of sleep, it is a small sacrifice to give. Driving today with the cold rain and slippery roads, didn’t you feel excitement? Usually I drive over here in one of the bigger cars, but today the roads were so slippery that 1 came in a jeep with a snowplow. I was in the front seat instead of the back, and with the jeep jumping along it was a much more exciting ride. I thought for sure that there would be one-third as many of you here today because of the bad weather, but today attendance looks greater than usual.</p>
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<p>Let’s go back to the original topic. The Korean words for “great universe” mean literally “great home.” This great world has been under Satan’s domain instead of God’s, and history began in conflict, with tears and suffering as the trademark. History has been full of disappointment, with people being born and searching for the meaning of life, suffering and wandering without direction. They all died without being able to find the answers, and no one has been able to conquer death.</p>
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<p>Much evil has been done in war, but it also brought a fringe benefit because through war people have become advanced in knowledge and cultures have been spread quite quickly. People of advanced nations have to be physically present in order to conquer another land and in the meantime their cultures mingle. Defeated monarchs and armies have fled to remote areas and there continued their culture, trying to make a new life There are many stories in movies of criminals who had to flee their old life and start over in a new country, working on the most lowly level to regain some reputation. War has often been Satan’s tool, but God has not lost because of war. Criminals and sinners have made an historical contribution by fleeing to primitive territory and beginning a new culture. God never loses in history, but even pushes evil elements to make some contribution to human history.</p>
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<p>Why are there many languages in the world today? Because people have been pushed away from their countries and started over. In anger and resentment peoples have determined not to speak the old language and made a new one instead. Criminals often use their own code to communicate and sometimes it becomes so sophisticated that it is another language altogether. Here in America there are many different uses of’ English, with special slang used by young people as well as different words in different regions.</p>
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<p>The fallen world has become very confused and chaotic, and in that circumstance the work of restoration was begun. From God’s standpoint there is not even one man in this desert-like world He can call His own.</p>
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<p>In searching for His representatives on earth God is not looking at famous people or men with great power because such people are only interested in their own power and in enjoying life. He has always looked to the people who suffered under oppression to find those who can understand Him . God always finds His champions in the lower level. Another reason is that Satan is interested mostly in power and prestige so he pays most attention to upper-level people.</p>
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<p>It is the communist strategy to infiltrate on all different levels and gradually gain control, and in the same way God seeks to infiltrate one by one and establish his beachhead. God may be telling different groups that they are important in His work, nurturing them in their role. As a result of this spiritual reinforcement and belief that they are unique, these people don’t listen to anyone else. They do not know the overall point of view themselves, but all these groups are linked in a certain heavenly plan. They may not leave behind much physical achievement before they go to spirit world, but spiritually speaking they have a certain accomplishment. God is training and nurturing these champions, moving them up from the lowliest position to assume higher and higher positions.</p>
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<p>There were many mystic or superstitious religions in ancient times and the idea of worship was very simple: people worshipped their many gods simply for their own benefit. In such religions the individual himself is the center, seeking simply to have good crops or to regain health. What blessing is that person receiving by worshipping God? God is guiding him out of this fallen world, leading him to become God’s champion.</p>
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<p>How do we know these people are receiving blessing? By the fact that they are being persecuted; persecution is always a sign of blessing being given somehow. Those who try to live up to some higher spiritual will or direction always receive persecution. There are many degrees of faith among all these people summoned by God. One would want to receive blessing himself; another would want his family to benefit, while yet another would pray for benefit for his society or nation. People have different spiritual aspirations. The person who seeks the well-being of his family will be master of that family, and the person seeking the well-being of his tribe will be a tribal leader, and so forth.</p>
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<p>Ultimately the person who seeks to bring God’s blessing to the world would be an international man, a leader who can see beyond race and nationality. Each religious leader’s sphere of influence is determined by his own desire. If he seeks universal well-being then he can be installed as a leader in the largest possible sphere, while the others will be led and influenced by him. What would be the highest possible religious aspiration is God’s sight? God has been waiting for the man who wants to liberate God, to bring Him rest and heal His heart of sadness. There is no higher religion than that.</p>
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<p>What was Jesus philosophy? He said, “Not my will but Thy will be done.” Jesus wanted to bring glory to God and felt that he himself was nothing, that he could sacrifice everything for God. What is a Messiah? He come as a heavenly mediator between God and mankind’s desires, trying to reconcile them and bring harmony. Christians have faith in Jesus, but Jesus has faith in God. Therefore, if Christians truly want to advance they must not only believe in Jesus as a savior but believe in God and yearn to be His liberator.</p>
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<p>Christians must fulfill both the wishes of the Messiah and the wishes of God. In order to do so they must elevate themselves to the position of messiahs and literally save the world. Their attitude must be: “For the sake of the world I must be a sacrifice. For the sake of God I can sacrifice my Christian church.” Because they did not do this, such a church is still needed.</p>
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<p>There are many nations in the fallen world. God will raise up the people who truly want to live up to His and the Messiah’s wishes and pull them out of their countries. When all those champions are gathered will you find that they are all white? They must be of all five colors of skin because otherwise they could not be worldwide in influence.</p>
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<p>Satan always knew that God was working to pull champions out of this world and create His own group or power, so naturally every time God tries to pull someone Satan tries to block his way. Satan doesn’t want to let even one person escape from behind his wall so he creates strong bonds of family and society to prevent the person from moving freely. But God is wiser than Satan-he pulls them one by one to a single destination and unites them into a group. This is done in the form of a religious movement which undertakes exactly this operation; some such movement must be born to do it on earth. The first. champions shall be chosen in one nation of this fallen world, so God will choose one territory to assemble His champions.</p>
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<p>Israel was that territory initially, the staging area for God’s operation. After the crucifixion, Christianity had to have one place to assemble, and that nation was America. America was born for the sake of Christianity in the will of God, so people gathered in America from all around the world. Slavery is evil, but God worked even through slavery to bring some of His champions to America. God knew that in the end He would raise up representatives in the name of all people to be His champions, so He needed people from all continents, even though initially they didn’t want to come.</p>
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<p>All colors of skin are gathered in the United States, as well as people of all different areas of knowledge and material power, but the basic reason this nation prospers is because of Christianity. America has drawn the great minds from all over the world, bringing a wealth of knowledge to this country, but the foundation to do this was Christianity, which is worldwide. There is a common goal among Christians, so drawing all that talent was easy because Christianity has a worldwide foundation.</p>
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<p>This country is a microcosm of today’s world so the United States is the stage for the final messianic endeavor. No wonder God called me to come to America to begin the worldwide dispensation; it was most logical from God’s standpoint. America has a link with all different races and nations, so once we have an impact on this nation we will be linked to all countries. God prepared for many years in order to make this nation possible and to utilize it for this one critical time in history. If America fails to respond to this messianic movement then America’s mission is failed and thereafter America will be devastated.</p>
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<p>Think of how God is working. Christianity flourished for many years in America, and then the Unification Church was born. Do you think the Unification Church would easily prosper? Until I came to America Christianity here was prosperous and rich, sending missionaries around the world. But once our activities became worldwide, American Christianity gradually began to decline. Young people knew that this was happening, and, being clever, they left first. But older people who move more slowly still remain. The interesting thing is that even as Christian leaders are telling the people to stay, they themselves are leaving!</p>
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<p>This has been going on for ten years, and now churches are often empty, so that this is the perfect stage for Reverend Moon to emerge upon. While other churches have been crumbling I have been pushing through opposition and persecution. I won the battle in Asia and came to America to secure a beachhead. Here I proclaimed one movement for the liberation of God, of mankind and of Jesus. Furthermore, Reverend Moon and the Unification Church must be liberated. I issued a recruiting order for whoever was interested in kingdom-building, calling for champions from all races to step forward.</p>
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<p>Each of you represents your nation and its leadership. This room represents the world, with all nationalities represented here, and even the nations that were enemies in the past now have their representatives sitting here together. Since God assembled the essence of the world in this place, the world here can be called the Abel world, and the everyday world can be called the Cain world. The Cain world is far bigger, but do you think the Abel world will be pulled or do the pulling? In the morning do you have confidence that you can pull the world? At lunchtime? At suppertime? Even in your dreams? That is true. We are going to pull this Cain world. The mark of my work is not only that I pulled the champions out of the Cain world, but that primarily they are bright young people. In twenty years you will be the key leaders of this nation. The time will come when America will welcome the Moon movement because there is no other workable solution for the world. What will your position be then? Right now the government and its agencies are chasing after the Unification Church, but we are fighting back and proving that we are innocent. We have 120 lawsuits underway right now, and one by one we are winning each of them as we are proven innocent.</p>
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<p>We are not sitting idle while people try to destroy us, but are creating all kinds of weapons with truth and proof of innocence, documenting that our work is righteous. The record shows that the media and communist-influenced opposition have been trying to smear my reputation, but ultimately they will find that they have only helped by making me famous.</p>
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<p>This is analogous to two wrestlers in a ring, one the world and the other the Unification Church. Even though the fighter for the world is being defeated and knocked down, he is discovering the strengths and weaknesses of the Unification Church fighter, realizing that he is not evil but righteous. After this loser comes out of the ring he begins to study the winner to see how he won and what his philosophy is. The popular trend now is to research Reverend Moon. Americans think they have the best national slogan-One Nation Under God-but I have come to proclaim a bigger slogan-One World Under God. America has found that next to my thinking and concept America’s own thinking is small.</p>
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<p>Christians feel superior and think that other people will not come as near to God as they. There are over 400 denominations bickering among themselves, but I have come saying that all religions must unite under one God; you can see how entirely different these concepts are. Our members come from all kinds of religious backgrounds, including non-Christian. The Unification Seminary is unique among seminaries because the faculty comes from all denominations- Creek Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Islamic, and soon a Buddhist.</p>
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<p>Hundreds of professors have come to visit Barrytown, and they can’t imagine how a seminary can survive if it employs scholars from different backgrounds. A Methodist seminary has only Methodist scholars, and Catholics have only Catholics, and so forth. But the Unification Seminary has teachers of all religions. Many observers feel I must be either completely stupid or else a genius.</p>
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<p>I am not only pulling champions from different nations but from all religions of the world. You are those representatives. If you are American, you represent America, and if you are Christian you represent Christianity as well. The time will come when the leaders of, say, Presbyterianism will come to the Unification Church, and then they will proudly point out how many Presbyterian champions have already been in the Unification Church for a long time. Where can Jews go today? They are destined to join the Unification Church if they want to survive. Even though they are extremely negative now, the time will come when Jewish rabbis will come and be proud of how many Jewish pioneers already came to Unification Church.</p>
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<p>Blacks will exclaim at how many early members were black and be proud, and you black members will be known as champions of their cause in days to come. We need representatives from all fields, all walks of life, all academic persuasions, so that later on everyone will have a channel into Unification Church. We are gathered into one circle, but we are not sitting idle there. We are engaged in many activities, rounding off all the sharp corners to become the rounded shape that can harmonize with everything.</p>
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<p>You Westerners have eyes that are basically round, while the Orientals’ eyes are more angular, particularly mine. God made the human body round and smooth, and now your mind must be round and big as well. Is your mind like a penny, flat and small, or like a big round ball? If you are like a ball, you can roll any time in any direction, going everywhere possible. The Unification Church is round enough to roll in any direction, so it means you are ready for any mission. Today you fund raise with peanuts, next with ginseng, next with industrial machines-anything is possible for you. Today you can witness, tomorrow fund raise. We are flexible, not rigid.</p>
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<p>I am truly round because there is no experience I have not tasted. I go to the sea, to the mountains, work in the factories, on the docks, in the mines. In school I can teach, or discuss deeply with philosophers, or come to Belvedere and be a father.</p>
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<p>I have been extracting the essence of America into our movement. When people look at Moonies they see you are different-that you are capable, intelligent, charming and attractive. When eminent scholars come to the Science Conference and meet the Moonies, many remark that they wish their son or daughter could marry such a person. Many parents oppose the Unification Church because they envy my position; they see you becoming new young people, putting aside your old bad habits and drug life. Now they want to keep you to themselves, but you tell them you have to work for the mission because God needs you more than they do. They don’t like that; they would rather have you all cleaned up and sent back to them.</p>
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<p>What would you do then? Are you working hard in desperation to keep food on the table? No, we are concentrating our efforts to liberate God and the, world. We are pulling the world each day, and since we are getting stronger, Satan is getting desperate and our opponents are working harder to defame our movement. Our opponents are astounded that even in the face of all this we are still getting stronger.</p>
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<p>Have I already done great work? Compare the two individuals that you have been-one before and one after joining. Have you become a different person? A small peanut or a giant? You have grown and changed so much that your own parents must make an effort to recognize you. With this philosophy we can discipline ourselves, so if you have grown this much in just a few years, what kind of person will you be twenty years from now?</p>
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<p>In the years before I started the 21-year course in 1960, hardly anyone welcomed me In later years even the members said they didn’t envy my position and found it hard to go on. I was talking about working on the worldwide level at that time, but none of our members could dream that the things I talked about would happen; I pushed through that doubt and hesitation and now what I am doing shines before the whole world. In 1960 I was older than you are now. In twenty years I have created much accomplishment, but you can do much more in twenty years because you are starting on an entirely different foundation. Eventually there will be no more opposition, and when you are welcomed by the people what kind of giant will you become?</p>
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<p>Do we have hope or despair? Does the Unification Church belong to me or God? What kind of God is He? The universe is limitless, with many other solar systems and galaxies besides this one. God controls all these heavenly bodies. People think Neil Armstrong’s moon-walk was an impressive accomplishment, but in God’s point of view one man traveling from the earth to the moon is a minuscule accomplishment. Of all the many planets, don’t you think that perhaps there is one made of only gold? Or one that is a huge diamond? God’s jewel box is the universe, with planets of ruby and emerald. Wouldn’t you want to go there?</p>
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<p>What would you do with a diamond planet? You would be shocked, wouldn’t you? What I want to say is that Almighty God long ago prepared everything for His children and nothing is lacking. The planet earth is a very small accomplishment in God’s sight. The movie about Superman shows him taking time to fly around New York and taking several minutes for him to fly to California. But to God that is very slow-He couldn’t run the universe is He moved that slowly. Don’t you think God is capable of moving faster than light?</p>
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<p>God has children here on earth, and as a parent He has ideas for who will receive the planets in His jewel box when His children are restored. Already He has plans for giving all these to you. In all the galaxies that God created do you think there are more stars than humans on earth, or fewer? There are 4 billion people on earth now, and the number of people in spirit world must total many more than that, but there are more stars than all those people put together.</p>
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<p>If God gave you one planet, how could you manage it? Your clumsy physical body is too inconvenient to move around, so God gave you a spirit man; your spirit man can move faster than electricity or light. Your spirit man can really move like Superman and even electric waves cannot keep up with it. Don’t you think God would create His own son and daughter to be faster than anything in creation” I look forward to entering into that vast space; I will be a grandfather by then so I look forward to visiting one son at one planet and a daughter at another. Don’t you suppose God thinks in that fashion?</p>
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<p>God’s children are the princes and princesses of the creation, so don’t you think He imagined the nicest possible place for them to live? The Versailles in France is supposed to be the most glittering and elegant palace ever made by man, but it is pale in comparison to a bathroom in the Kingdom of Heaven. Here on earth we have to wear clumsy clothes, but in spirit world your clothes are always sparkling and dazzling. This is not a fantasy. God is capable of anything.</p>
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<p>The communists teach that this world came about by accident or by chance. Do you think so? Even the smallest gadget requires man’s sweat and effort to conceive and repair, but man’s spiritual body continues living for millions of years and never needs fixing. God’s creations function as precisely as clockwork. Compared to the whole of the universe which God created, our existence here on earth is like a piece of dust, but in God’s mind He cannot trade the value of His son and daughter for the whole universe. Are you these precious children of God?</p>
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<p>There is nothing impossible for our Almighty Father in heaven, and you are His sons and daughters. There is a whole incredible realm waiting for you which you have not seen but where you will live eternally. In that world you will travel faster than light and visit all these different planets made of precious stones. You won’t have to go shopping because everything you need will be ready. How much higher spiritually must you become to be entitled to that world? Is your body 100 percent conductive of God’s spiritual electricity, or is it a non-conductor like wood and soil?</p>
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<p>Does wood or metal conduct electricity better? God has the best conductability. Are you 100 percent conductive of God’s energy, just like gold conducts electricity? Am I greedy for that or not? I picked you up when you were like driftwood on the side of the road, and I am trying to turn you into genuine gold. In order to do that I have to put you in the furnace and turn the heat up to melt out the impurities. How could you be pure otherwise? Do you complain at the discomfort of it?</p>
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<p>Why does God seem to be helpless and subjected to ridicule by so many people? When people say there is no God it is the worst humiliation for Him, yet He submits to it because He wants to fulfill love. Those of you who were in love with several different people before you became members, which experience was the most memorable, the first love or your later loves? If your first love was an ugly man, but your next love was a Hollywood star, which impression would be the strongest for you? The first one. Love has such power that even an ugly person’s features become beautiful.</p>
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<p>What about God, then? God wanted to give His first love to man and receive man’s first love, but was that love given? Ever since Adam and Eve became fallen, has anyone better than they were come forward to give God their love? The moment God lost man’s love He was deeply wounded. How do you think we can heal His heart? Man was the one who failed, so do you think God can heal His heart by Himself? No? Who should be able to do it then? Can you do it simply by saying that you love God? Our loving Heavenly Father has been deceived by man millions of times in history.</p>
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<p>What shall man do to prove worthy of God’s trust? We have to be put in a position to receive hardship from God, to be chased out by God and yet still receive it humbly. God has one standard by which man can prove himself worthy-if fallen man can receive so much rejection that even unfallen Adam and Eve would have complained, and yet still love God and be willing to receive still more rejection, then he can be vindicated and heal God’s broken heart.</p>
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<p>In order to prove ourselves worthy we must be pushed into suffering by God. God wants to be able to declare to Satan that His children are better than the original Adam and Eve. If they demonstrate utmost loyalty under intense suffering then God can tell Satan that he can never accuse these children of whom God is proud. History has never seen that kind of man, and for this reason God’s heart has not been liberated. But now God is seeing His first day of vindication through the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>After knowing this secret, the man who volunteers to liberate God’s heart must be able to say that God can allow all the satanic forces to attack him and still he will remain as His son. Even if God Himself rejects such a person, he will still remain. That is why I asked God to let the entire satanic world come against me, and I am receiving that opposition now. Is it unfortunate to be persecuted, or does it need to be done? It is the secret method to bring the true love of God to man’s dwelling on earth.</p>
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<p>Now the entire world is coming against you because you have united with me. At the same time I push you hard as well, but will you complain? What I am teaching you this morning is completely logical. If someone you dearly love betrays you, that person must show his love over and over under difficult circumstances for your heart to be healed. God has emotion of far greater depth than you do, so God has felt that hurt much more than you do. The man who could completely comfort God has never appeared on earth, and history has brought only continual grief and pain to God. But finally that man has come on earth; do you think God will take interest enough to visit him? Even if that man tells God to wait and watch for heaven, God cannot bring Himself to remain there but is anxious to come down and help. His throne would be a dull place while this man is busy on earth. Whenever I went through overwhelming suffering, even to the point of death, God always provided people or money to help, or an open door to a new start. In every difficulty God was always ahead of me, preparing. This is the only way God’s will could be fulfilled.</p>
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<p>Do you think the barriers and persecution we face now are necessary or not? When you are blessed would you women prefer to have a good or bad husband? You can tell God you want the worst possible husband so that you prove your love for Him. If you have a good husband then you have no chance like that to prove your love. This is absolutely true! If you are truly a daughter of God, you can ask God for the worst man as your husband and tell Him that you will make that man the most outstanding and heroic husband of all.</p>
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<p>The husband of such a wife could spend the rest of his life talking about her devotion and commitment and sacrificial love. A wife should be the one who testifies about the greatness of her husband and a husband about the greatness of his wife. I always testify to Mother’s beauty and charm and love, and she testifies to me.</p>
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<p>As a loving Father, God will always use His best son in the worst possible circumstances, knowing that he will win. Isn’t that true? Since I have proved to be so tough, God trusts me enough to send me anywhere, even to the dungeons of hell, knowing that I will be successful. That is the kind of men and women God wants to represent Him. I am looking forward to see who shall become that kind of son and daughter among my own children, so I am always looking at you.</p>
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<p>In the end it can be said that my life looked tragic and miserable, but I made up my mind a long time ago that I wanted to live through the worst suffering and indignation at the hands of man and God, and still I would love God and never change. That’s the way I volunteered. 1 never asked God for blessing or assistance, but He heaped blessing upon me nevertheless. I never prayed to God for things I needed, but always felt that I had not done enough. Apparently God likes that attitude better. for He always blesses the person who feels he should be doing more. In that position alone you can liberate God of His sorrow and mankind of their suffering.</p>
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<p>God’s handpicked champions will be those who follow this way of life. God will have all the great prophets and saints of history come before those people to hear what they have done, and those saints will all say that those people have exceeded their standard and will pay their respects. That is the kind of men and women I am asking you to become. There is no day and night for God, and He will be with you 100 percent of the time. If there is a difficult task, you should be the one to ask God for it. Each day you will go one step further and break the record of the day before. There is always room to improve and you can never reach your maximum.</p>
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<p>We are climbing up and crossing over every hill, but I want you to know that there is an end to all the obstacles. Once you reach the top of Mt. Everest then everything is spread out beneath you. You have a golden road ahead of you. At the pinnacle of that mountain you can feel that finally you can see why God pushed you so hard and in that realization you will be grateful to Him. That kind of man is essential if God is to be liberated.</p>
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<p>So far God has always done everything He could do and it was always man who failed. Do you want to volunteer to be a champion in this world? Don’t you feel tired if you have already been in the Unification Church 3 years? How long can you go on? Forever? Your suffering on earth is limited. This opportunity will never come again, so grab it. Eternity will not contain this kind of suffering, so you must seize the time now.</p>
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<p>The problem is that man stained his first love. God is seeking for a man who can restore more than the first love and who can truly liberate His heart. Until God installs such a man here on earth as master of the universe, His dignity will never be truly restored.</p>
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<p>When God looks down He sees two churches, one trying its utmost to vindicate His heart, and another whose members believe in Jesus so they can have their safe little niche in heaven. God pays no attention to them; He has met countless people like that over 2,000 years and they were never concerned about God’s heart. Instead of giving them blessing, God is watching them decline. In the meantime He has drawn you away to become new champions with a new concept of faith to set a new tradition for the fulfillment of Christianity. Who will reject you in the end if you live that way of life? .,</p>
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<p>Why do you follow me? You like me because God loves me. If God didn’t like me then you would never stay here. Are you ready for rejection and persecution? You might have had some lover from the “good old days,” but the value of what you are pursuing now is immeasurable compared to what you had before.</p>
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<p>We are trying desperately hard to fill our cups now. A great vacuum and emptiness has been created throughout history and each of us is trying now to fill it up. No one can say they deserve the blessing; if it comes suddenly to you then that is a surprise blessing. Are you a patriotic person in this small, compact Abel world? Are there candidates for historical sainthood among you? Is it easy to achieve that goal?</p>
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<p>There are examinations to be passed on the family, society, nation and world levels. How many levels have you passed? Unless you pass on each level how can you restore the family? When you restore the family it means you have achieved the original ideal of creation, and if you reach that level then no matter what persecution and opposition come, you will not be affected Your family should be like Adam’s in the garden of Eden. There was no opposition or rejection in Eden because there were no other people, and as long as Adam and Eve obeyed God they could have had the easiest way of fulfilling home church. Today you should fulfill that role of Adam’s family. Even though you may falter, you can regain strength because your Father and Mother have done it-they are strong and have met God’s standard and you are their children. You can think that even though you have your weaknesses, you will pick yourself up and go on ultimately to be like the True Parents.</p>
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<p>You will need witnesses to testify about you, and God and the True Parents will be your witnesses. The True Parents will say, “This is my son. This is my daughter. We can send them anywhere in the satanic world and they will not be defeated.” You must be children whom the True Parents can testify to like this. You can realize that you are superior to anyone in history because you are children of True Parents and God. You must become exemplary for everyone in the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament eras. Among the three generations of Roman Catholicism, Protestantism and Unificationism you should be superior. Each of you is passing through the formation, growth and perfection levels. Therefore, the number three is important in the Unification Church. When a husband and wife come together they form six, plus the True Parents makes eight, the family unit. Even if the other seven oppose you, nothing can make you recant your faith that you are a child of the True Parents.</p>
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<p>There are three brothers as sons of God: the elder son is the yellow race, the second son is the black race, and the third son is the white race. The Unification Church is the movement in which these three sons can become one. In the future we will have a trinity system in the Unification Church, with one black, one yellow, and one white family living in one house so you can fulfill that expectation of God. Then you can go on to a higher level.</p>
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<p>If there is a disabled person among the eight, would he receive less love” On the contrary, that would bring him added love, for the person who has a handicap receives greater love. Historically black people have been in a more desolate position of suffering so God will push white brothers more to help them. Would you welcome it? A few days ago President Carter made a statement which received a great deal of criticism-he said today’s Christianity is becoming a roadblock to racial unity, that American Christians are not living up to what the Bible says. At least he had done one thing right!</p>
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<p>In order to win the title of restored family you have to set the record of loving all societies and nations. When you go beyond that level you can come back to declare that your family is a restored one. The center of the restored family is God. If you suffer for your own people then your record does not have as much meaning. If Americans suffer for America it means less. But if white people go to Africa to suffer for black people, it has great meaning. If black people suffer for white people that has great meaning, for that is the only way we can unite the wood into one.</p>
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<p>There is no way we can become one until we realize that God, the master of all humanity and the universe, has been suffering. Until it is realized that God is suffering, mankind can never really become one. Further, man must realize that God is a miserable, suffering parent because He loves man and refrains from cursing man for his sin. God put Himself in such, a position of misery because he had hope for man.</p>
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<p>Why is it you cannot complain to me? Because you know that I have suffered more than you for the sake of’ the world, nation, and family, and there is no one who has suffered more. No matter how hard 1 push you in fundraising and witnessing, you still feel you want to do more instead of thinking you are entitled to complain.</p>
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<p>Only if man can love God with a love exceeding the love of unfallen man, which God never received, can the world become one. No other power can make people come. We in the Unification Church must be united around this concept and ideology. There is no way you can prove yourself worthy until you come under much pressure. Once you are ignited in that love you will be like yeast to make good bread. Then a revolution will take place.</p>
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<p>If you have five members living in your center, who will be the host or master? Not the person who gives directions and then sleeps, or the one who tells someone else to cook and then only eats. If a person is always looking for a way out of work then he is the most foolish of all, losing the battle and defeating his own purpose. We are here to serve more than anyone, and we should compete with each other to serve more.</p>
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<p>Those in the everyday world who try to advance themselves and show off seem to go farther, but in God’s world it is different. Here we try to lower ourselves in humility and meekness, realizing that this is the way to be raised up. The Unification Church has a practical way of life. Instead of putting on makeup, our sisters would rather do the cleaning or cooking. Even if their faces are pale God sees them as more beautiful. Those who serve only themselves, no matter how well they talk, will go in only one direction-powerlessness and smallness.</p>
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<p>I am sure I have set the all-time record of receiving more beatings and persecution than anyone. When the Watergate publicity began, Nixon was berated every day by the media, and within 1½ years he gave up and resigned. Those Americans who attacked me predicted that I would collapse in six months, but now after six years I am going stronger than ever! The <i>New </i>York Times and Washington Post made such predictions, but they realize now that they can’t compete with me. Even the U.S. Congress was defeated. Who made you winners’! Was it me? America God brought that victory. How great God is!</p>
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<p>Twenty-four hours a day the earth makes one revolution, without variation. If it lost even one second every day, what do you think would happen? After millions of’ years, one second each day would mean a loss of many hours, but God made the universe in such a way that even after millions of’ years the earth does not lose one second. God is that precise and meticulous. When God promises that He will be with you, He will do so without even one second’s variation. That is the Unification Church God. If that is the God you believe in then your faith can be precise and continuous, just as the earth never loses even one second. Even if the task is a million years long, the Unification Church faith shall never deviate from it.</p>
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<p>Are you always vacillating in your faith, or always firm and consistent? If you are always faithful then you shall be serving God and restoring your family. You can become a husband or wife in that restored family, and raise great children there. Is that difficult or easy to do? I want you to make your mind very straight right now. For the fulfillment of God you are going to marry and have a home, not for your sake, but for the fulfillment of God’s will. Therefore if God gives you the worst possible mate, that person is the one you deserve, and anything better is a fringe benefit. Whatever God wills, you will. It you lower your expectation to the lowest possible level, how can you be disappointed?</p>
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<p>It is as though each person wears a mask, and the person you thought was incredibly ugly turns out to be the most handsome in the heavenly way. But the person who expects to get a wonderful person will not have that kind of fortune. It is not to be worried about. Just be ready for God’s will and ready to rejoice over anything. If you are like that then there is no way Satan can dominate you.</p>
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<p>Do you really love God? In order to test you, that God whom you say you love will show Himself as a deformed baby who can do nothing for himself, and who needs care his whole life long. If God is testing you, He will be saying through that child, “Why is my laundry always so smelly and my supper so late?” Will you still love that God? Then love your fellow man as you say you love this God; that is how you express your love for God.</p>
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<p>Many American young people want nothing to do with their old parents and put them away in institutions. Is that the heavenly way? Is it the heavenly way to have to wait on them every day for all their needs, even taking them to the bathroom? If a charming young lady takes care of parents in such a loving sacrificial way, will the townspeople complain that she is taking business away from the senior citizens’ homes” Even in America today would that deed by praised as virtuous? Will we in the Unification Church put our parents in senior citizens’ homes?</p>
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<p>When I am very old and need someone to take care of me, if I come to your home will you say you don’t have the resources to take me in and ask why my own children don’t take me in? 1 wanted to do that for my own parents, but they passed away before 1 had completed my responsibility for the world dispensation. You can be better than me in that respect because your parents are still living. The highest virtue is a burning family love and desire to help each other in a sacrificial way. Centered upon such love you can create the warmth of a true home. The tradition we are going to create is the restored family.</p>
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<p>Today American families are going in the opposite direction, so inevitably American homes will crumble. The age-old family system is no longer honored because individuals are looking out for their own welfare instead. Is a new family system needed here in America? At one time you were like today’s young people, concerned solely with your own well-being, but since coming here and being taught and disciplined, you have become different men and women. This new ideology has been implanted in your heart and no one can take it away-even if you are dragged away from the Church. You will be comforting God for eternity, without end. That is our determination.</p>
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<p>Today you may look like a miserable person, but I want you to have pride in it because the time of suffering will soon be coming to a close, and even if you go out seeking suffering in the future it will be hard to come by. My own life is a good example of this. There was a very lonely time when I longed for people to come, even just one person, but now there are too many people and I cannot see everyone. What a change! There is no question that by any standard I have succeeded on he worldwide scale-by American, Korean or any nation’s standard. The same God guarantees that if you pursue this way of life you will have the same success.</p>
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<p>The final destination is the restored family, and in order to accomplish it you have to struggle in two worlds and overcome many barriers. The Cain and Abel struggle within the free world and within the nation and church, even in the Unification Church. The barriers are always there, even in the Unification Church, and you must overcome them.</p>
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<p>Our goal is to do home church-first Cain home church, then Abel home church. Only then will you enter this restored family. In your home church put into practice what you have been taught this morning. Don’t worry whether other people love you or not. If no one loves you, don’t complain, but realize it is because your own love has not been sufficient. You must love more and give more service. God gave love first, He never asked to be loved first. No, God’s way is to love first.</p>
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<p>You will become a victorious person who can enter the restored family by overcoming the barriers and living the principle you have been taught. That shall be your secret to succeed. Once you enter the restored family and look back at the road you have come, you will marvel at the incredible path you walked. Then you will feel much, much happier that you have already arrived at the destination, and exclaim, “It was all worth struggling through in order to meet my heavenly family, and I want to fill my family with the song of love. Just as God loves, I will love. I love my family and the world as God loves them and see them from His viewpoint.” You will reach the position where restoration is finally consummated.</p>
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<p>You can put up a barrier of love which will be greater than that built by unfallen Adam and Even, and there is no way Satan will be able to overcome that fortress once you do so. In this sense home church is really wall-building for your own protection. I struggled in the satanic world to win this weapon, and now I am passing the secret to you so you can do just the same on a limited scale, which is home church. It is your world, and when you use this method to win there, God will acknowledge that your victory equals that over the whole satanic world.</p>
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<p>You might wonder why God can’t freely give, you His blessing without home church, but without it you have not erected that barrier against Satan. There is no guarantee of eternal stability without it. Home church work is like building your castle which Satan has no power to destroy. The more difficult home church is to create, the greater your wall of love will be. Actually, difficulty is all to your benefit. It is a great revolution that Unification Church can do home church, at the same time transcending national barriers, racial or cultural barriers. We can do home church as one unit on the worldwide scale. You and I pass away from earth, but we will not have to finish the unfinished task later by coming back to earth. Once you finish the task here victoriously, you will go to the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven, where you can enjoy life eternally with God.</p>
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<p>Later on when we gather in spirit world won’t you come to see me? Then when I invite everyone to go visit the planets, wouldn’t you like to come? It will be a traveling banquet for eternity. God created beautiful homes out of each planet but there have been no masters living there yet, so when we are traveling I will give them to you. If you worry about being left behind on one planet I want to reassure you. There is no time or distance in the spirit world, so wherever you are you are always with me. This is no dream or fantasy, but reality.</p>
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<p>I am not dumb. I am smart enough to succeed spectacularly in any other field, even politics or business, but I gave it all up to stick to this job because I wanted to reserve this world for you. You are smart too, because otherwise you would not follow me. You know that I am keeping the best in reserve, and since you have tasted a sample you have decided to stay.</p>
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<p>We have to be victorious, and our goal is the restored family because the Kingdom of Heaven shall be built in units of families. When you pass the test on that level then the entire universe will be yours for the asking. If I ask you what kind of husband or wife you would like to enter into heaven with, what would you answer? The worst? You know how you should live here on earth and you will accumulate your assets. By knowing this secret and working hard to reach the goal you will never lose.</p>
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<p>The greater the love and sacrifice you demonstrate, the lighter you will be and the higher you will go. The amount of universe you can conquer is determined by the level of your love, and the spirit world computer is so accurate that there is no miscalculation or deviation. Sometimes you should be longing for God so much that you close your eyes and ears and nose, concentrating your senses to see God. “God, I want to see your face before I sleep, but I didn’t see you today,” and if you cry out, day after day, then suddenly God will appear face to face. That is why God is precious.</p>
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<p>Are you confident to be a champion to build a restored home? What kind of barrier will you build? Where will that love be? Home church on the worldwide level. America is a wonderful place for that reason because here you can find all races and peoples. When you white members knock on the door of other white people they will reject you simply because you are Moonies. Sometimes black people will welcome you, though, just because you are Moonies.</p>
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<p>Instead of visiting homes of other white people, whites would rather go to Spanish homes, black homes, Oriental homes. That’s restoration. How much history has been moving upward! It is difficult to keep visiting 360 homes every day, but in the meantime keep knocking and being rejected. While you are doing that the dawn is breaking. You are home church messiahs. You are going to be a messiah to 360 homes, but then will be elevated to be tribal messiahs, then national messiahs. That’s where you will find the restored family, and finally return to your home town.</p>
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<p>Do you always have to live in the New Yorker? What is the goal? Do you live in home church now? Go to your home church and serve them spiritually and physically and be the contractor for re-creation in every way. How much you sweat and cry for your home church and how much persecution you receive there is the important thing. If you still come back to serve the people after three angry rejections, the people will say you Moonies are impossible and there is no one else like you anywhere in America.</p>
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<p>There is no barrier you cannot break through in order to be a host and hostess in home church. Have the barriers of opposition started to crumble here in America? It is an exciting task, and they will inevitably break down. No matter how gigantic they are, our opponents will crumble eventually, so just go forward fearlessly. Initially Col. Pak felt he could hardly overcome the fierce opposition from the U.S. Congress, but that barrier broke also. What I have been saying sounds like a dream now, but it will happen.</p>
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<p>The barriers in spirit world have been broken already, and all the barriers in the physical world will crumble also, even though many people are opposing us now. The communists have great power, but already their power is being eroded within communist nations. The communists’ worst enemies will be their own children, who will revolt and denounce their own parents’ ideology. This is the power of spirit world moving in every direction.</p>
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<p>It takes time for this to become known, but the dam has already broken. To average people living far away it seems impossible until the water reaches them and then it is too late. Ten years ago I was saying that the dam had broken. You are accepting me at face value and believing in something that seems impossible-that is faith. Twenty years ago I spoke to a small group of members in Korea and said that in time people from England and America and the whole world would join with them to fight for world restoration. They were not only astonished but doubtful, and said among themselves that I was only trying to make them feel better. But what has happened now? Today I am saying extraordinary things and do you think I am only trying to make you feel better? No? Then you are better than the Koreans!</p>
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<p>Home church is our destiny, so pack up to leave the New Yorker. Would you accept my challenge to be victorious champions in home church so we can all rejoice over restored families? All right. Thank you.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">THE FIRST DAY AND OUR LIFETIME</h1>
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<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="2018-06-18T05:09:35+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/18/the-first-day-and-our-lifetime.html" rel="bookmark">June 18, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-18T05:09:35+01:00">June 18, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1979.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">February 2, 1979<br />
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<p>To you and all our members around the world and in spirit world, thank you for your greetings and congratulations on True Parents’ birthday.</p>
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<p>Human history has been one of chaos and upheaval. This has been particularly true since World War I. Through the Divine Principle we learn that this is not a random occurrence but is part of the providence of God, based on the principle of indemnity. History has now come to a point of drastic change. Where will it go from here?</p>
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<p>Many people today think the present chaos will only deteriorate further. The decline of Western civilization has recently become very obvious. As you know, Christianity has been the backbone of Western civilization and that has been crumbling. As a result, unity in the Western families and nations has also been crumbling. It is easy for young people to be pessimistic about the future, but when we understand that God is almighty, then we recognize that God has a plan for turning this drastic decline around.</p>
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<p>We can anticipate that there will be two basic paths- first, that of people who are headed toward destruction; and second, that of God, who is headed toward reconstruction and hope. God is working with people, so He must somehow be making a great effort to bring them to His side. There are two points of view opposing each other in the world- one atheistic or man-centered, and the other theistic or God-centered.</p>
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<p>In the past, people thought that science could provide all the answers for the world, but that hope is diminishing today. Thinking people are realizing that a solution can only come through religion, or a God-centered ideology. Those who put human beings at the top of any solution are losing hope, but the alternative is to put God on top, above everything.</p>
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<p>God reveals His will through religion, and then science is in a position to serve God’s purpose. But religion and science have been like oil and water. It has not been easy for God and man to meet harmoniously in the mainstream of history; there has not been a medium for doing so. Ultimately, one type of civilization will prevail in the world. Will it be a man-centered or a God-centered civilization? If Almighty God does exist, then a God-centered civilization must prevail.</p>
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<p>God must have been working diligently on some solution to man’s problems today. After World War 1, it became apparent that there were basically two opposing ideologies in the world. Now more and more people are realizing that they must choose one or the other; they cannot avoid making a choice. When God sees Western civilization crumbling, it is only natural that He would prepare some answer through the other part of the world-in other words, in the East. Just like our planet turns, so history is turning. Western civilization has passed through its golden age and now dusk and sundown are coming. Logically, then, the other side of the planet must be receiving sunshine now.</p>
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<p>This is proven by the fact that many Westerners are looking to the East for answers to their spiritual questions. America today contains the essence of Western civilization,, it has attracted the best of the Western world. In its short time of 200 years America has experienced a golden age, yet how many of its young people really love America today? How many of them really honor their heritage or truly care for their families? Instead, many are trying to separate themselves from this country.</p>
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<p>Young people have lost their world, their nation, their society and their families. It is as though they are trying to get out of a great fishing net which holds them fast. When I see disco dancers, this is what I see. American young people are lonely in their desperation because their family, nation and world cannot rescue them. Where do they try to go? Many go to the West Coast, to California, as close to the East as they can get. God knew such a trend would begin here in America, so He prepared some solution to come from the East. God is helping people to cut their net and find new power. He is also teaching them that they were caught because they were trying to find a selfish solution to their problems and to escape being linked to anyone else. He tells them that instead they must find the world, nation and a home with parents and become firmly anchored in those systems. God is teaching them an entirely new concept of family, nation and world.</p>
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<p>God has been planning the re-education of America and its young people but the teacher must come from elsewhere. The usual American education will not do. In order to revolutionize life in this nation, God needs a champion but America is not qualified to provide one. God will look for a nation in the East which is linked to America and send a teacher from there. What Eastern nation has unbreakable ties to America? Korea does.</p>
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<p>Korea’s relationship with America is providential, not accidental. Any American policy makers who try to sever America’s ties to Korea will not succeed; Carter has not been able to do it, for instance. Nixon was destroyed by Watergate but was Korea destroyed by “Koreagate”? Certain people are trying to victimize Korea and Reverend Moon at the same time, but have we been destroyed? Why not?</p>
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<p>The people who plotted to destroy Korea and the Unification Church were themselves destroyed, while our movement is still spreading around the world. We fought a battle in the House of Representatives, and now in the last several days we have fought a battle in the Senate as well, meeting every senator. Senator Dole does not understand totally what he is doing, but he is being used in a role of historical villain. But this time, the Unification Church is not alone in our fight. Nine major Christian denominations as well as prominent Jews are joining us in this fight, totaling 10 elements fighting together. Even <i>The Washington Post</i> turned out to be our friend on this issue.</p>
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<p>Senator Dole thought that after the tragedy in Guyana he could become popular by whipping up public opinion against a minority religion or a “cult” But actually he is being manipulated by deprogrammers, becoming the central figure in creating a roadblock for the heavenly cause. Always there are Cain and Abel sides, including the religious world. Two thousand years ago, 900 Jewish zealots committed suicide when they were about to be massacred by their enemies, while on the heavenly side the leading event was the birth of Jesus. In the present time, this event in Guyana is the extreme expression of a satanic religion. On the other hand, the far extreme on the side of goodness is our emergence today.</p>
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<p>Satan waged a broad attack on us through the incident in Guyana, working through Senator Dole to persecute us as a cult. But God is also using this as an opportunity to place the Unification Church among the major religions and separate it from the category of cult. Major denominations have called us heretics but now they are saying they can’t afford to see us destroyed because they know that could happen to them, too.</p>
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<p>I initially said that events in Guyana would not harm us in the long run, but that God can do good even through that tragedy. Now we see it happening in the unity of the major religions around the Unification Church. Through this hearing in the Senate we are being recognized as a significant religion in America.</p>
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<p>When a ball hits a wall, it rebounds with equal force. Events surrounding us are not happening at random but according to the law of indemnity. God had things figured out in advance. Great events on earth always precede great events in God’s dispensation. Three years after World War I, an important heavenly birth took place. Now you accept this explanation, but in those days, no one even thought about interpreting history in that way. At that time, Korea was occupied by Japan and in 1919 they stood up to declare independence. They failed and thousands of Koreans were killed in the uprisings. It was as though Korea was trying to turn itself around before the great event of 1920. The greatest sacrifice was made by Korean Christians, many of whom were martyred.</p>
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<p>My home town was Chungju, in what is now North Korea; it was a very Christian town. As a result of the uprisings, the Japanese allowed the Christians to gather to worship in the largest church and then they set it on fire, trapping everyone inside and killing them. I was born one year after the independence uprising. Chungju was the town where the most Christians were martyred. The Second World War erupted as I reached 16 years of age, beginning with the war between Japan and China. In 1945, when I we’ 25, the war ended.</p>
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<p>When I was 30, the Korean War broke out, lasting three years. That was a worldwide event with 16 nations sending troops to fight in Korea and combat communism. There is no parallel to this in all of history. That was one event which all the free world could rally around in the fight against the God-denying ideology of communism. This was one truly, “holy war” because God mobilized all colors of skin to die side by side. This was a greater event than even the martyrdom of first-century Christians, because America, in the position of the Roman Empire, took the initiative to invite all free people to participate in the defense of Korea. It was as though the Roman Empire had invited 16 nations to come defend Israel 2,000 years ago.</p>
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<p>Colonialism before World War I was a struggle for land After World War I, the nationalistic movements fought a war focused on human beings. For instance, the Germans and Japanese declared they were superior races. One war remains and that is the war for God-to decide who will possess Him.</p>
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<p>To win this war for God, you must be superdenominational, transcending national barriers and race. In this respect, the Unification Church has great dimension; we think of all races as one family, all nations as one nation of God and all religions as one under God. On the other hand, other religions claim God is only with them. This ultimate war for God has been declared, with the Unification Church on one side, and all other religions on the other.</p>
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<p>Our battle in America is a religious one because all other religions have joined to try to discredit us in the past. But we are trying to awaken the conscience and righteousness of the people. Our method now is like guerrilla warfare, and we have only our brains and hard work to convey truth. Using our bodies as bullets, we are pushing forward in New York, on Capitol Hill, and throughout America, and finally we will have a collision with communism. Then things will turn around 180 degrees.</p>
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<p>We represent the absolute goodness of heaven and we have been oppressed by evil, but the heavenly power will keep pounding and turn evil around. The turning point in history has to come, and it is now at hand. The Unification Church has been chosen for the part in turning evil to goodness. To reach this level, I have gone through all the misery of the world from the very bottom. Many people are amazed at what I am doing today because they thought I would be destroyed a long time ago; they never thought I would survive.</p>
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<p>History is not run solely by people; God won’t allow that. Noah Korea thought it could conquer South Korea easily, but it could not. The communists have tried to pressure America and make Korea another Vietnam, but some greater power prevented it. There is a tug of war going on now between the communist bloc on one side, and America, Korea and Japan on the other. There has to be a strong champion pulling on the side of righteousness.</p>
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<p>The communists’ goal is always clear-world domination-and they are united in that purpose. But the nations on God’s side are divided and uncertain. God cannot allow this situation to continue, so He has raised up Reverend Moon and the Unification Church to regroup the forces in the free world and win against communism. The communists seem to be winning, gaining more territory and people every day, but we are winning spiritually. We are not alone, for the entire spirit world is with us. Which population is bigger- spirit world or the people alive today?</p>
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<p>God is watching this tug of war and eventually He will judge who has won. We are on good speaking terms with that judge! God is saying now that He wants us to prove how much we love mankind and show Him that our love is greater than the communists’; then He can give us the victory.</p>
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<p>God is sending us out to home church, to the very family units the communists are trying to destroy. We are making the home the building block of the Kingdom of Heaven. The communists know they must destroy two targets-the church and the family-in order to conquer society. But God’s side is the champion for both home and church in our system of home church. We are now approaching the terminal of God’s dispensation.</p>
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<p>Home church is your launching pad. If you are a powerful rocket, but you have a weak launching pad, you cannot take off. Receiving persecution will strengthen your foundation enough to withstand the millions of pounds of thrust you need for launching. This world must quickly turn 360 degrees but what will its axis be? Home church. Only Reverend Moon can make this kind of dramatic statement. Could anyone else give this dispensational message?</p>
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<p>God has a great sense of humor. His most important message has been revealed through Reverend Moon, who has been accused by society of incredible things. Good news always begins from within enemy territory, however. World War II ended when good news came from enemy territory and Japan surrendered. Our good news will come when our critics in the government, the media and the established Christian churches say that they surrender to us. Then our territory can be guaranteed.</p>
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<p>Senator Dole’s campaign has been a blessing for us because it has brought good news from <i>The Washington Post </i>and from the denominations that have fought together with us. Public opinion has knocked so loudly on Senator Dole’s door that he is backing down. Is this the first time such news has come or does it happen all the time to us? It happened that this campaign in Washington ended the day before the True Parents’ birthday, so the outcome is a birthday present!</p>
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<p>We have seen how important the external world is. In my entire life there has not been one truly good day when there was no torture, no plot or conspiracy against me, but I have overcome all the typhoons in my life and now the entire world has to recognize me as a giant spiritual power. I know you would agree that I could not do this all alone; was God or Satan assisting me? I fulfilled God’s internal dispensation all by myself and the corresponding external dispensation has proceeded up through this recent battle with Congress. This is the time in which the internal and external victories must be united.</p>
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<p>The year 1960 was a turning point in human history, when the True Parents were installed. If established Christianity had accepted them, the dispensation could have been completed in seven years, but instead it was prolonged to 21 years.</p>
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<p>We are like a multi-layered eruption, with the individual at the center, then the family, society, nation and so forth. The inner two layers must be united for the next layer to erupt; the love of God is our igniting power. When each layer is ignited by love, it in turn ignites the next layer. When the individual and family are united and ignited by love, they burst through the entire society. When the family and society are united and ignited in love, the entire nation can be ignited and reborn. Finally, the unity in love of all those levels, of all races and nations, can bring rebirth to the entire world.</p>
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<p>I came to America because it is like a museum of the world, containing all races and all kinds of people. If it could be ignited by the love of God, then the impact would certainly reach throughout the world. Such a change of this world would be enough to change the entire spirit world.</p>
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<p>When you move closer to the central point you eventually reach the very core. Those individuals who are absolutely one with God and whom God is working through have to suffer more and do more because they have to fulfill the highest possible position. If the earth’s axis moves, then the entire world will move. Real energy must be added there to make that happen.</p>
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<p>The people summoned by God will be asked to do more and show the greatest devotion. That has always been true in history. God’s people have suffered most and made the greatest sacrifices. I started this process at the very core, ignited by the love of God, and pushed on to each stage, bringing rebirth to the nation, world, and eventually the entire universe.</p>
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<p>Jesus had a showdown with Satan at the beginning of his ministry, during his forty-day fast in the wilderness. Jesus was victorious over Satan’s three temptations but it says in the Bible that Satan just withdrew temporarily, not permanently. Satan’s plan was to attack Jesus when he started on the road to the family and tribal levels and finally Satan won on the national level through the crucifixion. Satan’s power destroyed Jesus physically but God’s power resurrected Jesus spiritually. That is how God works.</p>
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<p>Simply speaking, am I teaching you to enjoy life and have the best of everything, or to do the hardest, most difficult work? The satanic world also wants to mobilize people, but they do it at gunpoint, forcing people to sacrifice themselves and their families. But God wants His people to work voluntarily, taking up the cup of sacrifice on their own.</p>
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<p>Is there someone with a whip forcing you to fund raise and witness? You can run away any time and Satan is always trying to encourage you to do Just that, but even if deprogrammers come to take you, you try to run back to this way of life. Satan offers all kinds of bait to entice you, like the love of your parents or your friends or your children. We face temptations every day. This explains why the Bible says that those who have the burden of families will suffer more; it is because Satan has more bait to offer them.</p>
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<p>Handsome men are bait for our beautiful sisters, since so many of our brothers are thin and pale-looking. As soon as you hear me talk about the Blessing you get excited, but then I tell you to expect to receive the most difficult, unattractive husbands. When you hear that, do you feel you want to leave?</p>
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<p>I have not been walking this 21 -year course alone, but all of spirit world has been behind me. Sometimes I try fiercely to drive them away and have privacy but they never leave me alone. They keep asking me to do things for them. The spirit world of America wanted me to do something about this nation and they were very persuasive, saying: they could offer representatives of the whole world in one nation. I told them I would go to America on the condition that they bring white people, yellow people and black people into unity with me and then I could move the world. They assured me it would happen and now we see that phenomenon occurring.</p>
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<p>The spirit world has been helping the demand for minority rights in America. Spirit world is telling people that they are all equal and must unite as brothers and sisters. Minority rights are a popular issue in this country; spirit world cannot allow them to be swallowed up because of what they promised me. Besides, I am not a white man, you know!</p>
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<p>A new phenomenon has started in America since I arrived, with parents kidnapping their own children. Parents are thinking on a horizontal level; they can’t understand how they could give their children so much and then see them want to follow a yellow man. But you came to me without thinking about my color. You hear about an ideal for the world and you are ignited with a new purpose in life. Blue eyes are the color of clean water, but blue water is not very deep. When water is very deep, it looks dark; when you see my eyes, you see immeasurable depth. You want the message of depth. In summer my skin is so dark that it is almost black, but it still looks good to you.</p>
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<p>The Western way of demonstrating love is often superficial, like a fly tapping the wall. Korean couples don’t give each other a quick kiss when the husband leaves for work for instance, but there is a depth of communication as the look at each other before he leaves. The Western way is very open, with the wife chatting about the day and handing her husband his lunch. But a Korean wife is always a few step behind, as though she were shy, and her husband has to turn to look at her. As he walks away, she looks after him until he disappears and she might say a tearful prayer. Their relation- ship is almost mystical.</p>
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<p>The time has come when you can understand the taste of such love and when you taste that kind of love in the Orient you don’t want to come back to the tasteless Western way The Orient has some mysterious areas which cannot be expressed in words. I am a puzzle to Americans and thought they study and analyze me, they cannot measure me. You too are trying to size me up, but there is an infinite quality about me that you cannot digest.</p>
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<p>I speak for hours at a time each Sunday and at leaders conferences, but I never run out of things to say. Do you feel some charm from me? But I am also very fierce. You Westerners have such big eyes that no one will be really afraid when you get mad, while my eyes are so small that you don’t know what is happening inside and you tremble when I get mad.</p>
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<p>But no matter how mysterious and deep I look, if there were no love in me I would be like the desert. The sweetness comes from love. In our church life, there is a bitter, difficult side but every one of you has tasted the sweet side of love here also. Do you feel drawn to me? Once you taste the sweetness of love, even if you are criticized or pushed out, you cannot separate yourself from me.</p>
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<p>God is a master fisherman and He is very wise. The greatest bait God offers man is love and truth. You and I may both say “love,’ but the quality of what we mean is very different. The love of Satan’s world is self-centered, while God-centered love is always unselfish. That is the fundamental difference.</p>
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<p>You know that today is True Parents’ birthday, but I haven’t even tasted breakfast yet!</p>
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<p>The entire history of mankind since Adam and Eve had to be indemnified before restoration could be complete. Historians recognize the many great events that happened in history but they have never understood the reasons for them. Only in the Unification Church can you find the explanation. Western civilization is on a march of death today, with the older people in front, middle-aged people next, and the young people right behind them. God is chasing that crumbling civilization in order to turn the people around. Young people are at the back of that march, so God is able to reach them first to turn them in a different direction.</p>
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<p>America’s young people are rebellious and they mistrust older people, but God is also working through that. That attitude makes it easier for Him to turn them around. God is creating an environment in which young people are searching for ideals and can easily join religious movements. Young people in America have tried everything, even “streaking,’ but they haven’t found ultimate happiness. They realize they are behaving like animals and they long for some purpose and value. When people are longing for some ideal, God can more easily work in their lives.</p>
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<p>Many people in the drug and free-sex culture are in despair, but then they hear about a stranger from across the ocean who is bringing new hope. I found people here entangled in a huge net and started ripping it apart to let them out. After meeting me, many people feel free and are able to sleep well at night for the first time. When I first came to America I knew the people here would feel that I didn’t love them as much as the Korean and Japanese members. That was the first test I encountered. But then the Americans discovered that no one can work harder than I can and that I gave the hardest tasks to the Koreans and Japanese, demanding that they suffer the most for the sake of America.</p>
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<p>At one time, I was persecuted and tortured by Japanese people, but now I don’t feel they are my enemies; I truly feel a father-son relationship with them. When I ask for something to be done, they absolutely follow my instructions, without adding their own interpretation. They are absolutely loyal and trusting.</p>
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<p>You know now that I truly love America. You have been liberated from the Western march toward death and now you are going back to save your family and nation. The parents have been going on in their old direction, but all of a sudden they see that their children aren’t behind them anymore and instead have become Moonies! Then they turn to deprogrammers to kidnap their children. Some people have tried to draw a parallel between the Guyana tragedy and the Unification Church, but they are totally confused. Many of them say they would rather have their children taking drugs and having promiscuous sex than see them in the Unification Church. What kind of parents are they?</p>
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<p>You can always make up your own mind about whether to stay or go with your parents; it is truly up to you. Unless you can be victorious over yourself, how can you imagine being victorious over the world? I need people of discipline. We are marching toward life, not death, and we will save all those who are on the march of death. God thinks young people must come first so they can be the prime movers for His morality. Is that the right way of thinking or the evil way?</p>
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<p>When you join the Unification Church, your concepts of life, family, society and nation, the world and God all become different. Sometimes you may wish you had never heard of the Divine Principle. But even if you wish you could deny this understanding, you have to conclude that the world has no other hope than this. America is suffering and going the way of death, and without the Divine Principle it has no way to survive. Every year for 20 years I have been paying indemnity for the sake of all mankind, and I can tell you it is all done. There is no more debt to be paid; therefore, no one can stop me. I can succeed here in America, no matter what.</p>
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<p>Americans will realize that they definitely need me; when that time comes, I will leave America. I have much more territory to cover for the sake of the world. We have missionaries in 120 nations and I will meet them on their battlefields. I know when I visit them that I will find them being persecuted and enduring suffering. I will go and vindicate them and they will be victorious. Americans will want me back and <i>The New York Times </i>will say that America’s young people need me. When Africans read that this very man who is in so much demand in America is actually in Africa helping their countries, how will they feel?</p>
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<p>Today I want to tell you that you should plan your entire life. There are three stages in our adult life: the years of 15-30 are the formation stage; 30-45 are the growth years; and 45 and beyond are perfection. This is why since 1965 I have been completing my foundation in Korea, Japan and America. My 15 years from 45-60 have been my era of consummation, when I have been finishing my responsibility. I gave every ounce of energy for that purpose.</p>
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<p>I made up my mind that I would be number one in every challenge: in eating less food, sleeping less than anyone, working harder and criticizing myself the harshest. In these respects, I set world records. Not only God’s world welcomes me, but the satanic world has to welcome me and surrender to me.</p>
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<p>After the Washington Monument victory, I declared plans for the Moscow rally. Because I have said it, you know I will do it; even without your being aware, preparations are going forward. The worst enemy of communism today is Reverend Moon, not America or even Ronald Reagan. The communists know that my victory means their defeat, so they are trying to stop me now by influencing the American government. This is the internal reason behind all these confrontations with government authorities.</p>
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<p>No one in America can outdo me in terms of religion, for no other religion has come this far. If American young people are really thinking deeply and with strong conviction, would they choose the Unification Church, or some established denomination? Do you like being Moonies even though people persecute you?</p>
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<p>When we do normal things like everyone else, such as sing and dance, people are surprised. But soon people will realize that the Moonies are outdoing them in every area. Then they will start imitating what we do. When people meet Reverend Moon’s disciples, they realize that they are the brightest American young people and that someday they will be in the national leadership. The world will know soon that the American government is making a grave mistake by persecuting Reverend Moon and his disciples; the nation should have supported us instead.</p>
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<p>World opinion will turn to support me before America supports me. Soon ambassadors will be sent to invite me to their native countries. America is the slowest to awaken to the new truth; other nations-and even the communists have already realized my significance. One after another, God will remove from office the unrighteous legislators; the makeup of the legislature will change. In time, Congress will take the position of supporting and welcoming me. That pattern has been seen in Korea.</p>
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<p>I was viciously opposed in Korea but during that time I laid the foundation so that eventually I had to be welcomed. This also happened in Japan and it will happen in America. When America opposes me, it gives the rest of the world the opportunity to rally around me quickly. Minorities in America are already starting to support me. When one side attacks us, God always prepares another side to give us support.</p>
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<p>In another year I will be 60; this year coming up is like the grand finale of God’s dispensation unfolding on earth What kind of world would we have today if I had never been born or had never taught this Principle? Could you have united East and West into one culture? Could you have seen God’s precise plan without me?</p>
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<p>In many cases, the events I am predicting sound like a dream but they will be fulfilled eventually. Is there a foundation of logic to them? If it were not so, then you would not follow me; you are people of logic and conscience. American scholars will want to study me; already many are writing about me. Are you fortunate or unfortunate to have met me?</p>
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<p>The weather today is very cold; when you came here yesterday for first-of-the-month service and also today, you had to walk some distance from your vehicles in the dark. I’m sure you were shivering from the cold. It is human nature to ask why I bring you out on a morning like this, but somehow you don’t want to criticize me or complain. Instead you thank me for giving you something to overcome. Did I instruct you to thank me? Who mad’ you think that way? Only the power of God could do it.</p>
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<p>This is unprecedented in history and anyone trying to stop it will work in vain. It is an amazing thing, but those who tried to kill me in prison in the past have all died while I am still alive and going strong. Congressman Fraser is another example. He was a powerful committee chairman in the House and tried to use his power to destroy me, but he was defeated in his bid for re-election However, when he was trying to incriminate us, even our own members doubted we could win.</p>
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<p>The battle on the front line is always neck-and-neck For you to be victorious soldiers of Heaven, I must send you out on the front line. This is why in 1978 I declared that New York was the front line and when the victor, comes, the front line soldiers will get the honors. The victory doesn’t come in an office or in the headquarters, but on the battlefield. Our front line is home church. In the last 45 years, the entire course of the dispensation has been set, and now I am giving it to you, asking you to finish in seven years.</p>
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<p>I shed a huge quantity of tears and went through tremendous ordeals, but that is how I met God. That is why I have to be very precious in God’s sight and why I cannot be destroyed. God always knew the final goal and knew there was a great possibility of human beings failing. Many prophets in history received special dispensation from God, yet they failed; so God put me in the same position to see what I could do. If I had failed, then Satan would have laughed and scoffed at me; then God would have had to be silent and would have had no way to vindicate me. He would have had to agree that His champion had failed. That’s why I never wanted to be defeated, for my defeat would be God’s defeat.</p>
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<p>One after another, I received severe tests and yet I always won the victory. When I first came to America, I could not reveal my plans to my closest disciples, or even to Mother. I was very serious. I always thought about how we could indemnify the sins of America in the shortest possible time and clear away its debts. The real dispensation here in America began when I was granted permanent residency; that happened April 30, 1973. The consummation of my victory came on September 18, 1976. I shook the entire country in 3½ years, and it would never have happened unless the power of God was working.</p>
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<p>Everyone, even Congress, has to recognize that I am victorious and successful here. The next 2½ years, until June 1981, will be your final battlefield, your final opportunity to really help my work. The era of “guerrilla warfare” is over; now an all-out offensive is being waged. It is up to you whether America will be the hope for the Kingdom of God on earth. Otherwise, it will be the kingdom of hell. I want you to understand that your most important qualification is to become trusted by me, as much as I have become trusted by God and you. You know you can trust me.</p>
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<p>All this inheritance can be completed in seven years-3½ years as a single person and 3½ years as a couple. That is your responsibility. When you restore your family, together you shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven. You come to me and I chase you out to the world, just as Jacob had to go to Haran. In 21 years, he restored his family and acquired wealth and then returned to Canaan. In the same way, you go to restore Cain-type home church and the Abel-type home church and then return to Heaven. That is your destiny.</p>
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<p>Jesus’ mission was the same. God sent His son to the satanic world to create a cain-type and Abel-type tribe, and enter the Kingdom with his family. If Rome had united with Israel at that time, the whole world would have become one. This is why Christianity moved from Israel to Rome, going to Western civilization first, then moving around the world and returning to the Orient where it originated.</p>
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<p>There are profound parallels today between Israel and Korea. Israel is surrounded by hostile Arab nations, and Korea is one anti-communist nation surrounded by overpowering communist nations. The two countries must be united. Who shall play the major role in building this unity? It is America. Judaism is the foundation stage, Christianity is the growth stage, and the Unification Church is the completion stage. America is the representative Christian nation. If Christianity dies in America, however, there would be no foundation upon which Israel and Korea could be united, so God sent me from Korea to awaken American Christianity.</p>
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<p>The fact that the Senate hearing lasted three days was providential. I anticipated that such an event would occur; according to the Divine Principle this is how we can move to a higher level. The time has come for congressmen and senators to know the will of God. You can help open their eyes.</p>
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<p>You will go through all kinds of twists and turns in your life, but ultimately where will you go? Use your life to liberate the world. You must create a new tradition for American young people and nurture them in it. You are the moving force to reveal the new culture for America. If American youth won’t do it, no one else will. God created America for one purpose and this is the time when it must be fulfilled.</p>
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<p>Is it difficult or easy to bring this nation to salvation? Of course it is difficult but we must give an extraordinary degree of effort. Are you the central hope for America’s salvation, or are you heretics? If you are to be America’s salvation then you must follow my path. Since our cause is right, do not retreat until God seals our victory. God will let Satan sign that paper of surrender first, however, approving you as a victorious son and then God will sign.</p>
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<p>Satan has attacked me in many different ways, but each time he had to surrender. Satan did his absolute best to defeat me but he recognizes that he cannot win over me and says that I am indeed a champion. In order to inherit my victory, you must be spiritually one with me, not a son or daughter in name only. My own children are the same; unless they go spiritually parallel with me, they will not inherit the Kingdom, in spite of their blood relationship with me.</p>
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<p>The split between parents and children never comes all at once, but accumulates bit by bit through one word of complaint, one word of asking too much, one word of disobedience. The worst sins are uttered by your mouth. Even though you might feel uncomfortable or have a complaint, overcome it and the feeling will go away. But if you announce your complaint, it becomes a serious thing.</p>
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<p>If I filled out your test paper from Heaven for you, everyone would say it was unfair, including not only Satan but also God and spirit world. You have to pass the test on your own. You must love your country more than I do. When God sent me here, He clearly told me to love America more than my own country and to make Americans love America more than I do. That is the mandate I am fulfilling step by step.</p>
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<p>Do you know why I didn’t answer my accusers point for point? It was because I had no time; I was too busy fulfilling the overall plan. There is a time limit for finishing a test and you can’t fool around. Once the time is up, not one more minute is granted. I have a 21-year course, not one year or one day more. There was not even time for me to die. I had to overcome a crushing amount of suffering and never yield to death. I plunged myself into the place of death many times, knowing that God could not afford to lose me. I let God worry about me and just plunged ahead.</p>
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<p>You have the mission of saving your country and liberating the world; to do that you must fight harder than I did. It is not easy, I know. Your mouth might be ready to complain, but bite your tongue until it bleeds if necessary to keep your mouth from speaking. Sometimes you must experience that. Of course you will encounter obstacles, and I understand that you yearn for the good times from your past. Your body will become sexually excited; even 2,000 years ago, Jesus taught that such temptation was inescapable. But we are so seriously committed that we will never let ourselves succumb to any of Satan’s temptations.</p>
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<p>You must think that though everyone else may be exhausted, you will still continue, that you will not be the one to give up. Today is a Joyful celebration, not only for you and me, but for the world and spirit world, because I have won over history. Now posterity shall reap my victory. This foundation shall remain forever.</p>
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<p>I just heard that in Korea the central figures of the various denominations are arranging a welcoming rally for me this summer. If that happens, the world will be turned around very quickly. If the established churches open their doors, the Divine Principle can easily unite them. The three seven-year courses are almost done, and this is your final opportunity to give your loyalty, service and love for God and True Parents in completing the victory. If you can do that before 1981, it will be most precious for you.</p>
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<p>Particularly if you succeed in home church and become a tribal messiah, your name will be known throughout history. Once the third seven-year course is over and the door of the Kingdom of Heaven is open wide, all future posterity can meet the qualifications easily because of you. They will have you as their ancestors. That is the authority God wants to bestow on you. In three generations of 20 years each, the work will be finished; that means my generation, your generation and your children’s generation.</p>
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<p>The greatest virtue my own children can demonstrate is loyalty, absolute love and obedience. In that case, they will go freely with me. But if they don’t demonstrate obedience, they will have to go through 21 years themselves, as well as their children. Always three generations are needed for fulfillment. You are joining me in the third seven-year course and if you fulfill in this victory you can indeed become the ancestors of the world race.</p>
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<p>The qualification to become such ancestors is available only once in history. This is your extraordinary privilege; do not lose it but seize it and fulfill it, leaving no regret behind. Are you willing to participate in my ultimate victory? I actually started the home church program in 1978, so by June 1981 it will be 3½ years old. When you first heard about it, it may not have been clear, but every day you are understanding its meaning more deeply.</p>
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<p>I was born for this mission and have lived it and fulfilled it. In the same way, you were born for your victorious work in home church. Through that victory, your victory can go everywhere. It will continue until all heaven and earth become the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<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="2018-06-18T05:10:18+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/18/the-present-time.html" rel="bookmark">June 18, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-18T05:10:18+01:00">June 18, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1979.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<p>No man can predict the course of history. Neither can he predict sickness or disease, or his own death. Nevertheless, all these things are continuously occurring in human history. A man who is heading toward success cannot know at what particular moment failure will set in. Therefore, all people can do is harbor hope and wish for good fortune.</p>
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<p>What might we term the greatest success in one lifetime? There could be many kinds of success. Each nation has a different set of goals in life, and they consider many varied things to be desirable. As Americans, what would be the day you feel truly joyful and successful? There may be a success which brings joy to the individual, or to the nation, or to both, but there are also things which may bring joy to the nation, but not necessarily to the world. If there is an event which brings joy to the individual, to the nation and to the world then it is more valuable than something that brings joy only to the individual or nation.</p>
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<p>Suppose there is an event which brings joy to the individual, nation and world, but not to God. How would He feel? lt might be meaningful to the human world, but have no relation to or meaning for God. Can we look forward to the day which brings joy to the individual, nation, world and also God? Would the day on which World War 11 ended be that kind of universal day? The true day of joy should include not only God but also the angelic world and all spirit world. Otherwise, it would not be complete.</p>
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<p>How would it be if that time of joy for the cosmos lasted not just for one moment or day, but for eternity? lt would be great. If God has a goal or will in history, then God and mankind must be looking forward to the day or moment which will be the culmination of all human history. What day would that be? Let us search to understand. Once it occurs it will be the first and last; that moment could never come twice because once God attained that joy it would last forever. What day would that be? Imagine that somehow you are standing on the moment of cosmic joy-how would you feel? Would you dance and sing?</p>
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<p>What would have the most value in our life? Indeed, love. Then when and where would that love begin? Of course, it begins between two; you know from Principle that there must be give and take between a subject and object for love to exist, so love begins between God and man. In what kind of setting can love begin? At the moment of perfection of Adam. Can Adam perfect himself alone? What does he need? He cannot reach perfection alone; the perfection of Eve must accompany it. The moment love begins is the moment Adam and Eve become perfected and united with God. Imagine you are present at that very moment; how would you feel? Would it be a happy moment?</p>
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<p>What is the point of origin of each individual? He is born in the love of his natural parents. Was your life the beginning point, or was a love which came before your life the beginning point? Love is the beginning point. Every individual’s life began in the love of his natural parents. That’s a happy moment, but because of the fall of man we are not happy. That love was not truly lawful love. We know that illicit love marked the beginning of history.</p>
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<p>Because of the fall, human history did not begin with the love of God. Instead, illicit love marked the beginning of human life. Therefore, the perfection of Adam and Eve could not be found, and of course their union with God could not be found. Therefore, the joyful moment of love never took place because it never found a base here on earth. When the generations of mankind were born it was not out of a joyful love, but rather a sorrowful and stained love.</p>
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<p>We should have been born in a joyful outburst of the love of God, but that never happened. From the very beginning human history was marked by tragedy and sorrow instead of joy. Therefore, our lives have no value from God’s point of view because they have no connection to Him. From the point of view of God’s love, the enemy’s generation is prospering. We were supposed to have been born and raised in the love of God, and consummated our life in the love of God. This sequence should have been enjoyed by all mankind, but instead it was broken down. Mankind has been born in sorrow, grown in the fallen world, and had a tragic end.</p>
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<p>If we had begun our lives in the love of God, it would have been an exciting and joyful life, a life of fulfillment and richness. The love of God was supposed to be a limitless powerhouse. Not only joy but also fulfillment and glory would blossom when life originated in the love of God. The energy of that love would push you all the way through life and more. When Adam and Eve were born of the love of God, a burst of joy must have begun at that moment, but as soon as they separated themselves from the love of God, death, tragedy and misfortune set in, and have permeated human history.</p>
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<p>Since the two human ancestors began their life in a tragic way, what could we expect from their children? When those children became a tribe and nation, nothing but the same tragedy and sorrow would be multiplied. The fall was not only a tragic moment for man, but for God. There His life of sorrow and heartbreak began. History became destined to follow a pattern of sorrow, since the true love of God could find no foundation here on earth.</p>
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<p>Since that base was not found at the beginning of human history, could fallen man find that base themselves, no matter how they endeavored? Even if all mankind joined to sacrifice themselves at one time on the altar, it would still not be enough to set the foundation of true love. No human endeavor could ever bring the base of true love here on earth; the only possibility would be for God to initiate that base on earth. We cannot be vague in talking about the love of God. It is necessary to specify what the true base of that love is. In order to find that base you have to reverse history and climb up again from the very point where that base of true love was lost.</p>
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<p>For whom was true love prepared-the ancestors of mankind, or the descendants of those ancestors? The ancestors must be able to receive that true love and hand it down. Then how far back in history must we climb? We have to go back beyond the moment of man’s fall, and reach Adam and Eve before they were stained. We have to break through the barrier of the fall and go beyond. When we reverse history and get back to the time before the human ancestors tell, then the true ancestors of mankind can be found.</p>
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<p>The problem is one of origin. No matter how many people are alive today, the fallen parents are still the root of history, so in order to start the history of goodness we must have true parents of goodness. In order to establish the base for true love, it is our destiny to reverse all of history and go further back than the point of the fall.</p>
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<p>Since God is trying to remake history from a good and righteous beginning, could the true parents be born in the midst of all mankind, or should everyone be gotten rid of so that those two could be born by themselves? Which way will God work? If the True Parents are coming in the midst of mankind,` are they arriving in hell or heaven? Will God come down to hell and establish His base of love? Would that be fortunate love or unfortunate love? Principled or unprincipled? When Adam and Eve were born the angelic world existed, but no human life other than themselves. They arrived in a brand new house. Did Satan exist when Adam and Eve were born? Does Satan exist in our world today?</p>
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<p>How could True Parents come into this unprincipled world? In order to remake history from the beginning, God disregards the rest of mankind and even Satan. By not recognizing Satan and the rest of mankind, He can begin with one man and one woman in the True Parents’ position. As far as God is concerned, this is a world of dead people. If God acts as if there is no Satan then Adam and Eve must also realize that they are making history from the very beginning. Though Satan’s children fill the world, it is better than not having anyone at all because those people provide material for restoration. Even if satanic people persecute the True Parents, it is still better than being in an empty world. That’s the way God and True Parents think.</p>
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<p>God gives no recognition to Satan and the satanic world, and when the True Parents come into the world they also think that they are starting a brand new world from scratch. Thus, if persecution comes, it is not significant and cannot disturb them. The True Parents know that each day they are coming closer to God and that they cannot do that if they are filled with resentment, frustration and anger. They are drawing closer and closer to the base of true love, and doing so in peace, serenity and tranquility. They are not perturbed by satanic intervention.</p>
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<p>Honeybees store honey in their hive so that they can survive the winter. When they stick their heads into the honey comb to drink the honey they are so intoxicated by its sweet taste that they forget everything else. If you pull on a bee which is drinking honey and its body snaps in two at its thin waist, the bee doesn’t even realize what has happened to it. When you are busy drinking in the love of God you are so intoxicated that even if your body is cut in two at the waist you don’t realize it. In the same way, when the True Parents are moving toward their goal, nothing in the world can disturb them. No event can sidetrack them from going forward.</p>
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<p>If you know completely that such love of God is available and attainable, that the moment has come, would you have absolute courage to surge ahead in spite of any obstacles? One difference between you and the honeybee is this-once the bee’s body is cut in two, it dies, but if you are drinking the love of God when your body is cut in two, you don’t have to worry because God will put it back. if someone removes your body again, God will replace it again! You will never die or be diminished. Satan is trying to tear you in half in order to pull you away from the love of God, but will have to give up because he can’t do it.</p>
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<p>With that formula God is going forward with restoration. When True Parents encounter the activity against them from the satanic world, they feel it makes their work more exciting instead of being disturbed by it. There is no other way the base of true love could be established. If you were in God’s position and heard someone say there was no God, you would immediately stand up and shout, “What are you talking about!” But God can be patient because He doesn’t recognize anyone that is out there. God can be patient because He is not derailed by what fallen mankind may do.</p>
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<p>Any person who would become true Adam or Eve must totally understand God and breathe together with Him, and then no amount of persecution could disturb him. Adam and Eve are forging ahead, building their union with God, and their satanic counterparts are busy trying to disrupt their work. Would God try and drive those people away? No, He would stand back and let it bring more fun and color to Adam and Eve’s life. The entire world will be wild at Adam and Eve, cursing and screaming, but they can remain calm and peaceful and appreciate the interesting diversion. That is the most practical, logical way of restoration.</p>
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<p>In the Divine Principle you learn three reasons why God could not intervene to stop the fall of man. For the same reasons God will not disturb anyone in the path of restoration. Anyone trying to find the base of true love must go through a process of persecution, but he should not be disturbed by it.</p>
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<p>According to the Principle of Creation, Adam comes first and then he restores Eve to perfection. Did Adam in Eden have many candidates among whom to choose his bride? Who created Eve for Adam? If God hadn’t created Eve then Adam would not have had any bride at all. What if God somehow made a mistake and made Eve with only half a face-would Adam say she was unacceptable and ask for another bride? Or perhaps he would decide to give her only half his love. Since God exists in perfection, would He decide to give this incomplete daughter only half-hearted love? Adam had no choice whatsoever, so whether Eve was pretty or ugly, half or two-thirds, wouldn’t matter. lt would be out of the question for Adam not to unite with her.</p>
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<p>What if Eve was created very short? Then Adam would have more fun because he would pick her up to kiss her. Would Adam only give her small love because she was so small? Shouldn’t Adam love her wholeheartedly? If God had extra material and made Eve like a giant, would Adam protest to God? Even if Adam wanted to protest, there were no other alternatives available. God would sternly say, “If you want love, there is your bride. With her you can find your true love.”</p>
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<p>Adam was in a situation where true love was unaffected by what kind of bride he had. The important point here is that true love was not determined by the external appearance of Adam’s bride. Once true love was experienced through that channel, external appearance was unimportant. Beauty and ugliness never mattered. True love can make up for any disfigurement or deficiency and even add extra appreciation.</p>
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<p>Do you imagine that Adam and Eve were attractive or ugly? A man’s sexual organ fulfills the holy purpose of love, but also the most menial task of eliminating body waste. Two extremely different purposes are fulfilled by one organ. Love is not only expressed through external beauty. Maybe you thought Adam was very handsome and Eve very beautiful, but it could have been totally opposite. Adam might have been funny-looking, with a lump on his forehead, or been fierce-looking. My point is that whether a man is handsome or a woman beautiful doesn’t make any difference because true love will make up for it. Love will supplement any deficiencies.</p>
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<p>A woman needs a man to be married, and a man needs a woman. I know there are some women who look in the mirror and are discouraged because they think no man could ever like them. I am telling you not to worry. There will be some man who sees beauty in that particular ugliness. It is difficult for men and women in the fallen world to find the ideal mate, but the Unification Church has no problem because we have mass weddings. The average person doesn’t have hundreds of candidates to select his mate from, but I can tell who would be perfect for you. Looking at you now I can see who would be good with whom. Maybe you envision an ideal mate in your mind, but then when you look at the woman you were matched with you wonder if this could really be her; positive and negative charges collide in the atmosphere and lightning is created. Does a lightning bolt have a choice about where on earth it will strike? It strikes wherever the right conditions exist. There is no hesitation or choice.</p>
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<p>When men and women meet it is like a positive and negative charge colliding, and there is no looking left or right. Doves always live as pairs, and when they are exchanging feelings of love they always sing their love. If even birds do that, Adam and Eve would also express their love somehow-maybe not with gentle cooing, but shouting and bellowing whaa whaa whaa!</p>
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<p>When lightning is created, thunder booms through the air. When Adam and Eve’s love collide, not only lightning would spark but thunder would resound throughout the universe. With this kind of love, do you think negative articles in the media would matter to them? Would persecution perturb the lightning of their love? No, their love would penetrate all that and ignite it. First love is the most intense; that is the true love. First love has the power of dynamite.</p>
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<p>In recent years it has become acceptable in America for engaged couples to try out living together before they get married. If a salesman is selling something, he offers a free trial to the customer. Now even men and women try a trial run to see whether they like living together. Do you think Adam and Eve would have had a trial run to see if the true love of God would make them happy? When they meet, that’s alpha and omega and there is no more. Adam was meant for Eve and Eve tor Adam for eternity. Period.</p>
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<p>The strongest, most heartfelt love of total dedication has the power to overcome any unrighteousness and penetrate any persecution. Once you finally meet true love, everything else is solve. Rejection and opposition have no more power over you. All the storms of history happen below the line of the but once you penetrate above that line and go up above the storm clouds there is tranquility and peace and nothing will disturb you.</p>
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<p>Suppose we have True Parents on earth who represent such absolute love. How much joy would that give to God? The normal process God expected was for Adam and Eve to grow in the garden of Eden, reach perfection and be united in love. But the fall took place and God struggled for thousands of years to restore man instead. When the True Parents are victorious and conquer the fallen world and reach the ultimate goal, do you think it would bring Him more joy than if He had seen the original Adam and Eve united in love for the first time?</p>
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<p>You enjoy action movies with lots of thrills, narrow escapes and romance more than you like dull movies about everyday life. That is why I saw that for Adam and Eve and God the fallen world is better than having nothing except themselves, even though it is a world God does not recognize. That world lends more excitement. How proud and joyful would Adam and Eve be to emerge victorious from the fallen world? The first Adam and Eve would have been very proud parents, and how much more proud would the True Parents be at winning victory?</p>
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<p>When God can meet victorious Adam and Eve, would they come together casually and with no special interest, or would they rush together like speeding bullets? The love they have inside would fly ahead of them to meet God, and with the speed of light they would come together into one. What would God say to them? “The fallen drama of mankind was stimulating and challenging, and now I can even be glad about it. There was an exciting drama in overcoming it.”</p>
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<p>Even if God could have come down and made a new Adam and Eve after the fall, there would be no joy for Him in doing so. The religions which have been God’s instruments of restoration have endured tremendous suffering and persecution, but looking back in the end, those events make our history more colorful. When restoration is finalized, the trials of the past lend color.</p>
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<p>Where would God meet the ‘True Parents here on earth? On the street corner or in the subway’! Suppose they met God on a beautiful lawn The very grass would be ecstatic at being the setting for such a summit meeting. Even the things of creation would feel honored at providing the decorations for the meeting of God and the True Parents. Suppose they met in the autumn, amidst the colorful leaves. Even though those leaves had come down from the trees, they would feel they had the greatest honor in all creation.</p>
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<p>Suppose the True Parents met God while standing on top of an ugly-looking rock. No matter how ugly it looked, the rock would feel it was the greatest of all because it provided the throne t’or their first meeting. That meeting place would remain forever as holy ground for all mankind, the holy ground of love. Even if it was an ugly, cold-looking rock, it would be cherished. What if they met on some ice; could even ice become holy ground. What if it melted and then vaporized into clouds? It still wouldn’t matter. The very ground where the ice was located would be holy ground.</p>
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<p>Imagine that Adam was wearing rather ragged clothes at that meeting. Even those smelly, worn-out clothes would feel they were more precious than jewel-encrusted robes and be proud that they adorned Adam and Eve on the day of their summit meeting with God.</p>
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<p>The moment when the True Parents meet God is the greatest moment. If there were many people around to see this first meeting take place, would they be excited and proud that they witnessed that great moment in God’s history? How would you feel if you were children of the True Parents, having your origin in their love? Would you be proud of the special origin of your life? You could say that of all the people who have come and gone from the earth there was none like you. Could that be compared to acquiring some piece of property or ground? Could it be compared in value to the entire territory of the United States!</p>
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<p>The heirs of the True Parents would feel they could sacrifice anything necessary to preserve that great honor. How much the people in the present and the future would be envious of that position. When they are not only born in the True Parents’ love, heirs also raised in that love, what could their happiness be compared to? Every day they would be elated in the realization that they are children of the True Parents. For them it would not matter if people ridiculed and scorned them when they went out witnessing and fund raising. They would have too much to be jubilant about to be affected by that.</p>
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<p>Why do you go to home church? Because you want to bring this ecstatic joy and privilege and share it with someone. The people will be envious of what you have and want to be part of the True Parents’ love through you. That’s home church. Wherever you go, people will want to follow, whether you go east or west, or even to the bathroom. If you don’t sleep for 24 hours, they won’t want to sleep either. That kind of person is surely entitled to share your joy, and part of your joy will become his. Whether you live or die physically won’t matter.</p>
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<p>I know you share that desire to be with me wherever I go. If you really feel that then we are connected and can become one. Home church is the means to make that connection. Home church people will envy you. Will the True Parents be here on earth for millions of years, or for a limited time? The odds against a certain person meeting the True Parents are overwhelming. Human history has been continuing for millions of years, through ups and downs, wars and tragedies and corruption, and now is the moment when the True Parents have emerged. But through some fortune you have come to the very point where the True Parents are. That such a meeting should take place is simply incredible. As soon as you realize the meaning of this great opportunity, would you jump into it? When you realize it, all your five senses will melt into it.</p>
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<p>Suppose some ungodly power tried to scare you away. Would you be driven away, or would you be so intoxicated, like the honeybee, that even if your body was torn away you wouldn’t let go? This kind of historical encounter is a super miracle. The odds against it are so great that they are inconceivable. The very grass that provided the setting for the True Parents’ meeting with God would feel it was the greatest of all creation; how much more elated would you feel when you know that you are living and working together with True Parents? Would you take it easy and allow yourself to be led away? If every moment of the day you have this realization that you can live and breathe with the True Parents, speak and laugh with them, then when you come back from working in the day you want to go back to the True Parents’ home.</p>
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<p>This is the time that True Parents and God and all creation feel joy together, and you happened to bump into it. You can become inseparable from the True Parents and an extension of them. When you are welded to them it doesn’t matter if people curse you as being Moonies, and you can even ask tor more. Their persecution will sound like a sweet song in your ears because you are so intoxicated with the joy of meeting True Parents. isn’t this logical”</p>
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<p>What is the real meaning of the Unification Church? When you meet the True Parents you become true children and then true husband and wife. What else do you need? When you become an integral part of the True Parents’ family, they won’t want to travel by themselves, but will bring you along. Will that be hell or heaven? That is the highest heaven of the Kingdom of God and you are part of the royal family of God. How great you are then! Can you insignificant Moonies become the royal family of God?</p>
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<p>With this realization would you live with joy and with dancing, or be sad and gloomy? Your joy would be so great that tears would run down your face because your elation could not be contained. Other people might think we cry out of misery, but we know it is out of joy.</p>
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<p>When you find the True Parents you find not only parents but your family, nation and world, plus your God and eternal life in heaven. There is so much meaning and substance in this that the entire spirit world has to be mobilized also. If one beautiful woman happened to stumble on this moment of time but she was so captivated by her own beauty that she decided that she wouldn’t gain anything here, her ancestors would wish that she were ugly so that she could stay instead of being concerned with herself.</p>
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<p>That opportunity is not just for you. It is for all your ancestors as well, and what you do affects them. If you are so ugly that you can’t stand to see yourself in the mirror but you can become welded into one with the True Parents, your ancestors will be jubilant and brag about how beautiful you are to those other people whose descendants rejected this moment</p>
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<p>With all the shouting and dancing going on, there will be a great commotion in spirit world. God would walk out to see what is happening, and then He could not resist joining in too.</p>
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<p>Even if you were thirty or forty years old and still are not married, it wouldn’t matter as long as you had the opportunity to be one with True Parents. Whether you have beautiful clothes is insignificant because they are not the clothes you will wear for eternity. God will give you a garment so dazzling that you cannot even imagine it. Now you want to make yourself beautiful with makeup but you can’t do it. But don’t worry. Once you get to spirit world God will give you makeup for your whole body, not just your face.</p>
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<p>You won’t just kiss mouth to mouth but all over, to the soles of your feet. If that is your opportunity then you won’t care about anything else except hanging on to it. If Ted Patrick tries to deprogram you, you will decide to deprogram him instead. To express the joy of meeting True Parents ordinary laughter would not be enough; you would shake with gales and bellows of laughter. In average dancing you move your arms up and down, but in heavenly dancing there is no way you could bring your arms down again. This sounds like joking, but it is not. Every word is meant literally.</p>
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<p>God is like a marksman who has been trying for millions of years to hit the bulls-eye but has always missed. If all of a sudden He hits it, that’s quite a moment tor God. If trying after all these years God decides to try just once more and then suddenly He hits the bulls-eye, would He just fall asleep? Wouldn’t He be very tired after all that effort? At that moment He would forget His position as God, forget His dignity and become delirious with joy.</p>
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<p>The morale of the angels in spirit world has been very low because Lucifer disgraced them, but they have been waiting and hoping, cheering for God to hit the bulls-eye. They have been waiting millions of years also, so the moment He hits the bully the entire angelic world would erupt in cheers.</p>
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<p>Would the tickets be expensive to see God shooting at the bulls-eye? Would people like to witness the fulfillment of history? Suppose thousands of tickets were sold over the years to see God aim at the bulls-eye, but each time He missed. People would get bored and not come any more. Then one day when there aren’t any other spectators perhaps one beggar might decide he has nothing better to do than to watch God’s marksmanship. He will be the only spectator, but if he is there when God hits the bulls-eye then would he be jubilant at seeing the highest moment of human history?</p>
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<p>God would look tor a partner in His elation, but if He saw there was only a ragged beggar would He refuse to dance with Him? Or would He just pull Him down from the stands and dance with Him’! Would they be miserable with each other, or striding along in happiness? If they were walking down Fifth Avenue would they just stay to one side of the sidewalk, or would they stride down the street, calling out to the street, “Why are you so narrow ?”</p>
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<p>Is this convincing and logical.’ Here in the Unification Church we are talking about True Parents and true brothers and sisters, true husband and wife, and true love. Why are you here? No one else ever talked about True Parents. All my life I have been suffering because of the idea of True Parents and true brothers and sisters. Why would an intelligent man commit himself to a concept and suffer for it ? No matter what, I cannot give up the word True Parents because it is so precious. Even if the entire world comes upon me trying to tear me apart, would I look like a desperate, worn-out person? You don’t like to hear the word Moonie, do you? Are you tired out? You say you like it because this is a gathering of Moonies, right? But when people slam their doors in your face you don’t like the word Moonie.</p>
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<p>In Korean the word “moonie” means “pattern”, or design. As Moonies we are the design of the True Parents’ clothes. Also “moonie” can mean consulting together, or discussing with each other. We are always in fellowship, discussing True Parents, true ideals, true family, true nation and true world.</p>
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<p>White and black used to avoid each other, but no more. Here we talk about true love among each other as brothers and sisters and we are all one. There is a Korean woman here who is a doctor, and when I asked how she would like an American husband, she replied, “Fantastic.” This kind of heart and spirit is the proud dignity of the Moonies.</p>
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<p>I can tell clearly what will happen when I go to spirit world. Do you think I will be welcome? Would all the religious leaders come to welcome me? As each year passes, spirit world thinks that the time for my arrival is getting closer and they have committees organized for setting up welcoming procedures. A presidential inauguration requires months of preparation, so how much more will they do in spirit world? They are anxiously waiting for the greatest moment.</p>
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<p>Do you feel that old men are dull and don’t you like them? Do you wish that I would leave you alone instead of pushing you without any vacation? We are talking about True Parents, true sons and daughters, true family, but even though you think it’s real you don’t really feel the true impact of it. If you felt the reality of this to the bone, you could not sit still like this-you would be dancing around and unable to contain yourself. Your enthusiasm would be ready to spill over and you would jump at the chance to be given an order. But now you moan and groan and say that I push you too much.</p>
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<p>Is our life with True Parents real? Are God and the heavenly kingdom real? Have you been living up to that reality? If you work yourself to death it is not enough. If you talk yourself to death, it is still not enough. Have you talked about the Divine Principle so much that your tongue won’t function any more? If your tongue falls out because you talked about the True Parents so much then God will give you a stronger tongue; He has lots of spare tongues! God cannot afford to lose you.</p>
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<p>Maybe you are wondering why I haven’t talked about blessing or matching. Here is a Korean sister who is 36 years old and a doctor, but she never worried about getting married. Now she has a happy family. This sister here is also getting older. If the True Parents are real to you and true love is real to you then you just don’t worry about marriage. There is so much to rejoice over and celebrate that you even forget when your birthday is.</p>
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<p>Even if you forget yourself in praising this great moment, the name of the True Parents, the name of true love and God, still you have not done justice to the moment. When you compare your one body to the value of this time, it is very insignificant. Those of you who have thought even once that Unification Church life was just too much and you were at the end of your rope, raise your hands please. Actually that will mean forgiveness and I will never condemn you. Those who raised their hands are the honest men and women! Those who did not are not honest, particularly those leaders who did not.</p>
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<p>I am a pitiful person in a way because I must trust these weak soldiers in trying to build the kingdom of God’s dispensation. The events and blessings you have bumped into are so extraordinary that as soon as you hear the news you should be electrified. But when you heard the news you stopped and wanted to evaluate it first. You take two steps forward and one backward, and in the meantime you get upset if you think I don’t recognize your hard work. “I have been in the Unification Church all these years and gave the best part of my life, but the Church never recognized me.” I am asking you to jump over all that to the other side. We have to go beyond the level of the fall, but you are fooling around in the middle ground.</p>
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<p>A child should finish elementary school while he is still a child, but you are like a forty-year-old who keeps flunking every day and complains to his teacher about not getting his diploma. You have to finish the course in order to get a diploma. Do you know how precious the present time is, how crucial it is ? Are you spiritually awakened now?</p>
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<p>Do you think I realize the true value of the moment? That’s why I am the only one who is truly crazy about God. I am desperately trying to convey this to you, and you simply have no right to complain. By worldly standards I am a very superior person who has many talents in many fields. I tackle hundreds of things at the same time. I speak well at the same time, don’t 1? That’s why men and women of all colors come here to follow me. If you determine to follow me then do it 100%, not halfway.</p>
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<p>Time is not in your favor. Before the third seven-year course is over, you must finish your course. After the third seven-year course is over I won’t ask you to gather at 6 a.m. or to go out and do home church. This is a precious moment. To come and hear me on Sunday morning is a precious, extraordinary blessing.</p>
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<p>If I were you, sitting out there listening to Reverend Moon, I would not act like you. I would have done something so great and thunderous that all New York would have been shaken. I wouldn’t allow myself any time to rest. Once this present moment passes, it will never return even after millions of years. Once this opportunity passes there will be no more opportunity. The greater the persecution, the greater your opportunity to write a chapter of history. The persecution you receive should spur you on with greater energy. Don’t pay any attention to it but be totally concentrated on fulfilling the goal.</p>
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<p>Put your hand on your chest and think a moment, “Is there really such value here that I can give my life to it? Is my present life in the Unification Church measuring up to that value?” You should repent over not realizing the preciousness of this moment. The present time should be made into a glorious, victorious moment. Turn it around into a proud moment. When you appear before the throne of God you should be able to say proudly to Him, “I have done my absolute best. I have no shame or regret.” You must become a person who can say to posterity, “Look at me and follow my example.” You should be able to say that with pride.</p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">THE SOUND OF THE BELL OF THE MIND</h1>
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<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="2018-06-18T05:08:43+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/18/the-sound-of-the-bell-of-the-mind.html" rel="bookmark">June 18, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-18T05:08:43+01:00">June 18, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1979.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<p>How did you know today was the lunar new year? The Oriental custom of celebrating the new year based on the lunar calendar is thousands of years old. Unlike the West, when the new year comes we always add one more year to our age. So today you are really one year older; happy new year to you!</p>
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<p>When you climb the mountains at night and look down in all directions you can see many sparkling lights. Colored lights always stand out, but bright lights stand out most of all. That is what spirit world sees when they look down on this world of ours. Your mind is like a light in the darkness, even though you cannot see it as such with your physical eyes. An electric bulb has an external shape, inside of which is the tungsten wire which actually lights up. As you know, the actual source of the light is the electricity generated by the power plant.</p>
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<p>The brighter the light bulb, the heavier the wire inside must be. No matter how powerful the bulb is, however, it will give no light until the switch is turned on and the electricity flows. Where is the electricity, inside or outside the bulb? When you are quietly reading a book by your light you don’t see the huge power source that is keeping your light on. The moment the light is turned on the power flows not only in the bulb but down the length of the wire from the power plant. Just looking externally, it might be concluded that the switch is the actual source of power, but the unseen power plant is the actual source. The power plant looks like a factory, with huge generators making great noise. At a hydroelectric power plant a massive flow of water is turning enormous turbines, while at a steam-powered electric plant huge amounts of fuel are burned to run the gigantic machinery.</p>
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<p>If the power plant is far away from the place where electricity is used, some power is lost in transmission. Also, in order for your light to work everything must be in working order. If one little wire is out of place then the light won’t work. Such a bulb is like a dead man whose body exists but isn’t functioning. Our existence can be described in the same terms used for an electric bulb. You can be a person of small wattage or of great wattage and there are many ways you can shine. How many watts are you? It is easy to say you are a million watts, but are you really shining that brightly?</p>
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<p>Have you ever thought about what power resources you have, or how heavy the wire is which connects you to the power plant? Perhaps you feel the wire is so heavy that it is difficult to maneuver. The important thing is that if you have a heavier wire you can draw more electricity. To use a powerful light bulb you also have to have an appropriate socket. We must consider what kind of socket and bulb we are. Are you small like a Christmas ornament light, or a big floodlight from a football field? It can be said that the effort you make every day goes to enlarge your bulb and socket so you can shine brighter and brighter. Is it easy? Also, is it cheap or expensive to do? It is one thing to enjoy benefit from the light, but to become a light yourself and become brighter and brighter is not easy. Often people are just like little lights, but they boast about it nevertheless.</p>
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<p>When a great, bright light is turned on, the lesser bulbs are not needed and can be turned off. I’m sure God has thought about this phenomenon too. God made the sun such a bright source of light that nothing can compete with it. We need electricity only because there is night time. Do you have a greater need of sunlight or electricity? When the sun is shining is it possible to make the day brighter, even if many floodlights are turned on? It is impossible.</p>
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<p>We commonly hear the expression “an enlightened mind.” It is very poetic to speak of the lantern of the mind. Today we are talking about the sound of the bell of the mind. A bell can be a signal of good news or bad news. Our Jives can be compared to light bulbs and to bells which signal news. No matter what kind of bulb you are, someone must switch it on, and no matter how loud a bell you may be, someone has to ring it.</p>
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<p>Who is going to shake your mind? Your mind is not standing still but is constantly active. The mind acts as a watchdog, being satisfied when you do something right, and criticizing when you do something wrong. Have you felt that your mind tries to control you and put the brakes on sometimes? Did your ancestors have minds as well, all the way back to the first forefathers and God? Have you compared your mind to God’s mind? How are they different or the same? If they are the same then you must be God, right?</p>
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<p>The relationship between God and man can be compared to that between the light bulb and power plant. In order for electricity to work there must be a circuit of plus and minus having give and take. If your two eyes functioned separately you would see two images, but instead they cooperate. Your two ears hear slightly different sounds, but they are coordinated so that you perceive one united sound. You have two nostrils, but the sensations of each are coordinated. When there is no blockage between the power plant and bulb, the bulb can receive full-strength power. Therefore, it is important to remove all resistance to the electricity, for it consumes the power of the current.</p>
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<p>One person can be like gold, which conducts 100% of any electricity passing through it, while another may be like wood-no matter how close it is to the source, it cannot conduct any electricity. When I look at you I can see all different purities of gold, different kinds of metal, and some pieces of wood. The power plant would prefer genuine gold, which can conduct electricity without any loss of current. If you are like a wire of pure gold then all the electricity can flow through you to the light bulb and ring the bell.</p>
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<p>If all the current is conducted continuously, the bell could ring for a millennium. Your mind is like a bell which rings when it receives some power. However, there are all kinds of bells-bells of all kinds of material and shapes, some of which are whole and some of which are broken or damaged. Many people don’t know what condition the bell of their minds is in. The bells of people who are doing evil are cracked and broken, and the electricity may reach such a bell but it won’t react.</p>
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<p>All our lives we are constantly ringing our bells. The sound of our bell may resound in the village, or even farther, throughout the whole society or nation. When you are the right kind of bell, everyone listens when you start to ring. On the other hand, if the head of a household has lost dignity and credibility, no matter how loud he rings no one will listen. His own son might feel he is more righteous than his parent.</p>
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<p>Many people have come and gone in history and each of them created some kind of bell while on earth, ringing to the best of their capability. Some of them left a particular heritage or legacy behind them, such as literature, philosophy or art, all of which are the expressions of their ringing bells. If the manifestation of their character has some value, the people who come after them will want to preserve it, displaying it in museums or libraries and so forth. Many individuals have been remembered in a good way by history because they tried to bring forth the central truth.</p>
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<p>What are those people like who remain in history? Are they powerful, rich men of military might? The word saint refers to a person who rang a bell which is listened to by people throughout history, and because people desire to come closer and unite with the ringing of that bell they ultimately create one sphere of culture. This is what we call a religious cultural sphere.</p>
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<p>Who were the saints of purest gold? They were those who taught true character, and above all, true love. A true saint talked not only about true men but about true God. Those who are known as true saints are mostly religious leaders, but why would only religious people be elevated to sainthood? It is because they were concerned with some eternal and unchanging value and with eternal God, desiring to manifest in their lifetime the truth of God, which can never change or tarnish. Those who pursue goals that are limited to life here on earth will pass by unnoticed. The animals live that way, looking after their own well-being and centering only on life here on earth.</p>
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<p>Men live forever, however. The true man must continue in eternal life. The headline news yesterday was about the death of Nelson Rockefeller. If the work he left behind is connected to some central, unchanging value, the reaction to his death will be great. If he had truly served the unchanging purpose of God then the entire nation would mourn him and think his passing was a loss to the whole country. At one time he was Vice President of the United States and before that a longtime governor of New York, but when he died the news was simply that a rich man had died. But ever since Jesus died 2,000 years ago, millions of people over the years have wept at his death</p>
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<p>What is the difference in this situation? Jesus was only an individual, so the difference could only be one of mind. A person’s mind determines his ultimate value. If he is centered on God and the universe and tries to benefit the people by spreading the truth, such a person will be loved eternally. Though we live here on earth only for a short time. we will continue living for eternity and so we must think how to live our life on an eternal basis. If we live and die like animals, what would make us any different from them?</p>
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<p>There are many people in the world who pursue only their own honor and reputation. If someone did great things, not for himself but for America, then his work would be preserved in a museum, but if America were destroyed then the value of what he did would be destroyed with it. The American people would remember him, but what about the rest of the world? Heroes who are respected here in America are viewed as enemies by the communists, for instance, who consider them defenders of capitalism.</p>
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<p>Is there any value in leaving a reputation behind? In one generation a name may be famous, but the next generation may criticize and degrade it; its earthly value changes with time. Nations come and go and men live only a short time, but there is one source and one person who sustains his life for eternity. The best way to immortalize your name and work is to give your life to his incorruptible museum. God is this immortal subject and creator of the universe. Since our minds recognize this universal entity, we always harbor hope in Him and try to follow his guidance and live His way of life.</p>
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<p>Every person wants to leave something behind after he dies. That something could be money, but will it remain for eternity? Money is like any other physical matter on earth and really amounts to nothing. But men remain forever; they can be different The saints of history have made an impact that will never be extinguished because they lived for the central reality which will never be extinguished. We usually talk about four men who were the greatest saints of history. Which of those would hold the central position? Why do you say Jesus” Over the years Jesus has been thought of as the Messiah, but in his own lifetime he was considered a criminal. He looked very miserable in the midst of much persecution.</p>
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<p>What sets Jesus apart from all other religious leaders? First, he said he was the only begotten son of God, and therefore, that he possessed the entire love of God. When you have your first child, he is the center of a tremendous outflow of your love. Those who are not yet married can expect that to happen to them. If human beings feel such ecstatic joy with their first child, what about God? Because God sees His own image in his first son and through him can manifest His image to the entire world, you know. how critical that person is. What should that son do? Does God need only a son? God knew ahead of time that He needed a pair, which would include a daughter. We have to talk about God’s daughter, especially here in America! God will be more accepted in this country when we talk about His only begotten daughter as well.</p>
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<p>A son living by himself would be like a person with one foot. Jesus knew that God was looking forward to having His only begotten daughter, so Jesus looked forward to restoring a woman in that position. This is why the central theme in the New Testament is that of bride and bridegroom. Christians today use incredible logic trying to make the impossible possible, saying that men are in the position of bride as well as women, and not only that but the church as well. What has the church as an institution to do with Jesus’ bride?</p>
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<p>How could Jesus kiss an institution? Is it true that your President is such an institution that he doesn’t know how to kiss? Are great leaders so great that they don’t need to kiss anyone? Jesus was the King of kings; in that sense he was the greatest institution so he should remain single the rest of his life, right? No, he was human and needed an object like all other men. Would he sit on his throne and proclaim the single way of life as the most holy, dictating it to his subjects? Such a teaching would be a crippled teaching.</p>
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<p>Jesus came to fulfill the will of God, and to do so he had to restore his own bride. The entire Christian world is shaken at hearing this revelation, and because of it Christians have called me a heretic. Jesus can hear all this conversation going on here on earth. Do you think he would smile at hearing me say he should have had his own bride, or do you think he remained single because he thought that was the most holy way of life? Who created men and women, and who was Jesus’ parent? God created men and women to become one, to marry and live as husband and wife. That is the holiest relationship of all in God’s creation. Genesis says that God created Adam first and Eve second; God never said “It is good” until after He had created both Adam and Eve. Many religions have advocated a life of celibacy, but the Unification Church is saying that families, not individuals, are the building blocks of the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>Jesus not only said that he was God’s only begotten son, he also denied the world. No matter how beautiful or wonderful the world seemed, it was nothing in the sight of God, so Jesus’ ministry had to begin with a denial of the world. Jesus came as the only begotten son to restore God’s only daughter and make God’s only begotten family, nation and world. Jesus truly occupied the position of central saint because he was the most direct manifestation of God. Would all other saints agree with that? I know you debate among yourselves who is the better Moonie, so wouldn’t the saints do the same? Who will decide ? This cannot be decided by popular vote, but only by the first cause of the universe. Would God judge according to what would make the others happy, or according to His own truth?</p>
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<p>What is God’s central theme, the one which would completely melt even His heart ? God doesn’t need money or power. When Jesus came and pronounced himself as God’s only begotten son, it moved God as no other sound did before. Many righteous people had come on earth in the 4,000 years before Jesus, but if God had asked Jesus, “Do you think you are greater than Moses and Abraham and all the others,” Jesus would have replied that he was.</p>
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<p>How could he prove it to God? Jesus would have told God he could pass any test because his faith was absolute. He would have said that he could never be destroyed; if he were cut in ten pieces then there would be ten pieces of only begotten son but he could not be destroyed. Even if his finger were cut off it wouldn’t protest, but would say even though it was separate it was still part of the only begotten son. There has never been another person who could make exception to Jesus’ claim, or even be a candidate for that position. In Jesus’ mind, being God’s son was such an absolute matter that nothing could shake it. Such a man or woman had never existed before.</p>
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<p>Are you absolute women, or do your eyes wander and look at all the different men? I can see how your minds are thinking! You may be trying to go in a certain direction, but instead of going straight you are meandering around. Are you thinking about which man you feel I should bless you with?</p>
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<p>What kind of a person do you imagine Jesus was if he could claim he was the only begotten son of God? Was he cunning and quick-thinking, or dumb and dull? Even if his body was chopped apart piece by,> piece, he would still have had the conviction that he was the only begotten son of God, and nothing could change that in his mind. In that absolute commitment Jesus knew he could not be defeated by anyone.</p>
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<p>Jesus reached the very center of love in the heart of God and he was always ready to receive any kind of instruction from God. No other saint has ever so closely embodied that goal. All the other saints taught a good way of life and truth, but no one was so absolute in his faith that God was his Father and in his total denial of the world as Jesus was. When he called himself the only begotten son of God, he meant that he and God were the only true existence and that he meant to change the rest of the world to become true as well. The first thing he intended to recreate was God’s daughter. Then he intended to create God’s family, society, nation and world.</p>
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<p>The bell of such a refreshing sound had never rung before Jesus came. The sound of Jesus’ bell resounded not only around the world but through the spirit world That sound pierced the very mind and heart of God and they resounded and rang together. That sound shook God and made Him feel good because it was the sound of love.</p>
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<p>What would make God joyful-life? God is the source of life for all living things. Would knowledge please Him instead? No, He has all knowledge. Would power enthuse Him? No, He runs the entire universe already. Perhaps money would please Him. No. Why does He need love? Because God wants to be intoxicated in the joy of love. Only love can totally intoxicate Him in earth-shaking laughter and joy. That joy would not inspire only song and dance, but much more. God wants to be melted by love to the degree that He forgets Himself and His dignity as God and can become totally like a child.</p>
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<p>Will anyone object that God shouldn’t act like that? In love everything will be melted into one. If someone asks God for good fortune and honor because he has made many contributions to the church, that prayer will completely pass God by. God would show that person heaven’s treasure house and he would realize that his contributions were hardly worth God’s Kleenex. Someone might point out all his achievements for God, but God will show him what He has been doing and suffering throughout history, and that person’s contribution will be seen as less than a peanut.</p>
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<p>There is nothing we can really proudly present to God and make the claim that we should receive honor in heaven. No action could justify that. God already has everything in His storehouse-tremendous power and wealth and knowledge-but one thing is not there-love. There is no history that God can be proud of, and God’s house of love is empty. God is looking for the man who can say, “God, I love you to the degree that no satanic example can compare with me. There is nothing that can compete with my love for you.” When God finds a person who can satisfy Him with love, He will uphold that person as victorious.</p>
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<p>All mankind is in a competition of love. All the nations and races compete with each other on this one point of who loves God most. The great cultures and art are of no importance to Him, for God can see only the element of love. He is blind to everything else. Depending on your love for God you shine brightly or dully. Do you love God? Do you love me? Is your love always coming and going? If you are not sure you have a living relationship with me, how can you be sure you love an invisible God?</p>
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<p>How do you know 1 am telling you the truth, or whether I am a son of the devil? There are all kinds of love. Everything is instant in America, even love. How do you know whether God or Satan is working through your prayer? How do you know you are listening to the truth here? The answer is simple. You cannot help but love me, and there is no logical explanation for it. You cannot even explain it yourself. Your mind knows you are in the right place and your mind can always detect a lie eventually. It feels so right to be here that even if I push you out and insist you work hard you still feel right about being here.</p>
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<p>At the crucial moment of the crucifixion Jesus said, “Oh my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” l wish Jesus had never said that. 1 would rather read that Jesus said, “God, my Father, glory to you. If my death upon the cross is the way to fulfill your will, I will die one thousand times.” At no time, even in my time of hardest suffering, did I pray for God’s help because I always knew there was a reason for my suffering. If sacrifice would yield a greater victory for God then I wanted to receive even more. The members of the Unification Church come from all over the world and all races to say, “God, I know what you want. Even if it requires my own sacrifice and that’ of my people, I am willing to do it to liberate you and mankind.”</p>
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<p>People today are in bondage, and by liberating mankind we can liberate God from His sorrow. Billions of people have lived on earth and left the sound of their own bells, but what sounds will resound through history for eternity? What light will shine for eternity? Not the bell of knowledge or power, but the bell of the love of God. How much love you have toward God determines everything, even the length of your life and the size of your territory in the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>Some members are working very hard on MFT. Perhaps some of them complain that even when they break records the Church never recognizes them or gives them medals. But my thinking is that it is not enough to give the money that I have earned with my heart and soul; for the work of God and His will I can give everything and still that will not be enough. There is no time for me to think about my honor.</p>
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<p>Some Christians think they are religious because they are generous in their tithing, but I think tithing is only a start. I want to give my life and blood and sweat and even more. I would rather become the most indebted person of history for the sake of God’s will, owing my money to every bank in the world if necessary. Will God ask why I am so dumb as to work this hard instead of enjoying my life a little before going to spirit world? Would God praise or chastise me?</p>
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<p>If I am willing to give every ounce of capability and every dollar 1 can earn before I become indebted, God will arrange the resources in advance to move ahead. There have been many arduous times in my life when certain funds were urgently needed and always a miracle happened. Perhaps someone would receive a revelation to give his fortune and all of a sudden that need would be met precisely.</p>
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<p>There are millions of small bells in the world, but when a king-sized bell resounds throughout all the universe, all the others will be drowned out. That one bell is the sound of love. When that bell of loves sounds, the louder the better. You will never tire of that sound, whatever time of day, even 24 hours a day. That sound goes beyond the limit of time and geography. Those who are sleeping now do not know love. The worst situation you can be in is to be insensitive to love.</p>
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<p>Nowadays everyone has home church fever. I am pushing you hard every week and in New York Col. Pak pushes you. Don’t you feel you can’t stand it any more? As long as you have the sound of the bell of love ringing in your heart, it doesn’t matter how hard I push for it will never hurt you. If you do home church only out of duty, however, you will never survive. If you become a person burning with love then people cannot help but welcome you and invite you to stay longer with them. You will become a magnet that pulls the people.</p>
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<p>You must experience having such a deep fellowship that you don’t want it to end, even when it becomes two or three o’clock in the morning. It should be an experience that people wish could last forever, and it you are truly doing home church out of love then you will surely feel it. When such people come to a family meeting at home church they feel they can breathe, and when they return home they long to be back there again in home church. You are the powerhouse to generate all that.</p>
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<p>If you create that kind of atmosphere then certainly God and spirit world will become one with you. When you open your spiritual eyes spirit world will be a living reality to you. If people experience that kind of uplifting love of God in home church then when they go back out on the New York streets they will stare at the familiar sights of cars and buses and feel that a thousand years have passed since they last saw those things. Nothing will look normal.</p>
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<p>We sometimes say that your conscience spanks you, but you must be beyond the level of conscience, at the point where love is your guiding light. The mind can be so intoxicated by love that it won’t function normally and you simply feel joyful without being able to say why. When you walk, you are so elated that you just smile to yourself, and at night under your blankets you are so happy you just smile. Wherever you are you are happy. In love you forget hunger and sleep because your mind is so intoxicated. Your body won’t even realize it is missing sleep and food. Have you experienced this?</p>
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<p>If you are truly intoxicated in the love of God then difficulty and suffering have nothing to do with you because you don’t even worry about them. Because of love you want to give your most precious things to your loved ones and you hold nothing back. That’s the way God is. When we know this truth there is no room for complaining, or for saying you are overburdened. Nothing can bother you, even the person who tries to hit and curse you. You feel instead that he is complaining because he has not received your love and you can’t even get mad at him, much less fight back. You must see his behavior as a sign that he is starving for love. When people in your home church area are hostile you should wish you had been there ten years ago for them to receive the good news you bring so that they would welcome you now.</p>
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<p>1t you feel that stepping forward for execution will give you an opportunity to declare the victory of the love of God on the most dramatic stage, then even death will never bother you. No power will be able to make you tremble. The power of love is the greatest of all. I have a very hot temper, and if 1 didn’t know this truth then I could never let the unjust persecution of the world go on without protesting. But instead I feel that persecution is a request for my love.</p>
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<p>When the whole nation of America came against me I felt sorry that I could not have come ten or twenty years earlier so that now people here could be satisfied. When God sees my attitude will He scoff at how dumb I am? He will feel I am truly His son and be proud of me.</p>
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<p>Even Satan cannot protest but must surrender to the power of love. As long as you have love you have immunity and Satan has no way to influence you. Satan can always invade other achievements regarding money and power, but not love. If you try to win heaven with money, Satan will offer to pay you a little more. If you try to win heaven with knowledge or power, the same thing will happen. If Satan had love then he could not have become Satan, so when you plant love you will reap love.</p>
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<p>When you become a man of greater love then you can ring a greater bell of love, and in looking down from Heaven God will see that your light is the biggest and brightest. Such a light is far more beautiful than any diamond because it shines with all living colors. Love not only shines. but has a taste as well.</p>
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<p>The more you receive of it, the more you like it and the greater your intoxication in it. That’s why it is really true to say that God thinks of nothing else but love. You can be all kinds of bells, but above all you must become a bell of love. No other sound will reach the heart of God. What you will be held accountable for is how much you have shed your sweat and tears for love.</p>
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<p>All people in the world today can be seen as patients in a hospital, without exception. What do hospital patients think about all day long? No matter how much money or honor they have or how much work is waiting to be done, they think only about how they can get well. No medicine has worked for these patients and they are still sick; what they really need is a prescription of love. That alone can cure them, particularly in America.</p>
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<p>A dose of love is a cure-all. Love doesn’t just restore a person back to his original health, but makes him a completely different person who can love his family, society, nation and even the whole world. That person will become a man of love. With love we can even change the content of men. They won’t be restored just to their old selves, but will become totally new men who have nothing to do with the satanic world and are pioneers of the world of love.</p>
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<p>You should realistically understand the nature of hell: it is the place where people cannot receive the benefit of love and are consumed both with regret over what they have done and with resentment over what they think people have done to them. They are totally without love there. Hell is the place where people dwell who are always blaming others instead of themselves. When they remember the Moonie who knocked on their door, they will wish that the Moonie had been more persistent even though the door was slammed in his face. They blame that person for not persisting two or three times more, thinking that they would have accepted him after a while. People in hell are full of hatred and animosity. A betrayer of love is the worst enemy. If a loved one betrays you, you clench your teeth in anger and frustration and can’t bear even to see that person.</p>
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<p>Let us become a bell for love which can resound throughout the universe. When the sound of the bell of love reaches the hospital it will liberate the patients into restoration. Then they can be discharged and become bells of love themselves, bells whose ringing will save more people. Your bell will bring resurrection, and then those people can do the same.</p>
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<p>I don’t want you to do home church just out of’ duty but because of an urge that you cannot resist. If your be loved parent or child were in jail, you wouldn’t go to see him out of duty. The people in your home church area are like prisoners in jail, and as God’s representative you go there with parental heart. You will never lose by doing that but will inherit the love of God. The more you do as a channel of God’s love, the more you will inherit.</p>
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<p>The world abounds with untruthful love and false teaching, so people are skeptical and will not trust you right away. They have never seen true love or tasted genuine truth, so it’s only natural that they not trust you. You have to penetrate their trust one level at a time, gradually winning their hearts, but it takes time and real effort and love to do it. I want you to have concern and pity for those people who fiercely reject you because they are the people whose hearts have been hurt deeply and who cannot trust. You must understand that they need more love than anyone else, and just give and give and give until their hearts melt.</p>
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<p>God’s love is eternal and all-powerful, and ultimately it will win, no matter how great the obstacle blocking the way. It is ironic that even though I teach about this love people still think I am some kind of monster. Nevertheless, the bell of true love is ringing out from this place. God is amused by this situation. America is totally rejecting me and even trying to evict me, yet even Americans cannot help but be more and more interested in me. You are misunderstood and people sometimes even tremble when they meet you, more than if you were a prostitute or criminal. That is proof that eventually you can turn these people around in a life-giving way with love.</p>
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<p>If you ring the bell of love with such effort that you falter and die, nothing is ended. Someone else will rise up in your place because people will compete to pick up the rope and continue ringing the bell. There is no way that bell will be silenced. Some people think that if I die then the Unification Church will fade and die. Why won’t this happen? I am ringing the bell of love with all my might, and if I die then millions of Reverend Moons will come forward to ring the bell in my place.</p>
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<p>The world is like a barren desert and it is very hard to find other people like you. Looking for true love in this world is like looking for water in the desert. However, the spirit world knows the true situation, and even though I may seem to be totally deserted and alone I am never lonely because God and the entire spirit world are with me.</p>
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<p>When I was in England last year I invited about forty of our missionaries who were working under very difficult circumstances in their countries to come to London. Working there was like heaven compared to their mission countries, but when I asked if they wouldn’t rather come back to America to work, they all said they wanted to return to their own countries. I feel that if you are truly people of love then even if you discourage people from following you they will insist on coming with you. If you left their countries they would feel as though they were dying and would insist on coming with you.</p>
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<p>When I was in prison I never preached even one word of Divine Principle but the spirit world was there and conveyed my heart. Many disciples were found who wanted to live and die with me there, even though they never heard one word of Divine Principle. That prison was a living hell, but when I saw the people there as God must see them, I felt l should love them as He would. I prayed for them and cared about them; this thought could travel and spirit world communicated to them and these people were drawn to me like a magnet.</p>
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<p>Your own ancestors are bringing more elements to you so that you can be pulled by the central magnet, just as those people were. The spirit world doesn’t assist you because you are attractive, but because they know you are the inheritors of the love of God. That love is precisely what they need and the only way they can get it is by participating in your cause. Home church will make you a tribal messiah, but are you going out with a messiah’s heart? Do you look for someone to help you and give you something, or do you feel that you are the messiah who will bring whatever your 360 homes need? You are going to home church to give, not receive.</p>
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<p>If you have nothing in your pockets then you can give the people your tears, sweat and blood and your love. You may not give anything tangible, but if you give them love then you have given them the best.</p>
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<p>Many people misunderstand who Moonies are, but one day they will realize that Moonies stand for real love. If you are conquered by love, you are thankful, and if you are a conqueror of love you are still thankful. The Book of Revelations teaches that it is better to be hot or cold, but never lukewarm. Love works best in either heat or cold, but worst in lukewarm circumstances.</p>
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<p>Love causes a violent reaction either way; it doesn’t produce any middle ground. Are you going at a lukewarm pace in home church? Love can have a hot and cold side; cold love sometimes means spanking children for their own good. Late Thursday I spoke strongly to the New York department leaders and they trembled that cold night. I am a loving person, yet I am ruthless when I speak of the Principle because there is no compromise possible. I am ruthless toward evil and totally uncompromising, but in love I give everything I can and hold nothing back.</p>
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<p>There have been many bells of goodness and love in history, but today you can create the greatest bells of love, ringing them in a desert-like world. You are the first and last in history to do so. We are living in an age of hope and consummation, the time when God’s history will be finalized. There is nothing greater you can expect. You should be honored to participate in this final drama of God’s history. Let us be great bells of love ringing out in the desert. Once people hear the sound of love correctly, they will follow your pattern and imitate you and the sound of the bell will never cease.</p>
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<p>In spirit world we will all have some accumulated testimony about how much love we gave to God and the people. Even though your ancestors lived many years before you, as far as love is concerned you are the forefathers. Those who loved less than you did will bow down. God is the oldest person, the forefather of all because He is the source of love and He practiced this way of life from the very beginning. In love you become a small God here on earth, so when you go to spirit world you have complete freedom to dwell in the realm of love God has been creating from the start. My voice is the loudest of all here on earth because I am ringing the bell of love.</p>
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<p>Before you love anyone, listen to the sound of love in your heart. If you ask a question to that mind of love, it will answer. You must discover this in your own heart. God is like a broadcasting station, and as long as you have a receiver you can understand what God is saying. As long as you have a receiver for love, you can hear what God’s love is saying.</p>
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<p>Your 360 homes are your training center to open up your mind and heart of love. Once the love of God is consummated in your heart, you become the subject of your surroundings, no matter where you go. I’m sure you have pictures of Mother and me in some album. They are probably on the last page, right! No.’ Who told you to put them on the front page! Your own mind did. Because we are a symbol of love, your conscience hurts you if you put us last; then you don’t enjoy that album or want to show it to anyone.</p>
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<p>Your home church people will have their own albums, and since you testify to the True Parents, even though they have never seen Mother and me they will put our picture on the front page, and right next to that they will put your picture. And they will say, “This person is my messiah.” If this doesn’t happen then our teaching is false. This will happen automatically, not because you tell them to do so but because they desire to do it.</p>
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<p>When you see something wonderful you always wish you could show it to True Parents. Mother and I always think that way as well, wanting you to ride in nice cars and have beautiful houses in the future. I am not only thinking about this, but doing it. There is a lot of physical work to be done so we have industries and businesses. The Korean and Japanese members all feel indebted to me, not just because they are resurrected by this truth and love, but because their families, jobs and homes were all given to them by me. I want to do still more. I have set a world record for matching couples, but actually the True Parents have so many children to worry about that I can’t help but set such a record!</p>
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<p>Even if people in your home church area never see me in the future, I won’t mind at all if your picture is on the front page of their album as their messiah. Would you ever check to see whether your picture is there? No, because their action would only be done out of their mind of love, not duty. Your picture will symbolize hope and happiness to them.</p>
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<p>Our teaching is crystal clear, not hidden in symbols or vague mysteries. Because the teaching of Christians is often vague, they lack spiritual power. We do not see dimly, however, but face to face. We are now running to the patients in the hospital to bring them to the palace of God, not to their old homes. All people have some part of themselves that is waiting to be ignited with hope for the future, even though they are patients in the hospital. The Unification Church has the supreme task because we have the best life-giving gift to give.</p>
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<p>You will never be alone, even though all of your 360 homes reject you. The electrical pole, the street signs, even the postal box are your friends, and in ten years they will all testify to what you did and how many tears you shed. Nature is like that. When people are your worst enemies then nature is your best friend. Even when you are trembling and shivering, that scene and experience is your friend as long as you are not shivering for yourself. You will never forget that moment. Your worst form of suffering will be a teaching aid for the future, and everything you do will be recorded as the acts of apostles to instruct the people. When people a thousand years from now read of your deeds, they will still shed tears; that is the kind of chapter we want to write.</p>
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<p>When you hear the story of my suffering you feel badly, and it becomes a source of inspiration to suffer for mankind in my place. What a precious asset it is when many people can come alive because of one man’s suffering. History demands such a man; God demands such a man.</p>
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<p>Will you go to home church out of duty, or with enthusiasm and the love of God? Listen to the bell of love in your own heart. Your mouth won’t obey if you want to talk of anything apart from sounding that bell of love; your eyes and ears won’t want to have anything to do with it either. If that is the case then you are not far from the ultimate breakthrough to the spirit world and heart of God and you will always be sure of your course and destination. You are carrying the prescription that can solve all the problems and bring comfort and happiness for each of your 360 homes. If you are living in that heart that even if you don’t intend to speak your mouth will automatically open and convey that love.</p>
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<p>Susan Fefferman, you are back from three years’ missionary work in Iran. Did you love the people? The coming of night won’t bother the person who is anxious to visit one more house, meet one more person. The missionary’s life is that kind of life. When you come to America you should be longing for your children back in Iran. When you site down to eat, you should feel such longing to see them that you can’t even eat. That is true parental heart.</p>
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<p>The love of God is far greater. When your hand reaches out to help, see it as the hand of God extended. If you see your image in a mirror when walking down the hall, you should be seeing the image of the love of God. Always ask yourself how much you have suffered for the sake of the love of God, how much you have loved your fellow man and served them for the sake of God. A sense of duty and responsibility all come on that foundation.</p>
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<p>1979 is the year we are definitely going to become bells of love, ringing out so the power of love resounds through the earth. You are the one who determines how bright your light is. The power plant is ready. God is just waiting for you to light up and decide how bright you will be. You should be so bright that no one can miss you; your bell of love should be so loud that no one can avoid hearing you.</p>
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<p>You are the only lighthouse on a lonely, dark sea, a beacon alerting the people to the emergency. Are you going to become such a light?</p>
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<p>The lunar calendar is in a sense an internal calendar. Today is a new beginning on the first day of the new year. Let’s ring the bell of love. Those who will do it, raise your hands.</p>
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<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="2018-06-18T05:24:00+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/18/unification-church-and-heavenly-law.html" rel="bookmark">June 18, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-18T05:24:00+01:00">June 18, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1979.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h3 align="center">March 1, 1979<br />
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<p>Today is March 1 and two months of this year are already gone. This is the first day tor the remaining ten months. Today is a special day in that sixty years ago Korea experienced a great independence movement while under Japanese suppression and many people shed blood in a symbolic demonstration for justice. This is a significant national day in Korea, and everyone is reminded of that great spirit in national commemoration. I gave a special talk to my children about this day, and that’s why I was late this morning.</p>
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<p>Through Principle we have learned that religion is needed to learn God’s will and His teaching. God’s will is one. Since there is one God there should not be many churches and religions believing many different ways, but only one church teaching the correct way. That church is above any country and even the world, and not under any national direction or domination. If there had already been a church on earth teaching the ideal then mankind would have been educated, and God’s will would have been moving in a specific direction with substantial achievement. But as we look back in history no such religion is to be found; instead it has only appeared on earth today.</p>
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<p>In looking around the world we see that each people has their own way of believing in God, and that even those beliefs varied at different times in history. When we compare the various religions to the branches of a tree, it is not that they are completely in error, but that they are all directed in different ways, each with some cultural development surrounding it, whether small or large. In God’s overall plan He must be wanting to guide each religion in one specific direction, wanting to teach the people through religion.</p>
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<p>We see today that there is some general direction which each religion is taking. In the same way that the greater religion will absorb the lesser religion, a man of great character will surpass and influence a man of lesser character. Civilizations are the same; the higher civilization will eventually absorb the lesser culture.</p>
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<p>America is one of the great nations of our time and people around the world look to America and emulate that way of life. Why do less advanced people follow greater people? By doing so they are benefited. Also, it is convenient and helps ease their lives. When I refer to American civilization I am not referring to the American people, but to the achievements which have become a standard here and around which this civilization was formed. It might be said, that knowledge is what makes America great and what the people follow; it is not Americans themselves who are great but what they know. Science is one aspect of that truth.</p>
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<p>If the people don’t live up to a standard then they have to catch up with it. As long as the people are pursuing that ideal of those words, always trying to improve themselves and close the gap, they will have a great nation. When men are one with this standard, the most harmonious situation is formed. Goodness should be the result of people’s interaction in unity with the standard.</p>
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<p>What we are observing now in America is that people are attempting to follow a high standard, but what is amiss is the quality of peoples’ interaction with each other. There are such fundamental problems as racial conflict in which black and white people cannot even mix with each other. When this quality of interaction is lost then people lose what standard they have achieved. After that even the standard of truth becomes shaky and people are not sure of its value. They are confused and the truth becomes weak as a result.</p>
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<p>At one time Christians in this country pursued a certain standard of love, but now they are uncertain and even that standard is crumbling. lt is not difficult to see that American civilization is no longer strong and healthy but headed downward instead of upward. At first many people followed that standard because it benefited them, but now people feel it is inconvenient and that this way of thinking is a nuisance. Once families were strong in America, but now people increasingly feel there is nothing to be gained from family commitments and so when they leave home they rarely return. Church offers an environment which should help us better ourselves, but people are finding no benefit there so they stop going.</p>
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<p>God’s religion is unchanging. What is the truth that men are seeking and that God approves of? All major religions teach truth, yet each believes that it alone has the true way; they do not think from the position of God but from a point of view centering on themselves. God cannot approve of that. On looking down to earth God would rate the religions according to His standard. There can be only one which can receive the top mark. This is not difficult to understand because it is so reasonable.</p>
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<p>Religions should not be concerned about how they would be rated, but should be looking instead for the one religion which can be rated 100 per cent. This is the problem of’ the present day. All followers of a certain religion believe in its doctrine, but they are limited to that one teaching; though within that sphere they may rate 100 per cent, they cannot rate 100 per cent in the overall picture.</p>
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<p>Who can teach without any error and be in a position to give that 100 per cent mark? Only God can do this. This is not in any book or stated in any religious dogma, but it is in God himself It is only logical that eventually man will have to come to God Himself to make sure he got everything right; only when God assures him that he has met that standard can he be fully confident. It is logical that through the highest religion every person can come into contact with God and be assured for themselves that they are approved by Him.</p>
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<p>We have to be able to confirm whether a religious teaching is completely consistent with Gods own word. Each religion teaches the truth according to its own bible. Truth tells us what to do, how to do it, revealing how to live and what objectives to strive tor. Scientists as well have an objective and a means for reaching it; truth is applied in the same way here.</p>
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<p>If a religious truth teaches the individual but not the family then it becomes very inharmonious. Truth should be consistent and in accordance with both individual and family life being able to guide people toward higher and higher value until they ultimately reach God. Truth should be free of contradiction. A person’s hands and face belong to him and are part of him, meaning that every part of his body is consistent and none of them contradict the other. They function as one. A person does not pursue two different goals at the same time, but follows one objective and purpose.</p>
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<p>Likewise for man, what people 1,00() years ago and people today strive for should be in the same general direction. Orientals and Westerners should not live in a contradictory way; if they do it means that only one is right and the other has yet to come into accord with it.</p>
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<p>What is the truth then? What is the truth in a man? For man to meet woman and for them to love each other is a truth. The fact that man and woman can love each other in perfect harmony was true 1,000 years ago and today as well; this truth is consistent. Truth for the ear is to listen well to the right way. The nose must smell correctly, and if it fails to meet that standard then it is not a true or real nose. Truth for a hungry man is to get food. For instance, some food that makes him happy is a truthful thing; on the other hand, if some smell offends him then his nose will try to avoid it. If music is very pleasant then your ears are eager to listen and transmit that pleasure to your whole body. The whole community will be directed to the truth and benefit from it at the same time. Men must be happy before God can become happy. God can rejoice when men are happy in the right relationship.</p>
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<p>When you hear a word of truth you are really happy in response. If you are hungry then you eat; you ate yesterday and the day before, but are you happy every time you have food when you are hungry? When you listen to truth are you always happy? How about those people who are dozing-are they full and unwilling to partake any more?</p>
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<p>An ultimate religion will eventually have to emerge in history, but truth is only words, whereas the substantial entity is your character. The Bible records that everything came into existence as God spoke, having His body and character of development. Just as God spoke and formed everything according to His words, religion is meant to give some words and teach people so they can come into accord with what the Word meant them to be. When everything became as God told it to be, the Bible records that it was good to behold. That goodness results from the unity which is formed when the word and entity become one. This is what the whole idea is-unity.</p>
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<p>Once this unity is achieved you can go in any direction you desire and meet no resistance and never become unhappy. No matter how far or near or often you go, you will be unrestricted, but you have to have that element of unity to be welcomed. Love comes into being here. When we come to cherish love we want it always to stay with us, and God’s will is to fulfill that desire. We want to be in love wherever we go.</p>
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<p>What is that one element that we never get tired of? No matter how much and how often we are loved, we never tire of it. Food is different; when you are hungry you want to eat, but when you are not hungry then eating can even be painful. But there is no moment when you feel you can do without love. Could love be real if it were cherished only by white people? That would not be love because it could not be true in those circumstances. If only blacks or only Orientals liked love then it could not be true. As long as one is human, whether he is old or young he will like love. Everyone has this in common.</p>
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<p>God had an ideal which he desired, which is unity, and God’s words are called truth. Reality must come about according to God’s desire, and after that God wanted to wrap the whole thing up in love. After this is complete you can circulate in any direction. This is the full content of God’s creation. As long as you have love, you can skip one of the steps above; for instance, if you have love then you’ don’t need words.</p>
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<p>If people are thinking according to the wrong standard then eventually God will have to judge that, which is the judgment of words, and point out whatever is wrong. Also He must give some character judgment, or judgment of personality, according to how they have developed. Finally there is judgment of heart, and here too God must evaluate. All three must be given clearly. The fall was the result of failing to become the true entity ot’ the word; thus Adam did not come to possess true heart. Now in returning to God we must restore the words that Adam and Eve lost and check whether we have become as He wanted us to become. When these become reality then true heart will automatically emerge. We have to make sure that love is within us.</p>
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<p>Human history has been following that pattern as well. At each period in history man had a certain ideal, such as godism or humanism, which guided people in a certain direction, and man developed accordingly. Communists today are pursuing a goal based on words, for instance. Earlier in history pagan deities, and later God, were related in man’s thinking to events in every area of human life. Later that degenerated into humanism and people paid more attention to man than to God. Now that has passed and the emphasis is not even humanism but materialism.</p>
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<p>Originally man was supposed to possess material things, plus his physical body plus his mind, and all three were supposed to be united harmoniously.` Now little emphasis is placed either on man’s character or on God, so there is no way man could feel complete or satisfied. Materialism is not wrong, but it deals with only one portion of man’s life. At the same time man must pay attention to the human element, but most of all he needs God. He can never hope to be happy without God.</p>
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<p>Religion must ultimately deal with all these areas of godism, materialism and humanism and give a satisfactory explanation in all these things. The channel or order flows from God to man to material things; material cannot come above man nor man above God. In earlier times man concentrated exclusively on explaining events in religious terms and was not so concerned about man or individual human life later, reaction against that elevated man’s value but concentrated on him exclusively. Eventually man completely eliminated God from the picture. Certainly man should not concentrate on just one or the other, but should follow an order or sequence. Now the attention that was paid to man has swung to another extreme and men think that they need only material things, diagnosing social problems in terms of lacking material prosperity.</p>
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<p>People definitely suffer if they lack enough material things and then they become determined to make money, but even with money they don’t feel as content as they thought they would. After being dissatisfied with material things they look into communism. Material things are a necessary element, but not a crucial one. People are discovering that material things alone will not make them happy, and they are starting to look to other areas again. Pretty soon we will see a swing back toward re-examining man, and eventually back to God. Young people today are only scratching the surface in their search into mysticism and Eastern religion, but the trend will broaden and continue.</p>
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<p>We can understand that God, man, and material must be ordered in the right way before man’s matters can be solved, and this is what the teaching of final authority must do. Religion must encompass all these areas and teach about them correctly. Some religions emphasize attention to spiritual matters to the exclusion of material matters, but in the Unification Church we pay attention to material things in the context that it belongs to all mankind and to God. In this context material needs can be satisfied. The Unification Church is also humanist in that it doesn’t advance one race over another but embraces all mankind equally and seeks to live for the entire world. We must cultivate our character to live for the entire world.</p>
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<p>We don’t teach that God is necessary to only one area or country or for one period of time; we teach that God is needed equally by everyone, that there has always been only one God and He has been the most important element. We teach that God is a humanist and also a materialist, that He is a spiritual being but He loves material things. A religion must embrace all these elements before man’s life can become consistent in every way. Our criterion is whether the Unification Church lives up to that standard and manifests the heart of unity and the ideal.</p>
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<p>No religion which can live up to that standard has ever appeared on earth. The Bible states that it is not possible to worship God and material at the same time, but in the Unification Church we teach that we can worship God even through material as long as it serves God and the world. In this way I am different from any other religious teacher. People try to describe me as an evangelist, industrialist or businessman, or any number of things. I am a fisherman! All these things are in harmony and proportion and there is no part which is not understood by our members. If everyone can follow this teaching and be happy then it will pass all tests.</p>
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<p>By joining the Unification Church we become happier and gain some benefit. Being benefited never brings unhappiness. Are you happy? Then you like to do home church and fund raising? Until people understand all these things they are like half people and their focus is blurred, but as they understand they become increasingly happy. When such people assemble in the thousands and millions in the future they will be like a great river or ocean current.</p>
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<p>In looking back in history the common element through the ages seems to be war. Why do men tight? Because they have differences of opinion in ideology and different desires for possessing something. People in the free world are convinced that no one can conquer them and communists have the idea that no one can oppose or defer communism.</p>
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<p>In a similar vein we can ask why existing churches oppose the Unification Church. Church leaders feel that their congregations belong to them and they don’t like to see their members come to the Unification Church. Christians are making one great mistake in not thinking that their churches must be owned by the world and live for the world. The world must own the churches, not vice versa. Neither do they know that they belong to God.</p>
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<p>Americans feel that their nation belongs to them and no one else has any claim on it. They feel that other people should take care of themselves, but instead America should belong to the world. Neither does America understand that America belongs to God. Individual Americans think their country belongs to them; they do not know that they belong to the world and to God.</p>
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<p>War stems from a wrong concept of possession, and people fight when they think things rightfully belong to them. What is needed now is to eliminate wrong concepts of ownership. For instance, it is holy to think that America belongs to the world and to God instead of to Americans.</p>
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<p>Whose notebook is this? Before it belongs to you it belongs to America; before America it belongs to the world. In that sense it is even holy. If you have a notebook and see it is needed by the nation and then give it for that, or the nation offers it for the world’s use, then even the notebook will be much happier. If God wants to use it the notebook will be even happier. The entire world will dedicate it to God if He wants to use it.</p>
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<p>You may not realize it at this moment but you are going through a great transition in your concept of ownership. Is it necessary that we change in this way? When we offer something for the use of the whole then not only we are happier but the whole is happier also and the value of the object will also increase. By dedicating smaller things to the whole we eventually come to possess the world and God Himself. It is like using small bait to catch bigger and bigger fish. Even in a business sense this is a good idea.</p>
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<p>We have to revolutionize this sense of ownership and also change the conventional concept of the ideal from an individual ideal to an unlimited ideal that stretches ale the way to God. Wars have always started over different opinions about these two things. When I earn money I do not feel that it belongs to me, but to God and the world and then to me, in that order. It is ironic that I am scratching money together from poorer countries to aid this richest nation in the world. I feel money from a small country should be dedicated to a larger country and then to God and then it will eventually return.</p>
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<p>When wealth belongs to the world, how can the world light itself? When the master of the world appears, that money has to be returned to Him, and as long as everyone understands who that wealth belongs to how could they light over possessing things? Before things belong to God they belong to the world, and before they belong to the world they belong to us. The world is yours, then the world’s, then God’s.</p>
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<p>There is no reason for communism and democracy to fight once we know that everything belongs to God. Now that you know whom the Unification Church belongs to, it is millions ot’ times nicer than you originally thought. A citizen must really love the country that he lives in because it is God’s before it is his. Therefore, I love America more than any Americans do because I know to whom it belongs.</p>
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<p>It makes little difference how much we are opposed as long as God approves and recognizes us. Then this teaching will always remain on earth. If the world needs our fancy clothing then we are only too happy to take it off for others to use; we are happier when they use it than we ourselves.</p>
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<p>If the world is asked to give something for God to use then the world is happy to do so. If God asks where this coat came from He will be told that it came from the world, but more specifically from America, and most specifically of all from one individual. Then God can give His blessing to the world, America and that individual.</p>
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<p>It is easy to understand logically that we will be happier by living this way, so it is our responsibility to teach this and actualize it. Since we understand this we are capable of embracing all varieties ot’ cultures and religious ideals. They are not ambiguous religious thinking to us but reality. Someone here now may misunderstand and reject this, but someone who is smarter will understand its full value later.</p>
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<p>Are you confident and proud enough as Unification Church members to accept any indignity” Let’s consider several things: does the Unification Church have the truth? Has it actualized the truth to a certain degree in reality, in character and personality? Is love in its true sense to be found in the Unification Church? Will this be approved by all races, over all historical time? Then God will approve it too.</p>
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<p>Now that we understand Unification Church, we will proceed to heavenly law. God has a way of sorting out or screening things of greater and lesser value. What is the law which the Unification Church must recognize as being of utmost importance? The law of love” Love is actually an end product; to ensure love we have to observe some procedure or goal very strictly; this goal is God’s ideal of creation. That ideal has a code we must live by. The ideal of God involves forming the four position foundation, where love comes into existence. In order to achieve the four position foundation we have to have words which teach that ideal which is the Divine Principle.</p>
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<p>Law is nothing but words. In a law book legal standards are codified as well as sentencing and punishment for infraction of those standards. By referring to the law it can be determined whether a man has become what the law specifies he must be. As long as you stay within the law no one will bother you, no matter where you go. Are you living within the law? Certain specifications such as fasting for a number of days and waiting a certain number of years after marriage are mere words, yet you keep them strictly.</p>
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<p>When worldly law is broken a person goes to jail, and when a person violates God’s words he is punished to prevent him from violating them again. Home church is heavenly law. Are we free to follow it or not as we please? If the president does something wrong could the country possibly perish? If I, as the head of the Unification Church, do something wrong could the Church potentially perish? What will determine if it perishes or prospers? If heavenly law is met then prosperity is ensured, but if the Church violates that law then it will decline and die.</p>
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<p>A president can be great if he keeps the law, but if he violates it himself can he be a great president? If I sometimes keep the law myself and other times don’t can I be called a responsible Unification Church member? If a member sincerely believes I am wrong then he has a responsibility to speak out and tell me what he thinks. Once the law is taught should you follow it, or would only keeping it up to a point be sufficient?</p>
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<p>Each individual has a certain law to observe and together as the Unification Church we have certain laws to observe. When I speak of important things and people doze off, would that be a violation of heavenly law? Do those people who are dozing realize this? You must have a clear idea ot’ whet is true. Each person must meet rigid standards in order to reach the goal, and the first is the judgment of words. The Divine Principle will judge you if you go against it, whether knowingly or unknowingly. By knowingly going through this process ot’ following God’s words we can create our character and personality in reality.</p>
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<p>If someone loves the word but does not want to practice it then later the person who did everything according to the word will be his judge. Even people who have nothing to do with us will point out how that person did not do what the others did. Satan will judge, and the members and I will all blame that person, and then the angels and God will judge that person for knowingly failing to carry out the word.</p>
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<p>You are following the one way to reach God, which is very specific. First you tree yourselves from the satanic world, then become a member of the Unification Church, receive True Parents’ recognition through the blessing, go to spirit world and then to God. That is the direction of our path. There is no other way to reach God. If there is some lack in your character or personality can you tell a lie to cover up? If you really didn’t want to do this yet grudgingly did so, it would be as bad as not doing it at all.</p>
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<p>Please understand you must pass through the rigid judgment of word in reality and personality., Once these two steps are passed then the third, the judgment of heart, will be passed automatically. Why do we have to witness and fund raise under persecution? By going through that troubled situation we learn to love others and our hearts will be formed If we only think about the word without much practice then can we mature in reality? No. Therefore when you hear words of truth you must live them. You have to love better than any people in the world, for without going beyond that standard you cannot know the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>You want to go to heaven after becoming people of love. Once you reach spirit world God will be judging you as well as Jesus and True Parents. If you pass the test of practice then they will test you for heart. This is our day-to-day practical problem and it is strictly ordered by God. How can a person act rightly if he does not know what to do? First we must clearly understand the law of Divine Principle. The standard course is two-day workshop, where people come to know something about God for the first time; then seven-day training to learn more substantially, and following that the 21-day and 40-day courses. Everyone in Unification Church must go through that within six months of joining. That is our standard course for the whole Church. Then members will know what the word is and what the criteria and standard are that the Unification Church is pursuing.</p>
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<p>After forty days members can know the words clearly and set out to practice them. Then they can grow to have the qualification of heart, going through recreation in every stage. God first made material, then man, and then wanted love to be created there. In God’s place we are going to recreate all those things. First we re-create material, which is represented by fund raising. Next you take God’s position (as a parent) and make God’s heart; that is all-creation course, the course of heavenly law which everyone must follow</p>
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<p>We don’t do this because it is nice and we choose to do so; it is imperative that nothing be overlooked. Every stage must be fulfilled. By knowing the word completely, by carrying it out and then recreating heart and love we will become like Jesus, True Parents, and God Himself. Now you can understand how strictly this must be observed. In everything we do we must have let’s love behind us when we go to spirit world. Every activity we do is a step toward that goal.</p>
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<p>If the Unification Church somehow acquired a fund of billions of dollars you would still have to do what you are doing now and people in the future will do as well, even though we would have much more money. If every person on earth joined the Unification Church you would still have to serve them, teaching them how to go this course. We can never say that our work will be less hard once we become successful. Until everyone knows this way of life we must continue, and it is the law that we cannot stop as long as it is unfinished.</p>
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<p>Once you follow the principle of home church and are successful you can leave it behind. Everyone goes to spirit world; when you go there you have to belong somewhere so you need to be able to point out your tribe and family. This is your identity. As it is written, whatever is loosed on earth is loosed in heaven. As the tribes are organized through home churches, the organization of spirit world will truly begin for the first time. This its heavenly law. The responsibility of faithfully observing the law is the responsibility of the citizens and especially the leader of the country.</p>
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<p>Can you choose which laws you will observe” No. Even a small company has rules and regulations, and certainly there is no country without any law. This is a higher law from which no one is exempt if he wants to go to heaven. If this law didn’t exist then why should I come to America where I have to speak through an interpreter and have been opposed by the people? I could have stayed in Korea and easily accomplished the foundation there instead. I do so because I come under the heavenly law like everyone else.</p>
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<p>If you decide that you will not attempt to keep the law in every detail but will just love True Parents and God, disregarding home church and so forth, you will not be able to pass the three judgments. You must know all the heavenly laws. Furthermore, you cannot promise to do it and then renege. It is a very deep thing to achieve all this and not at all easy. Since we are heavenly citizens we have to realize this more deeply than any worldly citizen. In doing this you are going step by step to heaven; there is no choice about going an easier way to heaven because this standard way is the easiest.</p>
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<p>Can the <i>News World </i>members think they are unable to do home church? How can they not do so and still what they have to do? Such people simply have to witness to someone better than they who can take their newspaper position and free them to do home church. There are many, many things I have to take care of, even things that are not really my responsibility, and my schedule is so full that it doesn’t include much sleeping time. I have to manage to find time to do everything.</p>
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<p>God never scolds a person for doing more than he should. If you cannot go personally to do home church then you can carry on through phoning, and there are other ways besides going personally. If a person has many complex responsibilities, doing many things at once, it is that much more his blessing. I will take notice of such a person and use him more and more.</p>
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<p>I speak the heavenly law, but it has not come from me personally. He who speaks the heavenly law must come under it himself. That law is much stricter than earthly law.</p>
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<p>Now two months of 1979 are gone. During the next ten months we will always keep that heavenly law in mind and try our utmost. This is why I speak today on heavenly law. By strictly living heavenly law and setting a tradition we are in fact helping the other people who will follow; they are in fact your own children and the rest of America.</p>
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<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="2018-06-18T05:22:45+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/18/what-shall-we-do.html" rel="bookmark">June 18, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-18T05:22:45+01:00">June 18, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1979.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<p>One individual may seem to be very insignificant, but each one is the product of history. Therefore, he represents the history of the past, present and future. In the modern day we usually think of ancient nations as being isolated and separated, but today nations are united by one destiny. The societies and cultures of the world are becoming mixed together.</p>
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<p>As you know, the world of nature is already one in perfect harmony. For example, the air we breathe can travel all over the world without limitation. A storm doesn’t just move air from Belvedere to New York, but blows across whole continents and oceans. The birds that migrate each winter also travel great distances over continents and oceans. Canadian geese travel in formation over the whole continent of North America. When the spring comes and the birds return, it is a refreshing reminder that a new season has arrived.</p>
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<p>These are all phenomena of nature, which is harmoniously intermingled, but what about men? Men put up tremendous barriers and obstacles between each other. In order to get into America, for example, a traveler needs a visa and each person coming into the country is checked at Customs. Does anyone like that procedure? Maybe you like it because your nation made it! There is a much simpler procedure in some nations in Asia and the EEC nations, which have treaties, and a traveler only has to show his passport. Some nations don’t even want to see passports and the Customs officer is almost dozing. When you receive that kind of trusting treatment from a nation, you hope for God’s blessing on that country.</p>
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<p>Basically speaking, why does the human world have so many divisions and departments’! It is because men do not live in accordance with some principle or standard. ln order to have harmony men must live in accordance with some basic principle. Always a principle or law is enacted for the benefit of a nation or all humanity, not just one individual. The inconvenience of regulations is unavoidable because some people disregard that particular principle.</p>
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<p>Everyone collects certain habits in his life which become long lasting behavior. Families and societies also collect habits, which develop into what we call cultural behavior. Thinking people sometimes wonder how we can develop one simple, unified way of living for the whole world, eliminating the divisive effect of having separate ways of living. They wonder why laws can’t be passed which will be liked by everyone here on earth and will guarantee everyone’s profit and benefit. Such laws must provide continuity between past, present and future, and must not serve different purposes at different times.</p>
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<p>The President of the United States is responsible for America, and a President of the world would think about the world. Those two presidents and God would all be thinking differently because their areas of responsibility are separate. We have to consider what would be of benefit to America, the world and the whole universe at the same time.</p>
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<p>From the American point of view the most important thing is national sovereignty or power, and for that purpose knowledge and money are needed. For that purpose an intelligence network like the CIA is maintained. Recently various activities and plans of the CIA have been exposed, revealing that it has plotted to overthrow governments and assassinate certain leaders of small nations. Cruel things are going on in the name of national security. If a person serves as a double agent and then his purpose is finished, he is murdered, for instance. All this is done in the name of protecting national sovereignty.</p>
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<p>Much dirty activity goes on in order to maintain superiority in knowledge. There is much competition between nations over computer technology, for instance. Also there are power struggles in the financial world. Are those the only important things? What else is needed? Love doesn’t produce money, knowledge or power. You can’t live on love, so why do you like it? What can love do for you when you’re hungry? There must be some law that can be enacted which, from the point of view of God and religion, will protect and advance the benefit of all mankind. There must be a solution for the world.</p>
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<p>America has power and sovereignty, plus lots of money and knowledge, so it seems to have everything. But is it declining or continuing to prosper? Will all America’s wealth prevent its decline? Is today’s Christianity declining or increasing? Are America’s young people energetically moving forward, or are they morally corrupt? Not only are they declining, America’s young people are becoming living corpses. Is New York thriving and prospering, or declining? What about the rest of America’s big cities?</p>
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<p>Ask God what it can do. White people have always thought they were an invincible power, but it doesn’t look like that today. White supremacy is fast declining’, and black and yellow people are fast gaining. The Japanese make high quality products that are less expensive than things the Western nations produce. America is losing its edge in technology. In the arena of sports black people are emerging as champions. On all sides white people are being pressed by other races. People in other nations who have no connection with America except through television have the impression that because the athletic champions are all black that America is a black nation. Other nations enjoy watching American sports, and because most sports champions are black it is easy for them to think this way. You black members probably fee l that finally your people are doing something, right?</p>
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<p>In many cases the white people who are the backbone of America don’t care about the problems of their society, such as drug use or immorality. When black people and yellow people from other nations see America for what it is, however, they can clearly know that this nation is doomed. We learn from history that even the powerful Roman Empire collapsed from within because of its immorality. Ancient Pompeii was wiped out by a volcano, and when it was excavated centuries later it was clear why the city was destroyed-its people were focused on sex, drinking and sensual pleasure.</p>
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<p>History shows us one important law-whenever a society becomes morally corrupt it faces a quick downfall. This is not my opinion, but the lesson of history. Whatever culture or race you belong to, this rule will apply consistently. Moral corruption is an incurable disease, and usually infects the nation which has much money, power and knowledge. America today is in the same position as the Roman Empire. It has money, power and knowledge and thinks it is the greatest country, but in reality it is suffering from the worst internal disease.</p>
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<p>Any nation that has caught this disease has always declined; no nation has ever been cured. One of the symptoms is that the young people are given no discipline in their lives and they become promiscuous. Then the families and entire nation become undisciplined and permissive as well. Is this reality in America? When I see the proud American people I wonder how long their air of prosperity can last.</p>
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<p>The greatest disease is not that of poverty. Poverty can be cured by hard work and applying some ingenuity to developing an economic capacity. Black people in America are suffering primarily from poverty, but that can easily be solved through their determination and industriousness. Knowledge can be gained by hard study. Power is gained through unity of effort. But the disease of illicit love cannot be cured as easily. The love disease is worse than drugs because it drains away all ot one’s motivation to be good and industrious. When a person has the love disease he doesn’t care about money, knowledge or about his nation’s well-being. That disease is terminal because it leads to destruction.</p>
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<p>If Americans were looking for ideal love in their lives, would you say the nation is near to or far away from accomplishing it? Suppose your father enjoyed tremendous prosperity in his life, but he and your mother fought and fought and finally got divorced. No matter how much money your father has, he still looks like a miserable man. When children become involved in immoral practice their parents also become weakened. Why do we need love? How can love be so powerful in solving human problems? When love is used in the right way, it can be most constructive; God made love supremely powerful, and that has not changed all through the past or present, and will not change in the future.</p>
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<p>America is a lawful country, with a Constitution and a code of law, but it is a desert in the area of love. There is no standard or regulation in this country to govern or guide the supreme power of love. People’s way of thinking becomes extreme, and they see nothing wrong with a son living with his mother. Free sex makes humans look like animals, which have no rules about love. There is no destruction because of sex in the animal world because there is no spirituality there, but in the human world men are corrupted through the misuse of love.</p>
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<p>Venereal disease is rampant in America, and most young people experience it at some time. The statistics show it is second only to the common cold. What kind of deformed children will such people have, no matter how much money they earn? Have you ever heard of a VD epidemic in the animal world?</p>
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<p>Why then is it found in man’s world? God gave it as a punishment, as proof that the law of love is one He cannot bend under any circumstances. America’s problem is not a shortage of money or knowledge or power, but one of love. What shall we do? This is what Americans should be asking today.</p>
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<p>In your life before the church many of you were promiscuous and probably had VD. Now you know that love is supremely powerful and unchanging from past, present and future. Love has been misused and has led man into ultimate destruction, so we must look for some discipline of love. We must bring men back to their original purpose and achieve unchanging prosperity through true love Where can we find such discipline? In trying to correct the human situation, God is not worried about money or power or knowledge; He will concentrate His effort on solving the problem of love. This is where the root of the problem lies.</p>
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<p>God’s concern is far more than the salvation of men; He plans for the salvation of love. What would God save you for, to abuse love again? If you keep repeating the fall, what good would it do? The main function of the religious mission is to solve this basic human problem, but most religious people have forgotten about it. Once we bring the solution of love and put love in its proper perspective, we have solved the problems of the past, present and future and we can bring mankind back to the original ideal God designed.</p>
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<p>If America’s policy makers are really concerned about America’s future for the next one hundred or thousand years, they should concentrate on this kind of thinking: What will the family be like? What will the relations of parents and children and brothers and sisters be like if things continue the way they are? Those who love the nation and humanity must concentrate on finding the solution of love, on finding the kind of discipline necessary for a happy home and family for generations to come.</p>
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<p>Many people know that the Messiah will bring salvation to mankind, but he is not coming to bring salvation for the power or economic strength of this country. He is not needed in those areas, which are secondary; he is coming for primary salvation of love, to bring discipline and a standard of love which will enable it to blossom into the concept God envisioned for His original ideal. That love must be the power to create the ideal family and world. Unless he is coming for that purpose, he is not needed. The world doesn’t need any other kind of messiah.</p>
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<p>The Messiah will bring judgment to societies’ corrupt morality, to clean up adultery, homosexuality and fornication. That is the worst disease man is suffering from, for which man has no hope. The Messiah must lift them up to a higher love. When people talk about the problems of the world today they are thinking of the economic and political turmoil, but the Messiah sees that the problem of love is the major problem. By solving that problem we can help other problems. God is looking for a leader or group here on earth which is dedicated to solving this basic moral problem. If He can find such a group, it will be the most precious to Him. Such a group would be found only in the religious world because these are problems for religion.</p>
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<p>The relations between men and women are so strictly regulated in the Islamic world that a woman cannot even show her face on the street. That’s going too far! But here in America women wear less and less clothing and people kiss and hug in the street. That’s the other extreme. What is God’s solution?</p>
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<p>Would any man want to see his fiancee or wife embracing another man? A man is very generousminded compared to woman, but even so he cannot stand seeing his woman hugging another man. If a woman saw her man hugging another woman, her tiny mind just couldn’t stand it! Is there any difference between Eastern and Western women in this respect? Has it changed over the centuries? How about one hundred years from now? How do you know-you won’t be here in a hundred years! Even though you won’t live that long, you know through logic that it must be so. Whether you are a child in kindergarten or a university professor, you know it is true.</p>
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<p>Is it bad to have money? If it is nicer to have more money than less money, and more knowledge than less knowledge, then isn’t it better to have more husbands and wives? Here in America children frequently have more than one mother and father because their parents marry several times. Your ten fingers are not enough to count how many parents you have. Maybe it’s very handy because you have allowances coming from many sources. Wouldn’t you enjoy having that many parents?</p>
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<p>Is it a sign of happiness to have this kind of entanglement between husbands and wives? It is a sign of tragedy. Did that apply to people in the past? What about in the future? No one wants more then one mother and one father, but who will bring a solution to this marriage problem in America? Would a dictator be welcome who could put love in its proper perspective? How could a democratic society welcome a dictator? I would vote for such a man, and eventually other people would too because he is the one who could bring salvation. What about God?</p>
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<p>If you ask what we can do because we don’t have enough money, you aren’t asking the right question. If you ask what we can do if we don’t have enough power or knowledge, you still aren’t asking the right question. But if you ask how we can bring a standard and discipline of love then you are on the right track. If a little nation has no power, money or knowledge but it does have a discipline of love and lives morally in the sight of God, that nation will not envy another nation. It already has everything it needs. Eventually other people will bring prosperity to that small nation and go there to live because nothing else can bring happiness.</p>
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<p>People who have lost hope in love are like leaves fallen from the tree. Why is America, a supposedly Christian nation, suffering from the disease ot love? The Bible teaches about God-centered love, but America has become degraded. Why do the ministers shy away from this question? God will not tolerate this in America. Christian leaders cannot avoid the clenched fist of God’s judgment.</p>
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<p>Decades ago I predicted that America would decline. What can we do here? We do fund raising because we are here to make lots of money, right? Are we here to get smart and be knowledgeable? Are we here to get political power? If you don’t have those things then what is left? In the meantime you are persecuted and ridiculed for being Moonies. Why am I such a controversial person, accused of being so many evil things? I have a source of secret help-God is telling these people who are trying to get rid of me that they can’t do it because they need me.</p>
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<p>What have I done in this country? I broke down the barriers between East and West, between white, black and yellow. Furthermore, I am setting up an unprecedented discipline of love. The world must conclude that anyone who is interested in genuine, pure love has to study me and my methods. Every national leader must study what I am about; the FBI and CIA must also study me. 1 have a very real power which no other leader has: young people want my permission to love. That’s real power, isn’t it?</p>
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<p>The time is here for all five races to gather and ask the question, “What can we do, God, in order to find the right love so we can be saved and we can prosper? We need only true love!” When you seriously plead with God to know what you can do about true love, would you stand and ask, or be on your knees fervently praying? Would you be smiling, or have tears running down your face, and your nose and mouth dripping? Would you kneel on a plush carpet, or on a concrete floor” On the green grass or on ice and snow? Are you that serious?</p>
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<p>As Moonies you are ready to receive any kind of curse from people. Let them go ahead. We don’t worry because inevitably the time will come when people will be climbing over fences to come to our centers and learn the solution for love. We must feel that we will be responsible for the historical problem of love and ask Him for permission to take care of it for Him. If we asked Him if it was the most serious problem He had faced in all history, He would reply, “Yes, that problem has pierced my heart over and over all these years.” That is God’s primary problem and work.</p>
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<p>In the Unification Church we have many older sisters. They have every reason to go out and get married, but they have this discipline of love. I never told them they shouldn’t marry outside the Church. They are free to go. Why do they stay? It is because they know they have touched the truth and they don’t want to make any mistake with love, even if it takes fifty years of their lives.</p>
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<p>The last time I was in Japan, I matched 1600 couples in 24 hours. When the Japanese media heard that I was in the country they knew something was about to happen, and when they started asking questions they found out I had finished the matching and already left for Korea. The media knew that if they publicized what I had really done that people would think I was a superman, so they kept the news quiet instead. The communist papers are always trying to spread evil news about me, but they too kept the news quiet, realizing that people would think I was greater than any other man.</p>
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<p>Never in history has one man done this kind of thing. Even if people accuse me of being a dictator, it doesn’t matter. Over 3200 young people gathered to trust me, leaving their ultimate question of love to my solution and recommendation. They followed in such a disciplined manner that it in itself is an extraordinary event. You can’t find any other such champion in history. If this champion is bringing salvation to the world then it should welcome him, but instead the whole world has tried to kick him out. Is this comparable to a boxing championship of Mohammed Ali? To a marathon championship?</p>
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<p>Would God be interested in any other champion when he sees what I am about? Even God is left speechless and smiling ear to ear, and He exclaims, “I always wanted a son like this!” If God has only one daughter, would He want a son-in-law like Reverend Moon or Mohammed Ali? If I were still available, would you women gather your courage and propose” Sometimes I try to think from God’s point of view and evaluate what kind of man God would like to have as His son. I concluded that the best kind of son would have to be like Reverend Moon.</p>
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<p>What are we here for in the Unification Church” We are here to pose a solution to the worst questions facing the world and mankind. That is the love problem we are solving. We are bringing hope and life to that love. On any and every level we are bringing one solution. No leader in history has ever been concerned about the fundamental problem of love, and in this respect I am alpha and omega-there is no one before or after. I am an historical individual. Once we solve the problem of love in the present, the problem of love in the past will be solved, and the future problems will be prevented Would God like to have this problem solved as quickly as possible?</p>
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<p>Why is it happening in this particular time then” It is because the world has shrunk to such a degree that everyone works as one unit; in the past it took years or months to communicate between East and West, but now it only takes hours. A trip to London takes three hours. Once I traveled to London on the Concorde, and after takeoff it took one hour and fifteen minutes to reach Mach 2, or twice the speed of sound. It cruised at full speed only one hour, then started to slow down. At full speed the Concorde could cover the entire distance in 1½ hours. That plane will be most advantageous over long distances. The route from Tokyo to New York will be the golden, route for the Concorde because it would take only three hours at full speed. A New York company could send an official to a meeting in Tokyo and have him return the same day.</p>
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<p>The world has shrunk so much that news can travel to every part of the world in fifteen or twenty minutes. One hundred years ago travel from England to America took months and was full of risks, but through technology God shrank the world. At the same time the love problem has come down to the bottom and it cannot get any worse. God sees that this is the time for the solution to come, and that’s why He sent me to America at this time.</p>
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<p>I came to America bringing a completely different way of life. America has been enjoying its carnal pleasures so naturally it rejects me. At Christmas time American young people go to parties and discos, but Unification Church members only use their two legs to go fund raising. You don’t even go home for Christmas. Have you ever read of parents kidnapping their children at any other time of history? If they did so when their children became prey of prostitution or drugs and brought them to a religious organization then it would be a very good thing. But instead they come to kidnap you from a religious organization. It’s crazy. They are trying to find out what power Reverend Moon has to influence their child to change so drastically. Now you are clean cut and your thinking is clear, and you have a goal in life, so the only explanation they can think of is “brainwashing”.</p>
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<p>Would you be brainwashed if you took an undergraduate course three hours a week for four years and were taught that you should marry someone outside your own race? In the Unification Church you don’t have any obligation to come to a lecture, but after hearing me once or twice your attitude completely changes. Americans can’t believe that you could change so much without being treated with some mechanical gadget.</p>
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<p>Recently I celebrated with some of the 1800 couples their fourth anniversary. One by one 1 told each couple why they were a good match, what the strengths and weaknesses of each one were and why they needed each other. Everyone was amazed. Your eyes are big, but my eyes are so narrow that you can hardly see them and you wonder how I can see so clearly. Each person has some desire about the person he would like to marry, and if a person really begs and pleads then sometimes I match him with the person of his choice. I tell them that l cannot guarantee the outcome, and those couples usually have not been happy. But the couples I put together and said they would be good couples have all turned out to be happy. After seeing this happen many times most members have decided it is best to leave the decision to me.</p>
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<p>From God’s point of view, what I am doing has more historical impact than World Wars I and 11. 1 am straightening out history by putting the future in proper perspective. How could any other event be as great? The world does not know, however. Are you happy? Do you have money or power? I may not have the most knowledge or power or money in the world, but my pride is that I have something better and longer-lasting than all these–that is the power of love. Everything else will serve the purpose of love.</p>
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<p>I have the authority to straighten out the young people of America and I can give then something that even the most well-educated and wealthy parents cannot give. When they change, then they can change their parents. Eventually those parents will kneel in respect and acknowledge that their children’s way is true. With the power of God the world can be influenced.</p>
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<p>Rabbi Davis says that I am worse than Hitler and Stalin, that I am making you an army worse than the Red Army. “Even Stalin and Hitler paid their people to work,” he says, “but Reverend Moon makes the people work without money. They even have to raise the money and bring it to the Church. Therefore, Reverend Moon is the worst dictator in all history, depriving young people of everything they have.” How do you feel about that? If you raise $10,000 a day and give it all, you still feel that it is not much compared to what you have received from God and the True Parents, and you want to do more. When you see a Rolls Royce or a big house you wish you could get it for me. When you see a lovely landscape you wish you could bring the True Parents there. You don’t wish you could have a mansion there all for yourself.</p>
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<p>I think the same way you do. When I see beautiful houses I think that some day I will buy them to give to you. When I see some beautiful scene, I wish I could bring all our members there. When you enter the World Mission Center, or Belvedere or the Tiffany Building, do you feel you are entering Reverend Moon’s building, or that you are walking into your own house? Do you think I hide the Church money in my own pockets? What’s mine is yours. The world is truly like a desert and we are going to replenish it with water and make it blossom with love.</p>
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<p>The flowers the MFT sells are the representative of the beauty and fragrance of love. Chocolate is symbolic of the sweetness of love. When you fund raise you are symbolically sprinkling the love of God on the people. Therefore, the more you give, the better it is for the people. The job of MFT is actually to spread the love of God in the world. While fund raising you meet all kinds of people and you are educated about human nature. Now when you see a person you can immediately understand what kind of person he is. In my lifetime I have met thousands of people and now I can almost see through people! Since I can quickly analyze people and situations, I can predict the future of America and the future of Asia.</p>
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<p>Because we are doing things for the distant future, it is difficult tor you to follow and to succeed. But with every year that passes you have new understanding of the value of what we do. For decades the Koreans struck and persecuted me, but the future that I was working for has now arrived, and the Koreans have changed their attitude. Now they have to admit that I am the greatest hero of the nation. Have I changed? Why then are the people who rejected me thirty years ago welcoming me now? Because in those days they were ignorant and needed education. We have to knock on doors and bring education to every home. That’s why we do home church.</p>
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<p>Sometimes you should look back and think about what you would be today if you had not joined the Unification Church. There are many members who would not be alive today if they had not found this Church, who would have killed themselves out of despair. But here you are disciplined in love and you are flourishing. Are you grateful” Do you love the word Moonie, or do you hate the sound? Do you still like it when people scoff at you on the street? From this time on only Moonies are going to flourish.</p>
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<p>In Korean “moonie” means discussion, and also means “pattern or design”. Now that you are Moonies you are here discussing and consulting about the power of love; that is the center of reconciliation. What kind of pattern will we create? The design of love. Without Moonies this world would be very lonely because there would be no one to discuss true love or to make everything beautiful with the rich design of love.</p>
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<p>We have the great privilege of being Moonies who have the solution of love. Not only does it solve love but it brings salvation to the world. Once you know the solution for love, everything else looks insignificant, even influence and wealth. You would never swap the treasure of love for anything else. Even under incredible persecution I never lost the pride of having love. This is a good time to be a member in America because the time of persecution is nearly over. Recently we had a fierce fight in Congress with Senator Dole. When we brought our protest to the other Senators, however, they all listened and gave their support. They discovered that Moonies are serious, dignified people, and above all Moonies are disciplined, unlike any other American young people they have met.</p>
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<p>Do the State Department people dislike me because they think I will explode bombs and disrupt the government? They know I will never do that. They know I have greater power than violence; that is the power of love. Once young people come into contact with me they are melted and want to follow me. Eventually all America might follow me and that’s what the government is afraid of. They say Moonies are glassy-eyed. We definitely do have different eyes, but that is because we look for different things. You used to look for money, power or knowledge, but today your eyes are looking for true love and finding ways to be of service to God and the world.</p>
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<p>You grew up in the habit of trying to gather things so you could become rich or influential, but now you think about how to sacrifice yourself and give love for the benefit of others. You used to try to pull things to your side, but now you are trying to give. Why is the Immigration Department so strict about who can enter this country? Because they know that most people come to take something from America. But suppose people came to America because they wanted to help; then the Immigration regulations wouldn’t be as tight.</p>
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<p>I am not taking one penny away from America, but have poured millions of dollars back into America for the benefit of those people. Yet not one newspaper has written a single line about it. Wherever I go, I want to help that country. When l was in Great Britain, l had brought in $1.5 million after only four months. At first people misunderstand, but when the truth is revealed people apologize. Eventually the government of Britain apologized.</p>
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<p>The budget for the Defense Department is about $150 billion, while the illegal drug traffic takes $48 billion out of this country each year. Drugs take out the equivalent of one-third the Defense Department budget. My teaching and example emphasizes serving others, and aims at a revolution from selfishness to unselfishness. I practice this in my own life. How can people reject it? In time the truth will be known to the world, and then many nations will try to kidnap me for their own country.</p>
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<p>Once this fundamental problem is solved, the rest is easy. When the benefit of this way of life is revealed, would people like to import that system for their own country? Once the world’s financiers know my way of doing business, will they want to do business with us? Will many professors want to teach in our school? Will politicians want to learn my methods in organization, employment, management? If the President joined the Unification Church would he try to bring righteousness to the United States? ls that unlikely, or within the realm of probability?</p>
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<p>No matter how young you are in Unification Church, your thinking is far more mature than that of the politicians and businessmen in this country. You have a different concept of the world. Are you superior in practicing true love? Then there is no problem. Is sitting on a concrete floor a problem? We would rather use the money we would spend on chairs for some other purpose. The money we earn fund raising is used to fulfill that love so that other people can learn about it.</p>
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<p>You are not rich at all but in due course people will come to respect you, so there is nothing to worry about. If you give yourself totally for the ten years of your young adulthood in service of God and Unification Church without receiving any honor or money then you may think you are not advancing. But you are wrong. In ten years many people with worldly credentials will be coming and asking to marry a Moonie. In Florida there are many senior citizens who are trying to enjoy their last days, but they are lonely people. We can bring good news to them and hope for eternal life. If they were to die as Moonies would it be a glorious thing tor them?</p>
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<p>Many of our blessed couples are suffering because they have no money. But they should continually serve the people, particularly senior citizens. If they keep going in this way of life then eventually their problem shall be solved in a great way. I would like to create a big center where lonely senior citizens can come. Where will they want to leave their money? For the service of the Kingdom of Heaven. The time will come when I will tell people not to give their money because it is not needed. Even when they insist I will still refuse. Finally, they will set up a cannon outside East Garden and load it with their bag of money and shoot it onto the grounds! I don’t need any money. If I need to do certain things there is always money available. Would you like to receive some of my money?</p>
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<p>What shall we do? People ask us how they can solve their love problem, and we can take care of it. What should our question be then? Our problem is how to share this love and increase it in the world. The more you give love, the more you want to keep giving. When you have sown seeds of love in every nation then you want to give that love even to the animals and plants. Our problem is learning how to give in the best way.</p>
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<p>If you need to travel hundreds of miles a day to give that love then God will agree you need a car and will provide it. If you need a school, God will provide one. If you need money, God will provide it. If God can’t assist you, then He is not really doing his duty! God knows very well that I need money for building His Kingdom. He knows clearly that I need young people, so He guides them here. Does God know I need rebellious, complaining young people, or obedient young people?</p>
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<p>If you unite with me then you feel good, but if you disobey and violate my principle of unselfishness, you feel uncomfortable. If you don’t unite then spirit world will spank you. Have you felt it? This is what the everyday world doesn’t know, and they can’t discover it by looking at us! Sometimes spirit world yanks on your necktie. Do you vaguely know this 4r vividly know it? Sometimes your legs don’t want to move but some power pushes you. How many of you have had this kind of mysterious experience? That’s why no matter how the nation may criticize, or how your parents rage, it won’t change you.</p>
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<p>Do I have a good or bad brain? Am I mediocre or meticulous? I have so much stamina that no one can compete with me. In my younger days I was always a winner in sports. If an education was my goal, I would have gotten many Ph.Ds. In any area I worked in I would be the best. Would I receive acclaim or curses for my accomplishments? Have I been praised or persecuted for leading the Unification Church? Why would any sensible man choose such a route then?</p>
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<p>Here in America all the major papers printed false accusations about me, but was I shattered into pieces? When the press attacked President Nixon during Watergate he was totally demoralized after 1½ years, but I have been hit by the American press for seven years and still I am going strong. Even the attitude of the <i>Washington Post </i>toward me has changed.</p>
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<p>There are many CARP members in America, sponsoring student festivals on campuses. They are finding many students who want to know about me, and many students are even collecting my picture. Many researchers are investigating me and writing their Ph.D. theses on me, in every area from my sociology to theology to personality. Those people are sneaking in the back door because they want to be connected with me. But you come here every Sunday to receive my instruction directly yet you don’t appreciate it.</p>
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<p>If you mispronounce “happy” it sounds like “heavy.” Are you dwelling on your heavy burden or on the happy side? You don’t mind the heavy burden? The greater the heavy responsibility you bear in the Unification Church, the greater will be your blessing and glory. Your problem should always be finding more to do because I didn’t give you enough. Is it true? Is it good news to hear you are responsible for all America? Are you saying “great” or “gray hair”?</p>
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<p>I have always been asking God to let me bear His impossible burden and worst worry that other people cannot bear. God answered that His greatest burden was the love question, and I told Him that I could solve it if He would give me a little time. God told me to go to America to establish my headquarters and undertake the revolution of selfishness to unselfishness. I obeyed and came, clearing the field like a bulldozer. All the trees and grass of the proud American culture are being uprooted. Everyone is raging at me for doing that, like barking dogs, but the bulldozer keeps on coming. No matter how much they attack me, there is no sign that I am losing strength or getting ready to quit. I have an iron will to go on and they will decide they might as well give up.</p>
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<p>Now Moonies have become the curiosity of America, and people want to know what you have that is so tasty. When they finally taste Divine Principle they will find it is good and will ask. how you came to find this place much earlier than they did. Parents will praise their children for restoring the honor and history of their family.</p>
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<p>The parents of the first 36 couples insisted that I could not conduct their children’s marriages because I was not their parent. The opposition was fierce. Reverend Kwak’s situation is a good example. His wife is the daughter of a well-known educator in one province. This prestigious family never knew that both their daughters were Moonies, but one day they received an invitation from Reverend Moon, saying that their daughter would marry such and such a person on a certain day, and if they wanted to attend, please come. They were completely outraged and demanded to know when their daughter had become a Moonie and who was going to marry her.</p>
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<p>Her father was determined to take his daughter away and came on the day of the ceremony. The receptionist greeted him warmly and told him that if he wanted to attend the ceremony he had to wear a robe. He was completely upset, saying in effect, “What are you talking about, wear a robe! I came to take my daughter!” The member insisted he couldn’t get in without a robe. He had to get in, so somehow he obtained a robe to wear and lined up in the procession. The wedding march began and the couples came forward. He is an educated man so he didn’t want to shout or do anything violent, but he just wanted so badly to curse me! I saw his face moving with rage and frustration, and I understood every word he wanted to say!</p>
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<p>The parents of the couples never spent one nickel for their wedding; I prepared and paid for all, the robes and rings. What was I gaining by that if people cursed and criticized me? But I know that the discipline and tradition of heavenly love had to be set, even though people opposed me. I also knew that within ten years they would all surrender. Now that father has discovered that he has a very smart, very faithful and handsome son-in-law of filial piety who serves his parents very well. His heart was melted and now he testifies that he has the best son-in-law. If he is going to advertise his son-in-law he has to advertise Reverend Moon at the same time!</p>
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<p>I never argued once with them, but over ten years the parents naturally came to surrender on their own. Now when that father-in-law comes to meet me, he will bow down to me, even though he is much older than I am. He knows he cannot repay the things I have done for his family.</p>
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<p>Our life is really a great adventure. Don’t you think so? You are the modern saints. The world thinks you look dumb, but on the heavenly side whole new horizons are opening up to you. What you gain is up to you now. Your prayer must be like mine-“God, give me your burden and I shall not falter.” There are 130 nationalities in our movement. Do you think unifying them into one is an easy task? Will money glue them together? Power? It has to be genuine sincerity. The job of melting the hearts of men with genuine qualities is a heavy load. You should live in genuine service and genuine love, and even thousands of years after you die your tomb will never be bare of beautiful flowers.</p>
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<p>When you serve with pure love you are going to solve the historical problem and liberate history, the present and the future. Your question is, “What can I do to give love to the world? What more can I do for you?” There is nothing greater and more glorious than this question. There is no limit or end to it; you can go deeper and deeper, and wider and wider without end. In Jove all five colors of skin can embrace and all cultures be united into one; all nations can rejoice together over love.</p>
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<p>Why do you fund raise? To liberate God and mankind, and to fulfill love. Why do we witness? To liberate God and mankind, and to fulfill love. Many young people are dying and being corrupted and it doesn’t matter that people say about us. People are crying to receive love for themselves, but we labor and sweat to give love. How much more precious that is. There are not many who are crying tears in order to give love. Many cry out to receive love for themselves, however. One is heaven and the other hell.</p>
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<p>The greater the burden you bear, the greater the blessing that will come to you. That principle will never fail. Therefore, the Moonies lead a life of asking God what more they can do to liberate Him and mankind and fulfill love. Those who pledge that they will do just that and nothing else, raise your hands.</p>
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<p>God bless you.</p>
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